Prolog

Long ago, a meteor impacted the Earth. Housed within the meteor was a massive emerald that contained the essence of the water god, Chaos. Chaos slept for centuries as the energy from the emerald began to effect the area around it. Animal species began to evolve at a rapid pace, gaining humanoid form. The first species to truly gain intelligence was the echidnas. Freeing the emerald from ground, they began to worship the god within while enslaving the less evolved species around them. For reasons unknown, the emerald and the echidnas vanished. Even without the emerald, its influence continued to affect the remaining animals. Conflict was enviable as the different species clashed for dominance. Eventually, a young squirrel rose up and through much hard work, managed to unite most of the species together. A kingdom was founded with the squirrel named the first king, thus the Kingdom of Acorn was formed. To better aid in the unification, the animals began to refer themselves as mobians and the world they live on, Mobius. As they expanded, the mobians discovered that they were located on a large island with many smaller islands surrounding it. Expansion projects were quickly put into place.

The mobians were once again brought into conflict with the arrival of humans. Despite the power of chaos speeding up their evolution, the mobians technology was vastly inferior to the humans. Armed with nothing more complex than swords and catapults, the only advantage the mobians had were the numerous golden rings that appeared on their island. With practice, the rings could be merged into any other material, vastly increasing its strength. This kept the conflict relatively even. The stalemate was broken with the defection of Julian Kinbot, a human scientist who grew resentful of how the humans treated the mobians. Combining advance technology with the power of the gold rings, the humans were pushed back and an uneasy truce was struck. The large island and smaller islands would remain under mobian control. The peace has manage to last for over ten years.

Knothole Village

Located south of the main island, South Island was the first one explored and settled by mobian explorers. Relatively untouched by the war, the residences had been slow to adopt the newer technologies. A fact the villagers took with pride as they felt their mainland cousins were losing their touch with nature. A large village centered around a massive oak tree, primarily a farming village, it had little in the way of defenses. Around midnight, that fact was exploited.

A trio of dark grey ships silently flew over the village. Roughly rectangular in shape with small oval pods that served as the ships hover engines. Doors on two of the ship slid open as they reached the outskirts of the village. A group of armored humans leapt out of the ship, nearly a dozen in number. The armor they wore hid their features and bore no insignia. The weapons they carried were large rifles. One of them with red highlights on her armor stepped in front of the others.

"Alright, you all know the drill. Let's try and capture most of these things alive. The boss was not happy with the quality of fur we delivered last time." The rest of the group grunted a yes as they prepped to move out. "Move out!"

The three ships flew at the village as the group charged. Small laser canons mounted underneath the ships opened fire. The ships strafed the outskirts of the village, their weapons primarily hitting the ground around the houses. The escalating noise caused many mobians to run out of their houses and into the line of fire of the armored humans. Small darts flew from their guns and anyone hit with one was quickly knocked out by a powerful tranquilizer. A few of the mobians appeared outside, armed with small caliber bullet based weapons. They tried to fire back, but the weapons did little to the humans' armor. Any who attempted to escape the village were quickly slowed down by weapon fire from the ships until they too were knocked out by tranquilizer darts.

An elderly badger managed to surprise a couple of the humans by flinging a large bag of flour into their heads, temporally blocking sight through the visors of their helmets. He shoulder tackled a third one down as he took off in a run. Despite his best efforts, he fell to a hail of darts. A bundle wrapped in a blanket he had been carrying dropped to the ground. A small fox crawled out of the blanket. He had orange fur, blue eyes, and looked to be no more than ten years old. He went to the downed badger and tried to wake him.

"Hey!" One of the armored humans walked up. "Check that out. It's got two tails!"

"Really." Another one joined him. "Bet that would make for a good hat."

The fox took off as fast as his legs would carry him as the humans laughed. The two gave chase and manage to trap the small fox against a building. "End of the line." The first one aimed his rifle at him. "They always think they can run." He expected a response from his teammate, but heard nothing. "Phil?" The human glanced around, but there was no sign of him. They hadn't ran that far. "Whatever?" He turned his attention back to the fox. His aim was blocked by another mobian. Whoever it was had on a brown traveling cloak with hood covering his features. The human simply chuckled as he pulled the trigger. At least he tried to pull the trigger, the rifle had been pulled from his grasp by the mobian. "How?" The mobian answered by smashing the rifle across the human's armored head. Before he could recover from the blow, the fists of the mobian lashed out with such speed, the human felt like he was being hit by machine gun fire. Just as he was about to fall down, he was hit with what he could only describe as a cannonball and sent flying back several feet.

The woman in charge of the group saw the guy fly past her position and crash into the ground nearby. She and several of the others nearby turned to where he had flown from. The mobian in the travelers cloak walked towards them as he pulled the cloak off. Standing a bit over four feet, the mobian was dressed in red and white sneakers, black pants, and white gloves. He sported blue fur and piercing green eyes. The slicked back, sharp quills told the humans what he was. "A hedgehog!"

"But?" One of the humans ran up to her. "I thought all the hedgehogs were gone."

"Guess one survived. Take him, we'll make some serious money from his hide." All the humans open fire.

The hedgehog leapt high into the air curled into a ball. Blue energy swirled around him and he shot at them like he had been fired from a cannon. He impacted one of the humans, sending him flying through the wall of a building. The others turned to fire, but he had vanished.

"Find him!"

One of them ran to the spot where the hedgehog had hit his comrade and found a small hole in the ground. Before he could yell out, the hedgehog flew out of the hole, still curled up and smashed into his armored head. The hedgehog didn't wait for the human to drop as he charged for the others. Three of them had group together and fired at him. He curled into a ball and sped forward to avoid the darts. He stopped in the center of the group and uncurled. He lashed out with high speed punches and kicks. He had knocked out the three humans in less than a minute.

The leader of the group called in the last four of her men who were still standing. They surrounded the hedgehog while their ships continue to circle the village. "What are you?"

The hedgehog smirked. "I'm Sonic the Hedgehog. Who are you?"

"Captain Raza."

Sonic looked around at the damaged village. "Social visit?"

"Fur is still big business to my people. Animals here are bigger here than the ones where we come from."

Sonic's eyes narrowed and flashed with blue light. "Is that all you see?"

Raza took aim. "What else is there?" Sonic curled into a ball and began to spin in place like a buzz saw. Smoke started to flow from where he came in contact with the ground. The four other humans seemed to be memorized by the sight. "Shoot him you idiots." Snapped out of it by Raza's yell, they fired their rifles. Before the darts could reach their targets, Sonic shot forward with blue light trailing behind him. He slammed into the four like a blue pinball and sent each of them flying. He charged at Raza who jumped back to avoid him. Sonic stopped and stood up a few feet away from her. She tried to fire her rifle, but it had been sliced in half. "How?"

"Since you only knocked people out, I'm going to let you gather up your goons and leave before they wake up. I doubt they would be as nice as me."

"And what is stopping me from ordering my ships to level this village?"

As she finished her question, Sonic took off in a run that made him almost appear as a blur. He ran up the side of the massive tree in the center of the building and launched himself at one of the ships. He curled up and cut his way through the metal ship. The engines sparked and several small explosions went off as the ship started to crash. The hatch on the ship flew open and Sonic jumped out with the pilot over his shoulder. The ship crashed as Sonic landed and dropped the pilot.

He rubbed his shoulder. "Touch on the heavy side." The pilot crawled away as fast as he could. Sonic walked towards Raza. "You can fly or walk. I really don't care either way."

"This isn't over." Raza used her radio to call the remaining ships for a pick up.

Sonic sighed as they piled into their ships and flew out of sight. He felt a tug on his arm. It was the two tailed fox he had saved earlier. "Are you a super hero?"

As he looked in the fox's blue eyes, Sonic nodded his head. "You bet I am."