Sonic eXcluded

I (Airo Smicktor) don't own Sonic, Sonic X or any other associated characters. I only own Douglas '4GOT10' Smicktor- Thorndyke.


Episode Prelude:

"Station Square. A busy, hustling city. One of the largest cities in the country, but also one of the most peaceful. A well trained police force, accompanied by the residing S-Team (a high-speed pursuit unit comprised of 5 Formula One race-cars developed into police vehicles) and the nearby military stronghold known as Area 99 have meant that even petty thieves and opportunistic criminals don't even start thinking about breaking the law. In the past year, only one arrest had been made, which have led many people to believe that the city's own reputation for stopping crime does it more harm than good. In simple terms, it's far too peaceful."


"...Hmm... Interesting..." Doctor Eggman said, as he monitor showed pictures of a large city with many tall skyscrapers and impressive looking buildings.
"This city is quite well developed, but mostly defenceless! If this is what the rest of the puny planet has to offer, then establishing my Eggman Empire will be a piece of cake!" he grinned, as he watched more images of the city flash up on the screen.
"As an appetiser, I'll flatten this city as a warning to those who might try and oppose me!"
"Which robot will you use Doctor?" A tallish thin gold robot (although it could easily be just gold plating) inquired, as it brought over a stack of what appeared to be trading cards over to his master on a plate.

Eggman took the cards from the robot's plate, and spread some of the cards on the top of the deck out slightly, as if looking through a hand of cards in a game of poker.
"Hmm... Let's see..." the Doctor thought out loud, looking at the cards he had. He wanted a robot capable of causing mass destruction, yet in a controlled way so that he himself was not in danger, but he didn't want to risk using some of his more powerful machines encase he underestimated the defences of the city.
"...They all look so lethal..." he thought aloud again; it was a tricky dilemma. Eggman frowned, he was more used to solving complex calculations and constructing machinery than picking robots for situations.
"I can't choose!" Eggman said unhappily.

But then, a thought struck him, causing his evil grin to return once again. Eggman shuffled the cards back into a deck, and pressed a red button on the control panel he was sitting in front of, which caused a small hatch in the pane to open. Eggman slotted the deck of cards into the panel, and closed the lid shut. The image of the city instantly changed into three columns on the screen, which showed various shapes, including a lemon, a black bar that read bar, a brightly coloured number seven, and a smiling face of Doctor Eggman. Eggman then reached over to a large sized leaver at the side of the machine. Taking a firm hold of the top of it, he pulled the leaver down, which caused the columns, or to be more precise – reels, to spin around rapidly on the screen, just like in a common slot machine. The images spun 'round, as Eggman watched on eagerly. Quickly, first reel stopped, followed by the middle, and the last. All three reels showed the same image. That of a large standing robot, with large metallic feet and legs, but it had large missiles on the ends of it's arms instead of hands, it had holes in its chest plate where missiles could come out of, and it head was a dome shape that could rotate 360 degrees, with only one large 'eye' sensor in the 'middle' of it. Eggman grinned broadly at the sight.

"Jackpot! Missile-Wrist will do perfectly for this conquest mission!"



"Have you ever had the feeling that sometimes life is just far too good? That for so long, you've lived a trouble free life? Do you ever get the feeling that sometime down the road, and perhaps sooner rather than later, you're going to run into trouble? That terrible sense of foreboding, that you know a situation is going to end in tears. It's like when you watch an action movie in the cinema, and you see a main character's best friend or partner being introduced, and you say to yourself: 'They'll never make it through to the end of the film.' Even though you know it's just a film, you feel sorry for that person, and you start wishing that you were wrong, and that they do make it though. Sometimes they do make it through (even though that character is left out for the sequel), and you feel happy they made it; but if you were right, well, it's not a very nice feeling is it?"

Underneath Station Square, there is a vast underground network of pipes, tunnels and waterworks that allow water to flow freely. To some who aren't afraid of the damp tunnels and dark corners, it can also act as a useful means of transport via manhole covers to other parts of the city, since nearly every accessible are in the city is link by these underground tunnels. A useful escape route if you ever needed one in Station Square, which wasn't often if at all any. But it was being used today. As the cars travelled over the roads, as children took advantage of the weekend to play in the parks or the basketball courts, two furries were walking through the maze of tunnels, searching for a way out, unaware that civilisation was right above them.

The two furries walked in silence, one behind the other. The one in front was a male, red, dread locked Echidna, who walked with an unemotional expression on his face, as if he despised that fact that he was even walking. The other, a female pink hedgehog, walked behind with a disheartened expression on her face, indicating that she wasn't happy either with her current situation, or the company she was walking with. "This whole thing is Sonic's fault..." The Echidna thought out loud, in a tone that showed that he had decided this fact a long time ago.

"All Sonic did was try and stop Eggman, I'm sure he didn't mean for us to be sent here..." the girl replied, in a voice that was slightly bright and cheerful despite the circumstances.
"Even if Eggman IS too blame, Sonic must have pushed him too hard for something like this too happen..." the Echidna replied back, with a sneer in his voice, obviously despising having to mention Sonic's name.
The pink hedgehog suddenly stopped, and put he hands on her hips, a sign of annoyance towards him. "Knuckles! How can you just decide that? At least Sonic isn't AFRAID to fight back!"
Knuckles stopped, looking over his shoulder at the girl. He was beginning to get annoyed with her defiance, and her support of Sonic. "Sonic just enjoys getting into fights for kicks!"
"I'm not going any further if you're going to talk trash about Sonic!" She said, crossing her arms and turning away from Knuckles.

"...I don't have time for this Rose, see ya..." Knuckles replied, before continuing to walk ahead. Amy looked more than shocked that Knuckles had mad that statement.
"You're not going to leave me alone down here are you?" She said, worried as a strange teardrop formed on her head out of fear.
"Do what you want, that your business if you don't want to travel with a 'Sonic-Hater'." Knuckles called, without looking back at Amy.
Amy groaned. "This is gonna be impossible!" She said, before running after Knuckles. "Hey Knuckles, wait up! Don't be mad!"

Knuckles frowned. 'What the hell did I do in a past lifetime to deserve this punishment – having to walk with the devil?' He thought, as Amy continued to call out after him.


Episode 3An 'Eggs'-treme Problem


Part 1:

"I apply that feeling to my life ever since I started living here in Station Square. I can just feel it in me, something tells me it's all going to kick off, and very, very soon. In yesterday's early entry, I mentioned that a talking, speedy, blue hedgehog by the name of Sonic fell into the swimming pool of my Step-parent's house, and not wanting to have a dead body floating in the pool, I dived in and saved him. The later entry from yesterday went over how two of Sonic's friends, a rabbit called Cream and a 'Chao' (whatever that is) called Cheese, were captured by the army and taken to Area 99 (that army base). Sonic, my Step-grandfather Chuck, and myself set out on a risky rescue mission, which succeeded thanks to the surprise appearance of Sonic's best friend 'Tails', who is a fox with two tails! Don't get me started on how that works, I hardly understand the talking hedgehog who can out run F1 cars..."

"I woke up this morning with that feeling I mentioned before, you know, the one about knowing something bad is gonna happen? Yeah, well, that came from this Eggman that Sonic and his furry friends keep going on about. From how they spoke about him, I assume he's not a nice person. Then again, I've played a bad-guy character as a wrestler for months just know, so I only know about beating up 'nice' people. That's a bit off-topic though. Anyway, it looks like I'll have to spend more time in the house now, to keep an eye on these guys. Not that I mind that much, I suppose I have to try and get something done about Chris' wish sooner rather than later, but it's the reason why I have to stay that bothers me."


"Congratulations E-23! You have been selected to lead the charge in the take over of this planet and its subsequent initiation into the Eggman Empire!" the Doctor proudly said from his flying Egg Pod, as he looked down at the impressive robot below him, nicknamed Missile-Wrist. The robot had been summoned from the E-Series storage room, and just arrived in Eggman's 'Speech Hall' where he addressed his creations before a mission.

"Understood. All hail the glorious Eggman Empire!" the robot mechanically replied, it was one of the few robots that had actually been given a voice chip that allowed it to communicate easily with its master. This was a symbol from its creator that it was special, and therefore was being relied on to produce results. The alternative was the scrap yard, where so many other robots had found their final resting place. Scratch, Grounder, Silver Sonic, Coconuts, and many others who were famous in the ranks of Eggman's creations. Famous for being failures.

"Today, were are going to be heading out towards a large city known as 'Station Square'. Once we get there, we are going to use a tactic known as 'Shock and Awe'. The information that I've collected in this world shows that this has rarely worked here, so the people will be... Um... In shock and awe when we arrive!" Eggman smiled to himself, as E-23 listened to its master intently. Not that you could tell, it didn't have any robotic facial features, only a domed head with a sensor.
"Upon arrival, your mission is rather simple, so simple, I can put it in three simple words: Searching, Seek and Destroy! Cause mass chaos! Obliterate any object that gets in your way, and cause as much damage to public property as possible! I want to see fire, explosions, people running for their lives, anything! But I do not want anyone killed, do you understand? I want those people to surrender peacefully, there's no need to waste energy wiping out a population when we're going to tear down the city later."
"Understood."
"Excellent, let's begin! To Station Square, and the foundation of the Eggman Empire!"



"Sonic has got an ego probably bigger than my step-uncle's. That's impressive in itself. He doesn't just think that he's the fastest thing in the world, he knows it. There's a big difference between thinking and knowing, ask anyone, but the difference here is that it makes Sonic rather... Too cocky for his own good. The guy takes off without telling anyone, doesn't listen to advice, and, to con a familiar Earth description to use on Sonic, is a prick. At least that's what I think. Then again, a good thing about Sonic running off without notice is that you don't have to pretend to like him all the time."

"Tails on the other hand, although I was a unsure about him because of those freakish tails of his, is actually pretty cool. Damn clever too, he built his own aeroplane, which he calls the Tornado, from scratch, as well as those amazing remote controlled paper 'planes! He's gonna get along just fine with Chuck, I can tell. Cream is very young, very polite; I think the correct description would be either 'cute' or 'adorable'. Not sure, never been one for cute stuff. The Chao friend of hers wears a bowtie around its neck. That thing worries me. I don't understand what the hell a Chao is, but it could be some kind of pet, and it only seems to speak in it's own language which is comprised of the word 'Chao'. Weird..."

"As for how they got here, well, you are a better person than me if you figure that one out, as I've no idea. I've heard Sonic and Tails mention something about a 'Chaos Control', which I first thought was some sort of machine or a base (like Ground Control, that's something to do with spaceships though), but when I asked Tails about it, he only made me more confused."

"He said that before they all got sent here, they were fighting against this Eggman guy, who had captured Cream and Cheese and was holding them hostage. It must be her job to get captured I suppose. Tails said that Eggman had collected all seven of the 'Chaos Emeralds' and was going to use them in an 'Energy Amplifier' to defeat Sonic and take over the world. Not exactly what'd you'd expect to be an adventure, a battle between an overgrown blue talking hedgehog that runs, against a fat bald man with a moustache that likes to build machines that destroy stuff to take over the world. That's the description I've pieced together about Eggman from Tails. Not really bad-guy material, I've seen better baddies in WCW during 2000, and believe me, they were awful. That's beside the point. What the hell kind of a bad guy gets nicknamed Eggman anyway? That's not a name that's going to strike fear into the hearts of the people is it? 'I am the mighty Eggman! I will rule your world with my robots!'"

"I mean, come on! This is all getting to be rather silly! I started out great telling you all about how I saved Sonic from drowning and now I've started insulting people that I've never met! That's about as clever as flaming people on the Internet, or trying to skateboard on ice! And believe me, that is not fun!"

"God I've gone way off topic now... Where was I? Oh yeah... Tails then showed me this gold rings that he has. Now that's some shiny bling-bling there! These rings right, they apparently hold 'special powers' that allows Sonic to charge up and use even greater speed and abilities to battle! Sounds pretty cool to me, but Tails told me that no-one apart from Sonic has tried to use them, which seems odd, since Tails carries a very large supply of the things in his Tornado, I'd thought they all could use them. Seems to me that Tails has a self-esteem problem, or doesn't believe in himself that much. I might help the guy out with that, it's the least I could do since they're all gonna stay here anyway."

"Well, I think that's enough of an entry for just now, no doubt that something will happen, but I'll talk about that later before I go to bed. Just as well I got this new microphone stuff installed, my hands would be aching if I had to type all this stuff out onto computer, but with the power of technology I can speak, and words appear! Anyway, this has been 4GOT10's diary entry for this morning, I better check on the news to see if Sonic or his buddies have made the news again. I hope that wherever you are Chris, you can read this. I miss you bro, so wish me luck. I have a bad feeling I'm gonna need it. Signed, Douglas Smicktor- Thorndyke. 4GOT10."


Douglas clicked on the save icon on the screen, and switched off the microphone. Confirming the diary entry, he closed down the computer and walked out of the room. The events of the past two days had been a roller coaster to say the least, and presented a long list of problems. The police, the army, the S-Team, Sonic and his friends themselves, and his own stepfamily. Chuck and Douglas had agreed that Sonic, Tails, Cream and Cheese would be better off staying in Chuck's lab, since very rarely did anyone apart from Chuck was allowed up there. Chuck didn't want to take any risks in case an experiment or a new device of his was damaged or worse. Some thought that it was just an excuse to get some time alone, but no one dared to argue with such a respected figure.

Douglas sighed as he walked down the stairs and headed towards the living room area with the large TV screen. He had subconsciously put on his usual clothing attire – black jeans, trainers, but today, to spice things up a bit, he put on one of his wrestling T-Shirts, the 4GOT10 'Missing' shirt. On the front of which read: 'Missing: My mind, my heart, my soul.' On the back read: 'Reward: Your survival. Contact 4GOT10, if you can...' If the people bought it, which some did, it was all good, even if it seemed odd. It made sense if you understood the whole wrestling character side of 4GOT10 that Douglas had created for himself. You needed a gimmick to make it in the wrestling business, and 4GOT10 was his, even if it was adapted from his real character...

Jumping over the back of the sofa, Douglas landed on it, facing the TV. He picked up the remote and switched on the screen, before flicking through the channels to find what he was looking for.
"...Soap opera... Infomercial... Game Show... Digimon? No one watches that anymore do they? ...More commercials... Ah! Finally! The news channel!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are picking up a report of a disturbance in the beach area on the outskirts of Station Square that looks out onto the ocean. We are hearing the a large robot which is firing huge missiles that seem to be attached to the robot's own arms via a strong metal rope or cord is reeking havoc there, destroying property and frightening the people there! There are no casualties or people hurt yet, but many small buildings have been severely damaged, and many cars have been totally destroyed! We can now show you images of the scene..."

The screen showed a street area, the road covered with burning wrecks of cars and other vehicles, many of which had been either partially or completely flattened. Buildings had large holes in the sides of them, windows smashed to pieces, and people were standing around in disbelief.
"This robot was accompanied by a strange man who was travelling around in a strange flying pod-like craft..." the voice of the female reporter continued, "...who was giving out orders to the robot, who eyewitness have confirmed to us was called 'E-23'. This photo was taken by an amateur photographer at the scene..."

A picture of a fat man laughing was shown, who was sitting in a very strange looking contraption. The man was large, bald, and had a long orange moustache...
'That matches the description that Tails gave of... Eggman!' Douglas reasoned in his head, before barging out the door to the outside, and heading towards Chuck's lab, hoping that Sonic hadn't chosen this moment to go off on another run.


Outside of Chuck's lab, Tails was using a water hose to wash down the Tornado, having just finishing off cleaning it, as Chuck was standing by him. Behind them, on the grassy lawn, Cream was sitting at a table while Cheese was sitting on it, happily eating its way through a plate of mini- donuts.

"Hee-hee!" Tails said happily as the water splashed into the side of his 'plane. "It's sparkling!" Tails was very proud of his creations, even when he'd just finished doing a simple task of cleaning it. The Tornado wasn't even that dirty, Tails just wanted to make quite sure, just in case.
"I'm sure that if you keep spraying, it'll sparkle even more!" Chuck replied, also a little proud to see such an accomplishment. A built-from- scratch, fully working aeroplane! Chuck wondered if there were many more things that Tails and himself could create together.

"Is it good?" Cream asked her Chao friend, as her elbows rested on the table, which allowed her head to lightly rest on her hands as she watched her friend eat.
"Chao, chao!" Cheese happily replied, nodding its head. Cream giggled in reply, happy for her friend after the events in Area 99 that had scared them both.

"Tails! Chuck! Anyone?" a voice called out. Cream around, and noticed Douglas running up from the house, seemingly in a hurry.
"What is it?" Tails inquired, as Douglas brought himself to a halt beside where he and Chuck were standing.
"It's too much to hope for that Sonic's around is it?" Douglas asked in reply.
"Mr. Sonic said that he was going out for a little run, but I can't remember when that was..." Cream said, as Cheese looked over, wondering what the rush was.
"Damn him! I told him he shouldn't go out of the house! But noooooo! He won't listen to me will he? I knew something bad was going to happen today, and now he'd vanished again! How are we going to find him now?"
"It won't be that hard to find Sonic, will it?" Tails asked, still watering down the Tornado
"Hmmm...I guess not..." Douglas replied thoughtfully, "I mean, how many other blue hedgehogs are there..."
"In any case, do you need him for something?"
Douglas snapped back into reality. "Tails! Remember that Eggman guy you told me about yesterday?"
"Well... Yeah..."
"I think he's here, and he's got some robot and it's destroying the city!"


The foot of E-23 rose up, before swiftly coming down onto of the front of an abandoned car, instantly flattening it as the large robot, nicknamed 'Missile-Wrist' slowly marched down the street, one metallic foot at a time. E-23 scanned ahead, and identified a number of cars that were blocking the street, which had shining lights on top of them. There were also several uniformed men behind the vehicles, many of which were carrying weaponry. A police roadblock.

"STOP!" the voice of one of the police men called out, who was speaking through a megaphone. "IF YOU DO NOT STOP THEN WE WILL BE FORCED TO OPEN FIRE!"

E-23 carried on moving forward, unfazed by the warning, seeing the policemen's words as more of a challenge. Plus, it only took orders from his creator, Doctor Eggman. Anyone standing in the way of it carry out it's master's orders was a threat to his master, and must be eliminated.

"FIRE!" The officer screamed through the megaphone, seeing that the robot wasn't stopping. Instantly, the officers behind the cars fired at the robot using sniper rifles and handguns, rapidly firing off rounds at the robot. The bullets hit the robot, but bounded off its hardened metal armour without causing a scratch. Round upon round hit E-23, but not at one moment did the robot even seem to slow down or show signs of stopping.

Above E-23, it's creator and master, Doctor Eggman, rode high above him in his flying pod, leaning against the side of it, resting his head in his hand in a sign of boredom and disinterest in this 'feeble attempt' of resistance to him. Feeble in the world he came from at least. Eggman mockingly laughed at the firing policemen.
"There's a word for this: BORING! Is that all you've got?" He called down at them.

Without warning, a man in heavy armour, overalls, a facemask and protective goggles appeared between a gab between the cars in the roadblock, brandishing a powerful looking gun that was attached with a pipe to two tanks that the man wore on his back. It was a flamethrower. The man pulled the trigger on the gun, and a burning shot of flames scorched out of the gun's nozzle, hitting the robot and turning it into a flaming machine, as it's whole body became covered in fire. The machine seemed to be unfazed, continuing to walk ahead, but then, with a loud whirring of gears and controls, it came to a full stop, standing still. The policemen behind the roadblock looked on as the robot stood burning.

"Good work boys, we've done it!" The officer with the megaphone said without speaking into the 'phone, with a smug on his face. He was sure to get a promotion for solving this problem.

But this moment of pride was short lived, as the flames suddenly vanished from the robot, as it leaned forward towards the officers in defiance. Now fed up with the whole situation, Eggman lowered his craft so he could get a close look at the police force sent to stop him.

"Fools!" he directed at them "Did you really think those were strong enough? Who's the one giving orders here?"
"Umm... I am?" The leading officer said timidly, now lacking the pride he had before.
"Will you stand aside or do I have to make you feel the full force of E- 23's power?"
"We... Give... Up..."
"Hmm... I can't stand quitters! Missile-Wrist, make an example out of them – give them what they deserve!" Eggman called down as he took up back into the sky.

Without needing another command, the robot lifted up one of its heavy arms, aiming the missile at the end towards the roadblock, before firing without another thought.


High above Station Square, away from the disturbances, the Tornado and it's pilot were searching for Sonic. Tails was worried, the robot he'd seen on the news programme that Douglas showed them looked tough, and he knew that Sonic was the only one capable of really defeating Eggman.

"I wonder where Sonic is..." Tails said to himself as looked over the side of his 'plane, hoping to spot Sonic. Although finding his friend was an important factor running through his mind, he had some concerns about his new friend, Douglas.
'I know I'm not used to seeing humans, but Douglas seems very different from anyone I've met before. He was very nice to us all, but why was he so angry at Sonic yesterday? Nobody can stop Sonic, doesn't he know that? Why does he always wear dark clothes as well, doesn't he want people to know he's really a friendly guy? I wonder who that '4GOT10' person is who was on Douglas' T-Shirt, and why does he call Chuck his Step-Grandfather...'


On ground level, just beside a large park area, Chuck and Douglas were looking around for Sonic as well, and were not having a very fruitful search.

"It's no good Chuck, I just can't see him anywhere. The guy could be miles away, there's no real way of knowing when he'll be back..." Douglas said, lowering the binoculars from his eyes. He'd looked around the whole park area, without success.
"I know, he just doesn't seem to be around here eh? Let's look somewhere else..." Chuck replied, starting up the car again, and moving off. The radio started up again, but Douglas wasn't listening to it. He was lost in his own thought.
'Great work Douglas; Sonic's probably run off to spite you after all you said yesterday! The one time you'd actually like the hedgehog around and he's not there! Damn it! Why'd you always have to mess everything up? You life, your stepfamily, and now this as well! No wonder your so damn forgotten!' He mentally cursed himself, ignoring the fact that he should still be looking for Sonic.


Far away from the fear-filled streets of Station Square, a lone figure stood atop a mighty cliff, with his arms folded across his chest, gazing at the majestic sight of the snow-capped mountain in front of him. The blue figure, proud of himself, smiled and laughed to himself, before running down the sloping rock face, seemingly without fear. Sonic never faltered, never hesitated, even when the edge of the cliff loomed closer and closer towards him. When he reached the edge, he didn't stop or attempt to slow himself down, he simply jumped over the side, screaming out at the rush he was getting as he plummeted into the unknown darkness below him.
The red and yellow shoes with the metal buckle and green tops walked ahead purposely, as the red and white boots faltered behind. Knuckles and Amy had remained silent since the last 'talk' before. Knuckles had no reason to communicate with the girl, she was an unwanted burden right now, who would only cause annoyance and talk about Sonic who was responsible for this situation anyway. Amy was slightly afraid to talk with the Guardian Echidna, for she knew he had a short temper and wasn't one to have any sort of real conversation with. Plus, he didn't get on well with her Sonikku, so they didn't really have anything to talk about.

Despite that, Amy was tired. She didn't have the strength or stamina that Knuckles possessed, and they had been walking non-stop for a good few hours now through these underground passages. Amy reasoned they must be in some kind of pipe-system, but was worried where they led. Or where they came from.

"Knuckles, can't we even take a little break?" Amy asked hopefully.
"You take a break if you want to, but I'm not stopping. I'm not responsible if you don't follow me, I didn't want you tagging along in the first place!" Knuckles replied, without looking back.

Amy frowned, that was far from the answer that she wanted. 'Why does Knuckles have to be so inconsiderate?' She asked herself in her mind. 'Still... I'd worry more with Knuckles on his own... This is a strange world, he could get himself hurt... Maybe a little casual conversation would lighten the mood!'

"Knuckles... What do you think the chances are of getting back home?" Amy asked, moving up to beside Knuckles.
"I don't think that we're going back, I KNOW we're going back!" Knuckles replied, looking over at her.
"But how can we? Are you that sure?"
"I not sure how we'll get back, but I have to get back. As soon as I find a way to get back to the Floating Island, then I'm out of here. That's what I'm looking for. In any case..." Knuckles' voice trailed off slightly, as an image appeared in his head.


The image of Knuckles sitting on the final step of the vast flight of steps that led to the top of ancient ruins of the master emerald shrine appeared in his mind.

"...If I... If I can't go back... I won't be able to go to it..."

Behind him, the Master Emerald, the controller of the Chaos Emeralds, the balance of power between the light and the dark energy of the emeralds, and the power source of the Floating Island, glowed brightly with Chaos Energy, symbolising that all was well in the island.

"...No matter what it takes... I must return to it... Because... I must protect it..."

Knuckles sat, his mighty gloved hands across his chest, covering the silver crescent moon on his chest, the sign of his guardian status, ready to use his namesake knuckles on his fists to defend the emerald.


"...Better to die than to be denied my destiny, my purpose in life, my mission, my existence..."

Amy was shocked by the trance-like state the Knuckles was currently in, Knuckles was so fixed by the vision in his mind that he had stopped in his tracks. She wasn't really sure how much the Master Emerald meant to him, butAmy was also entranced by his desire to carry out his 'job' of guarding the emerald and the island.

"...That's why I cannot allow myself to linger in this world a second longer than is necessary. Until I do find a way back, I not going to rest or get sidetracked..."

THUMP!

The heavy sound above him caused Knuckles to be sidetracked from his thoughts of the emerald, as he looked up to identify the sound. Knuckles saw what appeared to be a climbable ladder that led upwards, but where he couldn't rightly see due to the lack of light where it led to.

THUMP!

THUMP!

Knuckles ran over to the ladder, and looked up. In the distance above him, he could see small streams of light shining through from above. There was a way to the surface, and out of these tunnels!

"What's that?" Knuckles thought out loud. His ears detected another sound, the sound of a frightened whimper. He looked over his shoulder at a worried Amy. Knuckles frowned at this show of fear, totally unacceptable to his guardian line. But he knew himself that he could not leave Amy in the darkened tunnels like this, for like it or not, he had to look after her right now, at least until he found the others. Knowing full well the powers of Chaos Control, it was very likely that Sonic and Tails were in this world, and would be able to take care of Amy, but it also presented the possibility that Eggman was in this world...
"...Follow me Amy..." Knuckles said, as he started using the ladder to climb upwards. He knew Amy was following, as he heard the sounds on her boots climbing below. He didn't know it, as he was too concentrated in reaching the surface, but Amy was smiling as she looked up at the red Echidna. She'd finally seen Knuckles show emotions other than anger and violence...

Knuckles pushed the manhole cover up, and looked around. He was in a street, and around him, the wreckages of smashed up cars lie across the road and at the sides of the street. Past them, a large robot, with what appeared to be missiles at the ends of it's arms walked ahead, with a loud thumping sound echoing around when it took a step. That explained the noise perfectly, and Knuckles had a good idea who the robot was working for...
"Knuckles... Is that one of?" Amy tried to ask, still afraid of what is was.
"I'm afraid so Amy... It's one of Eggman's creations..."


'Another boring day at the office this has turned out to be...' a worker thought to himself as he walked away for his lunch break, holding his briefcase in his hand. He walked towards the set of automatic door that where the main entrance/exit of the bank as they slid open. It was then that he noticed that there was a huge shadow covering where he stood.
'Funny... It was sunny when I left my office...' He looked up and saw what had happened. The sun was still out, but there was a giant unfriendly looking robot that was blocking out the sunlight.
'A HUGE ROBOT?'

The man then ran in opposite direction screaming, dropping his briefcase in the process. The briefcase was the least of his worries at the moment, since the robot had just head-butted it's way through the glass windows and the doors that made up the entrance. The people looked up in horror as the robot slowly marched inside and knocked over a large sized table in the middle of the room. The bank workers behind the bulletproof protective glass cowered in fear as one of them set off the security alarm. The alarm bell rang out loudly as the E-23 moved it's domed head around, taking in the surrounding. A woman ran off into a back room, two men helped carry a woman who'd fainted out of the area. There was no resistance.


Outside, Eggman smiled at the images he was receiving from Missile- Wrist. The bank alarm would attract the attention of people, which meant Eggman could easily declare his taking over to the soon-to-be masses of the Eggman Empire.

"E-23! Get to the rooftop. We can cause much more damage from up there!
"Roger" The Doctor heard E-23 reply frominside the bank through the radio-waves. Though Eggman couldn't see it happening, his creation of distruction was aimingone of itsmissiles upwards and firing, instantly causing a huge hold in the roof above him.

Eggman had made his craft rise up to the height of the roof of the bank. He looked below; as a swarm of police cars appeared by the way E- 23 had gone inside. Eggman let out a hearty laugh.
"It appears I'm attracting quite a crowd with my little robot! It's just like an observation window up here!" The Doctor looked around to the building again, and saw one of the missiles blast through the roof's surface and into the air, before four grappling hooks on the side of the missile popped out as it came back down, causing it to lock itself securely to the floor of the roof.

"Proceeding to upper structural surface. Going up." The robot called from below, before proceeding to use the winch system in its arm to pull itself up to the roof using the cord that attached the missile to the robot's arm.

The assembled police force looked in shock as the side of the bank started exploding, seemingly floor-by-floor, before an explosion occurred on the roof itself. The Chief of police himself looked up in amazement as the giant robot that he'd been radioed about stood up, seemingly as proud as the round man in the flying pod was. An uneasy silenced followed, as clouds of thick dust bellowed out of the sides and the roof of the bank. The silence seemed to the police and to the people of Station Square to last for a lifetime. To Eggman, it lasted five seconds, time enough to make his demands.

"Let's get this show on the air! It's about time to introduce myself to my subjects!" Eggman grinned as he pressed a button on his control panel, which caused a small camera lens to appear on top of the viewing screen of his craft. The button also activated a transmission blocker, which affected all television and public radio channels in the whole Station Square area. Out of nowhere, a large image of Eggman appeared in the sky above the police force, the image that now appeared on TV screens around the city.

"Everyone, listen well to this message, and please allow me to introduce myself: My name is Doctor Ivo Robotnik, otherwise known as Doctor Eggman! The true form of genius! Right now I hope you all notice me via my Eggman Network. I have some very exciting news for you all! Well, exciting for me, perhaps catastrophic for you! I have decided to build the foundation of the Eggman Empire upon this world, starting with your city! As of now this entire world belongs to Doctor Eggman! Resistance is pointless and anyone who does will be swept away like dust bunnies!" Eggman then roared out loud with one his trademark evil laughs, unsettling for normal people, and a warning for others.


"You were right Douglas, Eggman is here!" Tails said, as he watched the TV screen.
"Yeah, but I don't always feel this bad about being right Tails. That robot of his looks very deadly, I mean, the thing's got missiles comin' out its arms!"
"We can see that Douglas, but the fact of the matter is something needs to be done about him and fast before anymore of the city gets destroyed!" Chuck said, looking at the image of the laughing doctor.
"But how will we do that Mr. Chuck?" Cream asked, looking just as worried as the Chao in her hands.
"It's time like these that two options come to mind Cream..." Douglas said, reaching into his pocket, "You either run for the hills..." Douglas then pulled out his 'fighting gloves from his pocket and slipped them on. "...Or you fight for them. Looks like we're gonna have to make up a plan, so let's start thinking..."
"Is that robot yours?" The police chief shouted up at Eggman using a megaphone. He was easily identifiable by his spotless white uniform and his blond bushy moustache.
"That's correct! You people may be smarter than your appear!" The Doctor arrogantly replied with a smirk.
"Then hurry up and get your robot out of the way, and turn yourself in! That thing could hit a 'plane!"
"...You must be joking, surely?"
"I'm serious buster! Now pull that thing you're in over and let's see your licence and registration!"

Eggman frowned. "Perhaps I was wrong about you people after all, you are quite stupid to stand against me! I am the one giving the orders around here now!"
"Oh yeah? And what makes you think so?" The chief challenged.
"Well, since I'm unable to give you my registration, how about I give you a DEMONSTRAION?" Eggman called back, snapping his fingers together.

Once Eggman had given that signal, E-23 instantly fired off a missile from its position on top of the bank, straight downwards off the side of the building. Looking upwards, the police officers and their Chief could only gasp in horror at the approaching sight as the missile smashed directly the police car that was nearest to the men. The force of the impact was so strong that it sent a massive cloud of dust and debris up into the surrounding air. Just as quickly, the winch system in Missile- Wrist's arm began pulling the cord back inside it, bringing up the weapon with it until it slotted firmly back into place in the arm.

"Now you see the full force of my power! Surrender now, and I won't have to resort to violence again!" Eggman beamed down again to the police force, still covered in the cloud of dust, although Eggman noted that a tyre from the car that was hit was now bouncing down the road, thrown off its axel by the attack.

The dust below began to settle, and only the police Chief could be seen amongst the wreckages of the police cars, his once pure-white uniform now discoloured and torn, his police cap rested slanted on his head, every part of him was now covered in dust. Strangely, he was holding on tightly to a tyre off one of the cars.
"...I think my work's done here... This looks like a job for the mayor..." The glasses that rested over Eggman's eyes seemed to glow brightly either from the light of the sun, or the anticipation of victory.

"Bring him to me, then I will become your mayor!" Eggman almost manically roared, before bursting out into a full-blown manic laughter, which rang out in the streets of Station Square.



Flip Card 1 – Knuckles

Full Real Name: Unknown
Nickname(s): Knuckles, Knucklehead, the Guardian
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Likes: Fruits, treasure hunting, guarding the master emerald, fighting
Dislikes: Thieves, anything that prevents his duties as guardian, Sonic.
Identifying features: Red dread locked Echidna, has white crescent moon on his chest, two spiked knuckles stick out from each fist, hence his nickname. Often seen guarding the master emerald.



Flip Card 2 – Amy

Full Real Name: Amy Rose Hedgehog
Nickname(s): Ames, the Pink One
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Likes: 'Her' Sonikku, shopping, fortune cards
Dislikes: Anything that hurts/prevents her from seeing Sonic, not being with Sonic, boredom.
Identifying features: Pink hedgehog, often wears a red dress with a white trim and a red hair band, often carries a hidden number of 'Piko-Piko Hammers'



Part 2

The Tornado's engine roared out as the propellers rapidly spun around, with its trusty pilot Tails in the front seat, as Chuck, Cream and Cheese looked on as Tails finished up the pre-flight checks. Everything had to be working perfectly; there wouldn't be many second chances against Eggman. Tails looked nervously over his shoulder back towards the garage.

"Douglas, hurry up!" Tails called out, urgency ringing out in his words.
"I'm here Tails, let's go!" Douglas said, or at least, someone with Douglas' voice.

Douglas hurriedly ran towards the Tornado, but he was dressed in strange clothing and was carrying a rucksack on his back. He was wearing black leather pants and boots, nothing unusual there, but his pants had interesting marking on the left leg, which looked like they had been applied by spray-paint, and similarly applied words on the right, that read: '4GOT10'. He wore a tight fitting short-sleeved top that had the word 'GOT' printed on it, and the number four in front of it but slightly above, and the number ten after it but slightly below. Both numbers were spray painted on instead of printed, so that '4GOT10' was readable on it. He was also wearing black elbow pads, and those strange gloves of his that Tails had notice yesterday when Douglas and Sonic had nearly gotten into a brawl. Douglas had also applied some interesting face-paint under his eyes, that gave the impression of a stream of tears, but since the paint was red, it looked from a distance to be like blood. Sort of like war paint.

Douglas quickly ran past the group of three watching, tossed the bag into the passenger seat, and hopped into the seat, placing the bag at his feat and strapping himself in. As he jumped up, Tails, Cream and Cheese noticed that Douglas was also wearing a black armband, which had a name on it. The name was: 'Chris'.

"Do you really think that it was necessary to put on your FULL wrestling attire Douglas?" Chuck asked annoyed; now seeing what the hold up was.
"There's no point in going into battle if you're not fully prepared Chuck!" Douglas retorted, looking as Tails repaired to make the Tornado go airborne.
"Hmm... Take care of Douglas Tails!"
"Leave it to me!" Tails replied, giving the thumbs up as worked the controls.
"If Sonic shows up, tell us about it! We might need all the help we can get if Eggman can smash up the cops like that!"
"Of course we will Mr. Douglas!" Cream said happily, realising that this was still Douglas under all the weird clothing.
"Right now Cream, just call me 4GOT10." "Then let's go!" Tails said, focused at the mission at hand.

With a simple push of a button, the Tornado began moving forward down the stretch of concrete from the garage, rapidly picking up speed, until just when that stretch met up with the main road towards the house, the Tornado pulled upwards, flying high above the hedges and the trees, heading towards the centre of the city, leaving behind a Chuck who was nodding in approval, and a confused Cream and Cheese.

"... Did Mr. Douglas just say 'You're rotten?" Cream asked her Chao friend.
"Chao?" Cheese replied, just as unsure.
"I'll explain later..." Chuck said, watching the 'plane take off into the distance.


The face of Eggman from the hovering screen looked around with a mixed expression of anger, frustration, and annoyance. He had not expected that taking over a city of people with seemingly no defences would be this hard to do. All they had to do was wave a white flag, become obedient and unquestioning servants of the Eggman Empire, and allow their city to be crushed to the ground to make way for the first in a number of cities built in honour of himself, was that so much to ask? It seemed very easy to him, but then again, he did have an IQ of over 300. He doubted if anyone person on this city had and IQ of over 50...

Eggman looked down, as the police Chief, now fresh from the police station with a new uniform and a quick wash up, handed a megaphone to a smartly dressed man in a suit. Although perhaps properly dressed to great the new ruler of this city, he did not seem a very imposing or dangerous figure. Therefore he must be a politician.

'So this must be the 'Mayor' that talk about... What a pushover this world must be!'
"Well? What's your answer?" He called down, still annoyed at how long this had taken.
"Dr. Eggman!" The Mayor called up through the 'phone. "We will not be ordered around by the likes of terrorists like you!

Eggman arched an eyebrow. Him? A terrorist? That's fighting talk! "Wrong!" Eggman mockingly called back, before smiling down at the assembled force below. "I think you need a reminder at just who you are dealing with!" Once again, Eggman gave the signal to his robot by arrogantly snapping his figures.

This time, E-23 fired off both of its missiles into the building directly behind where the Mayor and the police were standing. The suddenness of the attack caused the group to instantly dive for cover when the projectiles impacted with the glass and the outside structure of the building. The Mayor looked upwards over his shoulder at the debris cloud that was pouring out of the impact zone, which unlike the blast before was large enough to rise upwards into the air several stories and cover the assembled people below.

"Are you still so confident now 'Mayor'?" Eggman called down again. "Perhaps that has finally changed your mind?"

The Mayor coughed and spluttered, trying to remove the dust from his mouth and nose as the cloud began to drift away. Eggman grinned even more when he saw that the dust had actually thickly covered the people below, so that the police officers, their Chief and the Mayor were now just lumpy human figurines of dust, the Mayor only really identifiable by the likewise dust covered megaphone he was holding.
"...I'm sorry, but that's the decision of our President... Our constitution states that we can't actually surrender cities like this..." the Mayor managed to meekly get out.

Eggman frowned even deeper that before, disappointed at the lack of respect and understanding from these people. It looked like he was going to have to destroy the city after all. He sighed, before looking over at his robot standing on the roof of the bank. "E-23... Change of plan, be sure to..."

"STOP RIGHT NOW EGGMAN!"

Eggman quickly looked over his shoulder, and saw the rapidly looming sight of a light aircraft hurtling towards him, but not just any craft, it was the Tornado! Eggman saw from the look in the pilot's eyes that this was not a friendly flyer. It was Miles Prower, known better as Tails. In the young fox's eyes was a look of hatred towards his frequent enemy. Although the fox was not the most intimidating of foes, he was still dangerous, and not to be underestimated. Tails also had a passenger in the back seat, so unlike Tails, seemed to be a most threatening person. Purple hair, dark clothes, and blood-red face-paint made him look very unfriendly, and not seemingly a person to expect to be on the 'good guy' side. He too had a look of anger upon his face, but since he looked human, Eggman assumed he was fighting to protect his city from attack, not due to Eggman's reputation (since no one around seemed to know it). A noble, but foolhardy, cause in Eggman's eyes, which deserved respect.

"CHARGE!" The voice of the passenger called out, which caused Eggman to quickly duck down to avoid the incoming airplane as it dived right over him, but he didn't duck quite low enough to avoid being struck in the back of the head. Eggman called out in pain as he pulled himself back up, before feeling a rapidly growing lump in the back of his head. He now saw what had caused the pain – the human passenger in the Tornado was smirking back at Eggman in satisfaction, and was holding what looked to be a baseball bat! Rapidly the Doctor saw the situation as it really was: This was going to be difficult. Tails was an experienced pilot and dog-fighter, and that human wasn't going to back down. Eggman was now glad he picked such a strong robot to battle with.

"So Tails was sent to this world as well eh? No matter, he will be no match to my superior mechas!"

Tails brought the Tornado upwards, heading upwards above the higher rooftops to get a good look at the robot Eggman had brought with him that had caused so much damage to the surrounding area. Looking down, Tails saw the large, chunky robot with the missile hands that had been on the news. Almost at the same time, E-23 locked on its scanners on the 'plane, identifying the latest target.

"E-23! Change of plan! I want you to shoot that 'plane out of the sky at all costs!"
"Roger." The robot replied, electronically locking onto the 'plane, and raising one of its arms and targeting the aircraft.

"Ha-Ha! Did ya see me get him Tails?" Douglas, or more rightly, 4GOT10, called out, just as Missile-Wrist fired a missile up at the Tornado, just missing the rear wing tip of the 'plane.
"Then again, that robot might get us if we ain't careful!" Douglas reasoned, as a second missile came firing upwards, causing Tails to lower the craft so the missile sailed over the Tornado, before Tails reversed the procedure and brought the Tornado up so a missile went underneath.
"God damn that thing's bloody accurate! What the hell does Eggman feed them on? Oil full of steroids?" 4GOT10 shouted out.
"Don't worry Douglas, this time we've got him!" Tails called back, as he turned the Tornado around in the air, so that he travelling straight towards Eggman's robot.
"Its 4GOT10 right now Tails!" 4GOT10 called out, seeing the robot below raise its arms towards them both. Tails didn't hear him; he was too focused on payback for the damage the robot has caused to the city.

E-23 fired his missiles up to hit the Tornado, but Tails all to easily had the robot's attack pattern worked out, and tilted the 'plane left and right to avoid the incoming attacks. Seeing the robot defenceless, Tails put the Tornado's own weaponry into action. Tails pressed down hard on the red button on top of the control stick he had holding on to, which activated the machine guns at the front. The guns blazed as the laser fire peppered the roof of the building, travelling quickly towards the robot before shots slammed into the chest area of it. It didn't leave a scratch.

"The attack didn't work!" Tails said, looking over his shoulder at the robot as he brought the craft up to attempt another run.
"No Shit Tails! What the hell are we... SHIT! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ONE?" 4GOT10 shouted out, looking down.

The robot had fired another missile off its arm again, but this time, four hook-like arms suddenly stuck out from its sides. That wasn't all though, as soon after the hooks locked in place, what appeared to be rocket boosters activated, causing the missile to greatly increase in speed, as well as danger. Tails instinctively grabbed a firm hold of the control stick with both hands, as he pulled with all his might to bring the Tornado out of harms way. 4GOT10 looked down as the missile and the Tornado seemed to be on a very certain collision course. This was another of those times that he wished he wasn't right. Unfortunately, he was correct, but not by much. Tails' efforts had not been in vain, as when the missile and the Tornado reached the same vertical level, the only damaged caused by the missile was that it clipped the propellers of the 'plane off, leaving the rest of the 'plane fully intact. But the term 'only damaged' is used loosely, since the damage was actually very serious. No propellers No flight. Sure enough, this simple law of physics was evident as the Tornado began slopping downwards, causing the 'plane to shudder and jolt.

"ARGH! We've lost the propeller!" Tails called out in a mix of terror and fear, in a tone high enough to be that of a girly scream.
"MAYDAY! MAYDAY! ASSUME CRASH POSITIONS!" 4GOT10 shouted out in reply, as he ducked his head down in preparation for a very bumpy landing.
"Enemy aircraft target has suffered a direct hit. Mission accomplished" Missile-Wrist confirmed to itself as it watched the Tornado fall over the side of the building and disappear out of view.
"Any parachutes would be damn useful right now Tails!" Douglas said, looking over Tails shoulder, as Tails pushed a combination of buttons and pulled up an interesting looking leaver.
"No need, I've got it all worked out!" Tails said, as 4GOT10 felt the 'plane shudder again, but very differently, as if something was happening to the 'plane itself. He heard a series of interesting whirring sounds, before he had to shield his own eyes to block out a bright blue light that suddenly appeared around the Tornado.

When 4GOT10 opened his eyes, he was shocked to see that not only hadn't they crashed, but the 'plane had transformed itself! "What the hell?"
"It's okay! No problem for the Tornado's speed mode!" Tails proudly called back
"YOU TELLING' ME THIS THING TRANSFORMS? HOLY..." 4GOT10 was interrupted by another missile being fired upwards towards them.
"Warning! Target has healed itself and has increased its aerodynamics by 100! Orders of the great Doctor Eggman have not been completed! Enemy aircraft must be destroyed!" E-23 declared as it began repeatedly firing and retracting its missiles as it attempted again to bring the Tornado and it's crew out of the sky.


Down in the streets below, the people who had been evacuated out of the bank gazed up in wonder at the battle that was happening above them. They had never seen anything like this kind of battle before, not even in movies or Robot Wars. Only two people in the crowd could say they were used to this kind of thing happening, the two known as Knuckles and Amy.

"Knuckles! That's Tails up there!" Amy said, recognising the markings of the Tornado. She turned around to talk directly to the Echidna, her movement causing him to look at her. "Aren't you going up there to help him?" Amy asked, her eyes full of hopefulness.

Knuckles looked at the pink hedgehog and knew what she meant. She wanted him to go up there and put his ass on the line because Tails had messed up again and couldn't fight back. He had his own priorities. Unless Eggman had the Master Emerald or all the Chaos Emeralds, he wasn't his problem right now. "It's not my concern Amy, let the fox fight his own battles, it's about time he fought for himself."
Amy's expression then turned to one of frustration. "Why do you have to be so selfish all the time Knuckles! Can't you think of someone other than yourself for once?" She shouted at Knuckles, before turning and running off a hole in the side of the bank.
"Hey, HEY! Get back here Amy!" Knuckles shouted out, but Amy was already stepping over some fallen stonework and was inside the building and out of sight. Knuckles growled in frustration. "Does that girl ALWAYS have to be looked after? I have enough problems with the Master Emerald, and now I'm having to hold her hand all day!" Knuckles then quickly set off after her, going through the same gap she did.

Knuckles looked around, and saw Amy standing in front of an elevator, just as the bell rang to signify that the lift had arrived. Amy stepped inside it, and reached up to press the button that would take her to the roof. "AMY!" Knuckles shouted out, as he ran towards the lift. Amy looked slightly puzzled at why Knuckles was so suddenly coming after her. "Wait up!" Amy turned her head away from him and folded her arms across her chest just as the elevator doors closed shut.

From inside the lift, Amy could faintly hear Knuckles say something. Amy smiled to herself, maybe now Knuckles would think about wider situations than just his emerald. Yet something inside Amy made her feel bad about leaving Knuckles like that, he was probably only trying to be nice... But why was Amy think so much about this? Amy and Knuckles hadn't really known that much about each other, the past few days and nights together had been interesting... But they would probably mean nothing in the future... Would they?

"Damn it! I bet this happens each and every time with the others! Doesn't Amy know it's dangerous to use elevators during an emergency?" Knuckles said out loud in frustration. Amy was a pretty tough girl, as he'd found out during the past few days with her. Not many people could keep up with Knuckles' pace, but without sounding to chauvinistic, for a female to do the same was an impressive feat. Knuckles guess that it was due to all the time she spent chasing after Sonic... But now Knuckles had to find a way to get to the roof, and quickly... Knuckles then noticed a small sign above a doorway. It read: 'EXIT'. Knuckles rushed through the doorway, and found himself looking the flight of emergency stairs in a tall vertical room that led to every floor. He smirked, the walls on the side were strong enough, and had a big enough gap from the stairs. Lifts were fast, but no one was faster at climbing than the Guardian Knuckles...


Sonic's feet moved faster than the eye could see, as Sonic ran from no place in particular to just outside of parts unknown. This was his style, his life. He went wherever the wind took him, and lived life according to his own rules. Sonic didn't even really think twice about the warnings Douglas had been giving him about staying in the lab out of sight. Sitting around doing nothing all day just didn't sound like a good deal, when you could easily run around and explore. This strange new planet that he and his friends had been sent to had the advantages of new places to discover, since he'd been all over Mobius. Who knows what kind of surprises lied in store around the next corner. Sonic really didn't want to be on bad terms with Douglas, he seemed like a cool enough guy. Sonic had crashed in his room the night he fell into his pool (or his Step-Parents pool, whatever that meant), and was quite impressed. There was an impressive collection of music that ranged from heavy metal to rock and hip-hop, with some interesting pop and other types thrown in. Also a collection of movies and video games, full of characters he'd never heard of before, but he wished he knew some of them. That Sly Cooper guy looked slick! Sonic kinda felt that he owed Douglas at least something in return for pulling him out of the pool; it was just a matter of time. Douglas just seemed to be too worried about all these rules and stuff and the 'government' and the 'army'. Sonic had proven that he couldn't be stopped by them; and with his good friends by his side, he was unstoppable. Yet Douglas also seemed confident in himself as well. The way he dressed, the way he looked, and his appearance spoke volumes before his mouth did. How he didn't hesitate to want to fight even after seeing what he'd done in Area 99. He must have been pretty sure of his fighting skills... Those gloves of his did seem pretty battle worn...

Sonic effortlessly ran past lines of traffic, past mountains and hills, past small towns and villages, without a second thought about who might notice, even though he'd just passed a group of people who were standing around...
'Huh? A couple of days ago, everyone was just staring at me, I wonder what's taking their attention...' Without another thought, Sonic had 180'd and raced back towards the town he'd gone though. He brought himself to a full stop, causing a small dust cloud to appear out from his feet due to the sudden friction of the halt in movement. Sonic blinked once, then twice. The group of people weren't even paying a single bit of attention to the appearance of the blue hedgehog; in fact, they seemed to be all huddle in front of an electronics shop, that had the name 'Tony' written on it. The number of people standing there made it impossible to see what they were looking at, but they all seemed to be talking to each other about it. Sonic had to get a closer look.

Sonic took a short run and leapt up to a high branch of a tree that was just behind the group of people. From this vantage point, Sonic could easily look down and see what was attracting so much attention. Television monitors were stacked in the window, and were all switched on (as is common with most shops that sell electronic goods). Each screen showed the same image – A fat bald man with a long orange moustache, who was wearing a bright red coat with big yellow buttons on it, who was laughing loudly at something.

Sonic's eyes narrowed at the sight of his arch-nemesis. "Eggman..." Sonic almost sneered, despising the name. "...Tails was right, he did get sent here after all..." The image on the screen changed to that of a strange looking robot who was firing what seemed to be retractable missiles at a strange jet plane/aeroplane hybrid that had four wings that were in an X-shape. Every time the robot fired a missile, the craft would dodge the shot, and the missile would return to the robot thanks to the cord that attached it to the robot's arm. The image caused many in the crowd to gasp and murmur, as did the following close-up image of the two people in the 'plane. Well, one person and a fox anyway. Sonic smiled.
"Heh! Looks like there's a party that's started without me! This should be interesting." Sonic then pushed himself off from the branch he was on, and landed firmly on the ground before racing off once again, but this time with a destination in mind: Station Square. Sonic left the village behind him, as the crowd continued to be fixed firmly on the game of 'Cat and Mouse' going on before them.

"If I don't hurry, I'll miss all the fun!"


"What's taking this lift so long? Tails is in trouble!" Amy thought aloud as she watched the electronic display above the lift door read off the floor numbers. It looked like there were still a number of floors to go. Amy sighed. She was now starting to feel bad about ignoring Knuckles back there.

'Don't worry about him!' Amy thought to herself, 'You're hardly friends with the guy anyway, it's not as if he cares about me... No... Why would he come after me then? Maybe it's just that 'Guardian' spirit of his... Hmph, I bet he's just doing this until he can drop me off with someone who can look after me properly! How does he think he'd going to find his way back home by himself anyway? He knows just as much about this place as I do! He's such a Knucklehead! URGH! How come I always have to be stuck with these second-rate kids! I'm more of an adult than Sonic will ever be! He doesn't even care about my feelings! Why did I have to fall in love with him? Why can't I control my emotions like Knuckles can?' Amy mentally scolded herself, as she looked up at the display again. The roof was coming up soon...


"Why did Eggman have to choose a ridiculously tall building to cause havoc on? Who makes banks this tall anyway?" Knuckles thought out loud as he continued to rapidly scale the wall that would lead to the access point to the roof. Knuckles could see the ceiling above him, meaning that it would not be long before he reached it.

'Curse that girl, I bet she's just doing this to impress Sonic!' Knuckles thought to himself. 'What that girl sees in that blasted hedgehog I'll never know... Must be that stupid 'Fan-Girl' syndrome, I thought that only existed on the Internet. It's strange though; I'd have thought that a girl as mature as Amy should be able to control her emotions better. Then again, she's no guardian. She does not have the mental training and focus that I possess... Why am I even thinking about her, I'm only looking after her until she's safe with the others aren't I? Why am I even questioning myself? I am Knuckles! My priority now is returning home and guarding the Master Emerald, not the Pink One! URGH! Why did I have to meet up with these people and their stupid emotions?' Knuckles mentally cursed himself, as he finally reached the top floor level.

Knuckles pushed the access door wide open, leaping out onto the roof's surface and instantly taking up a fighting stance. It wasn't needed. The robot had its back turned to Knuckles and was concentrating on shooting down the airplane, which Knuckles recognised as the Tornado, but it was now in it's 'speed mode'. Knuckles looked at the 'plane, and noticed the passenger in the back seat. It was a human, the same species as Eggman, but not as fat or as bald. In fact, this one was a stark contrast to Eggman in probably every way apart from gender. The human seemed dressed for battle, as his face sported what looked like red war paint. Knuckles smiled at this, he seemed to be a mentally prepared fighter, although not very useful in this situation. Knuckles looked again to the robot, to the powerful missiles being fired from its arms and the large domed head. Its armour looked very tough, but perhaps not tough enough to withstand his namesakes.

"This is what has been causing all this damage? I'll teach it a lesson never to distract a Guardian from his mission!" Knuckles vowed to himself, brushing the dust off his gloves and preparing to battle.

Knuckles turned around sharply when he heard the sound of a bell ringing behind him. He saw that the light above the elevator door was on, signifying that the lift had arrived on this floor. He smirked; he had beaten Amy by a long shot. The door opened, and Knuckles looked at the pink hedgehog, who was seemingly taken aback by the appearance of the Echidna.

"You need to be quicker than that next time Amy!" Knuckles said, still smirking, but his expression changed when Amy pulled out her Piko-Piko Hammer from out of no-where after seeing Eggman's robot still firing at Tails.
"You..." Amy said, in her most angry sounding voice, although it was about as fear provoking as a death threat from TY the Tasmanian Tiger.
"STOP BULLYING TAILS!" Amy screamed out, as she began charging towards the robot, with her hammer raised high above, poised to strike at the right moment.
"AMY! NO!" Knuckles called out, but it was far too late. With the adrenalin pumping through her, Amy was sure to teach this robot a lesson it would never forget.

Amy approached the robot at speed, and when she was right by the robot's right leg, she swung her hammer around, firmly smashing into the robot's leg with force, causing a loud 'clanging' noise of metal upon metal to ring out. The blow didn't even cause a scratch on the machine. But it did alert the robot's attention. E-23 revolved its domed head around, so that its eye sensor could identify the attacker.

'Interference identified. Assailant is a female organic hedgehog of pink colouring in a red dress. Weapon of Choice: A large hammer. Records show that the attacker is: Amy Rose. Threat level: -2. Options available: Terminate, Ignore Solidify, Capture. Capture rate of previous creation of Eggman indicate a 110 success rate in capturing. Threat unlikely to be encountered during capture, organic has hurt her own hand from the force of attempting to cause damage to structure.'

"Oww!" Amy winced in pain, shaking her hand after the failed attempt to teach the robot a lesson. Amy eyes suddenly went wide in fear when she felt four cold, metallic arms clamp around her. Amy screamed out in fear as the arms took a tight grip of her and she was easily lifted off the ground. Amy was still screaming as E-23 lifted her up to the height of its eye sensor, as it continued to scan the life form it had captured. Amy was now trembling and whimpering at the intimidating sight of the robot holding her.

Knuckles could stand the cries no more, and without thinking of the consequences leapt forward with his fists poised for action. "LET HER GO!" Knuckles roared out as he approached the robot, but his attack was brought to a halt by the sudden appearance of Eggman lowering himself between his creation and the Guardian.

"Stop right their Knuckles!" Eggman called out, extending an arm with an open palm at the end, indicating a stopping gesture. Knuckles stopped out of reflex, as he looked directly into the evil eyes of the doctor, as he continued to speak.
"Any more heroics like that, and your pink friend here might find herself a little... CONSTRICTED!" Eggman sneered, as he snapped his fingers again. True to the doctor's threat, Amy squealed out in pain as the arms that held her in place squeezed even tighter than before.

"AIIIEEEEEE! KNUCKLES! HELP MEEEEEE!" Knuckles stared in disbelief at the doctor's despicable actions, it was just like Eggman to hold a woman hostage, especially in the weaken state Amy was in. But Knuckles didn't move another step. Usually he'd have leapt forward and smashed everything in his path, but for some reason he didn't want to see Amy hurt anymore, even though it was sickening to see Amy in such pain right now. There was seemingly nothing he could do right now to help her...

"You... Coward..." Knuckles spat out at Eggman, sick to his stomach at the dishonourable tactics being used. "You have no shame! NONE AT ALL!"
Eggman gave an evil smile in reply."Coward? ME? I'm only protecting my robot! It was the girl who started it all, is it my fault that she couldn't finish it? Besides Knuckles, what do you care about the girl anyway? She's not your responsibility! It's the hedgehog's job to..." Eggman stopped short of finishing his sentence, as a thought suddenly struck him. The hedgehog!

Eggman began looking around about him, as if frantically searching for something or someone. It took Eggman's mind completely off Knuckles and Amy, who was still being held by Missile-Wrist. Amy looked over at Knuckles, wondering herself why he was putting himself on the line right now, especially after what she'd said to him earlier. Knuckles saw Amy staring straight at him, and suddenly felt a light red flush come over his cheeks, thankfully disguised by his natural fur colour, which made him turn his head away from her. Knuckles was therefore unable to see that the same thing had happened to Amy...

"The hedgehog! How could I forget! If you two and the fox are here, then that infernal spiked creature must be around somewhere as well! What if this has just been a whole set up?" the Doctor questioned himself out loud, loud enough to be heard by Tails and 4GOT10 in the Tornado.

"Sonic still hasn't arrived yet..." Tails said sadly, now very concerned about the situation below, since it looked like Knuckles had turned his head away from the problem before him.
"I guess this the one time Sonic's been late for somethin' huh?" 4GOT10 questioned, looking around him to see if there was any sign of the Calvary in sight. It was then that he noticed a blue streak make its way through the streets, dodging out of the way of moving traffic. It could only be one person.
"There's the son-bitch now!" 4GOT10 shouted out, as he pointed down at the moving blur, which caused Tails to smile broadly, even though he didn't know what a son-bitch was. What he knew was that the hero had arrived.
"What?" Eggman questioned, looking down at the direction the human in the Tornado was pointing at. His eyes widened. It was Sonic!
"Doug... I mean, four-got-ten! There's a Power Ring in the seat pocket in front of you, I need to toss one down to Sonic when I go in low, okay?"
"No problem" he replied, pulling out a shining golden ring from the pocket in front of him, as the Tornado dived downward to the street level.

Sonic was running up the street, when he clocked eyes with the familiar looking face of Miles Prower flying the Tornado, and the paint-covered face of Douglas, who was holding a Power Ring.

"About time ya showed up!" Sonic heard Douglas call as he and the Tornado headed towards each other. "Grab this!" Sonic jumped up slightly as he came level with the Tornado, as reached out with his hand. At the same time, Douglas released the ring from his hand, and the ring fell lightly into Sonic's.
"Thanks!" Sonic said as he grabbed a tight hold of the ring, before racing off towards the building where he could see Eggman's robot standing on. Sonic smiled his trademark smile broadly, as his fist began to glow as bright streams of glowing light seeped out between the tiny gaps in Sonic's gloved hand, signifying that the energy was taking affect.

"IT'S HIM!" Eggman screamed out in disgust and shock. "New mission E- 23! Annihilate that hedgehog AT ALL COSTS! Don't hold back!"
"Roger" was the robot's reply, as is tossed Amy over its metallic 'shoulder' without a second thought as it prepared to take aim at the incoming threat.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!" Amy screamed out at suddenly realising the falling situation she was in. But her screams didn't last for long though, as Knuckles leapt up and caught her in his powerful arms, before safely gliding to the ground. "Knuc... Knuckles? But I though..."
"...Maybe I was wrong for once Amy..."

The energy from the Power Ring continued to flow out of Sonic's hand and through the rest of his body, as he picked up speed along the road. Soon, his whole body was covered in the glowing energy shield of the Ring's power. Sonic knew this meant only one thing: The Spin Dash Attack. Sonic instinctively curled himself up into the deadly ball-like shape, as he began spinning down the street, and up the side of the heavily damaged bank building.

"ATTACK!" Eggman roared, pointing down at the blue ball heading upwards as he and Missile-Wrist looked over the edge of the building.

Without saying a word, the holes in E-23's chest area flamed up, as it fired out five missiles towards its target. The missiles whaled as they travelled downwards on an intended collision course with the blue hedgehog. The first missile overshot its mark, and impacted behind Sonic, while the second hit to the left. The remaining three swung around, waiting to get together, and slammed into the building hard towards the hedgehog. The resulting blast caused a ball of thick black smoke and flames to burst out of the area hit, followed by a mass of smoke that bellowed from the impact zone.

"YES!" Eggman called out in victory, he'd struck a direct hit! A direct hit which did little damage to his opponent. Without warning, Sonic burst out of the thick smoke, and shot right up the side of the building, travelling high into the air above. Both the Doctor and his creation looked up in amazement at the now high-flying hedgehog, although it was more obvious on the creator's face, since he had one.
"Don't just look at him! SHOOT HIM DOWN!"

E-23 went back to what it knew best: It's namesake missile-wrists. It fired them up high, targeting the hedgehog. The energies now pulsing through the hedgehog's veins was strong enough to not only give Sonic a full advantage in the power department, but a huge confidence boost. Not that Sonic even doubted for a second that Eggman was going to win. Sonic bounced of an incoming missile, before bouncing off it and coming out it his ball stance on the other missile, and performing a ballerina like spin on one leg. Sonic followed this with a somersault-like flip onto the returning right missile, before repeating the move easily onto the left when it returned. Sonic quickly got bored of this, and began taunting Eggman and his robot, by sticking his tongue out and pulling down the lower eyelid of his left eye while standing on the right missile when it tried to hit Sonic again.

"How dare you hedgehog! You dare make fun of the great Doctor Eggman?" Eggman called out, obviously disgusted by the lack of respect he was being shown.
"And he's not even putting effort into it!" 4GOT10 called back down as the Tornado circled around the battle scene.
"What do you mean?" Tails asked
"I've seen better insults in a McDonalds' Kids Meal Drawing Contest!"

Sonic was making it all look so easy, as he began to imitate Russian dancing on the missiles, leaping from missile to missile with ease while kicking his legs in the air while his arms were folded over his chest.

"Sonic!" Sonic heard a familiar sounding voice. Looking down, while still dancing, he saw whom the voice belonged to: Knuckles. And by his side, strangely hugging on tightly to his arm was Amy.
"It's about time you ended this joke of a battle!"
"No problem!" Sonic said as he smiled, it was actually nice to see more familiar faces in this world, even if it was Knuckles (a guy he often didn't see eye-to-eye with) and Amy (Sonic Public Enemy Number 1, although Eggman had to try really hard to get that spot sometimes.).

Sonic stopped on the right missile, allowing himself to travel on it as it quickly took him down to rest in position in E-23's arm. The robot noticed that his target was no longer in the air, and turned its domed head to its right arm. Looking back at it was the blue hedgehog known as Sonic. Sonic gave an encore performance of the taunt he used earlier, by sticking his tongue out and pulling down his lower eyelid.

'Enemy hedgehog confirmed in close proximity. Missiles not advised to be use din this situation, hand-to-hand combat must therefore be utilised. Warning, no hands available to use, as indicated my name assigned by Doctor Eggman.'

Sonic watched as E-23 roughly brought up it's left arm, and jumped high out of the way as it brought the arm crashing down where Sonic was kneeling, completely ripping the right missile in half, rendering the right arm useless. Sonic smirked broadly; this was an overly miss-matched confrontation.

"FIRE!" Eggman roared again, pointing upwards

E-23 obeyed, releasing another five missiles from its chest area, and watching as they travelled upwards. This time all five missiles homed in on their target, preparing to strike at once. Sonic smiled, as he curled himself again up into a ball, bracing himself. Eggman gazed upwards, as he saw all the missiles come together and produce a huge ball of flames that quickly turned into a larger ball of black smoke. Eggman knew there was no way Sonic could have avoided that blast.

"I'VE DONE IT!" the self-proclaimed genius scientist cheered to himself, proudly looking up at the smoke above. He had finally won after all these years!

... Yeah right!

The familiar spinning blue ball came hurtling suddenly out of the smoke, heading straight downward. No one could see it, but Sonic was grinning broadly. He loved fooling Eggman into thinking that he'd won; Sonic often saw the Doctor's attempts to take over the world as little games.

"I guess that play-time's officially over... FOR YOU!" Sonic shouted out, as he focused all his power into one final push, launching straight down onto the head area of Missile-Wrist with the Spin-Dash Attack. The speed and the force of the blow, combined with the height Sonic attacked from, caused the dome shaped 'skull' of the robot to cave into the robot's body, sending out sparks of electricity as the internal components of the machine began reacting violently with each other and short circuited.

"Not... Good..." Was all the doctor could say as he watched in horror as his face was lit up by the electrical bursts coming from the large hole where E- 23's head used to reside. Within a short moment of that, the robot exploded in a large ball of electricity, combined with similar black smoke that the missiles had produced. The blast sent cogs and other machine parts flying across and off the roof, which caused Amy to hold on tighter to Knuckles' arm. Amy eyes were closed tight shut while the blast was happening, so she didn't know that Knuckles was instinctively shielding her anyway, and that he was also smiling to see that Eggman had gotten what he deserved.

"THAT'S HOW TO KICK SOME ASS!" 4GOT10 shouted out loud, raising his arm high in the air as his hand held onto the bat he'd used to hit Eggman with, in a sign of victory. "That showed that fat bozo who owns this town!"

The thick black smoke cleared away slowly, revealing the now defeated and now very dirty Doctor Eggman. The smoke had discoloured his flying craft, as well as his entire body. The pod hovered above the ground of the roof, as broken parts of the E-23 robot lay strewn across the floor. Sonic stood in front of Eggman, completely unharmed, and unfazed, by all the events that had happened.

"Had enough of a beating for today, Eggman?" Sonic mockingly asked, knowing the threat was well and truly over.
"This... Was... A Minor... Setback..." Eggman spluttered out, before taking off high into the sky.
"This war is far from over Sonic! I will become the master of this new world, and you will all bow down to the might of the Eggman Empire!" Eggman called out as his flying machine attempted to make a smooth exit away into the distance, but it was darting uneasily across the sky, felling the effects of the previous blast. The exit was about as smooth as a drunk man's hangover.

Sonic smiled as he watched Eggman disappear. He was gone... for now...

"SONIKKU!" Sonic eyes widened as he heard quite possible the only voice that struck fear into his heart – Amy. Before Sonic could react, Amy had flung her arms tightly around Sonic's neck and chest area, hugging him tightly. "I'm unbelievably happy to see you again!" Amy said, with tears forming at the bottom of her eyes.
'And my day was going so well...' Sonic thought, as he struggled to try and release the tight grip he felt on him.
"I actually thought for a moment that I'd never see you again!"
"Oww! Get off me, that hurts!" Sonic barely managed to get out.

Knuckles looked at the scene and shook his head. Amy was still, and was probably going to always be, the annoying fan-girl of Sonic the Hedgehog.
'So much for maturity.' Knuckles thought. 'Not that it's my problem anymore...' Knuckles' ears pricked up. Footsteps. Marching footsteps. A small troop of soldiers. Sure enough Knuckles turned around and saw five men, all dressed in protective body armour and hard-hats, pointing machine guns at himself, Amy and Sonic.

"FREEZE! Nobody move! Just raise your arms in the air, we don't want any more trouble!" The leading man said. Knuckles stood unfazed by the weapons pointed at him and the threats, as did Sonic behind him, but unlike the concerned look on Amy's face.
"What business do you want with us?" Knuckles asked.
"Just do as we say, we are here to keep the peace!" The man replied.

Knuckles' eyes narrowed, and he clenched his fists tightly, anger boiling up inside him. The emotion running through his body seemed to make his body glow, as he felt bitterness and frustration accumulate in his heart.
"You... You people have no respect for those who risked their lives for you!"
"What... What is it doing?" The leader of the men asked in a worried tone, as he watched the red creature's hands and eyes twitch.
"We end the violence against your city, AND THIS IS HOW WE ARE THANKED?"
"SONIC!" Sonic and Amy followed the sound of Tails' voice, and looked up to see the Tornado heading towards them, dangling a rope-ladder out. "Grab a hold of it!" Without another word needing to be said, Amy took a firm hold around Sonic's waist, as Sonic reached up a took a hold of the ladder, pulling himself up on it, high above the rooftop.

Amy looked back over to where she and Sonic had been, Knuckles had not moved. Sonic saw this as well, and called out to him.
"Knuckles! Hurry up!" Knuckles was not listening to his words, as he remained growling angrily at the men opposite him, ready to strike at any moment.
"KNUCKLES!" A soft sounding voice, filled with panic and worry broke Knuckles out of his state of mind. Amy. Knuckles then lowered his fists, and smiled arrogantly at the men.
"You're not worth it!" He mocked, before quickly turning and chasing after the ladder.
"FIRE!" The leader of the armed men shouted out, which was followed by the sound of heavy machine gun fire.

Knuckles ran athletically, seeming not bothered by the bullets flying past him or hitting the ground by his feet. He was just gaining slowly on the ladder dangling from the Tornado, but the roof was rapidly running out, Knuckles needed to act fast, looking up at the concerned expressions of the two hedgehogs. Knuckles' smile never faltered, as he stepped up onto the ledge of the bank's roof, and leapt off, his arms and gloves outstretched. Knuckles slid forward through the air, allowing his natural gliding ability to take over, and allowing him to grab a firm hold of the very bottom rung of the rope ladder.

Seeing that everyone was relatively safe and secure, Tails pulled the Tornado away from the congested streets and skyscrapers, and high into the sky above, leaving the large crowds of people below looking amazed at the sight they had just seen. 4GOT10 looked down and smiled. They'd picked up a few extra passengers on the way, but now everyone that could've come into this world that Sonic and Tails knew of was here. He looked down at the pink hedgehog in the red dress known as Amy, but more closely at the red Echidna called Knuckles. Knuckles too looked up at him, and nodded towards him in a sign of respect. 4GOT10 returned the gesture, a sign of mutual admiration between warriors of different styles.

"Okay people, let's get outta here! You're all damn sure welcome back at the house!" 4GOT10 called down.
"Cream and Cheese are there waiting for us, they both been worried about you Amy" Tails added, looking down.
"Wow, really? That means we'll all be together again!" Amy called back up
"Sorry, but as much as I'd like to stay for a reunion, I have my own mission to complete!" Knuckles said, before he let go off the ladder, allowing the air to glide him safely downwards.
"Knuckles! Don't go!" Amy called out to the Echidna, although it was already too late.

"Take care Rose, we will meet again! Farewell!" Knuckles shouted back, before turning away from the Tornado's flight path and downwards into what looked to be a large park-like area with a lake in the middle.

Amy sighed. "...Knuckles..."
"Don't worry Amy, he'll be fine on his own. He always had been." Sonic reassured her.

'I know...' Amy thought to herself, '...But I was just starting to get to know him... And I hadn't thanked him properly either... I could do with a friend like him...'



Next Episode Preview – Voiceover by Douglas

"Eggman's back in Station Square again with another robot! This time the race is on to get the Chaos Emerald first at the building site! But I can't worry about that, I've just gotten a contract with the Station Squared Circle wrestling company, it's my biggest break ever! Besides, Sonic acts like he doesn't need my help, so he can go with out it!

Next time on Sonic eXcluded: 'Contract Chaos!' Don't miss it!"


Author Notes: Episode 3 is done! Lovely! This episode had a bit more of Douglas' thoughts, as well as the feelings of other characters (except Chuck really, but he'll have a bit to say in ep 4). In case people were wondering what was going on during the Knuckles/Amy bits and is confused: Good. It's an idea I've toyed with that will play out in the future... (Hah! Evil author!). This episode also had a lot of strange humour and 'hidden' references to other computer games and song and such like things. See if you can spot them yourself and make sense of them, of course you might not. If you want to know what they are, then perhaps you will know when this adaptation is done...

Speaking of which, some people may question the whole 'adaptation' part of this stroy, since I'm following the storyline of Sonic X closely right now. Episode 4 is going to be quite different (no school!) and episode 6is certainly not like the 'original'.It will all make sense when you read it, or if not, then I liked it anyway... Plus, some storylines are completely changed (I won't spoil it just yet, but old school sonic fans may enjoy it...) Time for reviewer bit, short section this time, only two people reviewed... sob...

Sonic/Anime - Yeah, I've been watching the Jap episodes (thank goodness for s0nicfreak and Broadband connection speed). I'm glad to hear you like my descriptions, and I hope you like Knuckles' appearence here!
Shady Fetish - Yeah, Douglas is much better than Chris, he gets more interesting in Ep4 as I've said before. Thanks for your support and I hope you enjoy this!

What else can I say except please R&R, and I'll hopefully get the next Ep up soon since I've gone on about it so much, so stay tuned for the next segment of Sonic eXcluded, I'm off to work on the episode guide so I know what to work on... This has been Airo Smicktor!

N.B. Edited on 20-11-04 for paragraphing and minor editing
Edited 01/05/05 - All Song lyrics have been removed as par the rules of FanFiction-dot-net.