I feel I should warn you. I made a really dumb joke about one of the characters. You'll know it when you see it.
The group was zooming past. Nothing but a bunch of different colored blurs. They soon came to the site where they thought the loud sound had come from.
"Tails, go up and see if you can tell who or what made that crashing sound." Sonic directed.
"Got it." The fox started spinning his namesakes, taking off to the air. When he reached a high enough altitude to see he almost fell out of the sky in shock. There was Eggman, who he had expected, and then there was Metal Sonic in front of him, as cold and menacing as ever.
And then there were two hedgehogs.
Sonia and Manic stood frozen at the sight of the robot. It looked exactly like Sonic. Except for the glowing red eyes. That was new.
'Oh no. He didn't. He couldn't. Sonic, robotized?' Manic thought, trying hard not to cry. It was impossible for him to have been caught. It couldn't be true. It couldn't!
Eggman, as if reading his mind, said, "Oh, this is quite real. This here is Metal Sonic."
Sonia was shaking, with grief or anger or both, Manic couldn't tell. She took a brave step forward, almost falling over in the process. "What did you do?" she sounded like she was half weeping the words out.
A sinister grin came to the madman's face, "Nothing at all my dear."
She growled, a very unladylike ting for her. Of course neither was shooting down robots with lasers or trudging through the sewers, but still. She brought out her piano gun, glaring at the man hovering above them.
"My my. No need to get feisty."
Manic came up beside his sister, "There's plenty of need if you ask me." He reached for his medallion, ready for action.
Eggman sat back in his chair completely relaxed with his round bot next to him. He was clearly enjoying the show. "Hmph. Why don't we let some of that energy out."
Metal's eyes started glowing brighter.
Tails flew down to the rest of the group who were waiting a few feet from his spy spot.
"So what's the deal up there?"
"Well, Eggman does seem to be the one how made that sound-"
"Yes! You owe me fifty rings Vector!" Sonic cheered.
"Dang it."
"You shouldn't have bet him."
Tails cleared his through, "That's not all." All attention was directed back to him. He seemed really nervous about whatever he was about to say. "There were two hedgehogs too, and they fit your distribution of your brother and sister."
There was a shocked silence that followed. Sonic looked like he was going to pass out.
All he could get out was, "What?"
"Metal was there too."
Knuckles rushed over to the hedgehog as he just about fell. Sonic had to grab onto him to prevent this. He held his hand to his hand, clearly shocked.
"They must think I'm robotized. How did they even get here?"
Knuckles held onto his friend, he was shocked, but clearly not as much as Sonic. "We should head in there."
"Wait."
Knuckles stopped as he was asked. Why wait though? His family was in danger. Shouldn't he be running in there head first without thinking like he always did?
Sonic released Knuckles, standing on his own two feet. "We need a plan."
"Never heard you say that before."
"Not the time Shadow." That got him to shut up. Sonic sounded like he meant business. "Here's the plan."
Just as the robotized Sonic was charging, it flew off to the side. Something had hit it!
That something was a pink hedgehog in a red dress, boots, and head band with a large headband. "Hey there."
There wasn't much they could say. That came out of nowhere.
Then a small six year old bunny ran up beside her with a small creature that the two foreigners didn't recognize. It was cute though.
One by one more came. A crocodile with headphones, a bee flying every which way, a serious looking chameleon, a black and red hedgehog, a bat with… uh, and a large purple cat with a fishing pole and frog.
"Where did he go?! Where did he go?!" the small bee was yelling.
"Shut it Charmy." The chameleon complained.
Sonia averted her attention away from the newcomers to catch a glance at the doctor. He was mad. And that is an understatement. He got a hold of himself very quickly but she saw it. He did not like these people. That meant she liked them.
The now calm looking Eggman gazed at the group on the ground, "I see you're a few people there. Did you leave or did they just leave themselves
No answer came, although Manic could barely see the bee and rabbit covering their mouths to keep from giggling out loud behind the crocodile. This just confused him more.
Sonia decided to voice the confusion, "Who are you guys? What is he talking about? Where did Sonic go? What is going on?!"
They got a couple sympathetic looks. The bat stepped up, "Don't worry sweetie. We're friends. You'll learn everything soon enough."
That didn't help.
A clanking metal sound came from behind them. The two siblings whirled around to see the robot version of their brother approaching.
Surprisingly, the little creature came behind it and hit it back in front of the hover craft. "Chao!"
Their minds went into overload trying to figure out so many things at once. How did Sonic get caught? Did they have a robotizer here? Where did these people come from? Why did they make Eggman so angry? What was the point of hitting Sonic there?
Then they heard the sound of a plane.
How about that?! ;) Sorry about the thing with Rouge. I couldn't think of any adjectives besides... uh. Darn it! I did it again!