CHAPTER 4: QUEST FOR THE CROWN(MINISERIES ISSUE 2 REWRITE)
"Sonic the hedgeho-" Sally started one day, only for the hedgehog she called to come before she could finish the sentence.
"Hey, there, Sal! You called for me?" Sonic asked.
"Uh... Yes!" Sally said, as she gave Sonic a massive jewelry box belonging to her family. "In that box is the magic Crown of Acorns! It should be on my father's head, but since he was kidnapped by Eggman, I've decided to wear it! Maybe it's magic powers can help us find him and free him!"
"Did you say 'the Magic Crown of Acorns'?" Bowser Jr. said, as he entered the room.
"Yes, I did!" Sally answered. "Why?"
"Because I think it would look great on Sonic's head!" Junior said, apparently in a joke.
"Say what?" Sonic complained. "I can't be king! Sally is the rightful queen!"
"Oh, you really forgot how I said, at that ball, a few days before Eggman took control over Mobotropolis, where Sally only wanted to dance with you, that she found her knight in shiny armor, Sonic?" Junior claimed.
It turned out that Junior's memories became more adapted to the new timeline after he built his Sonic robot, Metallix. He still remembered some things about the old timeline, though those memories were blurry. When he explained Metallix about the Genesis Wave, he told him how the Genesis Wave can affect the minds and memories of people, using himself as an example:
"Like, I remember... things... happening. But some of them feel like... I got the details wrong...*"
"You shouldn't mind what Lord Junior said about Sonic wearing the crown." Metallix told Sally, after Junior told Sonic about the ball. "The reason he programmed me to protect you is obvious, if you try and check Tails's fairy tales, but the reason he programmed me to protect both you AND Sonic might be more... personal to the three of you."
'Heck, if there is ANYTHING I'll always remember from the old timeline, is the relationship between Sonic and Sally!' Junior tought. 'Hopefully, it will be the same in THIS timeline as well, only that in THIS timeline, it is for REAL!'
'Can Junior really figure out what's happening in people's hearts? Because, my heart does beats a little stronger when I think about Sonic!' Sally tought.
'Man, can Junior really take a look in my heart and figure out that I like Sal a little... more than a friend?' Sonic tought.
"Perhaps I can figure out that reason when I will gain a soul." Metallix continued.
"Eh, leaving the joke aside, Sonic's right. Sally's the rightful queen, so she'll wear the crown first. But still, Sonic will have to crown Sally, as a sign of loyalty." Junior stated.
"Right..." Sally said. "Crown me, Sonic!"
Sonic opened the box, only to find nothing there.
"Ack! The crown... IS GONE!" Sonic yelled.
"Gone? OH NO!" Sally screamed.
"INITIATE INVESTIGATION FOR FINDING THE CROWN THIEF..." Metallix started.
"Sonic! Sally! Hold your horses! Metallix is up to something!" Junior shouted over Sonic and Sally.
"PROBABILITY FOR ANYONE TO PASS THE GUARDS TRAINED BY ANTOINE D'COLETTE: 0%. SOLE POSSIBILITY: THERE IS A TRAITOR AMONG US." Metallix said, and then he ran in the guards room.
"I think Metallix is trying to figure out what happened to the crown!" Junior said. "Let's go!"
In the guards room...
"Et un, deux, trois..." Antoine D'Colette said, as he was training the Royal Guards, among them being a pig named Porky, when suddenly, Metallix entered the room.
"INITIATE MEMORY SCAN..." Metallix said, convinced there was a traitor among the Freedom Fighters.
"Eh... I done mon laundry today, monsieur Metallique..." Antoine said, fearing that Sonic convinced Metallix that he was a coward.
"NOT TO WORRY, GENERAL. YOU ARE NO TRAITOR."
"TRAITOR?!"
"TARGET: PORKY - TRAITOROUS CROWN THIEF!" Metallix said. "TERMINATING!"
After Metallix attacked, there was nothing left of Porky, except for the memories Metallix stole. According to those memories, the Crown of Acorns was split in 4 pieces and scattered in the sky, in the Green Hill Zone (or Grasslands as Junior likes to name them), underwater and underground. That way, Eggman's dream of a mechanical world won't be affected by the crown's magic.
"We need backup." Metallix said. "If one of us can find one piece, we can get them all 4 times faster."
"Good idea." Sally said. "Metallix, you accompain Antoine to find the one in the air. Then, help Rotor find the one underwater, if he hadn't found it yet. Sonic can check the Green Hill Zone, but... how he will get underground afterwards?"
"Leave this one to me." Junior said. "My Robot Cockpit has drilldiggers incorporated."
""Then go!"
First, let's see Antoine...
'Good thing General D'Colette likes to brag. He inflated the hot air balloon in no time.' Metallix tought, as Antoine was talking about his college days.
"Bon! We can see Eggman's blimp! Antoine said, when he saw a blimp of Eggman's, surrounded by robots. "Zee crown piece must be zere! Zere is only one problem... WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!"
"You could just say "If we can see them, they can see us.". Calmly." Metallix said, as he activated his Maximum Override and crashed in all robots as well as in Eggman's blimp, leaving it with a piece of the crown.
After they landed, Metallix gave the crown piece to Antoine, instructing him to take it back to Freedom HQ, while he was going to help Rotor.
"Soon with Rotor...
"You came up just in time, Metallix!" Rotor said, when Metallix reached the lake. "I was about to launch the bathysphere!"
"INITIATING SCUBA MODE..." - Metallix
Unaware to Metallix was that, when he dived in, he pulled Tails, with all with his fishing rod, with him. After a while, the three reached the cave where Sonic was about to be roboticized a while ago.**
"Erm... Metallix? You're pulling Tails with you..." Rotor noticed.
"Oh. I apologize, Miles Prower." Metallix said, when he finally looked back. "But now you will have to accompain us to find the piece of the Crown of Acorns."
"Ugh... The name's Tails..." Tails complained about being called on his real name. "And I don't mind going on a mission, though I would enjoy it if Sonic was here too."
"You can help him after we find the piece here, Tails." Rotor comforted. "Though, I feel like we've been followed..."
"Well, in case we really ARE followed, I always carry a waterproof marker..." Tails came with the idea.
"Unnecessary. I have something better." Metallix said.
Rotor's suspicions were correct. Jaws the Robo-Fish, one of Eggman's toughest robots, noticed them, and he was salty for the defeat at Metallix's hands***. But still, he was as dumb as all the other robots, so when he saw Sonic and Tails near a wall in the cave, he charged at them, unaware that they were just a projection made by Metallix on the wall. As such, Jaws took heavy damage, while Rotor got the piece.
"Sonic is in the Grasslands, or the Green Hill Zone, as you name it." Metallix said on the surface. "Rotor Walrus and I will retrieve the crown piece to Freedom HQ. Good luck."
Soon with Sonic...
"Hey, Tails! What's up?" Sonic said, as Tails approached.
"Metallix told me that the Crown of Acorns was split in 4 pieces, and Eggman scattered them all over Mobius!" Tails answered.
"Well, I found the piece here, in the hand of that SWAT-BOT. He seems to have a short circuit, so I don't think he'll notice."
Sonic took the piece, saying, in joke:
"Yo, rustpot, I think your needle is stuck!"
Unfortunately, it seemed that Eggman told the SWAT-BOT about a trap, as he made Sonic and Tails fell into it.
"YO-BLUEBOY-YOU'RE-OUT-OF-LUCK!" the SWAT-BOT replied.
"Ugh..."
"How are we gonna find Freedom HQ now, Sonic?" Tails asked.
"I'LL-TAKE-THAT-PIECE-HEDGEHOG! IT-MATCHES-MY-OTHER-ONE!" a robot named Burrobot said.
As his name implied, Burrobot was able to act as a drilldigger. Whenever Sonic and Tails tried to catch up with him and stop him from reaching Robotropolis, Burrobot digs himself a shortcut. After a while, Sonic and Tails got tired.
"It's no use, Sonic! We will never catch up with Burrobot!" Tails said, hopelessly.
"Tails, you have to remember what I told you..." Sonic started, trying to find a way to stop Burrobot, but he was interrupted by Bowser Jr., who came out with both the pieces of the crown in his Robot Cockpit.
"NEVER SAY NEVER!" Junior said, to finish Sonic's sentence. "Now, let's return to Freedom HQ. We have a crown to repair!"
Back at Freedom HQ...
"WE"RE BAAAACK!" Junior said. "And I found 2 crown pieces! Turns out Sonic and Tails fell underground shortly after they found their piece."
"Good." Rotor said. "I guess I can finally-"
But Rotor couldn't finish the sentence, as the crown pieces started to float.
"Whoa. What are they doing?"
"You mean what am I doing?" Junior said. "For some reason, I can use magic! And right now, I'm using it to fix the crown!"
Junior was right: the pieces fused together, turning into the whole crown. The crown then floated right in Sonic's hands.
"Erm... I think we can think about Junior's magical powers later."Sonic said, a little confused. "Right now, Sally Alicia Acorn, I crown you queen of Knothole!"
"Thanks, Sonic." Sally said. "And while I rule, us Freedom Fighters will destroy Eggman's machinery and return Mobius back to the beautiful planet it was!"
Epilogue
"Lord Junior... I have came up with a theory."
"What is it, Metallix?"
"Among your magical powers, you may also have the ability to predict the future."
"Oh, that? Let's just say, the Genesis Wave is why I can predict future. Like, I remember Sonic and Sally's... relationship more than all the other... things. And I don't think I got ANY of the details for THAT wrong!"
"So, you believe Sonic and Sally are in an opposite gender attraction?"
"I'd like to say they're in love. But only time can tell. But if it's true, then that's why I programmed you to protect both of them AND to grow and adapt to any situation. In my opinion, if there is anything that can grand a robot a soul, that is love."
"You mean, I have to analyse their "love" to obtain a soul?"
"Kinda."
The end
Notes:
*An example is Eggman's identity. Since Junior grew with SatAM, like most SonSal fans, he knows Eggman as Robotnik.
** See last chapter.
*** Again, see last chapter.
