#based on their skins from sonic dash/speed battle

[minxinq]

blazamy band/idol au lalala

[lovelylivewirez]

BAR FIGHT BAR FIGHT BAR FIGHT!!!!

My piece for @sthbigbang, based on @bitttertrees' fic, Castles and Creepy Creatures!

Check out @hel-helly, @dragonofthedepths, and @madcatscookiejar's pieces for this fic too, as well as everyone else's work for the event!

Designs + rambles under the cut!

I designed each characters' in-game outfits! You'll see them in everyone else's pieces as well :]

First up, Sonic's a bard! His outfit is simple enough, more for practicality than anything. I wanted to add just the tiniest bit of flair with his earings though, as well as keeping a hint of his out-of-game appearance with some sports tape/bandages on his legs. The design of his lute is kind of meant to invoke swirling winds.

Knux is a barbarian! His outfit is mostly inspired by typical DnD barbarian designs + a bit of Karlach from Baldur's Gate 3 (never played it, but our writer sent me her design for inspo). His great axe is mostly based on Sir Gawain's twin blades from Sonic and the Black Knight!

Amy's a paladin! Her armour is heavily based on the Paladin Amy skin from Sonic Forces Speed Battle and Sonic Dash, though a bit simplified and altered to seem more practical. Her hammer is a simplified version of the one from the skin as well.

And lastly, Sticks is a warlock! Her outfit is meant to look like something she quickly put together for the sake of looking like a warlock for the game. Her staff is just a prop she found, and you can see her regular clothes under her cloak!

I had a great time working with everyone and I hope to participate in future Big Bangs! (Perhaps... as a writer? Nah jk... unless...?)

[demifiendrsa]

Sonic X Shadow Generations - Summer Game Fest Trailer

Sonic X Shadow Generations will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC (Steam, Epic Games Store) on October 25, 2024 for $49.99.

Title logo

Key visual

Screenshots

Latest details

Editions

Sonic X Shadow Generations‘ Digital Deluxe Edition allows fans to play the game three days early and includes additional iconic music tracks from previous Sonic and Shadow games, a Terios skin based on Shadow’s original concept, behind-the-scenes art, an additional level and Shadow Skin, and more! Sonic fans can also pre-order the Digital Standard or Deluxe editions of Sonic X Shadow Generations ahead of launch to receive a legacy skin for Sonic, based on his look from Sonic Adventure! Players who pre-order the Physical Day One Edition will receive Gerald Robotnik’s Journal, a 28-page logbook chronicling Gerald’s innermost thoughts and drawings while he created Shadow the Hedgehog and the Ark Space Station, in addition to the legacy skin for Sonic.

Please see below for more details on each offering:

Digital Standard Edition ($49.99 USD)

Base game (digital)

Bonus PlayStation exclusive: Extended Prologue animations with deleted scenes

Pre-order bonus: Sonic Adventure Skin

Physical Day One Edition ($49.99 USD)

Base game (physical only)

Bonus PlayStation exclusive: Extended Prologue animations with deleted scenes

Pre-order bonus: Sonic Adventure Skin and Gerald Robotnik’s Journal (28 pages)

Digital Deluxe Edition ($59.99 USD)

Base game (digital only)

Bonus PlayStation exclusive: Extended Prologue animations with deleted scenes

Pre-order bonus: Sonic Adventure Skin

Digital Deluxe Season Pass

Play the game three days early

An additional character skin and level for Shadow (releasing Holiday 2024)

Terios Skin

Extra BGM Pack

Digital Art Book + Soundtrack

Skill Points (Sonic Generations)

About

Play as Shadow in a brand-new story campaign featuring never-before-seen abilities that prove why he’s known as the Ultimate Life Form! Speed through iconic stages from Shadow’s history, discover hidden secrets in an expansive hub world, and unlock new powers to take on Black Doom and save the world.

Sonic X Shadow Generations also includes a complete remaster of the highly acclaimed Sonic Generations, a time-traveling adventure featuring a greatest-hits collection of 3D and 2D Sonic stages, now with upgraded visuals and new bonus content.

Key Features

The Return of Shadow – In this new standalone campaign, Shadow’s nemesis, Black Doom, has reemerged and threatens to take over the world once again. Shadow must journey into his past, confront his painful memories, and unlock new dark powers to save the world.

Shadow Evolved – Harness Shadow’s new Doom Powers to battle hordes of enemies and tackle platforming challenges like never before. Surf on water, fly over obstacles, and stop time with the return of Chaos Control!

A Journey Through Time and Dimensions – Relive signature levels from Shadow’s previous adventures and accelerate through mind-bending stages in both 3D and 2D, warped by Black Doom’s influence as Shadow works to piece together the timeline and thwart his evil plans.

Explore the New White Space – Stretch your legs in an all-new hub world inspired by the open-zone gameplay of Sonic Frontiers™. As Shadow gains new powers, he can explore further and uncover the secrets hidden throughout!

The Best of Both Worlds, Remastered – Spin dash through a greatest-hits collection of 3D and 2D versions of iconic stages from past Sonic games, now with updated visuals and reworked cinematics.

New Collectibles, Bonus Content, and More! – Rescue Chao hiding in every level, rack up the highest pinball score in the Casino Nights Zone, and check out the museum for behind-the-scenes art, music, and more!

[satoshi-mochida]

Sonic X Shadow Generations launches October 25 - Gematsu

Sonic X Shadow Generations will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on October 25 for $49.99, SEGA announced.

Get the latest details below.

Editions

Sonic X Shadow Generations‘ Digital Deluxe Edition allows fans to play the game three days early and includes additional iconic music tracks from previous Sonic and Shadow games, a Terios skin based on Shadow’s original concept, behind-the-scenes art, an additional level and Shadow Skin, and more! Sonic fans can also pre-order the Digital Standard or Deluxe editions of Sonic X Shadow Generations ahead of launch to receive a legacy skin for Sonic, based on his look from Sonic Adventure! Players who pre-order the Physical Day One Edition will receive Gerald Robotnik’s Journal, a 28-page logbook chronicling Gerald’s innermost thoughts and drawings while he created Shadow the Hedgehog and the Ark Space Station, in addition to the legacy skin for Sonic.

Please see below for more details on each offering:

-Digital Standard Edition ($49.99 USD)

Base game (digital)

Bonus PlayStation exclusive: Extended Prologue animations with deleted scenes

Pre-order bonus: Sonic Adventure Skin

-Physical Day One Edition ($49.99 USD)

Base game (physical only)

Bonus PlayStation exclusive: Extended Prologue animations with deleted scenes

Pre-order bonus: Sonic Adventure Skin and Gerald Robotnik’s Journal (28 pages)

-Digital Deluxe Edition ($59.99 USD)

Base game (digital only)

Bonus PlayStation exclusive: Extended Prologue animations with deleted scenes

Pre-order bonus: Sonic Adventure Skin

-Digital Deluxe Season Pass

Play the game three days early

An additional character skin and level for Shadow (releasing Holiday 2024)

Terios Skin

Extra BGM Pack

Digital Art Book + Soundtrack

Skill Points (Sonic Generations)

About

Play as Shadow in a brand-new story campaign featuring never-before-seen abilities that prove why he’s known as the Ultimate Life Form! Speed through iconic stages from Shadow’s history, discover hidden secrets in an expansive hub world, and unlock new powers to take on Black Doom and save the world. Sonic X Shadow Generations also includes a complete remaster of the highly acclaimed Sonic Generations, a time-traveling adventure featuring a greatest-hits collection of 3D and 2D Sonic stages, now with upgraded visuals and new bonus content.

Key Features

The Return of Shadow – In this new standalone campaign, Shadow’s nemesis, Black Doom, has reemerged and threatens to take over the world once again. Shadow must journey into his past, confront his painful memories, and unlock new dark powers to save the world.

Shadow Evolved – Harness Shadow’s new Doom Powers to battle hordes of enemies and tackle platforming challenges like never before. Surf on water, fly over obstacles, and stop time with the return of Chaos Control!

A Journey Through Time and Dimensions – Relive signature levels from Shadow’s previous adventures and accelerate through mind-bending stages in both 3D and 2D, warped by Black Doom’s influence as Shadow works to piece together the timeline and thwart his evil plans.

Explore the New White Space – Stretch your legs in an all-new hub world inspired by the open-zone gameplay of Sonic Frontiers™. As Shadow gains new powers, he can explore further and uncover the secrets hidden throughout!

The Best of Both Worlds, Remastered – Spin dash through a greatest-hits collection of 3D and 2D versions of iconic stages from past Sonic games, now with updated visuals and reworked cinematics.

New Collectibles, Bonus Content, and More! – Rescue Chao hiding in every level, rack up the highest pinball score in the Casino Nights Zone, and check out the museum for behind-the-scenes art, music, and more!

Watch a new trailer below. View a new set of screenshots at the gallery.

Release Date Trailer

English

[sonicskinsmackdown]

I will be hosting a tournament for your favorite character skins!

Created by @themurderofsonic-knockout and inspired by @sonicgirlsmackdown, @sonicmalematchup, @sonicadhdswagbattle, @sallyacornsmackdown, @knucklesshowdown, and @sonic-instrumental-matchup

What does count:

Any skin from sonic dash, sonic forces: speed battle, sonic speed simulator, and sonic rivals 2.

Base skins are included (amy, tails, and sonic, for example)

What doesn't count:

Outfits from sonic frontiers

Sonic boom and sonic dash 2

Any other rules?

Dont be mean i can and will block you if you are too nasty, or disqualify 2 participants if they are drumming up too much negative attention.

Propaganda is encouraged just dont be mean or send propaganda to the ask box.

You can start submitting your favorite sonic skins here:

[theroadtoindigo-go]

Undesirable Truth, Part 3

Link to Part 1

Link to Part 2

We had to travel the rest of our adventure through the walls and floors in silence as to keep ourselves from being detected. It was a tense situation, especially when we could hear the trod of metal feet passing us by. In one of our many silent moments of concentration, Sonic whispered another question.

              “Why didn’t you leave earlier? Did he keep you prisoner too?”

It took me a while to find the words I was looking for. 

               “No… I wasn’t. I didn’t ask questions. I was afraid.”

“Afraid of what? With all the stuff you know, it’s not like you’d get caught.”

I hesitated, I wasn’t ready to say it out loud.

“Oh, I get it.” He said and batted his eyelashes, “You were afraid of leaving me behind~!”

I snickered and nudged at his arm.

“More like you drove me out!” I retorted, “Ever since you showed up the whole place has been all about you. I almost thought the doctor had a crush on you.”

“Stop! Thinking about it weirds me out!” He shook his head as if to clear it from the very notion, “Why do you call him a doctor anyway? The only PhD he’s got is in being a total moron.”

“Well… He.. told me to call him that.” My mood was starting to sink again, why I had been so influenced by a man that took everything away from me?

“Well that’s changing. From now on its Eggbutt or Baldy McNosehair and that’s it!”

I nearly burst out laughing and lost our cover, “Baldy Mc-What??”

“I’m serious! That’s what we call him! It’s way better that way.”

“You have to stop! Or we’re going back to jail!” I warned through barely contained laughter.

“You’re the one laughing, not me. I’m always serious.” He countered.

We continued to shuffle our way underneath the floors when the pressure of metallic feet pushed against our backs. Sonic wanted to press forward but I stymied him, worried that it would give us away.

               “WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN’T FIND THEM?” We heard a voice shout from above the floors. I recognized it as the doctor’s voice immediately.

“I DON’T CARE IF YOU HAVE TO TEAR THIS ENTIRE FACILITY APART! YOU’D BETTER FIND THEM OR YOU’RE GOING IN THE SCRAP HEAP, DO YOU HEAR ME!”

All the memories I had been swallowing down were bubbling up again, I couldn’t control the shaking. The image of the lab came back to me, I remembered the feeling of my bones grinding against each other and my skin splitting open to make way for new appendages. My vision was getting dark around the edges and the air felt hot until I felt the press of Sonic’s hand on my shoulder.

               “It’s okay, you’re safe with me.” He whispered.

I took a couple of deep breaths to try calming down.

“I don’t know what exactly you’re so scared of but I promise I’ll get you out of here. You just have to hold on until then, okay? Think you can do that?”

I nodded. His eyes seemed focused as they searched mine for understanding, or some hint to my story.

“Okay, let’s keep going. Don’t worry about them, there’s no way they’ll find us. Just follow me.”

We slowly started moving again. Just one small crawl forward after another while the party above was chattering on. It took me a while to get my bearings again but we finally reached the escape pod station. It was there that we were met with another dilemma.

“So… How do we get out into the room?” Sonic asked.

After I wriggled up next to him and took a couple more deep breaths to clear my head, I looked up at the flooring above us for another panel, then to the sides of the room to see if there were any visible exits. I turned to face him, he had an expectant look on his face. I seemed to be the expert of this situation. After all, I got us back here, I should be able to get us out. I blinked then spoke.

“I have no idea.”

He rolled his eyes and started to laugh, “Right. You didn’t think this far ahead.”

“Cut me some slack! Do you think this far in your escape plans?”

“Not usually.” He finally got a handle on his laughter.

“There, see! I’m sure we can find an opening in a wall panel somewhere if we just look.”

I started to shuffle onward when we heard the door to the room close, Sonic and I both were tense in waiting. We listened closely. I hoped they hadn’t figured out we were here yet. I could hardly hear anything over the pounding in my ears. Was my heart beating that loudly? Would it be heard through the walls? I held my breath. Then two tones reverberated through the room.

“AR-C0”

My blood ran cold.

Sonic started to ask, “What’s-?”

“It’s Metal!” I whispered, “He sent Metal after us!”

I was starting to shake again.

“AR-C0” pinged out again, this time a little closer. I was sweating bullets.

“What’s he doing?” Sonic asked.

“He’s playing hide and seek - I used to play it with him before meeting you. He… he always found me.”

“…Would you hide in the walls?”

“N-no...”

“So, he won’t find us.”

“AR-C0” rang just a few feet away from where we were hiding. Sonic took the initiative to start moving again. He found a bend where the empty space in the floor met with the empty space in the walls and crawled in. I followed after.

“AR-C0”

“Is he saying… Marco?” Sonic whispered.

“Yes, I taught him to call out Marco when he was searching and Polo for when he was hiding. It made things easier.”

“So, he thinks he’s playing hide and seek?” Sonic asked as he helped me up from the floor.

“No…” I stood up and pressed my back against the wall. “He’s mocking me.”

“AR-C0”

Metal Sonic crashed his arm through the sheet metal and into our hiding place. His fist landed just above my head and I screamed. His glowing red eye shone through the hole his fist left behind. It stared directly at me as both his hands took hold of the torn steel and pried the wall open.

               Sonic was quick to get in Metal’s way. He pushed against the wall behind us and shoved himself into Metal knocking him off balance and out of the way. I scrambled out of the hole as Sonic battled his robot counterpart. I knew I was his target since I was the weakest in the group. Metal liked to tie loose ends quickly.

               “Get going!” Sonic called out, “Run! I’m right behind you!”

I started to run, I had the urge to look back and make sure Sonic was doing okay, but didn’t get the chance. Before I could look, Metal caught up to me and blocked my way.

“P0-L0”

He reached to grab me. I nearly dodged his hand but he was faster and caught my arm. During that exchange, Sonic spin-dashed into Metal’s back, latched on and pulled at his arm to pry his cold hard fingers from my forearm. Metal yanked me along with him toward the door all the while swiping at Sonic with his free hand. Sonic was quick in evading his assaults. I knew Sonic would stand a better chance against Metal if I at least did something. I used Metal’s grip on my arms to our advantage and pulled him off balance.

               Sonic pushed off of Metal’s back to give him the additional push needed to topple him over then spin-dashed him into the ground. He had to let go of my arm by that point.

“Which way is out?” Sonic asked.

I pointed to the escape pods. He shook his head.

“Nuh-uh, too slow. Anything else?”

I thought for a bit.

“The ejection doors! If we can force them open, we’ll be out!”

“Leave it to me!”

Sonic whistled to Metal as he was standing up from Sonic’s attack. He was quick to lock eyes with his opponent. Sonic started to taunt Metal with a series of jeers and funny faces, much to my astonishment. I would never dare to do such a thing and I sincerely hoped that my friend knew what he was getting himself into.

               Metal certainly did not take kindly to Sonic’s challenge and flew at him full force. Before I knew it, Sonic had me in his arms again and started running toward the ejection doors. Was he going to try running into the doors full force? Metal Sonic was right on our tails. This could only end in disaster! I watched as the doors came closer and closer. We were just a couple of feet from the door. I shut my eyes tight and awaited the smack of the door against my face. Sonic ducked and I heard a loud crash ahead of us.

               I dared to look and saw the doors blasted open with Metal Sonic just beyond them, broken and in inoperable shape. At first my laughter was of disbelief, then relief, then of shear elation. I couldn’t believe we survived Metal Sonic’s attacks.

“Not bad, huh?” Sonic asked.

“Not bad? We’re free! Let’s get out of here!”

I jumped out of Sonic’s arms and started running out of the base, I half expected a snide remark about my running speed but at that point I didn’t care. For the first time in my life I didn’t care what anyone else thought, I was my own person. I ran as far as my legs had strength to take me, out into the night with Sonic casually following beside. With the base disappearing from sight and the new world wrapping itself around me, I took a moment to breathe and take in what this freedom felt like.

For the first time ever, I looked up and saw the night sky. With all the stars glistening brightly and the moon shining comforting rays of soft light, I inhaled deeply and breathed in the first lung full of fresh air I’ve ever had. The cool night breeze swept around me as I fell to my knees and let a few held back tears slip out quietly. This was the freest I’ve ever felt. This was the realest anything has ever felt. My life was mine again. As the realization washed over me the tears multiplied and I couldn’t keep them from showing.

Sonic watched me take it all in, I knew he was wondering why I was crying instead of shouting for joy.

“Look, um…” He said, “I don’t know what happened to you in there, and you don’t need to tell me if you’re not ready… But you’re not alone anymore.”

I turned to him and tried to explain but the wavering in my voice distorted everything I said, and honestly, I didn’t know what to say or where to start. I knew I needed to tell him, after all this time guarding him as a prisoner and not being able to answer anything he ever asked me, I at least owed him this. In addition, he was my friend, he risked his freedom and his life for me in our escape. As his friend I needed to at least let him to know who I was. A failed experiment.

I handed him the file I had taken from the lab that ruined me in hopes of giving him the answer he was looking for. While his eyes scanned the pages, his facial expressions changed from confusion, to alarm, then to compassion. When he finished reading, he took a seat in front of me and hugged me tight. I started to sob into his shoulder.

“You’re not alone. You can come with me and stay as long as you like, I’ll even introduce you to all my friends, if you want.”

I hugged him back, it was the only response I could muster.

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Thank you for reading - I have parts one and two posted on my Fanfiction.net account here: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13241826/1/Undesirable-Truth 

Expect Part 4 within a week.