The bridge of the Starship Enterprise had quickly become a panicked frenzy. Red Alert had been activated, shields were quickly raised, and the crew was quickly doing whatever they could to scan and retaliate against the enemy ship. In this time, the Egg Enterprise was able to land a few more attacks, bringing the Federation ship's shields down to 85% efficiency.

Kirk, scrambling to get a hold on the situation, quickly ordered, "Phasers and photon torpedoes, fire at will!"

One measly, red beam fired from the Enterprise, only to be blocked by the enemy's strange-looking shields.

"What was that? I said fire at will!"

Ensign Checkov responded, "It's de wirus, Captin! It's… Intervering with our systims. We can only fire one weapin et a time!"

"Damn it! Did we do any noticeable damage to their shields?"

"Negative Captain!" yelled Commander Uhura, "We can hardly get a reading on the shields, but for the short time that we could, they didn't appear to take any damage from our weapons!"

Another explosion shook the bridge.

"Keep firing, see if anything changes!"

A lone photon torpedo left the Enterprise and flew toward the enemy ship, only to be blocked again by the strange shield.

"Nothing, Captain."

"Great. Slow weapons and an impenetrable shield."

Sonic the Hedgehog, however, seemed intrigued by this.

"Shoot at it again," Sonic said, "I wanna get another look at it."

Kirk, though somewhat confused, gave the order, "Fire phasers."

The Enterprise's phasers fired again, only for the enemy shield to raise a third time, entirely preventing any damage to the ship.

Kirk sighed, but then noticed the grin on Sonic's face.

"I knew it." The blue hedgehog snickered, then turned toward the lift, "Keep firing at it, I'll take care of the rest!"

As the hedgehog left the bridge, Kirk turned and ordered his crew to keep firing. More and more rounds left the Enterprise, and each time, they were blocked by the shield. Kirk found himself on the verge of retreating from the battle, when the Enterprise fired one more hopeless photon torpedo. As soon as it came close to the Egg Enterprise, the enemy's shields raised once again to block the blow. Just as the torpedo met the shield, however, a golden streak raced by, moving right through the shield, and rocking the enemy ship with a heavy blow before racing a distance away and slowly coming to a stop. Kirk could hardly believe his eyes. At first, he didn't recognize the golden figure that had done what their whole starship could not. But, upon closer inspection, there was no mistaking it. It was Sonic the Hedgehog.

The entire crew stared in awe for a moment, before Chekov piped up, asking, "Captin, what now?"

Kirk remembered the last thing the hedgehog had said to him and relayed the order to his crew, "Keep firing."

Super Sonic smirked at his luck. Ol' Egghead had really messed up this time. By using the same, impenetrable shield that the robot he fought before was using rather than copying the Enterprise's damageable shields, he had left his ship with one huge weakness: It was unable to block more than one attack at once. With this knowledge in mind, he raced toward the Egg Enterprise again. This time, however, he was met with only a forcefield to the face. He bounced back and stared at the vessel in a bewildered fashion, then back at the Enterprise, wondering when were in the world their attacks were.

Back on the bridge of the Enterprise, Captain Kirk watched these events unfold, then turned to his crew, "Why aren't we firing?"

Chekov answered, "I… don't quite understend, Captin. We just… lost all readings we hed on de enemy wessel. Our targeting systims aren't picking it up."

Kirk looked around, bemusedly asking himself, "What the Hell?" when Commander Spock approached him.

"Captain," the Vulcan First Officer began, "It appears that Sonic has used the power of the Chaos Emeralds to assist us in combatting the enemy ship. However, being between us and them, his powers are interfering with our readings, just as they did with the planet below."

Kirk quickly ran to his chair and mashed a button.

Scotty's voice came over the speaker, "Engineering here."

With a hint of panic in his voice, Kirk asked, "Scotty, how are you and Mr. Prower coming along with those scanner adjustments?"

"Oh very well, sir. The kid's like some kinda genius er somethin'!"

"That's great, Mr. Scott, but we need you to get it done faster!"

"We're workin' on it as fast as we can, Cap'n."

Tails's voice came over the speaker as well, assuring, "Don't worry Captain, we'll get it done pronto!"

Kirk replied, "I certainly hope so." as his finger left the comms button.

Suddenly, a light tapping sound could be heard. Kirk turned toward the viewscreen to see Sonic, who had tapped on one of the Enterprise's exterior cameras and was looking in with a confused, expectant expression on his face, as if to ask them what in the world they were waiting for. Suddenly, a red flash could be seen from the enemy ship. Super Sonic, taking notice, turned around to see a destructive energy round rushing toward the Enterprise and quickly darted in front of it to block the blow. In this state, he was entirely invulnerable, so he felt no pain from the blast, but he still felt the force, which was able to knock him around a bit, despite his power. The Egg Enterprise fired several more deadly shots, each of which Super Sonic rushed to meet head on, tanking each and every blow for his allies. If the Federation ship didn't start firing soon, he wouldn't be able to keep this up much longer.

Inside the Enterprise, the staff crewing the bridge could only watch as the hedgehog continued to block numerous enemy attacks with his own body. As the onslaught continued, more and more shots were being fired at once, and Sonic was having to move faster and faster to catch all of them, leading to a few closer calls than both he and the Enterprise crew were comfortable with. Kirk could notice that Sonic was starting to feel the effects of fatigue, no doubt amplified by the enormous power that his body was keeping contained.

He was starting to wonder if they would be able to get out of this when he heard Scotty's voice coming from the speaker in his chair, "Modifications complete. We should be able ta get a readin', Sir."

Several screens around the bridge lit up with scans, each showing what had been masked by the Emeralds' energy as well as displaying extra scans to account for their power.

Kirk quickly spun around to face Chekov, asking, "Can we get a lock?"

Chekov replied, "Affirmetiv, Captin."

Kirk smiled as he turned toward the viewscreen and gave the order, "Fire."

Outside the Enterprise, Super Sonic had moved into position just in time to shield the ship from another blow when a red photon torpedo flew past him in the opposite direction. He smiled as he swung his leg around to deflect the blast, then flew toward the Egg Enterprise. As the ship's shields raised to block the photon torpedo, they were helpless to stop the golden hedgehog that whizzed by and landed another heavy blow on the ship's hull.

Captain Kirk, seeing this from the Enterprise, enthusiastically yelled, "Fire!"

Another attack was launched and blocked as Super Sonic raced through the barrier and landed yet another huge blow on the ship.

"Fire!"

And another,

"Fire!"

And another

"FIRE!"

And yet another. Again and again and again, until finally Super Sonic broke through the shields, smirking as he rammed into the Egg Enterprise at inconceivable speed and ran straight through, from one end to the other. He turned around to get a view of his handiwork, as the crimson eyesore was rocked with numerous explosions from the inside. Both he and the crew of the Enterprise felt a huge sense of accomplishment as the other ship burst into explosive flames and smoke. What they couldn't see from their ship, however, was the small, grey craft escaping the explosion.

Inside the fleeing Egg Mobile, Dr. Eggman was absolutely fuming.

"Curses!" he raged, "I was so close! I almost had them that time! I could have had the whole world, EVERY WORLD!"

"Oh well, you gave it your best shot, old chum." Cubot assured in yet another strange voice, "Sure would have been nice to see the stars, though. All of time and space in our grasp, it gets me excited just thinking about it! Allons-y!"

"Oh, for heaven's sake, you could at least come up with something original…" the doctor grumbled.

"I wouldn't be the one criticizing others for being unoriginal if I was you." Orbot chimed in.

Eggman raised a hand to abuse the little red robot, "WHY YOU LITTLE-"

He was interrupted by a tapping on the glass. The three of them looked up to see Super Sonic staring in at them wearing a grin that couldn't be any more smug."

Orbot scratched his head, "What's he-"

He had no time to finish his query before the golden hedgehog flew a few feet back, then raced forward to punt the Egg Mobile down toward the planet below.

From his tumbling spacecraft, Eggman yelled one last curse:

"I HATE THAT HEDGEHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOG!"