Last time, Sonic stumble upon a field of tall sunflower, where he faced a female yellow cat named Honey who was part of the bounty. As the two face off, Honey manage to get the upper hand and deliver a devastating blow to Sonic, knocking him down the ground. Honey did not finish off Sonic however, for Honey had a reason to join the bounty which she told Sonic, who manage to solve Honey's problem giving her the diamonds he found after his fight with Bark. Ensuring Honey that all of her problem will be solve. Sonic then found himself hungry and went into the jungle to find some,where he faced an old enemy Nack the Weasel or Fang the Sniper as he liked to be called. With the help of his new spider monkey friend Clark, he manage to beat Fang and his Marvelous Queen blowing them away with one of Fang's missile. Now that all of the bounty hunters are taken care of, Eggman is the last opponent he has to face on the top of the volcano before the mad scientist covers the island with lava.
30 minutes till the volcano erupts
After Sonic left the jungle and saying goodbye to his monkey friend, the blue blur was now running up the huge volcano, only half way there to the top. Sonic looked at the once blue sky that has now starting to become red and orange. "The sun is about to set soon I better speedup." Sonic thought in his head.
As Sonic was about to use his super boost, he suddenly saw an army of Egg Pawns and badniks coming his way down the volcano. "So Eggman is trying stall time from me reaching the mountain. Well see about that, it's show time!" Sonic charging at the army of robots.
Both Sonic and the army of Eggman's mechs faced on, Sonic used his homing attack, blue tornado, sonic winds, light speed dash and his speed boost knocking out every robot on his way, but no matter how much Sonic took out Eggman's mechs, they just kept on coming back, blocking his way to the top of the volcano.
"If they just keep on coming, I won't make it in time." Sonic said starting to sweat as he looked at the orange sky. Sonic then suddenly saw a figure gliding towards him. The figure landed next to Sonic revealing to be none other than Honey the Cat.
"Honey what are you doing here?" Sonic asked surprise to see Honey. "Ain't it obvious, I'm here to help you." Honey said getting in her fighting position as she and Sonic were surrounded by Eggman's army of badniks and egg pawns.
"Alright then, this should be fun." Sonic said excitedly as the army of mechs started to attack the both of them. Sonic and Honey gave each a smile as they started to charge at the army with their with best attacks.
The battle with mechs didn't last long as the two worked together, almost like an unstoppable duo. With broken robot parts around them, making the area look a robotic graveyard, Sonic and Honey finished beating the last set of robots.
"Woo thats was fun while it lasted." Sonic said putting his hand up high for a high five from Honey, which Honey gave one to Sonic. "You have some good fighting skills back there, where do you learn to fight like that?" Sonic asking. "Thanks, I learned to fight from…" Honey was cut off as she and Sonic looked behind them to see another pack of robots heading towards them.
"Don't these guys ever learn to quit." Sonic said annoyed that more were coming. "Sonic you go ahead and reach the volcano I'll take care of all them." Honey said pushing Sonic to the direction to the top.
"Are you sure?" Sonic asking if Honey was up to the task. "Trust me, these rust buckets are nothing compare to me. You just have to stop Eggman from covering this island with lava, we don't have enough time left." Honey said giving Sonic a serious face. Sonic nodded, beginning to run to the top. "Take care of yourself okay!" Sonic shouted to Honey making his way to the top.
By the time Sonic got to the top of the volcano, it started to rumble as Eggman popped out from the crater of the volcano with a giant machine shape like a phoenix hovering above the crater.
"Why hello Sonic, I see you manage to reach the top." Eggman said as his Eggmobile was the head of the phoenix machine. "Alright Eggman, I beat your little contest and your bounties you might as well give up before things get ugly between you and me!" Sonic shouted at the flying phoenix in front of him. "Ho ho ho ho, but Sonic the contest isn't over just yet, not until you beat my: Egg-Phoenix!" Eggman stated.
"For you see, there is a machine reactor in the bottom of the volcano's crater and I have the trigger to activate it." Eggman showing Sonic the trigger. "If you don't beat me in ten minutes, then you and along with Muna Island will be covered by lava, thus getting rid of you will make my one step to world domination closer ho ho ho." Eggman cheerfully laugh. "Yeah like thats ever gonna happen Eggman." Sonic said doubting Eggman's plan.
"Let's get this party started!" Sonic said his trademark grin on his face. Eggman made his first attack making his Egg-Phoenix throw its huge flaming feathers at Sonic. Sonic dodging the flaming feathers by doing some quick cart wheels to avoid the flaming feathers.
"Come on, is that the best you can do egghead." Sonic mocking Eggman's attack. "Why you little you rodent. Get a load of this!" Eggman pressed on one of his buttons on the Egg-Phoenix.
"Wow, haven't heard you said that while...WOAH!" Sonic was taken surprise as the Egg-Phoenix unleashed a long stream of fire came out of the phoenix's mouth. Sonic quickly ducked down matrix style as the stream of fire almost reached his face inches close.
Sonic carefully moved out the range of the blast, quickly charging at the Egg-Phoenix as it was too busy releasing its stream of fire, giving Sonic the chance to attack. Sonic jumped doing a homing attack at the Egg-Phoenix weakness, which was Eggman's cockpit.
"Take this!" Sonic said as he attack Eggman's cockpit causing the Egg-Phoenix to malfunction a bit. "Grrrr...you'll pay for that." Eggman scolded the blue hedgehog. Eggman then made his Egg-Phoenix fly high into the sky as it did a dive attack with the beak aiming for Sonic.
"This should be interesting." Sonic said with a smirk as he watch the Egg-Phoenix rapidly coming down towards him with huge force. "Steady Sonic steady." Sonic said in his thoughts as he was ready for the attack. "Your through Sonic!" Eggman shouted as the Egg-Phoenix made impact.
Eggman then looked around to find any sign of the blue hedgehog still around but didn't. "Yes! I did it! I finally beat that hedgehog! Ho ho ho." Eggman said as he started doing a little celebration dance in his cockpit.
"Yo eggy looking for me." Hearing this made the mad doctor stop his dance as slowly looked to the left to find the blue hedgehog leaning on the side of the Egg-Phoenix's head with one arm. "How? How did you survive that attack?" Eggman asked. "Because we're Sonic Heroes." Sonic said mockingly making the doctor both confused and angry.
Eggman quickly tried to get his machine to move, but couldn't as the beak of the phoenix was stuck on the ground making Eggman worried and stuck. "Awww...what's the matter Eggman, can't move?" Sonic said teasing as he walked slowly to the cockpit. Eggman was really getting scared as Sonic got close, cracking both his knuckles.
"Here Eggman, allow me to help." Sonic said with a sly smile on his face."*Gulp*." Eggman swallowed his saliva in fear, sweating heavily. Sonic quickly did multiple homing attacks and kicks causing the machine to have major damage.
After taking big damages from Sonic, the Egg-Phoenix's beak finally came out of the ground. Eggman quickly then made the Egg-Phoenix fly high in to sky with a different strategy.
"THAT'S IT!" Eggman shouted angrily. "I'm going to put an end to this once and for all!." Eggman angrily pressed multiple buttons unleashing a massive amount of missiles at Sonic from the Egg-Phoenix's chest.
"Like thats going to work." Sonic quickly jumped on one of the missile, riding it like one of his extreme gear steering it straight at Eggman, while avoiding all the others missiles. "Hey Eggman!" Sonic shouted coming closer to Eggman's cockpit.
"Get a load of this!" Sonic mocking Eggman's phrase as he jumped off the missile hitting the Egg-Phoenix causing it to go haywire. "Nooooo! Eject eject!" Eggman pressing the eject button madly multiple times hoping he would get out of the Egg-Phoenix before it malfunctions to explode.
Eggman manage to eject the cockpit with his Eggmobile as the Egg-Phoenix started to explode in the sky. Sonic watching the machine explode then realize he was falling from the sky as pieces of the Egg-Phoenix were falling as well.
"Oh crud, I was so determine to beat Eggman that I forgot I was falling, usually Tails would just pick me up on the Tornado at a time like this." Sonic said falling. Sonic had a few seconds left as he quickly grab the edge of the volcano's crater with one his hand, while beneath him was a pool of lava 100 feet below.
"Gotta get up." Sonic said struggling to get up from the edge. "Ho ho ho well look what we have here." Sonic eyes widen as he saw the mad doctor above him with Eggmobile.
"It looks like you're quite in a pickle Sonic." Eggman said mocking. "To make the situation worse, I'm gonna active the volcano anyway." Eggman said. "No fair Eggman, I beat your stupid contest and your stupid machine!" Sonic said still struggling to get up.
"Well guess what Sonic? Life is not fair, deal with it." Eggman said coldly. "You only have a couple minutes till this volcano erupts. With that being said, I'll be leaving now. Making my plans of world domination when you're gone." Eggman flew away from the scene with his Eggmobile.
"Can't...hold on..much..longer." Sonic couldn't hold on any longer making him let go of the edge, but was quickly grab by someone. Sonic looked up to see that it was Honey holding on to him.
"Don't worry Sonic I got ya." Honey said pulling up the blue hedgehog from the edge."Thanks Honey." Sonic said as he got up from the ground. "You can thank me later, right now we have to stop the volcano from erupting." Honey said.
"Eggman said that there was a machine reactor in the bottom of the volcano which will cause it to erupt. If I can get to the reactor, I can stop it from erupting the volcano." Sonic said looking at the bottom of the volcano's crater.
"Then theres no time to waste." Honey jumped into air gliding and grabbed Sonic under his arms, taking him by surprise. "Hey what are you doing?" Sonic asked. "I'm taking you to the bottom to find the reactor to stop it." Honey answered back. "Oh….okay then, let's roll." Sonic said as Honey dive down into the crater with Sonic.
The two looked inside the volcano as Honey glide their way around. "Sonic are sure you know how to stop the reactor." Honey unsure if Sonic can do it. "A friend of my taught me a few things about machinery in case he's not around or in a situation like this ever happens with Eggman." Sonic stated.
"Sonic, look! I think I found the reactor." Honey said making Sonic look at the direction where Honey was seeing. Sonic saw the huge red reactor, as steam was popping out of it like a train with a countdown meter on it.
"Drop me off next to it. I'll take care of the rest from here." Sonic said as Honey nodded and dropped Sonic next to the reactor. Sonic then started to press the buttons on the reactor as he only had 30 seconds left according to the time on the reactor.
Honey then glided next to Sonic has he was doing the best he can do to stop the reactor. "Sonic are you really sure you know how to stop it!" Honey shouted feeling scared as the volcano started to rumble.
"Yes, I'm reversing the polarity of the neutron flow." Sonic cheerfully answered making Honey confuse on what he just said. "What does that suppose to mean!?" Honey asked. "I don't know." Sonic said continuing pressing the buttons on the reactor.
"I think it means….THIS!" Sonic shouted pulling down the lever on the right making the countdown stop, leaving five seconds to spare and the rumbling to stop. Both Sonic and Honey sigh in relief that they're able to the stop the reactor in time. "Well ain't that a relief." Sonic said giving Honey a thumbs up.
"I think my heart stopped pumping for a few seconds." Honey said placing her hand on her chest. Sonic couldn't help but laughed at what Honey just said, making Honey join in the laugh as well. After laughing for a good minute, Sonic spoke up.
"You know Honey, I think this a start of new a friendship." Sonic then hold out his hand for a handshake. "Friends?" Sonic said with a smile. Honey gave Sonic a warm smile as she extended her hand to shake Sonic's hand. "Friends." Honey said as the two continued to shake their hands.
"Now that Eggman's plan is foiled, now all we have to do is get out of this island, but Eggman blocked all communications on this island." Sonic as he stopped shaking hands with Honey. "Eggman may had lied about that." Honey said making Sonic look at her with hope.
"Really how?" Sonic asked. "Well, he block any communication that you may have, but Eggman gave me and the rest of bounties communication watches to talk to one another to keep track on you. If we can maybe wired my communication watch, we might be able to get a signal for help." Honey stated showing Sonic her watch.
"Awesome, but first let's get out this volcano. I'm starting to sweat down here." Sonic said fanning himself. Honey agreed as the two exited out the volcano.
Later that day
"There, that oughta do the trick." Sonic said as he finished wiring the watch on Honey as they were both back at the fake resort. "Okay, now to give it a shot." Sonic said hoping that they get a signal. "Hello anyone there?" Honey said to her watch.
"Hello? I repeat hello, we need some assistance." Honey repeated. There was a long dead silence for a minute until they heard sound coming from the watch.
"I hear you loud and clear, what's the situation. Over." the man's static voice said coming from the watch. Hearing this made both Honey and Sonic dance in celebration and gave a hive five to each other. Honey stopped and began to speak back. "Me and a friend are stranded on island called Muna Island." Honey stated.
"Muna Island? Luckily I know where that is, but why are you and your friend stranded there I thought it was a vacation getaway?" The man's voice questioned. Then Sonic jumped in the conversation. "Well its a long story." Sonic said to the watch. "Wait, Sonic is that you?" The man's voice asked hearing Sonic's voice.
"Captain Cru…." Sonic was cut off as Crunch spoke up. "Don't you dare finish that name boy!" Crunch said quickly. "Okay okay jeez." Sonic said with a pouty face and Honey confused on what was happening right now with the two.
"You two know each other?" Honey asked. "Yeah we do, I'll tell you about it later." Sonic said looking away from the watch. "Hold on you two, I'll be there in about an hour, luckily for you both I ain't that far from the island. Be by the docks where I left you off Sonic" Crunch said.
An hour passed as the ship finally arrive to the island. Sonic was holding his luggage that he left behind from the resort with Honey joining aboard the ship with Sonic, where they met Crunch at.
"Honey, I like you to meet the Captain or by his last name Captain Cru.." Sonic was cut off once again as the Captain slap Sonic's head from behind making Sonic rub the back of his head.
"You may call me Crunch." Crunch said politely to Honey as he extended his hand to her. "Pleasure to meet you Crunch." Honey said shaking the Crunch's hand as the two settled in the boat.
"You know Sonic, whatever happen to the other bounties?" Honey asked Sonic as the Crunch stopped shaking hands to go start the ship. "I don't know, but I'm sure they made it out of the island by now…..I think." said Sonic unsure if Fang, Bark, and Bean made it out. "I'm sure they're fine, wherever they are." Sonic said not worried at all as the ship began to sail them home.
The next day at Muna Island
"I tell ya Fang, I almost had him. If only he hadn't made me angry, I could have beaten him." Bark said following Fang behind him as he was carrying his damaged Marvelous Queen.
"SHUT UP!" Fang snapped back as he was covered in bruises and bananas, walking their way to a beach. "Hey guys, wait up!" Shouted Bean jumping his way behind them as he was still cover by one of his sticky bombs Sonic threw at him.
"Sorry I'm late you guys, I was in a 'Sticky' situation. Get it?" Bean said smiling trying to light up the mood. Both Fang and Barked nodded in shame on the joke.
"Oh well, it was worth a shot." Bean said disappointed as all three of them sat down on the sand floor near the ocean in front of them. "You haven't seen the last of us Sonic, we will return….SOMEDAY!" Fang shouted at the ocean.
Then out of nowhere a wave hit them making them all soaking wet. "Hey the stickiness is gone." Bean said happily as he was able to move his body freely again. "Shut up." Fang said as his soaking hat was covering his unamused face.
The end of chapter 4
Epilogue coming soon