In San Francisco, Jaune finally arrived to Ruby's temporary apartment as he picked up an unconscious Sonic and held him as if he was carrying a box and ran up to the door of the temporary apartment and knocked, waiting. When Ruby answered, he quickly pulled Jaune in and shut the door behind him.

"What is going on with you, Jaune? I've been trying to call you, you're all over the news-" Ruby started, extremely concerned

"Look, I haven't been able to respond cause of the fact me and this guy I have on my back have been getting chased by a guy from Atlas." Jaune explained, setting Sonic on the couch

"I'm just glad you're okay." Ruby replied, quickly hugging Jaune

Jaune hugged back.

"Uncle Jaune!" A young voice, belonging to Dandee, spoke as Dandee walked up and hugged Jaune

"Hey, Dandee." Jaune said with a smile. "Wait, where's Yang?"

"She went to go buy some spare clothes. Blake should get here in a few minutes." Ruby answers. "Anything you want from the kitchen, Jaune?"

"I could use a glass of water." Jaune replied

In his truck, after having his Bullhead turn into said truck, Robotnik put on some headphones and scrolled through his saved playlist. He landed on one he named 'Tunes of Anarchy' that started with a remix of some sort of song he had made by someone wh willingly did it for him, for free, even.

Robotnik spun his chair around. He then took the quill out of a mechanical claw he had it in and rolled over to a tube and typed on the keyboard in front of it and some small lights came on. He put one end of the quill in one end of a jump-starter cable and grabbed the other end. The moment the other end came into contact with the quill, all the power in Robotnik's mobile truck lab went out, the song pausing.

Robotnik turned on a lighter built into his robotic index finger and looked around as he opened the fusebox in his truck and flicked a few switches and with that, the power was back on as he turned off the lighter by closing his finger up and he resumed his music as he gave the quill to a mechanical claw.

Robotnik then started doing some over the top dancing as the claw put the quill in the tube and an analysts started. He then pressed a few things on his control panes and acted as if he was skiing down a mountain. Then, he pressed a few other things and was acting as if he was running from a T-Rex. He then tossed his headphones in the air and turned to the holographic display. The dinosaur bot down and it looked like it actually bit off Robotnik's head off but his arms start going side to side as he walks forward a bit he then stops and turns around and lifts up the sides of his coat.

The moment he dropped the sides of his coat, he did some more over the top dancing. What he didn't notice was Agent Stone had shown up with a couple of lattes. Once he did notice Stone was there, he screamed and the song cut off.

"I just thought you might like a latte with steamed Vacuo goat milk." Stone says

"What do I look like, an imbecile?" Robotnik started as he walked over to Agent Stone. "Of course I want a latte. I LOVE THE WAY YOU MAKE THEM!"

They then heard a ding-ding-ding and Robotnik looked over in the direction the dinging came from and walked over and saw the quill analysis was complete. The UI was a bit glitchy though

QUILL POWER LEVEL: INFINITE

"Ready the prototype weapons for this vehicle's Bullhead mode." Robotnik said

Stone simply nodded and went to do what he was told.

"With this kind of power, my machines can finally reach their full potential." Robotnik stated

Back at Ruby's apartment, Ruby had sat Sonic up properly and was checking various things to make sure Soni was not dead or had any broken bones.

"Well, Jaune, he doesn't have any broken bones, he's just really banged up." Ruby said, noticing the damaged and old shoes and taking them off and noticing the hurt feet. "Poor guy's feet."

Dandee checked the shoe size and went off somewhere else in the apartment.

"His pulse is still going, he's still breathing, i'm just really concerned about him, ok? I don't want that guy from the Atlas Military that's after us to get to him." Jaune stated.

"i think I have some smelling salts in my handbag." Ruby stated

Ruby reached into said handbag and pulled out some smelling salts and used them. Sonic woke up in a split second.

"Gotta go fast!" Sonic said, before e ran around and stopped on the back of the couch.

"Whoa, buddy, calm down, you're okay." Jaune said

Sonic noticed Ruby and said, "Hi, Flower Lady."

"Hi." Ruby responds. "Sit down, let your legs rest, Jaune and I have to talk for a second."

While Ruby was talking to Jaune in another room, Dandee came back with some red shoes that had white straps and gold buckles. She then kindly offered them to Sonic as he hopped to the main seat part of the couch.

"They're for so you won't hurt your feet anymore." Dandee said with a smile

Sonic grabbed the shoes, smiling.

"No one's ever given me a gift before." Sonic said with a slight chuckle. "Guess I gotta cross that off the ol' bucket list."

Sonic put the shoes on. Smiling and happily accepting the gift.

Back at the front door of the apartment, Jaune got back in from checking on his truck.

"So, my truck still runs, but it's basically totaled." Jaune stated. "Any ideas?"

"I'll think of something." Ruby stated as she dug through her handbag

In Ruby's temporary apartment's living room, Sonic was having a staring contest with Zwei, Dandee sitting nearby.

"So, you're supposed to be Jaune's best friend he won't shut up about." Sonic said. "I don't see the appeal."

Zwei then started licking Sonic's face much like how a dog would lick it's owner's face. This alone got Sonic to start laughing.

"Stop!" Sonic said, still laughing as Dandee chuckled a little as well. "That is very gross."

Jaune walked into view and spoke, "Hey, Dandee, can Uncle Jaune get a minute alone with Sonic?"

"Sure." Dandee replied as she got up and walked off. "Come on, Zwei."

Zwei followed Dandee without too much hesitation as Jaune sat on the couch.

"Cool dog, no wonder he's your best 'animal friend'." Sonic comments

"Come on, have a seat." Jaune said. "I wanna talk to you for a sec."

"Ok." Sonic replied as he sat on the floor

"Up here." Jaune clarifies, gently patting next to him

"Right." Sonic said, getting up and sitting back down next to Jaune

Jaune took a calm and deep breath.

"So...back on the highway, what was with that whole crazy lightning display we saw?" Jaune asked

"I don't know. It's only happened to me one other time. At the tennis field." Sonic replies

"Tennis field? That's weird." Jaune comments. "What in the world were you doing there?"

"Just...playing tennis." Sonic said, getting a look from Jaune. "Okay, okay, there may have been some light crying involved. My Semblance gets weird when I get emotional."

"Well, emotions can be powerful things at times." Jaune comments. "It's a regular thing to struggle with."

"Never seen anyone else shoot lightning out of their butt." Sonic stated

"Well, I guess we can say that's what makes your Semblance unique." Jaune stated. "With enough time and practice, who knows what you can do?"

"Fair point." Sonic replied. "And i'm sure it's a tough decision for you to leave Green Hills. I'm sorry I was so hard on you."

"So, we good?" Jaune asks

"Yeah, we're good." Sonic replied, hugging Jaune in a way as if Jaune was his father before hopping off the couch

"We better hit the road." Jaune replied

"Hey, Jaune, our best bet would be to call a Taxi." Ruby called out from another room

Jaune looked at Sonic and said, "You wanna pick which Taxi service we use?"

Sonic smiled, nodding a little.