Episode 1A: A New Hedgehog in Town
On a bight sunny day on Seaside Island there is a village that is named Hedgehog Village, many of the inhabitants are going along with their everyday lives. At a food place called Meh Burger, Sonic and his friends, Tails, Amy, Sticks and Knuckles are having lunch. Tails is also working on one of his inventions much to Amy's dismay.
"Tails, you can't eat and build at the same time," Amy says.
"Sorry Amy, but I'm working on a new invention and I'm almost done," Tails says.
"But you'll end up getting food all over it," Amy says.
Tails nervously laughs, "Right."
He puts his invention on a different chair next to him, and continues to eat his lunch.
"What do you think we should do? Eggman's been pretty quiet lately," Sonic asks.
"How about we do some wrestling?" Knuckles suggests.
"No," Tails and Amy answer.
Sticks suggests, "How about we go explore the West Forest searching for bugs and other creepy crawly?"
"Nah. We did that yesterday," Sonic says.
Knuckles points out, "Or see where's those people are going with all that stuff."
Sonic and the others look ahead to see two large men carrying a cargo wagon full of crates or boxes.
"What's going on?" Tails asks.
"Maybe someone building a new storage room?" Sticks suggests.
"I don't think so. Maybe it has something to do with the new house that was being built," Amy says.
"You mean the one next to mine?" Sonic asks.
"I say we check it out," Sticks says.
Everyone nod their heads and rush to where the workers are going. They arrive at a small house with one floor above the base. They see the two workers putting the cargo wagon down and begin to unlead the items. Then three smaller workers put the boxes inside.
"Why are you putting those things in the house? Are they really using it as a storage room?" Knuckles asks.
"No. I think someone's moving in," Amy says.
"Sweet. Looks like I got a new neighbor," Sonic says.
"Indeed you do," A male's voice speak up.
They turn their heads to see Mayor Fink, the mayor of the town. He walks towards the heros.
"Hello Mayor, is someone really moving here?" Tails asks.
"Indeed. A new residence has arrived today from the mainland. She originally lived in the city," Mayor Fink says.
"The city huh. Makes me wonder what kind of neighbor I have," Sonic says.
"You may suspect a city girl, but she's actually a sweet, calm, and gentle young hedgehog. In fact, she's right over there," Mayor Fink says, turning his head to the house.
The five turn to see the new owner of the house. She is a blonde color hedgehog with long hair about to her knees. She is wearing a light blue dress with a blue color blouse jacket with short sleeves, white boots, white gloves with blue wristbands, and a blue headband on her head.
"Wow! Not what you expect from a city girl," Sonic says.
"She's kind of pretty," Tails says.
"Yeah," Knuckles replies.
Amy walks forward, "Come on, let's say hello to our new neighbor."
"Sounds good to me," Sonic says.
Everyone walk to go say hello to the new neighbor. In the house, the new girl is putting a few boxes down on the ground until everything is inside.
Sonic leans to the door, and says, "Hey."
The girl turns to see Sonic.
"Oh hello, it's nice to meet you," The girl says.
"Great to meet you too," sonic says.
Then zooms to the girl at top speed, "Names Sonic, what's your name?"
"My name is Maria," The hedgehog says.
"Maria huh. That's a nice name," Sonic says.
Maria replies, "Thanks."
"Hey Sonic, aren't you going to introduce her to the rest of us?" Knuckles asks.
He and the others are walking inside. Sticks runs forward and stares at Maria in the face.
"Hi my name is Sticks. I'm a badger. It's so so so awesome to meet you. I love your hair," Sticks and observing her and sticking her head out of Maria's hair.
Amy drags Sticks away, "Sticks, stop it. You're going to make her uncomfortable."
"It's okay. I was just surprised that all. My name is Maria. It's a pleasure to meet you," Maria happily says.
"Hi Maria, my name is Miles Prower, but everyone called me Tails," Tails says.
"I'm Amy. Amy Rose," Amy says, waving her hand.
"Names Knuckles, it's great to see you," Knuckles says.
"It's great to meet all of you. You all are so nice to me. Sadly, I need to ask you to leave so I can finish packing," Maria politely says.
"What? You don't need to do it yourself. We can help unpack your things and put them away," Sonic says.
"Oh no, I don't want to make you all go through all the trouble," Maria says.
"It's no problem at all. That's what neighbors are for," Sonic says.
"Yeah. We'll get your stuff done and fix up before dinner," Knuckles says.
Maria smiles, "Thank you."
In Eggman's evil lair, Dr. Eggman is working on a new machine that will defeat Sonic and his friends once and for all or what he thinks every time he comes to fight them.
"This time, my special badnik will be able to defeat Team Sonic for good," Dr. Eggman says.
Cubot says, "That's what you said every time."
"And this time I'm going to beat Sonic and his friends," Dr. Eggman says.
Orbot continues to clean, "I hope you won't take too long, the place is a little messy and it's spring cleaning day."
"I know. I know, but I need perfect this so Team Sonic won't stand a chance," Dr. Eggman says.
"Still a clean lab is a happy lab," Orbot says.
He then puts the duster away, "Now that the cleaning is finish, time for me bring the welcome basket."
"Welcome basket?" Dr. Eggman asks.
"Didn't you hear? We have a new residence at Hedgehog Village from the city in the main lands," Orbot says.
"New residence?" Eggman asks.
Then he continues to work, " If that's the case, I need to finish it so I can show whoever it is my victory."
Eggman continues to work on his new Badnik for the attack.
In Maria's new house, everything from the boxes at neatly set up. Everyone we put in their proper place and the house is all cleaned up.
"Hurry, we finish with the cleaning," Maria happily says.
"Yeah. Now your house is all ready for you to live," Sticks says.
"Now that's taken care of, how about we show you around the neighborhood?" Amy replies.
"I would love too," Maria happily replies.
Suddenly they hear a loud booming sound.
"What was that?" Maria asks.
"Sounds like trouble," Sonic answers.
In town square, Dr. Eggman is driving his hovercraft as his new monstrous creation is rampaging through the village.
The robot is a giant machine with a head and body of a crocodile while the bottom has a robot body of an octopus. The robot crush and chew thing with his teeth and smash boxes and other places with the robot tentacle.
Sonic and the others rush over to see the monster robot is wrecking the city. Maria follows them and look to see the robot.
"Um guys, what's going on?" Maria nervously asks.
"Trouble. You better get to safety. We'll handle this," Sonic says.
"Um okay," Maria answers.
She rushes to a safe place and still watch what is going on.
Sonic and his friends are ready to fight Eggman and his newest creation ready.
"There you are little pests. Came to see my newest destructive creation," Dr. Eggman remarks.
"No. We came to trash it and you," Sonic answers.
"Too bad! Because I have build the ultimate robot the Croctobot!" Dr. Eggman says.
Croctobo?" Knuckles says, looking confused.
Sonic then starts laughing, "Croctobot… Lamest… Badnik… Ever! Oh this is too much!"
Dr Eggman growls in anger about his machine being insulted.
He then commands the robot, "Croctobot, finish that laughing fool!"
The Croctobot lifts one of his tentacles in the air and attempt to smack Sonic. Tails flies over and grabs him before the hit. Sonic continues to laugh as Tails carries him.
"Sonic, get a grip. We need help," Tails says.
"Alright, I'm done. Now let's kick that robot's hard drive," Sonic says.
Sonic then begins to use his speed to run super fast. He jumps in the air and performance a spin dash at the robot. Amy then uses her hammer to hit the tentacles. Sticks doe the same. Knuckles tries to punch the robot, but ends up getting hit by the tentacle and slammed into the wall.
As Sonic and the others fight, Maria is shocked and yet, amazed to see her friends are fighting the robot that is being controlled by the man, Dr. Eggman.
"I never knew my new friends are fighting that robot. It sounds like they done this alot," Maria says.
She then turns to seethe mad scientist controlling the machine, and accompanied by a red robot with a round head and a yellow robot with a square head.
"Hmm, maybe I should talk to him and ask him to stop attacking," Maria says to herself.
She then leaves her hiding spot, and walks over to Eggman and the two robots in the hovercraft.
Eggman angrily says, "Grrr! My Croctobot can't seem to get his tentacles on Team Sonic."
"Um excuse me," Maria's voice says.
Eggman and the two robots look to see the blond hedgehog.
"And, who are you?" Eggman firmly demands.
"Um, my name is Maria. I'm new here. Uh, I like to ask you to stop destroying the village and take your robot somewhere else. You're scaring everyone here. So do you mind leave with your robot, please?" Maria asks, politely.
"What? If you expect me to leave, you're crazy!" Eggman says.
""But um, why are you attacking the town?" Maria asks.
"Why, cause I want to destroy it and make it part of Eggman Land," Eggman says.
"Eggman Land?" Maria says, confused.
She then pictures this Eggman Land to be an amusement park or something like that. A park full of rides, attractions, and food stands. But somehow, she thinks Eggman is not thinking about building an amusement park.
"Maybe you can build this Eggman Land where there's no buildings are," Maria suggests.
"You know, maybe it will be a good idea to build it somewhere else. That way we don't have to keep destroying the place," Cubot says.
"No! I build the robot to destroy the town and Team Sonic! And no blonde hedgehog is going to get in my way!" Eggman angrily says.
The Croctobot whacks the team to the wall and through some of the buildings. Then it aims to attack Maria. Maria begins to run away as the robot begins to chase her. Sonic is able to get out of the hole he crashed into and sees Maria being cornered by the robot.
Sonic rushes over, "Hey! Pick on someone your own size! Or maybe and few feet your size! Like me!"
But the Croctobot is not paying attention to Sonic. Instead is going to whack Maria with his tentacle. Maria becomes so scared that she feels like she's going to cry. Suddenly, Maria's hand begins to glow a bright blue color.
"Leave me alone!" Maria screams and swifts her hand across.
When that happens a strange blue energy like a swift wave slices across the robot in half. Then the robot shuts down and falls to the ground.
Eggman exclaims, "What the…"
"Whoa! That was way past cool," Sonic comments, stopping in his tracks.
"Wow! Maria sliced that robot like it was paper," Knuckles says.
Eggman angrily says, "I'll be back you meddlers, especially to get you, blondie!"
Orbot passes the basket, "Here's a welcome present for you."
Then throws the basket, and Sticks catches it. After that, Eggman flies the hovercraft with the two robots inside. The robot scrap is left to become useless junk.
Maria blushes a little, "Um sorry."
After getting their heads together after being attacked, Sonic and the others head to Meh Burger to get something to eat. They also like to hear Maria's story along with her special abilities.
"So Maria, you wanna to tell us what you did with that robot," Sonic says.
Sticks asks, "Are you a super duper super spy that is here on a secret mission?!"
"Um no. I'm not an agent. I'm just a young hedgehog with um, special powers. I don't really use them much," Maria says.
"Why?" Amy asks.
"You see, back in the city, I was very sick since I was a little girl, so most of my life I was always in the hospital. I have these powers since then and I do use them to play with the other children. Sadly, when they're able to go home, I'm always stuck in the hospital. Couple of months ago, I was released and finally got better. I thought it will be nice to have a fresh new start, and decided to live here to breath nice clean air," Maria says.
"Guess that's one of the great qualities of the village," Tails says.
"I'm sorry to hear you've been sick all your life," Sticks says.
"That's okay Sticks. I'm just glad to feel so much better and got a fresh new start on the island. I… do hope we get to be friends," Maria says.
"Of course, we're friends. Anyone who could take eggface our like that is a friend of mine," Sonic says.
"Thanks. I do admit, I was a bit embarrassed about using my powers out of fright," Maria says.
"You just could help it. You never experienced something like this in the city. Here however, Eggman cause problems almost everyday," Amy says.
"Thanks for the advise," Maria says.
"Well, I say this turned out to be a good day. We got a new friend, especially one who is able t kick Eggman's fight, and it looks like you get to have a lot of adventures as long as you stick with us," Sonic says.
"I'm so glad," Maria says.
"Hey, as long as we're celebrating, how about we do some karaoke?" Knuckles suggests.
"I like Karaoke," Maria says.
"Then Karaoke Night it is," Tails says.
Later in the night, everyone are sitting at their seat in front of the stage. On stage, Maria is singing a song.
Maria:
Until now I was on my own
The courage to change is a parachute
I have to say the truth is waiting
My usual voice
(I can hear it)
It's like I've begun to run
(Look, everyone!)
I'm smiling
After singing the song, everyone clap and cheer with glee. Everyone love Maria's performance. Maria is glad to be in a new town, and to be with new friends, Team Sonic.
The Heart is a Girl's Parachute English (Lyrics) from Azumanga Daioh