Chapter Twelve: World Declaration
Disclaimer: If these characters were mine, I wouldn't be writing fanfiction about them, would I?
As if the situation on Mobius wasn't already bad enough, thing are about to get much worse. On the Space Colony ARK, Shadow, Rouge, and our favorite crazed scientist Dr. Eggman were going to the next phase of their plans.
"Everything is going according to plan!" Dr. Eggman said excitedly, "Finally, I can continue my plans without having to worry about Sonic!"
Rouge looked up at him. "Has anyone ever told you that you're exceptionally boring to listen to?"
"What do you mean by that?"
"Well, you've been trying to destroy Sonic for over a decade now; most people would've given up by now, but you haven't. You say the same things over and over."
Eggman was about to chew her out when Shadow interrupted. "Leave Sonic to me."
Shadow turned around. "How many emeralds do you possess, Doctor?"
"Five, why?"
"With five of them, we can show the humans how much power we have in our possession!"
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Meanwhile, on the surface of the planet Mobius, at Station Square, Tails landed the Tornado, and transformed it into combat mode. Sonic and Amy jumped out of the plane, and were shocked at what they saw. Besides Sonic dodging police fire, it had been an otherwise peaceful morning. Now, it was nighttime, and despite the beauty of the stars above, on the surface, the place was in chaos as the guard robots searched for Sonic.
"Why's this place got so many robots, anyway?"
"Well, Sonic you busted out of a high-security prison. Since Amy and I helped, we're criminals, too."
Upon hearing this, Amy looked up at Tails. "What!? I dont want to be a criminal!"
"To be honest, Amy, it's your fault for sneaking into the Tornado in the first place."
Amy, having nothing to say to lthat last comment, just looked away with a pissed off look on her face.
"Yo, guys. You say these 'bots are after me?" Sonic asked
"Yeah?"
"Then how come they're watchin' the TV?" He pointed to a gigantic screen that all of the policemen and guard robots were staring at. All that was on the screen was snow.
"What in the . . ." Tails asked, which got Amy's attention as well.
Suddenly, the snow gave way to a picture of a familiar egg-shaped figure."
"Dr. Eggman!" Tails gasped.
"Who?"
"Dr. Robotnik!" Amy told him.
"What're ya talkin' about? Ol 'Buttnik couldn't pull this if his life depended on it!" Sonic gloated, even though he sensed that this Robotnik was a different person than the one he knew . . . A lot less fat and a lot more evil.
Tails was about to respond when Eggman started talking.
"PEOPLE OF MOBIUS, LEND ME YOUR EARS AND LISTEN TO ME VERY CAREFULLY. MY NAME IS DOCTOR EGGMAN, THE WORLDS'S GREATEST SCIENTIST, AND SOON TO BE THE WORLD'S GREATEST RULER."
"Robotnik's different than the one I remember," Sonic said to himself. But then again, this whole world's mondo crazy. Ol'Buttnik was never this smart, or skinny, for that matter. Somehow, Tails is a genious, not to mention this Amy girl that keeps followin' me around. There's alot more 'bots around, and everything looks . . . different.
While Sonic was pondering this, Dr. Eggman continued his message. "TODAY MARKS THE BEGINNING OF THE RISING OF THE GREATEST EMPIRE OF ALL TIME!"
Suddenly a bright flash of light erupted across the sky.
"Look! Up there!" Tails pointed, his eyes growing wider, and for good reason. A giant stream of pale blue light soared across the sky. The beam collided with the moon, tearing off an entire chunk of it. The populace gazed of the see only half of what once was a full moon.
Sonic gazed at the screen again to see a giant digital clock counting down from Twenty-four hours.
If Station square was chaotic before, it was pandemonium from there on. Thinking it was the Apocalypes, people quit jobs, wrote wills, and evacuated from the cities. The guard robots, knowing what the enemy was, but not knowing how to get to it, went crazy and started shooting everywhere.
AOSTH-Sonic and the others hid in an alley. "Half of the moon is gone!?" Amy exclaimed.
"How'd he do that!?" Sonic said in shock, "The Robotnik I know could never do that!"
"What do you mean 'The Robotnik you know?'" Tails asked.
"The Robotnik I know was fat . . . very fat. He had these two robots Scratch and Grounder with him. Oh yeah, Coconuts too."
Amy took a closer look at him. "Did you hit your head or something, Sonic?"
"I don't know," Sonic replied.
Tails jumped down from the plane. "This is probably just amnesia or something." He was about to continue when he noticed that something was off about Sonic.
"Sonic . . . did you get shorter?"
"Wha?" Sonic said, caught off guard by the last question.
"Yeah, you did," Tails observed, answering his own question, "Your quills are shorter, too."
Sonic took a look at Tails. "Well, I'm not the only one who's strange."
"What do you mean?"
"Let's see . . . you suddenly became smarter, you're orange instead of brown, you're almost as tall as me, and your eyes are blue."
"So?"
"Your eyes are black, like mine."
Tails, starting to suspect something, jumped into the plane and dug out a mini-computer. "Computer, set up a hologram of Sonic."
A moment later, a holographic picture of SA-Sonic appeared. Sure enough, AOSTH-Sonic looked completely different from the hologram.
"Whoa!" Sonic circled the hologram, taking a look at his other self. After he was done, he bent down to look at the shoes. "Nice sneaks! Almost as good as mine," he gloated.
"That settles it, this isn't our Sonic," Tails concluded, turning off the hologram.
"'Our Sonic?' What do you mean?" Amy asked.
"Well, I heard a theory about how every one of us has an infinite amount of doubles that live in an infinite amount of worlds, each one slightly different than the last," Tails explained, "Something must have happened to Sonic this morning that caused him to somehow "switch" with this Sonic.
Tails turned to AOSTH-Sonic. "Did you do something this morning that might have broken some dimensional barrier?"
"Well, let's see . . . This morning, I was racin' in the Casino Night Zone . . ."
"You mean Casinopolis, right?" Amy corrected.
"No . . . I mean Casino Night. Anyway, I was racin against this black hedgehog, who was as fast as me; so I used the ol' Sonic spin, and . . . I was at that prison. They thought I busted in and threw me in jail."
"So when you spin dashed . . ." Tails started.
" . . . I came to this crazy place!" AOSTH-Sonic finished, having just figured it out.
"This place isn't that crazy," Amy replied. Suddenly, the car across the street from there blew up. Amy stared at the blaze with wide eyes.
"Well, if you're here, then where's our Sonic?" Tails wondered.
"Relax, Tails! We'll just use your machines to do it!"
"It's not that easy, even if I had the "machines" you were talking about," Tails said.
"We'll find him Tails; ya know why?"
"Why is that?"
"Because I'm Sonic the Hedgehog, the luckiest hedgehog in the world!"
Tails just looked at him. I hope he's right; It could take us months, even years to find the right one, and even if we do, we probably won't know for sure if it's him or not.
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In an alternate dimension outside their own, the Shadow Lord watched this scene on a giant flat screen TV from his gigantic throne. "Those fools have no idea of the situation they're in!" He laughed, "Little do they know that I switched them with my magic!"
He switched the channel on the TV to another scene. SU-Sonic and the Freedom Fighters were brought back to Knothole and proceded to rebuild it.
He switched the channel again. SA-Sonic was holding his ears. Behind him, Sonia and Manic were playing a song on their instruments.
He changed the channel again to reveal AOSTH-Shadow inputing more coordinates into Nicole. Tails looked over his shoulder at the screen. In the back, SATAM-Sonic was sleeping from boredom.
The Shadow Lord stood on his feet. "Enjoy yourselves, Sonics, because soon, you will die by my hand, and I will be the ruler of all dimensions! Then you will know the pain I've suffered!"
His laughter was heard throughout his castle, causing his servants to shudder in fear.
Disclaimer: If these characters were mine, I wouldn't be writing fanfiction about them, would I?
As if the situation on Mobius wasn't already bad enough, thing are about to get much worse. On the Space Colony ARK, Shadow, Rouge, and our favorite crazed scientist Dr. Eggman were going to the next phase of their plans.
"Everything is going according to plan!" Dr. Eggman said excitedly, "Finally, I can continue my plans without having to worry about Sonic!"
Rouge looked up at him. "Has anyone ever told you that you're exceptionally boring to listen to?"
"What do you mean by that?"
"Well, you've been trying to destroy Sonic for over a decade now; most people would've given up by now, but you haven't. You say the same things over and over."
Eggman was about to chew her out when Shadow interrupted. "Leave Sonic to me."
Shadow turned around. "How many emeralds do you possess, Doctor?"
"Five, why?"
"With five of them, we can show the humans how much power we have in our possession!"
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Meanwhile, on the surface of the planet Mobius, at Station Square, Tails landed the Tornado, and transformed it into combat mode. Sonic and Amy jumped out of the plane, and were shocked at what they saw. Besides Sonic dodging police fire, it had been an otherwise peaceful morning. Now, it was nighttime, and despite the beauty of the stars above, on the surface, the place was in chaos as the guard robots searched for Sonic.
"Why's this place got so many robots, anyway?"
"Well, Sonic you busted out of a high-security prison. Since Amy and I helped, we're criminals, too."
Upon hearing this, Amy looked up at Tails. "What!? I dont want to be a criminal!"
"To be honest, Amy, it's your fault for sneaking into the Tornado in the first place."
Amy, having nothing to say to lthat last comment, just looked away with a pissed off look on her face.
"Yo, guys. You say these 'bots are after me?" Sonic asked
"Yeah?"
"Then how come they're watchin' the TV?" He pointed to a gigantic screen that all of the policemen and guard robots were staring at. All that was on the screen was snow.
"What in the . . ." Tails asked, which got Amy's attention as well.
Suddenly, the snow gave way to a picture of a familiar egg-shaped figure."
"Dr. Eggman!" Tails gasped.
"Who?"
"Dr. Robotnik!" Amy told him.
"What're ya talkin' about? Ol 'Buttnik couldn't pull this if his life depended on it!" Sonic gloated, even though he sensed that this Robotnik was a different person than the one he knew . . . A lot less fat and a lot more evil.
Tails was about to respond when Eggman started talking.
"PEOPLE OF MOBIUS, LEND ME YOUR EARS AND LISTEN TO ME VERY CAREFULLY. MY NAME IS DOCTOR EGGMAN, THE WORLDS'S GREATEST SCIENTIST, AND SOON TO BE THE WORLD'S GREATEST RULER."
"Robotnik's different than the one I remember," Sonic said to himself. But then again, this whole world's mondo crazy. Ol'Buttnik was never this smart, or skinny, for that matter. Somehow, Tails is a genious, not to mention this Amy girl that keeps followin' me around. There's alot more 'bots around, and everything looks . . . different.
While Sonic was pondering this, Dr. Eggman continued his message. "TODAY MARKS THE BEGINNING OF THE RISING OF THE GREATEST EMPIRE OF ALL TIME!"
Suddenly a bright flash of light erupted across the sky.
"Look! Up there!" Tails pointed, his eyes growing wider, and for good reason. A giant stream of pale blue light soared across the sky. The beam collided with the moon, tearing off an entire chunk of it. The populace gazed of the see only half of what once was a full moon.
Sonic gazed at the screen again to see a giant digital clock counting down from Twenty-four hours.
If Station square was chaotic before, it was pandemonium from there on. Thinking it was the Apocalypes, people quit jobs, wrote wills, and evacuated from the cities. The guard robots, knowing what the enemy was, but not knowing how to get to it, went crazy and started shooting everywhere.
AOSTH-Sonic and the others hid in an alley. "Half of the moon is gone!?" Amy exclaimed.
"How'd he do that!?" Sonic said in shock, "The Robotnik I know could never do that!"
"What do you mean 'The Robotnik you know?'" Tails asked.
"The Robotnik I know was fat . . . very fat. He had these two robots Scratch and Grounder with him. Oh yeah, Coconuts too."
Amy took a closer look at him. "Did you hit your head or something, Sonic?"
"I don't know," Sonic replied.
Tails jumped down from the plane. "This is probably just amnesia or something." He was about to continue when he noticed that something was off about Sonic.
"Sonic . . . did you get shorter?"
"Wha?" Sonic said, caught off guard by the last question.
"Yeah, you did," Tails observed, answering his own question, "Your quills are shorter, too."
Sonic took a look at Tails. "Well, I'm not the only one who's strange."
"What do you mean?"
"Let's see . . . you suddenly became smarter, you're orange instead of brown, you're almost as tall as me, and your eyes are blue."
"So?"
"Your eyes are black, like mine."
Tails, starting to suspect something, jumped into the plane and dug out a mini-computer. "Computer, set up a hologram of Sonic."
A moment later, a holographic picture of SA-Sonic appeared. Sure enough, AOSTH-Sonic looked completely different from the hologram.
"Whoa!" Sonic circled the hologram, taking a look at his other self. After he was done, he bent down to look at the shoes. "Nice sneaks! Almost as good as mine," he gloated.
"That settles it, this isn't our Sonic," Tails concluded, turning off the hologram.
"'Our Sonic?' What do you mean?" Amy asked.
"Well, I heard a theory about how every one of us has an infinite amount of doubles that live in an infinite amount of worlds, each one slightly different than the last," Tails explained, "Something must have happened to Sonic this morning that caused him to somehow "switch" with this Sonic.
Tails turned to AOSTH-Sonic. "Did you do something this morning that might have broken some dimensional barrier?"
"Well, let's see . . . This morning, I was racin' in the Casino Night Zone . . ."
"You mean Casinopolis, right?" Amy corrected.
"No . . . I mean Casino Night. Anyway, I was racin against this black hedgehog, who was as fast as me; so I used the ol' Sonic spin, and . . . I was at that prison. They thought I busted in and threw me in jail."
"So when you spin dashed . . ." Tails started.
" . . . I came to this crazy place!" AOSTH-Sonic finished, having just figured it out.
"This place isn't that crazy," Amy replied. Suddenly, the car across the street from there blew up. Amy stared at the blaze with wide eyes.
"Well, if you're here, then where's our Sonic?" Tails wondered.
"Relax, Tails! We'll just use your machines to do it!"
"It's not that easy, even if I had the "machines" you were talking about," Tails said.
"We'll find him Tails; ya know why?"
"Why is that?"
"Because I'm Sonic the Hedgehog, the luckiest hedgehog in the world!"
Tails just looked at him. I hope he's right; It could take us months, even years to find the right one, and even if we do, we probably won't know for sure if it's him or not.
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In an alternate dimension outside their own, the Shadow Lord watched this scene on a giant flat screen TV from his gigantic throne. "Those fools have no idea of the situation they're in!" He laughed, "Little do they know that I switched them with my magic!"
He switched the channel on the TV to another scene. SU-Sonic and the Freedom Fighters were brought back to Knothole and proceded to rebuild it.
He switched the channel again. SA-Sonic was holding his ears. Behind him, Sonia and Manic were playing a song on their instruments.
He changed the channel again to reveal AOSTH-Shadow inputing more coordinates into Nicole. Tails looked over his shoulder at the screen. In the back, SATAM-Sonic was sleeping from boredom.
The Shadow Lord stood on his feet. "Enjoy yourselves, Sonics, because soon, you will die by my hand, and I will be the ruler of all dimensions! Then you will know the pain I've suffered!"
His laughter was heard throughout his castle, causing his servants to shudder in fear.