December 20 2034 The final battle of the "Magical girl war."

In the warn torn wastes of the incubator home world, Two massive space fleets wage bloody conflict. As massive kilometer long capital ships numbering in the thousands on each side blast each other over the planets orbit without pause for days on end. And innumerable fighter craft, bombers, mecha, and support craft fill the skies like a scene out of a deranged mecha anime. A massive ivory white tower comes out of a wormhole and is sent plummeting towards the planet. It's scale is truly massive, a marvel of engineering miles long. So long that its top could reach orbit even when it landed on the planet. One of the fleets surrounded the tower and began defending it as support craft began attaching it to the very alien species home world.

Inside the invading fleet's flagship the leadership led by a blond human girl in drill twin tails, a humanoid plant alien with a monocle, a short elderly man with a decrepit appearance and long facial hair, and a short golden robot with no limbs serving as an assistant looked at the deployment of the tower with varying degrees of anticipation.

"Are you sure this "tower" will be enough to decimate the enemy Dattaga-san?" The blonde girl spoke up as she saw the data.

"Fufufufufuu. Do not worry Mami-chan. Saitou's research team is top notch. The tower will wipe out the incubators holed up in one fell swoop." The old man commented while stroking his beard.

"I don't like the way you so casually talk to us Nacht-san." The blonde commented.

"Does it matter?" The plant alien interjected. "After all the only reason we're doing this is to destroy our common enemy. Ashtamangala how is the situation progressing?"

"The tower is fully armed an ready to fire at your command masters." The robot commented in a matter of fact tone.

"Excellent! Now shall we proceed with wiping the slate clean?!" The old man smirked with a terrifying smile full of ill will. To which his fellows agreed. "Then..." The old man bombastically proclaimed. "This is where humanity enters a new age! Where the slave becomes the master! Pandora's tower! Activate! Show those conceited gods our vengeance!"

As the tower activates power surges all through it as a green glow begins to pulse. Causing massive shockwaves to generate and spread through the incubator's planet. As the waves spread. Cataclysms strike as billions of both aliens die as well as people who are caught in the crossfire. Young girls explode in a shower of gore alongside the cute fairy animals that were being attacked by the invaders by the thousands all through the world as volcanoes explode, earthquakes erupt, tidal waves shatter the coastlines and other natural disasters ravage the planet. In the end the incubator home world is completely devastated. A calamity worse than a million nukes. All just as planned to the erupting cheers of the invaders.

Chapter 1: Pandora's box

Second history 8932. It's been thousands of years since the discovery of magic as an energy source and the resulting magical girl war forced humanity to abandon earth and go into space. Earth has become little more than a historical footnote. And humanity has founded numerous colony worlds based of nations of old. In order to manage this new energy source that made the impossible possible. Alongside other alien races the Internal Fleet Systems or IFS was formed a military alliance designed to manage and protect its members from attacks from hostile powers and the abuse of magic.

But faraway from this mainland of magi-technological wonder lies a planet called Mobius. Long ignored and forgotten its main claim to fame was its seven Pandora's towers. Seven large towers that served as a climate regulatory system prototype left long ago by the precursors. And the Chaos emeralds, seven gems of legend that possess incredible power. Since time immemorial people have sought to control said power even to this day.

In a run down bar in the middle of nowhere two figures meet to discuss over coffee. Porker Lewis a short and pudgy pig anim. Basically an anthro animal person. Wearing a leather jacket and gi with a scar on his head is talking to a young beastkin girl. Basically a catgirl in a suit and fedora like in those noir detective films. The cat girl passes a map to Porker nodding to him.

"Do this and I'll give you what you want. Wehihihii." The catgirl chuckled. Her short pink hair shone thru the dinghy lighting of the cafe. As she maintained a conscious effort to keep her left hand hidden from sight.

Jun 17 s.h 8932 Meta Junglaria zone

Meta Junglaria is a massive humid jungle with machinery, bumpers, and launchers imbued within it. Porker Lewis is waiting in a lamp post station a type of public transport teleport system composed of a gigantic golden lamp post relic full of gears and pistons inside a straw hut which is made mostly for atmospheric purposes by the IFS tourism board while staffed by AI due to the faraway distance of the zone. A beam lands on top of the lamp activating the relics systems opening a tiny wormhole that reveals a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog with green eyes and red sneakers.

Sonic the Hedgehog

Fastest thing alive

Theme of Sonic

Ost: It doesn't matter: Sonic Adventure

"Hey Porker! Long time no see! So what's so important that you needed to get me off Resistance duty to get to this middle of nowhere place?" Sonic cheerfully snarks at Porker greeting the longtime friend in a very casual tone.

"Hey Sonic, that's no way to treat an old friend. Especially since I've been helping you for so long now." Porker remarks to the blue blur. "Besides if I pull this off not only will I be free from debt. But I'll finally score with this cute cat girl I've been seeing for a while now."

"Ah typical Pigsy, no wonder you got kicked out of the all the resistance groups you've been involved in." Sonic comments in a dry wit.

"Yeah you would think since Johnny and I discovered you unconscious and brought you in. I would get some more respect." Porker pulls out the map and invites Sonic to come over and look. "Check it out buddy! I finally found a lead on the location of one of the mahou driver systems of old."

Sonic looks at the map not being very impressed at what he sees as squiggly lines. He may be the greatest agent of the resistance but he is not very bright. Sonic has always been an actions first thoughts second kind of hedgehog. At least as far back as he could remember.

"Don't look at me that way Sonic. This is pre-singularity tech. You know how we are all born with some robo parts integrated inside of us? At the bare minimum translator nanomachinery so we can speak with other races no problem?"

Sonic nods as he at least understands that much. It's known that people were once born "pure" And that the second history is known for three things. The founding of the IFS, the disappearance of planet Earth, and the end of the precursors. People who were born purely organic and had amazing technology that wasn't powered by magic. Of course that stuff didn't really matter where they were a corner of space far away from the mainland. Neither of them have ever really left Mobius and while Sonic has gone into space he's not exactly a planet hopping superstar like his occasional kart buddy Mario.

"Okay Pigsy so where are we going?" Sonic bluntly stated knowing that he had little choice in the matter. He had to at least look out for Porker otherwise he would get into trouble.

"Good! We're heading into the depths of Junglaria where all those bumpers are stacked on top of each other." Porker remarks as he points at the spooky jungle full of creepy glowing eyes and shining fangs.

The very forbidden tower entrance

After hours of journeying. Mainly because of Porker. Sonic and Porker stand before a gigantic waterfall at the foot of a small yet imposing mountain. The duo is impressed at the sight of it all. And Sonic is forced to admit that this is all pretty neat even if he didn't want to come at first.

"Wish Johnny could be here to see this..." Sonic muttered. Referring to Johnny Lightfoot the deceased third member of their party from way back when. A humble and somewhat cowardly rabbit anim. He was also part of the resistance. And alongside Porker found Sonic when he had no memories of his past.

s.h. 8927 Somewhere in Dusty desert.

In the middle of a lonely road an old gray recon van is being driven by a younger and unscarred Porker Lewis alongside Johnny Lightfoot a gray rabbit anim wearing jeans and gloves and watching the vans instruments. Paying extra attention to the van's radar which has been picking up readings of a powerful energy source for the past day and a half.

"Well this has been one crappy mission." Porker complains as he drives while at the same time scarfs down a chili dog. "Is Uncle Chuck really sure that that Robotnik fellow holed himself up here?"

"Considering the energy readings there's no doubt." Johnny replied. "This definitely the ROCC. Which means that Doctor Robotnik got his hands on the Chaos emeralds."

"And why are WE cleaning up GUN's mess? Robuttnik is their scientist. If GUN wants him dead why can't they sent their own hit team to kill him?" Porker complains

Johnny sighs as he looks at the panels and explains. "I already told you. This whole operation is off the record. King Nigel wants the Chaos Emeralds under the jurisdiction of the Acorn Archipelago and GUN is still facing fallout from Overlord Kintobor's administration. They can't exactly admit to the mainland that they have another supervillian on the loose after the great war just ended."

As the duo was bickering a massive green explosion rocked the desert causing the resistance van to flip over multiple times over and land into a sand dune leaving Porker and Johnny shook up.

"Johnny... You dead?"

"I'm fine Porker... But the instruments are shot. Whatever that was, fried the electronics."

"Good thing this van is an old gas guzzler." Porker refers to the fact that the van used an old combustion engine and thus had no electronics to scramble and shut down with the pulse generated by the explosion. These engines were rare nowadays and very valuable for survivalists. Porker starts up his van and drives to the site of the explosion.

The site itself is an eerie site a desert covered with green glowing crystals of varying sizes. From tiny shards to massive ones fifty feet in height fused with metallic equipment of a blown up laboratory. Even the van began to struggle and smoke due to the energies surging around until it finally broke down and the motor exploded in a burst of smoke and flame. Causing the furry to duo to scream and bail out on the van at due speed.

"This is insane! What the hell was that Eggman working on?! Getter rays?!" Porker ranted as he looked at the destruction caused by the explosion. While Johnny was merely confused at hearing the reference. The rabbit then notices a pile of rubble and rushes towards it. "Oh great what now?"

"There's someone inside the pile." Johnny replied.

"Is it Robuttnik? Because if it is. I want to kick his corpse a couple dozen times for making us come here." Porker replies as he collapses on the ground.

"Its a kid." Johnny replied. "Now get your fat ass up and help me move this rubble."

Porker got up complaining all the way. "Really, is this kid even alive? I mean this place went nuclear just now. All that's awaiting the poor bastard is a slow painful death from radiation poisoning."

"Do you have to be so Aurora-damned morbid?!" Johnny screams out as he pulls the body of an unconscious blue hedgehog with distinctive red sneakers with a white buckle strap before checking for life signs. And being blown away. "Pigsy get your fat butt over here! You won't believe what is going on here!"

"Seriously quit it with the fat! I'm a pig you know!" Porker snaps at his rabbit colleague when he looks at the hedgehog child. Still breathing amazingly enough. "Whoa you're right. How is he breathing?" As Porker checks his heartbeat and pulse he finds something even more amazing. "Holy..."

"What's wrong Pigsy?"

"This kid is not human. His heartbeat and pulse are beating way too quickly. The normal heart rate of a humanoid is 60 to 100 bpm while resting. While during sleep. Heartbeat is usually 40 to 50." Pigsy mentions.

"So?" Johnny comments.

"This kid is beating at 250 per minute. The same as a hummingbird." Pigsy remarks with a dead serious expression.

Johnny searches frantically for a working communicator or cell phone yelling. "Kid is gonna be dead if we don't call for backup!"

Present time

Sonic and Porker are crossing thru a series of caverns in order to get into the very forbidden tower. Noticing a number of stone carvings and statues of shelled machinery with hefty limbs in several combat positions. They finally find a giant metallic door in the deepest part of the cavern which counters the rest of the stonework. The giant door shows the emblem of the IFS much to the surprise of Porker and the calling out of Sonic.

"I thought this was a precursor ruin! What is the IFS emblem doing there?!"

Porker freaking out looks over the map and his documents screaming. "I don't know! I don't know!"

Then a voice from the door was heard as an AI activated that scanned the anim duo. "Welcome to the Reibai Research facility science development facility!"

Sonic asks the AI. "Isn't this place IFS?"

"Yes and no." The AI responded. "The Reibai Research facility science development facility is co-owned by both parties. Also you are trespassing in a forbidden area."

Porky remarks. "So does that mean you're here to get us to leave?"

"Actually I am here to kill you." The AI mentioned and after several moments of awkward silence between both parties and then continued talking. "Galats kill the intruders."

The stone statues and carvings began to crack apart revealing green shelled and red limbed robots with yellow glowing eyes that vented green energy from their mouthpieces and released three prongs from each limb that began to glow green that began to chase the hedgehog and pig. Sonic simply smiles at seeing the army of robots charging at the duo. While Porker is pretty much shitting his pants.

The AI merely states. "So you have gone insane with fear. I don't blame you. For the Galats are the pinnacle of precursor sentinel designs. They will hack you to pieces and ensure that you will never be seen again! Your blood shall decorate the walls of the caverns as I will paint pictures with it to freak out archaeologists that show up here hundreds of years from now before killing them too!"

All the while the AI was ranting Sonic rushes towards the enemies smashing into them with raw speed and power. Smashing into them with great force while the Galats strike back with their prongs and agility and firing energy blasts from their eyes which Sonic easily dodges with his speed. Trashing the two dozen or so Galats in about a minute before returning to the door.

"Now what?" Sonic snarks to the AI which simply opens the gate.

"Fine come inside. I'll simply test you to death." The AI remarked with a tinge of disgust in his voice. "Welcome to the Reibai Research facility science development facility. Where science constantly strives for excellence."

Inside the very forbidden tower

The very forbidden tower is much bigger than it appears. As Sonic and Porker go inside the two find themselves looking at what is essentially an underground city with an artificial night sky. Under occasional attack by Galats which Sonic deals with little issue. He is attacked also by gunner variants which trade in their shell and prongs for a back mounted rail gun whom prove slightly more difficult. But are dealt with by Sonic soon enough.

Eventually they reach obstacles such as pits and invisible walls which require wit to pass. Obviously Porker has to solve these issues. Leading Sonic to the solution. Even warning Sonic not to fall into a trap door that would lead to a laser grid. The AI would grow more frustrated at the duo's success to the point where it would get desperate. Leading the duo to a room with a wall full of spinning saw blades.

"Okay so why are we here?" Sonic asks the AI.

The AI simply breathes in and out and calmly explains. "Well, you're getting dangerously close to the core. And if you do that you will certainly die a horrible painful death. So I propose an alternative." Sonic and Porker look at the AI and the wall of saw blades while the AI continues. "Why don't you two jump into that wall of saw blades and kill yourselves? Think of it not as death but as a honorable suicide. Like a samurai. Because trust me it's better than what's coming up next." Sonic and Porker quietly leave the room and proceed forward to the screaming fury of the AI.

As the duo enter the next room. A vast circular arena topped by a massive domed roof. Sonic and Porker are seen laughing together.

"Seriously did that robot think that we would actually do that?" Porker replied.

"I'm actually kinda excited." Sonic mentioned. "Those Galacs can actually put up a bit of a fight unlike Eggman's robots. As the blue hedgehog mockingly engaged in a round of shadowboxing. When a massive heavily armored kaiju sized Galat came crashing down. Possessing large blades on its limbs and twin plasma cannons on its back. Unlike the other Galats it had a blue shell with spikes and green limbs. And it's eyes glowed green while it screamed a billowing roar that echoed thru the chamber.

Giga Galats

Threshold guardian of the forbidden tower

Theme of the Precursors

Ost: Gods: New Getter Robo Vocal Collection

"Behold the might of the Precursors!" The AI boasted as the Giga Galats prepared for battle. All the while Sonic stood firm and Porker freaked out.

"Okay seriously what does Hime want with this place?" Porker remarks as he quakes with fear.

While Sonic asks. "Precursors. IFS, Reibai, make up your damn backstory!"

The AI merely boasted. "The sparrow asks not why the eagle soars." As the Giga Galats blasted the anim duo with its cannons. Only for Sonic to grab Porker and avoid the multiple blasts yet again.

"This isn't getting us anywhere." Sonic remarks when the Giga Galats suddenly sends one of it's limbs at Sonic with incredible speed. Catching Sonic and Porker off guard and barely giving the hedgehog time to dodge the blade but not enough to prepare for the unexpected sonic boom that the sudden burst of movement would cause. Knocking Sonic and Porker and separating the two a great distance away from each other. The Giga Galats then goes after Porker spinning wildly and tackling into the pig crushing his sides and causing him to scream in pain and cough up blood. All while Sonic watched.

Sonic in retaliation spin dashed straight into the giant mech but it was not enough. As the Giga Galats recovered and used its limbs to slap the hedgehog back and propel him thru a wall before going back to beat on Porker. Unbeknownst to the AI the Giga Galats slammed Sonic straight into the core it was protecting. An eerie and downright haunted chamber that downright looks like a Buddhist tomb. With walls covered with omnyodo prayer slips and a central sarcophagus with a tied down and rusted sword planted on top of it with numerous charms and prayer slips attached to it. It's as if there was some sort of demon buried inside this room and the people of old didn't want it to get out.

As Sonic lost consciousness the sarcophagus began glowing green and later Sonic glowed as well as the two synchronized their energies and communicated in a dreamscape. In what seemed to be an endless white void Sonic fell until he heard the voice of a young girl whose features he couldn't make out but could tell she had very long pink hair with distinctive white ribbons and white angelic wings.

"Don't give up Sonic-kun!" The mysterious girl yelled at Sonic in a determined voice. "Believe in hope."

"It's pointless." Another voice pitched in. This one heavily digitized and whose avatar is a shadow within a swirling green vortex of energy with green flaming eyes. "The evils of the Magical girl war cannot be allowed to happen again."

"Even if means letting people die?" The girl asked the shadow with a tone of anger and disappointment.

"I killed you, Madoka Kaname. In order to save the world." The shadow spoke up. "Soon project Elpis will begin its final phase. And for that I need you to sleep. The utopia we yearned for will be achieved. Not by a fleeting hope. But by my efforts." Before striking the girl with a surge of green flames with caused her to keel over in pain.

"Stop it! It hurts!" Madoka screamed out as she fell on her knees. The shadow merely laughed at her misery and suffering.

"What's the matter Madoka? I thought you liked it rough? Bwahahahahahahahaaa!" The shadow snarked as he intensified the fires making sure that the girl suffered.

"Stop it!" Sonic yells when he suddenly realizes when he has woken up in the core as both he and the sarcophagus were both glowing green as the sword that sealed the sarcophagus breaks and flies off into the floor. Sonic starts to float and flies at high speeds towards the Giga Galats who was about to kill Porker with a charged plasma beam only to get spin attacked all over the place causing the mech to suffer multiple explosions and stagger. When it tries to fire its cannons at Sonic they explode causing even more damage and destroying it's spiked outer shell and causing it's blades to snap off.

"That's it! I see it! the finisher!" Sonic screams out as he claps loudly causing a massive burst of green energy to burst out of his body alongside a manly scream and to start spinning in one place as the green aura transforms into shooting stars that surround the blue blur and convalesce around him transforming into a giant meteor.

The AI also goes on the fritz and after several seconds of stuttering and fritz screams out. "Final move! Sonic Shooting Star! Memorize!" As Sonic crashes into the Giga Galats right in its exposed topside causing a massive explosion that utterly destroys it. Blowing it up into many pieces and causing the AI to scream and shut down as Sonic lands on the floor and return to normal. Only to fall on his knees in pain.

As Sonic tries to remain conscious he notices a pink haired cat girl with a one piece suit and a cape. And most notable of all a large skeletal left hand flanked by a bunch of militaristic skeleton goons with guns. "Who are you?" He groans as he falls down to the floor.

"Wehihihihi! I am Hime Kurokami Prophet of the calamity. And I thank you for leading the way to Pandora's box." The catgirl looks at Sonic all the while standing atop Porker while doing the Gainax pose while the skeletons bow down to her.

Hime Kurokami

Prophet of the Calamity

Theme of Hime

Ost: Blumenkranz: Kill la Kill

"Okay Porker its time to give you the screwing you've been longing for." Hime smiles and laughs as purple lightning strikes the injured and near dead pig causing him to rear over in pain as his skin and flesh melt off and he viscerally transforms into another one of the skeleton minions who surround her.

Porker Lewis was dead leaving only a mindless Skullraiser with soulless purple glowing eyes and a purple aura surrounded him. To Sonic's utter horror unable to do anything due to the sheer pain and the energy coursing thru his body. The Skullraiser formerly known as porker draws his gun and points it at Sonic. With Hime smiling in approval.

"Good! Kill him!" The evil princess gloats as Porker and his fellow thralls shoot Sonic leaving him for dead as the group leaves for the core to claim their price. All while Hime indulges in evil laughter all the way.

To be continued..

That's the end of Chapter 1. If you have noticed then yes this chapter is a rewrite of Chapter 1 of Sonic Pandora's box. And the next few chapters are meant to be a rewrite of the beginning of the novel. Since the first chapter was originally done without much idea of what was going to happen and it wasn't until Chapter 4 and 5 that ideas like the titular Sonic Arc were conceived. It doesn't hurt that I had gone thru a binge of Getter Robo OVA's that really did a number on me. And it's basically what inspired to write again. Basically Sonic Pandora's box Chapter 1 was going to be a very different thing to what it ended up becoming so I scrapped and re imagined the project again. Honestly this has been a really troubled production going on since Madoka

Rebellion story. And yes a weekend of Getter Robo got me out of a nearly 8 year writing slump.