This story is about to take a turn for the worse or for the better. For Sonic that is. I'm just fine :D
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Sonic or its characters except my own OC's, which are none so far...
Sonic Origins
CHAPTER 5: Adapt
Sonic woke up. He hated waking up, especially when you have no idea where you are and the last time you were conscious, your arch nemesis was chasing you. He looked around. He was definitely still in the wild, which was one good thing. He looked up at the dawn sky filter in through the leafy roof of the hut he was in. It seemed to be a hollowed out tree more than something built on a tree. He got out of bed and stared around him. He walked out of the hut and was awe-struck. Around 200 animals were walking around or doing something in what looked like a wooden utopia. Some were talking. Some were working. Others were eating breakfast. His stomach grumbled. When was the last time he ate something. Sonic prepared to jump down but a hand on his wrist stopped him. It was Sally.
"'Bout time you got up. I have a question: Do you know where you are?"
The hedgehog shook his head.
"You're at our secret village. You should be safe for now. Only the freedom fighters know the slightest whereabouts of this place."
"So I'll be staying here for a while?" asked Sonic.
"Yes, and I believe you owe us one for saving your live back there."
"Wasn't I the lifesaver?"
"Stop pushing your luck, hedgehog! You killed a lot of our people. We need every person we can get!"
"No problem. I'm worth five."
"You are so annoying"
"So your point is?"
Sally knew it was pointless to argue with the hedgehog, so she pointed to the breakfast stand and kicked him off the balcony. He got up slowly and walked across the grassy floor towards a wood cabin. He sat on a small stump that was supposed to be a stool. He earned a few stiff looks from the people around here. They were used to every new freedom fighter being introduced by Sally or another high ranking fighter. The man serving was a racoon. He looked quite a bit like Sonic, only without the quills, slightly taller and covered in horizontal black stripes. Sonic then noticed his leg was in plaster. Must've been a field accident. He was given a bowl of porridge. He tried it. Freezing cold. He began to wonder what had happened to his life. He was...what, thirteen. He felt alone. Very alone. He realized he had no one at all. Just himself. And as young as he was, he doubted anyone here was much older. Sally looked a year older than he was. He didn't feel like eating cold porridge. Suddenly, he felt a bowl slide next to him and the chef went back to cooking. He saw another animal sitting next to him.
"Oh...hello. You're new around here...what's your name anyway?"
Sonic lifted his head from his freezing porridge. "Huh...I'm Sonic. Sonic the hedgehog. And you?"
"Flint. Flint the Hedghog. Cold porridge? He does that all the time. Don't worry." said the hedgehog. He then grabbed Sonic's bowl and poured his porridge in, stirred it up and poured some back in his bowl. "Warm's better than cold. Eat up. Sonic smiled a little and began eating slowly at first, then faster and faster. Flint smiled.
"So how'd you wind up here?" he asked.
"Long story short, escaped Robotnik's Zeppelin, two months later everyone's mutated and I went around blowing stuff up. Then Sally pops outta nowhere and I ended up drowning lots of freedom fighters and then saving their lives along with mine by being crushed between trees. I know. Irony"
"Wow. So you caused that flood yesterday. Man was that front-page news. I'm surprised Sally hasn't murdered you yet."
"I have no idea. But I think I'd rather be with Robotnik than with her."
"I don't think so. Sally was a downright pain in the ass when I got here but things got better." said Flint. "I mainly go solo when doing tasks. Sally hires too many incompetent people."
"Takes one to know one." said Sonic, pointing behind with his thumb as if he was pointing towards her. Flint laughed. Sonic looked at him. Flint was around one hundred and twenty centimetres tall, had bright brown fur and had deep green eyes. Sonic on the other hand was twenty-five centimetres shorter, his fur was dull and had shallow black eyes. Maybe he would look better when he grew a bit older. Which screws up logic as today's world is concerned.
"Say Sonic, wanna come with me and I'll give you a tour of the place. Later I'll pick up a mission for the day"
"Beats doing nothing!" said Sonic with enthusiasm as he got up and started walking alongside his new friend.
The reptile ran away from the goo. It was on instinct. The animal was a small one, only fifteen centimetres long. It hopped down from a branch and scuttled towards the lake. It then got splattered by a massive dollop of the stuff. It let out a high pitched wail as it began growing in size. Its legs suffered the most transformation, whilst its tail hardly changed. It slowly stood up on two feet as it became half a metre tall. It had to shake the stuff off. It walked towards the lake, and from it emerged an alligator. The reptile jumped over the alligator and shook the stuff out in the river. The alligator chased after, only to end up swallowing masses of it. The now humanoid reptile looked at the alligator mutate into a beast. It was at least three metres tall and five long. The reptile threw himself to the floor and focused. And focused. As he focused more, he slowly became more transparent, until being invisible. The alligator beast looked around, snarled and dashed off. The reptile, a chameleon to be precise, became visible again. He was normally purple. He looked around and ran off.
Sonic and Flint walked through the crowded street towards the main HQ. Flint knocked on the polished door and opened it without waiting for an answer. A porcupine in a chair turned around. He was grey furred and had a scar across his face
"Who's dere? Ey Flint. Up for another solo mission eh?" said the man inside. "Yer want bounty or wat?" He had a heavy accent, but Sonic couldn't make out what kind. Flint gave Sonic a reassuring look.
"Umm, this one seems good." said Flint, picking up a recently drawn WANTED poster.
"Ye sure? Dat looks hecka easy."
"Yeah. I've got a newbie here."
"Hey!" said Sonic, taking offence to the statement.
"Well get ready and meet me at the front gate in ten minutes." said Flint as he walked outside again. Sonic looked at the poster he had been given.
WANTED!
There was a picture drawn in black crayon. It looked very realistic.
Species: Alligator
Location: Swamp(Near Zeppelin Crash-site)
Threat Level: D+
Other Risks: Mutate goo
Risk Level: B-
Valid Until: 5.00 PM 5-3-1
"What does 5-3-1 mean?" asked Sonic. "And can you explain mutate goo?"
"You don't know what mutate goo is?" he asked. "It's that weird stuff 'Botnik made to change us from normal animals. Too big of a dose and you're gonna turn into a beast. As for the rest, 5 is the day, 3 is the month, and 1 is the year. A month is 20 days and a year is 15 months. The months and years are different outside, humans have 30 or 31 day long months or something. Weird, innit?"
"Yeah..." muttered Sonic as he rolled the paper up and shoved it in his quills and ran off at an incredible speed, leaving the porcupine shocked. In less than a minute he was next to Flint at the main gate.
"You were fast. Let's get moving."
An anaconda slithered away from a falling tree as an alligator chomped its bark into wooden splinters. The alligator also slithered, this one at fifty miles per hour, around eighty kilometres per hour. As if on cue, a blur passed the alligator. It tried to find the blur but it was knocked away by a mighty blow to the head. An impatient brown hedgehog was tapping its foot on the floor, three times shorter than it was.
"I'm waiting." he said as the alligator pounced at him. The hedgehog jumped high and stomped back down on its head. The alligator snarled like a bull, before being wrapped around the neck by a snake. Flint used the snake as reins to control the alligator. He whooped in excitement as the alligator jumped around, trying to shake him off. The alligator then charged the way it came, ramming through any trees it hadn't devastated before. Sonic took chase, quickly catching up with the slithering alligator. Then Sonic jumped onto its mouth and blew a raspberry in its face before stomping the massive jaw into the ground, causing Flint to flip off and crash into a tree. Sonic squinted and slowly turned his head towards the ex-alligator rider.
"Oops. Sorry Flint."
"It...doesn't...matter." he said, beginning to get his face out of the trunk. Sonic then turned back towards his adversary and a grim look covered his face. The alligator charged at him, this time in a straight line. Sonic was swept into his mouth and held up the jaw as hard as he could. The beast shoved its massive sharp teeth into the soil, sweeping it into the mouth, making it harder for Sonic's legs to stay in place. Any trees or stones in its way were demolished and swallowed Sonic grunted and forced a look behind, in the gator's trajectory. What Sonic saw made his stomach churn. Goo. That mutating goo. If he was hit with a large enough dose of that, he would become just as monstrous as what was trying to eat him. Sonic then saw a large cut in the upper jaw, caused by the inhaled debris. Sonic prepared his self. He crouched a little and stretched his arms as high as he could, causing the upper jaw to sink down a little bit. Sonic aimed...and fired. He curled into a ball, began spinning and crashed into the jaw. It sounded like a grinder, yet he powered through the cut. Finally, he emerged from the wound, covered in alligator blood. The monster screamed in pain as it shook its head in agony and a fountain of blood emerged from the horizontal cut on its head. Flint arrived next to Sonic, running as fast as the alligator had. Sonic looked at him and made a remark.
"Nice mohawk."
Flint chuckled and watched as the monster splashed. Splashed in goo.
"Uh oh...get ready to flee Sonic."
The older hedgehog shielded Sonic as the alligator grew again. It was well over fifteen metres long and at least five tall. It began roaring to the sky.
"Not the chaos power, not the chaos power, not the chaos power..." muttered Flint.
Sonic ran towards it as it began charging a blue sphere in its mouth.
"Sonic, no!" yelled Flint as he chased after the hedgehog. Sonic used the trees as leverage to jump up to the beast's head height. Sonic quickly jumped away as the alligator fired a laser volley. He landed, a bit worn out next to Flint. The beast began charging an even more powerful attack. Sonic realized that the murky swamp puddle had stuck him to the ground. He saw a gold flash in front of him as Flint jumped in front of him, protecting him from the blast. Flint screamed as he dropped the power ring he had just used. Sonic looked in discomfort as Flint was being incinerated by the beam. Sonic grabbed the ring and exploded in a blue flash. A sapphire aura surrounded him as his eyes turned from black to green. The aura turned into a spherical shield and Sonic jumped straight into the beam. Flint, barely conscious scuttled back as the two energies collided. Sonic glared with apathy at the monster, who was slightly intimidated by the hedgehog.
"Time to die!" he yelled.
Sonic pushed further and smashed straight into the alligator being, which flew a long way back. The power ring broke as Sonic lost the blue aura and fell to the ground. Flint looked at him in amazement.
"Job well done, but not over." Flint said as it began charging again.
"Time to speed."
Sonic and Flint are in the deepest of troubles. No stamina, no power rings and a heck of a long way back to the village. What will stop the rampaging beast now?
Concrit not appreciated. HA! My reverse psychology worked...or maybe not.