Sonic eXcluded

I do not own Sonic, Tails, Amy etc. Douglas Smicktor is my character, so you no use.


This 'Brand New World' Storyline (Episodes 1-13) is dedicated to Koji Okida aka Kojiokida2.
Your adaptations of Sonic X inspired me to do this whole fan-fiction.


Intro

"I'm sorry to cut you off there, but we'll have to go back to that news story another time..." The news reporter stated. " I'm being told that we're going to a live statement from our President."

The people walking around the shopping mall stopped and looked up at the giant display screen under the clock, as the image of the President appeared.

"People of our great nation, this is your President speaking." He spoke, a deadly serious expression on his face. "As of a few moments ago, the fighting men and women of our navy and air force began an all out assault on the headquarters of the tyrant known as Doctor Eggman."

"Eggman, who has not only threatened the peace of our country, but has attempted to destroy our cities and enslave us all to his so-called 'Eggman Empire'. He has made it clear that his goal is nothing short of complete world domination over us all. That is completely unforgivable, and unacceptable!"

"There are some that have said that Eggman is too powerful a foe for us to defeat, that he is far superior in strength, intelligence, and technology. I cannot say that I have not thought the same. But as a man, who lives and breathes the freedom and the rights that we have struggled to maintain, I truly believe that there is no robot or machine from any planet than can defeat the spirit of our great nation."

"No form of terrorism, violence, or even bullying on any scale can be, or should be allowed to exist in any form."

"I speak from the heart when I say that I truly, and I mean deeply, wished, hoped and prayed for a solution other than this. But against an unreasonable foe such as Eggman, who will stop at nothing to achieve his goal of world domination, we must fight fire with fire, and be burned if necessary."

"I had hoped not to see any kind of major conflict during my term as President, but I have seen during these few short months since Eggman's arrival so much destruction and violence, that it was almost inevitable that this day would come."

"I am by no means a warmonger, and I strongly disapprove of any form and type of violence. But it is clear that the likes of Eggman can only see things in black and white, so it us up to our fighting men to force some colour into his eyes."

"I do not exaggerate when I say that we are facing an All Out War here, and one that we are willing to fight to the bitter end. I only ask you all to hope and pray that victory comes at little cost to the lives of our fighting men and women. Thank you for your time."

Hushed and worried whispers were exchanged between everyone, quickly discussed the announcement. Among them, the current S.C.C. Heavyweight Champion, who took of his sunglasses and stared in disbelief at the screen.

"What the hell are you involved in Douglas?" He questioned out loud.


Sonic eXcluded

Episode 13

All Out War

Part 2

The End of the Beginning


Part 1

"Where are they coming from?" Decoe exclaimed, frantically checking the monitors as they showed jet-planes and battle-ships coming towards the island.

"It's like a plague!" Grounder stated, covering his eyes with his drill hands. "A big nasty plague of death!"
"We need more missiles!" Scratch stated, razing an arm and pointing a finger in the air. "We'll blow these evildoers out of the air!"
"Affirmative!" Bocoe said, pressing a large button with a missile painted on it.


Knuckles' fists clenched up, listening to the roar of the air passing by the craft's wings mixed with the sounds of explosions.

There was a hell of a battle going on outside, and it was making him twitchy.

A lot of it had to do with the fact that he was on edge anyway, since he was away from his duty as guardian of the Master Emerald. Add to that his general loathing of Sonic, the mutual respect he and Douglas had, and what had happened between him and Amy.

He was about ready to punch someone's head clean off its shoulders. And right now he didn't care who it was.

"Evasive manoeuvres!" He heard the pilot scream. "More enemy projectiles comin' right for us!"
He felt the plane quickly dodge and duck, as a barrage of missiles was fired up at the formation of aircraft.
"Do a friggin' barrel roll!" The pilot screamed again, spinning the craft.

Knuckles covered his eyes. All these sudden movements were making him a little dizzy.
"We are now in deployment range!" The pilot spoke. "Open hatches now!"

Below him, Knuckles saw the craft's hatch open up, and the blue ocean far, far below. He could see many battle ships firing, and being fired on.
He also noticed that he was sitting on a rather large missile.

"Unleash hell boys! Give that Eggman what he's got comin' to him!"

The missile was dropped from the craft, and within seconds it's engine kicked in, sending it flying forward towards Eggman Island with Knuckles gripping onto it.

The guardian let out an almost primal scream, grinning wildly as he stood on the front end of the missile, watching incoming missiles pass all around him.

If it weren't for his duty as Guardian, he'd want to do this sort of thing all the time. Just like Sonic does, which is a big part of why he envies that hedgehog so much.

Jumping off, he extended his arms out in front of him, catching the air and easily gliding towards the tower and latching onto it with his fists. Once securely on, he began climbing up, as the missile he had been on missed the tower completely, crashing into the forest behind it.


"Let's keep moving team!" Topaz reminded, as she, Rouge and Fang lead the infiltration team. "We may not have much time to complete the operation."

They were marching down corridor after corridor, following the map they had collected in their earlier mission. They were all pretty nervous, although the bat would be the last to admit it.

"Hold up!" Rouge suddenly said, coming to a stop and extending her arms, knocking over an unprepared weasel in the process.
"What is it?" Topaz asked, as the rest of the team stopped as well.
"Can you guys feel that?"

The sounds of the battle outside ringed out, before they all felt a pulsing series of shudders travel through the ground.
"Somethin's comin'." Fang stated, picking himself off the ground and pointing his gun down the corridor.

Sure enough, slowly a large machine emerged from around the corner, walking towards them.
"Standard patrol 'bot." The weasel stated. "They still don't know we're in yet."
"Come on!" Rouge announced, suddenly leaping forward.
"Rouge! Wait!" Topaz called out in alarm.


"Home base, situation is still unknown." Mr. Stuart said into his radio, watching as the hard winds battering his car were gradually forcing it backwards. "I am pinned down, unable to identify the cause of..."

He car suddenly swerved around, facing the other direction.
"Damn it! I can't do anything right now!"


"But Douglas!" Amy pleaded with the human, who was pulling her back towards where Tails and Eggman had been. "You need a doctor or something!"
"Screw that!" He replied, wiping a drop of his own blood away from his mouth. "There'll be plenty of time for that when I kill Eggman!"

He glanced up at the sky, before having to look again.
"Get down!" He exclaimed, grabbing Amy and leaping to the ground.

Moments later, the X Whirlwind came crashing down, flattening corn as it did so.

Douglas shouted something that probably contained many swearwords, but the roar of E-35's engine drowned it out.
"What's wrong?" Amy cried out in terror, the wind rushing over her head.
"Keep down!" Douglas, spitting out some dirt he'd caught in his mouth.
"Tails!" She exclaimed, glancing over at the downed craft.

Unfortunately, the fox didn't hear her. The sudden crash-landing had caused his head to whip against the control display, knocking him out cold. As a result, he was unaware that Fun-Fun was using one of it's huge 'feet' to stomp down onto the craft.

"Tails! Get up! AIEEEEEE!" She screamed out, the wind catching her and sending her flying through the air.
Douglas watched the hedgehog fly off into the distance, confused thoughts running through his mind. One being 'white panties?'.

Eggman roared with maniacal laughter, watching his machine go to work.
"Yes!" He encouraged. "Stamp away E-35! Flatten that pathetic machine and that bothersome fox into a distant memory!"


"Agent Stuart, remain in position as best you can." The radio voice said. "All available forces are currently in action against Eggman Island. We are trying to contact the nearest force..."

Suddenly a blue blur whizzed past Stuart's car, grabbing the attention of the secret agent.
"Home base!" He said. "Sonic has just passed my position! Repeat, Sonic has just passed my position..."

Suddenly, another blur passed his car, but not as fast as the previous one.
"...As has... A large van?"


Amy shook her head, collecting her thoughts after that crazy ride in the wind.

Suddenly, she was scooped up and was travelling back the way she had come from.
"Sonic!" She exclaimed happily, hugging her arms tightly around his neck.

The hedgehog simply grinned, knowing that he was going to have some kind of test ahead.


"Victory is mine!" Eggman laughed again. "Finally mine!"
"Great..." Douglas said, looking up at the doctor. "We're all gonna die by a machine that causes wind. Humanity sucks."

He then saw Sonic rush past, still carrying Amy.
"...Humanity sucks a little less now."

The next thing he knew, suddenly a cloud of dirt appeared, forcing him to cover his eyes. Coughing, he fanned away the cloud with his hand. Blinking, he suddenly found that a large van was in front of him, blocking the wind.

He stood up, just as the doors of the van opened.
"...Are you two the cavalry?"


"Finish him!" Eggman ordered. "Finish him now... WHAT?"

He looked down, to see the grinning face Sonic, easily jogging on the spot, unfazed by E-35's wind.

"SONIC!" He roared. "Get him Fun-Fun! GET HIM!"

But before either Sonic or the machine could act, the ground beneath them began shaking, as if a mini-earthquake was hitting them. Strangely, while the hedgehog just felt it, it was actually affecting E-35, causing it to stumble backwards off balance.

Stranger still, Sonic could swear he heard a kick-ass drum solo as well.

Without warning, a sudden energy blast came out of no where and nailed Fun-Fun right in the head, sending it toppling over onto its back. That time the hedgehog was sure the sounds of perfect keyboard playing accompanied it.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Eggman roared in despair, as Fun-Fun's wind was now pointing straight up at him, and was sending him and his Egg-Pod high into the air, out of visible sight.

Tails groaned, blinking and rubbing his eyes, watching as E-35's engine coughed and spluttered, before finally shutting down, allowing blades of grass and pieces of corn to fall to the ground.

"Sonic!" He said, opening up the cockpit and jumping down to the ground. "You saved us!"
"Uh, not exactly..." Sonic scratched the back of his head, putting Amy down.
"Yo Sonic!" Douglas' voice announced. "I think you owe these two something for this!"

Sonic turned around, blinked in disbelief, then smiled the biggest grin he'd smiled in a very long time.
"SONIA! MANIC!" He said, running up to the two hedgehogs, and the three embraced in a huge group hug.

"Whoa whoa there!" Douglas said, leaning against his shovel again. "Time out! First of all, who are you guys?"
"Dude! These are my family!" Sonic happily announced. "My bro Manic, and my sister Sonia! We're the Sonic Underground baby!"
"...Dude, they can pull musical instruments out of necklaces..." The human said. "Instruments that can fire lasers... That's like, the awesomest thing ever."

"Hey man, do you know you're bleeding?" Manic, the green hedgehog that looked quite like Sonic, except he wore a red jacket, had spiked wristbands, and his spines stuck out more.
"I've had worse..." Douglas waved the fact off.
"Great, our brother has been corrupting more people..." Sonia, the purple hedgehog in a dark purple and red body suit, stated.
"It's worse than that..." Amy said, running up with Tails. "Douglas was like that BEFORE we got here."

"You mean he's always bleeding?" Manic was confused.
Sonic laughed. His siblings hadn't changed a bit.
"So you guys got sent here as well huh?" He asked.
"As well?" Sonia asked. "You mean there's even more of Mobius on this planet?"

"What do you mean?" Tails asked.
"Hold up, wait wait wait..." Douglas stated. "There's something... Something I'm forgetting about... It's kinda important..."
"The Chaos Emerald!" Tails remembered.

"Dig it out!" Douglas ran back over to where he'd been digging before, and started shovelling dirt out as hard as he could. "Out with the bastard!"

"I've seen it all now..." Sonia stated. "An Overlander that's mad, but DOESN'T want to take over the world..."
"This planet is awesome!" Manic stated, jumping up and down excitedly.
"Do you guys have a first aid kit?" Amy asked. "I have a feeling Douglas isn't going to a hospital anytime soon..."

"RUNAWAY!" Douglas shouted, waving the shovel in the air as he ran behind the group of furries. "It's alive!" He pointed at Eggman's machine. "IT'S ALIVE!"

The robotic eyes of its head glowed into life, as it slowly began to self-right itself to a vertical base. Already, it was kick starting its main engine back into life again, preparing to blast away with more high-powered winds.

"Sonic!" Amy stated. "We found a Chaos Emerald using the Tornado X! We were going to dig it out when Eggman attacked!"
"Tornado X? What's that?" Sonia asked.
"That transforming son-bitch over there..." Douglas pointed to the craft. "Made and flown by Lord Tails!"
"Sonic!" Tails said, leaping into the cockpit and pressing a button. "Use this!"

The blue hedgehog smirked, easily grabbing the power ring as it flew out of the hatch of the X Whirlwind. He looked up at E-35, now back on it's feet, and clasped his hands around the ring. Immediately, the glowing energy began flowing through his body, powering him up.

In a split second, Sonic was curled up into a ball, revving on the ground, before dashing along the ground, leaving a trail of dust behind him. Just a few feet way from Fun-Fun, the hedgehog leapt up, still in a ball, and smashed right up through the engine, then out the back of it, leaving a thick trail of smoke behind.

"I will not be denied!" Douglas announced, again digging away at the patch of ground. "YES!" He threw the shovel down, digging with his hands into the dirt.
He then stood up, an arm up in the air, holding the yellow Chaos Emerald. "I am the greatest World Emerald Digging champion of all time!"

"Congratulations Douglas!" A voice said.

The human blinked, his eyes looking to his left side, and then to his right. He scratched his head. With the hand that had been holding the emerald.

'Odd.' he thought, looking at the empty hand, before putting it back into the air above him.
"...GOD DAMN IT!" He said, looking up.

Above him, Eggman was smiling. A claw coming from his Egg-Pod was holding the yellow Chaos Emerald, and dropped into the Doctor's hand. Eggman then quickly left, flying off into the distance.

"...I am loser?" Douglas questioned.

"We were so close..." Amy frowned.
"Relax guys!" Sonic reassured. "We'll get them back from Eggman."
"You know, despite the fact we all hate that guy..." Manic said. "He's got some guts leaving his base while it's under attack."

"SAY WHAT?" Sonic, Tails, Amy and Douglas exclaimed.
"You don't know?" Sonia was confused. "It's been on all the news channels! The President ordered an 'All Out War' against Eggman Island!"
"When did it start?" Tails asked.

"About half an hour ago."
"That's when Eggman arrived." Amy pointed out,
"Guys, can we figure this out later?" Douglas asked. "We need to get after him, get the emerald, and... Hey, am I bleeding?"

"Tails, get the Tornado X ready." Sonic stated. "Let's see if we can crash this party at Eggman's place."
"Sure thing!" The fox stated, running over to the craft with Amy.
"You guys down for running as the Underground one more time?" He asked his brother and sister.

"Just try and stop us!" Manic replied.
"Well, if we're gonna do that..." Sonia pulled out something out of her pocket and threw it to the blue hedgehog. "You'd better wear this."

Sonic grinned at the necklace he held, and put it on.
"Come on Doug, it's time to kick it 'old school' Underground style! You down?"
"Like a hip-hop rapper wants bling 'round his neck!" The human said.

The sound of rapidly clicking metal caught his attention, and he looked over his shoulder to see that the X Whirlwind had transformed back into the Tornado X.

"Yo, but how we gonna follow on land?" He asked.
Sonic grinned. "You're gonna love this..."

They all got into the van, closing the door as they did so. Manic jumped into the driver's seat, and hit a button. Booster rockets on the underside kicked into life, lifting the van off the ground. A wing suddenly popped out from each side of the van, and the wheels transformed into engine rockets.

"This is travelling in style!" Sonic said, grinning.
"...Dude! I mean, just... DUDE!" Douglas said.
"Hold still..." Sonia pulled out a bandage and some pads from a first aid kit. "I'll patch this up no problem."

"Sonic Underground, do you read me?" Tails' voice asked over the radio.
"Loud and clear Double T!" Manic replied. "Lead the way!"


"...I repeat, Eggman has just left the area." Stuart said over the radio. "Also, the violent winds seem to have stopped. I am proceeding with caution..."

He stopped talking when he saw the Tornado X, and what appeared to be a van with wings, fly off into the distance.

"...Sonic is in pursuit..." He was cut off again when the sound of Fun-Fun exploding filled the air.


"Is that all you've got?" Rouge mocked, easily back flipping out of the way of the guard robot's arm as it came crashing down into the ground.

"Don't just stand there!" Topaz said to the weasel. "Shoot it!"
"Not just yet..." Fang said, his gun pointed at the machine's legs.

Rouge continued to roll, easily avoiding another attack by the robot's arm.
"Now!" She called out.

Fang fired away, blasting the exposed legs of the machine. Sparks flew out the holes as it buckled, before it crashed through the floor, leaving a large hole and a cloud of smoke.

"Good going hotshot." Rouge winked at the weasel.


"Stupid screen!" Scratch stated, looking at the image of the infiltration team being shown. "This is no time for TV shows! Show me the missiles!"

The computer complied, showing a picture of fighter planes launching missiles.

"This is bad, this is real real bad!" Grounder said. "Lord Eggman is gonna be real mad if we don't stop these guys."
"AH!" Bocoe exclaimed. "There's a new craft on radar coming towards the island!"
"Blast it! Blast it to death until it dies twice!" Scratch said, pointing a finger heroically in the air.
"No one gets through the great Eggman's defences!" Decoe stated, pressing down hard on a button.


"Can't I leave this place alone for any length of time?" Eggman questioned, looking down at the smoke around his base. "It's those new robots isn't it? They have no idea how..."

At that moment, a panel opened up in the tower, and a barrage of missiles flew out, aimed directly at him.

"ARGH!" He exclaimed, quickly dodging the attacks. "Those idiots! What are they doing? Do they dare to attack their creator?"
An explosion behind him caused him to look back. He saw the large number of aircraft and battle-ships, and figured out what was going on.

'So, it becomes rough-and-tumble?' He thought, before having to dodge a missile that smashed into the tower. 'The story begins, but who's gonna win? Ha! I'll give these people a fight alright!'


The huge crowd that had now gathered in the middle of Station Square looked up at the image of the ensuing battle between the armed forces and Eggman's defences.

"The battle doesn't look like it shows any sign of slowing down at all..." The voice of Scarlet Garcia said over the images. "Missiles are just flying from both sides, explosions are everywhere, and I can hardly... Wait! What's that?"

The image changed to show the Tornado X and the Sonic Underground van in flight.
"Two more aircraft are approaching the battle!" She said

In the crowd, Tom pointed up at the screen.
"That's the Tornado X!" He shouted out, catching the attention of many people around him.
"Tornado what?" Someone asked.
"What he say?" Asked another.

"Hey, I remember that 'plane!" Albert Butler said, pushing past some people to stand next to Tom. "The little guy Tails had it."

"The second craft..." Scarlet continued. "Two people are leaning out of..." The camera zoomed in, showing Sonic and Douglas (who now had his head bandaged up, but his face had patches of dry blood on it). "One seems blue... Blue, hedgehog?"

"It's Sonic!" Tom shouted again. "Douglas as well!"
"Sonic?" People questioned.
"Why, that blue hedgehog!" Emer Johnson appeared through the crowd, standing beside Albert. "Him and his friends played that fine last game at the old Diamond Stadium."

Whispers went through the crowd, some recognising the event, others still confused. The screen then showed a close-up of the hedgehog's face.

"That's Sonic!" The three men said. "Sonic the Hedgehog!"


Flip Card 1 - Sonia

Full Real Name: Sonia Hedgehog
Nickname(s): Sonia
Gender: Female
Age: 15
Likes: Shopping, playing music, her family
Dislikes: Rowdiness, stupidity, her brothers being themselves
Identifying features: Purple hedgehog, wears a purple and red bodysuit. Wears a necklace with a medallion that can turn into a special keyboard with offensive capabilities.


Flip Card 2 - Manic

Full Real Name: Malcolm Hedgehog
Nickname(s): Manic
Gender: Male
Age: 15
Likes: Playing music, rebelling, thieving
Dislikes: Getting caught stealing, order, boring stuff
Identifying features: Green hedgehog, wears a red jacket and spiked wristbands. Wears a necklace with a medallion that can turn into a special drum kit with offensive capabilities.


Part 2

"Man..." Douglas shook his head, as he, Sonic and Sonia leaned out the side-door of the van. "It's a total war zone out here!"
"I've never seen so many ships and 'planes in one place!" Sonia stated.
"Eggman must have his hands full!" Sonic smirked.

"It might keep him busy, but there's no way the army can beat Eggman!" The human stated. "Like Chuck said, they aren't on the level Eggman is on!"
"All right! Then I guess we'll just have to finish the job they started!" The blue hedgehog stated, looking far ahead at Eggman Island.


"Princess, we're almost at the island."
"Once we get ashore, we need to get into that tower. Our first port of call is the Main Engine Drive room!"


"Up ahead!" Topaz said, motioning to the large door up ahead. "The room where the Main Engine Drive for the base is behind that door. All we need to do is..."

She was interrupted when a large metal arm suddenly crashed through the wall behind them. Emerging from the hole created was the guard robot they had encountered earlier.

"Looks like he came back for more." Fang said, twilling his gun in his hand.
"They always do." Rouge smirked from behind her mask.
"He only has one robot to guard the corridors?" Topaz questioned, as she and the other troops backed away.
"Eggman is probably using all the machines he can to take on the forces outside." Rouge shrugged. "Don't you worry about it, me and the Fangster here will take down this piece of junk."

Fang raised an eyebrow to the new nickname, but pointed his gun at the approaching machine.
"Move out troops!" Topaz ordered. "We'll secure the target room!"

Rouge leapt up, flying over the robot's head and causing it to swing upwards, striking the roof. At the same time, the human soldiers ran towards the large door. But before they were even close to it, the floor in front of the door suddenly opened.

Topaz froze, as a row of E-13 turret robots rose up from the floor, and all pointed their guns at her and her troops.

'This is getting really annoying!' Rouge thought, leaping from one side of the corridor to the other, narrowly avoiding the machine's arms while Fang blasted away at its legs with his gun. It seemed that it was now faster than before.

She blinked, suddenly finding herself not moving in the air. She then realised that she was now caught in the clamp-like hand of the robot's arm.
'Of all the nerve!' She thought, struggling against the robot. 'Molested by a filthy robot!'

Sparks then flew, as Fang expertly shot an opening between the armour plates in the robot's arm, sending it crashing from the rest of the machine and freeing Fang in the process.

"Guess I owe you one Sniper." Rouge smirked, rolling away from the robot to beside the weasel.
"Guess so... Topaz! Duck!" he warned.

Topaz and the troops hit the deck, laser fire blasting over their heads and into the walls.

A loud roar then filled the air, as a red echidna suddenly burst out of the floor, smashing the guard robot's head clean off its shoulders, send it to the ground.

"Knuckles!" Fang exclaimed.
"Who?" Rouge had never seen the echidna before.

Knuckles wasted no time, jumping up and easily gliding over the laser fire, before smashing into an E-13. In a few short moments, his fists were swinging as if he was in a heavyweight boxing match, easily taking apart machine after machine. When the smoke had cleared, he was standing on top of a pile of broken metal, having destroyed them all.

"Knuckles!" Topaz said, getting up. "What are you doing here?"
"I caught a lift..." He said, brushing some dirt of his shoulders. "Although, I could be asking you the same question... I don't think Douglas knows that getting involved with full-scale wars is part of your day job."
"Uh..." She sweat-dropped.

"Great." Fang sneered. "I got saved by the Guardian. I'll never liveTHIS down."
"Huh? Fang?" The echidna recognised the voice. "What are you doing here?" He demanded.
"We're here against Eggman..." Rouge said, eyeing up the echidna as she moved through the troops towards him. "We're going to destroy the engine room, and take out the machinery in this base."

Knuckles laughed. "You do realise how out of your league you are if you think your troops can beat Eggman, don't you?"
"Yes, we know!" Topaz stated. "But that hasn't stopped us from coming this far!"
"...Really?" Knuckles was slightly impressed by their courage. "Then I'll help you guys out."
"You will?" Topaz was pleasantly surprised.
"After all, I am a Guardian from another world!" Knuckles proudly folded his arms, posing. "I can't allow Eggman to do evil in any world!"

Knuckles' moment of glory was ruined when Fang started laughing his head off.
"What? What are you laughing at weasel?"
"Oh, nothing!" Fang stated sarcastically. "Oh great and righteous Knuckles!"

Rouge licked her lips, which was hidden by her mask. Sure, Fang was cute, and she couldn't resist his 'outlaw'-look, but boy was this guy built like a house!


"YOU IDIOTS!" Eggman roared, sitting down in his command-chair and facing the screen. "The four of you can't deal with this planet's pitiful excuse of an army?"
"We're sorry Lord Eggman..." The robots said together.

"Decoe! Take this emerald..." He threw the yellow Chaos Emerald to the gold robot. "And Bocoe, get the one from the Energy Amplifier! Then load them both into E-01!"
"Sir! Are you serious?" Decoe was shocked.
"But E-01 is..."
"DO IT!" The Doctor roared, causing the two robots to run out of the room.

Eggman stared at the image of the Tornado X and the Underground van coming towards the base.
"This is the final straw hedgehog!" He sneered, slamming a fist down on a dark red button on his chair. "I'll kill you, your family, your friends, and everyone else who dares to stand against me!"

"Code red initiated." The voice of the computer spoke. "All anti-hedgehog missiles being readied for immediate launch."


"Sonic!" Tails called out in alarm over the radio. "My radar's just detected even more missiles down at Eggman's base! Looks like he's pulling out all the stops!"
"Strap yourselves in!" Manic warned, clipping on his seatbelt as Sonia closed the van's door. "Might be time to do some friggin' barrel rolls!"


Eggman's command chair suddenly rose off the ground, as a large hole opened up underneath it. From it, a different version of his Egg-Pod rose up, and the command chair clicked perfectly into place in it, before the Egg-Pod closed up completely, it's roof locking Eggman inside.

"I don't like this at all!" Scratch cried out in fear.
"Let's get out of here!" Grounder said, as the two ran out of the room, fearing for their lives.

Eggman laughed as the Egg-Pod lowered into the ground, it's inside display showing a radar enhanced image of the incoming furries. He grabbed a hold of the control stick, placing a thumb over each trigger button.

"Where are your Ancient Walkers now?" He roared, hammering down on the buttons like a man possessed.


"Look out everyone!" Manic warned, turning hard to avoid the incoming missiles.
"My goodness!" Sonia gasped as the van was forced to spin out of harm's way. "He's not holding anything back!"
"Tails? You all right?" Sonic asked, grabbing a hold of the radio.

"Sonic! The missiles aren't even trying to hit us!" The kitsune replied.
"They're not even going after the ships or the planes anymore!" Amy's voice added.
"He's after you Sonic!" Douglas stated. "You've gotten that guy seriously pissed!"

More missiles blasted up into the sky, all trying to destroy the craft currently holding Sonic.

"Man, I don't know how many more of these I can dodge!" Manic stated. "They're comin' fast and furious!"
"Hang on guys!" Tails said. "I'm coming!"


"This is certainly a startling turn of events ladies and gentlemen!" Scarlet announced. "The attacks from Eggman's base now all seem to be directed at this 'flying van', which we now know contains Sonic the Hedgehog, and professional wrestler Douglas Smicktor-Thorndyke."

"It's gonna get shot down!" One of the people in the crowd stated.
"There's too many missiles coming at it!" Another said.
"No way!" Tom shouted. "Come on Sonic! Let's go Douglas! Kick some damn ass!"


The Tornado X turned around, heading directly for the next barrage of missiles aimed at the Underground van.

"Tails! What are you doing?" Amy asked, very confused.
The fox didn't answer, instead pressing the trigger button on his control stick.

The plane's front guns began blazing, firing at the mass of projectiles. Within a few seconds, they began exploding in a chain-reaction, before there was only a thick black cloud where they had once been.

Amy squealed in delight, reaching over the seat and hugging Tails.
"That was amazing!" She said, not noticing the huge blush coming over the fox's cheeks.


"Incredible!" Scarlet said, just as amazed as the people gathered in Station Square were at what had just happened. "The missiles have been blasted out of the sky! And I think... Yes! We're able to pick up audio from the flying van now!"

They saw the side door open, and Douglas leaning out of it, giving the Tornado X a big thumbs-up as if flew past.
"THAT WAS FUCKING AWESOME!" He shouted out, before head banging as if he was in a heavy-metal music concert.

The crowd all roared loudly in approval, cheering at the unbelievable spectacle they were witnessing. Tom, caught up in the moment, began chanting 'Douglas!' over and over at the top of his voice. Somewhere in the crowd, a little girl in a wheelchair starting chanting 'Sonic!' over and over.

Soon enough, the whole of Station Square was chanting both of their names as loudly as they could. For one news cameraman, who thought he'd drawn the short straw by being told to film the crowd, he would soon be getting a huge raise in wages for recording a clip that would become part of the city's history.


Tails fired the Tornado X's guns again, but this time at the tower of Eggman Island. Like a pro, he'd shot at it so it created a perfect circle-outline of bullet holed, but purposefully not enough to make it collapse away. He knew Sonic would need a target to home in on.

"There you go Sonic!" The fox said over the radio. "It's all yours!"
"Go kick Eggman's ass!" Douglas encouraged, patting Sonic on the shoulder as he leaned out the door.
"Be careful Sonic!" Sonia said.
"Kick some butt bro!" Manic said.

Sonic flashed his trademark grin, then leaped hard out of the van, heading downward at great speed through the air. Within a few seconds, he'd zoned in on the work Tails had done on the tower, and curled up into a ball, smashing right through the wall.

Douglas looked down at the smoke left by the hedgehog, before noticing something on the sand on Eggman Island. It looked like someone had left a boat down there for some reason.

"Guys!" Tails voice called again. "The missiles have stopped!"
"He's right!" Sonia said, looking around. "There's nothing coming at us!"
"I guess Eggman really wants to finish off our blue bro this time!" Manic stated


Wiping some dirt off of his arms, Sonic took off down the corridor he was in. If he knew all of Eggman's bases well enough, then it wouldn't take him long to find where the Doctor was hiding.

Sure enough, it didn't take him long to find the big door with the Eggman Insignia on it. He smirked. All he had to do was bust through this door, and then teach that Eggman a lesson.

"So it comes down to this..." He heard Eggman's voice echo down around him, causing him to look around. "It seems that even in another world, it always comes down to a final battle between you and myself..."

The large door slowly began to open up, revealing a large open circular room.

"Every time you seem to charge into my base, cause havoc, then ruin my plans... But not today!" The Doctor stated, anger filling his voice.
"Is that a challenge?" Sonic said as he smirked, running into the centre of the room.
"It's your death sentence!" Was the instant reply.

The doors into the room suddenly snapped shut, locking the hedgehog inside the room. The next thing he knew, the floor he was standing on began to shake slightly. The sections of the floor nearest to the walls suddenly collapsed away, leaving Sonic standing on a platform suspended by four pillars, one placed when the main directions would be on a compass.

"What my father failed to do during his rule, shall become my first act as master of this, and every world!" Eggman announced. "Welcome to your Final Stage!"

A dim red light flowed down from a hole that opened up in the ceiling, as a new machine began lowering into the room.

A completely reinforced metal shell surrounded the Egg-Pod, with protected rocket boosters on the back.
On both sides, a long metal arm with clasping metal hand on the end stretched out, with 'E-01' printed on each hand.
A red hood covered the top of the pod, with many deadly sharp spikes on it.
Eggman himself looked sinister as he stared down through the reinforced glass shield, looking in disgust at his opponent.

Just underneath him, the words 'The Final Stage' were printed in dark red.

"My name is Doctor Ivo Robotnik!" The Doctor said, patting the panel where the two Chaos Emeralds were in. "And I will go down in history as the man who finally KILLED Sonic the Hedgehog! It's Game Over for you!"
"Bring it!" Sonic challenged, still unfazed by his threats.

He was a little less confidant when he narrowly avoided the robotic fist that came crashing into the ground where he had been standing.


"Command, this is Topaz." She spoke into her radio. "All the bombs have been put in place at the base of the supports. We are putting the final settings onto the timers, everything is going according to plan."
"Good to hear." A voice on the other end replied. "Get out of there as soon as you can. You don't want to get caught up in the blast, and by the way things have gone, we might be able to take out Eggman in the process."
"All right team, get those timers set, then we're moving out. Is everyone still here?"

"Apart from Rouge." Fang stated.
"Rouge?" Knuckles questioned. "You mean that strange woman in black?"
"What is she doing?" Topaz demanded.
"Beats me, but she went up there." He pointed up at the hole in the ceiling (the aftermath of the last mission here). Rouge had told him what she was doing, but he had been to busy staring at her chest to pay any attention.

The bat was in-fact searching for the Chaos Emerald she had seen in the room above the Main Engine Drive the last time she was here. To her disappointment, she only found charred metal and broken equipment.

She sighed. 'I guess it was too much to hope for...' She thought. 'I've come all this way for nothing.'
"Rouge!" She heard Topaz's voice call out. "What are you doing up there?"
"Oh, nothing!" She answered.
"Then get down here, we're about to move out!"
'You can go on ahead!' Rouge thought. 'I still haven't found what I'm looking for!'

"...Uh, I thought you said this room would be empty Scratch." She heard a voice say behind her. Whipping around, she found herself looking at Scratch and Grounder, the two robots she'd encountered before.
"AH! It's an evil ninja!" The chicken stated. "There is no safety!"


"Those two crazy robots found some intruders!" Bocoe said, looking at the CCTV image of Scratch, Grounder and Rouge
"How did they sneak in?" Decoe questioned. "Was it during the attack?"

The image changed to show the troops, Topaz and Knuckles in the Main Engine Drive room.
"AH!" Both robots screamed. "It's Knuckles!"
"Quick! Lock them in!" Decoe said, as they both pressed numerous buttons on the control panel.


The doorway behind Scratch and Grounder was suddenly closed off as a number of different security doors slammed down, blocking the path out of the room.

"...Oh my..." Rouge said under her breath.
Scratch squawked in shock, running up to the door and beating on it with its fists. "You can't just lock us in here! Let us out!"

"What's going on up here?" Topaz demanded, climbing up the rope ladder into the room. "What did you do? The door down there just sealed shut!"
"Damn it!" Fang said, climbing up, as Knuckles followed behind. "Security lock-down! Those doors are extra reinforced, and extra thick!"
"Oh, is that all?" Rouge giggled. "Then allow me..."

The bat jumped up at the door, spinning around and striking it with a sharp kick. She did the same again, hitting another area, then another, then another.

She only stopped when she realised that in the time it would take for any normal door to be smashed to bits, she'd only just scratched the surface.
"You weren't kidding!" Rouge said, taking a few steps back from it. "That's one tough barrier to get through!"
"Let me handle it!" Knuckles said, leaping forward and driving a fist right into the door.

He was shocked to find that a punch that would have easily crushed any boulder had only left a tiny scratch.
'My fists are no good?' he thought, looking at his hands, before laying a combination of punches into the door just to make sure.

"Okay Ma'am!" A young soldier said, climbing up the ladder. "The timer's activated! In less than ten minutes this place is going sky-high!"
"WHAT?" Topaz cried out. "Shut it off! NOW!"
"Bu...But... There's no deactivator! We weren't given one in the kit!"

Topaz fell to her knees, staring blankly into the ground. They were going to die. They were all going to die!
"We're going to blow up?" Grounder figured out. Instantly, he powered over to the door and started drilling into it with all three of his drills.

Knuckles watched the robot, before pounding away at the door as well with his fists. He was soon joined by Rouge, who starting kicking away at the door.

Fang stood and watched, pulling a toothpick out and putting in his mouth. It was just his luck that he'd left his grenades in the Magnificent Queen back at home, and unlike the bat or the Echidna, he didn't have the strength to pound away like they could.

He looked at his watch. It was ten minutes and counting...


Running along the ground, Sonic charged as The Final Stage came towards him. He leapt up, using his Homing Attack to strike right into the front amour, only to ricochet right off it and land on the floor.

He quickly slid under the craft as it charged overhead, rolling and quickly standing up. The craft did a quick turn, charging again with its hands clasping together. The hedgehog had to cartwheel out of the way as the arms reached forward, trying to grab a hold of him.

'What's that thing running on?' Sonic thought to himself, running around the outside of the platform to build some momentum. Quickly, Sonic leapt again, curling into a ball and charging at the machine.

This time Eggman was ready, boosting E-01 upwards slightly and catching Sonic, still in a ball, in both of its hands. The rockets then powered upwards until there was barely a millimetre between the spikes on top of it and the ceiling.

The Final Stage then crashed downwards, slamming it's hands and Sonic into the floor, which sent the hedgehog sprawling across the platform into one of the support beams. He groaned in pain, clutching the back of his head as he lay on the ground.

Eggman roared with laughter.
"You may have a steadfast heart of gold, but the rest of you isn't so tough!" He taunted.

Sonic got up to his knees, a serious look now on his face.
"Laugh while you can Eggman!" The blue blur warned. "This party's just getting started!"

Sonic charged again, but this time faked off to the left, avoiding The Final Stage's arms. He then slammed hard into the outside of the machine's hand with a Homing Attack.

Almost as if E-01 was reacting in a reflex movement of pain caused by the attack, it swung itself around, sending Sonic crashing into the far wall.

Sonic coughed slightly, letting the dust from the wall he was press into fade away.
"Not too bad Eggman... AHH!" The hedgehog called out in pain when E-01's outstretched palm slammed into him, crushing him against the wall like meat between to slices of bread.

The spiked roof of The Final Stage tilted up, allowing Eggman to stand up and lean over the top, looking at his trapped opponent.
"Now do you understand who the master of this world is?" He mocked.
"Just a lucky shot!" Sonic spat back, trying in vain to push the pressing hand away.

"You don't get it do you? This machine is being fuelled by Chaos Emerald energy! And it just so happens that there's TWO of them at work just now!"
'Damn!' Sonic thought. 'No wonder this thing is so strong!'
"You've run out of lives now Sonic, and there's no continues left! Just you..."

High-pitched laughing suddenly filled the air, as out of the hole in the roof came Bokkun, holding a TV monitor.

"Where have you been hiding?" Eggman demanded.
"I kinda got scared by all the explosions..." The messenger smiled sheepishly. "But I got a message for ya! Here, watch!"

The screen then showed Decoe and Bocoe in the command room.
"Lord Eggman!" Decoe said. "There are some very unfriendly looking people in the Main Engine Drive room!"
"But we've got them trapped in there!" Bocoe added.
"...Show me..." The Doctor said.

The screen then showed a close-up of Knuckles, and then of Topaz, Fang and the troops.
"Interesting... But what could they be possibly doing in that room?"
"Maybe it has something to do with the timed bombs they set up." Bocoe stated.
"Oh, I see... THE TIMED BOMB?"


"How much time do we have left?" Fang asked, looking at Topaz.
"About seven minutes left." She answered, glancing from her watch to the robot and two furries trying to break through the door.
"At this rate we might get through the door, but getting out in time is another story..." The weasel pointed out, nervously twirling the toothpick in his mouth.


"Seven minutes? There's not enough time to deal with that!" Eggman decided. "I want all available robots to evacuate to the Off-Site Construction Base immediately! I'll be right along once I finish business here!"
"Right away!" The two robots said, before the screen switched off.
"I better pack up my bombs!" Bokkun said as it flew away.

"This won't matter once I destroy you!" Eggman said, sitting back down as the lid closed. "Admit defeat! Your attacks can't faze my armour, and you can't outrun my emerald-powered machine! Give it up!"

As the arm pulled itself back away from Sonic, priming itself for one final fatal attack, the hedgehog found a voice calling through his head.

"...Dude, they can pull musical instruments out of necklaces..." He heard Douglas say. "Instruments that can fire lasers... That's like, the awesomest thing ever."

"You're about to go from extreme, to extinct!" Eggman roared, sending the hand crashing towards the hedgehog to finally dispose of him.

The next sounds that filled the room was not that of a hedgehog's body being crushed against the wall and of an evil Doctor laughing in victory.

It was in fact the sound of a hard guitar solo and a laser blast ripping through metal.

Sonic breathed heavily, having summoned (for the first time in a very, very long time) his Sonic Underground guitar from the medallion around his neck, and managed to pull off the first solo he could think off.

It had worked, as the Final Stage hung in mid-air frozen, and the hand that would have meant the end of his life was only inches away from him.

Most importantly, there was now a large hole in the front armour where the blast from his guitar has struck.

"No!" Eggman screamed, desperately hammering at the controls. "NOOOOO!"

The hedgehog smiled, allowing the guitar to turn back into the medallion around his neck, and he jumped forward, running along the arm of E-01, before leaping inside the newly created hole.

Eggman looked in fear as in one moment the two Chaos Emeralds were in the panel, and the next, they were gone.
He desperately hammered a button on his chair, causing the spiked lid to fly off and his modified Egg-Pod to hover just above the hole in ceiling, allowing him to look down.

In a flash of bright light, the Final Stage began violently shaking, as if something inside was bouncing off of all its insides.

"I... Hate... That..." Eggman sneered.

E-01 then exploded completely as Sonic, now covered in a golden glow, clutching a Chaos Emerald in both hands, tore out of it and straight through a wall.

"HEDGEHOG!" Eggman called out in despair, as the ceiling closed up, protecting him from the large fireball caused by the destruction of the Final Stage.


"Yo!" Douglas called out, pointing at the tower of Eggman's base as it seemed to explode in a thick cloud of black smoke. "Somethin's goin' down!"

As he said that, what seemed to be a glowing ball burst out of the tower, leaving a mass of smoke behind it, before it ripped into the tower and out of the other side.


"AH!" We're all gonna die!" Scratch said, cowering behind Grounder as the room around shook as if it was in a huge earthquake.
"Are the bombs going off?" Rouge called out.
"No!" Topaz answered. "We've still got about five minutes!"
"Enough of this!" Knuckles said, pulling back his fist. "I'll get us out!"

Just as Knuckles was about to punch through the final layer of security, the left sides of the doors were suddenly slammed back into the wall.

The guardian blinked in surprise, but then his jaw hit the floor when a familiar rabbit popped her head around the side of the other door.

"Why, if it ain't big old red!" The rabbit said in a strong southern accent. "Fancy meetin' up with you in this strange Old World!"
"Bunnie Rabbot?" The echidna said in shock.
"The one and only!" She smiled. "Ya'll must'a been thinkin' the same as we were, headin' straight for the heart of the place to take it out!"

"Can we exchange greetings later?" Fang said, running past.
"We've got four minutes before this place blows up!" Topaz also ran past "Let's move it!"
"Blows up?" Bunnie questioned. "Suga', what have you gotten into this time?"
"Miss Bunnie!" A French accent called out. "Now seems to be the time for the escapings!"

She rolled her eyes, grabbing Knuckles with her robotic arm and nearly ripping it out of the rest of his body as she pulled him after the group of Freedom Fighters and soldiers.


"It seems now that even more explosions are happening all over the tower..." Scarlet described the image being shown, as Chuck, Ella, Cream, Cheese, and Mr. Tanaka watched the news report on the TV screen.
"But why this is happening is anyone's guess... Wait! Look there, at the base of the tower!"

The camera zoomed in onto the beach, and showed a group of humans and animals running away from the tower, and into the boat on the edge of the sand.

"We had speculated what this mysterious boat was doing on the shore... But there are some familiar faces there! I recognise the red Echidna and the weasel wearing a hat! They were at the final game at the Diamond stadium, fighting alongside Sonic!"

"It's Knuckles!" Ella said.
"And that bounty hunter Fang." Tanaka added.
"It seems our red friend has a secret taste for adventure!" Chuck joked.
"The Freedom Fighters!" Cream cheered, pointing at the other animals on the screen. "They're here!"
"The who?" Chuck questioned.


"Push it to the limit Rotor!" The ground-squirrel wearing a blue jacket and blue boots said as the boat, now full of soldiers, furries, and two robots, speeded through the waves away from Eggman Island.
"No problem Sally!" The walrus wearing a yellow cap replied, pulling down a lever beside the steering wheel.

"Man..." Fang wiped the sweat away from his brow. "THAT was too close a call."
"Of course, I never thought for a second that we were going to get blown up by those bombs!" Scratch lied unconvincingly.
"Blown... BLOWN UP BY BOMBS?" A very worried French coyote exclaimed.
"Antoine's still the same I see..." Knuckles noted.

All the attentions of the people on the boat were suddenly drawn to a very loud series of explosions at the base of Eggman's tower.

"Time's up." Topaz noted.


The crowd in Station Square watched in stunned silence as the tower of Eggman Island was blown apart by a final huge explosion, leaving only a pillar of smoke trailing up into the sky, and some burning remains on the ground.

"They did it!" Tome screamed, jumping on top of a parked car. "Eggman's history!"

Loud cheers echoed throughout the streets as the people celebrated the downfall of the evil Doctor, excitedly hugging one another and breaking out in loud chants for Sonic and Douglas.


"...Oh... My... GOD!" Douglas shouted, looking at the smoke rising from where Eggman's base had been.
"SONIKKU!" Amy cried out over the radio.
"Oh man, bro's done it this time!" Manic shook his head.
"WAIT!" Tails said. "Look!"

Out of the smoke, Sonic burst out at high speed, grinning as he held the blue Chaos Emerald in one hand, and the yellow in the other.

"SONIC!" Was the united cry of victory from all the furries and the human in flight as the blue hedgehog easily landed on the front of the Tornado X, holding the emeralds high in the air.

It was over, it was all over, and it never felt better.


But what they didn't know, was that it was far from over.

Rather than the end, it was only the End of the Beginning.

Now, a Whole New World was only just waiting.

After all, there are still five Chaos Emeralds out there to find...


S-O-N-I-C GO!

S-O-N-I-C GO!

GO-GO-GO-GO!

LET'S GO!


Next Episode Preview - Voice-Over by Douglas

I'm a hero! And so is Sonic! But it's not a happy occasion when we're invited to the President's Office. These new guys from Sonic's planet called the 'Freedom Fighters' are also there, and it seems things aren't exactly rosy between Sonic and this Sally person. Looks like there's a lot of back-story that needs explaining!

Next time one Sonic eXcluded: Mobian History! Don't miss it!