This is my origin story for Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel. This is probably gonna be a part of my Sonic Forces Rewritten project but I really felt that I should write this and share it with you all and see what you think. Hope you enjoy it and let me know if you have any questions or your thoughts on it.

Part 1: How the Mighty Have Fallen
Our story takes place in two neighboring towns, Buller and Burgoon. The two towns were considered rivals. While the citizens of the two towns weren’t particularly out to get each other, the mayors of the town, Milgram and Frank, would compete like siblings. 
In Buller, there is a young armadillo named Mighty. Despite being young (same age as Classic Sonic in fact), he is one of the strongest citizens in Buller as well as Burgoon (in fact, in tournaments between the towns, Buller would always win the strength related matches thanks to Mighty). Normally, he simply does deliveries and does errands like carrying heavy packages. One day, he is delivering some packages to Mayor Milgram, a rooster. 
“You are a good kid, Mighty.” the rooster tells the armadillo (man, this just sounds like a children’s story). “Always do what you think is right, okay?” 
Mighty nods and heads back to his house. But as he heads back, he hears screaming and houses burning. A human from Burgoon is seen burning houses and painting symbols of Burgoon. Mighty fights the terrorist and knocks him out. 
Milgram was outraged when he found this out. 
“I will send a representative of Buller to ask the mayor of Burgoon what is going on.” Mighty volunteers but Milgram chooses a mouse mobian instead. Mighty was a little disappointed so that night he comes to Milgram’s office and right before he knocks, he hears a conversation between the mayor and someone else.
“You have done well.” the mayor says, “the doctor will reward you immensely.” 
“Just go to the abandoned factory, right?”
“That’s right, Robotnik will reward you there.”
The man then leaves the office room and sees Mighty on the other side. He then gets very afraid and quickly runs away. Mighty sees that this was the same man who destroyed part of Buller and is shocked. He demands why this man is walking free and Milgram invites him inside. 
“Take a seat, Mighty.” Mighty looks at the chair but doesn’t sit and demands what is going on. 
“Tell me, Mighty, have you heard of Dr. Ivo Robotnik?” Mighty nods no. Milgram continues, “He has offered a large sum of money to Frank and me that could set us up for life. All we need to do is give up the citizens of the two towns to Robotnik.” 
Mighty is shocked and asks what Robotnik is going to do with them. 
“Who knows? I don’t care.”
“You won’t get away with this!” Mighty says to the sly rooster.
“And what are you gonna do about it? Give me your worst.”
Mighty leaps onto the mayor’s desk, grabs him and prepares to punch him. But he then lets him go and leaves.
That morning, Milgram announces to everyone that the representative he sent to Burgoon was captured and held hostage and that we should prepare for war. Mighty then appears and tells the crowd that he is lying and that the mayor is teaming up with Dr. Robotnik. The rooster then says, “Why should we believe this child? I have been serving this town for years and Mighty here has no evidence to prove his case. He is, in fact, betraying his town by siding with the enemy. Anyone who is with him is an enemy of Buller.” 
The mayor wins the crowd and they boo Mighty and tell him to get out of the town as well as calling him a traitor. Mighty is hurt and leaves. 
In Burgoon, there is an orphanage that only has one orphan. A flying squirrel named Ray (same age as Classic Tails). He goes outside of the building smiling and says hi to fellow citizens. As he waves to everyone, they seem to ignore him but this doesn’t discourage him. Ray spots a man who is having some difficulty carrying a package. Ray volunteers to help him but he responds with “I don’t need your help, you pixel brain.” Ray ignores the insult and tries to help him anyway. As he was carrying for him, someone trips Ray and he drops the package and the sound of shattered glass is heard. Everyone laughs, both mobians and humans, except the man Ray was helping who is fuming. 
“Look at this pixel brain.” 
“A pixel brain is a pixel brain.”
“I’m gonna get you, pixel brain!” 
Ray quickly runs away from the angered man and hides in a dark alley in tears. He smells smoke and quickly goes to a roof and sees a fire in part of Burgoon. As he glides to the scene of the crime, he sees a mouse mobian who is burning buildings including the orphanage and drawing the symbol of Buller. Ray is devastated to see this and all he can do is watch. After the destruction is done and the mouse is arrested, the mayor of Burgoon, Frank (who is a pig Mobian) has declared war on Buller because of the devastation of the town and when a citizen of Burgoon entered Buller the day before and was captured despite being peaceful. The war will take place in the abandoned factory. 
While the mayor is speaking, Ray tells him that the citizen of Burgoon may not have been so peaceful because there was a fire going on Buller similar to what has just occurred. Once the crowd that was listening to the mayor heard this, everyone laughs including the mayor. 
“Are we seriously gonna believe this pixel brain?” the pig asks the crowd, “I think not! Get out of here, you pixel brain.” The crowd chants “pixel brain” and Ray runs away. 
Ray is sitting on a tree in the woods outside of town crying. But he then hears punching and the sound of trees crashing. It piques his curiosity and he follows the sound. He then meets Mighty who is lashing out on some trees.
“Hey! You doing okay?” Ray yells from above one of the trees.
Mighty looks up, notices Ray, and says, “No, the mayors of Buller and Burgoon are making war against the two towns so the citizens can be captured by Robotnik!”
Ray jumps off of the tree, “We have to help them!”
Mighty sighs, “I don’t know. They probably deserve what’s coming to them.”
Ray then says, “Are you gonna act just like them or are you gonna step up and do what’s right?” 
“Alright, you convinced me. I think I know where we should go.” Mighty raises a hand for a high-five with Ray. He flinches because he thought Mighty was about to hit him but he realizes that it was a high five. He smiles and proceeds to high-five him.
The human and rabbit mobian are waiting in the abandoned factory. 
“Ugh, why is it taking so long for this ‘Robotnik’ to show up?” the man asks.
“Who knows? I destroyed the orphanage in Burgoon.” the rabbit replies.
“Ah, that’s a relief. That’ll hopefully get that pixel brain out of the town.”
“Yeah, there was a crowd saying ‘pixel brain’ at the kid and he ran away in tears!”
They start laughing until Mighty and Ray show up. Ray is hiding behind Mighty who is cracking his knuckles. He grabs the mobian and demands information on Robotnik. 
“How should I know? Maybe ask that blue hedgehog that I keep hearing about.” 
“Give me a name.”
“Sonic.”
“Thank you for your cooperation.”
Mighty lets go of the rabbit and leaves with Ray. 
“What are we gonna do?” Ray asks.
“We are gonna find that hedgehog and find Dr. Robotnik.”
“You okay, man?” the man asks the rabbit mobian.
“Yeah, I keep forgetting how strong Mighty is.”
The floor beneath them lowers down like an elevator. Once it stops, the floor above them closes and the lights go up. Machines are everywhere and a round man in the shape of an egg (aka Classic Eggman). 
“Greetings! What can I do for you two gentlemen?” the two look at each other and ask if he is Dr. Robotnik. 
“Yes, that is me. So, what do you want?”  
“We are here for our reward.”
“What?”
“Mayors Milgram and Frank told us to go to you to collect our reward.”
Robotnik starts laughing. “I don’t need to give you two anything. You are all worthless. Hey….that’s not a bad idea. Come with me.”
The two follow Robotnik to a section with multiples machines where one person could fit into each one.  
“Please enter into these two, gentlemen.” 
“Uh, what’s this gonna do?”
“It’s gonna turn you two into robots.”
“WHAT?!” the two are then just about to run away but are then surrounded by badniks. 
“Oh don’t worry, you two. I’m only going to turn you two into what’s fitting for you: the most worthless robots that have ever existed. Now get into the machine!” The two are then pushed into the machines and are turned into robots. One is turned into a small bomb and the other is a huge slow robot. 
Robotnik laughs even more. “Look at you two! You two are so worthless I’m laughing! Now get out of here.” 
The two robots seem a bit hurt and leave.
The war begins and the two towns fight. But the ground beneath them lowers and they are taken into machines to be roboticized. The two mayors watch and then ask Robotnik about their reward. 
“I think I did a much better job than old Frankie here so I would gladly receive a higher reward than he does,” Milgram says to Robotnik.
“What do you mean? I did all the work!”
“Oh sure, way to HOG all the glory, typical.”
As the two argue, Robotnik tells them to shut up and follow him. 
“How would you like to become my most powerful and intelligent creations?”
“I think we will just stick to the money, thank you.”
The two are then surrounded by badniks.
“No no, I insist. I have been working on an upgraded roboticizer and I have been dying to test it out on someone worthy. You two seem like good candidates now follow me.”
Once they reach the untested machines, they forced into them and are roboticized. One is turned into a robot chicken and the other a drill-like robot.
“Excellent! I will name you two Scratch and Grounder. Now for your first assignment to test you two out. You must guard this factory while I take care of Sonic, got it?”
“Yes sir,” Scratch says, “but I don’t see why I need this waste of bolts to help me.” 
“Hey! I heard that!”
As Robotnik was taking care of Sonic, Mighty, and Ray on an island, the factory was attacked and destroyed which has stopped the production of robots.
“You have failed me! It’s become quite clear to me that the upgraded roboticizers were a failure!” Robotnik shuts the two robots down and puts them into storage never to be seen again.

Hey, this is pretty great! Good work!

Thanks! If you have any advice or questions please let me know.

@ I really love your origin story for Mighty and Ray. I think it's very creative, and does a fantastic job of building out a strong and meaningful bond between these characters. I really enjoy the concept of humans and mobians coexisting, and the kind of conflicts that can arise and how they are dealt with.

I think it's a really cool concept to see Mighty and Ray having originally come from different home towns, and their eventual meeting, cooperation and friendship. I also really enjoy the introductions of Mighty and Ray and descriptions showing their kind and generous personalities, including their willingness to help others. I found all of that to be very touching.

I also feel like your story does a great job of building out the setting, characters and drama: I was able to picture multiple scenes in my mind with ease and there was sufficient intensity in tandem with depth of character for each major character to make me concerned and curious as to the events they experience and their ultimate outcomes.

I also enjoyed how you split the story into 5 parts and the cool and interesting names you wrote for each part. I really loved the puns, too. I've always enjoyed chapter names (or similar ideas, such as part names) as it's fun to read the title and speculate as to what may be about to happen in the story.

All in all, I really love and enjoy your Mighty and Ray origin story and would be more than happy to read any further stories you write about them or in general.

In terms of constructive criticism for how to make your stories even more awesome, I definitely don't have any major criticisms, just a few ideas for how to improve even more.

This can definitely be tricky on the forum (please let me know if you want any MyCode tips for formatting and I'd be more than happy to help), but I think adding more formatting to the story would be good. Such as condensing multiple lines together more where appropriate, or alternatively separating out lines with more whitespace to balance it out more visually. I'm definitely not very familiar with the official grammatical rules for how to do this correctly, such as in professional books. I think they covered that in my English classes but I honestly forgot lol. I'd have to research it. But just in terms of informal formatting, just mainly spacing / balancing out the text more can make it look more visually balanced for ease of reading.

In terms of substance of the story, an idea that came to mind as I was reading was that I would love to read even more detailed descriptions of the setting, characters, action / events, etc. I feel like a lot of the flow of the story was centered around dialogue primarily. It's definitely great to have a lot of good dialogue, and I feel that is essential for an interesting and relatable story (which yours definitely is!) But in addition to that, I feel it is also essential to build out the setting and events as much as possible beyond the dialogue itself: to paint a picture in the reader's mind. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways, including but not limited to writing out more imagery describing the general setting and the dynamic setting as it changes relative to specific characters / events / time, and non-dialogue descriptions of events or happenings from a narrator's perspective (such as character thoughts, or just more detailed written out descriptions of action and events).

Thanks so much for sharing your story with all of us here! I really enjoyed it and I look forward to reading any further stories you would like to share. (I also plan to finish reading and post feedback on your awesome Sonic Forces Rewritten as soon as possible as well!)

Formatting is something I could probably fix (I'll gladly accept tips on MyCode) but adding more detail to the story is something I'll hopefully get better at as I write. Besides an origin story I made for Majora from the Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask a bit back (hmmm maybe I should share that for fun), Sonic Forces Rewritten (including this) is my first time writing a fictious story. I'll probably tackle this story again once I am more experienced with detailing.