"Sonic the Hedgehog will never Beat the Clock!" A swatbot laughed as the majority of the Freedom Fighters were tied to a large amount of explosives that were connected to a giant clock with the timer going down!
Collin Hedgehog didn't even know how they had ended up this way, or at least, why they were alive. He kept struggling against the ropes, hoping to get loose. Sally was glaring at Coconuts the Robotic monkey and the Swatbot that was helping him while the other boys were panicking.
"You know it, Swatbot!" Coconuts laughed. "He'll get his just desserts or my name's not Coconuts!"
"Your name will be Mud once Sonic catches up with you!" Sally growled.
Coconuts just laughed and started punching a Sonic based popup balloon. "Not this time, Sister! This clean, mean, fightin' machine is takin' the hedgehog down!" He knocked the balloon away from him. "Big TIME!"
Collin rolled his eyes and stopped for a second. "Not likely." Before continuing his struggle.
"Oh brother! Not again!" Sally groaned. "Doesn't Robotnik ever give up?"
That hit a nerve. "Robotnik?" The monkey robot asked. "ROBOTNIK?!" The simian screeched. "This isn't his plan, Princess!" Coconuts walked over to a poster that had Robotnik's top ten robots on it. The list read as follows: Batbrain, Grounder, Scratch, Crabmeat, Buzzbomber, Jaws, Caterkiller, Newtron, Cluck, and down at the bottom was Coconuts. "I'm makin' my move to move to the top of Robotnik's Hit Parade!" He explained. "And earn my gold star in the process!" He then started to explain more. "Scratch made mincemeat out of Crabmeat when he deep-sixed Sonic for 16 seconds… then he fowled out!" The robotic simian had started to pace. "When Grounder tried to floor that hedgehog, he grounded out after 17 seconds!" Then he got excited. "Bat Brain was smarter than the both of them! He winged it for 37 seconds before finally caving in!" Coconuts growled. "But nobody's gonna make a monkey out of me! I'm gonna go the distance!"
Collin couldn't help but snap at the robot. "YOU ARE A MONKEY ALREADY, YOU MORONIC ROBOTIC SIMIAN!" He then started to cough heavily. His interactions with the other zone had left his body in a bit of shock still and his illness had come back from the heavy amounts of toxins in not only the other zone, but also from his own zone and the pollution nearby, never mind the stress.
"Easy, Collin!" The princess consoled before glaring at Coconuts. "You're Nuts!"
"That's Coconuts to you! Haven't you been paying attention?"
Sally stood her ground so to speak as Coconuts grabbed a rolled up plan. "It's only a matter of time before Sonic cleans your clock!"
"Ahh, but time is on my side!" He opened up his plan to the Princess. "See? While my Time Bomb ticks away the seconds to your doom, Sonic will be dazzled, dazed, and delayed by my never-ending maze!" Sally gasped as she looked at the dizzying map. It looked somewhat confusing to say the least.
"Mind if I see?" Collin asked curiously. Coconuts shrugged and showed it to the overlander. He flinched when the overlander laughed though. "Where did you get that? That's a kids' meal map from an old Happy Burger restaurant! Pfft!"
"Wha? What?" Coconuts was confused. He had made the map himself!
"Oh man, Sonic will have that done quick enough." Collin smirked ruefully, causing Coconuts to have concerns.
Sally looked at the clock that was nearing its last second. "Maybe, but he's never been this late before!"
Rotor then blushed as he thought of something. "Princess, in case this is the one time when time beats Sonic…" Antoine and Tails also started blushing while Collin rolled his eyes. "We were wondering… where do we rank on your "Top Ten" list?"
Sally also blushed as hearts filled her eyes. "Sorry boys, Sonic takes all ten slots on my list!"
With seconds to spare, a blue whir entered the room. "I knew it! In the nick of time again!" Coconuts scowled as Sonic jumped in through the window.
"He-ere I come to save the da-a-a-y!" Sonic sang out as he spin dashed in, cutting the ropes tying up his friends, and allowing them to escape.
"SONIC!" Sally cried out in joy.
"It ain't Mighty Mouse!" Sonic chuckled. "Everybody, let's make a timely escape!"
The Freedom Fighters ran as Coconuts started getting flustered. "Wait a second!" Which was all he had left. "What about my plan?" Then he realized the explosion was going to go off. "Uh-oh!" With a giant kablooey, the room had blown up with only minor damage to Coconuts and the Swatbot.
Outside, the Freedom Fighters were heading home. "It's about time you got here!" Sally exclaimed.
"Hey! I took my time!" Sonic laughed.
Collin just shook his head with a smirk. "I don't really believe we have time for this."
Antoine even got in on it. "Oui, we had best move before Coconuts gets a second chance!"
"It's a good thing his timing is off, huh, Rotor?" Tails laughed as they went.
"Sure, but… ah man, you guys took all the good puns!" Rotor scowled while the others laughed on the way home.
Back with Coconuts, we find the robot putting himself back together. "What time is it?" He asked with a groan.
"Time to get a new clock!" The swatbot responded.
"Oh, well. I did get my stars even though I got ticked off and made a monkey out of myself again!" He fainted as his vision was filled with red stars. He'd pick up the mess at a later time…