In the far future; the governments of Earth came up with a project called Space Colony Ark, a space station meant to hold the population of Earth if the planet had become uninhabitable. The project was tested out with a colony of civilians and military personnel, however something happened...
A freak cosmic storm which was like a rainbow of 7 different colors hit and sucked in the Ark never to be seen again and the storm caused electrical surges throughout the entire planet. 50 years after what had became known as the 'Chaos Storm', readings from space satellites showed signs of the Chaos Storm building up again... The secret government project Operation: Starwatch enlisted a disgraced robotics expert by the name of Doctor Ivo Julian Robotnik to help deal with it...
In a government conference filled with different scientists, politicians and representatives were watching a live feed from the space satellites; the red, golden, silver, purple, light blue, dark blue and green colors of the 2nd Chaos Storm and closing in was a giant space station in the shape of a smiling head with a long moustache and goggles.
The people there cringed at the image of the space station known as the Faceship; it was built by Dr Robotnik in the image of his face using funds he had embezzled from various investors in his company known as the Eggman Company. It was shut down when he was arrested but when he was recruited for this project; they gave him the budget to get it up and running.
"Sheesh, it's not enough that the jerk is a condescending mad scientist but he has the ego the size of that station..." One of the assembled people muttered to the person next to him and he was greeted with a strong nod. The Operation: Starwatch director Jerome Wise motioned for the screen to go split screen and the screen showed Doctor Robotnik.
He was a cheerful looking brown haired man in a brown moustache, goggles and a labcoat. "How are you doing Doctor? Hope it is not too lonely in your Faceship?" Jerome greeted Robotnik as Robotnik waved to the screen.
"Thank you Director Wise and not at all, I have my Badniks to keep me company until I get back to Earth and I have my food tech to keep me fed. Plus I am so grateful you had my doctorate returned to me and I hope my pardon will be ready for when I get back." Robotnik asked and people sighed and nodded.
It was not just the embezzlement that destroyed Robotnik's previously good reputation as a scientist; it was when evidence of unethical and illegal experiments he was doing. It was revealed he was working on technology to fix broken limbs and help people with fatal diseases by turning human matter into robotic metal. There were reports of the illegal human test experiments caused intense great physical pain and often lead to death. Plus the reports he was using captured animals as tests to be used as power sources.
This caused his arrest, blacklisting from all scientific organisations and several life sentences. During his trial he had said that he was one of the greatest scientific minds in the world and they would be sorry for treating him like this. There were reports from the guards as he was being released to serve in this project; he was especially smug and condescending.
Plus there said there was relief from the other guards, warden and his cellmate due to the fact that he refused to shut up.
"Yes Dr Robotnik, there will outlines and we can't allow you to continue your previous illegal research but it will be a pardon for all of your crimes." Jerome told him and Robotnik shrugged off his words other than what he wanted to hear. "So you believe that you can stop the Chaos Storm?" Jerome asked and Robotnik laughed condescendingly.
"I went through the math and not only can I stop the Storm but I can retrieve it to be used as a power source." Robotnik replied causing confused looks from the assembled people and some were wondering about his sanity.
"Whatever you say Doctor." Jerome said as they saw the Chaos Storm was growing closer, Robotnik told them to watch and learn while they saw the Faceship had been activating beacons on the outside of the ship.
They watched and saw that the Beacons were absorbing the storm within it, Robotnik's face looked even more smug as the people assemble were speechless. Then came several warning alarms which made them jump. "Nothing to worry about, just a glitch I will fix in a second..." Robotnik said with a forced smile trying to shield from the camera the red warning lights.
Soon there were the sounds of things exploding and people were concerned, "...Just make sure that people remember that I stopped the storm if I don't make it..." Robotnik said panicked as the feed from his ship was cut.
The people watched as the Chaos Storm and Faceship disappeared as if they simply vanished.
For a minute there was silence...
Then the people there jumped up and cheered as their plan had worked, they had enlisted Robotnik to deal with the Chaos Storm in the hopes that he would die in the process. This was cause for a celebration.
3 YEARS LATER
Robotnik's Faceship had indeed managed to absorb the storm but he miscalculated how much it could handle and the ship was in a damaged state. Robotnik himself had an accident which had broken his legs so he had to crawl and managed to activate his Egg Mobile, a circular floating transport craft so he could assess the damage to the Face ship.
While it did need absorb the power of the Chaos Storm, it was in no state to make use of the power.
He had made it to the ship's factory lab and got it up and running, it began building and activating his Badnik robots which were colourful and designed after ladybugs, bees and crabs. They were designed for battle but he also reprogrammed them to get to work repairing his Faceship which were vast and took a long time.
He had spent the time recording his memoirs, his life story in his own biased words. He talked about how he had pursued science at a young age with inspiration from the stories of his grandfather Dr Gerald Kintobor who was the main genius behind the Space Colony Ark and had been on it when it disappeared from the first Chaos Storm. He had graduated from a prestige elite science academy at a young age and when he was 21 he had his surname legally changed to Robotnik.
Then a highly questionable account of how he started his Eggman Company and his 'tragic' fall from grace.
He had let himself go due to not being able to exercise and just kept feeding himself using his food tech. He had gone balding in no time.
After a long time he finally got the Faceship up and running and had the Faceship orbiting a nearby lush planet which he believed the denizens from the Space Colony Ark must have ended up on.
To his surprise he saw there were cities and villages inhabited by human like animals of different colors, he managed to study the language and learned the planet was called Mobius with the animals calling themselves Mobians.
All the time alone had not done him any favours and studying the Mobians made him think this planet needs a leader and who better than him? He could appeal to the leaders around the planet but that would take too long especially to convince them.
They would need to accept him as their leader by force.
Once he had mobilised a robot army large enough he had invaded Mobotropolis, the capital city of an island kingdom called the Knothole Kingdom. His Badnik army caught them unprepared and had the Castle and the city under control in no time.
He had even taken youth of this island so he could use them as test subjects especially to see how his technology will work on them. Especially the Chaos Storm which he was using as the power source of a device called the Retro-Orbital Chaos Compressor. He was sure it could be used as an ultimate weapon.
An 8 year old brown hedgehog Mobian had been an orphan in Mobotropolis for as long as he could remember; he mainly spent most of his time running around the city causing trouble for fun. He liked to run and have fun, there was no malice intended for his trouble making. It was jsut the way he was like.
He didn't really have a name and when the time came to try and think of one for himself, he thought of his desire to one day be able to run at supersonic speeds. So he went with Sonic.
While the Guards didn't really like his trouble making ways, the civilians knew he meant well and did try to help people if he thought he needed it. He mostly lived off food that the stands made for him, his favourite being from the chilli dog stands.
Then came the day the city was invaded by the weird robots, they looked silly and colourful but that didn't stop the terror when they started attacking everyone and swarming the city in mass. He was hiding feeling a bit scared when he saw several taking screaming civilians by force. This included some as young as he was or even younger.
It made him furious and decided he wanted to do something about it, while making sure not to be seen he followed where the robot Badniks were taking them and they saw it was to the Faceship which was parked outside of the Castle.
The ship looked weird and stupid to him but he sneaked off into the entrance of the Faceship. He made himself not seen as he managed to crawl into the vents and did his best to go through them. He got to the main cockpit of the ship and looked at the security cameras.
He saw in a lab was Robotnik in his Egg Mobile (who looked stupid to Sonic) looking over an experiment with the cages of the Mobian children. There was a squirrel Mobian called Shorty who looked like he was in pain and he most of his body become 'roboticized'.
Robotnik ordered the squirrel Shorty taken away and next out of the cage was a scared yellow Bunny Mobian in a purple suit. He noticed in the cage was a brown furred red haired chipmunk Mobian his age in light blue royal clothing in tears asking for her father. It shocked him as while he hadn't seen her in person; he knew this had to be the King's daughter and heir to the throne Princess Sally Acorn.
He backed away wanting to do something to stop it when he ended up bumping into a table which had Robotnik's coffee and was next to the ROCC machine and was spilt over the controls.
This caused an explosion and Sonic was caught up in it, he looked and saw he was alright but he was looking quite blurry and his fur was turning blue.
Once he regained his vision he heard the alarms were blurring with Robotnik almost jumping out of his seat when he heard it. He looked and saw that the controls to the electronic locks were disabled thanks to the explosion and the Mobians were able to escape from their cages including the girl rabbit with now robot limbs.
Sonic then began running from the Badniks that were now after him but found himself to be running much faster than he did at his best, he felt free than he ever did. When he saw some getting in the way he tried jumping up at them and was able to launch himself as a ball destroying them.
He was ecstatic and got the exit where Sally was there helping the other Mobians get through while he was attacking the Badniks, "Did you do this? What is your name? We are in your debt." Sally told him gratefully and he flashed her smile.
"Sonic the Hedgehog." He told her with a thumbs up as she went through but then the ship began getting up in the air and Sonic had to hold up a one year two tailed yellow Mobian fox child to stop him from falling into a dangerous height as he hadn't been able to get through yet.
"You both are not escaping anytime soon, I got reports about my ROCC machine and you will pay for that blasted hedgehog. I will get those children back soon but first you will be suffering my Roboticizer!" Robotnik said flying in his Egg Mobile with a furious glance at Sonic who held the frightened fox in his arms.
The Badniks surrounded them and Robotnik had the Roboticizer laser device pulled towards them. "You will serve as examples for all who oppose the new rule of the great Doctor Ivo Julian Robotnik, the first monarch of the new Eggman Empire!" Robotnik said but then Sonic couldn't help but laugh as the Roboticizer was powering up.
Robotnik asked what was so funny and Sonic said "so seriously, your name is Robuttnik? What kind of stupid name is that and you are trying to get taken seriously as a conqueror?" Robotnik was now furious as Sonic then jumped out of the way as the Roboticizer was knocked off course when Sonic knocked into it.
The Badniks fired at Sonic but accidentally hit the Egg Mobile causing Robotnik to fall out and the Roboticizer fired at his limbs causing him to scream in pain. He then began barking orders to help him up as Sonic along with the fox made it to an escape pod and he got them both inside and it was sent down.
Later as Robotnik adjusted to his new roboticized limbs he found the security footage was damaged beyond repair thanks to the explosion and had no way of knowing where the escape pod went. He then had the Faceship land back at the Knothole Kingdom so he can continue with his conquest and invasion.
He would one day find that blasted hedgehog...
The escape pod had landed in the ocean, as Sonic found out the hard way as he opened up the door and went through only to land in the ocean. He then spent minutes screaming trying to get back before doing so, glaring at the young fox while he giggled at the display.
Some time and the escape pod acted as a boat until it had gotten to a small abandoned island. Sonic got through and held the small fox in his arms as he thought that he would have to grow up as an orphan just as he did. "Well fella, looks like we will have to rely on eachother as family now, I guess you will need a name..." Sonic muttered as he thought about it and noticed his two tails.
Tails, that will do...
Sorry to say that i decided I wanted to do another reboot Sonic story and focus on that one. This will be Sonic X Sally and it will take the classic path of being like SatAM and Archie Sonic. I want to make this my own take with inspiration from the games, cartoons and comics from Archie, IDW and Fleetway.