Author's Note: Hi, welcome back to another chapter of Sonic's adventure! I'm really glad that you're liking it so far, and I will do my best with it. Let's continue onward!
I do not own Sonic The Hedgehog. All rights belong to Sega.
Chapter 2: Eggman's Big Boy.
Sonic wasted no time in racing through more of the Tropical Resort, which looked far more like a tropical city mixed in with a cruise liner and an actual resort. Though halfway from where he left Tails and the little alien, he was met with another capsule in the middle of the road, with more Cyan Aliens trapped inside and shivering and shaking. The looks of their eyes told the blue hedgehog that they were frightened to the core.
It broke his heart into pieces.
Without second thought, he sped up and cracked the capsule open and almost instantly the aliens flew out before gazing at him curiously. Sonic smiled sincerely with a wave.
"Hey there. How're you doin'?" He greeted. But as Sonic thought the aliens were about to do something or turn him into a laser again, his sensitive ears picked up a sound coming from behind him and then judging from the renewed terrified expressions on the little creatures' expressions, with one of them squealing in panic while pointing behind him, he knew that they had unpleasant company.
Sonic spun around in alarm and saw a large flying robot hovering towards him. At first it had a welcome sign in it's hands, but when it scanned the four down below, it identified the hedgehog as a threat and the captives having escaped.
"Identifying potential threat: Sonic the Hedgehog. Aliens escaping! Threat levels to 5. Priority one: Eliminate and recapture!" The robot announced, putting away it's hands and the sign, replacing them with fire cannons and aimed at the group.
"So much for the welcoming committee." Sonic said dryly, before smirking. "But at least it's a challenge I can't refuse."
The robot powered up, and Sonic quickly stood in defense to fight. He was about to tell the aliens to make a run for it when they saw, as he was about to face the machine, that he is to be trusted for saving their lives and hovered all around him. At first confused, he then realized what they were about to do and smiled.
"Guess you wanna help out and get a little bit of payback, right?" The blue hedgehog asked, smirking. "I can totally understand that."
As though reading his mind, the cyan aliens morphed themselves into his body and Sonic tried his best to get used to it. He thought nothing but what else he and his new friends were about to do and glared back up at the robot that was about to fire laser bullets at him with a smirk.
"LASER!" Sonic shouted, transforming once again and zoomed upward, smashing and laser-hitting it before the piece of metal had a chance to even attack. In less than a few seconds, the robot fell apart and was nothing but scrap, while the blue hedgehog landed safely on the ground once more after returning to normal and the aliens emerged.
"Yeah!" He cheered, and shared high-fives with the alien trio. "Nice job, guys! Thanks."
"$%# &*%$%$+#!" The aliens giggled happily, and flew around Sonic who chuckled.
"Hey, no need to thank me! I was happy to help." Sonic laughed. "I do it because I know it's right, and don't you worry, I promise to save more of your kind."
The aliens beamed happily before waving and then flew away to rejoin more of their freed kind. Sonic watched them go in relief before racing off further into the Resort and he would've ignored more of Eggman's intercom if one hadn't made him actually listen and not because he was convinced that the evil doctor had turned over a new leaf.
"Would the owner of a white hovercar shaped like an egg report to the office? Your car has been broken into. I repeat, would the owner of a white hovercar shaped like an egg report to the office? Your car has been broken into– Wait a minute, what the heck?"
Sonic ended up bursting into laughter at that statement and glanced up even though he couldn't see Eggman yet, but took the oppotunity to taunt him. "Maybe you should double check your own vehicles, Egghead!"
He slid underneath walls to avoid in crashing into it and grinned excitedly when he saw a zipline which was to be used to reach the other side. Sonic jumped and grabbed hold of it, zipping his way down and enjoying himself as he did. But he also knew that he had to find Eggman quickly and save the rest of the captured aliens.
As he reached the other side, he saw yet more robots and went into spin dash to take them out one by one, hitting them with perfect timing. Three more white aliens emerged and in gratitude lend him the power of boost which increased Sonic's speed once more.
No sooner had it wore off as Sonic soon found himself seeing more and more capsules being lined up, he nearly crashed into one and easily cracked it open only for another robot to open fire on him. The blue hedgehog quickly sped out of the way to avoid in getting vaporized or shot and used his spin dash to smash it into pieces. Unfortunately as he finished it off and freed another alien, the impact of the robot's destruction caused him to stumble back dangerously close to the edge that he began to lose his balance.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! WHOA!" Sonic cried out, trying not to fall off as he frailed his arms to prevent himself from falling into the deep, dark abyss below. Where he it would, he didn't want to find out. But at the rate he was going, it looked like he was about to.
"No, no! Noooooo!" He screamed as he began to fall backwards. Just as Sonic squeezed his eyes shut and braced himself while hoping that he would either find a grind rail to slide on or a platform halfway down to land safely, the two aliens that he freed flew over to his rescue. One grabbed hold of his gloved hand, and the other pushed him on the back and prevented him from falling to his death.
Confused and surprised as he realized that he was still alive, Sonic opened his eyes and saw that the aliens had saved his life. They pulled and pushed him back to safety where the blue hedgehog took a couple steps forward before sighing in relief. The two cyan aliens made movements of sighing in relief themselves.
"Phew. That was close." He sighed, and smiled gratefully at the two aliens who hovered around him, as though making sure if he was okay. "Thanks, guys. I owe you one. Thought I was a goner there for a second."
The two aliens babbled happily in what Sonic thought was gibberish by now, and circled around him and as though to show him more of their gratitude for freeing them and that saving his life wasn't enough, they turned into energy and once again absorbed themselves into his body.
"Whoa-ah! Hold up, this isn't necessar-LASER!?" Sonic exclaimed as he turned into his laser form once more and zoomed away further along the path, hitting more agressive robots that guarded the area. He zigzagged and hit them in the cores like a pinball machine or a laser tag game...which this was like a laser tag game to the next level.
After a little while, Sonic returned to normal and the two aliens flew out of him before waving a goodbye and flew off to freedom. The blue hedgehog waved back before looking around his new surroundings. It was still part of the park, but now he could hear dreaded sounds of machinery closer than ever and still haven't found what he was looking for.
Until he heard the annoying familiar voice. Except this time it wasn't the PA intercom. But a bit more distant yet very close, realistic and...almost right around the corner.
"...Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen..." Eggman was saying, and it sounded like he was counting something.
Narrowing his eyes as he suddenly felt that he knew why the evil doctor was counting, Sonic raced forward for a closer look before skidding to a stop. He peered around the corner and saw not only so many more capsules of trapped aliens which ripped his heart to shreds and made him so angry that he nearly lost it, but also his intented target; Eggman himself in his Egg Mobile, counting the capsules to see how many he had so far.
'Aha. Gotcha, Eggman.' The blue hedgehog thought to himself with a smirk, even though it was really to hide just how furious and horrified that he felt. His smirk faded into a frown as he saw the trapped creatures inside. So many aliens trapped against their will, to used to fuel Eggman's robots and whatever else he intended on doing. Sonic woundered how long this had been going. Two months maybe?
It's not fair. Seeing how traumatized the aliens were, and feeling their concern, worries and fear upon being powered up by their mysterious energy, Sonic knew that they were living creatures like everybody in Mobius were. And Eggman, as usual, was using them as batteries.
The sight of them trapped like this not only shattered his heart, it also made guilt begin to rise in his chest, even if Sonic had nothing to do with how the aliens were caught like this. He didn't end up inadvertly help his worst enemy this time...
'I wish I could've prevented this, though.' He thought to himself, before glaring up with determination. 'I gotta save these aliens. Watch out, Eggman! You're in for it!'
He then made his way closer, ready to take on the evil man once more...and maybe have a little bit of fun as an added bonus, as always.
"...Twentythree, twentyfour, twentyfive..." Eggman finished counting the aliens Decoe, Becoe, Bokkun, Orbot and Cubot captured so far, and to say that he wasn't happy with the results was an understatement. He slammed his fists onto the dashboard, grunting. "Bah! Not nearly enough aliens!"
"I told you we should've kept on catching more." Decoe whispered to his fellow robots with a dull look.
"If it weren't for Sonic, we would've captured at least twentyeight by now." Becoe pointed out, exasperated.
Orbot ignored the former two's whispering and questioned obediantly. "Want us to get more?"
Eggman glared at him and replied sarcastically, "No. I want you to get me a cheeseburger and a shake."
"That'll be easier!" Cubot exclaimed, still in an cowboy voice, completely oblivious of the sarcasm. "Cheeseburgers don't run as fast as them li'l varmints!"
"That's not what he meant, and cheeseburgers can't run! They can't even move at all!" Bokkun yelled, exasperated. The other three robots all groaned with the same feeling and while Decoe and Becoe slumped low, Orbot facepalmed himself. "You ever heard of sarcasm?"
"Ain't sure I had any iffit." Replied the yellow robot. The other four robots and even Eggman anime-fell with groans, unable to believe Cubot's stupidity.
"IDIOT. GET ME MORE ALIENS!" Eggman angrily commanded after getting back up. The five robots quickly split to do as command...only for Cubot to stop and turn back to him.
"Y'all want fries with that?" The yellow robot asked, stupidly. The reply he got was a wrench thrown at him and hit him on the head. He began floating away while grumbling to himself. "I reckon that hurt..."
He then realized he was going in the wrong direction and mumbled to himself while hurrying into the right way. "Wait a minute, I need to go over yonder. Sorry!"
'Why did I ever build him? I must have done something wrong. Oh, nevermind.' Eggman shook his head in exasperation, before controlling his mobile to hover closer to the capsules, snickering evilly. "Precious little aliens...I'll harness their Hyper-go-on power and then nothing will stop me!"
He then paused and continued, rephrasing his words. "I know, I say that everytime, but this time, really, nothing will stop me!"
"Um...Doctor?" Becoe and Decoe suddenly both muttered nervously, as they, Bokkun and Orbot were staring at something, or rather, someone, on the path they were about to head to, only to stop when they saw that they had company.
"What?" Eggman grumbled in annoyance, but as he looked over his shoulder to see what the two bumbling robots were looking at, he spun around completely as he saw the last thing he expected to see. He leaned forward as he spluttered in disbelief and shock.
Because there stood his worst enemy who held a confident smirk as he always did.
"SONIC!?" Eggman exclaimed, uanble to believe it. Since when did that annoying blue hedgehog get here!? Why hadn't anyone informed him!?
"Who're you callin' nothin'?" Sonic asked with his arms folded to his chest. He then pulled his right lower eyelid down briefly while giving the villains a raspberry before turning around and taunted them even more by slapping his bottom.
"Not you again! Don't you ever know when to not get in the way!?" Bokkun shouted angrily, waving his fists in the air in frustration.
"Funny. I was thinking of a similar question about you guys, except I woulda asked if Ro-butt-nik would ever know when to not hurt anybody." Sonic replied sarcastically with a shrug, grinning as he used the old nick-name he hasn't used for Eggman in years, which added insult to injury as aforementioned doctor growled furiously to the point of almost having steam pour out of his ears.
"You little...!" Eggman grunted, his face almost turning as red as his coat.
"Huh?" Cubot asked, completely confused on what Sonic meant or what was going on.
"He means that the boss said 'nothing will stop me' and since Sonic here is going to stop him, it's like the boss is calling Sonic nothing." Orbot explained without missing a beat. "The reason why Sonic also called Dr. Eggman such a rude name is because the boss's real name is Dr. Ivo Robotnik, but everyone has since called him Eggman he even changed his name as such."
"Great! I thought nobody would get that." Sonic responded to Orbot's explanation.
"Thanks for the flash-back, Sonic." Decoe and Becoe muttered sarcastically.
Eggman was already as his boiling point before attempting to calm down and glared angrily at Orbot, hissing. "Fine! You're so smart, robot, you take care of this mess! Release the Big Boy! At least I know he won't screw it up!"
He then closed the hatch of his Egg Mobile and took off to the sky, bellowing to everyone down below. "Hasta la bye-bye, suckers!"
"Hey, wait for us, doctor!" Decoe and Becoe cried out, quickly following in a failed attempt to catch up.
"Waaaaaah! Why do I always get left behind!?" Bokkun whined, before taking his leave as well.
"Wait for me, boss!" Orbot exclaimed, floating away as well, leaving Sonic and Cubot to whatever this Big Boy was.
As the blue hedgehog turned to see what Eggman was talking about even though he knew from experience that it was going to be some kind of robot, what he saw was the last thing he expected as it hovered towards the main area. Sonic gasped in shock as he saw none other than the Ferris Wheel, except it was a giant killer robot in reality. It was floating with hands on the ring, the pods being thrusters, numerous platforms and a giant eye in the middle. It was called Rotataron.
Despite this, Sonic quickly recovered from his shock and smirked confidently even as the massive robotic eye peered down at him.
"Well, that explains why it looked creepy." He muttered to himself, casually holding his hands out and got ready for some fighting while adjusting his gloves. "Guess it's time for me to start stopping."
Sonic then rushed forward and used Cubot's head to catapult himself before jumping and landing right inside the frame of giant robot's ring.
The yellow robot in the meantime then finally understood what Orbot was talking about and exclaimed. "I git it!"
Sonic landed in the bottom of the ring and gazed bravely at the giant eye of the Rotataron who gave out a metallic screech that nearly killed his hearing. But he ignored it and back-flipped out of the way when it attempted to swap at him with it's left arm. It scrapped at where he stood just moments ago and it clawed the metal with a hard scrapping sound that made him cringe, but he ignored that as well.
"Yo, spin-wheel! Why'd you hit yourself for?" The blue hedgehog taunted as he continued to dodge and ran all around inside the ring, easily dodging both of the giant robot's arms that attempted to either grab him or squish him.
As Sonic spun and run faster and faster, he could tell that the robot was getting more and more agitated for continuously missing him and he smirked. He jumped and leaped from platform to platform and even used the metal ball things to his advantage before spin dashing right into it's eye repeatedly. His sharpened quills hit the mark as Rotataron gave another mechanical scream.
The blue hedgehog cringed as he uncurled and landed on one of the slow-moving platforms. He rubbed his right ear and winced. "Ow. I can see why Eggman said you robots are sensitive, but did you really have to make my ears ring?"
Rotataron responded by releasing several neon pink ninja stars and hurled them towrads the Mobian hero. Sonic gasped before ducking and jumping to avoid them, even though one came dangerously close in slicing his left arm off but it did scrape him a little, but not enough to make a cut or bleed. It did sting a little but he chose to not let it distract him. But as he looked up and was determined to keep fighting, what caught Sonic off-guard was a capsule on one of the platforms with a cyan alien inside it.
"How'd I miss that!?" He exclaimed, before yelping and then ducked as blades came out from the metal balls and spun around to try and slice him into pieces, added with the giant robot's hands trying to hit or grab him again. Sonic sweatdropped, "Boy, is he mad now."
Sonic then jumped and once the blades were put away, he used this chance to attack the single eye again with his spin dash and karate kicks, battle yelling as he went and causing more damage, which infuriated the giant robot even more to the point of shaking which nearly caused him to lose his balance. He then quickly leaped down to the capsule and cracked it open to free the captured little alien.
"Run! Now's your chance!" The blue hedgehog instructed once the alien, who gazed at him curiously for saving it's life, was out. The alien, stunned by his heroic deeds, stared before it and Sonic heard perching sounds of metal again and turned just in time to see the blades come back along with the neon stars coming at full force. He turned back to the alien and screamed, "LOOK OUT!"
Sonic grabbed the alien and jumped, avoiding the blades, ninja stars and giant hands as he went before letting it go and gently gestured it to leave. "It's okay! I'm your friend. Go! I'll take care of this underrated ride!"
He turned back to the monstrous machine and leaped up, attacking the very weakest again as quickly as possible. Rotataron shrieked again which nearly busted Sonic's eardrums so much that he had to cover them with his hands and cringed to try and numb the painful noise as soon as he landed on another platform. Unfortunately, that was his mistake as the giant robot siezed it's chance to clasp him in it's right giant hand, catching him off guard.
"WOAAAH!" Sonic screamed as he was now trapped in the massive grasp and lifted off the platform. He struggled to wiggle himself free from the tight grip that was crushing him to death. But when he made to glare at the robot holding him captive, he gasped as for a split second, his mind's vision transformed the robot into something horribly familiar, one that he wished he wouldn't see in reality again.
The realistic flash-back of a giant Werehog from his nightmares grinning evilly and hungrily before him and Sonic, knowing that he was suddenly hallucinating, thought he felt the cold skin of the Werehog's hands holding him tightly. The blue hedgehog shivered, his heart leaping into his throat and falling into his stomach. He tried to mentally shake off the image, but it somehow refused to go away, as though this situation was making him terrified. Granted, Sonic had been held in giant hands before, mostly from Eggman's giant robots like when just moments before the world was split apart.
But it was somehow different as even though he no longer had that little bit of darkness inside him, and the Werehog was gone, it wasn't something Sonic could easily get over, no matter how hard he tried. Breathing scaredly, he squeezed his eyes shut, the fear really getting to him.
"AAAAAAHHH! LEMME GO!" He screamed.
Just as Sonic thought he was finished, the sound of the alien babble made him snap his eyes open and instantly the realistic vision of his memories ended and reality came back to him. He found himself facing the Rotataron who was about to fire lasers at him before he looked to his right and saw the little alien hovering beside him with a concerned but determined look.
"You wanna help me?" He asked, surprised. The alien nodded, somehow understanding him. The blue hedgehog took a quick glance over the giant robot that was currently holding him in it's grasp before realizing what his new friend planned on doing. He nodded, deciding to take the chance. "Okay. I got it! Can you help me by lending me your powers for a little bit?"
The cyan alien made movements as though answering him as a yes, before circling around him and absorbing itself into his chest. Sonic waited until he glared at the giant robot, focusing hard and just when it was about to kill him, he shouted one word he knew that would both save him and end this battle.
"LASER!"
Transforming into a cyan laser once more which freed him from the robot's grasp, Sonic zigzagged across the frame before hitting the eye in the middle once more to the point where it couldn't handle the pressure anymore. It began to malfunction and jolt out of control while Sonic zoomed back safely to the ground and returned to normal, the alien coming out a few seconds later. The two jumped back into a safer distance as the Rotataron soon fell apart, though none of them were aware that one of it's arms flew off high into the sky and crashing into somewhere.
"Wooo! Yeah!" Sonic cheered in victory, and shared a high-five with his new friend who squealed happily, flying into air-somersaults and dancing around. He laughed. Sonic did a few victory jumps and poses himself while the robot was nothing more than a pile of broken metal.
"Heh. That wasn't so bad. I've faced worst creations from Eggman than this oversized tourist attraction." Sonic smirked, before turning to the alien and added. "Thanks for helping me, little guy. We make a great team!"
The alien happily nodded and affectionately hugged him on the chest, rubbing it's head on the peach part. Sonic chuckled softly and carefully hugged it back fondly. "It's gonna okay. You're free now. Thank you."
His new friend blushed a little, before it and Sonic ended the hug and with a wave of goodbye, it flew off to it's freedom. But as the teenager watched it leave, he turned back to the remains of the robot and couldn't help but frown. Not only was he disappointed with himself for having been captured that easily, but that moment of the sheer-terror flash-back made him feel uneasy. It had looked and even felt so real that he thought he was reliving it right before his eyes, as though he was experiencing it all over again.
"No." Sonic chastised himself, shaking his head firmly while closing his eyes, attempting to rid that moment of weakness of the adventure that, while he did once again save the world with the help of his friends, mentally scarred him. "Don't let it get to you, Sonic. It's all in the past. You gotta let it go. This is nothing like with Dark Gaia. It's different."
But no matter how hard he tried to tell himself that it was fine and that he just had a bit of a bad distraction, Sonic couldn't help but feel like that he really was beginning to lose his status of being able to handle things mostly by himself.
That alone scared him.
Even though the battle did leave him a bit shaken, Sonic distracted himself from that moment by releasing the other trapped aliens from the capsules and then explored more of the Resort while freeing more along the way, as well as checking out the stores and grabbing a bite to eat from, to his surprise and delight, a Chili Dog stand which he instantly bought and ate to his heart's content before finally racing back to where Tails and the curled alien were still at.
"Okay, just tighten this last bolt..." Tails was muttering himself, still working on his translator.
Sonic by then returned and nearly missed his best friend completely before skidding to a stop, and then went back to the young fox via moonwalking and stopped in front of him. The blue hedgehog dusted his hands off which caught his little brother's attention.
"Oh, there you are!" Tails greeted, pausing his work. "Where'd you run off to?"
"I did a little shopping, grabbed a bite to eat, and trashed a giant killer robot." Sonic replied casually while making hand movements to match the description.
"Really? They've got shopping here too?" The eight year old fox asked.
"This place has everything!" The fifteen year old hedgehog answered. While he still felt unsettled from his battle, Sonic was glad that this conversation was making him begin to forget about it and instead turned to the gadget in his companion's hands, placing his own behind his head. "Hey, so, how's that translator thingie coming along?"
"I think it's done. It's in binary code, so only I can read it." Tails replied, standing up and turned it own, aiming it's small satellite to both Sonic and their new alien friend. "Okay, ask away."
Sonic nodded and cleared his throat with a cough, before turning to the alien and asked it as clearly as he could. "Who are you and what is happening to your people?"
"%%#$& $$%^$% ." The little alien answered while spinning around and flopping up and down that sounded like gibberish. Tails recorded in his translator before reading it.
"Okay, he says that his name is 'Talks-a-lot'...and he's from a far away soda where flowers water them with dances...?" Tails translated, or at least he tried. Sonic and the little alien shared a glance incredulously while the fox attempted to translate, and both of them facepalmed themselves when they heard the soda part.
"Uh, yeah..." Sonic muttered a bit uncomfortably, while scratching behind his right ear before pointing at the machine and told his best friend. "I think your machine still have some bugs, li'l buddy."
Tails sweatdropped apologetically. "Yeah, I think I can figure it out." He then pushed the button once more and tried again. "Okay. He says his name is Yacker. He's from a race of beings called Wisps."
"Lisps?" Sonic blinked, incredulously.
"No, Wisps. With a W." His friend corrected.
A bit of an awkward pause.
"Yeah, I'll just stick with aliens, if that's okay with everybody." The blue hedgehog muttered, even by breaking the fourth wall and gazing at the viewers/readers, having whispered to them before turning back to Tails and the alien known as Yacker.
Tails was a bit confused by the statement, before deciding to forget about it and shrugged. He then read the translator once more and continued, "Sure. So anyway, they are either being used for their magical powers by an evil man...or to make underwear to be worn by salad."
Both Sonic and Yacker shared a glance with quirked eyebrows over the latter part, mentally agreeing that the former part made a lot more sense. Plus from what Sonic had witnessed and seen, that just raised his suspicions even more about Eggman's plot.
"Sorry. That last part didn't make any sense at all." Tails sheepishly rubbed the back of his head.
"Right, and putting them inside robots really doesn't make up the whole entire evil plot. There's gotta be more to what Egghead's doing than just repeating history back in Green Hill." Sonic remarked, folding his arms in concern. Yacker waved an arm over his face and even nodded at the blue hedgehog's assumption.
"I just hear 'save them, save them!' over and over again." Tails continued reading. Yacker nodded and held a pleading look with his two hands placed together in a begging position.
"Don't worry, Yacker. Of course I'll save them." Sonic reassured, and then remembered something before snapping his fingers with a smirk and explained to the others. "When I was running around trashing robots-and shopping, I saw a map that had a couple of interesting places. Think I'll go check 'em out and save more aliens! They gotta be there, right?"
Yacker cheered happily at the response and Tails smiled at the hedgehog for the great idea.
"C'mon, guys! Let's head over to our next destination! Operation: rescue aliens and stop Eggman, begins!" Sonic declared.
"Yeah!" He and Tails jumped into the air with Yacker joining them, cheering in his Wisp language.
Meanwhile, back at where the Rotataron's remains still were following it's defeat from Sonic, Cubot, Orbot, Decoe, Becoe and Bokkun were all left in charge in cleaning up the mess as punishment for letting Sonic win the fight and having freed the aliens. Each had wheeling bins, pickers, and brooms.
"Oh, man. I hate Sonic." Bokkun complained, struggling to lift a heavy piece of broken metal into the bin he was busy with.
"He always makes a mess of Dr. Eggman's hard work." Becoe groaned, sweeping smaller piles of metal into a growing pile.
"And we have to clean up after that hedgehog." Decoe added, scooping up the pile and dumping them into his bin.
Even Cubot was groaning, carrying his own bin behind him. "The bossman said to wrangle up every piece o' this mess. When you consider what we're doing from a robot's point of view, it's actually pretty gruesome."
"Don't think about it." Orbot suggested calmly, sweeping the ground without much complaint.
"Iffin' ya say so." The yellow cubed robot replied, before tossing an oversized piece into the bin, which was far too big for it. Orbot then noticed something is missing and began looking around frantically for it.
"I'm missing an arm." He announced, before asking his companions. "Have any of you got an arm?"
"Not me." Decoe replied, chucking half of one of the metal balls into his bin.
"I haven't seen it." Becoe shrugged.
"That arm is too big for me." Bokkun replied, before turning to the currently stupidst robot out of the five of them. "You got an arm, Cubot?"
"Naw." Cubot replied, before saying. "But really, how much could it matter?"
A bit of a pause.
"I suppose it doesn't." Orbot replied eventually and he and the other robots, who also decided to forget about it, just went back to their work. Even though the red robot just began to relax lazily once more.
What everyone didn't know was that the said missing arm, one that flew into the sky during Sonic's battle against the Rotataron, was far out of reach and sight for anyone to see. Because it was stuck halfway in some kind of giant reactor ray which had a few cracks in it, and slowly spilling out ominous purple energy into space.
One that would eventually lead to major trouble.
Meanwhile, Sonic, Tails and their new friend Yacker the Wisp were following the trail and map's instructions to where the shuttle that would take them to their next destination was. As they were, Sonic was retelling his and the Cyan Wisp's teamwork in defeating Rotataron. Though the only major thing that the blue hedgehog left out was the moment where he felt that flash of deja vu which had shook him to the core, but he refused to show it.
He didn't want to relieve that experience again, or make Tails worry. They already had enough on their plates.
"I really gotta hand to you, Yacker. You and your kind sure are extremely friendly. Can't believe that Egg-shaped loser would go as far as kidnap and hurt you guys." Sonic was saying, gently scratching the side of his face. He then shrugged with a sigh. "Then again, Eggman's always been like that; caring for nobody but himself."
"I still don't get why Eggman would do this to Yacker and all the Wisps, and then build this Amusement Park. It doesn't make sense." Tails muttered, while fiddling with the translator a bit more as they walked, or flew in Yacker's case.
"It's like I've been saying, li'l bro. Eggman plus secretly built amusement park equals evil plot for us to foil." Sonic rephrased his earlier words before he first saved the Wisps. "O'l Buttnik's at it again."
While Yacker giggled despite not knowing what Sonic and Tails were talking about, the young fox laughed at the Buttnik nick-name.
"I haven't heard you call Eggman that in a long time." Tails giggled, trying to cover it, but failed.
"You can thank Sun for re-establishing Ro-butt-nik's old nick-name, after I told him how you and I first met." The cobalt hedgehog snickered in amusement. That set off laughter between the two adoptive brothers and their alien friend who had yet to learn of their history.
Yacker then made more babbling noises, to which Tails attempted to translate once again.
"What's he saying?" Sonic asked, curiously.
"Um...I think he's saying the evil man appeared via chicken wings and was carrying a giant golden apple..." Tails read, only for all three of them to raise eyebrows, dumbfounded by this and shared incredulous looks.
"Well, I don't think Eggman's gonna hatch into a Chicken-man anytime soon." Sonic joked awkwardly. "Even if he is shaped like an egg. Plus he's too heavy to fly on his own, and he barely even fits in that mobile of his."
Tails sweatdropped at the joke, before pressing a few buttons again and tried reading once more. "Okay...Yacker says that the evil man appeared out of nowhere without warning, and almost immediately all of the Wisps knew he was nothing but trouble."
Sonic shook his head in exasperation. "Just like him to spring himself up and cause said trouble. I'm relieved that he hasn't split the worlds apart."
"I'll say. I still sometimes get nightmares of those horrible monsters related to Dark Gaia." The two-tailed fox muttered, only to gasp in horror and cover his mouth with one hand as he realized he blurted it out without thinking. He quickly turned to Sonic and stuttered apologetically. "Uh, n-no offense! F-forget what I said!"
"Come on, Tails. It's cool. More my fault that I brought that up in the first place. No biggie." The blue hedgehog reassured with a soft smile. Really, he hadn't been thinking, but each time he tried to forget much of the horrors of his last adventure, Sonic realized that he couldn't.
Because Eggman really was the cause of that to happen and whenever he thought about the mad doctor these days, Sonic always ended up remembering those times. Now the evil man was capturing and enslaving Yacker and the Wisps for not just powering up robots, but for something else. Something much more sinister. The blue hedgehog could feel it.
"Besides, I know that I won't be forgetting that adventure anytime soon, and as much as I wanna remember all the good times, I can't forget the bad times, ya'know." Sonic continued, and while he smirked to mask his fears, he tried not to succumb to that image he saw earlier. Plus being held in the giant robot's grasp was what brought back memories of his own nightmares back to light. Or maybe it had somehow plunged him into the darkness of those memories.
Fortunately, Sonic was saved from having to think uncomfortably about it or even discuss more about the previous incident. However, as he, Tails and Yacker realized that they reached the docking area to where their transport was waiting, all three of them flinched in a bit of fright and disgust when they saw that their ride was a shuttle-bus like rocket. It was painted red on the body, and it's front had a large metal head that was shaped exactly like Eggman's, skin colour and all.
"Ugh. Think I'm gonna be having nightmares of Eggman's Space-Bus with his ugly face on it for a while." Sonic groaned in disgust and exasperation.
"It's worse than his painting on the elevator doors." Tails shuddered, cringing back a little.
Even Yacker didn't like the look of it and shivered while rubbing his arms, as though he was feeling cold. Sonic glanced at him and felt sorry for him, knowing that that movement told him that the poor little Wisp was feeling the goose bumps and didn't need Tails to translate that.
"It's okay, Yacker. That's not the real Eggman." Sonic said softly, gently rubbing Yacker's head while trying not to accidentally hurt him or his cute little curl. "He just likes to show off his ego on everything he can try and get his hands on. That guy's not liked much by anybody."
"Poor Yacker. He must be so scared." Tails muttered, worriedly as he felt sorry for the Wisp too.
"Well after what he and the other aliens had been through, I'd be freaking out too." His best friend replied. "But anyway, let's board this bus and head over to wherever's close to investigate and save more aliens."
Nodding in agreement, the trio stepped onboard as the doors closed behind them, just as Eggman's annoying intercom blared to life once more.
"Welcome aboard Eggman's Egg Shuttle, the Space Travel express to other Eggman Attractions of the Intersteller Amusement Park! Please keep your arms and legs and other body parts inside the Shuttle at all times...otherwise kiss your lives goodbye if it crashes." Eggman's PA announced.
"Not really a comfortable ride, then." Sonic rolled his eyes, as he, Tails and even Yacker all groaned in dismay.
None the less, they did their best to be comfortable as the Egg Shuttle then roared to life and then began flying off into space, leaving the main part of the Amusement Park behind and towards their next destination to their adventure.
A/N: Not much to say here, really. Since it's really late, I'm gonna say goodnight and go to bed.
See you in the next chapter!