Chapter Nine: Brave New World

"Oh, Sonic. Will you please wake up?"
It was the first thing he heard in quite awile, the soothing sound of her voice. His visions were dark and blurry with no real transaction or meaning, hopefully, he'd knocked himself out of the funk and came back to his home.
"Everyone! He's coming to!" She yelled.
He was back in his room, everything left like he left it days ago. Items and his belongins junked in random areas in his room. Sonic fluttered his eyes and the first thing he saw was the lovable faces of his crew. THe second thing he saw was the band-aids and treatment for his scars have been tended to. The inital pain of the epic war was still there, but it had subsided to a minimum that Sonic could still feel, even after his sleep. All of his friends were around him reacting in smiles and laughs when he awoked and moved about.
"Man, something must've ran me over awhile ago."
"You plummeted from the sky after you defeated Robotnik and fell to the ground afterwards." Sally told him.
"You were darn well near out for three days." Bunnie told him.
"Really...?" Sonic replied when he came to his senses. "Hey! What about the Shadowbots!"
"We took care of them, Sonic!" Tails noted to him
"Rotor's invention and Tails' aerial support did most of the work, we just cleaned up after them." Bunnie added in.
"When we saw you up there battling Robotnik like that, we didn't know what to think at first, but now the worst is over."
""He's gone foreever, Aunt Sally?"
"Most definately, Tails." Rotor answered. "We couldn't find a trace of his body throughout the entire forest."
"Yeah ha! Robotnik is long gone and Mobius is free at last!" Antione cheered.
Sally had noetworthy signaled her code to Bunnie and she got the message once all the guys where cheering and whooping inside her hut.
"Come on guys, let's give Sonic a little bit of air, you guys. He had a hard battle, guys." She began to grab around all three of the guys and pushed them out of the living quarters.
"All right." Get well, Sonic. You earned your rest." Antione told him.
"Are you kidding? It's nothing but chili dogs for me!" He sat up and a pain shot from inside his stomach and he winced and grabbed his body once he felt it. Bunnie had corralled everyone out of the room and Sally and Sonic were alone in the room together.
"I told you ...I'd promise a party when we got back." Sonic smiled.
"Yes you did," Sally peckered a kiss on his lips.
"I'm surprised you survived. You scared me half to death over you."
"What can I say...I die hard."
She sighed, yet she had a positvive feeling within her. A feeling that she was still with him.
"Next time, we go together."
"...Ok, but..I'm starving! The hedgehog could use some substance or two." Sonic pointed towards his stomach.
Sally giggled, smiled and Sonic cupped one of her hands with both of his and looked into her eyes.
"You deserve your rest, hero." And with that she kissed Sonic deeply and profundly moreso than they had ever kissed before.

Deep within the bowels of Robotropolis, down in the deepest of levels locked away by control switches and numerical locked doors, a robotic body in a chamber was given life by pre-operated computer commands. The programming chips automatacially turned on and uploaded the programs it was processed to do with the shelled body. Multiple wires connected to the new, space age looking body sparked with the power of life and circuity. The brows lowered and the figure stepped out of the the chamber.
"It's going to take a lot more than that to get rid of the likes of me, hedgehog!"
The robotic figure, dubbing itself as EGGMAN and looking excatly like Robotnik except on a higer scale of design, slowly tooked it's first steps towards a new beginning, and continuing form where his old, corrpulent, self left off. It was ironic how new beginnings followed old traditions sometimes, but if it was the way of the world, then it should be as it is known.
A computer screen in the room turned on as he exited the tubes and a light blue grid screen flashed up on the screen.
[Name: Shadow the Hedgehog, Created by Dr. Gereld Robotnik fifty years ago. Location: Prision Island.]
"Yes, Yes!" Eggman said as he tapped entry figures, coordinations and specs into the machine.
"My grandfather's experiment will be mine for the taking, and he shall be the key to eliminate Sonic once and for all!" Robotnik chuckled and smiled his evilish grin.

Somewhere a young rabbit was playing with her chao friend, unwillingly knowing that an adventure would blossom in her hands.