I gave a toothy grin towards my friends, although I was slightly surprised to see Shadow here and Amy's new look. I felt myself blushing slightly… but I could thank my new darker blue muzzle that it wasn't that visible… much…
In short, I liked this new look for her.
Wait, where did that come from?
"So, who's first?" I asked them, the awkward silence had gone on far enough.
"Me." Tails said. Guess I better get ready to go…
"Shoot."
"Who are you, and why are you sitting on my couch?"
"Well, I'm someone very close to you, and… because I can." It's glad to see my cocky attitude was still here. I was slightly worried it had gone, seeing as it was like an important part of me. It made me for who I am.
"Close to me? Literally or relationship wise?" He countered, I sighed hard but continued nonetheless.
"Both."
"Hm…" While he began thinking wise at my very vague clues, I turned towards the other three.
"So, who's next?" I asked them.
"Me!" She pulled out her hammer and I had the urge to run, but held my ground. I would have just used my super-strong arms and used it to stop the deadly blow I would have received in my normal form.
"Do you want the easy way out? Where you just leave, or do you want to take the hard way, where I hit you out?" Sigh, there she goes again, she's so cute with that hammer…
Wait, what? There it goes again…
"I'd rather neither. Next." I turned towards the final two, Knuckles had his brows furrowed, obviously trying to start the gears in his head, quite hysterical. Shadow on the other hand…
"Okay then, but this is more to the fox, rose and echidna-"
"This is mainly about me dude." I said towards my black counterpart.
"-As I was saying…" He looked at me with a glare, "this is for you guys." He pointed towards the trio, "How do you feel not knowing that faker is talking to you right now?" And bingo was his name-o.
"Sonic?" The yellow, red and pink animals said simultaneously.
"Congratulations Shadow! You receive a gold star!" I clapped sarcastically. He gave me another glare, but I just completely ignored it and tried my hardest to stifle the laughter that was threatening to escape my mouth.
Why? Because the looks on my three best friends were hysterical.
"You guys…" okay, initiate laughter, "look so, freaking, stupid!" I had the 'x' capital 'd' look.
What?
It's not that hard to make me laugh.
Okay, after wiping a tear from my eye, my friends' looks turned from surprised ones to scowls, well, because… you know.
"So-" I began, but Amy abruptly cut me off.
"Sonic the Hedgehog! What did you do?!" She shouted at the top of her lungs.
"Well-" I once again continued, but was once again cut off by a certain pinky.
"You go missing, then come back like this? What trouble did you get yourself into this time?! You could have-"
"Amy!" I shouted at the top of my lungs, my new gruff voice plus the volume scared the little pinkette, causing her to jump a little.
"If you didn't yell at the top of your lungs, I'd explain!" I huffed greatly, and saw that Amy was close to tears, my once angered expression turned into a one of guilt.
"Sorry." I muttered.
"Okay then. Now that all the yelling is out of the way…" I turned towards Amy with a scowl, before turning into an apologetic look, "let me explain, on board the ship, I did all my usual jazz, destroyed some robots, met the Egghead himself, went super, destroyed some other stuff, got captured…"
"Wait, you got captured?" Tails asked.
"Yeah, Eggman used the oldest trick in the book, anyway… Eggman began using the Chaos Emeralds energy to break apart the planet-"
"So that's how it's broken! While you were away it did break… as I'm sure you know, but this weird purple stuff began dispersing around us, it was really weird." Tails said. I nodded at the first part, but when he got to the part about the 'purple stuff', my look became one of confusion.
"Dark Gaia…" I murmured. Tails this time looked at me with a confused look.
"What?" My lil' brother asked.
"Eggman mentioned it. Anyway! Planet broke, I got flung to Earth and met Chip, who by the way, has lost his memory, so I was hoping we could help him find it."
"Sure!" Amy shrieked, she came over towards my little Chihuahua friend and scruffed up the white hair that he had on the top of his head.
"Thank you!" The purple dog shouted.
"So, what do we do?" I asked Tails.
"Well… how about we visit a good friend of mine? He's in Spagonia however." My yellow furry friend said.
"Okay then! Let's go!" I pumped my fist in the air like I always do and stood up, Shadow, however had different plans.
"In case you haven't noticed, faker, the Earth is broken." I looked at him with a quizzical look, before turning into a distressed one.
"Right! I totally knew that! There's only one solution to that problem!"
"And that is?" Knuckles asked, my red hot-head friend had finally spoken after a good five minutes, a new record for him.
"Heh, what do you think?" I turned my whole body to face my black counterpart, who only sighed, while I smirked.
"Oh."
X
We appeared in the beautiful town of Spagonia, due to time difference, I had changed back to my usual self receiving many stares from passer-byers, but that would change in an hour or so, seeing as it was already 4:30 in the afternoon.
"I'm never gonna get use to that." I said to my four other friends.
"Nor are we." Tails replied, Knuckles and Amy nodded in unison, while Shadow remained expressionless.
"Here we are!" Tails shouted, he went up to the large doors and knocked three times and stood back and waited.
"Guess he isn't in." Knuckles said, just after he spoke an elderly man appeared at the door.
"Professor!" Tails shrieked, the man looked down and his eyes widened with excitement at the sight of my brother.
"Tails! How good it is to see you!" Professor Pickle said.
"Professor, these are my friends, Knuckles is the red echidna, Amy is the Pink Hedgehog, Shadow is the Black Hedgehog and Sonic is the blue fuzzy looking werehog." He explained, the professor motioned us inside.
"I see, hello to you all. Why did you come here? May I ask?" The man led us towards his library, and I couldn't help but gasp at how many books a person could have.
"Well, due to recent events… we need answers. Do you know something called 'Dark Gaia'?" This conversation was between two geniuses, so, we commoners remained silent.
"I do…" He looked grave at the comment.
"Is there something wrong? Prof?" I asked him. He nodded slightly before opening a set of scrolls that were laid out on a table.
"Yes. It was told that, that hundreds of thousands of years ago, that two entities," He used his fingers to show 'two', "the god of light and the god of darkness controlled the days and nights, light was used to balance dark, dark was used to balance light. However, at that set time, darkness began to rise, and over-powered his brethren. He shattered the Earth in the process, but an entity of wind managed to piece it back together." He pointed towards a scroll that showed the Earth shattered, and a blue blur was seen at the bottom, this puzzled me, since it looked like me when I was running… "So, the god of darkness was put to slumber, but it was foretold that an evil would awaken it and set it free." He pointed towards another scroll that was situated on the table, it had the 'god of darkness' as the professor put it, a fat man (totally not suspicious), and the earth in one piece, while an arrow pointed towards the earth being shattered.
"Well that's totalllyyyyyy not suspicious." I said, adding effect by rolling my eyes.
"So, professor," I continued, "how do we fix this?" I asked.
"Well, this scroll over here said… and I quote: 'A great hero will rise, the hero of the wind, will use the chaos emeralds to piece back the earth back together. Such hero will then vanquish the god of darkness.' So, using this evidence, Sonic… you must go to each temple situated in a different continent, then, using the chaos emeralds… you must use them to hopefully bring a piece back." He finished.
"Woah, serious shizzle there! We… just have one problem." I shy-ed, and my head lowered so I could stare at the floor. I could feel my friends' eyes on me.
"What did you do, Sonic?" Tails asked.
"The Emeralds… lost their power…"
X
"They've what?!" I shrieked at my older adoptive brother. I face-palmed, he's an idiot.
"I may have forgotten one detail… when I, er, was explaining…" Sonic said. He just kept staring at the floor, he totally had a guilty conscious.
"…Idiot." Shadow murmured.
"Seconded." Knuckles said, but received a swift slap from Sonic.
"Anyway to fix the Emeralds professor?" Sonic asked, I had face-palmed so hard, it was still stinging…
"Hmmm, well if you use the Emerald's to fix the Earth… aha! Maybe while you do this task, it may restore the Emeralds!" The professor answered.
"Yeah! Let's get going! Thanks, prof!" Sonic said.
"Why thank you indeed, professor. Now, if you don't mind… I'll be taking these manuscripts and yourself." A familiar voice could be heard.
I turned around to see Dr 'the fatman' Eggman.
X
"Why hello there Egghead! Come back for round 2?" I asked, I stood protectively in front of Tails, Amy and the professor.
"Why, of course I have, Sonic. After all, what evil villain would I be if I didn't at least come and try to destroy you every once and a while?" The fatman said.
"Why not. Prof, would you mind giving us some space? We don't want you to get hurt, after all." I said, and Chip began leading the Professor out of the way, I'd completely forgotten he was here…
"So Doc, is it just you vs us?" I asked.
"No. I brought along a little surprise for you. Oh Metal!" He called out. My metallic copy came in on his boosters, and the five of us readied ourselves, Chip on the other hand… he came back and did an assortment of karate moves.
Metal Sonic then came charging towards us.
Let the fight begin!
X
So while Tails, Knuckles and Amy handled Eggman, Shadow and I handled 'faker' over here. I ran up towards him and curled into a spin-dash before homing attacking him. He swiped at me just in time to not only knock me back, but to give me several gashes along my back, this was then distraction enough Shadow to yell "Chaos Spear" and use Chaos Energy on his ass. I then ran back and threw a punch at his face, but he kicked me in the stomach sending me flying backwards. I must be getting old… Shadow then Chaos Controlled up to him and threw several punches at him. Metal Sonic managed to dodge some of them, but others hit him straight in the face. I was about to run back up to him, but time caught up and the familiar purple mist hit me, so I grunted over in pain and let the transformation take action.
After it dissipated, not taking nearly as long as last time, I gave a toothy grin before running on all fours (a new tactic for me) and began lashing out on my Metallic copy. I hit him pretty hard, pretty fast and that managed to cause several dints to appear all over his body. I gave a thumbs-up to Shadow, who then began using numerous Chaos Spears and caused more damage to the metallic person. I was about to run back up to him again, but Metal Sonic saw my new Chihuahua friend and immediately boosted over to him. He gave one big punch and the purple dog was sent soaring backwards.
That, ticked me off.
That's not okay.
I growled loudly and ran faster than before up to my metallic copy and threw everything I had at him. I punched, kicked, used my teeth, I think I even went into a spin-needle formation. I tore him apart, literally. Several wires were seen, an arm and booster were missing and he seemed to be sparking. I nodded towards Shadow, who nodded back towards me.
"Chaos… Blast!" He shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Hit the Deck!" I yelled, I jumped towards the floor and put my arms around my head before a bright red light appeared and engulfed the area.
I waited a short while before looking up to see the destruction one powerful move could use. I saw Metal Sonic's red eyes gleam brightly, before dimming down into an off mode.
"You catch your breath, I'll see if the others need help!" I shouted towards the out-of-breath black hedgehog.
X
While Sonic and Shadow handled Metal Sonic, Knuckles, Amy and I handled the round doctor over here.
I began spinning my namesakes and hovered just above the battle, trying to spot a weak part to the robot.
It was a small, yet wide robot, which its torso was riddled with hatches that would open to release several shots of homing missiles at its target/s. Its arms had built in razor-blades, the soles of his legs had boosters that allowed the machine to hover in the air a few seconds, and the head held it's 'precious' cargo.
While I was busy scouting out, Knuckles threw several punches at the legs, trying to see if it could get it down, like, so you know, to make it easier in the end. He didn't create a big dent in it, so obviously the Mad Doctor was using some sort of tough metal. Knuckles tried again, but to no avail and ended up getting kicked in the head and landed unconscious.
That really ticked Amy off, she used her Piko Piko Hammer and was lucky enough to cause several big dents in its legs and arms. She then proceeded to make her way towards the top, scaring Eggman slightly. He then activated the built-in blades, and Amy, being on the arms, received several gigantic gashes across her arms and stomach.
"Amy!" I shouted towards her, I saw her limp body fall.
Dr Eggman then shot a dozen missiles towards me, and I had to do my best to dodge them, which luckily I did. I then deployed the energy gun I had equipped to my gun, I began shooting at the Doctor's machine, and gasped at how it simply bounced off. Temporarily distracted, the robot did a 'slap' motion, and I just so happened to be in the way.
So, naturally, like my other friends, I descended into darkness.
X
"Tails!" I shouted at the top of my lungs.
"Hohohoho! That was almost too easy! One by one they fall." The mad doctor said. I could feel my anger rising up, not in the 'Dark Sonic' type of way, no, I had handled that a while after the first episode.
I was hunched over, poised to attack, Baldy McNosehair looked at me with a confused look, before turning into a fear-stricken one. If you saw my face you would see I had a menacing grin on my face, showing my canine teeth, and the glare I had. As I had said before, it could scare the living crap out of people.
"So, where should I attack first? The arms or legs?" I asked him sarcastically. I shook my head before blurting:
"Never mind! I'll choose!"
I lunged at the robot with more force than Metal Sonic, and did the 'spin-needle' formation I did with my metallic copy before, I found it effective, so, I used it again… and I may or may not have gone straight through both of the robots legs. I was facing the side of it… so logic dictates that I went straight through both of them. I watched the robot topple over, before I used my muscular arms to tear off the opposite's metallic ones. I watched my arch-nemesis panic and press numerous buttons, but me, being the caring one, grabbed his hovercraft by the sides and swung around (like I do in a hammer throw), and threw him to god knows where.
"And don't come back!" I shouted after him.
I went over to my unconscious friends and picked them up one-by-one, Amy being last. I saw the gigantic gashes that were laid on her. It spoiled her new top with all the blood, she did look really nice in it.
So, bringing my fist into the air, and shaking them, I said:
"Come back if you dare, Eggman."
X
Sometime later, after I had brought them (including Chip) back to the professor's secret lab, I returned back to my usual self, and saw that my new purple friend was starting to wake up.
"Hey buddy… how you doing? You took a big hit there." I asked him. He looked at me with eyes that confused me.
"Sonic… I remember everything." He said, I gasped quietly, but he still continued.
"I'm… Light Gaia," he pointed towards the green orb that hung on a necklace, "I'm supposed to keep Dark Gaia intact, but due to recent events…" he trailed off before continuing once again, "I had to come up to tell you." He pointed towards me.
"Tell me what?" I asked him.
"That you're the one that's supposed to restore the planet to its original self." He said. I was confused.
"Why me?" I asked the Chihuahua.
"Because no one is as connected to the Emerald's as you are. Only you can use them to repair the planet." He said.
"What about Shadow?"
"That black hedgehog?" I nodded, "He does have some sort of a connection, but not as much as you have."
"Wait, wait, wait. I have a deeper connection? I can't even do chaos blast or spear!" I screamed.
"Have you ever attempted to do such things?" He asked diplomatically.
"Well… no." I said back to him.
"You see? Who knows, maybe you'll unlock more chaos powers, all I know is, is that you have the deepest connection to the Emerald, out of well… anyone." He said back to me.
"Who told you that?" I asked.
"The goddess of this dimension." He said, simply. The goddess of this dimension?!
"Thanks…" I said, slightly sarcastically.
I then heard stirring coming from all three friends, and turned around to see all three of them sitting up.
"What happened?" Tails asked groggily.
"Well long story short, Eggman and Metal appeared, I beat up Metal, Eggman beats you all up, I beat Eggman's robot up." I said, they all gasped slightly, but I merely shrugged.
"What does this mean now?" Amy asked innocently.
"Well… this is the start of an Adventure."
A/N: And that's a wrap! I hope you enjoy this as much as I did!
The next part is directed to my Puella Magi Madoka Magica story followers, if you're reading this one to see whats happening.
I'm going to get out a chapter soon, but I'm re-writing some components, such as characters, how they met… In fact, that's pretty much it. I won't be using my name anymore, seeing as I'll be changing all the characters. Except the magical girls themselves.
It should be out soon, but due to my birthday and New Year's Eve coming up, I'm not really going to have much time.
I'd also pay attention to the 'goddess' I mentioned. She will be important in the series I'm writing. ;)
Finally, I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas! I did, I got a brand-new shoulder-bag! Squee! Ahem, anyway… I hope you all were happy with what you got.
Ta-Ta!