Mobian Pride
By GameOver25
According to the Multiverse Theory; there are a countless number of universes throughout existence. This means that there is a universe for every eventuality; including a universe where a Sonic Fan can physically live on Mobius. This also means that everything we imagine is actually another of countless universes in existence. This story is but one of the many universes that I have seen in my mind's eye.
Welcome to the Mobian Pride Universe!
Disclaimer: Please note that I only own my original characters. I DO NOT OWN Sonic the Hedgehog or anything related to the copyrighted material; that honor belongs to Sega, its employees, and anyone whom Sega chooses to partner with to make other official Sonic the Hedgehog content and/or merchandise.
Author's Notes: Sorry I've been gone so long. A lot of stuff happened. Mostly college and job hunting.
I've been reading and watching a lot of "Isekai" lately and wanted to throw my hat into the ring as it were. So, I wrote this.
For those who don't know Isekai is basically the whole trapped, reincarnated, and/or reborn into another world type of story. So, without further ado; let's get right to the story.
Prolog:
A Great Tragedy!
The Death of a Sonic Fan!
It was the year 2080. Outside in the warm April evening there were several Hovercars floating across the streets with their drivers waving at each other with a big smile and the license plates glistening in the light from the setting sun. The U.S. government had released these wonders in lieu of actual flying cars for two reasons. One was to avoid the very real possibility of both interference with conventional aviation travel and airborne automobile wreaks and the other reason was because the Hovercar was a prototype to the flying car or at least that was how it was marketed.
One hovercar in particular was the one I was driving. A white Camaro model with a blue racing stripe. I was on my way home from the grocery store with the car's auto drive on. It truly is a shame that you have to sit in the driver's seat when the auto drive is on. It's an inconvenient law, but it's a law none the less.
Anyways, I had put in the GPS location of my home and was waiting in the driver's seat for the car to get there. When it did, I got everything that I bought at the store out of the car and brought it in the house.
My house was a humble home. A simple two-story building made with brick and mortar for the outer walls, concrete for the inner walls, and glass for the windows as well as a basement made of concrete and an attic with a wooden floor and the edges of the tile roof for walls. I also had a doomsday bunker under the basement with a secret passage connected to it.
With space laser tech at least another ten years from entering the beta stage and the leftover fear of nuclear warfare that was brought on the world from World War II wearing off; I don't trust the current officials of the world to refrain from nuking whomever pisses them off. Such a foolish action could finally start World War III which is why I have this bunker. That and I need somewhere to film my YouTube videos from during the Nuclear Apocalypse should such a thing come to pass. The idea of such a thing is the main reason why I have an internet modem and Wi-Fi transmitter in said bunker along with a state-of-the-art Gaming Computer and Gaming Laptop.
Back to the matter at hand, I put the perishable foods and canned and bottled drinks in my 8g smart fridge and the canned foods in the 4g smart cabinets.
Ah Yes, Smart cabinets. If I remember correctly the first smart cabinet was made in 2050. The first ones used pressure plates to determine if your cabinet was full or empty. The 4g one I have used a combination of laser tech, pressure plates, and computer cataloging to determine what you have enough of and what you need.
After I put all the groceries away, I went to my bedroom, picked up my Samson Galaxy S200 and put it in an old Oculus Rift I found online for cheap.
They're pretty much relics at this point, but sometimes I just want to experience the old school VR before they managed to create Partial Dive VR.
For those who don't know. The Oculus Rift was a helmet based Virtual Reality device that used smartphones to induce a visual and audio based Virtual Reality experience. It was quite popular in the 2010's and 2020's.
I put my smartphone into the Oculus Rift and used the VR remote to select the Christian Whitehead version of Sonic 3 & Knuckles. I started up my 100% file and as I began Angel Island Zone, I thought about how different this VR experience was from Partial Dive.
You see, Full Dive VR wasn't possible…... yet. We came close…. Freakily close, but we just couldn't break through. So, we came up with Partial Dive.
Instead of taking control of all your senses to put your mind in the game world, we came up with the idea of hijacking the input your body receives from the real world and replacing it with the input from the game resulting in a virtual overlay of AR and VR.
In other words, we couldn't figure out how to safely intercept the sensory data that your body creates by interacting with the real world and safely replace it with the sensory data from the VR device to be processed by the brain which is the tail end of the sensory process.
Most tests resulted in the testers entering an artificial coma that was sustained for as long as the device was on. When the device was turned off the coma ended, but the testers had no memory of what happened when the device was on. The testers only survived because the device's power down sequence was structured so that waking up the user had priority over shutting down the device.
We decided that we had to fix this by intercepting the sensory data before it transmitted, so we made a full body suit that takes the sensory data that the body creates from interacting with the real world and replaces it with the sensory data of the device which the body would then transmit to the brain as if it were the sensory data from the real world which is the front end of the sensory process.
As for the Sonic 3 and Knuckles thing, sometime in 2050 Sega made the mistake of rebranding the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise when it was in its most successful phase since the 2020 Sonic movie. The rebrand was so bad that it made the Sonic Boom spin-offs look like Sonic R by comparison. Sega tanked and went bankrupt.
Luckily Disney was in the market for a new mascot after a massive lawsuit with Square Enix over Kingdom Hearts stuff with Square Enix wining ownership over Mickey Mouse and the entirety of the classic Disney cartoons form the 1920's- 2010's.
Square basically got ownership of everything Disney officially allowed into the Kingdom Hearts games including some of the 2020's Disney stuff.
Disney was only 2 months away from bankruptcy and was desperate for something to save them from that fate. Sega just so happened to have filed for it first.
The first thing Disney did after buying Sega for cheap was have Christian Whitehead remake all of the games with Classic Sonic and then sold them for two dollars apiece. That was equal to about $0.10 back in 2020.
They sold the bundle for $10.00 and it sold like wildfire. They sold eight billion copies in the first two months of the product's time on the market which ended up making them $10.5 million in net profits and saving them from bankruptcy.
That's equal to making $1.5 million in net profits in 2020 on a $100k budget and selling the games you make on that budget for $0.60 instead of $60.00. Needless to say: IT WAS A MIRICALE for both Disney and Sonic the Hedgehog.
I was pulled from my musings when I came across a Big Ring and jumped into it. I got 50 rings and then preceded to do what every Sonic player who unlocks Hyper Sonic does when they get enough rings to transform into him.
I double jumped and started the transformation.
The rapid flashing of colors on the sprite art was always appealing to me, but somehow it was even more so now. I was mesmerized by it. My head felt warm and fuzzy and it felt like my mouth was watering in anticipation of the overpowered hell that I was about to unleash upon my robotic foes.
It may have been a little too much thou, I felt like I was going to choke and then there were the muscle spasms. The result of both ended up really bad for me.
Everything went black and a white light shined upon me as if calling me up into heaven. It was at this point that I knew that I had died. I really died and from a seizure no less.
Well I was 63 years old. Something in my brain must of broke. I died and the last thing I remember seeing was a twin door golden gate set on top of some clouds.
No! Not the type from Final Fantasy VII. The type you see in the sky.
What are you? Some sort of Final Fantasy VII Nerd? Well if you're already a Nerd continue reading a little longer for the REAL start of this Isekai story and trust me when I say It's about to get really good.