It had been another beautiful and peaceful day on Mobius...
...or rather, that's what it would've been, had Eggman not been scheming evil plans again.
His latest idea had been to kidnap as many of Sonic's friends as possible. He had managed to capture everyone aside from the blue blur himself, and his closest friend Tails.
In the meantime, he had been working on a mysterious gem that he had found. Upon closer analysis, he found that it was able to warp people across dimensions, once it harnessed enough energy.
His plan was to get rid of his friends by sending them away. Knuckles, Amy, Rouge... he had even managed to capture some pesky dimensional-travellers by ambushing them. Heck, he was even able to capture Shadow.
Everything was going perfectly... up until Sonic decided to launch a rescue operation.
"Eggman, give up!" Sonic shouted, making his voice clear over the rumbling and exploding metal.
"Yeah!" Tails agreed. "Your plan isn't gonna work! You've already lost!"
Eggman wailed his arms around, frustrated. He was stuck in his Egg mobile, which was moving really slowly in an attempt to escape. "Grr! That blasted blue hedgehog and two-tailed tyrant really get on my nerves!"
For a moment, he forgot that he had locked up all of his friends into a capsule. It seemed like any other regular capsule, but this one was special. It could absorb all damage, from both the inside and outside. It could even withstand Shadow's Chaos Powers, and prevented the use of Chaos Control.
Why did he make it so easy to unlock that capsule then? Simple. He overlooked it, due to the fact that he designs all of his capsules like this.
Eggman sighed. He thought back to what Tails said the previous time they had fought him. His inventions were getting worse.
He would prove them wrong!
In a moment of desperation, he activated the gem. He still hadn't gotten anywhere with being able to seize control of what it does, but anything was better than nothing at this rate.
Just before he activated it, Sonic managed to open the capsule, releasing all of his friends. Unfortunately for them, the gem opened up a portal that started sucking them all in.
Everyone in the capsule had been immediately sent through the portal. Eggman had also been sucked in, since he was standing so close to it.
The only people that weren't drawn into it were Sonic and Tails, though the latter was just barely keeping away.
He held on tight to the machinery, though his grip was loosening as he grew tired. Sonic was simply outrunning the portal's grasp; though he was starting to get slower.
Within time, everything else in the room started to get sucked up. A piece of a badnik flew by and hit Tails, knocking him towards the portal.
"Sonic!" He shouted, before being sucked in.
"Tails!" Sonic looked back towards the portal for a moment. As he did so, a piece of the wall that was loose from the battle they just had with Eggman got torn off, hitting him and sending him through the portal.
Afterwards, the portal disappeared. Everything in the room was gone.
Sonic reappeared just above a mountain and immediately fell into it, hitting the ground hard. He got up and noticed only a few bits of metal around him.
"Huh." Sonic commented. "We must've been sent to different locations."
Suddenly, from a nearby room, he heard some shouting. He immediately rushed towards it, coming across a room that was dimly lit due to the hole in the mountain above them.
"Will you PLEASE, let me finish talking?!" Sonic overheard someone say.
"Only if you tell me what kind of freakish land I am in!" A familiar voice angrily responded.
He walked in, to see his echidna friend Knuckles, arguing... with a flower.
Sonic sighed. "Knuckles, why are you arguing with a flower?"
The flower's head suddenly turned towards Sonic. "Oh thank goodness! Someone who has manners!" Now that his head was visible, he could see a face on that flower.
Sonic jumped back. Did that flower just...?
"Uh... did you just talk?" He asked politely.
"No! Absolutely I did not!" The plant responded with a hint of sarcasm. "You must be dreaming. OF COURSE I'M TALKING!"
Knuckles seemed to have enough of the flower's spiel, as he readied his fist to punch the plant right in the face. Sonic quickly stopped him.
He plastered a smile on his face. "Okay then, flower dude. Just ignore Knuckles here, he hasn't had his coffee this morning."
"Hey! I don't-" Sonic shushed the echidna immediately. He waved reassuringly to the talking plant.
"We'll be going now." He grabbed Knuckles by the arm and pulled him away. They were then blocked by a huge vine.
The flower's head suddenly grew in size as he smiled at them maliciously. "I didn't say you could leave."
Knuckles broke free of Sonic's grip and punched the flower square in the face, causing his head to be separated from the rest of his plant-like body. The vines surrounding them went away.
"Argh!" The plant grunted in pain. His head squirmed around until it eventually faced them. "You two have officially PISSED ME OFF!"
Sonic gestured towards the other side of the room. "Let's get outta here." Knuckles nodded in response, and they quickly left the shouting flower by himself.
They arrived at a room filled with purple. "Okay, that dude is NOT cool with us. Doesn't look like he'll be accepting any apologies anytime soon." Sonic remarked.
"Yeah." Knuckles responded. "It was strange. One moment, you had freed us all from Eggman, next thing I know? I'm being pestered by some talking flower."
"No kidding." Sonic looked around them as they headed up some steps. "Hey, have you seen anyone else after coming out of that portal?"
"Can't say I have."
"That's a shame. Would've made finding everyone a lot easier."
While Sonic was talking to Knuckles, he bumped into someone. "Oh! I'm sorry, I did not see you there..." A soft voice apologised. It was a female. "Wait, who are you two? I have not seen you around."
"I'm Sonic! Sonic the Hedgehog!"
"My name is Knuckles." They introduced themselves.
"Oh. Well it is nice to meet you both." The (strange animal?) replied. "I must be going now. See you."
Without giving them a chance to speak, the woman left the room, heading back from where the direction they came from.
Knuckles turned towards the hedgehog next to him. "Think we're in another dimension or something?"
Sonic shrugged. "When are we not in another dimension during these types of adventures?"
Neither of them said another word as they followed the same path that the woman took.
As they continued walking (slowly, since Sonic was curious about the place) they encountered some strange frog that just croaked a few times and then left.
"These people seem to be friendly. Wonder what they think of their cranky neighbour?"
"Huh?"
"The flower." Sonic reminded him.
"Oh, that." Knuckles thought back to that moment. "Y'know, I think I remember that plant calling himself 'Flowey' or something when I first met him."
Sonic's eyes shifted slightly. "Wow. Fitting name." He deadpanned.
They noticed the pillars and leaves scattered across the place, which meant this place was old. Then there were some more animals scattered everywhere, including a big eyeball and some... moths? Butterflies? There was some shy ghost too, but he just seemed to ignore them whilst he stared off into space... or the ceiling.
Eventually, they reached a big building or something of the sort. Sonic went to knock on the door, before realising that there was no door. He just knocked on the wall next to the door instead.
"Hello?" Sonic called out. "Anyone home?"
The woman from before approached the door, and she seemed surprised. "Oh! It is you two."
"Why'd you run away before?" Knuckles asked.
Again, the woman kept getting more surprised as they interacted. "Most people around here are scared of me, so I thought that you two might've been scared of me too."
"Hey, we're not scared at all." Sonic gave a thumbs up. "Though we are a bit lost... mind helping us out by giving us some directions outta this place?"
The woman now looked confused. "You want to leave the Ruins?"
"Uh... yeah?" Sonic wasn't sure how to answer that.
"Are you two not from here?"
"No. It's a bit of a long story, but I need to find my friends."
The woman seemed to be thinking of something, but was unsure at the same time. "Let me sit you two down for a moment then. You must be exhausted."
After a few minutes, the woman had sat them down at a table with a nice cup of tea for the two of them. She introduced herself.
"Okay, so do you know a way outta here then?" Sonic asked. "We're in a bit of a hurry to get everyone together."
"What for?"
"It's not really for anything." Knuckles responded. "We just gotta group up since we're spread thin. Once we do that, then we can figure out a way to get home."
"I'm afraid you are unable to leave the Underground." The woman, who called herself Toriel, replied.
Sonic wagged his finger around. "Nah, it's not like that. We need to find a way to return to our dimension."
"Your dimension?"
"Yeah." Sonic rubbed his nose lightly. "We're not from this dimension, so we need to figure out a way outta this place and back to our place."
Knuckles punched his two fists together. "And I'll bet that finding that gem is just the thing we need to do that."
Toriel blinked, unable to process what they were saying. "Very well then." She dared not to question it further as she would not have understood the rest of their story. "I will show you the exit, but before I do, I will feed the two of you." She got up and went into the kitchen.
"Hey." Sonic nudged Knuckles. "Doesn't she remind you of Vanilla?"
"Yeah."
The goat lady returned with slice of pie for the two of them. "Here you are." She put plates in front of them.
"That's definitely something Vanilla would do."
An orange fox carefully examined the bruises on his arm. They weren't severe, but they were gonna sting for a bit.
For some reason, every single human in a village just attacked Tails as he was passing through, calling him a 'Monster' when he did nothing to them.
They tried punching him, kicking him, and when he tried flying away using his tails, they threw spears at him.
He scratched his head in confusion. "Why is everyone being so mean?" He asked himself. "And where did Sonic go?"
Tails rested on a tree branch he stopped by. Those humans tried chasing him even as he flew away, so he had decided to head into the forest; making it harder for them to pursue him.
Blaze burned down a large pile of snow blocking her way. She didn't know where she was going, but she hoping to run into Sonic, Tails, or one of their friends at least.
From a distance, she saw a dark hedgehog watching her. "Are you a friend of Sonic?" She asked.
"Calling me a 'friend' of his is stretching it." He replied in a low, deep voice. His arms were crossed.
Then she recognised him. "Wait... weren't you the hedgehog trapped in Eggman's capsule too?" She questioned, which seemed to annoy him.
"Nonsense." Shadow scoffed. "Leave me alone. I am searching for the Chaos Emeralds."
Blaze's eyes widened. The Chaos Emeralds were here too?
Just as she was about to ask him something, the hedgehog disappeared. Then she heard someone approach her from behind.
"Hello there!" A chipper voice greeted. "Who are you? Do you want to be my friend?" They held out their hand, which had a red glove on it.
"We must get to know each other first." Blaze wasn't good with talking to strangers, but if she had learnt something from her time with Sonic and Marine, it's that you must be polite.
"Oh! Yes, of course. My name is Papyrus!" He held out his hand again.
"My name's Blaze." She shook his hand. "A pleasure to meet you."
The stranger's face suddenly lit up. "Yes! I have a friend now!" He rushed off excitedly.
Blaze stood there, confused. What had just happened?
To be continued...
Hey! So I was bored and wanted to try writing this. If the writings a bit iffy, I apologise. Perhaps the writing will get better later on, when I am able to show the overall premise of the story later on? Who knows. Since Sonic and the gang aren't humans, the Monsters aren't acting hostile... aside from Flowey, of course. Let's see what this leads to, shall we?
Also I wasn't able to decide if this fic should be rated T or M, so if the rating seems to be inaccurate, let me know.
