Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Sonic Series Fan Fiction ❯ The Red Star in the Darkness ❯ Chapter 3

Chapter 3

I kept running and running very fast with my backpack on my back until I was completely out of breath, so I had to stop at a nearby alley to rest for a while. I didn't have a watch, but the last time I had checked was when I saw the sun starting to set while running and it was starting to get dark. I figured that no one would be able to see me in the shadows of the alley I was in, and that I was safe for now.

While I was catching my breath, leaning against a bricked wall, I thought to myself, `Damn, this is getting too weird. First, I ended up here in the city of Tokyo, Japan. Next, I encountered three anime cartoon characters that appeared in front of my very eyes. And finally, it was possible that I had stumbled into another dimension.'

I then shook that outlandish thought out my mind. At first I didn't believe that there could be such things as alternate realities, different worlds and dimensions, or any of that kind of stuff. However, some of it started to sound familiar to me somehow, as if, I had encountered something like that before, but I couldn't seem to remember.

"Boy! What next?" I said as I sighed to let out a last air of breath from my pounding lungs.

As if on cue, a light started to shine from the shadows of the alley. The light that I saw was as golden as the one I saw in my dream. I started to run towards the light in the alley and the closer that I got to it, the brighter the light became.

When I finally reached the source of the beautiful golden light, I thought to myself as I tried to see through the rays of light while covering both of my eyes with one of my large hands, `Damn! I can't seem to focus my eyes to see what caused all this gold light. I wonder if it's the same object that I've seen in my dream.'

When the light finally started to fade, I tried to focus my eyes so that I could see if the object that emitted the golden light was the same as that of my dream. But when the light began to disappear and with both of my eyes in full focus, I took my hand off of my eyes and saw that the object that emitted the beautiful golden light that I saw a few moments ago was different from that of my dream.

Instead of a well-forged sword, there was a golden ring about the size of a regular sized dinner plate. Its surface was covered with a pure shining gold coat on it, which explained what caused the golden light to appear earlier. I then wanted to hold the beautiful ring in order to get a better look at it, but when the skin of my fingers touched its soft, golden, surface, the ring began to emit a light that was brighter than the one I saw before. The light that I saw was so bright that I could no longer see the ring or any parts of my body.

I then felt a sudden surge of energy flowing through my arm and into my body, as the skin of my one of my fingers seems to be stuck onto the ring's soft surface like a magnet. The surge I felt was like the feel of speeding static electricity, only that it didn't hurt or make me vibrate like a regular person would whenever he or she touched an electrical loose wire. The bright golden light started to fade and when it finally disappeared, I started to blink both of my eyes in order to get them focused. When I finally regained all of my eyesight, I looked at my hand still on the ground and saw that the golden ring I touched with my bare fingers was gone.

I was shocked to see the golden ring disappear out of thin air like the way it did and I then started to wonder what had happened to it. But as I thought about it, a glow of emerald green light started to surround both of my hands which nearly scared the life out of me. The glow of emerald light not only surrounded my two hands but my entire body as well, like water flowing from a water fountain. I then felt a strange power in me that made me feel strong, powerful, like I could do anything. A few minutes later, the glow of emerald light started to fade away and the strong power I felt inside of me before began to disappear.

I became totally confused regarding what had just happened to me a few moments ago. I started to put together the clues that I had so far. First, the dream involving a sword that emitted a golden light. Now, a golden ring that appeared on the ground of an alley that emitted the same type of light when I had touched it. Finally, an emerald colored light that flowed out of my body along with a feeling inside me that felt familiar. It was as if, I had done something like this before.

That's when it hit me like a ton of bricks, "Of course! I now remember why this felt all so familiar to me before!" I closed my eyes and started to think back to how it all started.

I thought about the time I first met my childhood hero, the fastest thing alive, Sonic the Hedgehog and his two-tailed, genius fox and best friend Miles "Tails" Prower. They were both chasing mad dictator Dr.Robotnik and his robotic army of Swatbots into my world in order to get their hands on a Chaos Emerald. The Chaos emerald was a gem with the unlimited cosmic power of the universe from which the golden ring that I touched earlier was created from(but has limited power).

Whenever Sonic or Tails touch one of these rings, their natural abilities are enhanced and increased for a short amount of time. But when I once touched the ring to power up my own abilities, it somehow had a different effect on me. Now, not only did the rings that I absorbed enhance my natural abilities, but gave me powers that no man had before. For example; I could make flames appear on one or both of my fists that didn't burn or harm me like it would do to a regular person. I named it the "Volcanic Fist" because whenever one of flaming fist came in contact with the first attacker in a group, the flames on the fist burst into a volcanic river of fire that could burn anything in its path. In the end, there would be nothing left but the burned remains of the group of attackers.

I also began to remember an encounter with one of Sonic's friends, Knuckles the Echidna. Knuckles always threw his fists at whoever landed on his home, Angel Island, and asked questions later. He did this in order to protect a huge Chaos Emerald in his home, which is called the Master Emerald because it had the power of fourteen Chaos Emeralds. In case you wanted to know, Angel Island was a huge land in the sky that relied on the Master Emerald as a source of power to keep it afloat in the sky.

I met Knuckles after my encounter with an evil, more powerful version of Robotnik who attacked my world. He was known as Robo-Robotnik because his entire body was like a living computer that could upload any computers' data into his own brain that was as powerful as a supercomputers' mainframe. He also had an army of more advanced Swatbots called Shadowbots that had much thicker armor than that of the Swatbots.

He tried to get his own revenge on me and conquer this world by using Angel Island and its power source to merge the world of where he came from with the Earth, so that both worlds would be easier for him to conquer. However, when I managed to convince Knuckles that I was not his enemy and when the two of us discovered his plot, we were able to stop Robo-Robotniks' plans from becoming the Earth's worst nightmare.

As I opened both of my eyes, I started to wonder how I got here in this alternate dimension in the first place, when I suddenly heard something beeping from the area I was in now and it made me jump with surprise. I turned and searched all over the dark alley to see where the sound came from, but I didn't see what or who was causing it. I then picked up my backpack and got ready in case I decided to run, but as soon as I did, the beeping grew louder than before.
I searched again in a panic and started to shout out, "Okay, whoever you are, show yourself now!" I then waited for whomever it was that was causing the beeping sound that I heard to respond, but I heard nothing.

The beeping continued to echo throughout the alley. As it continued it's repeated sound, I decided to calm myself in order to focus on where the sound came from.

`It sounds so close,' I thought to myself as I closed my eyes again in order to listen. `It's almost as if it was coming from my...' I was so embarrassed when I figured out that the beeping sound came from inside my backpack.

I put my backpack on the ground and I bent down to see what was inside it that caused me to panic a few moments ago. When I had opened the zipper of the front of the backpack, I dug through the pile of clean and dirty clothes to see a two-way radio at the bottom along with something that I was definitely familiar with. It was a green Chaos Emerald, one of the most powerful natural forces in the universe, shining at the bottom of my backpack like a beautiful jewel.

I picked up both the radio and the emerald out of the huge backpack and took a closer look at the Chaos Emerald in my right hand. The emerald was about the size of my fist, and I started to wonder if it was somehow responsible for me being here in this dimension and wondered if either Serena or Rini might have noticed the radio or the Chaos Emerald in my backpack making them both suspicious.

That was when I suddenly realized that I was still holding the radio in my left hand while I had my attention on the emerald. So I pushed the receiver button on the radio with my thumb and I said on the receiver, "Uh...hello?"

That was when a voice on the radio answered, "Miguel, is that you? Are you alright?" Immediately I recognized the voice to be that of my childhood hero: Sonic the Hedgehog.

I was so glad to hear his voice that I immediately answered, "Yeah, it's me all right, Sonic and I'm doing fine. So where are you and what the hell is going on around here?"

Sonic's voice started to sound like he was in a hurry and responded, "There's no time to answer those questions. All I can tell you is that you're in trouble and that if don't get off where you are now, he'll..." The conversation ended there when a beam of yellow light shaped like an arrow hit the radio out of my left hand and I started to watch it fall as the radio hit the ground breaking into burned up pieces.