My friend has been very frustrated with IDW Sonic lack of creativity and has been coming up writing up story summaries left and right. I was commissioned to make a cover for what is his best idea so far (though most of his other ones are really good and worth checking out) and hope it becomes a full story someday.

Check out the full story summary below.

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A rediscovered gem used by an ancient civilization to revive the dead is unveiled at a gem convention in Carnival City (home of the zone Night Carnival) by none other than Jewel herself. When touched the person who touched it will then inherit its power/curse. For the next three hours if the person who touched it is destroyed, the person who destroyed them gets their most loved person brought back to life. Tangle gets rowdy and accidentally knocks down the gem from its displav case leading to Jewel catching it before it could touch her, leading her to wind up taking on the curse. Unfortunately for her several would be assassins joined the unveiling looking to bring back their loved ones for themselves and Jewel is now their target.Shadow was also happening to be in the museum and saw this event unfold, and now he is the only one strong enough to keep Jewel safe for the next three hours.





After the gem convention gets ripped apart by a storm of bullets, leaving Tangle stressful situation to figure out how to save themselves. Shadow luckily comes in and trips the guy. When they run out into the city they get hounded by several GUN robots all being controlled by a very upset GUN agent who has gone rogue and is using what she can to defeat Jewel and bring back her father. The trio head into an amusement park so he can try and hide from the GUN robots, Jewel suggests they hide on the spinning cup ride, but when that fails Shadow rips the cup off of the ride and sends the trio spinning around in the city while Shadow proceeds to start blasting at GUN robots using his Shadow Rifle.





Eventually they have to escape as the GUN agent attacks them in the R1-A Flying Dog. The trio commander a motorcycle so Tangle and Jewel can gain some distance while Shadow fights the Flying Dog chasing after them leading them to a long bridge, even after defeating it the pilot decides to do a last ditch kamikaze to crash into the motorcycle but Shadow manages to literally hold back the Flying Dog and breaks the cockpit and tosses the agent into the river.





Then the voodoo witch doctor moth Scraps comes into play coming with his band of zombies to assist him. After horrifying Jewel by attempting to shoot one of the zombies in the chest and finding out it is still kicking Shadow’s suspicions are confirmed that these zombies are invincible and Tangle’s attempts to whack the moth out of the sky only leads to her having to fend off against his own giant bandages and Shadow needing to shoot the bandages to set her free. The Witch Doctor reveals that he only has a short time to get his wife back so he transforms into his monsterous form and begins to start breathing fire all over the bridge. Eventually he decides to fly ahead and manages to stop the trio in their tracks. Shadow looks at him at a standstill and looks to be preparing something, but Tangle comes in and wraps Scraps around with her tail by surprise, telling him that no matter what happens her friend isn’t going to die to today no matter what costs. Scraps seems to be looking at this point that he is about to rip Tangle’s tail off with his claws. But Shadow surprises him with a spindash to the face, then a continuous set of blows while he is still wrapped around, dragging him further and further till he is knocked off the bridge and Tangle lets go dropping him into the river. Being dead and lacking buoyancy Scraps is knocked into a river during a fight on a bridge.





After several minutes the trio find themselves in the Leaf Forest, Shadow stops the vehicle offering a rest. Shadow continues to berate Tangle for screwing up reminding her again how she nearly killed her friend and ruined his own plan for taking out Scraps. Jewel has enough of seeing her friend getting chastized by Shadow and decides to leave on her own saying that she would rather rely on her good natured friend to protect her despite her cluminsess than this arrogant jerk. As Jewel decides to leave Eggman arises in the Egg Serpentleaf nearly capturing her in one of the robotic vines if Shadow didn’t rush in to protect her. Eggman questions Shadow why he is even bothering to protect her as he believes Gerald will be revived if Eggman manages to destroy her and he suggests that Shadow willingly give her up to him as they both care about him. Shadow tells Eggman that Maria would never forgive him if he did such a thing which is why he didn’t bother killing Jewel himself to bring her back. With Shadow’s reluctance to give her willingly up the two fight, Eggman being especially good at dodging Shadow’s attacks and managing to get Jewel wrapped up in the vines. Right when it seems that Jewel will be shoved into the jaw of the Egg Serpentleaf, a timer goes off in his control panel. The 3 hours are up, Eggman tosses Jewel down where she is saved by Tangle. Eggman leaves saying he has no business killing anyone today if he isn’t going to get anything out of it and leaves.





As the two best friends reunite in relief that their torment is over Shadow goes to leave but Jewel stops him for a moment. Shadow expects to be given some kind of thank you, but Jewel just reminds him that he is going to need to work on his attitude if he wants to be a lot more appreciated as a hero, but thanks him regardless as he runs off into the sunset.