SONIC WARS Chapter 2: A New Dope
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Not so long ago, in a videogame far, far away from its
release date...
Sonikin
Lightdasher
has received a call
for help by Princess Tikal
in Chapter 1. On the way to find
more information from the rogue echidna
Knucksolo, he is joined by Kitsune Skyflyer,
Queen Amydala, Chewbigga, and R2D2 Gamma.
Evil Emperor Eggman the Hutt and his mysterious
minion Darth Ultimate Life Form are out to stop them.
Sonikin Lightdasher barely escapes from the dark hegehog
and the six friends all head out to rescue the princess
from the Death Egg where she is supposedly held captive.
With the power of the G-Force, these bold friends must save the
galaxy...
"Are we there yet?" yapped Kitsune.
"For the last time, kid, quit asking!" snapped Knucksolo.
"But we ARE alnost there! It's dead ahead...see???"
Sonikin Lighdasher looked up from his Star Wars Collectors magazine
and looked out the window of the cockpit. The Death Egg! That thing was
capable of destroying entire planets! And poor Princess Tikal was being
detained there!
"Hey you blue dude!" yelled Knucksolo. "Quit looking over my
shoulder!"
"Uh huh, don't annoy da boss, he has to get us over dere safe!"
drawled Big the Cat.
"Yeah, watch it kid, there's a trapdoor under your foot and if
I just pull this latch, you'll fall down waywaywaywaywaywayway down!"
"But according to the laws of matter, there is no gravity in
space, thus Sonikin will not fall but hang in space," yipped Kitsune.
"That's a comforting thought," said the blue hedgehog
sarcastically.
"This kid is way too smart!" complained Knucksolo.
"Ya, really!" cried Amydala.
"I'm just at one with the G-Force," shrugged the little fox.
"G-Force, whatever," scoffed Knucksolo. "I don't go for all
that superstitious jargon."
"That 'superstitious jargon' is the force that controls the whole
universe," reprimanded Sonic. "Shoot. I hate these roles. I mean, in the
games, I was the carefree rebel dude with the 'tude and YOU were the
frumpy, serious, mystic-minded guy-sitting-on-a-hill."
"Hey!" growled Knucksolo.
"Would you boys QUIT FIGHTING?!" snapped Amydala.
"Nobody asked for your opinion, Your Worship," snapped Kitsune.
* * * * *
Meanwhile...
[Play "Boss Theme"]
Emperor Eggman the Hutt and Darth Ultimate Life Form had recruited
a new dope to their team. Boba Fang, the weasel bounty hunter.
"I need you to track down Knucksolo and have him bring me the
emerald," said Eggman. "I promised that echidna my revenge for defying
me at the Mos Eisley Casino. There will be a handsome reward for his
capture."
"(HAAAAAAAHUUUUUUHAAAAAAHUUUUHAAA) You heard the man!" added
Eggman's dark recruit, Darth Ultimate Life Form, who had some obvious
breathing problems. "And look out for Sonikin Lightdasher. That fake, blue
hedgehog is creating some serious disturbances in the G-Force."
"G-Force, yeah yeah," snickered Boba Fang.
"(HAAAAAHHUUUUUUHAAAHUUU) Don't get me started!"
"Take his advice, you better not," cautioned Eggman.
"OK, I'll take your word for it." Fang shrugged. "I'm on the job."
Darth Ultimate Life Form shook his head and walked away. "Stacy,"
he muttered solemnly. "I'll do it-- for you!"
"Stacy?" Boba Fang wondered aloud. "Whatever happened to Maria?
Who in Hoth is Stacy? An old girlfriend or somethin'?"
"Even I do not know," replied Emperor Eggman the Hutt.
"Wow. That guy's got issues for sure..."
* * * * *
The motley crew of the Millenium Floatie had finally reached the
Death Egg and landed. If it was a normal space ship, the giant space
station's security systems would have detected it and shot it down faster
than you could say "Sonic Adventure-" but then, the Death Egg had never
been designed to detect giant, flying inflatable pool toys.
"Uhhhhh, what should we do now, boss?" asked Chewbigga as he and
the other five stepped onto the landing dock and walked inside the main
building.
Knucksolo looked around. "Wow, this place is big," he said. "Let's
split into three groups. Like the 'buddy system.' We meet back here in two
hours. I'll go with Chewbigga, Sonikin goes with R2D2 Gamma, and Queen
Amydala goes with Kitsune."
"Hey!" whined Kitsune. "SONIKIN should go with ME and GAMMA should
go with Amydala!"
"Sorry," said Knucksolo. "I thought you you and Her Worship had
taken a fancy to eachother!"
"Ewww yech!" said Kitsune.
"He's too frikkin YOUNG for me!" squealed Amydala. "And he's rude
and crude and geeky and immature and besides, I like SONIKIN!"
"Sorry," said Knucksolo. "Captain's orders. You're together. You
kids will have to learn to get along."
"Meet back here in two hours. Got that," said Sonikin.
So the three pairs split paths.
* * * * *
About an hour later...
"Here's anodder one!" said Chewbigga. "You know you're a redneck
Jedi if you lost your hand in a lightsaber fight because you had to spit!"
"Shhh!" whispered Knucksolo. "I appreciate your sense of humor,
bud, but we have to keep quiet before we get more Badniks onto us." The
two space pirates had jumped and punched and spin-dashed their way through
more Badnik guards than they had ever seen before. Now they had finally
made it to the prison quarters.
"Where is she?" Chewbigga scratched his head. "I see nothing!"
"Let me out!" cried a muffled voice within the wall.
"Oh sweet! It's the rich Princess Tikal!" Knucksolo pulled back his
fist and punched the wall, destroying it and freeing the damsel from the
hidden wall. But the girl wasn't whom he expected her to be.
"Free! Ahhh FINALLY someone rescued me!" cried the bat, jumping
out and singing. "Hey sister, go sister, flow sister, soul sister..."
"Wait a mintute..." growled Knucksolo. "Where is Princess Tikal
and WHO in the galaxy are YOU?"
The bat put her hands on her hips and stared at the red echidna
haughtily. "For your information, I am Moulin Rouge. Tikal left the Sonic
Wars project at the last minute because some flick with a bigger budget
offered her a better contract. So without a princess to capture, your
Emperor Eggman the Hutt resorted to teleporting me from my own movie, into
this dumb show. It was not my choice to be here. I like musicals and
romance movies, not this totally STUPID sci-fi stuff."
Knucksolo felt insulted. "Hey! This is a great movie, sister!" he
growled. "And it was not my choice to come rescue you either. I'm in this
for the moolah!"
"At any rate, I want to get out of here!" snapped Rouge, looking
at the big purple cat. "Will SOMEBODY get this big hairy walking carpet
out of my way?"
"His name is Chewbigga, by the way, Your Worship," said Knucksolo.
"No," Moulin Rouge sneered at him. "I was asking HIM about YOU!"
"I have a feeling that this is going to be a long night..."
* * * * *
Kitsune and Amydala raced down a hallway, huffing and puffing,
chased by Badniks. "Do you think the others found Princess Tikal yet?"
gasped Tails.
"No," said Amydala. "But these Badniks sure found us!"
"Let's hide here!" The two young friends ran into a giant
pinball machine to escape the robots. Don't ask me how a giant pinball
machine got in the Death Egg- Emperor Eggman the Hutt was the mad
scientist who desgined it, not me.
The fox and the pink hedgehog dashed through the pinball machine
but couldn't get enough rings. "I guess my G-Force powers aren't strong
enough," lamented Kitsune as they fell through a trapdoor and into the
Death Egg's garbage chute, encrusted with trash and flooded with green
gooey stuff. [Play Casino Night Sewer theme] Spooky noises whistled
though the dirty walls, and nasty smells of who-knows-what surrounded
them. Scared, the two young adventurers stayed close together.
* * * * * *
Sonikin Lightdasher and R2D2 Gamma crept silently through the
Death Egg, looking for any sign of Princess Tikal, or any of their other
friends, for that matter. Then, Yodachao appeared again. "You are to
become a Jedi Sprite," instructed Yodachao. "And learn the ways of the
G-Force. Go to the Mystic Cave Zone!"
Then, as suddenly as he had come, he left.
* * * * * *
Amydala clung to Kitsune. "This place is so lonely," she said.
"I miss my home, the Little Planet. It's under attack and I have to
defend it and here I am, stuck in a sewer with a weird little fox!"
Kitsune held on to Amydala and shivered. "I miss my home too,"
he said. "Westside Island. But whether or not we get out of here, I can't
go back there anyways."
"Why not?"
"I was banished."
"For what?"
"Ummm... for being clumsy!"
"I can see that. What's that noise from above? Uh-oh. I think
we have company!"
* * * * *
And they did. Chewbigga, Knucksolo, and Moulin Rouge were being
chased by Badniks, too, when they came to a sudden dead end hanging over
some putrid-smelling pit. Moulin Rouge couldn't stop running in time, slid
over the edge, and lost her balance before she could fly. She screamed,
but Knucksolo leaned over the edge and grabbed her by the paw. "Whew!"
The bat breathed a sigh of relief. "That was close- where are the Badniks?"
"Chewbigga is taking care of them," said Knucksolo over the sound
of metal smashing. "You don't have to worry about their laser weapons now.
My buddy is disarming them. And when he disarms them, he DISARMS them!"
Moulin Rouge looked into the echidna's eyes until she realized
everything was all right and caught herself. "You only rescued me so you
could hold my hand!" she snapped.
Knucksolo grinned. Because although he kept her from falling, he
hadn't quite pulled her back UP. "Well if you're gonna be that way..."
"NOOOOOO!"
He let go, and Rouge fell down into the sewer.
"Hey! What kind of a man are you?" bellowed Chewbigga as Knucksolo
sat on the edge, laughing. "That's no way to treat a lady!" Then he kicked
Knucksolo over the edge!
"NOOOOO!"
The big fat cat laughed. Then he heard Knucksolo's voice from
down below yell, "What kind of loyal friend are you? You just violated
your life-debt!
"Violated my life-debt!? NOOOOO!" And then Chewbigga just jumped in!
"Hey it's nice that you could join us," said Kitsune.
"Ya we were getting lonely here," said Amydala. "Who are you?"
"Someone who hates sci-fi movies for obvious reasons," sighed
Moulin Rouge.
"To make a long story short," said Knucksolo, "we found our princess
but she wasn't quite what we were expecting. Anyways, let's get out of here.
Kitsune, you fly up and carry Amydala with you. While Rouge and I will
climb up and help Chewbigga along."
* * * * *
"Not for long," chuckled Boba Fang, looking at them through a
security spy monitor. "Knucksolo, I have you trapped where I want you. I'll
be sure to pull you out in time. But the rest of you... I have no use for
the rest of you! I'll just let you stay in there and become part of the
rest of the garbage!" He pushed a button on the control panel.
"Oh shoot!" cried Amydala. "The walls are moving in!"
"It wasn't my fault!" yelled Knucksolo.
"It better not be your fault! At any rate, I'm going to use my
communicator and try to contact R2D2 Gamma!"
* * * * *
"BBBRRRREEEEEEEPPPBERRRPPP!" squealed Gamma.
"What?" asked Sonikin. "Are you getting a signal?"
"BRRRRREEEEEEEPPPBEEEPPPPBOOOOOOOPP!"
"Uh-oh! I don't know what you mean but forget it! We've got
some trouble ahead!"
Sure enough, Darth Ultimate Life Form came running toward them.
"(HAAAAAAHUUUUUUHAAAAAAAAAHUUUUUUUU) You will die!" he snarled.
"You will not destroy our cause!" yelled Sonikin, getting ready
to fight.
But Yodachao appeared. "No, Sonikin! You must not fight yet!"
"I gotta! There's an unfinished score between us! I can't just
back down like a coward!"
"Your friends are in grave danger. You must help R2D2 Gamma attend
to them while I distract Darth Ultimate Life Form!"
Before the hedgehog could protest, little Yodachao flew over to
Darth Ultimate Life Form and tried to attack him. Of course, the big tough
dark hedgehog knocked him senseless.
"NOOOOOOOOO!" cried Sonikin.
But while Darth Ultimate Life Form was gloating over his victory,
it gave Sonikin and R2D2 Gamma a chance to escape to the Death Egg control
panel.
"What were you talking about again?" asked Sonikin.
"BRRREEEEEPAREEEEEEEPAROOOOORRROOORUUU!"
"Locked in the garbage room with the wall closin in??? We have to
stop it- somehow! Do you know how?"
"RREEERREEBBBBRRRUPPP!"
"Access code? And you don't know it? This is bad!" The blue
hedgehog scratched his head and stared at the giant computer with its giant
keyboard. "I guess I'll have to meditate on the G-Force to be enlightened
of the nature of this code." He hummed and assumed the lotus position,
sitting on the keyboard.
Then the screen immediately said, "Access code complete.
Operation Squish-Walls, Deactivated."
Sonikin opened his eyes, smirked, and got off the keyboard. "See?
This G-Force stuff really does work!" Then he walked over to check the
security sound bugs. His friends were screaming their heads off. "Oh no!
I was too late! They're being tortured and squished to death!"
* * * * *
But actually, Knucksolo, Moulin Rouge, Chewbigga, Amydala, and
Kitsune were screaming and yelling for joy because the walls had finally
stopped moving in on them. Yes, they were now standing in single-file
because the walls were just that close to squishing them to a little furry
pulp. But they HAD stopped. "Great!" yelped Kitsune. "Now we can find
Sonikin and Gamma! We owe them another one of those life-debt thingies!"
* * * * *
But Sonikin still thought they were dying. The screaming and yelling
that he heard was making him sick. "Let's face it," he sighed. "We have
failed. Yodachao is dead. So are Knucksolo, Chewbigga, Amydala, and Kitsune.
And Princess Tikal is nowhere. I bet the whole hologram thing was just a
trap to get us over to the Death Egg so they could destroy us."
The robot sadly beeped in agreement.
"We have nothing else left but to honor Yodachao's wishes and go
to the Mystic Cave Zone. Come on. Let's go find us a ship to steal. I think
I know where the late Knucksolo's floatie is... and personally, I don't
know how to operate a flying bath toy!"
* * * * *
The five friends managed to get out of the sewer and find a shower
to get the yucky smell off. "Hey nice cologne, Knucks," teased Moulin Rouge.
"Why you smell almost as good now as you did down there!'
"I want my cutie pie back!" cried Queen Amydala. "Where is Sonikin?"
"I can feel it in the G-Force," said Kitsune mystically. "He has
already left the Death Egg, out on a personal mission alone, except that
R2D2 Gamma is with him."
"You mean both my friends are gone?" cried Amy. "So now I'm stuck
with just a freaky fox and a big fat cat and two weird space rebels in love?"
"HEY!!!" yelled Moulin Rouge and Knucksolo at the same time.
"If you're too good for us, you don't have to come with us," said
Knucksolo.
"Yeah, Your Highness," sniffed Kitsune.
"Well sorry I didn't mean no offense... hey, isn't anyone going to
help me free my planet from the evil bad guys who are holding under their
cruel tyranny?"
"If you want a ride back to Station Square on my Millenium Floatie,
you can come," said Knucksolo. "But I'm not stopping by the Little Planet,
and no, I'm not going to help out in some revolution half a galaxy away.
This has been my last do-gooder crusade in a long long time."
"I'm with you all da way, friend," said Chewbigga, slapping his pal
on the back.
"I guess if Station Square has a decent film studio, I can take it,"
sighed Moulin Rouge.
"So nobody will help me free the Little Planet?" whispered Amydala.
"I'll come along with you," volunteered Kitsune.
"Anybody else? Anybody???"
"No," said Rouge.
"Oh all right, Kitsune. But how do we get out of here?"
"Easy, Your Worship," said Kitsune. "Long ago, I built my own
X-Wing but Emperor Eggman stole it and put it here. So now I'll just have
to steal it back and fly out of here!"
* * * * *
So, it was just three friends now- Knucksolo, Moulin Rouge, and
Chewbigga- having a mighty interesting time trying to get home in the
Millenium Floatie. It was already strange enough for Rouge to be riding
through space in an emerald-powered flying bath toy. But to be chased by
Emperor Eggman the Hutt's badniks made it even stranger.
Knucksolo was navigating through an asteriod field. He appeared to
have an advantage. Whenever the droid ships hit an asteroid, they blew up.
Whenever the Millenium Floatie hit an asteriod, they just bounced.
"You idiot!" yelled Moulin Rouge. "This thing is gonna tear a leak
if you don't get out of here!"
"Shut up!" snarled Knucksolo. "We're almost in Mobius!"
"Yeah. Shut up. I hear something," added Chewbigga.
The three friends listened. Sure enough, one of the asteroids tore
a leak through the Millenium Floatie and it was deflating, quick!
"Nice going, red," said Rouge sarcastically. "Now I'm going to
suffocate in space in a sci-fi movie with a big fat cat and a low-down,
stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerfherder of an echidna. What a
dumb way for a person to die!"
"Don't worry. I have everything under control!" said Knucksolo with
a shiver. "Maybe we're losing air here, but the Master Emerald will give it
enough power to make an emergency landing!"
The Millenium Floatie coasted through Mobius's atmosphere. "We can't
make it to Station Square in time," said the red echidna. "We'll have to land
somewhere in these desert ruins!" They skimmed over the ground, followed by
the remaining Badnik ships. He entered some pyramid ruins and tried to find
a place for them to hide. "Hey look! That strange-looking white cave with
the red interior. Let's hide over in there!"
Chewbigga and Moulin Rouge shrugged, and Knuckles quickly ducked
inside the cave. Sure enough, that threw off the Badniks. "Now to get out
and see if we can fix this hole..." said Knucksolo.
* * * * *
Back in the Death Egg...
One of the Badniks arrived back to report to Boba Fang. "I escaped
the asteroid field," he said, "and saw them landing in Mobius."
"Really now? Good job, Buzzbomber."
"But I lost them after that. I'm not sure where they'll be."
"That's okay. I have connections. I have ways of finding out. I will
set a trap for them, put away Knucksolo, and get the Master Emerald!
Bwahahaha!"
* * * * *
Kitsune and Amydala escaped from the Death Egg in the Tornado,
Kitsune's red X-Wing. "So how long have you known Sonikin?" asked Amydala.
"We didn't get to be pals until he saved me from Perfect Chaos,"
answered the young fox. "Then I owed him a life-debt."
"Oh he's saved me before too!" squealed Amydala. "The first time it
was when I was captured by Darth Metal and he came to rescue me. That was
fun. It happens again and again. Don't tell him this, but I always get
myself captured on purpose just so he can save me! It's so cool! He'll pick
me up by the waist and carry me and..."
"Yuck!" said Kitsune.
"What's so yuck about love?"
"I just thing the boy-girl stuff is gross!"
"You need to grow up then."
"You need to SHUT up, You Highness. Look! The Little Planet is in
sight."
* * * * *
Chewbigga, Knucksolo, and Moulin Rouge got out to check out the
hole on the outside of the Millenium Floatie. Actually, they had to crawl
and flounder their way outside, because the air was all gone by then.
"Wow, " said Moulin Rouge. "Are caves in sci-fi movies always this
yucky?"
"No, " said Knucksolo. "It's very weird. The terrain is very
squishy. Nothing like I've ever experienced in all my adventures."
"Well how are we going to get some air back in?" asked Chewbigga.
"Knucksolo can blow it in! Because his head is FULL of it!" replied
Rouge.
"Wha-? Now WHO is the airhead around here?!" growled the echidna.
"Quit flirting, you too," said the fat cat. "I'll do it!"
He started to blow into the hole, and with nothing else to do, the
bat and the echidna sat down together in the weird squishy red cave bottom.
"So after Chewbigga blows the Millenium Floatie back up, how are
we going to make the air stay inside?" asked Moulin Rouge.
"That's easy, babe. Duct tape!" Knucksolo fished through the
deflated Floatie and grabbed a role of duct tape. "Duct tape is foolproof.
It can fix anything and anything."
"Nu-uh. Nail polish is even better. It sticks anything together."
"Well... do you think it can stick US together?" Knucksolo held
her paw.
"What are you doing?"
"Hmmm. No nail polish? Oh well. I know something that sticks
even better than nail polish OR duct tape." And then they kissed!
"Maybe you two can seal the hole," said Chewbigga to the kissing
couple, after he had blown enough air into the Floatie. Which was a few
hours later!!!
"Hmmm we'd rather stay inside. We'll just use duct tape. It
should last us 'till our next stop," said Knucksolo. So he sealed the hole
with duct tape. Then he got a call on his cell phone and answered it.
"Lando Charmissian! Old buddy! What do you want?"
"Just wondering what's going on, old pal. We haven't talked in a
long time."
"Wow. I thought you were mad at me, after I won that bet. I
thought we weren't talking to eachother any more. Well I happen to be in
some trouble. I'm stuck in the galaxy's weirdest cave and the Floatie just
got a hole and we've sealed it with duct tape, I don't know how long it
will last."
"Do you need to get repairs?"
"Heck yeah!"
"Then you can just come here to the Sky Sanctuary on your way back
to Station Square and get it fixed."
"Really? OK. Thanks a million!"
* * * * *
Lando Charmissian shivered and hung up, keeping an eye on the gun
being held up to him. "You're doing a good job so far, little bee..." said
the weasel Boba Fang with a wicked smile.
* * * * *
"That should do it," said Knucksolo. "I think we're ready to fly!"
"But what about da Badniks?" asked Chewbigga.
"Yeah," agreed Rouge. "Are you sure it's safe to go outside the
cave now?"
Suddenly the ground began to shake and they heard a great echoing,
"BBWOOOBWOOOO! BWOOOOBWOOOO! BBBRRRAAAAAACCKKK! BLECH!"
Knucksolo turned pale. "Oh, fudge!"
"What?" cried the other two.
"This is no cave! WE'RE IN THE BELLY OF KING BOOM BOO!!!!!!!!!"
* * * * *
Sonikin Lightdasher and R2D2 Gamma reached the Mysterious Forest
of Mobius, not knowing that three of their friends were also on the
planet. Or that all five of them were alive, for that matter. "It's all
my fault," said Sonikin bitterly as he tried to find a spot to pand. "If
not for my dragging them all along in this quest to find a princess who
doesn't exist, they wouldn't be dead."
"BREEEEEEPBREEEEEPBREEEEEPP!"
"What's that you're saying? A panic signal? AHHH!"
Lost in his thoughts, Sonikin had also lost control. The space
ship was crashing toward the ground. "Gamma! Quick! Jump!" The hedgehog
leaped off, and R2D2 hovered after him. Then the space ship crashed into
a swamp. "I guess we're stuck here, Gamma," said Sonikin. "Gamma???"
The poor robot had landed in the water! Suddenly, a water monster
decided it wanted a metal snack and pulled it under!
"Oh no! Not Chaos again!"
"BREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!" R2D2 Gamma went flying through
the air and landed next to Sonikin, mucky and dirty but in one piece.
"I guess Chaos can't digest you. Last time I saw that thing was when
I rescued Kitsune from it, outside of Station Square. Or at least he THOUGHT
I rescued him. Or was it something else that made Chaos disappear?"
"Indeed the G-Force is very mysterious!"
"What? Who said that?"
A familiar face appeared. "Cat got your tongue?"
"Yodachao! I thought you were..."
"A help sprite never dies. But enough of that. Become a Jedi Sprite
must you, and much to learn have you. Time for school! Let me see your
backpack!" Yodachao grabbed Sonikin's backpack and began rummaging through
his stuff. "A Sonic the Hedgehog Super Special #15 comic book, an old Game
Gear, a portable Dreamcast, Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Advance in a Game Boy
Advance, a video of Sonic Anime, a Sonic plushie...What? No school supplies?
What kind of a Jedi Sprite Trainee are you?"
"Hey! That's mine!"
"As a matter of fact, maybe I should start reading some of those
comics and playing the games myself." He continued digging through Sonikin's
backpack.
Sonikin sighed and for a brief second, wished that Darth Ultimate
Life Form really HAD killed Yodachao. This will be a long day, he thought.
* * * * *
"AHHHHHHH!" The three fugitives screamed as they quickly flew out
of King Boom Boo's mouth. The huge desert ghost king wasn't very happy about
that.
"BRAAAAAAAAACK! BWOOOOMBWOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
But the Millenium Floatie escaped, and Knucksolo steered toward the
Sky Sanctuary up ahead. Soon they were there. [Play Sky Sanctuary music] As
he landed, Knucksolo saw his old rival Lando Charmissian the bee fly over to
welcome them. He couldn't help but feel suspicious. It wasn't like Lando to
be this nice to him.
"Knucks! How is the biggest rogue in the galaxy?" buzzed Charmissian.
"Ooooohhh! What lovely lady do we have here?" The bee flew up to Rogue and
held her paw. "I'm Lando Charmissian. Welcome to the Sky Sanctuary. Whom do
I have the pleaure of meeting?"
"I'm Moulin Rouge. I'm supposed to be in a musical romance movie, but
somehow I was stranded in this weird sci-fi show. Somehow, I'm actually
beginning to enjoy some aspects of it." She looked at Knucksolo and winked.
Knucksolo just looked jealous.
"And I'm sure we'll enjoy eachother too, babe. Do you mind joining
us for refreshments while my men repair your bath toy?"
Knucksolo motioned to Rouge, who said, "Excuse me for a moment. I
guess Knucks and Chewbigga want to talk."
The three friends whispered to eachother. "I've known Charmissian
for a long time," said Knucksolo. "In fact he used to own the Millenium
Floatie. But he lost a bet to me and now I'm its owner and guardian. It's
not like him to be this way. Let's say we pass on the refreshments?"
"Hah! You're just jealous, Knuckles! Lando is a very nice man to give
us his hospitality!" said Moulin Rouge.
"Yeah man!" added Chewbigga, patting his big belly. "Look how much
weight I've lost on our adventure! I'm starvin,' man!"
"Oh all right. But I have a BAD feeling about this!"
The three friends walked into Charmissian's mansion, but Boba Fang
and Darth Ultimate Life Form were already inside, waiting for them!
"No!" yelled Moulin Rouge.
"Seize them!" barked Boba Fang.
"You traitor!" yelled Knucksolo, lunging at Lando Charmissian.
"I'm sorry. I didn't really mean it. I had no other choice!"
Boba Fang held his gun at Knucksolo, while Chewbigga and Rouge tried
to fight off the Badniks. But all three were outnumbered and overpowered.
"HAAAAAHHHUUUUU!HAAAAAWWHHUUUUH! Now the Master Emerald will be
ours!" gasped Darth Ultimate Life Form.
"And the reward will be mine!" chuckled Boba Fang. "Instead of fixing
your ship, Knucksolo, we have stolen the Master Emerald from it. Now,
Knucksolo, we have no use for you except to make a plaque for Emperor Eggman
the Hutt to display in his trophy room! Guards! Bring the roboticizer in!"
"NOOOOOO!" cried Rouge.
"NOOOOOO!" cried Chewbigga. "My pal! They can't do this to you!"
Knucksolo hugged them both. "Too many years living in the fast lane,"
he said. "I guess I've hit the end of the road. Chewbigga, take care of Rouge
for me."
As the Badniks pushed him toward the robot machine, Moulin Rouge
cried and said, "I love you!"
"Like duh! I know that!" Then they shoved him inside and slammed the
door shut.
To Be Continued...
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Not so long ago, in a videogame far, far away from its
release date...
Sonikin
Lightdasher
has received a call
for help by Princess Tikal
in Chapter 1. On the way to find
more information from the rogue echidna
Knucksolo, he is joined by Kitsune Skyflyer,
Queen Amydala, Chewbigga, and R2D2 Gamma.
Evil Emperor Eggman the Hutt and his mysterious
minion Darth Ultimate Life Form are out to stop them.
Sonikin Lightdasher barely escapes from the dark hegehog
and the six friends all head out to rescue the princess
from the Death Egg where she is supposedly held captive.
With the power of the G-Force, these bold friends must save the
galaxy...
"Are we there yet?" yapped Kitsune.
"For the last time, kid, quit asking!" snapped Knucksolo.
"But we ARE alnost there! It's dead ahead...see???"
Sonikin Lighdasher looked up from his Star Wars Collectors magazine
and looked out the window of the cockpit. The Death Egg! That thing was
capable of destroying entire planets! And poor Princess Tikal was being
detained there!
"Hey you blue dude!" yelled Knucksolo. "Quit looking over my
shoulder!"
"Uh huh, don't annoy da boss, he has to get us over dere safe!"
drawled Big the Cat.
"Yeah, watch it kid, there's a trapdoor under your foot and if
I just pull this latch, you'll fall down waywaywaywaywaywayway down!"
"But according to the laws of matter, there is no gravity in
space, thus Sonikin will not fall but hang in space," yipped Kitsune.
"That's a comforting thought," said the blue hedgehog
sarcastically.
"This kid is way too smart!" complained Knucksolo.
"Ya, really!" cried Amydala.
"I'm just at one with the G-Force," shrugged the little fox.
"G-Force, whatever," scoffed Knucksolo. "I don't go for all
that superstitious jargon."
"That 'superstitious jargon' is the force that controls the whole
universe," reprimanded Sonic. "Shoot. I hate these roles. I mean, in the
games, I was the carefree rebel dude with the 'tude and YOU were the
frumpy, serious, mystic-minded guy-sitting-on-a-hill."
"Hey!" growled Knucksolo.
"Would you boys QUIT FIGHTING?!" snapped Amydala.
"Nobody asked for your opinion, Your Worship," snapped Kitsune.
* * * * *
Meanwhile...
[Play "Boss Theme"]
Emperor Eggman the Hutt and Darth Ultimate Life Form had recruited
a new dope to their team. Boba Fang, the weasel bounty hunter.
"I need you to track down Knucksolo and have him bring me the
emerald," said Eggman. "I promised that echidna my revenge for defying
me at the Mos Eisley Casino. There will be a handsome reward for his
capture."
"(HAAAAAAAHUUUUUUHAAAAAAHUUUUHAAA) You heard the man!" added
Eggman's dark recruit, Darth Ultimate Life Form, who had some obvious
breathing problems. "And look out for Sonikin Lightdasher. That fake, blue
hedgehog is creating some serious disturbances in the G-Force."
"G-Force, yeah yeah," snickered Boba Fang.
"(HAAAAAHHUUUUUUHAAAHUUU) Don't get me started!"
"Take his advice, you better not," cautioned Eggman.
"OK, I'll take your word for it." Fang shrugged. "I'm on the job."
Darth Ultimate Life Form shook his head and walked away. "Stacy,"
he muttered solemnly. "I'll do it-- for you!"
"Stacy?" Boba Fang wondered aloud. "Whatever happened to Maria?
Who in Hoth is Stacy? An old girlfriend or somethin'?"
"Even I do not know," replied Emperor Eggman the Hutt.
"Wow. That guy's got issues for sure..."
* * * * *
The motley crew of the Millenium Floatie had finally reached the
Death Egg and landed. If it was a normal space ship, the giant space
station's security systems would have detected it and shot it down faster
than you could say "Sonic Adventure-" but then, the Death Egg had never
been designed to detect giant, flying inflatable pool toys.
"Uhhhhh, what should we do now, boss?" asked Chewbigga as he and
the other five stepped onto the landing dock and walked inside the main
building.
Knucksolo looked around. "Wow, this place is big," he said. "Let's
split into three groups. Like the 'buddy system.' We meet back here in two
hours. I'll go with Chewbigga, Sonikin goes with R2D2 Gamma, and Queen
Amydala goes with Kitsune."
"Hey!" whined Kitsune. "SONIKIN should go with ME and GAMMA should
go with Amydala!"
"Sorry," said Knucksolo. "I thought you you and Her Worship had
taken a fancy to eachother!"
"Ewww yech!" said Kitsune.
"He's too frikkin YOUNG for me!" squealed Amydala. "And he's rude
and crude and geeky and immature and besides, I like SONIKIN!"
"Sorry," said Knucksolo. "Captain's orders. You're together. You
kids will have to learn to get along."
"Meet back here in two hours. Got that," said Sonikin.
So the three pairs split paths.
* * * * *
About an hour later...
"Here's anodder one!" said Chewbigga. "You know you're a redneck
Jedi if you lost your hand in a lightsaber fight because you had to spit!"
"Shhh!" whispered Knucksolo. "I appreciate your sense of humor,
bud, but we have to keep quiet before we get more Badniks onto us." The
two space pirates had jumped and punched and spin-dashed their way through
more Badnik guards than they had ever seen before. Now they had finally
made it to the prison quarters.
"Where is she?" Chewbigga scratched his head. "I see nothing!"
"Let me out!" cried a muffled voice within the wall.
"Oh sweet! It's the rich Princess Tikal!" Knucksolo pulled back his
fist and punched the wall, destroying it and freeing the damsel from the
hidden wall. But the girl wasn't whom he expected her to be.
"Free! Ahhh FINALLY someone rescued me!" cried the bat, jumping
out and singing. "Hey sister, go sister, flow sister, soul sister..."
"Wait a mintute..." growled Knucksolo. "Where is Princess Tikal
and WHO in the galaxy are YOU?"
The bat put her hands on her hips and stared at the red echidna
haughtily. "For your information, I am Moulin Rouge. Tikal left the Sonic
Wars project at the last minute because some flick with a bigger budget
offered her a better contract. So without a princess to capture, your
Emperor Eggman the Hutt resorted to teleporting me from my own movie, into
this dumb show. It was not my choice to be here. I like musicals and
romance movies, not this totally STUPID sci-fi stuff."
Knucksolo felt insulted. "Hey! This is a great movie, sister!" he
growled. "And it was not my choice to come rescue you either. I'm in this
for the moolah!"
"At any rate, I want to get out of here!" snapped Rouge, looking
at the big purple cat. "Will SOMEBODY get this big hairy walking carpet
out of my way?"
"His name is Chewbigga, by the way, Your Worship," said Knucksolo.
"No," Moulin Rouge sneered at him. "I was asking HIM about YOU!"
"I have a feeling that this is going to be a long night..."
* * * * *
Kitsune and Amydala raced down a hallway, huffing and puffing,
chased by Badniks. "Do you think the others found Princess Tikal yet?"
gasped Tails.
"No," said Amydala. "But these Badniks sure found us!"
"Let's hide here!" The two young friends ran into a giant
pinball machine to escape the robots. Don't ask me how a giant pinball
machine got in the Death Egg- Emperor Eggman the Hutt was the mad
scientist who desgined it, not me.
The fox and the pink hedgehog dashed through the pinball machine
but couldn't get enough rings. "I guess my G-Force powers aren't strong
enough," lamented Kitsune as they fell through a trapdoor and into the
Death Egg's garbage chute, encrusted with trash and flooded with green
gooey stuff. [Play Casino Night Sewer theme] Spooky noises whistled
though the dirty walls, and nasty smells of who-knows-what surrounded
them. Scared, the two young adventurers stayed close together.
* * * * * *
Sonikin Lightdasher and R2D2 Gamma crept silently through the
Death Egg, looking for any sign of Princess Tikal, or any of their other
friends, for that matter. Then, Yodachao appeared again. "You are to
become a Jedi Sprite," instructed Yodachao. "And learn the ways of the
G-Force. Go to the Mystic Cave Zone!"
Then, as suddenly as he had come, he left.
* * * * * *
Amydala clung to Kitsune. "This place is so lonely," she said.
"I miss my home, the Little Planet. It's under attack and I have to
defend it and here I am, stuck in a sewer with a weird little fox!"
Kitsune held on to Amydala and shivered. "I miss my home too,"
he said. "Westside Island. But whether or not we get out of here, I can't
go back there anyways."
"Why not?"
"I was banished."
"For what?"
"Ummm... for being clumsy!"
"I can see that. What's that noise from above? Uh-oh. I think
we have company!"
* * * * *
And they did. Chewbigga, Knucksolo, and Moulin Rouge were being
chased by Badniks, too, when they came to a sudden dead end hanging over
some putrid-smelling pit. Moulin Rouge couldn't stop running in time, slid
over the edge, and lost her balance before she could fly. She screamed,
but Knucksolo leaned over the edge and grabbed her by the paw. "Whew!"
The bat breathed a sigh of relief. "That was close- where are the Badniks?"
"Chewbigga is taking care of them," said Knucksolo over the sound
of metal smashing. "You don't have to worry about their laser weapons now.
My buddy is disarming them. And when he disarms them, he DISARMS them!"
Moulin Rouge looked into the echidna's eyes until she realized
everything was all right and caught herself. "You only rescued me so you
could hold my hand!" she snapped.
Knucksolo grinned. Because although he kept her from falling, he
hadn't quite pulled her back UP. "Well if you're gonna be that way..."
"NOOOOOO!"
He let go, and Rouge fell down into the sewer.
"Hey! What kind of a man are you?" bellowed Chewbigga as Knucksolo
sat on the edge, laughing. "That's no way to treat a lady!" Then he kicked
Knucksolo over the edge!
"NOOOOO!"
The big fat cat laughed. Then he heard Knucksolo's voice from
down below yell, "What kind of loyal friend are you? You just violated
your life-debt!
"Violated my life-debt!? NOOOOO!" And then Chewbigga just jumped in!
"Hey it's nice that you could join us," said Kitsune.
"Ya we were getting lonely here," said Amydala. "Who are you?"
"Someone who hates sci-fi movies for obvious reasons," sighed
Moulin Rouge.
"To make a long story short," said Knucksolo, "we found our princess
but she wasn't quite what we were expecting. Anyways, let's get out of here.
Kitsune, you fly up and carry Amydala with you. While Rouge and I will
climb up and help Chewbigga along."
* * * * *
"Not for long," chuckled Boba Fang, looking at them through a
security spy monitor. "Knucksolo, I have you trapped where I want you. I'll
be sure to pull you out in time. But the rest of you... I have no use for
the rest of you! I'll just let you stay in there and become part of the
rest of the garbage!" He pushed a button on the control panel.
"Oh shoot!" cried Amydala. "The walls are moving in!"
"It wasn't my fault!" yelled Knucksolo.
"It better not be your fault! At any rate, I'm going to use my
communicator and try to contact R2D2 Gamma!"
* * * * *
"BBBRRRREEEEEEEPPPBERRRPPP!" squealed Gamma.
"What?" asked Sonikin. "Are you getting a signal?"
"BRRRRREEEEEEEPPPBEEEPPPPBOOOOOOOPP!"
"Uh-oh! I don't know what you mean but forget it! We've got
some trouble ahead!"
Sure enough, Darth Ultimate Life Form came running toward them.
"(HAAAAAAHUUUUUUHAAAAAAAAAHUUUUUUUU) You will die!" he snarled.
"You will not destroy our cause!" yelled Sonikin, getting ready
to fight.
But Yodachao appeared. "No, Sonikin! You must not fight yet!"
"I gotta! There's an unfinished score between us! I can't just
back down like a coward!"
"Your friends are in grave danger. You must help R2D2 Gamma attend
to them while I distract Darth Ultimate Life Form!"
Before the hedgehog could protest, little Yodachao flew over to
Darth Ultimate Life Form and tried to attack him. Of course, the big tough
dark hedgehog knocked him senseless.
"NOOOOOOOOO!" cried Sonikin.
But while Darth Ultimate Life Form was gloating over his victory,
it gave Sonikin and R2D2 Gamma a chance to escape to the Death Egg control
panel.
"What were you talking about again?" asked Sonikin.
"BRRREEEEEPAREEEEEEEPAROOOOORRROOORUUU!"
"Locked in the garbage room with the wall closin in??? We have to
stop it- somehow! Do you know how?"
"RREEERREEBBBBRRRUPPP!"
"Access code? And you don't know it? This is bad!" The blue
hedgehog scratched his head and stared at the giant computer with its giant
keyboard. "I guess I'll have to meditate on the G-Force to be enlightened
of the nature of this code." He hummed and assumed the lotus position,
sitting on the keyboard.
Then the screen immediately said, "Access code complete.
Operation Squish-Walls, Deactivated."
Sonikin opened his eyes, smirked, and got off the keyboard. "See?
This G-Force stuff really does work!" Then he walked over to check the
security sound bugs. His friends were screaming their heads off. "Oh no!
I was too late! They're being tortured and squished to death!"
* * * * *
But actually, Knucksolo, Moulin Rouge, Chewbigga, Amydala, and
Kitsune were screaming and yelling for joy because the walls had finally
stopped moving in on them. Yes, they were now standing in single-file
because the walls were just that close to squishing them to a little furry
pulp. But they HAD stopped. "Great!" yelped Kitsune. "Now we can find
Sonikin and Gamma! We owe them another one of those life-debt thingies!"
* * * * *
But Sonikin still thought they were dying. The screaming and yelling
that he heard was making him sick. "Let's face it," he sighed. "We have
failed. Yodachao is dead. So are Knucksolo, Chewbigga, Amydala, and Kitsune.
And Princess Tikal is nowhere. I bet the whole hologram thing was just a
trap to get us over to the Death Egg so they could destroy us."
The robot sadly beeped in agreement.
"We have nothing else left but to honor Yodachao's wishes and go
to the Mystic Cave Zone. Come on. Let's go find us a ship to steal. I think
I know where the late Knucksolo's floatie is... and personally, I don't
know how to operate a flying bath toy!"
* * * * *
The five friends managed to get out of the sewer and find a shower
to get the yucky smell off. "Hey nice cologne, Knucks," teased Moulin Rouge.
"Why you smell almost as good now as you did down there!'
"I want my cutie pie back!" cried Queen Amydala. "Where is Sonikin?"
"I can feel it in the G-Force," said Kitsune mystically. "He has
already left the Death Egg, out on a personal mission alone, except that
R2D2 Gamma is with him."
"You mean both my friends are gone?" cried Amy. "So now I'm stuck
with just a freaky fox and a big fat cat and two weird space rebels in love?"
"HEY!!!" yelled Moulin Rouge and Knucksolo at the same time.
"If you're too good for us, you don't have to come with us," said
Knucksolo.
"Yeah, Your Highness," sniffed Kitsune.
"Well sorry I didn't mean no offense... hey, isn't anyone going to
help me free my planet from the evil bad guys who are holding under their
cruel tyranny?"
"If you want a ride back to Station Square on my Millenium Floatie,
you can come," said Knucksolo. "But I'm not stopping by the Little Planet,
and no, I'm not going to help out in some revolution half a galaxy away.
This has been my last do-gooder crusade in a long long time."
"I'm with you all da way, friend," said Chewbigga, slapping his pal
on the back.
"I guess if Station Square has a decent film studio, I can take it,"
sighed Moulin Rouge.
"So nobody will help me free the Little Planet?" whispered Amydala.
"I'll come along with you," volunteered Kitsune.
"Anybody else? Anybody???"
"No," said Rouge.
"Oh all right, Kitsune. But how do we get out of here?"
"Easy, Your Worship," said Kitsune. "Long ago, I built my own
X-Wing but Emperor Eggman stole it and put it here. So now I'll just have
to steal it back and fly out of here!"
* * * * *
So, it was just three friends now- Knucksolo, Moulin Rouge, and
Chewbigga- having a mighty interesting time trying to get home in the
Millenium Floatie. It was already strange enough for Rouge to be riding
through space in an emerald-powered flying bath toy. But to be chased by
Emperor Eggman the Hutt's badniks made it even stranger.
Knucksolo was navigating through an asteriod field. He appeared to
have an advantage. Whenever the droid ships hit an asteroid, they blew up.
Whenever the Millenium Floatie hit an asteriod, they just bounced.
"You idiot!" yelled Moulin Rouge. "This thing is gonna tear a leak
if you don't get out of here!"
"Shut up!" snarled Knucksolo. "We're almost in Mobius!"
"Yeah. Shut up. I hear something," added Chewbigga.
The three friends listened. Sure enough, one of the asteroids tore
a leak through the Millenium Floatie and it was deflating, quick!
"Nice going, red," said Rouge sarcastically. "Now I'm going to
suffocate in space in a sci-fi movie with a big fat cat and a low-down,
stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerfherder of an echidna. What a
dumb way for a person to die!"
"Don't worry. I have everything under control!" said Knucksolo with
a shiver. "Maybe we're losing air here, but the Master Emerald will give it
enough power to make an emergency landing!"
The Millenium Floatie coasted through Mobius's atmosphere. "We can't
make it to Station Square in time," said the red echidna. "We'll have to land
somewhere in these desert ruins!" They skimmed over the ground, followed by
the remaining Badnik ships. He entered some pyramid ruins and tried to find
a place for them to hide. "Hey look! That strange-looking white cave with
the red interior. Let's hide over in there!"
Chewbigga and Moulin Rouge shrugged, and Knuckles quickly ducked
inside the cave. Sure enough, that threw off the Badniks. "Now to get out
and see if we can fix this hole..." said Knucksolo.
* * * * *
Back in the Death Egg...
One of the Badniks arrived back to report to Boba Fang. "I escaped
the asteroid field," he said, "and saw them landing in Mobius."
"Really now? Good job, Buzzbomber."
"But I lost them after that. I'm not sure where they'll be."
"That's okay. I have connections. I have ways of finding out. I will
set a trap for them, put away Knucksolo, and get the Master Emerald!
Bwahahaha!"
* * * * *
Kitsune and Amydala escaped from the Death Egg in the Tornado,
Kitsune's red X-Wing. "So how long have you known Sonikin?" asked Amydala.
"We didn't get to be pals until he saved me from Perfect Chaos,"
answered the young fox. "Then I owed him a life-debt."
"Oh he's saved me before too!" squealed Amydala. "The first time it
was when I was captured by Darth Metal and he came to rescue me. That was
fun. It happens again and again. Don't tell him this, but I always get
myself captured on purpose just so he can save me! It's so cool! He'll pick
me up by the waist and carry me and..."
"Yuck!" said Kitsune.
"What's so yuck about love?"
"I just thing the boy-girl stuff is gross!"
"You need to grow up then."
"You need to SHUT up, You Highness. Look! The Little Planet is in
sight."
* * * * *
Chewbigga, Knucksolo, and Moulin Rouge got out to check out the
hole on the outside of the Millenium Floatie. Actually, they had to crawl
and flounder their way outside, because the air was all gone by then.
"Wow, " said Moulin Rouge. "Are caves in sci-fi movies always this
yucky?"
"No, " said Knucksolo. "It's very weird. The terrain is very
squishy. Nothing like I've ever experienced in all my adventures."
"Well how are we going to get some air back in?" asked Chewbigga.
"Knucksolo can blow it in! Because his head is FULL of it!" replied
Rouge.
"Wha-? Now WHO is the airhead around here?!" growled the echidna.
"Quit flirting, you too," said the fat cat. "I'll do it!"
He started to blow into the hole, and with nothing else to do, the
bat and the echidna sat down together in the weird squishy red cave bottom.
"So after Chewbigga blows the Millenium Floatie back up, how are
we going to make the air stay inside?" asked Moulin Rouge.
"That's easy, babe. Duct tape!" Knucksolo fished through the
deflated Floatie and grabbed a role of duct tape. "Duct tape is foolproof.
It can fix anything and anything."
"Nu-uh. Nail polish is even better. It sticks anything together."
"Well... do you think it can stick US together?" Knucksolo held
her paw.
"What are you doing?"
"Hmmm. No nail polish? Oh well. I know something that sticks
even better than nail polish OR duct tape." And then they kissed!
"Maybe you two can seal the hole," said Chewbigga to the kissing
couple, after he had blown enough air into the Floatie. Which was a few
hours later!!!
"Hmmm we'd rather stay inside. We'll just use duct tape. It
should last us 'till our next stop," said Knucksolo. So he sealed the hole
with duct tape. Then he got a call on his cell phone and answered it.
"Lando Charmissian! Old buddy! What do you want?"
"Just wondering what's going on, old pal. We haven't talked in a
long time."
"Wow. I thought you were mad at me, after I won that bet. I
thought we weren't talking to eachother any more. Well I happen to be in
some trouble. I'm stuck in the galaxy's weirdest cave and the Floatie just
got a hole and we've sealed it with duct tape, I don't know how long it
will last."
"Do you need to get repairs?"
"Heck yeah!"
"Then you can just come here to the Sky Sanctuary on your way back
to Station Square and get it fixed."
"Really? OK. Thanks a million!"
* * * * *
Lando Charmissian shivered and hung up, keeping an eye on the gun
being held up to him. "You're doing a good job so far, little bee..." said
the weasel Boba Fang with a wicked smile.
* * * * *
"That should do it," said Knucksolo. "I think we're ready to fly!"
"But what about da Badniks?" asked Chewbigga.
"Yeah," agreed Rouge. "Are you sure it's safe to go outside the
cave now?"
Suddenly the ground began to shake and they heard a great echoing,
"BBWOOOBWOOOO! BWOOOOBWOOOO! BBBRRRAAAAAACCKKK! BLECH!"
Knucksolo turned pale. "Oh, fudge!"
"What?" cried the other two.
"This is no cave! WE'RE IN THE BELLY OF KING BOOM BOO!!!!!!!!!"
* * * * *
Sonikin Lightdasher and R2D2 Gamma reached the Mysterious Forest
of Mobius, not knowing that three of their friends were also on the
planet. Or that all five of them were alive, for that matter. "It's all
my fault," said Sonikin bitterly as he tried to find a spot to pand. "If
not for my dragging them all along in this quest to find a princess who
doesn't exist, they wouldn't be dead."
"BREEEEEEPBREEEEEPBREEEEEPP!"
"What's that you're saying? A panic signal? AHHH!"
Lost in his thoughts, Sonikin had also lost control. The space
ship was crashing toward the ground. "Gamma! Quick! Jump!" The hedgehog
leaped off, and R2D2 hovered after him. Then the space ship crashed into
a swamp. "I guess we're stuck here, Gamma," said Sonikin. "Gamma???"
The poor robot had landed in the water! Suddenly, a water monster
decided it wanted a metal snack and pulled it under!
"Oh no! Not Chaos again!"
"BREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!" R2D2 Gamma went flying through
the air and landed next to Sonikin, mucky and dirty but in one piece.
"I guess Chaos can't digest you. Last time I saw that thing was when
I rescued Kitsune from it, outside of Station Square. Or at least he THOUGHT
I rescued him. Or was it something else that made Chaos disappear?"
"Indeed the G-Force is very mysterious!"
"What? Who said that?"
A familiar face appeared. "Cat got your tongue?"
"Yodachao! I thought you were..."
"A help sprite never dies. But enough of that. Become a Jedi Sprite
must you, and much to learn have you. Time for school! Let me see your
backpack!" Yodachao grabbed Sonikin's backpack and began rummaging through
his stuff. "A Sonic the Hedgehog Super Special #15 comic book, an old Game
Gear, a portable Dreamcast, Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Advance in a Game Boy
Advance, a video of Sonic Anime, a Sonic plushie...What? No school supplies?
What kind of a Jedi Sprite Trainee are you?"
"Hey! That's mine!"
"As a matter of fact, maybe I should start reading some of those
comics and playing the games myself." He continued digging through Sonikin's
backpack.
Sonikin sighed and for a brief second, wished that Darth Ultimate
Life Form really HAD killed Yodachao. This will be a long day, he thought.
* * * * *
"AHHHHHHH!" The three fugitives screamed as they quickly flew out
of King Boom Boo's mouth. The huge desert ghost king wasn't very happy about
that.
"BRAAAAAAAAACK! BWOOOOMBWOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
But the Millenium Floatie escaped, and Knucksolo steered toward the
Sky Sanctuary up ahead. Soon they were there. [Play Sky Sanctuary music] As
he landed, Knucksolo saw his old rival Lando Charmissian the bee fly over to
welcome them. He couldn't help but feel suspicious. It wasn't like Lando to
be this nice to him.
"Knucks! How is the biggest rogue in the galaxy?" buzzed Charmissian.
"Ooooohhh! What lovely lady do we have here?" The bee flew up to Rogue and
held her paw. "I'm Lando Charmissian. Welcome to the Sky Sanctuary. Whom do
I have the pleaure of meeting?"
"I'm Moulin Rouge. I'm supposed to be in a musical romance movie, but
somehow I was stranded in this weird sci-fi show. Somehow, I'm actually
beginning to enjoy some aspects of it." She looked at Knucksolo and winked.
Knucksolo just looked jealous.
"And I'm sure we'll enjoy eachother too, babe. Do you mind joining
us for refreshments while my men repair your bath toy?"
Knucksolo motioned to Rouge, who said, "Excuse me for a moment. I
guess Knucks and Chewbigga want to talk."
The three friends whispered to eachother. "I've known Charmissian
for a long time," said Knucksolo. "In fact he used to own the Millenium
Floatie. But he lost a bet to me and now I'm its owner and guardian. It's
not like him to be this way. Let's say we pass on the refreshments?"
"Hah! You're just jealous, Knuckles! Lando is a very nice man to give
us his hospitality!" said Moulin Rouge.
"Yeah man!" added Chewbigga, patting his big belly. "Look how much
weight I've lost on our adventure! I'm starvin,' man!"
"Oh all right. But I have a BAD feeling about this!"
The three friends walked into Charmissian's mansion, but Boba Fang
and Darth Ultimate Life Form were already inside, waiting for them!
"No!" yelled Moulin Rouge.
"Seize them!" barked Boba Fang.
"You traitor!" yelled Knucksolo, lunging at Lando Charmissian.
"I'm sorry. I didn't really mean it. I had no other choice!"
Boba Fang held his gun at Knucksolo, while Chewbigga and Rouge tried
to fight off the Badniks. But all three were outnumbered and overpowered.
"HAAAAAHHHUUUUU!HAAAAAWWHHUUUUH! Now the Master Emerald will be
ours!" gasped Darth Ultimate Life Form.
"And the reward will be mine!" chuckled Boba Fang. "Instead of fixing
your ship, Knucksolo, we have stolen the Master Emerald from it. Now,
Knucksolo, we have no use for you except to make a plaque for Emperor Eggman
the Hutt to display in his trophy room! Guards! Bring the roboticizer in!"
"NOOOOOO!" cried Rouge.
"NOOOOOO!" cried Chewbigga. "My pal! They can't do this to you!"
Knucksolo hugged them both. "Too many years living in the fast lane,"
he said. "I guess I've hit the end of the road. Chewbigga, take care of Rouge
for me."
As the Badniks pushed him toward the robot machine, Moulin Rouge
cried and said, "I love you!"
"Like duh! I know that!" Then they shoved him inside and slammed the
door shut.
To Be Continued...