See the blue streak rushing for the horizon?
That’s me.
Hear the bang shattering the limits of sound?
That’s me.
But blink once…
and you will have missed me.

Hi there and welcome to my profile. Glad to have you around! First of all, you may call me Speedy. Now if you feel like it, you can find some information on me directly below.

Further down you'll find my thoughts and notes on my stories. Hope you'll find something to your liking. :)

For info on whatever is in progress at the time and updates on upcoming stories, scroll all the way down.

Personal Trivia

Regarding my pen name: I was first called Speedy by a soccer buddy because I'm a pretty good sprinter and he was really annoyed with it at the time. I liked it. Everyone else liked it too, I guess. I still like it many years later. It just kinda stuck with me.
1236 is the speed of sound measured in dry air of twenty degrees Celsius in kilometers per hour. It seemed really clever when I came up with it. I grew fond of it, too.

Likes: writing and reading, playing Sonic (big surprise here, huh?), listening to rock and metal music, hanging out with my friends, freetime, having fun, drawing, driving around in the car, forests, pizza, rollercoasters, dreaming, paprika crisps, shiny things, photography, inspirational stuff, airplanes, laughing, hiking, language, nature, thinking, and running.

Dislikes: Boredom, being held down when I have plans, rap, noise, snobby or intolerant or just dumb people, fish, prejudices, getting wet, pain, waiting, vegetables (a lot of them at least), people telling me what I have to do, stress, cities, too spicy things, and most of the stuff on TV

Favorite Game: Sonic Heroes. That's top of the list. As for the rest, it's kinda hard to say. Any Sonic game, I guess, with a little preference for the 3D titles. Sonic Unleashed, SA1 and 2, Sonic Colors, Sonic Generations... and yes, even Sonic 06. It's not near as bad as people make it. But generally, if it got blue hedgehogs running around, chances are I'll love it. I'm very predictable there.
Far as non-Sonic stuff goes, I keep coming back to Audiosurf. (And Diddy Kong Racing... Seriously, that game was my childhood.)

Favorite characters: Knuckles and Sonic, first and foremost. You won't really find any story here that doesn't have at least one of them, most of them feature both. Tails is a close third, but I also like Blaze, Rouge, Omega and Espio, to name a few.

Contacting me: PM's should work. If you got a question or feel like a chat, drop me a line, I don't bite. In fact, I really like talking Sonic, characters, theories and writing in general with other fans. :)
As with review replies, I generally have a policy of replying to all PMs I get. However, over the last year, I've received an increasing amount of messages with no content, or just full of nonsense. I have decided to ignore those. If you wish to talk to me, really, I'm friendly and I enjoy conversations with people, but you have to tell me what you want from me. A simple "Hi, I would like to talk to you" will be quite enough. Sending me messages that contain only my pen name, a set of emotes, gibberish, or anything of the sort will be ignored in the future.
Also, I don't roleplay.

You can also find me here:

DeviantART (speedy1236 .deviantart. com)
This is where I mostly post paintings of technicolor woodland creatures and glowing things. Lots of somewhat story related artwork, too, if you chose to look for the connections.

Archive of Our Own (archiveofourown. org/users/Speedy1236/profile)
Everything that's on here has been uploaded over there, too.

Tumblr (speedy-1236. tumblr. com/)
Here you'll find art, ramblings, and more or less Sonic related stuff, and the occasional other things I found fun.

FictionPress
Look at some of the random few poems I wrote, but I haven't posted anything there in quite a while now.

SSMB (/profile/4403-speedy/)
I'm a lurk at best and don't talk much there anymore... It's more a place to look for Sonic news at for me, but technically, this account exists.

Apparently, all links to the outside internet are broken on FFN, again. I tried inserting URLs, now, hopefully those will stay alive for a while. In case they don't, my DeviantART has the same name as this profile, so if you want to look at some of the supposed to be linked at artwork by me and others, you will find it there.

People to visit

This is my personal list of authors I'd like to recommend. As fanfiction readers and writers we all struggle trying to dig out a good piece to read between all the random nonsense spamming the archives, so I think we should support each other a little. I've seen other people here making a list of story recommendations, but I'd rather like to recommend the authors behind the good stuff.
The following guys and girls (in alphabetical order) are some of my very favorite authors here and/or friends that have enriched my time on this site for a long time already. Go check them out!

Awdures - Her stories were among the first I ever read and still rank high on my all-time favorites list. She basically failed to write a single Sonic story that I didn't adore to bits. Has some of the best Knuckles characterization on the site. Especially a recommendation for all fans of the red echidna. She's a great friend/partner in fanficcing crime, too! :)

Child At Heart Forever - My favorite resource for great adaptions/novelizations. Child has a knack for adapting games and staying incredibly close to canon with it while still adding her own touches, giving the characters life and soul and spicing everything up with a dose of humor. If you're looking for a game adaption, pay her a visit!

DC111 - Deep, not always light stories full of thought and spirit. Her stories have great insight on characters, especially Sonic and Tails, and never really fail to captivate you.

Dr Namgge - I think I came to Namgge's stories through his Sonic's Wasted Time stories, a couple of oneshots parodying common things in fanfiction. Found them hilarious and checked out more of his writing. I didn't only find a great talent for parodies, some neatly slipped into the subtle space between two sentences, but also a collection of worthwhile long stories with a complex (sometimes mind-blowing) concept behind you don't often encounter.

Frozen Nitrogen - Another one of the writers whose stories I found in the beginning of my stay here. Deep, often somewhat dark and complex stories with excellent vocabulary. A recommendation for folks looking for great characterization of Dr. Robotnik/Eggman, insight on robots and sometimes mildly disturbing sci-fi concepts, always elegantly worded.

Hawki - A writer I kind of admire for the amount of stuff he gets done (and how well organized it all seems). Has over 1000 stories on his profile. We shall all bow to that. He writes stories for a great bunch of different fandoms, Sonic the Hedgehog just being one of them. I tend to especially enjoy his game-verse and SatAM-based stories for their often unique and creative ideas and nailed characterization. Has made oneshots out of ideas I'd never thought you could.

JudasFm - Jude's 'Guardian's Choice' was the first fanfic I read in my life and along with her other works it greatly influenced at least the base of what I can now call 'head canon'. Awesome plots and characterization; sadly some of her stories are still unfinished and have been so for years. But if you haven't read anything by her yet, you really should.

NetRaptor - I wondered for the longest time if anyone needs to recommend her at all. Kind of true to her name, NetRaptor is a fossil. Her first stories have been posted on in 1999, and after all that time she's still around. By now she's mother of her own family, but she still writes the occasional Sonic fic. Especially her older works are somewhat classics of Sonic fanfiction, a literary trip back to the time when Sonic Adventure was new and when Sonic fanfiction started out. Probably every Sonic fan should have read at least one or two of those stories. :) And the new stuff, for example the Sonic Boom series in which the characters (including first and foremost Knuckles) are not retarded? Awesome. You should definitely give those a read.

Nik159 - Not from , but he really deserves a spot up here. He's the amazingly talented dude from over at DeviantART who keeps drawing incredibly awesome pencil illustrations for my stories. I never thought I would get art for my stories, let alone something so beautifully detailed. I am insanely flattered and grateful. Thank you, Nik! :) Go check out his gallery, he draws great original stuff and fanart alike!

Sarilleny – Another recommendation for Knuckles fans. Long, intense stories with great psychology and lots of character depth.

Background Info

What to expect from my writing (the short version)

- Friendship. Like, loads of it.

- Sonic, Knuckles (and Tails)

- No shipping. I don't ship.

- I'm long-winded. I utterly fail at short, and I love to include background concepts and elaborate character moments.

- More focus on characters than plot. A lot of my stories are mainly character driven (and some honestly have no plot to speak of... ehm).

What to expect from my writing (the way too long version for the few souls who might be interested)

I write because it's fun. I write to get what is on my mind off my mind. I write because I dream. I write to dream. I write to feel.

By now, I think I am a little notorious for my friendshippers. Most of the things I write are friendship stories in some way. I can't help it, and I don't really want to. I'm a sucker for friendshippers. Because friendship is the most precious thing in the world.

When I write, I don't only write stories; I more likely write character studies. The characters are much more important to me than the plot in a story. I write about journeys the characters take and about the experiences they make shaping them. I like to explore characters, how they work, who they are on deeper level, and I like to see them interact with other characters.

Like everyone else's, my writing is far from perfect. I am not overly great at planning a plot for example. Plots and pacing have a bad habit of running away from me. I am also not too fond of my summarizing skills. I have a hard time squeezing twenty-something chapters into a few short lines of text. Coming to think of it, 'short' is something I am pretty bad at either way.

I've been making up stories ever since I was a kid. I never got the idea of writing them down, though... Until I found out there is a thing called 'fanfiction' and there are a lot of other people creating stories about their favorite characters. So, I tried myself.

I didn't write my first stories to publish them. I wrote them just for my own entertainment. It was more than half a year after I wrote my first fic that I decided to get an account here and publish the story. The idea behind it is simply that I enjoy reading the stories others posted here, and that if I publish mine, other people can maybe get some enjoyment out of them, too. Simply put, I'm here to share. Give and take, that kind of thing. I don't write for popularity, or hits, or anything of the sort. I write for fun, because I have stories to tell, and if just one reader out there gains one nice moment from any one story I wrote, then I think it's a win.

As probably everyone here, I like getting feedback. Helpful critique is really appreciated, and I generally reply to all signed reviews, no matter how short or long. I tend to refer to what reviewers say, so a detailed review is likely to get a detailed answer, and vice-versa.

A note on language

As you can easily see from my home country, I'm not a native English speaker, or writer.

I didn't actually decide to write in a second language. Fact is, I was down to five thousand words of my first story until I noticed what I was writing was English. I write in English because I can't creatively write in any other language. No idea why. I screw up summarizing a silly newspaper article in any other language... Okay, maybe that was exaggerated now. It's not that bad. Not quite. But close enough.

I've been writing and posting stories in English on here for ten years now. It's obvious to see in the older fics that I didn't have the grasp of grammar and flow I have today when I wrote them. The older fics are a bit, rough around the edges, I suppose? I hope you can forgive them that. I did improve eventually! ;)

MY STORIES

General story universe info

Since the Sonic franchise is so varied with its spin-offs and alternate realities (games, cartoons, comics…), I thought I'd provide a small explanation what kind of universe my stories are set in. This generalized note applies to most of my fics; unless a story is set in a specific universe, place and time, in that case it will have a note on it in its summary.

Most influences for my stories are taken from the game canon, for it is what I like Sonic stuff for, what I got into first and the most, and what I've always seen as the 'core thing'. The second thing that has greatly influenced my today's head canon is the 90's Sonic comic published by Fleetway that I enjoyed reading a lot. You may spot a bit of Sonic X ideas here and there, too, and if you've been around for long enough might find a few influences/ideas taken from other fanfiction stories, too.

A note on Chaos

Chaos is something you won't get around if you read more of my stories than a few of the oneshots. After more than five years of writing in this universe, I suppose a lot of background and worldbuilding have been written, and a lot of it resolves around Chaos. It's a common thing in the Sonicverse after all, and I admit I am too fond of it and probably use it too much. Already canon uses it too much... We have the Chaos Emeralds, Chaos Control, Chaos the character...

Now, when I say Chaos or when any character references it in any of the stories, it is very rarely in reference to the character from SA2. In old Fleetway manner, I often call the character the Chaos Creature. If not, I make an effort to make sure it's clear we're talking about a character and not about a concept.

The concept of Chaos is something you'll find everywhere in my stories. It is a concept of sometimes abstract nature, and the way it is looked upon varies from one character to the other. The most common way Chaos is encountered in the stories is in the form of Chaos Energy, that includes the Chaos Emeralds as a sort of crystalline Chaos, the golden rings and similar objects, but also chaos fields, which can be viewed as a multi-dimensional equivalent to magnetic fields.

To some characters, the Chaos Energy and corresponding phenomena are science. Characters like Tails or Dr. Eggman are used to run machines on ring energy or Chaos Emeralds.

To other characters, the subject of Chaos is of a mythological kind. Especially to Knuckles, who grew up among the relics and legends of his ancestors on the Floating Island. In a lot of stories , the ancient echidnas look upon the Chaos Creature (especially its Perfect Chaos form) as a demon ("God of Destruction" in SA1). But they built a temple to the Emeralds before Perfect Chaos' rampage, so I believe they worshipped the Chaos Energy and its affected objects before they even knew of Perfect Chaos. After all, a force that can make pieces of landscape float, give incredible power to its wielders, protect you against injuries or magically heal them must seem like a god-given thing, especially to folk that don't seem to have done much science.

In a lesser extent, that applies to the other Mobians as well. Even for the more educated societies, not everything Chaos does can be explained and it retains a magical nature at times. The Chaos Energy has always been a part of their world, so I think it is natural it has a deep effect on their culture. In my stories, this impact can be found in the form of many sayings for example, used even by the more rational characters.

To me as the author, both sides (science and magic/mythology) of the subject of Chaos are of equal importance and validity, and the narration never fully tries to side with one. The Chaos Energy does inexplicable and unbelievable things, and yet it follows some internal rules. Every reader can decide on their own what they want to make of it.

OLD STUFF

We all start somewhere, and this is where and how I started writing. If you've enjoyed some of my new stories, maybe you'll have some fun with these very first fics, too. I've come to a place where I really appreciate this beginning of my foray into fanfic writing, too. Even after ten years, they are still fun tales, and maybe a reader familiar with my more recent fics will see the parallels and be as delighted with them as I was upon my last revisting of these stories.

"hot spot" – My first story ever. It's a little crude in places, but I still like the plot, anyway. In many ways, it's pretty much what I'm writing today, too. It's an adventure story starring the Triple Threat, with ancient mysteries, a stint on Angel Island, with Eggman and giant monsters and a chronically dangerous environment. XD

"Diamond's Mystery" is probably best described as being a classical adventure tale starring Sonic and Knuckles. It's about a treasure hunt, with booby traps and puzzles and a track through a deadly desert. I still enjoy how the booby traps turned out, also the ancient underground maze in the end and the story's mysterious glowy object of doom. And since major portions of this story entirely focus on the two main characters 'cause there isn't actually anyone else there, it is full of Sonic/Knuckles interaction, banter, bickering, friendship and the occasional little argument alike. By now I think it kind of worked out the basics for how I write their relationship today.

GAMEVERSE ONESHOTS AND POEMS - Quick reads set in the regular game universe

"The Taste Of Speed" - About Sonic and running.

"Shiny Big Rock" – I still love this story. Sonic/Knuckles friendship that explores some of their differences.

"Changes And Chances" – Post-Sonic Heroes oneshot with Knuckles' reflections on the events considering his life before and his relation to the other characters before and in/after the game

Now has artwork (also the story cover), by the amazing Nik159: /art/Changes-And-Chances-401819607

“Cloudburst Flight” - That one’s different. Besides being a story about flying, about the struggle to understand other people’s feelings, about the brotherly relation between Tails and Sonic, it’s mostly a oneshot about Sonic’s strange relation to Amy Rose. It really isn’t a Sonic/Amy story. Quite the opposite I suppose. You can have multiple versions of Amy’s suffering from her one-sided crush in various sorts of fics; I somehow happened to try writing the other side of the coin ‘cause I got kinda annoyed it’s always just the girl’s point of view shown in fics.

“Relativity” – Sonic and Tails discuss science. Sort of.

"Killer Chao?" – A small, 1000 words thingy about Chao and their scary fighting prowess, based on the Sonic Advance games mostly.

"Between Red And Blue"– Inspired to equal parts by the fanfiction archives main content category and Sonic Chronicles, this short story is a bit of a parody on various more or less popular pairings, poking a bit of fun at this slightly overrated romance idea and the usual lack of considering male characters in it. Aside of that, it's a Sonic/Knuckles friendship oneshot. What a surprise...

"These Roads" - Short poem inspired by an awesome piece of Sonic fanart. Unfortunately, the picture itself is no longer online.

"It's In The Shoes" - Set in Sonic Chronicles, this oneshot presents a humorous solution on how the various power-ups in Sonic games might work.

Check this cool thing out, people: a fanfiction reading of this story! Thanks to MrBigTAnderson for doing this! youtube.com/watch?v=Uie6Kp5Q8JI

"The Last Ring" - Very short oneshot about Sonic trying to make his way to one of Dr. Eggman's insane headquarters and suffering a tragic loss in the progress... Well, sort of, anyway.

In case you're interested, I drew a picture going with it. /art/The-Last-Ring-290759207.

"On The Edge” – Slightly dark Knuckles poem

"Chasing Horizons" - I love this story. It's a very personal piece, maybe a lot more personal than anyone might notice upon reading it. Like several other ideas I get, this one came to me on a run, or at least that's when it really became clear in my head and I found I needed to type it out. It's a little bit of philosophy, a runner's thoughts on the nature of the chase.

"Aftermath" - This oneshot is a tag to the awesome Dr Namgge's "Another Setback" and its sidestory "Pressured Into It". At some point during a PM conversation about his stories and various other things, the idea came up that I could try writing one of the end of story monologues I usually write for Robotnik in my own stories. Eggman's reflections are always fun to write for me; I guess they are what I like best to write about his character. Now, I had the chance to write one of those reflections on a failed attempt at world domination that was much more brilliantly planned out than any of the things I ever come up with for Robotnik. Thanks for the experience, Nam.

"Pathfinder's Apprentice" - A short Knuckles fic set in SA1, directly at the beginning of Knuckles' story.

"Straws" - Forces oneshot, detailing Knuckles' perspective on a moment I can't understand was treated so superficially in-game. Spoilers, obviously.

"Guardians" - Another Sonic Forces fic, set directly after the games ending. Basically aftermath H/C fluff (which might be a favourite genre of mine).

"Fading Tempest" - Tag to Sonic Riders. Tails isn't happy with how the events played out.

"Untried Equilibrium" - Knuckles muses on the new status quo during the return journey to the planet and to Angel Island after the end of SA2.

"The Sky Is Angry" - Missing scene for Sonic Heroes, as Team Sonic heads for Final Fortress. Knuckles and Tails bond over a dislike of storms.

"Not A Big Deal" - Actually not a Gameverse story, because it's set in Sonic X, but, it's a oneshot, so it gets listed here. Tails and Chuck discuss maturity and law on Earth and Mobius. Sort of at least.

TRIPLE THREAT SERIES

The Triple Threat Series is sort of a friendship epic, I guess you could say? The friendship between the main characters is the large overarching theme here. The novel length entries are more adventure and action driven and play with concepts like Chaos Control stuff, while most of the shorties make lighter, quick reads.

In spite of the name, it’s not strictly a series in the sense of starting with story one and the rest being sequels. It’s a lot looser than that, especially for the earlier installments. All TTS stories have in common that they’re set in the same universe and resolve around the trio of Sonic, Tails and Knuckles. Each individual story can stand on its own, but there are subtle references between them since they – for me being the writer – have long since become continuity. So, I figured I can as well go ahead and call them that, right?

Chronologically "The Wind In The Abyss" is kind of a prequel to the series that develops some concepts and establishes a few universe-related things. Chronology for all other Triple Threat stories is simply the order I published them in. You don't have to read them in a particular order, though. You don’t need to read all of them either. Each story is complete and can stand on its own. A few things, especially in the latest additions to the series however, will make more sense to you if you've read the previous stories.

TTS’ timeline fits loosely after Sonic Adventure 1/2/Sonic Heroes, think a year or so after them, but you're usually free to assume most of the events of games that came out before the story was published happened. It's not meant to be an AU, but rather an extension of canon. It runs off on its own here and there, as anything that's several hundred thousand words long is bound to do, but still, this is primarily gameverse.
The stories are all set before Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. This restriction wasn’t applied because I dislike Sonic Chronicles or something, I actually like it a lot, but because of the open ending I find it hard fitting a story after it and making sense with it.
They are also all set before Sonic Forces, primarily because they were written before Forces came out. That goes even for the currently unpublished next series entries, which I started working on months before Forces launched.

TRIPLE THREAT SHORTS

"Fireworks" – Two-chapter action/friendship ficlet. Pretty much a typical Eggman vs Sonic and Co. scenario. Oh, and quite a lot of stuff blows up.

"Winter's Fun?" – Sonic and Tails introduce Knuckles to the fun sides of winter

"Not Quite As Planned" – Typed down in honor of Sonic's birthday. It includes a bit of everything I find makes out what his games are: a track through Eggman's base offering a bunch of places to almost kill him, a boss fight, Tails being his back-up... and of course as it is a birthday story a bit of a party, although nothing about it turns out how Sonic thought it would...

"The Night Of The Potted Fir Tree"- Christmas oneshot with Knuckles taking the leading part. It isn't long and certainly not deep or anything, but I like how the humor turned out. Not much to say to this one... other than that my personal favorite character in it is the title-giving tree. :D

"From Me To You" - Another Christmas story. Written from Sonic's point of view, it takes the reader along on the blue hedgehog's quest to find appropriate presents for his two friends. Seasonal feel-good writing, I suppose. :)

"Carvings And Relics" - Bit angsty at the beginning, pretty fluffy at the end. A fun fact about it is probably that it's one of the very few stories that gets labelled as Hurt/Comfort, although I write rather much that would fit under this genre. Also, the first Knuckles/Tails friendship oneshot. Way past time for that one, I suppose.

"Your Fault" – Sonic and Knuckles have a meaningful discussion while lost in an ancient tunnel

"Best Intentions" - Sort of a slice-of-life piece from Knuckles' point of view, revolving around him taking up an invitation of Sonic and Tails for a winter vacation. It was supposed to just be a short piece, but it had a mind of its own and ended up including a lot of elements of Knuckles' different cultural background (because it's not just that he grew up in isolation, whatever he had to culturally identify with on the island belongs to a culture not only long extinct, but also presumably rather different to the other characters' background). Unlike most other stories I write that touch on the subject here and there, this one is a setting without a world-endangering crisis for the characters to solve, and it gave me the space to explore some character elements that had been on my mind for a long time. I think a real lot about how I see Knuckles in my head canon can be deduced from reading it.

"Flying and Soaring" - A bit of fluff in which the Triple Threat head out ski jumping.

"Bird's Eye View" - Set shortly after Sonic 3 and Knuckles. Bit of an early Team Sonic friendship piece. The cover artwork is part of this picture: /art/Island-of-Angels-676625975

"Fire and Smoke" A Triple Threat Drama/Disaster/Adventure Short(ish) Story with lots of dramatic scenery and focus on character reactions (and cheap suspense XD).
Full size cover: /speedy1236/art/Fire-And-Smoke-792970944

TRIPLE THREAT NOVELS

"The Wind In The Abyss" - partly AU, basically a transition from STC into game universe, set in a timeline starting with the Fleetway canon and going into a pre-SA2 game timeline.
It features quite a few Fleetway-exclusive characters and uses ideas from both game canon and comics. It’s based on various theories I made up over time on the differences between the Fleetway comic universe and the game canon, starting with big, obvious things such as Fleetway's demon Super Sonic, but also covering a lot of smaller things. I guess I went the other way around than the writers of STC when they adapted Sonic Adventure's plot into their universe. This story adapts Fleetway ideas and characters into a game-inspired universe.
Other than trying to combine two canons I guess you could call this piece of writing a character study, or a concept study really (or, as DC111 called it, a 'character exploration story with a lot of depth'). When writing it, I deliberately decided to shove the ‘heroes try to stop villains’ plot into the story’s side arcs and focused my attention on something that has been a main interest to me for quite a while: the matter of Chaos Control, how it works from the point of view of the individual using it. I tried to work out the nature of Chaos Control, of the Chaos Emeralds themselves and how they affect the individual coming into contact with them (and vice-versa). It’s not a typical adventure story; it’s more of a concept story, or a concept building story, and goes much deeper into its subject than most other things I’ve written could.

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"Chaos And Confusion" – In spite of its several years of age, I still like the plot and concepts of this story and the way everything turned out, especially Eggman towards the end and the dialogues with E-123 Omega. Contains references to several games, mostly the Sonic Rush series, Sonic Heroes… and a bit of others. Aside of the Triple Threat, Team Dark make an appearance.

“The End Of The Rainbow” - This one has treasure hunts, wild goose chases, getting lost in the jungle, quicksand, kidnapping and explosions... There’s a bit of everything. It's probably more a classic adventure story than a typical Sonic story... if something like a typical Sonic story even exists.
Features the Triple Threat of course, and has appearances of Dr Eggman, Team Chaotix as well as Amy Rose, Cream and Cheese.

OMG... Nik159 drew a scene from chapter 22, Sonic, Knuckles and Tails looking at the carpet picture. Isn't it totally amazing? :D (/art/Unusual-treasure-366602305)

"Watch The Hourglass"... doors close when time is up. (Omochao, Sonic Adventure 2)

A Triple Threat story that transcends time and space. Yes, the time travel fic I always wanted to write. A bit of sci-fi, a bit of background exploration... and some other things that shall not be revealed here. Main characters are Sonic, Knuckles and Tails (yeah, big surprise), but it has cameos of a couple other characters.

Check out the full size and resolution of the cover artwork. It's looking awesome. Heck yes. (/art/Out-Of-Time-347929750)

Holy freaking Chaos Emeralds, this story now has fanart, too! Look, a moment from Chapter 15, Sonic and Knuckles gazing at the future city. (/art/Night-410858375)

"Mirror's Edge"

Triple Threat adventure/fantasy/sci-fi fic. It sees the return of an old foe, a trap laid out for Sonic to run right into, a dimension only two people have ever been in that is almost impossible to escape from, Tails becoming the target of a mad scheme that could destroy the very world... And it is LONG.

Full view of the cover artwork: /art/Mirror-s-Edge-Cover-491783069

Look, Mirror's Edge has been featured on TSSZ News' Fan Fridays a while ago! Nobody bothered to tell me about it and it had been online quite a while before I found out. Thanks to Shdowhunt60 for recommending it! (/2016/05/20/fan-fridays-speedy1236/)

Check out this awesome comic of Mirror's Edge's finale, with the gang in the about to explode underwater base, drawn by @lord-thor on tumblr! Thanks so much! (lord-thor. tumblr. com/post/620553710123220992/a-rough-comic-of-an-awesome-scene-from-one-of)

STUFF IN PROGRESS:

Several people have asked if there will be a story after Mirror's Edge. In short: definitely yes.

In a bit more detail: I'm working on another Triple Threat Series novel-length fic that'll be another one of those long-winded friendship/adventure/drama things. I have a lot of stuff already written, but there are also a lot of gaps, things that need to be rewritten because the story went a different way in some places than anticipated, stuff like that. It's going to be longer than Mirror's Edge by a fair margin, and I'm not going to go out and confirm a publishing date for that one at this point. It'll take as long as it takes. If you want to, watch this space for updates. :)

In between, expect the usual oneshots and shorter fics.

Additionally, I proudly present:

"Skyfire" - Triple Threat medium length fic (37k) exploring Echidna culture and lore. Lots of history, language geekery, science-y stuff and lots of friendshippy feels on top of it.

Reading is going on a journey on the wings of your imagination. Writing is building these wings.

Disclaimer: The crazed nutjob responsible for this profile does not own any of the Sonic characters or related things like locations, magical gemstones of awesomeness or other items, but does own the stories listed below. The owner of the work is not liable for any mental or physical damage taken during exposure to the featured fictional content, or induced as a result. All rights reserved and copyrighted by Speedy.

Artwork used as story covers as well as my profile avatar are pictures of my own design, or are used with permission of the original artist.

Thank you for reading.