Lap 1
Cold Open
Golden light filled the dark, stormy sky of the Pacific Ocean. Above the turbulent waters, multiple flying battleships styled in the shape of various fish species. They surrounded the golden light, and the multiple cannons docked on the battleships were aimed right at the golden light, ready to blast it to kingdom come.
Inside the golden light was a young girl. Her eyes were bright red, and gold hair flowed as if it were being moved by the wind. She wore a blue denim jacket and a white shirt underneath. She also had stylish red shoes with white straps and gold buckles. "Alright, Egghead…" Her lips curled into a wide smile.
"Let's get this party started!" At her taunt the battleships fired; a barrage of bullets and cannons flew towards her, and in response, the girl, Super Sonic, disappeared in a flash. The barrage hit nothing but each, which created a large blast over the ocean.
Super Sonic reappeared over the battleships, only to fly back down. She flew faster than light, her golden body slicing through the powerful, reinforced metal of the battleships. They exploded from the inside out, metal, and computers and wires fell from the sky and littered the ocean surface.
Super Sonic frowned as the mess grew and grew. There were still more ships in the air and the relentless barrage of ammunition ceased to stop as well. "At this point, we're going to kill the ocean before Eggman captures me," Super Sonic grumbled.
At first, she considered using her quirk to end the fight instantly, but then what? She would be depowered and stranded in the middle of the ocean. At best, she could wait until she could transform back into Super Sonic, and at worst, she would only be able to wait until Eggman's armada returned to capture.
As she thought, Super Sonic weaved through bullets and missiles on autopilot, her eyes vacant as she thought about what to do next. She was finally snapped out of her thoughts when something finally slammed into her gut. Super Sonic gasped in pain, something she shouldn't be able to feel while Super.
Super Sonic corrected herself in the air. Super Shadow floated a few feet away from her. He smirked, his own crimson eyes glowing brightly as golden aura enveloped him. Despite the fact Shadow was created roughly 35 years before Sonic was born, their faces were eerily similar.
"I found you, Faker," Super Shadow taunted.
"Faker…?" Super Sonic returned Super Shadow's cocky smirk. The other battleships stopped firing, and allowed the two hedgehogs to confront each other once more. "Take a look in the mirror, pal. You're the only Faker here."
Super Shadow scoffed. He raised one hand. Electricity crackled in his palm, which formed into an electrified spear. "Then, let's settle this once and for all, Sonic! This time, I will take you down!"
Super Shadow swung his arms, and launched a barrage of electric spears at Super Sonic. The golden hedgehog, with a smirk, flew in between the incoming attacks and right towards Super Shadow. A punch was aimed right at Shadow's head, but the second golden hedgehog caught it with ease.
While equal in strength, Super Sonic and Super Shadow were not equal in skill. In a move much swifter than Sonic, Super Shadow struck Super Sonic in the gut once more. Super Sonic flew backwards. She gasped in pain as she tried to correct herself, but Super Shadow didn't let up. He quickled teleported behind Super Sonic, and grabbed the girl by her ponytail.
Super Shadow chucked Super Sonic into the sea. The impact caused sea water to reach the clouds. Before it could even start to fall down, Super Shadow rushed back down in an instant, and slammed his foot into the back of Super Sonic's head.
Super Sonic bit her lip. She managed to land on the turbulent waters with ease, and jumped back up. She moved so fast, the water acting more as a solid than a liquid. Once Super Sonic regained her footing, she flew back into the sky, a smirk on her face as tried to strike Shadow again.
He crossed his arms over his chest to defend himself. The impact caused a sonic boom, and the ocean rippled from their strength. Now on mostly equal footing, both humanoid hedgehogs began to use their immeasurable speed to their fullest extent.
The pair flew across the ocean, punching and kicking each other, sending each other flying, though, without the intent to kill each other. Shadow had his own goals, separate from Eggman's. Sonic wanted to avoid Eggman, to live her life the way she wanted to without interference.
As they fought, the pair eventually flew back towards the battleships. Both their powers had begun to wane. Super Sonic was now breathing heavily, while Super Shadow's golden glow began to flicker.
As she watched Super Shadow's glow flicker, Super Sonic couldn't help but smirk. "What's the matter, Faker?" Super Sonic asked, her voice shaky. "Can't keep up with me?"
"I should be asking the same to you," Super Shadow huffed. He crossed his arms over his chest. "My victory is all but assured now. I will finally show you why I am the Ultimate Life Form!"
Before Super Sonic could get another quip in, Super Shadow grabbed Super Sonic's neck. Super Sonic's eyes widened, and the pair flew towards the large manta ray flagship.
The large battleship shuddered as Super Shadow pulled Super Sonic alongside him. The girl grunted and hissed in pain as metal, wires and plastic dug into her skin. It wasn't enough to cause her permanent harm, but enough to sting through the waning power of her Super form.
Eventually, Super Shadow slammed Super Sonic into the ground. Once he stopped, Super Sonic lashed out, and slammed her fist into Super Shadows chin and knocked him away.
The pair of Super hedgehogs stood in the center of the room, both panting heavily. Super Sonic managed to push herself to her feet, and as she did, an eerie laugh began to fill the arm.
"Aaaah, Sonic!" Super Sonic turned around. There, Doctor Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik stood behind a protective glass partition, a wide smile splitting his face as his body was covered by shadows. "Finally, you've arrived! I'm so glad you decided to join us!"
"I'm always the life of the party, Eggman. I wouldn't miss it for the world," Super Sonic grunted. She stood and faced the mad doctor completely, which drew an annoyed grunt from the brooding hedgehog. "Now, why don't you come out here and join us? We've got plenty of festivities to go through!"
"A nice gesture, but I don't plan on joining just yet." Eggman walked to the side and reached a console. "However, I do have a gift, just for you two," Eggman said with a smile, which caused both hedgehogs to raise an eyebrow.
"Happy late-birthday, Sonic!" Eggman slammed his hand on the console, and the room the hedgehogs were in began to glow.
"Huh…? Shadow, what's going on?" Sonic demanded to know. Above them, emergency lights began to glow.
"My victory," Shadow grunted, but even he was slightly shaken by the sudden turn of events. The Doctor didn't inform him of any of this. He was simply instructed to drag Shadow to this room. Still, this didn't deter Shadow. He teleported in front of Sonic, just as his Super State was about to wane. "Let's finish this!" He shouted.
"Agreed!"
Both hedgehogs lunged at each other. Their fists collided, which caused Eggman's flagship to shudder once more. At that time, Eggman smirked.
With a tap of another button on his console, multiple tesla coils popped out from the floor. They sparked to life, and blasted the two hedgehogs with electricity. Despite both being in their Super States, both of them immediately buckled and fell to the floor.
"Wh-what…!?" Super Sonic yelled in pain. Finally, she powered down. Her eyes turned from green to red, and her hair fell down. Shadow experienced a similar pain. He snarled as he struggled to keep himself on his knees. It felt as though this electricity was draining his energy.
"Doctor…!" Shadow shouted, however, he too quickly fell to his knees. "What is this? What have you done!?"
"I've finally figured out a way to defeat Sonic!" Eggman chortled. He watched with glee as both Sonic and Shadow, but mostly Sonic, writhed in pain on the floor. "And it all stems from the blatant misuse of Sonic's Quirk!"
"Misuse…?" Sonic groaned in confusion. She gripped her head tightly, hissing as she held her head. Her eyes widened, and she let out a strong shout of pain. Her body began to glow, and a small red gemstone, cut like a diamond, floated out of her body.
"I shouldn't expect much maturity from you. You're a child, after all," Eggman said.
"S-says the prick…! Wh-who chased me around…! Th-the country…!" Another belt of pain left her lips, and a dark blue gem flew out of her body.
"You have failed to use your Glimmering Gift quirk effectively, and now you will pay the price for it!" Eggman continued, ignoring Sonic's quip. "When you wished for your Super State, you unwillingly caused yourself to become similar to Shadow; a battery of pure, Chaotic energy! With my Grandfather's research notes on Shadow's creation, I was able to devise a way to drain such energy from you, and isolate it into a crystalline form!"
As if to emphasize his point, a bright white gem flew out of Sonic's chest. At the same time, a cyan gem flew out from Shadow's back. In total, four gems, each one filled with Sonic's chaotic energy, began to float around the pair of hedgehogs. Sonic's vision began to darken as her energy was drained from her.
"And with this energy separated from you, you will lose access to your Glimmering Gift quirk!" Sonic's eyes widened slightly. She tried to claw her way towards Eggman, but her movements were sluggish.
"No…! You can't…!" She wheezed. Behind her, Shadow groaned as yet another gem, this time a yellow one, floated out of his back.
"Oh, relax. Any miracles you've created before should still linger," Eggman reassured her, albeit in a smug manner. "At most, I'm only taking away your ability to create more miracles, and taking away your Super Form."
Sonic let out a hiss. She tried to punch the glass that separated them, but the glass was too strong. Her fist weakly bounced off. "Now, I will use these gems, filled with your power, to complete my plans of world domination! The Eggman Empire will take over the globe, and you'll be the reason for it! HAAA HA HA HA HA!"
"No…!" Sonic hissed. Shadow let out another groan. A purple gem flew out of him, and he collapsed on the floor, completely drained of his energy. That also meant all the draining electricity was focused on pain. She let out a scream and clutched her head tightly. The last gem, a bright green the same color of her eyes, was created.
At last, the electricity faded, and the tesla coils sank back into the ground. Somehow, Sonic was still conscious, electricity coursing through her body. She twitched. She let out a gasp, and black smoke poured out of her mouth.
"Yes! I did it!" Eggman cheered. "I've separated the energy of her quirk from her body! Now to reclaim it!"
As Eggman talked to himself, Sonic somehow managed to remain conscious. Her glassy green eyes looked up at the green gem which floated in front of her. "I…!" Sonic hissed in pain. "Won't let you…! This is still… my power!" She reached up to grasp the green gem around her fingers.
"What?" Eggman turned around just as he was to exit the room he was in. The gems began to glow. The bright light they created blinded him, which caused Eggman to stagger backwards. "What's this!?"
"I won't let you abuse it!" Sonic growled. For a brief moment, she transformed back into Super Sonic. Eggman fell onto the floor from the display of power. "I'll use one last miracle!"
"No! No!" Eggman shouted. He turned on the power siphon device, but by then it was too late. The gems spun around Super Sonic rapidly.
"Eat it, Eggface!" Super Sonic shouted.
The bridge of the manta ray flag ship exploded. Seven lights of varied colors flew out of the explosion, and scattered in many different directions.
"All Might… what are we doing here?" Izuku muttered as he hopped out of the cream-colored truck. Beside him, a man shaped like a skeleton walked down the steps and onto the sand.
The beach they drove to was completely covered in trash. Small mountains of garbage and junk covered almost all of the sand. The place smelled rotten as well; Izuku's nose wrinkled as the scent accosted his nose.
"Why, this is where we'll begin your training, of course!" Yagi Toshinori said. "You'll be lugging all this junk to my truck. Once the trunk is full, or two hours have passed, we'll call it a day?"
"Oh, I see!" Izuku nodded. "So, this will be some form of physical conditioning, then? To make sure I'm ready for the entrance exam in ten months?"
"More than that! You see, you are not yet ready to accept the full strength of my Quirk, One for All!" Toshinori explained. The comment made Izuku shrivel up slightly.
"What!? What you're saying now is the opposite of what you said earlier!" Izuku cried out.
"Not entirely! Your heart is perfect for my Quirk! Your body… eh, not so much. As you recall, One for All is the combined power of many people in one form. If I were to give you all that strength right now, well, I'm afraid it might all explode in your face, destroying your limbs completely!" Toshinori explained briefly to Midoriya. That, however, only brought a new concern to his mind.
"WHAT!? My body would explode!?"
"Relax! As long as we follow my training regimen, all will be fine once you accept my power!"
Izuku, while still shocked by the apparent threat of All Might's power, nodded regardless. "Okay. Let's get started then. What are we going to do?" Izuku followed All Might deeper into the pseudo-junkyard.
"Before the advent of Quirks, heroism was all about serving the community," Toshinori began. "It was small things, like raising money for charity, donating canned food, or in our case, helping clean litter." He transformed into his powered up state, a large hulking wall of muscle and power. With one hand, he flattened a pile of garbage with minimal effort.
"Young Midoriya! If you want to become a real Hero, you must not stray away from those roots! So, I want you to clean up this entire beach!"
"The entire… beach…?" Izuku blinked and looked around. He knew this place was messy, but only now did he realize the gargantuan task ahead of him. "Oooooooh… Oh dear…"
"Well? You want to go to U.A., don't you?" Toshinori asked. "Since you haven't trained a day before now, you'll need to work extra hard to match your contemporaries."
"You're right! I can't let this get me down now! I'll start right away!" Izuku exclaimed. He nodded to himself and ran towards the first pile of trash. At the sight of his enthusiasm, All Might let out a hearty laugh.
"That's the spirit, my boy! Once we're done, you will become the hero you were always–!"
"All Might! There's a person here!" The older man immediately deflated, and blood spurted out of his mouth.
"Wh-what!?"
All Might rushed to Izuku's aid, the boy now panicking and biting his nails. On one of the garbage piles, there was a young girl with blue, spiky hair covered in bruises and burns.