After Sonic and Sally regrouped with Nicole, they'd put the worm like alien inserts and alien crystal in the half sphere for Nicole deformed the nanite made bucket since it's no longer required. Sonic leaned fount ward to the half sphere, grabbed onto it, lifted it out of the remaining half of the cylinder and started carrying it in his arms with Sally watching him.
"Are you sure you don't want Nicole to build something with the nanites to help you carry that thing with Sonic?" Sally asked Sonic in concern that it might be too heavy for him.
"Nah I'll be fine Sal. Besides, I've been through heavier stuff than this piece of alien junk." Sonic responded to Sally in arrogance to which Sally breathes out of mouth in annoyance of it while still looking at half of the sphere with the alien crystal and inserts in it in his arms.
"Anyway, specking of which, thanks for helping us Nicole." Sonic thanked Nicole while keeping his focus on half of the alien sphere he's carrying as Sally carried her portable handheld computer.
"Your very welcome Sonic, I shall now return to my personal computer." Nicole responded to Sonic before she degenerated her pixels and returned to the handheld device that Sally was holding.
After Nicole returned to the handheld device, Sally puts it back in the left fount pocket of her blue vest, went behind Sonic and grabbed onto him with her hands clamped onto his forearms on opposite sides for her arms were wrapped round his chest and wrapped her legs round his wrest since Sonic was still leaning for Sally, expecting her to hop on. Sonic straightened himself up and started to rev up his feet.
"You're ready for seven warp speed Sal?" Sonic asked Sonic as he revved himself up.
"I'm ready when you are Sonic." Sally answered to Sonic in response.
"Then let's juice." Sonic declared.
Sonic sped himself as he carried Sally and half the alien sphere with the alien worm like inserts and alien crystal all the way back to New Mobotropolis in light breaking speed. As soon as Sonic reached the city's entrance, he had to slow down to the speed of sound which he did, but is still fast enough for Sonic to speed himself, Sally and the alien items to the hut where his uncle Sir Charles lives without so deafening nor killing anyone that would be nearing him as he super speeds. He sped across the city from the entrance all the way to the doorway of his Uncle's location and stopped there.
As soon as Sonic stopped in fount of the door to sir Charle's hut, Sally hopped off Sonic instantly, rushed to the door and banged on it loudly with her right fist as she slammed her left hand on the door for Sonic had his gloved-hands full with the alien items.
"CHARLES, OPEN UP! IT'S SONIC AND SALLY!" Sally yelled out as banged on the door.
Loud rapid footsteps were heard just after Sally started banging on the door and she didn't stop the banging til she heard the doorknob turning. Sally pushed herself off the door with her left hand and backed off next to Sonic on his left as Charles as he opened the door wide, revealing himself with a major irritated expression on his face and wearing his conceal shirt not done up which Sonic and Sally both noticed as Charles complained about the banging on the door. But he stopped his complaining and relaxed his eyebrows from seeing his favourite only biological nephew and Sally.
"Sonic and Sally, what are you two doing here?" Charles presumed in a calm, but impatient tone questionably as he averted his eyes at them for he was getting ready for his part time job as concealer.
Charles suddenly noticed something in Sonic's gloved-hands and averted his eyes to it.
"And what's that you're carrying Sonic?" Charles asked Sonic with an odd looking expression on his face as he pointed at it with an index finger from his right hand.
"I know it's not a good time for visits uncle Chuck, but this is way past serious. Long story short, Sal and I both spotted something falling from the sky, ran to it after hearing it crash, had to put it's fire out, found it to be alien stuff instead of a meteor with Nicole's help, searched and found those things on there that came with it." Sonic explained to his uncle.
Charles widened his opened eyes in complete shock and moved aside as he widened the door more, enough for Sonic and Sally to come through and moved his sight onto Sonic and Sally.
"You both better come in and fast." Charles told Sonic and Sally which Sonic responded to by zooming into the hut pass his uncle into the room where Charles does his research. Sally ran in following Sonic, leaving Charles to shut the door quick before he hurried along.
As soon as Charles hurried into his research room, he spotted an empty space between Sonic and Sally Sally with her hand held device in her left hand toward the strange alien items looking back at the opened door awaiting his entrance impatiently with the strange alien items already placed on his work desk. He hurried to the empty space between Sonic and Sally, slammed his palms on the work desk and examined the strange looking alien items on the half sphere. Examining the strange items directly, he started with the alien crystal, moved his focus on the black wires, each leading down to a worm like insert. Then he widened his opened eyes and arched his back in shocked realisation.
"What is it unc?" Sonic asked Charles.
"I… I'm not a hundred present sure sonny, but it seems to be some sort of alien device for sending a massage or something." Charles answered his nephew.
"Nicole, are you recording this?" Charles asked Nicole.
"Affinitive Charles, Sally has requested me to record just after stepping into your research room." Nicole replied to Charles.
"Good." Charles responded as he lifted his gloved-hands off his work hands and moved them toward the worm like alien inserts on the half sphere.
He grabbed a couple of them and had them switch positions on the half sphere and repeated the process two more times, then the half sphere glowed twice in a row from a whistling sound bring made by the black and green worm like insert. The three widened their opened eyes and dropped their jaws in awed reaction of the action commented by the strange alien technology.
Charles quickly swapped round the other five worm like inserts several times, leaving the black and green one in place til the half sphere made the whistling noise again, but this time followed by a louder one for the black and red worm like insert had been put in the right spot on the half sphere, having the three widen their eyes in awed reaction again but in gasping.
"This I like a puzzle." Charles commented of the strange alien technology and worn like inserts.
"Yeah". Sonic, Sally and Nicole all replied in agreeing response to which Charles nodded.
"But I think we're getting close. I just need to set the remaining three in the right order, but I need to concentrate, so you three need to quiet down and don't even think of disrupting my concentration." Charles mentioned and informed Sonic, Sally and Nicole with a curious tone in one half of the sentence, changed to a stern tone the other half.
"This also includes you Sonic." Charles added to his nephew in a major serious tone for he is anxious to discover what the strange thing is.
After three failed tries with nothing but the same sound response, Charles thought long and hard on where the other three should go to get the third sound occurring. On the past three tries, Charles was sweating from his brow from the stress the strange alien technology and worm like inserts were causing him and with each fail, the stress increases with breathing growing louder and heavier. But he isn't giving up though.
He stared at the fifth and sixth one as he thought back on the same position as they were before on the first failed try.
"hmm… I switched the fourth and sixth one on the first, then the sixth with the fifth on the second but put them back as they were before by mistake on the third. Charles thought back on the three previous failed attempts.
Charles puzzled on about what the fourth try should be as he brought his right white-gloved hand to his his temples and rubbed with it. Then he stopped rubbing his his temples and widened his opened eyes as his brain developed a simple move.
"Hang on, what if I switch the fifth and sixth one?" Charles thought to himself in question.
Charles rapidly moved his right white-gloved hand off his temples and switched the fifth and sixth worm like alien inserts with it and rest it on the desk as he, Sonic, Sally and Nicole starred at the strange alien technology. In one second after Charles switched the worm like alien inserts the fourth time, the half alien sphere made the two familiar noises as before, but this time, followed by a similar one that's slightly lower than the second one, much to Sonic's Sally's Charle's and Nicole's rejoice and satisfaction.
"Yay, why to go uncle Chuck." Sonic praised his uncle in rejoice.
"Excellent Charles." Sally complimented to Charles for his great work.
Charles smiled a nod to what he accomplished, then the smiled was quickly wiped off his face and the rejoice and satisfaction was replaced by further cariosity as a hologram circle screen appeared and started showing images of the New Mobotropolis airport, the city itself on a nearly levelled land next to a cliff, with the region all covered by forest surrounds the city except for the cliff itself the exposes brownish red soil and a thin piece of land beneath it having grass instead.
"What's that uncle Chuck?" Sonic questioned his uncle as he starred at the circled hologram watching the image change from the region to the continent of Mobius in higher sky view.
"I don't know Sonic, I reckon it's some sort of video hologram." Charles answered his nephew as they; Sally and Nicole watched the image change from the view of their continent to the space view of planet Mobius.
Then the strange alien technology showed an space view image of the red planet Mars, a steel and metal building on a red landscape, and finally, some moving images of six tentacle aliens appearing to be mostly brain, facing each other in a circle. The final moving scene was drawing up to one of the aliens and right up to one of it's two eyes. The four viewers suddenly felt themselves bring filled up with mixed emotions of fright, fear and cariosity as their widened their opened eyes and dropped their jaws in reaction of those moving scenes.
"Goddess of Aroma, help us." Sally fearfully pleaded to the goddess as if it does exist.
The strange alien technology suddenly started flashing three lights witch got the four out of mixed emotions and into shocking reaction. The lights flashed slowly for two seconds at first, then they went on flashing on faster. Sonic, bring almost as fast in the head as he is with his feet almost immediately got the massage that the lights are a warning that it'll blow up. He rudely barged in fount of his uncle, attending to grab on to the strange alien technology.
"GET DOWN EVERYONE, THE THING'S GONNA BLOW!" Sonic screamed out in a serious tone.
Charles, Sally and Nicole were about to protest at Sonic as he grabs the thing and spin jumps onto the table holding it, but he's not going to let his loved ones slow him down if he tends to save them.
"NOW!" He screamed at them.
The three all turned round a 180 degree left as Sonic tossed the strange technology into the air and turned around a 180 degree left and leaped off the table fast. The strange alien technology blew up while in mid air, causing everyone to duck an cover onto the wooden floor of Charles's hut with their hands on the back of their heads and the place filled up with smock a bit, making Sonic, Charles and Sally cover their mouths. Momentarily, the smock started clearing up and everyone except Nicole were couching from some of it bring inhaled into their noses. The four then looked at each other and saw each other except Nicole to be covered in soot from the explosion of the strange alien technology. They all removed their hands from the scope of their heads and mouths, pushed themselves up off the wooden floor and stood up expect for Nicole whom just floated back up above the hand held device that powers her, Sonic set his eyes on Charles, Sally and Nicole.
"Sigh, is everyone alright?" Sonic asked them.
"Well, we're all covered in soot expect for Nicole there, but we're okay, thanks sonny boy." Charles informed his nephew honestly, pointing to Nicole with a thumb from his right-gloved hand in the middle of his sentence.
Sally set her eyes on Nicole above the portable computer. Turns out Sally had a good grip on the device, ducking with only her right hand.
"Nicole, did you record the hologram?" Sally asked Nicole.
"Affirmative Sally." Nicole answered Sally.
Sally smiled at Nicole.
Good. Stop recording." Sally ordered Nicole.
"Recording stopping Sally." Nicole responded to Sally as she stops her recording.
Sally then averted his eyes to Sonic and Charles.
"Well, I don't know which one of you is right or wrong, but I find this too serious to ignore." Sally remarked to the two hedgehogs.
"Too right Sal, let's go." Sonic agreed to Sally, urging her to come grab onto him with a gesture of his right white-gloved hand mid sentence.
Sally ran over toward Sonic on his right and grabbed his right white-gloved hand, which he was holding out toward her as he grabbed his uncle's right white-gloved hand.
"Now hold on there you two…" Charles started to the two leaders of the knothole freedom fighters, stopping mid sentence cause spun his head left and cut him off.
"Sorry unc, I hate interrupting you, but this is too important to wait. We don't have time to clean up and get changed." Sonic pointed out to his uncle.
Charles gave the two leading young freedom fighters a sigh in agitation.
"Fine, at least wait for me to lock the hut up first." Charles demanded from Sonic and Sally.
"Sure uncle Chuck." Sonic replied to his uncle as he released him from his grip.
Sonic and Sally both power walked their way out of hut, leaving Charles to lock up his hut as he returned to his bedroom for his hut keys. After finding them which took no more than a second since they're on the his bed drawer, he rushed out of the hut as fast as he could meeting Sonic and Sally waiting for him outside, turned a one degree angle right, shutting the door by it's surface with his left-gloved hand as he turned, locked it with his keys, puts them in the upper right fount pocket of his uniform turned a 17 degree right and ran to his nephews right, turning a 180 degree left as Sonic held out his left-gloved hand for his uncle to grab on with his right-gloved hand, which he did.
Sonic smirked at his uncle.
"Ready to move now unc?" Sonic asked Charles calmly.
"Sure am sonny boy." Charles answered his nephew, smirking back at him.
Sonic then let his head return to its normal frontal position, revved up his feet and sped himself, Sally and Charles toward castle Acorn.
