Since the party to celebrate Nova's anniversary, things had been more normal, depending on how you define normal. Even though Sonic and Shadow had terrified Eggman with their Ascended Super States, he was still at it. Currently, he was in the ruins of the Death Egg looking for DNA samples from Sonic and Shadow he'd collect a few years back. He sighed in frustration, "I suppose dad was right, I should have minored in business administration... I'll never find those DNA samples at this rate, and lord knows dumb and dumber won't help." referring to Cubot and Orbot, who were looking through the rubble with little success.
Little did Eggman know, Shadow had swiped the samples during the last attack on the Death Egg. He was using a machine he managed to convince Topaz to let him borrow to analyze the DNA samples to further his research. He had managed to 'borrow' an analyzer from G.U.N. and was waiting for the results. Rouge walked into the room and asked, "Still going along with it?"
Shadow sighed, looking at his wife, "I know, I'm obsessing a bit. But you know how I am once I've set my mind to something, I never give up."
Rouge nodded and kissed Shadow's cheek, "Of course I know about your persistence, it's one of the reasons I fell in love with you. Although, it can be more of a con than a pro at times. But... G.U.N has thousands upon thousands of files, how do you think you'll get the ones you need?"
As Shadow was about to answer, the machine beeps and printed out a piece of paper. Shadow read it aloud, "First sample recognized as member of native species to Hedgonia. Records show Hedgonia was destroyed 50 years ago by Dark Oak. Second sample is hybrid between Hedgon and Black Arms." He looked shocked, he knew that he was partially alien, but Sonic and Amy, and by extension their families? That wasn't something he expected. He looked at Rouge and asked, "How am I going to tell them?"
Rouge sighed and thought for a moment before saying, "It's certainly not something anyone would expect to hear, you're an alien. But we have to tell them at some point. They already know about your research, and since it involves them, they'll want to know about the results. I'll call Amy later and talk to her to see if we can set something up with them, and Nova should know too."
Shadow nodded, "Something that I've never thought about, our Super States, none of the others can do them. They all have similar forms, but the Super State may be exclusive to Hedgons."
While Shadow was thinking of a way to tell Sonic and his family they were actually aliens, Sonic was on a rescue mission. A distress beacon had been activated deep in the Mystic Ruins. Sonic ran through the ruins as Tails communicated to him via his wrist communicator. Tails came onto the communicator and told Sonic, "You're close to where the beacon was set off from. That area's full of dangerous traps, so be careful."
Sonic snickered and replied, "Come on Tails, what fun is it if I don't have a challenge?"
Tails sighed, "Fine, but if you're going to set off traps, at least try not to get yourself killed, I don't want to have to tell Amy she's a widow."
Sonic rolled his eyes as he dodged all sorts of traps, fire, arrows, closing walls, any trap you could think of, they were there. As he got to the epicenter of the ruins, he heard a beeping. "That must be the distress beacon." he ran over towards where he heard the beeping and found a pile of large rocks. He thought for a moment, "These rocks are way too heavy for me to move myself. A chaos blast could easily help, but it might cause more rocks to fall. I'll take it easy for now." he charged up a small sphere of chaos energy in his hand and tossed it at the rocks, causing them to crumble into pebbles.
Suddenly, a robotic voice spoke, "Adequate room available to engage escape measures." the rest of the rocks soon crumbled to dust as a robot excavated itself from the rocks. The robot saw Sonic and said, "Thank you for your assistance. I am Emerl, RA Unit number 572. Shall we commence departure?"
Sonic smirked and said, "Sure thing, if you think you can keep up!" before running off.
Emerl was surprised by Sonic's speed, but his eyes lit up, "Adapting to enhanced speed." before running after Sonic.
As Sonic saw Emerl catching up to him he smiled saying, "Let's see if you can keep up when I go super!" He quickly went into his Super Sonic form and went even faster.
Emerl's eyes lit up again as he spoke, "Adapting to new form." His orange metallic body turned silver, and his blue eyes turned the same red color as Sonic's "Adaptation complete." soon enough, he caught up with Sonic again. "RA Unit, Robot Adaption. I am able to adapt to any situation based on the effects of others in my environment."
Sonic laughed, "Not sure what that means, but it sure is cool to have someone who can keep up with me!"
As the two escaped the ruins, they powered down to their normal forms. Emerl thanked Sonic, "Thank you for assisting me in my escape from the Mystic Ruins."
Sonic smiled, "No problem Emerl!"
Tails flew over to Sonic and Emerl and asked, "Is this the guy who set off the distress beacon? I've never seen a robot like this.
Sonic nodded, "Apparently he's some sort of RA unit. He could keep up with me in my super form."
Tails' eyes widened in excitement as Sonic mentioned Emerl was an RA unit. "An RA unit!? I've always want to study one of those! Emerl, wasn't it? You probably need a place to stay. Would you be like to come stay with me and my family? We have an extra guest room, and I could help you with any repairs you might need."
Emerl nodded, thanking Tails, "Thank you for your offer. I gratefully accept."
As Tails took Emerl back to his house in Mobotropilus, Sonic went back home to meet Amy. When Sonic arrived home, he called out, "Hey Amy, I'm home!"
Two days remain until Chaos arrives on Mobius. With a new powerful friend, will Sonic be able to prepare himself for the approaching God of Destruction?
