#when are we going to start writing true rangers fanfics? hehe

[latin-dr-robotnik]

I meant to translate this from Spanish a while ago, and since now I’m in a fully SonAmy mood might as well do it.

We came up with a little side-quest story idea for Sonic Rangers, and that includes our favorite emotional support hedgehogs meeting up and having a small adventure together.

Picture this: the open world of Sonic Rangers includes many opportunities for Sonic to run into his friends and maybe help them in character-driven quest chains, not unlike games such as The Witcher 3 or even the Yakuza series and their substories. In this particular encounter, Sonic runs into Amy in the forest, planning something.

There’s a big Eggman-controlled robot blockade set up just outside the main city zone of the map, and Amy wants to take it down before Eggman can deploy more forces and invade the city for good. Sonic can agree to help her beat some robot butt and together they stage an attack on the robots, adding some charming dialogue and a bit of teasing as they execute Amy’s plan.

After cleaning up the blockade, Amy asks Sonic if he could escort her to check if anyone in the city needs help, and the player has the option to accept the request or decline it and end the quest there. If the player accepts, they will return to gameplay and run to the city.

What Sonic didn’t notice until he was in there is that there’s a massive theme park, bigger and better than Twinkle Park will ever be, and that this whole quest could have been something Amy planned all along just to go on a date. Sonic’s suspicions seem to be confirmed as soon as Amy suggests they could check out the park, since they’re already there. The player once again has the option to accept or decline, and if they accept, a sequence like SA1 Twinkle Park will play out, but with a lot more fun dialogue involved.

After roaming up and down and all around the park, Sonic is about to call it quits since it wasn’t on his plans to go so far out of his way, but right in that moment a big Eggman robot lands in the park, forcing Sonic and Amy to fight this mini-boss together.

At the end, Amy remarks how this was probably one of the best dates she’s ever had in her life and Sonic, while still a bit upset at Amy for leading him into all this thing, low-key admits he had more fun today than he anticipated, and soon the two of them separate... until next time.

The beauty of these types of sidequests would focus on: 1) having some quality character interactions that don’t really tie into the main narrative (”loyalty quests” could still be a requisite to reach the “best ending” though); 2) add more meaningful side content for the player to explore; 3) share a spotlight on other secondary characters (imagine running into quests for Silver, Big, even the Chaotix.) Of course this is all fanfiction-y and not a real Rangers proposal or anything, but my friends and I had a lot of fun coming up with this stuff :P