Jaiden the Hedgehog
An origin story to a sonic-fan Character by JTH Studios
*All the rights of Sonic characters belong to SEGA*
The galaxy as we know it is far more extensive than we can comprehend; it has unlimited possibilities and dimensions, all living in peace, sorted by numerators. These worlds and dimensions for eons now have their own lives and personalities at each corner of it. They can span as far as a young boy who fights purple-like monsters with a key inhabits it, or a blue hedgehog who runs super fast is the all-star hero in another. Through the many dimensions, our story starts in Dimension 007, a galaxy with one particular world inhabiting it, Xevir. This world is a giant, healthy planet full of life, with plants and water everywhere. Many worlds in the unlimited dimensions are compelling, but none compares to the power in total the world of Xevir has. In this world, anthropomorphic creatures are the inhibitors, but they are not just any creatures; they are alien-like anthros called Limnite. Limnites generally don't have an odd appearance; they look like anyone else, hiding that they are highly-sophisticated, all-powerful beings. When a limnite is born, they are gifted with an extraordinary power that can differentiate from plasmic energy to electricity to wielding energy weapons. These powers come from a pure energy chaos emerald implanted in each of their hands from birth. Not only do they have this, but on top of it, even without the full power of their chaos emerald, they are super durable, strong, and faster than the speed of light. While this world has shown not to be widely available to outsiders, they have deep alliances with a lot of the different worlds spanning across over a dozen of dimensions, keeping the unions high so that if a war breaks out, they can be the last world to step one foot in a conflict like that. For this reason, the worlds that dare not to ally with them despise them. The two worlds that deeply rival Xevir are Jaqual and Xenic, both dimension 006.
The world of Xevir lives under a monarchy, the top royals being the Prestige Limnites. The time is March 18, 2018; a ceremony is happening, and a new child to the Prestige Limnite family is about to take the throne as the all-powerful Prestige Limnite. The crowds around the giant, futuristic glass dome cheer as their next ruler is about to appear.
"OPEN THE GATES OF THE PALACE AND PRESENT THE PRESTIGE LIMNITES, THE ONES WHO EVOLVED BEYOND!" chanted a palace guard, surrounding the giant castle palace next to the crowded dome. The crowd went silent as the gates opened, revealing; nothing. Everyone needed clarification. Suddenly, the wolf palace guard tried to reassure everyone, "Don't worry folks! The new king will be out shortly, heh heh…" he said with a nervous look. He ran inside the palace to try and find the next king. "Master Jaiden!" shouted the guard wolf—no response, as he only heard the electric hums from the palace technology interior.
Jaiden's room
"Man, I just don't know about this whole thing. I'm not ready to be a king; my powers hadn't yet kicked in on my chaos emerald. How can I lead powerless?" Asked Jaiden, our protagonist. Jaiden is a hedgehog with light gray colored quills. He wears black gloves and all-red Jordan Luke shoes. He has an athlete-like physique and several cuts and bruises on his stomach and face due to the years of training he had to endeavor.
"Your not leading powerlessly, Jaiden," replied a soft yet strong female voice. "Our parents told you that even without your powers now, your heart and strong leadership skills will lead us to a better civilization. That's your strongest power."
"Thanks, sis, you always know what to say to cheer a homie up." Replies the grateful creature. The person speaking to our protagonist is his older sister, Shira. She is a hedgehog with purple-colored quills, white gloves with a pink purity chaos emerald in her right hand, and white colored athlete shoes. She has a physique similar to a female basketball player, wearing a red semi-jacket, a white shirt, and white pants. For as long as Jaiden can remember, Shira has always been the mother figure he looks up to. She has trained, mentored, and shaped him into the ruler the world of Xevir needs for years.
"I can tell you right now that our parents wouldn't appreciate their next-in-command son being so down on himself," says the sister of royalty to the next king.
"Your right, your right, It's just… man. I can't believe that it's my turn to lead already," replies the now-at-ease limnite hedgehog. "I still feel like even being 19, I still feel like a child in an adult body."
"Jaiden, you don't think, even with me being 22 and head of the technology field, that I don't feel extremely immature at my age?" the sibling indices. "Sometimes I want to just up and leave out of a lot of things in my life, because it can feel like a lot of stress," Shira comes and puts her hand on Jaiden's shoulder, "But the quicker you realize that if you don't do the responsibility, no one will, and quicker than not, everything will fall apart."
"That's especially the case with me being king, huh?" asks the young-adult hedgehog, putting his hand on her sister's hand on his shoulder.
"Extremly little bro," replies the female hedgehog, looking his brother in the eyes. "It's you that gonna lead us through it all. Technology, the military, and even our unions with the other worlds! And heck, maybe you can even deal with Jaqual and Xenic! I've been trying to tell dad to deal with them a while back to get them off our backs for the longest. Especially Xenic, those-"
"Cuidado con tus palabras, little sister." An anonymous voice is heard from the doorway of Jaiden's room. Both Jaiden and Shira jump and look up with haste. A shadowy figure is standing there.
"Oh, it's just you. Jacie, what have we told you about looking all suspicious and shadowy like that? You gonna get a fool ganked in here," Jaiden says in response to seeing the now-named figure.
"Fine," responds the shadowy figure. It walks forth, revealing its appearance for the room to see. Jacie is a cat with purple-tinged fur with a physique similar to Jaidens', with black gloves on but no chaos emerald in either of his hands. He wears no clothing like the new king but wears gold and white sneakers with buckles at the sides. His tail can be described as long and covered in fur.
"Shira, you shouldn't be talking about your older brother like that," says the shadow cat. He starts walking over to the two hedgehogs and stands over by them. "I thought we were family after all?"
"Your our adopted family Jacie," responds the sister hedgehog. "My parents found you here in Xevir and decided to take you in, knowing darn well that your a Xenician." Shira gets up and walks over to get in Jacie's face. "And for the record, I still don't trust you, at all."
"We've known each other for years now, hermana! What's there not to trust about me? This isn't about us; it's about my little hermano becoming king of Xevir!" says the Spanish-speaking feline. He and Shira share a mutual death glance at one another while Jaiden is looking at the two. Shira then finally breaks the staring competition and walks to the doorway. She looks around this hallway and finds the wolf palace guard looking for the king and his family.
"Princess Shira," says the canine guard with a face of relief. "The inauguration ceremony is happening and the people await their Limnite rulers. Basically, hurry up y'all before they rip me and the other guards' heads off," he says with a sudden nervous look on his face.
"Guarder Ronin," exclaims Shira, "Go and tell the people that we'll be out momentarily to have our ceremony." Ronin nods in agreement and leaves the room to head back outside to the inauguration. Shira then turns her head to her younger brother Jaiden, whose eyes are widened at the fact that they are expected. "Well, lil bro, this is it. I'll get Jacie outta here and give you some time to get ready." "Let's go, Jacie," Shira commands Jacie. She then performed a come-on gesture with her hand and left the room. With her out, all that remains is Jacie and Jaiden. Jaiden then gets up to put on his Prestige Limnite emblem jacket. As he puts his arms through the coat, Jacie breaks the silence.
"So, how does it feel to be king, Jaiden?" says the feline to the young king getting dressed. Jaiden finishes putting on the jacket and mustard up a reply.
"It's crazy really," says the hedgehog. "There's a lot I'm gonna have to pick up on from my father's rule, but I know with Shira and you around, I'll be a great king." Jacie gives Jaiden what could be described as a surprised and disgusted face.
"Who says I'm helping you?" Jacie replies to the determined new king of Xevir
"We're family, right? Well, family helps out one another, adopted or not! I don't care that you from another world, and that world happens to be our opposition; we should take being brothers and make the most of it, "the king says, looking compassionate toward his brother. The feline looked down and then up at his younger brother.
"Yeah, your right Jaiden. I'll help you, I'll even help Shira," says the cat. He gives Jaiden a smile of approval. "Now aren't you gonna be late for your throning?"
"Oh yea, you right, you right," the hedgehog agrees. "I'll see you in a bit homeboy."
Jaiden exits the room and chases behind Shira, shouting, "WAIT UP." Jacie looks around the room for a moment. He walks around, grasping Jaiden's collectibles in his room, a football, a tube of mercury, and the scroll of the rifts. Now why would those parents of mine give a kid a scroll as powerful as this? Jacie says to himself. Do they not know the power something like this has on another world? As soon as he says this, he pockets it for himself. He then takes out a phone of some kind. It is only made of glass, and the screen is seen to be holographic. He looks around and in the hallway to make sure no one is around to hear or see him. He then proceeds to call a mysterious person. They pick up, and a large cat is behind the hologram.
"Is everything in place Jal-xeron?" the holographic cat says to the physical cat.
Jacie gives the hologram a mischievous smirk. "Si jefe, the plan can be executed around this time frame." Jacie starts to enter a code on his holo-phone. He activates an encryption to ensure no one can listen to the holo-cat and his conversation.
"You have done well, my son, those foolish Limnites don't know that their entire existence will be eradicated from the galaxy completely," the holo-dad says to his physical son on the phone. "The kingdom of Xenic will forever be in your debt."
"You know it did take a while for the plan to be fully put together, Dad. You started when I was a baby, and you put me on this world; now I'm 25; what gives?" the feline says, setting down the phone on Jaiden's bed and crossing his arms.
"I had to make sure it was going to be fool-proof my son. The Limnites are not creatures to fall for easily planned attacks." the hologram says.
"But that's how we took out Jaqual. It didn't need much planning to take out those guys." replied the cocky feline. "I've been with these guys, they don't even seem that advanced. And their new king? HA. He is most definitely a step down from my adopted fathers rule."
The holo-cat was slightly tinged that his son was so defiant regarding his plan, but he was willing to explain the bones behind it. "Jal, the Jaquals are nowhere near as advanced as Xevir. We had to simply use a carrier of pyro strikes to break their barriers and then the world itself." The hologram then pulls out a steel ball of energy. "The reason why the plan took so long to develop was because the engineers here at Xenic were working on perfecting this device." Jal-xeron was looking at the device with curiousness.
"¿Qué demonios es eso dad?" questions the feline. He looks at the energy in the ball pulsates and the lightning shocks around it.
"We call it a 'Storm EMP Ball'. On impact, the ball explodes, causing multiple pulses of extremely powerful energy to sweep the land. The difference between the Jaquals and the Limnites is that the gear the Limnites use is so advanced the shields can only be broken with continuous forces of powerful energy. These devices do just the job. With a air strike of these, Xevir will fall within moments," the father holo-cat explained to his son. Jacie starts to consider this plan, but he knows who will be in the way.
"That plan can work, but heres the downside, Jaiden and Shira will most definitely interfere. What should I do with them?" Jacie asks his father. The holo-cat dad put his fingers on his chin to think about what to do with the hedgehog royals. It didn't take him long to think of a solution.
"Even if we managed to capture them, they wouldn't stay on penetary for long. Jal, your the only person strong eniygh to do it, you must kill them, not matter what the cost. For us to be the most powerful world in the whole galaxy, it's essential that no one and nothing is able to interfere," says the hologram. Jacie stepped back with a surprised look, and hearing his dad say that made his heart drop straight to his stomach, but he knew that it was the only way to ensure his world had the power.
"I understand, father," replies the physical feline son. "They will be iradicated, in the mean time you can kick off the plan now."
"Let the downfall of the Limnites begin."
END OF PART 1