Blue Blur Chronicles: Project Shadow

By Sir Nathan the Hedgehog

DISCLAIMER: The basic plotline of the video game Sonic Adventure 2 and all of its characters belong to SEGA, Sonic Team, and all of their other respective owners.

Yes, this is essentially a written adaptation of SA2, although I have added a prologue and will try to fill in some of the gaps in the game's plot.

Prologue: Gerald's Journal

The live Presidential speech blared from the speakers of the large monitor in the dimly-lit room. Cold, cluttered, and soundless aside from the whirring of its numerous machines, the room was not being used for its usual purpose. Normally this room would be used as a laboratory or a research facility for bizarre and dangerous experiments, but today only the monitor was in use. And it was being watched intently by the large, mustached scientist that worked in the lab.

"Today marks the one year anniversary of the greatest tragedy to ever occur on Central City's grounds. Last year, a monster caused destruction of catastrophic proportions by demolishing our buildings and flooding our streets while killing thousands in the process. Let us have a brief moment of silence for those lost."

On a normal occasion, the large man would have scoffed at the notion of being asked to remain silent for men and women of such lower intellect than he himself, but he grudgingly joined everyone in the city in their silence. After all, he was largely responsible for unleashing the monster that had caused these deaths in the first place. After a few minutes, the moment of silence was over.

"Thank you. Now, it is said that in times of turmoil, heroes arise. It is due to the efforts of these many heroes that we can say that we are able to stand amongst one another in this city once again. As bad as the destruction was, it most definitely would have meant the destruction of all that we have known without the efforts of all of the men and women who selflessly put their lives on the line for us. I would now like to take this opportunity to first thank the members of the Station Square Police Department, the Fire Department of Central City, and the emergency medical personnel at all of our city's hospitals for their tireless efforts at protecting, rescuing, and healing."

This time, the large man wasted no time at expressing his disdain for the President and his speech. Had he forgotten that he, too, had attempted to bring down the monster? He had put a multi-billion dollar project on the line in an attempt to slay the beast. He understood that his efforts fell far short of their intended goal, but he felt that at least it was the most that anyone had done up until that point.

"But I think we know who we must thank more than anyone else." The man felt his heart sink upon hearing this. "These two put their lives right in the middle of the vicious beast's path." The man continued to worry – they can't possibly be getting all of this credit while he gets ignored? "Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you, Central City's true heroes, Sonic the Hedgehog and Miles "Tails" Prower!"

The man jumped at the monitor. There they were, his two sworn enemies stepping up to the podium in front of a worldwide broadcast. That cocky blue hedgehog with his cunning smile and his two-tailed fox-boy best friend. He had never hated them more in his life.

"Sonic was able to counteract the superpowers of his nemesis with superpowers of his own, and then some. Certainly, his Super Sonic transformation proved to be no match for 'Perfect Chaos', as the beast has been dubbed. Also, we cannot forget the mastermind behind this plan for liberation. It was Tails who realized that the Chaos Emeralds that Perfect Chaos was using could be used against it by Sonic. Not only that, we cannot also forget that Tails diffused a terrorist attack by the criminal, Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik which would have destroyed the city weeks before the monster attacked."

Eggman now felt the color leave his face. All the hope that he had in him that maybe he would be forgiven of his past crimes had faded. He was on the run, but at least, in the past, when he was on the run, he would have something somewhere to fall back on. But he had exhausted virtually all of his resources in his battle with Perfect Chaos. He had been trying to recreate what had been the foundation for his world empire for the last year now with more authorities searching for him than ever before.

"For your efforts, I would like to present to both of you keys to the city. And also, as something of a trophy for your victorious battle, I would like to present a Chaos Emerald as a final reward for you."

Since Sonic had previously told the President that he would not accept any other gifts for his exploits, Tails was the one to accept the yellow Emerald and subsequently show it off to the crowd. Eggman just stared at him blankly.

"The rebuilding process has been steady, and our city is starting to begin to look like its former self once again. The newly re-created Guardian Units of Nations, or G.U.N., filled with some of the finest men and women from all across the globe…"

Eggman slammed the control panel in front of him before saying, "The last year has been a most embarrassing one. I have been foiled too many times by Sonic and his insolent friends."

He shut off the monitor, unable to watch any more of the president and his two mascots, and walked towards another room, his office. He sat at the desk near the back of the room and opened its middle drawer, pulling out an old, fraying journal. He had a page bookmarked and turned right to that page. After skimming through it, he looked up and whispered to himself, "The password is Maria…"

The mad doctor then fished through the same drawer again and pulled out his own trophy from the battle against Perfect Chaos: a glimmering silver Chaos Emerald.