Me: Sorry about the wait. As usual, I only own Roll Cyber Sakurai-Robotnik.
Roll sniffed and let out a peaceful sigh of bliss. One thing she loved in life was flower gardens, especially ones with blue roses. She was currently sitting before a large bushel of them, all in perfect condition. They reminded her so much of her mother's eyes. Her left ear twitched before she dashed off to the roof, sitting right next to a napping Sonic. She peeked from the side of the roof to see a man who seemed to enjoy the black butler outfit he wore along with his rectangle-rimmed glasses. His black hair was cut evenly and in order. She awed as her ears picked up the man speaking in fluent Japanese to the roses.
"What are you doing?" Sonic yawned.
"None of your business, Sonic-baka," Roll replied.
"What does 'baka' mean?"
"Idiot."
"Ouch…"
Sonic did not like this Hedgefox. For one, the girl hated him just because he fought with Eggman. The other reason…she was Eggman's niece. He never even knew the fatty had a niece until Roll started to berate him after she was sure he had recovered enough. His left ear twitched before looking down at the balcony. There, he saw Manic was tapping the table with his sticks while Sonia was reading a magazine. Seems she had a fashion magazine or ten in the stuff she had on hand. Sonic, on the other hand, wasn't as lucky. He had none of his friends there while being surrounded by a human, two strangely familiar hedgehogs, and a nice girl who hates him just because he fights Eggman. Speaking of the human, he looked at the balcony to see Chris was on a cordless phone, staring out at the vast yard. He felt his legs itching to just go run over it.
-Sorry, it's been raining a lot and the filming is being delayed. I guess I won't be back until next week, but here's the good thing: I'll send you some presents by mail from here-
"Okay!"
-There's the sweet cotton candy that you like so much-
"Thanks! Besides that, mama...actually, mama...I need to apologize to you..." Chris admitted, earning a gentle look from Roll.
-What's up?-
"I broke two of my promises to you. That I can't go out after midnight and that I can't enter the adult pool..."
-You went swimming at that hour?-
"No...it isn't that..." Chris tried to explain before looking up at the eavesdropping quartet of humanoid animals, "There were two cats drowning and I saved them."
-Is that it? It's alright, I am not angry. You're very kind, Chris. Bye!- Chris's other said with a kiss on her end.
Chris kissed the phone before they hung up. He rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment at her comments while Sonia and Roll gave soft smiles at the boy. Roll had a mixture of happiness, jealousy, and sadness within her as she listened to the talk he had with his mother. Sonic, meanwhile, jumped down and sat on the porch barrier fence beside Chris.
"When you said 'cats', you meant me and Manic over there, right?" Sonia asked, jabbing a thumb at himself and then at the slightly annoyed Manic.
"...Yeah. Are you angry? If I had said that it were two hedgehogs, she wouldn't understand."
"What do you mean?" Sonia asked.
"Because hedgehogs are much smaller. They're like...about this size," Chris explained as he held out his hands about the size of the cordless phone he was holding, earning a groan from Sonic, "You're all different. You're bigger in size and you can talk too. Plus, Roll is a mix between a hedgehog and a fox, which is nonexistent here. Say, when and where did you learn how to talk?"
Sonic itched his head in confusion before giving his reply, "I dunno. I don't remember anything that far back."
"No clue," Sonia and Manic added.
"Kaa-san said I said my first word when I was eleven months old. She also said that my first word was 'Mecha,'" Roll replied, tapping her chin while looking up at the clouds, "Oh…A usagi."
"Really?" Chris pondered before the phone rang, "Yes? Papa!"
-Chris? I just heard from your mother that two cats fell in the pool last night? I'm sorry, Chris, to have such poor security allowing a pair of cats to pass by...-
Manic and Sonic looked on impatiently. They did not like being called cats. They were hedgehogs and proud of it.
"No, no, don't worry about it, I'm alright. I let them go." Chris explained as Sonic itched his left ear with a finger, "They looked terrible; they got scared and ran away."
-Really?-
"Besides, Grandpa is over here, Ella and Mr. Tanaka as well. Anyway, you're busy, right Papa?"
-Yeah, I'm quite busy- Chris's father replied as Sonic continued to watch on impatiently.
"Well, truthfully, everything is okay."
-Really? Well then, I have to go. You know that I always love you very, very much!-
"Me too, Papa. Bye!"
He hung up and looked back at the four, who had Sonic and Manic shaking their heads in disbelief and Sonia giggling. Chris blushed slightly and chuckled until he felt two hands cover his. He looked to see Roll was holding them with a gentle, almost motherly smile.
"I'm happy for you, Chris-san," Roll spoke, "Your parents love you so much even though their jobs force them to be away from you."
"Well…Uh…th-Thanks?" Chris blushed a bit harder before recalling something, "Oh! What do you four do for breakfast? What do you eat?"
"I have some cereal and a mini-fridge with 2 percent milk in it along with some other rations," Roll replied as she motioned to the backpack she had that was on the balcony.
"What do the hedgehogs from here eat?" Sonic asked.
"From what I found out on the Internet..." Chris replied as he handed Sonic a plate full of brown pellets, "This."
Sonic takes one of the pellets and eats it. After a few bites, he responded in disgust. He shuddered and began to rub his tongue with his free hand, trying to get the taste out.
"What is this?"
"Cat food."
Roll began to giggle at the blue hedgehog. Manic shrugged before taking a handful and began to eat it. He had worse, considering how he was raised, so this was more like a three-star meal compared to that stuff. Sonic stuck out his tongue out and tried to get Chris to get rid of it.
"No way! I don't want this!"
"Sonic-baka, be kind to our host," Roll narrowed her eyes at the blue hedgehog, "Do you do this to everyone who you don't know about?"
"Well...it looked like it was hedgehog food, but it was written that it was cat food. Also, it said they eat dry grass..." Chris replied, trying to do his best at ignoring the mad Hedgefox.
Sonic knocked the plate out of Chris' hand and stood up, Manic catching the plate with all the food before continuing to eat it. Sonia just looked at him in disgust as Sonic jumped away into a tree as Chris ran to the edge of the porch with Roll.
"W-Where are you going?"
"I prefer something more gourmet," Sonic replied, looking back at them on the branch he stood upon.
"You can't! It's dangerous to go outside!" Chris argued.
"Hai. We don't know much about this place, Sonic-baka," Roll added.
"See you!" Sonic waved before he jumped out of the tree and dashed off.
"No wait! Wait, Sonic!" Chris called.
"You got any ketchup?" Manic asked as he pointed at the near-empty plate of cat food.
Sonic munched on a bag of LAYS Chips lazily as the five watched the TV. Roll simply glared at the blue hedgehog, livid at him for various reasons with the top, surprisingly, not being a good houseguest. One would think it would be for what he's done to her uncle for the past years, but it was more on his manners. On the TV, a television reporter reported on Sonic, Roll, Manic, and Sonia from the previous night, showing imagery from the helicopter of Sonic and Roll running along the highway.
-Due to the incredible speeds, it is difficult to make out the image. Here are interviews with people who were at the scene- The reporter said before it cut to a police officer, showing the height of the four by putting his hand near his waist.
-The first's about this big, blue, and looked like a hedgehog. Same with the other three, but in magenta, green, and yellow with the yellow one having fox features like ears and tail added. Also the magenta hedgehog and weird yellow hedgehog were females. The other two looked male- the officer explained before it cut to a driver.
-They went really fast, they passed by me with a screech while going that way- the driver said before another one took his place.
-I'm not kidding, I think it was going faster than Mach 5- the 2nd driver said before it cut to a scientist with animals, holding onto a monkey that had one of its hands around the scientist's neck and the other on his glasses, playing with them.
-Well, they could be U.M.A.s. If you're wondering if they can be a being from the Earth, then...my answer is no. The fastest animal is the cheetah, but they can't run as fast as a car. An animal with such speed does not exist-
"Says you!" Manic taunted.
"Is it tasty?" Chris asked, earning a small nod from Sonic.
-It would be easier to simply say it is a machine-
"More or less," Sonic noted.
An elder man walked into the room. He had light-brown eyes and white hair that spiked to the back. He wore a white lab coat, green vest, blue button shirt, deep-red shoes without laces, and brown pants. Everyone but Chris and Sonic hid behind the furniture as he walked up to Chris.
"Did you hear, Chris? They said that what outran the S Team were some kind of mysterious machines."
It was then the old man looked down to see Sonic, who was casually staring up at him from the couch. Roll and Sonia groaned silently as they slapped their hands to their foreheads. The man looked at the TV, then back at Sonic. He then zoomed in on Sonic, staring at him right in his face. Chris quickly grabbed a pillow, actually Manic, and smothered Sonic, causing the man to back off.
"Hey! What are you doing? Take it off!" Sonic shouted through Manic's vest and fur.
"Ew, dude…" Manic shuddered before he and Sonic managed to separate, crossed their arms, and puffed their cheeks out with a glare ahead of them.
"Blue...Green…look like a pair of hedgehogs..." the old man noted before seeing Roll and Sonia peek out, "Magenta…Yellow…"
He gasped as he came to realization of who the four before him were, smiling with joy. He then grabbed Sonic and pulled out a yellow screwdriver. Roll smirked with a giggle as she watched the man try and get Sonic's laughing back off.
"Hey, hey, hey, wait!"
"What is this thing made of..." the man pondered.
"Ah! Stop!" Sonic screamed before he managed to get away and hide behind Roll.
"Don't run away!" the old man growled.
"Uhh...Grandpa Chuck...he's...Sonic isn't a machine. None of them are," Chris explained.
Chuck and Sonic gawked, but for different reasons, as Chuck released his screwdriver. For Chuck, it was what Chris had just said. If they weren't machines, then that meant…that meant they were living beings. For Sonic, he felt his heart breaking just a bit. This man, the man who tried to take him apart like some machine…He had the same name as…as him.
-Stay away, please! I'm scared!-
-Chao!-
-Grounder, he~elp!-
-I'm tryin', Cubot, but I'm scared…!-
Everyone looked at the television report, which showed a large billboard. A fire truck was beside it with a ladder with firefighters climbing up to Cream, Grounder, Cheese, and a Chao-sized robot resembling a silver and yellow cube separated by a metal, folding bar and had two robotic arms ending in cartoon gloves, who were standing on the billboard ledge. Cream was holding onto Cheese, shaking in fear, as Grounder was trying to reach for the yellow and silver robot that dangled on the edge.
-Please! Stay away!- Cream begged.
"It's Cream and Cheese!" Sonic gasped.
"Grounder-niisan! Cubot-niichan!" Roll gasped.
"You know them?" Chris asked.
"So we weren't the only ones who came to this weird world…" Sonic ignored, "Okay, hang on!"
"Do you even know where it is?" Chris called out to Sonic as he ran out.
Sonic broke through a hedge fence and skidded to a stop. He paused for a few seconds before turning and ran back to Chris, stopping in front of him. He proceeded to shrug his arms with a silly, embarrassed smile. Roll and Sonia groaned at him while Manic snickered.
"Okay. Yes, that will be helpful. I'll treat you to lunch next time," Chuck said as he hung up the phone and turned to the five in the garage, noting that Roll was awing at the blueprints he had hung up, "The police said that they were transferred to Area 99."
"Area 99?" Manic repeated.
"That's a Military Research Facility!" Chris gasped.
"Military?" Roll repeated, taking her eyes away from the blueprints.
"Yeah. The national defense force with tanks, armed cars and other weapons," Chris explained, "They're also called the Guardian Unit of Nations at times."
"Sounds like that creep, Dr. Eggman," Sonic compared, earning a slug to the face by Roll and a rant from her in Japanese.
"What is she saying?" Sonia pondered.
"I kinda understand it. She's saying that she is furious at Sonic for insulting her Uncle Ivo like that and something about him being, well, I can't say it with a kid around," Manic said, jabbing a thumb in the direction of Chris.
"To be taken to the military's laboratory means that they want to research them, like aliens from outer space or some kind of biological weapon that another country developed," Chuck spoke, "But what really happens there, eh?"
"How'd we know?" Manic pondered as Roll stomped away from a verbally abused Sonic.
"Well, now that I know where the place is, I'm going," Sonic said as he started to walk off.
"If you do that, they'll catch you too!" Chris advised.
"If they can catch me. I'm not such a klutz," Sonic smirked as he paused…before the garage door slammed on his face, "Just what do you think you're doing?"
"I didn't do it!" Chris replied as he shook his hands out in front of himself.
"It was me!" Chuck grinned as he flexed his muscles, "This looks like fun! My blood is excited!"
"You, Grandpa?" Chris gawked.
"You're also going. Don't you always say you refuse to have a boring life like your father?"
"That's a secret. You can't say that to Papa!"
"I know!" Chuck laughed.
"Count me in," Manic said, "I bet they got some primo stuff in there ta sell."
"Manic, how many times I have told you about not stealing?"
The six were on the road in Chuck's open-top sportster, riding along a road in the middle of a desert. Chuck drove while Chris was in the front. Sonic sat, cross-legged and annoyed, in the back with Roll glaring at him every now and then, a sleeping Sonia, and Manic eating a bag of cat food until Roll took it and threw it out of the side of the car.
"This thing is going so slow, geez..." Sonic muttered.
"Patience is a virtue, baka," Roll stated.
"Oh, come on!" Chuck groaned.
"Is this it?" Chris asked as he held up a box.
"Oh yes, yes!" Chuck replied.
Chris handed the box to the others in the back. Roll opened it up as Sonia woke up. Inside were four eye devices, each having a radio on them.
"Put them on," Chuck instructed.
"What are they?" Sonic asked.
"Infrared scopes," Roll gasped.
"Right! Most likely, in Area 99, there will be plenty of traps, but if you use that, you should be able to avoid them," Chuck advised.
The four quickly put on the scopes, each fitting perfectly over their left ears. Sonic gave a thumbs up to Chris and Chuck as they unhooked their seatbelts. Sonic and Roll each grabbed one of the other two.
"Thank you!" Sonic grinned.
"Arigatou!" Roll smiled softly, 'At least the baka thanked them for once.'
" Well, We're going ahead!" Sonic grinned.
With that, the two speedsters sped off, easily passing the car. Chris awed as the four were off. Chuck simply gawked at the sight.
"Oh wow, they're so fast! All right!" Chuck declared.
With that, he slammed the gas pedal to the floor and sped off, adrenaline pumping, while Chris was pushed back into his seat. Sonic and Roll, meanwhile, has already progressed far ahead. The main Area 99 base was a square building with a rotunda. The whole area was protected by a double fence with barbed wire, guard towers, and sirens. Inside, a large control room full of people monitored the security of the site and progress of experiments. One large screen showed a scientist waiting in an elevator as it went underground. The door opened as another camera watched the scientist walk out, tracking his every movement. He approached another door and an access panel. He put his eye in front of a retinal scanner and had it analyzed.
-ID Number F219563-1-
Th door opened silently and the man walked into the room. Inside was a laboratory. Cream, Grounder, Cubot, and Cheese were inside, locked in a transparent tube, and with the two Mobians watching in fear as scientists worked at control stations located around the room.
"Please let us out!" Cream whimpered.
"Y-Yeah…!" Scratch's teeth chattered.
-Look here, ya varmints! Let us outta here, ya hear?- Cubot demanded.
A camera apparatus approached the tube and looked at Cream and Cheese. The two reacted in fear as Cream could see her reflection in the camera lens. Grounder slowly moved to block the camera from the two. He always had a sweet spot for kids.
"W-What is this? What are you going to do with us?" Cream asked.
The scientists completely ignored them as they monitored the data they were receiving. The camera was outputting a heat signature reading of the four. Cream reacted in fear as the camera continued to scan them. Grounder just held the kid closer to him with his hand drills replaced by robotic hands in gloves, trying his best to calm her down.
-Can you hear me, Sonic?- Chris asked.
"Yeah!" Sonic replied.
-Roll?-
"Moshi-moshi!"
-Sonia? Manic?-
"Manic here. Dude, I think I swallowed a bug. Tasted like chicken," Manic smirked, licking his lips.
"Ew! Sonia here."
-When you get in, head for the air vents. From there, you should be able to pass security. Got it?-
"All right!" Sonic replied.
"But do you know where they are locked up?" Chris asked, looking at his grandfather.
"Of course!" Chuck replied as he took the communicator from Chris, "Head for a suspicious-looking place, and if you go there, you should find our objective."
"No way..."
-We'll take care of it!- Roll declared.
With that, the four approached the main gate of Area 99 at high speeds, jumping over the two security fences with no problem. Six cameras detect them within seconds.
-Intruder detected-
In the security room of the base, the main displays showed the exterior cameras attempting to track the four. Numerous cameras outside looked all around, ready to apprehend the four, but couldn't locate them. Sonic and Roll ran along an exterior pathway, faster than the cameras could catch. Sonic looked ahead to see a large and open air vent. He motioned it to the two girls, earning a look of disgust from Sonia. They quickly jumped into the vent with Sonia protesting the whole time.
"We're in the air vents!" Sonic said.
-Roger!- Chris confirmed before the fur landing on their rears at the bottom of the vent.
"Well, that was close," Manic chuckled.
"Close…Close? My outfit is covered in webs and dirt, you jerk!" Sonia screamed at Manic.
"So?" Manic asked.
"Now, let's see..." Roll muttered to herself as she looked along the path ahead of them, scowling as she saw various lasers blocking their path, "Kuso…"
"What the? There's no way!" Sonic gasped as he also saw the lasers.
"Damn."
-What did you just say, Manic?- Chuck demanded in the vents.
"Nothing, Chuck…" Manic chuckled nervously.
"Will they be all right?" Chris asked as Chuck stopped the car outside the base, hidden behind a rock formation.
"Possibly," Chuck replied, "Hm?"
"Hello."
Cubot and Grounder had the two between them, doing their best to keep the scanner that had surrounded their container away from the two as it started descending toward them. The four watched as the scanner surrounded them, putting them in darkness apart from the green lights from the scan. The scientists watched as a 3D wireframe-like output was shown on a screen. The scanner's lights started pulsating.
"I'm scared!" Cream whimpered.
"Chao..." Cheese agreed, hugging Cream tightly as best as his tiny form could as she hugged him back.
"Ya varmints, stop scaring these little critters!" Cubot shouted, "Only the doc can do that!"
"The doc?" one of the scientists repeated.
"Good going, Cubot!" Grounder complained.
The four stopped outside the hallway to the laboratory's door. Manic poked his head to the side to see a camera beside the door. He scowled before looking back at the others.
"Dude, we're here. But there's a problem; we've got a camera by the door," Manic explained.
"If it's only me, I could handle it. But I'll have to bring Cream and Cheese with me, so I can't get too reckless," Sonic said until Roll bopped him on the head.
"What about Cubot-niichan and Grounder-niichan?" Roll demanded until the lights went out.
-Abnormality detected in the electrical system… Abnormality detected in the electrical system…-
"What's up?" a scientist gasped as others began to run around.
"I can't see a thing!" another exclaimed before they heard something shatter.
"What was that?"
"What was that sound?"
They turned to see that the container that had the four inside of it had been shattered. As the scientists began to freak out about losing their subjects, the four were behind a large modem. With them were the three hedgehogs and hedgefox.
"Roll, oh thank…" Grounder began before Roll shushed him.
"Sonic…!" Cream began before Sonic shushed her…until Cheese and Cubot cheered with joy and jumped on Sonic and Roll, giving them a hug.
"Who's there?" one of the scientists demanded as they spotted the eight.
"Let's run!" Sonic shouted.
"Yes!" Cream nodded.
Sonic quickly gave Cheese to Cream and they began to run off. Various scientists tried to capture them, but they began to freak when Sonic caught one of their nets and easily threw the scientists who held it into a few others, knocking them all out. Meanwhile, at the transmission grid, an engineer with a flashlight spotted something. Embedded into a wall, having sliced a power cable, was a little paper airplane.
"A paper plane?" the man pondered until he saw gold circuitry lines covering it, "Absurd! Who did this? Nevermind that! Get the electricity back working on the double!"
"Right, Chief!" the workers saluted.
"Did you do this, Sonic-san?" Cream asked.
"You talked with the hitter, didn't you?" Sonic asked.
"Says the baka," Roll glared.
"Nope, it wasn't us, kid," Manic replied, "Didn't even know we could do that."
"I think that maybe you four have something that brings you good luck!" Cream giggled.
"Oh yeah?" Sonic smiled softly until the power came back on.
"Could it be? I'm sorry, because I said something I shouldn't have," Cream whimpered as the camera all aimed at the eight.
"Don't worry, little bunny. You didn't do it," Grounder said before a laser shot at him from one of the camera and made him jump into Roll's arms, "Yikes! Roll, save me!"
"Off!" Roll exclaimed as she dropped the robot.
"Shit!" Manic yelped until he received a bop on the head from Sonia and Roll.
"No cursing in front of kids!" both barked.
"Let's go!" Sonic ordered.
"Okay!" Cream nodded.
With that, the eight continued to go off, Cubot holding onto Grounder and Cheese being held close by Cream. Manic took out a pair of drumsticks and began to twirl them. He threw them and they began to rip right through the connectors to the cameras, slicing them off the walls. The sticks turned and Manic caught them.
"Sweet," Sonic whistled.
"Thanks, dude," Manic grinned.
-Guys. What's the matter? Are you all right?- Chris asked over the communicators.
"We're fine. Just being blasted by lasers," Sonia screamed as she ducked a laser shot, "Hey! That almost hit my hair!"
"No problem," Sonic replied as he let go of Cream, "Run!"
"But…!" Cream began.
Sonic jumped up and punched a laser camera off the wall. He proceeded to jump the wall and onto another laser camera. He began to use it to fire at all the other cameras in his view. Cream and Cheese ran behind Roll when one fell near the seven.
"I said run!" Sonic shouted as he ripped the laser camera off the wall.
"Okay!" Cream nodded as she ran off with Cheese in her arms.
-D2 Area blocked off. D2 Area blocked off- the security system repeated as the hallway they were in was closing down with various doors.
"We're gonna be locked in!" Grounder yelped.
"Oh no we're not!" Roll exclaimed as she grabbed Cubot and jumped onto Grounder, "Commence Engine Gattai!"
With that, she pushed a button of Grounder's back. His head went into his body before his nose drill poked out of the center of his torso. Cubot folded back into his cube form and Roll plugged him into where Grounder's head had been. The treads of Grounder's body folded into him before rocket engines and three wheels took their place.
"You know how to drive something like this, right?" Roll asked.
"Yeah," Manic replied.
"Oh, no you don't! Last time I let you drive anything, you crashed us into a tree…And we were in the middle of a desert and it was a mirage!" Sonia barked as she took the controls that had emerged from Cubot's upper half while Roll got Cream and Cheese onto the vehicle with Manic.
The engines roared as the vehicle turned into a blur as it drove through the still-closing pathway. Roll yelped as she fell over. Sonic's eyes widened before he dashed over to Roll, picked her up in his arms, and ran under the doors just before they closed.
"You okay?" Sonic asked.
"You…You saved me?" Roll pondered.
"Well, yeah," Sonic replied, "Everyone should get a second chance, right?"
"…"
It was then they skidded to a halt beside the stopped vehicle. The Mobians and the two combined robots were surrounded by moving laser cameras. Roll tried to get on the floor when she winced.
"I sprained my ankle…" Roll whispered as she sat on the combined robots.
"Great…" Manic groaned.
"Just stay with Cream and Cheese," Sonic ordered, "We'll try to make a path."
"Right," Sonia and Manic nodded.
A glow got their attention. They looked down to see their medallions were emanating a seven-colored light form each of them. They tapped their individual medallion and they transformed. Twelve drums of various sizes along with a few cymbals and a seat engulfed Manic. Floating before Sonia were two electronic keyboards with a black and flame-pattern design on them. Sonic gained a lightning-blue guitar with light-yellow, almost gold, wind-pattern markings on it. The body of the guitar even resembled his head.
"How did they do that, Ms. Roll?" Cream asked.
"I'm not sure, Cream-chan," Roll replied.
"Dude, this is sweet!" Manic grinned as he drummed on his instruments.
The ground began to rumble under their feet with each drum Manic hit. Suddenly, spikes of the earth ripped out of the ground, impaling various lasers. Everyone slowly turned to Manic as he dropped his drumsticks in shock and awe.
"That…is…wicked!" Manic exclaimed as he picked them back up before one shot a bit of Sonia's front quills off.
"Why you…!" Sonia growled.
Two handles emerged from one of the sides of each of her keyboards. She grabbed them and began to fire pink lasers from the boards, easily taking down various laser cameras. She just ignored everyone else as she kept on firing on the laser camera that messed with her quillstyle.
"I'm scared," Cream whimpered as she hid behind Roll.
"Second," Roll and Sonic added.
"This always happens when someone messes with her quills," Manic sweatdropped as the remaining camera lasers aimed at them.
"I've got them!" Sonic grinned.
He plucked a string as he was about to run and a blue lightning bolt zapped one of the laser cameras. The four Mobian-not counting the mad magenta hedgehog because she was still attacking the laser camera-looked at the guitar before Sonic grinned. He plucked a few more strings and fired more bolts at the laser cameras. He began to play quickly and fired blue lasers from his guitar's tip, each one destroying the remaining cameras. The weapon-instruments then changed back into their medallion forms.
"Dude…What was that about?" Manic pondered as he fingered his medallion.
"I'm not sure," Sonic replied before they all saw more laser cameras replace the destroyed ones.
"Oh you've got to be kidding me!" Roll exclaimed until they saw a swarm of something heading their way.
"What are those?" Cream gasped.
As the swarm got closer, Sonic blinked. The swarm was actually a swarm of little paper airplanes with gold wiring markings on them. The swarm flew past the laser cameras, slicing them to ribbons.
"What's going on?" Cream asked.
"I think…we're getting helped by things I used to make to poke the police dudes' eyes out when I was about to get caught all those times," Manic sweatdropped.
"I don't know, but now's our chance!" Sonic grinned as Sonia took control of the combined robot vehicle and sped off after Sonic with the others on it.
The group barely dodged the various lasers that fired at them. The two robots separated as soon as they got to a set of stairs. The group began to quickly climb up them with Grounder's treads changing into wheels with suction cups on them while Roll stayed on his back due to her ankle.
"Are you sure none of you city folk are doin' this here crazy rodeo?" Cubot asked.
"I told you no!" Sonic replied.
A laser sliced through the stairway, causing Cream and Cheese to start falling. Sonic and Roll quickly grabbed Cream while the little rabbit held Cheese. Grounder grabbed onto Sonic as Sonia and Manic held onto Roll. The four began to pull as more lasers sliced off their way out. They managed to get them up.
"Engine Gattai: Second Version!" Roll shouted as she grabbed Cubot once more.
Grounder's head moved to his torso as his treads folded into his body once more. He flipped over with his drills going into his arms to be replaced by rocket engines. A cone emerged from the top of Cubot as Roll slapped him into place, making Grounder and Cubot resemble a three-engine rocket. Everyone quickly held on as the machine flew off and away from the lasers. They got onto a ledge at the top and the two robots separated.
"We're safe now," Roll exhaled a relieved sigh.
"You were scared, weren't you, lady?" Sonic asked.
"No. Thank you, Mr. Sonic," Cream bowed.
"Ah, it was nothing. Couldn't have done it without a little help," Sonic chuckled sheepishly.
"Uh…How do we get out of here?" Grounder asked, seeing no exits.
"Bummer," Manic sighed as he looked at his medallion, "Be cool if those instruments came back, huh?"
"Yeah," Sonic nodded before he heard something and pressed his free ear against a wall, "This sound is…It's the sound of a plane."
"A plane?" Sonia repeated as Sonic began to grin.
"Oh I see," Sonic chuckled, "Yo, driller-nose, I need your snoz right here."
"Why me?" Grounder complained.
Tails grinned as he flew his plane around the small tower everyone was in. He hoped that Cream and Cheese were okay. Especially since two of Eggman's robots were there, too.
"I wonder if it's just about here?" Tails pondered until everyone broke out of the top of the tower with Grounder drilling in the lead, "Perfect calculation!"
Tails flew his plane under everyone, letting Roll fall into the backseat while the others held onto the wings. Sonic looked at Cream and Cheese and gave a small smile while the two smiled in relief at the hedgehog. The plane quickly flew away from the base.
"Hi there!" Sonic grinned.
"Hi!" Tails playfully saluted.
"I see. So it was you, Tails," Cream smiled, earning a wink from the fox.
"Hang on tight, so you don't fall off!" Tails advised.
"I hate the wind! It ruins my hair!" Sonia complained.
"Yeehaw! Git along, little plane!" Cubot whooped.
"So shall we get going too then?" Chuck asked as they saw the Mobians and two robots fly over them before turning to the back seat, "I'm sure you're relieved as well that your friends are safe…Huh? She's gone."
"I'm Chris. I just got to be friends with Sonic, Roll, Sonia, and Manic last night," Chris introduced himself in his home's garage once more.
"My name is Sonia," the magenta hedgehog grumbled as she fixed her quills, "Stupid wind…"
"Sup, dudes? Name's Manic," the green Hedgehog chuckled.
"I'm Tails! I always hang around with Sonic. Right, Sonic?" Tails asked.
"Sort of," Sonic smirked proudly.
"Watashi wa Sakurai-Robotnik Roll," the hedgefox introduced, "These are my Niichans, Grounder and Cubot."
"Howdy!" the yellow and silver robot waved.
"He has a glitched voice box," Roll whispered.
"Hi!" Grounder smiled as Chuck was looking at his left arm.
"I'm Cream and this is my friend, Cheese," the rabbit introduced before they bowed, "Nice to meet you."
"Chao!" the littler one added.
"Yeah, same here. It seems we'll become good friends," Chris smiled before motioning to Chuck, "He's my grandfather, Chuck."
"Chuck? Sonic, he's got…!" Tail began.
"I know," Sonic frowned sadly.
"Fantastic!" Chuck exclaimed as he looked between Grounder and a tiny paper airplane with gold wiring patterns on it, "I've never seen such advanced robotic before nor have I seen such micron-sized radio controlled planes before."
"Something like this is no big deal," Tails grinned proudly as his namesakes shook happily.
"But…You're too reckless!" Chris scolded, "You're dealing with the military, you know! War could've broken out."
"It'll work out somehow," Sonic replied with a sagely look on his face…until Roll bopped him on the back of the head.
"That was for the comment just now," Roll said before pecking his cheek with a kiss, "That was for helping me with my sprained ankle."
"Oh! Uh…Er…I…Strawberries…" Sonic stammered as a blush formed.
"Do I hear wedding bells?" Manic snickered until Roll hit him in the nuts with a wrench she had in her backpack, "Oh! The pain…!"
"No, well, this is really fantastic. Where did you learn all this scientific technology?" Chuck asked as he leaned towards the fox.
"Sonic are you listening to me?" Chris asked.
"Where? All I can say is that I learned it in the world I came from," Tails replied.
"I told you it was dangerous to mess with a girl, Manic," Sonia scolded.
"So where is that world?" Chuck asked.
"Are you listening to me, Sonic? Sonic!" Chris called as he shook the hedgehog.
"I wonder? We were thrown into this world through a warp in space," Tails recalled.
"Hmm. Very interesting! Very, very interesting!"
"So how will we keep these two hidden?" Sonia asked as she pointed at Cubot and Grounder.
"I could just say I made a digging robot for Grounder while Cubot…He could stay in cube form when others are here," Chuck replied.
"Uh, Sonic. If you, I, Cream and Cheese, Grounder, Cubot, Sonia, Manic, and Roll were all affected by that accident, could it also be that…" Tails began.
"Your other friends could be here too?" Chuck guessed, "Could be. Chris and I just saw this periwinkle hedgehog at the military base while you were there."
"You saw mom?" Manic and Sonia gasped.
"Yes. She told me to tell you two and Sonic that she's glad to see her three kids getting along so well," Chuck laughed.
"Three kids?" Manic, Sonia, and Sonic repeated as they looked at each other.
"Sis, if this is Bro, then I'm stoked," Manic grinned.
"Not me. Have you seen his manners? It's almost like you, but slightly better."
"Weird…Uncle Chuck never told me I had siblings," Sonic frowned before tapping his chin, "The others who were there ate the time were Amy…"
"Don't forget Knuckles, Sonic, and also your apparent mom from what Chris's grandfather just told us," Tails interrupted.
"He was there, too?" Sonic groaned.
"There were also Decoe-niisan, Bocoe-niisan, Bokkun-kun, Coconuts-kun, Sleet-teme, Dingo-kun, Scratch-niichan, Orbot-niican, and…" Roll counted.
"Dr. Eggman/Uncle Ivo!" the Mobians and two robots exclaimed.
The tide began to rise as the sun set upon a quiet, tropical island. Embedded into a side of the island's main hillside was none other than Eggman's base. Multitudes of robotic spheres with optics were scanning the area. Within the structure, Eggman sat at a series of monitors with Sleet, Dingo, Bocoe, and Decoe surrounding him.
"Oh, so we were thrown into this world by Chaos Control, eh?" Eggman pondered, "Oh well. I'll establish the foundation for the Eggman Empire in this world. Then I'll expand my territory to other worlds! Sleet, take note of an idea I just had! An interstellar amusement park where we make entrance cheep, but stuff there expensive!"
"At once, my liege," Sleet kneeled before he went off to get some paper and a pen.
Mini Story: What is that?
*Chris is watching TV. Sonic, Sonia, and Manic poke their heads out from behind the curtains*
Sonic: Can we come out yet?
Chris: Yeah. Ella left a few minutes ago.
Manic: Why didn't you tell us we could come out then?
Chris: Roll asked me to do it for some reason.
Sonic: *sighs* 'She hates me…'
All three: *hop onto the couch with Chris as he turns the channel to Animal Planet*
Sonic: *sees a hedgehog being held by a zookeeper* What is that?
Chris: A hedgehog.
All three: Really? *take closer looks at the hedgehog*
Sonic: Where are his gloves and sneakers?
Chris: The show says that's a girl.
Sonia: Ew! She's nude? *slaps all three boys and changes the channel* You three are perverts. *stomps off, fuming*
Manic, Sonic, and Chris: Ow…