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Hop To It - Eclipse 12

[Shadow]

Shadow stepped off the teleporter to let the others come in, and found himself gravitating towards the window overlooking Earth.

This room wasn’t always a control bridge. It was converted to a security station as more people began living here, due to its central location, but before that it was an observatory. It provided a beautiful view of the planet below, and Shadow came here often, alongside…

Maria.

Shadow, what do you think it’s li...

Hop To It - Eclipse 11

[Humi]

Heyu was sleeping, and Humi was bored. She was bored, but not anymore!

Having spent most of her life in the city, Humi never spent a lot of time looking at the stars. There weren’t many stars to see in Station Square at night. And on the occasions she slept out in Mystic Ruin, well, the stars were pretty, but until recently she only went to her hideaway when she was in trouble or needed to get away from it all, and when she was in those mindsets, staring ...

Hop To It - Eclipse 10

[Shadow]

Doctor Eggman was causing a distraction while Rouge snuck into the prison base to find the Chaos Emeralds. From the chatter going on on their communication line, there were unexpected complications on both fronts, but they were handling it.

Shadow did not currently have anything to do. His job was to sneak into the armory to plant the explosive that would destroy the island once they were done, but that had taken him mere minutes. Now, he was back in the ...

Hop To It - Eclipse 9

[Tails]

Lovely morning for a flight. The sight of all those G.U.N. ships surrounding the island kind of spoiled the view, but the weather was nice and the wind was under his wings.

Okay. Structural integrity… holding. Engine… steady. Wings… Uh, left wing wobbling alarmingly. Tails reached out with a wrench and physically held it in place, which wasn’t easy, but the alternative was it snapping off. Tails would be fine, he could fly, but he wasn’t willing ...

Hop To It - Eclipse 8

[Heyu]

I might have made a mistake.

Not going after Humi, there wasn’t anything that could convince me not to do that. The mistake was that I’d been awake for, what… 22 hours at this point? I felt fine, and I was doing okay driving, but I knew that sooner or later I was going to experience consequences. The question was, did I believe Humi would be alright long enough for me to get a couple hours of sleep?

She was smart, resourceful, and apparently goi...

Hop To It - Eclipse 7

[Iota]

Meanwhile

Iota was pleased to discover something else he enjoyed: the open road and breakneck speeds.

Nature was full of quick and speedy things. The cheetah, capable of sprinting faster than any other land animal. The peregrine falcon, capable of diving at blinding speeds. The sailfish, faster than some torpedoes. And, of course, Mobians like the ones he called his friends were able to reach staggering speeds as well.

While he ...

Hop To It - Eclipse 6

[Shadow]

Shadow knew how to use the Chaos Emerald. It almost felt like the knowledge was built-in, it was so intuitive, but he’d also read the theory surrounding it, when he was younger. It had been part of his education.

But he had never done so before the Doctor freed him. And while it was intuitive, it wasn’t easy. He was already figuring out how to do it better, but he suspected that jumping straight to teleportation had been a mistake, much less doing it ...

Hop To It - Eclipse 5

[Heyu]

Some people can hold onto their anger for ages. They nurture it like a fire, and keep it fueled to burn indefinitely. Mine was a firework; my anger burned hot and fast, and fizzled out quickly. I just wasn’t able to hold onto it for very long. No matter how much the other guy deserved it.

Captain Palisade eventually decided that I was innocent of any wrongdoing, just stressed. She had a couple officers escort me home, and by the time I got there I didn’...

Hop To It - Eclipse 4

[Humi]

Seeing Mecha Sonic again after their last encounter was a shock. Humi didn’t remember exactly how that fight ended, but she was told that Chaos knocked her and Amy out, so she’d assumed Mecha Sonic got destroyed. Not only was he not a pile of scrap, he seemed as good as new! That, plus the fact that they were in the middle of a public street really threw her for a loop.

It took her several seconds to get over the shock, and by the time she did Mecha had...

Hop To It - Eclipse 3

[Heyu]

I was lying on my bed, staring at the ceiling.

Iota had left. Apparently he really really wanted to visit Pumpkin Hill before we went home, and while I was a little concerned about letting him go on his own, Dad assured me it would be fine. He had friends in the police force, and Dad gave them a description of Iota and told them that he was safe. I didn’t… not trust that, but frankly, it also wasn’t fair to just deny him agency on the grounds of being...

Hop To It - Eclipse 2

[Iota]

Preliminary assessment of urban environments had been decidedly unfavorable.

Iota enjoyed nature, and over the course of his admittedly short existence, most of his time had been spent among greenery. Station Square was urban, but also undergoing construction, and Iota had made suggestions toward implementing green spaces that the engineers had seemed open to. He understood the necessity of cities, but he much preferred to be away from them.

When he l...

Hop To It - Eclipse 1

Three Months after Perfect Chaos

Central City.

Titan of commerce and art. A skyline of steel and glass. Capital of the United Federation.

Home sweet home.

My parents moved to Central City after their wedding, one of hundreds of young Mobian couples seeking to make a new life for themselves closer to the heart of civilization, away from the wilderness our people had long been associated with. Eking out a life in harmony with the land was all well and goo...

Hop To It - Interlude: Breakdown & A surprise for later

“So it’s just a normal day, if slow, when this pink hedgehog girl comes in. She says some weird things and leaves, and then this little ragamuffin bursts in and locks the door behind her--”

“I threw a rock at a robot!”

“You what?!”

“Hush. So then the robot blasts the doors down--”

“It was so cool! Heyu picked me up like I didn’t weigh anything and dragged me to the back of the store and then kicked the fire ex...

Hop To It - Break 8

[Eggman]

Honestly, he didn’t even remember he had this base.

After the colossal failure that was Chaos, Dr. Robotnik was happy to take a short break and regroup. He had no desire to run afoul of that rotten hedgehog again any time soon. Oh, he’d be back, but on his own terms. Once he was ready and had a real knockout of a scheme, Eggman would return bigger, badder, and more dangerous than ever before!

But now? He wanted to be left alone.

A...

Hop To It - Break 7

After Iota woke up, we really started settling into… I wouldn’t call it a routine, really, but things seemed to click into place a little.

While the construction of Station Square continued in the background, we just got on living, taking every day one at a time…

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[Tails]

Four weeks after Perfect Chaos

Tails rapped his fingers against the desk, frowning. Gamma’s problem was proving more difficult to solv...

Hop To It - Break 6

[Iota]

Long, heavy strides ate up the terrain as grass became logs became tile became grass again. The trees rose high above, and flowers of golds and reds dotted the landscape. Auditory sensors picked up birdsong, insect humming, frogs croaking, leaves rustling, water running…

“Elation: It truly is as beautiful as I believed.”

Iota’s head was on a swivel, and also it was looking around constantly. Everything it saw was real an...

Hop To It - Break 5

​​​​​[Iota]

Chronometer: 4:3:12:47

Four days since coming online. Iota was going over the data it had acquired.

The world was an incredible place. The video media it had absorbed was clear. Information it had possessed through Encyclopedia had received greater context, delivered to it in the form of soothing narration.

It pored over a file copied from Memory, from the fourth documentary (Gaia’s Kingdom, Episode 6: “Cheet...

Hop To It - Break 4

I’d like to think I was raised pretty well. My parents were good folk and I grew up watching the standard assortment of morality-affirming children’s shows that taught such lessons as don’t lie, sharing is caring, and stealing is wrong. As I got older, of course, I discovered that there was nuance to these lessons. Sometimes a lie to spare someone’s feelings really isn’t all that bad. Sharing is nice, but you gotta recognize when the other guy is the one ...

Hop To It - Break 3

“Alright, are you kids ready?”

I stepped into Tails’s lab, adjusting my spare gloves. I grimaced. There was a reason these were my spares. They weren’t fitted. Granted, wearing the rings over them wasn’t helping, but I wanted to get used to the feeling since I had a hunch. Wearing them clearly made them do something, the next trick would be getting them to do something I wanted.

But enough of that. I looked up from my hands as I entered to see ...

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Hop To It - Break 2

I stared at the assortment of rings laid out on the desk in front of me. Picking up one, size small, and another one that was much larger, I tried to put one through the other.

The second the small one started passing through the larger ring, a harsh buzz filled my ears, and I pulled back.

“Interesting reaction,” I muttered, making a note of it in my journal. “No idea what it means, but interesting.”

After a week of living together, Humi and I, we’d already started...

Hop To It - Break 1

They don’t tell you about what happens after the story ends.

The bad guy saved, disaster averted, the hero goes home. Maybe you get an epilogue showing how the characters are getting on now that everything’s great, but when that happens it’s almost never right after the end card.

You don’t have to sit through everyone picking up the pieces that the villain knocked over. You don’t have to ask how the hero gets down from that giant spire in the sky where he s...

Hop To It - Adventure Final Story

[Heyu?]

It wa

Hop To It - Adventure 12

[Amy]

“This isn’t going well!” Amy shouted. She swung her hammer, knocking a missile away. It went into a tailspin and flew over the side of the Carrier, crashing into the sea and exploding. The fireball was just big enough to be seen from the middle of the deck. “Isn’t that a little overkill?!”

“Warning: Beta has been extensively upgraded,” Gamma declared. He lined up a shot and fired. “Caution is advised.” 

“Thanks for t...