SHOCK THERAPY

IT'S SUNSET, ROBOTNIK FLIES OVER THE GRASSY PLAINS OF SOUTH ISLAND IN A HARDLY FUNCTIONAL EGG POD WITH SONIC IN HOT PURSUIT

Sonic: Give me back my brother you big fatty puff of fat! GET BACK HERE!

Robotnik: (sarcastically) Oh I'm SORRY, I don't happen to have him on me right now!

Sonic: Then tell me where he is you big fat EGGMAN!

Robotnik: WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME!?

Sonic: EGGman, because you stink, your stuff breaks like egg shells and to top it all off…YOU are shaped like an EGG!

WITHOUT WARNING, ROBOTNIK FIRES A MISSILE FROM HIS POD, SONIC NARROWLY DODGES

Robotnik: That should teach the insolent brat not to-

Sonic: YOOOHOOOO!

ROBOTNIK WINCES AND THEN LOOKS BACK TO SEE SONIC STILL FOLOWING HIM

Sonic: Looks like your MISSile MISSED! What were the odds huh?

Robotnik: SHUT-YOUR-MOUTH!

ROBOTNIK FIRES A BARRAGE OF MISSILES AT SONIC WHO BEGINS FRANTICALLY DODGING THEM

Sonic: (singing) Eggy, eggy Eggman's losing his shell! I'm gonna catch you-

ONE OF THE MISSILES HITS THE GROUND IN FRONT OF SONIC CAUSING HIM TO FALL THROUGH THE GROUND INTO A CAVE

Robotnik: (distantly) Go to hell!

SONIC LOOKS UP AT THE COLLAPSED ROOF OF THE CAVE, HIS VISION BEGINS TO FADE

Sonic: No, get…back here….

2 YEARS LATER

SONIC DASHES ACROSS THE MOONLIT PLAINS WITH TAILS STRUGLING TO KEEP UP

Tails: (panting) Sonic! Where are we going?

Sonic: Just stay with me! We're getting closer!

SONIC AND TAILS STOP IN FRONT OF A METAL BUNKER LIKE DOOR, THERE ARE RED LIGHTS FLASHING THEY CAN HEAR MUFFLED ALARMS FROM BELLOW

Tails: It's a bunker!

Sonic: Yes! Finally…

Tails: What's going on? Is that normal?

Sonic: Don't know, don't care

SONIC CHARGES UP, MAKING A TRENCH IN THE GROUND BEFORE SPIN DASHING INTO THE BUNKER AND BUSTING THE DOOR OPEN

Sonic: Coming?

(title sequence Sonic Boom)

MEANWHILE DOWN BELLOW

Robotnik: (regaining consciousness) Ugh…report!

Computer: Doctor, subject M.I.D failure, subject temporarily escaped custody and set off explosive ornaments

[AUTHOR's NOTE: M.I.D = Mind Inhibitor Device]

Robotnik: WHAT? Well then STOP HIM!

Computer: Subject currently neutralised and contained

Robotnik: Well I'm not taking chances! Initiate lockdown!

Computer: Lockdown initiated, WARNING! Surface exit 2B breached

Robotnik: Ugh, bring up security feed!

THE COMPUTER MONITER BRINGS UP FOOTAGE FROM SEVERAL SECURITY CAMERAS, ONE VIDEO SHOWS SONIC AND TAILS RUNNING THROUGH A CORRIDOR

Robotnik: What? The hedgehog? Here?

Computer: Affirmative

Robotnik: Then that must mean…hmmm…how long before they reach this floor?

Computer: ETA, 4 minutes and 49 seconds

ROBOTNIK GRINS

Robotnik: Good, dispatch A.I mechs from surface exit 4A to the nearest village and have them execute order 280 and prepare the Shock Washer for pilot and potential combat!

Computer: Yes doctor

SEVERAL FLOORS ABOVE SONIC AND TAILS ARE RUNNING THROUGH A HALLWAY

Tails: I don't get it, where's all the security?

Sonic: Don't know, think it has something to do with that alarm?

Tails: Maybe, hey Sonic! Wait!

SONIC STOPS DEAD IN HIS TRACKS AND LOOKS BACK AT TAILS

Sonic: What?

Tails: There's an elevator here, why don't we use it! It will give us at least SOME idea of where we're going

Sonic: Really? Ugh…fine! Stupid elevator…

SONIC RELCTANTLY FOLLOWS TAILS INTO THE ELEVATOR

Computer: Welcome to south island bunker, please report to your designated work station

Sonic: Just tell me which floor's which…

Computer: For surface access press 1, for mech hanger press 2, for swimming pool press 3, for factory floor press 4….

Sonic: Come on, come on, come on, give me SOMETHING interesting

Tails: Shouldn't we go to the hanger and make sure nothing-

Computer: For secret projects lab press 8, WARNING, floor off limits, no entry permitted

Sonic: Sounds about right!

SONIC HITS NUMBER 8, THE DOORS SLIDE SHUT, THE ELEVATOR BEGINS TO MOVE AND A LITTLE TOON STARTS PLAYING

AWKWARD SILENCE

Tails: So…what are we looking for?

Sonic: It's an evil base, we blow stuff up, do I need a reason?

Tails: Wait, I we here looking for your brother?

SONIC LOOKS AT TAILS BUT DOES NOT FACE HIM

Sonic: What if we are?

Tails: Are you sure he's here?

Sonic: I KNOW he's here…

A SMALL DING DOES OFF AND THE ELEVATOR STOPS

Sonic: Looks like my stop!

SONIC STEPS OUT THE ELEVATOR AS THE DOOR SLIDES OPEN BUT IS SWIPED INTO A WALL BY A HUGE ROBOT

Sonic: Owwww….what in the?

Robotnik: (through speaker) Welcome home hedgehog!

SONIC LOOKS UP AND SEE'S A GIANT ROBOT WITH A MONITER AT THE HEAD WITH ROBOTNIK SHOWING ROBOTNIK

Sonic: Huh…Remote controlled, what are you scared?

Robotnik: Not scared, just…

SONIC DASHES AT THE ROBOT BUT IT SWERVES OUT OF THE WAY AND FIRES A JET OF WATER AT SONIC, SENDING HIM FLYING INTO ANOTHER WALL

Robotnik: …busy

Sonic: (Splutter) That supposed to…mean something to me?

Robotnik: (sarcastically) Who wants to know?

SONIC POINTS AT HIMSELF

Sonic: This guy

Robotnik: I see, you're not exactly in the position to be making demands rodent, you're "all washed up"

AWKWARD SILENCE

Sonic: Okay…A: I can't believe you just made that pun, and B: just because I can't swim doesn't mean I'm afraid of water!

Robotnik: You will be…

THE ROBOT FIRES A BEAM OF ELECTRICITY AT THE WATER ON THE FLOOR, SONIC GETS ELECTROCUTED

Sonic: GHAAAHHHH!

TAILS STEPS FORWARD TO HELP BUT QUICKLY BECOMES PETRIFIED WITH FEAR

Tails: L-lightining…

Robotnik: To answer your earlier question, I am currently on my way to my primary base of operations with the Chaos emeralds you so "kindly" retrieved for me!

Sonic: WHAT!?

Tails: B-but how?

Robotnik: Did you fools think I simply let you break out those prisoners out of clumsiness? Did you REALLY not think that I ALLOWED it to happen?

Sonic: W-what are you talking about?

Robotnik: SILENCE!

THE ROBOT ONCE AGAIN ELECTROCUTES SONIC THROUGH THE PUDDLE HE'S LYING IN

Robotnik: Thanks to the notes of my former associates in the human government, I have developed the world's first Nano bots! Microscopic robots that do my bidding to the LETTER! These machines filled the cell of every prisoner you freed all those months ago and continue to spread from person to person, tracking their every move…

Tails: Wait! So you've been tracking us with these nana thingies!?

Robots: NANO-BOTS! And yes, yes I have.

Sonic: So…that's why you haven't attacked us…

SONIC SLOWLY STARTS TO GET UP

Sonic: You've been having US do your dirty work all along!

Robotnik: I'm not finished yet!

THE ROBOT ELECTROCUTES SONIC YET AGAIN, SONIC FALLS BACK DOWN ON THIS KNEES

Robotnik: As I said before, my Nano-bots have spread rapidly from person to person since your little incursion in my prison and with the push of a button…BANG! INSTANT paralysis!

Tails: What? You mean like they can't move?

Robotnik: Do you know the extent of the Chaos emerald's power? Together they can warp the fabric of reality, BREAK the laws of physics! I have designed a device that can HARNESS this energy to turn any living matter…into METAL!

Sonic: (sigh) Just get to the point…

Robotnik: The POINT is that once I have the final Chaos emerald I won't NEED to construct an army of robots to take over the world for me anymore! I will stop every living thing dead in its tracks with my Nano-bots and then use the power of the emeralds to turn them into an army of robots! SUPERIOR in every way to what could be built by man!

Sonic: Ugh…you're…out of your mind

Robotnik: And YOU'RE out of your LEAGUE…

THE ROBOT FIRES AN EVEN MORE POWERFULL BEAM OF ENERGY AT THE WATER WHICH ELECTROCUTES SONIC, THIS TIME IT DOESN'T STOP

Robotnik: All those times you thought you were on top of the world! All those times you thought you were a threat to me! You have no IDEA how wrong you were! You are just a ROCK blocking my view!

AS SONIC WRITHES IN AGONY THE ROBOT RAISES IT'S ARM TO CRUSH HIM

Robotnik: And NOW it's time to pick you up and THROW YOU INTO THE RIVER!

Tails: SOOONIC!

TAILS DIVES TOWARDS SONIC, PULLING HIM OUT OF THE WAY AND BARELY MISSING THE HAND HIMSELF

Sonic: T-tails? I'm sorry I d-dragged you into t-this…

Tails: AGH! My tail's caught on it!

Sonic: Don't worry! I'll get you-

THE ROBOT PULLS IT'S ARM BACK UP, DRAGGING TAILS UP WITH IT

Tails: GAHH! Help meee!

SONIC STRUGGLES TO STAND UP

Sonic: Don't…worry I'll…save you…

A DOOR IN THE CEILING OPENS UP, THE ROBOT BEGINS TO TAKE OFF

Sonic: OH NO YOU DON'T!

SONIC GRABS ON TO THE ROBOTS LEG JUST AS IT TAKES OFF, IT EVENTUALLY REACHES THE SURFACE AND GETS IN THE AIR BEFORE SONIC LOOSES HIS GRIP

Tails: SOOOONIC!

SONIC HITS THE GROUND AND BEGINS TO ROLL DOWN A HILL BEFORE FALLING INTO AN OLD HOLE IN THE LANDSCAPE

Sonic: Wha? No…come…back…

AS SONC LOOKS UP THROUGH THE HOLE AND WATCHES THE ROBOT FLY AWAY WITH TAILS HE REALISES THAT HE IS IN THE SAME HOLE AS HE WAS BLASTED INTO 2 YEARS AGO

Sonic: Can't let this happen...not again…