Disclaimer on chapter 1

Chapter 2: Eggman's iron fist

Sonic recognised the voice and turned, he saw the doctor he had seen talking to the robot before

"So that is what they are called. So what's up doc.?" He said cheekily

"What is this, a small blue hedgehog? How can you be the one doing this?" said the doctor

"Guess I'm just too much for them"

"I seriously doubt it hedgehog, wait a minute… my scanner is picking up something… I don't believe it… you have the Chaos emerald!"

"Emerald… you mean this good luck gem I found?"

"Fool! That is more than a mere good luck charm! It holds infinite power!"

"This little blue rock? You got to be pulling my leg!"

"Give it to me now or be destroyed!"

"I pick nether, but, hey I got a question for ya before we start anything doc, why do you to think you can put these animals in your robots"

"Because I am destined to rule this planet!"

"Seeesh! You sound like some cheep comic book villain, so oh master… what is the name of the planets future ruler?"

"I am the greatest evil genius in the world, second to none! I am the one and only Dr. Eggman! And I will…" he was interrupted by Sonic's uncontrolled laughter

"E-e-e-e-e-Eggman?" Sonic managed to utter through laughs "Y-you expect people… to-to take you seriously … wi-with a name like Eggman?"

"How DARE YOU!" yelled Eggman "you will suffer dearly for you insolence! Face the wrath of the Eggmace!"

"The wha?"

Before Sonic knew what was happening Eggman unleashed a hidden chequered ball on a chain from his ship, he swung it viscously at the hedgehog, but Sonic easily dodged it.

"What? No living thing can be fast enough to dodge that, who the heck are you?"

"I… er… not sure, but I think I'm called Sonic the Hedgehog."

"HA! You make fun of my name but don't even know your own? IGNORANT WHELP!" yelled Eggman before swing his ball at Sonic, finding to his horror that Sonic actually leapt onto it and now was swinging on it.

"Whoo hoo!" the hedgehog yelled

"What? That's not possible!"

"That's what you think doc!"

"Get down from there!"

"I will, but first!" Sonic opened a hatch on the bottom of the craft; he began fiddling with the wires before jumping off, after which the ball fell off. "Much better, you probably can go much faster without that giant ball"

"But… but… YOU AREN'T GOING TO GET AWAY WITH THIS!" Eggman yelled gesturing wildly. He turned tail and flew his ship in the opposite direction.

"Hey wait! Get back here!" yelled Sonic, he was about to chase him till he remembered the capsule. He walked up to it and took note of the button again. "Hmmm" he pondered "I wonder what THIS button does" he pressed it, next he knew a door opened on the capsule and all the animals fled out, running over the top of him.

"ACK!" he yelled in pain "That was unexpected… I thought it would blow up," he muttered as he got up "Oh well… time to go after that…Eggman" he chuckled "Eggman… maybe I should try to… crack him up… that was bad"

XOXOX

"How was that possible!" Eggman muttered reviewing the information from the… "Battle" if it could be called that "My Buzz Bombers can't even go that fast… and yet here is a living breathing person that can move at unprecedented speeds. What is going on here?" he stopped the tape at a certain point. His computer calculated the speed of this "Sonic" at over 351 meters per second… that was faster than the speed of sound by 11m/s. "It isn't possible for something to move that fast unless it's a specially designed car, or a fighter jet. I shall have to be careful when facing this "Sonic" again." They would have to face each other again, Eggman needed the emeralds, and this hedgehog had the blue one… the one his Burrowbots where meant to be searching for at the other end of the hills under the information the Ball Hogs had given him… damn it… he was going to have to give the Ball Hogs a talking to, in the mean time… "This Is Eggman, all Burrowbot units in the green hill cease operations. I have discovered the location of the emerald. All Burrowbots move to the underwater labyrinth area and help in the search for the green emerald that our sources said was there."

AFFIRMATIVE DOCTOR came the reply

"Bat Brain units. How is the search in the Marble Ruins going?"

WE ARE HOMING ON ITS LOCATION DOCTOR.

"Good, at least the yellow emerald will soon be in my grasp. And with my Scrap Brain factory, I can make enough badniks to contend with that hedgehog for a while. What about other areas?"

SPRING YARD TOWN ROLLER UNITS REPORTING, WE ARE HAVING PROBLEMS FINDING THE MAGENTA EMERALD DUE TO HIGH AMOUNTS OF REFLECTIVE MATERIALS THAT BOUNCE THE CHAOS ENERGY ALL OVER THE AREA.

"Dang those star bumpers, why are they even there? There's no point to them! What about the other areas?"

BALL HOG UNITS REPORTING. WE HAVE IDENTIFIED THAT AN EMERALD IS IN THE STAR LIGHT ROADWAY OF STATION SQUARE, MOST LIKELY RED EMERALD, SENT BANG UNITS TO INVESTIGATE, WE HAVE YET TO IDENTIFY A LOCATION FOR THE GREY EMERALD.

"And of course we already located the cyan one… I best move to the marble ruins, they are the closest area to here, that hedgehog may try to interrupt my plans there first."

XOXOX

Sonic had failed to find Eggman again. For a guy as big as a balloon, it was hard to find the doc. He passed village and heard one person mention a ruin was up north; it may be fun to explore a ruin Sonic reasoned, so he started running in that direction. It wasn't long before the scenery started to change, the green hills started to be replaced with the rubble of ancient buildings with purple columns. He also noted that the temperature had increased a lot, though he had no idea why. These "Badnik" things where also in this area, a lot of them. Mostly the Wasp ones, but there was also a new worm like one. Sonic walked around for a while.

'This place is cool to look at.' he thought, 'But after a while it's all just the same stuff.'

Sonic trail of thought stopped as he felt the ground give way from beneath him "Whatthe? WHOA!" he yelled as he fell into the abyss.