"Now, to continue on." Atticus said.

"How long have you been a mermaid?" Sonic asked curiously as they walked together as he was surprised to had meet a merperson.

"My whole life." Atticus said.

"Interesting..." Tails replied before shaking a chill down his spine.

"I CAN SEE YOU!" Metal Robotnik's voice blared.

"Of course." Atticus groaned.

Tails looked completely terrified.

"Run!" Atticus yelled.

'You didn't think I'd fall for a stupid trick like that, did you?!' Metal Robotnik laughed as he began to chase them.

"Actually, we kind of did." Atticus said as he flew off.

Sonic and Tails yelped as they ran, but some of the ammo stuck onto them.

"What is this stuff?!" Sonic asked as he took a piece off his quills.

"I don't know." Atticus said.

Tails yelped as he dodged the projectiles, but the lightning scared him which made him stuck against the gate. "Help, Sonic!"

"Tails!" Sonic cried out.

"I gotcha!" Atticus called out as he went to help the two-tailed fox.

"SAY CHEESE!" Metal Robotnik laughed as he sent out spiked balls toward Sonic.

Atticus stuck his tongue out and carefully, but still strongly helped Tails out of his literal sticky situation and where he soon successfully did it. "Ugh... Whatever this stuff is, it stinks!" he groaned before flinging it against Metal Robotnik while Tails hovered.

There was soon a huge explosion which woke up a red creature known as an echidna.

'You are no normal boy...' Metal Robotnik sneered down at Atticus.

"Why, thank you." Atticus smirked.

'I'm going to take extra special care of you.' Metal Robotnik snarled.

"You can try." Atticus smirked.

Metal Robotnik then decided to step on Atticus since his bullets didn't seem to harm the boy. But to his surprise, he couldn't seem to be able to crush him under his foot. He removed his foot only to see Atticus was pouring himself a soda and drank from the cup like nothing happened.

"Oh, hi." Atticus smirked.

Metal Robotnik looked confused before growling and stomping again before checking on him. Atticus yawned as he was now sitting in a chair and reading a book. Metal Robotnik soon got annoyed as he bent down picked him up like a toy. Atticus just yawned and waited for him to get this over with as he felt bored and knew he was going to win anyway.

"Not so fast, Metal Robotnik!" Sonic's voice called out as he was riding on one of the spiked bombs.

"Nice." Atticus said.

BOOM!

"Sonic Boom." Atticus's voice chuckled.


Soon enough though, it began to rain and Sonic was stuck in the sticky mess that Tails was in earlier.

"Uh-oh." Atticus said.

Metal Robotnik soon stomped to get rid of Sonic and Tails once and for all as he couldn't seem to stop Atticus. He soon felt his fist shaking.

"Aw, no!" Sonic frowned as water was flooding in around his feet.

'You might have the fastest feet in the world, but now, you're just a normal hedgehog!' Metal Robotnik snarled. 'I'll make sure you never make it to Robotropolis!'

Every stomp was sinking Sonic closer into the water and he couldn't move. Atticus soon broke free and was ready to beat up Metal Robotnik. The gun charged up and he poked his fingers through the holes. Atticus soon grabbed the gun. Metal Robotnik glared. Atticus soon tore it off and crumbled it up like a paper ball and tossed it over his shoulder.

"Why, you little-!" Metal Robotnik glared.

Atticus just smirked like a cocky hero.

Soon enough, a red blur zipped and knocked down Metal Robotnik and saved Sonic from drowning.

"Whoa, what was that?" Atticus asked.

"Knuckles!" Tails beamed to the red echidna.

"Wow." Atticus smiled.

"You okay there, bud?" Knuckles asked Atticus.

"Yep, no scratches." Atticus said.

"Wow, you got lucky." Knuckles smiled.

"I'm indestructible." Atticus smirked as he pound his own chest.

"Heh... I like your new friend, Sonic." Knuckles smirked.

"Yeah, same here, Knux." Sonic agreed.

"Let's keep going." Atticus said.

Knuckles soon glided in the air with Sonic and tossed him against Metal Robotnik. Sonic curled up in a ball and bashed against Metal Robotnik and opened him up to reveal that Robotnik and Seira had been trapped inside.

"What the?!" Atticus gasped.

"My! Man! Cool!" Sonic beamed to Knuckles as they shared a special handshake together.

"Robotnik?!" Atticus glared at the villain.

"Oh, uh, hello there, little fella." Robotnik looked back at Atticus.

"What are you and Seira doing in Metal Robotnik?" Atticus glared.

"Allow me to explain." Drell's voice said as he soon came down with Cherry.

Cherry shivered nervously as she hated flying.

"Explain now." Atticus said.

"Well, we were in the council building and suddenly Metal Robotnik showed up, I assume to kidnap the President's daughter and Robotnik tried to get her out only to be taken away himself." Drell told Atticus.

"Uh-huh." Atticus said, unconvinced.

"You don't believe me?" Drell frowned as he dropped Cherry flat on the ground.

"It's Robotnik," Cherry muffled. "He's not exactly the most honest person."

"Yeah, but I told him!" Drell defended. He soon remembered the history of Robotnik being honest.

"Atticus, I saw him trying to save Seira myself, didn't he, Cherry?" Drell asked.

"Uh... Well... Sorta..." Cherry shrugged.

"Did he have an evil smirk while going into Metal Robotnik?" Atticus asked.

"Not that I saw honestly..." Drell shrugged.

"Me neither." Cherry said as she took Atticus's hand so she could stand up properly.

"Maybe just a little." Robotnik smiled nervously.

"What?!" Drell and Cherry asked him.

Sonic and Tails soon decided to finish off Metal Robotnik.

"We'll talk about this later." Atticus glared at Robotnik before going with them.

"Bye-Bye." Drell smirked.

Sonic soon attacked Metal Robotnik after letting go of Tails and Knuckles.

"Go, Sonic!" Drell cheered.

Metal Robotnik began to zap and shock from Sonic and also the sprinkling rain.

"Nice." Atticus said.

KABOOM!


Later on, the rain stopped and the sun was then shining so Sonic and Tails could reunite with Knuckles.

"Much better." Cherry said.

"Thanks for saving us there, Knuckles." Sonic smiled to the red echidna.

"Yeah, that's one job I won't get paid for, but I've known you for a while, so I'll just put it on your tab," Knuckles smiled back. "You can pay me back later on."

"Seriously?" Drell asked.

"So, are you going back to treasure hunting now?" Tails asked Knuckles.

"Of course!" Knuckles beamed. "Finding treasure is my absolute favorite past time!"

"That's good to know." Atticus said.

The clouds soon parted from the sky and the sun shined which nearly blinded them.

"Ugh... Sun..." Cherry groaned as the shine got in her eyes. She soon made sunglasses appear on her face. "That's better!"

"Of course." Drell said.

"We're starting to run out of time!" Tails cried out.

"What's that?" Knuckles looked far from the sky. "Look at it."

"What is it?" Drell asked.

The clouds soon parted to show big buildings far in the distance.

"That must be Robotropolis!" Atticus suggested.

"Scaaary!" Sonic commented.

"Really?" Atticus asked, unimpressed.

"This can't be good." Drell said to Atticus in a wary tone.

"I agree." Atticus said.

There was soon a rumbling which knocked them all over slightly.

"I hope we see ya again soon, Knuckles!" Sonic said before going to check out the city with Tails.

"See ya!" Knuckles nodded.

"We'll see ya real later, Knuckles, bye!" Tails added before hovering after Sonic.

Atticus soon joined Sonic and Tails.

Knuckles removed his sunglasses as he looked close to the distance of Robotropolis.

"You like being dramatic, don't you?" Drell asked Knuckles.

"Hey, I can't help it." Knuckles shrugged.

"You're going to join them, aren't you?" Drell smirked.

"Maybe." Knuckles smirked back.

"Go on, you know you can't resist." Drell smirked back.

"Ah..." Knuckles chuckled.


Sonic, Atticus, and Tails were going off only to see Knuckles joining them suddenly.

"Knuckles!" Tails piped up.

"Hey, I couldn't send you guys into that place alone," Knuckles told his friends. "Let's go!"

"Just try to keep up." Atticus smirked.

"No problem," Knuckles replied as he was soon right in front of Sonic. "Come on, what're you waiting for? We gotta get moving or that Robot Generator's gonna explode!"

"Yeah!" Atticus added.

"Wait up, guys!" Sonic came behind them.

"Whee!" Tails giggled as he found this a lot of fun.

"Wahoo!" Atticus smiled.