Sonic Adventure X

Sonic Adventure X would be a 3D platforming/adventure game and a part of the long-running Sonic the Hedgehog series. It would also be the first since Sonic '06 to utilize Sonic Adventure-style physics and game mechanics.

My intention is also to bring back the edgy attitude you see in games like Sonic Adventure 2. The animations would be very detailed and interesting in themselves, and the level design would be solid, but it would have the same wildly energetic structure as the original Adventure games.

My rationale for creating this idea is that, like many other Sonic fanboys, one of my most desired games is the sequel to Sonic Adventure 2. It was my favorite game in the entire series, and ever since the failure of Sonic ’06, we’ve never actually seen another game in the full-fledged Adventure style. I found this to be quite disappointing, but since an SA3 page already exists on this wiki, I decided to make X my own unique version.

Plot
Through this game, I'm attempting to bring back the depth of story we saw from games like '06 and SA2. However, I don't want to simply rip off either of them, so I decided to do something to break the mold a bit.

Anyone familiar with the Sonic series is aware that the classic Sonic plot is Sonic and his friends on a quest to stop Dr. Robotnik/Eggman from obtaining the power of the Chaos Emeralds. In this game, though, the story takes a wildly different turn.

Instead of trying once again to harness the raw power of Chaos, Eggman reconsiders his options for world domination. He reminisces on all his painful failures in the past, all of them resulting from the actions of Sonic the Hedgehog.

It is then that he realizes that Sonic and his friends have only become stronger and stronger over the years, and an important reason for this is because they have been obtaining more rings, and gaining more power from Chaos. He reasons further that every one of his plots has been foiled in one form or another by the Chaos Emeralds themselves, be it by malfunction, or simply by Sonic using their power to defeat him.

And so, he comes up with a scheme unlike any he has thought of before: eliminate all Chaos energy from the world!

To carry out this dastardly deed, Eggman constructs a new robot warrior similar in appearance to the embodiment of Chaos, but more streamlined and plated in cold steel. It is called Project Hush, and its sole aim is to consume chaos. It requires chaotic energy to function. However, as it consumes chaos, it becomes progressively stronger.

Eggman boots up Hush using the power of 10,000 rings, and once he verifies that it is as powerful as he wants it to be, he links its A.I. with the A.I. of his latest army of robotic minions, making him their unquestioned general. Eggman is confident that through this plan, he will finally destroy Sonic, Shadow, and all those who have defied him in the past.

But, when he releases Hush upon the world, things go wrong. Eggman had programmed Hush too well, such that he sought to destroy chaos in all its forms. When he finally witnesses the human condition for the first time, he turns on Eggman and decides to destroy him and all the world's inhabitants to purify it of its folly.

It is then that Sonic and Tails arrive on the scene after hearing about an attack by an unknown mechanical entity. After a short fight, Sonic and Tails drive away Hush, and Eggman goes into hiding. They decide to track him down, and find him after meeting up with Shadow and Rouge along the way, who both witnessed the battle and decided to follow Eggman themselves. The four interrogate Eggman, demanding to know what the robot who attacked the city was, and how it could be stopped. Eggman reluctantly tells them how he constructed Hush and what went wrong in the first place.

When asked if Hush had any weaknesses, Eggman tells them that since Hush is driven by chaos energy, the Master Emerald can be used to curtail his power. With this information, they plan to go and see Knuckles the Echidna, guardian of the Emerald, on the floating Angel Island and have him use it to reign in Hush's rampage. However, Tails then notices that Hush has already sent a robotic spy to follow them, and finds that it has already recorded their conversation! The spy manages to make it outside, and it flies off to return to Hush before they can catch it.

Sonic and Shadow decide to pursue the spy and try to intercept it while Tails and Rouge take Tails's plane, the Tornado, to tell Knuckles what's happening. Sonic and Shadow pursue the spy with all their power, but before they can catch it, Hush arrives and absorbs its data, thus learning that his one weakness is the Master Emerald. Sonic and Shadow immediately attack him, but after a fight, Hush manages to bring them to their knees. He prepares to finish them off, but then Silver the Hedgehog intervenes and damages Hush enough to make him abandon the fight and fly off to retrieve the Master Emerald.

Sonic radios in and tells Tails that Hush is already on his way to take the Emerald. Tails and Rouge arrive at Angel Island, but the Tornado is shot down just as the Island comes into sight. They're forced to crash land, and Hush lands right next to the Emerald as Knuckles goes to check on the stunned duo. However, Knuckles reacts with lightning quick reflexes and drives Hush away from the Emerald. Eventually, Hush knocks Knuckles down, but before he can try to finish him off, Tails stuns him from behind with one of the Tornado's detachable guns. Knuckles then has just enough time to shatter the Master Emerald with the last of his strength. Hush decides not to waste any more of his time, and returns to his headquarters to determine how he can obtain the pieces of the Emerald.

All the heroes then rally, and they take the chance to ask Silver why he came and saved them. His answer is vague - he says that he was in his future home, where he normally was, until one night, he was woken up by an intense, violent dream in which the world was destroyed by a war between two similar-looking, giant beings; one looked like a force of nature, while one looked like a giant machination. In the dream, he also saw an unconscious figure who looked like Sonic or Shadow, so he decided to find a Chaos Emerald located in his time to travel back into the past and see if things were alright there. From there, they already knew what happened when he found them.

Made even more concerned by Silver's dream, the team formulates a plan of action: Rouge and Knuckles are given the task of working together to find the Master Emerald pieces, and Sonic, Shadow, and Silver plan to go and locate the Chaos Emeralds, so that Hush can't exploit them behind their back. Tails, meanwhile, reluctantly takes the job of pairing up with Eggman to monitor the movements of Hush and his army.

Along the way, both Sonic and Shadow have dreams similar to the one Silver described, but they saw past the situation Silver described, and both their dreams together showed a battle that led to the destruction of all life on the planet. The three figure that there must be a reason for them to be having these dreams, and probably a bad one. Just then, Tails radios in and tells them that Hush is personally supervising his army in an attack on the Mobian capital. They head there immediately to try to combat the threat.

Eventually, Sonic, Shadow, and Silver maneuver their way up to Hush's ship while the others hold off his army. They make their way through to the ship's helm, where a clearly more powerful Hush continues to absorb chaotic energy. They attempt to attack him, but Hush has already anticipated their arrival and traps all three of them in an unbreakable chamber, connected to some apparatus in the ceiling that then electrocutes them and forces the Chaos Emeralds away from them. They can only watch in fear as Hush harnesses the ultimate power of the Emeralds, but then some invisible force freezes time and sucks them into some alternate, completely still dimension.

After a few seconds, the environment starts moving very slowly, and they start to see the gigantic figures from their dream fighting in the distance. They approach the battle, and they see other versions of themselves lying unconscious on the ground nearby. Clearly they had been defeated in this dimension, and they didn't know what they could do to fix things.

But then, time stood still again, and to their utter astonishment, the embodiment of Chaos itself appears floating in front of them. Chaos explains that he was the one who caused them to have their peculiar dreams, and it was to let them know the consequences of failure to stop Hush. However, since they didn't manage to change the course of time themselves due to Hush's trap, he himself had to interfere at the last second before Hush finally gained too much power to be stoppable by normal means. He stresses that in order for their collective nightmare to be prevented, they would have to work together with their friends to stop Hush themselves, and before sending them back to the real world, he tells them that their task will be possible no matter how impossible it may seem at first.

The trio is sent back to the moment at which they were taken away, and this time around, they are able to evade Hush's trap, destroy it, and fight him fair and square.

Soundtrack
 Sonic AX' s main theme would be an existing song entitled, "Rise Again," an original song by Crush 40, a band which has been with the Sonic franchise ever since it introduced vocal soundtracks, and has performed the main themes for both original Sonic Adventure games.



Another song that will be included in the game in a context that is to be announced is the Modern remix of "Escape from the City," originally from Sonic Adventure 2, but more recently from Sonic Generations.