(Hey everyone, I'm sorry for taking so long but this is a very busy time for me.
Please understand I don't want to stay away and not write for everyone's enjoyment, but I need to do this.
So without a further ado, please Read, Review, and Enjoy.)
The Swatbots climbed up a cliff at the shore where they dumped Sonic and Tails, as ordered by Snively. The two-tailed fox was a witness to their plans. And so, making sure that the two Mobians' limbs were tied up with heavy weights, the robots tossed the two over the cliff with a loud splash. Robotnik's laughter could be heard; he was watching it from one of his spy camera drones.
As they sank deeper until they reached the ocean's floor, Tails continued to wiggle in an attempt to free himself and his best friend before they drowned. As he wiggled, his tails accidently made the lamp to fall from the unconscious hedgehog's crown, into the sand next to them. The boy genius noticed it and changed his attempts to reach for it, but he felt himself being stopped suddenly. Tails turned around and saw the weight chained to their feet, preventing either of them from moving. Even with the extra weight, Tails used his twin tails to rotate in order to propel him further to reach the lamp. As he got closer, Tails began to lose the little oxygen he had in his body and fell unconscious. His body hit the ground nearby; the impact caused the lamp to move closer to the unconscious fox boy where the lamp rubbed against his head.
Lokee then appeared out of the lamp, as he said to the readers, stretching in his pajamas and holding a teddy bear, "As always, getting the zing when you hear the ring."
Turning to the two Mobians, the genie greeted them, "Yo bros?"
Lokee gapped at what he saw, his friends unconscious and chained at the bottom of the ocean.
"Bros!" He cried out, his sleep wear disappearing. He got Tails and laid him unconscious next to Sonic whom the genie began to smack silly to try and wake him up, "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!"
He stopped what he was doing and said, slowly panicking, "Oh snap out of it, Sonic! You can't trick yerself and Tails out of this one! You need to say, 'Lokee, I want you to save our lives.' There, okay? Simple."
He then shook the blue hedgehog and the orange fox crying out, "COME YOU TWO!"
They remained still but, Tails shook his head unconsciously, causing Lokee to say to the readers, "Wweeeelllllll… Technically, Sonic did say the second wish was for Tails, ssooooo."
He turned into a Mobian version of Aquaman, sending out a telepathic message for a sea creature to save his friends. A large sperm whale like creature, blue body, but brown headed creature with no eyes came and swallowed the three of them before shooting a giant stream of water out from his blowhole.
It looked like a large whirlpool which allowed them to shoot out of the water and land on the cliff. Once they landed on the ground, both Mobians began coughing out the water in their lungs.
Changing back, Lokee floated over to them and said, "Don't either of you do that to me again. If I wasn't immortal I'd die of a heart attack."
Whispering, he continued, "Plus it'd be the end of the story for us all."
Sonic kept coughing, before looking at Tails, "Tails… you…"
Sonic, then turned to Lokee, and said, "Lokee… I..."
The three shared a hug as Sonic finally was able to say to the two of them, "Thanks, you guys."
"Ah don't mention, it. I'm really starting to take a liking to you guys." Lokee said, giving his blue friend the crown and lamp back.
Then flew back to Mobotropolis while Lokee commented, "Not that I want to pick out curtains or anything."
Back in the palace, Sally was sitting in her room, brushing her hair. Since her return from the flight around the world, Sally had told Bunnie everything that happened. Especially the places she had been but previously only read about. And judging how she was humming the song that she had just sung with Prince Soni, it was the most wonderful thing she had ever done.
"Sally?" A monotone voice called from behind her.
Sally and Bunnie turned to see the king at the door. They got up and walked to her father while the princess gave a little twirling around with her step, "Oh Father. I just had the most wonderful night of my life! I couldn't have been happier."
"Precisely why I came. I have found the perfect husband for you." The king told her, still speaking in a monotone voice.
The two girls glanced to each other confused before the princess asked, "What?"
"Sally, you will be wed to… Julian." The king opened the door and there was Robotnik, standing there smiling with his nephew trailing behind. The princess and her hand maiden gasped in shock.
"I see you are speechless, my dear princess. A fine quality in a bride." Robotnik stated, sliping her hand in his. Before he could kiss it, Sally pulled her bad back and went to her father.
"Father, I don't want to marry Julian. I've chosen Prince Soni!" Sally told her father.
"I'm afraid that Prince Soni has left the city." Robotnik informed her, however…
A blue gust of wind was seen speeding around before the four of them turned to see Sonic standing there, crown off his head and in the hands of Tails who flew in by the balcony. Sonic was leaning against the wall close to the balcony entrance and said, "Better check your prognosis again, Ro-Butt-nik."
Happy to see her prince there, Sally hurried over to him and cried out, "Soni!"
Both villains were confused by this. Snively asked, "How in the…"
Robotnik cut his nephew off and said, "We're soo glad to see that I was wrong."
Sonic, however, sped past Robotnik and said to the hypnotized king, "Your Majesty, your advisor tried to drown me and my friend!"
"Absurd, I would never! He's obviously lying, your majesty." Robotnik said, fiddling with the control device in his hand,
"Obviously… lying…" King Max repeated.
Sally was in complete shock at what she was hearing. Holding her father by her shoulders, she asked, "Father, what's the matter with you?"
While all eyes were on the king, Tails noticed the device and said, "I think I know the problem!"
Using his tails, Tails flew at a quick speed, grabbed the device, and broke it against the wall. The shock of this made King Max shake his head as two small chips fell out onto the floor. Sonic high-fived Tails and said to the confused king, "Your majesty, Ro-Butt-nik and Snively have been controlling you with these!"
After taking the chips in his hands, King Max recognized the technology and asked, shocked, "Wh-what?! Julian? And Snively?"
"You traitors!" King Max exclaimed angrily as all five of them began converging on the nervous Overlanders.
The large Overlander tried to talk himself out of it, "Your majesty, I can explain my actions perfectly if you could just-"
"Guards!" King Max ordered, not even giving Robotnik the chance. The palace guards charged in.
Snively, seeing them cried out, "We're trapped! We're dead, forget it. We're dead."
Before they grabbed hold of him, Robotnik saw the Lamp in Sonic's cloak. Just as he tried to take it, the palace guards came and seized him.
"Arrest Julian and Snively for crimes of treason!"
Robotnik took a bomb like object from his suit and told the blue hedgehog, "This isn't over yet, Hedgehog!"
Sonice's eyes widened at the tone of Robotnik calling him "hedgehog", realizing that it was Robotnik that led them to the Cavern and tried to kill them to get Lokee's lamp. Sonic tried to stop Robotnik, but a thick cloud of smoke suddenly covered the room. When it cleared, the guards found themselves head locking each other.
After his vision returned to him, King Max ordered, "Find me those traitors! Search everywhere!"
When the guards left to find Robotnik, Sonic when to Sally, concerned for her, "You okay Sal?"
"Yes, I'm all right." Sally said after recovering from smoke.
The two stared into each other's eyes before they leant in to kiss. But they were interrupted by the king who had inadvertedly walked between them, unable to come to terms with what transpired.
"I cannot believe it! My most trusted advisor, plotting against me. Even after so many years of trust. The man who helped stopped the Great War, a trait-" King Max said, but stopped as he realized what he just saw while he was talking about the man he thought he knew since Julian had joined the Mobian's forces years ago.
He turned around and asked, "Can it be? Has my daughter finally chosen a husband?"
Smiling despite herself, Sally nodded. Clapping his knee, King Max exclaimed, "Praise Solaris!"
King Max went over and shook Sonic's hand, "Fine work, my boy. You have done both me and this kingdom a service by revealing Robotnik's treachery."
He then said, "I could kiss you, but no. I'll be leaving that to my-. You both shall be wed at once!"
Those assembled cheered, while Sally and Bunnie hugged each other at the thought of the princess getting married. Tails grabbed Sonic's shoulders and shook him in congratulation. Even as the king said, "And then you, my boy. You will be king."
"King?" Sonic asked, stunned.
"Precisely! A fine young man with your outstanding moral character is exactly what this kingdom needs in a ruler. Anyone who was able to expose the truth of an enemy hidden in plain sight deserves to sit on the throne." The king went on while he and the others continued on their way.
As he heard this, Sonic grew concerned. Especially since he had lied and used a wish to get where he was…
'Smooth, Hedgehog… very smooth.' He thought as he glanced at the lamp in his cape.
In Robotnik's secret laboratory, both our villains rushed in. Robotnik stood behind to seal the secret entrance into his lab and leaned against the wall. Snively, however, hurried to a computer and began typing frantically, "I can have the stealth ships programmed to get us out of the kingdom borders in an hour, Sir! We need weapons, Swatbots, money. Our secret plans of weapons we were going to use to change the kingdom to our specifications."
Suddenly, he heard something that made him turn to his uncle. He saw Robotnik laughing in a mad wild manner, sliding down to the floor. Concerned, Snively went over and stated, while Robotnik kept laughing like a maniac, "Oh dear… He's finally lost it."
"Sir?! Sir! You don't usually laugh like this, sir… Please calm down…" Snively pleaded over the insane laughter. He then shouted, angrily, "GET A GRIP ON IT, JULIAN!"
And Robotnik did just that, by grabbing his nephew by the neck. The minute nephew wheezed, meekly, "Superb grip… as always… sir…"
Robotnik brought his nephew to his eye level and revealed, "I've had an epiphany, Snively. Those insufferable brats, Prince Soni and his attendant, are none other than the juvenile thieves Sonic and Tails!"
"Wh-what?! But that-" Snively began before Robotnik squeezed harder and told his slow witted nephew, "He has the lamp, Snively!"
He let Snively drop to the floor hard as Robotnik went to his chair. When Snively got the sense back into him, he said, "Then, we must take the lamp from him as soon as possible, sir."
"Exactly why you are going to relieve him of it." Robotnik said as he turned to face his nephew.
Snively whimpered, turned to his uncle and asked, "Me?"
(Yes I know, it was short but it's still good, right? Who liked how it turned out? Especially when Lokee had become a mobian version of Aquaman and summoned a Whamon to save them? Besides who didn't expect Robotnik to grab Snively's neck when he told him to get a grip? So here's the deal. Spring break has started for me today and I have today, tomorrow, and the next nine days of no college to get some more work done (writing my stories as I should say).
Oh yeah, if any of you are interested please take a look at the "Spirit of Balance" challenge. If you have any questions about it or if you are interested in taking the challenge, please feel free to pm me.)