Sonic Adventure Re-Take

Prologue: Sorrow

Flames ripped away at the stone of the shrine building, broken and fallen trees catching one by one. The water that had previously flowed serenely from the holy rock had now evaporated into a mist due to the heat, thickening the air with ancient vengeance. A young echidna girl with orange dreadlocks adorned with white ribbons and a jeweled tiara keeping them out of her face clutched her left arm as she limped up the steps, unafraid of the one causing this destruction.

At the top of the crumbling stairs, standing before the massive Emerald before her, she recited the words that had puzzled her for her entire life. "What must be done. The seven Chaos. Chaos is power. Power comes from the heart. The one who masters the heart controls the Chaos." The seven Emeralds can transform a person's will into power, so his desire has caused this to happen! But if this Master can keep that power in check... She fought through the pain to raise both arms in a plea, "I beg you! You have to stop him!"

CHRAAOOOOO, a surge of power and light shot upwards from the Master Emerald, bursting through the domed ceiling of the shrine and spreading outward into an impermeable sheet of luminosity, revealing the horrific translucent beast tearing apart the nearby city, causing it to take pause. Its reptilian eyes dilated as the light enveloped it, before the light receded back to the shrine, back into the Master Emerald, having absorbed and pulled in both the saurian liquid giant, and the girl who wished to save her people. The ruins were now quiet, save for the flame, and the low wind carrying its embers.

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A gloved hand tapped at multiple points on the screen where the text describing the tragedy had been rebuilt in his own language. The man was tall and had thin limbs, which clashed heavily with his rotund body. He wore a red military jacket with oversized gold buttons, the sleeves folded back, revealing just how spindly his arms really were, betraying the heft of his torso. He had an enormous mustache that entirely covered his mouth, and a pair of gray aviator goggles he kept perched atop his shiny bald head.

The tablets containing the documentation laid out before him had been discovered by one of Dr.Ivo Robotnik's mining drones, who was chipping away at the packed dirt beneath the Mystic Ruins, making way for Robotnik's new underground base. Though fragmented and damaged from the drone's drill, the doctor was still able to piece the tablets back together, and they presented him with an opportunity he couldn't turn down.

Ivo's grand mustache raised as his mouth formed a toothy grin.

SONIC ADVENTURE RE-TAKE