Deep Sea Sonic

Prologue:

"Honestly Eggy, I really thought you would be more creative than this." The golden hedgehog looked at the mangled mess of metal that the insane doctor was trying to keep aloft. The golden energy that surrounded the hedgehog swirled like fire as he shrugged. "I mean seriously, another Death Egg? That was the best you could come up with?"

The mad scientist waved his fist at him in anger. "You pest! Look what you did to my Death Egg 2!"

"Yeah, it still looks like the same scrap heap I trashed the first time." Sonic said with a smirk. He then raised one of his eyebrows as he continued. "You usually at least come up with something a little interesting, but this…this is just boring."

"What?" The mustached doctor yelled as smoke was almost coming out of his ears. "You want more excitement? Then here! Take this!"

Eggman pushed a button on the control panel and the massive base launched a missile strike against Sonic. But the super powered hedgehog simply destroyed them with no effort. He then shot the doctor a slightly annoyed look. "Really? That's it? Like I said, boorring."

"Why you-!" Eggman's yell was interrupted as the Death Egg 2 began to break apart. "Damn, I better get out of here." The mustached doctor then made it to his Egg-mobile and took off.

Sonic then rolled his eyes, "And here we go, Egghead takes off and leaves me to clean up the mess."

The massive moon sized base threatened to crash into Mobius as it entered the atmosphere. The golden hedgehog raised one of his arms and muttered. "Chaos Control."

The Death Egg simply disappeared as soon as the Chaos Energy hit it. It had been four years since the first time he had ever used Chaos Energy, so he was used to channeling it by now. "Well, guess that's that."

Suddenly, Sonic felt himself falling backward. "Hmm? What's goin' on? I can't be running out of Chaos Energy already."

Just after that last thought, Sonic's fur color began to change from brilliant gold to his normal azure blue. "Oh snap."

As the energy began to leave him, he began to lose altitude and fell back toward Mobius from the stratus sphere. Shit! Come on, this can't be happening.

A trail of gold followed him as he past through the atmosphere. Sonic's eyes widened as he looked toward Mobius and realized where he was going to crash…in the middle of the open ocean!

Chapter 1

"Ugh…Wha?…I'm alive?…"

As Sonic's eyes began to focus, he realized where he really was…he was still under the water! "Gahh!"

Out of instinct, he covered his mouth and held his breath. He looked up and could see the surface of the ocean above him, the sunshine just barely peaking through from the outside. Wait…when I just woke up…I was breathing… But…how…?

His gaze drifted down toward his legs and he was completely shocked to see that instead of his legs…he had a tailfin! "Wah! What the hell?"

Realizing that he took a breath in of water again, he covered his mouth. I'm dreaming…that's it…that's gotta be it. I probably crashed on an island somewhere and I'm knocked out or something…

The hedgehog then pinched himself, "Ouch!" Okay, not dreaming.

Sonic was so freaked out by all this that he didn't notice a shadow lurking in the dark watery deeps around him.

He was trying to keep himself calm. Okay Sonic, now get a-!

In that instant, something grabbed the distressed hedgehog and turned him around. "Gah!"

To his surprise the stranger then kissed him. Now with his eyes focused on what was going on, he realized that he was face to face with a female Merhog, an ocean dwelling hedgehog that lives in the deepest parts of the Mobian ocean.

The beautiful violet colored Merhog opened her eyes and jumped when she saw Sonic. "Ahh!" She then let him go and backed up, her blue eyes were wide eyed and she blushed with embarrassment. "Oh Chaos, I'm so sorry. I thought you were someone else."

Sonic, being a guy, was still kind of stuck on what had just happened. He then thought to himself… I wish I was 'Someone Else' right now.

"Hey, you okay?"

Noticing that she was trying to get his attention, Sonic shook it off. "Huh? Oh, right (clears throat) I'm fine."

"Good, I'm Marlina."

"Nice to meet ya, Mar. I'm Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog."

The female merhog's eyes opened wide. "Hedgehog? I've never heard of a hedgehog before. You look like a merhog to me."

"He he, well I don't normally look like this. It's been a crazy day for me."

The merhog gave Sonic a confusing look, but there was a bit of curiosity in her eyes as well. "So, where are you from?"

"Well, no where in particular. I have a quick way of getting around." He then began to laugh.

"So you're a traveler, huh?" Marlina seemed even more curious than before. Her eyes then showed a little bit of worry. "You don't travel on your own, do you?"

"Um yeah, most of the time…you've never heard of me, have you?"

The merhog then tilted her head in slight confusion. "No, should I?"

"Wow…um, how do I explain this?…You see," Sonic looked up toward the surface of the water as he continued. "Where I'm from, nothing else can keep up with me- at least not under they're own power-"

Suddenly, Marlina's eyes widened and she interrupted him. "Wait, wait a minute. You're from…" She then pointed toward the surface. "…up there?"

"Yeah."

The merhog blinked twice, she didn't know what to think. "That's impossible, you're a merhog. You can't survive up there for very long."

"Say what now?" That last statement sent a slight shiver down his spine. What does she mean? Does she mean I can't breath up there like I can down here now?

It was apparent that Marlina was trying to understand why Sonic had no idea what she was talking about. She realized the truth in his eyes. "You really are from up there. If you were from the ocean, you would know that." She then sighed and gently took Sonic's arm. "Come with me, it's too dangerous out here to be on your own and I think I know someone that can help. I can explain more on the way."

The merhog then swam forward and Sonic was pulled right along with her. "Whoa!"