Subj: KnK updates Date: 96-09-07 22:13:11 EDT From: ZJLM18@Access.ETSU-Tn.Edu (MIYAMOTO, JULIE LYNN) To: dgonterman@aol.com Sonic the Hedgehog-based series: "Kith and Kintobor." by Hysteria. Reality Base Sub Two: "Get away, gotta get away..." Based on characters from Sega, Archie Comic Publications, and DIC Enterprises, Inc. This work is freeware and can be distributed freely provided it is not altered in any way, shape, or form and is not sold for monetary gain. The content of this work is not intended to infringe on the rights of Sega or any related companies and may be destroyed if ever the need should arise. Author's note: An exciting and unusual plot twist unfolds... at least, I HOPE it's unusual. How about, "It would be unusual to find a completely new plot summary, 'cause all the good ones are taken"? This is a rewritten update on the original version. * * * "Look, Dr. Light!" A young blond female pointed to part of the teleportation device. "It's already plugged in, and the fromitz board's broken..." "Interesting, Roll... Darian?" Glancing at the doctor, the young male in question stood attentively. "What is it, Doc?" "Did you remind Terri not to leave the equipment on while making repairs or modifications?" Darian nodded. "Of course I did. It's beyond my comprehension as to why she would do otherwise..." Dr. Light nodded as well. "Could it have been an accident?" "Well, just about anything is possible..." Roll rose to her feet. "I've replaced the board and lowered the power input. Should I see where this teleport leads?" "No, I need you here. I shall call Meg--" Darian cut him off. "*I* want to go, Dr. Light." Surprised, the doctor cocked his head. "YOU wish to go?" Then he nodded in thought. "Yes, I suppose you could... But you should take someone else along, just in case. Maybe the C.A.S.A. unit." The youth nodded, then touched a button on the wall. "Sunspot, report to room #220 immediately." With a flash of light, a small cat appeared. "Rrrrow!" it hissed at attention. Darian rubbed the CASA's head, and it purred appreciatively. "Come on, gal! We've got work to do..." The two stepped up to the teleporter, Darian putting on a protective helmet and Sunspot bathing herself. With a whirl of abnormal space-time flux, both youth and feline disappeared into nothingness... ______________________________ In the depths of the Great Forest, along the edge of a hidden village called Knothole, a redheaded woman in her mid-twenties hiked dejectedly. She carried nothing but the clothes on her back and a mindful of heavy thoughts. "...Only yesterday I was back in the lab," she muttered in attempt to sort things out, "...working on that thing Darian wanted me to fix... Now, I'm in some kind of Alternate Reality? And what's with the animans?" Approaching a hut at the edge of the village, Terri stopped directly outside. "It's nice here and all, but... Oh, I just don't UNDERSTAND..." Overwhelmed with thought, she buried her head in her hand. Unknown to her, two animans watched her from the rooftops. "I don't think you should do this, Sonic," said Davey. "You'll NEVER get on her good side if you do..." "Oh, like she's doing any better... Lemme do this, Dave!" Upset with the hedgehog's stubbornness, Davey frowned. "I dunno, Sonic. I still think this is a bad idea--" "You and that 'thinking' thing! That gives me a MAJOR headache! Now watch the ol' mud-meister at work..." Oblivious to the pair, Terri continued her meditations. "It's hard enough trying to figure out where I am relative to my home..." With a quick flick of the wrist, the blue hedgehog let fly a mud balloon directly at her... "...and most of the others ARE trying to help me fit in..." The mud balloon was a meter from impact. "...Maybe I should *apologize* to Sonic..." The hedgehog's eyes lit up in victory... and at the same time, chagrin. SPLAT! "EEK!" Terri fell forward, suddenly covered with runny, dripping mud. She instantly turned with fiery eyes to the perpetrator. "YOU!!!" Sonic grinned meekly. "Whups." The redhead reached down, picked up several large rocks, and chucked them at him. "You EVIL little THING!! And *I* was going to APOLOGIZE to YOU??? OOOOOOH!!!" In an even worse huff than before, she stormed away yet again, this time to find somewhere to wash off. Davey smirked at his egotistical friend. "I COULD say 'I told ya so', but... Maybe 'Here's MUD in your eye' fits better." Sonic glared at him. "Haha. That was so funny I forgot to laugh." ______________________________ From the dark antechamber of Robotnik's headquarters, the evil doctor pondered the odd sequence of events. "First, David, now..." He shook his head. Things were definitely getting stranger, from the day those accursed Freedom Fighters stole his Deep Power Stone and destroyed his Doomsday Project. What went on immediately after that confused him even more... Robotnik turned to the monitor, placing a disc in the CD-ROM. "Search 'Sorceror's Database' for Black Magic," he instructed. The computer immediately went to work. As it did, he reminisced over the relative past. "After I recovered," he said to himself, "I found this strange little mongoose standing over me, laughing his head off... If I had the strength, I would have torn that little beast limb from limb, but he was too quick... Quicker than the hedgehog, even." He growled angrily. The computer finished. "Search: Black Magic. 1,979 entries found." "Narrow search," he added. "Soul." "Searching." Robotnik returned to his thoughts. "Then I come back, just to find Snively and Packbell trying to run things in my absence. Pathetically, at that. Not to mention the so-called 'replica' of me... and my SON??? What kind of sick twist of fate...?" "Narrowed search: Black Magic, Soul. 42 matches found." "Narrow search, Possession." "Searching." The villain stared again at the rumpled, decaying photograph. "And now you, my sinister dear..." "Narrowed search: Black Magic, Soul, Possession. 1 match found." Robotnik sneered. "And you thought I was powerless to stop you, little witch..." He turned to a nearby Worker-Bot. "Remind me to thank the miss, once she eventually arrives, for losing this very *priceless* CD in my belongings." "Affirmative," bleeped the 'Bot before returning to work. ______________________________ In the late afternoon sun, Terri made her way down to a small pond. "I guess this is it," she stated, referring to the pond Nicole had pointed out to her. Unsurprisingly, all of the regular bathing utilities were clogged with fur, so she had to make do. Glancing about, the redhead made certain no one else was around. Then she recalled that most of the Fuzzy Ones ran around without clothes anyway and, with a shrug, guessed they wouldn't care if she did the same. Removing her outer clothes, she dumped them in the water and scrubbed them with a bar of detergent soap... Behind the nearby trees, a set of eyes watched her intently. Then it turned to another set of eyes, also watching her. "Sonic, this is childish. Just get out there and apologize to her so we can be done with it." "Aw... why *should* I?" "Because," Davey sighed, "*she* was going to apologize to you." Sonic crossed his arms. "But she didn't." "Of course not. You drenched her in mud!" Glancing in Terri's direction, the hedgehog paused, then grinned at Davey. "Whaddaya think?" he asked, pointing his thumb at the girl in a bikini-like bodysuit. "Make ya wanna get down and dirty?" The fox grinned back. "Actually, no!" "Really?" Curious, he raised an eyebrow. "Why? 'Fraid Suni'd get jealous?" "No. Not really." "Hmm... Don't care for females your own kind anymore?" The fox chuckled. "Not like YOU ever did." Sonic blanched, then rolled his eyes. "Haha, real funny. So what's the matter, Dave?" The robotic fox scratched his head, himself wondering about the problem. "I don't know why, but I think I've seen her somewhere before. Like I knew her from somewhere on Earth..." "What? Like your ex-girlfriend, maybe?" Davey growled at him. "HARDLY..." "Sister?" "Nah." "Third cousin?" "Who knows?" "Movie star goddess you had a crush on?" "Could be." "Kindergarten teacher?" "Oh, you wish!!" "Mother?" Davey paused. "I... uh... she... died... Long time ago." Sonic raised an eyebrow at this. "Oh. Well, maybe she's just has one of those faces." Nodding, Davey breathed a sigh of relief. "Y-yeah... maybe that's it. I just *wish* I had more to go on!" Glancing back at the redhead, the hedgehog noticed something. "Say... Does that THING give anything away?" Davey looked to see what he was referring to. Then he saw it: there, on Terri's right thigh, previously covered by her knee-length shorts, was an intricately designed Chinese Dragon tattoo. Its snarling head was placed at the top of her hip with its body twisting down and ending with the tip of its tail at her knee. The bionic fox's mouth dropped. "No..." "Totally freaky..." Sonic muttered in awe. "...*I* want one like that!" "But if she..." Davey shook his head in continued disbelief. "CAN'T be! She's just not the right AGE!!" Irritated, Sonic glanced at him. "What in Sam Hill does AGE have to do with anything? Age ain't NUTHIN' but a number." The fox scowled. "So I've heard..." "Ya KNOW, Dave... You've been acting awfully bugged as of late. Is there something you're not telling me?" Davey clenched his fists. "Don't GO there, Sonic..." he growled, then tramped back through the woods to Knothole, but not before noticing that the hedgehog looked a little paler... ______________________________ In another area of Mobius, the Planes of Reality shifted once again... But this time, it wasn't as severe: Through the caverns of a giant crater near Downunda, a weasel in a Sky-Cycle explored. "There's GOT to be SOMETHING worth plundering here..." Kr-ZAP! With a blitz of light, a pair of strange-looking figures appeared, one a young male humanoid, the other a small orange, white, and black feline. Before either could make a move, the purplish weasel ducked into an alcove. Nack thought, examining the two more closely. The feline was obviously a calico, but at second glance, he realized she was robotic. On the other paw, the human was pure, unadultered flesh, but there was a mysterious air about him as well. "Where have I seen him before?" the weasel wondered as the pair began to explore their new surroundings. Suddenly, the cat perked up, charging directly toward him. Panicked, Nack withdrew his neural disruptor and aimed. "Sunni!" The young male called, chasing after the cat. He followed her trail to where she had pounced on a small weasel. "Bad CASA! What have y--" Then he realized the weasel was no ordinary weasel. "What the--" A blast later, Darian was sprawled across the floor. A swinging whack from the neural disruptor similarly sent the robotic feline flying. Upset from this counterattack, Sunspot landed on her feet and dashed away, licking at her 'wounds'. Nack shrugged and checked out the human. "Hmm." A quick search turned up nothing of interest. "Well, this wasn't a very profitable day, I don't think. What a waste of time and neural shot." With disgust, the weasel hopped into his Sky-Cycle and zoomed away. As the weasel sped off, Sunspot noticed that he suddenly looked smaller (not due to perspective, either) but ignored it and returned to her grooming. From nearby, a quartet of statues plus one shadowy echidna loomed eerily. "So..." Athair muttered. "The Oracle speaks the truth..." ______________________________ "Finally." Terri finished getting the mudstains out of her clothes, then draped them on a nearby bush to dry. Her coppery red hair was still dirty, so she waded carefully into the water and rinsed herself off. "Don't GO there, Sonic..." "Huh?" Looking back, she spotted Davey and Sonic hiding in the trees. "Urrr... When will they LEARN??" She considered getting out to give them what for, but a splash from behind her diverted her attention. "Now what?" In response, a pair of eyes peeked out from beneath the water's surface. "Who are you?" the eyes seemed to ask. "Uhm... hello? My name is Terri, and--" The shape beneath the water emerged, revealing itself as a young otter. "Hello... My name is Sealena. Are you new around here?" "Well... Yes, I guess you could say that." "We haven't had many humans here, much less female..." The otter cast a suspicious look at her. "Say, are you from Robotnik?" "Robotnik? Where's that?" Sealena grinned. "I guess you're safe. You meet Sally and Sonic yet?" Terri rolled her eyes. "Unfortunately..." "What? You don't like them or something?" "Well, I guess Sally's okay, even if she DOES remind me of the Water Rat, but Sonic's a stinkin' little brat." Sealena was confused about the first part, but the second she understood pretty well. "So I hear... Are you a good swimmer?" "Yeah, pretty good, I guess. Why?" "My kind has sworn to the King to protect any swimmers who may be in trouble." "Well, I wasn't going to swim, just bathe... but I *would* like to get away from here for a while..." "Great! I'd somebody to talk to." The redhead waded slowly back to shore when the otter called out to her. "I was wondering. Who's the Water Rat?" She shrugged. "A cartoon character from this animated version of an old book about a Toad, Badger, Water Rat, and Mole called THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. I think Sally looks kind of like she could be Ratty's sister... Then again, I think I think too much..." Terri grabbed her clothes from off the bush, not caring for now whether they got wet again, turned, and swam in the direction Sealena was headed. By the time Sonic glanced back in their direction, she was gone from sight. ______________________________ The day was passing quite normally for the mages of Mist. Youngsters went about their studies, elders tended to the political matters. All swore to never interfere in the delicate balance of the outside world, until... "Adrus!" a Mistian egret called, storming into the room. Somewhat irritated, the clearseer in question looked up from his researching. "What is it now, Saphron?" Out of breath, the avian paused, then spilled out her message. "Don't you feel it, within your soul? A newcomer of great magic potential!" Adrus perked up, probing purposefully with his mind. "Ah... Yes. Now I see... She is... oh... how could--?... No... *NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!*" Saphron shared his vision. "Now do you understand? We *must* eliminate her, before she destroys the entire universe!" * * * To these personages I owe due credit: Aliya -- "Age ain't nuthin' but a number" Capcom, for the Mega Man series -- Dr. Light; Roll Disney, for the animated version of Kenneth Grahame's THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS -- "Ratty" / the Water Rat Infocom, for the Planetfall text adventure game -- fromitz board Stone Temple Pilots, "Crackerman" -- "Get away, gotta get away", "And I think I think too much" And of course, Sega, Archie Comic Publications, & DIC Enterprises -- Sonic the Hedgehog series and related char.'s Thanks lots, --Hysteria... %) ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- From ZJLM18@Access.ETSU-Tn.Edu Sat Sep 7 22:12:52 1996 Return-Path: ZJLM18@Access.ETSU-Tn.Edu Received: from Access.ETSU-Tn.Edu (ACCESS.etsu-tn.edu [151.141.8.9]) by emin02.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA19207 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 1996 22:12:32 -0400 Received: from NOVIX_2.etsu-tn.edu by Access.ETSU-Tn.Edu (PMDF V5.0-4 #16780) id <01I97OH9SV3490RIJ8@Access.ETSU-Tn.Edu> for dgonterman@aol.com; Sat, 07 Sep 1996 22:12:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 22:11:24 +0000 From: "MIYAMOTO, JULIE LYNN" Subject: KnK updates To: dgonterman@aol.com Message-id: <01I97OHAOMDU90RIJ8@Access.ETSU-Tn.Edu> Organization: East Tennessee State University X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Finfo: DOS,"knk_r2.txt",,,,Text Priority: normal X-file: knk_r2.txt Comments: Authenticated sender is