Well, here's the first real chapter of my story. Enjoy, and please R&R.

"Are we there yet?" Tails repeatedly asked as they neared the planet's surface. The three friends had returned to Green Hill Zone, and were currently flying the Tornado towards the surface of the planet.

"You should know Tails, you're the one who's driving!" Knuckles grumbled from the back seat.

"Yeah, but I can't see anything. We didn't think to get me another phone book to sit on after we got the plane cleaned."

"We're flying blind?" Knuckles shouted.

"Relax," Sonic said, relaxing on the wings. "Tails has a sixth sense about flying. He's never wrecked yet."

"But Sonic, Remember when we were flying to Robotnik's Wing Fortress Zone and he fired that big laser an-MPHH"

"Yeah, yeah sure I do." Sonic said, reaching down and covering Tails' mouth so Knuckles wouldn't be even more panicked.

"Well, sixth sense or not, I don't think that even he'll be able to adjust to the curve in gravity." Knuckles muttered. "And even if Tails can adjust, what's going to happen to the Chaotix? Vector isn't exactly the best pilot in the world."

"Ah, you worry too much." Sonic grinned.

As the plane neared the planet, the airplane began to increase in speed due to gravity changing direction. Suddenly, Sonic and Knuckles had to hang on to the wings for dear life.

"Tails!" Knuckles yelled. "Pull up!"

"I can't!" Tails screamed back. "The engine isn't responding!"

As the speed of the plane increased, Sonic was flung off of the wings.

"TAILS!!" Sonic yelled as he was blown away from the plane. He was whipped around by the intense turbulence until he was completely disoriented. Suddenly, there was a loud thump, and everything went black.

When Sonic came to, he found himself lying in a grove of palm trees. He noticed a sign stating he was in the tropical zone of the planet, Palmtree Panic Zone.

"Tails? Knuckles?" he called out, then winced as rubbed a huge knot on his noggin. "Ugh… I can't believe I survived that fall. Then again, if I can survive a fall from the Death Egg, I can survive anything."

As he got up, he noticed a sign that pointed the way to the city section of the zone. "Huh… I guess I ought to see if Robotnik made it here yet." Starting off in that direction, Sonic decided to walk and admire the scenery. After all, he thought, It's not every day you get to walk on another planet.

As he walked, he noticed some things flying towards him. Hoping it would be some native birds that he could question, he stopped and waved. However, as they neared him, he noticed that they looked more like giant mosquitoes. Starting to get nervous about meeting native aliens, Sonic started to back away. But when they were close enough for him to make out their details, he realized that they weren't alive after all. They were robots!

"Well, I guess that answers whether Robotnik made it here or not." Sonic said, glaring at the mechanical bugs. When they noticed him, They immediately pointed their needles at him and charged one at a time. Sonic quickly jumped and dodged out of the way without getting speared. "Come on! old Robuttnik can certainly do better than that." he chuckled as he walked back to bust the trapped robots. As he reached the nearest one, he smashed the robot to free whatever was powering it. He was expecting a young mobian, or at least, a small feral animal to be released. But instead, a small glowing seed came forth and fell upon the ground, instantly blooming into a strange flower with pink petals and blue leaves. Upon smashing the other robots, identical seeds were released. Confused and still needing answers. Sonic continued through the zone, hoping to find the answers in the city.

As he continued onward, he noticed what looked like an enormous wall up ahead. When he got close enough, he saw that it was indeed an enormous wall with a sloped base and a strange levitating wheel next to it.

What the heck am I supposed to do? Sonic wondered, That thing's so high, I'll never be able to run all the way up on my own power. Still, knowing that he couldn't just stay there and let Robotnik fulfill his evil scheme, whatever it may be, Sonic ran back to a nearby hill, gathered speed and tried to dash up the wall. To his surprise, he gained an enormous boost of speed from the wheel, sending him soaring over the wall, causing him to look down and wonder whether that was his brightest move. As he ascended, he noticed many robots on the hills ahead. I didn't think Robotnik could get so many robots up and running in such a short amount of time. Sonic though as he leveled out and began to plummet towards the ground. Looking down, he noticed what looked like a robotic moth fluttering down below him. Curling up, he aimed himself to land on the robot and break his fall. however, instead of slowing his fall, the robot exploded with enough force to launch him into the sky again.

"Lower gravity… Who knew?" he muttered, bracing himself for the deadly impact with the ground. When he hit, it didn't hurt nearly as much as he thought it would. No bruises or anything. Lower gravity, you gotta love it. He thought as he pushed himself up and looked around. He decided to head into the hills he'd seen from the sky. Having had quite enough of the sky, he decided to take the lower route. As he walked down the path, he felt a sudden crumbling underneath him. And before he knew it, he had fallen into a pitfall under the mountain.

"Well, Hedgehog, you wanted the lower route and now you've got it." Sonic said, mentally kicking himself for being so stupid. A solid wall ahead prevented moving forward, so he turned around to see if he could find a way out. A couple of spike traps were easily jumped over, revealing on the other side, a robot that looked like a cross between an ant and a unicycle. It merely putted back and forth in a continual pattern.

Is that thing suppose to scare me? Sonic thought as he smashed it. The only danger in that thing is running into it at full speed.

Continuing through the pit, he walked into a small cave and saw a monitor like the ones he had seen in nearly every zone he'd visited on his adventures. It was displaying a group of small stars.

"Yeah! Maybe falling down here wasn't such a bad thing after all!" he laughed as he punched the activation button and shattered the screen. Now glowing with energy, Sonic saw an exit just ahead, a red spring. Using it to launch out of the cave, he found himself back just beyond the wall. Well, at least it wasn't a total waste of time. he thought as he leaped over the pitfall to smash another moth robot, bouncing off of it to crush an antbot as well.

Just beyond the ant was another monitor, this one also had a familiar icon on it. "Alright!" Sonic exclaimed smashing the button and expecting the familiar blue force field to surround him. However, to his disappointment, nothing happened. "Duh!" he said, Smacking himself in the head. "I'm still invincible." so saying, he leaped onto a nearby spring to make the most of his temporary energy. On top of the next cliff, he took a step forward and found himself falling through yet another pitfall. looking down, he nearly had a heart attack as he saw the pit was lined with spikes. Bracing himself for a painful death, Sonic was surprised to realize his invincibility was still active and he found himself levitating a few inches above the spikes. Quickly leaping out of a hole in the wall, he found himself out in the open again.

"I am NEVER going to fall into a pitfall ever again." Sonic shuddered to himself as his invinciblity wore off and shield engaged. As he continued downward through the rugged terrain, he noticed a strange pit with a pattern of strange black spinning pads, and yellow springs on pillars inside of it. Stepping on a pad, Sonic found himself whirling around and around, till he fell off into the pit.

This must be some place for kids to play on. he thought as he climbed out of the hole and bounced on one of the springs trying to get a glimpse of what was ahead. He saw a beetle-like robot with what looked like exhaust pipes on its rear. "Heh, another stupid patrol bot?" He laughed as he landed on the other side of the pit. "What is Robotnik thinking?" He climbed to the top of the hill where the beetle was and revved for a spindash. However, he wasn't ready when the beetle-bot raised it's rear, and fired off two energy balls that struck Sonic and dissipated his shield. Shouldn't have gotten cocky he thought as he blasted the pest and bounced up a spring to reach another cliff

Dashing through the rest of the zone and, for the most part, ignoring the bots, Sonic came across another booster-wheel wall. Rather nervous, but seeing no other way to progress, he dashed up it and once again careened into the sky. But this time when he came down, a mysterious platform materialized under him. Quickly jumping off of it in a panic, he landed on another invisible platform. This time, he was high enough to leap onto a nearby plateau.

He noticed a strange machine on another plateau a short distance away. Leaping over, he tried to touch it, but a strange force field held him back. This thing looks like it's been here forever. He mused to himself as he examined it. At any rate I can assume that Robotnik had nothing to do with it.

leaving the strange machine behind, Sonic leaped from the plateau to the ground, taking advantage of the weak gravity. as he started forward, a familiar voice called out to him from up ahead.

"Oh Sooooonnnniiiiiic" The voice called in a playful tone. "I fooouund yooou." Sonic began to tremble at the sound of the voice.

"No, not again." he moaned as Amy came dashing forwards and locked her arms around him.

"I knew I'd find you." she giggled "I was so worried. That fall was so scary to watch."

"Wait, You saw that?" Sonic questioned. "How did you even get here?"

"I hitched a ride with the Chaotix of course." She grinned " We saw your plane lose control, so we bailed out when it started to happen to us and I floated out here to save you."

"Gee, that's swell." Sonic muttered as he wrenched himself out of her grasp and took off down the path. "But I have to go now, so see ya."

"GET BACK HERE!" she screamed as she chased after him.

As he ran, he saw the act border sign that separates zones into sections, and behind it, a giant ring that probably led into a Special Zone. Desperate to get away and not caring where the ring came from or where it led, he leaped into the ring, leaving an enraged Amy behind.

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After recovering from the dizziness that always resulted from teleporting into a Special Zone, Sonic looked around and saw that instead of being in a trippy, seizure-inducing zone like the rings normally lead to, he was standing on a strange mechanical island in an iceberg filled ocean. Up above, a peaceful aurora lit up the sky.

Still trying to figure out what he was supposed to do, he noticed six mysterious purple UFOs flying around. Figuring that Robotnik was using them to try and get the Chaos Emerald, or whatever resided in this strange Special Zone, Sonic took off to destroy them. As he ran, he began to slowly feel fatigue, almost like it felt to run before he became the fastest being on Mobius. Not letting this sudden exhaustion slow him down, he ran for the nearest hovering machine and jumped for it. Spinning through it, he temporarily felt enough energy to run at full speed. Dashing towards the next closest UFO, he suddenly felt himself being lifted into the air by a powerful updraft coming from the fan he accidentally ran over. As he drifted towards the UFO, he twisted his body as fast as he could, whirring like a propeller and sawing through the UFO.

I think I've got it now. He thought to himself as he destroyed another flying foe.

As he smashed his fourth UFO, he landed on the edge of a small inlet of the island. Failing to keep his balance, he walked right into it. But instead of sinking into the water like he feared, he found himself dashing just fast enough to stay on the surface. When he reached the other side though, he found himself about to drop from exhaustion. Suddenly, a strange noise drew his attention to the center of the stage. A blue UFO suddenly materialized. Panicked that Robotnik almost had what he was after, he reached inside and gathered just enough energy to leap forward and destroy it. Upon the destruction of the blue UFO, Sonic felt some of his fatigue leave him and he gained just enough strength to destroy the last two UFOs that floated around the stage.

"Well, that was kinda easy," he half laughed, half wheezed as he braked and came to a stop. "Now then… where's my emerald?" he wondered. Suddenly, a verdant light from above caught his attention. Looking up, he saw a large green gemstone about the size of his torso materialize and slowly float down in front of him. That's no Chaos Emerald. Sonic thought in wonder as he reached out to touch it. As he grabbed the glowing stone it in both hands, he felt a strange surge of energy like he had never felt before. Suddenly it ceased, and he found himself hanging onto the rock as they were ejected from the Special Zone back into the real world.

Well, that's chapter 1 for you. Like I said, please R&R, and stick around for chapter 2.