On Air Force One the president was sitting at the end of a table. He had just been told that every television signal in the country has been overridden and was now sending a Enerjak transmission. He watched as Enerjak appeared in full armour and helmet on the Tv at the other end of the room "Mr President. Only two lessons remain. And I intend to finish this before Christmas morning". The camera zoomed out revealing Enerjak holding a gun and a crying male green hawk on the ground "Meet Harry the Hawker. Good strong name. Good strong job. Harry, here, is an accountant for the Breezie Oil Corporation. But I'm sure he's a really good guy. I'm going to shoot him in the head…". Harry cried harder as Enerjak continued "…live on your television in 30 seconds". He pointed to a phone on the table next to him "The number for this telephone is in your cell phone. Exciting, isn't it, imagining how it got there? United Federation, if your president calls me in the next 30 seconds, Harry lives. Go!". The president takes out his phone and saw it showing the Dark Hands symbol "How the hell did he hack my phone?". A mongoose sitting next to him shook his head "We can't allow terrorists to dictate-" "I have to make this call" "I strongly advise against that". The president stood up "This is the right thing to do" he holds the phone to his ear. The phone can be heard ringing through the TV, Harry looks up hopeful, but Enerjak shoots him. Everyone in the room gasps, the president slowly lowers his phone. The camera zooms back in on Enerjak "There's just one lesson left, Mr President. So run away, hide, kiss your children goodbye. Because nothing, not your army, not your little juiced up armadillo, can save you". He leaned forward "I'll see you soon". The broadcast ended, the President stared at the TV stunned "Tell Mighty, find this lunatic right now" "Sir, we tracked the broadcast signal. We have two possible points of origin. Colonel Mighty is ready to strike one. We have contact with G.U.N. They have three agents who are very eager to go for the other one".


Sonic was driving down a long dark road. On the passenger seat was the file on Davis which he read. He found a piece of paper from the think tank Restoration. Sonic rolled his eyes and took out a phone.


Mighty broke through the door of home a where a group of Mobians wearing turbans backed away in fear "Don't move!" he raises his hand pointing his projectile wrist device towards them. He heard a ringing coming from his earpiece "Uh… Hang on a second". The Mobians stayed where they were as Mighty answered the call "Hello?" "You ever have a chick straddling you and you look up and she's suddenly made of metal and glowing red hot?". Mighty nodded "Yeah, I've had that. Who is this?" "It's me, pal". Mighty smirked and let out a quick chuckle, "Now, last time I went missing, if I remember correctly, you came looking for me. What're you doing now?". Mighty glanced at the Mobians "Making friends in Parched Palms. What're you doing?" "Your new equipment, the rockets on your wrists and shoes, that was Restoration, right?". Mighty raised his eyebrows confused "Yeah" "I'm gonna find a heavy-duty comm sat right now, I need your login" "It's the same as it's always been, Armidillo93". Mighty was afraid of what's next "And password, please" "Well, look, I gotta change it every time you hack in, Sonic" "It's not the 80s, nobody says hack anymore. Give me your login". Mighty sighed "'ARMADILLOROX' with an X, all caps". One of the Mobians laugh, Mighty hit his foot against the ground cracking it slightly silencing the group. He then heard Sonic laughing, Mighty nodded "Yeah, okay" "Still better than UF Guardian".


Sonic was outside of a school wearing a cowboy hat and vest. He walked past multiple news vans before getting into the back of an empty one. He checked the screens, there was a beauty pageant going on inside the school. An Asian man with glasses was one of the judges. Sonic hooked up his computer to the equipment, but he didn't have a good connection speed "That's not gonna cut it". A brown tapir in a blue shirt opened the van door while on the phone "Excuse me, sir. I don't know who-". Sonic turned to him taking off his hat. The Tapir's mouth opens wide "Mum, I need to call you back. Something magical is happening. Sonic the Hedgehog is in my van". Sonic shushed him "Keep it down" "Sonic the Hedgehog is in my van!" "No, he's not". The tapir grinned "I knew you were still alive!" "Come on in. Close the door". The tapir did so fumbling as he did "Oh, wow. Can I just say, sir…? I'm your biggest fan" "Okay. First, is this your van? Is anyone else gonna come in" "No, no, no. Just us". Sonic nodded and stood up "Okay, what's your name?" "Mark" "Mark. It's oaky. I get a lot of this".

Mark nodded "I'm sorry, it's just you're so cool. I love you so-". Sonic put his hands on Mark's shoulders "Mark. Listen to me, okay? I don't want to clip your wings, here. We're both a little over-excited. I got issues. I'm chasing bad guys. I'm trying to grab a little something from some hard-crypt data files. I don't have enough juice. I need you to jump on the roof… Right? Recalibrate the ISDNs. Pump it up by about 40%. Alright, that's your mission. Sonic needs Mark". Mark nodded "And Mark needs Sonic" "Be quiet about it. Okay. Go". Mark got out and Sonic waited as he worked. Eventually he heard knocking from the roof. Sonic used Mighty's password to get into the Restoration network and found a video on Chad Davis. He started it and heard Geoffrey's voice "What would you regard as the defining moment of your life?" "Well, uh, I think that would be the day I decided not to let my injury beat me".

He then changed to an interview with Belinda who was missing an arm "Will you please state your name for the camera?" "Belinda" "Okay. So, the injections are administered periodically. Addiction will not be tolerated. And those who cannot regulate will be cut form the program". He went to another video showing Geoffrey speaking to the line of subjects "Once misfits, cripples… You are the next iteration of Mobian evolution". The video changed to showing the group receiving their first injections, Belinda was groaning in pain, but her missing arm was regrowing. Davis was released form his restraints and was able to now hover upwards with his wings, something that birds were no longer able to do. Suddenly though a spider started screaming as his body turned to metal. Geoffrey turned to the others "We gotta get out of here! Go! GO!". The metal around the spider's body brittles and brakes apart. A glowing energy shines through the cracks before his body finally exploded. Sonic stared at the TV "A bomb is not a bomb when it's a misfire. The stuff doesn't always work. Right, pal? It's faulty, but you found a buyer, didn't you? Sold it to Enerjak".


Daisy was in a hotel room sitting on a bed with Amy. There were tears in her eyes "We all begin wide-eyed. Pure science. And then the ego steps in, the obsession. And you look up, you're a long way from shore" "You can't be too hard on yourself, Daisy. I mean, you gave your research to a think tank" "Yeah, but Geoffrey built that think tank on military contracts". Amy shrugged "That's exactly what we used to do. So, don't judge yourself". Daisy smiled "Thank you, Amy. I really appreciate that". They heard a knock at the door, Amy went over and opened it revealing a cat with room service "Hi, thank you. Come in". The cat was about to, but Geoffrey appeared and snapped the cat's neck. Amy backed away "Daisy, run!". Geoffrey grabbed and pinned her against the wall by her throat "Hi, Amy". He then looked to Daisy who nonchalantly walked forward "So, you want to tell me why you were at Sonic's mansion last night?". Amy tried to struggle to no avail. Daisy didn't look concerned "I'm trying to fix things. I didn't know you and the master were gonna blow the place up" "Oh, I see. So, you were trying to save Sonic when he threatened us?" "I told you, St John, we can use him". Amy tried to reach Geoffrey who just looked annoyed "Amy. Amy" "Look, if we want to launch the product next year, I need Sonic. He just lacked decent incentive. Now, he has one".


Mighty has been sweeping the area for hours now. He broke into a factory room where there was a bunch of women in burkas working on sowing machines "Nobody move!". Mighty then realised what he was looking at "Uh. Support Blue-Zero, unless Enerjak's next attack on the UF involves cheaply-made sportswear, I think you messed up again". All the woman seemed happy and started shaking Mighty's hand before leaving "Yes, you're free, uh, if you weren't before. You're welcome. Yes, ma'am. UF Guardian on the job". The final woman shook his hand, but metal suddenly formed around Mighty's hand. Mighty looked down and in the distraction the woman pressed her hand onto his chest and to Mighty's surprise she was able to pull the power ring out of him. Mighty fell back feeling drained. The woman removed her burka revealing a cat who put on a phone "Mimic? I've acquired the Guardian. But we'll need a way to unlock the syphon". Mighty sneakily took a needle in his hand from the floor "Over my dead body" "If that's what it takes, Colonel".


Sonic was in his car talking to Chris through the phone "Hold on, kid, I'm bringing someone else into this call". He clicked on the phone and a familiar voice answered "Hello?" "How's the tower coming, Knux?". Knuckles laughed "Haha. You're alive! Man, you scared me half to death" "Yeah, look, we can catch up later. Chris, give us the full report. Give me, Nicole". He waited for Chris to put the phone up to Mecha "Nicole, how are we?" "It's totally fine, sir. I seem to do quite well for a stretch and then at the end of the sentence I say the wrong cranberry. And, sir, you were right. Once I factored in available Restoration downlink facilities, I was able to pinpoint Enerjak's broadcast signal". Sonic nodded "Okay, what're we talking? Fare east, Wild Canyon or something?" "Actually, it's in Emerald Coast". Sonic sighed "Okay, Chris, I'm gonna have to walk you through rebooting Nicole' speech drive, but not right now. Where is he really?" "Um, the screen does say Emerald Coast" "Yeah, I got that over here too" Knuckles said. Sonic moved on from that "Okay, first thing's first. I need Mecha and the rings. Where are we with that?" "Uh, it's not charging".

Sonic took a breath and tightened his grip on the wheel "What?", Nicole answered "Actually, sir, it is charging, but the power source is questionable. It may not succeed in revitalizing Mecha". Sonic took a deep breath "Okay, that's fine. Knuckles, I can't prove to G.U.N what I've found but Shads and the others will believe me. I want you to get in contact with them". There was a pause "I can't". Sonic stared at the phone in disbelief "What?" "They're in Chun-Nun following a lead on Enerjak. They were pretty eager after what happened to you. The Vice President's ordered extra security measures after the President's phone was hacked. There's no way way to reach them". Sonic tried to breath, but he then slammed on the brakes and pulled over at the side of the road "Knuckles, I can't… I'm not gonna. Chris, I need the Mecha working". He started panting "Oh Gaia, not again". He quickly climbed out of the car and heard Chris "Sonic? Are you having another attack? I didn't even mention Station Square". Sonic collapsed and hit the car with his fist "You just said it while denying having said it!". He could barely breath "Gaia, what am I gonna do?" his voice trembled. He heard Knuckles "Okay, kid, get off the line. I'll handle this". Chris hung up and Knuckles spoke to Sonic "Buddy, I know what you're going through, okay? Just look ahead, take deep breathes and count to five in between". Sonic did what he was told, he calmed down and leaned his head against his knees "I don't know what to do, Knux" "Do what you always do. Build something". This seemed to snap Sonic out of it. He looked up and slowly stood "Okay".