In San Francisco, a taxi pulled up outside of the Transvaleian Business Pyramid. Sonic looked at it, tilting his head.
"So that's the place?" Sonic asked
"Yep, that's your pyramid." Jaune replies
"So, now what do we-" Ruby starts until Sonic rushed off and tried to run up the side of a building. "Oh, he's gone."
Sonic then came back since the sides of the building were too steep to run up.
"Running up is no good. I saw a door up there but it needs a special key." Sonic states
"How do we get up there?" Ruby asks
After some thinking, Jaune got an idea.
"Time to abuse the power entrusted to me." Jaune states. "Probably gonna hate myself for this, though."
Later, once going into the Transvaleian Building, Sonic was hidden in a dufflebag as Sonic zips it closed, Sonic feeling a little cramped and hardly able to breathe.
"Stay in there and be quiet." Jaune whispered to Sonic
Jaune and Ruby walked up to a receptionist as Jaune pulled out his officer's badge.
"We've got a jumper up on the roof, we need to get up there otherwise we'll have a human pancake on our hands." Jaune stated
The receptionist looked at the badge and asked, "You came from...Green Hills?"
"Yeah." Jaune stated as he put his badge up. "That's how serious this situation is."
After some silence, the receptionist handed Jaune the keys to the roof.
"You just saved a life." Jaune said as him and Ruby walked off to the elevators
Ruby called the elevator and when two employees got nearby, Sonic whispered from inside the bag.
"How much longer? I can't breathe in here." Sonic whispered
"Do you have your child in that bag?" The female employee asked
"No." Jaune answers. "I mean, yes, it's a child, but, it's not mine."
"It's not your child..." The male employee responded as the two employees walked off
"Smells like body spray and an old ham sandwich." Sonic comments
When actually up on the roof, Jaune set the dufflebag down and unzipped it, Sonic springing out and coughing.
"What were you keeping in this bag?!" Sonic said as he got out
"Okay, okay, what are we looking for?" Jaune asked
When Sonic spotted his ring bag and ran over, grabbed it, hung it over his shoulders, and pulled out a ring before running back to Jaune and Ruby.
"This." Sonic said, looking at the ring
"So that's it? We did it?" Jaune asked
"Yeah, we did." Sonic said before looking down
Jaune looked around a bit, kneeled down next to Sonic and asked, "Not sure you wanna go?"
"I don't wanna go, but I can't stay." Sonic says, tearing up a little before wiping away the tears. "As long as i'm here, everyone here is in danger."
"Well, one thing is for sure. I'm gonna miss ya, you blue speedster." Jaune states
"I'll miss you too, Doughnut Lord." Sonic says, walking over to the edge of the roof as Jaune put an arm over Ruby's shoulder
Sonic took a deep breath and threw the ring only for it to bounce off of one of Robotnik's drones and land back in the bag somehow, preventing a portal from opening. Just then, more and more of the drones showed up and surrounded the three.
"Okay, did someone leave their 'Find My Scroll' on?" Sonic asked
Jaune pulled Ruby closer as in the distance, Robotnik's Bullhead showed up. When it levitated in front of the three as if it was staring them down, the cockpit opened revealing Robotnik in a red, black, and grey flightsuit with some goggles.
"Welcome to San Francisco, Mr. Rose." Robotnik starts. "Are you enjoying the clam chowder?"
"That's the military wack-job that keeps trying to kill us." Jaune told to Ruby. "UNSUCCESSFULLY! Nice of ya to swing by on your way to Rem-Con."
"Yeah, what are you wearing, sir?" Ruby asked
Robotnik looks at his flightsuit before saying, "It's a flightsuit! Designed to modulate my body temperature and reduce drag."
"Yeah, and yet you are still one." Jaune spoke
"Oooh! God one. You are catching FIRE, Jaune." Robotnik states. "And speaking of heat, I see you've taken a lover. Does she have a name or should we just call her...collateral damage?"
"Hey, watch your mouth unless you want some more of what I gave you earlier!" Jaune snaps before turning to Ruby. "I hit him right in the face with my shield."
"He hit him right in the face, it was AWESOME!" Sonic adds
"The time for talking is over!" Robotnik snaps. "It's time to push buttons."
"Your flying eggs are pretty impressive, Mr. Eggman." Sonic scoffs. "But let's face it, you'll never catch me!"
"Confidence..." Robotnik said with a nod before his face quickly changed. "A FOOL'S substitute for intelligence."
Just then, all the drones opened up, aiming at Sonic, Ruby, and Jaune.
"Uh...Sonic, I know you have that gem that can manipulate time and everything but Ruby and I..." Jaune starts
"Totally defenseless? Probably gonna get blown up?" Sonic asked
"Pretty much, yeah." Ruby responds
"Don't worry, I know exactly what to do." Sonic states
Within seconds, he shoved the two off of the roof of the building, them screaming as they fell, Robotnik looking over the side of his Bullhead fr a second or two before looking back at Sonic.
"I was not expecting that," Robotnik stated. with a mild touch of shock. "But I was expecting not to expect something, so it doesn't count." he added with a shrug
Just then, all of the drones shot at Sonic, only for the emerald on his necklace to flash and time to slow down for Sonic.
Sonic looked at his wrist, pretending he had a fitbit on.
"Look at this, I took 9,000,000 steps today." Sonic scoffed
Sonic then grabbed some missile, knocked some bullets own out of the air, then slammed the missiles on a couple of drones, destroyed a few more, before destroying one as he slides under it.
Just then, a button in Robotnik's ship glows blue and the cockpit closed and the ship took off, escaping Sonic's time manipulation.
Sonic then goes down the side of the building, aiming some drones at each other. However, he went wide eyed when he saw Robotnik's Bullhead flying right at him and aiming a shot He tried to get away.
"Ah!" Sonic screamed as the shot then hit the side of the building, nearly
Just then, Sonic blacked out shortly, leaving his time manipulating state as e fell as well, his rings being all over the place around him. He only woke up at the sound of Jaune and Ruby's screaming.
"Come on, come on, come on, come on!" Sonic mutters as he reached for a ring he could use to save the two
Eventually, Sonic just gives up and pulls a quill off and uses it's extra reach to obtain a ring. He then resumes running on the building and throws the ring, opening a portal below Jaune and Ruby as they fall through it and land on a series of haybales by a road somewhere else in Vale.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Sonic gasped before falling through a tree since the portal closed, and landing face first on the ground
The rest of the rings, along with all the dead drones, landed all around Sonic as he slowly got up with a groan. When he got up, he looked over at Robotnik as the large Bullhead the crooked doctor was in floated there.
"Can I give you one GENIUS piece of advice? Don't run, it'll only hurt more if you do." Robotnik states with a smirk. "And it's bad for your joints, they proved it."
"Alright, Eggman, wanna get fast? Let's get fast." Sonic responds, running around and picking up his rings and putting them back in the bag
Once Sonic had picked up all of the rings, he took off running into San Francisco.
"The hard way, it is." Robotniks states, putting on his goggles as his ship follows Sonic not being too far behind
He had to go fast. It was his only choice if Sonic were to escape Robotnik. Robotnik kept shooting his ship's laser weapon at chase eventually has the two taking a hard left.
"That was an illegal left, by the way." Robotnik says, trying to shoot at Sonic again, but hitting a car instead
When Sonic dodged the explosion, everything freezes again.
So, here we are again. We've been through so much together. Now you understand why there's a psychotic robot doctor chasing a super-sonic blue hedgehog Faunus. Wanna know how it ends? Yeah, me too.
Once everything unfreezes, for whatever reason, Robotnik's sped up Bullhead spun around, still shooting at Sonic.
Sonic jumps up onto a long exterior windowsill, then jumping and making a pose to dodge another shot, then sliding back down to the ground, all while leaving a short blue streak behind him while running. He quickly slides under a truck, narrowly avoiding an explosion as Robotnik's Bullhead is still not far behind.
"How is this possible?!" Sonic questioned as he pulled out a ring, unsure as to how Robotnik is able to keep up with him. "No one's ever caught up to me before."
Sonic opened a ring portal to somewhere random in Atlas, running past a few random citizens, and even the general but not noticing while running.
"Coming through!" Sonic shouts
Just then, Robotnik's Bullhead soars through the portal, going right over Ironwood, missing him by a few inches, no, centimeters.
"Excuse me, sir." Robotnik said with a chuckle
Ironwood sighed as he quietly mumbled, "This is not what he was supposed to do to handle this situation."
Just then, the chase led them to a long wall in Mistral.
"Here we go, room to open it up!" Sonic says as he grabs yet another ring
While running along this large brick wall in Mistral, he noticed he's failing to lose Robotnik.
"I can't lose him!" Sonic said as he opened a portal ring to Vacuo, jumping past a shot
He came to a sliding stop, dodging three shots and getting an idea when the sand was kicked up a little and Robotnik flew right past.
"If you can't beat 'em," Sonic states, smirking. "Blind 'em."
Sonic then started running in circles below Robotnik's Bullhead, kicking up a spinning cylinder of sand surrounding the Bullhead.
"Lost...visual...contact!" Robotnik says, seeing through his cockpit windshield, he saw Sonic running up the side of one of the mountains nearby. "You're not allowed up there, it's one of the seven wonders!"
Robotnik flew his ship right out of the sand tornado, right at Sonic and aiming his laser gun at the speedy Faunus. Sonic threw a rng portal, this time one to Green Hills.
Sonic was getting closer and closer to the portal as Robotnik pulled the trigger.
The laser shot was about to hit Sonic until...
TO BE CONTINUED