BLUE IS THE COLOUR
Earth, the year 4009. 
 A skinny man, wearing a lab coat, finally perfects the fuel for his
Starflighter K 2000 space-jet, a machine capable-- he hopes-- of exceeding
the speed of time, and air-capable enough to travel through space. If he
can manage to get up to a high enough speed he can even hop dimensions,
where he hopes to find exiting new minerals to make new substances and
metals. 
 He certainly is a man with many dreams.
 Finally, after pouring the green liquid into the Starflighter's fuel
socket, he clambers into the cockpit and starts the engine up. 
 Almost immediately blue light streams from the engine, and in a flash the
machine is gone, but for a bright blue dot disappearing into the night sky.
If an Earthman saw the dot, he would probably think it was a shooting star.
He could not have been more wrong. 

Earth.
 The solar system.
 Zoom out...
 The galaxy.
 The universe.
 A flash as we skip dimensions, another as we travel forward a few years in
time...
 Move camera to the left...
 A small planet. 
 Zoom in...
 Continents. Countries.
 Zoom in...
 Lost cities... crumbling civilisations... populated hills...
 Zoom in...
 A hill. A small, brown creature, standing on its hind legs, standing in
front of it, in the cool shade of an overhanging palm tree.
 Zoom in...
Sonic the Hedgehog, world-champion athlete, stood peering round the tall
but slim hill. Around it were three of his friends; Porker Lewis, an
incompetent but good-hearted pig, Johnny Lightfoot, a fast and friendly
rabbit (who Sonic had beaten in the Mobius Olympic Champions two times all
ready), and Chirps... a small bird, which Sonic really wasn't that fond of.
 Sonic planned to burrow through this hill and come out the other side,
hopefully giving the three playmates a fright. This was the hedgehog's
usual, perhaps a little strange, sense of humor. This was later to develop
into cases of life and death.
 Observe Sonic. He's a muddy brown, shabby, average-looking Mobian
hedgehog, where animals have evolved to talk and stand on their hind legs,
free of the harassment of humans. Sonic was famed throughout his planet for
breaking all previous records of speed and stamina, and on his feet are two
mud-crusted old, but worthy, worn trainers. His hands are covered with two,
also worn, black, fingerless gloves. He has beige-coloured chest and arms,
and has large, curious eyes-- while his eyebrows are often bent over them
in a mischievous kind of way. All over the back of his body and the top and
around his head, protude several hundered brown, less than sharp spikes.
  Sonic was discovered wandering in the Green Hill Zone many years ago by a
wise owl name Sophicles, and ever since, no parent had claimed him to be
their child. Sonic can't remember past then; it seems likely that hedgehog
suffered a mild case of amnesia as a result of suspected child abuse.
 Sonic crouched, rolled his head and legs into a tight spiky ball, pushed
off with his gloved hands, and burrowed a hole through the hill like a
crazed brown buzzsaw, freshly-cut grass and soil spinning from his wake. 
 That was when the hedgehog's fingers brushed against the edge of
something. It felt terribly like nothing at all, and Sonic began to fall
downwards.
 The hedgehog immediately thrust out with his limbs, unrolling from the
tight ball he had been travelling in, and groped in the darkness with his
fingers, stale air rushing through his many spikes. They found something;
Sonic braced himself for the impact and gripped onto it. He waited until
his stomach had accepted the fact that the rest of his small body weren't
going anywhere anymore, and then felt around. 
 There was what Sonic thought was a ladder, cold and metal. Sonic, sweating
with both shock and panic, gripped onto it and began to climb upwards, back
through the tunnel and into the hole Sonic supposed he had dug into. Then
Sonic's explorational side got the better of him and he descended back down
the ladder.
 It occoured to him that there was light below him. He dared a look. 
 There was; rows of it. Frequently, a small bulb protuded from a large
passageway, filling the cold area with light. 
 Sonic neared the bottom of the ladder and jumped off it, and stood in the
passage he had discovered. He carried onwards, and another ladder appeared
in front of him; though less than half as large as the previous one. He
looked up, and a few metres above him was a manhole cover. Sonic's first
reaction was that the Metropolis City was above him, and though better of
it. He'd only travelled a few metres underground; It was more probable that
Porker Lewis and Co. were still playing cards on the surface of Green Hill
Zone, not the sprawling, over-populated capital of Mobius.
 Sonic took a deep breath and climbed the ladder, then pushed at the
manhole cover. It slid sideways with Sonic's push with a metallic chrrrr
noise. Strong light poured into the dimmed passageway and the hedgehog
clambered into...
 It looked like some sort of labatory. Engines, machinery and computers
stood against the walls of the room, flashing red and yellow lights all
over. Below the hedgehog were scattered scraps of paper, with scrawled
writing over them. Diagrams or something, Sonic decided. Around him,
machines hummed, causing a hollow buzz to fill his ever-pricked ears. All
over the room were small devices, some taken apart or only half-built. Most
of them were plugged into the side of one of the larger machines, or
sitting on a table, buzzing and flashing. Sonic noticed a few passageways.
One, he could see, led to a smaller room housing a bed, also strewn with
small machinery, nuts and bolts. Another passageway led to a
moderately-sized kitchen, in which a large refridgerator stood. 
 Someone behind him exclaimed, "Ah, Edgingous Edclopiupous!" and placed a
gloved hand on Sonic's shoulder. It felt warm but soft. The voice had
sounded shrill and enthusiastic, and pronounced perfectly; something which
to most people was almost impossible.  
 The hand removed its grip and Sonic span around and glared into the face
of a smiling man. He had a ridiculous red moustache, and tufts of red hair
sprouting across his otherwise bald head. A small pair of glasses were
perched perilously atop the end of a long, thin nose. A skinny man, the
stranger wore a red, yellow-collared shirt and baggy, black trousers, under
a white lab coat. In one hand was a test tube containing a blue, thick
substance. In the other he held a bundle of papers.
 "Who are you?" Prompted Sonic. "And... what are... you?" 
The figure looked relived. "Ah. Yes. Of course. You would have never seen a
human before, would you?" The guy leant forward to the dazed hedgehog, a
shiny-toothed grin spreading accross his clean face. "You have now," he
smiled. "My name is Doctor Ovi Kintobor, my friend."
 "A hunam." said Sonic, turning the strange word over in his head. "And
what was it that you called me? Ealier?"
 "Edgingous Edclopiupous," replied the doctor. "The bionic--" he paused
when he saw the even more confused look on the hedgehog's face-- "er,
scientific... word for hedgehog."
 "Oh, that's... that's ok then. 'Cos I'm a hedgehog, you know."
 "Yes, and a jolly fast one too, I might add-- Sonic-- It is Sonic, isn't
it? Sonic the Hedgehog?"
 "Erm. Yeah. That's me."
 "Fastest thing alive on Mobius?"
 "Well, nobody has beaten me, no. Not yet," Sonic added with a hint of
pride.
Kintobor appeared to think about this. "You wouldn't.... you wouldn't mind,
would you, dear chap? I I ran some tests, would you?"
 Sonic considered this. He'd never been called a dear chap before.
 It seemed to be an affirmitive sort of nickname. 
The hedgehog nodded, and the doctor smiled again.

It was three months later. The two had become friends, and Doctor Kintobor
had built a huge, hedgehog-sized treadmill to monitor Sonic's highest
speeds, and analysed the results, experimenting with numbers and
calculators until, finally, the doctor produced a pair of 'super' sneakers.

 These high-quality friction-reducing running shoes gave Sonic better grip
on surfaces and prevented his feet from becoming overheated as a result of
the tremendous standards that were demanded of them. They were made of a
strong but comfortable material and secured to the foot with one white
strap. The footwear greatly increased Sonic's speed, and, one day, the
hedgehog exceeded the speed of sound by thirty-six mph. Upon breaking the
barrier, there was a tremendous explosion, that seemed to flow from Sonic's
body, with a huge roar that could only be that of a sonic boom. After the
shockwaves had died down, the hedgehog was still running. He had found he
had the inability to stop, and it took Kintobor three hours and sixteen
minutes to slow the treadmill down. To stop it dead, as the doctor
explained, would have probably sent the hedgehog reeling into orbit.
 Sonic, as curling smoke reeled from the shattered remains of forgotten
inventions and experiments, stepped out of the treadmill. He was different.

 He was indigo blue, for a start. His numerous brown and unsharp spikes had
merged into one another, bending back into a stiff, stremlined blue mohawk,
as five new spikes streamed down Sonic's back. 
 He was the New Sonic. 
 Even Kintobor was midly taken aback. "Chill, doc," said Sonic calmly, "I'm
Sonic the Hedgehog."
 "So you are. Uh. Are you all right?" stuttered the doctor.
 "Never felt better in my life." Sonic looked down a the remains of his
black fingerless gloves. They were in scraps across his hands. "Hmm, need
new gloves," commented Sonic, "how about white to go with my, how shall I
say... new look, doc?" He didn't wait for an answer. "I'm hungry... seeya,
dude," 
 Sonic waved and lowered himself down the manhole cover.
 And with that, what was probably Mobius' most incredible experiment yet,
went out to lunch.


LIKE EGGS IS EGGS
Over the months Kintobor went on to explain his plan of action to Sonic. He
had all ready acknowledged that Mobius was a cool place to live, unspoilt
from the dire actions of humans, and wanted to rid the planet completely of
all chaos and evil, so that Sonic and all Mobius' inhabinants may live in
abasolute tranquility. To do this he constructed the Retro Orbital Chaos
Compressor-- ROCC for short-- which could and, he hoped, would absorb the
chaos he collected. Meanwhile, the doctor stored the rather nasty
concoction of chaos and evil in six emeralds; the Chaos Emeralds. These
spent their puporseful lives connected into the ROCC, while the machine
gradually sucked their contents into itself, away from all Mobians. Though
there was one small snag, and that was the overwhelming energy flowing from
the awesome emeralds was enough to romove half of Green Hill instantly and
then on to destroy the rest of the planet within the week, transforming it
into a evil-overthrown, giant Mad Zone, let alone a small machine. Kintobor
tackled this problem with the aid of his home-made Gold Rings; these
continaully flowed good feelings around the machine, stopping it from
detonating. However their powers were limited, and he estimated they could
only hold out for another three years, well within the time he expected the
chaos to be fully absorbed into the ROCC. At least a year before completion
of absorment, the Rings would give out and the ROCC would explode. There
was only one thing Kintobor knew could fully neutralise the emeralds: The
Grey Emerald. But it was yet to be located.
 Kintobor placed numerous computers around Mobius, where passing folk could
input any information they may have leading to the location of the Grey
Emerald.
 Later on in the year, Kintobor stood at the ROCC's controls, and Sonic
sitting in a torn but comfy armchair reading his current fave read, Attack
of the Killer Penguins #93, with a huge pizza with extra cheese and an
extra-large cola by his side. But something was horribly, horribly wrong.
Sonic took a slice and chewed vigerously. "Eauurgh! That pizza has got
something horribly, horribly wrong with it. Maybe some chilli sauce would
help..." Sonic's weird and wacky taste-buds savoured at the thought. 
 Sonic confronted the lab's refrigerator. Upon opening it, nothing was
inside, but a small boiled egg. Sniffing, Sonic's trained nose concluded
that it was undoubtably waaay past its best-before date.
 The hedgehog produced this wonderful specimen of nature to Kintobor, who
said, "Oh, with a little salt and my Biocarbonate dia 9.06 part Carbonate
Ex, it should be all right..." The doctor held the egg in his right hand,
and typed commands into the ROCC.
 What happened next, no-one knew. Perhaps the egg distracted Kintobor and
he absent-mindedly typed the wrong commands into the machine, or if he had
planned the whole incident as an experiment. Perhaps the ROCC just couldn't
take the strain of the emeralds anymore.
 But something happened. The was a mighty explosion as the ROCC exploded,
sending millions of golden rings hurtling. Sonic watched them break through
the ceiling, through the earth above it and out into the open air, trailing
golden anti-chaos energy.         
 Then he looked at Kintobor.
 Streams of chaos were blasting out of each emerald, all lying scattered
around the lab. They hit machines and inventions, and they promptly
exploded. Kintobor was still holding the rotten egg in his right hand.
Sonic watched with horror as the protective force field the rings had
created around the ROCC extended to swallow the doctor, and a beam of
glistening colours hit his forehead-- chaos energy. The hedgehog dived back
into lab, and shielded himself from looking.
 The doctor was swelling up. Swelling up, into a horrbile, gigantic egg,
just like the one he held in his right hand. The chaos was shaping the
doctor out of the physical charecterisitcs of the egg. As the clothes
stretched as they strained to contain this bulbous egg of a human, buttons
popped and were sent whizzing across the lab. Still he was growing. The
apparently random tufts of red hair sprouting in various spots across
Kintobor's head began to shrink and wrivel, and at last the doctor was
completely bald. His mustache began to extend and grow, redder than ever,
matching his lab jacket. Black trousers stretched tightly over two thin,
spindly legs and somehow weilded themselves to the doctor's black shoes. 
 There was another explosion, and a noise like the tearing of reality. The
doctor was sent flying backwards into another buzzing machine. It hummed
loudly, as if warning, of a high chaos energy level. Slowly Dr. Kintobor
stood up.
 Sonic stared. It was horrible. The smell of rotten eggs filled the air.
 It was somehow Kintobor's exact phsyical opposite; ugly, fat, bulbous,
short... even his name had been reversed, as Sonic saw from the name tag
still pinned to the doctor's jacket.
 It said:

Dr.  ivO robotniK.

"Uh... you all right, doc?" stuttered the hedgehog. The new Kintobor, Ivo
Robotnik, leaned over to Sonic's nose and jeered, "All right? All right! I
fell EGG-CELLENT!... ha ha ha ha!"
 Sonic gave him a puzzled look, hoping rather doubtfully that this was some
joke of a sort. But Dr. Kintobor never made jokes... or at least good ones,
anyway. 
 Suddenly Robotnik yelled, to the world in general, "I will rule Mobius!
I'll incase all 
your--" he pointed an accusing digit at Sonic-- "fluffy, eggs-asperating
friends in metal! As my loyal, beautiful... badniks! ha ha ha ha!" he
roared. "The emeralds! It's all in the emeralds! I'll launch them into
space... ha ha ha ha! Now I am as evil and chaotic as them!" Robotnik
paused for a moment to recap on what he'd just said, and suddenly realised
he'd put his mouth into gear before anything else. Now that
"eggs-asperating" hedgehog knew all about his wonderful master plan.
"Come here so I can encase you in metal and turn you into a robotic pin
cushion!"
But the hedgehog had already gone, pounding his super running shoes on the
floor, propelling him away from the crazed Robotnik as fast as possible. 
Cursing the speed Robotnik had helped Sonic to acquire, Robotnik cackled
again, probably against his will. Then he grabbed the emeralds and sped
away, as fast-- which was very slow-- as his spindly legs could carry his
bulbous body.
END.



THE SPECIAL ZONE
The Special Zone is Mobius' equivalent of our Solar System. It is also one
of the strangest sections of their universe, though unknown to Mobius'
naive residents.
 The Special Zone, also known as "The Warps of Confusion", lives up to its
name. It is indeed very confusing.
 Energy, light, and focused magic curl around each other in this weird
place, to create a truly astonoshing, and otherwise physically impossible,
things. The Special Zone is also where Robotnik originally launched the
Chaos Emeralds, sure that not even Sonic the Hedgehog would be able to
navigate its incredbile, ever-changing layout. He didn't know him very
well.
 The Special Zone is also where Robotnik set up his original base of
operations, the floating sattelite station Egg Fortress. There he went on
to construct the ultimate of weapons... his Death Egg. You can learn more
of this later.
 The Special Zone is guarded by the infamous Chaotix Crew. 

THE CHAOS EMERALDS
MANY YEARS AGO....
Approximately nine thousand years ago, when the Floating Island was still
largely populated by a civilisation of echidnas. This civilisation
originally was the base of Knuckles' own family. 
The Floating Island, as you will learn in depth more about, and its origin,
was originally a huge section of Mobius, interconnecting various zones
together instead of the huge in-land sea now in its place, as well as
housing many of its own. 
The rulers of the island, at that time continent, were threatened by a
rival zone. Unprepared for this, the island was almost certainly doomed. 
However, a top-notch echidna scientist, Dr. Zachary, had been working on
eight truly fantastic, huge emeralds. These emeralds were formed entirely
of solid energy. In his labratory, Zachary had also formed an energy
conventer, a light beam shone from a large bulb below. Upon placing the
emeralds in this beam their energy was instantly converted to a whole
underground networking, and the entire continent was able to soar to the
sky, away from its many enemies. 
However, there was a problem. The emeralds proved to powerful to handle and
the island took an overload in energy! To stop the island soaring into
space and literally burning up, killing all inhabinants, Dr. Zachary split
the emeralds in two and disposed of eight of the now sixteen emeralds, the
only way he could think of without releasing so much energy the island
would start spinning: He threw them over the edge. 
As these incredible items hurtled to their destiny, they gathered so much
momentum that some of them literally flew through several miles of Mobian
soil and water before finally coming to a screeching halt. There they lay
for thousands of years.

When Kintobor arrived on the scene he read up on books, hungry to learn of
Mobius' winding history. There he learned of the fabled Emeralds. 
Dr. Kintobor calculated that all of the energy inside the eight Emeralds
would have long ago drained away. The incredible energy-storing powers of
these things would, he realised, make excellent storage for all the
planet's evil. There and then, he set about ridding the world, bit by bit. 
When Robotnik was created he made a grab for the eight known Chaos Emeralds
every time he could, knowing that with them he could achieve world
domination.

Then Robotnik's original Death Egg-- powered merely by huge energy jet
boosters-- crashed on the Floating Island. Unbelievably, the island's eight
own Chaos Emeralds were still intact and still giving power to the ancient
island. Two of these emeralds were different from any of Mobius', in a big
way. 
One was the Master Emerald, the main channeler for the emerald's chaotic
power. The power potential of this emerald alone could send the whole of
Mobius out of orbit upon given the same system, enlarged enough, as the
Floating Island's. Dr. Robotnik of course wanted this particular emerald
like no other. With it he could generate the obscene power requirements of
his original dream Death Egg-- much more powerful, advanced in structure
design (ie. Egg shaped), and more controller-friendly than the original
seen in Sonic 2. 
The other was the Grey Emerald, the Chaos Emerald Kintobor eagerly searched
for to stabalise his experiment (you see, this is why he didn't find it on
Mobius). This emerald had the power to fully control each and every other
emerald, and was the main "remote control" for the Island's original orbit
over Mobius. Knuckles today continues to kep this emerald away from
Robotnik in as  much a way he can.






CHARACTERS
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 
Spieces: Hedgehog
Age: 15
Strengths: Incredible speed (can exceed mach 1), witty humour and cool
attitude
Weaknesses: He can't swim (not that matters much-- he can run on water)!
Falls apart when something or someone very special to him is lost. Tends to
dive straight into things without thinking first
Likes: Junk food, friends, hanging out, loud fast music, moving fast
Dislikes: Robotnik, Knuckles, tears, lonliness, Badniks, water, lack of
action, standing still, and puzzles!
Distinctive features: Blue skin, supersonic speed, incredible agility 
Sonic the hedgehog was found, fourteen years ago, wandering the grassy
mounds of the Green Hill Zone. An owl named Sophicles located him and
brought him back to the zone's local residents who, after many appeals to
find his parents, adopted him. Sonic today claims he cannot remember past
that time, and many of his friends suspect that as a victim of child abuse
Sonic may have experienced a mild case of amnesia.
Sonic befriended the zone's inhabitants and a few of them helped raise the
orphan; teaching him which berries tasted good and which made you ill, how
to eat candy, and, er, manners; and as a result the hedgehog developed a
certain confident attitude and heroism, and for some reason an overwhelming
belief that he was the coolest and fastest thing alive. Which is probably
true, but no-one likes a bragger.
Over the years Sonic also constructed a record-breaking on-foot land speed,
which he proudly boasted in years to come. When he was thirteen the
hedgehog broke the sound barrier, oddly turning him a shade of indigo blue
and somehow merging his spikes together into five. 
About five months after Kintobor had mutated himself, Sonic developed his
own attack: the Sonic Spin. Jumping high and then curling into a tight,
spiky and all-round razor-sharp whirling blue ball of fury, at last this
was his time to try it out against a villian; or at least his cronies.
Sonic's pudgy friend Porker Lewis strangely went missing, and after a day
or so, a horde of robotic metal giant wasps appeared, extending metallic
claws and grabbing various animals. Any who resisted were shot at with
ballistic energy bolts, fired from the tip of the robots' tails.
Before their captives could be carried away into the distance from whence
the metallic creatures came, Sonic was there-- smashing the robots open
with his Sonic Spin attack. To his suprise, a gibbering Porker fell from
the small explosion that Sonic had triggered. He had been trapped inside!
Lewis then went on to explain that this "Borotnik, or some person" guy had
gone demented, and planned to rule their planet by encasing all its
inhabinants in metal, using them as bionic batteries for the robots he
built. And that was when our fave hog of much hedgeness realised Mobius was
in dire need of hero, and he fitted the discription perfectly.

Sonic still remains as cool as he ever was, if not more. He's always
looking for adventure and his arch nemesis, Dr. Robotnik, will no doubt
give it to him. If there's an adventure to be led, Sonic's there already,
and his friend Tails is never far behind. 

GOOD FOOD!
Nobody could say Sonic the Hedgehog's diet consisted of only healthy foods,
or at least truthfully. What it did mainly include are listed:

Tortilla chips, nachos, chips, fries, hot dogs, burgers, cheeseburgers,
chicken burgers, chilli dogs, pizza, crisps, anything chocolate and cola by
the gallon. 

However, these items are essential to fueling his much-loved speed, and the
fact that he finds all of these snacks delicous is merely coincedental (or
so he says..).

POWER UP!
"The Power Rings, upon the ROCC detonating, were stewn all over mobius,
into its moons and the surrounding hyper-space. These rings are full of
anti-chaos energy. Someone touching one would trigger the ring to almost
dissolve, though the energy would immediately be transferred into that
somebody. If, by any chance, that somebody would go on to get hurt in some
way... no pain or damage would be inflicted on them. However the ring would
re-materialise into thin air, and from that point the someone would be
'normal' once more. However, the ring would again be there for the taking,
Sonic. I advise you to grab as many of them as possible."-- The Kintobor
Computer.

Rings are genetically coded so that they will only try and activate with a
live being.
Most of a power ring is a storage for energy. 
The surface is a micro textured with thousands of little nano-sensors that
scan any matter that comes near them. If the genetic pattern resembles that
of a live being they release the energy. Of course Sonic wears gloves all
the time but the scanners in the nano-computers may be able to scan a few
millimeters in any direction. A ring contains a large charge of some sort.
The energy could be converted when it is absorbed by Sonic's body. There
are a number of ways the charge could be stored. The first one involves
lining the inside of the ring with a superconductive material. A charge
could be put in and stored. The inside contains chemicals that when reacted
would produce a very high output. When Sonic has used a power ring it
disappears and dissolves into energy. Therefore it must have only been made
of energy in the first place.
The power ring uses its own energy to pull itself together. When the forces
keeping it together can not longer contain the energy it disappears.
Therefore a delicate balance must be struck. The outside of it is composed
of a very thin but strong layer of particles. This means that holding onto
it is no problem. When it runs out of energy the particles float away.
When Sonic touches the ring the sensors open up a channel to allow his body
to receive the flow of energy. This energy decreases and closes Sonic's
wide span of harm possibilities; in other words, it makes it impossible for
anything to harm Sonic. However, once Sonic does encounter an otherwise
harmful experience, the rings re-solve their energy coating and
nano-sensors and leave Sonic's body, along with the protective anti-chaos
energy that they are made up of. They are now availble, once more, to
anyone who touches them.


SUPERSONIC THE HEDGEHOG  
Species: Hedgehog, effected by chaos energy
Strengths: The most powerful being on Mobius! Can fire lasers from eyes,
fly at light speeds, destroys anything he touches
Weaknesses: Has a determination to destroy anything in sight, including
what would otherwise be his friends. Loses his lack of cool and is
impossible to stop
Likes: Destruction, pain, death, chaos
Dislikes: Everything else, especially his alter self, Sonic
Distinctive features: Is bright yellow, sparks are constantly streaming
from his wake, spikes are pointing wrong way and are bent
Sonic the hedgehog, as well as his ex-friend Kintobor, has encountered the
effects of chaotic power. In the events of Sonic the Hedgehog our hero
rescued all six Chaos Emeralds from the warps of confusion orbiting Mobius,
the Special Zone, and didn't really know what to do with them. After
continued handling with these unstable chaotic items, the hedgehog
experienced side effects upon becoming stressed, which totally reversed his
normally cool self into a glowing yellow, hypersonic maniac capable of
travelling faster than light itself. In this form Sonic was invincible, he
could fly and had a twisted determintation of destroying everything within
his radius. He also had a personal hatred of his original self, the blue
Sonic within, and would stop himslef reverting back if at all possible.
This "evil side" came to be known as Super Sonic. However, when becoming
Super Sonic the effect was only temporary. To fuel the power, Super Sonic
collected the anti-chaos Gold Rings. Quite why these didn't revert him
totally, but infact boosted the time period of this transformation, is yet
to be known. 




MILES PROWER THE FOX 
Species: Fox
Age: 8
Strengths: Piloting aircraft and vehicles. Can fly using his two tails like
helicopter blades, can also use his tails to swim and run very well. Can
airlift Sonic using his tails for short periods of time
Weaknesses: Can't fly for long-- gets tired shortly 
Likes: Aeroplanes, flying, machine maintenance, mint candy, jammin' on his
guitar and Sonic
Dislikes: Thunder and lightning, Robotnik and his Badniks
Distinctive features: Born with two tails, and can fly!
Robotnik had had one crack, so far, at conquering Mobius, and Sonic the
Hedgehog had stopped him. The crazed scientist had had planned to capture
the animals of Mobius and encase them in metal, using them as "organic
batteries" to power his loyal and lethal robots. The triumphant hedgehog
returned from the destroyed ramains of the scientist's temporary set-up
base, the Scrap Brain Zone, to his home, the Green Hill. 
The news that Robotnik had been defeated made the hedgehog a world-wide
hero, and Robotnik recieved the same reputation as Earth's Adolf Hitler.
The whole planet could not help but hear about the famous, ice-cool
hedgehog. Some people became humongous fans.
One of those people was Miles Prower, a young eight-year-old fox, with two
tails. Miles had been born with them, and as a result his parents
classified him as a 'freak of nature' and left him to be, unwanted. No-one
knows were those two foxes are now, and Miles can not remember them at all.
Miles Prower set off to find Sonic the Hedgehog-- his hero and idol for
life. He had heard that lived in the Hill zones. By a stroke of incredible
luck, he found him zooming across the Emerald Hill zone itself. Sonic found
Miles' two tails incredible, and bonded an immediate friendship. Now the
two are best friends. Because of this relationship, Sonic found himself
nicknaming the fox 'Tails'. 'Tails' didn't seem to mind this, and prefers
it to Miles Prower.
One day an incredible thing happened. Tails was climbing a palm tree in the
Emerald Hill zone, when the trunk snapped and he began to fall. Sonic came
running to Tails, intending to catch him, but he didn't need to. As the fox
fell, his twin tails whirred into action and began spinning like a furry
pair of rotor blades! 
This fox could fly!

TASTE, BUD!
Tails has devoloped a diet quite different to his friend's, being more
healthy. He enjoys milk and fruit juices to soft drinks, and sandwiches to
burgers. However the young fox still has a passion for chocolate, chilli
dogs and candy; he's also very partial to the odd chicken bucket!

CHILLING OUT!
When Tails isn't desperately putting on that extra burst of speed to try
and catch up with his supersonic friend, biffing a badnik or going
exploring with Sonic, there's nothing he likes better than to just chill
out with a cool drink and a few snacks. Tails also loves to compose raging
electric guitar solos, but scarcely sings-- he has too high a voice at the
tender age of eight. 
Tails loves to swim, and like Sonic, doesn't like to be alone. He's always
with friends and having a good time. 


KNUCKLES THE ECHIDNA  
Species: Echidna (spiny anteater, relative to the hedgehog).
Age: 16
Strengths: Can dig tunnels and climb cliffs using his barbed gloves. Can
glide through the air. Knows many secret tunnels throughout the Floating
Island
Weaknesses: Is very naive and can be tricked easily. This is because
Knuckles has lived alone, without civilisation, ever since he was born
Likes: Fruit (especially grapes). His home, the Floating Island
Dislikes: Sonic, Robotnik, Badniks, man-made objects and meat
Distinctive featurs: Is a sharp red colour, has spiked gloves
Knuckles was born a year before the Floating Island's residents, a race of
civilised echidnas, left the island to travel to the Special Zone, where it
is thought they planned to conduct incredible acts of magic like no other
zone knows of. Knuckles was left a message, saying that one day they would
return... no-one knows when they will, or if at all.
Knuckles is a year older than Sonic in age. He has been brought up on
instinct, as he was left alone on the island at the age of one. 
Knuckles knows all the Floating Island's secrets and was chosen at birth to
be the guardian of the island's Chaos Emeralds. No-one, Knuckles realises,
must have them but he-- without the six emeralds the island would plunge to
its eventual doom. 
That includes Robotnik, and the aforesaid evil but gifted professor is
number one on his enemies list. 

TRICKED!
When Robotnik first discovered Knuckles and learned of the Master Emerald,
he used lies against the naive echidna. Robotnik told him that Sonic the
Hedgehog was evil and had stolen Robotnik's own Emeralds. For a while
Knuckles was fooled but realised the truth when Ivo stole the island's
Emeralds from him. Since then Knuckles has always disliked Sonic even
though he knew that he was the good guy... for, after all, the two are
almost rivals.

AMY ROSE THE HEDGEHOG  
Species: Hedgehog
Age: 13
Strengths: Talented in the art of fortune telling, a hot shot with a
crossbow
Weaknesses: Can become very scared in times of great danger
Likes: Sonic the Hedgehog (she has a major crush on him!), Tails (she
thinks he's cute), fortune-telling and chocolate
Dislikes: Metallix the Metal Sonic (ever since he first captured her as
bait for Sonic)
Distinctive features: Has her spikes tied back in a plume, wears a green
dress and trainers
Amy Rose was lucky enough to live in the Emerald Hill Zone so, amongst
others, often met the famous blue one. Ever since her first encounter with
him, Amy's bedroom walls have been lined with posters. She makes it clear
to everyone, especially Sonic, that she really likes him!
Amy often causes grief to Sonic. He doesn't particually like the girl, and
winces whenever she broadcasts to the world in general that she is his
girlfriend. Not only that but more than once she has been captured and used
as bait to lure Sonic into what Robotnik has hoped was his final demise.
Amy, as it states in her profile above, is also pretty mean with a
crossbow. She has a few times smashed a badnik or two with her own, but
mostly ends up captured by more robots, often lead by Metallix, the Metal
Sonic.

Amy's uncle, who was last seen three years ago in the grasp of Robotnik's
badniks, once made her a small pink car, with a mind of its own. Sometimes
Amy rides it, though it is nowhere near as fast enough to keep up with
Sonic. Some smart features that Tails added to the car allow the vehicle to
travel across water-- by making the wheels rotate on their axis, and a
small propeller popping out of the back! It also has a rarely-used Turbo
Boost, which allows the car to fire a small rocket and be shot forward for
limited periods of time. 


METALLIX THE METAL SONIC  
Species: Badnik design based on Sonic the Hedgehog
Age: 3 
Strengths: Can travel (using his Power Booster) almost as fast as Sonic,
can generate unstable energy around his body (frying anything coming into
contact with it), can rip steel like butter using metal spike fingers
Weaknesses: ???
Likes: ???
Dislikes: ???
Distinctive features: The first fully capable robot to be created by an
Earth creature
The Metal Sonic design was originally used by Robotnik to be the unbeatable
guardian of the Death Egg. However it was severely trashed by one
determined Super Sonic, who, literally, smashed it to pieces. However
Robotnik, never one to give up, kept on going with the idea, it being one
of his favourites. He created Metal Sonic Mark 2: Metallix. This version
was the first and only capable of travelling in time (and also a lot
tougher to beat than Mark 1), but Robotnik decided to leave the feature out
of Mark 3 because he often experienced an uncomfortable feeling that
Metallix was trying to kill his granparents in the past. 
When even Mark 2 was defeated by the unstoppable blue one, Robotnik went
the whole (hedge?)hog with Mark 3. He built it at the time of the Death
Egg's rebuilding, and made it stronger, with the capabilites to absorb a
limited amount of power from the Master Emerald. He gained this idea upon
seeing the frightening effects the Chaos Emeralds had on Sonic the
Hedgehog.
Of course, when Metallix Mark 3 did absorb the power, it was almost
unstoppable, but for the way the effects soon wore off. Sonic soon realised
that he was not the only guy around here who could get a buzz of the
incredible Emerald and transformed into Super Sonic for the third time,
scrapping a Metallix for the second. Most Mobius inhabinants hope that
Robotnik has finally learnt his lesson about these robots-- but some say
that he still has one prototype left...


DR IVO ROBOTNIK/ OVI KINTOBOR  
Species: Human, effected by chaos energy
Age: ?
Strengths: Has an IQ of 390. Never gives up!
Weaknesses: Acts like a child despite his IQ, loses his temper quickly,
requires machines to travel efficiently
Likes: Eggs, world domination, crazed megalomania
Dislikes: Sonic!
Distinctive features: Large robust body, barely visible mouth, outragous
mustache
Ovi Kintobor was a bright lad who lived somewhere in England, in the year
2003. Young Ovi passed all his tests with high marks, and broke English
records with incredible achievements in math and science. 
His first invention might link to his present mental characteristic, as it
was a spray designed to reverse the affects of food ageing. It, as he
discovered, worked suprisingly well with rotten eggs.
At the age of 19 Ovi graduated from university with extremely high marks,
and later went on to study bionics, chemicals and the time/space paradoxes.
He also worked heavily with large machinery and computers.
Finally, at the age of forty-three, Ovi Kintobor constructed a small
one-seater shuttle, which he planned to visit space with, perhaps
conducting experiments with the new minerals and resources he hoped to find
there. He launched the shuttle, and due to unfairly bad luck, was swallowed
by a black hole. 
This warped him to a parralel dimension and he went on to explore this new
area of space. He was passing Mobius, a planet not unlike most others, when
his engines gave out and he was forced to land on the planet. 
There, (due to a very unpleasant accident) he went on to transform into the
evil Dr. Robotnik-- hell bent on destroying Sonic the Hedgehog and his
playful chums, global domination and overall worldwide unpleasantness.
Robotnik is infamous for the way he fuels his army of robots, his
"Badniks"-- with animals! Each little creature is imprisoned in a casing of
metal and used to genetically fuel the robot, as organic batteries. Links
to the brain and optical structure networking enable the robot to suck life
slowly from the animal, slowing down its age development in the process but
fueling the Badnik much more efficiently. To be powered on mobile power
sources or a liquid fuel, Robotnik realised, would be a horribly
eggs-asperating experience. The robots actually demanded massive power
recquirements in order for them to generate energy weapons, or to even move
well at all. Why not give "life" to a robot?
As each battle progressed, Robotnik became more and more determined to
destroy Sonic and his friends. With each new day his twisted but limitless
imagination creates yet more obsticals and death traps for his ultimate
nemesis, Sonic the Hedgehog. Large springs, spikes, spiked balls on chains,
wall-planted missile launchers and flame throwers, crushing walls and
ceilings are only some of the numerous obsticals Sonic has to daily
navigate. 
Some day one of the two will perish-- it is clear that neither shall ever
give up. We can only hope that some day Robotnik's evil grasp over Mobius
shall end, and our triumphant and galliant hedgehog hero shall hold his
victory high.

THE DEATH EGG
Robotnik's ultimate weapon, the Death Egg. Originally seen and destroyed in
Sonic the Hedgehog 2, this ship has the damage potential to destroy planets
in days.
Robotnik built what he thought of as the indestructible Metal Sonic, named
Metallix, to guard the Death Egg. He also constructed an escape vehicle,
the Mecha-Egg, which are both described in this section.
When Robotnik first built and launched the Death Egg, Sonic arrived on his
ship with the help of Tails and mashed Metallix. Robotnik had no choice but
to battle the hedgehog in his Mecha-Egg, before he was badly damaged in
battle and retreated the doomed Death Egg. On its way down to Earth,
Robotnik watched his ship fall to what he assumed be Mobius. 
It wasn't. 
By pure concidence, the Death Egg crash-landed on the fabled Floating
Island.
Knuckles, an echidna and guardian of the Floating Island's own Chaos
Emeralds, was discovered by Robotnik whilst exploring the island with his
Mecha-Egg. 
After talking, Dr. Robotnik discovered that Knuckles was the guardian of
the Floating Island's own Chaos Emeralds. He told the echidna that his own
Chaos Emeralds were stolen by a feared criminal mastermind on Mobius, Sonic
the Hedgehog and his evil friend Tails. Determined not to let this happen
to himself the naive Knuckles turned against Sonic and Tails, whilst Dr.
Robotnik proceeded to reconstruct his beloved Death Egg, using the island's
Master Chaos Emeralds to supply never-ending and incredible power. 
Realising that he now had the massive energy requirement needed, Robotnik
decided to rebuild his ship with a pair of Chaos Energy Concentrator Rays. 
The idea of these incredible weapons had always been a favourite of the
evil doctor but he knew he would never have the energy means to power them.
That is, up until know...

THE EGG-O-MATIC
Robotnik's original design for a primary way of travel, the Egg-O-Matic has
remained a firm favourite with the scientist ever since his change. 
The Egg-O-Matic is constructed of a small, black, hollow half-oval. At the
rear of the oval is the machine's engine-- a mediumly sized Robotron 100,
constructed by Robotnik himself. It is constantly removed, tinkered with
and then put back again, the results of such doings varying between the
better or worse performance of the engine.
At the front end of the oval is a rounded seat, and at the very front are
two control readouts and steering wheel, as well as the craft's fuel
readouts, intercommunicational functions and weapons selection. 
However, to leave the Egg-O-Matic like this would render it increasingly
vunerable to damage. Robotnik covered the top half of his vehicle with an
armour of his own creation. Sprouting from the sides of this armour are two
tubby wings; these help stabalise the machine's flight.
And finally, from the rear of the Egg-O-Matic protudes a large rocket
thruster, directly linked to the main engine. This propelles the vehicle in
flight.
Of course, no Robotnik-made vehicle would be complete without a few
weapons. It can fire small bombs to throw Sonic and his friends about,
homing missiles which lock on on Sonic, and arm itself with retracting
spikes. 

THE MECHA EGG  
Primarily Robotnik's escape vehicle, the Mecha-Egg was constructed using
Robotnik himself as inspiration. The ME (Mecha Egg) has robotic limbs and
Robotnik pilots the huge machine from his cockpit inside the head. 
The ME is powered in flight by three huge turbo-thrusters on the back of
the robot's torso. Also located under the feet are two mini-thrusters on
each. Hands are spiked, for particularly painful hedgehog-punching, and
have lasers on each finger tip. 
Armour on the Mecha-Egg is lightweight but strong, and also has
interconnectional qualaties allowing the ME to hook up to the Master
Emerald and use it to fire a destructive mini Death Ray. 


VECTOR THE CROCODILE
Species: Crocodile
Age: 18
Strengths: Can run very fast, and is extremely athletic and fit
Weaknesses: Can become distracted when too busy jammin' on his personal
stereo!
Likes: Pop music, dancing to it
Dislikes: Robotnik, classical music
Distinctive features: You know when he's around for the constant buzz of
his stereo!
Vector is the leader of the Chaotix crew, who are the guardians of the
Special Zone. Along with Mighty, Espio and Charmee, he proves invaluable to
the crew and though they probably wouldn't admit it, they'd all be inside
Robotnik's badniks by now if he wasn't on the scene.
Vector often gets on the crew's nerves with his personal stereo, which is
always on at full blast. Vector likes sing along as well-- the crew have
strong feelings about some of his singing!
Original creator of the Link Rings, a pair of Mobian Gold Rings connected
with an elastic-like link of anti-chaos energy. This link can never be
broken and the Rings are nuetralised to the effect that they no longer
absorb into the holder when held. The crew often use his invention in their
battle against invaders to the Special Zone, like Robotnik.


ESPIO THE CHAMELEON
Species: Chameleon
Age: 17
Strengths: Can become virtually invisible by blending into the backround
using his skin to camoflauge himself, and can run up walls and on ceilings
Weaknesses: Short temper and a big mouth, will drop everything if insulted
Likes: Showing off to the crew with his Spinning Top Attack
Dislikes: Charmee, Dr. Robotnik, Mighty
Distinctive features: Never the same shade of colour he was a few seconds
ago!
Though Espio is easily offended, he can become very aggresive towards
anyone he even midly dislikes-- especially Dr. Robotnik, who once
imprisoned him in a badnik before he became a member of Chaotix.
As it says in his CV, Espio can both blend into backrounds and walk
upside-down and on walls. The former is very useful, because it allows him
to attack most badniks without their feeble optical sensors detecting him.
Espio loves to use his Spinning Top Attack to blast through badniks at
great speeds, though it is not as powerful as Sonic's Sonic Spin Attack, or
Tails' Spin Dash.


MIGHTY THE ARMADILLO
Species: Armadillo
Age: 17
Strengths: The strongest live creature in Mobius' galaxy, and can punch
harder than Knuckles (!)
Weaknesses: Like Espio he has a short which temper often results in fights
Likes: Health, working out
Dislikes: Espio, Dr. Robotnik
Distinctive features: Black skin, small pointed nose, natural red armour on
back and head