Sonic was relaxing on the green hills of Green Hill Zone, a chilli dog resting on his belly. It was a peaceful day and a nice change from all the saving the world he had done lately. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew the dog off his chest and he sprung to his feet and chased after it, easily snatching it out the air before it landed. Then he saw Tails coming towards him. Tails was running as fast as he could, which was slow from Sonic’s perspective. Sonic decided not to wait and boosted towards Tails, carrying the chilli dog in hand. Sonic could see Tails was carrying Miles Electric.
“What’s up?” asked Sonic. Tails showed Sonic the computer and replied, “I hacked Eggman’s satellite and he has discovered an ancient library which he intends to visit soon. He thinks it contains knowledge of something more powerful than Chaos Emeralds and the Phantom Ruby. Also, if Eggman has been there before, it could have been where he learned about Dark Gaia and Chaos!” Sonic replied, “You had me at the first part; let's go!” and he swallowed the dog in one bite and ran off into the distance. Tails then yelled, “Wait, I forgot to tell you where to go!” (He was not worried; he would use the radio Sonic always carries on him, which is kept in whatever unknown location he stores his Rings.)
Labyrinth
Library Zone
Sonic was in a cave. It was dark, but lit well enough that he could see. In front of him was a locked door and to the left there were some purple, glowing mushrooms of different sizes, some bigger than him. There was also some slime on the ground that looked like it came from the mushrooms. He jumped on the bigger ones, bogome! Bogome! Bogome! They were super-bouncy and he jumped from one to the other till he came to a boarded-up window, which he did a Homing Attack through.
He landed in the middle of the stacks (bookshelves) of an abandoned library. The whole area had working lights. He quickly ran forward and collected some white Wisps and Rings, without paying attention to it. Books and spiderwebs covered the shelves and it looked like nobody had been here for a while. The aisles curved, split, and moved in ways that were rather confusing like a maze.
He soon ran into some Egg Pawns with business casual clothes painted on them. They were throwing library cards at Sonic. It seems Eggman had got here first! Sonic continued to run and started boosting occasionally. He dodged library cards and Egg Pawns alike as he ran. As he did this, Cubot spoke over the P.A. He talked in a sophisticated voice and said, “Welcome to the library. We have over 1,000,000 books. Reading them will make you smarter than...” Thump! “Someone fix his voice chip; nobody is smarter than me!” interrupted Eggman!
Sonic then came to a door with a series of locks on it. It looked like one could open the locks by solving some very hard puzzles. Tails had given him a small camera that Sonic could use to get assistance. He took it out and pointed at the door and took a picture. Tails said over the radio, “This will take me a while to figure out.” Sonic replied, “That’s something I don’t think we have!” He then put away the camera and ran around the corner and saw a Wisp Capsule with a Wisp that he had never seen before. It was brown and looked like a book with eyes on it. He picked it up – bwoop! He decided to use it right away!
As is usual with Wisps, Sonic took the form of the Wisp. He then hovered around the stacks in his area and brown energy entered him from the books on the shelf. The Wisp form was absorbing the knowledge of the books! He then hovered to the door and a beam of energy hit the door, quickly solving the puzzles, and the door slid open. The wisp expired, so Sonic reverted back to his usual form.
Sonic moved on to more maze-like hallways filled with more Badnicks, Rings, some other traps, and Gimmicks.
As he was running through, Tails said over the radio, “Did I detect the energy of a new Wisp?” Sonic just managed to dodge a library card being thrown at him. Then he jumped over some spikes and landed on a spring, which bounced him up. “Yeah I learned all the contents of the books and used them to solve the puzzle on the door!” he said as this was happening.
He then homing attacked a flying, book-shaped Badnick and landed amongst the stacks again and kept running. He then ran into some dash pads and ducked under spikes on a bar right in time! As he did this, he said, “Funny thing is, I don’t remember anything I learned in the books since the Wisp wore off.” A door was coming up and this was a good place to stop for a bit.
The Act!
S Rank!
Sonic did not bother to read what was written on the door. If he had, he would have noticed that it said “archives”. Sonic had run through glass before with no problem, so he homing attacked through it, but there were spikes on the other side and these hurt him, causing him to lose ALL his Rings!
It was dark and damp here. Sonic had to take a moment for his eyes to adjust. As he looked around, he noticed he was in a small room with lots of stuff on shelves. He felt vulnerable when he realized there was no other exit, and that, without his Rings, he could not survive to jump back the way he came! He thought This is a good place for an amb… and then, Crash!
A mech had come crashing through the underground ceiling! The head was the usual Egg Mobile, but with glass completely around it. The left hand was a baseball mitt; the right was a gun with a slot on it. The whole thing was covered in purple slime that looked similar to the slime, by the mushrooms that Sonic saw earlier. It had rocket engines and no legs and was flying in front of Sonic.
Eggman spoke, but Sonic could not hear him since the new glass around the Egg Mobile was too thick. Sonic pointed at his lips and Eggman understood and, while feeling embarrassed, pushed a button. Speakers somewhere on the mech projected the doctor’s voice.
“Thank you for checking out our library, I hope you come back soon! Maybe next time you can book a study room!” Sonic waved his hand in front of his nose like something smelled. “Those puns really stink; you should leave the wit to someone who is actually witty!” Eggman responded “Puns or no puns, your journey ends here! The Egg Dragoon Mark III will make sure of that! Oh, and since your going to die, I might as well tell you, I let Tails hack my sattelite to lure you here and defeat you! I’ve cleaned this old library of information a long time ago!” Before making a run for Eggman, Sonic made one final remark: “Thanks! For telling me that, now I can safely have some of my friends destroy your base when I am done with you!”
Egg Dragoon
Mk. III
Sonic ran at Eggman but Bogome! Sonic bounced off of him. He tried a homing attack, but Bogome! That bounced off too! Eggman shot library cards from the slot in his mech’s right arm. As Sonic was dodging them with no Rings, Tails’ voice came over the radio.“It seems the mech’s amour was coated in a ground up, powdery substance from mushrooms and other moulds. It’s causing a chemical reaction that is making the mech bouncy.” VROOOOOOOOM! The Tornado flew overhead as Sonic kept dodging cards. Tails then continued, “I will scan it and see if I can think of a weakness!”
Eggman flew over to the shelf and picked up stuff with the glove. He threw them at Sonic, who dodged them. Sonic noticed one of them was a Ring Capsule; some others were books. He took the Capsule and now had 20 Rings. Without thinking about it, Eggman threw a book Wisp Capsule at Sonic, who jumped at it. This activated it!
BOOK!
Sonic, in Wisp form, “sucked up” the knowledge of some of the books thrown at him. Then he shot the brown energy at the mech, thanks to the knowledge in one or more of the books and the Hyper-go-on engergy of the Wisps. It was enough to remove all the slime from the mech, revealing a bright red paint job underneath. The Wisp expired once again, causing Sonic to revert. He then homing attacked the books he used to form basic stairs. He jumped from there onto the mech. He bounced off, it but this time, it flashed white for a sec. He had done damage to it!
Eggman yelled with anger and pounded a button and more slime came from the hinges of the mech. Pleck! Since Sonic did not remember what he read and did not have any Hyper-go-on energy, he was powerless. Eggman began throwing things again and a message was heard over the PA. It was a pre-recorded message from Eggman: “Users who break library property will be killed and then have their cards taken away from them, in that order!” “Quiet, you!” yelled Eggman at his recording. Because of his anger, he picked up another book Wisp and threw it. Sonic used it as he did before.
BOOK!
Book Sonic flew over to the books he had read before, but Eggman was ready and shot cards at him. Sonic was hit and was too slow in this form to reclaim his lost Rings! He only had one more shot at this! A card came at him. He dodged, was shot, dodged, and finally shot Eggman with the beam once more to remove the slime off the mech. The Wisp expired, reverting him. He then ran to the books to attack the mech, but Eggman was ready! He shot Sonic, who suddenly realized he could homing attack the card, and so he did, and this negated the attack. He then homing attacked the mech and it caught fire!
Egg Dragoon
Mk.
III defeated!
S Rank!
“I’ll defeat you anytime no matter what you throw at me!” yelled Sonic enthusiastically. “Err… next time I’ll remove the Wisps and beat you for sure!” yelled Eggman as he detached the Egg Mobile (not on fire) from the mech body.
Nobody heard him cause of the glass again. He was about to be completely gone from the room when he came back and pushed a button revealing the normal amount of glass for the Egg Mobile. “What I said was OH! forget it!” and he flew away!”
Knuckles angrily asked Tails and Sonic, “So how long am I going to be stuck guarding this place?” Tails replied, “Well, this book I found there tells me how to make my own guard mech. I should be done in a few days. It is definitely worth keeping a working library rather than destroying it.” Tails then asked. “So, did anything there make you reconsider getting a library card? Green Hill Library is very nice and has all kinds of services!”
Sonic replied “Nah, I don’t have time for libraries! I gotta run!” and he ran off! Tails had hoped that, for just a moment, he might have been able to forge a new connection with his best friend! As he watched his friend run into the sunset, he thought “Sonic will probably never get a card and that is who he is.
I should be happy that he is happy doing what works for him!” and Tails watched his friend running, just running as he always does! This time into the sunset!
The reader of the story now gets an “End” Wisp and activates it!
No comments:
Post a Comment