"DAD YOU FORGOT THE MARSHMALLOWS AND THE CRACKERS AND THE CHOCOLATE!" sonic cried.
"Luckily we are still home, i'll go get them!"
sonic swoosed inside and telled "RACE YOU!" robotnik just stood there until he came back, with everything that he left behind, the smore ingredients.
"i was going to beat but you were really fast!" robotnik said
'yeah, im fast, it's a fact, isn't it dad?" sonic said.
"as a certified genius, i declare you the fastest living multi-celled sentient being on mobius!"
"does that mean I'm the fastest thing alive?"
"that's more catchy actually."
robotnik packed his egg-camper with everything he was carrying, tents, food, medical kits. whatever you need for camping.
"I'm ready, anything else?"
"do i still have to do the daily training sessions, i really like them!" sonic curiously asked
"it's time to just relax, sonic, after all this is a camping trip!"
sonic thought this camper was slow, and no in-trip food or movies? sonic liked running better, of course, he only saw where he was going on a map, maybe he could run up some mountains, he also heard his dad gleefully sing about 1000 badniks in the arsenal or something, what ever it was, sonic knew this trip was going to be long, this camper was slower than him.
"dad are we there yet?"
"just 1/10th of way!"
A tenth? Sonic already made 2 drawings and played i spy 5 times, was there a book he could read or something. A book on his tablet? it was all about aerodynamics and stuff, still better to learn it now, he was fast after all and aerodynamics is useful for speed and even your goldfish remembers what Sonic's speciality was reading but the lush greeney drew him away, he could imagine someone running with the camper and blurring with the bush walls of the countryside, he amused himself with the imaginary ninja for the rest of the trip.
"we're here!" robotnik cheered
"wow! the trees are so tall!" sonic exclaimed
"it's only approximately 90ft tall , wait until you see rainforest trees, they're so tall!" robotnik replied.
"LOOK DAD IM ON A TREE!" Sonic yelled
"uh oh! i better get you down!"
robotnik quickly got a tie up trampoline and tied it around a tree, sonic came down and tied the others until he was done and went back onto the tree, robotnik finished the first one until he saw all the others done, he then laughed.
"I'm coming down dad!"
sonic grace fully leaped down and bounced on the trampoline until the bounce faded out.
"i'm going to get some sticks, i'll be back!"
he then turned to see sonic with a big pile of sticks and then rubbing 2 together.
"CAREFUL YOU'RE GOING TO GET YOURSELF HUR- DROP THEM ONTO THE FIRE PLACE NOW!" robotnik shouted
sonic quickly did as his dad commanded, he then put his hands behind his back and tilted his head a little and sat down. srobotnik sat down and set up the campfire so he could put on the Dutch oven and begun putting in stuff for his soup./p
"don't go too far sonic" robotnik said
"okay dad!"
sonic ran around the mountains, looking at all these small animals, he then stumbled across a woodland town and saw someone resisting arrest from 2 robots.
"huh i wonder what's happening there?" sonic thought
"LET ME GO! I WONT LET YOU HAVE IT!" the stranger yelled
He seemed aggressive and tough, those robots will barley keep him down, this seemed like a situation sonic could deal with, he took out his walkie talkie and put it on the right channel.
"dad! someone is trying to beat the robots, and they're really strong!"
"how strong?"
"able to free the animal outta the robot strong!"
"okay, this is your first mission, get him to me, that is your objective."
"my first mission? I'm sure i can dad!"
sonic tried approaching the boy, he was running for his life until he was caught up by sonic in a matter of seconds.
"you should be glad i'm letting you live." sonic sneered
"you work with robotnik or something?" the boy replied
"hahaha, i do i guess, now do whatever he wants, or you'll regret it!"
"it's my duty to protect t-"
he then fell over and out of his bag came a brightly coloured gem, sonic felt some weird attraction to this gem; as if this was something familiar, he picked it up to inspect the gem, he then kept it ad as he tilted his head, he saw the boy run away into the forest and sonic couldn't find him.
"COME AND GET SOME! I'M NOT SCARED!"
sonic ran for a long time and he couldn't find him, where could he be? what black magic freakery did he do to disappear? he came back to camp with only the brightly coloured gem in his hands, disappointed he didn't get the boy, he sadly put the gem on the table.
"sorry dad." sonic muttered
"no don't be sorry!" Robotnik reassured sonic
"I TRIED DAD I TRIE-"
"a chaos emerald, in all my years, i haven't touched one yet, sonic this is brilliant!"
"it is but i didn't bring the per-"
"chaos emeralds hold a special power, imagine how that power would be like for the empire!"
sonic had sat down and ate some of the soup his dad made on the fire place, he looked on the bright side, at least he got something valuable for his dad and as he was done with the soup, his dad got out a cake, with 8 candles on it. he also did the same thing people do in this ritual and chanted happy birthday to you. sonic blew out the candles.
"dad it's getting dark, can we tell ghost stories?"
"i don't know much ghost stories, i'll try my best!"
"yay!"
robotnik tells his son about one of scariest nights so far, as he was building the empire, he remote controlled a drone near this area which the locals called the 'unknown forest zone' many supernatural phenomena have been claimed to happen there, the drone couldn't detect anything even though eggman saw a silhouette that was there for only a millisecond something came from the mic 'it's the-' followed by the clapping of thunder, the footage all glitchy and then it went to static and the thunder clapped some more. the drone hasn't sent any footage since.
sonic then went to sleep that night, he woke up out of random, and then he saw one of his father's robot's, covered in moss and scratched (also partially dented), it ominously stayed there until it turned around, sonic was curious to see where it was going and then followed the robot, as he followed everything got darker and sonic felt an unnerving feeling slip down his spine, something was wrong.
As sonic walked down the forest, he heard some wailing, he thought it might be the ambience or something.
the wailing got louder and LOUDER!
A voice wailed" i am the spirit of the forest, i don't much energy left but you must stop them!"
sonic yelled "WHO!?"
"you'll know them, whether it be now or the future."
"must be a dream" sonic thought
He checked any reflective surfaces to see if he was dreaming, as you can't look at your relections while you dream ; his face was there ; all real.
"I'm outta here!" sonic exclaimed
"I WILL KILL YOU IF YOU PROVE YOURSELF UNWORTHY LIKE THOSE WHO VENTURED HERE BEFORE YOU!"
"what challenge do you have then?" sonic asked "i'll beat it no problem!"
the trees fell over to make a circular arena, a wood mech-looking entity fell into the arean and shook the ground, it planted itself onto the ground and stretched a branch and almost tangled sonic.
"huh, that's what i'm facing against?" sonic thought "it only uses it's special attack only when it's planted onto the ground."
sonic finally had that moment, it's at it's weakest when detached to the ground and friction creates heat and since it's made of wood, he could set it on fire with enough friction, he grabbed a log and hit it's leg like a baseball with all his strength, it toppled over and before the entity could get up, he pinned it down and ran around it's back until it was devoured by fire.
the spirit said "i like your wits and skills blue one, i sense that you are the one, i bid you farewell."
"goodbye!" sonic exclaimed then changing his tone to a quiet one "huh, i wonder what all that fuss was about."
he saw one of his father's robots, fresh but it looked more like a guide bot, maybe dad will bring him back to camp, he followed it back and his dad was there cooking a barbecue.
"sonic you're back! you missed breakfast, but i am making barbecued chilli dogs!"robotnik said
"sorry dad, i was on a morning walk, smells delicious!"
"glad you're safe!"
they sat on the table together and ate their chilli dogs together having a great time together and finishing off the trip with some hiking and bonding ; finally consuming the smores together like you do on a camping trip then heading back and packing up.
sonic enjoyed that camping trip, he never realised how much he loves nature and how sublime it is.
he hopes to go back next year.
