'SUBJECT-SONIC UNLOCATED' One of the Egg Pawns said as it roamed the now empty streets of Station Square. There was no one wondering around the streets, no cars or hover bikes parked on the roads. It was like a ghost town. And all because they were after a "terrorist".

'SUBJECT-SONIC CANNOT BE FOUND' the Egg Pawn repeated as it turned to another.
'CORRECT NO DATA ON THE LOCATION OF SUBEJCT-SONIC' it said as it switched to heat vision.
'PROTOCOL SEVEN-NINE-TWELVE MUST BE ACTIVATED'
And all at once, all of the Egg Pawns and Cannon Flappers screeched in their electric voices 'ACTIVATING'

They all stopped completely still for a few seconds, only the low hum of the Cannon Flappers hover engines could be heard. And then one of the Cannon Flappers turned itself slowly to aim at a building, and it fired.

Eggman sat staring at the computer screen rubbing his hands together as he laughed maniacally, his plan was finally coming together. Decoe and Bocoe clumsily burst into the room, frantically pushing past each other.

'Doctor Eggman! Doctor Eggman!' Decoe shouted. 'The robots! They're attacking!'
'Keep it down you fools!' Eggman shouted as he pressed the button to close the metal door behind them both. 'I know they are, have you fools forgotten the plan? Again!' he said as he hit Bocoe across the head. He leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms just as his video phone started to ring. He left it ringing for a minute or two before answering.

'Hello Mr President. What's the problem?' He said sarcastically as he watched the president fret and panic on the monitor in front of him.
'Your robots; YOUR robots! Are attacking buildings with innocent civilians in them!'
'I did warn you that they weren't ready' Eggman replied, now he wasn't even trying to hide his happiness as smile spread across his face.
'Do something before they kill someone Eggman!' The President screamed.
'They are hardwired not to kill, that isn't my style' He let out a brief, but sinister laugh. 'And Mr President you asked me to put them in your control remember'
'THEY'RE NOT LISTENING!' He shouted through the video phone as he angrily pushed some files off his desk.

'With absolutely no respect at all Mr President, well it'll be Phil again after all this blows over. With absolutely no respect at all Phil, that isn't my problem anymore! HAHAHA!' And long after the President disconnected, Eggman kept laughing.

'Tails you stay down here. It's too dangerous up there!' Sonic said as he re-tied his shoes and put his hood up.
'No Sonic; you can't. It's too dangerous for you' Tails put his hand on Sonic's shoulder.
'Dude! If I don't do something look at all the damage they're gonna cause!' And with that Sonic pressed the button which opened the hangar door and he was gone in a blur of blue.

As he sped through the streets with his arms outstretched, he realised that he didn't have a plan. He dodged past the pieces of debris in the street, weaving in and out of chunks of metal, and jumping over pieces of twisted asphalt. Until he stopped dead in his tracks because there in front of him was one of the Egg Pawns.

'SUBJECT-SONIC LOCATED. ATTACKING' the robot screeched as it moved its laser cannon, so it wsa pointing directly at Sonic.

'Ohh yeah? Well you gotta catch me first!' Sonic shouted a split second before dashing off down a side street. He turned down the side street and followed it all the way until it brought him out behind the Egg Pawn. But Sonic didn't stop running, with just a little extra force he broke the sound barrier and smashed straight through the Egg Pawn, shattering it into thousands of pieces. 'Hmm well that seems like a good idea!' Sonic thought to himself as he sped off and used a cracked wedge of metal to propel himself upwards and straight into the path of a Cannon Flapper, sending it flying towards the side of a building where it exploded sending sparks pouring over the road.

Sonic took care of a couple more robots the same way, before he noticed a group of Egg Pawns gathering in the market place. 'Easy targets' he thought to himself as he smirked. Sonic gave it everything he had, he broke the sound barrier in five seconds flat and put himself on a collision course with the robots. Before Sonic could act he realised it was a trap. All the Egg Pawns turned and raised their laser cannons, and then seemingly out of nowhere Cannon Flappers appeared. Sonic knew he had no choice now, it was make or break, so he kept running.

'ARRGGHHHHHH' Sonic screamed as a laser bolt struck his arm and he skidded to a halt. All the robots encircled him, this was it. Sonic was sure there was no way of escape now, he was going to be captured. He was 100% sure of it.

Then, out of nowhere, he heard a noise above him. It was a noise he knew but a noise he hadn't heard in a long time. Suddenly the robots started to explode around him, they all went up like fireworks around Sonic. He waited covering his eyes until there was just silence and that noise above. And then he realised what it was. Sonic threw himself upwards looked up at the sky to see exactly what he was expecting. The Tornado. He saw the biplane circling above, but it looked as if he was spiralling slowly down.

'What is Tails doing…?' Sonic thought to himself, and then it clicked. Tails was going to land! Just as Sonic realised the Tornado started to swoop down to land. Sonic held the cut on his arm and started to run, keeping up the same speed as Tails flying above. Just as the Tornado's wheels hit the asphalt both Tails and Sonic realised that there wasn't enough room to land.

Sonic did what he always did, he acted on impulse. He leapt towards the wing of the plane, the air rushing past him, the lack of ground beneath his feet, he was scared. In a moment that was a fraction of a second, seemed to last a life time. And Sonic just managed to grab hold of the wing, and up they soared into the sky. Everything seemed peaceful as they flew out of Station Square and into the air above the surrounding desert. But it wasn't. Out of nowhere a Cannon Flapper appeared in front of the Tornado. The plane banked to avoid one of its rockets, and as it did Tails fired on the robot destroying it.

'Few. That was a close one right Sonic!' Tails said as he glanced towards the wing where Sonic was. But to Tails shock, he wasn't there. Tails looked over the side to see Sonic falling through the clouds below.

Tails swooped down and landed the plane as the exact spot where Sonic should have landed; but there was nothing but empty desert.