Sonic the Story- ** Publisher: Ladybird ** ISBN: 0-7214-3439-8 ** Date: 1994
Blurb: Sonic the Hedgehog & Ladybird join forced to bring you some fast, furious, frantic and fun-filled radical action!
The page at right looks like a final one, where Sonic tells Tails he did a good job telling the story. What's the long word at the end? Sonic saying 'bye' in several languages, and that anything that's not him, is too slow for him. Yes, the Tails looks as goofy and terrible as you think he does.
Summary: In this short story, the tale of how Sonic became blue and fast. The pages are illustrated, mostly completely, with text on top and next to the art. In this rendition of Sonic's past, Tails dictates the story to the reader. It starts with Sonic playing a game of hide and seek with his Flicky pals and burrowing into the secret lab of Ovi Kintobor in an attempt to hide. Sonic befriends the good Doctor and learns about the Chaos Emeralds. Kintobor tries to stabilise the emeralds using the rings found in game and also constructs Sonic a treadmill of which he can run on. This treadmill is the source of Sonic's speed as he got faster and faster on the machine. Eventually, as he surpassed the speed of sound, his body became blue and streamlined from the shock waves of the Sonic Boom. Kintobor designed special sneakers for Sonic to prevent friction.
After setting up Sonic's backstory the book proceeds to set up Robotnik's. Sonic finds a rotten egg in the fridge of Kintobor's lab and proceeds to give it to the Doctor, causing him to type incorrect data into the machine and resulting in an explosion. This explosion fuses Kintobor with the egg and forms Robotnik. The story then goes on about how Robotnik built robots to destroy Sonic, but never succeeded, which pretty much ends the story. A fun little version of Sonic's past which many like to adopt. Info by Ota.
This is the version that has the emeralds as evil, hence, SuperSonic being a type of ultimate evil as he was in the FleetWay comics. This was later dispelled by SonicTeam's official plots, but since those didn't exist at the time, companies just made up whatever they wanted. This is one of those origens.