Sonic Adventure 2: The Adaptation
Disclaimer: Sonic, Tails, Amy, Dr. Robotnik/Eggman, Shadow, Rouge, Knuckles, and Omochao are trademarks of Sonic Team and Sega. Therefore they do not belong to me! (We all can wish though!) Sonic Adventure 2 is a game created by Sega. I suggest you go out and play that game before you delve into this fic! Go on now!
Still here? Then let's begin now!
Prolouge:
It was a normal day in the sub-urbs of Station Square. Life had long gone back to normal after the near disaster that giant water monster named "Chaos" nearly leveled it. But thanks to the efforts of a certain blue hedgehog and his friends, the people could go back to their regular lives and routines. Among those were Nathan Wilson. He was a successful retired scientist who used to work with the military until a few years back. After his retirement, his tenure supported his family, well. Thus he was more than content to spend the rest of his free time with that which was most important to him: his son, Lawrence.
It had seemed that his son had gained a scientific know-how that was almost equal to his. He wouldn't be surprised if Lawrence's ability would soon surpass his own. Lawrence was already 17, and seemed to only get better by day.
BAM!
Of course, he was still young, and bound to make a mistake now and then, and Nathan was always there to help him out. He rushed to the basement, his son's workplace, in order to see what was going on.
"Law? Where are you, what happened?" asked Nathan. The place was a bit smoggy, so Nathan decided to put the whole-house fan on. Within, a few minutes, Law could be seen, the black ash from the explosion adding dots here and there on his caramel colored skin.
"Law, look at you! Took a shower today and already you're dirty!" joked Nathan.
"Well, sacrifices have to be made for what you like to do! I can just as easily take another shower tonight," answered Law.
"What kind of new experiment were you working on that caused that explosion?" asked Nathan.
"Experiment? Nah, that was only the hot dog I tried to put in my Super Conductor Microwave! I was trying to fix up a good Chili Dog, and then the darn thing exploded!" laughed Law.
"Perhaps you should avoid using something that is run by a Super Conductor for that kind of purpose! You could've been fired!"
"What ever! From what I heard, Dad, you've cut it close a couple of times too!"
"Yes, but not because I was trying to be Emerill, either!"
"Touché, I'll guess I'll have to use the regular Microwave upstairs for my Chili Dog needs. But since you asked, I think I will reveal my newest invention. Behold, the Camera Robot - 2814, or just "Cambot" for short!"
Law pulled back the cover, and out was a gold-plated little probe-looking droid. It was articulated with a camera and some extra attachments where its propulsion parts were located.
"Impressive, but let me ask you, where did you get the idea for this design?" asked Nathan.
"Well, you see....uh, I kinda looked in some of your old files in the filing cabinet. Specifically under the "Gun" folder," said Law nerviously.
Nathan's face grimaced upon the utterance of that name.
"Lawrence Michael Wilson! You know I have distinctly told you about staying away from that folder!" Nathan said sternely.
"Dad, you know I was doing any harm!"
"That DOESN'T matter! You were to stay away from that folder and its contents!"
"For what reason? You keep telling me since I was four to "stay away" but never the reason! I'm like 17 now, Dad. You can't pull the wool over my eyes for too much longer!"
"I just don't want you to have to learn things you may not be ready for."
"I was expecting this sort of thing when I had to sign up for Sex Education! C'mon Dad!"
Finally, Nathan relented.
"I will eventually tell you all you would ever want to know about my time with serving as a part of GUN. But not now, your birthday is 3 days away, and your mother and sister want this to be the best one you'll ever have."
"That's gonna be kind of hard! 17 was pretty sweet!"
"Just you wait! But all that aside, why don't you explain the premise behind your newest creation?" asked Nathan.
"Basically, I took the old design I found, and made this little baby into a really effective mini-probe! I gave it a good camcorder and also high-profile miniature warp jets! With this it can zoom around to different parts of the Earth in seconds! Thus I be able to keep tabs on the prey I'm after!"
"Which is...?" inquired Nathan.
"Sonic the Hedgehog, who else?"
"Pardon? You mean you want try to kill Sonic the Hedgehog? That's not kosher, son."
"Not like that, Dad!" Law continued. "With these warp jets, I'll hopefully be able to keep up with him as he delves into his adventures!"
"You've been really into Sonic lately, my boy. More than usual than even for you." said Nathan.
"Well, I've always been a fan, but he was truly at his best when he put his foot down on Chaos last year! That was, in a word, awesome."
"And ever since then, we've had to at least have Chili Dogs twice a week. You're fortunate that Giant has been having sales on hot dogs, on you would put us in the poor house!" joked Nathan.
"I doubt that my franks will put us in poverty, Dad."
"Well, then I guess there's only one question I have yet to ask," said Nathan. "What ever happened to 'Project Omo'?
"Oh, that. That project was either a complete success, or failure, depending on how you look at it."
"Why?"
"Well, my project to create an artificial A-Life was successful, but I guess he was made too smart for his own good. The little bugger decided to fly the coop, saying that 'He will return one day, I should just wait for him.' Sheesh, at that moment, I thought I was living a moment of Short Circuit there."
"If he made a promise, then maybe he will return to you some day," Nathan said.
"I hope so. I spent 30 bucks on the Triple-A batteries to power him! But now it is time for yet another one of my inventions to set out on its own! Cambot is going to undertake the task of finding Sonic and recording him in action!"
"May I ask, why are you doing this?"
"Call it a little bit of curiosity, a little bit of adventure and excitement, and lot of fan boy aspirations! Once I get this sort of footage, I will auction it off to whatever network pays the most! That will show that I am Sonic's #1 fan!" laughed Law.
Nathan could only shake his head.
"Sometimes I wonder if you're worse than that two-tailed fox and the pink hedgehog put together!"
"They know Sonic, so they have an excuse! Once I get to know him, maybe I'll calm down too!"
Law then set up the Cambot to ready it for its maiden voyage.
"Okay, Cambot! Don't fail me!" Law said.
Law then pressed a button and the Cambot vanished from site.
"Uh-oh, you disintegrated it!" said Nathan.
"You wish! Observe! Look at the computer!"
Father and son soon gathered around the computer in the corner. Law then punched in a few command lines, and then there was a picture in the monitor's window. Law then enlarged it.
"What's this?" asked Nathan.
"Streaming video of what the Cambot sees! It's already in the skies over Station Square!" exclaimed Law with glee.
"Astounding. You have really been busy since school let out."
"Yep! Now it's time to seek Sonic out! Watch this!"
Law pressed 5 on the Numeric Keypad on the Keyboard, and then the Cambot started to go faster and faster, until Station Square was nothing more than a blur to it.
"This is the power of the Warp Field generators! I'd made them so maybe they can keep up with Sonic that way!"
"I wouldn't be surprised if they did!" chimed in Nathan. "Now where are you heading exactly? No one actually knows where Sonic lives."
"That is true, but I heard from a lot of rumors that he lives on a place called South Island in the Pacific Ocean. I even have a pair of coordinates I got off the Internet!"
"You can't believe everything you get off the Web, son."
"True, but right now they're all I got! Now let's see 62.5 degrees South and 55.73 degrees East. Don't disappoint me, Cambot!"
The little Cambot sped to its destination, the Pacific Ocean and other small islands speeding by like if some one put life in fast forward. Gradually, the speed decreased, and then the Cambot stopped over an island, but no way to pinpoint if this was THE island Law was looking for.
"Well, what do you do now, son?" asked Nathan.
"I dunno, I guess I'll just have to take it in lower and scour the island. With any luck, I might see a tell-tale sign of some body, ANY body, who lives there," said Law.
Law took the mouse and used it to lower the Cambot and take it in closer to the island. As the Cambot was closing in, something cut it off, and took its right-of-way away.
"What the heck? Why doesn't that guy look where he's going! Sunday drivers!"
Soon the object came into the view, revealing a blue bi-plane, complete with a fox driver and a bluer passenger hanging on the back of it. Law could only shout in happiness as he realized who it was that cut him off.
"It's the Tornado! And with it are Sonic and Tails! Yahoo! Those coordinates are right on target!" shouted Law.
"Who disclosed those coordinates, any way?" asked Nathan.
"Some body called 'Netraptor', said she was a long time friend of many of Sonic and Tails. I'm guessing she was able to get the coordinates and then just for the sake of it put it on her web site. I don't know the full story, but I got it now! I'll just keep my distance so they don't see me and think they are being watched. Smile, Sonic and Tails! You're on Cambot Camera!"