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In the Los Angelos town district, people in all of their homes were beginning to freak out from the blackout that had been caused by Sonic's electric pulse in the baseball field.
At the Boonchuys residence, Bee and Oum were both holding flashlights and trying to find their daughter and the Plantars in the darkened house.
"Anne?! Frogs?! Are any of you there?!" Bee asked loudly.
"Follow the sound of our voices!" Oum called out.
"I hear you, mom and dad!" Anne yelled from a distance. "But I can't see you in this blackout!"
"None of us can see each other, Anne!" Hop Pop shouted at another area.
"I can't even see my hands! It's awful!" Sprig cried dramatically.
"Quit being a cry baby, Sprig!" Polly ordered. "We're gonna survive!"
"Hey! I think I've got one of you!" Anne stated before she heard a meowing sound near her position. "Oh! Never mind! It's just Domino!"
After a few minutes of hearing stuff break and listening to them make tons of complaining noises, Bee and Oum finally saw Anne and the Plantars in front of their flashlights.
"There you are!" Bee remarked.
"We see you, too! No need to be worried!" Polly replied.
Anne looked out the window and saw a bunch of houses with their lights off.
"Man, what the heck happened?" Anne asked.
"I don't know." Sprig admitted. "But it looks like the whole city's lost it's power."
"What in tarnation could've even done this?" Hop Pop questioned.
"That's a good question, HP." Anne said with her arms crossed.
Suddenly, Anne's phone started vibrating and she immediately noticed who the caller was before answering it.
"Dr Jan?" Anne asked.
"Anne? Did you and your family get hit by the power outage, too?" Anne's friend from the museum, Dr Jan, asked in curiosity.
"Yeah, it looks like the whole city got hit." Anne answered.
"The whole city?" Dr Jan repeated. "Try the whole country, instead!"
"Wait, you're saying this blackout is happening around the entire USA?!" Anne asked in total shock.
"Yes!" Dr Jan replied. "It seems EMP was emitted from outside of town, taking out power all over the country! Not even my backup generators are working!"
"Okay, this is beyond crazy!" Anne stated.
"Does anyone have any idea on how this happened?" Oum questioned.
"It was definitely Andrias!" Polly replied with a glare.
"I doubt it, Polly." Anne admitted. "For one thing, we haven't heard anything about Andrias since Christmas."
"Anne does have a good point." Sprig said in agreement.
"This could've been something different." Bee added.
Just then, Polly's tablet started making a buzzing sound and she quickly ran over to it before turning it on to see two familiar faces, Ally and Jess.
"Ally! Jess!" Polly exclaimed.
"Polly! Did you get hit by that giant EMP, too?!" Jess asked frantically.
"It was insanely massive and shut down all of our machines!" Ally explained.
"Yeah, we got hit by it, as well!" Polly answered.
"Dr Jan told us that it hit the entire country!" Anne added.
"Where do you even think that electric pulse came from?" Ally asked.
"We've got no idea!" Hop Pop replied. "It was just so random and unexpected!"
"And I doubt anyone else in town knows about how it even happened!" Sprig admitted.
"For now, we should just focus on getting the power back on." Oum told her family and house guests.
"That's not gonna be easy, mom." Anne replied. "Dr Jan said even her generators aren't working."
"Maybe you and Sprig could find something upstairs that'll restore power to your house?" Ally suggested.
"Worth a shot." Sprig said with a shrug.
"We'll go try it, now!" Anne stated before returning to Dr Jan on her phone. "Call us if anything else happens, Dr Jan!"
"Can do!" Dr Jan replied before hanging up.
"Okay, you guys stay down here while Sprig and I try to get the power back on." Anne told everyone before she and her froggy best friend ran upstairs.
"Good luck!" Bee called out.
"Don't get attacked by a bat!" Polly warned.
"We don't get any bats in our home." Oum admitted.
Anne and Sprig then reached the upstairs part of the house and the Thai-American girl used her phone's flashlight to see where they were going.
"Just what could have caused that giant EMP, anyway?" Anne questioned in curiosity.
"Whatever it was, Anne, it was definitely not something from your world." Sprig told her.
"That's what troubles me, dude." Anne admitted.
But as they began looking around, Anne looked to her right and noticed that a blue glow was coming from her own bedroom.
"What the?" She asked in confusion.
Anne then slow stepped inside her room and she saw that the blue glow was on her bed. She approached the bed and reached down to the blue glow before picking it up, revealing it to be the blue quill she got two days ago and it was apparently cackling with blue electricity.
"Okay, this is just unusual." Anne said with a surprised expression.
"Hey, Anne? Isn't that the quill you brought home on Tuesday?" Sprig asked, entering into Anne's room.
"It is." Anne replied. "But I have no idea why it's got small electricity coming out of it."
"Well, whatever happened to the entire country has got to be related to that thing."
"No kidding." Anne agreed.
As Anne looked out into the nightly sky through her window, she couldn't help but get a strange feeling inside her stomach.
"I've got a bad feeling about this." The Thai-American girl muttered in concern, not knowing what was in store for her and her family in the morning.
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Meanwhile, at the Pentagon itself, some of the USA's top government members were gathered at the a table to discuss the recent blackout. Among them was Commander Walters, a middle-aged man with silver hair.
"Twenty minutes ago, an energy surge knocked out power across the entire Pacific North-West." Commander Walters explained. "What do we know?"
"Well, our first instinct was it was an EMP." The Chief of Staff from the Navy said. "But electro magnetic pulses don't have that kind of power."
"NASA has ruled out meteor strikes or solar flares." The Air Force Chief of Staff added.
"The Department of Energy says it's not a power plant malfunction." The Secretary of Homeland Security informed.
"Well, sounds like we're really good at figuring out what it wasn't." Commander Walters said in sarcasm.
"This could be a prelude to a larger attack." The Army Chief of Staff theorised. "I'm suggesting we scramble the Fifth and Sixth Regiment."
"Actually, Mr X is already stationed in the area where the energy pulse was detected from." The Navy Chief of Staff reminded. "I'm sure he'll be able to help us solve this mystery."
"No, no, no, no." Commander Walters said, shaking his head. "This needs a much more sophisticated mind. Someone who understands technology."
"You want to send in a lab rat?" The Army Chief of Staff questioned.
"Not just any lab rat. A lab rat with teeth." Commander Walters answered.
"You're not suggesting who I think you're suggesting." The Air Force Chief of Staff said with a concerned expression.
"I know, he's a little weird." Commander Walters admitted.
"Weird?!" The Air Force Chief of Staff repeated in disbelief.
"No, no, no way!" The Army Chief of Staff stated firmly.
"He's a psychological tire-fire!" The Air Force Chief of Staff exclaimed.
"But he's also brilliant." Commander Walters reminded. "Five PhDs, IQ off the charts, and his drone is revolutionary."
"You're sure he can handle this?" The Army Chief of Staff asked, unconvinced.
"He has a perfect operations record." Commander Walters replied. "Remember the coup in Pakistan?"
"No." The Army Chief of Staff said.
"Or the uprising in Azerbaijanistan?" Commander Walters questioned.
"That's not even a country." The Navy Chief of Staff replied in confusion.
"Exactly. And you can thank Robotnik for that." Commanded Walters told him while folding his hands.
"I can't believe you're bringing that freak into this." The Air Force Chief mumbled under his breath.
"Neither can I." Commander Walters said with a sigh. "But… we have no choice."
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In the baseball field where Sonic's electric explosion went off, tons of military personnel and lab technicians were set up in every area to figure out the origin of the electronic pulse that caused last night's blackout. With them was the bald-headed federal agent with wheeled shoes and his silent assistant, Mr X and Jenny.
"Alright, everything here is looking perfect." Mr X said with a satisfied smile. "Isn't this just the best for us, Jenny? We're gonna be able to solve two alien-related mysteries in this place and then we'll be superstars. They'll probably even let us party in the White House."
Back when he looked towards Jenny, the federal agent noticed Jenny was looking in the opposite direction.
"Uh, Jenny? What're you looking at?" Mr X asked with a raised eyebrow.
Jenny simply pointed ahead and Mr X looked to see a large black truck driving into the scene with a few shady cars driving alongside it. When the truck halted in the center of the field, Mr X noticed a red glowing eye on the top of it's head.
"What the…?" Mr X questioned, confused.
The side door of the truck's trailer part opened up and moved downwards before it made a staircase. Then, an unfamiliar face appeared from inside the truck.
He had a black suit and robe, near brown hair, a moustache, a pair of gloves with a few buttons on them, and sunglasses. This was Dr Ivo Robotnik.
Robotnik looked around the area before walking down his door's steps and a few of his federal agents exited their cars. With them was Agent Stone, a man with black hair, a black tie and buisness suit and some black chin hair.
Mr X and Jenny looked to each other and then looked back to Robotnik and his men approaching them. The doctor stood in front of X and removed his sunglasses.
"Are you in charge, here?" Robotnik asked with a smirk.
"Yes, I am-" Mr X began saying.
"Nope!" Robotnik interrupted rudely.
"My-" X tried to say again, recovering from the shock he got from Robotnik's interruption.
"Wrong!" Robotnik shouted.
"Name-"
"I'm in charge!"
"Is-"
"Me!"
"Mr-" X growled in annoyance, slowly getting agitated.
"I'm in charge." Robotnik said quietly before he looked to Stone showing X an insignia. "You've never seen anything like this before? This says I'm the top banana, in a world full of hungry little monkeys. Allow me to clarify."
Robotnik then moved his head and finger to the left like a robot.
"In a sequentially ranked hierarchy, based on level of critical importance, the disparity between us is too fast to quantify." Robotnik explained. "Agent Stone?"
"The doctor thinks you're basic." Agent Stone said as Robotnik walked away.
"Basic?!" Mr X repeated in offence. "Can you believe this, Jenny?!"
His assistant said nothing and simply watched everything unfold.
"I'm initiating a sweep sequence." Robotnik said, typing on some of his glove's buttons. "Ten miles in every direction should suffice."
Ontop of Robotnik's truck, some hatches opened up to reveal a bunch of white drones that were shaped like eggs.
"Is he still looking at me funny?" Robotnik asked Agent Stone, turned behind himself.
"Yes, he is." Stone answered.
"Tell him to stop, or I'll pull up his search history." Robotnik ordered.
"If you don't stop looking at the doctor, he'll take a closer look-" Agent Stone started explain to Mr X.
"I heard him the first time." X scowled sternly, pressing his finger against Stone's lips.
"And tell him his men report to me know. Blah-blah-blah, blah-blah-blah, blah-blah-blah." Robotnik mumbled, not caring about any of it.
"Excuse me?!" Mr X questioned with a frown. "Listen, pal! I have no idea who you think you are, but-"
"I'm sorry, buddy, what was your name?" Robotnik asked, turning around to face the bald fed.
"Mr-" X began saying.
"Nobody cares!" Robotnik yelled rudely, getting on Mr X's nerves once again before he slowly approached him. "Nobody cares. Listen, Mr nobody cares. Do you know why nobody cares who you are? Because nobody cares about your feeble accomplishments. And nobody cares how proud your mommy is that you're now reading at a third grade level."
Mr X slowly gained a mad vein on his forehead as Robotnik was circling around him.
"Have you finished Charlotte's Web, yet?" Robotnik asked from behind. "Spoiler alert, she dies in the end. But she leaves a big creepy egg sack."
Just then, the doctor's drones began floating out of his truck and this caused him to smile in admiration.
"Ah. My babies." He said sweetly, although it was most likely fake acting. "Hoo! Look what came out of my egg sack! You know what I love about machines? They do what they're told. They follow their programming. They don't need time off to get drunk and put the boat in the water!"
"Why you…!" Mr X growled as he eye twitched in anger.
"And you do what you're told." Robotnik said as he pointed a finger at X. "Stand over there on the edge of your personal abyss… and watch my machines do your job."
Knowing that he was outranked in this situation, Mr X angrily walked away from Robotnik with Jenny by his side.
"I hope that jerk ends up chewing on his own moustache, Jenny." Mr X whispered while scowling, causing Jenny to simply nod in agreement.
After X and Jenny were gone, Agent Stone turned his attention back to his boss.
"Can you feel it, Stone?" Robotnik asked.
"I can feel it, Doctor." Stone answered with a smile.
"It's evolution, Stone." Robotnik said before balling his hands into fists. "It's evolution!"
After typing on some commands on his gloves, Robotnik's egg drones flew into the forest and they started scouting different areas for clues involving the blackout incident.
One drone surveyed a nearby area with small rocks and twigs, until it noticed a shoe's footprint on a nearby rock and scanned it.
Meanwhile, Robotnik was back inside his truck and was pressing a bunch of advanced buttons as the footprints image was displayed on his holographic screen. The inside of his truck was filled with amazing technological machines that no ordinary man could invent.
Agent Stone arrived inside the truck and approached Robotnik.
"Agent Stone?" Robotnik said, earning his attention.
"Doctor?" Agent Stone asked in response.
"Do you see anything useful in this image?" Robotnik questioned.
Stone took a look at the holographic image of the footprint, but couldn't make anything out of it.
"Nothing at all, Doctor." He told his boss.
"Of course you don't." Robotnik replied, scoffing at Stone's inferior intelligence. "Your eyes weren't expertly trained to spot tracks by the Native American Shadow Wolves."
Stone was still confused as Robotnik moved his chair around to type in some other stuff and change the image of the footprint. Before long, it was now showing the unnatural foot shape from inside the shoe.
"That's extraordinary." Stone whispered in shock.
"No. What's extraordinary is… I've determined the exact height, weight and spinal curvature of this creature. And my computer can't find a single match for it, anywhere, in Earth's animal kingdom." Robotnik explained before standing up from his chair. "This blackout was not a terrorist attack. And that's no baby Bigfoot. This guy… is something else… entirely."
Now that he knew that he was dealing with something that was not of Earthly origin, Robotnik was determined to find this strange creature and figure out it's secrets.
"Divert all search units to the sight of the footprint." He ordered Agent Stone. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for me."
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Back within the woods, a bunch of military soldiers were marching to the sight with their weapons in hand and being accompanied by some drones and hunter dogs. Unknown to them, Sonic was spying from a high tree branch with a worried expression.
"Okay, okay. Everything is fine." Sonic whispered to himself, panicking on the inside. "You played some baseball, got a little upset, lightning shot out of your butt and now they're coming for you."
Speeding straight back towards his cave, Sonic knew that he had to gathered the things he needed to escape Earth before the military could capture him and obtain his power.
"Alright, alright, Earth isn't safe anymore!" Sonic stated. "Time for Plan B, Mushroomvile! But I gotta take my stuff! Okay, essential items only!"
The blue hedgehog grabbed a backpack and he started gathering his things into it.
"Toothbrush, toothpaste, hair gel, nightlight, funny hat, this half-eaten cantaloupe." Sonic listed down, speeding around his den to grab the stuff he needed. "Oh, and my scented candles. My entire comic book collection. Bean bag chair. Can a bean bag chair fit in a backpack? No, no, no, of course not! That's stupid! Okay, what else?"
Looking around, Sonic found the most important things he needed for his departure before quickly grabbing his hand-sized bag.
"The rings! The rings, yes, of course!" He said in a desperate tone before bringing out a golden ring. "Here we go. Ring time. Mushroom planet, here I come."
But before he could get a chance to throw his ring, Sonic noticed some shadows appear from above his den and some noises could be heard, too.
"Oh no! They're right outside!" Sonic exclaimed in nervousness before quickly grabbed his backpack. "I've gotta go somewhere else!"
As he begins to leave, Sonic takes one last look at the den he once called his Earth home. He didn't want to leave a planet that was so amazing to him, but he had no other choice. If the government captured him, they would harness his power and evil people would use it to create nothing but chaos.
"Goodbye, cave." Sonic said sadly before he ran off to somewhere safer.
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