Sonic S: The Beginning
Written by Virtus the Protector
Starring characters copyright of Virtus the Protector, Sega and Archie Comics, used without permission from the two later.
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Chapter 01: A Paradise Lost
In all of existence, within an infinite number of alternate realities, in millions of galaxies, out of billions of planets with hundreds of landmasses, there were few that could compete with the lush greenery of South Island.
South Island was a perfect mixture of forests, beaches, ancient castles, amusement parks, jungles, just you name it. A paradise out in the ocean, where the wildlife was almost untouched by outside forces.
The peaceful inhabitants of South Island, small harmless animals of different species, was split up in seven basic groups that each roamed specific territories of the large island.
The Flickies were birdlike beings that roamed the skies of South Island, only touching ground for three things: Eating, sleeping and laying eggs. Since they could easily travel great distances by flight, they were more wide-spread than any other species on the whole island, but seemed to stick around the borders of Green Hill, an amazing kind of beach forest with checkered hillsides and crystal clear water.
The Kuckies were another type of chicken-like birds, who unlike the Flickies was earthbound due to their short wingspans. They were just as spread out as their flying counterparts, but not as much in the air as in the Jungle Zone for obvious reasons.
The Peckies were penguin-like and not so fast birds with a yellow bush of hair on the top off their heads. To survive in the mostly mild weather on South Island, they had evolved and adapted to the warm climate, but still enjoyed the cold waters of the aquatic underground caverns, all connected to a cave system collectively named Labyrinth Zone.
The Pickies were little pigs that strived around within the borders of the island, enjoying the freedom they shared with the other species on the exotic landmass. Due to them generally being clumsy little creatures and not exactly swimming athletes, they had constructed a whole system of bridges around a small part of Green Hill, which had grown so much that it had earned the title as a zone of its own, the Bridge Zone.
The Rickies were small chipmunks who lived in the trees surrounding the Marble Zone, a gigantic abandoned castle built on an extremely volcanic ground. Of course, the owners didn't know that when they moved in…
The Rockies were small walruses with similar habits to the Peckies, and as such shared their way of living in the Labyrinth Zone. The Peckies and the Rockies were prime examples off the South Island people's hospitality, sharing food and house to anyone that needed it.
The Pockies were little rabbits, known for being very shy and fast on their furry feet upon facing danger. Nevertheless, they were close friends to the Flickies, living in the Green Hill just like them.
Yes, all the groups were living peacefully in their paradise, careless and unaware about what happened in the outside world. However, all of that would soon come to an end.
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A strange airborne metallic half-orb shaped vehicle, unlike anything ever seen on South Island, descended towards the Green Hill Zone, attracting the attention of a tribe of Flickies nearby. Upon making a surprisingly silent landing, the pilot of the aircraft revealed himself.
It was a man with the odd shape off an egg, dressed in a strange outfit. It was hard to keep your attention on the strangers face, but if you could keep your gaze focused long enough, you would see a bushy moustache protruding from his upper lip, covering both mouth and cheeks, adding to the stranger's mysterious nature combined with the dark goggles. They egg body's clothing consisted of a pair of black pants with two white buttons in front that fit around the man's spherical lower body half almost perfectly. So was also the case for the red overcoat and its yellow collar.
The stranger stepped out off the vehicle and was immediately surrounded by the Flickies. While most of them kept their distance, one of them dared to fly closer to the egg-shaped man. The stranger lifted his hand, seemingly to greet the brave bird.
In fact, he was just distracting the crowd, while his other hand reached behind him to push a button on his strange aircraft. Upon activation, a majority of slots opened in the bizarre vehicle opened to reveal multiple pair of eyes that sent chills down the Flickies' spines. Suddenly, the eyes lunged forward to reveal dozens off bee-like robots, which attacked the scared birds upon being released, shooting large flashing projectiles at the Flickies.
But the robotic insects didn't have killing in mind. What they intended was a fate worse than death.
The bee robots released metallic tentacles from their torsos, trapping the poor birds that didn't manage to escape and reeling them in. The Flickies fought to no avail, and were encased into the robots, pounding on the inside walls with loud bangs. But the mechanical bees didn't care about the noise as they were lining up in a circle around the vicious stranger.
"ORGANIC-BATTERY-ACQUIRED." The robot bees said in unison with monotone voices.
The stranger put his hands together and a smirk grew beneath the brown moustache.
"Good work, my dear Buzzbombers. Now commence with your prime directive." The stranger ordered.
"AFFIRMATIVE-DOCTOR-EGGMAN." The Buzzbombers replied.
And the doctor's orders were immediately obeyed by the Buzzbombers.
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One month later…
Another frequent visitor of the South Island had just arrived. A blue hedgehog with a pair off red sneakers with white straps ran along the coast off the island. Nothing unusual about that.
Except that the hedgehog was moving at a speed unattainable for most off South Island's inhabitants. His feet moved with the speed of a train piston and the hedgehog became a blue blur as he dashed into the forest that separated the beach from the Green Hill Zone, unaware of what had transpired on South Island during the last month.
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The hedgehog could only gape at what he saw. Instead off finding any Flickies, Kuckies, Peckies, Pickies, Rickies, Rockies or even Pockies in the forest, he found it being patrolled by a wide array of strange animalistic robots.
And they didn't seem too friendly.
A pair of beetle robots attacked the blue hedgehog, but the mammal had some tricks up his sleeve. The hedgehog proved to be extremely agile and easily leaped and flipped over the two robots. Still in mid-air, he curled into a spiky spinning ball and bounced onto the surprised robots. The hedgehog's spikes cut through the bug robots' armour easily and the two metallic insects exploded in small bursts off fire before the hedgehog had touched the ground.
The blue hedgehog was about to dash deeper into the forest, but then heard weak coughing coming from the remains off the beetle robots. He quickly rushed to the debris and lifted off some scrap metal. There, in the middle off the debris were two Pickies, covered in oil. They slowly crawled out of the pile of metal and then crawled onto their knees towards the hedgehog's legs, looking up with their gazes into his eyes. Their eyes had shown nothing but fear when they had emerged from the heap of scrap metal, but when they saw what obviously was a familiar face on the hedgehog, a flash off hope rekindled in their irises.
"Sonic… You're back!"
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When the two pigs had cleaned themselves up in a nearby lake, one of them began explaining the situation to Sonic, who was resting his back against a tree.
"When I was trapped in the Motobug as a living battery, I could hear everything about their plans through the robots com-link."
"Any chance that you know who's behind this?" Sonic replied.
"Yes, he calls himself Dr. Robotnik. From what I've heard, he's out after some kind off gems called Chaos Emeralds." The Picky explained further.
"Chaos Emeralds?" Sonic said.
"Gems that as legend says contains almost infinite power. With that much power you could easily perform miracles, but in the wrong hands…"
He didn't get to say more, as the blue hedgehog known as Sonic was already gone.
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"Dig deeper!" Robotnik's voice thundered throughout the forest.
"I want you to rip up every tree and turn around every single stone in the whole forest until you've found the Chaos Emeralds!"
The mad scientist floated over his minions as they followed his orders literally.
Except for one, a Buzzbomber, who flew up to the doctor's aircraft. Upon discovering that one off his lackeys wasn't working, he snapped at the robot.
"Get back to work!"
"BUT-DR. ROBOTNIK." Buzzbomber began.
"WE-HAVE-SOME-SLIGHT-DISTURBANCE-IN-THE-GREEN-HILL-ZONE."
"Disturbance? Can't my robots take care off those pathetic animals themselves?" Robotnik complained.
"THIS-ONE-IS-DIFFERENT." The Buzzbomber simply said.
"Different?" Eggman said and watched a screen in his aircraft.
"There seems to be something wrong with the radar. All I can see is blue dots jumping up and down." The doctor admitted.
"ACTUALLY-THAT-IS-NOT-A-FLAW." The Buzzbomber said.
"Impossible! Nothing can be that fast!" Eggman said, put his vehicle into full speed and left the robotic bee behind.
"Whoever it is, he will mourn the day that he decided to cross the path of Dr. Robotnik!"
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Author's Notes: Not much dialogue in this story, but then again, they didn't have it in the first Sonic games. But since it would become a very boring story without it, next chapter will sound more like a proper fan-fic. Or should I keep writing with less words and more action? That would certainly give you the feel of the old Sonic games back. Please comment, but no flames!
