All characters mentioned in this book are Copyright of Sega of America, Archie comic publications, and DIC. The author allows the reader to print this story off of the web, but you can't sell it. According to me, this is my version of Project: Doomsday from the ABC Saturday morning Cartoon. No characters in this story are under copyright from other authors, however, any new characters I introduce are mine, and may not me used without therefore saying so. It's the year 3038, and Mobius is polluted to points which Earth can not compare with. The evil tyrant Dr. Julian Robotnik has almost succeeded in taking over the entire planet. For 5 years a war has raged on the surface of this once lush and green planet, but now, blackened by numerous explosions, pollution, radiation, and natural causes, Mobius is on the brink of death. But because of some encouraged teenagers, Mobius has a chance of survival. SONIC THE HEDGEHOG In Project: Doomsday PART 1 OF A 3 PART SERIES Chapter 1 The village of Knothole, concealed deep within the Great Forest, a place barely scared by the workings of Robotnik. Also home to one of the greatest Freedom Fighters on Mobius, the Freedom Fighters of the Green Land. Leader is Princess Sally Acorn, a 16 year old ground squirrel whose destined to keep her home planet alive. Bunnie Rabbot, a 15 year old half rabbit half robot, this Mobian is just what the F.F.G.L. need. Rotor Tusker, a 14 year old walrus with incredible skill at mastering electronics. Tails, the ten year old entitled to the head of security, belongs to a rare group of individuals, foxes that bear two tails. But because of the war, he is the only one left, presumably. Last and definitely the best, Sonic the Hedgehog, aged 15 the only one of his race to possess the legendary element of speed. He battles for good, and always will. His attitude will beat any ones, but a little conceited. Our story takes place in the briefing room for the F.F. "I have terrible news. Robotnik has begun something that we thought he'd never create. Display Nicole." Nicole is Sally's hand held computer, much like that of a Star Trek tricorder. The metal gadget projected a diagram of a large building, that extended upward. It had holes on the bottom, and security lasers and robots all over the catwalks. "From what we learned from sir Charles," Sir Charles (A.K.A. Uncle Chuck) is an old hedgehog that is Sonic's guardian, that is before the war started. Now he is a robot, but he has the ability to wield his own free will and uses it for spying on Robotnik. "This, is project doomsday. A weapon Robotnik will use on Mobius to wipe all forms of life of the face of the planet. We have three months to shut down this operation before we are all done for." Antoine, a royal guard to King Henry Acorn of Mobius before the war, raised his hand. "I am having ze kestion for ze good princess," He said in his French accent, "Supposing zat zis sing is quite unstoppables, I am suzgesting we get off zis accursed planet befores it goes da-koom!" Sally shook her head at Antoine, "Antoine, we'd need a spaceship for that, and the highly advanced ancient Echidna's did not have that technology." Sonic raised his hand, "Sal, supposing Ant is right. What if this is a no win situation?" Sally raised her hand meaning silence. "We have no choice. We must win this war, and if we are going to do so we must destroy this outpost. Rotor can help in explaining." Rotor stood up, and took a pointer and placed it on one of the holes in the building. "These holes are entrances and exits for a new type of vehicle Robotnik has created. It has a weapon that uses an antichlorific acid that kills all plant life within range. The ship itself is made of a new alloy I call Vortium. It is so strong that no laser known to Mobius can pearce it. The only thing that can destroy it is a metal eating material called Erosofus. I myself make some up in my lab, but the point is these vehicles are not to be dealt with physically," Sonic whistled innocently. "If one is spotted it should be reported quickly. "As for the building itself, it too is made of Vortium, the only thing that can destroy this is 10 tons of Erosofus, or destruction of the main power core. To do this, one would have to get in the building, and place three explosives here, here, and here." He pointed to these locations as Nicole gave him a diagram of the power cell. "There's only one problem. The bombs must be set for under a minute time as Robotnik does a scan of the building every two minutes, leaving the saboteur with no chance whatsoever for survival. Not even Sonic would be able to get out fast enough." Sonic looked wide-eyed. Tails raised his hand. "I was wondering Sally, suppose there's more to this thing then meets the eye. Shouldn't we go and spy and get more information?" Sally replied, "We've considered that option, but we need more time to plan before we start any spying." Sonic had to argue with this. "Sal, that thing is mondo dangerous. If we don't do something fast, we might not have time to do anything." Rotor now cut in, "I'm already working on repairs on an old patrol unit Sonic. With any luck we'll be able to use it as a spying tool." Now it was Bunnies turn, "But supposing the 'hog is right Sally girl, even with Rotors vehicle, only high access 'bots will be able to get in." That's where the argument ended. After a while Sally sent Sonic and Tails out to Uncle Chucks office. Hopefully he could help them. Now after pleasant introductions, Sonic finally got to the point for access into doomsday. "Access won't be that easy. But I have access to get in, anything else you do will be considered treason and violation of user access, and you will be terminated." Sonic looked depressed. "Damn! Who would be crazy enough to just walk in and look at the thing? There must be another way!" Uncle Chuck told the two that he couldn't do anything, but perhaps Nicole could. With this information they started back for Knothole. But before they made it very far, Tails pointed to something in the distance. "Sonic! It's a Chaos Game!" Sonic stopped and shaded his eyes as he tried to look closer. Sure enough it was the entrance to a Chaos Game, A spherical object blue in color, sparking all over from the outside. Sonic made a move toward the ball of lightning, but Tails stopped him. "Sonic we have a mission to accomplish!" Sonic pushed him out of the way. "Tails, if I get into that game and win, I will finally have Mobius' strongest entity. A Chaos Emerald! I have six right now, but with seven, they produce a power equal to that of ten thousand power rings!" and with that, Sonic left in a hurry. Tails decided to get back to Knothole anyway. Sonic Entered the game, and was thrown into a half pipe game, his favorite. All he had to do was collect a total of 250 magic gold rings to get the seventh emerald, and then he could perform the Chaos Entity Ritual! He started his super peel out maneuver, and shot down the tube at approximately 250mph. He heard a thunderous roar behind him, as water came gushing out an opposite tube, and started gaining! Sonic had to go at sound to beat this one. The first set of rings were appearing, "Let's go off to a good start!" Sonic moved quickly and freely around the tube, grabbing rings here and there, dodging Game bombs, and speeding up if the water got to close. The second water would touch him, the game would be over. Now was the final moment, the water was just 5 feet behind him, he had 240 rings, and there was a piece missing in the slide! He saw a gymnastic bar and with sudden basic instinct, he grabbed on, swung once, and flew off into the other piece of the slide, still moving. The rings were coming in on a slant now, and Sonic tried hard to keep up with it. Now he had only 249 rings, and the last one seemed out of reach. He dove for the ring, skidding and scraping on the dry waterslide. He got it, but at his present position, he'd never get the emerald when it came into view! There it was, and Sonic was still skidding upwards, he didn't notice the water come up behind him! His quills suddenly felt cold, and he slid down the slide! The water had caught up to him, but the Emerald was 10 feet away! Desperately, he put the last ring he got in the air to snag the emerald! It seemed to happen in slow motion! Sonic was so tense, he shut his eyes! All the noise was drowned out when Sonic heard the most horrible words, "Game Over!" Chapter 2 Sonic was filled with a warmth. All around him the air was warm, and smooth. As he opened his eyes and immediately shut them again. It was so bright. He let his eyes grow accustomed to the brightness and slowly opened his eyes, and looked around. He was in the middle of nowhere. Nothing he saw he recognized. He looked at his hands and saw a Chaos Emerald disappear and become one with him. Sonic's eyes widened, and he started leaping for joy! Hooting, shouting, yelling, and cheering. "I've got it! I've got Seven Chaos Emeralds! Yes, Yes, Yes! All right!" He went on for 5 minutes doing nothing but this. Finally, he settled down. "I've got to get back to Knothole!" He pulled a Gold Ring out from his backpack, and held it high, but it disappeared before his eyes! "Huh?" Sonic, being not very comprehensive, was extremely confused, "What the hell? Where'd the damn thing go?" He suddenly felt a slight tingling sensation all over his body, and then it was gone. "And it tingled all the way through my body. I keep wondering what the hell I did." Rotor examined Sonic with an X-ray scan as Sally watched closely. "It tingled?" Sally inquired. And Sonic replied, "The thing disappeared, and my body tingled." Sally looked at Rotor questioningly. "I can't detect anything. Either it's too slight, or there's nothing there. I'll need a ring to see the 'Tingling' effect." 5 minutes later Sally came back with a ring in her hand. "Sonic I want you to do exactly what you did when the ring disappeared." Sonic held the ring high and again it disappeared. Sonic felt the tingling effect again, but slightly stronger than before. Rotor caught it on the Thermoscan. "Sally, Sonic is mildly radioactive. But it gets stronger as he gets more rings. I believe it's part of the Chaos Effect. If Sonic possesses seven Chaos Emeralds, then there is an entity inside him that requires radiation from the rings in order to be unleashed." Sonic looked at Rotor with a look of confusion. Sally asked, "So Sonic can't use Rings to give him a power boost?" Rotor shook his head. "Then what," Sonic started, "can I do?" Rotor sighed and wiped his head, "Here we go. Like I said, the entity needs Ring Radiation in order to be unleashed. Once there is enough, you must do some massive movements. Because the brain generates electricity by making a limb move." He demonstrated by putting his hand in a glove hooked up to the computer, and moving his fingers. On the screen, electric pulses were seen passing through his muscular build-up. "Electricity is the trigger which swells the energy, it gets stronger, until the entity is released. However, only massive movements requiring massive electricity will be able to trigger the radiation." Sally asked Rotor what examples of movements would be required, he said, "An example would be, Sonic's Insta-shield maneuver, or Tails' twirling his tails." Sonic was unstrapped from the medtable and he stood up. "Sonic I want you to be very careful with this entity. The entity is permanent, but the effect is not." Sonic gave him a thumbs-up and left. Sally was disturbed. The Chaos Effect, the Doomsday project, so many things raced through her mind. She was really confused. She was about to head for bed when the alarm sounded. She ran out as fast as she could. And ran to the conference hut, where she met Rotor and Tails. "What's going on? Where are the others?" Rotor stood up. "With all due respect your majesty, this is work for Tails. We have spotted a life form outside of Knothole, but we can't identify whether it's metallic, or organic." Disgusted, Sally approved of a manual security sweep. Tails, armed with a Laser blaster, a reserve blaster, a comm. unit, a scanner, and courage, went to stalk the area for life forms. He had to find this life form in order to scan it. He had not seen anything for three minutes. Looking everywhere, couldn't spot anything. "Tails to Rotor, there's nothing here." He waited for a reply, and got one. "Six o'clock Tails, six o'clock." Tails turned swiftly and pulled out his blaster. He managed to see a white blur go behind a tree. He whipped out his scanner and pressed a button. After a few seconds he was relieved to find out that this life form was organic. Coming beside the tree, he said reassuringly, "Come on out, I'm..." He was stopped in midsentence when the knuckles of a fist slammed his lower jaw against the tree. Tails fell to the ground, and grabbed his jaw in pain. He got up, pulled out his blaster, and charged it up. "Tails to Rotor, I found it, and then it hit me, I lost it." "Don't worry Tails, you... ave... einforc... n you." Tails couldn't make out anything Rotor said, as there was to much static. He tried one more thing. "Tails to security, follow my coordinates, code five." He pressed a button on the comm. unit, and it started beeping. The security officers would be on him in less than five minutes. Code 5 was considered, in pursuit of hostile target, reinforcements needed. Tails slowly advanced in the direction the thing went, blaster ready. He suddenly, noticed a patch of white fur behind a bush. He slowly advanced, spread his feet apart and pointed the blaster at the bushes. "With the color of your fur, you should camouflage in the arctic part of Mobius." He reacted quickly when a foot suddenly shot out of the bush. He pulled back rather quickly, but the foot hit the blaster and sent it deep into the forest. The thing took off, Tails followed behind it. But it had a large head start. "Tails to security, in pursuit of a white Mobian, gender unknown, very stubborn, code five." Tails knew there was no way he would catch up with that Mobian. This part of the woods was to dense for him to fly through, so he grabbed a branch that the Mobian dodged, and flung himself upward, grabbed the next branch with his tails, flung himself up, grabbed the next branch, flung off, flipped and landed on a branch right above the Mobian. Apparently, the Mobian was looking frantically around for him, it even looked right at him, but Tails was well camouflaged. Tails waited until the Mobians head faced the opposite direction, and then he jumped. He landed right in front of the Mobian. "Surprise!" He said sarcastically. The Mobian roundhoused, but Tails was ready, he ducked and swiped it's foot off the ground. It fell with a grunt. Tails pulled out his reserve blaster and held his foot on the Mobians chest. "You're a little stubborn aren't you?" He could tell now that the Mobian was female, her fur was as white as snow, she had a bandanna around her forehead, but he still couldn't identify it, yet she looked familiar in a way. She was very stubborn indeed. She shoved Tails' foot off her chest, and ran into the forest. This time she wasn't fast enough. Tails pulled the trigger and got her in one of her tails. As she fell to the ground, Tails' eyes bugged out and his mouth gaped open. "What have I done? What the hell have I done?!" Looking at the strewn body on the floor of the forest, even though it wasn't dead, Tails was still shocked at what he did. The creature he shot was a fox, but no ordinary fox, this fox bore two tails, just like him! Chapter 3 "Yep, no doubt about it. She's a Double-Tail. Tails when did you realize that it was a Double-Tail?" Tails looked up and responded, "When she fell to the ground after I hit her with the laser." He looked as though he would cry. "Tails, she'll recover within about one hour, I think you should stay with her, alone, until she does. When she does, untie her, try talking to her, explain that you're both part of each other." Sonic came and comforted his friend, "Tails, it's all right man. She'll be fine. Look, if you need anything, I'll be in my hut." Sonic left and Tails was all alone, with the victim of his laser blast. Tails looked at the fox, and all he could think of was how sorry he was. Tails felt a sudden urge to learn more about his race. He looked up the information on the computer. All he got was that 3 years ago, there was a genocide in his race. Or, so they thought. He also got his races formal greeting, a simple wave of the arm in a beckoning movement. He turned off the monitor and locked the door to the hut, thinking of the possibility that she would try to escape. He thought to himself, are there more of us, scrounging about trying to survive? Suppose it was true. Tails started dreaming about life with other Double-Tails. He smiled slightly as the thoughts, dreams, ideas, and fantasies ran through his head. Dreams of playing in the water, thoughts of peace and love, ideas for games the little ones could play, fantasies of care, family, and parents. His smile came to an end when he thought about family and parents. He tried hard to think about his parents, about his relatives, about his family, but all he could remember was the sky, birds flying with him, clouds that looked so close he could touch them, and falling into a blue hedgehogs arms. No matter what he did, how hard he tried, he couldn't bring back memories of his parents. The stranger started coming to, and Tails quickly undid the straps. She seemed exhausted, she tried to sit up, and managed slowly. Thousands of thoughts ran through Tails' head. The stranger opened her eyes, but seemed to still be recovering from loss of eyesight. She rubbed her eyes and smiled. She hopped down from the table and made her way to the door. Just then she looked confused, she whipped her head all around her and managed her first words Tails heard, "What the hell?" Tails stood there watching and finally managed an, "Ahem." She whirled her head in Tails' direction, and immediately stopped. She went to go to the door but Tails said, "Wait!" She looked back, and Tails made the Double-Tail greeting. The fox shook her head. "You creeps finally managed to get me, now you try to fake your identity by making my races greeting?" Tails replied softly, "No, you don't understand, look." And he made his tails quite obvious to see. The fox was intrigued, she examined both his tails. After close examination, she asked him, "What is your family name?" Tails didn't know what to say, he just said what he knew. "Prower. Miles 'Tails' Prower." She looked at him, back at his tails, then back at him again. She then smiled, and pounced him. Tails hit the ground and started gasping for air. She started another conversation. "I'm sorry for what I did to your jaw earlier, and your weapon. I didn't realize you were a Double-Tail." Tails laughed, "I didn't know you were a Double-Tail until I zapped you." She smiled and looked deep into his eyes. "My family name is Frost, and I am... was known as Snows." Tails asked sarcastically, "Gee, now why would they give you a name like that?" Snows laughed and replied, "Better than being called Browny." Tails said, "That's true, that's true. Hey!" Snows now really cracked up. Laughing her head off really got on Tails nerves. He didn't think it was funny. She stopped soon and looked into his eyes again. Tails asked, "Where did you learn to fight like that? you really got me shaken up." She caressed him down the middle of his head, and stopped at his nose. "Years of wilderness experience. Boy I bet I could take you on any day." Tails didn't like that remark. "Yeah, well you'd be surprised at how fast the tables will turn." He pulled his legs back, grabbed Snows neck with them, and twisted his body around. Now he was on her. "Pretty fast eh?" Now Snows was wide eyed, she hadn't expected that reaction, but she managed to pull off another one of her stunts. She put her feet on Tails' stomach, and kicked him in the air. She quickly moved out of the way, and pounced him when he landed. "You really must be a descendant from the Prower warriors." Tails looked at her confused, "Huh?" But she didn't answer. Instead, she kissed him full on the lips. Tails and Snows were walking threw Knothole as he introduced her to the freedom fighters. They visited the waterpark, the food replicator, the watch tower, and Tails' hut. They stepped inside and sat down on the floor. "So let me get this straight," Tails was still trying to fix up a few loose ends, "I come from a family of warriors?" Snows nodded, "Not just a group, the best on Mobius. That is, before the Destruction of Time." Tails raised an eyebrow. "The Destruction of Time is what was screamed the day my village was destroyed three years ago. After the destruction was passed, I looked for survivors, hopefully the Prowers. However, many people were captured, among them was my family. All the Prowers were dead, except the mistress Prower. I had guessed that she ran away because I didn't see her among the metal ones." Tails' eyebrow went even higher. "You must be mistress Prower's son." Tails hesitated, "What's wrong?" Tails just gazed at a wall. "Can you not remember your mother?" Tails shook his head. Snows made a sound of sympathy and held Tails close. "All I can remember is flying with the birds in the clouds hanging from a beautiful blue sky, and then falling into Sonic's arms." It was Snows turn to raise an eyebrow. "I was flying in front of birds, dodging clouds, laughing as they went by. Then all of a sudden, my tails gave way, and I fell, right into Sonic's arms. Sonic is my best friend. He cared for me, treated my like a father and brother, taught me to become more and more independent. But that was three years ago." Snows understood. She told Tails that, "The Double-Tail village was destroyed three years ago. Tails, do you realize that we are the only Double-Tails alive?" Tails thought over the possibility, and the odds pointed in that direction. "You may be right, but we must not reproduce until the war is over." Snows was confused, "War?" Tails explained about the current war with Robotnik, the Doomsday project, and his role as a freedom fighter. "Tails, you're so brave! Let me join you please?" Tails considered, thinking back to the incident in which they met, and approved. Snows kissed him, and hugged him. Tails did the same in turn. As Tails hugged her, Snows tried to figure out what Tails meant by "flying with the birds" "Before we send you out, we must go through testing and training. This involves just a manner of target practice, and hand-to-hand combat. We'll start with target practice." Tails gave Snows a laser and wished her good luck. She stepped into a room and waited for the targets to appear. Tails was in a separate room, and he controlled the pop-up targets. He gave her a set of two to start with, and moved up to more difficult procedures, but she aced them all, even the most difficult sets three times in a row! Tails wondered if she to was a descendant from a group of warriors. They then went on to hand-to-hand combat. It was more like Snows training Tails, but they enjoyed it. They trained until sunset. Afterward they left Knothole, chased each other through the Great Forest, finally they sat in an open field, watched the sun set in the south, (Mobius astronomical pattern is different than Earth's) and slept under the stars. As they were leaving Knothole, Sonic smiled and shook his head in disbelief. Chapter 4 "All right freedom fighters," Sally had called a meeting in the conference hut. Every one of the senior officers arrived, even Snows. "We have received word that Robotropolis has been reduced to minimal security. This operation requires every one of us to go to Robotropolis with some foot soldiers, and bring a supply of detonators for the assault. The bombs will be set off once project doomsday is destroyed. Sonic, Tails, each of you take five soldiers. Snows, Bunnie, each of you take six. Rotor, Antoine, same thing. I'll take ten. We leave in two hours. Dismissed." Everybody got up and left to get their soldiers. Sonic and Tails got their soldiers and bombs and headed out for Robotropolis, stopping for Tails and Snows to wish each other good luck. When they reached Robotropolis, the first thing they realized was the smell. It was like trying to breathe through a pair of dirty gym socks that hadn't been cleaned in a year. Nevertheless, they still could breathe, barely. Everyone was quietly setting up the bombs. Sonic and Tails both decided they would split up and meet and the control center of Robotropolis. Sonic spread his soldiers out, and they went their own ways. Sonic was spreading his detonators here and there, so that not an inch of estimated destruction would be wasted. He dropped one accidentally in front of a building. As he went to pick it up, he looked at the building. It must have been a new one, hopefully an oil storage silo. He made his way to the central control center. Placing five bombs on every one of the 50 floors of the building. When he finally made it to the top floor, he walked on the catwalk to the door of the command room of Robotropolis, the most vital part of the metallic mess. It wouldn't open. He'd need to make a security override. He ran up the dome room to a ledge where the control panel was. When he started to work on the panel he suddenly wondered where Tails was. He looked down, but all he saw was a catwalk over what seemed to be a bottomless pit. He shrugged and went back to work. Tails was running as fast as he could. He had to get to Sonic and tell him the bad news he had heard. "Come on, come on!" he urged in the elevator. It stopped and the door opened. He ran out and yelled, "SONIC! SONIC!" Sonic jumped, and looked down on the catwalk, there he was, finally. He opened his mouth to say something when his eyes bugged out. "TAILS, WATCH OUT!!" Tails looked up to where he heard the voice, and fell flat on his face. He felt himself being dragged off the catwalk. He looked back, and saw two metallic octopus arms, one on each of his Tails, pulling him off. He screamed as he saw two more grab his legs. Sonic jumped off the panel, landed on the catwalk and grabbed Tails' arms. He pulled, trying to free Tails from the robots grip. Tails felt a pain in his arms, and he could tell that if Sonic didn't let go, he wouldn't have any arms. Sonic's comm. unit fell out of his belt. He pressed a button on it with his foot and screamed, "SONIC TO BUNNIE, GET TO THE TOP FLOOR OF THE CONTROL CENTER CODE TWO! TAILS IS IN TROUBLE!" Sonic could feel Tails' gloves slipping from his own. He would save Tails if it meant ripping his legs off. Tails tried in vain to get Sonic's attention. "SONIC, LISTEN TO ME. FORGET ABOUT ME AND SAVE KNOTHOLE, PROJECT DOOMSDAY IS A HOAX!!" What happened next, is indescribable. Both Sonic and Tails thought the same thing when Sonic lost Tails grip, and the Robot pulled him down into that dark pit which seemed to be fatal. Only one word was echoed through the dome, a word with a negative meaning. It was yelled in a way meaning that what happened should not have happened. Or, the person who had said it would not accept the event that just happened before him. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! TO BE CONTINUED...