This isn't my first fanfic, but it is my first ever sonic fanfic so please go easy on me if there is some accidental OC.
This whole fic is set in a combination of the sonic adventure universe and the freedom fighters universe as well as the old STC comics (anyone remember those?) universe. It may seem confusing at first, but look at it like this. All the events of STC comics issues 1-100 happen first, then in the time when Robotnik does not rule mobius there is the events of Sonic adventure 1&2, then Robotnik takes over again and we are left with the Freedom fighters (Knothole, Sally,Bunnie etc). I will try to provide details on characters I use from the comics, but if you still don't understand them tell me in a review and I'll add more details.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this, they belong to Sega, apart from Jennifer, she's all mine.
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The hedgehog with yellow-gold spines shot up in bed, cold sweat matting his fur, same as it does every night that he dreams. He could see a figure sitting at the foot of his bed. Jennifer was always there when he woke up from the nightmare, just sitting at the end of his bed looking at him.
"Wanna tell me about it?" She asked, she always asked the same question first, but his answer was always the same.
"No, I'm ok"
She reached over to him and hugged him, same as always.
"Oh Goldie" she muttered. Goldie had become his name in the time he had been here, he couldn't remember his own. He had lost all of his memories prior to Robotnik's first, and unfortunately temporary fall from power. He had lost all of his memories, but the dreams he couldn't lose. The dream was always the same, it started with a blinding flash of light, he always likened it to the death of a star, but he never knew why. Then the voice would start, it was high pitched and demonic, it laughed at him, telling him he was worthless, that he was a mistake and it was time for him to die. As the voice stopped talking, its owner would emerge from the shadows, and it always looked the same.
Exactly like Goldie himself.
Jennifer had risked so much to look after him. He had wandered the streets for weeks and lived off of trash, that was until Robotnik took over again and people were afraid to do anything other than follow orders and toil in hellish factories for Robotnik's evil dictatorship. If it was found that she was harbouring someone who was of no use to the empire, both of them would be robotizized. He shuddered at the thought, he wouldn't let that happen to her, she had taken him in when no one else would and looked after him, she had helped him try to get his memories back, but nothing worked. They had one more lead to follow, and it was the most dangerous of all. They were going to seek out Knothole village, headquarters of the freedom fighters.
He just lay there for a moment , feeling the warmth of Jennifer against him. Then he asked a question that had been plaguing his mind.
"Jennifer" He started "Whywhy are you coming with me to find the freedom fighters?"
She pulled back from him and looked into his eyes, he was always astounded by how beautiful she was. She was a hedgehog like him, but her quills and fur were a deep red, almost verging on black, her eyes were amber and she could always stop him from saying anything just by smiling her wonderful smile.
"I mean you could get caughtget hurt" He continued
" So could you" she replied.
"We leave tomorrow, remember. Are you sure you want to do this?" he asked.
"I'm sure, I have to get away from this city, this.." she trailed off as her thoughts turned to the place they were living in, a place where SWATbots patrolled the streets, children were killed every day and the once great mobian sprit was crushed my the monster that was Robotnik.
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Jennifer stood in the rain next to Goldie and shuddered with the cold. They were leaving the city of Metropolis and heading for the forest, but first they had to get out of the city, and that was the hardest part.
She stepped up to the guardbot, almost shaking with fear, comforted by the fact that Goldie stepped up next to her.
"Do you have the correct realise papers?" the guardbot asked in its mechanical voice. Jennifer pulled a wad of documents from inside her long cloak and handed them to it. Obtaining those papers had not been easy, but it had been done. They were false of course but the bot shouldn't realise until regional cross-checking was done, and that only happened once a month.
It handed the papers back to her and she let out a breath she did not know she had been holding, it then proceeded to scan her face, as was common procedure. The red light of the laser scanner passed over her face and she strained not to flinch at its touch. It finished scanning and moved to the side to scan Goldie.
Deep in the guardbot's mechanical brain, a link was made to the main database as it scanned this golden hedgehog's face, an alpha priority signal interrupted its scanning and one directive was passed into its programming.
CAPTURE SUBJECT ALIVE. TERMINATE ALL ACOMPLACES.
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Goldie wondered what had happened as the guardbot stopped scanning his face halfway down, he thought it had malfunctioned. It suddenly sprang back to life and grabbed him by the arms pinning him to the wall behind him, another bot pulled its pistol from its holster and aimed it at Jennifer.
"No!" he screamed as the bot pulled the trigger and the bullet left the gun, speeding towards her.
It was all to much for him, the one being who had ever shown him kindness was about to die because of Robotnik's evil and , he rightly guessed, because of his unknown past.
His despair turned to anger greater than he had ever known and he could feel a voice pressing in on the back of his mind, it was the demon from his nightmares, but he wasn't laughing at him, he was offering help, in the form of power.
"Take it, save her" the demon seemed to say.
So he did, he felt something inside him spill open, like a damn holding back a flood. He ripped himself from the guardbot's grip, and sped towards the bullet, he was moving faster than sound, and he heard the demon's voice mingle with his own as he screamed out his rage. He caught the bullet just in front of Jennifer , he literally grabbed the slug with his fist. He turned to look at her and her mouth hung open , staring at him.
He launched himself at the bots, like a whirlwind of rage and hate he ripped then to pieces in mere seconds. He turned to Jennifer, as if to say "we need to go now" but he realised something, he could see fear in her eyes, fear of him and his power unleashed.
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Hello author here, tell me if you like this or not, I really have to know, if you do like this then I will write more, I already know where I'm going to take the story line if I do continue but suggestions, comments, questions and even flames are welcome.