I saw Sonic 2 on Saturday as it was released early in the UK here and I loved it. It and the previous movie have the best cases to be considered the best video game movies ever, rivalled only by Detective Pikachu.

Sixth grade student Ivo Robotnik stood proudly next to his prototype drone as the judges awarded him his guaranteed first place trophy and ribbon in the science fair. He shared in the glory alone with the students giving him a half-hearted clap at best. He never did get alone with the single-minded simpletons in his school and they looked down on him out of jealousy for his 3 digit IQ and gift with technology, they were too scared of retaliation due to the bully who spent a year drinking his meals through a straw after he had punched him. No evidence was left but they all know who it was.

His vengeance was swift against anyone who dare get on his bad side; the teacher who mocked him for his intellectual speaking and called him a freak? He arranged for her to be framed from laundering money from a charity fundraiser that the school was having, she lost everything in her divorce that followed and was now a homeless drunk. A jock who tried to threaten him to get him to agree to do his homework for him? Drugs planted in his locker. The jock's father who blamed him and wanted to give him a piece of his mind?

He disappeared after Ivo got him framed for treason, probably in some black site or something.

He now revelled in his victory and looked towards the losers with their baked potato clocks and baking soda volcanoes, all their parents complimenting them and saying how proud they were of them. He stared at them briefly thinking it would be nice to have a parent to share in his accomplishments but then he brushed them off. He didn't need 'parental love', he had himself and his machines and that was all that there is.

He arrived to the home of his foster family who were neglectful of him and saw him as nothing more than a means to get money from the government; once he was off age or able to emancipate himself then he would take care of them in an 'accident' to claim the life insurance.

He went to his room and put his trophy amongst the others, he had been winning first prize in the science fairs ever since kindergarten. His smile fell down as he looked to a framed photo of his grandfather Dr Gerald Robotnik. His parents had been dead ever since a little after he was born but digging into his family tree he discovered his grandfather who had been a brilliant scientist.

He went on a project to try and cure his granddaughter and Ivo's cousin Maria of a deadly disease. The reports said that Gerald had disappeared and the disease had claimed Maria. It inspired him thinking that his genius was in his genetics and resolved to be as good as his grandfather. He had found a photo and had it framed it.

"Grandpa, I won the science fair once again which is no shock as it was inevitable as none of the imbeciles at my school are capable of anything that could be serious competition to my brilliance. Still... I think you would have been proud..." Ivo told the picture as his face fell. "Sometimes... It feels lonely being a genius at my calibre and I wish that I could have met you... To share in achievements and successes... To feel that I wasn't alone... That I had family to count on... That someone could understand me..." Ivo said as he felt tears leaving eyes.

He heard a meow and found the house cat entering through the door, furious he turned to it and shouted "what are you doing here? You don't have authorisation to be in my room, get out before I send you to someplace on the planet where they eat felines like you!" The cat left and he then slammed the door refusing to let anyone see him in any state that could be considered weakness.

YEARS LATER

Adult Ivo grew up to be a genius finding work at the United States Government; helping out in their dirty work. Still for fun he easily hacked into their classified files to see what juicy details that he could find. Regime changes in a foreign nation, any secrets about the Kennedy assassination or perhaps stuff about FDR that no one wanted to get out. He was curious about something called Project: Shadow.

He was stunned when he learned that it was headed by his grandfather and it must have been what he was working on to try and cure Maria. To his shock he read about how Gerald had founded corpses of extra-terrestrial life and was using his cells to create an Ultimate Lifeform who could help cure his granddaughter.

Finding the first example of alien life on Earth. Just shows where he got his brilliance from.

Wanting to know what happened he found a lot of retracted documents and then the security footage from Gerald's personal secret lab.

Government agents stormed in saying they were confiscating his research and shutting it down, not trusting him with 'alien freaks'. Maria grew scared and Gerald tried to reason with them, talk them down. It went to the point where stray gunfire shot Maria down dead to his horror as they went cuffed him and took him away.

He was stunned and speechless; it said that Project: Shadow was taken to a black site and a document saying that Gerald and his children were 'taken care of' to prevent any loose ends. His remaining infant grandchild Ivo was deemed to be not a threat so they allowed him to be sent to foster care.

He grew furious; Gerald actually wanted to help humanity with his project and what did they do? They killed his granddaughter, stole his work and locked him up to be shot later. They orphaned him and prevented him from ever getting to meet the only man who could possibly understand him. Just to show how cursed and dismissive of scientific brilliance that the governments of the world will be.

He copied it all to his personal files and swore that he would find Project: Shadow one day. In his home he picked up his prized framed picture of Gerald and told him "I know what they did to you and our family Maria. You wanted to help them but they turned on you as is inevitable for primitive and short-sighted selfish humans. You can't count on anyone but loyal dependable programmable machines. I swear that while I will play along; once my creations are able to reach their full potential then I will burn down all corrupt governments in the world to create a new world order. One ruled by brilliance and machines; I will be the only one who can be trusted to run this cursed unpredictable world. I will get vengeance for you grandpa..."