Prologue
Sonic ran through the long landscape of the Green Hill Zone. "wait up sonic!" said a voice from behind him. He turned to see his little fox sidekick desperately trying to keep up by flying. Sonic didn't care at the moment though, he was in the zone, fast as he could go, no stops. He was too absorbed in his own speed he did not notice the cliff face he was about to hit. he turned back just to see the rock side approach. Luckily, he ran into a waterfall which seemed to come out of finally arrived, with sonic nowhere to be found. "Sonic? Sonic!" he called out.
"ugh my head." Sonic said, getting up. He was in a cave, somewhere deep underground it felt. Sonic didn't know how wrong he was. He didn't know that if he happened to dig trough the rock walls, he would fall into an endless void of multi-colored stars. "where am I?" he asked himself as he continued walking. A green orb with smaller ones orbiting it suddenly floated in front of the hedgehog. "what the...Whoa!" To sonic's surprise, the green entity shot out a wide sheet of light that moved up his body, as if scanning him. It then began to glow brightly, so bright, sonic had to look away. when he uncovered his eyes he was looking at a hedgehog shaped thing. It was black with green binary code moving down it's seemingly dens less body. The sheet of light appeared again, but from what seemed like nowhere, and this time it was at the thing's feet. It moved up, replacing the black and green structure with fur and skin of the same color. Soon sonic was looking at a green hedgehog with black stripes on it's quills. "who the heck are you?" sonic said in shock. The hedgehog only smirked. suddenly he grabbed sonic's neck in a flash. damn, he's fast. Sonic thought. The hedgehog kept gripping tighter and tighter. he smirked again and said
"My name is Ashura." then, just as Sonic was sure he was going to snap his neck, everything went white.
"sonic...sonic..." by this time, Tails was tired of calling and looking, he was sure sonic had left him behind. That jerk. It just didn't sound like something he would do. Then a flash appeared behind him and sonic stepped out of a waterfall. Had that been there before? Anyway, he took off, tails quickly took to the air and gave chase. wait. Something was wrong. Did sonic always have green fur and black stripes on this quills? Actually, His quills looked longer and bigger. Maybe it was just the heat of the day, he needed to get home.
After a while, They had reached the familiar sign with eggman's face on it. But sonic didn't spin it. "well?" said Tails. Sonic turned around.
"well what?" he said, just noticing the fox.
"spin it around! we've got to get moving! I can't hold onto this forever!" Tails said pulling out the green chaos emerald. Sonic looked at it, then Tails, then back to the rock. He suddenly pushed tails over, grabbed the emerald, and ran away laughing maniacally. "hey! You jerk!" yelled tails.
"hey tails!" said a voice from behind him. Tails turned to see Sonic, but he was blue again.
"Sonic? who'd you get there?" he said.
"get where? Said sonic.
"but you were just there!" tails said pointing toward the next zone, the green speck was still visible. Wait. If sonic was here, who had he been following? The two both stared in confusion as the green spot ran away, his evil laughter echoing through south island.