The Adventures of Izzy the Hedgehog

Chapter Two

I'm a WHAT?.!

Outside a huge city, two forces clashed. You couldn't see much of the two beings; just two blurs. One was blue and the other was black. They were ramming against each other on the ground. The two speed demons ran away from each other, only to come around and bump heads again. They jumped and fought in the air.

"Come on!" A little boy cheered from the sidelines.

"You can do it!" A girl yelled.

"Wrap this up already!" A fat man yelled from up in the air.

"Yeah! I need to polish my jewels!" A woman on the ground added.

"Alright faker, it's time to end this." The owner of the black blur said.

"When will you stop that faker crap!.?" The owner of the blue blur yelled. "And I'm gonna finish this!"

Both blurs landed on the ground a long distance from each other.

"Chaos…" The black one started charging energy.

"Sonic…" The blue one started charging energy as well.

Just as they were about to unleash their energy, everything froze. In the air above the giant battlefield, a bright light shone. Izzy's body materialized and floated down. The boy had his eyes closed as his feet touched the ground. The light faded and Izzy opened his eyes.

"Oh man... That was some trip." He said as he held a hand to his head. "Where am I?"

He looked around his surroundings. He was in a forest clearing. He looked ahead and marveled at the sight of a huge city.

"I don't get it. How did this happen?" Izzy crossed his arms and walked forward. Time unfroze. "Did I really use—?"

"Spear!" A voice yelled. Izzy raised his head.

"Wha?"

"Wind!" Another voice yelled. Izzy looked to his right and saw a blue swirl of wind heading toward him.

"Ahhh!.!.!" He turned and ran to his left. He saw a bunch of orange spears heading for him.

"Oh crap!" Izzy turned and ran again.

The blue swirl of wind was in front of him. He ran back and forth between the two energy attacks for a few seconds before he stopped.

"Aw man…" He said as his eyes widened.

Everything went black.

°Thud!°

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"Ohhhh…" Izzy groaned as he woke up. He was in a bed that had a yellow comforter. "What a weird turn of events this has been." He looked around the room he was in.

"Now where am I?"

The walls were made out of wood. A dresser was to his left. A window was to his right. Izzy walked up to it and looked. A grand field was seen from the window. It looked like an obstacle course. The field was removed of all trees and grass. It was just dirt and mud. It seemed like some things were concealed in the mud, but that didn't matter to Izzy.

"My face feels so dirty." He said as he walked forward. The room had a bathroom. He went inside it. He turned on the facet and cleaned his face. Afterwards, he looked at his hands.

"That's odd… Why am I wearing gloves?" Izzy was wearing white gloves. His face was dripping wet. "Ugh... I need a towel."

So he grabbed one. After rubbing his face, he looked at the mirror and gasped. His brown eyes, which were now full of fear and dread, were normal, but the rest of him…

"I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I—

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

HHHHHHHH °Breaths° HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

HHHHHH!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!"

(A/N: Ya know, I actually don't like that joke, but it works well in this case.)

Izzy's scream was heard throughout wherever he was. He fainted due to all that screaming. A thud was heard as someone walked into the bathroom. This someone was wearing a pair of red and white sneakers…

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Izzy opened his eyes and found himself in front of an altar. There were seven jewels floating at the altar with an eighth, bigger jewel in the middle. He gave a growl.

"Now what?.!"

"Greetings, Guardian." A female voice said. Izzy gasped and looked around.

"Wh-who's there?"

A figure walked down from the altar. The person was dressed in a brown cloak. The person walked up to Izzy and bowed.

"Hello, Guardian." The female said.

"Hello." Izzy said with a grin. His eyes quickly widened. "Wait... 'Guardian?' What are you talking about?"

The woman pointed at his chest.

"Your jewel." She stated. Izzy looked down and noticed that his Dragon Crystal changed.

The clear crystal that the dragon was holding before was now a green shard. The jewels embedded in the castle also changed. They no longer alternated between purple and green. From top to bottom, the jewels were purple, red, blue, yellow, and green.

"It… changed?" Izzy stared in confusion before grinning. "I love it!"

"Around your neck is the legendary Dragon Emerald of the Boring Dimension." The woman said.

"'Boring Dimension?'" Izzy asked, giving her a weirded out look.

"The world you came from."

"Then where am I?"

"You are in the dimension of speed."

The woman removed her hood to reveal that she was an animal; an echidna, to be precise. She was wearing a gold headband.

"So I did use Chaos Control…" Izzy said. He took off his Dragon Emerald. "That means that these are—"

"Chaos Emeralds." The girl responded. Izzy looked at her and gasped.

"You're T-T-T-Tikal…" He said with wide eyes. He looked at the jewel again. "But why are the emeralds so small? And why are there only five? I thought there were seven emeralds."

"Let me explain." Tikal started. "In every dimension, there are seven Chaos Emeralds. Usually, these emeralds are accompanied by a Master Emerald. Their power is regulated by the delicate balance of reality and belief. The emeralds in this dimension—" She pointed to the altar. "—Are the right size and shape. The balance is perfect."

"So that means there's an imbalance in my dimension?" Izzy asked, gesturing to the Dragon Emerald. Tikal nodded.

"Because the scale is tipped towards reality in your world, the Chaos Emeralds have been dying. They shrunk to nothing because of the absence of belief. The first to go was the Master Emerald. Without it, the other Chaos Emeralds couldn't live. The gray and cyan emeralds followed shortly after. If the other emeralds were destroyed, the world would be doomed. Sensing this, I traveled to your dimension after an accident occurred in my dimension."

"Accident?" Izzy asked.

"When the Master Emerald broke for the second time." The boy gasped as he remembered that event.

°°Flashback°°

It was the first day Izzy popped his newest game, Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, into his Gamecube. After playing as his favorite villain and beating the first boss of the Dark story, he saw a cut scene. He bobbed his head to "Fly in the Freedom." Two animals were in the desert, fighting over a huge green jewel.

"Just let it go!" A white bat wearing makeup said. "You just don't know when to give up, do you?"

"What are you talking about? That emerald's mine!" A red echidna said.

"Wow. Who knew Knuckles looked so cool in 3-D?" Izzy said to himself.

"You got that? The Master Emerald contains special powers that neutralize the chaos emeralds. That makes them very powerful."

A crane is heard.

"What the—!.?"

The Master Emerald was being lifted.

"Wha? Thief!" The bat girl yelled.

"And that must be Rouge. She's hot. For a video game character, I mean." Izzy said, wiping his drool.

"Look who's calling who a thief." Knuckles remarked.

The emerald was lifted onto a hovercraft.

"I came here, following the signal from the emerald." The man flying the machine said. "If I'm not mistaken, this is the Master Emerald, is it not?"

"It's you, Dr. Eggman." The echidna said.

"So that's Dr. Eggman." The bat said with her arms crossed.

"Well I'm sure I can make some use for it. Farewell, knucklehead." Eggman said as he started to fly off.

"Not if I can help it!" Knuckles yelled as he jumped up with his fist raised.

°CRASH!°

"AHHHHHH!.!.!" Rouge screamed as the Master Emerald broke into pieces.

°°End Flashback°°

"I took one of the shards from the Master Emerald when it broke." Tikal said. "I escaped from this dimension to save your emeralds. I searched for the remaining five emeralds. It was arduous. It was tough. It was practically immoral. Do you know what I had to do to get the purple emerald!.?.!" Izzy sweatdropped. Tikal calmed down.

"Anyway, after I got all the emeralds, I used the power of the Master Emerald shard to combine them into one entity."

"The Dragon Emerald." Izzy said. Tikal nodded.

"Doing so, I was able to preserve the life of the Chaos Emeralds for years until a suitable owner can be found. One who had a firm balance of belief and reality." She pointed at Izzy. "That's you. The Dragon Emerald has chosen its guardian. You will use its power to protect your dimension and maintain the balance between reality and belief." He looked shocked.

"Woah, woah, woah! Hold the phone! I'm only human. I don't know anything about being a guardian!"

"It's easy." Tikal said, waving a dismissive hand. "And another thing, you're not human."

"Uhhh... I think I would know if was human or not." Izzy scoffed. Tikal held a mirror to him. He gasped.

"Ahhhh!.!.! I'm a hedgehog! And a damn good looking one too!" Izzy was purple and wearing a red vest. "I look like some weird combination of Shadow and Sonic."

He had the same quills that Shadow has. They, like the rest of his body, were purple. The quills also had black highlights in them. Like Sonic, Izzy's chest was bare. He looked at his feet and grinned at the sight.

"I'm wearing Shadow's air skates!.? Sweet!"

He skated around Tikal a few times before she stopped him and grabbed the Dragon Emerald.

"Remember, you can not let this out of your sight." She said as she put it around his neck again. "In fact, don't ever take it off."

"But what if I need to take a shower?" Izzy asked.

"It's waterproof. And don't let anybody near it. If they so much as lay a finger on it while you're wearing it, they will be shocked badly. You don't have to worry about that happening to you though."

"Cool. Well, thanks for everything." Izzy said as he walked away. Tikal waved at him.

"Remember, search for the blue one. He'll train you in being a guardian of peace!" The camera whited out.

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"What a dream…" Izzy said as he woke up. He was back in the wooden room on the bed. He looked at his feet and groaned slightly at the sight of the air skates.

"Guess it wasn't a dream, after all."

"So, you're finally up." A young voice said. Izzy, startled, turned to the source of the voice. It belonged to a little yellow fox that was sitting on a nearby chair.

"Uhhhh hi…" He said, waving. The fox returned the gesture.

"Mind if I ask you something?" He asked.

"Uhhhh… Go ahead." Izzy replied.

"How exactly did you appear in that field?"

"I used Chaos Control?" Izzy said with a shrug. "What knocked me out?"

"The first or the second time?"

"The first."

"My best friend was fighting this other guy and you got in the way."

"Oops. And the second time?"

"I suppose it was seeing your own reflection." The fox replied. Izzy put a hand through his quills.

"Right. So where am I?"

"You're in my lab in the Mystic Ruins." The fox boy got up. "You must be hungry. You've been out for days." Izzy's eyes widened. "Well, come on." The fox turned to the door. Izzy's eyes went wider. This fox had two—!

"Excuse me." Izzy said, stopping the fox.

"Yes?" The boy asked as he turned around.

"Is your name T-T-T-T-Miles Prowler?"

The fox fell over.

"Yes, but my friends call me Tails." Izzy squealed as the fox stood up and dust himself off.

"It's true! I'm really in Sonic's world!" He grabbed Tails' hand. "Let's go!"

And he ran out of the room, dragging the confused kitsune with him.

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Post-chapter Conversation

"Doing that flashback left a sour taste in my mouth." I said disgustedly.

"I'll say!" Izzy shouted. "What are you doing using the E word!.?"

I shrugged before turning to the camera.

"Anyway, Izzy wound up in the world of Sonic the Hedgehog! What adventures will he face? Will he meet any friends or foes? Find out next time!"