Sonic & Eggman: Gladiators in Space
Chapter 1: A New Challenge
"Ladies and Gentleman! Welcome to the final round of the universal Gladiator's Gauntlet!" The announcer welcomed everyone. "Now here are the challengers that have survived this long! First up is the unlikely duo of Sonic the hedgehog, Hero of Mobius, and Doctor Eggman, Villain of Mobius."
Hey everybody! It's me Sonic the hedgehog! Now you're probably wondering where am I, and just why the hell am I on a team with my worst enemy. Well it all started just over a mouth ago at Eggmans base…
A month ago on Mobius…
"Tails, how much further till I get to Eggmans base?" Sonic asked through his wrist communicator.
"Not much further Sonic." The fox responded. "Just through this forest then you'll find it."
Sonic flipped a switch on the communicator to switch it off. "I'd better keep this off, just in case Eggman could detect any online machinery." Sonic said to himself. Little did Sonic know that he was already being followed by one of Eggmans Security camera bots.
Eggman watched his computer screen and saw everything that he was doing. "Little do you know Sonic, I am already aware that you're headed here." Eggman said to himself. "Once you do… I will spring my trap, and you will be done for! hahahaha."
After a few minutes, Sonic finally left the forest and the base was now in clear view. Robots started to fire at him as he approached the base, and most were familiar to Sonic. 'Missile wrist, Egg pawns, E-2000's, and Orbinaut's. Is Eggman really stuck to reusing older badniks?' Sonic thought to himself. He dodged everything they throw at him, but it felt like they had gotten somewhat faster though. 'Man! Has Eggman been modifying these guys or what?' Sonic asked himself.
Sonic charged up a spin dash and broke through the door to find Eggman just standing in the middle of the room. "Why hello Sonic!" Eggman greeted his worst enemy. "What may I ask is why you decided to attack me on this fine day?" Eggman said with a grin.
Sonic frowned at him. "Don't play dumb Eggman! I know you're building something of mass destruction!" Sonic yelled.
Eggman Smiled evilly at Sonic. "Why I don't know what you mean?" Eggman answered sarcastically.
Sonic's left eye started twitching at how dumb Eggman was acting, until he noticed that Eggman was holding his hands behind his back. "What are you hiding behind your back Eggman?" Sonic asked. Eggman slowly raised his hands to show that he was hiding nothing. As he did a secret compartment in the ceiling behind Sonic opened and lowered a small device, Sonic however didn't notice.
Eggman started grinning at sonic as the device was now in place. "You might want to watch your BACK Sonic." As Eggman stepped on a button on the floor, but instead of the device activating, it did nothing. "W-what?" Eggman said in disbelieve.
Sonic laughed as Eggman crouched down to press the button repeatedly. Sonic was now on the floor laughing even harder, but as Eggman slammed his hand on the button as hard as he could, the building started to shake rapidly. "Wh-what's g-g-going o-on E-Egg-ma-man?!" Sonic struggled to shout as he clung to the closest built in object. (Eggmans desk)
"I d-don't kn-know!" Eggman struggled as he also grabbed hold of his desk.
"C-could it b-be an ear-earthq-quake?" Sonic asked as he tightened his grip. Eggman turned his head towards Sonic while trying to answer him, but the sound of the rattling started to get to him because he could only berley hear him.
Then there suddenly was a bright green light outside the windows which caused them to shatter, and then building started too rotated to the side. This caused Eggman to loss his grip and started to fall towards the floor, but sonic catched him in time. "Gees Eggman! You… need to… exercise more!" Sonic yelled as held on to Eggman. 'It feels like my arms about to rip off!' Sonic thought to himself as he lifted Eggman's hand towards the edge of the desk.
Finally Eggman had his grip back on the desk. "Luckily this is made of unbreakable steel!" Eggman bragged to Sonic as he hit his other hand on the top of the desk, but just as he did the desk started to break in two. "Damn Karma!"
Just as sonic was about to lose his grip, the shaking finally stopped. Sonic and Eggman sighed in relief. Eggman then looked around and had a saddened expression. "Look at this place! It's completely trashed!" Eggman yelled in anger.
Sonic poked him to get his attention. "Never mind that. How are we going to get down from here?" Sonic asked while looking down.
Eggman laughed. "I've already got a solution to that." Eggman pulled a remote out of the pocket on that back of his lad jacket. As he pressed it a trampoline appeared from the wall below them. Sonic opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by Eggman. "Don't ask why that's there…" They let go of the desk, or what was left of the desk, and landed safely on the trampoline.
Sonic and Eggman quickly dusted themselves off then looked around. "So now that were down from there, where's the exit?" Sonic asked. Eggman looked around for the door, after a minute or so he looked to their left and just simply pointed towards the higher middle of the wall. Sonic looked towards where he was pointing. "How the heck are we supposed to get up there?!" Sonic asked while shocked.
Eggman moved his hand under his chin as he thought. "Hmm… well… I did have another weird contraption on this wall that could have acted as a staircase, but sadly it malfunctioned not long ago… Never bothered to fix it…"
Sonic sigh disappointedly. "Guess our best bet is for me to spin jump up to the door."
Sonic started to rev up his spin dash, but Eggman cut in. "Wait! What about me?!"
"I don't know." Sonic replied. "It's your base, you find a way out." Sonic was about to charge at the door, but just as he left his spin dash and jumped, Eggman grabbed his leg's, but instead of Sonic falling to the ground, the both of them were thrown towards the door. The door swung open as they hit the door hard with their heads. "Ow my head…" Sonic said dizzily. "What's the big idea Eggman?!"
Suddenly they heard large amounts of cheering. They looked around them, and saw they were in a large round building that kind of resembles an old Roman battle arena, and there were different types of species' of alien's siting in the stands. Sonic and Eggman stood back to back in awe. Eggman slowly looked up his surprised expression turned into more of a scared expression, and then suddenly tapped on Sonic's Shoulder motioning for him to look up. Sonic did, and what he saw was that they were literally right next to the sun!
"What the?!" Sonic took a step back in surprise. "We-were right next to the sun!" Sonic said as he turns towards Eggman who was still staring up at the sky.
"I-I can see that…" Eggman said slowly.
Sonic then remembered his wrist communicator; he pressed the button to turn it on, and tried to communicate with Tails. "Tails! Tails do you read me? Tails!" Sonic yelled. "Damn, out of range." Sonic then turned off his communicator to save the power.
Suddenly a large screen appeared in front of them, and turned on to show surprisingly, a teenage orange hedgehog with a blue coat and black sunglasses. "Greetings fellow mobians, and welcome… to the Universal Gladiator's Gauntlet!" the crowd cheered louder as he said this. The hedgehog then took off his sunglasses and continued to talk after the crowd calmed down. "You two are considered to be the champions of planet Mobius." The hedgehog explained. "You, Sonic the hedgehog, are the champion of Mobian heroes." Sonic closed his eyes and scratched his nose with a smirk while feel good about himself.
"Oh come on, you're going to make me blush." Sonic responded to the comment.
"And you Dr. Julian 'Ivo' Robotnik or Dr. Eggman as you now prefer, are the champion of Mobian Villain's." Eggman put his hands on his waist end smirked confidently towards the screen.
"You're most notable achievement and the reason your here is, your victory against the fearsome Metarex last year!" the hedgehog continued to explain.
Sonic and Eggman then turned to being serious after the mention of the Metarex.
"Despite being enemies, you both joined forces to destroy the Metarex." The hedgehog then moved his right hand under his chin like he was intrigued. "I also heard that you lost a dear friend at that time as well."
"Cosmo…" Sonic whispered under his breath.
The hedgehog then moved his left arm to his chest, and his right arm behind his back, and bowed. "I know it's a little late, but you have my condolences for your loss." He then stood up properly again. "But I also have a propersion for you."
Sonic and Eggman were listening closely now. "What kind of propersion?" Eggman asked.
The hedgehog smiled and replied with "One that I think the both of you will want to consider. For the both of you to understand though let me first explain what this tournament is."
"This tournament is like I said before: The Universal Gladiator's Gauntlet, and is held once every few years. In this Gauntlet, we select two of the greatest fighters and/or heroes and/or villains of five different worlds, and sometimes heroes or villains from alternate universes as well. Every week two of the chosen teams compete in a variety of challenges, and at the end of each round, they must battle each other and the winner continues onward until they reach the final round, in which they must fight me. If they succeed, they will be able to claim the prize." The screen then showed a bright yellowish/whitish orb. "This is the… um… well we don't actually what this is called, but we usually just call it the wishful orb."
Sonic and Eggman got confused by the name and sonic proceeded to ask "Why do you called it that? Does it grant wishes or something?" Sonic joked.
"Exactly!" He yelled. "This orb can grant any ONE wish. No matter what it is. Whether it's, money, fame, or bringing someone back from the afterlife." The hedgehog hinted.
Sonic and Eggman were speechless from this until Sonic finally spoke up. "So… are you saying that… if we can win this tournament, and get that orb… we can bring back Cosmo?" Sonic asked desperately.
The hedgehog nodded. "That's right. Other magical things probably wouldn't have enough power to bring someone back to life. The only kind of wishes the orb does not accept are wishes that would destroy an entire planet or an entire universe." Sonic and Eggman stood in awe as they continue to listen. "But now back the rules. Like I said before, one round is held once a week. Between each week you can wonder around the city via the portal behind you, and whenever you feel like you need a rest or it is night you would like to go to bed, you can use the portable wrist teleporter that will be provided as you leave the arena today to port you to your living quarters for the tournament, as well as other places of interest."
"That sounds cool!" Sonic shouted. "I know I'm in! As long as I've got a chance to bring back Cosmo, I'll do it!"
"Excellent!" The hedgehog yelled.
"But what about me?" Eggman asked. "I'm not a fighter."
The hedgehog chuckled a bit and responded. "Not to worry Doctor, we installed a workshop in your living quarters so you can make whatever you might need to survive. Also I forgot to introduce myself, my name is: Hoven Hidaka, and I welcome you to the Universal Gladiators gauntlet!" Hoven announced as the crowd cheered louder.