WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.300 It began, as most bad things do, with the  evil mechanisations of one Dr. Ivo Robotnik.   00:00:06.300 --> 00:00:10.920 This rotund mad scientist had been terrorizing  the world of Sonic the Hedgehog and his animal   00:00:10.920 --> 00:00:15.600 friends for decades, with a single-minded  task motivating his every diabolical action:   00:00:15.600 --> 00:00:21.060 Getting his hands on the Chaos Emeralds, and the  Master Emerald that controls their power. This   00:00:21.060 --> 00:00:25.680 would allow him to strangle the natural beauty of  the world around him and develop it into a cold,   00:00:25.680 --> 00:00:30.420 unfeeling world of machinery. None  would survive his terrible wrath. 00:00:30.420 --> 00:00:34.200 The problem was, by this point,  far too many people had, in fact,   00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:39.600 survived his terrible wrath. For many, many  years now, despite a multiplicity of evil plans,   00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:45.000 Sonic the Hedgehog and all his cool, superpowered  animal friends had thwarted him countless times.   00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:50.520 No matter how ingenious his plots were, no matter  how many or how powerful robots he built to fight   00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:55.200 on his behalf, he would always be defeated, and  it was starting to get extremely frustrating. 00:00:55.200 --> 00:01:00.060 It was in this state of near-maddening  rage and spite that Dr. Robotnik   00:01:00.060 --> 00:01:04.140 created what would soon become his  most dangerous and deadly invention:   00:01:04.140 --> 00:01:08.880 A trans-dimensional snatcher. A device  that would allow him to reach into other   00:01:08.880 --> 00:01:13.080 dimensions and pluck out dangerous beings  - beings that would become living weapons,   00:01:13.080 --> 00:01:18.360 tools in his arsenal to fight that blasted  Hedgehog and all the others. Little did he know,   00:01:18.360 --> 00:01:23.160 he was about to tangle with a creature far more  dangerous than anything he could ever hope to be. 00:01:23.880 --> 00:01:28.200 His mouth twisted into a devious grin,  Dr. Robotnik stood in front of the   00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:32.880 trans-dimensional snatcher with his finger  poised over a big, red button. Yes, yes,   00:01:32.880 --> 00:01:37.500 this would be the perfect plan! Sonic  would never stop him now! He pressed   00:01:37.500 --> 00:01:41.400 the button and watched as the machine  gave a mighty, almost blinding flash.   00:01:42.180 --> 00:01:47.520 As the resulting smoke cleared, Dr. Robotnik  saw the creature he’d summoned cowering on the   00:01:47.520 --> 00:01:53.040 platform before him. It was grey and emaciated,  shivering and weeping, covering its face. 00:01:53.760 --> 00:02:00.360 Immediately, Dr. Robotnik’s face fell. Was  that it? Some weeping, stretched freak? He   00:02:00.360 --> 00:02:05.160 wanted something more exciting - Like a giant,  killer lizard, or monstrous zombie that melts   00:02:05.160 --> 00:02:10.320 everything it touches. What could possibly be  the combat potential of this pathetic creature? 00:02:10.920 --> 00:02:17.040 In his frustration, Robotnik kicked the cowering  beast. It would be the last mistake he ever made,   00:02:17.040 --> 00:02:22.740 because the creature in question was  - as you’d probably guessed - SCP-096.   00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:29.280 And as any SCP Foundation enthusiast knows,  there are two ways to activate 096’s infamous   00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:35.700 “Rage State”: One is looking at his face, and  the other is attacking him. Dr. Robotnik had   00:02:35.700 --> 00:02:40.380 just made a literally fatal mistake, and  as the crying turned to wails of rage,   00:02:40.380 --> 00:02:46.920 096 leaped onto him, freakishly stretching its  bottom jaw into a yawning, black chasm of a mouth. 00:02:47.640 --> 00:02:50.460 Nearby, Sonic the Hedgehog - Who was, of course,   00:02:50.460 --> 00:02:54.660 gliding along at the speed of sound -  heard Dr. Robotnik’s horrific screaming. 00:02:54.660 --> 00:02:59.580 He immediately recognized the scream as that  of his arch enemy, and yet, the scream was   00:02:59.580 --> 00:03:05.880 so bloodcurdling that even he couldn’t deny it  made his concerned for his old foe. Thankfully,   00:03:05.880 --> 00:03:09.600 it didn’t take the blue super-speedster  very long to investigate the source of Dr.   00:03:09.600 --> 00:03:14.940 Robotnik’s death rattles. He ran at hypersonic  speeds until he reached Dr. Robotnik’s base,   00:03:14.940 --> 00:03:21.240 where an eerie silence had now fallen. Sonic felt  a chill in the air. With uncharacteristic caution,   00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:25.140 he began creeping through the metal  halls of Robotnik’s lair. Soon enough,   00:03:25.140 --> 00:03:29.640 he started seeing blood on the  walls. Blood, but no bodies. 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:31.800 What had happened here? 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:37.140 Soon after, Sonic found out. He walked into  the room that had once been the home to the   00:03:37.140 --> 00:03:41.940 trans-dimensional snatcher, where the Shy Guy sat  crouched in the middle of an empty, bloody room,   00:03:41.940 --> 00:03:47.940 weeping. Something about all this was terribly  wrong. Sonic could hear it. That’s when one of his   00:03:47.940 --> 00:03:53.640 feet clanked against the metal floor, and the Shy  Guy looked up to view him. Sonic almost felt the   00:03:53.640 --> 00:03:58.380 breath leave his body when he saw that monster’s  horrible face. He’d never seen anything like   00:03:58.380 --> 00:04:04.320 it before. That’s when the thought crossed his  mind, “Had this monster murdered Dr. Robotnik?” 00:04:04.320 --> 00:04:08.580 As though activated by the sudden intrusion,  the Shy Guy gave a monstrous wail,   00:04:08.580 --> 00:04:14.100 then lunged towards Sonic. Lucky for Sonic,  his insane speed came in handy here, darting   00:04:14.100 --> 00:04:19.200 out of the monster’s clutches and whizzing out  of the base. But despite his speed, the Shy Guy   00:04:19.200 --> 00:04:24.000 somehow still seemed to have an innate sense  of Sonic’s location. It began bound after him,   00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:28.380 tearing its way through the walls of the  base like tissue paper. It would slaughter   00:04:28.380 --> 00:04:32.520 the strange blue creature that had seen its  face. Destroy it, and leave nothing left. 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:37.980 Meanwhile, Sonic was already speeding away.  His greatest asset had always been his truly   00:04:37.980 --> 00:04:43.440 supernatural speed, but he couldn’t run forever.  And one look over his shoulder revealed a distant   00:04:43.440 --> 00:04:49.140 white dot behind him. It couldn’t be, could  it? He was moving so fast that the normal eye   00:04:49.140 --> 00:04:54.060 couldn’t perceive him, so how could any living  being possibly even be that far behind him? 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:58.200 “This monster really is built  different, huh?” he said to himself. 00:04:58.200 --> 00:05:03.300 The Shy Guy was gaining speed behind him. He  couldn’t even see Sonic, but he could sense   00:05:03.300 --> 00:05:08.700 his distant presence. The one who’d look at him,  the source of his rage. This strange little blue   00:05:08.700 --> 00:05:14.580 creature was certainly fast, but unlike Sonic,  096 was literally incapable of getting tired.   00:05:14.580 --> 00:05:18.960 The turtle always beat the hare in the end,  and it would be the same here, eventually. 00:05:18.960 --> 00:05:23.520 Sonic was smart enough to know that he probably  couldn’t beat something like this in a fight,   00:05:23.520 --> 00:05:28.920 especially if it had literally annihilated  Dr. Robotnik. If he had any hope of beating   00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:32.640 this beast, he’d need to get some friends  on his side before things went truly south. 00:05:32.640 --> 00:05:37.680 The person Sonic was looking for here was  Tails - a flying, two-tailed fox who was   00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:41.520 also one of Sonic’s closest friends  - who lived in the Green Hills Zone. 00:05:41.520 --> 00:05:44.820 “Tails, Tails!” Sonic yelled at breakneck speed. 00:05:44.820 --> 00:05:48.360 “What’s wrong, Sonic?” Tails  asked, visibly concerned. 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:52.980 “No time to fully explain. There’s something  after me, some kind of monster,” Sonic said.   00:05:52.980 --> 00:05:57.540 “Get everyone you can. We’re going to need all  the help we can get if we wanna stop this thing!” 00:05:58.320 --> 00:06:00.240 Before Tails could even get another word in,   00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:04.560 Sonic tore off again in the opposite  direction. If this thing was following him,   00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:09.300 he didn’t want to lead him straight to Tails. But  the last thing Sonic was expecting was that the   00:06:09.300 --> 00:06:13.380 monster had somehow closed the distance,  and now, it was heading right for him. 00:06:13.380 --> 00:06:17.400 Sonic didn’t even have time to  course-correct. A long, wiry arm   00:06:17.400 --> 00:06:21.720 shot outwards and whacked Sonic in the side of  the head, sending him skidding across the grass.   00:06:22.380 --> 00:06:26.580 The shock of an enemy catching up to him like this  rattled him even more than the pain of the hit,   00:06:26.580 --> 00:06:31.260 but there was no time to dwell. Sonic  looked up from the ground and saw the   00:06:31.260 --> 00:06:35.220 Shy Guy barrelling towards him, bellowing  madly and digging its claws into the dirt. 00:06:35.220 --> 00:06:38.580 “You just don’t know when to  give up, do you?” Sonic said. 00:06:39.300 --> 00:06:44.340 Just before the Shy Guy’s claws reached him, Sonic  darted out of the way at the speed of light. Even   00:06:44.340 --> 00:06:49.860 then, the Shy Guy seemingly had an innate sense  of his location. There was no way to trick or   00:06:49.860 --> 00:06:55.260 outrun the Shy Guy. It just kept running,  no matter what. It was utterly relentless.   00:06:55.920 --> 00:07:00.660 If Sonic wanted to survive while Tails found  reinforcements, he needed to fight back. 00:07:00.660 --> 00:07:05.880 Before the Shy Guy could lunge for him, Sonic  lunged for the Shy Guy at impossible speeds,   00:07:05.880 --> 00:07:10.860 kicking the monster in the chest with both feet.  The force of the kick, charged by super-speed,   00:07:10.860 --> 00:07:16.560 sent Shy Guy rolling back across the dirt. Sonic  hoped that this attack might incapacitate it,   00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:21.540 but no. The Shy Guy immediately rose to its  hands and feet. It was ready to go again. 00:07:21.540 --> 00:07:28.020 For the first time in quite some time, Sonic was  afraid. Thankfully, this time, he wasn’t alone. 00:07:29.520 --> 00:07:33.780 The Shy Guy prepared to lunge, when a spiked  fist collided with the side of his face,   00:07:33.780 --> 00:07:39.360 laying the beast out temporarily. It was Knuckles  the Echidna, a powerful pugilist who also acted   00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:43.260 as the guardian of the Master Emerald, the  Chaos Emerald that controlled all of the   00:07:43.260 --> 00:07:47.760 other Chaos Emeralds. If Knuckles punches you,  then you better believe you’re going to feel it. 00:07:48.300 --> 00:07:52.980 “Tails called me. Is this ugly punk giving  you trouble, Sonic?” Knuckles asked,   00:07:52.980 --> 00:07:57.120 as the Shy Guy began getting back up,  its semi-smashed face repairing itself. 00:07:57.120 --> 00:08:00.000 “You have no idea,” Sonic said. 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:03.240 Sonic and Knuckles were now  taking on the Shy Guy two on one,   00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:07.140 making things a little more even - But  they were still up against a ruthless,   00:08:07.140 --> 00:08:12.300 savage killer without compare. And  now, Knuckles had seen its face, too. 00:08:12.300 --> 00:08:18.060 The Shy Guy leaped forward, trying to grab  Knuckles with its grasping claws. Sonic darted in,   00:08:18.060 --> 00:08:22.380 just in time, and grabbed Knuckles out of the  way just in time. As the Shy Guy grasped at the   00:08:22.380 --> 00:08:27.480 empty air, Knuckles jumped in and gave the  screaming monster another mighty punch. The   00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:31.740 sheer force of it left the creature wobbling  on its feet. But it still wasn’t enough. 00:08:32.400 --> 00:08:37.680 Lucky for Sonic and Knuckles, they were about  to get some help from the big guns. Literally. 00:08:38.280 --> 00:08:40.680 Bullets suddenly perforated the Shy Guy’s body,   00:08:40.680 --> 00:08:44.640 distracting the monster. It turned and  saw yet another one of Sonic’s allies,   00:08:44.640 --> 00:08:50.640 Shadow the Hedgehog, wielding a customized M16  assault rifle. He was wearing a devious smirk. 00:08:50.640 --> 00:08:56.100 “Oh, Sonic,” he said. “When will you learn  that your actions have consequences?” 00:08:56.100 --> 00:09:01.260 Having attacked the Shy Guy, Shadow the  Hedgehog was added to his kill list. It   00:09:01.260 --> 00:09:05.820 seemed he was making a lot of new enemies today  in this strange new place. But there was still   00:09:05.820 --> 00:09:10.620 one more ally left to come. Suddenly,  the Shy Guy felt a presence behind him,   00:09:10.620 --> 00:09:15.960 as though someone had just teleported there. It  was a purple creature, similar to Sonic, though   00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:21.960 far more extreme, named Coldsteel the Hedgeheg.  He was wielding a desert eagle in each hand.  00:09:23.400 --> 00:09:26.580 “Nothing personnel, kid,” Coldsteel chuckled. 00:09:26.580 --> 00:09:30.780 Before the Shy Guy could make another move,  Coldsteel turned and unloaded the magazines   00:09:30.780 --> 00:09:36.240 of his two pistols into the Shy Guy, while Shadow  provided suppressing fire with his M16. Meanwhile,   00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:40.560 Knuckles kept punching at the monster, and any  time the Shy Guy attempted to attack one of them,   00:09:40.560 --> 00:09:44.700 Sonic sped in and pulled them out of harm’s  way. They were a perfectly organized team,   00:09:44.700 --> 00:09:48.420 and soon enough, the Shy Guy  was temporarily incapacitated. 00:09:49.140 --> 00:09:53.220 “Looks like he’s down, but not for long,”  Sonic said. “It’s time to finish this.” 00:09:53.220 --> 00:09:57.300 That’s when Tails descended, his arms filled  with the last thing they needed to conclude   00:09:57.300 --> 00:10:02.400 their terrifying ordeal: The Chaos Emeralds.  And with the help of Knuckles’ Master Emerald,   00:10:02.400 --> 00:10:07.080 they could send this abomination back to wherever  it came from and never worry about it again. 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:11.160 With the power of the Chaos Emeralds,  there was another almighty flash,   00:10:11.160 --> 00:10:15.060 just like the one that had brought the  monster here. When the smoke cleared,   00:10:15.060 --> 00:10:18.780 the monster was gone, returned to  the place from whence it had come. 00:10:19.500 --> 00:10:24.540 Sonic sighed, and said, “Well, at least we  don’t have to deal with Dr. Robotnik anymore...” 00:10:24.540 --> 00:10:29.700 Check out the Dr. Bob Patreon and become a  junior researcher today! Now go and watch   00:10:29.700 --> 00:10:34.620 another entry from the files of Dr.  Bob, like SCP-096 Sad Origin Story.