The Ultimate Weapon

Now lets begin with introductions. Our soon to be hero is Eric, an eighteen year old that dropped out of college because he got a good job. Now Eric didn’t have a good childhood as he was an orphan at the age of six and had gotten adopted by an ungrateful family. His brothers were mean, his only sister despised him, his mother and his father belittled him. At nine years old. Before he had the choice to move, he would escape his harsh reality from video games. Now he would play all types of games like racing, fighting, and shooting games. But one series that he liked most of all was Sonic. He played almost every retro sonic game from the sega genesis and beat them. When he turned fifteen, he got a gameboy advanced along with sonic battle, a game he has been dying to play for a year. But when he was near completing Emerl’s story, his brothers took his gameboy and pawned it. He hated them for it and tried fighting them, but to no avail. He was frail, weak, and most of all, small. His appearance doesn't help with that at all and to this very moment. Resembles a thirteen year old. But well developed in some places.

Fast forward three years from then and he is living alone in his apartment and just sitting around at a table full with art supplies and various objects. He was planning to go to a costume party and wanted to go as his favorite character from the sonic franchise: Emerl. Sounds ironic considering he played the game, but the reason Emerl was his favorite because of Emerl's principal power: perfect copy. He can observe a technique, skill, or trait in action and then remember and copy that technique with unnerving accuracy and precision. This ability apparently extends to all aspects of a target outside of its physical form, enabling it to mimic running speed, jumping ability, stance, voices, attacks, and even coloration. But the real reason was because of his soul. Emerl can copy the personality of someone. For example, Sonic is cocky, brave, easy-going, and impatient. In short, Emerl can copy traits from Sonic and make it his own. But he develops his own personality later on because of Gerald Robotnick giving him a “soul” like Maria’s.

“Finally done with the hands and… I wanna say boots?” He gathered the four parts of his costume and went to a mirror and started to put on the hands. He then went on to the “boots” and put them on. He then struck a couple of poses.

“Huh. looks goo-AUGGHH WHAT THE FUCK?!” Suddenly, his arms and legs suddenly started to hurt. The feeling was like being stabbed repeatedly. He collapsed to the ground and writhed in pain. It was unbearable to him and tears flowed down his cheeks and his eyes were bloodshot and red. He closed his eyes, accepting his own demise. But before he did, he caught a glimpse of his hair. What used to be black hair, was now somehow turning yellow. One lock of hair in the middle front of his forehead was turning orange. He then blacked out.

He then awoke with a pounding headache that he never had before. He shook his head and looked around his surroundings. He was in a forest in the middle of the night with nothing but trees and red eyes. Wait, red eyes? Eric jumped onto his feet, still not knowing what was going on. The sound of a clang directed his attention to his feet that were now… metal? He now possessed five-fingered olive-brown hands and feet in the shape of shoes with orange soles. He also had relatively thick armor around his forearms and lower legs, (each one possessing orange cuffs), thick kneecaps, and some kind of jetpack on his back. He was confused. So he took the shoes off… or so he tried.

“Whaa? Oh yeah! I forgot about my cosplay stuff. But, why won't they come off?!” He pulled harder only for a jolt of pain to stop him in his tracks.

“Are these things attached to me?! If so, then that means-” He was cut off by five growls behind him. He gulped and turned around, forgetting that he saw red eyes when he woke up. In front of him were wolves made out of wood. On the right side of his vision, was text that read:

Name Of Attacker(s): Timberwolves
Power: III
Speed: IIIII

Eric freaked out and fell on his back as they surrounded him in a circle. Eric’s adrenaline started to kick in as he leaped over them, similar to Sonic’s leap. Once he landed, he took off running forward. He could hear them behind him but as he continued running, he couldn't hear them anymore. He looked behind himself to check if they were still on his tail.

“Good i lost them phew now to figure out- OH SHIT SLOW DOWN!” He stopped running and planted his feet on the ground, kicking up dirt in his trail. He then saw a medieval looking castle… in the middle of the forest with a rickety old bridge. He shook his head.

“Welp, pray to god I don't fall. But also, what was that text?” He pondered before walking over the bridge. It shook violently as he quickly traversed it, trying not to look down to the misty death fall below. Eric made it across the bridge with no casualties and sighed a breath of relief. He then made his way to the entrance. The sight of the crumbling structure slightly unnerved him the closer Eric got, as the building seemed cursed and forgotten.

“Before that I want to test out something but will it work? If my cosplay stuff is apart of my body now, then that might mean that I’m a cybernetic gizoid. So I can copy moves. How can I get to the skill edit menu? Maybe… just maybe…” Eric took a deep breath and closed his eyes. Whatever he was doing, took a lot of concentration.

“Configuration”

Suddenly, a projected screen came from his chest, as he looked shocked at the sudden appearance of his skill edit. On the right of the screen, was Emerl in his idle pose and a text box above his head that said “edit skills”. On the left were text boxes that said Run Skill, Dash Skill, Jump skill, Air Action, and GRD Skill. He touched the run skill to be met with only two skill cards. One was blue, the other black. He then clicked the blue one which showed Sonic in an idle running animation. There was another text box that said “more info”. Surprisingly, he wasn’t scared or anything. The description read this:

“Sonic's running skill. He has true blue super sonic speed.”

Eric clicked it to hear the jingle of it being selected. He wanted to test things out and clicked an “X” on the left corner. He then ran around in a circle. He was surprised as all of his surroundings turned into a blur. He stopped and opened the skill edit menu once again.

After setting his attacks and etc, he has now figured out that he only has two sets of skill cards. One from Sonic, and one from Shadow. He was surprised that he has two most powerful hedgehogs in his skills. Walking inside, he tiptoed around, hoping he wouldn’t be found by anything that may be lurking in this castle. He was unlucky as mist formed behind him and formed into a silhouette of a person. He stopped as he felt like he was being watched. And he was right!

“Well, well, well. What do we have here?”

“Ah shit.”