Into, Across and Beyond!: The Game!
Hey, all! As part of an effort to further potential with my Tumblr project, I have a huge announcement to make for you all. Introducing...
An official game adaptation of Sonic: Into, Across and Beyond!, and boy, will it be a treat to behold, huh?
The game has started development today, and you'll be able to look forward to:
Each of the stories in gameplay form
Over 20 playable characters
Plenty of cutscenes to enjoy
Interactive environments to explore
Epic boss encounters with many rogues from the Sonic multiverse
And so much more!
I really hope you're all looking forward to-!
OMT!Tails: Woah woah woah! Hang on a moment.
Huh?
OMT!Tails walks into frame.
OMT!Tails: The story's barely 6 months old yet, and you're seriously pitching a game for it?
Ah, right. I forgot.
CR!Sonic and CR!Sally show up.
CR!Sonic: You okay, Tails?
OMT!Tails: You guys might want to look at this.
CR!Sally: A video game of all our endeavours? Seriously?
CR!Sonic: Looks like it. How would it even work out, though?
OMT!Tails: I doubt it'd ever see completion, though. I mean, over 6 quests to fill out into gameplay form? That'd take AGES, and it's likely going to risk cancellation partway through the process.
CR!Sonic: Yeah, you got a good point there, kid. I mean, can't people just enjoy the stories as they are? They're not meant to be "played".
OMT!Tails: Yeah, exactly. Especially after what I've been through...
CR!Sally: I get you, Tails...
CR!Sonic: Into, Across and Beyond! is meant to be a story project for free and for fun! Pico doesn't have the time or energy to dedicate part of his life to making a game. I bet those children and hate band-wagoners on Twitter would just jump at any opportunity to hate on it for petty reasons. And that's why they have so much-!
D-Sides Mighty enters.
D-Sides Mighty: What's going on here?
OMT!Tails: Oh! Hey, Mighty.
D-Sides Mighty: A game, huh? Don't people have enough Sonic fan-games to play?
CR!Sonic: That's what I've been trying to get at, bud. I mean, the story here on Tumblr's satisfactory enough.
OMT!Tails: Wait, "Tumblr"?
CR!Sonic: Hmm?
OMT!Tails: I thought it was called "Tumblelogs".
CR!Sonic: It was! Well, used to, anyway. I'm guessing it's still called that in your dimension?
OMT!Tails: Mhm.
D-Sides Mighty: Yeah, we don't need to go for a game of this, considering the Spider-Verse IP is copyrighted.
OMT!Tails: Hmm... Give me just a moment!
OMT!Tails spins around the lower text, tweaking it a bit.
OMT!Tails: There! Better?
CR!Sally: Much better! Well done, Tails!
D-Sides Mighty: Well, that's one situation we can finally close the book on, wouldn't you say?
CR!Sonic: Yep. Come on, Sal. Let's head back now.
CR!Sally: Good idea, Sonic.
The couple headed off.
D-Sides Mighty: Wanna go grab a bite at Burger Monarchy, Tails?
OMT!Tails: Sure thing!
They left too.
Well, that's that, then. You're NOT getting that game. In the end, it was a cleverly-veiled April Fools' gag!
Happy April Fools' Day, folks! You've got all there is so far of the story to enjoy here from the comfort of Tumblr. Plus, I've been generous enough with each post to compile links to every post for this project on a Master Post that you're more than welcome to view on my profile. Well, see you around in the next post!
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???: It's all the same for your heroic delusions. That is, until you finally meet ME. I already won because I was two steps ahead and found a way to tap into what I desire most. You think a hero of Mobius, let alone a type of Sonic, always has a chance against Dr. Eggman? HA! Don't make me laugh. I ripped that hope to pieces for my Sonic long ago. And soon, with the power of MY Chaos Emeralds, all other universes will follow... Now, you'll all see how big a man I can be. It's time to say goodbye to humanity, heroes...
???: And hello... to the NEW NORM! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The reveal of the final main antagonist... coming soon.
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Into, Across and Beyond! Scripting: To Be or NOT to Be...?
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In Many More Heroes, after OMT!Tails and Pana managed to bait LM!Sonic into the Quill Society meeting room, he was quickly detained by one of Zonic's rings.
Zonic: Hold it there, LM.
EV!Sonic: What's the worry?
OMT!Tails: I found this stuff in LM!Sonic's dorm you might wanna look at.
OMT!Tails passed him the files.
EV!Sonic: Way to go, little dude!
Milly: So with this, we need an explanation as to what LM's been hiding from us.
Zonic inserted the claimed disc into E-21 while LM!Sonic simply looked on.
Zonic: Right. To begin with, E-21, explain the thing.
E-21: What thing?
Zonic: What do you mean what-?! The universal-explainy thing!
E-21: Ah, right!
She activated a hologram.
(Keep in mind that this isn't all the people in the room at the time.)
The panels under the meeting room began to activate as a circle formed around them.
OMT!Tails: What is this?
Zonic: This... is everything.
The circle lit up the meeting room to show many different video clips.
OMT!Tails: Is it okay if you specify further?
Zonic: Right, sorry. The molecule-like connectors with dots around? This is all of us. All of our lives woven together, in a wonderful link to life and destiny.
OMT!Tails (in awe): The SEGAVerse...
Zonic: "SEGAVerse"? Huh, that's... not its name. It's called the Special-Extravagant-Galactic-spAce Vast Multiverse.
Everyone looked at him in confusion about it.
Zonic: ...which honestly isn't the best name I thought up, honestly.
Sunky and Tlels took notice of the nodes on the hologram between the links.
Tlels: And those nodes where those lines converge?
LM!Sonic: They're typical canon points. Chapters that are part of a hero's story quite a lot of times. Some good...
Holograms are shown of SoH!Sonic getting his super speed, the Sonic 2 opening cutscene from Sonic Origins, and SatAM Sonic and Sally sharing a kiss.
LM!Sonic: ...some bad...
Some more holograms are shown of Scorched fighting Prowler, which concerns Milly, frustrates Sunky and Tlels and confuses Blitz!Tails, a Sonic struggling to find air in Labyrinth Zone, and Archie Mina taking the bullet for her Sonic and Sally. Milly is quick to realise the implications of the third one.
Milly: ...What if I can't make it work...?
EV!Sonic: Hey, I'm sure you still can.
Zonic: And some... *sigh* REALLY bad...
Maria Robotnik's death from Project: Shadow is shown on a seventh hologram, to the horror of Movie Shadow. LM!Sonic gestured over to an eighth hologram that came in front of him as EV!Sonic kept an eye on him, ensuring he wasn't going to hide THAT one especially.
LM!Sonic: This one, Event ASM-91? A close companion to a hero dies trying to stop a personal villain of that hero.
The hologram showed footage of a younger Movie Sonic trying to go back for Longclaw, then ART sacrificing himself for Underground Sonic and his siblings to escape (which saddened UG!Sonic), and finally Mobiverse Sonic giving himself up to save Antho from Mammoth Mogul.
OMT!Tails: Did that happen to several of you guys, too...?
Sarah Henderson: In all honesty? Yeah...
D-Sides Mighty: And... what of it?
LM!Sonic: These are how the story's supposed to go.
Other holograms fly around them depicting other "canon events"; Deja vu about the Soleanna events, Shadow sacrificing his life for Sonic, and a couple of other cases.
LM!Sonic: I know EV doesn't believe what I'm saying, but canon events are the connections that bind our lives together. Yet, those connections can end up broken. It's why anomalies are so dangerous...
A hologram flashing back to OMT!Tails saving the little girl, BK!Sonic helping stop a train bound to crash, and BK!Amy rescuing Merlina from an ambush a few hours earlier.
LM!Sonic: Merlina's death was MEANT to be a canon event, and you, Tails, weren't supposed to be there or give BK time to save her! That's why Mina tried to stop you.
A flashback to the three-way rescue sequence is shown, with OMT!Mina grabbing OMT!Tails's arm doing the rush to save the kid.
Past OMT!Mina: Tails!
OMT!Tails: You what? I... I thought you were trying to save me, Mina.
OMT!Mina: I was, Tails, I... I was doing both.
LM!Sonic: And now, Prower, because you changed the story, BK!Amy's universe will most likely unravel! If we're lucky, we can stop it from happening, but we haven't always been lucky.
OMT!Tails: Hey, that wasn't me! That was Crimtake!
EV!Sonic: Yeah, like I just told you!
LM!Sonic: It's what happens when you break the canon!
EV!Sonic: Oh, boy... Here we go...
OMT!Tails: How would you know that?!
LM!Sonic: ...Because I broke it once myself, after that scumbag Eggman murdered two of my friends. I found another world where I was actually happy. At least, another variant of me was. And that version of myself was killed by Mephiles, so I replaced him.
Images are shown of LM!Sonic living a happier life in an alternate dimension, his past smile disappearing to his present-day scowl.
LM!Sonic: I thought it was harmless... but I was completely wrong.
Further images show that dimension collapsing, akin to Sonic '06's End of the World, several members of the Quill Society trying and failing to save others. LM!Sonic was running through the streets of Soleanna, Elise in his arms.
Elise: S-Sonic! Get me to the Aquatic Base! You need to put this right!
She was dying fast in LM!Sonic's arms as he raced there at top-speed.
LM!Sonic: Elise, CR? Isn't that right?
CR!Sonic: Y-Yeah...
The destruction played out in full, holographic shards flying past OMT!Tails in the aftermath.
LM!Sonic: You break enough canon, you keep doing the wrong thing... and we could end up losing it all.
The central hologram faded away as EV!Sonic and Tekno turned back.
Tekno: Look, is it really down to you breaching that world's intentions? Because it could've been another force at play!
Zonic: Honestly, I agree. Some other creep might've caused that mess just to watch you suffer.
SS!Amy: Mhm. It's like trying to claim me and my friends were "destined" to die when Finitevus erased our old home!
During this, OMT!Tails remembered from earlier.
OMT!Tails: ...Crimtake's planned target...
Crimtake: I’m going to claim what’s left of your ‘family’, Prower. Try and stop me if you can, ‘hero’!
OMT!Tails: And if Crimtake claims Cream... When does this happen?
LM!Sonic remained silent.
OMT!Tails (angered): I said WHEN DOES THIS HAPPEN?!
LM!Sonic: In 12 hours, while she's asleep.
E-21: It's... what LM!Sonic's data says.
LM!Sonic: Look, I'm sorry, kid.
OMT!Tails: I need to get moving!
SS!Amy: Yeah! I'm coming with you!
LM!Sonic: I can't let you do that, Tails. Not now.
OMT!Tails: Then what am I supposed to do?! Just let my only remaining family DIE?!
LM!Sonic just nodded as OMT!Tails turned to OMT!Mina.
OMT!Tails: What about your band? They were close to you, right?
OMT!Mina: Yeah...
OMT!Tails: And you're not gonna do anything if they end up in danger?! Okay, what about Uncle Chuck?
He looked over to CR!Sonic, who looked back wordlessly.
OMT!Tails: Would that have been okay if you knew, and you just... let a villain murder your family?!
CR!Sonic: If not for Chuck, a good handful of us wouldn't even be here, Tails.
He showed some more holograms of big portrayals of Chuck in media, the most prominent being in the aftermath of XE!Sonic leaving XE!Jules for dead.
CR!Sonic: And all the good that we did, it... It wouldn't have been done.
UG!Sonic recalled moments that his brother complained about.
UG!Manic: It's just, well... [Hits a drum] I've been thinking... everything we beat, Butt-nik rebuilds. What's the point?
Past UG!Sonic: Hey, we just munched a solid-fuel installation. That's not too shabby.
UG!Manic: Yeah, I guess. [Sighs] Seems like nothing really changes.
Manic: Yes, but my question is when? For all we know, it could happen twenty years from now. Why bother?!
Back in the present...
UG!Sonic: So what?! So... In this context LM is trying to enforce, we're just supposed to let people close to us die, just because some ALGORITHM-
E-21 (panicked): Woah, woah!
UG!Sonic: -says that's supposed to happen?! What in the world's wrong with you?!
OMT!Tails: Yeah! You three do realise how outright messed up that sounds, right?!
Zonic: *sigh* Alright, let's all take a moment here. So, think about this, in a way. You've heard HIS talk about a supposed way of doing things, right? Now, you have a choice. A choice between saving someone truly special to you, or saving a world. EVERY world if we're talking on a grander scale. Now, look, I'm not trying to force you to choose here. Nobody can. But what would you personally prioritise, if forced into it?
Almost everyone in the room: Both!
OMT!Tails: I can do BOTH of those things! A hero of Mobius always-!
CR!Sonic: Not... "always".
LM!Sonic: You can't have it all, child. Being the hero of Mobius is a sacrifice. That's the job, the job you signed up for.
Fiona: *sigh* Tails...
LM!Sonic's lot gather around OMT!Tails, with SS!Amy stepping between them.
OMT!Tails: Fiona...? What is this? Are you trying to intervene in my heroics?!
Turbo: We know it's hard, but it's still the truth, Tails.
OMT!Tails: Is that why you're gathering around me and Amy now? To let us down easy?
EV!Sonic: You lot, give them room!
OMT!Tails: It worked last time. Why not run it back, huh?
CR!Sonic: H-Hey, hold on there!
OMT!Tails (glaring at OMT!Mina): You were right, Mina. You should NEVER have gotten me involved in this brainwashed freak's game to begin with! You said yourself that you've no interest in professional work, yet that sorry excuse of a "hero" forced you to work with him anyway!
CR!Sonic: Kid, look at me.
OMT!Tails: Stop calling me that!
Pana: And here we go...
Antho: Yeah. Screw that guy.
D-Sides Mighty: Agreed.
Fiona: Pana, Antho, Mighty, you aren't helping.
Antho, Pana and D-Sides Mighty: Good.
OMT!Tails flashed a smile to those three and the kinder Quill Society members.
CR!Sonic: Please understand-!
OMT!Tails: You CAN'T ask me not to save Cream! My life is meaningless without her!
SS!Amy: Yeah! You can't ask him to play by your rules!
LM!Sonic: I'm not asking you.
LM!Sonic used an energy field to restrain OMT!Tails, which shocked everyone except for LM!Sonic's group. CR!Sonic and OMT!Mina quickly backed off seeing this, reconsidering their words.
OMT!Mina (genuinely scared for OMT!Tails): Stop that!
LM!Sonic: If I let him leave, he'll only cause MORE damage. You both know that!
CR!Sonic: No, man! This is going too far!
CR!Sonia: Yeah, you big meanie! That's enough!
CR!Manik nodded, pulling an angry raspberry at LM!Sonic. Antho, though, had a plan, using a hand gesture to remind Tails to absorb that energy from the sphere.
Antho (quietly): Like this, little dude.
LM!Sonic: We just need to hold you for a few hours! Sorry it had to end like this, kid-.
He heard the charging behind him, turning around in shock.
OMT!Tails: I said not to call me that!
Tails's vision darted around, pinning at LM!Sonic and Turbo, and triggering a blast that knocked them backwards.
UG!Sonic: Woo! Nice one, man!
Antho chuckled in approval.
D-Sides Mighty: That paid off nicely!
Milly: What do we do now?
EV!Sonic: Tails, SS, hurry over to the Transport Hub in Sector 30, and use it to bolt after Crimtake and stop him! Everyone else, be ready to cover them!
LM!Sonic got up, his temper having reached his limit.
LM!Sonic: MILES PROWER!
He leapt at the fox, with SS!Amy promptly hitting him back into the wall before he bolted off.
Antho: If he gets to that Hub first, we're in big trouble!
Tekno: Right! On your way there, Tails, send out a red alert to everyone on the planet to stop LM! And ensure he's baited over to the Terminal Velocity spot at Sector 19. That should buy you both enough distance to reach the Hub first.
OMT!Tails: Right! Come on, Amy!
SS!Amy: Right!
The two dashed off, with Turbo and Fiona in pursuit.
EV!Sonic: Everyone else, dispatch! Apprehend LM through any means necessary!
Sarah (through a communicator to Sonic.RAW): RAW? It's Sarah. I need you to get your gear ready. We've got a rogue to apprehend!
Sonic.RAW: On it right now, ma'am!
Every Quill Society member in the room headed out.
CR!Sonic: Alright.
CR!Manik: Should we help Tails out, dad?
CR!Sonic: Yeah. Sorry I'm doing this to you both... This is definitely bad parenting... Just hang tight!
CR!Sonia: You got it!
The three left.
Pana: ...And just for the record, I quit trying to bother with LM.
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