In this story, we focus on a human named Emery that falls into her video game along with her brother...I really had no idea how to summarize this story more uniquely, so hopefully it's better than it sounds. Hopefully.

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"Shadow…the day of reckoning is near!" my older brother Lucas mimicked the game I was playing. I scoffed and then smiled.

"Who are you and how do you know I'm Shadow?" I played along. By that time I had beaten almost every ending of the game, Shadow the Hedgehog, except for one. It was impossible for me to finish it before since the level before the end always glitched up. I'd never been able to see the end of the game because of that one level, so it was pretty disappointing. But hey, I guess that's what we get for buying it off some weird old man on the street.

Neither of us had ever seen him before, except for the day he sold a lot of his things before he moved away. I was 12 when my brother got the game for me for my birthday.

…Now I'm 16, and I still haven't finished it. Great gamer right here.

But it's not like I've been playing it for four years straight either. That game was way too hard for me to finish at 12 years old, and for it being my first Sonic game, I just gave up after a while. But it's still my favorite, no doubt. Lucas always mocked Black Doom's voice in the beginning since you have to start the game over a lot, and it freaked me out how good of a job he did with it sometimes.

And I had to admit, if Black Doom was real, I'd be scared shitless of him.

I watched as Black Doom faded away after leaving Shadow hanging, and everything around him exploded. Even though it was my favorite, I never liked the way most of the stories played out and ended. I hated how naïve they made Shadow, amnesia or not. I couldn't count how many times I wanted to slap him for believing every lie he was told.

Well on another note, I'll tell you about my brother and I. My name's Emery, and he's Lucas. There's no point in telling you what we look like, really, since that aspect is about to change drastically for the both of us. But we don't particularly look alike. He had shaggy light blonde hair and mine was so dark brown it was almost black. We both had the same lime green eyes and pale complexion though, which made it slightly more believable that we were related. Lucas was three years older than me, but still managed to act my age. Or maybe I'm just mature, who knows.

"Lucas?" I called out when he disappeared. I paused the game halfway through Westopolis, getting up to see what he was doing. I looked out the window and into the blizzard outside; the cold fogging up the window so much I could hardly see. I gasped when I saw him outside in the snow, just standing there.

'Are you kidding me?' I thought as I put on my hat and gloves. I opened our sliding door and shouted to him.

"Lucas!" it took a moment before he looked over his shoulder at me, "What the hell are you doing?" I asked incredulously. What kind of a freak was he to stand outside in a blizzard without a coat? He didn't come back, but he turned to face my direction and put his arm up to cover his face from the snow. He grinned at me and I stared at him like he had grown a second head.

"Come over here!" he shouted to me over the raging snowstorm, waving me over. I groaned in exasperation before I pulled on my boots, hugging myself in my white hoodie as I stepped outside into the cold. I mumbled threats under my breath as I came closer, more than annoyed at his behavior. As I got closer I noticed a strange light poking out of the foot of snow. Once I was at my brother's side, my eyes grew huge. On the ground was an oversized ring, one we could easily fit through that was disturbingly similar to the rings in the Sonic series. I stared at it for a moment before turning to look at my brother.

"Is this a joke?" I asked him, still slightly miffed he made me walk out in the cold. His eyes caught mine and his smile never faded, and he nodded. After another moment of pure shock, I ended up smiling too. He put his hand on my back the next moment.

"Ready?" he asked, catching me off guard. My smile faded.

"What?"

I didn't have time to react before he pushed me over and into the warp hole. What shocked me more than the ring itself was the fact I had actually fallen through it. It was real...

"Lucas, you bastard!" I screamed at him as I fell through the ground, and the last thing I saw through the warp hole on my end was Lucas jumping in after me. Once it had completely disappeared from view, I looked around me as I fell from ridiculous heights to see the sky was stained red.

And also, I couldn't help but notice I wasn't the only one falling. And I'm not talking about Lucas.

I noticed a lot of rather disgusting looking black creatures and birds falling around me, and it was then I realized where I was.

'What the hell!' I cursed, starting to panic as the ground got closer. Thinking fast, I grabbed onto the first thing I could get close to and held onto it for dear life. My eyes clenched shut in fear for my landing, and a moment later I opened them again when I felt I stopped falling. I blinked my eyes and looked down to see I was latched onto a Black Hawk, which continued flying around as if it couldn't even feel me. Climbing more onto its back so I could sit properly, I took a few deep breaths to calm myself down.

"Since when is this even possible…ha." I said without thinking. My mind was just about overloaded by this point, and it was hard to think without speaking. I looked around the area below me and saw a reasonably familiar city, Westopolis. The black arms just landed, causing havoc like their lives depended on it. And now that I think about it, it probably did. I sympathized with them for a second before mentally smacking myself. As the Black Hawk I was on started to descend, I hung on to its thorns and immediately noticed the black aliens were a lot uglier in person than in the game. The more human-shaped soldiers were scaly, and the hawk I was on looked almost spongy. It grossed me out to no end, but I managed to get over it since the bird had saved my life.

I took another moment to think and I realized, the smaller black wings and black hawks really weren't that bad. They never attacked anyone, they just flew around and looked scary. This one wasn't even trying to get me off, and that was pretty considerate for a bad guy.

'I wonder if they speak English.' I thought, wondering if I could talk to the birds. I ended up deciding not to try, not wanting to push my luck in case they really were mean.

"Woah!" I cried out when a multitude of bullets whizzed past the Black Hawk. I looked down and noticed G.U.N. had finally arrived, and I took that as my cue to ditch the hawk. I pulled on its thorns to see if I could fly it, and it worked! I managed to fly it just outside of the city, near the grassy outskirts. I jumped off of the hawk and it flew away immediately, not waiting to say goodbye.

"Thank you!" I called out to it knowing I wouldn't get a reply. But hey, I appreciated it saving me, creepy man-eating alien or not. I took a deep breath to catch my bearings and looked back to Westopolis with a worried expression. Lasers fired down on the city from the sky, destroying it beyond repair. I felt bad that I didn't know how to help. Then as I turned my back on the soon to be forsaken city, I was stopped by a gust of wind that followed something speeding right past me. I stood there for a moment with wide eyes before I whirled back around, seeing a familiar black and red hedgehog run into the city I just escaped. I just stared in his direction as he left, momentarily forgetting how to breathe.

'Just keep walking...' I told myself for my own good. But my body didn't really feel like listening, so in its confusion I quickly became lightheaded. I only made it a few steps back before I blacked out.

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Writing in first person is pretty new to me, so i'll probably change it up every other chapter or so and go back to third person. Since i've never done it before I can't really tell how good I did...but yeah anyway please review. I've already typed up the next few chapters, so I can update at any time really, but it depends how much feedback I get. Have a nice day! :)