Prologue
Fifteen years ago, a young girl named Wendy got two hedgehogs. She named the newborn Fred and the older one Spiny. She bought a cage for her new hedgehogs. Wendy loved her new hedgehogs. For a while, things went good. But things took a turn for the worst a few months later.
Wendy was taking a walk through the park when she tripped over something. She picked it up and looked at it. It was a chaos emerald! Wendy had heard her parents talk about the chaos emeralds. They said that they contain ultimate power. Wendy didn't know what to do with it. She couldn't just leave it. She decided to take it and hide it.
When Wendy got home, she looked for a hiding spot. She thought of all the hiding places there were. She had an idea! Wendy took the emerald and ran to the hedgehog cage. She put the emerald inside the little igloo figure she had bought for her hedgehogs. She thought that the emerald would be safe there. Unfortunately, she was wrong.
A few weeks after she found the emerald, Wendy was watching the news. Suddenly, the door burst open! Two men in white suits were standing outside her door. "We have come for the emerald," said one guy.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Wendy replied.
"Don't lie to us," said the other guy as they barged in. He took out what seemed to be a tracker. "It's over there," he said as he pointed to the hedgehog cage.
"I'll get it," said the first guy. Wendy tried to stop him, but he just pushed her out of the way. Fred and spiny were asleep in the igloo. The guy grabbed the whole cage and put it in his bag. "I got it, let's go!" The two guys ran out the door and escaped.
"No!" cried Wendy. "They got the emerald and my hedgehogs!"
Meanwhile, the two guys were running across a bridge above two huge containers of mutation fluid. "We are almost there!" shouted the guy with the tracker. "The emerald should be on this bridge." They continued running across the bridge. Suddenly, the guy with the bag tripped over something and dropped the bag. "No!" yelled the guy with the tracker. The hedgehogs and the emerald fell out of the bag. Spiny landed inside a dark liquid, Fred fell in a colorful liquid, and the emerald fell on the ground. The two guys came running down.
"Phew," said the guy with the bag. He grabbed the emerald and put it back in the bag. "I thought we lost this emerald when I tripped over the other one. Too bad the hedgehogs didn't make it. Oh well, let's go!" The two men ran off. As they ran off, a little arm reached out from the colorful liquid.