Spoiler Warning: This is based on the ending to the Metal Virus Saga from Sonic the Hedgehog IDW. If you haven't read it, go do so now it is amazing and you deserve a blind first run.
"H-H-How w-w-we d-d-doing S-S-Silver?!" Super Sonic urgently asked.
"I-I-I'm n-n-not d-d-detecting a-a-anymore! W-W-We're d-d-done!" Super Silver reported.
"T-T-Time t-t-to g-g-get r-r-rid o-o-of t-t-this!" Sonic winds his hand back and gets ready to throw the Warp Topaz.
BOOOM
CRASH
"Silver!" Amy cried as she, Tails and Knuckles ran up to the now silver-quilled hedgehog "Are you alright? Is it over? What happened?!"
"It's…It's over." Silver grunted. "We Pulled away every bit of metal virus and destroyed it. But Dr. Starline was right. The Warp Topaz couldn't handle all that power. Sonic tried to ditch it in the Super warp portal but…" He looks up towards the sky.
"Oh No." Amy cries as she, Tails and Knuckles do the same and see a large residue of the portal in the sky.
To them, the explosion caused Sonic to disappear to the unknown. He would later come back to them, putting the incident behind them for good.
However, that incident would have terrible consequences that they would never be aware of. For while the incident was over for them, it was far from gone.
Somewhere in outer space, everything was dark and quiet. Suddenly, a green flash appeared out of nowhere. It came as soon as it left, but not before dropping off a little something. A few drops of metal liquid. This liquid would roam the deep vastness of space until eventually, it came across a world. A world sourcing life. And unfortunately for that world, those few drops would be caught in the planet's gravity and sent hurtling towards it.
So yeah. Welcome to the Metal Virus series, where I put the Metal Virus from Sonic IDW in another world. This was originally going to be somewhere I posted down ideas I have and either decide to get to them eventually (after working on my other stories) or offer them to someone else to take the reins. But this specific idea needed it's own section. If the earlier notes didn't give it away, I love the Metal Virus Saga. It is my favorite saga of Sonic IDW. Seeing the worst situation the cast has been in yet: The heroes all but lost, the world destined for ruin, the stakes couldn't be higher and the tension was swelling, the characters, especially Sonic, had their characters tested as they were at their lowest, and it seemed like a no win situation that just kept getting worse before the heroes pulled out a miracle. The Metal Virus was a serious, possibly a top five (#4 to me personally) biggest, threat to Sonic and his world.
And on one of my many re-reads I thought to myself: "How would other media handle the Metal Virus? How many could handle it?"
And so this idea came. I'm unleashing the Metal Virus somewhere in another piece of media and see how they handle it. Which media? Well I have a few in mind but I'm not that well versed in the finer details of every media out there. So in conjunction with me writing this, I decided to let you guys do the same. You can use this chapter as a basis, but if you want the Metal Virus can be created in whatever world you write this in. But I do have some ground rules.
#1) The events before the story have to be canon.
It doesn't matter where or when in canon the story takes place, but all the events leading up to it have to be canon.
#2) The main character of the story (doesn't have to be the MC) has to get infected early but have a way to stall their transformation.
This can be whatever you want, whether it's a unique ability of the character, some outside force, or a side effect of the Metal Virus crossing worlds. Just make it that the MC of the story appears on borrowed time.
#3) This is less of a rule and more of a notice but it's something to keep in mind.
The heroes don't have to win.
The Metal Virus is an adaptable, world ending, total extinction, apocalypse level threat. And I use "world" loosely since the only reason it was contained to a single world is because it didn't have the chance to leave. It took using two sets of reality warping gems and time travel to get rid of it. I can guarantee that most worlds in media can't handle this. And if the series you choose to do this to can't, I'm not demanding you to come up with one. You can if you want to, and I think many people will encourage you, but you don't have to.
And other than this, the floor is yours. Make your own take on another world handing the Metal Virus. Just leave a comment (or PM me for anyone on FFN) to let me know what you're doing and you can run wild with this idea. I look forward to seeing where you choose to go and what you do with it.
