SHIFTER AND THE LEGEND OF EMIT

Hello, readers! As a side-story to my current one, Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies, this Sonic Fan Fiction will have no restrictions, meaning I can post a new Chapter whenever I want to.

Enjoy!

PROLOGUE

In a world parallel to Mobius, yet not Moebius, the anti-Mobius, exists an empire that lived in peace with the robot horde run by Professor Jiveil Frantik. The empire was known as the Time Empire, because many of those in the empire had the ability to temporarily commit changes to time itself.

Because of this, Jiveil lives in constant fear that a single slip-up could cause an all-out war between the two groups.

There was only one way to destroy them.

Frantik, a mastermind in Robotics, created a device which could negate the changes that are made by the Time Shifters. One day the Professor brought the weapon, concealing it as a gift to King Emit, ruler of the Time Empire.

To ensure that the "gift" was safe, the King paused time and approached the device.

As soon as he discovered what it really was, he turned to find none other then Jiveil, wielding a weapon that was aimed right for him.

That was how the war began.

With no king, the Time Empire fell into chaos, retreating to a massive labyrinth of caverns that would conceal them until they found out what was going on…

20 YEARS LATER…

Kanin sighed. She had seen no action in awhile, and as the captain of the Time Shifters, she had to let her men sharpen their blades on something.

There was one thing she could do.

"Field Trip!"

"Remind me why we're going on a field trip in the middle of a vacation, Captain." The Co-Captain of the Time Shifters, Shanye, queried.

Kanin grinned. "I wanted to get off my butt for once, alright? Who knows, we might run into some Anti-Shift Bots." The Captain scratched one of her pink spines, before turning back to the group.

Captain Kanin was a pink hedgehog, one of the most uncommon races on EMIT, the world where time was almost literally just a number.

Well, that's how it was until Professor Frantik came along with his secret weapon.

He's now mass-produced them and equipped all of his robots, whom he dubs, "Anti-Shift Bots" with one. No one knows what he has against time shifting animals, but, it has to be something big.

Shanye was a dark grey cat. Actually, he was a rookie in the Time Shifter army, but he had connections with people in high places, so here he was, Co-Captain.

Kanin had to admit though, he was good with a sword.

The two Captains, as well as a handful of men from the main squad of the army, walked down a trail of ashes and burnt trees, as well as skeletons of their own army, and scrap metal from Frantik's horde.

Suddenly, they came across a fire that was still burning. This mess was fresh!

"Men, into your positions! We've got some rebel behind to kick!"

And so the battle began.

Unable to fully optimize their time shifting abilities, the soldiers used their powerful weapons, known as Shift Swords, which shot waves of energy that paralyzed their foes. The Horde hadn't come up with any weapon that could block out this. Yet.

The formation they were in was simple: One group that headed west, and another that went east. The two captains, however, flew straight forward, into the core of the robot squad. Right into the metal of the squad leader, the Horde Master.

Somehow, Frantik had come up with a way to not only negate the time shifting abilities of the Time Army, but also use it against them in the form of a power core which he used in his Horde Masters.

Kanin and Shanye immediately began clashing with the Horde Master, while the rest of their adversaries split in two to fight the rest of the Time Shifters.

This would be an easy battle.

The Horde Master immediately shot the weaker-looking foe, Shanye, with a blast of his Slow Cannon, whilst Captain Kanin removed herself from it's view. As it began searching for it's lost foe, Kanin quickly turned off the bot from behind.

Usually, by turning off a Horde Master, the rest of the master's squad will collapse into a metal heap. This was no exception.

"Victory! We have won, men!"

Kanin reached out to give Shanye a high-five, but the cat was slowed still, so he continued to strike at mid air.

The Captain laughed and Time Shifted Shanye back into reality, sending him into confusion. "What the? Where'd the Horde Master go?"

"We beat him, silly." "Oh."

Suddenly, the teammates heard a loud cry from a small shack near the place the fire had started.

There were many fallen innocents around the area, which had probably been a small village before this attack.

When Kanin reached the shack, she found some she never thought she would.

A small, red hedgehog with the mark…

Of the EMIT Bloodline.

Thanks for reading this prologue! I was kind of rushed, but I promise I'll make it up to you in a day or two when I make the second chapter! Until then!