The Start of Sonic Boom
Chapter 4
Sticks lead the group through the jungle on all fours sniffing her way to the last place she saw Eggman, "you sure we can find Egghead this way?" Sonic questioned doubtfully as he watched the strange and somewhat crazy badger, as he walked along side Amy.
"Of course, Sticks has helped me out so much this way. Her nose is incredibly powerful," Amy explained with a grin as they walked on a bit further.
"So, Amy I've been wondering, do you have any idea, on what would bring Eggman here?" Tails asked while sorting his goggles and he tried to swat away a fly that had been bugging him.
Amy frowned in thought as she tried to remember her past research "hm, well there is a power that I've been recently researching about. It dates way back to the ancients. I've also recently been able to find it, but it is slightly dangerous to reach and takes a lot of effort." Amy said as she thought back to her previous adventure.
"Ancients?" Questioned Sonic as he scratched his ears having never heard of them.
"They where people who lived on this island thousands of years ago. It was said that their civilisation was by far more advanced way back then, then the rest of the world at the time." Amy added.
"Fascinating," Tails mumbled with interest.
"Hm," Sonic nodded in agreement with his adopted brother, "bet that's what he's after and we'll there to stop him." Sonic said in determination.
"It's been so long since I've had an adventure with you guys, I've missed it." Amy said with a sad sigh but mixed with excitement.
"Bet you had some adventures here though." Sonic replied with interest gazing at the pink hedgehog.
Amy smiled with a nod, "sure have, but not as dangerous as we used to have them. Although I could argue that some of my adventures have come close, right Sticks?"
"Ohhhhh yeah, remember that one time we got chased by bandits that were after the stuff you found? You should have seen the look on their face, when they saw Amy's hammer for the first time." Stick's laughed at the memory as she stood up for a moment.
Sonic's eyes widened in concern as he stared wide eyed at the pink hedgehog, "you got chased by bandits?!"
Amy shrugged as she didn't deem it as dangerous, as maybe her last adventure was, "yeah, I come to realise something in my line of work. Sometimes when you find something really rare there's always someone after it."
Sonic frowned to himself, thinking he did not like the sound of that her being in danger without him being there to help, "what's it like in the village?" He asked trying to ignore the strange feeling in his stomach.
"It's cool, people are friendly, but I'm not often in it, since I live on the outskirts. I only go into get my groceries and hand my findings to the museum," Amy explained.
"Huh, sounds like a great place I wouldn't mind staying here." Knuckles added.
Tails nodded agreement "me too, plus you'd be near the beach and you could go swimming or build sandcastles whenever you want, that'd be cool,"
Suddenly Sticks had stopped walking and they all bumped into her, "ow!" They all yelped
"Stick's wha...?!" Amy started but was interrupted.
"Hold up, I'm getting the bald guys scent, it stinks of government agents." Stick growled .
Amy sighed while rolling her eyes at her best friend, "Stick's Eggman is not the government, but least we know we're close."
Sonic nodded he then zoomed around the area quickly and then skidded back in front of the group, "he's not around, he can't have gotten too far. Let's keep looking." Sonic said and they continued onwards through the jungle.
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Meanwhile following the group closely behind Red and the two weasels watched their every move, "wow you see how fast that hedgehog can run, I've never seen anything like that." One weasel said in amazement.
"Yeah, it might be tricky to capture Amy with him around Red." The other one added.
Red narrowed his eyes at the blue hedgehog, he always hated people showing him up. Specially in front of pretty girls that he liked. If it weren't for those damned hedgehog's that called for him, he'd have given that blue hedgehog what for. He'd soon met up with a couple of his business partners who were in fact weasels.
His perked up at a comment that was made, and he whacked the weasel on the back of the head, "ow, what was that for?!" The weasel complained rubbing the sore spot on his head.
"Who's the leader here?!" He exclaimed in annoyance.
The weasel sighed and grumbled "you, Red."
"That's right, I'm the one who makes comments. Now not to worry about that hedgehog. I have a plan." Red chuckled as he watched Amy, Sonic and the others walk pass them, all still unaware that they were being watched.
"So, what is it?"
Red smirked as he turned to face them, he rubbed his hands in anticipation, "ok, so as you know doctor Eggman has allowed us to borrow his robots to assist us. So, my plan is, is that we use them to sperate the group. One of the machines will chase Amy into a dead where a stronger robot will be waiting. Her hammer will be useless against, thus enabling her capture." Red chuckled.
The weasels grinned at one another each impressed with the plan and excited at the prospect of using robots. "Great plan, boss." They stated.
Red's smirked widened "yes, I know. I thought of it myself."
"So, when do we begin?" A weasel asked.
Red swiftly turned around as they heard an explosion as he jumped a little, he chuckled, "that would be now, they may have defeated one already, but no matter, there's plenty more where that came from….Come on we have to catch up!" He ordered and started running towards the smoke that was raising in the in the sky above the tree tops.
