Opening File: The Pulse

In the year 20xx, an unknown energy surge affected the entire Pacific Northwest, causing a massive shut down that knocked out all power from an 800 mile radius and so. Numerous accidents and deaths occurred by the labeled 'terrorist attack', with many uncertain where it even came from. Witnesses claimed it was a form of blue energy and was some super EMP weapon that nothing could defend against it. Power having gone out for only a few hours with workers rushing to restore electricity.

Investigations revealed it came from a small town from Green Hill at its origin with Tom Wachowski considered to be the culprit.

A man hunt came down on him, though after a few days was called off with Tom being proved innocent. Regardless, many are still baffled by what had happened that day with nobody ever truly learning what was the cause. The main investigator Dr. {redacted} having gone missing and presumed dead.

The case being closed afterwards.

"Go on! Get out of here!" It was nighttime now, and Tom was once again getting the raccoons to leave his trash alone. Wow. Never thought he'd think that. Regardless, they were making a mess, one he didn't want to clean up. His stick scaring them away with Tom glad they were gone.

"Man. Hey honey, what's the most humane way of eliminating raccoons and scarring their family line for life?" He then jokes.

"Don't you dare hurt those creatures." She simply responded from inside the house. A second later, her voice then came out again. "Besides. You have bigger fish to fry."

Curious about what she said, Tom then entered his house again where his wife was waiting for him. Though something was clearly up as she was smiling a bit more than usual with her hands behind her back. "Something up?" He asked.

"Nothing." She said. "Before then pulling out a letter with the sender being from the GrimmFall Police Department. "Unless you consider this nothing."

"No way!" Tom quickly grabbed the letter and stared at it in awe. It's been months since he first sent the police department stationed in GrimmFall his letter, and now it seems they replied back. "I can't believe it. Is this really happening?"

"It sure is." Maddie teases as she goes to the kitchen with Tom following. "Well, go on. Open it." She then pulled out a pink box where a sweet smell came from it. "See if you were accepted."

Accepted. Tom couldn't deny the tension he was feeling. How nervous he felt. In this letter held whether he was accepted into the GrimmFall Police Department, where he would move out from Green Hill and go to one of the most famous cities in the world. He sent his transfer letter on a whim, though he can't deny he hoped he could get accepted. A chance to get into some action.

Slowly, he opened the letter up. The paper was in it, and he took it out and unfolded it. Then began reading it.

"Dear Tom Wachowski," He said as he spoke out loud. Reading the top as his wife listened, her hands rested on the box's cover. "We have reviewed your application, and history of your accomplishments. And have decided...You have been accepted to join the force!"

Oh my gosh, this was really happening!

"Congratulations!" Maddie told her husband, hugging him from behind. "Here. We need to celebrate." She then walked over to the table where the box is. Opening the cover of the box to reveal the tasty treat within. "Here. Looks like we can eat this."

It was a cake where it showed a police officer standing behind the city of GrimmFall. There with bold words it said, 'GrimmFall sucks.'

Tom stared at it silently while Maddie looked down at it and realized her error. "Oh. Wrong one." She closed the box quickly and put it back down below then took out another box and opened it. This one instead saying, 'GrimmFall Rules.'

"I always believed in you." Tom just snickered as he just grabbed a knife from one of the drawers while Maddie went to get the plates and forks.

"So, I guess it's finally happening." Tom says as he begins cutting into the cake. "Leaving the town, joining GrimmFall."

"Yep.' Maddie set down the plates. "You must be feeling excited."

"Oh I am." Tom says. "Though, I guess I can't lie and say it'll be a little sad leaving Green Hills. All the people here." While not his family, he's been with them for so many years. Protecting and helping them for so many years.

"True." Maddie also felt a bit of the same as Tom. Having known these people for quite awhile. "Still, they'd support your decision."

"Yeah. I guess." Tom then turned to an open laptop. His laptop, where the cover screen showed GrimmFall city. "Though...it is kinda far I guess."

"I wouldn't worry about that." Maddie then went and grabbed her laptop, where she then turned it on showing a website with lots of pictures of different rooms. "As you can see, I've been looking up where to live."

"Really?"

"Uh-hu." Maddie nodded. "It might be fun, finding a new place to live in. Although if we do do this, then we may have to stay with my...sister. Until the stuff can be brought over."

"Your sister?" Now that made Tom partially consider if he should move. A small groan leaving his lips. Maddie nodding with a slight guilty expression on her face.

"Yeah. Not exactly ideal, but hey, she has stopped walking you with the spoon." She shouldn't be wacking him with a spoon in the first place! Still, it was a small price to pay if he was doing this. He then turned back to his laptop's cover screen. A small smile on his face.

"GrimmFall. Where all the action is." Where he wouldn't just be walking old ladies, carrying groceries, or patrolling empty streets with no danger. "Far away from Gre-"

He was then interrupted as he heard the trash cans from outside fall down with a thud. Along with the small sound of a racoon tearing into the bag. Rolling his eyes he then got up to deal with it.

While Tom and his wife were celebrating, elsewhere a young mobian hedgehog was looking at an empty baseball field. Where earlier, a bunch of humans had just finished playing their game in celebration. Sonic sitting on the stands relieving the memory.

Imagining him being part of it.

This town, it was a human town. That wasn't to say the people were racist against faunus or mobians, heck, he saw some visiting every now and then. Getting along with his pals.

It made Sonic wonder, if there had been other mobians here, could he have spoken to them. 'Maybe not. I mean, that would be outing myself.'

Coming at the risk of exposing his powers. Powers that bad people wanted. Making him stay away from all, humans, faunus, and mobians.

Shaking his head, Sonic decided to just forget it and have some fun.

"Alright. Time to play ball." He had watched the game from earlier, and while enjoying it tried to memorize it. He didn't get all the rules, but understood what he could. Hit the ball and try to make it to home run. See, not hard at all.

Then just like that, he zipped to the field ready to have fun. He entered the diamond where he held a baseball, looking serious and ready to play ball. Yet that should be impossible. I mean, there's only one of him.

Or was there?

"And the pitcher is Sonic." He declared before a blue zoom was then seen at the batter area.

"And the batter is Sonic." The batter Sonic said wearing the safety gear.

"The spokesman is Sonic!" Sonic then yelled at where the spokesman people usually commented on the game was at.

"And playing is child favorite is also Sonic!" The coach of the game shouted supporting child favorite Sonic.

"Papapapapa!" Then, saying the same word before farting with his armpit was another Sonic on the left field. Child favorite Sonic entering the game.

"Uh. I can't with this guy." Pitcher Sonic said, rolling his eyes at Sonic's attitude. He then looked ready to play. Going so fast that he was filling all the spots on the field. "And...Play ball!" He then threw the ball toward Sonic who held the bat high.

"He looks, he stares," He then swung the bat and hit it high. "He scores!"

"Go Sonic!" The coach Sonic shouted, getting Sonic to start running for a home run.

His feet moving him to win this game.

"Go Sonic go! Get the ball!" The leader Sonic then said to the Sonic in the field.

"Oh! Alright!" Field Sonic said, but was too slow as the Sonic who hit it began running towards each and every single one of the diamonds. The other Sonics looked mad he was winning.

"Hurry Sonic! You got this!" Sonic says to Sonic.

"Look at this folks! It looks like dream player Sonic is about to win this!" Commentor Sonic said.

"I got it! I got it!" The field Sonic said as he raised his glove to catch the ball.

Plop!

Only for it to land behind him.

"I don't got it."

Soic kept on running. Sonic cheering on Sonic shouting, "Go home! Go home!"

The Sonic from earlier then throwing the ball in hopes of hitting Sonic.

"Too late!" Sonic shouted as he zoomed past his doubles and made it safe on the home plate. He made it like lightning, hitting it before the ball was caught in the batters glove

"Safe!" He shouted while Sonic who hit the ball and ran jumped up and down in joy at his achievement.

"I did it! I did it! Did everybody see! I did it! Did everybody...see…" He then looked out at the stands, where nobody was even watching. Not a single human, faunus, mobian, or even an animal. Just empty stands with nothing there. Only him, all alone. Not a single cheer at all.

Looking around, Sonic saw nobody walking by, nobody catching even a glimpse of him. Not even Crazy Carl! Just him and him alone.

"Alone." Sonic said at last, in the field where only he stood by himself. "I really am alone...forever…" With his fist clenching, something in Sonic snapped ever slightly. Nothing murderous or rage, but anger. Anger at his situation. So, like all things, he instantly tried to push it off through the one thing he knew how.

Running.

In a blue flash he ran across the diamonds home plate over and over again. His feet stomping on the ground numerous times, slowly making his dirtys shoes go deeper into the dirt. Dust was flying with Sonic not caring, just running and running in anger.

Not aware of the strange blue electricity coming off of his body, slowly building up. He just kept going faster and faster-until…

"Hya!" He then gave one shout of defiance , his eyes glowing blue instead of being their usual green, jumping high in the sky.

Ka-Booom!

Then-just like that-a pulse of blue chaotic energy burst from his own body. One that wouldn't stop just like him, and caused the electricity of the baseball field, the town, and everything else in its path to go out. Simply moving quicker than sound and enveloping everything in its path to the point where not even satellites in space were immune. Everything shorted out.

Leaving the culprit behind it to stare in disbelief at what he had just done.

"...I'm sure nobody saw that giant blue explosion. Right?" Not looking convinced, Sonic then did what his old caretaker told him long ago.

Zoom!

Run.

Green Hill had been hit like never before. A blackout all over.

But it wasn't as if it was the only place to be hit.

"What in Washington's name is this!?" GrimmFall had also been affected. And while it had many contingencies against enemy attack, some kind of super EMP wasn't one of them.

"I didn't see this coming!" Valhallen stated as he tripped over a chair and fell flat on his face.

"So...Dark…" Krunk went as he turned on the glowing lava lamp he conveniently had on him.

"Looks like everything was hit by this too." Living Bullet looked out the window to see the entire city going dark. Heck, everything beyond the city was dark. Not to mention he could see something falling from the sky. Narrowing his eyes, he then saw them vanish, giving him a guess they were satellites that fell from orbit and burned themselves up.

"Just what is this?" Living Bullet asks himself, recalling the meeting he and other super powered beings were having. When suddenly a blue flash came and bam, everything was out.

"Whatever it is, we must ignore it for now." Then from the door was none other than Sebben. A politician and running for the position of mayor for GrimmFall. Looking very serious.

"Wait, Are you telling us to ignore whoever caused this?" The only female hero present, Miss Spell said crossing her arms.

"Indeed." Sabben said. "While we can look into it later, right now we have other problems. Just listen."

They did, and from it they could hear cries of shock and horror. Many soon looked out the window and saw small fires here and there, with screams all around.

"That...Not good." Krunk says making everyone realize the real problem at hand.

"Oh boy. That's not good." Living Bullet could already see problems coming up already.

"Yes." Sebben continued. "While we can find the culprit, for now we must help the people. I already got a call that other cities were affected, and workers are moving quickly to fix the problem. It should be done by tomorrow morning."

"Then for now, we must do what we can to help." Major Glory said standing tall.

"Correct." Sebben then looked at Valhallan. "Valhallen, if you can, go to the recently built DexLabs. They might need your electricity to help.'

"On it." Valhallen wasn't sure if he liked being ordered by a human, but he'll listen for now. Quickly jumping out the window with Living Bullet following, if only to help people along the way.

"I just realized, the hospitals." Miss Spell said in shock.

"Don't worry." Sebben then assured her calmly. "The back-up generators should help with restoring some power. Still, this is certainly...unexpected."

His eye usually told him of certain troubles that came to this city. Because of that, Sebben made many contingencies. His Spiral Gem reacting to those with ill intent against him and the city. And yet...this attack came through with his eye not warning him.

'Either someone managed to get past my ability to see hostile attacks, or…' This was perhaps an accident? That felt very unlikely. Whatever the case, he had a job to do. In fact, silently Sebben focused on his eye, wanting to be certain this wasn't the work of him, his eyepatch showing a little light with a slight flinch of pain. Though compared to before, he was getting used to it and then saw a vision.

A small town with the military in it. It's called Green Hill.

"Nobody cares!" A man in a black outfit belittling an official from the military.

A truck being chased by a mechanized black tank with Grimm as well.

"Aw!" Living Bullet slamming into a wall and falling unconscious. The other heroes were unable to do anything with Major Glory looking angry as two blurs escaped their sight. Unable to catch up.

"Join us brother!" A member of Satyra speaking to a mobian hidden in the shadows.

"Hahahaha!" GrimmFall falling to numerous machines.

That was all he was allowed to see. The visions now stop with Sebben feeling a bit tired. Looking into the future was always taxing, however he did get some answers. Naimly, it wasn't the Fallen, but another individual.

He didn't know who exactly, but he memorized the person's face. Though it still left the question of what he was chasing exactly. And how it affected the future.

Not to mention, who else would be interested in this?

"Now this is a surprising turn of events." In the Darklands, Sammael's eyes opened up, glowing. "You must have felt it too, Moloch."

"Of course I did." From behind his throne, a dark figure with glowing eyes spoke. "I bet everyone felt it. That massive energy surge."

"Indeed." Sammael smiled. "Still though. To think I would feel this energy again."

"You know of it?"

"I know what it is connected to." A power that isn't too different from the Spiral Gems. While they didn't have the unique abilities the Spirals had, they held impressive power from what he learned. Even more so for the controller that commanded the seven.

Which was why it was a shame he never could get it. He once caught a lead involving the fabled gems, with a good starting point being the hidden island where early mobians went to. But like the island of the New Berk, it proved difficult to find. Hidden from his own eyes.

His only lead being the Guardians of the island, only for them to send their daughter away before he could question her. The parents killed themselves before he could get answers. Thus losing the lead to the fabled emeralds.

Until now anyway.

"Time for another chance." Howls could be heard outside his castle, as the Grimm began moving.

"We have a report Ms. Kane." The loyal member of Satyra gave his report to the tiger faunus and disowned princess of Mitimout a report.

"This is...interesting." Something had happened in GrimmFall, no, in the entire Pacific Northwest. Something that caused the entire power to go down, and even knock out defenses. From what she learned an hour ago, a few factions of Satyra had attacked during that time.

"This is certainly newsworthy, but why am I receiving this?" She then asked. Her answer then came from another voice.

"Because some of our spies discovered where this was caused." From behind she turned and then saw a unique faunus. Having the head of a deer, his lower half and left leg being deer like with a hoof, the rest being humaney parts. Having a bow and arrow on him.

It was one of the older members of Satyra, and while not high-ranking in particular, was renowned for his tracking, hunting, and sabotaging skills. Making him very valuable out on the field. Stag-Man he called himself. A protector of the forests.

"Wait. You know who did this?" Lana asked, a bit surprised.

"Not any specific details exactly but indeed. And if we can get them on our side, then the humans will be fearing more than just our strength." Lana raised a brow at that, not liking how he worded it. Satyra was trying to make the races equal.

"Okay. So did you need me for anything?" Stag-Man shook his head.

"Just some supplies and a few men. Nothing more." He then left her with some members following him. Lana Kane watched him go, wondering just how he'll recruit whoever caused this?

Well, she's certain Satyra will be gentle about it.

"Ohohohoho!" Inside his lab, the doctor detected a massive energy surge coming from his satellite before it short circuited and went out. His fingers tapping as fast as he could on the computer to detect where it came from.

"Green Hill." Then grinned as he finally did it. Located this unique energy signature, one that somehow caused the entire Pacific Northwest to go out. GrimmFall, St. Louis, Colorado Rockies, the entire defense grid collapsing with satellites falling to the earth. It will only be a matter of time before the government calls on him.

He just didn't expect any incidents with the energy signature to be so soon.

Seems like fate just might be on his side today.

"Just need to make a few calls." The doctor grinned as he then stood up from his chair. Passing by his many machines that he knew will be ready to find this energy signature and use later.

Yes. Dr. Ivo Robotnik was about to make his move.

With my school all closed up, I had more time on my hands. Though it might be a bit before the next one with work coming up for eleven hours. Hope you liked this, as now we see more of what is to come.