{Music Insert: Kevin MacLeod ~ Impact Prelude}
Meanwhile, the others were continuing their ventures through the deep aquatic atmosphere. Sonic, along with Sally was checking out the view underwater. Rotor pretty much got the hang of it due to being a walrus. Tails swam across the large stepping stones while looking back to see if the others were following. The twin-tailed fox looked back to see a Chop-Chop and stopped mid-swim inadvertently. Bubbles then blurted out of Tails reputedly before dodging the Chop-Chop's large chomp. As Sonic tries to save him, he struggles due to the water restricting his movement.
Rotor soars through the water, giving the Badnik an elbow drop, destroyed from the impact. It wasn't long before Tails had spotted more Chop-Chops lurking through the marine plants. Sonic presented a firm look upon the Badniks and then kicks himself from the wall towards the Chop-Chops. Sally, who took note of Sonic's act, quickly sprints across the stepping stones to follow him. Tails and Rotor did so too, witnessing the blue hedgehog that was ready for undersea battle.
With a glance to the left, Sonic finds a Chopper zooming towards him and Sally, assuming to avoid the attack. Sonic tried spinning his legs as wild as he could but had no advantage. Before the blue hedgehog knew it, the mass-produced, piranha-based Badnik had pierced his side and sent him floundering downward; all while the more air was escaping his frantic lips. Sally, Rotor, and Tails watched Sonic getting cast plunging down through the water with their eyes in horror.
"Sonic! Why would he do something so stupid, he's going to drown!?" Sally said in the thought of her mind, skidding to a halt and joints right after the speed demon.
As Sonic drifts down to the seabed below, he immediately hears Sally from above, a newfound hope arising within him as the chipmunk girl swims toward him. The Chopper, becoming aware of the extra assistance, alarms the other piranha-based Badniks to gang up and surround the two Freedom Fighters. Tails and Rotor see this and instantaneously reeled down to defend Sonic and Sally. Using his handy-dandy wrench, Tails whacks two of the Choppers to keep them at bay while Rotor bashes away a few more of the piranha-based Badniks. Just as Sally aided Sonic to get a better hold of his bearings, he turned his head to glance at the deep aquatic atmosphere surrounding him, cringing.
"I wished I had avoided the water earlier, but I got to keep going!" Sonic said in his thoughts, giving a thumbs-up to the chipmunk girl next to him as they swam back to where the two mechanical geniuses were.
After several hits, the Choppers get the hint and eventually withdrew, leaving the team at the bottom of the aquatic section. Both Sonic and Sally glanced at each other with their cheeks lightly puffed out. Sally blinked a few times and Sonic does the same as well. It finally emerged on the two concurrently; limited air supply.
{Music Insert: Drowning - Sonic the Hedgehog 4}
After staring at each other for at least five seconds, Sally began to shake her head and lets out air bubbles spewing upward in a frisky build. Sonic searched all around for Air Bubbles in a desperate manner but saw none prevailing now. They were running out of time, and the blue hedgehog ultimately knew what he had to do to keep the chipmunk girl alive. He quickly placed his hands on both of her cheeks, closing his eyes as Sonic gives Sally's lips a light touch and begins blowing air into her mouth.
{Music Ends}
The chipmunk girl's eyes widen at the blue hedgehog's action, with her body tensing up as well, and a small pink blush now flushes her cheeks. Sally couldn't comprehend if this is out of kindness or rather out of love, but she almost suffocated underwater. So, the chipmunk girl receives as much-needed air with pace and gradually eases her head for a second. Almost immediately after they part lips, Sonic realizes his oxygen is almost empty now, and like Sally begins to panic due to his inability to swim anywhere further.
The chipmunk girl's head darts left and right, keeping her eyes peeled for a fleeting look of any air bubbles. Thankfully, there was a couple to be found. Sally tries to keep her composure before she gripped Sonic by the arm and pulled him to the nearest pocket of air bubbles. The chipmunk girl could see that Sonic was out of breath; the blue hedgehog's struggle was weakening and finally sagging altogether.
However, Sonic then took a big gulp of oxygen from the air bubbles while Sally does the same as well. Concern was etched on the chipmunk girl's face when she checks on the speed demon, replied with a thumbs-up and a small smile. As the two were about to zip off, Sonic hesitated a bit at first before noticing that he and Sally were now holding each other's hands. He blushed and looked away from the chipmunk girl, seeing her give the blue speedster a coy smile while covering her mouth to hold in the giggles. It was at that moment that Sonic became fully aware of something dangerous and covetous coming to where Tails and Rotor are.
"AIEEEEE!" Tails cried in his thoughts, didn't have long to be in awe as he ducked an attack from the other submersible shark-based Badniks.
While Rotor was busy floating underwater, he noticed a new sound. The two mechanical geniuses' saw the Choppers from earlier, back for more, but with a small mass of Chop-Chops, Jaws, and Orbinauts to help eliminate each trespasser. Just as Sonic and Sally reached the end of the corridor and arrived where Rotor and Tails were, Sally had jumped in shock; eyes widened and flared in surprise. The panic that was threatening to encroach on her soul was arising before she notices the blue hedgehog next to her.
Sonic's eyes shuttered as he saw the undersea crowd coming to mean harm, shouting in his mind, "Oh crud, NOT AGAIN!"
For the time being, Antoine and Bunnie finally made it to the end of the sunken ruins, waiting patiently for the others.
"Guessin' we just gotta' wait here for the others to come," Bunnie said, letting Antoine step off from her arms and onto the ground. He gave out a sigh of relief that he was finally on the ground.
"Phew! It is very nice to be back on ze ground again," he said happily, hugging onto the grass. Bunnie put her hands on her hips.
"Sugar, it was only a five-minute take-off from back there to here. Heck, I don't mean to be shabby, but 'yer even a bit of a fraidy-cat." said Bunnie, shaking her head in amusement.
"Moi? Non!" Antoine picks himself off the ground. "I can assure you zat I am not ze fraidy-cat!" He said, crossing his arms.
"Don't make a fuss about gettin' a snoot full of mother nature, 'kay? I'm only kiddin'." Bunnie hinted, holding her robotic arm up for the built-in receiver. "I'll punch in with Sally-Girl and Nicole for any further drivel they got into."
"Huh?" Antoine uttered. "Oh, oui...see zat you do." Antoine proceeds over to the broken pillar to bring the weight off his feet.
For a few minutes, Antoine stared up at the beautiful night sky falling upon him. He also took note of Little Planet being in the background while Bunnie stopped as she thought what she should do now. She spared a glance over at the French swordsman, who looked bored to death and made eye contact with the sky.
Bunnie assumed that maybe she should try and pass the time conversing with Antoine rather than interrogate with him seriously. Bunnie smirked; walking at almost a snail's pace, making sure that she was a few steps in Antoine's point of view. The cybernetic powerhouse swayed her hips, and her metallic feet sounded every step as she walked across to her fellow teammate.
{Music Insert: Kevin MacLeod ~ There is Romance}
Bunnie gave out an impressed whistle before sitting nearby Antoine herself, saying, "I gotta' tell 'ya, Ant. This view is gosh-darn amazin'! Bettin' Dulcy would've loved to see this."
Antoine nodded in agreement, continuing to stare up at the sky. Though, the French swordsman didn't budge. Bunnie tried to think of a creative way to get his attention.
"Y'know Antoine, you've been on the awful quiet side." Bunnie wondered about him. "Why, is there any grounds as to comin' along with me in the first place?"
Antoine was growing nervous. "W-Well...now zat you mention it to moi, Bunnie. I, uh..." he trailed off a bit, looking away for a bit before a sad sigh came along.
Bunnie narrowed her eyes. "Antoine...?" she asked irritably.
"...I feel useless."
The look of irritation in Bunnie's face turned to shock as she heard this, then crosses her robotic legs while she watched him.
"Nu-uh, 'dat's not-!"
"Of course, it is, Bunnie! I know zat fighting ze nightmarish robots was NOT what I signed up for! But all I ever achieved was running and hiding like ze chicken I had become. Ze princess would not let moi apologize for what or how I acted avant!"
"Don't get at the end of one's rope, Sugar. I mean, Sally-Girl's been down in dumps without Sugar-Hog around in Knothole, and now she's loose-fittin' that Tails and Sonic are both up to snuff." Bunnie confidently said.
Bunnie was always there for Sally ever since Sonic left with Tails to go after Robotnik, promising their return once the evil genius is taken care of for good. Bunnie pretty much always noticed a change in the Sally, and she can see it had something to do with Sonic. How had Sally put up with Sonic for the past years of fighting Robotnik? Bunnie could've sworn that Sonic and Sally would playfully spat out at each other for numerous times, hoping to win their arguments completely. It took them, believe it or not, a quarter of an hour before they believe that nothing could break these two apart.
Bunnie remembered way back when they just hung out with each other on that grassy hill a few feet behind Knothole Village, where they spent most days coping, arguing, chatting, and whatsoever. Yeah, she also remembered Sally yelling at Sonic for being so distracted; hitting him for not being careful. Sonic deadpanned at the chipmunk girl's words but always kept it coming with those comebacks. Bunnie was more than delighted with the fact that Sally was becoming like she once was, but there was still that something in Sally that made her retreat to her gloomy self. When it came time for her to leave things behind began to fall apart.
After a moment of silence, the French soldier sighed. "I do know, Bunnie. I truly am wanting to be ze better person, but I can't seem to have ze princess or…him, see zat I am not an absurd excuse to ever come beneath anyone's shoes."
"Well, that's gonna' take a lotta' time, Antoine. I mean, it took me a buncha' times to get over the fact that I'm half-robot."
"Oui, but how can someone like moi become ze match with you all? You and ze princess are smart and capable, and what does zat leave me? My father told me to be brave, but I am not...I am simply too afraid to run away." Antoine said with a frown, casting a sheepish look.
"Oh, Antoine..." muttered Bunnie sadly. "...don't feel selfish about yourself."
"How is zat selfish?" asked Antoine with his hands up.
"Ever since Sonic and Tails left, y'all've been the only one who makes my life livable."
"B-but I thought you had said I was ze fraidy-cat."
"I was tryin' 'ta play with 'ya, Sugar. It would be a good piece of a mind's eye that we'll both still know by heart. Heck, if I acted often, you probably wouldn't have remembered me when I joined the Freedom Fighters." replied Bunnie, holding both her hands together. "Besides, it was all thanks to you, Sugar."
"M-Moi? B-but I am just ze coward," he muttered shakily, watching the half-cyborg belle nod with a sweet smile.
"Beyond a doubt, but my life was on the brink of goin' down the drain durin' them early days of tug-o'-war with ol' Robotnik. 'Y'all saw this comin' before anybody else did when 'ya pushed that rock down the hill to take out that SWAT-Bot and saved half my skin." said Bunnie.
Antoine remembered how more SWAT-Bots located and captured Bunnie who tended to a carrot crop. After being thrown into one of the mobile roboticizers of Dr. Robotnik, Sonic and Rotor rescued Bunnie by shutting it down in the middle of the process. As a result, the left arm of Bunnie and legs were roboticized. For saving her life, Bunnie decided on putting her new super-strength to work by joining the Freedom Fighters.
During those times when Snively took over Robotropolis, Bunnie has been noticing how Antoine was handling himself to become braver. Bunnie even remembered Antoine assisting with her on a mission in Robotropolis. Sometimes, Bunnie was always there to save Antoine's hiney, but Antoine knew they would both protect each other from any near-death situations.
"Antoine, I know that y'all do anythin' to buy yourself back in the team. Y'all kept fightin' despite bein' brave and doin' what 'ya need to do is what keeps 'ya goin'. Even if y'all were scared, but 'yer bravery is what got us both movin' all 'dis time." Bunnie admitted with a sweet smile, causing the skittish coyote to immediately recall back in Knothole Village.
They both remembered when things started to turn worse when Bunnie's robotic parts became incapable of functioning with her central nervous system. Bunnie's choice was between having her old parts detached, risking her own life, or replace her parts with newer improved parts. Costing her chance to be de-roboticized. Antoine had talked things over with Bunnie, reassuring her that it wouldn't affect her brave heart and beautiful spirit. Bunnie was thankful to have somebody like Antoine to comfort her. So, she decided to have her robotic parts replaced, providing with modern cybernetic parts, saving her life.
Bunnie smiled warmly before her cheeks turned bright pink. "I can't thank 'ya enough for all 'ya did to keep me rollin' and pullin' me out of a gutter, Sugar."
Gaining back the hidden confidence, Antoine stammered, "D-De rien, Bunnie."
Despite Antoine's skittish and cowardly nature, he was still the sweet, golden-hearted, French swordsman he is that always comes back to her even if he got hurt; that was a miracle of him, and that's what Bunnie loved about him. At that moment, she realized that was it. She loved Antoine.
"Antoine," Bunnie whispered.
"M-Mmm-hmm?" Antoine uttered absent-minded.
"Might I ask 'ya a teensy question? It ain't the usual one either!"
The brown coyote's face almost exploded from blushing. "O-Oui! O-Of course, Bunnie."
But before she could say anything, one could tell that something in Little Planet was pitch-bright toward Antoine's eyes.
"S-Something is shining in ze sky," Antoine said, pointing out in the night's sky.
Bunnie took note of it as well with the skittish soldier, witnessing Little Planet surrounded by gleaming metal, which looked like an egg-shaped battle station.
{Music Ends}
Bunnie looked on with a perplexed expression at to whatever's happened to the dwarf planet.
"Oh, my stars! What's with all that metal surroundin' it?" Bunnie asked, with Antoine's response to being none other than one person who would do such a thing.
"It is certainly Dr. Robotnik, I presume?" asked Antoine, turning his head towards her. "But where are ze others? Should not zey already be here, posthaste?" Bunnie couldn't help but think of the same thing as well, giving the soldier a hurried, yet serious avowal.
"Sally-Girl and the others should've been here by now! We betta' make headway and fast-"
A burst of water came from the sunken ruins, startling the couple as they saw Rotor and Sally were the ones that came up and break the surface a few seconds later, gasping for air. Rotor then doggie-paddles his way with Sally in tow to the land nears them. Luckily, it was only a few feet away. They crawl onto the land-dwelling floor as Rotor flop onto the ground, panting and heaving several times.
Antoine went to help the two up. "M-My princess! Rotor! Y-You are finally here!" Afterward, Bunnie had noticed Sonic and Tails weren't with them.
"Hey, where's Sugar-Hog and Tails?" The southern rabbit asked, waiting for the chipmunk girl's answer. Sally stirred with a blistering migraine; her eyes gently opened as she gains control again.
She panted before saying, "We got outgunned…huff… by a crowd of Badniks…huff… they're still back there!"
"WHAT?!" exclaimed both Antoine and Bunnie, their jaws dropped in horror.
Sonic and Tails were surrounded by Jaws, Chop-Chops, and Orbinauts, spiraling around the duo like a horde of sharks. Quick solutions ran through both of their minds rapidly, hoping for another way out of this sticky situation.
"Dammit, if we dodge these attacks, we'll lose all our momentum. Unless…"
Without any second thought, Sonic spin dashes through a wall, sending all the Badniks through the hole and down a water path. Sonic felt like time was running out for him and Tails, with only a few seconds before losing any more air. The two tried swimming their hineys out of there, but the water around them is getting driven into the hole, typically by suction.
Tails harden his expression when he grabs both of Sonic's hands, and then spirals his twin-tails upwards. Sonic smirks at his best friend's tactic as they both dart out of the water. Sonic then targets his feet against the wall before dashing up at kicking-speed, with Tails holding onto the blue hedgehog's hand.
"Hang on, buddy! We're blasting through with sonic-speed!" Sonic declared before unlocking a light-speed dash up the platforms.
Tails then noticed the water uprising once more, shouting up to the speedster. "Sonic, the water's coming back up!"
Sonic quickly glues his signature smile across his face. "Not to worry, big guy! We're almost out of here!"
While running at a full charge, Sonic grabbed hold of Tails before sliding under a pillar with a fierce kick, then jumps up to the ledge where the water stops. Sonic skids his feet on the ground, stopping right in his tracks along with Tails.
"Phew, that was a close one! Nice job with those lucky-twin-tails, little bro!" Sonic said, gaining the twin-tailed fox's smile, even though he was having a long exhalation of relief as well.
"Yeah...huffs…c'mon, let's find everyone else!" Tails said, feeling okay for now along with his best friend walking beside him.
On closer inspection, Sonic walks a short distance with the twin-tailed fox before stretching.
"Man… I'm almost beat," Sonic said.
"You? Beat? Puh-lease! Saying that after punting through a big army of worst nightmares? Besides, you gave that Chopper from earlier an educational beat-down." Tails replied while walking next to the blue hedgehog, who chuckled at the young genius' remark previously.
Sonic breathes in and out through his nose. "Yeah, that...but I wasn't too scared little bud." said the blue hedgehog.
Tails turned his attention towards Sonic. "Me neither, though… just having you down there with me felt safer," he commented.
Tails looked at the blue speedster with a soft smile on his muzzle.
Sonic snickered lightly with his signature smile, returning the gesture. "Hehe, I'll keep that in mind the next time when we're both drowning." The blue hedgehog then breaks into laughter as Tails blinked, not getting the joke.
"Um…yeah…pretty funny. Well, at least be a little more careful, Sonic." Tails said softly.
Sonic scoffs with a reply, "Right, that'll be the day."
The dynamic duo then heard echoes up ahead of a pit, and as they dart over to inspect the echoes, they saw Rotor coming out of the water from trying to find the two.
"There was a hole that was drawing in the water like a vacuum! But I couldn't find them anywhere. Sorry, Sally." Rotor said sadly, surprising the chipmunk girl who looked with shock and horror.
"No…" Sally muttered, looking down not knowing if Sonic and Tails made it out or not. That is, a spooky voice came from above, startling everyone. Especially Antoine.
"oooOOOooo! Princess Sally Acorn, I've come to haunt yoooOOOooou!" the amateurish ghost voice spoke.
Sally's expression soon renders from a shocking look into an annoyed one, realizing who it was that's making those stupid ghoulish sounds.
"Oh... help me..." Sally said as she face-palms in a calm, dispassionate way.
"Yoo-hoo!" The voice called out.
Each of the teammates looked up to see Sonic waving like nothing happened, with Tails bringing a palm to his own face. Sally sighed in relief, feeling glad that Sonic and Tails were safe, yet irritated by the hedgehog's stupidity.
"Sonic! You almost scared me!" Sally frowned, asking herself why she would even bother.
"Oh, Sugar-hog…" Bunnie said, crossing her arms with a smirk. Antoine just simply scoffed at the speedster's pranks.
Sonic slowly leans in and kicks off from the ground, bouncing downwards in spin dash form until he lands on his feet in front of the group. Tails then jumped up, flying down to the group before landing on the ground next to Sonic.
"Whoa, Sonic! Where'd you learn to do that stunt?" Rotor asked Sonic with interest, gaining a grin from the blue speedster.
"Well, when you're the fastest thing alive, you always got to play it cool. Hehe." Sonic replied, acting like the same show-off as he used to be.
Sally exasperated at the cocky speedster with a smirk before speaking, "Oh, brother...anyways, Bunnie informed me about Little Planet being surrounded by metal in the skies." That last statement left both Sonic and Tails in confusion.
"Surrounded by what-now?" Sonic asked before going over to see the night's sky. His expression soon hardens when he saw Little Planet being taken over by Dr. Eggman. "Well then, looks like Eggman's up to something big...REAL big."
Tails went over to see the Little Planet as well. "Eggman must be rebuilding the Death Egg!" said the young fox, assuming if that was the reason why.
"You mean to tell me...that's the Death Egg you guys fought on West Side Island?" Sally acknowledged, in which Tails gave a quick nod.
"Ze Death Egg?" Antoine asked with curiosity, as he peered ahead, and his eyes widened again before he had a natural look.
Bunnie raised an eyebrow, "Death Egg? What's that all about?"
"Yeah, it's like a giant factory constantly deploying spaceships to attack and conquer Mobius. It's made to stand a fortress to spread Eggman's tyranny further." Tails responded with a serious look in his eye, along with Sonic shrugging.
"Yeah, but it WOULD'VE been cooler if it can shoot planet-exploding lasers from its eyes like in a sci-fi movie I once saw. But I don't think Eggy would blow up the planet when it's the only one settled to take over. And besides, he wants people still alive to worship him afterward." Sonic replied
The Freedom Fighters were now definitely shocked as hell. Especially Sally, who was busy staring at the giant sphere-like space station that had Dr. Eggman's face printed on it. Just by looking at it, made each teammate want to puke their lunch out.
"How is Robotnik working this fast? It doesn't make any sense! It's just expanding on its own!" Sally rants, pacing around the grass, trying to control her frustration. Bunnie stands around, watching the princess do so while Sonic and Tails stood a safe distance away from each other.
Walking over, Sonic simply yawned before patting Sally's back. "Don't worry, Sal. We'll find a way to stop him. We always do." He said in a dull tone while Sally and Tails looked at Sonic like if he was crazy.
"I'll say..." agreed Tails. "But doesn't that kinda bother you, Sonic?"
"Huh? Why would it?"
"Sonic, I don't think we can solve this just by finding him." Tails shrugged with concern. "There's something bigger going on here."
Tails went over to go look up in the sky and continues, "I can tell we're not just dealing with one of Eggman's deforestation projects. I mean, we haven't seen him in over a year, and he could be planning something big."
"Either that or still weeping himself to sleep over the fact that everything he creates is a total mess and that he'll never be able to beat me! Haha!" bragged Sonic, crossing his arms with a confident smirk.
"Oh well..." shrugged Tails.
Sonic didn't pay any attention, really. The day he was concerned about the plans of Dr. Eggman to take over the world was long gone. He just wanted to leave the extreme boredom so that he could come back to regular boredom. He began to dream about his home, Christmas Island.
Because of how normal it was, it was different from anywhere in Mobius. There were no loops or corkscrews like it was almost wholly empty of life. Others might not have been able to say that he was from there. The way he always roams from place to place, it was hard for himself to remember if he even came from there.
"Guessing it's some massive form of destruction or a giant weapons production facility… I never thought Robotnik would make something THIS huge!" Rotor said in awestruck, looking up at the newly rebuilt Death Egg, constructed around Little Planet. It was a thought that brought an irritated furrow to Tails' brow.
Bunnie growled, "I should've known out on a limb that everything else we've seen is all on that fat jerk! Especially with all the tiny critters that he's makin' off with."
"That's it, Bunnie!" Tails blurted out with an imaginary light bulb overhead. "Eggman must be using the Little Planet like an extensive organic battery, similar to how he used small critters to power his Badniks!"
The look of insight in Sally's face came about as she heard this, with each teammate in the group also looking at the young fox with rational thought.
"That could be it, Tails...but what about the Chaos Emeralds?" she asked curiously.
"Maybe Eggman's using the remaining Chaos Emeralds as a back-up power source for the entire fortress of some sort. Kind of like from what happened in West Side Island. Right, Sonic?" Tails said, informing the theory all by his own after witnessing the Death Egg's return.
"Yep, and we got to stop him as always," Sonic said sternly, looking over at the twin-tailed fox.
Sally pulls out her hand-held computer, saying, "Nicole, how long till we reach the energy signal?"
[In about 1 mile past the end of Sylvania Castle Zone.] Nicole answered Sally's question before being put away by the chipmunk girl. Sonic then looks at Sally with a slight frown before curling it up into a smirk.
"Guessing Eggman might be going to something worse than last time. Are you guys sure you want to do this?" Sonic spoke out, to not only Sally but to the rest of the group. Sally looked at Sonic as if he was serious about asking such a dull question.
Rotor then cuts in saying, "Of course we are, Sonic, we're always with you until the end!" Sonic looked at Rotor, Bunnie, Antoine, who gave a confident smirk to the speedster with this mission.
Tails smiled as he raised a fist saying. "Cool! So, does this mean I'm finally part of the team?" Bunnie starts rustling his head with a giggle.
"'Yer darn right 'ya are, Sugar-Fox! Besides, if we can get through this snag together, we can get through this in less than two weeks solid. So, you know I'm in, Sugar-Hog!"
Antoine nods with a confident yet skittish, "Oui. Robotnik shall receive ze taste of our swift sovereign justice!"
Sonic then looks back at Sally, who was crossing her arms with the look in her eyes. "I can't ask you to fight for us if I won't fight for myself, you know. You've gotten us this far, Sonic. We'll win in the end." Sally said, putting her hand up to show a fist while smirking.
[I am also programmed to assist as well.] Nicole spoke from the hand-held computer.
"Good!" Sonic smirked as each teammate held their fists together. "Now let's show that Egg-Head to not mess with the Freedom Fighters or any other zones out there!" Sonic declared as the rest of the team made a fist bump.
"Alright!" declared the rest of the teammates with great determination, until Nicole crackled a transmission.
[Sally! I'm detecting a strange energy signature moving in!]
Sounds of clapping had quickly caught the team's attention. Before anything else happened, Sonic hears a horde of Badniks coming from behind him as his eyes widen in mock surprise. There were ten robots, each with a propulsion system that allows them to hover in the air and quickly change position, tracking enemy targets with the machine guns fastened to each arm. These were called: The Egg-Gunners.
TO BE CONTINUED...