Sonic The Hedgehog 2: A Crusading Adventure

Prologue: Once Stranded, Now Saved

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MUSHROOM PLANET

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The morning sun begins to rise throughout the gigantic mushroom of the uninhabited planet. One of those mushrooms starts rising up to another mushroom, causing it to tip what appears to be a small rock over. The small rock then bumps into a small mushroom which rolls into another mushroom, and then the next mushroom, which bumps into a round rock. The rock then ends up bumping into a line of four rocks which one by one fall into a gear made out of mushrooms which after turning makes a round bucket tip releasing water from inside. The water then pours into the bottom of another mushroom tied to a rope making it lower and hit the ground.

The water picks up a tiny mushroom which floats downhill into a spoon-like contraption made out of mushrooms; which turns and drops it into another. The spoon-like contraption drops with the other end rising and bumping into a line of mushrooms that grow in size until the largest lands on a blower-like plant, which blows at a large round rock. The rock then rolls and bumps into a cable car-like contraption which reveals to be holding something inside. The rock rolls into the background as the cable car contraption is taken downward; revealing a cart made out of a mushroom.

The cable car contraption bumps into a platform-shaped rock and opens to allow the cart to roll out revealing a small Sonic figure in front of it as we see the rock roll in the background. The cart rolls forward as it runs into a column of sticks that fall down making mushroom cups to drop berry-like fruit into the cart. The cart then hits a rock tossing the figure and fruit out into a juicer-look-a-like contraption with thorns in it as the rock drops on it, having a painted classic Eggman logo, crushing the content within it. The content is then turned into liquid and poured into a cup which is picked up by non-other than Dr. Robotnik as he begins narrating himself.

"Doctor's log. It is day 243 in this... portobello purgatory..." Robotnik says as he sits down a chair that was from his destroyed hovercraft. He then looks down as he holds up a familiar blue quill and uses it to stir his drink. "My only companion is a a rock I named 'Stone'."

Robotnik then looks at the rock sitting next to him, resembling almost like a face. He then looks away, while tapping the quill to his cup to dry it off.

"The question is... for whom am I narrating this?" Robotnik questions himself before he sticks his tongue out and puts it to the quill, causing it to give him a small jolt of electrocution.

'It seems I have become a feature player in the theater of the absurd. Marooned in deep space by that wretched blue rodent and his so called... friends. But it is all good thanks to a breathable atmosphere and my supreme intellect, sharpened against the only competitor savvy enough to brrrrring it.'

"Chanterelle to D4." Robotnik says to his 'opponent', while he takes a mushroom and places it forward, in a game of chess with mushrooms as the pieces. Which in reality, he's playing against himself in a rock mirror.

'I have been striving to make fungi into a functional drink of choice...'

Robotnik lifts the cup up to his nose and he sniffs it. "Mushroom coffee." He then took a sip of the mushroom juices only to spit it out afterwards. He then tried another batch, only to spit it out again.

'With limited...'

The rock squeezed more mushrooms.

'Limited...'

Robotnik tried out three more cups, but every time he spits out in disgust.

'Limited...'