GeneX Generations
Chapter 1 - Party Crasher
Stage - Green Hill, Marble - Sonic the Hedgehog
Note: Sonic the Hedgehog and related characters are (c) SEGA and
Sonic Team. You knew that, right?
GeneX and related fanchars are (c) 2BIT (TheGreatGator), the author.
"Sonic, he can really move.
Sonic, he's got an attitude.
Sonic, he's the fastest thing alive!" - Opening Theme, Sonic the Hedgehog SatAM
A long time ago, Sonic was running through the familiar landscapes of Green Hill Zone. Robots he'd fought before had repopulated the normally peaceful locale, but he wasn't worried. As always, he'd managed to smash and spin dash his way through the danger, and now everything seemed to be more or less OK. As he ran along, he suddenly heard a loud noise. At first he shrugged it off, but an even louder roar got his attention! Looking up into the sky, Sonic saw a strange creature glaring at him...
Much time passed. A black and white furred fox with two tails was walking along a road leading into a quiet, outdoor park. He was joined by a small robotic puppy and a strange, blue haired man in an alligator costume. The fox was known as Copter, and his companions were SPOT and Gator, respectively. "I still can't believe Tails had his robot track me down to invite me to this party..." Copter grumbled, "Does he really think Sonic wants me there? Maybe to laugh at me for showing up..." Gator chuckled. "For showing up without a present you mean." Copter glanced at Gator, who didn't seem to have a present either. "Were you really invited, too?" he asked. Gator nodded. "Look, see? I got an invite and everything!" he said, showing Copter a piece of paper. "This is addressed to someone called 'Mighty.'" he pointed out. Gator nodded. "Yep, the mighty Gator!" he insisted. Copter rolled his eyes. Suddenly, SPOT started beeping loudly! The text on the robot's monitor eyes flashed urgently. "Incoming S.O.S!" it read. Copter heard a familiar voice coming from SPOT. The voice of his creator, Bucky the Rat! "Anyone who is listening! I haven't got much time! Something has come after my ship! Whatever it is, it's powerful, and it poses an immense threat! I recognize that sort of power... It's manipulating the fabric of ti-" Suddenly, the signal was lost. Copter and Gator exchanged worried looks. "Tails forgot to pay his phone bill..." Gator muttered. Copter shook his head. "No... But I think Bucky is gone. Great... Now what are we getting into..." he muttered, starting to get a bad feeling.
Elsewhere, a party was about to begin. Sonic's friends had been setting things up at a table next to a tree. They had a cake and some balloons, and the main food was, of course, Chili Dogs. Knuckles. Amy, Cream, Cheese, Rouge, Espio, Charmy, Vector, and even Blaze had made it to the party. Tails ran up to the group, panting excitedly. "He'll be here any second!" he gasped as Sonic came up behind him. "Hey guys, what's going on? You having a party or something?" the blue hedgehog asked. Everyone hurriedly took up their positions and yelled out "SURPRISE!!!" despite the fact that a couple of the invited guests still hadn't even arrived. Sonic smiled sheepishly. "Awww, you guys!" he said as the party officially kicked off. Amy immediately began smothering Sonic with affection, but he still managed to pay attention to Tails, who had organized the whole thing. "It's kinda impossible to surprise you." Tails admitted. "You totally got me this time! I had no idea!" Sonic tried to say as Amy squeezed him. "Yeah, right." Tails muttered, "Happy birthday, Sonic! I hope you like this!" he said as he handed Sonic a Chili Dog with a ribbon tied around it. Sonic smiled. "Like it? I love it!" he grinned as he took a bite. However, the party would not last much longer. A powerful force blew the food off the table, and the Chili Dog out of Sonic's hand! "Whoa!" As Sonic looked frantically for his missing dog, Tails saw something appearing nearby. "Sonic! What's that!?" he shouted. A giant, dark purple creature made of a strange energy emerged seemingly out of nowhere! "What's it doing!?" Tails wondered as the creature motioned with its arms. Giant portals opened up all around it, and started to pull in Sonic's friends! One by one, Sonic's friends were each sucked in to a different portal! "Hey! Not cool!" Sonic shouted, charging at the creature in an effort to save those of his friends who hadn't been sucked in yet. He jumped up and launched a homing attack, but the creature simply swatted him away, sending him tumbling to the ground! As the last of his friends were sucked in, and he started to lose consciousness, Sonic heard Tails calling out to him. "Help us, Sooooonic!" Just then, Copter, Gator and SPOT arrived on the scene. "Uhhhh.... I guess we missed the party." Copter muttered. The creature glared at them, and then opened a couple more portals, instantly catching Gator and SPOT in them! "Worst party eveeeeer!!!" Gator screamed. Copter immediately pulled out a remote and called his plane, the Hurricane, which he wasted no time hopping into. However, the creature merely repositioned the portal, and the power of its suction proved too great even for his plane! "Oh, shoot! C'mon, one of these levers must do something clever! Eggman built this thing, for crying out loud!" he growled, pulling a switch labeled "Emergency Shield." The plane suddenly began to transform into a sturdier shape, with a protective shielding covering the cockpit! However, it didn't help the plane escape, and Copter soon found himself pulled into the portal! With nothing left to stand in its way, the creature could now do as it pleased...
Copter awakened in the cockpit of his plane. It had protected him, but it had gotten plenty beaten up in the crash landing. It was situated in the middle of a land formation resembling a loop, and as he hopped out of the plane and looked around, Copter vaguely recognized the place he'd arrived at. "Huh? What? This is Green Hill Zone... How did I get flung all the way over here?" he muttered, glancing around. Odd totem poles, palm trees, checked green hills, large flowers, this was definitely Green Hill Zone. He groaned. "I've got a feeling it's going to be a long walk back to civilization. I better get going..." So he went on his way, and the first thing he noticed was that he was not alone. Robots were patrolling the area, but something seemed off about them. "Eggman's robots? They seem kinda primitive for Eggman..." he muttered. There were lady bug styled Motobugs, which seemed to lack any combat skills, and bee styled Buzzbombers, a relatively simple robot. Copter thought to just ignore the robots, but his attention was drawn back to them as he heard them explode! A young blue hedgehog was taking them out! "Oh, Sonic's alive after all. Well, maybe he can tell me what's going on." he muttered, rushing over to him. "Hey! Sonic! What was that all that about!?" he grumbled. The young hedgehog looked at him with a puzzled expression, without saying a word. "Err... You know, the giant monster? Say, did it do something to you? You seem kinda different." Copter said. Sonic looked even more confused, and a little impatient, looking at his wrist as if to check a watch. Copter growled at him. "Wise guy! Give me the silent treatment will you! You annoying little shorty!" he attempted to strike him with a tail whip in his frustration, but Sonic zipped out of the way and ended up behind him. He then stuck out his tongue at Copter and took off at high speed, leaving him behind! "You're getting FAT, too!! You gotta lay off the Chili dogs!" Copter shouted. More frustrated than ever, he decided to go looking for more of those primitive robots. "I'm gonna tear some tin cans apart!!" he growled.
It was a simple matter to destroy most of the robots that crossed his path. A swift kick to the head would take out a Motobug or a Buzzbomber. As Copter reached one of the log bridges of Green Hill Zone, though, he found something a bit more tricky for him. Fish robots called Choppers, leaping out of the water below. They weren't exactly accurate attackers, but Copter was finding it hard to hit them, too. During the distraction, a crustacean robot called Crabmeat snuck up on him and fired missiles! "Oh, boy..." Copter hurriedly flew out of the way, only to get slapped in the face by a Chopper's tail! Before it could get away, he grabbed it and swung it around before tossing it at Crabmeat, destroying both robots! Copter landed on the bridge and sighed. "I'll just ignore the other fish, then... It's not like there's people trapped in these robots." he muttered. A bit more wandering, and he made his way out of Green Hill Zone. He made a brief trek through a strange white space, and came upon another area. There were old marble buildings around, and bubbling lakes of lava could be found here and there. "I don't know what's more unpleasant, that white nothingness, or this." he muttered. As he stepped closer to a lava pool and saw a couple fireballs jump out suddenly, he jumped back. "This, definitely this. Goodbye." As he was turning to leave, however, he saw a hooded figure standing by one of the buildings. "Welcome to the Marble Zone." the hooded figure whispered. Copter faced him and sighed. "OK, let's hear it. I suppose you have a message for me?" The hooded figure turned and took off into the Marble Zone, forcing Copter to give chase! "Sure! Make it complicated! I hope your cloak catches fire!" he shouted. Looking ahead, Copter could already see more Buzzbombers in the zone. "You better have some answers for me! I'm not going through this for nothing!" he yelled. Suddenly, the hooded figure smashed some stone blocks beneath him and dropped underground! Copter glanced down into the dark dungeons below. "You've got to be kidding me..." he groaned, hopping in just as the Buzzbombers started shooting at his location.
Sonic had also found his way out of Green Hill Zone, and arrived at the white space it now seemed to be contained in. As he looked around, he was surprised to find what appeared to be a white statue of himself! He ran over to check it out. It was taller, older looking, and appeared knocked out. To Sonic, it didn't really seem much like a statue. He shook it, as if attempting to wake it up, and suddenly, a light flashed from it! Startled, Sonic dashed back toward Green Hill Zone, hiding behind a corner. In a moment, the "statue" had gained color. In fact, it was an older Sonic! The elder Sonic slowly regained consciousness and rose to his feet, looking around. "Where am I?" he muttered. He saw Green Hill Zone ahead of him, and not much else around him. With nothing better to do, Sonic headed into the familiar zone, hoping to find some clues about what had happened there. The younger Sonic jumped out from behind the corner and watched his older self go in. He scratched his head curiously. He wasn't quite sure what to make of this. He decided to head back into Green Hill Zone. He would observe this look alike for a bit, and see where it leads him.
Copter continued the chase through the dungeons of the Marble Zone, dodging spike traps and Bat Brain robots as he ran. The hooded figure seemed able to time the traps perfectly, slipping through giant moving tubes before they could crush him and barely missing the spike traps that would rise and fall from the ceiling. Copter was barely able to keep up, but soon managed to corner the mystery person at a room filled with lava. Or so he thought. The hooded figure jumped on a stone block and began to surf on it across the lava! There was a second block there, but Copter initially shook his head. "What am I, suicidal?" he grumbled. Suddenly, a swarm of Bat Brains dropped from the ceiling, forcing him to jump on to the block! It worked for a bit, but soon the block stopped moving! "Oh, brilliant..." he grumbled. It was a long way to the other side, but somehow the hooded figure made it. Copter looked up. There was a hole in the roof, but it was a long way up. "I just can't win, can I?" he muttered. Suddenly, he heard a sound. The lava was bubbling below him. "That can't be good..." he whimpered. In a moment, a column of lava shot up beneath him, carrying the block he was standing on up and shooting it through the hole! Copter jumped off and found himself in another dark room, far away from the hooded figure. "Great! Fine! I'm getting out of this dump before I get barbequed!" he growled. Looking around, he found himself in a long, narrow hallway filled with segmented, spiked robots called Caterkillers. "...Or skewered..." he groaned. The spikes made Caterkiller dangerous everywhere except for its head, so Copter had to move cautiously. "I guess sometimes simpler is better..." he mumbled, noting how much easier it would be to get through this hall if it were filled with Egg Pawns. Luckily, the Caterkillers moved slowly, so Copter crept carefully around them and smacked their heads with his tails. This worked on the first couple, but they quickly got mad. "What are you gonna do about it, huh, slowpokes?" he teased. Suddenly, they self-destructed, sending their spiked segments bouncing all over the place! Copter slipped his goggles over his eyes and gulped. "This is gonna hurt..."
Copter had a few cuts and bruises, and some singed fur, but he eventually managed to get out of the dungeons. Upon reaching the surface, he found an eyesore waiting for him. A sign was posted with the face of a man who greatly resembled Dr. Eggman, only looking a bit younger, and dressed differently. "You made it." came a voice from behind the sign. The hooded figure emerged. Copter raised his fists angrily, but lowered them when the figure removed his hood. The mystery person shared his face! "D-dimentime??" Copter gasped, bewildered. It was true, though he looked younger than the last time Copter had seen his double from an alternate timeline. "Yes, It's me. Excuse me a moment..." Dimentime reached behind himself and untied his twin tails, allowing them to poke out through his cloak. He also produced his staff, though his younger form obviously didn't need it to walk. Copter looked confused. "But you disappeared. I thought you were... Gone." he said. Dimentime chuckled. "Time travel. I came from the past. Well, I take it my ultimate mission ends up accomplished. Don't bore me with the details, it wouldn't be appropriate, plus we may not have time. Over here. This is what I wanted you to see." he said, motioning to the sign. Copter nodded. "I see it. Looks kinda like Eggman." he said. Dimentime frowned. "He's sending robots into each of the areas that have been pulled into this white world, and claiming those areas as his own, judging by this sign." he explained. Copter sighed. "And I suppose as long as he's in the way, it's gonna be harder to get at that monster that apparently trapped me here in the first place." he said. Dimentime nodded. "Don't worry. I'm going to help you." he told him. Copter raised an eyebrow. "If you were gonna help me, why lead me on a death chase?!" he growled. Dimentime shrugged. "Had to hurry. On that note, let's go. We're still in a bit of a rush." he said, rushing off. Copter followed him quickly. "Hey! Wait up! Where are we going now!?" he shouted.
A bit further ahead was the man from the sign, sitting in a vehicle resembling a primitive version of the Egg Mobile. In front of him was an early design of Metal Sonic, more closely resembling the younger Sonic Copter encountered at Green Hill Zone. "Well, I think I'm just about finished here. Go out and look for the Chaos Emeralds, Metal Sonic! We can't let those be used against us this time!" the round man said. Copter and Dimentime arrived before Metal Sonic could leave. "Hey, you! Egg...guy. Whoever you are!" Copter shouted, not entirely sure if this was Eggman or not. The Egg Mobile turned around, and the round, mustached man stood up in his seat and stared down at them. "What? Why aren't these two frozen!? Nobody should be running around except for maybe Sonic!" he growled. Dimentime scoffed. "Never you mind about that. Care to explain why YOU aren't frozen? Exactly what are you up to?" he asked. Copter glanced back and forth between them. "Frozen??" he wondered. The rotund man simply sat back down and chuckled. "You dare to question me? I am the great Dr. Robotnik! I am the world's most brilliant mind, and I will be its greatest ruler! And no one will get in my way!" he shouted. Copter snickered. "That's Eggman all right... Let's get him!" he said. Robotnik turned to Metal Sonic. "Get going! I can handle these fools by myself!" he commanded. Metal Sonic let out a robotic buzzing and took off, leaving the two Copters alone with Dr. Robotnik. "Now, I have ever so much to do, so I'll leave you kids with a warning. Don't follow me, or you'll regret it!" he said, turning his Egg Mobile and taking off through the Marble Zone! Copter and Dimentime exchanged annoyed glances. "Does it always gotta be chasing!?" Copter groaned. "Well, at least the robots are behind us..." Dimentime said as they both took off after Robotnik.
A small hatch opened underneath the Egg Mobile, and a nozzle appeared on the underside of the vehicle. "You asked for it! Let's see if you like your fur singed!" Robotnik began dropping fireballs from his Egg Mobile, which set fire to the grass below him, and the fires began to spread! Copter and Dimentime jumped over the flames, but Robotnik weaved his Egg Mobile left and right, dropping more fire in several places! With fewer places to land, the foxes took to the air, spinning their tails to fly! Robotnik looked back and saw them catching up in this manner. "What!? Grr... No matter..." He turned his Egg Mobile around, flying backwards, and rotated the vehicle to aim his fireball cannon directly at the flying foxes! "Take this!!" He fired a few shots, which Copter and Dimentime moved in different directions to dodge, and then Robotnik started firing continuously, his fireball cannon operating more like a flamethrower! Dimentime flew away from the flames and over to Copter, grabbing his arm and swinging him before hurling him ahead, above the flames and over to Robotnik's Egg Mobile! Copter tapped into the power of his tailband and hit the Egg Mobile with a powerful tail whip, sending it tumbling to the ground and landing on the fireball cannon, wreaking it! "Ack!! Impossible!!" Robotnik growled, glaring at Copter. The two foxes landed in front of the Egg Mobile and started to catch their breath. "All right... You ready to talk?" Copter asked Robotnik. The scientist chuckled. "Nope, I'm much too busy for that." The Egg Mobile rose back into the air, still functioning fine, and took off, flying over a large lake of lava nearby. "So long, suckers!" Robotnik cackled. Dimentime shook his head. "Well, he's going to be a pain. Don't get too comfortable, Copter. We have other worries, too. I'll fill you in after a bit. For now, we should get out of this place." he said, starting on his way. Copter nodded. "I'll be glad to get out of this dump..." he muttered. As they were leaving, a young fox peered out from behind a downed marble pillar. "That was Dr. Robotnik... I guess he's up to his old tricks again! I'd better find Sonic!" said the young, two tailed fox.
By now, Sonic had made it through Green Hill Zone. Some areas of the zone had turned white and lifeless, like the area it was now contained in, but Sonic had somehow managed to restore it. He'd also found Tails, who had been frozen much like he was, and restored him, too. After finding Tails, they spotted a place not so far away that appeared to be a strange city, so Sonic had gone to check it out, leaving Tails at the entrance to Green Hill Zone. The younger Sonic followed his older self, though not without briefly confusing Tails with his presence. Moments later, Copter found his way to Tails, and was updated on Sonic's progress. "You don't say? You were frozen? I guess the shield on the Hurricane protected me from that effect..." Copter figured. Tails looked a bit worried. "If you're here, SPOT must've gotten sucked in here, too. I guess I'd better keep an eye out for him." he said. Copter nodded. "Yeah, you do that..." he said, glancing around. Dimentime had snuck off after they got out of the Marble Zone. Now Copter was unsure what to do and where to go. Tails glanced at the city ahead. "I suppose I should try to catch up with Sonic. He might need my help." he said, running off towards the city. Copter looked around the white world he found himself in. Only a handful of areas were visible. "I guess I'd better pick a place and check it out. If that monster is picking on Sonic and his friends, who knows how far that extends. I'd better see who else I can find frozen in this whiteout, and see if I can help 'em out." he decided, heading in the general direction Tails had gone.
To be continued...
