Chapter 6:

The Return Part 2

These are the memoirs of the zone cop Speed the Hedgehog

Finding Sonic was beginning to become harder than I initially thought, having learned that he escaped the transport to the Devil's Gulag I had no choice but to find him through the DNA tracker that I had installed on my ship's computer. Locating a fugitive on the run was beginning to become much harder than I thought.

"DNA found on Floating Island, proceed?"

That's it I've found him! I made a quick turn and headed for the Floating Island, it was then I realized that I have not met Knuckles yet, the echidna could pose a threat to my mission. No matter I needed to continue. I arrived about thirty minutes from the initial scan and found the Floating Island deserted, I was too late I needed to find out where they went.

"Where did they go I wonder," just then I sensed someone trying to jump me from behind, "nice try for a novice, who are you anyway?"

"I am Espio the Chameleon, and I'll ask the questions pal."

"You're one of the Chaotix aren't you; good then you must know where Sonic went, tell me."

"No"

"Don't make this harder than it has to be."

He attacked trying to through his punches at me, but I dodged them easily.

"Man you're fast."

"That's what I've been told."

Just then Dulcy the dragon showed up, but instead of fighting me, she convinced Espio to tell me where Sonic went, which leads me to believe that dragons in this zone must have some power to detect good intentions or evil one's, but there was no time to ask, she told me Sonic headed for Knothole just moments ago, I hope I still have time to catch up with them.

There it is Knothole, are those Robotnik's Swatbots?! The battle seems to have already started I hope I haven't missed out on the fun.

"What is that some reinforcements for Robotnik?" Asked Knuckles

"No, but I can't believe he's back, I never thought I would see him again." Said Sonic

"Who?" Asked Knuckles, again.

"Speed the Hedgehog." I answered, butting into the conversation. "It's good to see you again Sonic."

"Likewise, we needed some help." Sonic said after smashing a swatbot.

"Let me take care of this, quickly." I said after activating the flame shield.

"Yeah right how are you going take care of all these swatbots? Oh." Knuckles asked then had his question answered when I melted the remaining swatbots with blasts of heat from the shield.

"We'll catch up later, I spy a traitor" said Sonic as he ran after Drago.

But it wasn't Sonic that stopped Drago, it was Hershey and she explained to him that she was tricked while dressed as Sonic at giving Sally her deathly fall, I don't think I had ever seen Sonic as mad as he was right then, the amount of rage in him was just enough to push him over the edge, he started heading towards Robotropolis, and I had to actually struggle to catch up.

"What are you doing Speed, this is personal between me and Robotnik, it does not involve you at all."

"On the contrary, you and I both know that I have an old score to settle with Robotnik for turning me into this."

"Personally, I think it was an improvement, you look better as a hedgehog anyway."

"So are you ready to defeat Robotnik Sonic, I'll help you get in, but as a zone cop I'm required not to help you defeat him directly, so you're on your own."

"Fine just help me get in there."

While Sonic tried his after-image move on the missiles I disable the system so they would stop firing altogether, allowing him to infiltrate the facility. Then I followed him just far enough not to be seen by anyone until Sonic beat up Snively anyway.

"You! I never thought I would see you ever again." Said Snively

"I'm like a bad penny; you can't get rid of me."

"I imagine you're going to kill me now for what my uncle and I did to you."

"The thought had crossed my mind, but no I try not to seek revenge, but I don't have to help you."

"You can't just leave me here in pain!!"

"You are very mistaken Snively, I don't have to help you at all, in fact that's exactly what I'm going to do is to leave you here alone, by yourself."

After my brief run in with Snively I bumped into Bunnie and Antoine.

"Other sugah hog what are you doing here!"

"I could say the same about you two as well."

"Well you were right about Sonic not killing Sally it was…"

"I know I found out not too long ago…"

"Excuse me, but we need to get out of here now, there's a bomb to worry about, remember?"

"What a bomb?!"

"Yeah and Sonic made us leave to fight Robotnik by himself."

"Okay you two get out of here, I'll take care of Sonic and Robotnik."

"What are you going to do Mon Ami?"

"What I was sent here to do in the first place, to save Sonic."

Talk about last minute; I had just arrived as the ultimate annihilator began firing.

"You!" Robotnik screamed

"Looks like you won't hurt anyone ever again, Robotnik"

The time for words was over I needed to get Sonic out of there before the place went to Kingdom Come, there was one shot, it was a teleportation system that I had been working on for a while, I happened to save it from my original lab, I hoped it worked, I grabbed Sonic and activated the ring on him and sent him away from this area, unfortunately it could only work for one person at a time, before it needed a full day to recharge, oh well I did my job, that's all that mattered anyway…

"Speed!"

"Goodbye Sonic, I'll see you later."

Author's note: This explains how Sonic made it out of the Ultimate Annihilator, but as for Speed did he make it out. Keep on reading and find out in the final chapter of this story coming soon to a fanfic near you!