SONIC THE HEDGEHOG AND FRIENDS IN THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG "Sonic wakes up and begins his day as any other, He lives to run and this will always be so, Sonic runs and rests just like the sun rises and sets, He must never let the sun down, nor let it laugh at him." From: SONIC AND KNUCKLES CARTRIDGE ORIGINAL VERSION (Subject to correction) VOLUME 1 - LORE By Knux of Australia Knux_911@hotmail.com All ideas are protected by Copyright (1998) and as are all SEGA characters. Note: I absolutely hate pilot episodes and this one was no exception. It is no- where as good as my later stories mainly because I have to introduce everything and set the scene. My later stories are more developed and really this story is just to tell people what's what, and who's who, Sonic really starts doing his thing in Volume 3. Plus I had to type this on Ms Works 3.0 and that limits me a great deal. But anyway, please enjoy and come back to see my continued work and E-mail me if you have any queries. These stories are set in my Sonic world and they have my own selections and parts of the games and comics too. It is Early morning on the planet Mobius, a soft gentle light flows around a large castle complex. It stands tall, majestic and a pristine white, and inside we find an adult male squirrel. He is dressed in a large red uniform with many badges attached to it, there is also a dark green sash that goes across the uniform. A crown on his head confirms that he is none other than Lord Acorn, King of Mobius. He stands over a small crib, and inside is a female baby squirrel, "Perfect" he says "She'll be the most perfect a princess could ever be". 15 EARTH YEARS LATER.... Another clear day on the green hill zone, a loud zoom breaks the silence. Scrolling round reveals a long, triangle shaped craft called a "Raider". It floats above the ground and slices through the air at an alarming speed, inside is a familiar blue face, the face of Sonic The Hedgehog. The craft flies into a forest and approaches a small village, on the ground there is a buzz of activity and there are several other Raiders landing and taking off. Another familiar face looks towards the approaching raider, none other than Princess Sally. Sonic lands his raider and heads over to Sally, "And where have you been?" she asks. "I was doing the most wickedest, loop the loops and rolls" replies Sonic, "Oh so you're out having fun while everyone else was working hard, you are impossible Sonic!" she exclaims. "Hey didn't I help yesterday?" he asks, "No you didn't" she replied, "What about the day before yesterday?" he asks. "I don't remember the day before yesterday" she replied, Sonic looks around for a reason to change the subject and he sees Bunnie and Tails carrying a thing similar to a PC. "Hey Bunnie what'cha doing?" he waves and yells leaving Sally annoyed at the fact he left in the middle of a conversation. "Bunnie's helping me set up my new personal computer" said Tails, "That's right sugah, now Tails can learn things for himself on his computer as well as have fun" said Bunnie. "Cool, hey buddie you come to my hut and I'll give you some awesome games" said Sonic. "Sonic, that's not really what it's for" said Bunnie, Tails looked up at Bunnie uncertainly, "But who's gonna to complain?" Bunnie finished. Tails's face lit up again and they both continued onto Tails's hut. Sally walked up to Sonic and just opened her mouth to speak when a uniformed officer called out, "Princess Sally, there's a long distance transmission from the archaeological expedition" he said. "I'll be right there" she said, "Coming everyone?" she asked. They all followed the officer into a control room where there was a large screen with a kelpie dog in a uniform was displayed. "Ah, Princess we've had to set up an emergency transmitter as due to security reasons half of the team are heading back a day early" he explained. "But why?, what have you found?" asked Sally, "We've found something very special, we won't tell much over a long range transmission but we think we have found the Book of Lore". CHAPTER 2 "Like, what's the book of lore?" asked Sonic, "It was thought to be just an old story, but it may actually exist" Sally thought out aloud. "Oh sorry Sonic, it was said to contain special information on great artefacts of mobius, these artefacts could help us a great deal" said Sally. "Like kicking robo but?" asked Sonic, "Exactly" replied Sally. Through the dark clouds of pollution and underneath the grey roofs of Robotropolis we find Robotnik. In his viewing room watching a transmission which looks exactly the same as the one that Knothole just received. "We think we have found the book of lore" said the character on the screen. "Yes officer, I understand that when you set up your transmitter you didn't think of scrambling it did you, tut tut, someone might pick it up" said Robotnik. "And that someone is me" he finished, "Snively what have you found on the book of lore?" asked Robotnik. "Only that it was supposed to contain information on the great artefacts of mobius, which had great power" said Snively. "How interesting, these artefacts may be what I have been looking for", "Dispatch a team of swatbots to intercept them and capture this book of lore" said Robotnik. Within minutes a flotilla of city patrol ships slowly leaves the blackened buildings of the supercity behind and heads for the mountains. Meanwhile the expedition is packing up ready to leave, "I hope no-one else picked up that signal, it wasn't scrambled" said the leader, "We have scouts up ahead to check for enemy ships" said the other. A loud explosion breaks their conversation, everyone scatters as laser blasts smash into the ground and fly around in the air. "Quick into the cave!",5 officers rush into the cave, dodging blasts from the passing ships. "What happened to the scouts you were talking about, Par?" asked the leader, Par talks into his communicator and then turns to the leader. "They were taken by surprise sir" said Par, "And all the others are trapped at the entrance and the other side. "There's about 20 swatbots out there, too many for us to take on" said the leader "Let's go down this tunnel and meet up with the main entrance". "Sounds good sir, Steven's has been hit in the leg, we'll have to carry him" said Par. "Okay then, I'll turn on my emergency homing beacon and let's go down to the front entrance, curve around the hill and make it back to the landing site" said the leader. He turned to go down the tunnel but stopped and turned to Par again. "Oh and in the circumstances, call me Rob" said Rob and he went down the tunnel. "Sure thing sir, er I mean Rob" said Par looking a little confused, then he trundled after everyone else. Back at Knothole three freedom fighters sit at a wooden table watching Sally tap it with her fingers. It is obvious Sally is worried, "I'm worried" she said, "We've noticed" replied Sonic. "There hasn't been anything approaching for ages and they should have sent their position or something, I hope nothing went wrong, they didn't scramble their message and anybody monitoring them could have picked it up" said Sally. "Like Robotnik?" asked Bunnie, "Yes, like Robotnik" replied Sally. A unformed technician ran up, "Princess, we have something you might like to se, an update on the expedition" he said. "I'm coming" Sally said, following the technician into a control building. "There" he said pointing to a large screen with a photo of a mountainous Region, a red dot continuously blinked on and off on a mountain. "What's that?" asked Sally pointing to the dot, "That is the homing beacon of Major Robert on the archaeological expedition" he said. "I didn't know old Robbo had an interest in rocks" said a familiar voice, everyone turned to see who it was. It was only Sonic, "I didn't hear you come in" Sally exclaimed, "I'm gettin' sneaky" Sonic replied, "Like the food festival?" she asked, sounding displeased. "Oh yeah, that was awesome" said a young adult male hare swivelling round on his chair. "Quiet, Trell" hushed the technician, "Oh you're just stingy, Dirk because you got an egg in your shoe!" quickly replied the hare. Sonic started laughing, "Can we please stick to the subject?" Sally said. "Tell everyone there's a meeting in 10 minutes and we'll head for the mountains in half an hour" she finished. CHAPTER 3 "Aaahhh!!", "It really hurts!" said an injured officer on a stretcher. "Just keep still and I'll give you some painkiller" said a familiar Par. "How's Steven's doing?" asked Rob, "He's in pain but he'll live, he's got two broken legs" said Par, administering the pain killer and Steven's fell fast asleep within a few minutes. "Sir, oh I mean Rob, what plan exactly do you have in mind?" asked Par, "Well Par, we'll make our way back to the cave entrance and retrieve the Book of Lore, then sneak around to the main site where we can get a craft at take off in a hurry" explained Rob. "I just hope everybody got out in time" continued Rob as they approached the cave entrance, they looked in to see 6 swatbots milling around 5 unarmed archaeologists, darting back around the corner Rob turned to his remaining aides. "Okay everyone, here's the plan", "Par, you throw a grenade at that Bot near the doorway, in the confusion it creates, we will all shoot the remaining Bots", "Any questions?" said Rob, "Yes, why the grenade, it might bring the roof down?" asked a soldier. "The grenade will slow the Bots down and cloud their vision for a few seconds, we don't want those hostages killed, but all the same a stun grenade will be used" replied Rob, "Ready Par?" asked Rob. "All ready" replied Par, "Then hit it!" said Rob. Par primed and threw in a grenade right underneath a Bot. But one of the Bots was holding a yellow and red Camera, on the other end far away in Robotropolis, Robotnik eagerly watches his vis-screen. "There it is, get it!" said an excited Robotnik, the robot moved towards a stone pedestal with an old book upon it. Suddenly there was an explosion and the screen filled with smoke, "What?, what's going on?" stammered Robotnik, there were sounds of laser fire and the camera was dropped. When the smoke cleared the camera was laying on it's side and there were robot parts scattered everywhere, a uniformed Kelpie picked up the camera and spoke into it. "Better luck next time, fat man!" he said, a fist came up to the lens and the picture cut out. "No!" screamed Robotnik as he slammed his fists onto the arms of his chair, Snively, his assistant looked uneasily at the angry Robotnik wondering if he will venge his anger on him. In the air the freedom fighters zoom towards the mountain site with Sonic at the controls they fly at an alarming speed in hope that they are not too late. "Sonic, must you fly so fast?" asked Sally, "Have to Sal, we gotta get in time before old Robo but shows up" replied Sonic. As they approached the landing site two craft took off in pursuit of them, "Whoa looks like we got company" said Sonic after glancing at the radar screen. Sure enough, two Robotnik craft were coming up from behind, "Maybee if we zurrender, zeh wheel not urt us" suggested Antione in a worried voice, "Somehow I don't think so" said Rotor, "Somehow I agree" finished Sonic. "Any ideas?" asked Sally, "Only too many" Sonic replied with a malicious grin as he increased the craft's speed. With a skilled and agile turn-loop combo he turned around the craft and opened fire with the forward weaponry. He flew through the exploding enemy much to the scared screams of the passengers, he turned around and came head on with the other craft, however it began blasting them and started to weaken their shields. "Problem, problem!" said Sonic, a missile lock icon appeared on the radar, "No problem" he finished as he whacked a red missile launch button. The enemy exploded as two missiles collided with it's front cab, "You zee I toled you there would be nothineeg to worry about" grinned Antione to all the others but he got unsatisfied looks from them all. CHAPTER 4 "Thankyou for coming to our aid" said one of the archaeologists as he dusted down his white lab style coat. "No problem, "It's all in a day's work" replied Rob, "Somebody coming!" an officer yelled out as Sonic and the others came running in. "Sonic, Sally! you're here at last" said Rob. "Yea just checking you guys out" replied Sonic, "We'd thought Robotnik had got you!" said Sally. "Ahh nothing we couldn't handle, right Par?" said Rob as he turned to Par. "Right sir" replied Par, "But is it true, do you have the Book of Lore?" asked Sally. "It's right here princess" Rob said as he picked it up and handed it to Sally. "Well done, you are to commended for your efforts and reward shall be in order" announced Sally. "Way hey, hey" grinned "Lay off Par" said Rob, "Yes sir" replied Par straightening up. "I don't know about the rest of you but I'm in the mood for a party" said Sonic and the others heartily agreed. Just then, Steven's woke up with a large yawn, "I hope I didn't miss anything while I was out" he said. Everybody looked at him and just started laughing, "What, what?" he asked in a confused tone. Back at Knothole everybody is around a big wooden table all eating and talking in a big, happy feast. Sally sat at the head of the table and watched everybody having a good time, but her interest kept diverting to the old book in front of her. A dark grey mouse sitting next to Sally leaned over to talk to her. "You're just dying to find out what secrets that old book has to tell aren't you?" she asked. "You said it Alysia, this book might help us win the war against Robotnik" replied Sally. Later, after the party Sally is laying in her bed. Most is quiet outside but Sally cannot sleep, she keeps thinking about the book. Finally she gets out of bed, turns on the light and goes for the book. Getting out Nicole as well she looks at the front cover of the book, `Archivia da Lore' it says in ancient Mobian. She notices a tube attached to the spine and inside it is an oval shaped object that looks like a large stone. It is mainly a large polished aqua stone backed by a brassy plate and it hangs on a silvery chain Sally is puzzled at this to why this old piece of jewellery would be kept with the Book of Lore. She notices some writing on the back but she cannot read it, so she reaches for Nicole. "Nicole translate this for me" she asks, "IT SAYS `THE COMPASS' " says Nicole. Sally instinctively looks for this in the book and funnily enough it is found on the first page. She finds pictures of it and reads: "The compass points to the great artefacts, trust the compass for it never lies" she read. Sally picked up the compass and doing as the following instructions said, held it up and in her mind asked for the way to the artefacts. The compass responded by spinning yet independent of the chain and a blue beam came out of the stone and went straight out the window. "Nicole analyse the compass, what's happening" Sally instructed, "PLEASE WAIT ANALYSING" replied Nicole. The End- For Now But Sonic, Sally and others will return in: Volume 2 - Edge of Heaven.