Sonic raced along Green
Hills without a care. It had been too long. He couldn't wait to see the
players faces when they learned SA2 was a remake of the first Sonic The
Hedgehog for genesis. They had start with Green Hills, his stomping grounds.
It had been too long. To run over the rushing water on the familiar logged
bridges, with one spin attack take down the Bee-Bomber Badnicks here on
his birth place of South Island. It had indeed been too long.
For once in
his life, Sonic actually showed down to enjoy the view. The smell of grass
and water filling his nostrils. This was where his entire fight against
Robotnic had started. Had it already been ten years? He certainly looked
it. He had grown a head taller, his quills much longer, his encounter with
the Master Emerald during Sonic & Knuckles had left his brown eyes
green. And to celebrate things he had bought himself a new pair of shoes,
the retailer said they were called 'grinders'. He still hadn't figured
out what he meant yet. Sonic's pride prevented him from asking. Maybe when
this was all over. He should go visit Tails and Amy, as much as he hated
to admit it, it just wasn't fun anymore without some one along. At first
he had liked no one weighting him down in Sonic One and Sonic CD. But now,
it didn't feel so much like weight, but an honor to share an adventure
with close friends. Sure he had cleared the immediate area of badnicks,
the hedgehog laid on his back talking in the sun. The blue hedgehog dozed
off in the blissful warmth, yea, this was the life.
A bellow from a load speaker awoke the hero from his slumber.
"This is the Military Police! Put your hands in the air and freeze!" This
was NOT how the game was sopposed to go.
Amy stayed over
that night. Tails pulled out the extra cot he used when Sonic visited.
Tails went into a long discussion on how the Tornado III/Cyclone I worked.
Amy understood less than half of what he said, but she didn't mind, she
just liked hearing his voice. She fell asleep listening to him speak.
Amy woke up the next morning feeling more alive than she had
in weeks. While Tails prepared breakfast Amy flipped on the radio hoping
to catch something she liked. She instead got a news lady with a
British accent, Amy would of turned the dial if not for the word the woman
on the radio said just as Amy's white gloved touched the knob.
"Sonic The Hedgehog was successfully recaptured last night by
GUN unit Spider Troop after yesterday's in flight escape from cousity.
The military police would only comment the Hedgehog had, the day before,
deliberately caused damaged to military installations. After his escape
the renowned hero broke into San Francisco's first national bank. Strangely,
the only object discovered missing was the Green Chaos Emerald. Sonic's
place of interment was not divulged."
Tails
almost burned himself on the stove as his arms had gone limb. Time seemed
frozen, neither paid the radio any more mind. Amy's twin brass bracelets
shined in the morning light. Time started again. Tails was on his computer
in a flash. Pushing his computer skills to their limit over the next two
hours he hacked into the military police's system using a satellite bounce
to keep himself from being traced, he found out where Sonic was being shipped
to. The idea of Sonic having actually done what the radio had said never
crossed either of their minds.
"Got it!" Exclaimed
Tails. After memorizing the location Tails jumped up from the computer
and raced towards the door. Amy tried to follow. Tails realized this and
faced her.
"Amy, I can't
risk you going there. This isn't like Eggman's screwy Egg Carrier. This is a base of the Guard of the United Nation's I'll be breaking into.
And this is the first time I'll be using the Tornado III in battle. Stay
here please!" Amy had barely nodded when Tails ran out the door.
Amy waited until she saw the Tornado in biplane form take off.
She looked at the map on Tails computer.
Amy didn't know
much about computers. But she did know how to read a map. And this thing
also showed the weather. And Tails was going to have to make a major detour
to avoid a storm that was coming. Amy wondered if he noticed it. What if
he wasn't prepared for a storm? There was no telling what could happen
to Sonic in the mean time. (Amy had no delusions about the kindness of
the 'good guys' to prisoners.)
What if Tails
didn't get there? She had to go. Starting then stopping, then grabbing
some cash from Tails' table Amy ran out of the cabin down the ladder on
the side of the hanger towards the wood dock underneath the train
station. To Amy's relief it wasn't the wood row boat she usual saw waiting
on the water, but a speed boat like the concrete pier in station square
had. Giving the money to the dock owner for the rent of the boat Amy jumped in and sped off. If her experience with Sonic R had given her
anything, it was how to drive on both land and water.
After what Amy had gathered, she was surprised she didn't drive the boat right over a mine when she saw the island come into being over the horizon. Or get a dozen machine gun argamented G.U.N. hover/camera pods floating above her. She saw activity going on the island's floating Weapon's Bed, she had no idea what, but she figured it was distracting the personelle from noticing a one hedgehog speed boat. Amy also had a chilling feeling . . . her foresight might of had something to do with it. Amy had never talked about it to anyone, (now she was beginning to wish she had talked about it with Tails) it had started happening after her first encounter with Sonic on Little Planet, the second moon, which phased into existence once per month for an predict amount of time, then phased back out of the time stream. It was never mentioned in the game, and only hinted at in the manuals. But for Amy it was very real. Contrary to what the nine hundred number people tell you, you can't use ESP to know the next lottery number. In fact it was impossible to tell what she was going to have for breakfast. It wasn't something Amy could call on, it came to her of it's own choosing. For over a year it had remained completely dormant, and Amy hoped it was gone. But she felt the feeling again, of someone else directing her hands as she in turn guided the boat. She never knew that her self written course led her right though a blind spot in G.U.N. sonar net.
When Amy got
to the floating Weapon's Bed, she was surprised not to see any security,
that was when she noticed the blown apart robots (they weren't Badnicks).
Getting out of the boat, she looked out on the deck of the noon day sun.
That was when she saw a hedgehog shaped mass in the glare of the sun.
Running up she grabbed hold of what she though for sure was her
hero.
"Sonic! I'm
so glad your alright." That was when the hedgehog turned his head glaring
at her. That's when reality clicked in Amy's head. She saw the red and
black fur and crimson eyes and the star burst quill style that reminded
her of super Sonic.
It was like she was looking at Sonic's evil twin (she vaguely thought
of Ashura, a green glitch Sonic who had popped up when she was out of the
loop in Sonic 2, but that one had been green . . . . ) "Your not Sonic!
Who are you?" She exclaimed in alarm.
"I'm the one
who should be asking that question." Said a voice she knew all too well.
The heavy walker Amy had taken for just another piece of machinery turned
180 degrees to reveal a fat man in a red coat with a red mustache and glasses
with goggles.
"Dr. Eggman?"
Amy said, talking a step back letting go of the impostor Sonic. She noticed
a white furred bat in a skin tight black and pink outfit that gross exaggerated
her chest features, Amy noticed the clawed arm length gloves. Nails . .
. she had heard just before Sega severed ties from her. This had to be
the same bat. [i] Stop looking you idiot! They're going to kill you!
[/i] Scream the voice of Amy's own thoughts.
Amy had destroyed E-100 'Zero' one on one, but her reason won
out against taking on Eggman in one of his killing machines and two unknown
fighters all at once.
So she ran for
her speedboat, screaming to lead them into a false sense of victory while
she escaped. But Eggman seemed to see right through it as he motioned the
phony Sonic and 'Nails' to go about their business and leave him deal with
her and started chasing Amy in his bi-ped walking version of his Egg-o-Matic!
Amy was about to jump for her speedboat when she saw...it wasn't there!
She must've forgotten to tie it...
Eggman taunted, "Give up, Amy!" If Amy didn't believe in a god
before, she did in the next five second when Tails landed in the Cyclone
form of his fighter in-between her and the mad doctor! Amy exclaimed, "Tails,
you made it!"
But Tails, ignoring
the statement, said Protectively "Stand back, Amy!," . Tails gripped the
control stick hard, if Robotnic wanted to fight him fine, but if Eggman
wanted Amy the lunatic was going to have to go though the him first!
[i] I love you Amy. [/i]
~Fin
Thank you to 'Sockle' for the raw matterial for one of the SA2 paragrphs above.
And thank you to every last person who reviewed and e-mailed me on this story. I would never of finnished it without all of you. Thank you. I have finnished a long term story. This is a first to me. I hope I write(and finnish) many more. Again thank you.
"We will be pioneers, forever more." Tenchi Muyo.
