I do not own any of the characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog Universe, nor do I own any of those in the Aliens, Predator or Alien vs Predator Universes.
The machines and cameras whirred and buzzed following the fast blue figure that bounced throught the fun-fair like base. Eggman stood over a computer screen, monitering each camera in turn and watching the chaos. He slammed his fist down on the keypad, much to the robot operators worry. "Blast that Hedgehog!" He cursed in a screeching voice. Sure enough, behind him appeared a blue hedgehog, tossing a small gem into the air haphazardly. "Nice to see you too, Doctor" He smiled. Eggman grinned devilishly, his egg shaped body spinning around to the keypad and pushing a red button. A robotic arm appeared from nowhere and grabbed the hedgehog around his middle, securing his arms in the process. "I finally have you, Sonic" The overweight Doctor laughed "All these years chasing you around, I never thought to get you this way, so simply" The small gem that had been in Sonic's glove hand clinked on the ground, attracting Eggman's attention. An underling robot, about Sonic's height and remarkably similar to Eggman (Albeit entriely red) picked it up and gave it to his master. Eggman observed it and smiled. It was grey and partially transparant. Eggman chuckled. "The final chaos emerald" He laughed "Once again in my possession. Except this time, none of your friends are here to help you stop me" Sonic looked perplexed. Eggman grinned and pressed another button on the keypad. The screen, which had been showing footage of the hedgehog-wrecked corridors, changed to show a singular image. Tails, Sonic's twin tailed fox friend, was sitting in a cell guarded by Eggman's robots, his tails secured together with a glowing ring. The screen flickered and changed to show a red Echidna, Knuckles, fruitlessly punching at the walls in a seperate cell and mouthing obscenities at the guards who electrocuted him with tazers. Rouge the bat, renowned treasure hunter, was shown locked inside a pyramid where jewels covered the walls, with her robot accomplace Omega slamming his large metal hands against the walls. Shadow, who was similar to Sonic bar his black fur and red highlights, leaned calmly against one of the artefacts in the pyramid cell.
"Your friends were all very stupid" Eggman spat malignantly, turning off the screens "It was easy to trick them into my cells. Rouge was tempted by the jewels, and I only had to mention Maria and Shadow went running with her. As for Tails and Knuckles, they were a little trickier" His grin widened "...but these handy robotic arms can get the best of anyone when you're caught unaware" Eggman walked over to a wall, where six other gems much like the grey one shone brilliantly in their little placeholds. The last space was filled by Eggman, who slammed the stone in. The wall was set alight with an aura. Eggman chuckled. The whole room, and indeed his base, began to shudder. A camera flicked back onto the screen and presented a canon, uncouthly shaped like a nose on Eggman's base (Shaped like his face. The doctor was very egotistical and insisted on his designs mimicking his flawless figure). The canon opened up, revealing it to be made up of four triangles with a large rod in the centre. The rod charged up a multicoloured energy. "Get me the world leaders" Eggman ordered his robot minion, who began typing desperately on the keypad. Several old men appeared on the screen, all looking panic stricken. "Gentlemen" Eggman announced "I have finally obtained all seven chaos emeralds, and have launched my Chaos canon" For a man with a 300 IQ Eggman was not very imaginetive, Sonic thought. "This canon has the power to destroy the Earth. I have several mirror satellites placed in space. I simply have to fire skyward at them, and a city will be destroyed..."
"You're a monster" A Japanese man announced in rough English. Eggman laughed mockingly.
"I require ownership of the planet. To be ruler of this world!" He cawed. Sonic struggled free of the robotic hands to no aveil. All he could do was watch, and it was killing him. It came to his attention that the robotic guard in front of him was paying him no attention. With all the upper body strength he could use he thrusted his legs forward, kicking the robot in the back. It went flying towards Eggman, knocking him onto the keypad and letting his enormous girth push the button to release Sonic. He dropped to the floor, one knee bent with a gloved hand on it, and got up, dashing for the wall. "For such a big time villain, Doctor" Sonic began "You're not so clever" He slammed his fist into the wall and the energy flowed through him. The interrupted camera feed switched back to the cannon to show the energy fading. "No!" Eggman cried, scrambling up and pushing his minon aside. Sonic began to glow and turned a mighty sparkling gold colour. He smirked. "Your plan's finished Eggman" The emeralds flew in every direction from the wall to the sky, hovering in a circle and dashing every which way. Eggman kept cursing Sonic and ran for a small, semi-circular pod, his Egg-O-Matic, and hovered away to one of his more recluse bases.
Sonic pondered whether to chase Eggman; he could catch him easily, if he wished. In the corner of his eye he spotted the incapacitated robot on the ground reach and press a button. The powerful canon fired upwards into the sky and the base began to shift while the robot shut down. Sonic desperately looked around for an exit but remembered his friends. He dashed down the now shifting corridors that were closing around him, golden sparks flying from his body like tiny bits of shrapnel. He came up to the cell where Tails was being kept. The fox was sitting, exhausted from struggling in his chains, his ears flopped downwards. Sonic bent the bars either side and alerted Tails of his presence. "Hey buddy" He smiled. Tails jumped upwards with joy as Sonic released him from the chains. "Sonic!" Tails said with joy "Eggman's going to blow up the world-"
"I know" Sonic sighed "Come on, we need to get Knuckles and everyone else" Tails nodded and began to fly by spinning his two tails. Usually he could keep up with Sonic's speeds by doing this, but while Sonic was under the influence of the chaos emeralds his speeds were unreal. Knuckles' cell was more recluse than Tails', found in a completely separate block of the building. He offered little thanks on his release, merely offering his thanks by trying to find the tomb where Shadow, Rouge and Omega were. Tails and Knuckles hovered down to a suspicious building while Sonic zipped around the entire base, checking for any more hostages. "Sonic, over here!" Tails said, pointing to the bunker they had discovered. Sonic dashed downwards into the door of the locked bunker and broke it. Inside, Shadow was facing a wall, his arms crossed, while Rouge sat in the opposite corner with a sad expression comforted only by the hulking robot, Omega. "About time" Shadow muttered upon seeing the light, marching outwards while pushing Sonic and co out of his way. Rouge ran after him, making some apologetic words, while Omega politely asked for them to be excused as Shadow skated away.
3 months later
Rouge stood bored, hand on hip near a dark alley. A car drove up, dark windows but otherwise a plain working class car. She leaned forward to the driver's window, allowing herself to become more accessible. "Hey hun" She smiled seductively "Looking for a good time?"
"Uh" The driver said nervously, staring into the expanse between Rouge's assets. He looked up and saw her bat face, instantly retching. "No offense, but you're not my type" He said, rolling up the window and driving away.
"Bastard!" Rouge shouted after the car, sliding against the wall and sitting down. She heard a scuttling coming from the alley and peered around the corner to see the commotion. It was probably only a rat or a stray feline searching for food in the bins though it still concerned her. She couldn't see anything; it was too dark for her to make out any figures. She shrugged it off and stood back up, brushing the damp off of her (it had become a habit that she couldn't avoid. There was no possible way of getting dry like this, but it allowed her to wipe off the mud and things that had accumulated in the mud so as to avoid some embarrassment). As she did this, she heard the scuttling again, turning her head hastily around the wall again. "Shoo!" She shouted angrily. The scuttling stopped. She frowned and returned to brushing herself off. Small amounts of brick began to crumble onto her head. "What the hell?" She quizzed, looking up. A small spider like creature changed her vision to black, covering her face and sliding its small tube into her mouth until she faded to unconsciousness.
Sitting on the grass and counting clouds, Sonic grew ever more bored. "How long's this going to take, Tails?" He asked, trying to show his boredom in his tone of voice. Tails was wielding a blue and orange painted machine with a spinning ariel on top that whirred violently as he held it near a piece of debris. "I'm almost finished" He replied with a similar tone; he was growing bored of constantly answering Sonic's questions of when he was going to finish. The debris fell from the sky the night before and Sonic had asked Tails to accompany him in checking it out. Tails' machine analyse a variety of different specifications, mostly about how old the material was and indeed what it was. Finally, the ariel stopped spinning and retracted into the machine. Scraps of paper folded out like a reciept. Tails held it up to his eyes while it was still printing. "Hmm" He pondered, looking over the results. Sonic sat up and scratched his ear. "It's interesting all right" Tails said after a while "The readings basically say the metal is something alien, not of this planet"
"Don't say it's the Black Army again" Sonic said blandly "They pissed me off enough last time. I don't even know how we got enough money to rebuild Westopolis" Tails ignored him.
"Thankfully the scanner's been able to read the age of the metal, if not the type. It's over two thousand years old..." He looked at the piece of metal again, which was still smoking. It didn't look so old. In fact, in the places where it hadn't burned up through the entering the atmosphere, it was a shining silver colour. "How odd" Sonic said, clearly not interested "What about the patterns? Did you get anything from that?"
"I'd need internet access. They look like they're from the ancient time periods. Y'know, Egyptian and Aztec" Tails replied "Anyway, we're done here Sonic. We better get back to the workshop" Sonic nodded, walking towards Tails' plane. Before they had even started up the propeller, a call came in from the on screen computer. "Hello?" Tails said, touching the screen with his paw for identification. "Yeah, is this Miles Prower?" the woman on the phone announced. Tails blushed; not many referred to him by his full name since Sonic gave him a nickname. Even his parents had taken to calling him Tails. "Yes it is, who's calling?"
"This is the station square hospital. We have your sister here" The receptionist announced. Tails turned to Sonic, who had an equally dumbfounded look on his face, then returned to the call. "I don't have a sister" He announced.
"That's odd. There's someone here who's declaring themselves to be your sister asking for you urgently. She's quite insistent that until you visit her, we can't treat her. Shall I phone the police?" She sounded quite worried at the fraud, more so than Tails himself.
"No, that won't be necessary. I'll come down as soon as I can" Tails said "Thank you very much" He hung up the call and started the propeller up. "I guess we have to make a stop off at the hospital before we can check out that hunk of metal" He shouted over the noise of the engine. Sonic just sighed and lay back. "Whatever floats your boat buddy. If this girl turns out to be a psycho fangirl, you owe me money" He noted, shutting his eyes as they took off.