Fixating their eyes directly at Dr. Robotnik, Sonic and Sally kept their distance as cautiously as they could. Sally's face kept her usual glare upon this exact moment where she has become face to face with the human responsible for not only Mobius' calamity but also the downfall of her father's kingdom, once to have been called her home.
Meanwhile, Sonic's expression was a mixture of excitement and inconvenience for the situation here now. Although Sonic still felt the occasional need to stop the human that used to be his friend, he can't help but become agitated enough to consult with Dr. Robotnik once more. A moment later, the evil doctor was looking expectantly down at Sally.
"Now then, Princess Sally!" Dr. Robotnik said, "Where is it? Where is the other Chaos Emerald? I know you've still obtained one somehow!"
In his bold and cocky behavior, Sonic huffed loudly at this wild guess from Dr. Robotnik in case there were ever Badniks following him and Sally. At this point, she began consulting in a dirty look as the archer princess held her bowstring with an arrow loaded.
"Tell me where my friends are first, you miserable creep!" Sally shouted audibly for the bloated human to start chuckling at her impatience.
"Such rudeness coming from the likes of you, princess." Dr. Robotnik snickered, leaning down to face Sally. "You'll join your friends awaiting a similar fate!"
Sonic comes in front of Sally with his arms crossed, "Oh, puh-leeze! Your crummy Super Badnik didn't have much to offer as a threat with your so-called edginess. What more below-average plots could you do against the two of us?"
Dr. Robotnik growled slightly before clearing his throat, "Still deriding me with that scurrilous ego of yours, eh? You both have yet to discover my abundance of greatness, you wretched hedgehog and girl! Surely enough, it's time you allow me to suggest your next move." he said, pushing down a button from the Egg-O-Matic's cockpit.
Suddenly dropping all the down to where Sonic and Sally stood, the blue hedgehog zipped to one side with Sally in hands as a capsule almost crushed them. Instantly feeling cautious, the two mobians glared up at the insane human while Sonic kept a smug face.
"It looks like the hedgehog had just made his move already, Eggman." he challenged, who was always looking for ways to pester Dr. Robotnik's choices.
"Oh, of course, but I beg to differ," Dr. Robotnik grinned, motion-controlling his hovercraft in reverse backward before leaving. "My next move is bigger than you imagine!"
"And what's that supposed to mean-?" Sally asked through annoyance until the capsule busted open, releasing a hasty horde of Badniks in variety.
"Well, well, well," Sonic said, trying to make light of the tension as he popped his knuckles. "It looks like the welcome wagon's finally rolled out to greet us."
"Is now really the time to make jokes-?" Sally was asking before being interrupted by a burst of blazing speed from the spiky speedster, making her deadpan.
Sonic skittered towards and rolled himself into a buzzing blue ball at the first vary of Cater-Killers. When their attacker was right upon them, with only seconds until it was too late, Sonic bashed right through. The spiky hedgehog lunged onto another one of the caterpillar-based Badniks, hurting himself in the process, but sent metallic parts flying everywhere.
Sonic seized a few pieces, darting them at some additional Badniks, damaging them with such ease. Pulling any arrow out of the quiver on Sally's back, she aimed at the closet targets around. In less than ten seconds, a few numbers of Bat-Brains had one arrow embedded in each of them, destroyed in the process.
Moving forward, Sally ran across the sum pile of Badnik remains and saw the woodland critters sprinting out of them to escape. She saw her chance to follow behind where Sonic was fighting Buzz-Bombers, but as she listened to the sounds of pitch shrieks, she recognized that the critters were getting chased by many Bat-Brains.
"Sonic!" Sally shouted aloud with both hands; pointed to the direction where the Bat-Brains glided. "The critters are getting chased by those Badniks!"
"You don't say?!" Sonic yelled and then yelped as he dodges more of the Buzz-Bombers, busily saying, "Crap! Alright, now I'm starting to get ticked off here!"
With that said, Sonic pulled himself back slightly, then springs up to spin his way through the first Buzz-Bomber and destroy it. Using enough effort with his foot upon a rocky wall, Sonic kicks rearward to zip across the air like a bolt of lightning and bounced on the second Buzz-Bomber towards Sally.
The princess herself was currently snatching a few cave stones nearby, channeling the strength and distance upon her aim. She threw as hard as she could, knocking one of the Bat-Brains down before it exploded to the ground.
"Nice throwing arm you got there, Sal," Sonic commented with a smirk as he appeared alongside her with his hand out. "But why don't we see just how useful it is spiking some of Butt-Nik's bot-breaths!"
Sally looked at Sonic before grabbing his hand with a determined smile, "Sonic, I'm going to need you to shoot me up there!"
Sonic ran alongside Sally on his other hand, though he couldn't help but feel comfortable while his gloved hand intertwined with hers. They kept their gazes forward while Sonic took in the sight of a cave wall, connecting upwards to where two Bat-Brain chased the critters below.
Gathering enough speed, Sonic dashed up the rugged cave surfaces with Sally holding onto his hand firmly. Jumping across the area where the two Bat-Brains flew, all of Sonic's speed was used by spinning like a tornado and shot Sally straight for a Bat-Brain.
Sally clung to the top of the bat-based Badnik, making it whisk below and up repeatedly in a spiral movement. She held on with all her strength, but the Bat-Brain soon shook her after, trying to fling her away. However, Sally began to grunt as she tugged and strained, with Nicole out in her hand to aim a laser dot upon the Bat-Brain's head.
Piercing a laser through the Bat-Brain's head, Sally quickly flung herself upward by using the bat-based Badnik's left-wing as time slowed down for her. Sonic had already landed only to witness Sally's spiral maneuver, watching the rock in her gloved hand shoot across and destroy the other Bat-Brain.
Awestruck, Sonic felt mind-blown upon Sally, amazed by her acrobatics and right-timings a lot more than previously. As Sonic noticed the chipmunk girl descending midair, it wasn't long before the spiky blue hedgehog left his shock and rushed towards the exact spot where he jumped, catching Sally in his arms bridal style.
"Gotcha there, princess!" Sonic grinned with satisfaction, "See, I told ya' that you've got some sick throwing-arm skills! Especially that twirl you just did back there."
"I appreciate that Sonic," Sally acknowledged before mentioning, "but we also have some small animals to be looking for."
"Say no more, Sal," Sonic reassured.
Once his feet hit the ground, Sonic zoomed right over with Sally holding on to where the little critters are currently hiding for cover from any possible danger. Fortunately enough, each one was relieved that their two heroes have come to check on them. A few birds and chickens chirruped with delight as Sonic and Sally both smiled at each other for their combined teamwork. Several more Buzz-Bombers were racing their way across and at the two mobians, causing a few other critters to scamper away in fright for their lives.
"We'll just need to get past some of these Buzz-Bombers and find the doctor before he does some more damage," Sally commented.
Sonic was glowering back before one of his casual grins popped out for him to get ready while Sally aimed with her bow and arrow. To string themselves back where Dr. Robotnik is fleeing, they needed to get through these bee-based Badniks without any mishaps. Sonic and Sally rushed on over just as the Buzz-Bomber began to use their stingers to fire rail detonators.
"Buzz on this, goon-bots!" Sonic yelled as he curls up into a ball and pinballed at two of the Buzz-Bombers like a shooting star.
With Sally fighting against the other Buzz-Bombers, she quickly dodged sideways from numerous points by the bee-based Badniks. Sally pulled on the bowstring and shot off two arrows through a couple of Buzz-Bombers, struggling to reload quickly. But she still had a better idea.
She used Nicole's laser to pierce through one of the Buzz-Bombers in the head, destroying it as the quivering robot crashed down. Having her sights locked onto the other Buzz-Bomber, it suddenly charged right in front of Sally, causing her to bolt back in a reflex. The princess mustered up all her energy and flipped backward as quickly as she could to point Nicole's laser at the bee-based Badnik. The laser beam darted right through the last Buzz-Bomber effectively, making Sally smile in such triumph.
Abruptly, Sonic zipped before skidding right next to Sally with a fist pump motion. "Alright, Sal! I'd say you've handled yourself mondo off the charts in my book," said Sonic enthusiastically.
Despite the appreciation, as she recollects arrows, Sally ran past the blue hedgehog in a hurried tone, "Thank you, Sonic. Come on! We need to catch up on tracking down Robotnik's hovercraft!"
"Oh, I knew that," Sonic replied sheepishly until he just as well followed alongside Sally past the empty capsule and onward.
Meanwhile, inside the Egg-O-Matic, Dr. Robotnik had his timid nephew's face appearing online from Robotropolis within the cockpit's medium-sized screen. He was currently piloting his hovercraft past a couple of protruding spikes from the dungeon's ceilings. The supreme dictator had just received such ramifications of how Snively's assignment had gone through, with him listening to every word the short human had to offer.
And boy, Dr. Robotnik was annoyed by the results.
"Grrr, what do you mean we'll have to wait for another few months, Snively?!"
It was supposed to be a simple objective; tracking down the Chaos Emeralds and lecture Snively for not being able to get the simplest things through his head; mark Snively with a tempting assignment to further the empire's plans. Once the Chaos Emeralds come to the mad doctor, he'd take them all for their glorious power. But of course, Dr. Robotnik hadn't accounted for that thrice-damned rodent, Sonic.
Not only had Sonic somehow escaped the Super Badnik that Dr. Robotnik stationed to deal with him, but now the princess had prevented the human from finding one of the Chaos Emeralds she kept to herself. Especially the minor destruction of his Badnik Horde with Sonic on her side.
"T-That has become the dwarf planet's calculated appearance, sir. Thanks to its geostationary orbit, it only happens to come down in the skies above Never Lake once a year."
Despite listening to the short lackey's hypothesis, according to be precise, Dr. Robotnik still questioned harshly, "And just how many months would it take for this Miracle Planet to arrive on Mobius?"
"O-Okay, sir." Snively gulped, recognizing the tone in his uncle's voice. "According to several of our computations, we've estimated that the Miracle Planet's arrival on Mobius should be within about...two or three months from here on out."
The bloated human doesn't reply. He solely gazed at his nephew on the screen, with his pince-nez glasses taken off by his gloved hand, revealing nothing but obscurity within this mere demon that is called Robotnik.
Snively himself on-screen was paling further at the horrible sight of real evil. There was nothing funny about his eyes; pitch-black with the dots of red. Just when Snively could have thought of something else, Dr. Robotnik's eyes twinkled as a smile bloomed on his face.
"Certainly substandard yet decent results, Snively." Dr. Robotnik said scornfully, staring at Snively on-screen for a moment before turning his disdainful gaze back to the side. "My two sufferers will be arriving on the way here soon."
"S-Sir, wouldn't the Badnik Horde had already gotten rid of those two by now-?" Snively trailed off to voice his opinion.
But Dr. Robotnik beats him to it. "You really must be lacking some common sense, dear nephew. Those two rodents would've gotten past a few of my simplest Badniks anyhow. That's why it was supposed to be a diversion and keep them busy." he remarked with a cold snort as he stretched his hand up to put his pince-nez glasses back on.
"I-I see what you're trying to say, sir," Snively commented as he looked up at the mad doctor on-screen with a secretly annoyed mumble, "Wasteful dead load."
Dr. Robotnik quirked his face forward, zooming in on the short lackey on-screen, "Pardon me, Snively?"
Snively starts leaning away in his chair with shock, "O-Oh, I said your objectivity is respectfully f-flowed, sir."
At that moment, Dr. Robotnik crossed his arms with a snicker, which earned a dull face from Snively. "Very good to see how functional that thick head of yours is, Julian. And besides, I know what I'm doing." The rotund human said as he grinned, gesturing a finger poke on his bald head.
"You're welcome, sir." Snively replied scornfully, sighing in relief before asking, "They still have the two Chaos Emeralds, Dr. Robotnik. Their capabilities with each Emerald's power against yours could be a disadvantage in some way. What if-?"
"Oh, shut your brooding, Snively! No one and that means no one inhabiting this here island gets to take any Chaos Emerald except me!" Dr. Robotnik shouted at the miniature human, who looked taken back by his uncle's outburst.
Snively looked like he was about to say something more, and if Dr. Robotnik wanted, he could predict what it was, but he didn't want to hear or see it. So the beaming dictator pressed on. Dr. Robotnik wanted the short human to know just how much he has done to make situations more sardonic.
"It will be no matter because those rapscallions won't get the opportunity to reign that same triumph against what I have waited just for their puny little bodies to get pulverized." Dr. Robotnik said as images of Sonic and Sally becoming flattened pancakes flashed through his mind.
"By the time they're done for, every single Chaos Emerald will be right in the palm of my hand. HAHAHAHA~!" The overweight human finished explaining with extended laughter, raising one fist before pumping it rhythmically.
Snively looked a bit disturbed at Dr. Robotnik's childlike villainy only responded, "Whatever you say, Dr. Robotnik."
From this point onward, Dr. Robotnik proceeds to press a button as it closes the facetime monitor, making Snively's appearance become static on-screen. The supreme scientist then removes his hands from the cockpit and cups his chin with a hum.
Although Snively could be on about Dr. Robotnik trying to obtain the Chaos Emeralds without getting an amateur mobian beatdown, the mad doctor surely wasn't going to give the two gemstones up that quickly. If Dr. Robotnik knew how he was going to separate the Chaos Emeralds from the likes of that meddlesome hedgehog and that brat of a princess, there's no doubt that he needs his Super Badnik to split those two apart from getting any aid with each other.
Dr. Robotnik couldn't help but smirk at his idea, "While that hedgehog is more demanding for action and conflict, it might just work perfectly-!"
But a familiar cocky voice interrupted him, "Perfectly enough to kick some Egg-Butt!"
Dr. Robotnik shook his head out of thought before glaring in the direction of that same annoying voice. On each side, where Sonic and Sally stood forth, the duo had finally caught up to the evil genius himself. Sally determinedly pulled an arrow back with the bowstring and aimed it right at the villain, while Sonic stood there with his arms crossed and a cocky smirk glued on his face. Dr. Robotnik turned his hovercraft around to meet the two latest conundrums he'd come across before.
"This madness stops now, Robotnik!" Sally demanded, insisting on stopping the same madman that came and overthrew her kingdom long ago. "Your Badniks weren't much intimidation for you to nag on about. Give up my friends now or face the consequences."
Sonic chimed in as well, "You tell him, Sal. Eggman won't know what'll hit him."
"You rats seemed to have not regarded the situation you're in for at this moment! Those Chaos Emeralds will be good as mine!" Dr. Robotnik said in a confident tone of voice, pedaling along on his Egg-O-Matic.
"Sure, they will~" Sonic teased with his hands on the hips, "How are you going to do that? Torture us with a telepath mind control device? Threaten animals or what's left of them somewhere else? Look, before you start breaking into song, find some genuine thoughts that could process for once, Egghead!"
"Sonic," Sally warned in an innocent voice, concealing some not-so-innocent thoughts. "You're only appeasing his thoughts in this situation."
"Appeasing?" Sonic replied with his eyes looking determined, "I'm just giving Butt-Nik here a piece of a real whip-smart mind at making better ideas. Besides, what's he got that'll drag us down to his edge?"
Sally rubbed her face from the forehead down. "It's probably another one of those Super Badniks that I was trapped inside. But that isn't going to stop me from getting all of my friends back, not without you, Sonic." She turned to glare at Dr. Robotnik looking down at them from the Egg-O-Matic, crossing his arms.
"Now you're talking, Sal." Sonic grinned with anticipation and approached the hovercraft with Sally alongside him, preparing for another fight.
Dr. Robotnik frowned at some of the suggestions, keeping one in mind for any plans in possible futures before speaking, "Oh, how cunning both of you, but this one should give you both a real spook if you know what I mean. Why not take it away, my gargantuan creation!"
"Spook me, you middle-aged kook?" Sonic stared at the madman for a second before laughing out loud. "Like that'll be the day, so where is another one of your big..."
Both Sonic and Sally halt to turn their heads to each other until scrolling their eyes up and saw an enormous Newtron camouflaged upside down on the rocky ceiling behind them the entire time.
"...boys?" Sonic finished with a blink of surprise.
"Oh, crap." cursed Sally, fearfully.
Slowly yet heavily, the Super Badnik's mouth began to open wide as the two mobians caught sight of a bright dot inside. The Newtron spewed out a massive ball of energy from its mouth directed at Sonic and Sally.
"DODGE!" Sonic shouted out loud as he sprung into action.
The speedy hero grabbed Sally and narrowly avoided getting annihilated under the gleaming projectile as he used his feet to dart the chipmunk girl and himself out to the side. The energy ball burst down towards the targeted spot, causing a gigantic explosion as it blew everything into pieces.
Parts of the Marble Bridge's dungeon began to shake from the explosive impact, with all there was visibly showing thick dust carried in the air. At this point, Sonic and Sally coughed, covering their mouths and trying not to stir up more grime that would make them hack repeatedly.
"Sally...*cough* *cough*...where-!?" Sonic tried to speak but was too busy coughing roughly.
Sally held back the coughing fit until tears ran down her face and the urge finally passed. Meanwhile, Sonic desperately wanted to take a deep breath, but he dared not for fear of inhaling more mildew and dry powder. The duo couldn't wipe their eyes without rubbing grime into them. Sally was the first to creep forward again, crawling on her stomach, mostly using her arms and shoulders to pull herself along.
With her eyes slightly narrowed, the princess begins to spot one yellow-glowing object that looked way too familiar until it hit her. Sally had dropped a Chaos Emerald.
Sally's head whipped to the side before checking to see if the red Chaos Emerald had been lost. Alone for her to receive a reddish glow at her eyes, which prompt the princess thankful enough that the gemstone had not escaped her grasp.
"Sonic, one of our Chaos Emeralds was dropped nearby!" Sally informed loudly, turning back to check where Dr. Robotnik had disappeared. "The doctor is gone! We need to hurry!"
"Grrr, this stuff is ticking me off! Time to make some room for a little flurry of air!" Sonic declared with a grin, twisting his body for his next move.
Sonic spun into a wider tornado to create wind and blast all of the dust particles clear. Sonic continues all around the dungeon, knocking over rocks and slicing against stone walls. The blue and white tornado soon concludes into a full halt, where Sonic's eyes became jumbled in between one another like a disorganized mess with comedic noises. He felt dizzy but shook the feeling off and steadied himself and his conjoined eyes.
Just as the powdered dust in midair faded away, Sally starts using her body to get back up quickly and reach for the yellow gemstone. However, a mechanical hand appears from out of nowhere towards the yellow Chaos Emerald. It snatches the jewel off the ground, handing it to Dr. Robotnik, who had his cockpit enclosed by the glass all around.
"Hey! Give it back!" Sally shouted in surprise as Sonic looked over in shock, gritting his teeth in anger before hearing the evil genius laughing at them inside the Egg-O-Matic.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. What did I tell you, hedgehog?" Dr. Robotnik asked, his voice had a lot more scorn to it than previously. "Just maybe that you should be the one to have real thoughts for once every while!"
Sally clenched her hands into fists before noticing Sonic walking alongside her next to her. His expression darkens a bit at the mad genius who just so happens to snap his fingers.
"Now then, princess, hand over the other gem!" Dr. Robotnik glared at Sally, who starts to aim an arrow at him again.
"Never in a million years, you scum," Sally growled at him.
"You heard the lady, Butt-Nik. You'll be on your last legs a lot worse when Sally's involved kicking your egg-patootie off to next week!" said Sonic, smirking.
"Oh, I would love to linger and chat with you, my old friend." Dr. Robotnik said with his arms crossed, causing Sonic's smirk to nearly drop while Sally felt somewhat confused by what the mad doctor meant.
Sally blinked in her thoughts, "Old friend? What does he mean by that comment?"
"But I have a conquest to develop with the use of such excellent findings. In the meantime, my Newtron here will keep you both quite a company until you give up my other Emerald." finished Dr. Robotnik, who starts flying off inside the Egg-O-Matic.
The Super Badnik groaned as it turns back into its camouflaged form, shrouding within the eyes of its two enemies. While this was going on, Sonic did his best to puff up with pride, dashing in front of Sally.
She looked at Sonic staggered before speaking up, "Sonic, what are you-?"
But the speedy blue hedgehog soon interrupts, "I'm going to buy you some time while I go up against wherever gecko-head is hiding! You go on ahead and give Eggman some major ass-kicking for me, okay?"
Despite the danger they were in, Sally knew she couldn't wait for Sonic to catch Dr. Robotnik. "Okay, but whoever is inside that Super Badnik, make sure they're alright for me, you got that?" she said.
"I got it!" Sonic blasted off like a bullet in motion and sprints around in hopes of destroying the giant Super Badnik.
As Sally chose her moment to begin chasing after Dr. Robotnik's trace, Sonic continued seeking throughout the entire area for the monstrous Newtron. It was hard to tell where it was when the Super Badnik has camouflaged due to the dungeon's dark color. Either way, that wasn't going to stop the speedy hero from trying his best to make estimates on kicking this super robot's bolted tooshie.
Sonic quickly placed more distance in the center of the dungeon so he can try and formulate a plan to attack next. The dungeon lit up in pink and purple as an energy ball came assailing after Sonic, who quickly avoided another powerful attack from the giant Newtron and used his vastly superior speed to dodge through a few protruding rocks coming from beneath.
Slowly but rapidly, the hedgehog accelerated much further and sprung up to the air in an attempt to use his spin attack. Sadly, Sonic was beginning to receive shunning blows from the camouflaged Newtron's extending tail, having the blue speedster sent flying into the ground and landed with a heavy thud.
"Now, that...was cheating!" Sonic grunted, gritting his teeth in pain as he felt his senses flare again.
He looked up behind to see the revealed Super Badnik coming down towards him with its mouth exposed and ready to blast him. Sonic quickly brought himself up by his hands and sprung away from the being with enough speed to start running off, halting the robotic monster's descent and chases after Sonic by morphing itself into a rocket mode.
Sonic looked back, only to let out a yelp of surprise before speeding his way onward and had to scan the surroundings he's entered so far. The soaring Newtron behind Sonic made several more attempts to scatter energy spheres after its blue target. Sonic made an effort to sprint across in a curved motion on the center, turning around to run backward.
"Come on, gecko-head! You got to be a lot quicker than that!" Sonic shouted out loud with a clap of his hands before returning to his standard direction.
During those several tries of shooting down the blue hedgehog, who just kept avoiding at all costs as well as his entertainment, the Newtron's awareness became alert as it glares over in the distance. It recognized the cave walls to use as a dead-end for Sonic while he was unintentionally zipping his way onward. With no further due, the rocketing Super Badnik exposes its mouth until blaring out a wide beam of light, slicing through the identical hollow walls like butter.
"Aww, now what?" Sonic scorned with a fake smirk, his eyes gleaming until speaking with determination, "JUICE TIME!"
While the Newtron may have confirmed itself to have a plan against Sonic, the speedy hero knew just exactly what to do for this situation. Already pushing his risk further, Sonic managed to zig-zag around a few crushing chunks of boulders from above, bouncing and connecting up against the rock-like surfaces until Sonic came racing upward.
The Newtron kept its gaze upon Sonic, desiring to destroy the blue hedgehog aggressively as possible. Unknowingly proceeding across, the Newtron left its attention in the front before impacting against the cave walls, reeling back uncontrollably a bit in rocket form. The Super Badnik's bug-eyed pupils wobbled around but shook away the feeling, quickly scoping around the cave-like scenery.
While the Newtron made numerous attempts to track what became of its blue target, it only received a slight malfunction within the cranium area for some reason, as if something inside had suddenly gotten loose. Rushing upside down above the cave ceilings, Sonic's view abruptly drew over to where the Newtron was groaning and saw its head getting bashed somehow from the inside. Rapidly enough, Sonic gained a lightbulb above his head, believing it to be that one of Sally's friends has broken out, but just barely enough for themselves to shred right through.
"Looks like I better make use of myself before giving one of Sal's friends the grand intro!" Sonic exclaimed to himself before spinning into a ball and dashed at light speed downward.
Finally descending on top of the struggling Newtron, its sensors suddenly picked up on Sonic's energy signature before flying all over the place to try smashing the blue hedgehog off. Just before one of the protruding roofs of the cave could scrape Sonic right off of the Newtron, he thankfully curled into his ball form as he started to turn into a buzzsaw.
Sonic's razor-sharp spines sliced right through as his circular-saw ball form went all around the Newtron's covering, carving every inch by inch of the Super Badnik.
"Better luck never, gecko-head!" Sonic taunted, progressing to skip right off before slamming his entire body against one of the protruding spikes, "OOF! Okay, failed that one...ow!"
Sliding a bit down before his gloved hands clutched onto the tip of the spike, Sonic's eye pupils began to bulge out of shock and surprise at what he saw.
"Oooh, crap!" Sonic cursed himself, noticing that he must have forgotten something.
The Newtron was toppling a few cave ruins, hanging over a splurting batch of lava coming from beneath.
"CRAP!" Sonic cursed loudly, almost forgetting all about Sally's friend and the tiny critters captive inside the broken-down Super Badnik.
The speedy hero rushed over to strive on rescuing whoever was inside the nearly destroyed Super Badnik. Sonic shielded his eyes because the heat was hurting them but looked again, seeing the lava just starting to melt the top half of the gigantic Newtron. During Sonic's struggle to figure out a plan to buzzsaw where the bottom half remains, a sudden thrash noise came from down there.
"That has to be it!" Sonic yelled out in his mind, clenching his fists.
And with that, he converted into a blue-spinning buzzsaw that dashed across and split through around the metallic surface. By the time Sonic almost became finished, and with barely enough time as the lava was starting the engulf the top half, a robotic-armed fist came and punched the bottom covering off with Sonic included.
"WHOA!" exclaimed Sonic in midair, turning himself again before he landed on his hands and feet.
Abruptly, various numbers of woodland critters were escaping their imprisonment in great fright. Finally, a shadowy captive uses its robotic hand and sprung out of the bottom's opening, leaving the Super Badnik completely under the lava before anything unfortunate happened. Revealing herself, a female rabbit landed inches close to where Sonic remained, catching him off-guard.
She had pale-gold fur, a snowy muzzle, and green eyes. Her eyelids are mostly violet, while her right ear often flops. The female rabbit also has a small curl of hair topped to her head in between the ears. In a sharp and striking difference, however, both her left arm and legs had gotten robotized. Plus, her fleshy arm wore a white glove. The female rabbit's upper torso became fitted perfectly with a pink heart-shaped leotard and wore a brown jacket as an addition. Not only was she incredibly charming and dazzling, but she also looked like a force of nature.
"Hoo-Wee," she spoke in a heavy southern accent with a soft feminine charm to it, standing up to dust herself off, "I almost felt I was gonna' get trawled into nothin' back there! Good thing I got those little critters out of that whaddya-call-it, and-! Oh?"
While Sonic looked at the female rabbit in a state of relief that she was okay alongside the rest of the critters, he also got shook that she was half-cyborg due to robotization that must have occurred way before elsewhere.
"Uh, what's up?" Sonic decided to greet first, rising back to his feet.
"Howdy, Sugar!" The female rabbit gave a gesture, jabbing a thumb behind her. "The name's Bunnie O'Hare, and I can't thank you enough for helpin' me out of that giant clodhopper back there."
The two then smiled as they both exchanged one another with a handshake, showing much of their appreciation for each other's help.
"Oh, well, it's no problem! Sonic the Hedgehog, by the way." Sonic replied, smirking a bit until he almost frowns at the sight of Bunnie's robotic parts.
By the time Bunnie's attention notices Sonic's gaze upon her limbs, she slowly began to grimace, as if the southern belle was offended by him staring at her like that.
"It's kinda' rude to be ogling like that, 'ya know," she said, her tone becoming disappointed.
Sonic's quills began to jolt in a stammer while waving his hands around speedily, "Sorry, I didn't mean to look like that, Bunnie! I didn't, like, expected to rescue anybody who has been through that, I mean-!"
But Bunnie cuts Sonic off with a raised hand, showing a fake smile, "I know what you meant, Sonic. I don't like talkin' about stuff like this."
Sonic nervously scratches the back of his head, spiky blue quills ruffling from his gloved touch, but soon turns his attention back to Bunnie with a genuine smile that showed trust.
"Hey, it's cool!" Sonic spoke in a positive tone, shrugging kindly. "Besides, I wouldn't care much about you having those limbs myself. At least it didn't get to all of you entirely. It's thankful enough that you're still you, right?"
"Thanks for understandin', Sonic." Bunnie acknowledged, smiling at Sonic's kind words of appreciation.
"Plus, I think you could kick some serious Butt-Nik with those limbs of yours," Sonic smirked as he flipped into different poses, most likely intended to imitate a few strikes.
Bunnie waved a hand with a giggle, blushing pink in embarrassment, "Aw, 'yer such a gentleman, Sugar-Hog. As long as I've got these robot limbs, I might just put them to better use."
Sonic began to chuckle a bit while tapping his foot from that nickname, "No argument from me right there."
"We should get the heck out of dodge before something else like Robotnik comes snoopin' around," Bunnie suggested.
"Cool then. Sally's chasing off Robotnik somewhere in this mondo dungeon!" Sonic nodded as he waved a hand to his new friend.
"I take it that you saved Sally from one of Robotnik's Super Badniks?" Bunnie asked, following alongside the blue hedgehog.
"Yeah, and let's hope things don't get uglier for you girls when I'm not around to save the day." Sonic boasted, presenting a charming wink to make Bunnie giggle again.
"For a fast and dainty guy, I'd say you talk a lot." Bunnie puts her hands on her hips, shaking her head with a smirk.
Both Sonic and Bunnie made their way to start sprinting across the dungeon in search of Sally going after Dr. Robotnik.
TO BE CONTINUED...