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Day 1: 7:00 PM
Atop one of the bridge support towers of the Golden Gate Bridge, a cyborg lizard looked down at the GUN cars below her. Spotlights were constantly locked on her. She didn't mind, her eyes could handle most bright lights. She absent-mindedly played with the large green Super Emerald in her right hand, tossing it in the air. She looked down at the military soldiers below, shouting threats and orders at her. She didn't notice or care what they had to say. Her blood curdled at the thought of GUN, her sheer hatred to them bringing up once more a memory, one she had been forced to constantly relive every day of her life since it had happened. She closed her eyes as the memory took effect, and she was flung into the past.
The time was fifty years ago, the place observation deck B on the space colony ARK. Scales and her mother were extremely anxious, worried that at any moment the enemy would break in to the room and capture or kill them. Her mother looked up from the control panel she had been fiddling with. "Scales, please stand in the middle of the room." "Okay Mom." Scales went over to the center of the room. The glass capsule of the escape pod lowered over her. "This won't hurt, will it?" Her mother couldn't help smiling. "No dear, it won't hurt, just as it didn't hurt your brother when we launched him just a minute ago." She started pressing buttons. "Now, it might take me a little longer to come after and find you Scales, so I want you to promise me something." "What, Mom?" Scales asked. "First of all, I want you to find your brother and get him to a hospital. Thanks to the pod's secondary function, he won't die from the wound but you should still get him to the hospital as quickly as possible. And whatever you do, don't let the military get you or your brother." She said firmly. "I'll try, Mom." Said Scales. "There's another thing. I also want you to-" Just then, the door to the room raised and a lynx in military attire walked in. He unholstered his gun and fired, striking Scales' mother in the back. She gasped and fell on the control panel. As Scales screamed, her mother managed to press a button on the panel, activating a temporary force field that kept the lynx back. Trying to hold on to her life, the mother managed to turn to face her child. "Scales.listen to me.promise me one last thing.I want you to continue my work.to make the people of Earth happy.as I made you and your brother to do. Promise me you'll protect the world.as I intended you to do." She gasped and clutched her chest. "Promise me." She slumped to the floor, dead, but not before pressing the final button in the launch sequence on the control panel. The escape pod rumbled and was ejected through a hole in the floor, hurtling through space and to the world below. "MOMMY!!!!!!!!" Scales screamed, crying.
A tear rolled down the lizard's cheek in the present. She looked down sadly, at the flashing lights below. Her resolve hardened, her eyes turning red. "I will do as you asked, mother. I will make the people of Earth happy. But I also promise you something. I will have revenge on GUN, what they did to our family, to our way of life. I can never forgive GUN for what they have done. And so, they must be destroyed." Her spikes shot out, and she jumped off the top of the bridge support, grinding down the big cable, using the grooved pads on her feet to stay on the rail.
Stage 4: Radical Highway. Mission: Break through the besieging military.
Scales grinded down the rail, leaping off at the lowest point, jumping over the barricade the military had put up to keep out civilians. She ran forward along the huge bridge, running into a tunnel. She jumped over more barricades and came out to the edge of the bridge, a set of springs pointing at the next segment. She bounced off the springs, landing on the bridge ahead. She saw a trio of Fighters soaring towards her. Growling, she jumped in the air and performed three Homing Kicks as the Blue Eagle planes came lower, smashing each cockpit in succession and sending the planes crashing into the water below the bridge. She ran forward, passing through some empty tollbooths and running down a steep hill. She kept going as the road straightened out, suddenly splitting in two up ahead and going up. She randomly chose the path on the left, hitting a dash panel as she started up the road, increasing her speed. The road curved sharply upward, going into a loop. Scales ran through the loop and down a piece of unfinished road, hitting the bottom of the loop and landing on solid ground. She ran up ahead to find that the path continued at the top of a high platform. In front of her were two Hunters. Before they could make a move, she wiped them out with two Tail Whips. She saw a pulley on the side of the platform and grabbed on to it, elevating to the top of a bridge support. She jumped of the pulley and grinded down the cable ahead of her, landing past another barricade. She ran down another tunnel and came out, finding the road curved to the left. Ahead of her was a really big metal cylinder, rolling in its setting and preventing passage. She could have somersaulted under the cylinder. Instead, she delivered a kick to the cylinder, tearing it from its setting and sending it rolling down the bridge, flattening several Hunters and Beetles before breaking through the safety wall of the bridge and falling to the water below. She ran through the arch where the roller had been and found the path stopped where the roller had fallen off. She saw a floating chain of Beetles in the air. She Homing Kicked along the chain, landing on a platform with a spring. A Hawk swooped down and fired at her. She Homing Kicked into it, then Homing Kicked back to the platform and bounced from the spring to a high section of road with a rocket at the end. As some Blue Eagles flew towards her as she raced for the rocket, Scales stopped and Homing Kicked the jet fighters, killing the pilots inside. She ran to the end of the road and grabbed the rocket, launching for another section of road. She dropped from the rocket, landing on the road. It stopped ahead as another platform jutted from the ground. There was a pulley and two more Hunters. Scales immediately annihilated the Hunters and grabbed the pulley, getting raised to the top of another bridge support. She grinded down the support cable, jumping off at the lowest part, and running through the tunnel up ahead. She ran through a bunch of tollbooths and was attacked by some Hornets. She quickly killed the Hornets and ran on a set of dash panels, going through a 360-degree loop and running down an unfinished portion of road before landing on a straight path. She ran forward, going down a very long and steep hill, picking up tremendous speed and moving very fast when the ground leveled out as she headed for a building straight ahead. The building was a hollow vertical tunnel filled with springs. As spring was at the edge of the road, which Scales bounced off of. She ricocheted down the tunnel in a spiral, bouncing from spring to spring before finally landing in a tunnel leading back to the road. The road ended only a few feet ahead, in front of a set of springs guarded by a Hunter. Scales killed the Hunter and bounced off the springs, landing on the road above. She ran ahead, following the road to the right and sloping upward before stopping. Before her was a chain of Beetles hovering across the gap. She Homing Kicked across the gap, landing on the next section of road. She ran ahead a ways, going up a ramp and stopping at a barricade with a horizontal pole above it. Ahead of the barricade, the road ended. The bridge support was ahead, with several floating metal cylinders she could use as elevators. She jumped up and grabbed on to the pole, swinging around it a few times to build up momentum. She let go of the pole, launching towards the pillars. She jumped up the cylinders, quickly reaching the top elevator. Ahead of her was a chain of Beetles. She Homing Kicked across the Beetles, landing atop a bridge support. She jumped on to the left tower and grinded down the cable, jumping off at the lowest point. She saw a very tall barrier blocked off the road ahead. A spring was at the bottom. She jumped on the spring and was bounced all the way to the top of the barrier, landing on the next bridge support. She saw a gap and the next section of road at the other end. Three platforms floated in the gap. She jumped from platform to platform, reaching the other side. Straight ahead, the road was blocked off again. Two springs sat on either side of a metal crate, and a series of floating metal cylinders sat on either side of the road. Two Hunters guarded the springs. Scales destroyed the Hunters and bounced off the spring on the right, jumping to the lowest cylinder. She hopped up from cylinder to cylinder before reaching the top of the blockade and another bridge support. She grinded down the cable and leaped off at the low section, running past some metal frameworks and "ROAD CLOSED" signs. She reached another section of road on a higher platform. There was no spring, and only one Hunter. She Homing Kicked the Hunter then jumped off its head as it fell to pieces, reaching the higher road. She ran past some tollbooths and down a hill in a tunnel, coming out, hitting some dash panels, and going through two loops and down a long hill with two ramps. She ran forward and off the ramps as she hurtled down the hill, getting extreme airtime and cutting through most of the area. She came to a stop as the road ended at a spring. She hit the spring and bounced to the road above. She ran down the road, which ended. A pole ran above her. She jumped up and grabbed the pole, swinging around it until she picked up enough speed and let go, hurtling on to a floating metal cylinder over a large gap in the road. She jumped up and across the series of cylinders, stopping before an electric Beetle. She waited for the electric shield to dissipate and then Homing Kicked into the Beetle and did the same for a chain of normal Beetles after the electric one. She did one more Homing Kick to land on a high road above her. She ran down the road and killed the two Hunters at the end of it, hitting a spring at the end of the path and bouncing to the top of the next bridge support tower. She grinded down one of the bridge cables, jumping off at the end and getting assaulted by a pair of Hawks. She killed the Hawks and kept going, jumping over a barricade and stopping at the end of the road, near a stack of crates. She jumped up the crates and used them to get to the higher portion of road ahead of her, running to the right as the road went that way. She ran past some big yellow cans and into a tunnel, coming out at the top of a hill. She ran down the hill, over a dash panel and into a loop. She was launched from a jump plate at the end of the loop to another section of road, right onto a pole at the road's end. She grabbed the pole and swung around a few times, picking up momentum. She let go and was sent hurtling onto a metal cylinder floating above the water. She jumped across several more floating metal cylinders, going up to the road above. She passed through some tollbooths and hear a whine as some more Blue Eagles came towards her. She jumped on top of a tollbooth, waiting for the planes to come. When the first jet got close, she jumped onto it, smashed open the cockpit, ripped the pilot out and threw him into the water below. She turned the fighter around, heading for the other two. She launched the fighter's missiles at the other fighters and jumped out, landing on the road she had started on. The Blue Eagle's missiles destroyed its former wingmates. The vacant plane wobbled and went into a downward spiral, crashing and exploding into the water. "Well, that was fun." Said Scales. She ran through the tollbooths again and ran down a steep hill. At the bottom, the road leveled out then split into two ramps. Scales went up the left ramp, running across a dash panel to go up the steep, curbed road. She was launched from the top by a jump plate, landing on a long stretch of road filled with enemies. She ran down the road, killing every Hunter, Hornet, Hawk and Beetle in sight before passing through another set of tollbooths and reaching the end of the bridge, going into the city. Hovering over the off-ramp was the Goal Ring. She jumped through the Ring, finishing the level.
(STAGE CLEAR. RANK A.)
Scales ran down the off ramp, jumped off of a few cars and poles, running across the roof of a small building and landed on a fallen walker. She did not notice the heroic black and red hedgehog that stared up at her, gaping. She paused for a moment to admire her prize, holding the Super Emerald to catch the gleam of the stars and moon. "It all starts with this, a jewel containing the ultimate power." She said to herself. "That's the city's Super Emerald! What are you doing with that?" asked Shadow, astonished. Scales looked down, noticing Shadow. Her eyes bulged and she almost slipped off of hr perch on the machine. "Sh-Shadow? Is that really you?" she asked, shocked and a little happy. Shadow frowned. "Have we met?" Scales blinked and her expression turned sad. "You don't.you don't remember me? Well, I guess that's to be expected." she said, disappointed. "I have no idea who you are. What are you doing with that Emerald? It belongs to the city. Give it back." Said Shadow. Scales looked even sadder. "I'm sorry Shadow, but I can't give this up. I need it more than you can imagine. I also regret that you do not remember me." Shadow started towards her. "I don't know how you know me, but we can talk about being reacquainted after you give me that Super Emerald!" Scales shook her head and held the jewel close. "Chaos.Control!" The black Emerald in her back flashed. She disappeared in a flash of light, reappearing on a building on the other side of the square. Shadow's jaw dropped. "That was the Chaos Control! How do you know how to do it? Who are you?!" Scales smiled a little. "I was born with the ability to use the power of the Emeralds, Shadow, as were you. As for my name." she said, pausing for dramatic tendency. "My name is Scales, the world's Ultimate Lifeform." "But that's impossible, I'm the Ultimate Lifeform!" Scales' smile broadened. "We both are. But for now, I must bid you farewell. Chaos Control!" She vanished again in a flash of green light.
And so ends Scales' first level. How did you like it? What did you think of the scene where she piloted the jet for a moment? Come on, please tell me what you think of my writing! I'M SO LONELY!
Day 1: 7:00 PM
Atop one of the bridge support towers of the Golden Gate Bridge, a cyborg lizard looked down at the GUN cars below her. Spotlights were constantly locked on her. She didn't mind, her eyes could handle most bright lights. She absent-mindedly played with the large green Super Emerald in her right hand, tossing it in the air. She looked down at the military soldiers below, shouting threats and orders at her. She didn't notice or care what they had to say. Her blood curdled at the thought of GUN, her sheer hatred to them bringing up once more a memory, one she had been forced to constantly relive every day of her life since it had happened. She closed her eyes as the memory took effect, and she was flung into the past.
The time was fifty years ago, the place observation deck B on the space colony ARK. Scales and her mother were extremely anxious, worried that at any moment the enemy would break in to the room and capture or kill them. Her mother looked up from the control panel she had been fiddling with. "Scales, please stand in the middle of the room." "Okay Mom." Scales went over to the center of the room. The glass capsule of the escape pod lowered over her. "This won't hurt, will it?" Her mother couldn't help smiling. "No dear, it won't hurt, just as it didn't hurt your brother when we launched him just a minute ago." She started pressing buttons. "Now, it might take me a little longer to come after and find you Scales, so I want you to promise me something." "What, Mom?" Scales asked. "First of all, I want you to find your brother and get him to a hospital. Thanks to the pod's secondary function, he won't die from the wound but you should still get him to the hospital as quickly as possible. And whatever you do, don't let the military get you or your brother." She said firmly. "I'll try, Mom." Said Scales. "There's another thing. I also want you to-" Just then, the door to the room raised and a lynx in military attire walked in. He unholstered his gun and fired, striking Scales' mother in the back. She gasped and fell on the control panel. As Scales screamed, her mother managed to press a button on the panel, activating a temporary force field that kept the lynx back. Trying to hold on to her life, the mother managed to turn to face her child. "Scales.listen to me.promise me one last thing.I want you to continue my work.to make the people of Earth happy.as I made you and your brother to do. Promise me you'll protect the world.as I intended you to do." She gasped and clutched her chest. "Promise me." She slumped to the floor, dead, but not before pressing the final button in the launch sequence on the control panel. The escape pod rumbled and was ejected through a hole in the floor, hurtling through space and to the world below. "MOMMY!!!!!!!!" Scales screamed, crying.
A tear rolled down the lizard's cheek in the present. She looked down sadly, at the flashing lights below. Her resolve hardened, her eyes turning red. "I will do as you asked, mother. I will make the people of Earth happy. But I also promise you something. I will have revenge on GUN, what they did to our family, to our way of life. I can never forgive GUN for what they have done. And so, they must be destroyed." Her spikes shot out, and she jumped off the top of the bridge support, grinding down the big cable, using the grooved pads on her feet to stay on the rail.
Stage 4: Radical Highway. Mission: Break through the besieging military.
Scales grinded down the rail, leaping off at the lowest point, jumping over the barricade the military had put up to keep out civilians. She ran forward along the huge bridge, running into a tunnel. She jumped over more barricades and came out to the edge of the bridge, a set of springs pointing at the next segment. She bounced off the springs, landing on the bridge ahead. She saw a trio of Fighters soaring towards her. Growling, she jumped in the air and performed three Homing Kicks as the Blue Eagle planes came lower, smashing each cockpit in succession and sending the planes crashing into the water below the bridge. She ran forward, passing through some empty tollbooths and running down a steep hill. She kept going as the road straightened out, suddenly splitting in two up ahead and going up. She randomly chose the path on the left, hitting a dash panel as she started up the road, increasing her speed. The road curved sharply upward, going into a loop. Scales ran through the loop and down a piece of unfinished road, hitting the bottom of the loop and landing on solid ground. She ran up ahead to find that the path continued at the top of a high platform. In front of her were two Hunters. Before they could make a move, she wiped them out with two Tail Whips. She saw a pulley on the side of the platform and grabbed on to it, elevating to the top of a bridge support. She jumped of the pulley and grinded down the cable ahead of her, landing past another barricade. She ran down another tunnel and came out, finding the road curved to the left. Ahead of her was a really big metal cylinder, rolling in its setting and preventing passage. She could have somersaulted under the cylinder. Instead, she delivered a kick to the cylinder, tearing it from its setting and sending it rolling down the bridge, flattening several Hunters and Beetles before breaking through the safety wall of the bridge and falling to the water below. She ran through the arch where the roller had been and found the path stopped where the roller had fallen off. She saw a floating chain of Beetles in the air. She Homing Kicked along the chain, landing on a platform with a spring. A Hawk swooped down and fired at her. She Homing Kicked into it, then Homing Kicked back to the platform and bounced from the spring to a high section of road with a rocket at the end. As some Blue Eagles flew towards her as she raced for the rocket, Scales stopped and Homing Kicked the jet fighters, killing the pilots inside. She ran to the end of the road and grabbed the rocket, launching for another section of road. She dropped from the rocket, landing on the road. It stopped ahead as another platform jutted from the ground. There was a pulley and two more Hunters. Scales immediately annihilated the Hunters and grabbed the pulley, getting raised to the top of another bridge support. She grinded down the support cable, jumping off at the lowest part, and running through the tunnel up ahead. She ran through a bunch of tollbooths and was attacked by some Hornets. She quickly killed the Hornets and ran on a set of dash panels, going through a 360-degree loop and running down an unfinished portion of road before landing on a straight path. She ran forward, going down a very long and steep hill, picking up tremendous speed and moving very fast when the ground leveled out as she headed for a building straight ahead. The building was a hollow vertical tunnel filled with springs. As spring was at the edge of the road, which Scales bounced off of. She ricocheted down the tunnel in a spiral, bouncing from spring to spring before finally landing in a tunnel leading back to the road. The road ended only a few feet ahead, in front of a set of springs guarded by a Hunter. Scales killed the Hunter and bounced off the springs, landing on the road above. She ran ahead, following the road to the right and sloping upward before stopping. Before her was a chain of Beetles hovering across the gap. She Homing Kicked across the gap, landing on the next section of road. She ran ahead a ways, going up a ramp and stopping at a barricade with a horizontal pole above it. Ahead of the barricade, the road ended. The bridge support was ahead, with several floating metal cylinders she could use as elevators. She jumped up and grabbed on to the pole, swinging around it a few times to build up momentum. She let go of the pole, launching towards the pillars. She jumped up the cylinders, quickly reaching the top elevator. Ahead of her was a chain of Beetles. She Homing Kicked across the Beetles, landing atop a bridge support. She jumped on to the left tower and grinded down the cable, jumping off at the lowest point. She saw a very tall barrier blocked off the road ahead. A spring was at the bottom. She jumped on the spring and was bounced all the way to the top of the barrier, landing on the next bridge support. She saw a gap and the next section of road at the other end. Three platforms floated in the gap. She jumped from platform to platform, reaching the other side. Straight ahead, the road was blocked off again. Two springs sat on either side of a metal crate, and a series of floating metal cylinders sat on either side of the road. Two Hunters guarded the springs. Scales destroyed the Hunters and bounced off the spring on the right, jumping to the lowest cylinder. She hopped up from cylinder to cylinder before reaching the top of the blockade and another bridge support. She grinded down the cable and leaped off at the low section, running past some metal frameworks and "ROAD CLOSED" signs. She reached another section of road on a higher platform. There was no spring, and only one Hunter. She Homing Kicked the Hunter then jumped off its head as it fell to pieces, reaching the higher road. She ran past some tollbooths and down a hill in a tunnel, coming out, hitting some dash panels, and going through two loops and down a long hill with two ramps. She ran forward and off the ramps as she hurtled down the hill, getting extreme airtime and cutting through most of the area. She came to a stop as the road ended at a spring. She hit the spring and bounced to the road above. She ran down the road, which ended. A pole ran above her. She jumped up and grabbed the pole, swinging around it until she picked up enough speed and let go, hurtling on to a floating metal cylinder over a large gap in the road. She jumped up and across the series of cylinders, stopping before an electric Beetle. She waited for the electric shield to dissipate and then Homing Kicked into the Beetle and did the same for a chain of normal Beetles after the electric one. She did one more Homing Kick to land on a high road above her. She ran down the road and killed the two Hunters at the end of it, hitting a spring at the end of the path and bouncing to the top of the next bridge support tower. She grinded down one of the bridge cables, jumping off at the end and getting assaulted by a pair of Hawks. She killed the Hawks and kept going, jumping over a barricade and stopping at the end of the road, near a stack of crates. She jumped up the crates and used them to get to the higher portion of road ahead of her, running to the right as the road went that way. She ran past some big yellow cans and into a tunnel, coming out at the top of a hill. She ran down the hill, over a dash panel and into a loop. She was launched from a jump plate at the end of the loop to another section of road, right onto a pole at the road's end. She grabbed the pole and swung around a few times, picking up momentum. She let go and was sent hurtling onto a metal cylinder floating above the water. She jumped across several more floating metal cylinders, going up to the road above. She passed through some tollbooths and hear a whine as some more Blue Eagles came towards her. She jumped on top of a tollbooth, waiting for the planes to come. When the first jet got close, she jumped onto it, smashed open the cockpit, ripped the pilot out and threw him into the water below. She turned the fighter around, heading for the other two. She launched the fighter's missiles at the other fighters and jumped out, landing on the road she had started on. The Blue Eagle's missiles destroyed its former wingmates. The vacant plane wobbled and went into a downward spiral, crashing and exploding into the water. "Well, that was fun." Said Scales. She ran through the tollbooths again and ran down a steep hill. At the bottom, the road leveled out then split into two ramps. Scales went up the left ramp, running across a dash panel to go up the steep, curbed road. She was launched from the top by a jump plate, landing on a long stretch of road filled with enemies. She ran down the road, killing every Hunter, Hornet, Hawk and Beetle in sight before passing through another set of tollbooths and reaching the end of the bridge, going into the city. Hovering over the off-ramp was the Goal Ring. She jumped through the Ring, finishing the level.
(STAGE CLEAR. RANK A.)
Scales ran down the off ramp, jumped off of a few cars and poles, running across the roof of a small building and landed on a fallen walker. She did not notice the heroic black and red hedgehog that stared up at her, gaping. She paused for a moment to admire her prize, holding the Super Emerald to catch the gleam of the stars and moon. "It all starts with this, a jewel containing the ultimate power." She said to herself. "That's the city's Super Emerald! What are you doing with that?" asked Shadow, astonished. Scales looked down, noticing Shadow. Her eyes bulged and she almost slipped off of hr perch on the machine. "Sh-Shadow? Is that really you?" she asked, shocked and a little happy. Shadow frowned. "Have we met?" Scales blinked and her expression turned sad. "You don't.you don't remember me? Well, I guess that's to be expected." she said, disappointed. "I have no idea who you are. What are you doing with that Emerald? It belongs to the city. Give it back." Said Shadow. Scales looked even sadder. "I'm sorry Shadow, but I can't give this up. I need it more than you can imagine. I also regret that you do not remember me." Shadow started towards her. "I don't know how you know me, but we can talk about being reacquainted after you give me that Super Emerald!" Scales shook her head and held the jewel close. "Chaos.Control!" The black Emerald in her back flashed. She disappeared in a flash of light, reappearing on a building on the other side of the square. Shadow's jaw dropped. "That was the Chaos Control! How do you know how to do it? Who are you?!" Scales smiled a little. "I was born with the ability to use the power of the Emeralds, Shadow, as were you. As for my name." she said, pausing for dramatic tendency. "My name is Scales, the world's Ultimate Lifeform." "But that's impossible, I'm the Ultimate Lifeform!" Scales' smile broadened. "We both are. But for now, I must bid you farewell. Chaos Control!" She vanished again in a flash of green light.
And so ends Scales' first level. How did you like it? What did you think of the scene where she piloted the jet for a moment? Come on, please tell me what you think of my writing! I'M SO LONELY!