Introductions. Good morning, evening, and afternoon to you all. Here's the next chapter of "The Renaissance Solution". I own none of the characters of franchises in this crossover, and they are owned by their respective owners. Other than that, pleae enjoy chapter one.
1: The Trespasser
Several Weeks Ago...
Five hours ago, dark clouds formed with booming thunder following.
Three hours ago, night had set in and a heavy rain began, with any figures that could be seen in the area becoming skewed into black smudges, from planes, boats, floating armadas to birds.
The only figure that wasn't hazed into an recognizable form was the floating monolith that was Angel Island, which held itself over over the ocean and just 30 miles outwards from the mainland.
The home of the Master Emerald had just been recently sieged by the remnants of Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotniks lastest (and most successful) attempt at world conquest.
Leading these remnants was the imposing azure form of Neo Metal Sonic, who (thanks to a bit of modifying from from his progenitor) was now a team player for the time until Dr. Eggman could be found and put into his rightful seat of command.
Speaking of seats, within a domed enclosure built over the Emerald Ruin was the metal menace who sat atop a throne that had been made over the overwhelming beacon of power known as the Master Emerald.
Neo rested himself in sleep mode, awaiting the arrival of his pitiful copy and allies, all while monitoring the surrounding area and sky via his troops.
The Eggman Empire warships were on guard as they sliced through the air in a circular motion around the island with two jumbo sized landing docks for said warships jammed into the ground on the side.
On the island itself were the main forces who made their rounds on land, water and air.
From the smallest motobug to the the largest of recent E-series units, Neo was ready for any forthcoming attack, may it be from G.U.N., the resistance or even the possible chance of an encounter with Chaos.
Neo Metal's eyes flew when one of his eggships caught sight of a fast oncoming bogey, as well as scanners picking up an unknown energy radiating off it.
If Neo Metal was organic his eyes would've widened a twinge, his clever mind going from theory to theory on what the bogey was, and how the power radiating off it could be beneficial to his goals. But answers for questions of that nature would to wait.
On the outside, the eggships took aim at the bogey. Without uttering a single syllable, Neo commanded all cannons to fire in rapid succession, launching between 60-70 missiles at the bogey.
Within barely 10 seconds, the missiles were just upon the bogey. Neo awaited the sound combustion, "They stopped?!" his confused voice was a deep and metallic reflection of Sonic's.
Preceeding another order for attack, the previously fired missiles were sent hurling back at the eggships, bring them down as the bogey continued to move to the island and heading southbound towards the enclosure were Neo laid in wait.
Clenching his fists in frustration at how easily his ships were torn to shreads, he commanded all robots on the island to head for the enclosure and be ready to fi--
The entire island shook as (presumely) the bogey had finally made landfall with any sensors on the island nearly frying as a burst of that unknown energy was released in a shockwave.
Neo stayed firmly within his throne as the energy rushed passed him, sparks flying, and joints twitching from shock. 'it was turqoise, the wave was turqoise.' he noted as he recomposed himself, 'could be the silver-hedgehog...no this level of power doesn't match his.'
He took survey. About half of his troops had been taken out, with the other two quarters in serious disrepair.
Devestatingly, this was not the end of Neo's problems. He felt the inviduals of other half begin to fall apart as he caught their last few seconds of functionality as the bogey--turned trespasser crossed their path and crushed them to scrap metal without even laying a finger on them, all while moving purposely forward.
He restated the command for convergence on the enclosure, he needed just a moment to ready himself.
The remaing robots gathered themselves at the outside of the enclosure, just behind the gold statue of their glorious leader.
They awaited the trespasser to come, and they inevitably did. Before single blaster round could fired, a quick carnage began ending all that remained of Neo's forces.
Moments later, the statue of Eggman was tossed through the enclosure's entrance, destroying it and letting the storming wind and rain in.
Lightning flashed, revealing the form of the trespasser.
Standing 6'2' the trespasser looked to be an able-bodied adult male. His entire body was encompassed by armor and some kind of form fitting fabric. He wore purple forearm wrist gauntlets with crimsom gloves. His upper arms were green with a white arm band around each arm.. He had purple knee high boots on with the above thighs having spandex on that was half emerald on the outside and half black on the inside. He wore belt around his waist with an emerald cape attached and a square golden buckle that had a coin of some kind on it in the middle of a red circle. His chest was white with a purple shield over it that had red carvings on the rim of it. His helmet was similar to that of motorcycolist, with bottom portion purple with the facemask red, the top was completely white with single green streak on top that had a golden horm jutting out of it in the middle. And finally the visor was an emerald green with glowing yellow pupils showing through from within.
The Trespasser moved into the enclosure at a vigilant pace as he stared at a glowing form before him.
That form being that of a now golden Neo Metal Sonic who stood over his throne, with his arms out and fists clenched as his body surged with pure chaos energy from the Master Emerald. "Remarkable." he stated coldly
"Remarkable?" The trespasser asked through, his voice sounding like many through the helmet he wore.
"Remarkable how you think you can just destroy my army without lifting a finger and then throw the monument of my creator through my base and still continue on without considering the consequences of such a hainous error." Neo surged forth from his throne and aimed a hard left at the trespasser.
The Trespasser stood still and caught the fist with his right hand and looked at Neo, "So this the super form...frankly, I've seen better." Sparks flew from his body, causing the armored-man to tense up and cringe lightly.
"CHAOS BLA--" Neo body is suddenly encompassed by a turqoise light that wraps around him. His body glows red as he prepares to releases the blast.
The Trespasser then launches the Super-formed copyhog far into the heavens above as the blast occurs. He gives a nod before heading over to the steps of the shrine.
Having gone up the steps, he removes the throne in swift backhand gesture as it's remains are sent flying. He looked over the titanic gem with his arms out open and palms flat and ready to be placed on the flat green surface.
The Trespasser's body tensed as he felt the excessive energy of the grand jewel of primordial energy with sparks flying off his body just by being this close to it. He finally places his palms on it's surfaces, his body becoming enveloped in a flurry of sparks that flew from through and throw. He screamed bloody murder in that instant.
He dug his boots to the ground and pushed his hand tighter against the emerald as he voices his first command. "Bring me your seven! Bring me chaos!"
The Trespasser falls to his knees, continuing to put pressure on the gem as he feels a forceful thud behind him.
"Having trouble Trespasser?" Neo mocked. The still gold shinning copyhog paced around the emerald to face the kneeling trespasser. He didn't have a dent on him, " A chaos blast doesn't effect the user, especially in super form."
The Trespasser didn't respond, continuing his effort.
"But I do wonder why you're body is reacting this way to the emerald. Could it be because of that unknown energy?"
The Trespasser shoots Neo daggers as he forces himself to his feet and calls out his command once more. "BRING ME THE SEVEN!"
"Chaos spear." Yellow spear forms in Neo's hand on command. He raises his arms and readies a throw "Your remains will make an interesting new experiment for my creat--"
"BRING ME THE SEVEN NOW!"
The shrine erupts into a blinding rainbow of light as energy is expulsed. Neo looks away and staggers back.
The light dims away and Neo turns to see the seven Chaos emeralds floating over the Master Emerald.
The Trespasser's armor smoked and body twitching as he gave a confident nod to Neo. "Now, return excess power to the reservoir!"
The metal tyrant's body moves spastically as his golden hue leaves him and returns from whence it came. Neo looks at himself and raising his fists adversarially. "How did you do that?"
"My will to survive." He says half under his breath.
"Survival chance is 0%." Neo raises himself into the air, jet boosters firing on all cylinders. "Parish!" Neo rockets over the emerald and at the Trespasser, who takes the punch, be being grabbed by tendrils of turqoise energy coming from the Trespasser
The Trespasser gestures a command. The trendrils seep underunder Neo's armor and begin taking him apart until the metal-hedgehog is just a head that falls to the ground after rolling down the steps of the shrine.
Neo glitches and fritzes, "Im--possi--ble Only Sonic cou--ld have possib--ly done this to--m--e! Who ar--e you?"
The armored-man looks down and seems to mull over the copyhogs question. "...I am..." He turns away from the head and looks over to the emerald, he looks downwards and takes a deep breath, "...Redemption."
He places his hands back on the emerald and voices his third command, "LEAVE!"
The island starts to shake and the ground begins to crack with a blinding light seeping through those cracks. The storm worsens and lightning strikes the island as it becomes encompassed by light and motion until a flash to darkness with no trace of the island in sight.
When Sonic and co. would arrive, they would only find the remains of Neo Metal Sonic's army without so much as clue as to where Angel Island and the copyhog could have gone.
Several Weeks and four days ago somewhere else...
The screen showed an outstreched black void of stars in various distances, "Day 10 of watching the hole." the voice was high pitched and very bored, "...you know when I got this ring, I thought I'd be stopping heists, battling multi-world gangsters and meeting the local flavour, but nope."
The owner of the voice came into view, he looked like blue weasel with red antlers and red eyes. He worse green spandex with a white-colored lantern-like symbol on the chest. His body was encapsulated by a slim green light. "I'm dying for some action--any action. The only things that's entertaining about this damn wall is seeing the faces in it and even then, it's just freaky looking at them." The antler-weasel sighs, sagging his head as he turns to look at the wall behind him, with various other beings of varying description behind him who wore the same-type of uniform as him.
The wall he faced had a large gaping hole in it with a swirling golden-white vortex in it. "Maybe I can get that Ch'p guy to take my pla--" He turns back to the camera, his eyes widen "What the?!" He in tandem with the others, (who could be seen on screen) extend their limbs out as the ring in their hands start to glow.
The camera catches them creating a large shield before a comet of an object hits said shield, breaking it before heading straight into the hole of the wall, "Is that bad?" the antler-weasel asks before the video stops.
The screen floated aboved a round table that sat 9, it ceased to exist as the first of the 9 spoke up. He was a dark-skinned buzzcut man who wore the same-type of uniform as the antler-weasel in the video, his name was John Stewart, and he was the leader of the Green Lantern Corps. "So, is that bad?" He repeated.
The green-skinned martian known as J'onn J'onzz answered. "I have no idea Stewart. We have no idea what could possibly be on the other side."
"The Totality may give us a good hint about that...still, is Luthor even able to get that far towards the Source Wall?" The fastest man alive aka the Flash/Barry Allen asked.
"He has Sinestro on his side, I'm pretty sure that allows him space travel." Cyborg piped up.
"Except Sinestro isn't a green lantern anymore, and reports gathered from the lanterns stationed at the wall say that whoever broke through the shield had was using willpower, a lot of it."
"So what you're saying is a lantern's gone rogue John?" Hawkgirl aka Shiera Saunders inquired, her tone cautious about the theory she gave.
John Stewart shook his head, "Unless that green lantern has ring that puts Mogo to shame, I'd say no."
Diana Prince aka Wonder Woman was next to interject. "Then what or whom could it be?"
"Have to be someone who's had that level of energy before or something close to it." The Bat finally spoke after contemplating the facts given. "Where's Gardner lately?"
"He's taking a month long bar crawl with Arkillo after the Darkstars incident." John answered.
"Kyle?"
"In New York working on a commission."
"Baz?"
"Spending time with his sister and family."
"Cruz?"
Cyborg was the one to speak up, "I'm having her get to know Starfire. Hopefully she'll get Jess to be a bit more open."
Batman nodded before lingering on his final question, "Jordan?"
The question came like a suckerpunch to the veteran members with the way the detective said it.
"Woah! You don't think Hal's gone rogue again, do you?" Barry accused.
"It's happened before."
"He was possessed by Parallax!"
"He still had the inkling to do what he did, Parallax just helped him do it."
"You're saying just because Hal had the inkling to do it before, he might do it again!?" Diana slammed her fists on the table.
"Outrageous as usual Bruce, jumping to conclusions about one of your teammates just because they have the potential to do bad...not like you've never done anything bad--like I don't know, the time your files on us nearly lead to the world being an incoherent mess." Arthur Curry, Aquaman pointed out with his arms crossed.
"I'm not saying Jordan turned back on purpose, all I'm saying is that the fear entity could have came back to him at a moment of weakness, say the death of former lantern he knew personally."
"Impossible." Clark Kent, Kal-El aka Superman said, with a stern face.
"How so?"
"One, because I know for certain that Parallax is sealed away right now."
John continued, "And two, I got a message from Hal an hour ago. He was on a date with Carol Ferris--without a hint of grey on his hair."
The Martian Manhunter stood up from the table. "Then it must be concluded that we don't know who has entered the Source Wall, nevertheless we must stand guard. If the events of the Totality and the Ultraviolet Lantern attack on Earth has taught us anything--that we must be stand strong, because there's a change coming and Luthor and his Legion will be taking every advantage to use this change to enact his grand design."
"Well said J'onn." Diana praised.
Cyborg dinged, "Getting reports about an attack in D.C. It's large, grey and very angry."
Diana cracked her knuckles, "The creature I fought in Atlanta has surfaced back up it would. Been wanting to settle the score!"
"Then let's kick it's ass!" Arthur grinned reality seeping and contorting around them as Martian Manhunter concludes the meeting within the mindscape.
Somewhere else once more: Now
The orange sunlight of day sky waned as night began to grow over Tatsumi Port Island, a place that had once been the epicenter of a possible apocalypse most deadly, now just a by the numbers citycity with a highschool to be proud of.
Speaking of which, on the rooftop of crouched stunning petite in blue dress and hat over white hair that hung between her fair skinned face.
Her golden irises were worried, she was worried, "where did you go?" she asked with no answer given as her finger traced a crack on the roof's solid concrete, a crack that wasn't their before until quite recently. Her name is Elizabetha and she knew something was wrong, because he was missing and she knew it wasn't her doing.
The he in question was someone she was quite close to. A boy who gave up his own freedom, his own life to stop the inevitable. And he succeeded, but at a cost of course.
She crouched over his final resting place, by a pair of benches where he died peacefully, knowing everything would be alright. She did always love and hate that about him, his willingness to save others, even at the cost of himself. She would of given up her tasks in the Velvet Room for him, if what she did wasn't so important.
The boy had ended up transformed upon his death, becoming a seal to stop a great death and Elizabeth had promised herself she would get him back someday, somehow, so he wouldn't have to suffer an eternity.
Seems fate had different plans, as during a night two days ago. A echo of pain had been felt throughout the world by any of the those who had a connection to the side of reality where shadows lay.
Elizabeth recognized the sound as the boy who died for the world, escaping his prison in a torment she couldn't imagine. With a word to her brother and sister about her location, she had headed off to investigate before any of the boy's friends could intercede.
That lead her to the top of Gekkoukan High School, with a puzzled view over cracks in the ground. The crack radiated with some power she didn't recognize. Something otherworldly, no that wouldn't make sense. She was otherworldly, the power she felt was outerworldly. Something she hadn't felt in awhile since a few persona users be whisked away to parts unknown years ago. The crack also had energy of the boy dwelling in it, residue from his persona.
What conclusion she came to, looking over the crack, was that something had pulled out the boy from his imprisonment at his place of death. She would of been happy for the turn of events, if the boy hadn't disappeared seconds later. "If only Master Igor could be found, maybe he could answer this..." she trailed off as she felt a newcomer.
A rough and battle ready voice came from behind her, "So you're the next one on my list huh? Damn you look weak!"
Elizabeth turned to see a canine grinning, light blue messy haired man. He was taller then her and wore jet black pants, two loose fiting white belts, a short sleeved jacket and black t-shirt that revealed a well toned chest that had what looked to be a dark blue gem that was one with his body. His eyes had what seemed to be black mascara under them and over his entire right cheek was what looked to be the right side of bone mask jaw. On the top belt sat a sheathed sword. The final thing to note was that the entirety of his eyes glowed the same as gem in his chest.
Elizabeth pulled out a book from seemingly nowhere and got into a fighting stance, "name yourself!"
The man scratched his chin with a savage grin, "name's Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, now how about you come with me...peacefully." He cringed at the last word.
"No. Not until you answer my question first. Do you have anything to do with the resurrection of Minato Arisa--"
Grimmjow quirked an eyebrow before he popped out of view of Elizabeth. Her eyes moved from left to right trying to find him before feeling a stern hand around her neck. "That's not how this works lady. But if makes you feel any better, you'll be seeing your boyfriend very soon. *chuckle* For a better world and all that crap!"
Elizabeth tries to ask what he meant, but she was cut off as Grimmjow screamed a phrase.
"CHAOS CONTROL!" A flash of obtusive light followed.
After it died down, they were both gone, with no hint of their being there as the sun finally set.
End Chapter One
To answer Dark Warrior of the Multiverse's question, yes, there will be marvel and atleast one image character in the story. Won't spoil who though, but he has a movie in production at the moment, so hint hint.
Other than that, hope you all enjoyed the chapter and just to let you all know. I'll be trying to get new chapters up about every two weeks or so and I'll be editing previous chapters as time goes on so they're in prim and pristine condition.
Please review if you want and I'll see you all next time.