Hi everyone. Here is my attempt at a Sonic the hedgehog reboot, Super Sonic Z. It was on my deviantart account for a very long time before I decided to copy it to my account. The fic was very long by the time I decided this so if you see such a huge story with this little reviews, it's because it's only on for short, but the story itself is much older then that.
So I hope you have the patience and the curiosity to read through this huge fanfic…
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG: SUPER SONIC Z
CHAPTER ONE: ORIGINS, PART I
Mobius used to such a beautiful place…until a madman with a crazed dream came and messed it up. He destroyed large parts of the environment to build his robot factories and turned the people into his slaves. But one group of young heroes had risen and now are fighting the empire of this madman, for freedom, to bring the forest back to their word. But how did it all get to this? Let's take a look at where it all started, in a place called Green Hill Zone, on South Island.
Two scientists were admiring a machine they recently finished, which had a large blue gem at the top in a glass dome. "Well, it appears we've outdone ourselves again, Charles. This will revolutionize practically everything." The first scientist said. He was a human-like being, only he had four fingers. He was tall, handsome, had red hair, wore dark blue glasses and had brown eyes. "I couldn't have done it without you, Julian. Oh this will be glorious." The other scientist said. He was a brown Mobian hedgehog with a brown mustache. They admired their work as the doorbell rang.
"Oh, almost forgot my brother and his family came for a visit today. Oh well, I think they deserve to be the first ones to see this." Charles said as he headed for the door. When he opened the door, you could see three hedgehogs. The first one looked like Charles, but with no mustache, but he had a tuft of brown hair on his forehead. There was a female hedgehog beside him, who had a tuft of blonde hair and in her arms, she carried a small one-year old brown hedgehog infant. "Jules, Bernie, and little Maurice too. Glad you could come." Charles said as he greeted and hugged his family.
"Hey bro. Glad to see you too." The hedgehog named Jules said. "Unca Chuck!" the little hedgehog infant said happily. "Oh, look how you've grown." Charles said as he tickled the little Maurice, who giggled. "You're not ready to settle down and start a family, Charles?" Bernie asked him. "No, no one wants an old geek like me, besides I'm way too busy with my research to think of that. Talking about it, why don't you come in, me and Julian were about to lay the last hands on our newest discovery!" Charles said as he showed the family in.
"Ah, you brought the whole family Charles. Jules, looking good!" Julian greeted. "Thanks, you too." Jules said. "Bernadette, you look younger each day!" Julian said as he politely kissed her hand. "Oh Mr. Namgge (pronounced nam-muh-geh), you're so flattering." Bernadette said. "Oh please, call me Julian, I know you so well by now, we're practically family. And is that the little Maurice, how adorable." Julian responded. "Dah!" Maurice gurgled. "Can you say 'Namgge'?" Julian asked the little Maurice. "Nam…egg…man…" the little Maurice said, struggling with the name.
"Well, he already talks really good." Charles said. "Yeah, but can he walk too?" Julian asked. "Oh you believe it. Put Maurice down Bernie." Jules said, as Bernie let the little Maurice go, and the little one immediately started running around energetically. "Whoa, you got an active one there." Charles said in good humor. "Yeah, he can't sit still. But no matter, he's still our little precious thing." Bernadette said, looking lovingly at her son. "But maybe you want to pick him up, we don't want to have him running down into the lab. Things might get dangerous for him there." Charles suggested. "I'll put him in his special chair and leave him there, while you show us that new invention of yours." Bernadette said as she picked up the little Maurice and put it in the chair, strapped him and put him away. "Now wait here for daddy and me, Uncle Chuck and Mr. Namgge are going to show us something." She said sweetly before she handed Maurice a Flicky plushie to play with. Then they went downstairs to see what Charles and Julian had cooked up.
"Whoa, if this is your lab, I want to see your room." Jules joked. "I know it's a bit of a mess, but your eyes are going to pop out when you see this!" Charles said as he turned on the lights for the back of the room, where they saw the machine with the blue gem inside. "Holy Walkers, is that a Chaos Emerald?" Bernie asked. "Indeed." Charles said. "Where did you find it, I mean something like that isn't something you can pick up at the local store or anything." Jules said. "It's complicated and it would involve a lot of techno babble you wouldn't be able to understand." Julian assured them.
"Indeed, what matters is that what we can do with the Emeralds. Let us show you a few of our inventions we managed to complete with the Emerald's data." Charles said as they guided them around in the labs. There he showed a box full of tiny green, yellow, blue and red gems. "Here were our attempts to create an artificial emerald, but it only produced little shards, and we can't properly fuse them together. But that doesn't' mean the little things have no use. They hold a great amount of power, which allowed us to make this." Charles said as he held up a tube with a green shard in it.
"Chaos Drives! A clean and good energy source that can power any machinery, without harming the environment." Julian explained. "That's great, the Overlanders will be grateful for that as they have been struggling with the fossil fuel they're using." Bernie noted. "And that's not all…it's also going to help us advance in the medical sector." Charles said as he showed them an aquarium holding a large deformed rock. "I call this the Deep Power Stone, it was another fruitless attempt to recreate the emerald but it got something good out of it." Charles said as the stone glowed and produced a gold ring.
"I call this the Power Ring. It has the same Chaos signature as an emerald shard, but it works different. The first time I touched one, I had a bad cold, and wished it to be gone, and guess what? The ring vanished, but so did my cold! I also felt very fit after using the ring. The exact strength of the healing properties aren't known, but if we manage to use it right, we might be able to treat injuries we couldn't before." Charles explained.
"Bro…you're going to be legendary!" Jules said to Charles. "Oh, don't give me all the credit, Julian was there all the way to help me." Charles said. "And I was glad to help. Come to think of it, there is this other project I've been working on by myself, but I think it can be used for medical uses if the Power Ring idea wouldn't catch on." Julian said as he pulled out what appears parts of a robotic armor. "So…what's it supposed to be?" Bernie asked. "I call it the NIK-suit; Neuro-Integration unit mark K. If a person is terribly wounded or in a coma or suffers from an incurable disease, it can be placed in a suit like this, it's organic body in stasis while the mind controls the robotic suit around it and they can go on in their daily lives until their body is healed, or a cure for their predicament is found." Julian explained. "Sounds great…any disadvantages?" Jules asked. "The integration in the suit can be painful. And I haven't worked out any flaws considering the neuro-mental interface. But I'm working on it." Julian answered.
"Both of you are doing such a great job trying to improve the world. You two should get statues of yourself." Bernadette said. "You're flattering us, dear sister-in-law. But we aren't done with it just yet." Charles said as he pointed at the machine holding the Chaos Emerald. "With the emerald, we can discover the secrets of time and space due to the raw energy inside." Julian added. "The emerald really holds such a power?" Jules asked. "Indeed it does, and it can do much more, if we have to believe the legends." Charles assured him.
Little Maurice waved his little Flicky plushie around in delight until he accidentally let it drop. He tried to reach out for it, but found himself to be stuck in his little chair. He then notices the buckle that kept him strapped. Whether he wanted to play with the shiny thing or he was smarter then he looked, he toyed with it and unlocked himself, going towards the plushie and hugging it tight. But then he noticed the lab door wasn't closed. Out of curiosity he went inside.
He saw various shiny things he liked looking at. But the most shiny thing of all was the blue gem on top of a large contraption. "Dah!" little Maurice said as he made his way towards it. "Oh no you won't!" Julian said as he picked the little rascal up. "That's a very dangerous machine, no touch." Julian berated the little one. "Egg…man?" the little one asked obvious. "Bernie, you might keep a closer eye on your kid next…" Julian said as he wanted to hand Maurice back to Bernie…
Only to not see the cable in front of him on the ground, as he tripped, but managed to hold on to something before he could fall, but unfortunately, it was the keyboards of the machine he held on to, and he had pressed the wrong buttons. The machine started to zoom, making strange sounds. The machine overloaded as it started to glow, Namgge shielded the young unaware Maurice with his body instinctively. The machine started to glow in a dark purple tone and an energy bolt flew out and hit Namgge, zapping him painfully and knocking him unconscious. The glow on the machine changed color to a light blue and hit the little Maurice, though the little fella didn't appear to be hurt by it. The machine started shifting colors, but without energy surges this time, as the top blew off, and the power in the entire lab went out.
"Julian!" "Maurice!" sounded, the worried parents and friend headed towards their sides. The little Maurice now looked different, his eyes, which were formerly brown were now green, and his fur was blue, and also notable his quills have fused, creating two large scythe like quills on his back and about six on the back of his head. "Maurice, you all right?" Bernie asked. Maurice just waved the little Flicky plushie in front of her face: "Flicky!" he gurgled happily. "Despite the odd look he has now, he appears to be normal." Charles concluded.
At the same time, Julian groaned and got up. "Julian, you all right?" Charles asked. "No, I'm not fine! Because of that little brat, our invention is ruined and I nearly got electrocuted!" Julian groaned. He didn't look that much different either, only his eyes were red instead of blue." "He can't be blamed, he didn't know better. It's just a child." Jules argued. "Whatever, I'm going home and get some rest, better then to be in the same space with the likes of you." Julian said grumpy as he prepared to leave. "Shouldn't we check if the explosion did anything to you?" Charles asked. "You leave me alone!" Julian said as he left, slamming the door behind him. "I think that blast threw a few things out of whack with him." Bernie said. "Let him be, I need to take a look at Maurice." Charles said.
"I'm a terrible mom, I left him alone for a few minutes and now he's all blue." Bernie said sadly. "We didn't think he would be able to get out. It's not your fault. Now hold him still." Charles said as he pulled out a scanner of sorts and moved it across Maurice's body. The little tyke gleefully reached out for the funny looking thing, thinking it to be a toy. "He gives off the same signature as the Chaos Emerald…the Emerald, where is it?" Charles noted as the emerald was no longer in the machine. "Hello, Maurice first?" Jules noted.
"Oh right, I'm sorry. Well, despite the odd signature he is completely normal. Not sure about the look though, but you have to get used to it." Charles said. "No matter he's blue, green or purple, he's still our little one, aren't you?" Bernie said. "Mama? Dada?" little Maurice said in a cute way. "Yes, he's still our boy. I think I even like the new look. It makes him unique." Jules stated. "Let's get him out of this lab before more accidents happen." Charles suggested. They got out of the lab, locked the door behind them, and Bernie put Maurice down, getting tired in her arms.
But then it was that Maurice started to energetically started to zoom across the room, becoming little more than a blue streak. After zooming around so fast across the room many times, he stopped, yawned and dropped on the floor asleep. "Whoa…did our little boy just run super-fast right now?" Jules asked. "The Chaos Energy must have an unforeseen side-effect on him. He has been blessed with great speed." Charles concluded. "I don't know what I need to think of it, how will this affect Maurice when he gets older?" Bernie asked concerned as she picked the sleeping Maurice up.
"You don't need to worry about that, just raise him as a normal boy is supposed to be raised, and he'll turn out just fine. But if anything is supposed to go wrong, I'm sure Charles will find a way, I mean he is the expert on Chaos, right?" Jules stated. "I'm here for you, and I'm here for little Maurice too." Charles said. The little Maurice yawned before he placed his head in a comfier position on his mom's shoulder. "Anyway you look at it, he's still our little angel." She said, looking delighted at her son. "He sure is, sweetie. He's our little one." Jules said, petting his sleeping son's head.
FIVE YEARS LATER
"Mommy, look what Santa brought me!" Sonic said as he showed the action figure he found in his present. It was Christmas on Mobius and for young hedgehogs like little Maurice it was a great time. It was then that the doorbell rang. "Oh, that has to be Uncle Chuck!" Jules said as he stood up and got to the front door. It was Charles indeed. "Uncle Chuck!" little Maurice said excited as he ran to his uncle super-fast and tackled him to the ground affectionately. "I'm glad to see you too, sonny! Now get off me or you'll break my old back." Chuck said amused. "Sorry." Maurice said as he got off, and Jules helped his brother up. "Glad you could make it, bro." Jules said to his brother. "Oh, how could I pass up Christmas with my brother and his lovely wife…who is always making good pudding around Christmas." Charles replied.
"Are you only coming for the pudding?" Bernadette asked. "No, also for the soup and the roasted Cockatrice." Charles said jokingly. "Look what Santa brought me Uncle Chuck! He brought me a Speedy the Porcupine action figure!" Maurice said happily, holding the toy up. "Oh really? Oh, that reminds me, Santa dropped another present at my house for you." he said as he handed Sonic another present. Sonic ripped the paper of the box and opened it and saw two red sneakers, with a gold buckle and a white line at the side. "Wow, these look way past cool!" Maurice said excited. "Yep, and Santa has worked his elf magic on it, these shoes won't wear down when you use your super speed, unlike the other shoes." Charles explained.
"This is mundo cool!" Maurice said as he put on the sneakers and immediately began running around with them. "Ah, see how he loves them. If only we could give him the last thing on his Christmas list." Jules said. "What's that?" Charles asked. Bernie put a hand on her belly. "Oh…" Charles said. "It was hard for us to become pregnant with Maurice, and the pregnancy was a tough time, but the doctor said we can't risk it anymore." Bernie said sadly. "I'm so sorry." Charles said. "It's okay. But how are we going to explain to Maurice he won't have a brother or sister for Christmas?" Jules wondered.
The Door bell rang again. "I'll take it." Jules said as he went to the front door again. "So, how's Mr. Namgge?" Bernie asked. "I'm getting worried about him, since the accident with the Emerald Machine, he hasn't been the same. He's been ruder than ever, and he let himself go, and I mean really let himself go, he's starting to look egg-shaped. And he's getting prematurely bald. But what worries me most is his change in attitude. He used to be all for a bright green future, now he sees industry and machines, and he changed his design of his NIK-suits from a tool for medical purpose to one of warfare. Sure, GUN loves the new toys, but it worries me." Charles explained.
"Bernie, Chuck, you don't believe what I just found at our doorstep." Jules said as he came walking in, holding a basket with a baby fox in it. "Someone left their baby on the doorstep?" Bernie asked. "There was a note with it. It said: 'This little boy can't be raised in a land torn by war, and needs a home far away from it all. Take good care of little Miles Prower.'" Jules added. Bernie saw the cute little yellow fox, soundly asleep. She also noted a special characteristic: "He has two tails." She said.
The Maurice came walking back in. "Look, Santa did bring me a baby brother!" he said excited upon seeing the fox. "Maurice…" Charles wanted to say, but Jules put a hand on his shoulder and shook 'no' with his head. "Well…yeah, the little guy has no family so Santa dropped him off with us. His name is Miles." Bernie said. "So you're going to keep him?" Charles asked. "Yeah, he has no family, otherwise he wouldn't be left here. Besides, he is adorable." Bernie answered. "Why does he have two tails?" Maurice asked. "Because he's special, like you." Jules assured him. The little fox cub opened his eyes, waking up, looking at the faces around him. "Er…hello there. We're your new mommy and daddy." Bernie said. Little Miles laughed at the smiling faces around him. "And I'm your big bro, Maurice! And we're going to be the best buddies ever." Maurice said. Miles giggled at the comment.
A FEW MONTHS LATER…
"But daddy, I don't want to go to the new school. I don't know anyone." Maurice moaned. He and his parents had moved to the Emerald Hill Zone on West Side Island, the Island right next to South Island. "That means it's a chance to make new friends." Jules assured his son. "But they'll pick on me for being blue." Maurice said sadly. "Only stupid kids pick on others, so you'll be able to tell who are your friends." Bernie assured him. "Son, promise me you'll not use your speed to get back at people who are mean to you, because that makes you mean too. You gotta show you're better than them, okay?" Jules asked. "Okay dad, I promise." Maurice assured him.
"Wave your brother goodbye Miles." Bernie said as she gently grabbed Miles' hand and makes him wave at Maurice, who went inside the school. He saw several kids playing on the playground and walked around quietly. He hoped not to draw too much attention but. "Hey blueberry!" a skunk boy shouted at him. Maurice turned around and got a ball in his face. "Now you're blueberry jelly!" the skunk kid mocked, his cronies (a pig and a mongoose) laughed at his joke.
"Leave him alone!" another voice said. Maurice saw a squirrel girl in a blue dress and with red hair move towards the bullies. "Ah, if it isn't little miss lot-of-bucks. Sticking up for the freak?" the skunk boy asked. "You're a big bully Geoffrey." The girl said firmly. "I don't let a stinkin' girl tell me what I am!" Geoffrey said as he flipped her skirt up high so everyone could see her underwear. The entire playground, plus a few exceptions laughed at her, while the squirrel girl was close to tears.
Maurice couldn't take it anymore. "Leave her alone! You think you're really tough, taking on a girl, how low can you get." He shouted at the bullies. "What are you going to do about it blueberry?" Geoffrey asked. "I…I…" Maurice stuttered. "Let's teach him a lesson to show him who's boss!" Geoffrey said as he and the other bullies advanced on Maurice. They tried to punch him, but Maurice used his speed to dodge.
"What the…did you see that?" the pig boy said. "Try hitting him again!" the mongoose boy said as he tried punching Maurice again, but he was just too fast, and he dodged, and makes the mongoose accidentally punch the pig. "Ouch, you idiot." The pig said as he started fighting with the mongoose boy. The skunk boy groaned. "Do I have to do anything myself?" he asked as he tried punching Maurice. But Maurice dodged, and Geoffrey lost his balance as he fell into the mud. Now everyone was laughing at him. Geoffrey cried and ran away.
"Whoa, that was amazing, you're really fast. And you showed him. Everyone hates Geoffrey." The squirrel girl complimented. "Hey, they were mean to you, they deserved it." Maurice said. "What's your name?" she asked. "I'm Maurice." He introduced himself. "I'm Sally!" she said, before she pecked him on the cheek and added: "And thank you." Maurice blushed as he touched the spot he was kissed. "I'm going to introduce you to my friends, they'd love to know about you." she said as she grabbed his hand and dragged him along.
They came across a tree, where a bunch of other kids sat under. There was a purple walrus boy, a blonde coyote boy, a lynx girl, a rabbit girl and a young dog boy. "Hi everyone, this is the new guy Maurice. He saved me from that bully Geoffrey." She said. "Really? How did he do that?" the walrus boy asked. "He moved so fast, Geoffrey and his stupid friends didn't know what hit them. Can you show them, Maurice?" Sally explained. Maurice demonstrated by running into the distance really fast and back in about a second.
"Oh ma stars, he's really fast." The rabbit girl said admiring. "It's a talent I have." Maurice said. "By the way, ma name is Bunnie!" the rabbit girl said. "I'm Boomer." The walrus boy added. "Antoine eez my name." the coyote boy introduced himself. "Muttski's name is Muttski!" the dog boy said. "I-I-I'm N-N-Nicole." The lynx girl said shyly as she turned her head away. "Don't mind Nicole, she's a bit shy." Sally explained. "Thanks for putting that stinky skunk in his place, he always bullies us." Bunnie said.
"Why? You guys seem okay to me." Maurice asked. "He thinks I'm fat, Bunnie and Antoine talk funny, Nicole because she's shy, Muttski because…well, he's Muttski and Sally because she's rich." Boomer explained. "You're rich?" Maurice asked. "Yes, but I don't want to brag about it, but Geoffrey and his gang think I'm a brat because of it. I don't even want to be rich. It's because of it that my daddy almost never sees me." Sally said sadly. "What about your mommy?" Maurice asked. "Daddy won't let me see her. They don't live together any more. They had a…bee torch or something like that. Daddy paid a funny man in a black robe and a guy with a hammer told me I got to stay with daddy." Sally said sadly.
"I'm sorry I asked." Maurice said. "It's nothing, you didn't know." Sally said. "She at least has a mommy and daddy, I live with ma uncle Bo and auntie Lulu." Bunnie said. "I only 'ave a papa." Antoine explained. "I have a mother and a little brother, but no daddy." Boomer added. "Muttski has no mommy or daddy, Muttski has three brothers who take care of him." Muttski said. "I have a mommy…but no daddy, but mommy married another man." Nicole said. "If you're sad, then maybe we shouldn't talk about it." Maurice suggested.
Bunnie decided to change the subject: "How did you get that blue color?" "You think it's weird?" Maurice asked. "Nah, ah think it looks good on ya." She replied. "I don't know, I'm like this as long as I remember." Maurice answered. "You know, Maurice doesn't fit you. It's cute but it's not you." Sally said. "Then what should I be called?" Maurice wondered. "He was really fast…like supersonic!" Boomer noted. "That's it! We'll call you 'Sonic'!" Sally said. "Really, can I do that?" Maurice asked. "Sure, Muttski's real name is Percival, but he we call him Muttski." Sally said. "Sonic…I like it, call me Sonic!" Maurice…I mean Sonic said. "Hey Sonic, you want to be our friend?" Boomer asked. "Sure, you're great guys, and you aren't freaked out cause I'm blue." Sonic said.
"Muttski welcomes you to the group!" the doy boy Muttski said as he hugs Sonic tightly. "Muttski likes Sonic, though Muttski just met Sonic…squirrel! Oh wait, that's Sally…Muttski likes you." "You're weird, but you're funny." Sonic noted. "You want to play Speedy the Porcupine with us? You can be Speedy, and I'll be princess Walnut." Sally suggested. "Oh, can I be the mean Dr. Square?" Boomer asked. "Sure…Speedy the Porcupine to the rescue!" Sonic said as they all stood up, and began running around playfully.
Sonic has made himself a great set of friends that day. But he had to learn to keep his friends close, as not long soon after, things wouldn't look so happy anymore…
END OF CHAPTER 1