I'm excited to bring to you a small snippet of the novel trilogy I've been working on. I'd call it a preview of sorts, if you will. I hope you enjoy this! Please let me know on what you thought and which part you liked best.
Plot/Dialogue:
The story was built on the idea of a question that everyone has burning in the back of their minds.
What if these worlds met to save the universe and bring down a common enemy? What if they joined forces?
This mind, bending thriller will have you on the edge of your seat. Start out in the ever-changing, world of SEGA and end up in the Neo-Saban, Marvel/ DC Comics universe. They must join together and combine their strengths to take down Dr. Eggman's most gruesome creation yet, the Dimension Eater. Entering each dimension, being faced with the foes each world. Will they join forces in enough time? For time, is the key thing they don't have much of to spare.
Here it goes....
Chapter 1: A Dark Beginning
It was a long time ago, back in the prime of Sonic's day. A decade that surely defined an era. Was a time of fighting enemies in hope of saving the universe and preserving the future. There were many battles and significant events of significant destruction that occurred. Long, drawn-out battles between two hedgehogs being the most memorable.
Eye for an eye, these two hedgehogs would battle daily, Sonic and Shadow. In the beginning, the two were sworn foes, constantly butting heads. However, over the years, they managed to push their differences aside to become allies. This was crucial for the events that were yet to unfold before their very eyes.
All was calm, until the day that chaos made its most infamous reign.
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Eggman burst out in cynical laughter, " He, he, he, he, he...."
He pauses for a split-second, and then says, "Give up, Sonic!"
Then with his robotic arm, knocks Sonic to the ground pressing him in to the floor using the robots giant, steel foot.
Sonic completely out of breath and finds to spit out, "Never!"
Eggman replies, " Well, so be it you stubborn blue, hedgehog. Since you refuse to die then, I'll indulge in the pleasure of crushing you to death! Full power!" He then cracks an insanity, crazed grin.
Shadow bursts out of nowhere from a pile of rubble and says, " Not if I can help it, Eggman!"
In utter shock, Eggman just stares in absolute bewilderment and astonishment
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"W-What?!" said a now anxious Eggman. Then he starts firing rockets and destroys random pieces of their surroundings. Everything to anything, from random crates to unfinished robots and boxed ammunition.
Their foe was firing rocket round after round, sending large pieces of metal shrapnel and debris airborne. Enough debris was flying around making it difficult to see, after Eggman's robot exhaust engulfed the Egg-destroyer hanger in thick, black plumes of smoke. The smoke became so thick that not only they could see, it was proving difficult to breathe.
While the smoke was still thick, Shadow used this opportunity to swoop over and help his blue haired friend back to his feet. Sonic turns to speak to Shadow.
"You couldn't have come at a better time, Shadow." said Sonic.
Shadow replied, "Agreed, there's no time for celebrating now. I fear this is much too far from being over." He paused then said, " We have a job to do, which is stopping egg-head over there."
Sonic replies back, " Right!"
There was leftover pieces of destroyed robots scattered everywhere. They where just laying their, as if they were tossed and smashed like a children's toy. Suddenly, a random robot exploded into flames somewhere behind Eggman's robot. Alerted to this, Sonic and Shadow, new this would distract their foe's attention so they could seize the opportunity of obtaining the upper hand.
They take out their chaos emeralds and Eggman takes notice.
"Like that would help you out now!" Eggman snarls.
Shadow and Sonic, both look at each other with smart-assed grins. Making direct eye contact with each other, they nod. The emeralds begin to glow and start floating like a ghost or a supernatural entity. Then they start spinning around them, encircling them both.
Sonic hurriedly asks, "You ready?"
"Yes, always ready!" Shadow quickly replies.
The chaos emeralds spun around them faster, symbolizing they're at full power.
Shadow and Sonic both in unison shout, " Chaos control!"
"What?! No, this can't be happening!" said Eggman in pure surprise and distress.
"Oh yes, its happening!" Shadow snarly replied to Eggman's distressed comment. Then Sonic has a turn of having his fun of making a "smart" comment.
"What's the matter, Eggman?" Sonic paused and then continued, "Afraid of a little blinding, gold?" Sonic sneered.
A flash of bright, golden light completely engulfs the hangar with an ethereal essence. The light was very bright. It was so bright, Eggman was blinded for a few consecutive moments. Once his vision cleared, he saw both hedgehogs floating before him. There was something strangely different about them though. Instead of their usual colors, Sonic being blue and Shadow being black and red, they were both a gold color. Sonic's eye color changed to red and his hair spikes were pointed upwards. Shadow's red stripes where glowing and his hair was spiked upwards. The gold was glowing brightly around them, making them appear ghostly.
Eggman suddenly starts firing at them again. The two bright gold hedgehogs rushed forward in a mad dash. They dodge Eggman's rocket rounds and the occasional robotic arm or foot, he'd try slamming them with.
Finally reaching Eggman and his robot, he tries to vaguely attempt to squash them on the ground, but fails. Shadow and Sonic leapt up, landing on the mechanic arm before the robotic fist could ever touch them.
Sonic shouts to Shadow, " The weakest point of his robots is always the dead center. Aim for the middle!"
"You got it!" Shadow calls back.
With full force, they pounded the robots outer armor and manages to puncture a large, barrel sized hole in the rouge machines core. This cuts the monster directly in half. The robot stops mid-step and begins to make a forward fall, crashing to the ground. As it falls, Eggman, tries to make a final effort to ensure his diabolical plan succeeds. He tries to reboot his robot, but its no use. Then the floor starts to shake violently.
As the giant, rusted machine made a gradual descent, out came loud screeching and grinding sounds. Eggman then hit the ejection button in his control panel, allowing him to detach from the falling robot and escape in a small robotic-orb. The big robot, however, finally met its fate crashing to the floor and exploded into a cloud of thick smoke, setting the Egg-carrier ablaze.
Between fire and smoke, everything was covered in a thick layer of black soot. Their surroundings were almost unrecognizable. Eggman, soon reappears out of a corner completely engulfed with smoke. To their dismay and displeasure, he survived the impact. Completely peeved, he grows angrier by the second.
"You wretched rodents will pay for that!" sneered Eggman.
"Oh yeah? What are you going to do, Eggman?" Shadow replied.
"Yeah, you always come back with new robots thinking you'll get the upper hand over us, but always end up failing miserably..." Sonic paused. He then continues, " With that attitude and demeanor, you'll always loose. You can never defeat us, because pure justice and burning hearts of courage, will always prevail!"
Eggman lets out a cackle, sounding nearly demonic. Both hedgehogs looking confused.
"You sure talk big, for a hedgehog that was nearly squashed moments ago." snarled Eggman. He then starts to burst out laughing again, only this time sounding more psychotic.
Shadow asks, " What's so funny, dirt-bag?"
This was said in an attempt to call their foe's bluff.
"Sticks and stones, hedgehog! He, he, he...." said Eggman.
Eggman, eerily becomes calm and recomposes himself.
"Well?" Sonic asks becoming impatient.
The floor begins shaking violently again. Then all hell breaks loose.
Chapter 2: The Unexpected Fate
Two large, metal arms explode upwards from the floor and swiftly swoop towards Sonic. Before Sonic could realize what was happening, they grab him without any hesitation, giving him no chance to react. In the robotic claws crushing grip, they clamp tightly around Sonic causing him to loose the air out of his lungs and howl in pain. He was practically being crushed to death.
"What the fuck, Eggman?! Let' him go!" said Shadow out of shock.
"Hey, let me go! Put me down!" said Sonic sounding panicked and is now having a hard time breathing.
Eggman, to his disgusting pleasure, bursts out laughing again.
To Shadows horror, he saw Eggman pressing something to clamp the claws tighter around his friend, who is now struggling to breathe.
"Eggman, have you lost your fucking mind?!" Shadow pauses, then says, " What the actual fuck is wrong with you?"
Eggman snarly grins and lets out more sinister laughter.
'You're mad! You've truly gone mad!" Shadow replied in absolute terror.
"So what if I have and what is it to you? I'm the least of your worries. Besides, you should be more worried about your friend that's being crushed." replied Eggman.
"For fuck sake, Eggman, let him go!" shouted a distressed Shadow.
Eggman replies, "As you wish, hedgehog!"
He then has the robotic claws release Sonic, launching him and therefore leading the blue hedgehog smashing to the wall and crashing to the ground simultaneously after. This causes the powers chaos control to suddenly come to a halt and they return back to their usual colors. And the chaos emeralds drop to the floor.
"Sonic!" Shadow worriedly calls out.
With the intention of picking up the chaos emeralds, Shadow decides it is more important to help Sonic than worry about some silly emeralds. He then drops everything and flies over to his friend. To his shock, Sonic was lying there completely knocked out cold and unresponsive. He tries to nudge his friend awake, but it didn't work.
Eggman still loudly cackling.
Shadow snaps at Eggman and says, " What have you done to him?"
Eggman laughing harder.
Shadow repeats himself, but this time sounding pissed off and annoyed.
"What have you done to my friend?" he said angrily.
Avoiding the question entirely, he proceeds to make a final taunt.
"Aw,...." he paused. Then said, "What's the matter, Shadow, did somebody come and squash your blue friend?"
Shadow then shot a darkened glare. And then Eggman added on to his last statement.
"While you weren't looking I snatched the chaos emeralds." said Eggman.
"Huh? You what?" replied Shadow looking confused and then shocked.
Eggman tries to make a run for it and presses something in his robo-orb to activate a dimension portal. Shadow became wide-eyed with a sense of dread, knowing he needed to stop him. However, he couldn't leave his friend behind.
Sonic woke for a few seconds to speak to Shadow.
"Shadow, go get the emeralds!" Sonic said weakly.
"But, Sonic," he paused trying to hold tears back, " I can't just leave you here."
"Just go!" Sonic paused and tried to weakly grin, "Don't worry about me, I'll be fine. You know what is needed of you!" Then Sonic passes out of consciousness again.
"Sonic!" shouted Shadow.
He then took a brief moment to recompose himself. He sighed and got up to go after Eggman.
Shadow thought.
I must stop, Eggman. I cannot let him get away with those emeralds. Let alone get away with hurting my friend. He must be stopped.
He looks at Sonic.
This is for you Sonic. Please hang on.....
Shadow is now in a dead, full on sprint. By the time he reached the portal, it was too late and Eggman already vanished to who knows where. What is he planning? Whatever it was, it cannot be good. He's now floating there gutted that he missed his chance to stop Eggman, but then he quickly remembered Sonic who was out cold. Shadow flew over and snatched up Sonic, deciding it was far too dangerous to stay where they were. He made the decision to teleport to his space-bound compound barracks. With Sonic, he zapped out of there in a quick flash, leaving no trace of them behind.
