Sonic The Hedgehog - Chaos on Mobius
6th Saga: The Mucho Grande Egg-cellent Saga

Episode 121

Previously in Sonic The Hedgehog - Chaos on Mobius...
Upon returning to Castle Acorn, Sally merged with the Source of All, and discovered that she was not only a chipmunk, but she is also the "True Host of the Source!"
Meanwhile, Sonic arrived at Neo Bowser City, only to get overwhelmed by Bowser's troops. But that was when his old friend Mario stepped in to lend a hand! It turns out that Mario was in the city to look for Princess Peach... but that was when Bowser showed off his new look, and froze Sonic in place! Although Mario struggled in his fight with Bowser, he eventually defeated the weaponized Koopa King as Sonic was free from his ice-cold prison.
How long until Peach gets kidnapped by Bowser again? Will Sonic be able to stop whatever Eggman is planning? And now that she's merged with the Source of All, will Sally be able to control it? Find out as Chaos on Mobius continues!

Chapter Three: Nicole Into Dreams

While Sonic and Sally were away from Freedom HQ, Tails was lying underneath a biplane he was building in his workshop, while a certain Overlander girl was sitting beside the plane, handing Tails different tools as music was playing on a set of nearby speakers.
"Are you sure we can get this plane to fly in space, Tails?" Asked the girl.
"Sure we will, Hope. Wrench." Tails replied, as he held his hand out so Hope could give him the wrench from his toolbox. "All we need to do is to add another compartment down here so I can access the extra Chaos Drives I'm installing in here without jumping out of the pilot's seat to do it. This way, the Tornado should be able to make it into space without any problem!"
"Sounds like it'll work to me!" Said Hope, who seemed happy to watch Tails work.
"It'll work. I know it will. Torch." Tails replied as he held out his hand again, this time with the wrench in hand so Hope could switch it with the welding torch. After both Tails and Hope put on their goggles, Tails started welding a curved piece of metal onto the underside of the plane.

Just as Tails had finished welding, Cosmo walked in, and was holding a plate full of sandwiches.
"I thought you two would like some lunch." She said as she sat down to hand the plate to Hope.
"Sounds like a great idea! Thanks, Cosmo." Exclaimed Tails was he slid out from under the plane, with the fur on his face darker than the rest of his body. While what was protected by his goggles was fine.
"Smells delicious." Hope pointed out as she smelt the food in her hands. "You wanna join us?" This comment made Cosmo feel uncomfortable...
"Um... I wouldn't want to inturrupt your time together..." She shyly said.
"*chuckle* It's okay, Cosmo." Tails replied as he took a sandwich from the plate. "All I'm doing is showing Hope how to put a super-powered biplane together. But during breaks, it always gets a little awkward. Maybe having you here could change that..."
"Thank you, Tails." Said Cosmo as she stood up to bow at Tails before sitting back down to join him and Hope.

After the three of them started eating, Hope comes up with a question...
"So Cosmo, from what Tails has told me, you're from Planet Wisp, right?" She asked the Seedrian, who nodded in response. "So why are you here, and not there?" Cosmo was hesitant to answer at first...
"In all honesty, I don't know." She eventually replied. "Ever since Tails found me within Space Colony ARK, I feel the need to stay near him as much as I can. I just don't know why..."
"Not that I mind." Said Tails, who was smiling at Cosmo. "You've been providing me with some great company, Cosmo." Cosmo smiled back at Tails before turning her attention back to Hope.
"If I may ask you a similar question, Hope..." She started. "...why have you been living in Knothole these past few months, instead of with the... Overlanders, I think they're called?" Like Cosmo was hesitant to answer her question, Hope did the same thing, but she also looked down at her lap in shame.
"Well, the Overlanders of Station Square don't really like seeing Mobians in their city anymore..." Hope replied. "And because I'm a Kintobor, they frown upon me, too."
"I'm sorry to hear that, Hope." Said Cosmo, who offered the Overlander girl a hug.
"Thanks, Cosmo. Can we get back to work?" Hope turned her attention to Tails as she hugged Cosmo, and Tails was finishing his sandwich.
"Sure. All we have to do now is build a proper console for the cockpit, and we can start painting! You wanna give us a hand, Cosmo?" Cosmo just stared at Tails in confusion.
"Yeah, if you helped us, we could finish in no time at all!" Added Hope.
"Sounds great. Thank you." Cosmo replied.
"Oh no, thank you." Said Tails as he used his two tails to fly up to the cockpit.

Amy was watching the whole thing from her room, since she had a decent view from her bed. And she sighed as she lied down on the bed.
"It's not fair..." She said to herself. "Even Tails has got a girl who cares about him. Why can't I find someone who's like that with me?" It was then that a certain, half-visible pink hedgehog appeared in front of her bed.
"You're not jealous of Sally again, are you?" She asked as she placed her hands on her hips. "Because you putting that behind you was the whole reason why I came back to you." Amy then sat up to face the hedgehog spirit.
"I'm not jealous, Shahra..." She replied. "It's just that every one of the Freedom Fighters seems to have that special someone... except for me." Shahra then sat down beside Amy, and placed her hand on the girl's shoulder.
"I know that I'm not close to what you're talking about, Amy... but I also know that you will find someone who cares about you just as much as you will about them." This made Amy look out at the living room, where she saw TodStar and Nicole laughing as they were playing a video game together. Seeing them happy made Amy sadly sigh again.

TodStar and Nicole were playing a game where they were trying to see if they matched. It turns out that while they worked together in the mini-games quite well, their personalities didn't match at all! But this made both TodStar and Nicole laugh out loud.
"Oh, how I love NOT playing by the rules of that mode!" Said TodStar as he wiped a tear from his eye.
"You were right. Having all of the wrong answers IS more entertaining." Nicole pointed out as she wrapped her arms around TodStar's chest.
"We already know that opposites attract, right?" TodStar asked.
"Mm-hm. Although there is something I want to try with you, TodStar..." Said Nicole, making TodStar blush.
"Y-you really think we're ready for that?"
"You don't even know what I'm thinking about, do you?"
"I hope I don't, Nicole..."
"All I'm asking is if you'd be willing to join me in my dreams tonight. That's all." Hearing this, TodStar sighed deeply with great relief.
"Hang on... what do you mean by 'in your dreams?'"
"Once we go to bed, I can temporarily attach wires made from my nanites into your brain, allowing your subconcious to be with mine as we sleep."
"Wow. That actually sounds like a great-" TodStar was inturrupted when Sonic came blasting into Freedom HQ.
"Guys, I need you all in the living room so we can talk!" He shouted, before everyone dropped what they were doing and rushed to where Sonic was. "Okay, here's what's up. While me & Sal were sparring, I got a letter from Eggman..."

As Sonic was wrapping up what had happened to him that day (over dinner), Sally was returning to Freedom HQ.
"So if anyone's comin' with me, you'd better be ready for a fight against Bowser's goons before getting up to Eggman's amusement park." Sonic stated, as Sally was listening from outside.
"I'd join you guys, but Hope, Cosmo & I are almost finished with the new Tornado." Said Tails. "And I'd like to get it finished pretty soon. And besides, you guys can take my Arwing Camera so I can still see what's going on!"
"Sounds good to me, Tails." Sonic replied.
"Just remember not to rush it, OK?" Nicole warned.
"No problem, I've still got those plans you gave me to decipher." Tails pointed out, making Nicole think.
"Maybe I should stay here to keep an eye on Tails..." She thought out loud, but TodStar quickly changed her mind.
"Oh no, you don't! You'll be comin' with us when we check out Eggman's park!" He said, making Nicole smile at the green echidna. "You're comin' too, right Amy?"
"You bet! I'm not missing out on an adventure like this!" Amy replied.
"I hope you're not thinking of leaving me behind, you guys..." Said Sally, as she entered Freedom HQ. Everyone in the living room instantly noticed that Sally's hair colour had changed from red to yellow.

"Whoa. Uhh... what's with the dye job, Sal?" Sonic nervously asked as he started blushing, making Sally smirk.
"It's just a side-effect from merging with the Source of All." Sally told Sonic, so no one else could hear. "You like it?" Sonic couldn't help but stare Sally up and down before replying.
"Yeah. You look cute as a blonde." Sonic answered shyly, before getting closer to his girlfriend. "Reminds me of when we first met..."
"*giggle* Thanks, Sonic." Said Sally as the two hugged, before turning their attention to the rest of the team. "Okay guys, we'd better get some sleep if we're gonna see just what Eggman is up to tomorrow." And with that, everyone started walking towards the bedrooms; Amy and Hope went to Amy's room, since there was a double-bunk bed in Amy's room. TodStar & Nicole shared TodStar's bed, while Tails & Cosmo shared Tails' bed, and Sonic & Sally shared Sonic's bed.

Later that night, as Nicole slept in TodStar's arms, a small wire emerged from her forehead, and slowly made its way into TodStar's, connecting the two minds.
While TodStar was dreaming, he was suddenly taken from a dark, destroyed world into a land where hills and trees were above as well as below him!
"What the...? Where am I?!" TodStar asked as he also appeared to be flying through this strange world.
"You're in my dream, TodStar..." Said a voice he loved to hear. When TodStar looked to his right, he noticed that he was holding hands with Nicole, but she was wearing something different; She was wearing a jester-like costume, with a red-and-pink vest and purple tights. "Isn't this amazing?"
"Sure is." TodStar replied, as a smile appeared on his face when he saw small Chao-like beings hovering in the land above and below them. "It's pretty cool that we can actually share a dream like this, Nicole!"
"Yes it is, and I'm glad I can share this dream with you..." Nicole replied as she and TodStar held each other close before they started twirling through the air...

Meanwhile, as Sally slept in Sonic's arms, she started groaning and showed her teeth, as she seemed to be having a nightmare...
Sally suddenly found herself in the same void as when the Source spoke to her earlier that day...
"The Source? Why have you brought me back here?" She asked as some gold liquid assumed her form again.
"Princess... tonight, we bring a warning..." It told her, making her eyes widen.
"Is this about the battle you mentioned earlier today?" Sally asked, but the Sally clone shook its head.
"No. There is a great threat to the Source itself." The Source replied. "We are aware that a sample of the Source that has already been tainted by evil. You must find the culprit, before all of the Source is corrupted... and Mobius is destroyed."

Sally gasped in horror as she quickly sat up, which woke Sonic as well.
"Sal? What's wrong?" Asked Sonic, as Sally was heavily panting.
"The Source... it's in danger, Sonic..." She replied as she walked up to the window. "And I think I might know who's responsible for this threat..."
"Yeah, me too." Agreed Sonic as he wrapped his arms around Sally's stomach from behind. "But you're gonna need your sleep if we're gonna bring him down tomorrow." Sally nodded before returning to the bed, but that was when she looked back at Sonic, who was staring through the window.
"You need your sleep too, Mr. Hero..." She told the blue hedgehog.
"I know. I'll be right there." Sonic replied before Sally turned her back to him. Sonic found himself staring up at the object in saw in the sky earlier that day... "(Eggman... I don't know what you're up to this time... but you're gonna have to deal with the Freedom Fighters before you can go through with it.)"

Meanwhile, aboard the Egg Shuttle, Dr. Eggman was drawing what appeared to be schematics on a tablet, when he heard an announcement...
"We are now approaching the Tropical Resort." Said Orbot via the speakers. "Please fasten your seatbelts, because it will be a rough landing..."
"Arr! No need to be callin' attention to me poor spaceship drivin', matey!" Cubot pointed out as he flew the Egg Shuttle towards Eggman's amusement park. Eggman was ignoring the robots, because he was perfectly focused on what he was drawing...
"Argh. It's still missing something, but I can't quite put my finger on it..." He grumbled, just before he snapped his fingers in triumph. "Of course! It needs a shield!" Eggman then drew a round object that resembled a shield on the tablet, and he suddenly started chuckling. "I can't wait until Sonic finds out what I'm up to... for I have a VERY big surprise for him! Hee hee hee... HAAA HA HA! AHH HAHAHA!"

END OF CHAPTER