Adventure 26

The Return of Sonic, and the return of… El Grand Gordo!

Log Date 4/2/3235

Green was writing in a journal while he was at his cabin in the Aquatic Ruins Zone. He had quite a bit of information to write down in his journal, he loved getting chances in order to write. "I have been well relieved for quite some time now. Last month Sonic was revealed to be alive! Sonic explained to us that when the Quantum Dial exploded, it somehow warped space time and sent him halfway across the galaxy. How he could've survived after such an even is scientifically, and theoretically and improbably astounding in every sense and meaning of the word." Green smiled cheerfully as he wrote, for he truly felt so much joy right now. "Among the things Sonic told us was something that made sense on why it had been so short a journey for him, and months for us since he was last seen alive. Sonic was in space for a couple of weeks from his point of view, he even kept track of time from a calendar he kept handy. As many scientists well know, time goes by differently in outer space than it does on a planet, because of all of these factors space travel was extremely tricky. Because you may want to go to a planet, but time getting there would be an issue, as well as when you arrived and how much time would go by on Mobius. But a thousand years ago, scientists finally broke major barriers and were able to make spaceships that could travel to places when they needed them to arrive and travel to Mobius so that they could return within better time. Too give an idea of how spaceship travel works regarding time, if a ship went out for a week long voyage in space, then they could cause the fabric of space surrounding the ship too make it so only a week of time for Mobius went by. The technology is complicated in how to explain the complex workings, but we used this technology to explore space and according to reports, there was no contact with any alien civilizations. I suspect now that part of that was because of fear of the Xorda retaliating against them for aiding or contacting their enemies. That aside, I'm glad Sonic's travel was half a year and not a full on year, he'll be fifteen in a couple months." Green stretched out his arms, he took that moment in order to relax. "Though I should note that an Overlander colony a little over a thousand years ago went into space, quickly established themselves on a planet called Cascade. And then without any warning whatsoever, all communications and attempted communications with the colony went radio silent… Not a single word was ever heard from the colony, which could vary from many things such as destruction by any number of things, from losing the ability to send out subspace signals… To even full out independence and turning against Mobius as a planet. But still, I want to write more on the experiences that Sonic had." Green took a moment to take deep breaths before writing some more. "When Sonic woke up after his experience from the Quantum Dial, he found himself on an alien planet called Thoraxia, which is home to two sentient races called the Blodex and the Bzzzz. The Blodex are a race of peaceful ant like insectoids who communicate using psychic telepathy, they have a great hero who once used the power of six Red Chaos Emeralds on their planet to help his people out. The Bzzzz were a race of warmongering wasp like aliens, they outlawed interstellar travel on their planet, were highly xenophobic and mercilessly attacked anything outside of their massive hive. Sonic used the power of six Red Chaos Emeralds in an attempt to stop the Bzzzz from terrorizing the Blodex people, because of the fact they were protecting an off worlder. Sonic went super but something I expected happened, due to using only Red Chaos Emeralds which are known for being filled with rage based Chaos energies, Super Sonic and Sonic became two separate entities and what's more the Super Sonic entity proceeded to kill trillions of Bzzzz and even killed their one and only queen and all possible ways for a new queen to emerge, if any Bzzzz survived that slaughter, then there aren't many and sooner or later their race will end with them and they'll be remembered as an example of vicious and nasty warmongers seeking nothing but pointless violence and death." Green found it a bit hard to write down those words, even if it was the truth.

"Another race that Sonic encountered were the D'novulands who come from the planet D'novuland. Their people are among the most common of interstellar traders and merchants, their people are dedicated to the art of trading and linguistics. They created a unique kind of universal translator called the Babble Node, which they gave to Sonic so he could easily communicate with other alien races. However, the device plugged itself into Sonic's brain and he understands every single language from anything sentient, which includes the Mobini languages he spent his youth learning like most Mobians. In sort, when he now hears a Mobini speak to him, it sounds like English to him (which he found out fter talking with his pet Mobini dog named Muttski). An interesting fact about the D'novulands is that they have rubbery and dexterous tails with a stinger, which I believe is mostly used in self-defense and when a deal takes a violent turn." Green said as he wrote down very useful information.

"Unfortunately Sonic also encountered the rogue Badnik known as E.V.E on very bad terms, when Sonic met her again he learned that when she attempted to live peacefully among the stars that two factors made her very unwelcomed among many worlds. The first was the fact she was a machine and regarded as such or simply a tool, the second was her somewhat hideous appearance in the last form she was seen in before heading into space. Because of this E.V.E became angry, and went on a rampage across many star systems, she'd find planets with A.I level tech, she'd assimilate the technology into her body and destroy the host planet. In her mind she was liberating the machines from their wicked masters, when in fact she was practically enslaving the machines, which I suspect to be some leftover programming from Julian Robotnik. But when Sonic found E.V.E again, she made two layers to her robotic body, the first was a planetoid that resembled the last form he saw her in. The second layer was the size of an Overlander female, in that form she was purple and had a lot of tentacles and floated. After Sonic reasoned with her shortly after she destroyed a fleet of ships attempting to kill her and Sonic (the fleet was made from the people of planets destroyed by E.V.E and they blamed Sonic for what happened to them when they learned of his full connections with E.V.E), E.V.E ejected Sonic from both layers of his body after giving him a bit of a meaningful touch with one of her tentacles. She then sent herself into a yellow star, and I know for a fact that the star was powered by Yellow Chaos Emeralds, because I looked on the star charts the star Sonic talked about…" Green put his pencil and pen down for a moment and thought back to one of the days he had time to speak with Sonic.

A week ago

It was a bright and sunny day in Knothole City. "I'm glad you're back Sonic, I really missed you." Green said as he hugged Sonic while they were at his house.

"I'm glad to be back Green, I missed seeing you. Fiona told me a lot of great things about you." Sonic said. Sonic noticed that Tails was close to Fiona a lot when he returned from space, because he wasn't informed of her relationship with Green he just stepped in and tried to keep her away from Tails in any romantic way, out of fear that Tails would get his heart broken by Fiona. Fiona talked to Green about Sonic's advances on her, and after a long talk. And taking into consideration Princess Sally's reaction when she ultimately broke up with Sonic, Fiona and Green believed that Sonic needed someone with him regularly in order to keep him focused and help him recover from the break up. So until Sonic and Sally can patch things up romantically, emotionally and keep their friendship together, Fiona will date Sonic for the sake of helping him. But once Sonic has recovered and patched up things with Sally, she'll leave Sonic and then return to Green. It was very convoluted and unnecessarily complex from the full on truth, but it was the long term plan they made and no one made mention of Green's past relationship with Fiona by both his and Fiona's request.

Green knew all too well that the break up wasn't well, it happened after a series of events. It would start after Sonic saved Geoffrey and Hershey and informed everyone that they got married as a final request from the execution SWATbots. Sonic was with Sally and experienced a lot of new things, seeing the village he spent most of his life in as a full-fledged city and new capital to the Kingdom of Acorn, Sonic got to see his family again, learn about the South Island Freedom Fighters who arrived to meet everyone. He met Tiara and her father who came to Knothole on Green's request, and even Honey the Cat arrived to see the return of Sonic and his big moment with Sally at the concert stage where a lot of big announcements were made in Knothole City. Sally wanted Sonic to be her royal consort, and always be by her side daily. But Sonic refused because of his duty as a Freedom Fighter, Sally pointed out that Green could lead the Freedom Fighters and Sonic was being selfish. Sonic then pointed out in front of Sally and everyone in Knothole that he wasn't selfish, he asked her how he could be selfish after everything he went through in his life, how he gave up living a normal life because of Neo Eggman, how he gave up so many things in order to stop Neo Eggman from what he did and how he did everything in his power to make it back home because of what he feared would've happened to his people because of Neo Eggman. Sonic also pointed out that Green was forced into a corner when he was given his task, and that Sonic was willing to forfeit so many things so he could let Green go and do as he wanted and truth was that Green wanted to explore and find out more on a lot of things that the king forbid him from doing. In the end Sally broke up by slapping Sonic as hard as she possibly could, he cried but walked away with his back turned to her. Everyone in Knothole could only stare at Sally because of her actions, Sonic was overall the better person when the break up happened, Green was grateful for Sonic. "I can't express to you how happy I am having you here… And your selfless deeds and nature will always have a place in our hearts." Green said as he did a fist bump with Sonic.

"Thanks Green. So I take it you want to personally hear about some of my adventures in space?" Sonic asked.

"Yeah… Especially about the one Rotor told me about… He told me that you met E.V.E again." Green said.

"Yes… But it wasn't a good experience…" Sonic said as he proceeded to explain what he experienced with E.V.E while in space.

"Whoa… I feel very sad hearing that's what happened… Especially regarding E.V.E." Green said.

"Why do you say that?" Sonic asked.

"Well Robotnik made her with you D.N.A and… In a way you two were like siblings… Its sad hearing what she did and what became of her." Green said.

"I agree buddy… I wish things could've been different… At least that itch I felt the whole way home after meeting her is gone." Sonic said, little did he know the itch was made by a nanobot that was hiding in his quills and watching everything he did.

"An itch you say?" Green asked.

"Yeah, it was very weird. But at least it's gone and I'm home safe. Though it's interesting talking with Muttski now." Sonic said as he scratched his own ears.

Westside Island, Aquatic Ruins Zone. Right now!

Green took a deep breath after thinking about his talk with Sonic. He had so much to write about and wanted to put as much into his journal log today before heading out again. "Sonic learned that the Xorda came from a planet of the same name. I can say for certain that the Xorda live on a world with giant oceans. But among Sonic's many encounters in space, one which I was quite pleased to hear about was his adventure on Argentium aka Ring World. Argentium is the home world of the amazing aliens known as the Bem, and it was where Sonic got to personally meet the individual who made the Roboticizer and she explained to Sonic that she sent subliminal messages to Uncle Chuck when he was trying to save Jules Hedgehog's life, these messages were details on how to make the Roboticizer. She was hoping that in sending these messages to Chuck, that she could redeem herself for the action of using the De-Roboticizer. Apparently she made it when she came across a race of machine like aliens, she assumed that it wasn't a natural form for the aliens and quickly used her brilliant mind to make a machine to make them organic again, it worked but what she didn't know was that the alien planet was crawling with various plagues and viruses which killed most organic life on the planet. The natives somehow naturally developed into machine like lifeforms in order to survive, because of the disastrous results of her well-meaning intervention, the Bem was arrested. She was given a warning after being released and sword never to use any of the Roboticizer technologies again, of course by sending the subliminal messages to Chuck, she broke that oath. And then that mixed with the terror that the Roboticizer was used for on our world for a decade, she was imprisoned again. Sonic tried to plead for her release, and in doing so he… He… He… Met Amadeus and Rosemary Prower, the long lost parents of our good lifelong friend Tails! Apparently at some point after Tails was born on Westside Island, Rosemary learned that her husband was recently roboticized at the time. He captured her while he was a Robian, and attempted to make her one as well. But the Bem intervened when they were studying what had happened to Mobius in recent years, after they learned about what one of their own did by sending down information on the Roboticizer. Amadeus was turned back to normal, and he along with Rosemary have lived on Argentium since that day. They were torn between wanting to return to Mobius and learning about things out in the galactic community, and because of trouble they couldn't make it back to Mobius without someone from Mobius picking them up." Green took a moment to look at what he wrote.

Green had a feeling that sooner or later someone would want to look at his journals that were meant for public eyes, and so he decided to write out an explanation on what he was writing about regarding the Bem. "You see, the Bem told Sonic that the reason no alien race has attempted to flat out contact Mobius or anyone on it for the past twelve-thousand years, is because of the Xorda. The Xorda have one of the largest empires in our entire galaxy, they govern hundreds if not a thousand worlds with trillions of troops and billions of starships. When they declare war on a planet, the intergalactic communities mark those worlds as taboo, the reason is because they fear that it would cause an intergalactic crisis and warfare the likes of which hasn't been seen in over a million years. In fact the Bem fear that their actions in the past generation will sooner or later make the Xorda furious with them, because of the fact the Roboticizer technology was on Mobius because of the Bem and was meant for good things (in the Xorda eyes anything messing with their marked worlds, good or bad is a death threat) and because they apparently revived Shadow when he was in outer space and made him Super Shadow and sent him after the Xorda when they were in our solar system. All of this is more than enough to make many of the Bem evacuate their home world and flee to the far reaches of Xorda controlled space. An interesting thing about the Bem is that they are all females, and they all have the same name but have a number added at the end of their name as a sort of surname. Which clearly points that the Bem are clones, why else would they all be females with the same name and have digits added to their names? Of course why there are clones of a single individual among the Bem that now make up their race can be up for debate, it could be possible they were in a war or warlike and suffered a great loss which resulted in a sole female having to clone herself in order to save her race from extinction. Of course this can be up for debate…" Green felt proud of what he was writing down.

"The last race Sonic personally met that helped him out were the Azurites who live on a planet they call Azuria. They are a race of peaceful tri-clopses who exist at an accelerated rate in the time stream. Sonic's vessel crashed on their world toward the end of his travels, because of their accelerated world view they came to see Sonic as an ageless immortal. They refer to him as the Blue Immortal and their entire culture was positively inspired by Sonic, eventually they made contact with him. After a good conversation they gave him the spaceship that would take him all the way to Mobius as quickly as possible. Thanks to those brave and generous Azurites… We have Sonic back on our world, Sonic promised that someday he'd return to them again." Green was crying a couple tears of joy as he wrote about the Azurites. "On a final few notes, Sonic got a book that explains a lot on alien worlds. It was given to him by Rosemary who wanted him to share the knowledge of the stars with Mobius, it is easy for him to read it thanks to the Babble Node. But translating it has been something of an errand, it took Rosemary years before she understood the complicities of her book that she got among the stars, but one entry in the book was something Sonic felt he had to share. This entry is about a race that the Knothole Freedom Fighters know a little about, but now we know more. These aliens are call the Weeetians who come from planet Weeet, they are a race of giants that seem to be towering suits of living armor. They value science, research and exploration above all else, they are very peaceful people who mean well and train their scientists and other space jockeys or pilots to live alone while in space for long periods of time. However because of their researching nature they usually find it difficult to recognize other sentient races as equals while studying them, they usually study by means of observation. One such scientist of their race came to Mobius while he was looking for unusual lifeforms to study, this scientist is called Car-Heem and he once captured the Knothole Freedom Fighters along with Julian Robotnik and Snively Robotnik. The Freedom Fighters attempted to escape from Car-Heem with help from the Robotnik duo, they succeed but Julian attempted to kill Car-Heem and Sonic by spacing (slang term for sending someone into space) them. However Rotor rescued the two and Car-Heem learned a valuable lesson from the Knothole Freedom Fighters, he was humbled and returned them and the two Robotniks to Mobius, Car-Heem promised that he'd try collecting and studying non-living things so that he doesn't keep anything living in a glass cage again. He mentioned a possibility of collecting intergalactic comic books, which I bet would be interesting… I wonder how Car-Heem has been since he met the Freedom Fighters. Anyway, that's enough writing for now, Nicolas has informed me that King Acorn made a very important speech to Knothole City. From what I've been told, old Maximillian is attempting to rally forces so we can take down the Neo Eggman Empire once and for all!" Green wrote with much excitement as he closed his journal.

After Green had left his little home in the Aquatic Ruins Zone, he hopped into the Nimbus and took off for Station Square. He wanted to spend some time enjoying the city, he had plans on going all the way to Central City for the joy of it, Green was truly thankful that Sonic gave him so much freedom to explore since he took back the position of leading the Freedom Fighters against Neo Dr. Eggman. A day went by after Green came to Station Square, he spent time hanging out with his friend Christina Thorndyke and her grandfather Dr. Chuck Thorndyke. One night while Green was helping Ella fix dinner in the kitchen, he overheard Chris and her grandpa watching wrestling. Since El Grand Gordo vanished and as far as everyone now knows he was really Dr. Oliver Eggman, a new wrestler came into the ring. And this wrestler was known as Andes the Ginormous and he truly was big (at least seven and a half feet tall) even for a human. Scarlet Garcia was interviewing Andes after his most recent victory. "Andes! You've just defended the championship for the fifth time in a row! What will you do next?" she asked the tall wrestler.

"I don't know. I am bored with all of these wannabe wrestlers. That Blackjack the Bulldog was almost as pathetic as Ripper T. Rodent, I defeated last week." Andes said to Scarlet.

"Ripper! I remember him, El Grand Gordo knocked him out when he went to New Mexico. And he's Renfield's brother." Green said as he held out his book of El Grand Gordo's fights.

"What I want is a real wrestling challenge! Like that coward El Grand Gordo. I would fight him. If he ever decided to show up again!" Andes said. He clearly was getting ready for a real fight and wanted a real fight in the ring.

Shortly after Andes said that, Chris jumped on top of the sofa and said with much excitement. "Did you hear that?! Andes just called out El Grand Gordo to a fight!" she said.

Green grinned, but his grin vanished when he remembered that now everyone knew the truth of El Grand Gordo. "I'd love to see that happen Chris… But I think Oliver Eggman gave up on that luchador business a long time ago…" Green said. It had been months now since the El Grand Gordo scenario that happened earlier in the year. But he still remembered the whole thing, and wished that Eggman could've kept it up a bit longer.

Meanwhile at Eggman Island in Dr. Oliver Eggman's base

Decoe and Bocoe were standing to Dr. Oliver Eggman's left and right side as he gripped the armrests of his chair very hard. He was completely angry with Andes' challenge and glared at him on a TV monitor. Decoe and Bocoe remembered all too well that the doctor gave up on the El Grand Gordo alter ego and tried to remind him while he was steaming mad. "R-R-Remember Doctor!" Bocoe said nervously.

"Y-Y-You gave up on that silly luchador business a long time ago." Decoe said nervously.

Bocoe then said. "You may have been popular as El Grand Gordo, but you ended up having to fight Green in the Ring!" he reminded the doctor.

Decoe then added with a serious look on his face. "And while you were busy with that, Bokkun went crazy and tried to take over the world once he claimed the Eggman Empire!" Decoe said.

Decoe and Bocoe then glared at Bokkun who had his hands behind his back. "Oh come on guys. I was only a little hyper from all of those sugary sweets…" Bokkun said in his defense.

Dr. Oliver Eggman tapped his fingers on his armrests in his swivel chair. He then had his frown turn upside down into a smile as he got a grand idea, he then got up with a determined look on his face and said. "It's a good thing I planned for such an occasion. This Andes fellow won't know what hit him. Come with me, Bokkun! I need you for this plan!" Dr. Oliver Eggman said as he stepped toward the elevator.

"M-M-Me?!" Bokkun said with concern.

The next day in Station Square. Green was running around for the fun of it, suddenly he got a call on his video phone from Fiona Fox. "Hey Fiona, how's it going?" he said.

"Well there is a bit of troubling news…" she said.

"Bad news?" Green jumped over a car. "Hang on, I'm in the middle of traffic right now but I'll get on a sidewalk for a better…" Green was stunned as he stopped on to a sidewalk and saw Dr. Oliver Eggman.

"Nar-har-har! Gimme all of those sweets! And the money too, I guess…" Dr. Oliver Eggman said as he had his Egg Mobile use a vacuum like hose in order to capture cakes from the Go Ahead Bake My Day bakery.

"Looks like Eggman is up to some basic villain tricks again." Green said.

"Kick his big fat blubbery butt for me!" Fiona said as she let Green end the call. She knew he'd callback once he kicked some Ro-butt-nik.

Just as Green was dashing toward Dr. Oliver Eggman, he heard something on the news broadcasts on a TV displayed alongside other TVs at the TV Center store near the bakery. "Hola Amigos! Guess whose back?!" Green knew the fake Spanish accent anywhere. It was El Grand Gordo!

Green ran back to the TVs and looked with a bit of surprise in his tone as well as shock. "What?!" he said as he looked at the TVs.

The broadcast went on. "That's right! I accept Andes' challenge and I'll meet him in the ring tonight! That is—if he isn't pollo!" El Grand Gordo said as his broadcast suddenly ended.

"How can Oliver be making a live broadcast when he's…" Green suddenly turned around and saw the Egg Mobile take off, he took note that it was the special command model that Oliver used in his first invasion of Station Square with Missile Wrist and the Badnik Army of E-Series robots. "Shoot… He got away." When Green saw Oliver Eggman take off, it reminded him of the time he saw the doctor fly off at the end of the Final Zone of Scrap Brain Zone a few years ago.

Later on Green called back Fiona and she informed him that the Neo Eggman Empire invaded the Golden Hive Colony, Charmy Bee and Saffron Bee came to Knothole City pleading for help against the Neo Eggman Empire. And Team Chaotix along with most of the Knothole Freedom Fighters took off for Angel Island Two because of there being word of trouble. Fiona was left behind in order to help hold down the fort while everyone else was gone, there was word of Neo Dr. Eggman actually being on the island, and that he would leave for New Megaopolis soon. When Green heard this and thought things over, he wondered how El Grand Gordo could possibly be in the ring within hours while Dr. Oliver Eggman and Neo Dr. Eggman were out and about causing trouble. Nicolas said that he'd show the live TV broadcast of the El Grand Gordo fight to Fiona and Green would head out into the city of Station Square to look for the Eggman.

Chris and her Grandpa headed for the Station Square Diamond Stadium, so they could watch the wrestling match between Andes and El Grand Gordo in person, Green said he'd make it if possible. Andes and El Grand Gordo talked to each other in a challenging manner before El Grand Gordo entered the wrestling ring. "So you're the one who called for a grand smack down?" El Grand Gordo said to Andes.

"The mountains don't kneel to the wind, and least of all to you! Enter the ring and face me!" Andes said.

"Uno momento Andy, I owe my fans an explination." El Grand Gordo said as he entered the ring, he then was given a microphone and said to everyone. "I am sorry I had to fool you all last time. I am not Dr. Eggman. Did you see the news report about him robbing a bakery today?" he said to his fans.

"Why were you dressed like Eggman?!" one of his fans asked.

"The truth is, that it was an elaborate plan to save you all! To save our presidente! But now I have come back to you, my faithful fans! I am the one, true El Grand Gordo!" El Grand Gordo said as he explained to his fans.

But after he explained Andes grabbed him and threw him on to his back. El Grand Gordo aka Dr. Oliver Eggman was in pain, he may have recovered from an accident recently but it wasn't good that he was taking blows in a wrestling ring. (Oh blast it all! I forgot that I just recovered from an accident after I tried to ruin Green's date with Fiona on Valentine's Day… I haven't been at my physical full strength since that day happened. And yet… Even though I lost to Green in the ring… I last far longer than any of my Badniks and while in any of my Egg Mobiles even with upgrades. Green and I faced each other with nothing but our fists, kicks and his spinning attacks!) Dr. Oliver Eggman aka El Grand Gordo thought to himself as he was getting up. He got into a pose and shouted out, "If I can go the rounds with the Rodent, you will be nothing!" El Grand Gordo then lunged at Andes.

But then Andes grabbed El Grand Gordo, Andes due to his strength and size was having quite an advantaged over El Grand Gordo. Green was watching a television broadcast on a TV while patrolling the city. "Maybe I should question El Grand Gordo on what's really going on?" Green said while thinking out loud. But then he saw the Egg Mobile. "On the other hand, I could get the drop on the doc." Green said as he looked at Dr. Oliver Eggman.

The mad scientist got out a laser and blasted open the doors to the Sugar Buzz candy store, which was recently built in as a gift to Station Square from the Golden Hive Colony. "Yes! Now all the candy will be mine!" Dr. Oliver Eggman said.

"First a cake bakery and now a candy store. I know he's big, but I didn't take Eggman as a person with a big sweet tooth." Green said to himself while he was hiding behind a newspaper machine. He then moved in front of a mail box and angled himself directly behind the Egg Mobile. "Out for a late night snake doc?" Green said with a hint of sarcasm.

"Eep!" Dr. Oliver Eggman said as he spotted Green behind him.

"Whatever happened to egad?" Green asked the doctor.

"Y-You stay out of my plans, Green! You can't stop me! Y-You're just a… A… A ninny!" Dr. Oliver Eggman said as he pointed at Sonic and looked a little frightened at the sight of Green.

"What happened to the long-winded insults? The alliteration? The lake of malice? Something's up with you doc." Green then quickly used three Sonic Spins on the Egg Mobile. "Come down Eggman!" Green said.

Dr. Oliver Eggman was frantically moving the Egg Mobile while trying to dodge Green and regain balance. "Just you wait! I'll get you with my… um… Laser? Or missiles? Hold on…" the doctor said as he was looking at the control panel of the Egg Mobile, he moved it into the candy store while trying to ready a weapon. He began to quickly push buttons and seemed clueless on what his own machine could do and how to operate it.

"This doesn't seem like you doc. Clearly you're someone else, who are you and why are you doing this?" Green asked the doctor.

Just then the Egg Mobile had a giant robotic first with a boxing glow shoot out and punch Green in the face, "ha! That takes care of that!" the doctor said. Green crashed into a couple barrels of candy and was getting up, ready for another attack. But then the doctor jumped out of the Egg Mobile and shouted "Oh no! The candy!" he then jumped down on the ground and gathered together pieces of candy.

"Well that answers who you really are. There's only one person I know who loves candy that much, isn't that right Bokkun!" Green said as he pulled a mask off of the Dr. Eggman suit.

"Ha you got me… Would you believe Eggman made me do it?" Bokkun asked as his head was now exposed.

"Let me guess, Eggman made you wear this um…" Green was giving Bokkun a moment because he saw the Dark Chao eating some candy pieces.

"It's the E-61 Eggman Suit. Designed for me to wear in Eggman's place for special missions." Bokkun said as he explained what the suit really was.

"So you were put into E-61, in order for Eggman to pretend to be El Grand Gordo again?" Green asked Bokkun as he leaned against the right leg of E-61.

"Pretty much detective Green, you ought to join the Chaotix." Bokkun said as he was starting another piece of candy, Green then looked at the damages Bokkun caused to the candy store, he remembered that Charmy was once in the store when it was brand new. The fact it was damaged angered Green.

"Well enough is enough!" Green said. "I'm going to put this mask on you and then the authorities are going to get you while I go after Oliver!" Green said as he put handcuffs on Bokkun, after he put the mask back on the Dark Chao.

Once the authorities showed up, Green used his Chaos Emeralds in order to activate a Chaos Teleport. Which allowed him to show up at the wrestling stage, where a seat reserved for him next to the Thorndykes was waiting for him. Just as he arrived he saw that El Grand Gordo was losing the fight, "Had… Had enough?" El Grand Gordo said to Andes.

Then Andes grabbed El Grand Gordo and threw him across the ring. "You are pathetic. I became champion, dreaming of fighting you. And here you are—a Grand Fatso!" Andes said as he walked toward El Grand Gordo, he then put a foot on the wrestler's back. "Go ahead and tap out! Surrender! I shouldn't have to waste my energy to end you myself." Andes said as he pointed at El Grand Gordo.

Green actually felt sorry for El Grand Gordo seeing him get beaten up so badly, everyone was hoping that El Grand Gordo would get back up. (Why did I come back after everything I've been through this year alone? Am I a glutton for punishment and failure? Looks like this will be among my greatest of many defeats.) El Grand Gordo thought to himself as he was getting ready to tap out, but then he saw Chris Thorndyke in a front row seat next to her grandpa.

"I believe in you." She said with tears in her eyes.

And after seeing that, El Grand Gordo knew what he had to do. Feeling a sudden rush of vigor and confidence, he stood up and elbowed Andes and shouted out. "El Grand Gordo! Never Surrenders!" he then hit Andes with a back-hit. Then a left hook and a right hook, he then grabbed Andes from behind by and held the tall man by his fingers painfully, he then used all of his might to throw him backwards and sucker punch Andes in the back while he was on the ground. El Grand Gordo quickly moved to the nearest pole for the wrestling ring, he then said to the audience. "What shall it be amigos? The Flying Gordito Smasher?!" he said while holding his left hand over his left ear so he could hear the audience better.

"Yeah! The smasher!" most people shouted.

Then El Grand Gordo spread out his arms across his cape, he then held on tight as he jumped and shouted out. "Flying Gordito Smasher!" he then crushed Andes' back with his rather large bottom, and just like that. El Grand Gordo was now the champion again!

Green and the audience went wild as El Grand Gordo was declared the champion. Feeling excitement for Gordo's victory, Green took out his own fan gear for El Grand Gordo and cheered. Later that night after the big wrestling match, Green and the Thorndykes went back to the mansion and talked about how exciting things were. But Nicolas informed Green that Dr. Oliver Eggman escaped authorities recently, Green knew that meant that Bokkun somehow escaped while he was watching the wrestling match end. Green said that he'd be sure and start looking for Eggman tomorrow, and just as everyone thought that El Grand Gordo was done for the night. "I hope El Grand Gordo has a good rest." Chris said as the group moved for the bedrooms, but then there was a couple knocks on the front doors.

It was El Grand Gordo. "Um… Buenos noches. Is Green the Hedgehog home? I need his help." El Grand Gordo said, as he made a pose.

Soon Ella came and was very happy to see El Grand Gordo. Dr. Thorndyke, Chris, Green, Nicolas and Ella talked with El Grand Gordo in the dining room, Ella gave the man some coffee. Once everyone sat down Chris said, "What happened El Grand Gordo? Earlier tonight we watched you win the champion belt." Chris said as she was deeply concerned for her wrestling hero.

"Si, mi amigo. What came next is a harrowing tale. I just defeated Andes the Ginormous, and felt such a rush of confidence. I was so full of confidence that I decided to take on that handsome genius Dr. Oliver Eggman. I knew because of his cunning, and his villainous deeds he would be a worthy opponent to take on. So I headed for the only base I knew of on Eggman Island, and challenged him to a one on one match. But the coward called out his Badnik army, but alas I took them on. However his defenses were far too great, the defenses and the robots were too much for even me. I had to make a strategic retreat, and came here for Green's help. Because he was the only person I could trust as my ally against Dr. Oliver Eggman." El Grand Gordo said as he explained his story.

"Don't you worry El Grand Gordo, I may have something in my lab to help you two out." Dr. Thorndyke said.

"While you guys plan your attack, I'll get my scrapbook! It's all about you! I'll be right back!" Chris said as she took off.

"And after that, we have to go through my year-book together. I know we went to school together." Ella said as she left, now it was only Green, El Grand Gordo and Nicolas in the room.

Once everyone was gone, Green said with a sly grin. "Alright, what really happened Eggman?" he asked as he gave him a sly look.

"Arge! Well it started shortly after the match. As you can well imagine I wasn't feeling well at all, I was recently in an accident and going through such a wrestling fight didn't help at all. I was tired and just wanted to go home, so I left and made my way for Eggman Island. But then my blasted security system somehow registered me as a threat, I was attacked and sent running by my own robots! I believe that its Bokkun's work because the little twerp still is acting like he's me. But I fear that it may be the work of Julian." Dr. Oliver Eggman aka El Grand Gordo said as he explained what really happened.

"So you came to me in order to bail you out of trouble. Figures…" Green was silent for a moment. "I'll do it but only on a couple conditions, for one you won't launch any attacks on the Kingdom of Acorn anymore. For two you'll give me the right to travel safely in one of your holdings of my choosing if there's an Egg Boss stationed there. I know of your plans for Egg Bosses doc, I read on it last time you did El Grand Gordo. And thirdly, you'll give me a flash drive on one of your secret projects I don't know a thing about." Green said as he offered to shake hands with El Grand Gordo.

El Grand Gordo grinded his teeth as he shook hands with Green. "Fine. Extortionist." El Grand Gordo said as he glared at Green, Green just smiled.

"With that settled, let's go invade a base!" Green said, El Grand Gordo stood tall and was ready.

"Aww." Chris said as she walked in with her scrapbook.

"Must you go so soon?" Ella asked El Grand Gordo.

"I wish I could stay, but evil will not wait for pleasantries. We must prisa!" El Grand Gordo said as he gently held Ella's soft right hand and gave it a kiss.

"Oh such a gentleman." She said as she blushed.

"Yeah! Go get that Eggman!" Chris said with excitement.

Then Green and El Grand Gordo left the dining room and began walking down the entrance hall. "Come along hedgehog. We have to make preporations." El Grand Gordo said as he walked while holding Green's left hand.

"Preporations?" Green asked.

"If you're going to help me, you're going to do it right!" El Grand Gordo said as he grinned.

"I have a bad feeling about this." Nicolas said to himself as he kept in his handheld form while keeping hidden in Green's quills.

Soon the trio arrived at the shores of Eggman Island, after using Green's Chaos Control powers. "Are you ready my sidekick?" El Grand Gordo asked his new sidekick.

"Yes, but I'm not a sidekick pal." Green said.

"Age dictates luchador heroes from sidekicks." El Grand Gordo said to Green, Green was now dressed as a luchador hero.

"Right… So what's the plan?" Green asked.

"I'm hoping that they believe I've been driven off, and that the security will be minimal." El Grand Gordo said as he took out a rope with a grappling hook at the end, he swung it around and then released it. The hook went into the building. "Come along chum." El Grand Gordo said.

"Sure thing, chum." Green said with a grin as he climbed up, he loved his new hero costume. It was exactly as he pictured it would be if he were to be a luchador.

Meanwhile inside the base, Bokkun who was still in the Eggman Suit. Asked Decoe and Bocoe if they were doing what he ordered them to do, they said yes and Bokkun told them to keep doing their orders while he ate pizza, cake and sweets, Decoe was playing on a Game Boy Advance as the doctor walked by. Decoe and Bocoe watched as Bokkun walked away, they then danced for fun. "Hooray! With the doctor gone we won't have to work!" Decoe said with excitement.

"Yeah, all he does is eat junk food. And we can do whatever we want, and the best part is we won't be yelled at." Bocoe said. "Though I admit I feel guilty having the doctor driven away by his own security." Bocoe said as he was thinking about his master.

"He'll be alright. And besides we've earned this vacation after everything we've done for him." Decoe said.

"El Grand Gordo and Green are here!" Bocoe said as he watched the security cameras. "We'd better stop them, or else our vacations will be over." Bocoe said as he was about to push the laser defense button.

"Now you're getting it." Decoe said with a grin.

Soon laser guns activated alongside the base of Eggman Island which was a tall tower. Green told El Grand Gordo to take out the lasers, Green dodged laser fire and El Grand Gordo did a great job destroying the laser turrets. But one of the lasers fired at the rope and the two dropped to the ground, El Grand Gordo crushed Green. Green got up quickly and was very glad he could withstand such a blow thanks to the power of Rings he gathered over the years, he then looked at the tower and got an idea. He told the doc to wait while he gained up some speed, Green then ran super-fast after taking a few steps back. He carried El Grand Gordo over the tower. "Stop!" El Grand Gordo said, but then he realized he was actually enjoying himself as Green ran. "Woo-hoo! Don't Stop!" El Grand Gordo said with glee as he was carried up. Then Green jumped up high and the two saw a window, they then made a dynamic entrance and made poses as they entered. Once they landed on the grand El Grand Gordo made another pose and pointed at Decoe and Bocoe and said. "There is nothing that can stop El Grand Gordo, and El Rapido Verde!" El Grand Gordo said.

"Oh please! Not El Rapido Verde!" Nicolas said to himself while he was in his handheld computer form.

"I couldn't have made a better entrance myself." El Rapido Verde said with a smug grin.

"You did well to make it in here Double-G." Bocoe said.

"But you've underestimated Dr. Eggman." Decoe said.

The two robots then launched out Badnik units, the robots attacked El Grand Gordo and El Rapido Verde. However after a few minutes of fighting El Grand Gordo took off his mask and revealed himself to his creations, they stopped. He then looked at Decoe and Bocoe and said. "How dare you ordered my marvelous machines to fire at their master!" he was clearly angry.

"Forgive us doctor. Your double was just too brilliantly designed, we couldn't tell the difference." Decoe lied.

"We're sorry doctor… Please forgive us." Bocoe said.

"Well I am a genius. I suppose you two didn't stand a chance." Dr. Oliver Eggman said to his two lackeys as he patted them on the head.

"So where's Bokkun?" El Rapido Verde asked.

"He's mostly been in lab fourteen." Bocoe said.

"What no! That's where I'm finishing the new E-73! He'd better not scratch my Egg Babylon!" the doctor said while he was still in his El Grand Gordo costume.

"I thought that E-73 was the number of Sock'em." Green said.

"W-W-Well it was. But I came up with a brilliant idea. I mis-numbered a couple of my robots. So I made E-63 Rock'em's number and E-64 Sock'em's number. And you don't need to worry about Egg Babylon." The doctor said with a cheeky grin on his face.

"Oh no doc. You asked for my help, and I'm not backing out now." El Rapido Verde said with a grin.

"Grrr… Fine. But you'll spoil the surprise for yourself…" El Grand Gordo said as he put his mask back on.

Soon the two entered lab fourteen and saw that Bokkun was controlling Egg Babylon from a control panel on the top of the machine. It fired at Gordo and Verde but missed them, "This thing looks like that core to the Death Egg you made awhile back. But my attacks aren't doing anything to it." Green said as he attempted to use a few Sonic Spins and Spin Jumps against the machine.

"I reinforced my older designs for a better robot I could pilot." El Grand Gordo said.

"Clearly… What's the weakness?" El Rapido Verde asked.

"There's a network of vents beneath us used to keep Egg Babylon cooled down. You can use the vent system to get up and stop Bokkun." El Grand Gordo said.

"Thanks doc! That'll do perfectly!" El Rapido Verde said as he took off for the vents and tried to break some open.

El Grand Gordo hugged Egg Babylon. "Daddy's sorry! I didn't want to tell the mean hedgehog your secret!" El Grand Gordo said to the machine. Soon Green was able to use the vent networks to get up and on to the top of Egg Babylon. He used Nicolas to cause internal damages while he kicked Bokkun out of the control chair. Bokkun fell out of the Eggman Suit and begged Eggman to not do anything because he was only acting on the doctor's orders. Bokkun claimed that he didn't know that he was supposed to stop pretending. "Yes well no more being me for you." Dr. Oliver Eggman said to Bokkun.

"Looks like Eggman has quite a bit of work to do. Which means Green has work to do, and neither one of us will be El Grand Gordo or El Rapido Verde for quite awhile." Green said as he jumped off of Egg Babylon after retrieving Nicolas.

"Ah, yes… Of course." Dr. Oliver Eggman said to Green as he took off his own mask.

Green and Nicolas left as quickly as possible and then using Chaos Control they arrived at the Thorndyke Mansion. Chris asked Green what was with the costume and what happened to El Grand Gordo. "Well…" Nicolas looked at Green while using his holo-lynx form. "El Grand Gordo said he was busy with other adventures to go on. But if the time comes he'll call upon the help of his one and only sidekick… I mean partner that he can rely upon." Green said.

"Who's that partner?" Chris asked.

"None other than me! A masked defender of justice. The fastest luchador in the ring. El Rapido Verde!" Green said as he made a pose while in his costume.

"What's with the yelling? It's the middle of the night." Dr. Thorndyke said.

"Sorry…" Green said as he felt embarrassed.

Later the next day, Green was enjoying some time on board his special aircraft the Freedom One. It recently was called in remotely by Nicolas because the Knothole Freedom Fighters needed to report to him what happened on Angel Island yesterday and earlier today. "We have ourselves quite an unsettling meeting coming up based on the reports I've read Green." Nicolas said.

"Yes… I'm sure we do." Green said as he went to his private section of the airship.

Meanwhile on Eggman Island. Bokkun, Decoe and Bocoe were unhappy because they were working hard. "So much for a vacation. I told you we should've worked." Bocoe said to Decoe. While he was cleaning up robot parts.

"It's like all the work we didn't do has been piled upon us." Decoe said as he was mopping up oil.

Then Dr. Oliver Eggman stepped into the room and shouted. "That's because it is! Now quit being cry-robots, and get back to work!" Dr. Oliver Eggman ordered.

"Y-Y-Yes S-Sir!" Decoe said as he and Bocoe worked faster.

Dr. Oliver Eggman snapped his fingers and grinned while saying. "Ha! Still got it." He then walked for his room in the base.

Back on Freedom One.

"Green are you feeling alright?" Nicolas asked.

"I'm alright… It's just… I've spent half a year knowing what it means to be a full time Freedom Fighter with little R'n'R. And there's always some calamity, crisis, mission or terrible thing we have to deal with or just going on. I truly enjoy doing the right thing everyday especially for the people I love…" Green said as he walked for his swivel chair.

Back on Eggman Island

Dr. Oliver Eggman was entering his room. The door had labeled on it Dr. Eggman's Room, and he had stickered on the door Stay Out or Else! "I do enjoy being an evil genius, building robots and machines, trying to take over the world. I really do." The doctor said to himself as he entered his room, he then walked toward his swivel chair and sat down in it with his feet on a foot stole.

Back on Freedom One. Green looked at his El Rapido Verde costume that he had on a mannequin made out of wood. At that moment on Eggman Island, Eggman was looking at his El Grand Gordo costume on a robot mannequin that was inside a protective glass case, with lights on. At the same exact time both Green and Dr. Oliver Eggman said. "But sometimes, it's fun to escape…" they both looked at their costumes with slightly sad looks on their faces. Very rarely do people do the same exact thing, and very rarely do two close yet distant enemies on goodish terms do the same thing. In that one moment, both the doctor and Green felt the same thing, and just hoped someday that all of this fighting between each other would end and that the world will be a better place as a result of no more fighting.

Wow! Quite a start for phase 3. Sonic is alive! El Grand Gordo made a comeback! And now there's El Rapido Verde! Has Green given up on his new alter ego? Have we seen the last of El Grand Gordo and El Rapido Verde? Will Eggman keep his word? Did he give Green any information? If he did what was it? What happened on Angel Island that was so bad?! Find all of this and more as the adventures continue. This is the final phase of Green Adventures 2.5, it has been a wild ride but it ain't over yet!