My Brother's Keeper

A Sonic and Real Life Crossover

by jljj1996

Chapter One

Hey guys! It's my first fanfiction, so you'll have to tell me how I do. It's a Sonic and real world crossover (Is that a real crossover or what?) and I know it's overdone, but I think mine is somewhat original. I've already written a lot of it... I got really excited about the idea. However, I'm not going to post every single chapter right now. I will warn you, the first chapter is more backstory, so I'll post the first two chapters today... as well as possibly a few more. ;) Make sure you tell me what you think, as well as any factual errors you notice too! One last thing, all characters, objects, and location, aside from my two characters, are property of Sega. Let's get started!

Is it on? Hello? Check, one two, one two. Can you hear me?

Okay, so it works. Awesome. Sorry, I just wanted to make sure, I just found this tape recorder in the basement, covered in dust. It was so old compared to technology here! I'm not even sure how it got here. Maybe Tails thought that... Nah, sorry, getting off topic.

Um... so I guess this is entry one. I, ah, guess I should introduce myself or something. Sorry, I've never really done this kind of thing before. I don't vlog, blog, Facebook, nothing. Sorry, off topic again.

Okay, introductions. My name is Josh. Er, Joshua Corey, but most people call me Josh. I'm 16 years old, blonde hair, blue eyes, 6 foot 3... is that important? S-Should I be including that? I dunno, I guess I should give you a feel for how I look. Yes, I am six feet tall. I'm tall for my age. Don't judge me.

I guess I'll start from the very beginning. Where I lived, who I lived with... what happened that day. That terrible, wonderful, fantastic, horrifying day.

Okay, so I'm not going to say exactly where we lived, except that it wasn't that much different from where you live probably. It was a smaller neighborhood, that was part of a big city. Me and my 13 year old brother, Jacob, lived in a red, two story house in a particularly quiet part of the neighborhood. We would have passed off as a rather normal family... except for the fact that me and Jacob were the WHOLE family. Our parents died in a shooting. Someone broke into our house. Our dad told us to get under the bed. We grabbed onto each other as tight as we could, shut our eyes, and waited for the sound to die down. The house went quiet. We stepped out to find our parents dead. Our house was robbed. Our lives were changed.

Me and my brother realized that if someone found out that our parents had died, we might not see each other again. The last thing we wanted was to be separated and put into foster care. We were our only family. I know it seems like an overreaction, and it was. But we weren't thinking that clearly at that point. We just wanted to be together.

So, in the year that followed, I got a job. I paid for all of our bills, all of our expenses, and only occasionally received help from our grandparents who lived close by. We made sure they didn't know we were living on our own. As the days went on, we became independent. We didn't want help. It was really cool to be living together, just the two of us. It was a dumb choice, I know. It was a hard life. But we grew really close. I think that made the choice worth it.

Then one day, something crazy weird happened. I was walking home from work (I don't have enough money to get a car) when I get this text on my phone. It was from Jacob. That wasn't too weird, Jacob usually texts me after I get off of work to ask me something, like if he could have ice cream, or if he could play one of his Sonic games. (Sorry, I should mention, Jacob loves Sonic the Hedgehog, and I will admit that I thought the games were pretty fun too. Jacob was the biggest fan of the two of us though.) I opened up my phone, and froze in my tracks. The text was only one word, written in all capital letters.

"HELP"

I dropped my phone and took off at a sprint. A normally 15 minute walk took about 5 minutes. But I was too late by then. He was gone. And the house was empty. Except for one thing. A note on the table. On it was a picture. A logo. An all too familiar logo. One word came to mind, and only one.

"Eggman?"

I wasn't sure what happened. Did someone kidnap my my brother under the guise of Eggman? Was Jacob just pulling a prank on me? Or... was it possible that... he was actually kidnapped... by...

No, it's not possible, I told myself. I reached for my phone to call the police... but it was, of course, gone. I felt dizzy. I leaned against a wall, as my legs gave up. I sat on the floor, staring into space, too shocked to even cry. My brother was gone. My only family was gone. I didn't know how to find him. I was shaken from my stupor by something... glowing. I crawled over to the spot and picked up the object. Another object I knew well. A glowing green Chaos Emerald. I threw the object across the room and got away from it. I didn't know why, but I was afraid of it. It brought bad news. It confirmed what I thought to believe was impossible. My little brother was gone. And not just lost, or kidnapped, but completely gone off the face of the Earth. My stomach dropped. He was gone. Gone forever.

I cried for a long time. Harder than I've ever cried before. I didn't know what else to do. How could I reach him? It's not like I could call him. Even if I had my phone, who knows how far away from Earth he was.

Then I heard something. Outside. A mechanical whirring. I slowly went to a window and looked out. My heart stopped.

Outside were three, portly, red robots with long pointy noses. Eggman robots. Why were they still here? They already took everything I loved! What more could they want? Me? I started feeling nervous. They took my brother. What harm would it cause to have one more human for Eggman's collection?

But why does he need humans? And if he needed two humans, couldn't he just take one of the neighbors? Why are they here again?

I slowly realized that they didn't need a human. I turned and looked at the glowing green emerald on the other side of the room. I knew enough about Eggman to know that he was always after the Chaos Emeralds. And I knew that Eggman should never have the Chaos Emeralds. I grabbed the Emerald and put it in my pocket. Then I grabbed the closest thing I could find to a weapon (a broom) and stood right next to the door, and waited for it to open.

The doorknob turned, and I got my broom ready. The door flew open, and I swung.

I might as well have tried to make a dent in a tree. Not only did the broom do absolutely nothing, it got the robot crazy mad. I barely had enough time to react before the brute knocked me to the ground and tied my arms and legs up. He reached into my pocket and took the Emerald. Then something hit my head, and the world went black.

End of Chapter One

Scary ending huh? (I know, it isn't really...) Yeah, when I imagined this crossover, I didn't want it to follow the normal, "I go through a portal" or "I fell asleep, and when I woke up I was not home" type stories. I thought this was original. So, tell me what you think! Thanks guys!