Once Sonic had woken up from motion sickness, he saw Tails walk up to him, and lift him to the ground. "Are you okay? I guess we both passed out." Tails said. Sonic could see that Tails wasn't exactly in a cheery mood, and he asked what was wrong. "Well, it's the fact that we've been on the place for hours, and I still can't open the doors, because of this Stupid Thing!" Tails shouted. He went over to the control panel and gave it a massive punch. Suddenly, the doors opened! Sonic couldn't help but burst into laughter. "Yes, I totally should've figured out that the way forward was through aggressive handling of delicate machinery.", Tails said completely ignoring by the humour in Sonic's eyes.
"Anyway, you wanna take a stroll outside? It looks like a strange, old jungle", Sonic said as he peered out the doors. "Okay, why not?", Tails said seemingly cheered up by the fact that "old jungle" probably meant familiar territory. However, he noticed on the console screen that it read something about a chameleon circuit, among other indistinguishable red writing. "Hey Sonic, I hope this is pretty awesome!", Tails then shouted after Sonic incredibly cheerfully. "What is it, Tails?", Sonic called back. Tails rushed up to Sonic. "Okay, so when we dematerialised, this machine looked like an old phone box, right?" Sonic looked at the outside view of the machine and it was still what Tails had described. "Well, as we've landed in anither area, it would probably look more like…" Tails leapt outside of the ship, only to discover that the exterior hadn't changed a bit, disappointing him slightly. "Well then, I don't know who owns this thing, but they should really pick a more interesting design".
Sonic looked around the jungle, and only now did he realise that most of it was seemingly petrified, as if no fresh air had been in the place for years, and possibly even centuries. There was an odd, lizard-looking creature in the corner, but upon further examination from Sonic and Tails, it turned out to be completely solid. The trees bore little to no leaves, and the ones that were still hanging were dry and were a dark black colour, and would crumble in your hands if you touched the, with a force of more than 60 millinewtons (60 grams). There was just barely sunlight, and it seemed to be coming from too high up in the sky to even be considered a Sun, but more like a very close by star.
"Do you think we're on another planet?", asked Tails. "That's a rather silly question. I mean that lizard doesn't look nearly as surreal as half the stuff we would dream up on Planet Earth, so of course we're on another planet.", Sonic responded, while also examining the surroundings for any more of those lizards. Although it was sloid as a rock, it made him paranoid that there could be other life that still existed on this planet.
Sonic decided to take a further look around to feed into his apprehension, and was kind of satisfied when Tails screamed not too far behind, giving him a massive fright. Sonic immediately dashed to where he had seen Tails, who was still standing there looking around for any further signs of danger. "Tails was a person here!", Tails shouted, not exactly calmed down. "He was sneaking up on me, and I felt such a sharp pain in my heart when I saw him lean down!" "Tails, it's okay. He's gone, at least if I'm convinced that it wasn't your imagination.", Sonic said patting him on the back. "Well, even if it wasn't, the air around here is making me slightly woozy", Tails replied, knowing that, if this was actually another planet, then the air would be made of different chemicals from what he would've been used to inhaling.
"Well, we should find our way out of this jungle, because who knows if what's on the other side of this place would be discovered? Tails, would you mind going up above the trees and determining if there's anything else in sight?" Sonic said rather quickly trying to say as much as possible. Tails did just as Sonic said, and came back down and informed Sonic of a rather large, futuristic-looking city just south-east of their current position. "Well, if that's the case, I've felt like doing a bit of running, unsuprisingly. Let's go there!", Sonic said heading forward. "I said south-east, Sonic!", Tails called out. Sonic immediately came back, slightly embarrased, and went where Tails was pointing, who soon started following him.
Once they were close to getting out of the jungle, Sonic noticed a feeling in his lungs that he hadn't felt for long time- was this what tiredness felt like? He knew just as well as Tails that this seemed like a dangeous city that they were heading to, and there was probably a factory there polluting the air. However, since Tails hadn't elaborated on anything other then "big and futuristic", he didn't ask too many questions, and once they were in range of the city, they stood and looked upon it in awe.
It was a giant, silver set of buildings that looked like circular glass domes with visible windows. The sky, as it looke in that direction, was a lush, dark indigo with not too many clouds in the way. There were several ramps around the place, but no stairs. Sonic and Tails didn't notice the latter detail, but then again, they didn't question why there was a city like that in the middle of a seemingly endless jungle.
"Well, it certainly looks better up close, doesn't it?", asked Tails. "Well, for me, it will, because I wanna go down there and see what's up!", Sonic said in a determined voice. "Whatever you say, Sonic. I'm gonna follow you, just to make sure you don't blow the place apart of anything.", Tails said winking. Sonic hated it when Tails hinted at his more…destructive tendencies. So they went down, and decided to split up, because as we all know, that means that no danger is going to befall them in that way whatsoever!
After a few minutes of walking around (Sonic was too weary at this point to be thinking of running, besides, he knew that his speed would never be able to exceed that of the vortex that he and Tails had been sprung through), he heard a buzzing noise, and then he saw a strange looking robot. It looked like a light brown saltshaker with a blue eyestalk and white headlights, and a plunger and a whisker attacked to it. It kind of reminded him of Grounder.
"Hello, how do you do?", Sonic asked it, not knowing what affiliation it had. Then it said with a raspy, monotone voice "You are Sonic the Hedgehog! You are the enemy of the Daleks!" Sonic suddenly knew that this thing wasn't on his side. "Okay, Bolt-Brain, what's Egg-face got himself into this time!?", he said, trying to intimidate it. It said back, "You Will Be EXTERMINATED!" All of a sudden, a blue light shot out of the whisker-looking thing, and hit Sonic. Sonic felt an excruciating rush of burning pain buzz through his whole body. It was like being electrocuted, but only ten times more hot. He could hear somebody screaming in agony in the distance, but as he fell to his knees, he noticed that the scream was coming from his own mouth!
