SONIC THE HEDGEHOG: SUPER SONIC Z

CHAPTER THREE: FIRST MISSION

Ten years…that long has the villainous Dr. Eggman, formerly known as Julian Namgge, had control over most of the world. While there were few nations and kingdoms free of his reign, Eggman toyed with them, he knew that with the civilians trapped in the Badnik suits they couldn't attack directly. Also no one knew but him how to get the Badnik suits off. Also most of the territories he had taken were reduced to industrial and polluted wastelands.

But there was hope. Around the world, groups of rebels calling themselves the Freedom Fighters have been fighting back in any way they could. From the shadows, they have been performing quick hit and run tactics, guerilla-like strategies and sabotage works. It wasn't the fastest, but perhaps the most effective way. Though Eggman was crafty and he wouldn't go down anytime soon.

We are now taking a look at a particular Freedom Fighter group. And they'd soon go on their first mission. They had joined other Freedom Fighter groups in various missions, but now they're their own team and now they do their first mission as the Freedom Fighters of the Emerald Archipelago (containing South Island, West Side Island and Northern Island).

We can now see the same kids Julayla has offered to train a long time ago, now having grown into teens. Young Sonic was now one handsome young man, his blue quills long and stylish, sporting two metallic gauntlets around his arm. In these gauntlets secret components with provisions, a communicator and secret compartments were stored. Also they were great for punching. "Blue Blur for T-2, ball ready to get in motion." He said over his communicator.

Sonic was talking to his little brother, Miles Prower, but everyone calls him Tails these days for an obvious reason. His two tails were no longer mere cute fluffy ornaments. Now he used them to fly like helicopter blades. The young fox was the youngest, but he was incredibly smart and skilled with mechanics for his age. It was reflected by the brown gloves and boots and belt of tools, giving him the mechanic look, as well as the goggles and red scarf "T-2 for Blue Blur, I'm scouting the place right now! We need to blind the eagles." he said over his communicator. It was easy to see what he was referring too, as some flying robots patrolled the place.

"T-2 here, the eagles need to be blinded. Agent Bomberman, ready to make blind the eagles?" T-2 said. He was talking to the purple walrus Boomer, now referred to as 'Rotor' by anyone. He too was very smart and skilled in mechanics. He thought Tails the basics, but when Tails showed himself more adept then Rotor, he decided to put his skills to weaponry and demolitions. That's why besides a yellow cap he had nothing but belts and straps of bombs and ammo around his body. "Bomberman here, making the eagles blind." He said as he pulled out a bazooka like weapon and fired a missile at a radio tower, damaging it. The destruction of that tower messed up the sense of direction of the flying robots, making them fly into each other or crash into various objects. "Eagles are blinded, London Bridge has fallen, the King's horses and King's men are coming in. Prepare agent Sitting Duck." Rotor said back.

"Agent Sitting Duck, you ready?" Tails asked. "Agent Peking Duck here, ready for distraction." Muttski replied. The goofy canine still hasn't lost his strange speech pattern. Muttski was still a brown dog with black hair, now wearing a collar and some really weird orange and grey gloves. "No Muttski, you're Sitting Duck." Tails moaned, Muttski always forgetting his codename. "That doesn't matter, just distract them okay?" Sonic said over the communicator. Muttski saw the guard robots, who came to check out who took out the radio tower. Muttski jumped out of his hiding place, thinking: "Why is Muttski always the bait.", before he appeared in front of the robots and started singing: "Muttski's wild about Harry, and Harry's wild about Muttski…The heavenly blisses, of Harry's kisses, fills me with exta-Yaargh!" Muttski had to soon run away as the robotic guards chased him down.

"Sitting Duck has the King's horses and the King's man on his trail, agents French Fry and Walnut, prepare to make London Bridge fall down." Tails said, overlooking everything from above. Antoine, now a hansome young man, sporting blue pants, brown boots and a red shirt with an orange scarf, as well as bandages around his hands. "Agent French Fry 'ere, me and agent Walnut are going to make London Breedge fall!" he replied.

He was joined by Sally Acorn, now grown into a beautiful young woman. Her red hair was restyled, she wore a blue vest and boots, black shorts, a white t-shirt with an acorn symbol and black gloves with white fingers. "They're nearly there…" Sally said as she saw Muttski leading the robots into the trap. "Now!" she ordered as both she and Antoine caused a rockslide. Muttski turned around to the robots, waved and said: "Bye-bye!" before the robots were buried under the rocks. "London bridge fell down, ready to infiltrate Scrap Brain!" Sally said as she, Muttski and Antoine headed for the factory. Sonic, Rotor and Tails regrouped as well and followed them.

"Okay, listen up. Me, Tails and Sonic will go down the center of the factory to collect the data, while Antoine, Rotor and Muttski will save any prisoners they might find inside the factory. Keep communications open at all time, understood? But be careful, it's not because we took out the flying bots and the ground troops, there won't be security." Sally said, the others nodded in agreement. "Okay, then let's go!" she said as the group headed for the factory.

Sonic, Sally and Tails' group snuck around, staying clear of any hazards along the way. "Okay, how do we find what we're looking for?" Sonic asked. "Simple: the more security, the closer we are." Sally explained. "Then where that bunch of dumb-bots are patrolling, we're really likely to find it?" he asked as they saw a bunch of robots patrol, but they kept going in circles around the same place. "Most likely. You think you can distract them?" Sally asked.

"No prob, Sal." Sonic said smiling as he rushed off. He appeared as a blue streak in front of the robots, who only saw him briefly but were curious what the blue blur was and left their posts. They gathered in a group around a certain spot. "Yahoo!" Sonic was swinging on a hook chain and knocked the guard bots over, domino style. Then he curled up into a ball and spin-dashed them into pieces. "We're good to go." Sonic said as he gave a thumbs up to Sally and Tails.

They headed through the door and found themselves around a corridor. Tails puts on his goggles. "Stop! Invisible laser traps! Classic, but effective." Tails noted. "Can we disable them or bypass them?" Sally asked. "I see a switch in the distance. But you'll have to put your acrobatics to the test to get there aunt Sally." Tails explained. Sally had helped Sonic and Rosie raise Tails, causing him to refer to Sally as 'aunt Sally'. "No problem, can I borrow your goggles?" Sally asked. Tails handed the goggles, Sally used them to see the lasers, and then performed a set of flips and acrobatic tricks to bypass the lasers, get to the switch and turn them off. "Done!" she said.

Sonic whistled in admiration. "I love it when she does that." He commented. "You love everything she does." Tails whispered to him. "I know." Sonic said as they met up with Sally again. They headed down another corridor, and found themselves in a large computer room. "This is it, the mainframe of the Scrap Brain." Sally noted. "I can't almost believe it used to be my Uncle's lab." Sonic noted. It appeared he was going to let a tear drop, but he held himself in check. But Sally noticed this. "You miss him do you?" Sally asked. Sonic nodded.

"I'll just get started on this…see if Eggman has managed to pull some info out of Uncle Chuck's old mainframe." Tails said as he pulled out a laptop and connected it to the larger computers. "I don't know yet what defenses he has set up, so be prepared to cover me in case my hacking causes an alarm or something." Tails explained. "Will do, little bro." Sonic assured.

Meanwhile, Antoine, Muttski and Rotor headed for a different part of the factory. "I detect some bio-signatures, but they're vague and none of them come from the dungeons." Rotor noted as he checked his scanners. "And that means?" Antoine asked. "They're probably prepared for Badnik conversion, interrogation or experimenting. We have no time to lose!" Rotor said. Muttski raises his hand as he looked serious all of a sudden. "Something wrong, Muttski?" Rotor asked. "Muttski smells something…a few familiar scents. Not Badniks or robots." Muttski explained. "Lead us to it Muttski, it might be useful." Rotor said. "Follow Muttski's nose!" Muttski said excited as he pointed in the distance and led Rotor and Antoine to it. "He is so strange, non?" Antoine stated. "Yep, but his nose never lies." Rotor added.

They went down a few corridors, avoiding some robots along the way. They then came across a lab of sorts. The science drones working there were doing all sorts of things like managing equipment, mixing chemicals and collecting data. Rotor grabbed a bomb from his belt, tossed it and disabled all the drones with an EMP pulse. "That should keep them down for a while. Now Muttski, what was it you smelled?" Rotor asked. Muttski sniffed the air and pointed at a few pods in the distance. "There!" he said. The moved towards the pods. Most of the pods had a light that flashed red, but two pods' light flashed green.

"What's inside the pods?" Antoine asked. Rotor turned to a computer a worker drone was working with earlier. "Oh my Walkers…that's disgusting." Rotor commented. "What eez it?" Antoine asked curiously. "Eggman was experimenting with cybernetics, different from the Badnik suits, replacing organic bodyparts with cybernetics. But the process is disgusting and most of the test subjects died. The green lights indicate the only two survivors of the experiments." Rotor answered. "Mon Dieu, I am going to be sick." Antoine said, looking a bit pale. "Muttski is freaked out." Muttski said. "No time to lose, we need to save the last surviving test subjects, they're still Mobians and they need saving." Rotor said. "Who are ze subjects?" Antoine asked. "Dunno, their names aren't in the data banks. Eggman doesn't care about the names of his victims, he just calls them by code." Rotor said as he moved towards the pods. He rubbed the glass window in the pods, removing the damp as he saw who were inside… "Muttski, I think I know why the scents you smelled were so familiar…"

Tails started hacking away as he tried to pull as much data as he could from the computer. "Uncle Chuck sure was smart, Eggman hasn't been able to decode the data he left behind. I just hope I'll be able to do so at HQ once I gathered it all." Tails said as he continued hacking away. "Uncle Chuck must have left a clue of sorts for us, one we would understand. It has to be." Sonic said, clenching his fists. Sally puts a hand on his shoulder: "Don't worry, we'll get him back, I'm sure of it." She comforted him.

"Okay, I got all the files related to Uncle Chuck…I'm surprised I didn't trip any alarms while hacking." Tails said as he deconnected the cable from his laptop, only for an loud alarm noise to fill the room. "I shouldn't have said that." Tails moaned. "No matter, we got what we came for, now we got to scram!" Sonic said as the trio wanted to run off.

They ran through the corridors, but soon several Swatbots blocked their way. Sonic used his speed, in combination with his gauntlets to deliver some high-speed punches that scrapped the machines. Sally pulled out two sticks from her belt, which shifted into a pair of tonfa which she used to fight off the robots, skillfully destroying them. Tails, despite being young was trained by both Sonic and Sally and also had some combat skills. He used his tails as weapons to block any blows but also to cut through the Swatbots.

"Keep going, we can't slow down now." Sonic said. They had scrapped every robot in their way so far, but then they found a single robot blocking their path. He was tall, had a green and silver color scheme and was very mantis-like. "This one's new." Sonic noted. "Greetings, Freedom Fighters. My name is Slicer. Machine Gereral Mark I of the Eggman Empire." The robot greeted. "I'm Sonic the hedgehog and you are in our way." Sonic stated as he attempted to spin-dash into Slicer, but Slicer was smarter, stronger and faster than the average dumb-bot. He jumped aside and kicked Sonic in the side of his curled up form and pinned him to the wall with his foot.

"Though your quest is noble, I'm afraid I can't allow you to get away with your price." Slicer noted. "Try us!" Sonic said as he vibrated his molecules to break free from his awkward position and kicked Slicer away from him. Sonic attempted to punch him, but Slicer held his blade-like arms out to block the punch. "Go, I'll keep bugface busy!" Sonic said. "But…" Sally said. "We've got this far, we won't let it get ruined. Now go, I'll catch up later." Sonic said. Sally didn't like it, but they had no choice. The info they gathered is too important right now and they ran off, leaving Sonic to Slicer.

"Very noble of you, holding me off so your friends can escape. I have a feeling that from you I can get the fight I seek." Slicer stated as he swiped at Sonic with his blade arms. "If it's a fight you want, I'm glad to give you one." Sonic said as he dodged and spin-dashed in Slicer's gut, knocking him into the wall. But Slicer caught the curled up Sonic in his claws and tossed him aside. He tried to bring down his scythes, but Sonic caught them in his hands, before kicking Slicer in the gut and knocking him back. Sonic tried and Axe kick, but Slicer blocks using his arms. Slicer then tried to deliver a whole range of rapid swipes, but Sonic dodged them using his speed and reflexes. Sonic tried using several speed punches, but Slicer's reflexes were good enough to dodge all the punches. "You have skill, I won't deny that hedgehog." Slicer said. "You too, but there's much at stake here, so don't expect me to hold back." Sonic replied. "I wouldn't want you to, only when fighting one at their best, I can get the satisfaction I seek." Slicer commented.

Sally and Tails had ran further ahead while Sonic fought Slicer. But that didn't mean they were out of the fire just yet. Another robot blocked their path. This one looked as fearsome as the other, but this one was crab-based with a typical red color scheme. "Oh great, another one. Who are you? Seafood Supreme?" Tails asked. "My name is Crabmeat." He introduced himself. Sally and Tails busted out into laughter. "That's the most ridiculous name I have ever heard." Tails said. "What, I'm a crab! What did you expect. It doesn't matter, I'll skin you alive for breaking in the factory and stealing our research." Crabmeat threatened.

Sally prepared her tonfa as she said: "Try us. Tails, you go ahead, I'll deal with Crabmeat." "But aunt Sally…" Tails argued. "Remember what Sonic said, we came too far to give up now, so bring that data to the HQ. We'll join you later." Sally assured him. Tails nodded as he left. Crabmeat tried to give chase, but Sally blocked his path. "If you want to get to him, you'll have to go through me!" Sally taunted. "That's the idea, red!" Crabmeat said as he lashed with his claws. Sally rolled out of the way and smacked Crabmeat's backside with her tonfa, making him topple.

But Crabmeat recomposed himself and now looked pissed. He lashed with his claws, but Sally skillfully used the tonfa to block all the swipes before she delivered a few swipes herself, hitting her mark, sending Crabmeat stagger back. Crabmeat opened his scissors and shot two energy pellets out of them. Sally put her tonfa together, which became a bo staff, which she twirled around to deflect the energy blasts before struck Crabmeat in the foot, then the stomach, and then in the face. She then used a roundhouse low kick to send Crabmeat on his back, before she pointed the tip of her staff at his chin. "Yield, you have lost." She said.

Crabmeat looked really pathetic right now, as his mechanical face expressed fear. "I'm sorry, I give up, I promise I'll let you go, please don't hurt me." Crabmeat groaned. Sally removed her staff as she said: "Deliver this message to your boss: the Freedom Fighters won't lose to the likes of him." She wanted to leave, but Crabmeat said: "Wait, take me with you. You don't know what it's like to be a machine ordered around by that big fat oaf, I need a new life. Please…I'll be good." Sally hesitated and carefully approached Crabmeat. "Fooled you!" Crabmeat said as he sucker punched Sally, tossing her on the ground.

Then she felt a great pain in her lower back abdomen as she dropped on her knees in pain. She turned around and found her entire backside covered in blood, while Crabmeat held her severed tail in one of his claws. "You should learn to never turn you back to your foe." He said before he kicked Sally in the stomach. "I'll teach you a few other lessons now I'm at it." He said with sadistic glee.

Rotor, Antoine and Muttski looked in awe at the two dames in the pods. "Bunnie and Nicole…after all this time…we find them here." Rotor said, getting emotional. "We must awake them and bring them somewhere safe." Antoine said as he used his sword as a wedge to force open the pods. The two ladies fell out, Antoine and Bunnie catching them in their arms. They had changed a lot since the last time they saw them. Not only because they now were cyborgs, but also because they were now teens like them. Bunnie's hair was long blond and flowing, and despite her cybernetic lower legs, lower right arm, left arm, upper left half of her face and left ear, she could be considered beautiful. Nicole was still recognizable, but her eyes and her upper torso and arms were cybernetic like Bunnie.

"Bunnie, wake up." Antoine begged. Bunnie's eyes slowly opened as she instantly recognized her saviors: "Boomer? Antoine? Muttski? Is that you? Oh my gosh, I can't believe ah see ya afta all this time." She said. "We too. Oh, Eggman will pay for what he 'as done to vous!" Antoine said. "Nicole's waking up too." Boomer said. Nicole's cybernetic eyes opened, but there was something off about them. She roared like a tiger and clawed at them, they barely managed to dodge it. "Nicole, no, it's Boomer, Antoine and Muttski! Don't you remember Boomer, Antoine and Muttski?" Muttski said. Apparently Nicole didn't as she pounced at them, but Bunnie reacted by turning her left arm in a gun, blast Nicole and knock her out.

"I stunned her for now, carry her along as we ditch this place." Bunnie suggested as she barely got up, but still clearly struggled keeping her balance in her new form. "Nobody goes anywhere." A strange voice, sounding like buzzing growled. Something flew over their heads as they ducked to dodge. They then saw a wasp-like robot flying in front of them. "Buzzbomber is my name, and I'm master Eggman's best machine soldier. And I'm going to destroy you Freedom Fighters." He introduced himself. "Have you heard yourself talk? It sounds like a swarm of hyperactive flies!" Rotor mocked him.

"I know what you are but what am I?" Buzzbomber replied immaturely. "Look, we're over there!" Antoine said as he pointed behind Buzzbomber. "Oh, ok…" he said as he turned around, only to realize he'd been duped, cause when he turned back to where our heroes stood, they were gone. "Gr…I can't believe I fell for that." He said as he flew after them. He chased the four (five if you count Nicole being carried on Muttski's back. Buzzbomber aimed his stinger and fired it like a missile. Rotor turned around, tosses a bomb in front of the missile, and both blew up. Buzzbomber chased them, and despite his speed he was about to catch up. "I'm gonna get ya!" he buzzed.

"Look behind you, a monkey." Rotor said. "Oh no, not falling for that one again." Buzzbomber said. "You're right, it's just the wall." Rotor said. "Oh really?" Buzzbomber said dumbly as he turned around. "You're right, it's the wa…hey!" Buzzbomber groaned as he realized he'd been duped again. He wanted to give chase, but he heard some beeping coming from his back: Rotor has planted an explosive. "Oh Crud!" BOOM!

Sonic was fighting Slicer and the two seemed to be matched. But then Sonic heard a familiar scream down the corridor: "Sally! Sorry, knife guy, but someone needs me right now!" Sonic said as he vibrated his molecules through a wall and headed towards Sally. Slicer was awfully calm about it. "Such interesting creature, a true example of horror, abandoning the fight in favor for his loved ones. I'm glad to have fought him, and I hope my path shall cross his one soon again." Slicer said.

Sonic arrived on the scene where Sally had fought Crabmeat, who had Sally up by his neck in his claws, holding her severed and mangled looking tail in his other claw. "Sal…" Sonic said in panic. "Your girl was such a fool, I pulled up the whole 'I'll be good, don't hurt me' routine and she fell for it, now she paid the price with her tail." Crabmeat mocked. Sonic wanted to move towards Crabmeat to hurt him, but… "Na-ah, one more step and I snap her neck like a toothpick!" Crabmeat warned him. Sonic couldn't do anything.

But something surprising happened: something silver flew by, knocked into Crabmeat's arm, and made him let go of Sally. Sonic didn't waste any time and spin-dashed into Crabmeat, who staggered back. Sonic picked up Sally and ran off with her, but not before saying: "Good for you I don't have time, but next time I see you, I'll make crab salad out of you." Crabmeat growled as he saw the two escape. Then Crabmeat saw a familiar face entering the room.

"Slicer! You let them escape! I could finish them, why did you stop me?" Crabmeat growled. "Because the way you scored your victory is dishonorable, you have not bested her in a fight, but through dirty trickery, and that should be no way to win." Slicer answered. "I don't care, they are the enemy, we need to destroy them." Crabmeat growled. "We will…but not today, but at the right moment, when the great honorable fight finally comes. That's the true way to go for a warrior, and I want to grant them a respectful dead." Slicer said. "Master Eggman won't be glad with you." Crabmeat said. "Neither with you…" Slicer reminded him.

Tails had managed to be fine on his own, slicing through Swatbots and making his way out of the Scrap Brain. He flew in the sky, looking out for his friends. He then sees Rotor, Antoine, Bunnie and Muttski with Nicole on his back, and then Sonic carrying Sally. "Guys!" Tails said, waving at them. He then noticed Bunnie, Sally and Nicole. "I see you managed to save some prisoners and…geez, what has Eggman done to them? Oh my Walkers, aunt Sally…" "No time to discuss, we must get back at Freedom HQ, they need medical attention." Sonic said. The heroes ran off, Rotor pulling out a switch "I left a little surprise before I left!" he pushed a button and the factory exploded behind them…

At the HQ, Sally got tended to by Rosie. The remains of her tail were bandaged up. "There, you need to take it slow for a while but you'll be fine. I'm sorry this had to happen on your first mission by yourselves." "It's nothing, what is one tail when we gained so much more, we got the data and we got our long lost friends back." Sally said. "Oh ah can't believe it this is happenin'. After all these years of slavery in the mines, and horrible experiments, ah am back with ya guys." Bunnie said, tears flowing from her organic eye. "Too bad Nicole's mind is a bit messed up. I think the cybernetic implants don't connect with her as well as you." Rotor stated.

"No worries, I'll hack her brain implants with my laptop and undo some of the programming." Tails said as he connected his laptop to an implant in Nicole's neck. "Ah can't believe how much the little sugah-fox has grown. It musta have been longer then I thought." Bunnie said delighted. "We are all glad to have you back." Antoine said. "You're such a sweetie, sugah-Twan…ah must say puberty was really kind to ya." Bunnie said as she then stared at her cybernetics. "Ah can't say the same." She added sadly. "Hey, you're still Bunnie on the inside are you?" Boomer assured her. "You're right. And now I'll make that Egghead pay, and ah'll use my cybernetics as a weapon against him." Bunnie said confidently.

They then saw Sonic sitting at Sally's side at her bed. "Is there somethin' goin' on between Sonic and Sally-girls?" she asked. "Yep, but they're too shy to admit." Boomer said. Sonic spoke to Sally: "I'm sorry I left you behind Sal. If I wasn't busy fighting the mantis dude, I…" he said. "No, it was my own fault. It was a robot, but I showed him remorse, and he took advantage of that. I was weak…" Sally argued. "You're strong Sal, you don't kill because you can, that's Eggman's job. You'll be back on your feet in no time and kick his crabby can." Sonic said. The two looked each other in the eyes, and they moved closer to each other…

"Muttski made buns!" They moved apart, while everyone looked sour at him. "Muttski came at a bad time?" Muttski asked obviously. "I can't hack her cybernetics…there is something off about it. Wait, maybe I can find something in Uncle Chuck's data that might help." Tails said as he put the disc in the computer. But then the whole thing short-circuited and Nicole's body spazzed, before the eyes went dim. "Oh no, what have I done, I killed her." Tails said in panic. "Ouch, my head…" a familiar voice said. Tails looked at the screen of his computer and was surprised to see Nicole's form without cybernetics appear on the screen.

"Nicole?" Tails asked. "Tails? Is that you? Wow, you've grown. You finally managed to save me from Eggman's clutches, thank goodness…but why am I in this odd room?" Nicole asked. "Er…Nicky-gal…you're not in a room." Bunnie explained. Nicole then saw her body lie down. "Wait, I'm here, but I'm also there…" Nicole said surprised. "Your mind has been transferred in my computer…it must have been some sort of program on Uncle Chuck's files." Tails explained.

"So, I'm a program now. No, not now, always was. I was just a program, but I combined with the brain patterns of the real Nicole…she was far gone, her body rejected the cybernetics, she would have died anyway. I am a backup of her mind, nothing more. I'm not the real Nicole." Nicole said as the realization struck her. "No, you're still our friend Nicole from long ago." Sally assured her. "No, I'm not. I'm sorry, but I can't be a replacement of the real Nicole. I'm a program meant to decode the files of Charles Hedgehog, I became sentient through a stupid accident. Your friend is dead, mourn her, but don't get attached to me. I'll just fulfill my purpose by aiding you with these files." Nicole said.

"But…" Sonic argued, but Nicole didn't listen. "Please don't! It's not up to debate. You managed to at least save Bunnie and acquire this valuable info, and you can make most of it by letting me do as I was programmed. You already accomplished a lot, and probably, the real me will not be the last casualty you suffer. So please, celebrate this victory for now, don't mind me…"

At Eggman's lair in the Metropolis Zone, a repaired Buzzbomber, Crabmeat and Slicer appeared in front of their master. Eggman now had cybernetic eyes with black scleras, metal ears and a cybernetic arm due to incident with Charles years ago. "Can anyone explain how a group of rookie freedom fighters managed to infiltrate my factory and steal not only valuable data but two of my only surviving test subjects?" he growled. The robotic monkey that was on his shoulder hissed at them.

"I had one of them, but Slicer stopped me from killing her." Crabmeat argued. "He had lost his fight with her but refused to accept it and used a dirty trick to get her, my honor couldn't allow that." Slicer said honestly. "You see, he betrayed you." Crabmeat said. "Oh, who is the one who tried to put rat poison in my coffee five times this month?" Eggman argued. Crabmeat went silent. "Tell me exactly what happened Slicer…" Eggman asked. "Well, first there was this blue hedgehog…" Slicer said. "Blue hedgehog? It can only be that nephew of Charles, how delightful. You know, Slicer? You did good by letting them live." Eggman said.

"WHAT?" Buzzbomber and Crabmeat said surprised. "I couldn't access Charles' hidden files for years, but maybe his relatives can. They'll decode them, and they'll set off for new missions. All we need to do is to keep a close eye on them, study them and strike when the time is right. They'll save me a lot of trouble." Eggman explained. "I can't believe it, even when he does bad, he does good." Crabmeat moaned, being outshined by Slicer. "But I'm the best, not him, I am!" Buzzbomber buzzed.

"You got blown up by the walrus!" Crabmeat argued. "They cheated!" Buzzbomber argued. "Silence! You are dismissed. I'll prepare my next plan while you wait for further instructions." Eggman belted. The three generals left, Slicer bowing politely before he did. "So…little Maurice and his band of friends think they can take me, Coconuts?" Eggman said to the robotic monkey on his shoulder, who jumped on his desk before Eggman pets him, making the robot monkey squeal in delight. "Well, the last few years have been boring as far as conquest go, but Charles' nephew might…amuse me. I want to see what he can do, it makes destroying him in the end all the more enjoyable." Eggman said before he laughed evilly.

END OF CHAPTER THREE