Bloodlines
My fanfic debut. Apparently it went over rather well with Sonic
fans.
Bunnie gets her tail saved by a stranger who is a key to Sally's
past.
Boldly goes where Ken Penders tried to go in the Sally miniseries
before
the corporate types at Sega slapped him down. Voluntarily rated
PG-13 for a closing sequence that surprised even me when I
thought it up.
Capture The Flag
This story started out as a question: "What were the Freedom
Fighters
like when they were growing up in Knothole after the fall of
Mobitropolis?" I had some fun writing this one. Rated G.
A Matter
Of Trust
I had two serious motivations when writing this one: I wanted to
introduce a Mobian who was a badger (I'd recently reread Kenneth
Graehme's "The Wind In The Willows" and wanted to do an
homage to
Mr. Badger), and I wanted to work in a wrestling sequence. Sonic
runs
into an old friend, but that friendship is sorely tested. Rated
PG for
one violent death.
Space
Case
"Space Case" began with a mental image I couldn't shake out of my
head:
that of a body being dumped from a hover unit onto a trash heap.
A
mysterious young stranger, who apparently knows more than he's
saying,
may be able to explain why Robotnik's operations have temporarily
ground
to a halt. Barely rated PG for a discussion of physical abuse.
My Quills
Are Quick
After reading a Sonic parody story written after the style of
Conan the
Barbarian, I thought I'd try my hand with a parody of a Mickey
Spillane-type story. The Sonic crew are in San Francisco, circa
1944.
A missing person case leads Sonic Spade, Private Eye, to uncover
a
diabolical plot. Rated PG-13 because one of the cast members is
in "the
entertainment field. Its oldest branch." In other words, some
sexual
innuendo.
When A Bunnie Meet A Bunnie
Ever since "The Good, The Bad, and The Hedgehog" and "When
Hedgehogs
Collide" by Mike Kanterovich and Ken Penders, I've found myself
asking:
Why have there been no references to the Bunnie on the "evil"
Sonic's
home world? If that world's Dr. Robotnik is such a good guy,
does that
mean that Bunnie's old bod would still be intact? So I had the
two
Bunnies displace each other. I also pondered what Snively, the
Void,
and Nicole would be like. I hope it wasn't what you expected.
Rated PG-13
because the "evil" Sonic is something of a kink, and because
there's
talk between characters about drug use.
Mobius
Apocalypse
One day I decided to try tying all the loose ends together and
writing a
story where the struggle with Robotnik comes to a climax. I
kinda let
myself go with this one. Very intense. Rated R for
violent
death, mutilation, and discussion of mating between two
characters.
File courtesy of Mastermind's fanfic archive.
The Body In Question
Credit goes to Jason Zelek for coming up with the idea for this
one. He
ran a story concept past me and I took it in another direction
entirely.
Bunnie is subjected to an experimental deroboticizing process but
something goes wrong. VERY wrong! Rated PG for discussion and
depiction of a naked furry...or is that a redundancy?
First Honor
It started with hearing about an ancient agrarian rite, and when
I got
through with it, it was the basis for a story. This takes place
a short
time after the events in "Capture The Flag." The Knothole Kids
(catchy
name, huh?) are planning something for the Mobian version of
Mother's
Day but Sonic doesn't want any part of it. And if the others go
ahead
without him, there could be serious trouble. Rated G despite a
scary
sequence, but it's probably nothing that R. L. Stine hasn't
already
done.
SallyQuest: Prologue
I was asked by Lane Kramer (lkramer@bellatlantic.net) to write
some
stories concerning Sally's solo attempt to obtain the Crown of
the Acorn
Kings. Since the continuity has gotten so loose at Archie this
plotline
appears to have gone begging, I agreed. In this installment,
Sally
commits a desperate act, only to find herself facing something
she's never
encountered before. Rated G at this point because it's all talk
and no
action -- yet!
SallyQuest
Sally finds herself in another place (maybe) and another time. She runs
into friends and enemies, old and new, while uncovering a dark secret.
Voluntarily rated PG-13 for adult themes.
SallyQuest: Epilogue
Sally finds herself back at the Hall of Limbo. Are the Ancient Walkers
through with her? Rated G.
"She Knew That The Hand Was Upon Her"
Sonic fans have definite opinions about crossover stories (where
Sonic
et al. find themselves in situations and interacting with
characters
from another video game, film, or TV series): they either love
the idea
or hate the idea. I was a little shy about the concept myself
until Ken
Penders announced Sally's impending death in "Endgame" whereupon
I found
myself thinking: "A fall from a building--that's not how Sally
deserves
to die!" So I came up with a crossover story that contains
elements of
"Star Trek: The Next Generation" to depict how Sally SHOULD have
died.
It also allows me to peer into the future of Mobius a little bit.
Rated
PG.
Homecoming
It's Good News/Bad News when Sabina, Dulcy's "Ma", shows up at
Knothole
one day. The good news is: Dulcy is being reunited with her
family; the
bad news is: she may never be able to return to Knothole if she
does.
Since nobody has come forward with any details about the lives of
Mobian
dragons, I've stepped in to try to fill in the gaps myself.
Rated G.
Runaway: Part 1
Runaway: Part 2
Runaway: Part 3
Keep a sandwich nearby when you read this story: it's a LONG one!
Sonic rescues a young Mobian from danger, but he makes the lives of the
Freedom Fighters more complicated. But things don't REALLY start
happening until they take the youngster home to his parents. Rated R
for adult themes and strong language (substitutions notwithstanding).
Back Upon Itself
It took some serious confusion on Archie's part concerning the ages of
the royal sibs, Elias and Sally, to motivate me to start writing fanfic
again. This is a mood piece, really, without much narrative. But I DO
try to account for everybody's ages and the order of succession. Along
the way I also work in an explanation of how Sally came by her nickname,
and I even (Heaven help me!) try my hand at writing for Dr. Quack. Next
project: Writing a story that utilizes the three-hours-in-the-future
gimmick. This story is rated PG, but you won't find anything here you
wouldn't see in a given episode of "E.R." or "Chicago Hope."
From Time To Time
Somewhere between "Endgame" (S50), where the concept of Knothole being in a
temporal distortion three hours ahead of Mobitropolis was introduced and
"Retro Activity" (S71) where Archie Comics said "Never mind," here's how
many stories appeared that dealt with the temporal distortion in any way
shape or form: zero. It's not that I thought that it was a good idea,
or even a plausible one, but I wanted to see if SOME kind of
story couldn't have been built around it. And since the Archie
creatives weren't about to pick up the ball, I thought I'd give it a
shot. So aside from being a monument to the Plot Point That Never Was,
let this also serve as a reminder that writing time travel stories can
really bite! Rated G if you don't count the dead bodies.
Zone Wars: Intervention
The thing that bothered me the most about Dan Slott's
otherwise-admirable story, "Zone Wars: Giant Robotno" (Special #12)
wasn't the depiction of the Knothole gang as Godzilla wanna-bes, or even
the hard-core fatalism of the material. It was the fact that, having
put Sonic in a position where he has to take a life, however
inadvertantly, Slott walks away from the material as if nothing
happened. Yet even in the most violent of anime the viewer is
never given the impression that death is inconsequential. That's why I
wrote this story: because I felt SOMEBODY had to pick up the
pieces. Rated G.
The Gray Letter
I've long felt that Ken Penders's Forbidden Zone arc (K19-21) was loaded
with back stories begging to be told. Of all the different strands, I
pulled at one: what was it like when Elias first arrived and disrupted
the lives of the Sommersbys? And what were they doing all this time at
the Royal Compound? It's not a punch-kick action story, but I like to
think I did a good job. Rated G.
SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
An exchange between myself and Ian Flynn (aka Ian the Potto) on Ken
Penders's message board became a personal challenge to myself: can I
think up and write a comic script? Once the ground rules were accepted
-- 5 parts with 6 pages each -- I began thinking and this is the result.
It's primarily a Hope-Shadow story with guest appearances by Mina, Amy
Rose, Robotnik and a pre-makeover Mecha. Pretty much rated G because I
wrote this as something that could possibly run in the comic. Not that
I expect anything to come of it.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
"GROW UP!"
After a long fallow period, I wrote this one as part of a Secret Samta
exchange over at the DeviantArt Web site. The recipient gave me
permission to make it public, so here it is. Another Sonic Kids story,
this one finds the major players on the cusp of puberty, around age 12.
But the larger changes aren't just the ones taking place on the physical
level. Rated PG13.