In Sonic's doorway; the hedgehog was walking around the place.
He then spotted a treadmill and got on it.
"Nice, I'm going to enjoy this trial." said Sonic.
But then he noticed a snail on the controls.
Sonic became confused.
"Hello?" asked Sonic.
The Snail saw Sonic and smiled.
"Well Hello there dude!" He said in a surfer voice. "My Name is Speedy The Snail!"
Sonic nodded.
"Same here. This trial you set up is perfect." Said Sonic.
Speedy laughed.
"Oh this isn't your trial." Said Speedy.
Sonic became confused.
"It's not?" said Sonic.
"Nah man." said Speedy.
The treadmill disappeared before Sonic fell on the ground as the setting changed to a beach and Sonic was sitting on a beach blanket.
This confused the Hedgehog.
"Your trial involves relaxation and taking things slowly." said Speedy.
Sonic shook his head.
"Well this is going to be a real drag." said Sonic.
He turned to Speedy.
"By which I mean that it won't be pleasant and the fact that your a snail who carries his shell around all the time." said Sonic.
"Yeah, I get the word play." said Speedy.
He cleared his throat.
"And to help you out, I'm calling a friend of mine." said Speedy.
Then a humanoid sloth appeared and sat down on another blanket.
Sonic was shocked by the sloth.
"A Sloth?" He asked.
"Yeah man, I'm going to help teach you to be slow from time to time." said the sloth, "The name is Dash."
"I'm beginning to see a pattern with slow characters with fast names." said Sonic.
Speedy smiled.
"So why don't you sit back, relax & drink some lemonade made by my butler!" He said.
"I don't know if I can." said Sonic.
The sloth known as Dash lied down on his blanket.
"Just relax." said Dash.
Sonic looked around before lying down on his blanket.
But then he heard some explosions nearby.
This got Sonic up.
"What the?" He asked.
"Relax dude, it's just a bunch of fireworks going off." said Speedy.
Sonic looked around to see that sure enough a bunch of fireworks were going off.
"There's going to be a lot of things to try and make you jumpy in this trial, but the mission here is to determine if the things really are dangerous or just ways to keep you from relaxing." said Dash.
Then a turtle dressed like a butler appeared and gave the three cups of lemonade before walking off.
Sonic sniffed his lemonade and smiled before drinking some.
"This is delicious." said Sonic.
"Yep, made from out butler who is also a top cook." said Speedy, "My husband Dash & I are pround of that."
Sonic looked at the snail.
"You're gay?" Sonic asked.
Speedy nodded.
"I'm fine with that." said Sonic.
He pulled out his phone and started playing Disney Emoji Blitz.
"How so?" said Dash.
"I've got this one friend who entered a relationship with another guy simply to make some money just for being gay, but that turned into something special, two of my bandmates are dating each other despite the other one who is female is dating another girl, and Amity's in a relationship with a female human who's batting for both teams." said Sonic.
Speedy shook his head.
"That almost sounds weird." said Speedy.
"You want weird? One of the characters in the new film Eternals is mute, and that's because her portrayer is deaf." said Sonic.
"I found it weird that the Eternals can die!" said Speedy, "I thought they were immortal?"
Sonic shook his head and stretched out.
"I'm a meer mortal and I'm to awesome to die." said Sonic.
He then yawned.
"No argument there." said Dash.
Lots of explosions were heard and Sonic looked around to see more fireworks going off.
"Nah, I'll just wait a while until something serious happens." said Sonic.
"Congrats dude, you passed the trial." said Speedy.
"You came to the realization that not everything is dangerous and that you can relax until you know that there will be real danger happening." said Dash.
Sonic finished up his lemonade as the beach setting changed back to the dark room.
"Well, my work here is done." said Sonic.
He walked out of his room.
"Some character." said Dash.
"I know hun." said Speedy.
Back in the main room; Anne was inspecting her zord crystal as Sonic exited his room.
The Thai/American girl noticed him.
"How was your trial?" said Anne.
"Surprisingly therapeutic." said Sonic.
Then the hawk zord awoke and shrieked before disappearing as the fountain glowed.
"Your zord will be in the fountain." said the sage.
"Take it from me." said Anne.
Sonic looked at the fountain and reached into it before pulling out a blue crystal that held his hawk zord.
"Wow, I'm getting some Dragon Ball Z and Jurassic Park vibes just looking at this." said Sonic.
The zord looked at Sonic.
"I am Diver, your speed combined with me will make us a great team." the hawk zord known as Diver said telepathically.
Sonic nodded.
"I could work with that." said Sonic.
