Chapter 1: I'm Sorry for Leaving
A blonde male is seen running through a hallway, full of metal walls and a metal floor. He is running in a major rush, sprinting at full speed with a fearful look on his face while charging blue electricity into his right hand as it forms into a fist. He runs up to a metal door, but blasts through the door without stopping, blowing the door apart into pieces as the male finds himself in a giant outdoor complex full of robotic tools and green pools of acid. He also finds himself surrounded by diseased creatures that only have white glowing eyes and skin colors based on the elements that they can control. However, they are oozing a green steam, and are acting like zombies. The male looks at all of them in horror, as he pulls out a black chokuto that rests in a case on the back of his long, long-sleeved coat that goes down to the tip of his heels, along with blue electricity coming from the bottom up halfway.
"What has this world come to?" The male thinks to himself in sorrow, but as he is just about to attack, a female voice is heard loudly across the entire area. She is seen strapped onto a large metal building with no means of escape.
"Kyousuke, RUN!" She screams, as Kyousuke guards himself with his chokuto.
"Just hold on! I won't leave you!" Kyousuke shouts out to the woman as he then suddenly puts away his chokuto, but she rejects his answer.
"You can't hold them off! The elementals are infected and as soon as you get pinned down by them it'll be over!" The woman shouts upsettingly, but Kyousuke doesn't stop, jumping right over them while flipping in the air and shooting them with a pair of black and red, semi-automatic pistols that he always carries with him. The pistols manage to knock all the infected elements down to the ground like bowling pins, and he lands in front of them. He is then alarmed when hundreds more infected elementals are seen ahead of him, heading his way in a rampage as he aims his pistols at a few of them, ready to fire.
"You have no choice! If Theotrin gets to you, it'll be over for all of us!" She shouts convincingly, but Kyousuke is resilient to leave.
"Alisa, I don't want to leave you! You have to help me!" Kyousuke shouts at her, but Alisa angrily responds in desperation.
"NO!" Alisa screams angrily, causing Kyousuke to look at her worried. "You have to help me by saving yourself! Knock some sense into yourself!" She calms down a bit before explaining why. "You have to save our species." Alisa says sadly. Kyousuke drops his pistols and puts his hands on his head in frustration and crouches, not knowing what he should do. His pistols hit the ground and one of them accidentally goes off, hitting an infected elemental in the face and knocking it down.
"She's right, I have no chance, and running is my only option." Kyousuke thinks to himself, as he regretfully starts to run, looking Alisa right in the eyes with a remorseful expression before doing so. Alisa watches him run to escape, as a tear pours from her right eye.
"I'm such a horrible friend." Alisa says to herself, as she tries to keep herself from crying while being hanged onto the wall by metal straps around her arms and legs. Kyousuke sprints at high speed, creating a trail of electricity as he prepares to jump. He then jumps over a large pool of acid that is starting to fill up suddenly. Kyousuke manages to grip the other edge of the pool with one hand, as he looks down into the pool to see the acid rising at a faster rate than he could normally handle.
"Come on, let's go!" Kyousuke says to himself, as he grabs the ledge with his other hand and thrusts himself into the air, doing a front flip and landing it on the metal floor next to the rising acid. He then runs ahead as he sees a yellow ship in the distance, but also sees infected elementals getting closer to the ship. He quickly pulls out his chokuto, and slices it across the thin air at high speed, sending an electrical shockwave that shocks all the infected elementals ahead of him and paralyzes them for a minute. Kyousuke uses this chance to get into the ship, but realizes that the ship is locked when he notices a number pad for a passcode on the door of the ship.
"Dammit, not NOW!" Kyousuke yells, as he smashes the window on the door to pieces and gets in. The infected elementals are no longer paralyzed and start heading for the ship. Kyousuke sends an electrical impulse through his finger on the main touch screen in front of him to start the ship. He grabs the throttle control levers and thrusts them forward, sending the ship into high speed as he tries to dodge all the infected elementals and heads for space. Meanwhile, A brown elemental covered in rock is seen fighting off the infected elementals, as they use their powers against him, despite being infected. The brown elemental's rock shield easily disperses the attacks with slight damage to the shield.
"Back off! Don't make me hurt you." He says, as he then sees the yellow ship fly into the sky, heading for space, as he is easily angered by this.
"Who the hell would leave in this time of crisis?!" The elemental shouts angrily, as he creates a massive rock above a bunch of infected elementals that plummets all the infected elementals into the ground.
"We need the most support that we can get!" He says to himself, still angry about the ship. However, more start to appear, which gives the brown elemental more frustration.
"This is never gonna end!" He shouts angrily, ready to pack a punch into one of the infected elementals by covering his fist in rock. At the same time, Kyousuke sees more uninfected elementals being attacked by infected ones, and feels guilty for leaving them to fight alone.
"I'm sorry Alisa, but these people need me." He says determined, as he turns the control throttle to head for the elementals. The ship, however, doesn't respond due to it being locked in Auto-Pilot mode, and Kyousuke shouts in anger.
"What! No!" He shouts, as he looks out the window of his ship and sees them getting overpowered. "Dammit!" He screams, as he vanishes into the sky without a trace. The elementals have no success as they get piled onto and are put into a frozen, mindless state. Kyousuke eventually enters space, and leaves his home planet regretfully. He forms a fist in anger and smashes the other window of the ship to pieces in complete rage, before eventually starting to tear up in devastation.
"Why did it have to be like this?" Kyousuke says, being completely crushed at the fact that everything that he just gained was destroyed, like a piece of paper being thrown into a fire as the flames reduce the paper to ash.
"My world has been completely corrupted and I don't even have the power to stop it." Kyousuke says heartbroken, as he starts to helplessly cry into his arm, resting on the ship throttle as Kyousuke can think of nothing but the closest friends that he lost in only a week, how his home is destroyed, and how the surviving elementals are going to hate him for leaving the planet in a time of crisis. As time passes, Kyousuke eventually stops crying, as suddenly the ship begins to rattle back and forth, having one of the engine components explode as it starts flying into the nearest planet next to the ship. Kyousuke manages to slightly steer the ship from the planet, but is defeated by the force of gravity as the ship heads towards the planet at high speed.
"Don't think you can lose me that easily!" A dark, sinister voice says, as Kyousuke yells, "Go to hell!" in anger. The ship starts to burn, and it eventually hits the stratosphere of the planet. It bursts into flames as it hits the troposphere, and the ship crashes into a city, causing massive destruction as the ship slides across the ground and hits a rock, exploding and causing Kyousuke to fly out of the ships windshield painfully and fly across the ground like a rag doll. He eventually stops sliding and he notices a laser cannon being pointed at him before passing out due to fatigue. A laser beam is shot at him, and he is teleported from the ground into an Egg Grape, as he is in Mobius, and Dr. Eggman plans on using his life force as his attempt to capture everyone in Mobius was successful once again. Kyousuke is teleported into an Egg Grape next to the Chaotix, who are struggling to escape the egg grape.
"I told him that he couldn't lose me that easily." The dark sinister voice says, revealing to be Theotrin, the one behind the elemental infectious disease. Eggman seems to be quite pleased with Theotrin's progress, as he is seen to be even happier with Kyousuke in the Egg Grape.
"I say, you're quite intelligent, almost as much as me." Eggman tells Theotrin, on for him to turn his head away, believing that he's smarter. "With all of the mobians finally in my grasp, I'll finally be able to create my Eggman Empire and destroy that blasted hog once and for all!" Eggman says as he breaks into an uncontrollable stream of laughter in excitement, as everyone else, with the exception of Theotrin, is in complete fear and devastation that even Sonic the Hedgehog had lost this battle, and that they had no choice but to abandon all hope and deal with death.
"I never thought I would've been able to easily catch Kyousuke." Theotrin says in happiness, as Eggman overhears him.
"So that's the kid's name. This can come in handy for later!" Eggman says sinisterly as he copies down the data, with no response from Theotrin. Tails is upset completely, and looks at Sonic.
"I guess it's over Sonic." Tails says sadly, with a small tear coming out, as Sonic looks at him upsettingly.
"Yeah it is." He says, looking over at Sally, who's staring at Sonic, as they begin to stare at each other before everything for them ends. Amy is crying and has been crying the whole time, devastated that she'll lose Sonic forever, and will never be able to see him again. Thousands of other Mobians are upset too, with some crying and giving up hope as all they can think about is how everything is over or why it had to come to this. Even Shadow the Hedgehog has been caught and the special structure of the Egg Grapes make it impossible for him to escape. He's sitting there in denial, upset at how the Ultimate Lifeform would be so easily defeated, when he was created not to. The Chaotix are all staring at Kyousuke, wondering who he is. He appeared next to Vector and Mighty in the Egg Grapes, but is passed out, lying on the bottom of the Egg Grape like he was on the ground after his ship exploded.
"Hey, that's an Overlander!" Vector says, due to Kyousuke's human appearance.
"That's an elemental, not some mutated species." Theotrix says, correcting Vector as Eggman feels a little offended, being insulted by his comment.
"He's right." Mighty says, pointing out that Kyousuke has five fingers like he and Vector did.
"You're certainly stupid for being a leader." Theotrin says, insulting Vector who is easily angered.
"Hey, you better watch it!" Vector says angrily in response, as Theotrin puts it off as nothing important. Vector had then put his hands on the wall, staring at Kyousuke while at the same time, wondering who he was. "What's with this kid randomly appearing?" Vector asks himself, unaware of what happened before. Kyousuke was dreaming in his passed out state, seeing flashbacks of his past being played through quickly like a short video. He tries to reach out for them, but they vaporize into white ink upon contact. He then sees the scene switch Vector falling into a lava pit, as Kyousuke is reaching out for him.
"VECTOR!" He screams, as he wakes up from the dream as if it were a nightmare, startling both Mighty and Vector. He was breathing heavily, as he then realized he wasn't in the city anymore. He gripped the walls of the Egg Grape with the tips of his fingers, as he shook his head and looked around himself. "What is this place?" Kyousuke asks himself out loud, looking around him and seeing all the Mobians trapped in the Egg Grapes in devastation.
"Looks like you got caught in the Egg Grapes along with the rest of us." Mighty tells Kyousuke, as Kyousuke looks around in shock to realize that he's been caught in a trap again. He gets lost into seeing all the humanoid animals known as mobians, staring in awe at them all before clearing his mind and focusing on the current situation.
"Why is this happening?!" Kyousuke shouts upsettingly, confusing both Mighty and Vector, whom Kyousuke didn't realize yet. His Egg Grape started to move towards Eggman, and Kyousuke noticed Theotrin standing right next to him. Kyousuke flared up as he met eye contact with him. "You destroy my species and now you're gonna destroy theirs TOO?!" Kyousuke yelled, as Theotrin only chuckled in response.
"I've been working with him all this time, to achieve both our wants without pests like you and them stopping us." Theotrin explains, as Kyousuke crosses his arms, and says that it's all the same crap, but is angered even more when Theotrin tells him that Alisa's dead. "You genocidal piece of trash. Your gonna pay!" He screams, slamming his fist against the glass in anger, as all the mobians watch in shock. Eggman then sees Kyousuke as someone useful to helping him conquer Mobius.
"Since you share human qualities, kid, I'll let you go if you plan on helping me conquer this planet, in reward for ultimate power." Eggman says decisively, as Theotrin starts to protest, but is interrupted by Kyousuke's decline.
"You're pathetic, thinking that I'll join you." Kyousuke says to purposely insult Eggman, as Eggman responds by telling him that he'll be his first test subject for the Egg Grapes. His Egg Grape moves and Kyousuke ponders the glass ball in fear. "It's time for you to finally die." Theotrin says, as Eggman is a bit surprised at his language and Kyousuke looks around behind him, noticing Vector as they meet with eye to eye contact. Kyousuke then is hit with complete shock, noticing that Vector in the Egg Grape was the exact same one he saw in his dream. Knowing this, fear came through his blood like a poison, and he lost control of his powers. A blue aura covers Kyousuke completely, as he stares at Eggman and Theotrin as if he were possessed with his eyes glowing white. The Egg Grape had been activated, but it had no effects on Kyousuke whatsoever.
"THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!" Eggman screams, as he, Theotrin, and all the mobians are mind-blown by Kyousuke's impressive resistance to the effects of the Egg Grapes. A massive bolt of blue electricity bursts out of the wall, destroying the machine that controlled the Egg Grapes, causing it to explode as Theotrin disappears in a vortex of wind and Eggman is blown back painfully by the blast. The bolts continues to blast apart Kyousuke's Egg Grape and Vector's, as it heads for Espio's, who was above Vector, but doesn't manage to make it.
"Dammit!" Kyousuke says irritated, noticing that the bolt didn't travel as far as he had hoped for. The pieces of glass fly apart as they shatter upon the ground, and Vector lands on the floor of the room with the Egg Grapes. A yellow light emerges in the ceiling as everyone in the Egg Grapes is being teleported out of them to somewhere else. Vector tried to jump to the Egg Grapes to save them, but they were too high up as Eggman had made all of the Egg Grapes head for the portal using a remote control device in his pocket. Kyousuke, still in his Aura form, pulled out one of his pistols and blew the remote to bits to hopefully stop the movement of the Egg Grapes. Despite it working, however, they still were being teleported with Mighty being the last.
"Vector, it's up to you now!" Mighty shouted to Vector. Vector watched helplessly, as Kyousuke sees Mighty being sucked in.
"Not just yet." Kyousuke says, getting Vector's attention. Kyousuke runs up the wall behind him and jumps off backwards, twirling around so he could get to Mighty. Mighty tried to reach out for Kyousuke's hand, but he didn't make it as Mighty entered the portal, and Kyousuke felt massive amounts of his bodily energy being sucked into the portal. Vector watched in shock as Kyousuke resisted by using an electric shield, but coughed up blood in the process that got sucked into the portal. Kyousuke turned and looked at Vector, before passing out and falling to the ground like a doll. Small bits of blood stained the metal floor, and Kyousuke's Aura from finally dissipated as he was returned to normal. Vector rushed over to see what happened, shaking Kyousuke to try to wake him up.
"Hey? You alright?" He asked Kyousuke, but Kyousuke didn't respond. "C'mon, can ya hear me?!" Vector asked again, but Kyousuke was passed out, and Vector was the only one around that could help him. He saw Kyousuke's blood, and was surprised at its appearance. "This kid's got some guts." Vector says, being impressed. He drew his fingers through the blood, looking at it on his fingers. It was an electric blue with white moving particles inside. "He's also got some weird lookin blood." Vector notes, as he shakes the blood off his fingers. He then picks up Kyousuke and takes Kyousuke with him. He walks over to a wall in the building and busts a massive hole through it, carrying Kyousuke in the process. He sees the sunset right above a large building in the city, and he smiles with confidence. "It's about time that Sonic needs me to save him." Vector says to himself. "Unless he's gonna help me." He looked at Kyousuke and thought about how Kyousuke stared at him in shock right when he noticed him. "He's a real mystery alright." Vector notes, as he carries Kyousuke into the city, preparing to save everyone from Eggman's wrath, as Vector and Kyousuke were their only chance of survival.