Sonic Adventure
Disclaimer: Even though this is my original writing, I do not own anything from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise or any characters associated with the franchise. All rights belong to Sega. This is not my intellectual property, and no financial gain is made from this nor will be sought. This is purely for entertainment purposes only.
Chapter 1
Nearly a full year after the partial merging of Sonic's world with Earth, things seemed to be back to normal. The city of Station Square hired construction crews to build a long railway stretching from the S.S. Central Station to the ancient Mystic Ruins, which became a very popular worldwide tourist attraction. Angel Island was floating not too far from Mystic Ruins, where Knuckles guarded the Master Emerald around the clock.
Mystic Ruins was treated with great care to preserve the ancient artifacts from a civilization that existed thousands of years ago. The area consisted of mountains, forests, and marshes, and in the middle of one of the forests stood a massive temple. While it was overrun with moss and ivy, it stood as tall and majestic as it did in its prime days. Since people were only allowed to look at the temple from afar, the structure was undisturbed for centuries. This was about to change, however, when an excavation team of orange, round-bodied robots headed inside the temple. The person behind all of this was none other than the evil Dr. Eggman, who wanted to uncover the hidden secrets of this mysterious temple.
One of the robots stood outside the temple to relay the team's progress to Eggman.
"Sir, the team has been dispatched and are now heading inside the temple," it said to its master.
"Good, that's what I want them to do," Eggman replied with gratitude. "The archives that I found contained details about a mysterious ancient power. I am not leaving until my team is finished. According to these archives, it seems that there was a life form who went by only one name: Chaos. Supposedly, this power exists to this very day. At all costs, I must get my hands on that power. Then I can finally start building the Eggman Empire!" Eggman laughed maniacally, and it could be heard for miles around in the otherwise quiet Mystic Ruins, which was closed for the day for unknown reasons.
Eggman and his team weren't the only ones in Mystic Ruins. Tails was in his two-story workshop, happily tinkering with his plane using a wrench. A knock at the door startled Tails. Tails hurriedly put his tools away while a girl's voice spoke, muffled by the door. "Tails, I know you're in there!"
The fox ran to the door and opened it. Standing in the door was Amy, and she didn't look too happy. Her eyes looked slightly mean and she was impatiently tapping her toes.
"Where is Sonic?" she demanded before Tails had a chance to say hello.
"I think he went on a trip somewhere," Tails replied.
"What?! He went without me?" Amy cried. "Why does Sonic always have to leave me behind? He could at least write to me or call me, but nope, he doesn't wanna do that! It's ruining our relationship! How can we expect to build our relationship when he won't even keep in touch with me?" With her arms folded, she sternly said, "If you see him, tell him that Amy Rose is looking for him." With that, she closed the door, leaving Tails to contemplate what she had just said.
Meanwhile, the excavation continued at a relatively slow pace. The sun was beginning to set, causing the sky to glow a bright orange. Eggman was growing frustrated and wanted his team to pick up the pace. He angrily called his robot assistant over for another update, who ran to Eggman like there was no tomorrow. With a slightly frightened tone, it said, "The team has found something that I think you should look at. Follow me."
The robot led Eggman up a long flight of stone steps towards the entrance of the mysterious temple. Once inside, they walked down a flight of steps in near pitch-blackness. The interior of the temple seemed to be much larger than it looked like from the outside, illuminated by the robot's headlamp. Eggman began to brim with excitement at what was to come. He was led down a long corridor, and went down another flight of stone steps, with water cascading down the sides of the stairs. Journeying down another stone corridor and into a large chamber, the atmosphere became still and quiet, and it felt like there was an unseen presence flowing within the chamber. The floor glistened with a very thin layer of water. Several torches framed the walkway, and they lit up, one after the other, guiding Eggman down the path. Once Eggman reached the stone wall at the end, the torches suddenly faded out, leaving Eggman and his robot guide in complete blackness.
Eggman whipped out a flashlight and shone it at the wall, and what he saw caused the evil scientist to cry in happiness. A mural covered the wall, and it depicted what looked like a large sea monster. He then found the rest of his excavation team standing beside the mural.
"Doctor, look at this," one of the robots said, pointing to something written in a strange language. "I have been translating this script and it says, 'Chaos is power enriched by the heart'".
"Perfect!" Dr. Eggman cried. "This is what I've been searching for. Once I awaken this power, the world will be succumbed to terror, the likes of which haven't been seen for more than 4000 years!"
Nearby, Angel Island was floating in the sky. The centerpiece of the island was a sacred stone shrine that was as old as the temple in Mystic Ruins, and the shrine had a really deep history behind it. The stone steps gracing the front of the shrine led upwards to a large altar, where a large and magnificent glowing jewel, the Master Emerald, floated slightly above. The boundless energy of this emerald was what kept the island afloat. The Master Emerald lit up the night sky like a giant green lantern. In front of the Master Emerald, Knuckles was relaxing, staring up at the starlit sky. In a few minutes, he grew tired, yawned, and drifted off into sleep.
Unbeknownst to Knuckles, who was sound asleep, dark thunderclouds began rolling in. Bright flashes of lightning and booms of thunder disturbed the calm atmosphere. There was one particular flash of lightning that was blindingly bright, and the clap of thunder that followed was accompanied by the noise of what sounded like shattering glass.
In an instant, Knuckles woke up, his heart racing. A dozen lighted green specks flew through the sky in all directions. He could tell that something wasn't quite right as he walked up the stairs towards the Master Emerald. A strange creature, about 5 feet tall, stood in front of Knuckles. It had a slightly humanoid appearance, consisted mainly of water, and its emotionless green eyes stared straight at Knuckles. To the echidna's horror, the Master Emerald was shattered. A small, sparkling red orb of light floated above the creature before it looped around and quickly vanished.
"Who are you?" Knuckles angrily yelled at the liquid life form. "What happened to the Master Emerald? Are you the one who destroyed it?!" Knuckles, the vey last echidna descended from an ancient clan, was not about to let his island get in trouble. "I never go down without a fight!" The angry warrior raised his fists and tried to punch the creature. To Knuckles' horror, his fist didn't even make a single impression on the watery surface of his new enemy. The creature had a trick up his sleeve: he kicked Knuckles backwards down the base of the steps, where the echidna landed flat on his back. Standing up with an aching back, Knuckles was about to throw another punch at the creature. His fist flew through the air, but the creature was already melting away into a puddle of water.
"Coward! Come back and fight!" Knuckles growled. The puddle of water began to move, and it seeped through a small crack in one of the stone steps. "I'll get you someday. Someday." The infuriated echidna stomped away from the shrine and collected his breath. "Okay, Knuckles, there is only one way you can restore the Master Emerald. You have to go out and find the pieces."
As soon as he finished those words, he felt a strong rumble coming from the ground. Angel Island, no longer held up by the power of the Master Emerald, was plummeting into the sea!
With a thunderous crash, the entire island slammed into the water, sending up an enormous wall of water that radiated in all directions. The tremors were felt in a nearby forest, where a large purple cat named Big was sleeping soundly on a wooden bed underneath a small hut.
The vibrations woke up a little green frog that was sleeping on Big's furry white belly, and it hopped away into the bushes. Suddenly, the bush began to stir. A small puddle of water was trickling out of the bush, and it moved towards the frog. Curious, the frog hopped closer to the puddle, which leaped upwards and went straight into the poor frog's mouth!
Big began to stir, and he spotted his pet frog in the bush, who was shaking as the mysterious liquid life form overtook its small body. His body grew slightly longer, and the cat noticed that there was something new about his beloved pet.
"Hey, Froggy, am I seeing things?" Big wondered, still slightly drowsy, "You have grown a tail!"
Froggy turned around, and Big looked into a pair of new, sinister-looking eyes. With his newfound power, Froggy leaped six feet into the air and crashed into the poor feline, causing Big to fall flat on his back.
The frog landed on a rock, shot out its sticky tongue, and swallowed a yellow chaos emerald. "Hey, not my lucky charm! You ate my lucky charm!" Big hollered, and his beloved pet hopped away into a thick clump of bushes, leaving the poor cat to chase after him.
In the bustling metropolis of Station Square, the streetlights automatically illuminated, lighting up the chaotic streets that were jam-packed with traffic. A little girl was walking down the sidewalk with her mother. She looked up at one of the lights and noticed a cluster of moths surrounding it, dancing in its warm yellow glow. With an excited tone, she said, "Look, Mommy!"
"Yes, I know, my girl," the mother said. "The moths are out there because it's dark. It's getting late, and a storm is coming."
Their heads were turned when a blue streak zoomed by. The mother took the girl's hand and continued walking. The streak came from none other than the world-famous Sonic the Hedgehog, and he was running and hopping from building to building with great speed and agility. He stopped on the roof of one tall building, and overlooked the city that he hadn't seen in almost a full year.
"Aw, yeah!" Sonic whooped in excitement. "It's great to be back here!"
His homecoming was disrupted by a loud crash in another area of the city. A helicopter with its searchlight illuminating the road began to fly towards the source of the sound. Behind the helicopter trailed a mysterious red light. A dozen police cars raced down the road, swerving at each turn.
"First day back and we already have action? Awesome!" Sonic said with excitement as he jumped off the building and sprinted towards the scene of the crime.
He arrived at the City Hall, where a crowd was gathering. Roadblocks were set up to keep the people at bay while the SWAT team dealt with a mysterious, liquid life form, Chaos 0, who was standing on top of the City Hall's entrance. Why did he choose to go to Station Square?
A light rain began to fall. The leader of the team held out a megaphone. "You are completely surrounded! Come down from there at once!"
Chaos 0 jumped down and landed, facing the SWAT team without moving an inch. The crowd stepped back, fearing what was going to happen next.
"Don't shoot until I say so!" the leader instructed his team. Turning back to Chaos 0, he shouted, "Surrender yourself now!"
Chaos 0 began to advance towards the police. "Stop!" the leader yelled, "or we will fire!"
Fearing for his own life, he pulled the trigger on his rifle. With an earsplitting bang that stunned the entire crowd, he shot Chaos 0 at point-blank range. With a look of horror on the officer's face, he noticed that the creature hadn't been harmed a bit, and the bullet was clearly visible, suspended in the middle of his watery body. Chaos 0's brain began to pulsate, and out of sheer anger, he ripped up a telephone pole, causing a massive electric arc to buzz from the shredded wire, and brought it down onto a police car. Panic was induced among the crowd, and everyone scampered away to get as far from the creature as possible.
The officers formed a line in front of Chaos 0. With their guns loaded, the leader yelled, "FIRE!"
Every officer fired their guns, but it was all in vain. The bullets harmlessly struck the creature, and a pile of bullet caps accumulated at his feet.
"Our weapons are useless! Retreat! All personnel, fall back!" The police force ran to their cars and drove away. Chaos was a split-second away from destroying a parked car when Sonic intervened, jumping in his way.
"Well well, what do we have here?" Sonic grinned. "Finally, I get to be a part of some action!"
Chaos immediately started the fight by blasting a jet of water from his right hand, which Sonic narrowly avoided by jumping high into the air. The hedgehog then zoomed down straight towards Chaos' head, and he bounced off of it, launching himself up on top of the City Hall building. Chaos then jumped high into the air, hovering above the area. Sonic was sent running in all directions as the liquid life form shot down some more blasts of water. Chaos landed back onto the ground, and Sonic decided to run straight up the City Hall's exterior wall. Launching himself over the monster, Sonic curled up into a ball and started spinning really fast while falling down. The velocity of his attack was enough to completely destroy Chaos, whose whole body was reduced to thousands of droplets that hit the ground. Just as Sonic thought the battle was over, the droplets gravitated towards each other like a black hole, and became a small puddle on the ground. The puddle of water started to move, and before Sonic could do anything, it had already disappeared down a storm drain. Sonic stared at the drain, scratching his head. He was contemplating what he had thought was the strangest night in his entire life.
Unbeknownst to the SWAT team as well as Sonic, Dr. Eggman was perched atop an adjacent building for the entire duration of the event. He glared at his blue foe.
"Sonic, you fool," Eggman yelled, "You don't know what you're up against! It's Chaos, the God of Destruction! HAHAHAHAHA!"