Previously on Sonic Mania: When Tomorrow Comes, Sonic, Tails and, suprisingly, Ray finally met up with Mighty and Knuckles on Angel Island. Eggman had also appeared and revealed to them about Tomorrows and his plan to destroy the Future Comet. A fight then broke out, but Sonic wasn't all that happy...

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"Woo! We beat Eggman!" Tails said, but then he saw Sonic looked actually quite disappointed. "Sonic..? Why are you sad? Shouldn't you be happy?"

"I should. But...there's just something I hate about this human body. I've lost everything in this new form. My quills, my speed, my spin dash...and what if we don't do anything about this whole Tomorrow thing? We might be stuck like this forever." Sonic then explained, with slight tears in his eyes.

"Sonic." Tails began. "It'll be okay. We'll get those tomorrows back, and we'll be back to our true forms again in no time! Also, hopefully we can find a substitute for your speed until then. Sound like a plan?"

"It does." Sonic then hugged Tails. "Thank you."

"Y-You're welcome..." Tails then stuttered in surprise as he pushed Sonic away lightly. Then, Mighty joined the conversation. "I was just about to leave to continue helping for the festival. You guys wanna come?"

"Sure, why not?" Tails responded.

"Yes!" Ray exclaimed.

"Sure, I guess..." Knuckles muttered.

"Of course." Sonic then held Mighty's hand and smiled. And then they were off.

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"You're late Mighty!" Amy Rose said upon Mighty and the gang finally arrived to where the festival was to take place, and met up with her and Honey the Cat.

"I'm surprised you even recognized me." Mighty then responded. Outside of writing short stories, Mighty partnered with Amy and Honey to help clear the main area the festival was to take place and set things up.

"Just a hunch." She then turned to Sonic. "Also, Sonic!? Is that you!?"

"Uhhh...yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhh...gotta run!" Sonic then tried to run off, but once again, he had forgotten he was notably slower now. Because of this, Amy caught up with him and hugged him by the leg.

"O-Oh sheesh, I didn't even realise how small things have gotten now that I'm human..." Sonic realised upon looking down and seeing Amy hugging his leg.

"Now, now..." Tails then lightly took Amy off Sonic's leg. "Sonic and I are going to leave so we can do something about his lost speed. Catch you guys later!" Tails then ran off holding Sonic's hand, leaving Mighty and the others on their own.

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Later on, at at the entrance to Tails' workshop, Tails had given Sonic...a golf club of all things.

"A golf club? Seriously?" Sonic asked in annoyance while still holding the golf club. "What am I supposed to do with THIS!?"

Tails then swung the golf club upwards so the head was facing Sonic's face. "The main idea I had is that you can swing the golf club across the Badniks or the enemies."

"Like this?" Sonic then swung the golf club.

"Yeah!"

"But...I'm not sure if this golf club will be able to beat Badniks. Wouldn't it just slightly dent them and bend a bit?"

Tails stopped for a moment at Sonic's statement and thought about it for a minute. "You have a point. I'll try think of something else. How about roller skates?"

"I don't know. If anything, I might just slip and fall all over the place and crash into things."

"But Sonic, isn't that what you always do?"

"Actually, yeah. Let's give that a whirl. "

Some time after, Tails had adjust removable roller blades to Sonic's shoes, and Sonic was giving it a try. He fell alot at first, but after a few tries, he got the hang of it. However, he still felt quite empty.

"Hey, Sonic...? Are you okay?" Tails asked upon noticing Sonic's expression.

"I dunno Tails. I mean, these roller blades are nice, they help me go fast and all, but it's just not the same as naturally going fast. Doesn't help I don't have any means of defense or attack." Sonic responded.

"I completely understand. Say, have you tried archery before?"

"No, not really. I wasn't planning on it either. Why exactly do you ask?"

"Well, I think I have a bow and arrow laying somewhere. Wait right here."

When Tails came back out, he was holding a wooden bow and a stash of black arrows. "Maybe you can use these."

And so Sonic tried it out on a tree with...minimal success. All of his shots either missed or went too far away. It was at this point Sonic called it quits. Tails kept begging him not to leave and that they could find something, but he completely ignored him and left anyway. -

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Meanwhile, in Eggman's lair...

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"So, Doctor, how is reprogramming those robots coming along?"

"Doing good, Kanna."

"That's good. So, I found this ruby." Kanna then gave Eggman a strange ruby. Dr. Eggman was busy reprogramming the Hard Boiled Heavies, while Kanna was oversighting it.

"That's the Phantom Ruby! Thank you Kanna!" Eggman was about to take the ruby, but then Kanna pushed him away and shoved the ruby onto one of the robots.

"Sorry Eggman, but I'll take it from here, seeing as you fail oh so much. You take care of the Tomorrow Gems, okay? I got this on lock."

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Back with Sonic...

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Meanwhile, Sonic was laying on his bed in slight emptiness. "I can't seem to find any good substitutes for speed. Tails really isn't helping either. Doesn't even help that this might be permanent if something isn't done. Perhaps I should just sleep all day and ignore everything, but that wouldn't benefit anyone, so I guess I'll give Tails another shot. Yes, that would work!"

He then decide to get off his bed and find Tails once again. A voice kept telling him to just go back to bed and sleep, but he ignored it. This time, he would definitely find something, and this time, he had absolutely no regrets.

"Hey, why must you stress yourself out like this?"

Sonic stopped in his tracks upon hearing a voice similar to his own, and turned around to see his mobian self in a yellow jacket.

"Honestly, it's better if you just quit."

"No! I will do something about this human body!"

"Come on now..." The strange mobian Sonic held the true Sonic. "...Don't you think you stress yourself a bit too much racing about saving the world?"

"No I don't!" Sonic then cried out, but then his eyes turned red and red spider webs started coming out of his eyes. "On second though, I actually do..."

"Well, think about it for a moment. As a human, you can just sleep in all day while your friends do all the hard work. Doesn't that sound perfect? After all, I'm sure Mobius can find a new hero to take your steed..."

"Yes, thank you..." Sonic said, but suddenly he shook his head rapidly, causing his eyes to go back to normal and the spider webs to vanish. "...For the offer. Sorry, but this is something I really gotta do." He then said as he kicked his mobian self, causing said self to transform into none of than the Heavy Magician, who was assuming Sonic's mobian self. The Heavy Magician then, oddly, vanished.

"...Just what on Mobius just happened?" Sonic asked himself, scratching his head. "Eh, no matter." He then continued to find Tails.

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"Oh, hey again Sonic. What brings you back here?" Tails asked upon Sonic finding him.

"Hey Tails. So, uh, sorry for just storming off earlier. I was just mad." Sonic responded.

Tails then hugged Sonic. "It's okay."

"Cheers buddy. Also, I kinda want to try the archery again."

"Sure thing, Sonic! I mighty have to make a few adjustments to it first."

A/N: Thank you all so much for reading episode 4. I kinda feel like the second half of this was kinda rushed. Doesn't help how short it is. Hopefully future episodes can make up for that. Also, this will probably be the final episode for October. I'll hopefully see you all next time in November (by the time I'm posting this) with episode 5!