What did I just read?

Wendy Witchcart is just a throwaway villain from an old, unremembered Sonic game. How on earth did you...just...what IS this fanfic? How did you manage to do this with Witchcart? Just...gah...

Well played, sir, well played. It's a shame you never continued with your Sonic stories. Some of my favorites on this site, amidst all the garbage. Have definitely colored my headcanon of the Sonic world.

I boast myself being crazy Sonic fan. All the games, every cartoon, Archie AND Fleetway comics, I know them all (maybe except of manga, it's hard to find). I know played Skypatrol, I watched whole let's play of Chronicles, I know Mighty, what 'Can you feel the sunshine' means and who's associated with it. I even know who's Regis.
And I STILL don't get what happened here. I didn't understood everything in "Pattern Machine", but I blamed my language skills for that. Here story just goes and end, with many loose end.
Should I know what happen to Mighty? How Wendy knows that?
What are her connection to Tails Doll? Or Shade. How crazy human got to work with echindnas in another dimension?
Why she keeps calling Eggman a good boy? Is that reference to him being a Kintobor?
Is any of this is connected with your 'Wing Fortress' epilogue?
How Eggman didn't know about humans on Mobius?
Also I don't get why we don't see Cream finding Cheese. I know it will happened... but showing this would be nice.

Now, I'm not saying that there weren't thing I liked. Espio/Amy scenes were great, your Eggman is cruel as always and I highly praise your portrait of Dark Arms. So short scene, yet so rich. As always your style of writing is superb and my eyes were glued to computer until I finished reading. And yet the pay-off is well... lacking.

Maybe when I re-read the story (or read comments) I will finally experience enlightenment, but now I'm really lost here.

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Tails Doll?

Tails Adventure is before Tails met Sonic.

You really make the Doctor even scarier than his SatAm incarnation... good work on that and the story as a whole.

I'm always amazed at the way you write, both the psychological aspects and the physical descriptions. Shadow in this chapter in particular manages to evoke that strange sort of awe where I am scared out of my mind and at the same time admiring the artful way I have been driven to the near border of primal terror.

Mandatory gushing aside, I have a question. I have a sort of large worldbuilding project I hope to one day amass into a proper fic, and in that interest I would like to use the idea presented here, of the Black Arms being a theocratic organization. I wanted to ask your permission, since I'm aware that wantonly lifting ideas is frowned upon near-universally in professional writing.

I don't just ask because I think it's 'cool'- I actually think that it helps flesh out the Black Arms as a species and an organization, instead of "Space aliens just wanna kill everything".

Also, it is -extremely- cool that you've managed to worldbuild in key features of the games, like Star Poles and rings. I can barely understand half of the science stuff that shows up in these stories (just get the general concept, really) but guh, the people with PhDs in this actually act like they have them. And your Eggman is awesome. Aaand I went right back into the gushing and my vocabulary seems to be plummeting to all-time lows.

Remember kids, don't review while half-awake! Otherwise you start rambling about PhDs and theocratic aliens.

ATMR is shutting up now.

"And five points if anyone can tell me who Regis is."

If you can believe it, that one little quip at the bottom of chapter 1 has stayed with me all this time. I finally bought Sonic the Hedgehog '06, and I think I may finally know who Regis is. Is Robotnik talking about Lord Regis of Soleanna?

If so, does that mean that your Robotnik is from Soleanna, and perhaps took part in your own version of Project Solaris? What are your Eggman's beginnings, sir?

And thus, I finally decide to review. It's only been, ya'know, a month or so since I first read it.

This story, along with all of your others, is by far one of my favorite stories out here on the website. My favorite part: Your explanations for for Amy's hammer hiding skills. And subsequently, her mad invisiblity skills as well.

I've also enjoyed finding that SOMEONE likes pulling in a cross-story plot that is extremely confusing, and requires a deep examination of the story to figure out what is happening. Or even better, the fact that one can predict certain things from pulling that info together. 'Tis wonderful, says I.

I do believe I've figured out the order, though, with Wing Fortress Zone occuring first, then the events of Angel Island Zone, at the same time as The Other Guardian. And I also believe that this is occuring a short time after Angel Island Zone. Then Pattern Matching.

Although, I'm not certain how to factor in the time travel, or where Shadow came from, seeing as Adventure 2 can't be possible due to the lack of humans.

Bah, its so good, yet so confusing!

Rereading yet again, in order to figure out where this whole fantinuity is going, Oneavi Iroj.

Well...I have to say that the last two chapters were somewhat confusing. But I managed to get this much from them.

First, The old Bag sewed Tail's mouth shut, or something along those lines.

Second, since her capture, Eggman has used Wendy to torture prisoners, she is as equally twisted as him.

Third, All those Chaotix missions were to gain information for Wendy, so that she in turn would give them the location of Mighty.

Fourth...The Brotherhood (I know just enough about STDC)

...apparently sent Wendy to give information...

And I have not the slightest clue what "Can you feel the sunshine means"

Quite a story, and I love it. Hopefully we can find out if Amy escaped the Castle, It the Chaotix find Mighty, and what Sonic was up to all this time.

-Silas Goodwill

P.S Your story helped we work through a major writers block, Thanks!

Looks like you're not getting rid of me... After having understood about half of the story one first read, I sat down for a while and dug in the depths of the internet for information to fill in the rest in lack of knowing all the games.

Took me quite a while, but now after reading everything twice, most things do indeed make sense. And it was a lot of fun reading, although I somewhat realized I chose the wrong time of the day for it. A lonely evening with thunderstorm wrathing outside would have been the best basis for the thing with the Tails doll. It still was creepy though...

Just needed to tell you that not you suck at explaining but I do at understanding stuff. Now have a nice day and hopefully write something more to confuse silly me with ,-)

I was browsing through the Sonic writers guild forum, and I

decided to click on your profile, as you seemed intelligent.

I picked out this story, not really expecting anything special. I discovered a wonderful story, with excellent characterization, and what may end up being an equally magnificent plot. I'd criticize, if there was really anything wrong with it. Oh, and bravo on including Wendy Witchcart.

Thank you so much for bringing good writing to a fandom seasoned with OOCness and bad romance.

- Smithy

HEY, LOOK AT WHO'S REVIEWING! OMFG!

Well, as usual, I'm really confused over your last chapter But I'm kinda used to it by now, so I just learned to roll with it XD

The ending... how to say this? It's a great chapter, but as an ending, I'm kind of... iffy about it. It's not so much as, "OMFG, WHAT'S HAPPENING?" It's more like, there's kind of way too many loose ends in the story. The only character's storyline that leads anywhere is Wendy's, at the end, and following that logic, Tails Doll's. Shadow, Amy, Cream, the Chaotix... they don't really go anywhere. If you were going for that effect, I can see it, I can appreciate it, but I really wished that you had tied their storylines together just enough so that the story had a feeling of unity. That way, you leave readers with a feeling like you just left them hanging, but not completely pushed off a cliff and screaming as they fall into oblivion.

So, iffy as an ending, but as a chapter: excellent work, I wouldn't expect anything less from you.

The beginning with the seagull: very good way of easing readers into the chapter, right up to when Wendy snapped its neck. And speaking of Wendy, she is one HELL of a character. You really got the whole, "This is an insane witch" character for her written out very well. And it's awesome how you manage to have her basically seem like a maniac, but also made her seem not as crazy as we thought she was. It really gives her character depth. And all you really did was give her great dialogue. Such a simple technique, and you showed us so much about her character.

Another thing that you impressed me with was how you basically made up nonsense like NiGHTSfish (LOL), or Nocturnus polymer, but integrated it so well into the story that I truly believed that it existed in the story. I know that for me, I have to spend like a paragraph describing something that doesn't really exist and that I made up before I think the readers would understand, but you just inserted them in so smoothly that I basically figured out what it was on my own.

KUDOS FOR THE FIVE SENSES! XD

And... that's all I can think of, at the moment.

I look forward to your future stories!

Well, never played Chronicles, so I guess I'll have to stop here. :[

I laughed at the Can you Feel the Sunshine reference, that was just ace.

Uuhh... I'm confused. Completely cofused. Absolutely.

Isn't the end of a story supposed to answer at least some of the reader's questions and *shrug* end the events of the story?

Okay, it answered how Wendy came to know the Chaotix - or not really know them at all. And the thing with Mighty.

I'll take my Shadow the Hedgehog plot knowledge to fill in the rest for me, but with all of Wendy's talking there are still a lot of question marks remaining to spin about in my head...

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This is where Speedy turns off to rack his brains about things he knows he'll never get through anyway... ;-)

The beginning was quite ... spooky in a way, with a very detailed describtion of Wendy and the Chaotix' reaction to her appearance, Wendy's babbling, the scribblings at the walls... and the entire atmosphere of the cell added amazingly to this effect.

Then it got pretty confusing on how she CAN know about the three detectives, even more about their lost team member...? The utter confusion reached its top with Espio's discovery what is written on the wall.

'CaN yOu FeeL thE suNsHInE ?' - Wait... WHAT?

And Robotnik is once again showing his true character and Shadow is actually beginning to CATCH UP on it.

Eggman, I know why I hate you! And this is what makes you such a great villian...