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Over 5 billion years ago two beings were trapped, tied to the center of planet Earth. Over this long period of time Dark Gaia and Light Gaia are awakened for one battle to decide the fate of the planet.
One being trying to destroy the planet, one trying to save it. They fight until one wins.
But the two never succeed in destroying each other. Instead of them dying at the end of their battles they both go into a deep slumber in the center of the planet for thousands of years and are unleashed once again for their battle.
Last time Dark Gaia and Light Gaia were unleashed they were awoken before the proper time because of a very evil man. This man’s name is Dr. Robotnik. But everybody just calls him Dr.eggman. He even calls himself that. Dr.eggman has been trying for years to conquer the planet. But it’s not that simple.
Wherever there is a super villain there is a superhero. This hero’s name is Sonic the hedgehog. He is an alien hedgehog whose origin is unknown. Sonic the hedgehog is gifted with extraordinary powers that he uses for good.
Dr.Eggman and Sonic the Hedgehog are enemies, arch enemies whose hatred for each other stems deep. Dr.eggman is a 45 year old evil genius while Sonic on the other hand is a 16 year old hedgehog teenager. Dr.Eggman foolishly unleashed Dark and light Gaia before they were ready to come out. He did it by using the power of gems with infinite power. The chaos emeralds.
This story starts out early in the morning on a bright sunny day, the flickies were chirping peacefully and Sonic the Hedgehog himself was in bed, sound asleep. He had been fighting for weeks and this rest was nice and relaxing to the hedgehog hero. His ears begin to perk up while in his slumber. Even asleep, a hedgehog's ears could pick up on the faintest sound, especially a scream.
“AHHHHH!!!! OH NO!!!!” screams a kid from outside sonic’s window.
Sonic’s ears twitching some more and he feels himself coming back to reality. His eyes flutter open and he suppresses a groan, he hated waking up. Wonder what the problem is this morning? He thought carefully.
“SOOOONNNIIIICCCC!” he hears a yell from downstairs, as his front door slams open and his best friend, Tails the Fox marches into his house.
Sonic runs downstairs, tiredness still over his entire body. “What… what’s wrong Tails?” asks Sonic, his voice a quiet murmur and hoarse from the morning.
Tails was standing impatiently in his living room, Tail’s foot tapping irritated,“Sonic, there is no time to waste. Sorry to wake you up so early but doctor Eggman is attacking. The forces on the west side are getting overwhelmed. I thought it best to come and get you for your help,” he sighs.
With a yawn Sonic then declares bluntly, “Alright alright. Good job coming to me, I’ll help out. Where exactly is old Egghead attacking?”.
Then suddenly an earthquake like feeling penetrates the ground below them and a loud booming sensation graces their ears from quite far away.
“Does that answer your question? He’s attacking north of the grand loop de loop of the Green Hills. I’ll go with you to make sure everything's alright. After all I am a commander,” boasts Tails, in a bold attempt for recognition.
“Well then, that was… interesting. You know what little buddy? I couldn’t be more proud of you for following what you think best. I’ll go deal with Eggman and you and your troops can deal with the goons,” chuckles Sonic with a smirk, ruffling his little brother’s hair.
Running from his house, leaving Tails behind, Sonic begins his run all the way to the far end of Green Hills. Robots ravaged the areas and Eggman seemed to be focused on gloating to the civilians who his robots were kidnapping.
With a smirk appearing boldly over Sonic’s muzzle, he jumps on top of a palm tree and sees a spring beside the Grand Loop de Loop. Then with his insane speed but with grace, he jumps over to the spring which launches him into the sky. Using the momentum he lands perfectly on top of the Loop de Loop.
“Yo Eggman! What are you doing all the way out here?” Sonic shouts over the wreckage and fighting down below him.
Doctor Eggman, in his Eggmobile turns his fat bald head in the direction were Sonic stood perched upon the giant loop de loop. Stroking his mustache a grim smile appeared over his face.
“Ah Sonic! What a pleasant surprise! How nice of you to come by to witness the start of the destruction of your beloved Green Hills!” Dr.eggman rants with an eerie certainty he was going to win.
“You see Sonic, I have a new… invention… that’s sure to give you a quick and easy demise,” he continues.
“Oh yeah? Big talk coming from you. Well, let’s see how your claim turns out,” sneers Sonic.
“You're gonna be sorry you ever dared to mock the great, Doctor Eggman!” laughs the mad scientist.
Dr.eggman then with surprising speed, typed into his control console on the Eggmobile. Sonic watched with interest as the mad man’s fingers zoomed from button to button. Within moments of executing a few commands on the console a giant version of the Eggdragoon appeared before the two. It emerged from the sky like a bomb dropping down. Unlike previous versions it was bigger and this time, purple. Or at least it appeared purple as an evil aura pulsated from it.
Looking up to where the robot came from, Sonic saw that above his head in the sky was none other then a flying drop ship, no doubt made by Eggman to give him an aerial advantage.
Averting his attention back to the Eggdragoon, Sonic watches as the evil doctor’s Eggmobile merged with the Eggdragoon. Shifting his eyes back to the dropship, Sonic sighs in relief as he sees that Tails is in the Tornado and has begun an assault on the ship.
At least I don’t have to worry about smashing the ship. Tails will take care of it. Heh, hopefully we can get this done before noon and stop downtown in Emerald City to get some chili dogs. Sonic thinks as a mischievous grin crosses his face.
Once again turning his attention back to Eggman he shouts, “Eggman, I have already defeated this machine a thousand times before. Do you think making it purple will actually defeat me?”
“ Well this version has a new power inside it which is sure to defeat the likes of vermin like YOU!!!” says Dr.eggman. “Or rather should I say… old power which has come back to haunt you,”.
Eggman’s gun of the Dragoon points in the direction of the blue hedgehog and fires rapidly, machine gun style. Without breaking a sweat, Sonic saw it coming, and he ran as fast as possible from the scene. The bullets connect with the loop de loop were Sonic stood moments earlier, leaving smoking tiny craters into the grassy loop de loop.
Sonic then, jumping off of the spring once against, flings himself into the air and targets Eggman’s dragoon in his mind. A few more moments and I can use a homing attack. He thinks carefully and calculated, searching the robot for any signs of weakness.
Then, in a blink of an eye, even eluding Sonic’s keen senses, the Eggdragoon turns invisible, disappearing from the hedgehog’s sight.
“What?! Oh come on! How is that fair?!” shouts Sonic. Guess this will be slightly harder than I thought… Where are you Eggman… Sonic thinks through gritted teeth.
Sonic looks around, left and right, back and forth. He searches desperately for any sign of the Eggdragoon, anything, even a sound. But nothing.
From the cockpit of the Eggmobile, Eggman suppresses a laugh. He had confused Sonic beyond what he had hoped. He watches as the hedgehog lands on the grassy ground of the Green Hills, still searching for Eggman and his ears twitching back and forth.
Eggman, then, goes behind Sonic. The Eggdragoon’s arm reaches out, about to grab the blue blur and crush him into tiny dust particles.
“Sonic! Watch out!” yells Tails from the Tornado. Blocking Eggman’s grab but getting himself inside of the Tornado stuck instead.
Damn it! I got too close! Tails ponders, anxiety grasping the young fox as he looks at the robotic hand that was clasped around his plane.
“Tails! You're going to regret that Eggman! Let him go!” shouts Sonic, angrily as he turns around.
Sonic turns around, facing the Dragoon which is now visible. How Tails had managed to see the Dragoon was a mystery to Sonic but now wasn’t the time to question that. Getting ready to run at the mad doctor, Sonic was then stopped dead in his tracks as Eggman’s ghastly voice came over the speakers of his beloved machine.
“Oh ho ho! Now isn’t this delightful! Not another step Sonic or your little fox friend is a goner,” Eggman laughs, which seems to rock the whole of the Zone.
“Damn you! That’s a dirty trick, Doctor!” snarls Sonic, looking at his little brother’s desperate attempts to input commands into his plane.
“Ha! Looks like the tables have turned! Now let’s continue this little bargaining game. You’d better surrender Sonic. I may be a villain but I’m not that cruel, I’m a man of my word and if you surrender then I’ll let Tails go. If you refuse then I’ll snap the plane in half with him inside of it,” Eggman chuckles.
Sonic’s fists tighten into two fierce balls. Almost like at any moment he would let his fists connect with Eggman but he had no power at this current moment. It was life or death and he cared more for his brother’s life than his own. “Okay fine!” he shouts, his fists going back to normal and he raises his hands in surrender. “You win! Just don’t hurt Tails,”.
Eggman sneers from inside of the machine, a quiet mocking motion to the hedgehog who had been a pain in his ass for years. He doesn’t release Tails but instead snaps his fingers from inside of the cockpit, then says, “Restrain the hedgehog and take him back to the prison I’ve prepared”.
Without warning, the arm which held the Tornado falls off. A red blur zooms by them all. A fast motion of fists and one of the pieces of the left leg of the Egg Dragoons falls off as well. Their savior stood beside Sonic, going from the red blur to the form of the red muscular echidna the three knew all too well.
“Knuckles! Boy, I am so glad to see you. I thought for a moment me and Tails were done for!” Sonic announces to Knuckles with an anxious laugh in his voice.
“I was at Angel Island when a certain Eggman robot tried to take the Master Emerald. Thought I’d come find Eggman and return the favor. Don’t worry I didn’t leave the Master Emerald unguarded. The chaotix were following a lead when they were led to my island, I asked them to guard it for me,” Knuckles declared, his voice stiff and casual as always but it always held the note of friendliness to his closest friend, Sonic.
Knuckles then tosses a head on the ground, the head of Metal Sonic rolls lifelessly, still sparking from where his head had been ripped off.
“Well lucky us then. Poor Metal Sonic, do you mind if I keep the head?” jokes Sonic.
“Sure, but keep your focus Sonic,” Knuckles chuckles quietly.
Sonic,Tails, and Knuckles all together. As a team they were Team Sonic, the strongest and the most feared team to even stand in evil’s path.
Sonic the Hedgehog, the fastest thing alive, was the speed of the team and the beloved leader who was always there for his friends even in the darkest times.
Tails the Fox, the tech wiz and flying type. He’s Sonic’s best friend and adoptive little brother. Whenever Sonic is in danger Tails is always the first to rush by his side. Well most of the time.
Knuckles the Echidna, the hot headed guardian of the master emerald. When he and Sonic first met they were rivals but over time they have formed an amazing friendship and Knuckles considers Sonic and Tails his only family. Using his unique fists, Knuckles can punch through anything and scale walls as well as use his dreadlocks to glide.
“Alright, now that the gang's all together we need a plan so we aren’t rushing in blind,” declares Sonic.
“Agreed, judging from the dynamics of the robots there is exactly one possible move I can see breaching the main point of the eggdragoon. However there are always ways around, a fast spinning move is sure to penetrate its shell,” announces Tails.
“Got it. From its speed and velocity I would say combo Alpha whirlwind is our best bet here. Knuckles, care to do the honors?” teases Sonic.
The Eggdragoon wasn’t going to stay down for long though… Its right fist fell off and one of its legs was severely damaged. Thankfully for Eggman though, the Eggdragoon’s speciality was flying, not standing. The leg wouldn’t be a problem, nor would the arm. Team Sonic didn’t see the surprised he had in store just for if something like this happened.
From where the fists fell off a giant purple tentacle came out. It glew in the sunlight but as it entered the sunlight it seemed to retract a little bit. Sunlight lowered its power. But it still was out. Zooming at the team with hyper speeds, they barely jump to the side.
“Stand your ground boys! This is new but it’s going to be fine as long as we stand our ground and go with our plan! Knuckles! We’re waiting on you buddy!” shouts Sonic over the sound of pulsating now in the air, emitting from the tentacle.
“Roger that!” shouts Knuckles.
Knuckles runs to where Sonic is standing, trying to build up momentum. “Not so fast, Knuckle head!” roars Eggman from inside the cockpit.
Angling the Eggdragoon’s head to face Knuckles, on it’s other fist it begins firing rapidly from it’s minigun portion. Knuckles attempts to dodge but running can only do him so good. Then the tentacle comes at him as well. Knuckles glides over it but he gets shot, losing rings he falls back to the ground.
“Sonic! You have to get past the tentacle and get over here! I can’t get over to you without losing rings!” Knuckles announces.
“My hands are a little full right now,” Sonic says, as he destroys the incoming badniks who are attempting to surround him. “But I’ll try to get over there as soon as possible!”.
Tails himself flies over the battle, surveying what was going on. Doing this he can see the best routes. Unfortunately he cannot land while the battle rages. “Sonic! I see a possible route on your 90! Just be careful. The tentacle is around that area!” he yells.
“Gotcha, thanks!” shouts Sonic.
Without hesitation Sonic looks 90 degrees from where he was standing and zooms to the side. Eggman’s one tentacle rushing side to side wildly, attempting to smack Sonic away. As it gets near Sonic gets a bold but good idea. He leaps ontop of the tentacle. He runs on it until he reaches the part where the tentacle was coming from the once fist. Without hesitation he cuts the tentacle from where he was standing, turning into a sharp spiky ball. As the tentacle falls to the ground, it evaporates into a purple mist which goes close to the Eggdragoon’s chest, which opens up to reveal a purple glowing orb, the power source.
Sonic then jumps from the machine and rushes over to Knuckles, who was looking at the chestpiece entrances. “Did you see that?” he asks.
“Yeah I did, that must be the powersource. Now that we are together we can perform the move. Aim for the powersource,” Sonic answers.
“Get ready then Sonic, I won’t throw lightly,” Knuckles sneers.
Sonic then jumps into the air, once again turning into the spinning blue spin dash form. As he falls back the ground Knuckles catches him like a ball. Knuckles then aims him like a ball as well. Pointing him at the machine. Once he thinks he’s found the right angle to throw Sonic at the machine, he begins swirling around and around in circles. Building up momentum.
When he gets enough momentum he throws as hard as possible, so hard that Sonic himself turns into a fireball. Faster than the speed of sound he penetrates the shell of the Eggdragoon’s chest piece. As Sonic connects to the powersource he feels lightheaded. His whole existence seems to be ripping from his body.
The powersource… is alive.
With a quick motion whatever was inside of there grabs Sonic’s form, still in a ball form. Then the form, Sonic can make out. Sonic had broken the chamber which was holding the creature, but Sonic could see it.
It looked so similar to him. Its eyes glowing red and as it catches Sonic, it puts him to his eye level. From inside of his spin dash form Sonic could see it. Three glowing eyes. Then it spoke. Its voice, a deep sounding voice but when it spoke it seemed to make the very world around him rumble. “Interesting. So your the one named Sonic,” it says.
Feeling it was no longer safe, Sonic then kicks back from the creature, going back into his normal form but he now stood inside of the chamber. Now in his normal form, Sonic could see that the creature who he was speaking to looked purple. It had three eyes and the third one was the same color green as his own. It was tall. Taller than any living being should be, like something straight out of an analog horror.
It was around 7 feet tall, with four arms visible as far as Sonic could see. At the tips of the fingers were sharp claws. It wore no gloves like most but it was wearing shoes. The most confusing part? The shoes looked oddly like Sonic’s except that they were instead colored black instead of red.
Alongside from having monstrous features it looked similar to Sonic’s form. It looked like a hedgehog. At first at least. Having the same type of quills as Sonic, they moved slightly side to side as the breezes entered inside of the chamber.
It then stepped closer to Sonic. Stepping move into the light. It then smiled. Its smile was unlike anything Sonic had ever seen before. Creepy, demented, and housing nothing but pure loathing for anything that lived. But beneath the smile, Sonic could see there was something else, longing. As to what he couldn’t quite place his fingers on.
It even had the chest part Sonic had, the tan oval part. But on its chest it also had Shadow’s chest fur. But Sonic found himself entranced by the things smile. It had fangs, sharp as that of a dragon. Then as it got ever so closer, Sonic noticed that it was staggering. It was walking, but it was walking as if it had just regained balance. Upon further inspection, Sonic saw that it was indeed… part dragon.
Further into its description it had two small red horns and a pair of wings. “You must forgive me, child, for this… unpleasant meeting. I haven’t stood properly in quite some time. I used to have to slither around like a lowly serpent,” it sighs.
“Who are you?” asks Sonic.
“Who am I? I must say it’s such a pity you cannot recognize me, Sonic the Hedgehog. That is your name correct? That’s what the Light Gaia called you, and that’s what this mad man who imprisoned me called you,” laughs the creature.
Listening to the voice, Sonic deduced that it was a male. “So you're a… dragon? What are you?” Sonic questions.
“I’m a hedgedragon. Not that I would expect you to know what that is. No… Light Gaia kept that information hidden from you. Just like he kept it hidden from you that that is what you are too,” he declares.
Then it hits Sonic. As fast as lightning it clicks in his brain. “Your Dark Gaia!” he hisses, stepping back into a defensive position.
“I am, but fear not boy. I wish not to harm you. Not yet. I can’t fight right now. I’m sure you understand, just waking up makes anyone’s abilities on the fritz. I also imagine you want answers. Maybe something like, ‘how exactly is this Dark Gaia? I thought he was a mindless beast who lives in the center of the planet’? Am I right?” muses Dark Gaia.
“You're right… and you're also right. My name is Sonic,” he snarls.
“Well then, Sonic, why don’t we get to know each other? Let me start. You see when we first met it was most…unfortunate. I wasn’t myself. Waking up before the proper time of awakening can do a lot to a person. Since I wasn’t ready I lost my sense of personality. Well, I’m in a good mood. I must say it’s such a pleasure to finally meet you! I’ve been fascinated with you since the moment I met you!” chuckles Dark Gaia.
“Oh? And why’s that?” asks Sonic nervously.
“Because you're just like me, and I know who you really are. I know things about yourself that you don’t even know,” Dark Gaia sneers.
Sonic looks side to side anxiously. He didn’t know whether he should escape or continue talking to Dark Gaia. he could become hostile at any moment… thinks Sonic. “Dark Gaia. I’ll make you a deal. I’ll talk to you but in turn you mustn’t attack me or my friends,” decides Sonic.
“A wise choice! Clearly you are a formidable foe. Much praise. However I cannot attack you right now even if I wished. Believe me I would love to test your strength, but that is for another time when I have the strength. I would never kill you though, it ain’t worth it to me. So Sonic, tell me. How much did the Light Gaia tell you about his species?” the Dark King asks.
“Well I… he honestly didn’t talk much about it. He said that they were very powerful and that you two always fought with each other, that you were pure evil and the reincarnation of the dark emotions of the world,” answers Sonic.
“Of course he did,” Dark Gaia answers bitterly. “A dirty lie from a dirty rat. It’s only partially true. I’m not the reincarnation of that, I just feed off of them. Just like he feeds off of the light emotions. I’m not a bad person like he had told you. I DID want to destroy the world. But not anymore. Just take it over. My goal though isn’t just for control, I want to remake the world. I want to restart it. The human race is filled with scum, I want to reset the world without ending humans. Or your species, the things the humans regard as animals since they are mostly animals. I’m sure you understand how… unfair the ideals of others are,” Dark Gaia sighs.
“I do,” murmurs Sonic.
“I know. You and your friends must have been sorely mistreated by the public I bet. A blue hedgehog with supersonic speed powers? How badly they must have taken that. Same with a fox with two tails and an echidna who spends all his time alone guarding the master emerald,” says Dark Gaia.
“Just what are you playing at?” snarls Sonic.
“I’m only telling the mere truth. You know that. They mistreated you and your friends and yet you insist on protecting them? How very noble but how very stupid,” The dark king continues.
“I know what you are, you damn bastard! You're trying to tear my morals apart piece by piece so that I can do your work for you!” Sonic growls.
“Hmm, maybe I am. Maybe not. Go now, leave me boy. Now that you’ve freed me Eggman can no longer power his machine. You’ve won your battle. I’ll be back soon, this won’t be the last you see of me and Sonic. Next time we meet, you had better be prepared,” Dark Gaia laughs.
Then suddenly he teleports away, leaving Sonic alone inside of the chamber. And then it hit Sonic. The eggdragoon was flying. He teleported out! Nothing is powering the Dragoon! He realizes. With a swift motion Sonic runs out from the dragoon. Leaping through the air landing beside Tails and Knuckles.
He turns back for a moment to see a purple blur run past the giant loop de loop, but within an instant it is gone. The Eggdragoon then crashed down onto the floor and had parts scattered everywhere. Leaving Eggman in his eggmobile to fly off into the distance, screaming “This isn’t the last you’ve seen of me!”.
“Ha! He really thought he stood a chance?” laughs Knuckles who then spat on the wreckage of the Eggdragoon. “Just goes to show that Eggman will never learn. Anyways, you were gone for quite a while when you were inside of that dragon robot. Did you get distracted or something Sonic?”.
“Eh something like that,” says Sonic, still retaining his usual cheerful demeanor.
“Well now that that’s over, I’m going to salvage the scraps and take the mechanical parts back to my workshop before Eggman can salvage these parts as well. Are you going to go back to the Master Emerald, Knuckles?” asks Tails.
“Yeah probably. No reason for me to stick around anymore. See you guys later. You guys gotta visit my island sometimes. It’ll be a blast,” declares Knuckles.
“I’m sure we will Knucklehead. Take care,” says Sonic with a bright smile.
Unfortunately the world wasn’t done with team Sonic yet. The ground began to shake violently. The wreckage of the robots went slightly into the air before falling back down and the gang found themselves struggling to hold onto balance. “What the hell is going on?!” exclaims Knuckles.
“I dunno,” replies Sonic, their voices warbling and shaky from the sudden tremor.
Just as suddenly as it came, it stopped. The gang gasps for breath and they look around to see a giant crack in the ground not too far from where they were standing.
“Wha... wha... what's going on?” asked Sonic. “The ground… it’s splitting!”.
“I don’t know! But this can’t be good,” murmurs Tails.
“Tails! You have an IQ higher than Einstein and you can’t figure out what happened? There has to be some sort of scientific explanation…” Knuckles says anxiously.
“Just because one is smart doesn’t always mean they can solve everything right away but I appreciate the praise. There has to be something we are missing. I’ll look into this. Don’t worry guys. Once I find it out I’ll report back to both of you,” announces Tails.
“Well do. Remember, above all we are a team. There is no room for anything to drive us apart,” Sonic smirks.
“Absolutely Sonic,” Knuckles agrees.
Knuckles then begins walking off, feeling that he had accomplished all he needed to. He waves a hand back at his friends and soon disappears into the distance leaving Sonic and Tails alone. Tails pulls out his MilesElectric and looks at it but Sonic looks in the distance where he had seen the purple blur. Just who are you, Dark Gaia? And what are you hiding? Sonic thinks cautiously. His eyes narrowing at the spot where he saw the blur.. I’ll find you. And I’ll get my answers because I can tell there is more to you than what meets the eye.