Beginning

'In the beginning,' Sonic mused, 'it was just a game. Run here, run there. Hit Mr. McFatty's machines 'till they burst, literally.' He inwardly chuckled at this point in his thoughts. Then he instantly sobered up again. 'But lately, it's all been sort of a blur...'

The hedgehog was hanging upside down at the edge of a cliff, with no clue about where he was in relation to the rest of his world and how he got there. After realizing that he was just dreaming, he had decided to use this time to reflect on his life. Cliffs did that to you, he had read somewhere once. So he was reminiscing about his life, from his first days defeating Robotnik, to when Robuttnik first changed his name to Eggman, to when he first met Shadow, to figuring out why all this seemed so repetitive and boring, to... where he was now.

His thoughts went by him, the special effects of dreams finally catching on to what he wanted. He decided to start from the beginning, the place where it all began, sorta- Green Hill Zone.