{Music Insert: Bee Movie Game - Duel 2}
Back with Sonic...
Prior beforehand, Sonic was in the air after running up the rusty walls, only to take the time of rolling into a blue spiky-ball of destruction.
"Where is that little son of a-" Dr. Eggman slurred indistinctly during his moment of searching for the cobalt hedgehog.
"Yo, Egg-Head!" Sonic shouted out loud from above, gaining the doctor's full attention, "Look out below!" He finished, launching himself down in a blur towards the giant scrap-robot to unleash an ultimate Spin Dash that took the enormous behemoth straight down to the pile of scrap.
"Ngh!" Dr. Eggman grunts.
"Holy cowhide! Sugar-Hog took that whazzit like a bull! Must be mighty strong for a hunky hedgehog." Bunnie said with an impressed look on her face as she waits for the dust cloud to clear as she tries to spot her old friend, which saw him run up against the oil rig seconds ago.
In a few seconds, Sonic smirked and immediately jumps onto the framework, close to the Egg-Mobile's cockpit.
"Whew! Had enough yet, doc, or are you just begging for some more Ro-BUTT-nik whupping?" Sonic said as Dr. Eggman tried to stretch his egg-shaped body in every direction before seeing from a close inch.
Sonic watched him with a teasing sneer as he starts pulling down one lower eyelid and sticking out the tongue, saying, "Nyaaaah!"
The mustachioed mad man's eyes were deadpanned as his expression was, almost clenching his teeth in hatred.
However, he soon spawns his abominable smile, stating, "Ohohoho! My dear boy, you have all the right to defeat my machine here. So, why don't I give gratitude for my 'pleasurable' rival? Just call it a token of my affection."
Sonic snickered as he swiftly waved his arms behind his head. "A present? For me? Aww Egg-Head, you shouldn't have. You do know it's not my birthday yet. Any hints, doc?"
Dr. Eggman chortled so innocent-like to ease the blue hedgehog's mind and actions, where even Bunnie was confused about how both men act around each other so lightly, and not thrashing one another's throat. Talk about déjà vu.
The pink-nosed man stroked his long bristly mustache with a happy-go-lucky sneer under it, followed by an electroshock weapon in Orbot's hands to secretly pass it into the mad man's hand. Bunnie had her hand held up above her eyes to inspect what Orbot was gradually passing something to Dr. Eggman.
"Here's a hint, hedgehog. I know you don't know much about electricity…" The doctor said as his eyes were noting the expression on the female rabbit's face.
Bunnie gasped before charging herself towards the duo. "Sugar-Hog, don't!"
Sonic turned his attention to Bunnie just as his entire body was pushed away to the side, watching his friend get stunned by Dr. Eggman's electroshock-rifle.
"…but I assure you, it is quite 'shocking'!" The bloated man finished just as it was too late for Bunnie to do anything when she felt something against her chest.
Terrible shocks of electric bolts shot up her body, forcing her to let out a painful, agonizing scream.
"BUNNIE!" Sonic cried out with his eyes widened as he tumbles down against the scrap metal.
Bunnie's scream echoed throughout the oil rig stage where Sally and Antoine could recognize that painful cry, especially Antoine.
"B-Bunnie?" Antoine muttered
{Music Ends}
Bunnie fell off-balance from her weight and falling face flat on the ground of the Egg-Mobile's cockpit. Her vision went blurry, and her arms, including her robotic arm, gave up on her. She attempted to move her robotic arm and realized in terror that it became unlikely to function correctly. Orbot and Cubot kneeled beside her, grabbed each of her arms, and provided a small rag to clamp over her mouth and nose. Immediately, Bunnie smelt an overpowering, sweet stench, one she nearly recognized as the anesthetic chloroform.
"Shhh. Sandman's calling." Orbot muttered calmly as well as Cubot joined in.
"That's right, plus Bigfoot's making sugar cookies and Santa wants to take you to the North Pole," Cubot says.
Bunnie's vision was starting to blur, and she began to feel a crippling sense of defeat. Whining softly as she then inhaled another breath of chloroform, the southern rabbit gives up and allows her body to go completely limp.
"Ha! Have I taught you nothing? Be careful what you wish for you insufferable ignoramus! For such an annoying blue fuzzball, you've been a big help, Sonic!" Dr. Eggman screeched as he sniggered with an evil laugh, catching his eye on the unconscious Bunnie while Sonic grits his teeth in anger.
"Sometimes I wish you would stay dead, Ro-BUTT-Nik! Give me back Bunnie, now!" Sonic growled.
The spiked blue hedgehog gallops to his feet just when he saw the Egg-Mobile escaping out of the broken Egg-Scrapheap and slowly climbing to the sky.
"You'd better watch that tone of yours, pathetic hedgehog!" cackled the evil doctor, "Do you know who I am? I am the Eggman! I won't be finished off or let all that I've worked for, all that I've accomplished, get ruined by a bunch of snot-nosed pests!"
A smug smirk parted his hairy mustache. "After all, you wouldn't want to upset your little girlfriend just because of my 'shocking' behavior. No one-liners, huh, hedgehog?"
"My, sir. Must you be so brash about it?" Orbot asked before getting kicked away from Dr. Eggman.
"Shut it, you! The evil genius is talking here!" The evil doctor barked.
"Not for long, tubby!" Sonic shouted as he unleashes a Spin Attack towards the doctor's flying hovercraft.
"And not on your life, Sonic. Now, go back and play fraud hero while I serve up some extra crispy Bunnie. Ta-ta!" Dr. Eggman shouted once until pressing a button the ignite the Egg-Mobile's boosters and flew past behind Sonic.
"Hey!" The blue speedster exclaimed in irritation, holding a quirked brow in the response of the egg-shaped man escaping, then comes racing up onto the oil rig stage in pursue to where Dr. Eggman was taking Bunnie.
The evil doctor piloted the Egg-Mobile to start taking off towards Metal Sonic's exact location within Oil Desert Zone. He came to notice his arch-rival speeding up against the rusty steel walls with a desire to kick some ass and save his female cyborg rabbit friend.
Dr. Eggman deadpanned with a scowl, saying, "That rat just won't give up, will he?"
"Uh, Boss! I think there's two more of them coming!" Cubot replied as he points out from the hovercraft to see Sally and Antoine making their way right after Sonic and Dr. Eggman.
Orbot was keeping the unconscious Bunnie in check to keep her from moving around until a loud thud came from the Egg-Mobile's side. Sonic used enough of his speed to seize himself through the air and onto the flying hovercraft.
"Are you kidding me?! Haven't you had enough, hedgehog?!" The evil genius shouted aloud in annoyance as to questioning this blue hedgehog's persistence.
"Not until I save the day and kick your ass as always, Eggman! Now, give me back Bunnie, or I'll crack you open and eat you with bacon!" Sonic stated as he swung the first punch on the Egg-Mobile's glass windscreen.
"Ooh, so angry! Be careful, hedgehog. So much stress will give you a heart attack! Only if you give me your Chaos Emeralds, then I'll give back your little freak show here. But if I can't even convince one pest to consider my offers, who's going to take me seriously?" Dr. Eggman replied, letting the speed demon glare back at the large man.
"That's a dirty trick, Egg-Head!" Sonic shouts.
"There's nothing wrong with a dirty trick, Sonic, only when it is used for a greater good. And please don't blame me if your half-roboticized friend starts finding her life to becoming more unpleasant when I'm through with her part of the game." Dr. Eggman replied with a counteract to Sonic, soon realizing what the evil genius means.
Sonic's eyes widening, then questions, "What are you talking about, Egg- HEY-!"
The cobalt hedgehog gets smeared off from the Egg-Mobile windshield by the hovercraft's mechanical wipers, having him dropped off down below while waving his limbs around.
"Think about what I said, hero! I'll be waiting!" Dr. Eggman shouted with a self-satisfied grin before starting up his engine to make the boosters blast him off somewhere else.
"AHHHH- OOF!"
Sonic's face gets buried, along with his body landing on the sand with a loud thud.
"Sonic! Sonic! Are you okay?" Sally shouted with concern for the blue hedgehog's wellbeing as he was face first in the sand.
Gaining his senses back, Sonic pressed his hands to the ground and pulled his face loose from the sand.
He moaned in pain as he rubbed his head, replying, "Yeah, just got caught off guard, that's all."
Sally and Antoine came over the speed demon to check up on him while Antoine, mostly grew self-controlled, was becoming anxious.
"W-what happened back zere, Sonic?! Where is Bunnie!?" Antoine cried out when he grabbed the blue hedgehog by both shoulders and shook rapidly.
Sonic shifted the French coyote back, stating, "Cool it, Ant! If you keep shaking me more then I'll be chunking my breakfast! Eggman's got Bunnie!"
"Sacre bleu!" Antoine exclaimed while Sally gasped as she continued to stare at the blue speedster in a silent shudder.
"N-no way…I thought you would handle him like before, Sonic. How did this happen exactly?" The princess shot him a terrible look that would make Sonic cringe a bit in slight guilt.
"Hey! Bunnie and I were having some fun brawling around the fat-dude till he pulled out some electric weapon thing. He pushed me out of the way and took out Bunnie!" Sonic says.
Antoine glared daggers at the cobalt hedgehog just like Sally would, but fiercer. "WHAT ON MOBIUS WERE YOU ZINKING?!"
Both Sonic and Sally were taken back from Antoine's outburst.
"Whoa, Ant! I-!" Sonic gets cut off by a shove from Antoine.
"Why must you be zo insecure with everything you do?! All because of YOU and your stupid excitement! You...you...big IDIOT!"
Sonic shot back at the French coyote, shouting with full of confidence, "Hey, it's not my fault! Things just got a little complicated and-!"
"A 'little'?! You call zat LITTLE?! I do not ever understand you, hedgehog! Why YOU, of all Mobians, are wanting to let Robotnik have you play in his games, non? Zat is what makes you stupid, hedgehog!"
"What did you just call me, blondie?!" yelled Sonic as he crossed his arms and stared down at the French coyote.
"Guys, that's enough!" Sally tried to butt in, but no avail.
"I know you heard me ze first time," Antoine retorted, glaring against the blue blur, "but in case you did not, I shall repeat! You are ze big, FAT, feul!"
"It's a fool, Antoine! And I'm not fat-!"
"I do not care what you say is right, but you know I am more right zen you zink!" Antoine barked back, poking the spiky hedgehog's chest.
"Can you two please stop it, now?" Sally demanded.
"Why should I? Besides, Ant here is whining about the fact that he could've done it a lot better, which might never happ-"
"ZAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WOULD HAVE DONE!" Antoine bellowed at Sonic with his eyes slit, as the blue hedgehog flinched in silence.
"I would not have let anything touch Bunnie or let herself get hurt because of it! Even if I get injured in ze process, zen I would like to protect her! Do you get zat, idiot? More zan likely enough before you could ever do anything better!"
Sonic shakes off the fear and crossed his arms with an angry smirk. "Oh? Oh, Ohhh? Okay, so that's how you're going to play it, huh Mr. French-dude-looking-all-like-cheap-hair-gel?"
"Blaireau..."
"Oh, so now you're Mr. Big-Shot, huh?" said Sonic.
"Shut ze stubborn face up for once," argued Antonie grimly. "I thought you knew better zan all of zat."
"Look, I didn't want anybody-"
"ENOUGH! THAT'S AN ORDER!" Sally roars out at the top of her lungs, hoping to stun the two boys into silence and capture their attention away from the game getting played between each other.
It has the desired effect as Sonic and Antoine turned their attention to her. Sonic opened his mouth to argue before Sally positions herself between the two.
"Look, guys, we can't spend our time fighting each other on some drama for what stupid mistakes have happened!" Sally said.
"But he-!" Both Sonic and Antoine were cut off again by the redheaded chipmunk.
"What matters now is that we accept the responsibility for our actions we have caused and move on." Sally turns to the spiky teen. "Sonic, you know damn well that this isn't going any further now."
Then, Sally looks over at the French soldier. "You too, Antoine," she said.
"B-But, what about ze-" Antoine stammered in protest while he blinked, sweat rising a bit before Sally waved a dismissing hand to silence the French soldier.
"It's okay, Antoine, I get how you're concerned for Bunnie's safety as much as I do, but we're going to get her back with or without your help if you could trust Sonic as well. No one else has to die because of this." Sally finished.
As the princess finished just when she crossed her arms with a stern glance in each direction of their directions, Sonic and Antoine looked at each other with a slight huff from one another's nostrils. A tense hush fell over the trio, as Sonic's angry green eyes traveled from Antoine to Sally and then back to Antoine again.
"Alright, I guess…" The speed demon quickly gave up the annoyed expression as he continues with a sneer, "but I'll still make up for it in other ways. Same goes for you, Ant."
Antoine sighed in a civil bearing with approval. "Oui, hopefully, you do, Mon Amie," he spoke.
As much as these two despised their differences, they had to put that aside acceptably so that the group will stop Dr. Eggman and snatch Bunnie back.
Their argument began to lower, and Sally then said with a smile, "Alright, now that we've knocked it off with the insults, we better check in with-"
{Music Insert: Sonic X OST - X-Tornado}
[Sally, I'm detecting an incoming call from the Miles Electric! It could be Tails and Rotor.] Nicole stated from the hand-held computer as it vibrates in Sally's vest.
"This better be good…in a bad way. Cause I'm kind of tired of waiting." Sonic said to himself as he leaned over his shoulder for a better look at Nicole.
The hand-held computer kept beeping with an incoming transmission, having Sally draw Nicole out to observe the message on her screen designating up. The chipmunk girl opened it, and a new window popped up, showing what seemed to be the two-tailed fox completely hidden behind a few steel frameworks.
"Tails to Freedom Fighters! Can you hear me? Come in, guys. The Miles Electric's readings indicate you're nearby to where I am. Metal Sonic ambushed us into where the Red Chaos Emerald got lost." Tails stated.
Sonic's eyes widened before he grabbed Nicole out of Sally's hand; he had a feeling he knew what was going on. "What?! Tails, what's going on? Tails!"
Sally snatches Nicole back from Sonic, leaving him interrupted with a whine, "Hey!"
Sally rolled his eyes with a puckered brow before focusing on Tails. "What happened, Tails? And is Rotor there with you?" asked Sally
Tails shook his head with a worried expression, replying, "He's fighting off against Metal Sonic, so I could hide somewhere and send this transmission to you guys!"
"Is Metal-Head still around there? Where is he?" Sonic asked frantically.
"I don't know if Metal's presence at this time is becoming code red, but it concerns me and must be dealt with before something else happens to Rotor." Tails replied.
Sally nodded, responding, "Acknowledged, Tails. But keep yourself hidden before that robot could find you anywhere from your heat signature. Send Nicole the coordinates for me, and we'll be there accordingly."
Tails nodded with a worried smile just as he starts typing in a satellite picture with the entire globe displayed, observing a red dot marking their target and detail.
"Sonic, we're going to be-" Sally got interrupted as the blue hedgehog halts her.
"Way ahead of you, Sal. We'll get there ten seconds flat." Sonic smirked at the possibility of having to challenge Metal Sonic; one of his most favorites next to Dr. Eggman.
Antoine secretly groaned at the notion of being dragged by the cobalt speedster's grand momentum. All the French coyote thought of was making sure his half-roboticized friend was safe and sound.
"Alright you guys, we're juicing warp seven!" Sonic stated when a grin spread across his face as he glimpses over to Sally and Antoine, having each of them grab both of his gloved hands.
"So, what's the gimmick here, Sal?" The cobalt hedgehog asked before looking at Sally, who whispered to him over the details of the exact location from Nicole.
Sonic brushed the thoughts of Tails or Rotor, or even Bunnie ending up hurt from his mind and starts charging up. The blue hedgehog leans forward near the exit of the oil rig stage outside, the setting sun glaring down her hot glow onto his stern face. Sonic appeared not to mind the hot glare of the sun in the Oil Desert Zone but looked impatient as he finally tapped at that rate of momentum. Even Sally and Antoine were awestruck by the speed demon's pace, especially when the dust of sand were spraying behind his feet.
"Hang on, guys! We're going to show Metal and Egg-Head our new digs!" Sonic declared as the team immediately raced off with the blue blur as their car ride.
Sonic was expended in thought, stating in his mind, "Not this time, Eggman! You might take Bunnie or Rotor, but nobody takes away my little bro and gets away with it! Same goes for you, Metal."
TO BE CONTINUED…