Chapter 6: Royal Folly
Zaria wanted to get that blue pesky hedgehog even more so, than the rest of the Pupununu tribe. She and the rest of her team had created a trap to which Sonic would likely not be able to get out anytime soon.
"Yes, this trap can not fail" said Zaria as she laughed with joy at the very complex trap that her teammates had setup.
"Er, what if the blue demon manages to escape?" asked a villager who was on her team.
"As I have stated before, it can't fail, period" replied Zaria as she scolded the villager.
"Here that blue demon comes!" cried a villager who was keeping lookout.
"Everybody, get to your positions, now!" ordered Zaria as she then dashed into the bushes nearby to wait for Sonic to arrive.
As Sonic finally arrived on the scene, he felt he thought it was just usual jungle scenery to which Tails finally caught up. Poor Tails, he was quite sweating like crazy all over his forehead.
"Sonic, can we rest now?" asked Tails as he sat down on a rock.
"Yeah, I guess so" replied Sonic as he looked around, "but I don't like the looks of it. I have the feeling that we're being watched."
"How can you tell Sonic?" asked Tails who was unaware that Zaria was in the bushes right behind them.
"I don't know, but I can sense that they're close nearby" replied Sonic.
Tails then sat down to rest from flying, after following Sonic throughout the dense jungle. While Tails was resting, Sonic began to walk over to another area, just to see where he was. But what the blue hedgehog didn't notice, was that there was a trip wire of some sort. After Sonic immediately fell over, coconuts then began to fly everywhere.
"What the?!" cried Sonic.
Sonic immediately then spun himself into a buzz cutter, and immediately sliced through the coconuts as if they were nothing more than slices of bread.
"Yuck, I got coconut juice all over myself, is this the best thing that these natives can do to get me?" asked Sonic.
"Sonic, are you alright?" asked Tails who came into the scene.
"Yeah, I guess so" replied Sonic, "the only damage that I got was coconut juice spilled all over me."
"Er, Sonic, I think we got more trouble than just that!" cried Tails as he noticed some sort of bee hive was thrown right out of the sky, after a villager on Zaria's team nearby cut a catapult rope from a tree.
"Let's get the heck out of here then!" cried Sonic.
As Sonic and Tails raced away from the swarm of bees that were upset from being disturbed, the two were unaware that they were heading right toward a tiger pit, where two tamed tigers Zaria had often kept as pets were placed there. Sonic immediately almost fell right into the tiger pit to which the two tiger cats began to try to claw at the blue hedgehog. But before the tigers could have their way, as Sonic's fingers were slipping, Tails immediately grabbed Sonic right before he fell lifting him up to safety.
"Thanks Tails, that was a close one" said Sonic.
"No problem" replied Tails.
As Tails was lifting Sonic to safety, Zaria was quite furious to see the blue hedgehog alive.
"I can't believe my plans have failed!" cried Zaria as she then began to weep like a baby in front of her teammates, "I wanted to catch that blue demon! It should have been me! Me, me, me!"
While Zaria was having a temper tantrum in not getting rid of that blue hedgehog, Scratch and Grounder were having fun watching her cry for not getting her way.
"Just look at that cry baby" laughed Scratch as he finally found his own pair of binoculars.
"Yeah" added Grounder, "I know Dr. Eggman can be this mad when he doesn't seem to get that hedgehog, but I think Dr. Eggman's going to be happy that he won't end up like her."
"Come on" said Scratch, "let's go see how the Chief's other daughter is doing, and see if she can get that pesky hedgehog."
"You got it" replied Grounder.
While Dr. Eggman's two henchmen were going to spy on another team of hunters for the Pupununu tribe, Jibolba was getting fed up with the phony Juju Eggman as he and Tak were preparing to head toward where the Chief was who was with Lok's team.
"I hope your fellow tribal members can get that evil blue demon off my back" said Dr. Eggman as he leaned over to Tak.
"Oh, don't you worry sir, us Pupununu will do our best to retrieve him for you" replied Tak.
"Tak, er, why don't you go on ahead back to where the Chief is?" asked Jibolba, "I got some unanswered questions to ask this, er, Juju Eggman."
"Don't worry Jibolba, I trust you" replied Tak as he raced off ahead.
"So, you have some unanswered questions for me?" asked Dr. Eggman to Jibolba.
"I know for a fact that you are an outright fraud, you may have managed to trick everybody else in the Pupununu tribe to believe this blue hedgehog and his two-tailed accomplice are evil, but I'm not" replied Jibolba.
"Oh, about that" laughed Dr. Eggman, "so, it didn't take you this long to find out what my real plans were?"
"I know a thing or two about Juju magic, and it seems that you are no powerful Juju!" shouted Jibolba.
"You dare challenge me?" laughed Dr. Eggman as he then spread his cape readying his hi-tech suit for battle with Jibolba, "I'll teach you a listen that you shall not forget, when they cross Eggman!"
"I would like to see you try it" replied Jibolba as he was ready for a fight.
Before Jibolba could do anything, Dr. Eggman then used his hi-tech gloves he had on, and a sudden force grabbed Jibolba before he could use any Juju magic against Dr. Eggman.
"Since you will likely not be able to go back to your tribe and tell them the truth" said Dr. Eggman, "I would like to introduce myself, not as a Juju, but to be as correct as you are, Dr. Eggman! This is only a sample of what I'll do to that pesky hedgehog, should your Pupununu friends fail!"
Dr. Eggman then threw Jibolba right against a tree branch, the old man managed to recover from the attack and then fired from his Juju staff at Dr. Eggman. But he managed to dodge the attack, and fired a smoke grenade at poor Jibolba who could not be able to stop it. The old man then collapses on the ground to which Dr. Eggman then gets his communicator out to get Scratch and Grounder.
"Scratch, Grounder, you may have to make a detour in your reports of watching the natives' progress over apprehending that pesky blue hedgehog" said Dr. Eggman on his communicator, "I have a prisoner for you, which you two may want to watch over."
"Aw man, just when things were getting fun" sighed Grounder as he and Scratch headed back to where Dr. Eggman was.