Episode 39: Virtual Freedom Fighters Part 1

In New Mobotropolis, Sally is with Julie-Su, Bunnie and Sonia having tea and a chat. Bunnie and Sonia talk happily while Sally has something going on in her mind.

Bunnie asks, "What's wrong Sally girl?"

"I'm worried about Sonic, Eve, Jazz, Tails, and Amy. They've been gone for three weeks now and they haven't reported back. Not even once," Sally says, concern.

"You're not the only one. With Dr. Eggman caused more trouble lately around Mobius. We all had to leave the island. Of course, the Chotix had to go to Station Square, but we were able to hear words from them. Knuckles hasn't called me at all.

"Aww, don't worry girls. I'm sure they're doing fine. Course, they've been trying to find some information about this A.D.A.M Character," Bunnie says.

"True, but they should have called us or something," Sally says.

"I'm sure Sonic, Eve, and the others can handle wherever they are. This isn't the first time they had to fight Eggman and couldn't report back," Sonia says.

"Maybe you're right. But I can't get this nagging feeling that something's wrong," Sally says, worried and looks out the window.

Meanwhile, Sonic and Eve find themselves in some strange grass road that has loops, gaps, and high areas. There are also pointed sunflowers, palm trees, and other unfamiliar places.

"Where are we now?" Sonic asks.

"I'm not sure. I'm still not sure how we even got here," Eve says.

Sonic looks around, and says, "And yet, this place looks kinda familiar."

"I guess so," Eve says.

Sonic turns to Eve and asks, "Try your comlink again. See if you can notify Sally and the others."

Eve brings out her comlink and presses the button on it. Sadly, no one answers and her communication isn't working either.

"Nothing. My Comlink isn't working," Eve says.

"Great. We're stuck here and we have no idea where the others are," Sonic says.

"They got to be here somewhere. Let's start going down the path and find the others," Eve says.

Sonic looks ahead and notices, "Hey Eve, there's Power Rings over there!"

Eve turns her head to see a few Power Rings floating in the air.

"You're right," Eve says.

Sonic and Eve rush over and each grab two Power Rings.

"It's better to bring them with us, just in case," Sonic says.

"It's very off to find them here of all places, and these Power Rings are different from the ones we usually use," Eve says.

"You're right. I don't feel any different…! Usually the rings give us a power boost," Sonic says.

"Let's worry about that later. Right now, we need to find the others before," Eve says.

Suddenly, a ladybug Badnik zips past them, making them drop their Power Rings.

Sonic yelps, "Hey!"

They both fall to the ground and they lose their Power Rings. They both look up to see the Badnik turning back to them.

Sonic calls out, "Hold up there, pal! We're not your enemy."

However, the badnik spins the wheel and looks at them with a glare.

Sonic stands up, "I don't want to hurt you, buddy, but you leave me no other choice!"

Sonic then spin dashes the robot and destroys it instantly. With that, a small rabbit pops out and flies out of the robot. Eve is able to catch the little rabbit.

Eve says,"Hey little guy, are you okay?"

The rabbit smiles and snuggles Eve's cheek.

Eve says, annoyed, "This is got to be another of Eggman's scrambled schemes."

"Wouldn't be surprised if it was. Question is: Where is he now?" Eve asks.

Sonic says, "I'll bet if we continue freeing more animals from the robots and collect the rings along the way, we'll find Dr. Eggman."

Eve places the rabbit on the ground, "Then let's go."

Sonic and Eve begin to speed off to find Dr. Eggman and put an end to the plan he is doing.

In the Egg Carrier, Dr. Eggman is working on another scheme, more like more than one of his schemes.

Eggman says, "This is too perfect. Sonic and his annoying friends have been trapped in that game for about three days, yet in the real world they've been trapped for over three weeks now. It's amazing how the game world I invented is a slower rate than the real world," Eggman says with a smirk.

"I agree, father. With the new programmed world you invented, we can trap anyone inside the game world with only one way of escaping back to the real world," A.D.A.M says.

"Just remember to keep them trapped in the game, and especially Sonic, Eve, and Knuckles until I find the Master Emerald on Angel Island," Eggman says.

"Were they able to find it yet?" A.D.A.M asks.

"No. Those Dingos manage to capture the echidnas from Echidnaopolis and yet they still are unable to figure out where the Master Emerald is. It should have been at the altar but it was moved to an unknown location," Eggman angrily says.

"What do you plan to do?" A.D.A.M asks.

"You are going to continue mastering the controls of the game while I have a chat with the Dingo General," Eggman says.

"Of course father," A.D.A.M says.

Eggman then leaves the room, leaving A.D.A.M to do his work.

A.D.A.M says, sounding sinister and dark, "I'll be sure that Sonic and Eve have a troubling time in the game. One they might not be able to escape from."

In the video game, Sonic and Eve are still running through the course. At the same time, they bust badniks and free the little animals.

"You know. This reminds me of the death traps Eggman used to build when we first came to Station Square," Sonic says.

"I agree, but the Badniks don't seem to be well made. They have this retro feeling," Eve says.

They soon collect Power Rings as they go around a large loop de loop.

"This place also seems similar to the fields in Green Hills," Sonic says.

"Makes me wonder if we got sent into some different dimensional rift or something. Something's really off about this," Eve says.

"Yeah. The last time we remember is that we were attacking Dr. Eggman's base, but A.D.A.M caught us off guard by electrocuting the ground and shocked us," Sonic says.

"You think Eggman sent us into a different world?" Eve asks.

"It does make sense. It sounds like Dr. Eggman's brand of stupid… and we fell for it," Sonic says.

Suddenly, Sonic and Eve come to a stop and turn to see some gray box.

"What's that?" Sonic asks.

Sonic and Eve hop to the top of the loo[ and look at the box.

"What is that thing?" Sonic asks.

"I'm not sure. It looks to be some kind of box," Eve says.

"Well, there's no door or lid. I wonder how you would open it?" Sonic says.

"Are you sure this is a good idea to open it? It could be one of Eggman's tricks," Eve suggests.

"Relax sis, what's the worst that can happen?" Sonic asks.

Sonic then turns to the box, "I'll just break the box open and see what's inside."

Sonic jumps up and spin dashes at the box. Sonic breaks the box, but a bubble appears and his is sealed inside.

"Hey! What is this thing! I can't shake it loose!" Sonic says.

Eve groans, "I told you not to open it."

"How am I supposed to know I'll be trapped inside of a bubble like I'm some kind of prize from those prize machines," Sonic questions.

Eve thinks as she says, "Maybe we can use it to our advantage."

Eve then uses her Chaos Energy to place herself in a bubble.

Sonic turns his head, "And let's hurry before that Badniks smacks us."

Eve turns to see a purple robotic lizard and throws it's tongue at the two hedgehogs. The two hedgehogs begin to roll in their ball as the Badnik chases them. They both jump on a spring and over the wall. Then they both collect power rings along the way.

"Looks like it's a good idea to open that box after all," Sonic says.

"I guess, and it's a good thing we're able to collect these Power Rings too," Eve says.

"Still, we need to find a way to get out of here," Sonic says.

The two then reach the end of the path, but they end up bumping into something that blocks their paths.

"What the?" Sonic asks.

"It must be some force field. We're trapped inside," Eve says.

Suddenly, they hear maniacal laughter and look up to see the Eggmobile with a wrecking ball attached to a chain and attached to the vehicle. Sonic and Eve also see a familiar figure in the machine.

Eve and Sonic exclaim, "Eggman!"

Suddenly, the ball strikes Sonic and destroys the bubble he's in.

"Sonic!" Eve shouts.

"I'm okay. But it seems, the bubble must have been some kind of shield. It protected me from being hit, but I didn't lose my rings," Sonic says.

They look to hear Dr. Eggman laughs and continues to swing the wrecking ball towards them.

Eve lowers her bubble and says, "Something's seems… different about Eggman."

"Yeah. He normally loves to hear the sound of his voice and can't wait to taunt us," Sonic says.

Eve rolls her eyes, "Yeah. that guy loves to hear himself talk."

Sonic and Eve then hop on the floating grounds above. Eve then notices Eggman having a different appearance and continues to laugh.

"This guy can't be the real Eggman. He's less talkative," Sonic says.

"And he doesn't look Eggman either. This one seems more rounder like a ball," Eve says.

"And smells better too," Sonic says.

Sonic then spin dashes him on the head. Eve quickly dodges and uses her sword to cut the chain. The sword cuts the chain, and the wrecking ball falls to the ground.

Sonic then jumps off and says, "I'll take care of the rest."

Sonic then spin dashes multiple times on Eggman's head and the Eggmobile explodes. When the smoke clears, the Eggmobile is still floating and leaves carrying the evil scientist on it. Eggman continues to travel past the area where the force field blocks them.

"Looks like the force field is gone now," Sonic says.

Sonic and Eve then speed on ahead. They then notice some strange container.

"What is that?" Sonic asks.

"I'll check it out," Eve says.

Eve then runs over and looks inside. There, she can see tiny animals inside.

"Eggman has these animals trapped. You poor things. I'll let you out," Eve says.

Eve jumps on the container and presses the red button on top. With that, the large container opens and the little animals are free.

"Score one for the good guys," Sonic says.

Suddenly, the area begins to change.

"Now what?" Sonic asks.

The area changes to what looks like a ruin with pine tree forests.

"What kind of silly game Eggman is playing with us this time?" Sonic asks.

"Silly game? More like video game," Eve clarifies.

"Video Game?" Sonic asks.

"I don't know why, but it feels that we're in some video game. It reminds me of the virtual world Rotor and Tails installed for Nicole," Eve says.

Sonic quickly says, "Let's focus on that later. We got this to worry about."

Eve turns her head to see lava are starting to appear and they are heading towards the road she and her brother are on.

"Oh my god!" Eve panics.

With that, Sonic and Eve run off to get away from the lava. Sonic sees another Badnik and spin dashes at it, breaking the squirrel free from its prison.

Sonic calls out, "You better get outta here quick little guy, or you'll be a roast rodent!"

"Sonic! Look ahead!" Eve calls out.

Sonic looks ahead to see a building of some kind.

"Let's hope we'll be safe in here," Sonic says.

Sonic and Eve hurry inside. However, as they bounce down, they come across spikes on different sides of the wall.

"Well, this doesn't seem a very welcoming place… but there's nowhere else to go," Sonic says.

"Let's continue to find the others," Eve says.

Sonic and Eve continue to run through the strange buildings. They come across strange bat badniks. Sonic and Eve spin dash the robots and little seals come out of it. They run past pillars that crash to the ground. Then they run past fire being shot out of the wall. Finally, they stop at an area that has a pool of lava.

Suddenly, someone calls out, "Sonic! Eve! Help!"

"Amy?!" Eve asks, shocked.

The two hedgehogs look ahead to see Amy Rose in the middle of the lava lake. She is tied to a pole on a brick floor.

"Amy! How did you get here?!" Sonic calls out.

"Don't worry about that right now, Sonic. Just untie me! All this heat is terrible for my hair!" Amy calls out.

"Don't worry, we're coming!" Eve calls out.

Sonic and Eve hop on the stones floating on the lava and reach Amy. Sonic then unties her rope.

"Do you know where we are?" Sonic asks.

"No. The last thing I remember was us invading Dr. Eggman's lair. Then we were attacked by A.D.A.M and electrocuted. When I woke up, I was tied to this stake surrounded by lava," Amy says.

Amy hops to the other side of the brick, "Let's get out of here!"

"I'm wondering if we keep following the path we'll find the others," Eve says.

"I wouldn't be surprised," Sonic says.

The three hedgehogs reach the other side and are trying to find their way out of the room.

Amy then notices, "I can't find my hammer! I can't feel it anymore!"

"Worry about that later! We'd better get a move on!" Sonic says. Then spin dashes the wall to make a hole. Amy and Eve hurry through the hole when a spike pillar slams to the ground. When they reach out, they see a pool of lava.

Amy tries to head back to the tunnel, but isn't able to, "We can't go back! There's something blocking the way!"

"You'd better grab some power rings, Amy! Trouble's on the way!" Sonic says.

They turn their heads to see Dr. Eggman coming back, more like the impostor.

Sonic grabs two rings on one side. Amy and Eve jump to the other and grab two more. Eggman flies to Sonic as he laughs. He then launches fire from the bottom of his Eggmobile where Sonic is. Sonic quickly dodges and lands on the other side.

Amy asks, "Why do you have me grab these Rings? They don't have any effect on me?"

"These aren't the same Power Rings we used Amy. They're not power ups," Sonic says.

With Eggman flying towards them. They all jump back to the side of their exit.

"Then what's the point?" Amy asks.

"They seem to keep us from getting hurt? The rings will protect us after one hit and then we lose them. As long as we hold them, they'll protect us," Eve says.

The three turn to see Eggman laughing again.

"What about laughing boy here?" Amy asks.

"It's not the real Eggman. I don't think it's even a living thing, especially Eve deduced that this is a video game," Sonic says.

"Good… then there's no need to hold back," Amy says.

Amy jumps to Eggman and shouts, "Hiii-yaaa!"

With that, she kicks Eggman's Eggmobile. With that, the Eggmobile explodes and Dr. Eggman continues to ride it away from the scene. However, Amy falls into the lava.

She rises to the surface as she screams, "Yow!"

Sonic and Eve quickly grab Amy's hands and pull her out of the lava.

Amy looks at herself and says, "I didn't get burned."

"The rings protected you. I'd hate to think what would have happened if you hadn't had the rings," Sonic says.

Amy thinks with a smile, "I knew Sonic cared about me!"

Suddenly, the area begins to change again.

"What's happening?" Amy asks, surprised.

"Don't worry! We've seen this before. We think we're being transported somewhere else," Sonic says

Back in New Mobotropolis, Sally, Sonia, Bunnie, and Cream are worried because Sonic, Eve, and the others haven't reported back about their mission. Sally has gathered the rest of the Freedom Fighters to Freedom HQ. When the Chaotix return from their mission, Nicole informs them that they meet at Freedom HQ as well. Here they are, at the meeting room of Freedom HQ to talk about the lack of response of their team.

Sally says, "Alright, as you know, no one have received word from Sonic, Eve, or the rest of our comrades who went off on the mission three weeks ago. Communications seems to be cut, and the tracker on their comlink isn't picking up their signals."

"But how could that happen?" Cream asks.

"They were heading to Dr. Eggman's lair for a mission when they hear that Dr. Eggman has a newly advanced robot that can capture anyone in its path, so they went to find it and destroy it. However, I'm thinking something must have happened during their mission," Sally says.

"Yeah. We even tried to call Knux, and he didn't answer," Mighty says.

"Y-yeah. It-it's not like him," Ray says.

"We even tried Angel Island to see if knuckles are there. But for some strange reason, Locke, Ahtair, the other Guardians, or anyone on Angel Island is not responding. Something isn't right," Espio says.

"I'm starting to get worried. What if something happened to him and the others?" Saffron worries.

"Also. I just got word from Commander Tower, and it seems Shadow and Rouge are missing too. According to Omega's report, they were on a mission when a beam of light appeared out of nowhere and sucked them in," Nicole says.

Vector places his hand on his head, "Now that sounds like trouble."

"I wouldn't be surprised if Dr. Eggman has something to do with this," Rotor says.

"I agree with Rotor. Zis is something he would do," Antoine replies.

"What should we do?" Bunnie asks.

"We need to find Sonic, Eve, and the others. Then, we need to figure out what's going on at Angel Island. This can't be a coincidence," Sally says.

"Then let's go," Sonia says.

Back in the strange world, Sonic, Eve, and Amy find themselves surrounded by crabbots.

Sonic calls out, "Run! Our rings are gone and we're surrounded by crabby robots!"

Eve then stabs one of the robots and it explodes, "And for some reason, I can't use my full Chaos power in this world."

The three jump over the crabs and grab the wings.

"This would be a lot easier if I had my hammer," Amy says.

"Don't worry about that and keep moving!" Sonic says.

The three hurry down a hall, but are hit by spike balls and drop their rings in the process. Soon, the rings disappear.

"There go our rings," Amy says.

The spike balls begin to spin around the room, blocking their way.

"We have to time this just right! Spin after me guys," Eve says.

Eve begins to spin dash with Sonic and Amy following after her. They're able to duck under the spike ball. The ball continues to spin and about to attack them again. Sonic, Eve, and Amy continue to move out of the ways of the spike balls and try to keep their timing right. Soon, they are able to escape the spike balls and need to find another way out of this place.

Suddenly, someone shouts, "Look out!"

Up Ahead are Shadow the Hedgehog and Knuckles the Echidna.

Knuckles screams, "What where you're going!"

"Knuckles! Shadow! Get out of the way!" Sonic shouts.

"I don't think we can stop in time!" Eve adds.

Just then, the three spin dashes hit Knuckles and Shadow, causing the three spinning hedgehogs to cancel their spin dash. Soon, all five begin to fall down to who knows where.

Suddenly, manically laughter begins to appear. Outside of the game, it shows that Sonic, Eve, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Shadow, and Rouge are laying on metal tables and their wrist and ankles and clasp on them. They have strange helmets on their heads and they're connected with wires to a machine in the middle.

Just then, A.D.A.M, "Very soon, the first part of my plan will be complete. I just need to have a little more data about Sonic, Eve, along with their friends. Especially about Eve and her brother, Shadow. They are the key to my ultimate plan."

Then A.D.A.M maniacally laughs on the screen in the room.