Well, here I am! Allow me to introduce myself. Obviously I am mjulie2001, which is what you should call me! I've been reading other fics for a while (I've always been a writer in a sense), but not that long. And I don't review an incredible amount either. I'll try harder…really! Speaking of reviews, I'm not going to post any more of this until I get some (I have most of this written out already, actually. All you have to do is say that you want to read more, and I'll post!) Anyway, on with the disclaimer. I don't own Sonic, SEGA, any of the Sonic characters, or any of the games (well, I have copies of some of the games, but that's not what this space is for). I don't own Nintendo or Mario Kart 64 either (yes Nintendo pops up once or twice. Oh, and I own a copy of Mario Kart 64….wait a minute…did I go over this already? Oh…yeah…). I don't own the concept of Chao, but in a way, I own Zoom…but he is a Chao…who owns who? I do own Twilight, who doesn't come up for a long while. My cousin owns Wind, who comes up at the same time as Twilight, but it was his idea to put them in the story. Speaking of the story, I own that too. So begins my first story (which, by the way, is probably not going to be that great,)
Zooming Away
Once upon a time, there was a Chao. A Chao who did remarkable things, and helped to save the earth. Have you ever heard of that Chao? His name was Zoom. Here is his story.....
Zoom's egg hatched in a basket at the home of a fox. The fox was only a kid, but he was a remarkable mechanic. His name was Miles Prower, but everyone called him Tails.
Although they lived in a dimension mainly controlled by SEGA, Tails and Zoom liked to play games on the Nintendo 64. One day Tails played Mario Kart 64. He had built a special controller small enough for Zoom to use, so he played too. Tails was taken by surprise when Zoom beat him easily at it.
Tails had a few great friends, but his best friend was a blue hedgehog named Sonic. Sonic was a big adventurer who saved the world several times. He was the type who liked things to happen really quickly, but then again, it's no real wonder because Sonic could run at the speed of sound if he tried hard enough. Because of his personality, he was easily bored.
"I'm really bored!" said Sonic. "I want to do something exciting!"
"How about kart racing?" asked his friend, Amy Rose, a pink hedgehog who followed him around a lot.
"Perfect!" Sonic replied. "I can hold a kart racing tournament! That's your first good idea in years, Amy!"
"Goody!" said Amy, not being sarcastic at all. "Now who should we invite?"
"Duh, Amy! We can invite Tails, Knuckles, Rouge-"
"She's a government spy!"
"So?"
"Wouldn't she be busy?"
"Maybe..." Sonic wondered how busy a government spy could be.
"And plus, she's on the Dark Side!"
"She was on the Dark Side, and only because she was spying on Eggman and Shadow." Sonic stopped to think for a moment. "Do you think we could invite him?"
"Eggman?"
"No! Shadow!" Previously, Sonic and company had thought Shadow to be dead, and before that he was an enemy, but one day he'd mysteriously turned up, looking very unhealthy. He was very cryptic about his past, even about just how he survived.
"Maybe."
"Maybe we could invite the Dark Side. You know, act all innocent and have a tournament and all, but while we're at it see if they're up to anything..."
"Hmmmmmmmm," thought Amy aloud. "Maybe you're right. It's a lot like Eggman to be plotting ways to get rid of you, so he is probably up to something."
"And if he tries anything too quickly at the tournament...." Sonic started. He didn't need to finish because he knew Amy knew what he was going to say.
Eventually Sonic decided he would invite the Dark Side. Actually, the SEGA people decided he would. They thought it would be a very interesting new video game. Much more interesting then the paddle boat game they had in mind. (Sonic wasn't too happy with the paddle boat idea. It didn't suit him) So the list of people invited was as follows:
Amy Rose
Miles "Tails" Prower
Knuckles the Echidna
Shadow the Hedgehog
Dr. Eggman
Rouge the Bat
Sonic also invited everyone on the Hero Side (Amy, Knuckles, Tails, and himself) to a come a week before the tournament to practice and hang out. He didn't want to wait until the tournament started for some excitement.
Exactly one week before the tournament, everyone Sonic had invited to come early was there, and he had received word that everyone else would come.
Tails arrived first. He was riding in his robot, which took three different shapes. It could become an airplane, walker-bot, or a kart exactly suitable for racing in. Riding in it was, of course, Zoom. Have you forgotten him? This is really his story, you know.
"Hey, Tails!" Sonic called out as Tails appeared in the distance. "Good to see you again!"
Tails landed his robot-plane. "Hi Sonic!" he said. "How's it going?"
"Great!"
"Me too!" Tails turned to Amy. "Hi, Amy!" he greeted her. "How long have you been hanging around?"
"A while," Amy said. That was actually a huge understatement, since Amy "hung around" Sonic whenever possible.
A few minutes later Knuckles arrived. Knuckles was an echidna who protected the Master Emerald. The Master Emerald was an emerald with the power to control the Chaos Emeralds. That was a very powerful thing if you knew what it meant. Knuckles didn't own a race kart, so the SEGA people let him borrow one.
Everyone greeted each other and stuff for a few minutes, but then Sonic decided to clue everyone in on the plan he and Amy had devised.
"Okay, everyone," he said. "The weirdoes up at SEGA decided to make me act like an idiot and invite the Dark Side."
"Why?" asked Tails.
"They thought it would make a good video game!" said Sonic. "Why can't they ever leave me alone?"
"Who?" asked Knuckles. "The SEGA people, or the Dark Side?"
"Both!" Sonic said. "But anyway, that's not the point. If the SEGA people are getting involved, it must mean the Dark Side is up to something. So I figure, if they come, they're going to try whatever they are planning against us. But if we force them to unleash whatever it is too early, they won't get the chance to develop it and we can defeat it easily."
"Are you sure that will work?" asked Tails.
"Of course it won't work!" Sonic replied. "But we have to try it anyway! And if they aren't planning anything, it's just another chance for us to kick their butts when we race!" Everyone grinned at how positive Sonic was that they would win.
At ten PM that night, everyone was asleep at the house at the side of the practice track that Sonic was using. Tails and Zoom were sleeping in a room on the first floor near the kitchen. Everyone else was on the second floor. A shadowy human figure crept into the house. It was holding a tiny bottle of some liquid. It could have gone up the stairs, but it turned away from them. Instead, it headed in the general direction of the kitchen....
