Sonic Adventure 3 (SA3)/Story (Heroes - Act 1)

This page contains the Story of the Heroes (Act 1) campaign, from the game Sonic Adventure 3 (SA3), in full detail. Knuckles, Tails, Sally and Amy are all playable characters in the story, each with their own varying gameplay gimmicks. The campaign takes place chronologically after the prologue and most of Dark (Act 1) while coinciding with Sonic's story.
Time has passed since SA2's events but does that mean people have really put those events behind them...better yet how about Sonic 2's events?...I guess not. Heroes (Act 1) shines it's light onto the secondary hero cast of Sonic Adventure 3 as they face the fabled Kitsune and dig themselves into a rabbit hole no one knows how to get out of.
== Stages ==
This is a list of the Heroes levels, in order of which they are played, in his Story. In some stages, more than one character is playable. Shadow has 4 levels and 2 bosses, Tails has the exact same, Knuckles has 5 levels and 2 bosses and finally Amy has 2 levels with only one boss.
# Tropical Greenland (Knuckles)
# Neon Highway (Tails, Knuckles), Boss: Inugami (Shadow)
# Dimension Y (Shadow)
# Sparkling Cave (Knuckles, Tails), Boss: Ogumo (Tails)
# Tropical Greenland (Amy, Sally, Tails, Knuckles), Boss: Hebi (Knuckles)
# City Under Destruction (Knuckles, Sally, Amy, Tails), Boss: The Kitsune Colossal Trooper (Amy, Knuckles, Shadow, Tails)
== Story Synopsis ==
First Cutscene 
The campaign begins with a group of E-Series robots making their way into a mostly pitch black room. Dr. Eggman is seeing everything from a camera on one of the robots and using it to vocally communicate to the robots where to go. The group the then thrown on edge when a loud noise is heard and one goes missing. Eggman, curiously has the robot examine the surroundings, before turning around to find the Kitsune from the prologue grip and lift up the robot up. Panicking, Eggman blows his cover yelling, “Wait!”. The Kitsune replies by asking who he’s speaking with. Eggman reveals himself to be a scientist named Dr. Eggman who broke into the Ice Mountain Kitsune base to try and take some Kitsune technology to study. The Kitsune quips that the doctor’s “distraction” wasn’t much of a challenge and that “Eggman” reminds him of a Doctor Robotnik, a human he describes as “disgusting scum” who was responsible for the kidnapping of his son many years ago. In response the doctor once again pleads for his seemingly innocent motives. Ultimately the Kitsune levels with him, that he appears to have a “rat” infestation and allows the man “test his loyalty to the Kitsune” making the offer that if he can protect the under siege demon gate currently in Neon Highway, he will spare him and possibly consider something more down the road. The Doctor nervously complies to the Kitsune, before the the robot is dropped. The Doctor is then seen collapsing onto the Egg Carrier control panel in relief, before setting the vessels coordinates to Neon Highway.
Second Cutscene 
The following scene begins as Knuckles is found staggering around clutching at his head in the jungle. At this point Knuckles begins to experience mental flashes of what appear to be images of demons. Ultimately Knuckles chocks the seemingly painful experience up to the master emerald telepathically broadcasting to Knuckles about some in coming danger. Just as the flashes stop, a large shadow appears. Knuckles looks up to find the Egg Carrier passing overhead. With all these occurrences in mind Knuckles heads out to find Sonic and warn him of the possible impending dangers.
Stage 1: Tropical Greenland (Knuckles)
The stage ends with Knuckles encountering Tails. Knuckles asks if Sonic is okay only for Tails to reply with a worried I don’t know before explaining the situation from his point of view. The two both agree that the best course of action is to follow the new Egg Carrier into what ends up being Neon Highway.
Meanwhile somewhere in the desert Shadow the Hedgehog awakens in a pod of some sort having been seemingly dropped from an extremely high height. After his initial pain filled awakening Shadow finds himself filled with extreme rage, no powers and no ring inhibitors. Receiving mental flashes similar to Knuckles’ of a wolf demon, Shadow finds himself overwhelmed by his drive to find and kill the demon. Grabbing a nearby gun, he threatens an oncoming truck full of GUN soldiers in order to take their car and proceed on his way towards the demon.
Stage 2: Neon Highway (Knuckles, Tails)
At Neon Highway Tails and Knuckles find themselves under attack by both GUN troops and Eggman’s robots. Eggman’s robots being under specific orders to “protect the gate” and “Stop Shadow at all costs”. The two are unaware of the reasoning behind these orders but after clearing out most of the troops find a huge, bizarre looking temple held up by large gate like doors. Knuckles insists on opening the gate despite Tails’ feelings that what’s behind the door could be extremely dangerous. Inside the two find a giant Wolf Demon awaiting them. The Wolf Demon immediately stares at them with a masochistic expression, however Tails believes they can still slowly back away knowing that they haven't angered it. Just then the two’s attention are immediately drawn to the opened gate doors where Shadow is seen shooting a badnik, with Eggman screaming “No!” from the robot’s voice communicator. Tails and Knuckles are shocked to see Shadow alive and approaching them. Shadow replies “Good to see you again gentlemen. I see you woke up the dog.” The two respond by asking Shadow to not irritate it but Shadow  replies only with “I wonder if he knows fetch” before throwing a grenade at it and yelling “fetch”. The grenade blows up in the Demon’s face as it let’s out a roar of anger. Shadow then tells Tails and Knuckles to leave immediately, before Shadow pulls out a machine gun and the battle with “Inugami” The Wolf Demon starts.
Boss 1: Inugami (Shadow)
After Inugami’s defeat, the creature dissolves into a purple sort of dust leaving behind a small pearl like object. Shadow collects the pearl but collapses on his way out of the temple. The scene then shows Tails and Knuckles rush towards Shadow from a bird's eye view.
The next cutscene then starts, cutting to the Kitsune from earlier looking at footage from the Neon Highway gate incident and focusing his view on Tails. Just then another brown kitsune looking trooper (The Bakeneko) comes into the room, informing the Kitsune that Dr. Eggman wishes to have a word with him. The Kitsune complies with a “very well”, as he is put in another room with a large screen. The screen then turns on to show an embarrassed Dr. Eggman. Before the doctor can speak The Kitsune blurts out angrily that he thought they had a deal, before the Bakeneko verbally restrains him. The Kitsune then calms down and asks him to speak as “by all means you were the one who wanted to talk”. The Doctor explains that he tried his best to defend the demon gate but that some “monstrosity” came out of nowhere and overpowered him, begging to the kitsune for another chance to prove himself. The Kitsune then pauses, before cordially asking the Bakeneko general to leave the room. Although hesitant, the Bakeneko abides. Once alone, The Kitsune then replies that humans never were good at lying before revealing to the doctor that he knows the “monstrosity” to be Shadow the Hedgehog of whom the doctor previously worked with during The Eclipse Cannon incident (SA2). The Kitsune then brings up, what he calls “The next big elephant in the room”, the young kitsune that resembles his missing son being there. The Doctor then quickly and worryingly reassures him that there is no relation to the “fox” at the demon gate and his son. Shocked, it looks as if the Kitsune finally snaps as after a moment of surprise and silence he begins laughing uncontrollably.  The Doctor tries to calm him down and again assert his statement but The Kitsune retorts that everyone in the living realm can’t seem to ever stop digging themselves deeper, vowing that if no one else is willing he must teach them a lesson. In desperation Eggman asks for clarification, before The Kitsune replies with a simple “I’m going to destroy every living being in your realm starting with you, and your associates”. Horrified, The doctor stumbles back only for The Kitsune to bid him farewell, with a “Farewell, Dr. Robotnik”. Eggman then confides to himself that he needs to find Shadow immediately. 
The following scene begins with Shadow waking up on some sort of bizarre floating platform surrounded by other floating blocks and shapes. Shadow simply looks around and wonders “Is this real?” before the stage begins.
Stage 3: Dimension Y (Shadow)
The next scene begins with Shadow opening his eyes to see Tails and Knuckles having taken him to Station Square to look after him, following his collapse in the temple. The two express relief and mention that he had collected some sort of bizarre looking pearl. Shadow explains to the two that he had almost no control over his actions when killing Inugami and taking the pearl. The two then ask him about his fall to earth after SA2 to which Shadow replies that all remembers is everything going black and something about seeing Dr. Eggman through a tube, before being thrown off of an airship. He mentions that it feels more like a dream then a memory but Knuckles asserts that finding Eggman is definitely the best place to go from there.
After the cutscene ends, the player is greeted with an audio transmission Eggman sends to Tails, asking the three to proceed to Emerald Coast so that they could have an important talk about the Neon Highway incident. Although hesitant, the group decides to trust Eggman and go meet with him.
Adventure Field: Station Square
Meeting inside the new Egg Carrier the meet up begins as Eggman explains that they are in a bit of a dangerous situation and have to act as a team quickly. Shadow immediately refuses to cooperate with Eggman demanding that he know why he had no control over killing Inugami. The doctor replies by taking responsibility and saying that it was “his bad”. Shadow unsatisfied presses him on why he woke up in the desert and had to climb out of a pod. Eggman explains that it’s complicated, before Knuckles interjects asserting that a better question is regarding Sonic’s where abouts. Eggman snaps back that if they want to know anything they need to let him explain the whole situation. The three back off as Eggman reveals that Sonic is either dead, and that he was killed by Commander Myria of The Kitsune. The Kitsune being a fabled race of demons from another realm. Eggman then goes onto explain that the temple from Neon Highway is what is known as a Demon Gate, or a temple connecting the Demon Realm and Earth Realm. Inugami being the protector of the gate and holder of one of the eight Kitsune Pearls, which grant its holder immense power, comparable in some ways to the Chaos Emeralds of their realm. He then proceeds in explaining how Myria is now currently at war with their realm and when questioned by Tails is given the response “because he thinks for some reason that your his lost son”. Shadow questions the doctor’s idea of how he could possibly want to deal with the threat but the doctor replies with getting the remaining pearls so as to weaken the army, giving the group the chance to prove that Tails is not his son. Although reluctant the group agrees as they see the fleet of Kitsune airships approaching Station Square. Eggman bids the three farewell and guides them to Sparkling Cave the next area.
Adventure Field: Station Square
Stage 4: Sparkling Cave (Knuckles, Shadow, Tails)
Boss 2: Ōgumo (Tails)
After Tails defeats Ōgumo and receives the second Kitsune pearl the three are visited by Amy Rose at Station Square who wishes to help their cause, although Shadow and Knuckles are against her joining Tails gets them to comply and let Amy join the group, as their assigned their next area, Tropical Greenland.
Adventure Field: Station Square
Stage 5: Tropical Greenland (Amy, Shadow, Tails, Knuckles)
Boss 3: Hebi (Knuckles)
After Knuckles’ defeat of Hebi and acquisition of the third kitsune pearl the group is  contacted by a nervous and extremely worried Dr. Eggman explaining to the four that the city next to Station Square is already heavily under attack from Kitsune forces and that the group is needed, along with the kitsune pearls to push back the troops. The four immediately rush to the area.
Stage 6: City Under Destruction (Knuckles, Shadow, Amy, Tails)
Boss 4: The Kitsune Colossal Trooper (Amy, Knuckles, Shadow, Tails)
Although all four have put up a good fight against the Kitsune Colossal Trooper the large robot still stands. Hope seems lost but as the machine winds up it’s final blow to the four the Egg Carrier fires it’s main cannon, taking the trooper out and saving Shadow, Tails Knuckles and Amy from death. The story ends with the three leaving to battle more Kitsune, but Tails staying behind a moment, to look up at The Egg Carrier and simply smile.
THE END OF HEROES (Act 1)
Category:Story
Category:Stories
Category:Fanfiction
Category:Fanfiction
Category:Sonic Adventure 3
[[Category:Owner:Dr. Eggman rox 2‏‎‏]‎]
Category:Sub-pages