Episode 12: The Hooligans

Out in the Great Unknown, Sonic, Tails, Eve, Sally, and Jazz are walking around for any signs of the Chaos Emeralds. Now that they have three, they still need to find four more. Eve is holding out one the white Chaos Emerald as the others follow her. So far, the emerald isn't glowing.

"Boy, finding the Chaos Emeralds is harder than I thought," Tails says.

"Yeah. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack," Sonic says.

"Well, no one said that looking for the Chaos Emeralds is easy. They're extremely hard to find. What's more, we need to find them before Eggman and his Badniks doesn," Eve says.

"Chao Chao," Jazz replies.

"I'm sure we'll figure out how to find the Chaos Emeralds and stop Dr. Eggman," Sally says.

"Still, I have to wonder, why does Eggman what the Chaos Emeralds for?" Sonic asks.

"It' probably to use for one of his robots or to power up a machine that uses Chaos Energy," Eve answers.

"Knowing Eggman, I don't doubt that theory one bit. We should keep searching until we find the Chaos Emeralds," Sonic says.

"Chao?" Jazz says, looking confused.

The four continue to search for the Chaos Emerald, hoping to find something about it.

At Eggman's secret base, Dr. Eggman has had it with Sonic and Eve along with the Freedom Fighters getting in their way. He decides that he needs to do something about it. So, he decides to call for profession help. In the lab, Eggman is standing in front of three figures.

Eggman says, "I hear that you three are very excellent bounty hunters, and that is why I decided to call you here.

"Yeah. Just tell us what you need us to do and we'll get the job done for you," The male's voice speaks up.

"Right. Up to the point," Eggman says.

He holds out a paper and shows a picture of Sonic and Eve.

"These two hedgehogs have been a thorn on my side for a long time. I'm hiring you to capture those two hedgehogs and bring them here, if not then just destroy them," Eggman says.

"Sounds good to me. We'll get started right away," The male's voice says.

"I'm glad that you are willing to do me a great service. Just make sure you get rid of those pesky hedgehogs," Eggman says.

"Alright, two exterminated hedgehogs coming up," The voice says.

Then adds, "Let's go boys."

Then there are footsteps that is leading the room. Eggman evil smirks and will be glad that someone else will be handling his dirty work while he works on other plans.

Continuing on the search for the Chaos Emeralds in the Great Unknown, Sonic, and the others have come across the hot springs near the volcanos. Eve continues to hold the Chaos Emerald as she and the others are trying to find it. No luck though.

Tails asks, "Hey guys, can we stop. I'm getting hungry."

"I do admit, we've been trying to find a Chaos emerald for a while now. Maybe we should have a break," Sally says.

"I have to agree. My feet is getting tired from walking around," Eve says.

Sonic yawns, "Besides, this is starting to get very boring."

Suddenly, a small bomb rolls right at them, and the fuse is lighting.

"A bomb?!" Eve exclaims.

Sonic shouts, "Run!"

Everyone quickly dodge out of the way in the nick of time, and the bomb explodes.

"What has that all about?" Sally asks.

"I don't know, but I'm willing to bet Eggman has something to do with it," Eve suspects.

Suddenly more bombs are being thrown at them.

"Uh oh! Gotta juice!" Sonic screams.

Sonic quickly grab Sally and holds him in his arms while Eve does the same to Jazz and Tails. The two hedgehogs super speed away from the bombs as they explode into pieces trying to blast the two.

Sonic shouts, "Where are these bombs are coming from?"

"I don't know, but they seem to be directly trying to hit us. Someone is trying to blast us with them," Sally answers.

"We better find out who before we end up in pieces," Sonic says.

Sonic continues to run away from the bombs that are be thrown at them. Sonic super speed as fast as he can to get away. Eve does the same as he tries to keep Tails and Jazz safe from the explosions.

"There's too many of them!" Tails says.

"Chao chao!" Jazz replies.

"I know, but we can't just stand there, we're sitting ducks," Eve replies.

Eve continues to super speed get away from the bombs. The bombs continues to keep going as the fuse are lighting and they explode when they hit the ground. Sonic and Eve end up running together as they try to get away from the bombs.

Eve groans, "Who in the world is throwing bombs at us?"

"That's what I want to know. Never knew that Eggman has so many bombs," Sonic says.

"And who said the bombs belongs to them," A sinister voice says.

Just then, the two hedgehogs come to a stop as the combs stop firing at them. The three begin to look around to see if there's anyone around here. So far, the only thing that is in the area are rock formation and rocky hills.

The other voice happily says, "We're over here! We're over here.!

Sonic and the others quickly turn around to hear who is calling them. They then look up and noticed something shocking. Standing before them on top of the boulders are three figures. The first one on the left is a small green duck with a yellow beak and legs, and blue eyes. He is wearing white gloves, red and white sneakers,and a red scarf around his neck. He is also holding a bomb in his hand.

The one on the right is a large light yellow polar bears with white fur on his chest, a peach muzzle, and red eyes. He is wearing a red beanie, a green scarf, brown fingerless gloves, and orange and brown color shoes.

The one in the middle is a purple weasel with a white muzzle, white fur on his belly, and white bottom. He is wearing a brown western hat, a brown belt with a buckle, brown shoes, and grown gloves. He is holding a silver sniper rifle.

"Who are you three supposed to be?" Sonic demands.

"Are you the one throwing these bombs at us?" Sally adds.

The duck says, "No. That's me. I'm Bean the Duck or Bean the Dynamite, if I do say so myself. Right. The one on my right is Bark the Polar Bear."

The polar bear simply nods his head in reply.

The weasel uses the tip of his gun to tip his hat, "And I'm Nack the Weasel, you might have heard of us. We're known as the Hooligans, and we're your maker."

Then he points the sniper towards the four, causing the four to gasp.

"Say goodnight, rodents," Nack remarks.

Then fires.

Sonic and the others gasps in shock as Nack fires the gun.

Eve shotus, "Sniper! Scatter!"

Sonic carries Sally while Eve takes Tails and Jazz away from the scene. Nack gets angry for missing the targets.

"When Eggman said those two hedgehogs are fact, he wasn't kidding," Nack says.

"Yeah. We are dealing with two super duper fast needle mouces," Bean says.

"It's mice Bean. Mice is a plural for mouse," Nack says.

"Oh yeah," Bean replies.

Nack groans.

Sonic and Eve manage to meet up together and are able to hide behind a boulder. Tails peaks out and looks from the left to the right, and he isn't seeing the three in sight.

"Alright, they're gone," Tails says.

"That was close there," Eve says.

"Yeah. Those three are really weird. Why are they after us?" Sonic asks.

"I'll bet Eggman must have hired those two to either attack us to destroy us," Eve says.

"You think Eggman would hire assassins on you guys?" Tails asks.

"I wouldn't put it past him," Sally replies.

Eve says, "Either way, it's too dangerous for you two to be around you. You two need to get back to Knothole, and make sure to take Jazz with you."

Jazz shakes her head to Eve saying, "Choa choa!"

"I agree with Jazz, we're not leaving you to three assassins," Sally says.

"Are you sure about that because those three don't seem like the type to give up that easily," Sonic says.

"You got that right blue needle mouse," Bean's voice says.

Sonic and the others look ahead to see the Hooligans are in front of them. Nack still has his rifle while Bean is holding a bomb.

"Playtime is over hedgehogs," Nack says, aiming his rifle at the four friends

"Alright, if it's a fight you want, then it's a fight you'll get," Sonic says.

"Then it looks like it's playtime," Bean happily says.

Bean then begins to throw bombs at the four and they all quickly move out of the way. Sonic then begins to fight off Nack. Nack fires his rifle at Sonic, but the hedgehog is too fast.

Nack angrily, "Dang it! Hold still you little past!"

"Nah nah! You can't catch me!" Sonic mocks.

Eve ends up fighting Bark. Since Bark doesn't have a weapon, Eve decides to fight this with her own strength. Bark throws his fist to the ground, but Eve dodges as she jumps in the air, and kicks him on the head. Just then, Bark grabs Eve by her ankle and throws her to the ground.

"Ow!" Eve yelps.

She sits up as she rubs her head, "Wow! You're as strong as Knuckles!"

Bark looks at her with a straight look and Eve looks at him.

"You don't really talk much, do you?" Eve asks.

Bark shakes his head in reply. He tries to grab her, but Eve jumps in the air and punches him on the back. Eve may use her sword and chaos energy, but she also very well when it comes to her speed and physical strength. Just then, Bark and Eve have their wrist together as their hands clutch to a fist. The two look at each other with determined sight of winning this battle. Just then, Jazz jumps on Bark's head and covers his eye with his hat, and Eve punches him in the face.

"Thanks Jazz, but leave the real fighting to me," Eve says.

"Chao chao!" Jazz replies.

At the same time, Sally and Tails are dodging Bean's bomb. He is throwing them like maniac.

"You have a bomb and you have a bomb and then you have a bomb," Bean happily says throwing bombs.

Sally and Tails scream as they run or fly away from the bombs. Bean continues to throw bombs at the two and create more with his own hands. Before Bean can throw another one, Eve snags the bomb away from him.

Bean angrily scream, "Hey! That's my bomb!"

"You mean this shiny black bomb," Eve says with a smirk.

Bean stops for a second to see the bomb there, "Uh yeah, the shiny black bomb."

"Huh?" Eve says, confused.

Bean is looking at the black bomb that is in Eve's hand.

That gives her an idea, "Does Bean want the shiny?"

"He does, ever so much," Bean answers, keeping his eye on the bomb.

Just then, Eve throws it, "Now fetch!"

With that Bean begins to chase the bomb as he says, "Yap! Arf! Polar Bear's name!"

Bean catches the bomb, but it explodes all over his face.

The duck manages to say, "Got it."

"Nice one Eve," Sonic says, and begins laughing.

Just then Sonic ends up getting punched on the face. Sonic is then thrown to the ground, and slides across the dirt.

Sonic manages to say, "Got to pay more attention."

Sonic gets up, "Alright, no more messing around. We're doing this old school."

"Yeah. I saw we take these three down fast before they are going to blast us," Eve says.

Sonic and Eve decide to work together to take the Hooligans out before they are taken out.

Sonic says, "Sally and I will take care of Bark. You, Tails, and Jazz handle Bean."

"Got it, but what do we do with Nack?" Eve asks.

Sonic and Sally gather together to deal with Bark, while Eve, Tails and Jazz make their way to Bean. Sonic and Eve begin to throw punches and kicks at Bark, but the polar bear is putting up a strong fight.

Tails, Eve, and Jazz begin to dodge the attack that Bean is giving them.

Bean laughs, "Dance Freedom Fighters dance!"

"Alright Tails, let's put a spin on it," Eve says.

"You got it," Tails says.

Tails then turn his back on to Bean and his bomb. He then spins his tails and the bombs fly back to Bean by the strong wind of his tails. The bombs begins to fly and land to where Bean is.

"Sorry bombs, but you need to stall your explosive for a while," Bean says.

When the bombs land on the ground, none of them explode. Eve, Tails, and Jazz gasp in shock.

"What in the? How is that little duck able to defuse the fuse like that?" Eve akss in shock.

"Yeah. It's like he is able to control the bombs," Tails says.

"That's right right right. I can make bombs apper, cause them to explode, and to turn off the fire when they are needed. Mostly I let my bombs explode and put on a fantastic show," Bean happily says.

Eve, Tails, and Jazz looks dumbfounded to hear Bean liking the exploding of the bombs.

"You have got to be kidding me," Eve says.

"You can say that again," Tails replies.

"I never knew Bean is such a weirdo when it comes to bombs and other explosive," Eve replies.

"Chao chao!" Jazz replies.

Unknown to the three, Nack is hiding behind a boulder and has the sniper rifle aiming at Eve.

With a smirk, Nack says, "That's right girl, stay perfectly still. Bean has a bit of a screw loose, but he is good on being a living dynamite."

Nack then begins to pull the trigger. Sonic continues to fight Bark and lands on the ground after doing a spin dash. He shockley turns to see Nack is aiming his rifle towards Eve, while the girl and the others are looking dumbfounded towards Bean.

Sonic quickly runs towards her and shouts, "Eve, look out!"

Suddenly, a loud bang is heard, and Eve quickly turns around to see Sonic is behind her and looks numb.

"Sonic?" Sally asks.

Nack smirks, "Looks like I manage to get one of them."

"Sonic!" Tails scream in shock.

Eve begins to get paralyzed as Sonic falls on his knees, and the human girl from her dream. Suddenly, Eve ends up seeing a vision. Eve is trapped in a capsule while her brother bangs his fists at the other one trying to escape. Then the girl grabs on to the switch when an older human that looks like a police officer holds out a gun. The little girl pulls the switch as the adult fires a gun at her.

She hears her brother scream, "Maria!"

Then her vision ends, and is still stunned by remembering this flashback.

Eve mutters as she falls to her knees, "Sonic? Maria?"

Suddenly, Eve falls to the ground and lost consciousness.

"Eve? What's wrong? Are you okay? Eve?!" Sally asks in concern.

Suddenly, bombs is being through around Sonic and Eve as they create a large amount of smoke. Sally, Tails,and Jazz cough due to the smoke. When the smoke clears, The Hooligans are gone. To make matters worse, they're not the only ones who are gone.

"Sonic? Eve? Where are you?" Tails asks, looking around.

"Chao chao," Jazz says in concern.

Sally realizes, "Oh know. The Hooligans are gone too. They must have taken Sonic and Eve to Eggman."

"What are we gonna do?" Tails asks.

Sally quickly grabs a paper and writes everything down, turns to Jazz, "Jazz, head back to Kntohole and give this to Bunnie. We need help if we're going to save them. Tails and I will go on ahead."

"Chao," Jazz says.

The little Chao takes the note and speed back to Knothole to get help.

"Come one Tails, we need to do what we can to save Sonic and Eve," Sally says.

"Right," Tails says.

The two quickly go on ahead to rescue their two friends.

Far ahead in the Great Unknown, the Hooligans are riding a blue and yellow color hoverbike with Nack driving. In one passenger side is Bean and Sonic unconsciously next to him. Bark sit on the other passenger side holding Eve.

"Well boys, I say we did a pretty good job catching those two hedgehogs. We'll just have to do now is take them both to Eggman," Nack says.

"Yeah. Too bad there can't be more explosives," Bean says.

Nack rolls his eyes. He then looks at Bark and notices him holding the girl and is looking down at her. What really catches his attention is to see a little blush on his cheeks. Bean sees this too.

"Hey Bark, your cheeks are a little red. You feeling alright?" Bean asks.

Bark nods his head as he shows a small smile on his face. Then he pets the sleeping Eve on her head. Seeing this, Nack is beginning to see what's going on.

"Oh, I see what's going on here," Nack says.

"Bark has eaten too much chili dogs?" Bean suggests.

"No. I think Bark has a bit of a crush on the little lady," Nack says.

Bean sighs happily, "Aww, Bark like her. Isn't love sweet."

"Yeah. Enough to leave cavities in my mouth," Nack says.

"Hey, do you think Dr. Eggman will let us keep her. She can be our mascot," Bean says.

"We'll see about that. For now, we still got a job to do and we need to get it down. Make sure you both hold them tight, we don't want neither of them escaping before reaching to Eggman." Nack says.

Later on, Sally and Tails are able to reach Eggman's secret, well not so secret base before the Hooligans can get here. The two hide behind one of the rocks close by.

"So what are we gonna do?" Tails asks.

"We need to wait until the others arrive and wait to see if the Hooligans will come here," Sally says.

"And here they come now," Tails points out.

Sally turns to see the Hooligans riding on the bike to where Eggman is. At the same time in the opposite direction, Bunnie, Antoine, and Manic arrive with Jazz taking the lead.

"We got here as fast as we could Sally girl," Bunnie says.

"Thanks. We need the help we can if we're going to save them," Sally says.

"So what is the plan to get inside?" Antoine asks.

"I say we charge inside and do a full scale attack," Manic says.

"Usually Sonic goes for the direct route, but we need to do this fast and quickly," Sally says.

"I saw we take the direct route before Eggman does something to them," Tails says.

"Alright, but we need to this fast. Bunnie, you and Tails will go in first," Sally says.

In Dr. Eggman's lair, Dr. Eggman is impressed that the Hooligans have captured both Sonic and Eve.

"Glad to see that you captured both of those hedgehogs. I'm willing to bet those two have given you trouble," Eggman says.

"You have no idea, but we manage to captured those two hedgehogs and brought them here without any trouble," Nack says.

"Really y'all, you are all in trouble now," Bunnie speakers.

Just then, Bunnie swoops in and kicks Bean and Bark. then grabs Sonic and Eve and fly away.

Eggman shouts, "Stop her!"

Nack brings out his rifle and fires at Bunnie. Bunnie flies around as she avoids trying to get hit. Tails then comes in and kicks Nack on the head. After that, Sally, Antoine, and Manic come in and fight off the Hooligans. Eggman groans in anger and brings out a laser and fires at the flying rabbit.

Sally comes out of nowhere and kicks the laser out of Eggman's hand. Manic then brings out a gun of his own, and fires a net at Eggman catching him. Then does the same to the Hooligans making Nack drop his rifle.

Bunnie picks up the net with the capture villains, and says, "Let's go for a spill.

Bunnie spins them in the are around in around like a lasso. Then throws them into the other room.

"Well, looks like our work is done, and we saved Sonic and Eve," Bunnie says.

Sometime later, Sonic and Eve are starting to regain consciousness. Sonic sits up and stretches his arms with a yawn. He turns his head to see Sally with a calm smile on her face.

Sally asks, "Hey Sonic, you okay?"

"I think so. What was that Nack shot me with?" Sonic answers.

"I think it was a tranquilizing bullet. It made you really numb," Sally says.

"What about Eve? Is she okay?" Sonic asks in concern.

"She's okay. She lost consciousness when she saw you get shot and the Hooligans managed to capture both of you," Sally says.

"What?" Sonic asks in shock.

Sonic turns to see Eve is alright and is awaken as well. Although, she does look pale.

"Are you okay Eve?" Sonic asks.

"I'm okay. Sonic, what happened today? I can't seem to remember what happened," Eve asks.

"It's okay. We were captured, but everything is alright thanks to our friends," Sonic says.

"Okay," Eve says.

Then she lays down in bed, "I don't know why I'm still feeling sleepy."

"You get some sleep. I'm sure you'll feel fine in the morning," Sally says.

Eve nods her head and in seconds Eve has fallen back to sleep.

Sally whispers to Sonic, "Sonic, I don't know why, but I think Eve fell unciousness because you were hit. I also heard her muttering something, 'Maria' I believe."

"She said that?" Sonic asks.

"She did. I know this is sound strange, but I think when you were hit, Eve suddenly gone into a shock and lost consciousness. I think this is something from her memory. Your being shot must have triggered something in her, and made her forget what happened today," Sally says.

"It's possible. And that's not the only thing. I remember you telling me that Eve had a nightmare about a human girl being shot, maybe that has something to do with it. Not only that, she told me just the other day that she remembers her brother name. She told me that his name is Shadow," Sonic says.

"You're right. It worries me that Eve is starting to remember, but whatever happened that caused to be seperated must have been awful. Remember Dr. Quack saying that she had retrograde amnesia because of a severe mental shock. That could be it," Sally says.

"It's possible, but we won't know for sure unless Eve remembers herself,"Sonic says.

"Yeah. I'm just worried. Is it worth it for Eve for her to remember things that might be difficult for her?" Sally says.

Sonic says, "It will give us a lead to what happened to her."

"You're right. I hope we can solve this," Sally says.

"Me too," Sonic says.

Sonic and Sally look at Eve in concern, and wonder what happened to her that has made Eve unable to remember her past. They do have an idea, but without a clear answer, it's won't be possible to figure it out. All they know that something must have happened that must have been so terrible to cause Eve to lost her memory. They begin to wonder, 'What could have upset Eve that much?'