FoxFire Studios Present A Sonic the Hedgehog: Blood and Metal Story Starfire on Mobius Story by James Woollard [WOOLLARDJP@bvu.edu] Edits by David Gonterman [dgonterman@aol.com] Sonic the Hedgehog and related Chara by Sega of America Blood and Metal and related Chara by David Gonterman http://users.aol.com/dgonterman<---FoxFire Studios Starfire by James Woollard Completely Revised and rewritten Sept. 6, 1996 This story takes place just as BAM:Restart starts... _______________________________ You know stuff that are not likely to happen. Like the Piasa monster terrorizing St. Louis. Or talking foxes, hedgehogs, raccoons, etc... Or me being a alien/human "hybrid" with natural pink hair and able to give the Human Torch a run for his money in a flame flight. Well, the truth in the matter is all of these things happened...Murphy's to the extreme, and I get caught up in him. Let me tell you about myself, My name is Starrla Light, my nickname is "Starfire" 'cause I can melt metal without trying, with flames that can shoot out of my hands, and fly about mach 3, without even breathing hard. Just when the mess from Piasa was about to be straightened up...well, my adopted dad tells me all about my past. about Project Starlight, about Area 51, about how I'm lucky to be alive. How he risked himself and me out of the project before they were going to destroy me and 14 other "hybrids." But that is another story... Back to Piasa, or a day after the bird was destroyed, I found a portal into something...what did Sonic call it?... oh The Void...kind of the inter-dimensional grand central 1-way station to anywhere...and silly me, I barrel into it at mach 3 while running from the Air Force and Army. well that's where Davey Crockett, Sonic, and the gang come in. Well, I come in and land on them....literally. ------------- --over the Midwest, 1 day after the Piasa incident--[http://users.aol.com/dgonterman/piasacli.txt] Two Tomcats are chasing a flying woman with flaming pink hair: -Hope dad is ok...last I saw him...*shiver*- She thinks back to what has happened the last couple of hours. her father telling her the whole truth, the attempt on their lives, and having to split up... She glances back. -Sh*t, I'm in deep...- "Doghouse, this is Lucky, am tracking subject, currently at mach 2" "Lucky, this is Doghouse, stay with her, if necessary use deadly force." -St. Louis is up ahead...I hope I can make it....what the heck is that?- "Confirm Doghouse, authorization for a kill?" "Confirmed." -being sucked in....oh god, please let me live...- "Hold it Doghouse...a weird energy disturbance has formed ahead of the subject, attempting to intercept..." "Lucky, this is Doghouse, repeat, can you confirm." "Doghouse, I can't explain it...she suddenly went to mach 3, and into the disturbance, and disappeared with the disturbance...Doghouse, I'm low on fuel." "Lucky, this is Doghouse, return to base, we'll sort this later." "Confirmed, Heading back to base." ------------- Of all the places Starfire could reenter anything resembling reality, she landed on top of a 5-foot-10 fox with a robotic left arm. The Void has a nasty habit of opening up in the weirdest places, when she entered it, she was going mach 3, leaving, mach 4. Adding into that gravity kicking in when she emerges. and Davey directly in front of her. That's gotta hurt. Davey comes to and sees Starfire unconscious. "What the Phrack...oh... who the hell are you?" His red eyes flare a second as his VR vision assess her condition: a couple broke ribs, a few bruises, and a nasty cut on her left arm. The fox grabbed a med kit from his belt. "Once I patch you up here, I'll be able to take you to Knothole. Don't worry hon, we'll take care of ya." Seeing that his hover bike was still ok, he gently puts her on, and starts off towards Knothole. DEET-DEET-DET-DET-DEEET-DEET! "Talk to me," Davey speaks into his comm-link. "Davey, this is Sally, Sonic says he thought he saw the Void pop up." "Yeah Sal, the Void popped up and dropped this girl on my head going as fast as Sonic, she needs medical attention." "O.K., get her to Knothole as soon as you can." -------- Just as they were leaving Robotroplis, Mecha Sonic spots Davey on his bike carrying some strange woman on his hoverbike, so he decided to swoop low and deliver a flying kick from his flanks, knocking him off the bike and down to the hard ground. The bike switches to auto-ride and promptly pulls over behind a tree. "I . . Hate . . That . . Hedgehog!!" Davey slowly got up. "Alright, rodent, you fracking asked for it." He drew his Power Rifle. Mecha Sonic sidestepped as the first CHOOM!! ripped a tree apart. He was quickly dodging David Kintobor's usual mad barrage of overglorified buckshot: CHOOM-CHOOM-CHOOM!! "STAND STILL AND DIE YOU METALLIC SACK OF FILTH!!" CHOOM-CHOOM-CHOOM!! "Whoa! You're taking out acres just to get at one guy, ace. Kinda like your father, eh?" "***THAT DID IT!!!***" CHOOMCHOOMCHOOMCHOOM!!! Just as he says that, Starfire comes to... "oh, man, Excedrin headache number 3.1415...." she takes a look at the cyberfox and the robot hedgehog and flares up. "OK, who's the wiseass who's going to explain to me what the phrack is going on?" Mecha Sonic starts towards Starfire going into a buzzsaw. Just before he reaches her, she fires flames at it, and melts the robot down to a puddle, which spills just a few feet at a stunned Davey's feet. "Ok, wiseass, give me one good reason not to make you into roast fox." It took David a good five seconds to register in his head that he's being locked on. "I'm one of the good guys, I was taking you to Knothole and safety." "Right," she says, "you're real convincing with that rifle, and those cybernetics." "Look who's talking, *pyro*?! Besides, if you haven't noticed by now, we are in a *war zone*, so we could keep chatting like we are, stopping only to casually plink at the 500 Swats that'll come in one minute, seven seconds or we could get somewhere safe." "OK, We'll play it your way, that doesn't mean I trust you." "Like I care right about now. Hop on," as the hover bike heels in front of them. ------- As we arrived in Knothole, well, I guess Davey said it best: "Robotnik and Snivley are all the humans Mobians know, so they think all humans are evil. I guess I could see it in their eyes...fear, mistrust...I don't blame them, I would feel the same way if I was in their shoes. A few warmed up to me, even if I didn't warm up to them right away. I guess I felt homesick, or it could have been I'd felt so tired. I don't know." I think I can trust Davey, but something about him bothers me...other than the arm...I can't just put my finger on it. Worry about that later. "Here's the infirmary, we'll get you patched up." "Huh, oh..thanks..." as I walk inside, I felt something brush against my mind...Davey goes over to the purple hedgehog...is it just me, or does everyone on Mobius have cybernetics? I don't want to know. Davey brings her over and introduces me to her. "Suni, this is Starfire, Starfire, this is Sonia Hedgehog, my girlfriend." "Hello, Starfire, ouch that's a nasty cut on your arm, let me heal you..." "Now, I know I'm going mad, talking animals, healer/mages, what's next? I knew I should've taken that left turn in Alberque...now how am I going to get home." "Ya don't, the Void is a 1-way trip, we're extremely lucky that we were able to get Sally's father back. I don't think it is possible to go back to Earth," Davey says. Well, ain't this wonderful. I don't have a way home...maybe there's a way to get a message to earth. I hope Dad's ok.... -----Meanwhile---- Back on Earth: Dr. David Nathaniel Light is tied to a chair, under a lamp. a disembodied voice is asking questions... "Where did the girl go?" "I told you I don't know, you know more than I do." "I don't believe you. You will tell me all about the Void, or I'll wring your scrawny little neck." "Does the phrase go suck a lemon mean anything to you?" (faint whispering) "Ok, Doctor, now it is time for you get what you deserve. You have disrupted our plans for the last time." "AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!" Back on Mobius: That night-- Well, I guess I'm stuck here. the pack I've been carrying has only one set of clothes and some technology, but I don't know how to access it. I don't know if I should stay or try to find a way home. Maybe I should stay while...it'd be better than being alone, plus maybe I can be a human the Mobians can look up to. Me, a superhero, wow...I just can't-- "Hi Starfire. what's up?" "Oh, Hi, Davey. I thought you would be with Suni." "Well, she said that something is bothering you, and that maybe since I'm from the same planet..." "You're from Earth?" ".., Yep, and maybe I could get you to open up a little. You've been avoiding everyone." "Well, have a seat. I guess you should hear about what I am..." "Other than being able to turn bots into puddles?" "*chuckles* Yeah, you see, I'm not fully human...I have Alien DNA in me. My dad told me all about this government project, after they tried to kill us. To make a long story short, I'm a freak, my dad was captured by same people I was running from when I slammed into the void. How did you get to Mobius?" "well, I stopped the Piasa Bird..." "You're THE Davey Crockett? Wow, It was all over the news last night. I'm sorry to hear about the arm..." Davey stops me with a wave of his hand. "I'm afraid I have to bring you up to speed. Mind if we get over to that fireplace over there?" As we approach the bonfire, I was told that I traveled not only to another dimension, but about a year in the future as well. Davey has been given this new arm by King Acorn . . . [FAST-FORWARDS through the Blood and Metal Storyline up to BAM Restart #1] ". . . we're still recovering from this latest battle with my Father. It was not pretty. Doctor Robotnik is back and he ain't too happy. Make no mistake, he will be stopped." "Thanks Davey, I guess I don't feel so alone." "I'm glad to help, now come on, I gotta introduce you to some of my friends." "I'm...not really up for it, I think I'll just watch the stars for a while...." "That's fine, when you get back, I'll show you to where you'll be sleeping." "Thanks Dave." Well, which one of these spec of light is home? Will I ever get home? If I do get home, will I be able to save my dad? ------ Mobius: Ring Lake: Starfire loves looking up at the stars. not just because that they're so beautiful to her, but also represent the infinite possibilities in the universe, and one of them might mean she might go home. She sighs, thinking: "well, I'd better get some shut-eye..." Just then a Ring forms and floats at about eye level...she reaches....NOVA....her flames are at their peak, pure white, then it fades. She puts the ring in her pack, thinking: "That was...interesting...." She floats a meter above the ground, heading in the general direction of Knothole, her flames giving off just enough light to see the path. -now to figure out just how to get on with my life...I don't know...I think I'd rather have the problems back home...I hope dad's ok...the jerk...- "Hey, Mobius to Starfire, hello?" "huh?? oh, hi...guess I'm a billion miles away...what's up, Suni?" "Davey, told me to tell you that You'll be sleeping in my hut. I get the luck of the draw again..." Sonic and Tails come speeding up. "You must be the Starfire girl Davey's talking about." Starfire smiles a little. "At this rate I'll get a big head from all of this attention, Yeah, I'm Starfire. You must be Sonic, and this cutey must be Tails." Tails is blushing. "Aww, I'm not _that_ cute." "You are, Heartbreak Kid. *giggle*" "She knows about your love life, Big Guy, AND she thinks you're cute. You're getting really lucky." "aww no..." "C'mon Tails, how about we take a short flight? I need to stretch out." "Sure..." As he starts going up, Starfire face lights up with a mischievous grin. She suddenly grabs Sonic and flies straight up. "YYYAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!! Put me DOWN!" "Oh, Alright...*sigh* if you're a scaredy cat..." "I'm not scared...you just surprised me..." "Suuuuure...." "I was going to ask later..." "Riiight.." After a couple of minutes, Sonic is finally placed on the ground. "She sure scared you Sonic." "I was _NOT_ scared. she just surprised me...." "I've never heard you scream in terror like that." Sonic raises his hands in futility. "I can't win." ----- Within the Nexus of reality, A shadowy figure is excitedly pacing. "finally I'll be able to get free, now to find some cannon fodder..." It looks in a direction with it's blood red eyes. "She's perfect, and he will do nicely. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!" ------ The next morning... Sonia had better things to do, so she left the snoring human on the cot. At about, 11 o'clock she finally woke up. "Dad, I had the strangest..." after looking around it just all caught up to her. "damnit..." *sniff* *sob* Serena would've been proud. the amount of tears that came out of her face started to pool at her feet. In life, timing is everything, and on Mobius. Sonic has the greatest timing. He zooms in, to get her for a mission. "Starfire, I got a mission...Are you alright? what's the matter?" "*Sniff* I'm just homesick, that's all. My dad left me this montage of metal here." "whoa, talk about Christmas in April!" "I wonder if he even is alive...." The Pink-haired girl just starts crying more, sobbing uncontrollably. Sonic pulls out a hanky and wipes away her tears. "Kiddo, you've had a rough 24 hours, Just about as rough as Davey had when he got here. It'll be ok, you'll see." "Y-you mean that Sonic?" "Yeah, you bet...I got a mission, want to come along? We need to get some chaos emeralds and Power rings." "sure." "promise me one thing, you won't tell anyone about what happened here, Sally would raise her eyebrows, and think I was going for you..." *giggle* "I promise. Scout's Honor." *wink* -->Fast Forward--> --Priority One, Hedgehog-- "Hey tin cans, you're getting into a rut, Can't you think of anything better to say?" "Sonic, I think they're a little to thick headed to notice the sarcasm...let's send them a message they'll understand." *wink* Starfire forms a flaming bat, and uses a swat as a Tee-ball stand. "Batter up!" One swing, and the head goes slamming into a line of swats. "It's going, going, gone! Homerun!" "Tails! Fastball special, ready?" "You sure about this, Aunt Starfire?" "You bet. One, Two, THREE!!!" Tails is tossed right for two swats, with Sonic running interference, they didn't know what hit them. "alright, they're outta here!" "Sonic! I'm picking up one of the objects on my scanner, better loose our pursuit!" "Hey Ro-Butt-nik, welcome to hell!" A Flame burst hits the camera. [Static] "Where are they coming from? first that hedgehog, then my son, now this b****! This is becoming intolerable!" --Meanwhile-- Back on Earth: In a Chicago hospital room, A comatose Dr. Light is barely hanging on. Several Doctors are trying to figure out how he came to get all of the many wounds that he has. The camera pans over to a tired-looking Agent Fox Mulder on the phone. "Scully, my tip was right, he is the one we are looking for. Positive ID. He's pretty banged up. Looks like someone wanted something from him badly." Washington, DC: Agent Scully on the phone from her home. "You sure? I mean This Light guy disappeared a year ago, and his daughter is still missing." --"From one of my sources, the girl was being tracked by some F-16s over the Midwest before entering a temporal disturbance." "F-16s? you're joking Mulder!" --"not in the slightest, ever hear of a Project Starlight, Scully?....." "From those files you left me, it had to do with a lot of the UFO sightings starting from roswell till 1978...." --"Well, according to my source, Project Starlight was more than a UFO hunt. It had samples of alien DNA, and they created many experiments with alien/human hybrids. This Light's daughter is one of the hybrids." "Mulder, that doesn't make sense. why would they allow her to be around to tell about it." --"Her adopted father was able to smuggle her out. I don't have all the details, hopefully Dr. Light will wake up soon enough to talk. I'll stay here, and wait, you see what else you can dig up on the girl." Earth: "Mulder, I've located some properties in the DC area belonging to Dr. Light. One of them is a lab with some tech I've never seen before. It looks like from the notes I've found that he was experimenting with dimensional fluxuations detected in recent years." --"Dimensional flux?" "Yes, according to what I see here, it says there is theoretically that it may be possible to travel to another universe entirely. There is some equipment that is measuring something...maybe it is looking for what his note describe as a temporal portal or 'The Void,' much of his notes are erratic like he discovered something, then it stops. the last entry is dated about a year and a half ago." --"Hang on Scully, he's waking up." Chicago: "Dr. Light, do you know where you are?" "I'm in a hospital...." ________________________________________________ Mobius: Just Then all hell broke loose.... You'd think that you could get a decent rest, but with people like David Kintobor and Starrla Light, It's not possible. Just when you think it is safe to take a breath, pure chaos happens. As they turned to see who was after them, they saw something that nobody wants to see...the face of pure chaos. The creature that was throwing particle blasts, enjoying the pure destruction, hit Starrla just after her defenses came up, the brunt of the attack sent her into a large tree, nearly knocking her out. Dave cursed pulled the power rifle and fired. CHOOM! WHOOSH! Starfire was able to get her bearings to manage a blast nearly equivalent to Power Rifle blast. Just as the blasts were about to reach the creature, it disappeared. Several trees were knocked over. "What the phrack!?" Starrla is rubbing her head. "David, I don't think it's over." "You better believe it, witch!" CHOOM! WHOOSH! As soon as the attack began, it ended. One moment, A creature, ( a cross between the shadow warriors --from Sailor Moon--, and the shadows from Babylon 5) was right in the face of Dave and Star. The next, Star was gone, so was the thing. "Kintobor to Starfire, REPORT!! Where in hell are you?" (static) As much as Starfire would like to respond, she's alittle tied up at the moment. Literally. She is stretched up on a table just about totally nude, being whipped to a pulp with her toturer enjoying every moment of it. "HAHAHAHA!' "are you going to do something other than laugh?" *crack* The whip strikes her back again, as much as she struggles, she can't seem to get in touch with her powers. "I am Chaos, B****. Submit to me, and your torture will end, refuse and perish." Star spits into the ugliest face this side of a nightmare she's seen. "if you want it that way...you'll die slowly." Chaos's hands morph into razor-sharp talons. In two motions, the claws chop off her right arm just below the elbow, and her left leg just above the knee. In her mind, this was the last straw. she refused to scream and finally was able to get in touch with enough power to get a blast together. From the Stump of her arm, flame shot out at the Chaos creature. This time, It connected in a big way. Chaos screamed in pain, and that only made star only madder. the power was welling within her, and her body began to glow and disintegrate her bonds. Free at last she tried to do something that her father had said...as she rushed toward it, ignoring the pain, she concentrated on the one thing that her father theorized she could do. she created the picture of the scariest place she could think of and as she slammed into it...... White noise..... Three months later.... Knothole returned to normal. A short memorial service was given a few weeks after StarFire's disapearance. not many attended. It was felt by some that the human got what was coming to her.... Three months that evening, David went out to the spot where she disappeared, with the faint hope that she would reappear. "I hope you made it to a better place, Kid." He turned to leave..... *POP!* KABOOM!!!!! "wha?...PHRACK!" Within seconds, he climbed down the crater to see...her barely-clothed, broken body looked like it was through hell. One of her eyes was swollen shut, blood gushed from the stumps of her arm and leg. Whipmarks cover much of her body. She looked dead... he reached down to take her pulse if there was any. just as his fingers touched her neck, she took in a shallow breath and opened her good eye. "...dav.....id...hel...p.." he scooped her up and hopped on his hover bike, going as fast as it would go, bandaging wounds with one arm and steering with the other. "Hold on, Damnit, just hold on." *screech* he barely stopped the bike infront of the infirmary, almost crashing. "HelpherhurryAhdon'tknowhowmuchlongershe'llholdon,ohsh*t." Her breathing became very ragged, teetering on the edge of death. Sonia's magic couldn't even begin to mend the massive injuries. "She needs a blood transfusion...and we don't have anyone that would even come close to her type...I'm sorry...it's a miracle she's survived this long...not even the roboticizer could help her now...let her suffering end..." "no she deserves better than this..." StarFire takes one very strained breath....and dies... _____________________________________________________________ Darkness....A glowing Light is ahead. It feels like a warming loving type light, like you are in a big bear hug... -Where am I?- *LIMBO* A booming voice in her mind speaks. -Who're you?- *YOU WOULD REFER TO ME AS GOD* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David starts CPR. "Damnit don't give up, yet. comeon! damnit BREATHE!" It takes Kickaha, Sally, Sonia, Sonic, and Bunnie to pull him away. "let her have peace...please..." "Damn it!" He punches through a wall...and starts crying over and over "she deserves better....not die like that..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Why are you here?- *I WILL NOT HAVE YOU DIE, YET. YOU HAVE MORE THINGS TO DO IN THE UNIVERSE. YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE ON MOBIUS, YET.* -Great, I get chucked to another planet, loose an arm and a leg, and die, and you tell me it's all one big mistake? Haven't I earned my peace?- *YOU'VE EARNED PEACE, BUT CHAOS HAS MESSED WITH THE TIMELINE. YOU _MUST_ GO BACK OR ALL OF TIME IS IN PERIL* -What do I have to do?- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sonia holds him tight. "it's not your fault, she's at peace now...." Sally and Sonic hug each other tightly. Sonic's holding back tears, silently vowing never to have anyone end up like that... Kickaha pulls the sheet over her corpse's head. "Rest in peace." a minute later, her heart starts beating, and as it starts to get up to speed...she sits up..."*Gasp*, Jesus Christ says hi." ...and falls back unconsciouss... Days later she finally returns fully to the land of the living. with new metal limbs. She's wary of everyone's attention, and the nightmares she has been having. "I thought that coming back from the dead would be a good idea. maybe I should've stayed dead..." The physcial wounds are healing, the emotional ones..... "How're you feeling?" "I'm fine...," she lies, " It wasn't your fault, David, stop blaming yourself for everything." "What happened to that thing?" "I sent him to the scariest place I could think of, it isn't permanent..." Imagine if you will, a world that has wall to wall Barney, everywhere you turn. No escape. That is where Chaos is trapped currently. "I Love you...." NO!!!! I almost HAD her!!! PHRACK ALIVE!!! You're not going to get away with this . Count on it. "...You Love me...." ARRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!! Enough with the *censored* SONG!!!! As soon as she was fit enough to leave on her own power, she started working on a module that she recognized to be different from the rest of the montage she carried from earth. She buried the pain, while working toward her goal, home. End