Mighty Aftergame: Quest for the Deep Power Stones

Prologue: Mighty meets his match

"Okay, buddy! These are the islands you and your little squirrel pal wanted left off at, right?" The human cargo pilot looked back at the two islanders, sitting in the cargo hold. "You sure you want to just jump out? You paid me really well for this flight, I can land down there for you, ya know."

Mighty and Ray's only response was to thank the pilot who had flown them here, then both leap out of the open cargo bay door on the plane together at thirty thousand feet. Two skilled and trained islander fighters such as themselves could easily survive this fall, a fact which the flying squirrel proved by opening his arms, and staring a gentle glide down towards the island. The armadillo, meanwhile, took out his extreme gear board, and glided on down to the surface in style. The two touched down on the island near the beach, and had a look around at all of the tropical beauty surrounding them.

"Ah, so this is Crescent Isle, largest of the Northstar Islands." Mighty exclaimed, stretching his arms widely after such a long fall. "Sonic told me about this place during our last adventure with him, looks like it will be a perfect place to do some training, and take in the beauty of Nature!"

"Ohhh, I wanna go explore!" Ray called out excitedly, zipping around over the armadillo's head. "Can I go have a look around while you set up? Can I? Can I?"

"All right, little buddy, you go ahead." Mighty replied with a laugh, starting to get the tent set up. "Just be careful, we don't know who or what is out there."

The eager little squirrel zipped away, and mighty continued to set up the tent. They were quite a pair, Mighty mused, the physically strongest islander on the planet, stronger even than Knuckles the echidna, and a crazy hyperactive flying Squirrel. Much like Sonic and his little pal Tails, the two of them wandered wherever the wind took them.

It hadn't always been that way, of course. Mighty had been born into a normal Armadillo family; with his father Blockhead Bill, and his older sister, Matilda. The armadillo's mom had passed away from NIDS when he was just a baby, and Mighty had begun showing his freakishly powerful strength from an early age. Both his father and his sister were freaked out by him, despite the words of the village shaman that his strength might come from being a champion chosen by the chaos emeralds. So, Mighty left home at an early age to become a wanderer. His first adventure came when he and two other islanders, Sonic and Ray, were abducted by the evil doctor Robotnik, and forced to run through a series of laboratory tests on an isolated island so the mad scientist could gather data on them. The trio managed to escape together, and Ray and Mighty decided to stay together, after Sonic continued on his journey.

The flying squirrel was an orphan, and so mighty became like a big brother to him. The two wandered the world for a while, until they met up with Knuckles and the Chaotix for an adventure on carnival island, where they defeated Dr. Eggman and a powered-up version of metal Sonic (Ray stayed back on Angel island for his own safety on that one). Mighty and Ray then spent a while with the Chaotix under Knuckle's brief leadership, then went their own way after Knuckles left the group. A little more wandering brought them into another adventure with Sonic and his friends, involving some kind of wired phantom ruby, but after that gem was destroyed, Mighty and Ray started their wandering again.

Mighty thought back on all of these adventures, as he finished putting the tent up. But as he stood up to look around at the surrounding treeline, the armadillo couldn't shake the feeling he was being... watched. as if there was someone out there in the trees, studying his every move from hiding. He considered going out to take a look, before Ray came zooming back to the campsite.

"Mighty Mighty, you're not going to believe it!" The flying squirrel shrieked excitedly. "There is a whole bunch of stuff on this island! There's an amusement park, some ruins, and even an abandoned factory here! I can't believe-"