Act 0-2: A New World
Of course I would be falling from the sky! It's one of the oldest clichés in the book of ending up in weird places!
I started falling out of the rift and down to the ground below, giving me time to consider my options.
Maybe I could jump off a tree?
That wouldn't work at all. Those trees were too short.
Or maybe I could just land with my feet?
That would break my legs.
Perhaps I could-
I never got to finish my train of thought, as I landed face first with my face stuck in the ground...again. Am I ever gonna get a normal landing?
I pulled my head out from the ground. "Ow."
Alright, now to figure what forest this is.
I started running around looking for anything that looked familiar. To be honest, I was really hoping that I was back at Mystic Ruins. The open land was so cool!
After about a minute, I found a clearing. Too bad the only thing there was a small broken coliseum structure and some really tall stone ruins in the back-
...Wait a minute.
I looked back at the structures a second time. I'd never seen any ruins like this before. They did look like stuff that Knucklehead's ancestors might've built. I'd have to ask him about that later.
Now, back to the most important issue at hand: the Chaos Emeralds.
I remember seein 'em get sucked into that portal before me. And since I ended up in some Mobian forest, they're probably just scattered across the planet…again.
Shouldn't be too hard to collect 'em all again.
"GRRRRRRRR."
...Or maybe it was.
In a matter of seconds, I was surrounding by a bunch of black wolf like creatures. Aside from the deadly looking claws, the only thing to really say was that their faces were white and they had red eyes.
Maybe they were some kind of weird undiscovered species or something?
"Uh, hi there, whatever the heck you are!" I said. "You wouldn't have happened to see a shiny gem at all?"
"GRRRRRRRRR." The creatures started charging at me. Time for plan B.
"A simple no would be fine too!" I spin dashed my way through a hoard of the wolves, knocking many of them into the air. The same creatures quickly got back up.
"What's the matter?" I taunted. "Too scared to fight back?"
I immediately regretted saying that, as a bunch of humongous bears of the same color showed.
...That escalated pretty quickly.
Okay, there's clearly way too many of these things. There is absolutely no way I could win this fight without getting mauled alive.
...
You know what they say, live to fight another day. I quickly dashed away from the massive hoard.
Note to self: stay AWAY from this forest because of demonic monsters that want to eat my face.
Apparently there were more of those things throughout that forest, along with a few giant snakes, giant birds, and giant scorpions, all of which probably wanted me dead. I got chased to a cliff where I had to jump off in order to not die.
Unfortunately, I had fallen into a river.
"Somebody help!" I cried out as I waved my arms around. "I'm gonna die!" Seeing as nobody was trying to help, I let out a sigh of disappointment. "Well it could be worse."
Spoke too soon.
I looked ahead of me to see that the river was heading towards a waterfall.
It was times like these where I regretted no taking swimming lessons.
"Son of a-AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
The first thing I saw when I woke up was a ceiling. I had been on the floor
"Uhhhhhh, my head." I sat upright to see that I was in a storage room of sorts. The shelfs contained tons of books on them. The walls had a greenish wallpaper on them.
So many questions went through my head. Where am I? How long was I out?
I looked out a back window and saw glimpse of a city. I couldn't tell if it was Station Square or Empire City.
Just then, a person entered the room. He wore a black T-Shirt with a collar, along with blue jeans. I don't why, but his face reminded me of hero from the comics. Judging by his height and appearance, I'd say he was in his later 20s or early 30s.
The man looked at me. "I see you're finally awake."
"Huh?" I asked with confusion. "What do you mean by finally?" I stood up on my feet. "What the heck happened?"
"I found you unconsciously floating in the water at the docks a few days ago. You had several minor bruises."
"I've been out for a few days?"
"Around five days to be exact."
My eyes widened. "Five days!?"
"Yes." He held out his hand. "I'm Tukson."
This guy seems awfully nice to me for some reason.
Brushing the thought aside, I shook his hand. "The name's Sonic."
"It's nice to meet you Sonic," Tukson replied. "So, how did you end up at the docks?"
I shrugged. "Beats me. The last thing I remember is fallin off a waterfall after running away from these black monsters in some forest."
Tucson looked pretty surprised from that last part. "You outran the Grimm? I find that a little hard to believe."
"…A what now?"
"How do you not know what the creatures of Grimm are?"
Ya know what, I'll just roll with it.
"Ooooooh, CREATURES of Grimm! I thought you said somethin else! My bad!" I nervously scratched the back of my head.
"…" Tukson gave me a look. "Anyway, at least tell me where you're from?"
"Uh, South Island," I answered.
"South Island? I can't say I've ever heard of it."
"Wouldn't expect ya to. It's not exactly the most well-known place on the planet."
"Well, that would explain why you don't look like a normal Faunus," Tucson said.
"Faunus?" I quickly looked in the window's reflection to make sure I didn't look any different. Sure enough, I was still my regular hedgehog self. "I think you might have mistaken me for some other animal. I'm CLEARLY a hedgehog. See the quills?"
"…Did you hit your head?"
Oh, he did NOT just say that.
"Of course I didn't hit my head! And what in the name of Chaos is a Faunus anyway?"
"…Chaos? Are you part of a cult?"
"No I am not part of a cult! I'm just a normal hedgehog trying to find out where on Mobius I ended up!"
"…What's Mobius?"
…
I couldn't help but laugh. This was all clearly a joke! A messed up one at that, but still a joke. How else could explain why this guy was bringin up topics I didn't know anythin about?
"Alright, very funny. Ya almost got me there. For a second, you almost had me convinced that this planet wasn't Mobius!" I continued to laugh at the joke.
"…What are you talking? The planets called Remnant, not Mobius."
…
…
I stopped laughing and froze up. "I'm sorry, what?"
I noticed that Tucson had a face or revelation for some reason. "Sonic…where do you think you are?"
"Beats me. Either Station Square, Empire City, or some other city on Mobius. Why?"
"Because this isn't the Mobius you're talking about. This is a world called Remnant."
Another world? Then that means that…
…Oh, you've gotta be kiddin me. Eggman's portal thingy actually worked.
Well great! Just great! Now I had to look for the Chaos Emeralds on a world I knew nothin about!
I turned back towards Tukson, who was now holding a box. "The heck is this?"
"If you really truly aren't from around here, then you're going to need something to help you out," Tukson explained.
"Which is?" I asked as I took the box.
"An outdated weapon that doesn't need ammunition. I don't think I'll ever be needing them, so they're yours to keep."
Them?
I opened up the box to see a pair of metal gauntlets. On the back palm area were folded up grappling hooks attached to in a mini canon.
Without hesitating, I put on the gauntlets to see that they were a perfect fit. Not only that, but they were surprisingly comfy. It looked great with my empty wrists and-
...
Wait a minute, empty wrists?
I double checked to be sure. Sure enough, I wasn't wearing anything on my right nor left wrist.
...Why wasn't I wearing Chip's bracelet?
SONIC CAN NOW USE METALLIC BLUR
STAGE CLEAR
TOTAL EMBLEMS: 2
