Music for Chapter 3

Sonic's theme – It doesn't Matter from Sonic Adventure 2
Emakarou's theme – Meaning of Birth from Tales of the abyss
vs. Emakarou 1 – Shootout in Meteor from Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3

January 4, 2015
Shikokou, Kyukai

In the present day, it was another night in the capital city of Kyukai, Shikokou. The city was sprawling with millions of people enjoying their night, listening to their new music with their headphones, getting into their favourite manga or hanging out at a club or a video arcade. But one person – or rather, animal – was spending their late night running on the rooftops, grinding on rails and pulling off tricks, all without anybody noticing due to his incredible mach speed. Can you guess who it is?

"Man, Station Square is nothing compared to this place. This is just awesome!"

Music – It Doesn't Matter – Sonic Adventure 2

Sonic the Hedgehog. A blue young hero who needs no introduction.

He was standing on a tall building when he decided to take a leap towards a huge pointy tower named the Shikokou Tower. He just sped up there spiralling and reached the very top, standing way up with his two feet. He looked down to observe the city better, with no fear whatsoever of falling.

"I heard Shikokou is the biggest city in the world. With all the work I've been doing in the past, I've never had any time to visit. Now that I've finally scrambled that Eggman, I can go wherever I want. Wonder where I should go next…"

Four years ago, Sonic finally put a stop to the schemes of his life-long arch nemesis Doctor Eggman (AKA Doctor Ivo Robotnik) by teaming up with himself from the year 1991. He or any of his friends have never heard from him since, but everybody's happy that we won't be hearing from him again.

Down below, little to Sonic's knowledge, the peace of Shikokou would be shattered when a purple vortex appeared out of nowhere. Then, suddenly the same demon that Yuki and Kaori saw came out of it. The people gathered around in shock, wondering what it was.

Then, he began to speak. "I'm looking for a chaos emerald. You better tell me where it is now, or else!"

"You want to know where the emerald is? No way! Go home!"

In response, he walked up to a building and looked up. Then, he pulled back his arm, as the people watched to see what it would do. And then…

BOOM!

Sonic, still standing on top of the Shikokou Tower, could hear and see the building destroyed. "What? Whoa, that was crazy!" He gazed at where the building used to be, astonished.

Music – Meaning of Birth – Tales of the abyss

Meanwhile, down below, even more buzzing in the crowd was heard then before. As he turned his back the people were cowering in fear.

"I will find the chaos emerald, with or without your help!" Then, he took off. He passed the Shikikou tower – Sonic managed to catch a glimpse of him.

Still astonished, Sonic thought for a moment. "Was that the guy who destroyed the building? But what does he want?" He turned around with a spin jump. "Hey, get back here!" He decided to take action. He ran down the huge tower in three seconds, running so fast he looked like a blur – after all, that is why they call him the blue blur.

He began running through the city in search for this mysterious foe. As he ran, he thought to himself. Who is that? It can't be Eggman, he has to be in some sort of contraption to fly! Not to mention, he's way too obese! It doesn't matter, I'll get him, whoever or whatever it is!

Then he begun to pick up the pace. He focused all his energy into his run, and then took off. He looked like a big, blue fireball blazing across the city, running on the sides of buildings, dashing through strip malls and grinding across rails or anything that resembles a rail – The Sonic boost, one of Sonic's most handy abilities. It allows him to go twice as fast than he can usually go. It can be used as a highly destructive projectile, so Sonic tried to stay away from people so no one would be hurt.

"Where could he be? And what's he looking for anyway?" Then, Sonic saw someone in the sky. "That must be him! I'll have to stop him by closing up on him and strike with a homing attack!"

Sonic ran up the nearest skyscraper with his boost – he ran up with little effort. In fact, he reached the top in 0.8 seconds, seeing as it wasn't as high as the Shikokou tower. Then, he leapt up and the wind carried him forward, like a feather. He homed onto his enemy – This was another of Sonic's main attacks – the Homing Attack. He was a far distance away, but the homing attack allowed him to home on someone from a few feet away. When he got closer, he picked up the pace. This is it… Let's do this! When suddenly Sonic received a devastating blow and the homing attack cancelled at the last moment, sending him falling down.

Moments before he hit the ground, he curled up into a ball to land safely. Emakarou teleported right in front of him.

Music – Shootout in Meteor – Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3

"Hey! That was so uncalled for!"

"Do you wish to interfere with my plans?"

"I don't know what those plans are, but that's what I do, so I'll have to say I do wanna interfere!"

"I'll take you out in a blink of an eye. You're not nearly as powerful as me!"

"Wait, how do you know how stro-?"

Sonic didn't have time to finish his question when Emakarou started attacking Sonic full force. He was quick enough to dodge and fight back.

"Man, you are pretty good! Alright, let's see what you can do against this!"

Sonic got a running start, leapt up in the air, and tried another homing attack. But then, Emakarou teleported behind Sonic and delivered a devastating punch in the back.

"!" With that punch, Sonic was left lying on the ground in agony.

"Can you get up after that?"

"Oh man… That was insane… I can barely move!"

"Simply put, I'm looking for a chaos emerald so I can become more powerful and destroy the earth. I already have one, and I need all seven!"

"You know about the chaos emeralds?"

"It looks like you won't be able to do much against me. Sayonara, enjoy life on earth while it's still here!" He took off in the sky again, as Sonic watched him escape.

"No… Don't go away… Come back and fight!" Sonic weakly moaned before collapsing. He knew that the world was in for its biggest threat yet.