Sonic Dimensions

Issue #1

Part 1

In the universe there lay the existence of multiple dimensions. All separated by their different universal vibrations. Dimensions, all different from another in one way or another. Some differences small, others big. But all stemming from one dimension, the prime dimension, the true dimension, the one dimension all other dimensions come from. And all with the same hero. But we're not here to talk about that boring dimension. And we're not here to talk about that boring hero.

"Okay Nicole, it's time for a hunt"

"What type of hunt?"

No, this is an underdog story. And that underdog's name…

"A shiny hunt!"

Is Bean the Dynamite.

"Chaos emerald detected directly in front of us on street level" Chirps up the handheld computer the excitable duck has grasped in a single first.

Bean looks out onto the city filled with tall skyscrapers and flying cars from his spot on top of the building. A look of aspiration for the quest he's set out for himself crosses his face, unable to contain his excitement.

"Awesome, let's go!" He exclaims, happy to finally have a set destination, then jumps off the building, deciding that the quickest path to the ground would be through the air.

"No! Wait! Bean! We're 20 stories up!" Nicole, the handheld chirps up in a more petrified tone, but it's too late. Bean has already leaped off the building shouting out his battle cry.

"Alonzi!"

Our friend Bean has his work cut out for him. But it's nothing he can't handle.

If he can survive this fall that is.

"Yahooooooooooo!"

"Aiieeeeeeeeeeeee!"

Bean yells out in joy as he falls down the length of the building while his personalized pal, who has developed a wide range of emotions in her database, cried out in fear of her fragile casing being shattered on the pavement. Aiming for the awning on the side of the building Bean places his feet together and crotches down when making contact with it, planning on being launched and then make a perfect landing on the ground. Instead the awning rips and he falls through.

"Ack! What? Noooo! These are supposed to be bouncy! Crash Bandicoot you lie!"

Deciding only now to reconsider putting his faith in the physics of a beloved video game series, Bean is thrown off his course thanks to the now ruined awning and starts tumbling down the side of the building, hitting the side several times before landing on the ground. Luckily, hitting the side of the building slowed his decent slightly and he was able to get out of the entire situation with a bruised chin, which felt the full force of the ground, and three miniature Jet the Hawks riding circles around his head on Extreme Gear.

"I'm not broken am I?"

Nicole says more so to herself to assure her that she is indeed still a part of this world. One would wonder why a computer would need to do things like assure one's self of things but in this world questions like this concerning computer A.I are considered silly and nonsensical. Few see the irony of that fact.

"Shinies… give… me… shinies." Clearly not having even remotely recovered from his detour from the stairs of the building he just jumped off of, a girl who was currently enjoying a meal at the popular food franchise "Uncle Chuck's Chili Dog Shack" turned around to notice the poor bird laying on the ground.

"Are you okay?"

Bean had landed right behind her chair and as he opened his eyes he saw that his meet the eyes of the owner of the sweet, gentle voice that had just acknowledged him.

"Hey! I know you! You're Mina Mongoose, that pop star!"

Seeing that she's been recognized, Mina's face naturally becomes softer as she speaks to who she thinks is an avid fan.

"*Sigh* Seems like I can't go anywhere without being noticed by a fan. Do you want my autograph? Or a picture with me?"

She addresses Bean with a slightly satisfied attitude, as if she enjoys the fact that a follower of hers just fell from the sky right in front of her feet. Which only makes Bean's reaction all the more jarring to her.

"What? Ugh! No! You're terrible!"

Mina didn't have a face for critics. And why should she? Most kept to themselves on online message boards she never read, and video review shows she never watched, and her huge entourage of fans, family, and friends, who constantly praised her work, made people who had the courage to approach her about her work up front think twice about it, or risk being ganged up on by the people who found her to be perfect. Mina had never dealt with someone with the courage to go up to her and tell her that her music was bad. Of course, dealing with Bean, it might have just been blind cluelessness to the situation.

"W-What? Excuse me?" Was all the idealized idol could manage to squeeze out.

"Hey Mina, he doesn't know what he's talking about." Said one of faces of her followers, a female cheetah Mobian. But Bean wasn't quite done yet, he might not be the smartest duck in the pond, but if there are two things he knows, its explosives, and music.

"I mean, I like the instrumentals to most of your songs, and I'm not denying that you're a good singer, but as a song writer you ultimately fail." Bean said as he got his legs working again after the shock to his chin and steadily began to pick himself up and brush himself off.

"You seem to have no idea how a song is even structured, choruses are weak most of the time, and you force words to rhythm when it's obvious that they clearly don't want to."

And the duck kept going on, picking apart her style, saying what she could be doing better, what she does wrong, all in quick secession of each other. Mina isn't even given time to defend herself, and even if Bean had slowed down she still wouldn't have been able to give a rebuttal because she knew that when laid out before her he was right. There was stuff she needed to work on, but because she was always being praised for what she did, she never strived to get better. But this fought with the part of her that was set in her ways, the part who loved being surrounded by people who loved the garbage she put out with half the effort of other artist. It confused her, and she began to blame the feelings on our feathered friend, who had just been stating his opinion.

And it didn't make it any better when the computer started to chime in.

"I kind of liked "Follow Me." Nicole piped up, also having recovered from the shock of falling several yards to the ground.

"That was one of her better songs sure," Bean agreed.

"But it kind of sounded like the love song of a clingy, bratty, twelve year old fangirl, which would have been okay if that was the persona Mina shows, but it's not. Plus I heard the song wasn't even written by her."

"Really? That's interesting" Nicole ponders.

"… You didn't know that!" Bean replies in shock.

"No, why?" Nicole inquires.

Bean doesn't answer for a few seconds and then replies "Y-…. You don't see a problem with that?"

A question mark appears over Nicole's on her screen Avatar, telling Bean that he has confused her.

"You know what, forget it. I just came here for shinnies. Who here did you say had one?" Bean asks Nicole, clearly not wanting to press on the subject of how a computer that has constant access to the internet could possibly not know a simple piece of pop culture to avoid getting more off his main quest then he already has. He came here to get shinnies, not break down the work of an overrated pop star.

"You're in front of her."

Bean looks up at Mina, who was currently clenching her fist and looking at the ground to hide her face.

"Mina? Miiiiiina! I'm goanna need your shiny Mina. Hellllllo?"

Seeing that Mina was obviously upset, another one of her fans tries to console her.

"Hey? Mina? Come on. That's just his opinion, right? He's just a hater."

But Mina couldn't let it end with just that. She knew people might not have liked her music but Bean was the first who gave any concrete reasons and she couldn't disagree with his logic. Little did she know that she was the first.

"Opinion? So none of you disagree?"

No one said anything. They just shuffled around uncomfortably.

"Can any of you tell me what you like about my song writing?"

More uncomfortable shuffling, until a male dog Mobian decides to state his opinion.
"W-Who cares if it sounds nice and you can dance to it."

Both Bean and Mina stared him down like he had just said cows are where ketchup comes from.

"Yeeeeah, okay, can you just hand over your shiny now so I can be on my way?"

"What are you going on about!" Snaps back Mina, still not entirely sure of what the duck wants.

"You know? Your chaos emerald. Hand it over."

This dimension, dimension #B2734, works differently than most. Namely that multi colored chaos emeralds are extra abundant in this world.

So abundant that it's considered normal for parents to pass down emeralds to their children one at a time until the child has all seven, and is deemed old enough to unlock the power of the emeralds for themselves.

"My emerald! You insult my music and now you want to rob me of my inheritance!" Says a shocked Mina

"Well I wouldn't say I insulted it. And it's only robbing if you don't put up a fight. Otherwise we'll be forced to engage in some combat shenanigans and it'll count as a mugging."

As he says this he finds himself surrounded by all of Mina's followers, six in total.

"And something tells you that there will be a fight?" Says one of the fans.

Bean thinks about the scenario for a few seconds before replying.

"There is a slight possibility." Is his reply.

"You must be really stupid to try to rob a famous singer surrounded by fans, in broad daylight."

Says another one of the fans, a female blue mouse.

Bean, seeing that he's in trouble, closes his eyes tight, and starts too hit his fist on his head so he can assess the situation faster.

"Think! Think! Think! What do I do? How do I get out of this? I've been in tighter situations then this one! Come on! How do I always get out of things like this? … Oh yeah! I know!"

A few seconds later an explosion goes off and all of the fans go flying off in opposite directions. The cheetah gets knocked over the counter of the fast food place that they were currently occupying. The mouse crashes into a fruit stand, and the dog into a plant store known for their wide variety of cacti. The yet to be stated fans, a pidgin, a locus, and a rhino, get knocked into the side of a building, a fire hydrant, and a car holding several young attractive Mobian girls.

Bean emerges from the smoke unscathed, and stands across from Mina, who was luckily far away enough to not be blown away from the bomb the Bean had set off.

"Explosions!" Says Bean, smoke swirling around him, almost as if it doesn't want him to leave the cloud. "The ultimate solution to any problem!"

"Thank you duuuuuuuude!" Yells out the Rhino, who had somehow managed to actually land in the car being driven by the attractive girls. Girls who were currently nursing his wounds, hanging off his arm, and giggling at nothing in particular.

"Um… you're welcome!" Says Bean, confused but satisfied that he could help a guy out.

"What just happened?" He asked Mina, seeing if she could fill him in on what had just transpired.

But then he decides that it's unimportant and goes back to his main goal.

"Oh forget it, so are you going to hand over your shinny emerald lady?"

"No! You want my emerald? Then you're going to have to fight me for it."

"Fight?"

Bean laughs at this, not thinking he would be particularly impressed with the fighting skills of a pop star with little talent other than her ability to make pure idiotic dribble sound nice.

"Okay then, let's dance baby!" Bean says, taking one of his bombs out and getting into his fighting stance, both hands on the bomb, to his right side, right foot at an angle behind him on his heel.

After he says this Bean begins to think to himself.

Let's Dance? That was great! I didn't even mean to do that! Man, I wish her little entourage was conscious enough to hear that one!

In the time it took Bean to think that it shouldn't have been enough time for Mina to cover the ground between him and her and close the gap. But Bean didn't know about her speed, and before he could even realize it he was being run over, bomb thrown up into the air.

Bean coughs a few times and doesn't try to get up, deciding to try and see if he can figure out what had just happened, taking his time because he was getting tired of being confused.

"Had enough?" Said Mina, in a bit of a snarky tone.

This snapped Bean out of his thoughts.

"I have not BEGUN to have enough!" He yells out in response, pointing his finger up into the sky to help show exactly how much spirit he still has. But right when he finishes saying this his bomb comes flying back down and lands on his chest, then goes off before Bean can react.

After the smoke clears Bean says, with his arm still outstretched but finger more crooked "Now… I have begun… to have…. my fill."

At this point Nicole decides to offer her services.

"Why don't you have me scan her?"

"Huh?"

Nicole sighs "You should have read the manual Bean. Everyone in Megatropolis City has an ID showing information on them, including their skills. People with a computer handheld such as I, can use us to scan other people and pull this ID up. It would be helpful to find out her skills before fighting her."
"Huh, you know, it was less painful to have you tell me you can do that now rather than read the manual." Bean replies, propping himself up on his elbows.

"Just point me and press the green button."

"Ah green, my favorite." Says Bean, jumping back to his feet.

"And you better hurry up because my sensors are saying a fast moving object is heading towards you. I'd assume she's coming back."

Bean lets out a quick "huh?" before turning around and seeing Mina come rushing back towards him for another go. Bean quickly dives out of the way and once she passed him he turns and unclips Nicole from here resting place, the feathers on his hip, then proceeds to scan her through Nicole's instructions.

"Okay, I got her. It looks like in addition to her singing ability, she also has enhanced speed."

Bean looks at Nicole for a few seconds with a blank expression before responding.

"Really! I had no idea! Thank you for that useful piece of information that I had not previously known Nicole! So helpful!"

"Wait, there's more. Look."

Nicole flashes Mina's ID on her screen and highlights a line under the list of skills for Bean to read.

"Oh Great." Is Beans reply to what he's shown on Nicole's screen. "Well let's hope she doesn't do that."

Bean looks up and see's Mina is coming back around.
"Okay, enough of this!" Cry's out Bean as he whips out two bombs out of thin air and proceeds to throw them towards Mina, calling out their individual names as he does.

"Clarence! Suzette! Deploy!"

Seeing the bombs Mina sidesteps them to the left and right, narrowly missing the small explosions each one sets off. Focusing only on dodging the bombs leaves her open to a close ranged attack from Bean once she got close enough. He used his bombs to get her to run on his right side, and then once she got within arm's reach of Bean, he let out a swift punch aimed right between the pop star's eyes. The force of the punch, in addition to Mina's speed cause the pop star to fall backwards as if she had slipped and she goes tumbling past Bean, who at the moment, has a satisfied look upon his face.

"I may not be an expert on this but I'm pretty sure that is not the correct method of running in a forward motion Mina! It's not that surprising you can't write a song if you can't eve figure out how to run correctly!"

Mina props herself on her outstretched hand and uses the other to grasp her aching face. She turns back towards Bean and growls.

"Ooooh, scary. What's the matter? Super speedy weasel isn't fast enough to take down a lowly music critic?"

Mina's eye's become bloodshot and a look of pure rage appears across her face.

"DON'T CALL ME A WEASEL!"

As she says this she jumps up and begins to run towards Bean for a forth try with an outstretched fist, signaling to Bean that he might have pushed her too far.

This time with a slightly worried look concerning the mad mongoose rushing to him, Bean throws out some more bombs in her direction.

"Bruce! Emalia! Protect you father!"

They land in her path and set off with an ear piercing explosion, smoke filling the air, soot and dust flying into the duck's feathers, everything seems to move at once for the duck. Then it slows down. Everything appears still and just the thick, black smoke appears to be moving. Bean stares into the cloud of tar like smoke, looking for any sign of movement or any unconscious figure on the ground. As he gazes at it he notices that the smoke appeared to be moving in a swirling type of pattern, all going in the same direction. It was as if it was dancing.

"Nicole? What's the wind direction today?" Inquires Bean, still focused on the rhythmic motion of the cloud of smoke

"There hasn't been a breeze all day Bean, why?"

"Because I know my bombs and I know my smoke and I know that smoke doesn't move like that without-"

But before he could finish his thought, all of the smoke is pushed to the ground and is dispersed in four different directions to expose, thanks to the power of her chaos emeralds, a now powered up Mina, Mina the Song-goose!

"… Without it being effected by some outside force… drat." Bean says, finishing his thought.

End of Part One

Part 2

Bean gazes up at the Super Powered Song-Goose realizing that he's in a lot of trouble.

"You carry around all seven of your chaos emeralds with you?"

"Yep." The Song-Goose replies. She isn't Mina anymore, at least not at the moment.

"Well… that sure is inconvenient for me." Was all Bean could come up with in reply. He couldn't really inquire why she would do such a thing. If not for moments exactly like this one then most likely it would be just to gloat to all of her friends that she had gotten hers before most people do, now that he thought about it Mina didn't travel with a bodyguard very often when she went out. Now Bean knows why.

"Well, I guess I'll be running now."

"Oh no you don't! I'm not done with you!"

The Song-Goose begins to fly en route for Bean, knowing that he couldn't possibly outrun her, he decides to try the upfront approach. He throws a bomb directly into her, which is set off when Mina breaks it with her skull. The resulting explosion wouldn't hurt her a lot but it would obscure he vision enough to allow Bean to counter attack. The Song-Goose emerges from the explosion and hits the ground. She starts hovering again but it gives Bean just enough time to come in and lay a few hits in.

"Surprise! Gut shot trio!" Bean yells out, landing two to her stomach and another to the side of her face.

"Ha! Didn't see that last one did you? Gotta make sure to mix it up. People always seem to catch the third one for some reason." Bean yells as he runs away.

It gets the job accomplished in surprising The Song-Goose long enough for Bean to create some distance in between them, leaving another bomb behind him just in case.

"Okay Justin, you better do a good job in being a distraction for daddy, or he won't love you!"

But the smoke the bomb creates disperses quickly as Song-Goose releases a little of her power to create a gust of air coming out of her from all directions, similar to the one created when one is first turning super.

"Aw man, okay Justin. Daddy defiantly does not love you anymore. I'm disowning you! … Oh wait, you exploded, never mind."

"I'm tired of this game! You think my music is annoying?" The Song-Goose asks, pointing an outstretched hand in Beans direction signaling that she was talking to him to avoid any smart-alecky remarks from any passersby who might have had the same opinions as Bean. Making it clear that she was only talking to Bean would have made said people look stupid. One decided to take the chance to make a smart comment anyway.

"We all think your music is annoying." Yelled out a male chipmunk currently out for a walk.

"SHUT UP! Well Bean?"

"That was one of the many words I used to describe it. I would have chosen one of the more colorful ones though." Bean replies back, completely forgetting the fact that they were in the middle of a fight, glad to be back on the subject of music. He didn't care if he talked about good music or bad, he loved talking about it.

"Heh" Song-Goose replies, worrying Bean, who hadn't seen a smile cross her face ever since he started speaking. "Well then, maybe you'll enjoy this little number instead?"

The Song Goose then inhales a mass amount of air and Bean knows what she's about to do.

"Wait! No! Stop! Don't do the thing in which you are about to do! I am one hundred percent confident that I will not enjoy this little number at all!"

Bean starts to run towards her, thinking to himself "Maybe I can stop her before she does it! I gotta stop her before she-" but he's too late, Song-Goose lets out an ear piercing scream that shatters the surrounding windows. Bean collapses to his knees, shuts his eyes tight, and grasps his ears in pain, ears ringing as they were filled with the unattractive noise.

"Gah! Hey!"

Bean grits his teeth then gets up to his feet and walks over to where The Song-Goose is screaming. Song-Goose doesn't see him as she normally keeps her eyes closed throughout this.

"Hey! Knock it off!" Bean yells when he finally gets up to her after what feels like an eternity of ear stabbing noise He punches her right in the back of the head making telling her to knock it off pretty pointless.

"Aiee! What the!" The Surprised Song-Goose looks up at Bean with a shocked expression on her face and puts her hand on the spot were Bean had hit her more as a force of habit rather than from any actual pain he might have inflicted.

"Do you have any idea how irritating that is? Gezz, it's not surprising that you have the powers of annoying though! How fitting!"

The Song-Goose looks at him, pondering how he could possibly manage to be unaffected by power. Until he hears him insult her power.

"Hey! My powers not- why you!"

She then proceeds to gear up for another ear splitting attack, but Bean was close enough to her to stop it this time.

"Oh no you don't!"

Bean jumps up onto her shoulders, whips out another bomb, and shoves it directly into her gaping mouth.

"This is for all of the little glass figurines that had to die today!" He yelled as he did it.

A confused look crosses The Song-Goose's face as she slowly realizes what Bean had just done. But by that time Bean had jumped off her shoulders and was running to a safe distance while the bomb exploded in her mouth. Bean leans against one of the buildings and holds out his palm towards the air, Mina's purple chaos emerald land in it and he smiles.

"Ha! I got a shinny, and I've saved the world from another bad pop star! All bad music artists shall crumble before me!"

As he says this he notices that the building he's leaning on has a poster showcasing a concert staring a new up and coming teen pop star artist, Jason Beaver.

All Bean could do was fall to his knees, grab the feathers on the top of his head and cry out at the injustice of it all.

"Nooooooooo!"

Later Bean is walking down the street after getting cleaned up, complaining about bad music/

"It's not fair! How do they get these guys to keep coming out! Is there some type of Tween pop music singer factory that I need to destroy!"

"It's not that bad, there's a good chance he might be good." Says Nicole, trying to calm her owner down.

"You and me both know that that's a lie Nicole." Bean replies back to her.

"… Yeaaaaah" Is all Nicole could think to reply with. "But look at the bright side, you got your first Chaos Emerald out of all this."

Bean grins at the thought of his very first shinny, which he pulls out of whatever sub-space he keeps things and holds the gem up to the light.

"You're right! And one step closer to becoming king!"

The sun begins to set as Bean walks on, chatting with his computer.

"Hey, you think Mina is okay?"
"Aw, she's fine. She was super when I shoved that bomb down her gullet so at the very most she'll wake up with a sore throat. Wouldn't be the first time something's exploded in her face."

*Authors Notes*

*Optional Read*

Okay, first Fan Fiction and I have no idea how things work on this site. This is the start of something I've wanted to do for a very long time because it's introduced in the main comic series, but never fully explored to it's maximum potential. And that is the multiple dimensions where basically all the rules are changed. Up until recently the most use they've gotten out of this device is the reason why the comics aren't more like the games, but I want a bit more than that. So here is the first of a very long series I plan on running centered around traveling from dimension to dimension, going off on adventures with different characters. Sounds simple, formulaic, but who knows how long it will stay that way.

Anyway, for the first chapter I wanted to lay out most of the groundwork for how everything worked. I wanted to introduce the main idea of the series as well as the rules of Bean's dimension without overloading you guys with info from the beginning. Suffice to say, all the rules haven't 'quite' been introduced yet, saved for later. As for the fight with Bean vs. Mina, ya know, it's weird, usually I kind of dislike cross gender fights, but oddly enough... I'm... perfectly fine with this. I had to make this Bean slightly more hinged than his Prime counter-part because while Bean is hilarious, I don't think he could stand on his own, which is why I still gave my slightly more clever Bean a Nicole to interact with.

But I don't want this to get to lengthy so I'll talk more about the story in the next chapter. See you guys then. Don't forget to review, fav, follow, or whatever it is you do on this site.