CHILD OF WAR

By Sonic Prime

Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic The Hedgehog or anything related to Sonic. All that belongs to the god of everything Sonic, Yuji Naka (all praise him!). I also do not own the 'mechadrake' idea. That belongs to Red Draco, so please don't flame me Red, because I only took the idea, not any names! And if any of you readers see anything in my fanfic that is in your fanfic, its all coincidence. I didn't know you had that in there. I don't own Mountain Dew. (Back off lawyers!) E-mail me if I didn't say anything else that I needed to have said in the disclaimer.

Anyways, now that is said and done, let me give you 'non-Sonic fan' people a background update on this story. It starts after the events in Sonic Adventure 2, but it has a character and some references from SA, so if you're confused, play the games or shut up. It also does not go along with the Sonic comics, just the SA SA2 storyline. If this deterred you from reading this fanfic, then move on, there are other fanfics just waiting to be read.

Shadow: Bull. You know that whenever someone goes on to another story, you get all weepy.

Author: No I don't.

Shadow: Oh, stop lying to yourself. Just face it. You don't want to feel the shame of being shot down on your first story.

Author: WAAA! It's true! Please don't be mean to me. I'm not worthy! I'm just trying to do something worthwhile here. (sob)

Shadow: So spending hours in your freezing basement in front of a computer typing is worthwhile?

Author: Yes it is! All those sleepless nights hopped up on caffeine made a difference in my life and I wanted to share it in the form of this story.

Shadow: Wow. You are really screwed up.

Author: ARGH! Just let me tell the story, darnit! (slams down another Mountain Dew)

Shadow: Oy. This is going to be a long night.

Prologue

A lone figure sat in front of a wall of screens. The air seems to freeze as the individual watched. A door opened and a robot marched in.

"Report."

"Sir. All seven have been collected and production is underway and is progressing as planned." A mechanical voice responded.

"Good. And how is the experiment doing?"

"Sir. The creature has had it problems, but-"

"BUT NOTHING! It needs to be in top form to carry out the mission!" The voice seemed to consume the robot.

"But sir, they have been fixed and it is ready and awaiting your approval."

"Excellent. I'll be there shortly. That is all."

"Sir!" The robot saluted and left.

"He he he he. This time, no one will stop me. Not even that blasted hedgehog! HA HA HA HA HA HAAA!"

Chapter One: Stranded in Chaos

The chains rattled as the sleeping figure began to awake. Its eyes shut, not wanting to accept that it regained consciousness as its tail moved slowly across the floor.

"Good. It's waking up." A voice said.

Another voice pierced the silence. "It's about time. Let's get the tests running again."

The tests. White anger flicked its insides. The tests always meant that there was going to be pain and misery for another long time.

"Let me see you come in here and do your tests!" The creature said as a pair of golden eyes opened, rows of teeth appeared on its mouth; wings flared, claws stretched and swiped at the men.

A cocky grin formed on one of the scientists. "Grab the prods. It looks like our little experiment is going to be stubborn today." Two more men in armor began jabbing electrical prods into the cage. The creature easily avoided them using its powerful legs and tail, but one of its wings brushed one that sent more than a thousand volts of electricity thru its scaly body. The creature roared, and then slumped to the floor. Another armored man opened the cage holding a large syringe in his hand, which contained a glowing green substance. "There, there. Now that wasn't so hard, now was it? Now be a good experiment and take your medicine." The man said with a sadistic tone. "GUN wants you to be strong and healthy if you're going to be some use to us." But just as he got close to administer the drug, a blue blur zipped in and pummeled the men into submission. The creature woke to a pair of impatient red sneakers.

"Who are you?" It asked. What it saw was not expected. The thing was a blue hedgehog. Something stirred in its mind. Was this 'hedgehog' the target the men were talking about earlier?

The blue hedgehog held out its hand. "My name is Sonic. Are you alright? How long were you kept here?" This didn't make any sense. The men said the target was an out of control beast. This thing just saved it. And it was being friendly? What is going on?

"My name is Sarco. I'm a mechadrake, and I've been here as long as I can remember. Why are you here? Are you another experiment?" And are you as dangerous as these men tell me? Sarco thought to himself.

"No. Why do you ask?" Sonic said with a look of puzzlement.

"Its just that you look like another hedgehog these men showed me, only that hedgehog had black fur and red quills of his back." Sarco said, remembering back to that day where the men were going over data from a different experiment. Sonic looked at the floor. There was a hint of sadness in his voice, "His name is Shadow. He died just a few months ago while saving the Earth from Final Hazard that was created by GUN." Sarco's face darkened when he heard that word. He found out earlier that GUN was the organization that created him, only to use him.

"So why are you here anyways?" Sarco asked again. Sonic perked up a little. "Well, my friend Tails (he's a fox by the way) received a transmission that GUN was doing some genetic experiments, so I decided to check it out."

"Alright, you came. What did you find out?" Sarco pried, wanting to know if there were other individuals like him.

"When I got here, I checked out most of the rooms. There was nothing much in them. Just lots of computers and junk. As I was going down a hall, I heard a howl and ran in here." Sonic said. Sarco's world silently crashed. He couldn't, wouldn't believe that he was the only one of his kind. To be totally alone in the world without anybody he could be with was devastating. Sonic could see that what he told Sarco was taking a toll on him. "Hey big guy, I'll get us out of there, and then you can meet all of my friends when we get back." Sarco was hesitant. Could he really trust Sonic? For all that he knew, this could be another test by more scientists. But did he really want to stay here? Sarco decided that the best course would be to go with the hedgehog and maybe see the outside world. "Okay, but no funny stuff, or you're fired, literally."

Sonic laughed, "You've got a sense of humor too! You'll fit right in with us." This once again baffled Sarco. Why was Sonic willing to let a complete stranger be his friend? Unless what the scientists told him wasn't the truth. In that case, Sarco was willing to believe Sonic than the scientists. Sonic took Sarco's hand and they dashed out of the lab. All of a sudden, Sonic stopped and ducked down. "Careful Sarco. There are security cameras all over this place." Sarco looked upward an saw a black box attached to the wall slowly moving back and forth looking for intruders. Now how are we going to get out of here without being spotted? As if Sarco knew what Sonic was thinking, he breathed deep and let out a torrent of flames that reduced the camera to molten slag. "Well, that takes care of that problem. I didn't know you blew fire? Why didn't you do that to the scientists?"

"Well, I am part-dragon, but the men weren't hurt by my flames so I stopped after a while." Sarco said. Sonic shrugged, "Alright! This is going to be a piece of cake."

After an hour of going down long corridors and several slagged cameras, they came around a corner to some guards in front of a door. Sonic peered around the corner. "I wonder what they're guarding."

"Wait here. I'll check it out." Sarco opened his wings and, despite the cramped hallway, flew up and landed right in front of them. "Hey guys, where's the lunchroom? I'm starving." Sarco said with a yawn so big that the guards could plainly see the rows of teeth. Now this wouldn't be very intimidating, if Sarco wasn't towering over them at a staggering 9ft 2in. The guards promptly soiled themselves and ran as fast as their legs could take them. Sarco looked over to Sonic. "Hey Sonic! Come'on over." Sonic snapped out of his trance and sped over to the door. Sonic went wide-eyed when Sarco read the sign on the door aloud. "Emerald Cloning Room. Authorized Personnel Only. That doesn't sound good."

"You have no idea," Sonic shuddered at the thought of more chaos emeralds around for Dr. Eggman to steal. "We gotta shut this place down." Sarco heard a noise. He looked down the hall. "Uh oh, those guards are back, and they do not look happy. Some of them are in armor." Sonic glanced down as well. "Bots!" Sonic exclaimed. "What are 'bots', Sonic?" This was another thing new to him. Sonic pushed a series of buttons on his wrist-watch. "I'll tell'ya later. Let me do this first." He pulled out a small cable from it and inserted one end into the door's control panel. After some beeping the door opened and Sonic and Sarco rushed in, closing the door behind them. Sonic went behind some crates to push in front of the door. Instead, Sarco blew fire around the edge of the door, welding it shut. "They won't be getting in now." Sarco said triumphantly. He turned around to see Sonic staring at a massive machine covering over half of the room.

Its gears moved in a hypnotic trance along the wires and metal. It pulsed as though it was alive and breathing. Sonic walked towards the machine and looked through an observation glass. There were three conveyer belts: one to bring a chaos emerald into the machine, one to bring it back out, and a third one to bring out a copy, only the copy had a greyer shade to it. Sonic couldn't believe his eyes. Does GUN realize how dangerous these chaos emeralds are, and how did they get them from Knuckles? He thought about taking all of the emeralds, including the copies, to Knuckles to try and see what we can do with them. Sarco gazed at the machine. It was nothing like the others he saw in the lab. As he looked at the device, he could hear a slight ringing in his ears. It got louder and louder as Sarco out his hands, but an enormous pain pounded in his chest. "Sarco!" Sonic ran over to see what's wrong. "Hey, what's the matter?"

"Aught! Ah. . . I. . it's . .my chest. Feels like . . . its . gonna burst!" Sarco's tail whipped back and forth, claws screeching against the metal to match his screams. Sonic cautiously crept over, avoiding Sarco's tail, and pried his fingers back to glance at his chest. There was a faint glow emanating from where his heart should be. They couldn't have. It's impossible. Sonic's mind was racing. "Sarco, do you know if they did anything to you?" Sarco gritted his teeth. "(pant, pant) I don't know. (wheeze)" Sarco tried to remember through the pain. All the scientists did to him were sticking him with a needle and he passed out. Sonic had to make sure. He ran over to the machine and grabbed an emerald. It was giving a similar glow. As he went back, Sarco thrashed more and more. Sonic's suspicions were confirmed. "Sarco, I think you have a chaos emerald inside you!"

"FINE! JUST GET THAT AWAY FROM ME!" Sonic put the emerald down away from Sarco. He looked at the door, which was starting to swell and bend as the GUN bots were melting the door down. Sarco got into a sitting position. He was breathing hard, but seemed okay. Sonic went over to Sarco and dragged him over to a wall. "Don't worry. I'll get you out of here." Sarco saw the determination in Sonic's eyes. This must be what 'friendship' is. "Okay" was all he managed to say. Sonic walked in front of the door and revved up.

"Oh no, you don't!"

Sonic looked up and met his eyes with his arch nemesis: Dr. Eggman. The rotund man appeared on the catwalk for the upper levels of the machine. His paint-bush mustache couldn't hide his sinister smirk. "So Sonic, you stumbled onto my base of operations once again, but this time, you're too late." Sonic got into a fighting stance. "What do you mean? I'll always stop you!" Eggman chuckled, "What I mean is, now that I have this wonderful machine, I will be invincible!"

"You won't get away with this!" Sonic yelled to him as he helped Sarco up. An explosion blew apart the door and bots poured in, with a new one leading. "Oh I can and will! Not only I've captured you, but I've also retaken my pet as well." Eggman jeered.

As this was happening, Sarco was trying to get a grip on the situation. There were some strange stones that when near him cause pain, and yet there is one inside him. And this man, he's never seen him before. And he called him his 'pet'? His attention turned to the new white robot. It had no legs, but was supported by rocket thrusters to compensate for its oversized laser-canon hands. He vaguely remembers that robot when he first woke up and tried to escape. It was not pretty. The only thing from the robot killing him was the scientists that had stopped it. Sarco got a very bad feeling. He tried to warn Sonic, but Eggman beat him to it. "Face it, Sonic. You're beaten. All that's left is the robotization chamber. Bots, bring the experiment to my personal lab. E-101, capture Sonic!" The robot hovered in Sonic's direction. It reminded Sonic of a black and white egg with arms. "E-101 Beta is the older brother of E-102 Gamma. You remember Gamma from the time you defeated him on my Egg Carrier. You fought other versions of him in my pyramid base as well. Beta is a little sore when he found out that you destroyed his brother." Eggman chortled.

Sonic readied himself, "Well, let me pay my respects." Sonic jumped and did a homing attack at Beta, but was swatted away. He landed with a roll, revved into a triple spin, and went straight for Beta. Again, Sonic was back-handed by the robust automaton. Eggman burst out laughing, "You could try all day, Sonic, but E-101 will never tire. He can block all of your attacks, and counter them." Beta suddenly disappeared. Sonic looked around franticly. He's not that fast, is he? He sensed and jumped upward just as Beta drove his clawed arm through the floor. Five missiles were launched that Sonic had to run at top speed just to doge them. He ran around so that the missiles hit other objects. He stopped and took a breather while looking over to Sarco.

Sarco was having a somewhat better time. The robots had laser guns and shields to protect them but were forced to use stunning lasers so that they would not harm him, per Eggman's orders. He opened his wings and flew up to the ceiling, clinging to it by sinking his claws into the metal tiles. The robots fired their lasers, but were missing horribly. Sarco leapt from the ceiling and slammed into one of the robots. He sank his teeth into its head and, with great enthusiasm, removed it from its body. The other robots tried to surround him, but he threw the decapitated machine at them. It hit its target and two more exploded. Sarco turned to the last three. "All right! Who wants some?" They hesitated, but one of them ran at Sarco, firing. Sarco lest loose enough fire to make the shield glow white hot. When he got close, Sarco's right hand shattered the shield, while his left grabbed the laser gun and tore it from the robot along with its arm. He seized the robot and held it in front of him to protect him from the other two robots who were shooting, not caring if they hit their fellow bot or not. Sarco ran to them and rammed the robot into one of them. They both flew into the wall, creating another mark of battle. Sarco took to the air and dived into the remaining robot, feet first.

When he stood up he saw Sonic still fighting Beta. He started to join him when Eggman fired. The thing latched onto Sarco's arm. He pulled it off, but was already feeling the poisonous effect. He fell to his knees. Shaking his head to shake the effects off, he saw Sonic run over to him.

"Sarco! Use Chaos Control!" What in the world was that? This must be one of the side effects of the drug Eggman put into him. "What the heck is that, Sonic?" Sonic side kicked Beta into some crates that toppled over the robot. It wouldn't hold him for long. "Just grab my hand and say 'Chaos Control'. I'll do the rest." Eggman knew where this was going. "Oh no, you don't! E-101, get them. Now!" he roared. Beta ruptured the crates and a glow formed around him. It flew faster than sonic realized. Just as it collided with them, Sarco took off with Sonic in tow. Beta immediately spun around an aimed both of its arm cannons at them. "No! You fool! Don't fire at the experiment!" Sarco and Sonic were still in the air. "Hurry up Sarco!" Sarco looked at Sonic, "Why can't you say it?"

"Because the chaos emerald won't respond to me. It will to you," Sonic explained.

The cannons fired.

"Ok. CHAOS CONTROL!" Both of them were enveloped in a flash of green light and were gone just as the beams hit the ceiling with a mighty blast. "AAARRGHH! NOO!" Eggman yelled as the room crumbled around him. "E-101! Get me outta here!" Beta hovered over to him and safeguarded Eggman as they both teleported back to his base.

Author: Whoo! What an ending to the first chapter, huh?

Sonic: Yea. It was very good.

Sarco: Why does it look like I'm a complete airhead in this chapter? I mean, I'm just as smart as the rest of you.

Shadow: Cept' me. I'm the ultimate lifeform. (looks at Author) And I better be in the next chapter, or it won't be pretty.

Author: oo, scary. I'm more afraid of Sarco than you.

Shadow: WHAT? I'm more powerful than he could ever- (gets picked up by Sarco's tail and is thrown into the next room)

Sarco: Better?

Author: Much. See ya'll next time in Chapter 2! (waves)

(Authors Note: Please RR so that I can continue and complete this story. I'll make it very special for all who read it.)