Sonic the Hedgehog
By Zac

Chapter I: The Incident

It was evening and Sonic was resting after for a few minutes getting ready for his next run. It had been 15 long years since Sonic's first adventure. After which, one thing lead to another. He had made some new friends and foes along the way. For some reason Sonic had never gotten tired of fighting Eggman, just recently for example, when he teamed up with Tails and Knuckles to kick Eggman's butt. Turns out they couldn't do it alone, so they teamed up with the rest of their friends, and defeated the Metal Overlord (Metal Sonic with kick butt upgrades.) while he was reminiscing on his past adventure, Sonic noticed a giant portal opening up and everything around him withering and dying.

"What the heck is going on?" Sonic shouted.
A young, high pitched voice called out in the darkness, "Sonic, help me!"

It was Tails! "Hang on buddy I'm comin'!" Sonic dashed to save his pal but as he ran the wind started to blow harder, until it was almost like Sonic wasn't moving, matter of fact he wasn't moving! He was being sucked into the portal. His legs started tiring he was exhausted. He gave up, for there surely was no way to fight the wind. Everything blacked out and there was nothing; just silence.

Chapter II: A New Land

"Sonic... Sonic... Sonic you get your butt up now!"
Sonic opened his eyes, and of course it was Amy Rose, nagging non-stop.

"What?" Sonic asked annoyed.

"Sonic, Tails was attacked and taken by these creatures that looked somewhat like Eggman, but stranger." Amy said with a highly alerted voice.

"Robots... Eggman's not holding back is he?" Sonic said, curious at how Eggman would know when Tails was alone.

"I don't think they were working for Eggman. They were strange looking they were wearing white coats and goggles." Amy said still slightly out of breath. This was strange: the portal, Tails, and what's next? He looked back around and Amy was gone.... obviously to find Knuckles or Cream.

Even though Sonic thought he knew where Amy went, he still went to look for her. He saw something move, he looked, it was gone... there it was again... and again. Sonic wanted to find out what that was...

There it is, all he has to do is sneak up on it...
He noticed that it looks just like him in a way it mumbled something and he saw a flash and it disappeared. Then he heard an old familiar laugh, it was kind of maniacal with a sarcasm that could only come from one person... Shadow.

"Hello Sonic." He said.
"What do you want Shadow?" Sonic asked sarcastically.
"I want nothing except for your total annihilation, and I the ultimate life form will make sure that that happens." Shadow said glowing redder with each second.

Sonic looked around and he noticed his surroundings and he did not recognize a thing. "Hey Shadow where are we?"

"We are on the planet Earth. Out there in the space near here is the very place that I was created and destroyed. Along with.... with.... Maria." With that Shadow lost his raging red glow and slowly walked away.

"Hey Shadow, what did you mean by you were destroyed? You’re here alive right now aren't you?" Sonic said confused. Damn, so this wasn't Eggman's doing, but if not then whose was it?

Chapter III: Friends

Sonic was tired of this. He wanted answers and he wanted them now! He was willing to do anything for them. What did Shadow mean by he was destroyed, and who was Maria? “Earth, huh? Sounds like fun. I think I'll check this place out." Sonic took off at the speed of sound, racing through jungles, over oceans, and through cities. Everywhere he went no one seemed to have ever seen a speeding blue animal before. Come to think of it neither has he. He's seen super-strong Echidnas, flying foxes, and ninja chameleons, but he is the only fast hedgehog he knows. He doesn’t even know if Shadow was a hedgehog.

While he was running and pondering, he saw Knuckles, "What's up Knuckles?" He asked.
"I'm trying to bust Tails out of this place, unlike you!"

"Hey!" Sonic said, "I just found out where I'm at from some deranged trigger happy freak. I didn't even know you were here! And besides where's Amy? I thought for sure she'd be helping you."

" I haven't seen her since the incident... So are you gonna help or not?" Knuckles said.

"Yea sure, get outta the way." Sonic said as he took a few steps back. He turned into a ball and quickly started spinning. He dashed forward like a pinball and collided with the wall that Knuckles was bashing with his fists (which had weakened it quite a bit). The wall crumbled and they were in.

It was a strange place – white, with a weird smell to it. He looked around, there were animals laid out on beds cut open with these weird creatures staring into them. Amy was right. They did look like Eggman, but stranger. With no facial hair except for the stubble on one of their faces. They had white coats and gloves. There he saw her, Amy pinned down, cut open like a lab rat being examined after testing.

What the hell is going on?!
Why would they do something like this?!
What did she do to them?!
Wheres Tails?!

All questions with no answers. "Soniiic," there he was, Tails!

"Tails! Thank God your alive!" Sonic screamed in jubilance.
"What do you mean? What's going on?" Tails screamed.

"That's what I want to know. I just saw Amy laid out on a table cut wide open!" Sonic said as Knuckles broke Tails out of his cage.

"Where are we anyways?" asked Tails as he stretched out. The cage was pretty small. 

"Shadow said we were on a planet called 'Earth'. I've never heard anything about this place. I do know one thing though – this is definitely not Mobius. So what did those things do to you?" Sonic asked.

"I'm not sure, they said something like 'let's take him to the lab for...' and then I felt something hit me with a sharp pain and I blacked out." Tails explained.

"That makes sense, but what happened to make that portal?" Sonic asked. Finally he might get some answers.

"That, I do know. I was in my lab working on a way to create a second Master Emerald, when something went wrong and something came and took the Emerald and flew away. The next thing I knew, everything went dark and I screamed. I heard you yelling something, but I couldn't understand it. I blacked out and woke up on this weird planet." Tails explained.

"So it's your fault were here?" Sonic asked not believing what he heard.
"Yea, I guess." Tails said with tears filling his eyes.

Chapter IV: An Old Rival

Sonic went on and let Tails stay behind and recover. "So it was all Tails fault... No.... Tails wouldn't do anything that would have such repercussions! If it wasn't Tails, then who could it be? No one else is as smart as Tails... Not even Eggman. Shadow maybe, but he only wants me dead. Maybe Chaos, or Jet, but they don't want to hurt anyone (at least I don't think so). I'm confused. Why the hell would Tails do something like that? It just doesn't add up,” Sonic thought to himself.

As he sat down to rest he noticed Jet as he flew by. "What's goin’ on, why is everyone else here? Didn't that crap only happen on Mobius?" Sonic asked.

"Apparently it didn't, but if it didn't only happen on Mobius then Tails either did all that purposely or he didn't do anything at all."

"Who cares? All I know is that this place is like the biggest place that I have ever raced on, and I want to see how your game has been affected! Let's see who the actual fastest thing alive is." Jet yelled.

"I would love to stick around and let you enjoy the lovely scenery of my behind, but I need to find out who got us here and kick his butt for getting my friend killed!" Sonic said.

"I might know a little bit about that." Jet said teasingly. "How about a race, you win I’ll tell you what I know. You lose and you admit that I'm the fastest thing alive."

"I don't exactly carry my board around with me." Sonic said.
"No problem" Jet said. "We'll have a foot race. First around the city 3 times?"
"Sounds fair." Sonic said. "Ready to eat my dust?"
"Oh sorry, I'm not that hungry right now." Jet said.

3,2,1 GO!!!!!!!!

The two dashed as fast as nobody’s business. Sonic looked around and saw all kinds of those strange looking creatures. He looked backward, he couldn't see Jet, and he looked forward still no sign of him. Then out of nowhere Jet sped up right next to Sonic on his board.

"I thought this was a foot race!" said Sonic.
"Just shut up and get on the board." Jet yelled.
"Why?" Sonic asked.

"I have to take you to someone." Jet said. Sonic jumped onto Jet's board and they took off. They slowed down at this huge building. They came to a stop and hopped off the board. They entered the building and got on an elevator. They arrived on the top floor and stepped out. Everyone was there - Shadow Rouge, Big, Knuckles, Tails, Metal Sonic, Cream, Espio, Fang.... Everyone. There he saw her.

"Amy!!!" He was confused. Didn't he just see her laid out, and cut open?
"Amy, how are you still alive?"

"What are you talking about?" She asked.

"I saw you in a lab, cut open and being examined by those damned creatures." Sonic said.
"Oh, you saw that?" She asked. "I was seriously hurt and could have died were it not for those doctors."

"What are you talking about?" Sonic asked.
"I was attacked and nearly killed by some strange black monster." She explained.
"But that doesn't explain why you were cut open and being studied." Sonic said.
"The monster was the one who cut me open, and the doctors weren't studying me, they were putting me back together." She said.

"Okay, that answers one of my questions." he said.

"Hey I would hate to break up the lovely young couples reunion, but I need to tell you all why we are here." A mysterious "man" as they called him said. Finally some answers!

Chapter V: Answers

"I understand that some of you are worried about why you are here." The Man said. The man was standing in front of the window so all that you could see of him was his silhouette. There was an extremely loud noise of yelling and shaking.

"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU" Shadow yelled. He was pointing a gun at the side of Sonic's head. This time his red glow was so bright that there was heat radiating off of his skin.

"SHADOW, PLEASE CONTROL YOURSELF!!!!!!!!" The man screamed.
"I'm just going through with what I was created for!" Shadow screamed.
"Listen to me, this is not what you were created for." The man said.
"Then what was I created for?" Shadow asked becoming more enraged by the second.

"I would like to be able to tell you that, but there is only one who knows what that purpose is, and that person is Professor Gerald Robotnik. He created you with a purpose of good, but you will discover all of that later. For now at least try to control yourself." He explained.

"Back to the original subject, I know the reason that you are here. There is a creature that you all probably know, Chaos. He was attacked and captured by Dr. Robotnik, or 'Eggman' as most of you know him. When Eggman captured him, he used all seven Chaos Emeralds and some of Shadow's D.N.A to make the ultimate life form.”

"What do you mean? I am the ultimate life form." Shadow said, becoming confused.
"He used your D.N.A, Shadow, and combined it with Chaos' D.N.A and made the true ultimate life form." The man explained.

"How can that be? What is this creature and why is it here?" Shadow asked.
"It is 'The Shadow Of Chaos.' It was made to be the creature that would finally destroy anything that even thought of going against what Eggman was doing, but something went wrong." The man explained becoming more ominous.

"But how do you know all of this?" Sonic asked.
"Well I guess now I have no choice other than to tell you who I am. My name is Douglas Robotnik. I am Dr. Robotnik's son." The man explained. Everyone in the room was surprised and had no clue what to do. "Let me assure you that you need not worry. I may be his son, but I never supported the way he lived and tried to convert him to the good side of life, but he was too evil." He said.

"Okay now my only concern is how we are going to get back to Mobius." Sonic asked. "The only way to get back is to kill The Shadow Of Chaos, get the Chaos Emeralds, and use them to make a portal back to your world." He explained.

"Figures, it seems like we always have to do something like that every time that there's trouble. So why did we even have to ask?" Knuckles asked sarcastically.

"Well Knuckles, looks like I'm off to find this 'Shadow of Chaos' guy." Sonic said.
"Oh no you don't, if this thing is so tough that it ripped our whole world to pieces, we're all going." Knuckles said.

"Thanks Knuckles, but this whole things not worth putting all of your lives in danger."
"Don't make me laugh you cornball, it's not like you have never put our lives in danger before, and besides you needed your super transformation to defeat Chaos and Shadow the first time. You actually think that you can take on the power of both of them combined, with all seven Chaos Emeralds?" Knuckles asked.

"Well you do have a point... Tails why don't you come with me?"
"Hey, that's not what I meant!" Knuckles yelled.
"I was just kidding Knuckles." Sonic said.
"This is serious Sonic, you can't goof around all the time." Knucles said.

"Well maybe I wouldn't goof around all the time if I weren't the only person with a rod stuck up his butt." Sonic said.

"Well that may be true, but now is not the time to goof around. I'm coming with you and anyone who wants to join us had better speak up now!" Knuckles yelled. Shadow, Tails, and Amy all stepped forward.

"I understand why Tails and Amy would go with me, but why do you want to come with me Shadow?" Sonic asked.

"Well, I want to find out why I was created. I also want to destroy that damned creature that claims to be the ultimate life form! When I find that creature I am going to rip him limb from limb with my bare hands and then I will use the power of the Chaos Emeralds to get back home and then destroy this whole damn planet!"

"Well that makes sense, but I think that we're gonna need more than five people." Knuckles said. Nobody stepped forward.

"Good luck guys." The man said.
"Well, let's go we have a long journey ahead of us." Sonic said. They started to leave, and the man told them to stop.

“Take this, it is the only way to use your super transformations without the Chaos Emeralds." He handed them a bright yellow globe.

"Thanks man." Sonic said. "But how do we know when to use it?"

"Oh trust me, you'll know." The man said. Sonic and his friends dashed off.
"So Sonic, where do you think that thing is?" Amy asked.
"I'm not sure, but wherever it is we'll get to him and take him out."