Disclaimer: I do not own Any Sonic Character mentioned in this story. They are owned by Sega & Sonic Team, except Chris Thorndyke and his Family, who are from 4Kids’ Sonic X series, and Blockhead Bill, who is from the Fleetway Series.
Also, for all you Chris haters, get over it.________
The Location is Starlight City. This City on South Island is home to two very important groups. One is the very rich Thorndyke Family. Consisting of Scientist Nelson Thorndyke, his Brother Sam ‘Speed’, father Charles, his actress wife Linsey, as well as their son Christopher, they are one of the most influential and famous human families on South Island.
The other ‘group’ is the Armadillo Construction/Demolition Company. Usually ran by Blockhead Bill, he had vanished a while ago, leaving his only son, Mighty, in charge of the operation. Business flourished, and for a while, so did peace in this City, as there were no attacks from Eggman here since the days of Sonic’s first adventures.
However, soon afterwards, a fan of Linsey Thorndyke sent her a beautiful and priceless Green Jewel, one of the Seven Legendary Chaos Emeralds. These Emeralds are said to hold limitless power. The problem about them is they often attracted trouble. Trouble named Ivo Robotnik, aka the nefarious Eggman.
Eggman knew that this place was the home of one of the strongest Freedom Fighters, and yet, he also knew the difference between Timothy and the Original Mighty. The original Mighty would just destroy anything he sent out at him immediately. Timothy had a bit of a sadistic streak in him that the original version of the Armadillo lacked. All he needed to do was divert Mighty’s attention away from the Thorndyke home...
"Firebreath, I want you to seek and distract the Armadillo, Mighty," Eggman ordered.
"Affirmative, Dr. Eggman," the Spherical Robot droned.
"And Cyber Tails... I have a mission for you... It involves some of Kyle’s Friends..."
Mighty was returning to his home from work... Another boring day of destroying condemned buildings with one punch. For him, the job took mere seconds. He wondered how Blockhead Bill, his ‘dad’, got through the day with so many jobs, if he didn’t have his super strength. Suddenly, a line of fire blasting mere inches from his face brought him out of his thoughts, "Wha? Firebreath!""Target: Mighty the Armadillo located," The robot droned.
Mighty got ready for a fight and grinned, "Good. I haven’t fought since I got here to Starlight..."
He looked straight at the robot, noticing new gun attachments alongside the flamethrower "And it seems you’ve been modified from the original... This outta’ be fun." * * *Christopher never got to finish that thought, as one of their walls came crumbling down, and a pair of glowing blue eyes were seen.
"Thorndyke Family... If you value your life, you will hand over the Chaos Emerald," a monotone voice stated.
Tanaka, the butler, stood out in front of the family, "You shall not have Mistress Linsey’s Emerald."
The Robot spun quickly, slashing through Tanaka’s shirt, as well as causing a large gash on his chest.
"That isn’t even a quarter of my power. Do you really wish to forfeit your lives for a Green Rock that you can’t even use?"
* * *
Currently, Mighty hasn’t even landed a blow on the Robot. It’s not because he couldn’t, but it was because he wanted to see all of what Eggman had added to the robot, just for kicks. So far, he counted, in addition to the flamethrower, a Machine Gun, a Laser, and an spark shot. Nobody has gotten hurt, yet, as he was taking the back alleys, to avoid any casualties... This is fun. I’ve got to get into battles more often, thought the Armadillo.
Suddenly, a compartment opened up, and a large rocket was fired from the robot, Oh, Crap. * * *"Tanaka!", Christopher shouted out.
"Not another step closer, human, or your Butler gets it,", the Robot stated coldly. The family could now see it was a Metal-esque Robot in the shape of Miles Prower, One of Christopher’s closest Mobian friends.
While the Robot wasn’t looking, Tanaka managed to get up and rush at him, using a nearby object like a Katana, he struck the robot, sending it reeling back a little, although it also broke the object Tanaka had used.
"Nobody hurts this family!"
* * *
With quick reflexes, Mighty quickly dodged the gigantic rocket, as it careened into an empty car nearby, causing to explode in an impressive display of pyrotechnics.
"...Okay... I’m through finding out what you have... Now it’s time for the REAL Fun", Mighty said. Deep in his heart, though, he hoped the robot didn’t have a BFG as well, or he’d be road kill.
* * *
"You will pay for that, human... WITH YOUR LIFE", the Robot said, as the glowing in it’s eyes intensified. With near-Sonic speed, the Robot started to spin repeatedly, and all around Tanaka, causing hundreds of Gashes. The man fell to the ground, lifeless, as blood started to pour from the wounds.
"....Unless you want to wind up like your butler, hand over the Chaos Emerald," The robot said, this time with obvious anger in his voice.
"...W-We have no choice then," Nelson said.
"What? You can’t be serious, Dad!", Christopher shouted.
"No. I am. I must protect you and your mother....", Nelson said as he picked up the Emerald, and walked towards the Robot...
* * *
Mighty was pummeling the robot with the lightest punches and kicks he had... Juggling it in the air. All the while, he had a grin on his face, 50, 51, 52... 53... 54... he thought, as he kept counts of how many hits he can do on the robot to keep it in the air before missing, as if it was a giant paddleball.
* * *
"You promise you’ll leave my family alone, if I give you the Emerald?", Nelson asked Cyber.
"Of course," Cyber agreed.With that, Nelson placed the Emerald into Cyber’s Hand.
Cyber laughed, "You fool, you should know by now you can never trust my master or any of his creations!" he said, releasing a huge laser blast that started to disintegrate Nelson. Nelson didn’t even have a chance to scream.
* * *
In the distance, Mighty heard a woman, who he recognized as the actress, Linsey Thorndyke, scream. Suddenly, his mind went back into action, as he then understood what was going on, "This whole thing... it was a trap!"
With a Powerful kick, he reduced the Robot to scrap, and then ran off towards the scream.
* * *
"Why’d you do that for? You have the Emerald you want!," Charles Thorndyke yelled.
"I will destroy Miles Prower and all of his friends.", Cyber said, just before he blasted Charles with another of the atomizer blasts.
The Robot started to charge up another blast, that would get rid of the last two friends of Tails in the room, Linsey, who was paralyzed with fear, and Christopher. Sam Speed wasn’t registered in his memory as a friend of Tails, as he was more of a nuisance to Sonic and his friends.
Mighty rounded the corner as fast as he could and saw the small Robot charging up his blast to finish off young Christopher and his mother.
"NOOO!", Mighty screamed out as the laser blast was fired.
However, just before the beam could collide with Chris completely, Sam Speed pushed his Nephew out of the way. However, the beam still got a good hit on Chris’ Arm. He was beginning to deteriorate slowly.
With a look of pure fury, Mighty rammed into the Robot, knocking the emerald out of his hand, and then slammed him into the wall, holding him, "I swear, if he dies from this, I will not REST until I have PERSONALLY dismembered Eggman and every one of his robots!"
* * *
Ten miles from everywhere, An orange Echidna watched in dismay. She couldn’t allow the boy to die.
"Julan, I know what you’re thinking, but it’s not what we’re suppos--"
"You already know good and well that he didn’t die last time around. And if he dies THIS time, then they won’t be able to complete their goal."
"...Yes. You’re right. This is the only time we can do this tho, I don’t think she’d like it if we kept on interfering."
* * *
With a flash of light, Mighty saw a new figure enter the area. A very familiar orange Echidna wearing an Aztec type outfit...
"Tikal?"
"...I’m here to save the boy."
"You... you can do that?", Mighty asked, dropping the robot. Upon seeing who it was, the Robot soon escaped with the prize in hand, unnoticed by the three in the room.
"You can save Chris, Tikal?"
"In a manner of speaking... He... won’t be the way you once knew him, Mighty."
"What do you mean...?"
"...You’ll see," she said, as a warm light went from her body into Christopher’s.
Chris’s Light Brown Hair started to cover his entire body. As it crossed his face, it became white in that area, and his face pulled out slowly.
"...Wait... this is just like..."
Tikal remained silent and focused.
Chris’s Ears moved up towards the top of his head. He started to shrink a bit, and the fur crossed over to his hands... A Tail poked out from his pants, which was now too large for him. His shoes and shirt seemed to shrink with him, however.
The Tail was tipped with white, much like Tails’. He was a bit taller than Tails, most likely because of his 2 years in age he had over him. He still had his spikey hair, or headfur as it would now be referred to as. His fur began to slowly change to a blue color.
The glow, which looked much like Tikal’s ‘orb’ form, then split into two and surrounded Chris’ hands. They became solid, and a pair of gloves, with what looked like a pair of Sonic’s Crystal Rings as the cuffs of them. Then his fur on most of his body, except where his hair is, turned a light blue color.
Mighty looked up at Tikal, "Tikal... You’re the one that did this to me... To my band... and my friends.""...Yes."
"Why?"
"I’m sorry, but, as much as I’d like to tell you, Tim, I can’t. My boss and my partner won’t let me."
"Your ‘boss’? And there was someone else involved?"
"...Yes..."
"....Will we ever find out why this happened?"
"When all heroes have returned, you shall be informed."
With that, Tikal turned into her ball of light form and flys out of the room, but not after hovering over Chris slightly for a few moments.
Slowly Chris opened his eyes, "Ugh... What.. happened?"Chris sat up, and looked at himself, "What happened to me? My family... they’re... dead."
Mighty looked away, "I don’t blame you if you hate me for not coming sooner."
Chris WANTED to blame Mighty, but something in him told him not to... Maybe... Maybe it was destiny?
"No... I... I don’t, but... What will happen to me now? I’ve got no other family."
Timothy thought back to his own past. This reminded him of his old life... He too had no family originally. But the people who he came to know later in life as his ‘parents’ adopted him and raised him. Although he can’t possibly raise Chris forever, maybe...
"...You can come stay with me, Christopher. It’s the least I could do."
Chris nodded. It did make sense. And it felt like the right thing to do. He can’t live with Sonic’s family, the royal family of South Island, Tails’ parents haven’t been seen in a while and there was no WAY he was going to live with Amy. This made the most sense. "Okay, Mighty. I’ll stay with you."Mighty helped Chris up, and they walked out of the destroyed manner.
"And don’t worry. I will avenge your parents’ death."
"WE will Mighty. I want a shot at Eggman too."
If it was back on Earth, he’d tell Chris it’s too dangerous, but, he’s a Mobian now. He may even have powers like the others. Tikal probably gave him some sort of skill as compensation for the loss of his old life... "Yeah. WE will. All of us." * * * "Mission successful, Eggman," Reported Cyber, holding out the glittering green emerald for his master."Good. You’ve got a Chaos Emerald. Now, I only need the other 6, and then, I could put my ultimate plan into action," Eggman said, laughing.
~ Fin