SONIC'S BIRTHDAY

Sonic was running through Green Hill, enjoying the scenery and destroying any badniks that appeared. After a while, he was running through a grassy field, then he had heard an explosion and stopped. He looked around for a second and didn't see anything, so he kept running. Another explosion had taken place, this time, Sonic looked upwards to see what was going on. There was a monster in the sky, causing purple shock waves to appear and turning the land around him white. The monster started heading towards Sonic, but Sonic had blacked out as it got close to him.

Several years into the future…

In an open area, Tails was running from somewhere, panting. "He'll be here… any second!" he continued on. Sonic was behind him, skidding to a stop.

"Hey guys, what's going on? You having a party or somethin'?" Tails was counting to three, and a signal was shown to the others.

"SURPRISE!" poppers had went off and clapping occured.

"Awwww, you guys." Sonic walked up to the picnic table, and was greeted by everyone there. All of the party members were socializing and eating some of the food.

"It's kinda impossible to surprise you." Tails said eating some cake.

Sonic was pushing Amy away and said "You totally got me this time, I had no idea!"

"Yeah, right. Happy Birthday Sonic, I hope you like this." Tails reached onto the table, and gave Sonic a special chili dog. Sonic swiped it off of the plate and ate it. He turned around and have Tails a thumbs up.

"Like it? I love it!" the party was going great, until an explosion was heard, and a single shock wave had sent many things flying into the air. Including the birthday chili dog. The monster had crawled out of the portal.

"Sonic! What's that?" Tails pointed.

"I don't know Tails, looks like trouble!" Sonic got into a battle stance. The monster got into a stance of its own, and waved its arm around.

"Aah! What's it doing?" portals had opened up, and there were many of the holes. Arms had came out of them and grabbed every individual member; Vector, Charmy, Espio, Blaze, Cream and Cheese.

"Hey! Not cool!" Sonic ran and tried to attack it, but he was knocked away. He got up again and tried to do it again, but the monster had moved over and Sonic missed. "Grrr…" Then Amy and Knuckles were grabbed. Tails was holding onto a table, and Sonic raced for him. He grabbed his wrist, and got pulled in with him.

"Oh no… SONIC!" Tails shouted as Sonic blacked out in his hand.

White Space…

Sonic woke up, in a white place. He rubbed his head, shook his quills, and stood up. He noticed Tails was still knocked out, so he tried to wake him up.

"Tails… Tails! Wake up!" Sonic shook him. Tails was starting to regain consciousness, and he shook his head like Sonic did.

"Sonic…? Where...are we?"

"Not sure buddy…" Sonic looked beside him, and a grassy area with hills looked very familiar to him. "...but I'm sure we'll find out sooner or later. Let's go there first." Sonic helped Tails up, and they walked over to the area.

Green Hill Act 2 (Modern Sonic)

Sonic started off on a high hill, with barriers on the sides so he wouldn't fall off. A drift was used to turn a tight corner, and there was a ramp coming up. He boosted towards the ramp to get some air time, and noticed that there was a spring on the lower ledge. He hits it and lands on a bridge, with five Motobugs rolling across it. He used his homing attack to destroy all of them, stomped, and kept running. Another drift was executed in order to get around another tight corner, and he came across another Motobug accompanied with a Buzz Bomber. He destroyed them both and proceeded to grind on the rail to gain more speed. A trail of Motobugs were aligned perfectly for Sonic to boost right through them.

"Why are these badniks always in straight lines?" Sonic questioned this. He ran through a giant loop and went onward to the next section, which had a few zip lines and crumbling pathways. Eventually, he got to a bridge that leads into a waterfall, which turned out to be a huge cave. Sonic was grinding and hopped between the rails, and noticed that there was a Chopper that was gigantic. It started to chase him, and followed him out of the top of the cave. The Chopper couldn't catch Sonic, and fell back into the water. Sonic ran up to a wall with a grind rail, and jumped onto it. He ran through another loop, riding along the zip line, and running through a corkscrew that lead into the final area. He jumped through the mega loop, and ran towards the goal ring. After touching it, a portal that led back to the white place had appeared. He jumped into it, where Tails was waiting for him.

Green Hill Act 2 (Modern Tails)

Tails started off on a high hill, leading to a ramp that had two Buzz Bombers. He destroyed them both, and sprinted into a Motobug and destroyed it. He came across a ledge with two totem poles, and ran past them. He turned around and noticed that they had fallen over. Had he been any slower, he would've lost his rings. He continued on and went through a loop that led to a grind rail with a lot of rings. He jumped off the rail, destroyed the Motobug, and slid under a hill that was in the way. Tails ran onto the dash panels, rolled into a ball and destroyed the incoming Motobugs. A dash ramp was coming up and Tails was ready, as he leapt on top of it, shot to a farther ledge, and was in an area with falling totem poles. There was a floating platform above him, and he didn't feel like waiting, so he flew on top of it, jumped onto the next ledge, and ran into the final area. Tails used the ring energy to boost into the giant totem pole, and boosted away, as to not get crushed by it. He evaded the fallen totem, and reached the goal ring. A portal back to the white place. He jumped into the portal and waited for Sonic.

White Space…

Sonic and Tails look at the area as it regained its color.

"Hmm…" Tails said to himself.

"Is it me, or is that place we were just in awfully familiar?" Sonic asked.

"Not to me, but this place looks like something sucked all of the life and color out of it." Tails walked over to the stage gate. "Totally strange."

"Well, no stranger than fighting ghosts in haunted houses or turning into a literal monster at night. But, I'm more concerned about finding our friends." Sonic said. Tails looked behind Sonic, and saw some things that weren't there before.

"Sonic, I see something over there. Like buildings, a casino, looks like at night, some clouds surrounding ruins, and… a giant mushroom?" Tails questioned the last one.

"Those might be good places to check out. C'mon Tails." Sonic ran off. Tails heard something behind him and turned around. He didn't see anything, and shrugged it off. He ran off towards Sonic. There was another Sonic, who was standing behind one of the miniature hills, following him and Tails.