Sonic Adventure 3 Story

How the Story of Sonic Adventure 3 Play Out
The purpose of this write up is to demonstration  how the story of Sonic Adventure 3 could play out using the improved backstory ideas I came up with. Try to tolerate any flaws in certain sections of it though I'd be okay with someone that is good at story telling and narrative to rewriting this for me as long they stuck with my goal and didn't leave out any important events. The goal of this story is first and foremost to clean of and fix the lore surround Shadow's backstory and character. After that it aims to establish a logically sound backstory for the series as a whole, and to add some sensible rules to the universe and the characters abilities which have gotten out of control since Shadow and Sonic's Chaos emerald abilites have become absurd. It goes along with my other article, "Five Things the Story of Sonic Adventure 3 Should Explain."

The story begins following the events of Sonic Adventure 2 with Sonic on trial to settle his accusations from the last game. He is represented by Tails which would not only be epic, but hilarious to see. Tails would present a good case with pictures of the ARK and everything. The jury seems convinces, but when the opposition makes his case he counters all of Tails arguments and shows the images Tails used were fake, showing that he altered the photos to make it look like their Sonic was this so called "Shadow the Hedgehog", he even goes to accuse him the events on the ark,  from the video of Gerald to the crashing of the ark into the Earth, was all fabricated to make Sonic look like a hero to world and receive glory. Tails attempts to rebuttal, but this argument by this attorney caught him completely off guard. So when a verdict was reached Sonic was found to be guilty by the jury, and sentenced to a life-time sentence in prison.

As Sonic is hand-cuffed protestingly, Tails tells him to play along for now, "We don't want to cause anymore commotion. I'm going to get a hold of the President right away to settle this. Then  tall man in a trench coat an hat from the back of the room exclaims, " Hahahaha, you people make it all too easy!" As he says this he presses a button on a remote control. A robotic claw then crashes through the building grabbing Sonic and pulling him outside.
"Sonic!" Tails exclaims while Sonic is being pulled away, moving towards him with his arm stretched out.

Laughing manically, the man throws off his cloak and hat and is revealed to be none other than Dr. Eggman. His Eggmobile then flies in underneath him as he jumps in the air. He takes off exclaiming, " Later pea brains, it's been fun, but if you'll excuse me, I have a world to rule, MWAHAHAHAHA!" Tails and Knuckles, who had been their in the audience the whole time, rush outside after him to see that he is being carried away by one of Eggman's giant contraptions.
Eggman is flying away in one direction and the robot in another, so Knuckles tells Tails, "Tails, I'll go after Eggman while you see if you can free Sonic.
"Right" Knuckles takes off and as Tails heads toward the robot, he seems something surprisingly odd. He sees what appears to be Shadow running along the tops of the buildings chasing down the robot. "Was that Shadow?! But I thought he died after he and Sonic defeated the Biolizard?! He rubs his eyes and no longer see him. "Was I just imaging things?" He then is seen flying off after the robot, and his level begins.

During Tails' level he has to dodge falling debris from building that the Egg Cyclopes is destroying and using parts of the buildings as platforms. There are Eggman robots throughout the level, and the goal of the level is to catch the Egg Cyclopes. The stomping of the legs of the cyclops can be heard throughout the whole level, and Tails actually catches up to it in a points throughout the level and has to dodge its attacks and fight back; however at the end of the level it ejects from it's legs and lower half, losing most of it's weaponry and flies off with Sonic too fast for tails to keep up.

A Knuckles level would commence here chasing down Eggman and fighting him marking the first boss fight of the game.

The game now shifts back over to Tails who is now in his plane, having called it after the Egg Cyclopes got away. Instead of finding the Cyclopes he finds Sonic in the clutches of the severed arm of the robot that was holding him. Tails lands and hears, "Could you give me a hand here buddy?"
Tails frees him and asks What Happened Sonic, how did you get separated from the Robot and what happened to it?"
"Well, I don't know what is was, but as I was shouting out at the dirty robot to release me, something fast zoomed by and hit the arm, I fell to the ground, and well the rest is history."

Tails mutters to himself, "I wonder if it was him."
"What's that Tails? "You wonder if it was" who?"
"When I was chasing after you I could have sworn I saw Shadow, but I thought I was imagining things. Maybe I wasn't after all."
"Knowing how powerful Shadow was, I wouldn't doubt him finding a way to survive that fall. After all, you guys thought I had died during when Eggman shot me out of that escape pod, but I found a way out."
"But you had the artificial emerald I made, how could he.." Sonic interrupts him.
"Well, there's only one way to find out," As he says this Sonic zooms off running towards the direction the robot went.
"Wait Sonic, Let's take my plane!"

The next scene with show Rouge in her office at GUN . She has been promoted to head of the investigation department by the President for her success on her last case.
"Ms, Rouge, we have some very important reports for you to look at!"
"Ooooh, not now Cheryl, my shifts done, and I was about to head out for some fun!"
"But Ms., havoc by robots has been spreading throughout the city, and video surveillance is showing Dr. Eggman escaping from...
"Eggman! Show me the footage, what do you know, Eggman and...Knuckles!
"So Knuckles is in trouble huh? Oh alright, but he's going to owe me for this."
"Madame, do you want me to deploy our departments troops?" As she asks this a zipper noise is heard,
"No, I can take care of this myself, it looks like its just Eggman after all, and I've taken care of him before." Rouge is shown now wearing a latex suit with a belt with gadgets on it, and the screen fades black.

An after shot of Knuckles and Eggman fighting is shown. Knuckles is panting, and Eggman is shown to have been using an upgraded version of his Eggwalker mech.
"Hahahaha, did you really think you could defeat me Knucklehead?
"Can it Eggman, this isn't over yet," says Knuckles as he get up from being down on one knee and lunges at him." Before he lands a blow, Rouge appears dive kicking Eggman from behind.

"Rouge!" exclaims Knuckles. "What are you doing here?
"Is that anyway to say thank you to some who just saved you?
"I had everything under control. I didn't need your help!"
"Uh huh, oh sure you didn't that's why I saw you on the ground a moment ago. You can repay me by taking me out to dinner later."
"What! I wasn't "on the ground" I was kneeling, and I was preparing for my next attack. It's important to pace yourself during a fight you know, and what makes you think I'd allow myself to be seen eating dinner with you..Hey! Look what you did! You let him get away! As Knuckles and Rouge were talking Eggman managed to slip away unnoticed.
"Leave him. We have more important things to worry about. From what my staff told me, Sonic's been captured by a giant robot destroying the city.
"Yeah, I sent Tails after him. That's right I don't know if Tails can handle that thing on his own. We'd better go..." Rouge interrupts
"If Tails is after him, I'm not worried. That kid can take care of it on his own. He's pretty tough. I have something different in mind for us," says Rouge as she leans in close and winks at a concerned looking Knuckles. The screen fades to black.

(Expect my other back-story posts to tie in from this point forward.)

Now, aboard Rouge's jet Knuckles states in an annoyed tone of voice, " You still haven't told me exactly where we are going."

"It's a place my team found that I wanted to see if you knew anything about." A giant wasteland comes into sight. Mountains shaped shaped like pumpkins with faces carved in them can be seen.

"This is where some of the Master Emerald pieces were lost when I last had to find it, I call it Pumpkin Hill. Why are we here?"

"While I was hacking into the ARK databases, I managed to find this." (pulls an old looking picture printed from the ARK archive of Shadow laying unconscious on the ground)

"Shadow! Was this taken recently?"
"No, look at the date, it was taken over 50 years ago. I guess that means you don't know anything about this?"
"Uh-uh, I'm afraid not."
"Well, we better search the area anyway. I have a hunch we'll find something."
This is where a exploration and puzzle based level would occur. Somehow discovering hints and clues along the way by searching and completing puzzles, and then finding the ruins of a village at the end.
They encounter a trap door in the middle of what looks to have at one time been a shrine. They down inside to discover a room with ancient carvings on the surround stone walls.
"Whoa, it looks like some sort of ancient language," remarks Rouge.
"I..I think I can understand what it's saying."
"What! Really?"
"Yeah, it looks a lot like the writings at the ruin on my island. It says, " Since the beginning of the world, there has always been a protector on the Earth, one being born in each age. This protector is granted special abilities so he can defeat the forces of darkness that time and time again that were to threaten destruction and discord among the world's inhabitants. 7 emerald of power were crafted to grant him the strength when he was in dire need. These gems power could pose a great threat if placed in the wrong hands, so a Master Emerald to cancel out the power of the 7 was formed, and a special guardian of the emeralds was to be born in each age just as the protector. "
"Knuckles..."
"This is taking about Master Emerald and me! and this carving it looks exactly like Chaos!"
"If  Shadow and Professor Gerald Robotnik were here when this photo was taken...Its seems there is a lot more to them than we originally thought."
"We should find Tails and Sonic. They ought to know about this."
Screen cuts to black.

I'm going to get the rest of my idea out there and worry about a detailed write up later.
It was Shadow that saved sonic, he destroys the Eggclopes, then proceeds to chase down Eggman.
Shadow forces Eggman to take him to Maria, as he is convinced Eggman kept her being alive a secret from him, so Shadow would help him conquer the world. Eggman plays dumb at first, but Shadow grabs him by the neck of his shirt, and gets him to admit he's only heard rumors of his cousin being alive. It's believed she lives somewhere by the ancient ruins near the red mountain.

Shadow reveals that as he was hurling towards the Earth after teleporting the ARK with Sonic, his mind recognized the situation and was able to remember what truly happened the day the ARK was invaded. Maria wasn't shot, but had made it into the escape pod with him. The escape pod began to Malfunction and he and Maria where chaos controlled to safety as Shadow's power kicked in, in this moment of crisis. Maria was cured of her disease when by Shadow's regenerative powers, which her transmitted to her via his chaos control.

Shadow and he then proceed to that place. Knuckles and Rouge, who were near by, saw Eggman's ship and followed him. Sonic and Tails received a message from Rouge before she left with Knuckles telling them where they were and so they are their as well. Once there Eggman uses a piece of Maria hair that was inside of his Grandfather's journal to track down Maria with everyone now with him and Shadow. It, in fact, ends of being in a small village of hedgehogs. Maria despite her age, looks young as if she were only 30-40. Shadow says, " Maria..." to which Maria rushes forward and embraces him replying emotionally, "Shadow" She explains that after Shadow was the last time she saw him he was shocked unconscious and being taken away behind close doors. She was then released from GUN, and traveled to the area where Shadow was found as her grandfather, Professor Gerald Robotnik, asked her to go back to where Shadow was found to discover his origins. When at the ruins, she ran into a hedgehog draped in ancient looking garmets, he then invited her back to village where she decided to stay and become a priestess.

A hedgehog recognizes Sonic and its found that the village priest and priestess who watch over the shrine of the guardian, are his parents, and that they had lost him in a storm when he was young; thus, he ended up on the island by Tails and where he befriended and was raised by the woodland creatures becoming their hero. Sonic's parents then take everyone into the Shrine that Knuckles and Rouge stumbled upon earlier and explain to them the legend of the Earth's guardian, with more details that was Knuckles had learned. They state that right after Sonic was born he glowed bright gold for a moment, and that this is a sign of a guardian child. Everyone in Sonic's group is blown away of course, and Maria brings up that Shadow must have been the guardian of the Earth to protect it over 50 years ago, but since he was encapsulated for so long Sonic was born with those powers as well. While all of this is mind blowing news Maria has more important information to share with everyone.

It was revealed to Maria in the recording from her grandfather, that there was another scientist working with him on Project Shadow, the biolizard, named Dr. Freud Sigmund. Sigmund was envious of Gerald discovery of Shadow the Hedgehog and his success with him, so he took his revenge upon Gerald framing him by altering the ARK and spreading rumors of an accident. Gerald made Maria promise to be silent as he knew Sigmund would target her next.

Later it is found out that Sigmund is alive and well, having survived for so long by infusing himself with Shadow's energies. He also reprogrammed Shadow's memories so he would want to take revenge on the Earth to frame Gerald in the event he was awakened. It was described to Sigmund that Shadow escaped via and appeared on Prison Island with Maria by some sort of flash of light. He searched Shadow's memories and DNA to find out about something called, "The Chaos Emeralds" he then deduced that Shadow must have had these so called gems of power with him, and that it must have been by their power he gained the ability to "control" time and space; thus, Sigmund gave this ability the name Chaos control and programmed Shadow to seek out these Chaos Emeralds to perform this move. He also made the design of the ARK canon to be powered by these, but it would short circuit in the event that all seven were inserted as he did not truly intend for the earth to be destroyed, he only intended to thoroughly create the illusion that this was Gerald's goal. Shadow was also programmed to seek for the seven Chaos Emeralds to place in the canon,  when  he was awakened.

From here events can be added in, but ultimately Sonic and the group infiltrate GUN head quarters where Sigmund resides to expose him. Sigmund has been manipulating and controlling the military and most of the government for years pulling the strings like a spider on his web. Sigmund is a brilliant strategist and tactician pushes Sonic and the group to their limits. They split off inside of the massive headquarters which serves as the final level. He character facing their own unique trials and challenges. Shadow manages to reach Sigmund first and defeats his robot combat machine he uses against him. Sonic shows up now and Sigmund mutters
"Curses! I almost had you in court, until Dr. Eggman interfered."
Sonic: "That was you, wasn't it! I thought you looked familiar. You were wearing disguise, but I'd recognize those beady eyes anyway."
"Yes, that's surprisingly astute for someone so dim. Foiled plan or not, it's no matter you're not getting out of here alive!" A tube shoots up from the floor board engulfing Sigmund. The tube fills with bright lights, as the chaos emeralds can be seen inside floating around him. Sigmund had been slowly moving to the spot where the tube came up while he and Sonic were talking.
He then laughs manically transforming into a hulkish and monsterish form, which is a result of absorbing Shadow's powers and the Chaos emerald which he manages to pull strings to nab between the end of SA2 and now.
 Because he absorbs only the negative energy Shadow and Sonic get the positive turning them Super. They defeat him, and he fades into nothingness, having used up the energy keeping him alive. Sonic and Shadow return to normal.

As Eggman was traveling through GUN HQ, he did assist the group in reaching Sigmund, but after he helped he spent his time hacking into the system, so he now has control of the entire system weapons robots and the powerful mech that Sigmund was using except it manages to increase it's powers with technology from the HQs. This could be either a true final level, or just another boss fight with Sonic fight against him, as Shadow is too exhausted and drained of power having fought twice in a row, and being the one to unleash the full extent of his powers to deal the final blow to Sigmund. Sonic prevails but narrowly as he passes out after wards exhausted as well, Tails and Knuckles find him and Rouge grabs Shadow, they all runs out as the head quarters explodes (this part in honor of Michel Bay).

After both recover and awaken, Shadow informs the others he intends to go live with Maria in the village and learn the ways of his people. He offers Sonic to come too as he is part of the same clan, but Sonic declines, stating that he has everything he needs right here, arms stretched out in the direction of Tails Knuckles and Rouge. He then says, "Not to mention Amy'd kill me if she found out I was going to live all the way out there." Everyone laughs at this and he continues, "Besides it'd be too boring for me to stay in one place for so long. I can visit ma and pa anytime I want."

"Suit yourself," replies Shadow.
"Come on guys lets go get some chili dogs!" Sonic
"Knuckles, what's a chili dog? It is some type of frozen pet we have to warm?"
Everyone laughs one last time into the credits and the game ends.

Well, it's finally done. I intended to write it like a novel, but getting my ideas out there is more important. If you'd managed to make it this far and read it let me know what you think, and

Thanks for playing (reading)!
Another day brings another adventure, but for now
Rest easy heroes.