Captain James T. Kirk and his away team from the Starship Enterprise patiently awaited the return of their new acquaintance and a repairman who could supposedly fix the damages done to their shuttlecraft by a mysterious, hostile space station that floated just outside the atmosphere of the planet that they were currently stranded on.
After about fifteen minutes, the impatient Dr. McCoy complained, "Damn it, Jim, what the Hell are we doing? How do we even know this repairman of his can even fix this damn thing?"
Spock, agreeing with the doctor, added, "It is indeed a logical question. As the lieutenant stated earlier, this planet's technology resembles that of the early 2100s, which is significantly inferior to our own."
Kirk stated, "Don't worry, boys. I'm completely aware that their planet's technology is obsolete... However, they have demonstrated most strange abilities thus far. I think I'd like to see them take a crack at it.
Dr. McCoy walked a few feet away, swearing under his breath, while Spock simply replied, "Yes, sir."
After a few minutes, even Kirk's patience was beginning to grow thin.
He was considering attempting to find the nearest settlement when Sulu looked out toward the horizon and asked, "Captain, what's that?"
Kirk looked in the same direction and, sure enough, he saw a blue blur heading toward them at amazing speed, followed by what appeared to be a blue biplane. Sonic the Hedgehog skidded to a screeching halt next to the group as the plane landed nearby.
Dr. McCoy, obviously skeptical, asked, "A biplane? Is this what this planet is limited to?"
Sonic, somewhat annoyed by this remark, retorted, "The Tornado II ain't a regular biplane, Doc. 'Sides, it could probably take your tin can any day of the week."
Kirk smiled, interested by this proposal, said, "Oh really? What makes you so sure about that?"
Sonic said, "Well, for one thing, it was built by a guy who's got an IQ of 250 at age eight."
Cadet Carter and Lieutenant Sulu gasped as Dr. McCoy gave an almost angrily surprised look. Spock raised his signature eyebrow and Kirk simply gave an impressed grin.
Sonic turned toward the plane and yelled, "Hey Tails, over here!"
From that general direction, a young voice yelled back, "Coming!"
Rushing to Sonic's side was a yellow fox, just a little shorter than Sonic, with two tails protruding from his back.
Sonic said, "Gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to Miles Prower."
The young fox, embarrassed at the mention of his real name, said, "You can just call me Tails."
Dr. McCoy said, "You're the one who's supposed to be fixing our shuttlecraft?"
Tails rubbed the back of his head and said, "I can try."
McCoy whispered to Kirk, "Let me know how that works out for you."
Tails went to work inspecting the Galileo's damages, but after a few minutes, said puzzledly, "Sorry, but your technology is a little advanced for me."
Kirk looked at McCoy who simply shot him a glance that said I told you so.
Tails then said, "But if you have a copy of the blueprints, I can fix it real quick."
Kirk gave McCoy a cocky grin before answering, "Yes, I believe Lieutenant Sulu can pull up the blueprints on the main computer."
Tails smiled and said, "Thanks." before Sulu led him inside the Galileo.
A few minutes later, Sulu emerged followed by Tails holding detailed sketches of the shuttlecraft's blueprints.
Tails went right to work on the ship's damages as Captain Kirk sat down and said to Sonic, "Now then, while we're waiting, why don't you tell us just what's going on?"
Sonic said, "Meh, I guess so. If you're gonna get involved, ya might as well know the whole story."

Dr. Eggman paced back and forth across the room, trying to figure everything out. What had just happened? What was the white object that had fallen from the sky? Had Sonic planned it? Most importantly, how was he going to acquire the other Chaos Emeralds from his mortal enemy? None of this made any sense to him. He decided that the best thing to do was to check on his other plan's progress. He sat down at his large computer and typed in a few commands before a video of an empty room came on screen.
In the background, he could hear voices saying,
"Space... So much space."
"Would you get away from the windows?"
"Can't. Gotta look at all the space."
"Come on, the boss is trying to get a hold of us!"
The familiar images of a red, orb-shaped robot named Orbot and a yellow, cube-shaped robot called Cubot appeared on the screen.
Orbot said nervously, "Hello boss, how are things going?"
Eggman growled, "I haven't taken over the world yet, how do you think they're going?"
Cubot left the screen and began running through the background, yelling "Spaaace!"
Eggman grumbled, "What's wrong with him?"
Orbot answered, "Another voice chip malfunction."
"Spaaaace!"
"Anything I can help you with, boss?"
Eggman asked, "How's the progress on charging up the Egg Destroyer's laser cannon?"
"Spaaaaace!"
Orbot answered, "Still going slowly. The charge won't be complete for another twenty hours or so."
"Spaaaaaace!"
Eggman slammed his fist onto the keyboard, "Drat! At this rate, Sonic will get this last emerald I can activate it! I'll have to think of another plan. Any other news to report?"
"Spaaaaaaace!"
"Yes, sir. A small craft flew within range a few hours ago. The automated defense systems fired on it, but only managed to damage it before it landed on the surface. We traced its trajectory backwards to find that it came from a larger ship a ways outside of our firing range."

Eggman rubbed his head in confusion. He had finally found out what the white object that had cost him the Emeralds was, but he couldn't quite figure out why it or the other ship were here. Just then, he got an idea. He started laughing maniacally and began typing commands into another computer."
Orbot asked, "What is it boss?"

Eggman answered, "I'm going to find out just what kind of tricks they've got up their sleeves. Then, I'm heading up there. The Emerald is no longer safe here."
Cubot came onto the screen again saying, "Hey, hey, can I talk?"
Orbot protested, "No, why would I let you talk?"
"I wanna say something important!"
"Important about what?"
"Important about space."
"Not this again."
"C'mon, lemme tell him we're in space."
"He KNOWS we're in space!"
"But I gotta tell him all about space! Please, prettyprettyprettypretty lemme tell him about space!
"Fine!"
Cubot shoved Orbot off the screen and took center stage, saying, "Hey. Hey Doc. Hey Doctor. Hey, guess what?"
Eggman scowled, "What?"
"We're in SPAAAAAAAACE!"
Eggman yelled to Orbot, "SLAP HIM!"
Orbot's red hand came onto the screen and beamed Cubot in the back of the head.
A few sparks flew from Cubot before he straightened himself up and yelled in a high-pitched Italian voice, "YIPEE! It's-a me!"
Eggman groaned, "Just hang up."
The video faded off the screen as Eggman turned his attention to the other screen that read PROJECT: EGG VIRUS.

TO BE CONTINUED