CHAPTER 2

A Rescue Mission


Continuing to run at full speed through the jungle, Sonic was wearing a determined look on his face, as he wanted to rescue the girl that he had just daydreamed about before she was captured by Doctor Eggman.

"Darn you, Egg-Face!" Sonic said to himself, as he ran through the jungle, "If you dare turn that innocent mongoose into one of your robots, I'll make sure that I kick you teeth out with my foot, and dispose of whatever remains of them into a recycle bin!"

Although Sonic was quite angry at Eggman for kidnapping an innocent person and wanting to turn them into a robot through a dangerous machine, the blue hedgehog was thankfully not one to lose his temper, so it was really rare to see him get angry at anyone. However, what he doesn't know is that someone at some point later in his life will one day make him loose his temper or possibly get him angry, over something that he will not like.

Taking a sigh, Sonic got the anger out of his head and replaced it with determination that he and Tails would rescue the female mongoose from the evil hands of Doctor Eggman.

The mongoose that he had tried to rescue was one of the most beautiful girls that he had ever seen in his life. Normally, he wasn't one for romance, apart from the occasional and playful flirting, such as sometimes trying to act cool with Perci, but this mongoose girl that he met in the jungle gave him a different and warm feeling inside of his heart.

And right now, it was just giving him those strange yet warm feelings inside his chest once again, as he ran along the jungle path.

"T-That girl..." Sonic thought, as he ran on, "That mongoose was... b-beautiful. Her colorful flowing hair, and her eyes were... g-green, like mine. And her voice... her singing voice was just absolutely wonderful and beautiful. I've never heard a singing voice like that before on this island. But why does she make my heart thump on my chest?"

Sonic thought about this strange feeling in his body for a few seconds, before he shook it off quickly, knowing that it was not the time for thinking about these strange feelings, when the girl that he met was now in danger.

"Ugh! I've got to stop thinking about these strange feelings and speed things up!" Sonic said to himself, as he raced past the trees, heading for Tails' Workshop.

While Sonic was running at high speed through the jungle, inside his workshop, Tails was running into his large garage like workshop, where his beloved airplane, which was named the 'Tornado', was sitting inside the large room. It was painted dark blue and it had two side seats on it, with two small propellers sitting on the front wings. This airplane was discovered on one of Team Sonic's crazy adventures, and so Tails decided to take it with him to use for the team in future use, such as this forthcoming rescue mission.

"Hello there, old friend..." Tails said to the plane, giving a bit of a smile, as he placed an earphone communication piece on his ear, "It's time to start you up for a rescue mission."

Using his twin tails to lift himself into the air for a brief moment, Tails hovered over the over side of the Tornado, and sat himself down into the pilot's seat of the plane, and strapped in a safety belt in the chair, before pressing a few buttons on the dashboard of the plane. The engine started up and the small blue propellers were beginning to spin around, as the plane made a quiet yet lightly growling sound in its engine.

"Alright, let's see..." The six-year old fox said to himself, checking over the status of the plane, "Fuel is full to the brim, good. The propellers are working at 100%, excellent. The engine has plenty of oil in it, very nice. Landing gear is operational, great. And the wings are perfectly straight and the plane itself is all nice and clean. Alright! All is good to go, once Sonic arrives!"

Looking at his Wrist Communicator, Tails pressed a button on it, which then made the garage like doors open, showering the workshop with the bright sunlight from outside in the clear blue sky. It certainly was a very beautiful spring day today, to say the least.

Then, moving a gear stick forward, Tails slowly and carefully moved the Tornado out of the workshop, through the opened doors of his workshop, and brought it outside on the hill, where a runway like launch pad was seen at the edge of the cliff. An orange sock like slag was seen fluttering from a small pole at the end of the runway ramp, as most airports in the world have this sock flag stationed at the runways.

"Blue Leader, this is Yellow Sky..." Tails said, speaking into his earphone mic piece, "I have the Tornado ready and waiting outside my home. Just waiting for you to arrive, and then we can begin the rescue mission."

"Thanks, Tails!" Sonic could be heard responding through the headphone, "I'm almost there! Be ready to take off once I arrive at your location! We don't know what Eggman could do to that girl!"

"10-4, Sonic..." Tails replied, smiling, "Standing by for your arrival."

While Tails waited for his best friend to arrive to start their rescue mission, in the town, there were not many people seen walking around the village, because as said before for the last time, the money funding problems that Mayor Fink was going through prevented him from building anymore or any new huts and buildings for the town, as well as not having enough money to build a proper town hall. But one things for sure, at least it was quiet today.

Amy Rose, who was about 11 years old, was seen walking around town, holding her trustworthy hammer that just appears from nowhere at random times. Without her hammer in battles, Amy would believe herself to be useless or unhelpful, because if she was parted from her hammer for too long, then she would have a bit of a nervous breakdown.

Anyways, Amy was walking around with her hammer in hand, looking for Sonic, whom she secretly had a crush on. She didn't tell him about this though, as she wanted to keep it a secret, and be cautious about it, at least until she could one day muster the courage to admit her admiration for the blue hedgehog.

How long will that take? Well, probably about 20 years from now, at least.

"Where's Sonic?" Amy asked to herself, in concern, "I haven't seen him, since this morning when he went out for a run. Unless he's trying to compete for the Bygone Island Running Tournament next month, I just hope he returns soon. I want to try and ask him out to the 'Bygone Island Dance Under The Stars Event', tonight."

You heard that right, despite the money problems, there was an event going on, tonight, which was a 'Dance Under The Stars' event that was taking place for one night only. The event was that people, either on their own or with a partner, could dance under an anticipated starry night sky in the village, although the event was being set inside of a building. The proceeds of this one night event was to help raise money for charity, although despite Mayor Fink's insistence that the money should be raised for the town funding problems instead of charity, by 'his suggestion', none of the people in the town listened to him, and they chose charity over his 'suggestion'.

Why nobody was aware of Fink's greedy attempts of using others' money for the town funding is unknown. Most likely because they haven't taken any notice.

Anyways, Amy was walking and looking for Sonic, feeling a bit nervous about asking her secret crush to the dance. If there was one thing that she had hoped to do all week, is to dance with Sonic at least for one time.

Then, the pink hedgehog suddenly spotted a familiar blue blur racing through the trees and speeding for the main town. This meant that Sonic was hurdling towards the village at high speed, and Amy knew instantly that this could possibly be her chance to ask Sonic the one question about the dance tonight.

"There he is!" Amy said quietly, to herself, "Ok, now just be calm, Amy. Don't make any awkward movements. This is just Sonic."

However, just as Amy cleared her throat, about ready to ask Sonic her important question, Sonic was going so fast that he failed to notice her standing in front of him, and he raced straight past her like a lightning bolt. Although the force of Sonic's speed did cause Amy to get spun around like a top, making her feel dizzy.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Amy exclaimed, as her spinning slowly stopped, leaving her stumbling in a dazed manner.

But then, as Amy stopped spinning and tried to shake off the dizziness in her head, she was then passed by another speed demon, in which case it was the Knuckles Rocket, where the red muscular echidna was just returning to town, with a new rolled up letter in his hand, as he raced right past Amy, making her spin around in dizziness once again.

"Aaahhhhhh!" Amy screamed, as she was spun around again, making her more dizzy.

"Rocket Messenger, coming through!" Knuckles could be heard saying, as he raced away at high speed towards the ramshackle 'town hall'.

While Knuckles was racing into town with the message in hand, Amy finally stopped spinning around for good. She almost felt sick from the spinning cycle, as she was not quite used to very fast people going on past her, nor was she used to having anyone spinning her around. It certainly made her feel dizzy.

In fact, she was so dizzy that she couldn't even remember what she was going to do next. The world felt like a carousel ride spinning in slow motion, with children's laughter being heard in the background.

"Actually, I'll ask Sonic later..." Amy said, clutching her spinning head, "I think I need to lie down first."

With a bit of a dizzy stumbling about on her unsteady feet, Amy walked away to her pink hut home, a bit unsteadily and uneasily. Stars flew around her head, as she tried to keep her balance and keep in a straight line. Several people watched her from the sidelines, as Amy walked into town unbalanced.

While Amy went to lie down for a bit, Sonic was now approaching Tails' Workshop, as he then raced up the hill where Tails was waiting with the Tornado. As he ran up the hill at full speed, Tails took notice of Sonic's presence, as he started the engine back up on the plane.

It was time for their rescue mission to start.

"Okay, Tails, I'm here!" Sonic said, feeling determined, "Now, let's get to Eggman's Island Fortress, and rescue that mongoose girl!"

"Roger that, Sonic!" Tails replied, nodding, "Hop in! I'll have the two of us on his Island Fortress in less than five minutes!"

Nodding, Sonic jumped into the co-pilot's seat next to Tails, and clipped his seat belt on, as the six year old fox placed his goggles over his eyes and shifted the gear stick on the Tornado forwards, making the plane propellers rotate and making the plane move towards the launch ramp up ahead.

As the Tornado picked up some speed, the engine sound was sounding more louder. After some more seconds, Tails and Sonic braces themselves, as they approached air speed, before taking off from the launch pad, with the Tornado now flying away from the workshop, and heading over the town.

"Tornado is flying at 100% today, Sonic..." Tails said, "I checked over her, while I was waiting for you to arrive."

"Good, Tails..." Sonic responded, nodding, "Let's keep your plane in good condition and get to Eggman's lair."

Nodding, Tails turned back to flying his plane.

While Tails focused on flying his precious plane, Sonic was once again thinking about the mongoose girl. This time, the warm feeling was in his chest again, but the heart thumping thing was not happening. He was just really determined to rescue this girl and prevent Eggman from turning her into a terrible robot for his Eggman Empire.

"I just hope we're not too late..." Sonic thought, "That beautiful mongoose is too young to be a mechanical robot. We've got to save her."

With nothing more said, the brotherly duo flew away in the Tornado, heading from the town on Bygone Island, to the Island Fortress that was the home and lair of Doctor Eggman. Hopefully, their rescue mission will be successful, and they would hopefully rescue the mongoose girl before it was too late.


Elsewhere, Knuckles was now back with Mayor Fink and Reginald the Policeman. The fast echidna messenger had just nearly made a collision crash course with the makeshift desk, but thankfully, the large hole that he left in the ground when he took out, somehow managed to make him come to a complete stop.

While that may have been a close call to crashing into the desk, it did allow Knuckles to get close to his steel ball clamps for his ankles.

And trust me, when Knuckles almost collided with Fink and Reginald, the mayor screamed like a little girl when Knuckles looked like he could crash right into him. At least, Knuckles brought back the message from the mayor of the seaside village Emerald Coast on the other end of the jungle.

Right now, Knuckles was placing his clamps back on his ankles to keep himself from taking off all over the place like a crazed lunatic. He then gave Reginald the rolled up message, who in turn, gave it to Fink.

"Alright sir..." Knuckles said, clamping his legs down, "I've brought back the reply to your message from the mayor of Emerald Coast. I'm not sure if you will like the reply he wrote, but we'll only find out once you read it."

"No, it's not we'll find out... I'll find out..." Fink said, giving a bit of an annoyed glare to the echidna, "Now, get lost. I'll call you if I need another message sent with your super speed."

Normally, when people were told to get lost by a rude person, the more nicer person would just tell them to shut up or just say no. It was the usual and common response for someone to say or do, but since Knuckles was not really all that of a smart person to think about a comeback, he just nodded his head and made another salute to the small runt.

"Just call me when you need another message sent!" Knuckles said, before turning to walk away ...

... once again dragging the steel ball clamps behind on his ankles to keep him from taking off all over the place and to slow him down. Grunting in slight irritation, Knuckles left the ramshackle wooden 'town hall', dragging his leg iron weights behind him on his ankles.

"Darn it, Tails..." Knuckles muttered to himself, as he struggled while walking away, with the weights slowing him down.

Rolling his eyes, Mayor Fink took the rubber band off the rolled up piece of paper, and unraveled it to take a look at the message of reply from the mayor of Emerald Coast. The small fry man was hoping for a good piece of luck to be written on the reply. Reginald stood by Fink's side, over looking on the rolled up paper.

Fink finally looked at the message, which said the only three following words:

"No chance, cheapskate." - Signed the Mayor of Emerald Coast.

Mayor Fink just stared at the letter in stunned silence for a few seconds, before he sighed in frustration, crumpled up the message in his hands and tossed it into a dustbin, which was full of many other messages which refused to give the cheapskate mayor any money to fund for the town or the hall.

It's just a bit ironic that the Mayor of Emerald Coast would call him a cheapskate, as the two mayors most likely didn't have a good history in the past together. And there must've been some sort of slight ongoing feud between the two, because these two guys must've been different from one another to run two different towns on this island.

"Cheapskate! Unbelievable!" Fink muttered to himself, angrily, "One day, that Old Jerry will soon see that I can run a town with proper facilities and a smart town hall building, just as soon as I can get money for them."

"Uh, sir?" Reginald questioned, "Why not just borrow some money from the bank in this town? Surely, you can borrow some money from there?"

Fink just then blanks looked up to Reginald with a 'seriously?' look on his face. How could this little man just borrow money from the Unnamed Village Bank?

He practically runs all the buildings in the village, yet he cannot borrow money from it, as the other villagers would need to use the bank to use for withdrawals and bank account loans, just as well as paying their rent and water bills with money.

"Reginald..." Fink said, sighing, "Do me a favor and be quiet, please? I can't possibly borrow money from the bank. I run the bank."

Nodding, but feeling somewhat slightly confused by this response, Reginald did what the mayor requested and kept silent, as Fink went to use his quill pen to write on some paper in ink.


Meanwhile, with Doctor Eggman...

In Eggman's Island Fortress, the evil doctor had by now taken the girl he had kidnapped from the forest into his laboratory, where the mongoose girl had been strapped to a machine that the evil scientist had intended to use her in. She tried her hardest to break free, but the machine clamped her in tightly so she couldn't move. Tears of fear streamed from her eyes as she begged that this wouldn't be the end of her.

This girl had too much to live for than to be a terrifying mechanical robot, which was made to take away her free will and follow everyone of Eggman's commands.

"And now, the time has come! You, my dear, are about to become the first of one of my mechanical slaves!" announced Eggman, who laughed maniacally, as he stepped into the room with Orbot and Cubot accompanying him.

"WHAT!?" the mongoose screamed in horror, "NO! I don't want to become a robot! I'm too young to be a robot!"

"Oh, ho, ho!" laughed Eggman, "But don't you realize that being a robot can be exciting!? There's the fact that you cannot die! Unless, of course, someone had the nerve to blast you into a million pieces. Oh, whatever! Anyways, you will have the rare pleasure of becoming an everlasting mechanical being!"

"NOOOO!" cried the mongoose as she tried once again in vain to free herself from the machine, "SOMEBODY, PLEASE HELP ME! I DON'T WANT TO BE A ROBOT!"

"Too late, little girl!" replied Eggman as he stepped in front of the control panel, "Once I press this button, your time will come to become one of mine, and there's nothing that anybody can do about it!"

Then, just as Eggman was about to press his finger against the button that would start up the roboticizer, the door to the room suddenly banged open, and the two turned and saw a blue hedgehog staring at Eggman with an angry glare, as was the yellow two-tailed fox that stood beside him.

"Not if I have anything to say about that!" Sonic roared.

Eggman huffed in annoyance and crossed his arms while he stared down at his two archenemies.

"Well, well, well, look who it is!" Eggman said, in a sarcastic, yet angered tone, "It's none other than the blue pineapple and his yellow two-tailed fur ball, who have come to save the day!"

"We'll make you eat those words, Egg Face!" shouted Tails.

"Well, I beg to differ!" Eggman hissed back, "Once I've turned this pathetic girl into one of my first robot slaves, she'll have you eliminated within no time at all! You so t stand a chance!"

Hearing Eggman saying about turning the mongoose girl into a robot and then have her eliminate him and Tails, made Sonic's blood boil. There was just absolutely no way that Eggman was going to turn this innocent girl into a robot. Absolutely NO way!

"Let her go, NOW!" demanded Sonic, clenching his fist in anger.

At that moment, a horde of Motobugs and Buzzbots came swarming into the room like an army, apparently having been drawn in by Sonic's shouting.

"Ah, yes! Just in time to help me finish off these two pests!" said a satisfied Eggman, "ATTACK!"

"Psst! Sonic!" whispered Tails as he noticed the mongoose strapped in the roboticizer, "What do we do!?"

Sonic punched and kicked several robots that had charged at them, and he whispered back, "I'll deal with the robots and keep Eggman distracted."

One motobug aimed at Tails, but the fox managed to react quicker and swing his monkey wrench at it to take it out.

"Yes! I get that!" the fox said, still not understanding Sonic's plan.

"You go and save the girl from the machine, and take her to the Tornado as quickly as you can. I'll catch up with you once I'm finished here," finished Sonic.

"Roger that, Sonic!" answered Tails, now understanding the plan in their rescue mission, and he spun his twin tails and flew over the Motobugs and Buzzbots, before running to the roboticizer.

"Come get some!" screamed Sonic as he finally made his first real charge at Eggman's robots, taking several of them out with one charge.

Inside the roboticizer, the mongoose girl noticed Tails running right up to the machine. She could only assume that he was the hedgehog's sidekick whom had come to assist in rescuing her.

"Help me, please!" The scared mongoose begged, struggling in her trap.

"Don't worry, ma'am!" Tails assured, "We'll have you out of this thing in no time!"

With that, the two tailed fox got to work in disabling the machine any way he could. If there was one thing that Tails was best at besides flying, then it was fixing or sabotaging machines.

Sonic, on the other hand, was on a robot rampage, taking down robot after robot with every move he had. In just a few seconds, the army had been cut in half. Eggman simply pouted in disgust as he watched his army being taken down easily.

"You never know when to quit, do you!?" he pouted.

"Yeah, well, neither do you!" retorted Sonic as he dodged an attack and punched the attacking robot, "You're even worse when it comes to never quitting!"

"Well, how do you expect an evil genius to quit!?" argued Eggman, "He just hangs up his coat and walks into a random retirement home?!"

While Eggman was distracted by Sonic's fast moving reflexes and destruction of his small army of Buzzbots and Motobugs, Tails had managed to open a metal plate in the roboticizer, and inside he found the wiring that connects the machine into various places.

"Bingo!" Tails chuckled, and he ripped out the wires and cogs.

Within an instant, sparks came pouring out of the roboticizer as it malfunctioned and died down. The mongoose girl heard the machine powering down, and she could only gasp in relief, as the tears on her cheeks were seen shimmering from the slight crying that she had been through. She had almost lost her free will, if not for these brave heroes coming to her rescue.

Eggman had seen this, and he roared in fury, "NOOOOOOO!"

Then, Tails ran to the glass door and tried to open it, but it was still locked tight. Sweat poured from his head as he pulled as hard as he could, but the door wouldn't budge.

"UGH!" Tails panted, as he strained to pry the door open, "Sonic! I can't open the door!"

Sonic turned his attention to the roboticizer and saw that the mongoose was still trapped inside, and Tails couldn't open the door despite giving his best strength. Just as he saw another motobug getting ready to attack, he suddenly had an idea...

The speedster grabbed the motobug and threw it towards the roboticizer. Upon impact, the glass shattered, forcing Tails to crouch down and cover his head, and the mongoose to shut her eyes as she felt the machine disassembling into a thousand pieces. Once she felt her arms being freed, due to the clamps around her being loose from the machine's destruction, she crouched down and closed her eyes, waiting for all the noise to stop.

Soon, it was silent, and the mongoose opened her eyes and saw that she was no longer in the roboticizer. She looked back and found the machine in pieces. Then, she felt someone helping her back up, and she saw that it was Tails. Sonic then walked up to them, kicking another Motobug backwards in the process.

"Oh, thank you so much!" the mongoose cried happily, as she tearfully hugged both Sonic and Tails tightly, "Thank you to the both of you!"

"You're welcome," said Sonic quickly, knowing that now was no time for group hugs, "Listen, we don't have time for that now! Follow Tails quickly! He'll lead you to our plane!"

"Look out!" Tails shouted, as the six year old fox pointed behind the blue hedgehog.

Sonic's senses reacted quickly, and he saw another Motobug trying to run over all three of them. He simply charged right back with a Spin Dash, and the Motobug was in pieces.

"COME ON, YOU BUCKETS OF BOLTS! GET THEM!" Eggman screamed, who was already steaming from his machine's destruction.

"Um, sir?" the mongoose spoke to Sonic, but the blue hedgehog turned and looked sternly at her.

"Go! Now! I'll catch up!" he said, and he turned back to the remaining robots.

Before the mongoose could answer, Tails pulled her away and led her to safety, heading for the Tornado which was sitting outside, leaving Sonic alone to finish off the robots. It took no time at all for him to take out the last few robots, and before long, the whole room was in a dark plume of smoke.

"NOOOOOOO!" cried Eggman in defeat and despair.

Sonic made his way through the dark, thick cloud and walked right up to his arch-nemesis. The slight anger on the hedgehog's face did not let up at all.

"Let me make one thing clear, Egg Head!" he growled menacingly, pointing a finger right at his face, "No one, and I mean NO one ... messes with that beautiful girl or attempts to make her into a horrible robot! NOBODY! You got that!?"

"Argh, curse you, Sonic!" Eggman shot back, "You think this will convince me to leave her alone!? Well, I won't be quitting after this! I'll get you for this! You'll be sorry! Mark my words!"

"Oh, yeah!?" Sonic fired back, and he pulled on both ends of Eggman's mustache while glaring at him with slight hatred in his green eyes, "Perhaps, you'll be sorry the next time you try to harm that girl! I WILL make sure you pay for that! Mark my words!"

"Let go of my mustache at once, you miserable rodent!" shouted Eggman, but it was too late...

Sonic had managed to rip off the scientist's entire mustache, and he mocked Eggman's evil laugh as he walked away, tossing the two mustache pieces across the room as he made his way through the smoke and left the room.

"AAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Eggman's voice echoed throughout the entire lair, and Sonic simply laughed as he found Eggman's screams of defeat to be music to his ears.

Orbot and Cubot came back into the room, and they were greatly shocked to find their master without a mustache.

"Uh, ... w-what happened, boss?" asked Cubot.

"I think it's better put simply like this: He was defeated by Sonic once again, and the hedgehog thought it'd be funny to rip his mustache off as revenge for trying to harm a girl that he supposedly likes, from what I heard," explained Orbot.

"Will you two just shut up and leave me in peace!?" yelled a humiliated Eggman as he clumsily walked back to his room.

Soon, Sonic made it outside, and he was relieved to find the mongoose in the empty front seat of the Tornado as Tails was getting ready to fire up the engines again. Then, the fox saw Sonic approaching, where the six year old fox could sigh in relief, feeling glad their mission was completed.

"Everything's been taken care of here, lil' bro! We're outta here!" Sonic announced happily as he stepped onto the right wing of the Tornado, which was next to the mongoose girl, who was feeling relieved of being free from the person who kidnapped her.

"Great to hear, Sonic! Just in time for takeoff!" replied Tails energetically, and he fired up the engines and gradually lifted the Tornado into the sky.

As the plane left the rocky and disdainful Island Fortress, the mongoose girl looked carefully at Sonic and Tails, the two people who had just risked their lives and saved her life from being made into a life of a robotic future. She felt so happy that she was never made into a robot by force by Eggman, and she could continue to be free, just as long as nobody else try to kidnap her.

"Oh, thank you so much for rescuing me, you guys!" Said the mongoose girl, sitting in the front seat, "I thought that terrible man was going to turn me into a horrible robot!"

"We could never let that happen to you..." Sonic said, looking at the girl, with a warm feeling in his heart, as he then stuttered, "... Um ... w-what's your name?"

The mongoose looked at Sonic, before she stuttered nervously as she responded, "Um, ... my n-name is... M-Mina. Mina Mongoose."

"Mina?" whispered Sonic, staring at her in amazement, "That... T-That's ... a ... beautiful name."

Mina blushed upon hearing that comment, and she couldn't help but smile at the blue hedgehog, before saying, "T-thank you. What's your n-name, ... handsome?"

Sonic blushed a bit himself at being called 'handsome' by Mina, all the while as he heard Tails snickering quietly to himself, finding that to be a bit funny.

"My name's Sonic... Sonic the Hedgehog..." The blue hedgehog replied, scratching his head, "Nice to... meet you."

"That's a really nice name," smiled Mina, but then she noticed that Sonic seemed to be looking at her as if he was amazed by her stunning beauty, "Uh, S-Sonic?"

The blue hedgehog, who was almost looking lost in dreamland, quickly snapped out of his trance after hearing her voice again. What was up with him?

"Oh. Hehe. Sorry. It's just, ... I was ... daydreaming like I always do," he said with a nervous chuckle.

Tails only just managed to hold back a chuckle as he could tell that Sonic was clearly flabbergasted by Mina's appearance. Something that Sonic would have absolutely no reaction to any other girl or woman he would meet in the Unnamed Village.

"And, um, ... who is this little fox friend you have here?" Mina asked, out of curiosity, "He's very good at flying for such a young age."

"This is my little brother, Tails," chuckled Sonic.

"Hehe... Hi, Mina," said Tails as he briefly looked back at Mina and smiled before turning his attention back to his flying.

"Wait. He's your ... brother?" said Mina in astonishment, finding it unbelievable that a hedgehog and a fox could be brothers.

"I adopted him..." Sonic explained, "He quickly became my very special friend after I found him, and before long we became so close that I decided to take him in as my brother."

Mina nodded in response, and she thought that sounded quite adorable. It wasn't everyday a hedgehog would take in a young fox as his own adoptive brother in his own life. The mongoose found Sonic's small side for family matters to be very generous.

"Sonic, Mina, I'm going to have to drop you off in the jungle. Is that okay?" said Tails as the Tornado approached Bygone Island, "The Tornado needs a few adjustments made and I need the time alone to fix it up a bit."

"That'll be alright, lil bro..." Sonic replied, nodding, "What do you think, Mina?"

"Oh, yes..." Mina added, nodding in agreement, "I'm alright with that too."

"Alright," smiled Tails, "Hang on, I'm bringing her down."

The fox lowered the plane so that he was just above the ground a bit, avoiding any collision or contact with the trees as he did. Sonic jumped off the wing of the plane, before Mina stood up from her seat and hopped off onto the ground, walking up next to Sonic, while Tails flew off for home, as the hedgehog and mongoose stood in the middle of the jungle.

"See ya later, Sonic!" called Tails before he disappeared.

"See ya soon, Tails!" Sonic responded, and soon the Tornado was no longer in sight.

And with the two-tailed fox now out of sight, Sonic and Mina looked at each other for a moment, before they stopped the almost endless silence by starting up a conversation, and properly introduce themselves to each other...


And so, Sonic and Tails have rescued Mina from Eggman, but neither the hedgehog nor the mongoose can tell that there's something special bringing them together.

COMING UP IN CHAPTER THREE: Sonic and Mina start getting to know each other a little more.