Later, Jaune had gotten Sonic out of the garage and onto a counter. He grabs the quill and compared it to Sonic, realizing that the quill was Sonic's.
"Huh...so this is that blue zip." Jaune said as he set the quill down on a small side table
Jaune sighed as he had his back turned, not noticing Sonic getting up. When Jaune did turn around, he dropped his scroll out of surprise which he planned to use to call Ruby and tell her about this whole situation.
"Doughnut Lord?" Sonic asked, having his hand on his head
""You're awake?" Jaune asked. "You aren't here to abduct and hurt me, are you?"
"You abducted ME!" Sonic said
"Okay, that's a fair point." Jaune respond. "Who are you? Why were you hiding out in my garage?"
"I-I needed somewhere safe, and you were the first one on my mind, Doughnut Lord." Sonic states
"Why do you keep calling me Doughnut Lord?" Jaune asked
"Because you talk to doughnuts. And then eat them if they get out of line." Sonic answers
"Again, fair." Jaune responds
"Wait, where are all the mushrooms? Why am I still on Remnant?" Sonic asked searching his sweater before realizing he had lost his rings. "Oh, no...Ii lost my rings!"
"What?" Jaune stated, confused
Just then, a loud rumbling could be heard outside.
"What's this?" Jaune asked the hedgehog Faunus. "Is this your crew? I'm not in the mod to get stabbed."
"You think you're worried? I can't even build up an aura shield!" Sonic replies
Jaune looked out the window and saw, even though he had no clue who it was, he saw Robotnik's Bullhead landing as it reshaped into the 18-wheel truck.
"What?" Jaune said, confused
When Sonic saw the truck, he knew he was in trouble, so naturally, he screamed a little.
"They're coming for me!" Sonic yelled
"Who's coming for you? What's this got to do with me?" Jaune asked
"I have literally no time at all to explain, but you have to help me." Sonic states
"Why?" Jaune asked
"Well, my legs, which NORMALLY would be classified by the Atlas Military as lethal weapons, feel like Vacuo noodles." Sonic said, looking right at Jaune. "I need your help, please, it's life or death."
After some silence, Jaune grabbed Sonic's hand and led him to the attic and instructed him to hide there, closing the attic as he left.
Outside, Robotnik got out of his vehicle and kneeled down to what looked like another footprint. He held a hand over it, scanning the footprint and revealing by effect that that specific arm was robotic. He then looked at the screen that was on his other arm and wirelessly connected to his robotic arm.
The screen displayed some data, confirming this footprint was made by the same Faunus that made the one he found earlier.
Jaune then walked out onto the porch, saw Robotnik, not knowing who he is, and asked, "May I help you?"
Robotnik looked over and walked over, holding up a hand, seeming as innocent as possible at first as he walked over and says, "Good morning, my rural chum. I'm from the Atlas Power Donation Company investigating the recent Vale blackout."
Robotnik then lowered his hand as he said, "If you don't mind, I would like to take a few readings inside your house."
"Oh, you're from the power donation company? You must know my old teammate Ren, we played softball together in our spare time."
"Ah, Ren...he's a good man." Robotnik replies
Jaune then walked up to the door as he said, "Come in and take all the readings you need..."
However, before Robotnik actually could get into Jaune and Ruby's house, Jaune stood in the way, having not bought what Robotnik said his employment was for a single second, having learned to not buy everything if something seems suspicious after dealing with Emerald.
"Except, doesn't that company usually take the readings from outside the house of their customers so they can check if there's a chance the customer isn't home?" Jaune asked. "Also, my buddy Ren doesn't work in Atlas and he was always more of a mini golf type so you wanna tell me why you think I am dumb enough to let you in my house after some of what i've been through?"
Robotnik then put his robotic hand behind his back and pushed a few buttons on his glove, sending a signal to some of his drones.
"I'm sorry, Mr..." Robotnik starts
"Rose. But everyone calls me Jaune, except my current dentist, he calls me Jim." Jaune stated. "But it's gone on for so long, it feels like it would be wrong if I corrected him."
"Well, Jaune, who's dentist calls him Jim...you may have noticed this town has been experiencing a power outage." Robotnik says as a few drones flew out of the top of the truck
"Yep, no lights, picked up on that when it happened." Jaune replied
"20 minutes ago, I tracked an energy pulse with a similar signature to the one that caused that disruption." Robotnik adds as the drones enter the house from various angles
Sonic was hiding behind things in the attic to stay out of sight of the drones.
Back on the porch, Jaune was trying to get Robotnik to leave.
"Listen, mister..." Jaune starts
"Doctor. Doctor Robotnik." Robotnik intercepts. "But my dentist calls me Rob."
"Listen, Doc, i'm sure what you're here for is very serious, but it has nothing to do with me, you can ask everyone in town, they all know me." Jaune states
"Oh, I bet they do. I'm sure you're HELLA popular with the Jebs and Murles and Billy-Bobs in this glorified gas station and dust weapon rest stop." Robotnik says. "I bet you go way back to the days of tipping cows and playing in a jugband."
Jaune simply rolls his eyes.
"And maybe some day, you'll achieve your dreams of getting an SDC gift card, or adopting a laberdoodle." Robotnik said as he got closer to Jaune. "But the reality is...I surpassed EVERYTHING YOU'RE EVER GOING TO DO! Before I was a toddler."
Jaune pushed Robotnik back a little and said, "Dude, ever heard of personal space?"
Ignoring Jaune's request for personal space, Robotnik continued on with his tirade with, "I cut my teeth on the latest scientific breakthroughs while you were still gnawing on a stick."
"My parents bought me teething toys, actually." Jaune responded
"Nice. Rub that in my orphan face." Robotnik responds. "Mr. Rose, are you familiar with multi-kingdom military code 904 title 10 article 104?"
"Yeah, it-" Jaune starts
"ANYONE, who attempts to aid an enemy of any of the militaries shall suffer DEATH!" Robotnik intercepts, holding up his index finger. "And if i'm the one that catches you, it'll be even worse."
"Worse than death?" Jaune asked in a rhetorical manner
Back up in the attic, Sonic used the fact he was a hedgehog Faunus to his advantage and curled up like a ball.
"Okay, i'm blending in like a ball, just a normal ball." Sonic whispered. "I just hope they aren't scanning me for x-rays. I have kind of an embarrassing lunge."
The drones were getting closer and closer to finding Sonic.
"Don't freak out." Sonic told himself
The drones were getting closer and closer by the second.
"Don't freak out, don't freak out, don't freak out..." Sonic added as he was trying best to not freak out
However, the pressure got to him and he couldn't take it as he yelled, "I'm freaking out!"
Sonic then rolled across the attic, opening the stairs to the attic and rolling down, hitting his head with each bit of descent down the staircase.
"Why don't you have your staircase carpeted?!" Sonic questioned before he hit the counter, un-rolling onto his back
Back out on the porch, Robotnik heard the clanking of pans from Sonic crashing into the counter.
"Old pipes." Jaune stated
"Yeah, probably just the house settling." Robotnik said, turning back to the truck. "NOTHING TO SEE HERE!"
Robotnik quickly shoved Jaune out of the way and stormed into the house, Jaune following to try to get him to leave since he just intruded on private property.
However, when they got there, all that was there was a racoon eating some of the cake that was open before it ran off.
"Here's the thing..." Robotnik starts before holding up a finger. "I'm never wrong."
"Well, as they always say, there's always a first time for everything." Jaune states, walking over to the cake. "Would you like some of this cake my wife made? I heard racoons have the cleanest mouth of animal that routinely eats garbage."
Robotnik scoffed, going to leave. However, he stopped when spotting the quill. He picked it up and turned back to Jaune with a face that meant he had no surprise at all that he was right.
"Oh, look at that. I was right." Robotnik says, holding the quill and gesturing to his face. "Note the lack of surprise. Shall we try this again?"
Robotnik then started whistling the tune of 'Night of The Valkyries' as one of the egg shaped drone came in from the attic, aiming at Jaune.
"I'm going to give you 5 SECONDS...to tell me where it is. 5..." Robotnik starts
"I-I don't know what you're talking about, sir." Jaune stated
"4..." Robotnik added
Jaune pulled out his officer's badge and said, "Hey, pal, i'm a cop and you are threatening an officer, which is a federal crime."
"How can you threaten somebody who never existed?" Robotnik asked. "3..."
Jaune looked around, spotting Sonic hiding behind a counter.
"COME ON! RACK YOUR BRAIN! You might be able to come up with some lame excuse to go on living." Robotnik says. "In 2..."
Jaune looked at the drone.
"1..." Robotnik says as the drones opened it's side guns
Sonic then came out of hiding with his hands up.
"Wait, don't hurt him!" Sonic pleaded. "I'm the one you're after."
Once seeing Sonic, Robotnik practically screamed, giving Jaune the chance to grab his shield off of the wall mount and hit it against Robotnik's head, knocking him to the ground and knocking him out cold.
Then, the drone started shooting, Jaune using his shield as a defense as he grabbed Sonic and pulled him behind the counter again.
"This feels excessive!" Sonic said
Just then, the drone stopped shooting due to needing to go into reload mode. So, Jaune peeked out and looked around.
"Stay behind me." Jaune said, then noticing Sonic was nowhere to be seen
When finding Sonic again, Sonic was about to jump onto the drone. Jaune made several gestures, asking him not to do it. However, that didn't stop the teen blue hedgehog Faunus.
"Hhiya!" Sonic says as he jumped onto the drone making it spin around as it shots again, hitting the walls and other things, making Jaune go back behind the counter again. "Don't worry, I got this tin can right where I want it!"
Jaune took a deep breath, grabbing his shield again.
"Can you believe that the worldwide shipping companies are gonna deliver packages with these things?" Sonic asked, still on the drone, starting to get dizzy
Jaune then stood up as the drone went into reload mode again.
"I'm gonna puke!" Sonic calls out
Jaune then smacked the drone with his shield, destroying the drone as he dropped his shield, making Sonic to fall to the ground.
"Come on, we gotta get out of here!" Jaune said as he picked up Sonic, running outside
"Oh, don't tell me that's all you got! I'm just getting started!" Sonic said, dazed. "Let me know if you wanna go round 2 with the blue!"
Jaune put Sonic in the front passenger seat of the truck as he then got into the driver's seat and drove off. The moment that Jaune drove off, Agent Stone's SUV arrived and got out of his SUV. He then had a feeling about Robotnik's state and ran into the house and helped Robotnik back up.
"Sir, I just saw a guy race out of here and thought-" Stone started
"That you should stop them?" Robotnik intercepted. "Open your mouth...and say that you thought that you should have stopped them."
"No, I thought I should come and check on you to see if you were-" Stone starts before Robotnik grabbed him by the tongue with his robotic hand and pulled him close
"You know what's hard about being the smartest person in the world?" Robotnik asked
"Everyone else is stupid." The two both said in unison
"Yes! Way to go! You got that one!" Robotnik says, letting go and wiping his hand off on Stone's suit, narrowly missing the part of his tail under the front of his uniform. "Whoever this Faunus is...our job is to SECURE IT...neutralize it...UNCOVER THE SOURCE OF IT'S OTHERWORLDLY POWER!"
Robotnik then smirked.
"And if it resists, we take it apart...piece by piece..." Robotnik added, putting on his crooked sunglasses. "And see what make it tick."
It too a few seconds, but Robotnik realize his sunglasses were damaged.
"Stone?" Robotnik asked
"Yes, doctor?" Stone responds
"Call Optical Illusions. Tell them I need new frames." Robotnik said, tossing his sunglasses to the side. "They know what kind I like."
Robotnik then headed to the door after pointing at the quill and saying, "Oh, and bring that quill."
As Robotnik left, Stone kneels down and picked up the quill, putting it in his jacket.