Barks and Bytes - A Sonic Boom Story

Chapter 8 - The Odd Guardians and Its Deceitful Success

Back to present day, Sonic asked Zooey, "So, how long exactly did it take for Tails and his crew to make Blades of the Rebellion?"

"Well, Sonic, that's currently debatable, but there was a 'prototype' of that game published to his school before it became fully-pledged. Originally, it was called 'The Odd Guardians.'"

"Aw, man," groaned Knuckles, "Wish I could go back in time so I could see how 'The Odd Guardians' played; would've been great."

"Well, to be logical," responded Amy, "while it dethroned Terra's games as the most popular, it wasn't entirely fleshed-out if you compare its gameplay to that of BotR, though it had a similar theme during its time. Trust me, I was there in school along with Tails."

As Zooey returned to the story...

"It's about time we prove ourselves worthy to Terra and all those "normal" students, so our plan was to create a video game of our own," I declared. And in addition to my training from my computer programing class, my new friends cited that they had a lot of experience with video games and programing, though that was yet to be proven.

"One small question," asked Willabelle with the lack of ease. "How do we make our game if we don't have any computers?"

I answered, "Willabelle, do you have a toolbox and spare parts, like keyboards, television sets, engines, pipes, wires, or paperclips?"

"Well, I have all of those in the storage room, though I doubt they work now."

"I think they'll do just fine!" I exclaimed while heading to the said room.

She couldn't believe me at first. "Really?"

In just an hour, with all the required supplies I collected, I managed to construct working computers for each of my crewmates, whose jaws just dropped out of astonishment.

"Well! Since you're only a cub, I'll be a monkey's uncle..." said Fingers.

After I finished building the machines, we started using them immediately (though their startup took a while, like seriously, it took ten minutes to load) and began development.

"So any ideas for our first game?" asked Mic. "I'm all ears."

"Well," barked Tim, "We could try an action platformer game..."

"Or a role-playing game," mellowed Tom.

"Well, an action platformer gets your adrenaline pumping!"

"But an RPG's got story, character interaction, and upgrades."

"I say action platformer!"

"I say RPG."

"Action platformer!"

"RPG."

"Why not both, Tim and Tom?" I suggested, preventing the two from bickering. "It would be a win-win."

"But Tails, if we're going to combine these two genres," advised Fingers, "We'll need to put a twist, to the point that we'll outshine that bully's series of satirical games."

"Fingers, are you sure that what we learned during our game development class are enough?" I asked with concern.

"It's been four years since we've developed our skills there. If there's a will, there is a way. All we need is a special ingredient."

Mic's ears rose, "How about vehicles, like cars, boats, and planes?"

Fingers placed his hand on his chin. "Intriguing, but needs to be simplier. Anything else?"