Sonic Extended Generations
Chapter Twelve: Riding on the Right Colours
The Egg Shuttle began it's flight towards Planet Wisp from Tropical Resort, with both Sonics sitting onboard the ship. "Welcome aboard the Egg Shuttle, offering light-speed access to each of the park's attractions! Perfect for jittery visitors with no attention span to spare on getting there." Said Eggman over the intercom, before the ship started accelerating to a high-speed that Classic Sonic wasn't expecting. Modern Sonic however, yawned during the experience.
"Wake me when we get there..." He told his younger self. But Classic Sonic shook him almost instantly, making Modern Sonic look out the window to see the planet Classic Sonic was pointing at; a mostly green planet filled with life. "Huh. That's weird. I'd have thought we'd see- wait, what's that?" Both Sonics spotted a large black monster they recognized appeared from a dark portal, approaching the planet!
"If you experience explosive decompression, please try to avoid staining the seat cushions. Those things are expensive!"
"Looks like I was right, after all." Said Modern Sonic, as Classic Sonic cracked his knuckles. "I knew there'd be a reason to come here!"
A few minutes later, both Sonics jumped out of the Egg Shuttle as it flew towards the construction site in the distance. The hedgehogs landed in a grassy land filled with flat-top trees, fresh water, and all sorts of Wisps. "Hey, guys!" Said Modern Sonic as he waved to the Wisps, who waved back. Even though they seemed confused to see TWO Sonics... "Well, if I know how monsters work, that thing'll probably attack Eggman's construction site first. Let's meet up there." Classic Sonic agreed with Modern Sonic's suggestion before they both ran off in seperate directions towards the construction site...
Classic Sonic started running through the tall grass and flowers, only to run into an Egg Pawn wearing a hardhat and holding a pickaxe. After Sonic got up the robot tried swinging at him with its pickaxe, but Sonic Spin Dashed through the robot before it could strike! Jumping up onto a small-yet-steep hill, Sonic was spotted by an Egg Pawn standing on a treetop at the same height. That Egg Pawn threw its pickaxe at Sonic, but the young hedgehog hopped off of the hill and started rolling down it, charging through every Egg Pawn in his path! Until he ran face-first into the wall of the construction site...
"Attention guests. If you can hear this message, you are trespassing in an area still under renovation. If you are not a robot, please return to the main park areas and ignore anything evil you might have seen here. Thank you." Said Eggman via loudspeaker, making Classic Sonic angry. Especially since he couldn't find a way into the building... that's when a pink, spiked Wisp started flying around the young hedgehog. The alien pointed at himself, before flying into the wall, making the young hedgehog realize that it was stuck there, giving him an idea... once the Wisp pushed itself out of the wall, it noticed that Classic Sonic was pointing at it, aswell as his stomach. This gave the alien the signal it needed to fly into the young hedgehog. Almost instantly after, Classic Sonic started glowing a bright pink -SPIKES!- before turning into a pink ball of spikes! After spinning in place for a second or two, Classic Sonic used his new form to dash up the wall, and eventually into the building!
Further into the building, Classic Sonic was in his normal form with another pink Wisp behind him, when they spotted a number of different sized gears on seperate rails. Also in the area were about five capsules, and all of them had pink Wisps within them. The young hedgehog knew what he had to do... after absorbing the Wisp he had with him -SPIKES!- Sonic began spinning on gear-after-gear in order to lower a platform down to his level. While an armed Egg Pawn was standing on it, Sonic made quick work of it with a Homing Attack before changing back into his standard form and continuing forward...
Meanwhile, Modern Sonic began running through the same tall grass and flowers, which made him feel pretty good.
"Man, I never get tired of running around this place..." He said before spotting some Egg Pawns. "Could do without the Egg-upation, though..." After Sonic made quick work of the Egg Pawns, he jumped onto a treetop overlooking the area before Boosting down to charge through more Egg Pawns. After arriving at a hill in front of a waterfall, Sonic realized that the construction site was right above him. "Darn. The walls aren't even close enough for me to Wall Jump up there..."
"Attention guests. If you can hear this message, you are trespassing in an area still under renovation. If you are not a robot, please return to the main park areas and ignore anything evil you might have seen here. Thank you." Said Eggman via loudspeaker, as an orange, rocket-shaped Wisp flew into Sonic's view, giving him an idea... "Heard that one before too, Doc." Modern Sonic pointed out before the orange Wisp flew into his body. "Got anything else to say before I blast into this dump?" "Some displacement of indigenous aliens and destruction of natural resources may occur. Eggman Enterprises not responsible." Eggman quickly said via loudspeaker, making Sonic shurg before he started turning bright orange... ROCKET! Sonic was suddenly turned into an orange rocket that blasted up into Eggman's construction site, smashing through the barriers to do it!
"Heh heh. Piece of cake." Modern Sonic said with a cocky grin on his face after the orange Wisp flew out of him. But Sonic also caught the attention of a certain bee who was caged up above him...
"Sonic! Up here!" Shouted a young voice, making Sonic look up.
"Charmy? How'd you get up there?" Asked Sonic. "You got me." Charmy replied. "One minute I was cheering for Vector while he was having an eating contest with Big... and the next, I'm here in this stinky cage! Think you can get me out?" Looking around, Sonic spotted an orange Wisp in a capsule.
"No problem. Just stick to a side so I don't ram into ya." Charmy did as Sonic told him while the older hedgehog freed the Wisp in the capsule. "Ready?"
"Yeah..." ROCKET! When Sonic changed into an orange rocket again, he not only broke Charmy's cage, but he also blasted through the ceiling, where he changed back to his standard form just in time to see some Egg Pawns riding some platforms moving along a path of some sort. "Phew, I was scared because something trapped me, but now I'm free! I'm a free bee, free bee, free bee! Wheee!" Sonic also spotted a light portal down below.
"Listen Charmy, think you can fly into that light down there?"
"No! No, I won't got into the light! Not even you can make me, Sonic!" Charmy screamed as he flew like a crazy man all around Sonic.
"Charmy, relax. It's just where our friends are hanging out while we're stuck here. That includes Espio and Vector."
"Oh, OK." Without saying another word, Charmy flew into the portal before it disappeared, allowing Sonic to hitch a ride on a platform the lead him to the top, where he jumped into another light portal...
Walking out of the entrance to Planet Wisp back into White Space, Modern Sonic waved at Classic Sonic who approached him, before something started shining a cyan colour. "Dude! There's the Emerald!" Modern Sonic pointed out before the cyan Chaos Emerald flew towards another dark gate and started hovering above it. After Modern Sonic pointed to the Emerald, he and Classic Sonic started running towards it. As they were running, Classic Sonic looked over at Modern Sonic, who had a smirk on his face. When Modern Sonic jumped, Classic Sonic stopped to see what his older self was doing. Once he was in range, Modern Sonic Boosted towards the cyan Chaos Emerald, grabbing it and shocking Classic Sonic in the process! "Pretty slick move, huh?" Classic Sonic responded by twirling around before giving Modern Sonic a thumbs-up.
"I told you I'd be back, Sonic the Hedgehog..." Said a familiar voice that both hedgehogs recognized, but neither of them could see where it came from. All of a sudden, a green blur came out of nowhere and snatched the Chaos Emerald from Modern Sonic's hand! When both Sonic looked towards a portal filled with dark clouds, they also saw Jet the Hawk floating in front of it, holding the Chaos Emerald in his hand! "...and I meant it."
"Jet! Gimme back that Chaos Emerald!" Modern Sonic shouted, as both hedgehogs showed their teeth to the green hawk in anger, making Jet laugh.
"You want this Emerald, Sonic?" Jet asked before pointing at Modern Sonic. "Then you're gonna have to fight me for it!" After saying that, Jet flew into the portal with the Chaos Emerald, making the Sonics follow him. But once Modern Sonic jumped through, the portal closed shut on Classic Sonic, making the young hedgehog fall flat on his face!
Following Jet into the portal, Modern Sonic arrived on a familiar floating island with a large temple in the center...
"What? Babylon Garden?" Sonic asked as he stood underneath the starting line. "I thought I was gonna kick your butt in a ring, Jet, not on a racetrack!" Not hearing a response, Sonic shrugged and decided to run along the track. Just before Sonic got too far away, Jet flew past, making Sonic trip over his own feet. "Oh, we're gonna fight, Sonic..." Jet said to Sonic as he flew back towards the hedgehog. "But we're gonna do this MY way! Catch me if you can, Sonic the Hedgehog!" Jet then zoomed away on his airboard while cackling.
"Grr... here goes nothin'..." Sonic said to himself before he raced after Jet.
About a minute later, Sonic caught up to Jet with little to no trouble. It then that Jet decided to be cheeky, and did a twirl on his board, leaving a small tornado behind him. Sonic managed to avoid this by Quick Stepping out of harm's way. Not impressed, Jet drops three more tornadoes in different parts of the track, but Sonic avoided them all with the Quick Step!
"Hmph. Not bad, but let's see just how fast your reflexes are!" Jet teased before turning his board around in order to charge at Sonic! Right before Jet came into contact with Sonic, the hedgehog avoided the hawk's attack with another Quick Step! This made Sonic jump around in order to look back at Jet while running backwards.
"C'mon, you can do better than that, Jet!" Sonic teased back, unaware that Jet was turning around in order to charge back towards Sonic! Sonic jumped at the last second, leaving Jet to look around in confusion, before Sonic hit him in the back of the head with a Homing Attack!
"Ha! Is that the best you can do? You're a worse fighter than you are a racer!" Jet zoomed further ahead before grabbing onto one of the Babylonian ships flying around Babylon Garden.
"You're not getting away from me with a Chaos Emerald this time!" Sonic warned before he jumped onto a second Babyonian ship that was luckily following the ship Jet grabbed.
Both Jet and Sonic landed in another part of Babylon Garden, where Jet revealed the same ring-shaped rock that he used to disable Sonic at Tropical Resort... "Oh no, you're not using that thing on me again!" Sonic said as he continued to follow Jet.
"Nah, I've got bigger and better ideas for the Ark of the Cosmos..." Jet replied before aiming the hand the ring was around at a building, which disrupted the gravity around it enough to pick it up from where it was built! "All right, Sonic the Hedgehog, now you'll see... MY TRUE POWER!" As Jet yelled, he threw the building at Sonic!
"WHOA!" Exclaimed Sonic as the building flew over Jet and towards him! From Jet's point of view, the building looked like had collasped over Sonic... until the blue hedgehog was seen Boosting through it! "Yeah. And that's what I can do without the Chaos Emeralds..." Jet then got angry and used his Ark of the Cosmos to grab a large chunk of a building, and threw it at Sonic, only for the hedgehog to bounce off of it with a Homing Attack! "Is that the best you can do? You're a worse fighter than you are a racer!"
"Grrr... ENOUGH!" Jet screamed as his used the Ark of the Cosmos to disrupt the gravity around Sonic. "You've humiliated me for the last time, Sonic the Hedgehog! And if I can't beat you in a race... then I'll beat you in this fight!" As Jet flew a fair enough distance away, all Sonic could do was float as he watched Jet turn around to charge into him. While Jet was very angry, Sonic still had a smirk on his face...
"NOW!" Right before Jet's attack came into contact, Sonic broke through the gravity field and his Jet with one single Homing Attack! This attack caused Jet to fall off of his board, while Sonic walked towards him, feeling smug.
"Yeah... I'll take that Chaos Emerald, now." He said, but Jet suddenly looked worried.
"The Ark of the Cosmos... it's gone!" Jet said, loud enough for Sonic to hear.
"What? But where did it-?" Sonic's question was inturrupted when everything around him and Jet suddenly turned dark. When they both looked back, they saw five Arks of the Cosmos in the center of Babylon Garden's core, just before they generated a black hole, which started sucking everything in!
"The Lightless Black... it's back!" Jet exclaimed, getting angry again.
"Okay Jet, wanna chance to redeem yourself?" Asked Sonic, feeling confident. "Let's have a no-holds-barred race to see who can escape this black hole first!" Jet had a little think about Sonic's proposal...
"Let's go!" He replied as he raced away on his board, making Sonic run after him before the black hole could suck him in!
Jet started dropping more tornadoes behind him to hinder Sonic, but he just dodged them with his Quick Step! Once Sonic got close enough, he attacked Jet with a Homing Attack... but Jet batted him back with one of his Feather Fans! "Yeah... I'm not fallin' for that again!" Jet shouted back to Sonic, who had started Boosting to catch up. All of a sudden, the gravity with the black hole was disrupted, causing both Sonic and Jet to float around with the debris from Babylon Garden. Jet threw some feather darts at Sonic, who Boosted to block the attack. Sonic tried another Homing Attack, but Jet batted it back with his Feather Fan again. Just then, the gravity was restored, allowing Sonic and Jet to continue their race! Sonic blasted back out of the black hole first, with Jet only milliseconds behind him! But they both seemed to race into a light portal... which lead them both back to the White Space...
"Whoo! Man, that was one wild ride!" Modern Sonic exclaimed before walking up to Jet, who looked pretty down. "You put up a good fight, Jet."
"Save it!" Snapped Jet before throwing the Chaos Emerald at Sonic. "Just take your lousy Emerald, and leave me alone!"
"Aww, c'mon Jet. So I beat ya... again." Sonic said, making Jet angry. "That'll just give you more of a drive to beat me in the future." Hearing this, Jet's eyes widened in realization.
"Heh... you treat ALL of your rivals like this?"
"Hey, most of my rivals are now my friends... what's that tell ya?"
"Meh. I'll seeya round, Sonic the Hedgehog." With his board under his arm, Jet walked away from Sonic. He was about to run after him, when he spotted another dark gate, making him enter it without a second thought...
Seconds later, Modern Sonic was running through a tube that had a view of a dark amusement park in the distance, along with lava closeby.
"Cool. I've always wanted to come back here, and totally trash it with my speed!" He exclaimed, before a laser bypassed him from behind! Aswell as hearing familiar cackling from the same direction, Sonic looked behind him as he ran, and he spotted Eggman piloting a massive-yet-familiar robot, armed with what appears to be a massive machine gun as its right hand, while it has a drill as its left.
"Welcome back to Eggmanland, Sonic!" Eggman announced from the cockpit at the top of the robot, before it flew over Sonic's head. "And look at this... even without the power of Dark Gaia, I've successfully managed to create the Ultra-Hyper Prototype 2!"
"Meh... I'll still take it out faster than the other one." Sonic replied, before Eggman fired the drill at the hedgehog, but he jumped to avoid the attack before another drill emerged from the robot's arm.
"Very well..." Said Eggman as he lowered his seat into the cockpit that was visible at the center of the robot. "Let's see if you really are fast enough to bring down my greatest creation!"
END OF CHAPTER