Chain 188: Sonic Classic

Chain 188: Sonic Classic

Location: Angel Island
Identity: Drop-In
Drawbacks: [-800] Super Drowning Skills, & Knuckles, Metal Destruction, Bad Future

[Free]      For The Love Of Money
[Free]      What A Weasel
[600/1800]  Fastest Thing Alive
[1200/1800] Power Enriched By The Heart
[1500/1800] The Blessings Of The Little Planet
[Free]      Smooth Criminal
[Free]      An Outsider's Hat
[1800/1800] A Forbidden Treasure

>"Long ago in a distant land, I, Eggman, the man with the master plan, unleashed an unspeakable evil! But a foolish traveler wielding a chaos emerald stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, where my evil is law! Now the fool seeks to return to the past and undo the future that is Eggman!"
"...I kind of want to let you win just because you said that."
>"Really?"
"No."

But that is literally what happened. I materialized where the Phantom Ruby was unearthed, only to immediately be cast into the future in the case reality-distorting wave that converted the Hard Boiled Heavies into their enhanced forms, and flung into the far future. While I'm not sure of the circumstances of his victory, I found myself most DECIDEDLY not a fan of the fact that the Angel Island I reappeared on was stranded in the middle of the ocean, swarming with badniks, and already in ruins. Not exactly a situation I had wanted.

On the other hand, I could just run around, grab all the rings that I could, use the golden chaos emerald that I'd found in my hand on my arrival, and start tearing a hole through absolutely anything and everything in my way. Especially since I'm glowing gold and running somewhere around twenty-odd times the speed of sound, which makes me a curiosity in the eyes of the ruling power. Sure, I'm not moving as fast as the Flash, but this is a hundred times faster than the enhanced speed I've had since my stop in the MCU - I could probably pull off some spectacular stunts with a small bit of planning, and manipulating my timeline is pretty handy considering the speed I move at. Almost like freely juggling save states, if restricted to a rather small five-hour window. The most interesting thing about this, by the way, is that my mind has run an absolutely absurd capacity and speed for quite a while, but it's truly new that my body is able to keep up with it without stacking so many enchantments that it isn't even funny.

Right. All of that aside, however: the task at hand. Robotnik won, and so that has to be dealt with. It would be easier if it didn't involve me fighting my way off of Angel Island and running across the water to the mainland... and incidentally burning MANY alternate timelines to avoid attacks that would doom me, since if I stop running fast enough to stay on the surface of the water, I sink like a stone. And once I've hit the mainland, it's evident that it's all turned into a mined-out dystopia of factories and pollution, so the obvious thing to do is to continue tearing through everything at mach ten and deplete his forces faster than he can rebuild them.

This is sufficient to upgrade my threat level - now I have his attention. Now he begins deploying heavier things than his robotic ecology of mere badniks. Waves of Eggrobos, led by E-series hunter-killers. When those failed, there were bigger attacks. Purpose-built minibosses to test my abilities, then new ones tailored to me. The Phantom Heavies themselves, attempting to repel me from attacking the Death Egg (once the manic smile of enjoying superspeed went away and I realized I could fly at four times my running velocity). The Metal series on the Death Egg itself - not just Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles, but also a facsimile of me. The taunts over the loudspeakers within the Death Egg as it was collapsed down upon me when I snagged its power sources, tucking them safely away and leaping into the past with scant moments to spare.

Not a soul in the past believed me, but that's all right. I largely left them all to their own devices, since for some inexplicably reason I was on the bottom of the totem pole - at least, once I'd dealt with my metal doppelganger, since it followed me into the past.

It may have had all of my abilities, but it had all of my weaknesses, as well. Which... is pretty much the complete inability to swim.

Have fun on the bottom of the ocean, metal-me!