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Begin detonation countdown? : YES

"Bwa ha ha ha ha ho ho ho!" Eggman gloated as he ascended to his Egg Carrier.

1 minute until detonation...

Outside of the skirts of the city, a blue figure stood on the edge of a cliff looking out towards the battleship.

"You still haven't learned anything, haven't you?"

The voice of this particular famous figure sounded very confident and remarkably cocky. Only one such individual could one imagine that matched such courage.

Sonic the Hedgehog.

The heroic blue blur jumped off the cliff and slid down the in cave of the runoff hill feet first for a few seconds before curling into a rolling ball. Shortly after converting Sonic quickly accelerated until he started going uphill to the edge of the cliff. As soon as he hit the ledge he uncurled out of his ball form and kicked off of it resulting in launching himself into the mid-afternoon atmosphere. As he flew incredibly far through the air the hedgehog looked like an eagle soaring across the sky.

Gravity shortly took effect on the blue hedgehog and he took a diving position to shorten the time it took to land. As Sonic neared the ground he did a back flip before making contact with the smooth grass. The moment his foot touched the earth he took off running, passing by the very few meters of trees before making it through to the highway.

Sonic took a deep right corner and glided past other cars as he pasted a highway sign reading "Station Square 50 miles ahead".

Back over the tops of buildings of Station Square, Dr. Eggman was hovering back to his Egg Carrier. As he ascended back to his warship he had his legs crossed and was looking his nose down at the city.

"What a brilliant and somewhat dull success," he thought while rubbing his chin gazing at the metropolis.

In the mist of the many cries of fear throughout the city a faint sound of authority burst out amongst the rest.

The madman hmph'd at how late the police's timing was. "Pathetic, how can these people feel safe without reliable, fast acting police enforcement if they don't even show up in time?!" He glanced over to his right out of view of his dark blue specs and saw multiple red and blue lights speeding on their way to the scene.

Eggman shook his head, "Useless."

The true blue shot through Station Square as he headed straight for the cities' tallest skyscraper. Coming up in front of Sonic was the central fountain coming up on his left. With his natural quick thinking, he jumped onto the rim and on top of the statue before leaping off of it onto the side of a building.

Shortly after, he ran off its side and jumped onto the skyscraper's window.

As he placed his feet on the glass a couple of frightened people were looking up through the window and pointing at the Egg Carrier.

As he placed his feet on the glass a couple of frightened people were looking through the window at the Egg Carrier pointing up at it. Sonic noticed he was in their view point as he made contact with the glass and gave off his signature thumbs up and smirk before continuing upward.

The speed king accelerated up the 1,000 foot skyscraper leaving a straight blue line behind him. He soon reached the top of the building and the last section of clean glass left the bottom of his sneakers.

Sonic skyrocketed into the air making the supersonic hedgehog look like a shinnying light blue arrow pierce the atmosphere. Gravity shortly brought the hog down and Sonic positioned his body once more into a dive for the center of the roof. As usual, just before face planting with the concrete he did a front flip and landed in a kneeling position with his left hand out in front of him.

"Alright, what's Egghead screwing up this time?" Sonic thought as he jumped to his feet.

Just after getting up he jogged over to the edge of the roof to search to find out whatever damages the devious man inflicted. The blue hero jolted his eyes all over the city, looking for any trace of devastation. Sonic started to hear a faint, but alarming, siren from behind him. He looked over his shoulder and pinpointed that the sound was coming from the other side.

The blue blur immediately ran over to the opposite edge and looked downward. The sharp red and blue lights stood out from the city like a fire fly in the dark night. Sonic counted the mass of speeding police cars ravaging through the streets, eight.

"Sure did rile them up," Sonic thought as he watched them drive recklessly down the roads. Taking note of their determination, he tried to find out where the cops were heading to. Sonic investigated closely and noticed that all the cops were heading south. He looked slightly below and saw a clearly wrecked shop with, glass scattered outside, and vehicles in flames all around the road.

"Oh wow, you robbed a store Eggman? Hah! Looks like somebody's getting a little desperate!" Sonic laughed as he teased his nemesis.

After making fun of the madman he hopped off of the skyscraper and curled into a ball. Sonic connected with the side of the wall and spun down the incredible drop gaining crazy acceleration while doing so. As he neared the bottom he bounded off, uncurled out, and flipped forwards before landing on top of a parked car.

Quickly after landing, Sonic bounced off the car's roof which caused him to fly several feet. He curled back into his ball form once more before hitting the center of the road. Sonic uncurled a bit after a couple of bounces and swayed a bit before stabilizing. After retaining balance he instantly tripled his speed and blasted off towards the wrecked store.

Dr. Eggman sat in his Egg Mobile still flying upward to his Egg Carrier in a rather slow patient pace.

"Something doesn't feel right," he muttered to himself. Eggman stopped rubbing his chin and scratched the back of his bald head. "Oh yes, that arrogant little hedgehog didn't show up this time… well, not yet that is."

The red-coated man trained his eyes back to the screen in front of him.

35 seconds until detonation…

With that knowledge he peered back down at Station Square for a moment to see if he could find any traces of his annoying adversary. Eggman saw no sight of him and slowly began to realize that this may possibly be one of the first few times he'll ever be able to get away with creating chaos without being intercepted by his arch enemy.

"… but then again, he may not show his face at all," the doctor grinned.

It didn't take long for Sonic to see the blockade of burning trashed vehicles ahead of him. The speeding bullet impaled his heels into the ground and turned his shoes sideways to brake. He followed through by turning backwards as he neared closer to the pile of automobiles. Just as he was mere feet away, Sonic smoothly jumped from behind cutting the edge of the pile of automobiles.

He then followed through by turning backwards as he neared closer to the pile of automobiles. Just as he was mere feet away Sonic smoothly *sprawled jump just about high enough to make it over the flaming roadblock.

Due to his incredible speed, the powerful after winds extinguished the burning bits of destroyed metal completely. Since his momentum was so great, Sonic back flipped and skid backwards leaving traces of the incinerating car smoke he just jumped over along the road. The blue hedgehog then looked around him and saw much clutter of various burning automobile parts in the roads.

The stench of flaming metal materials filled Sonic's nostrils causing him to scrunch in disgust.

"Urgh, it even smells like Eggman," the hedgehog cringed and covered his nose. "insult," he remarked as he gazed at an incinerating car's hood.

The blue hero looked over his left shoulder and saw an entrance to the store torn apart from the outside. Its hinges of where the doors used to be were sticking out and looked pretty mangled.

Seeing as this was clearly the evil scientist's work, Sonic jogged over to the front of the shop and through the mostly destroyed entrance.

Sonic stopped in the center of the store and studied the remains around him. Much proof of the interrogation was left, broken materials lay on the ground, reminisce of smashed products hanged off of their rack, and shattered glass was scattered in numerous sections of the ground.

He then heard grunting coming from in front of him and Sonic glanced to his left. The hedgehog saw trembling sweaty man attempting to get back to his feet by leaning against a wall and pushing off from his legs. This man appeared to be badly injured, clothing torn, and was struggling greatly with his feet.

"Hey!" Sonic yelled to get his attention.

Apparently, the man hadn't heard him and shortly got up and bobbled back and forth. However, the tattered man began to arch forwards due to his legs being weak and totally out of it from whatever conflicted with his recent life. He started to fall over and Sonic, as expected, took immediate action. The blue blur rushed over to the man, vaulted over broken glass, and caught him by the shoulders.

"Hey, are you ok?" he asked concerned for his wellbeing.

Sonic held him up and the distressed man grabbed the edge of a shattered glass table to keep his balance. The blue mobian let go of him and the human put his head down.

The man looked over at Sonic hoping to see a concerned human face, but in his delusional state he was only capable of making out a somewhat short blurry figure.

He took a few exhales before speaking, "No, I feel awful."

The injured being turned to the right, stared at the wall, and sighed. He tried to stand up straight, but reluctantly bent back down because of the instant pain he felt in his back. The man closed his eyes and his head slumped to the center.

"My head hurts like hell, my legs feel like they're made from rubber, and I think there's glass stuck in my socks," he explained as he winced in pain from trying to shift his weight on his right foot. "Yeah… there it is," he breathed out steadily.

BEEP

The hedgehog standing beside the man in agony ear twitched. "What was that?" he thought as he turned around becoming more alert. Curious to find out what made the sound, Sonic began to walk around the room for the noise.

Somehow the man doesn't seem to have heard the sound and lifted his head to look beyond the figure. He made out some new damages that he didn't see before from his previous ground perspective. With the new tragedies he just discovered in mind, the man covered his face with his free hand and rubbed his eyes.

"There's no way the insurance agent is going to believe who did this," he worried as he shook his head.

Sonic was still searching all around looking for any clue to what created that disturbance.

He walked throughout the room and a theory came to mind, "Let me guess. Some old fat guy waltzes right in here and wrecks your place looking for something."

The phrase appeared in big letters in the man's mind, "Old fat guy…"

Just then the tired human began to remember what had happened. An image appeared in his head showing himself from his own perspective from early. He saw himself panicking badly trying desperately to lock the front door. The key fell out of his fingers and was just about to reach out to grab right before he heard beeping. The sound began to escalate becoming louder and shorter pauses which caused him to strike a cold sweat.

In fear, he stopped and peered over his shoulder and saw a sticky grenade glued to the door. The atmosphere behind the explosive showed tall robots, cars catching on fire, and a dark menacing glare of a horrific man inside of a floating vehicle directed right at him.

The pauses between beeps ended and left a straight drawn out beep and it exploded. It caused the doors to get ravaged apart and he launched backwards.

From such sudden and deadly force he crashed into the back wall causing him to blink hard and snap himself out of the trance. As he slowly opened his eyes and came back to reality he tightened his grip on the table and took a deep breath.

The curious hedgehog was still wandering around the store for the noise.

"Yes, I remember."

Sonic looked at him in interest to finding out his side of the story.

"The ugly bastard destroyed this place and took what we fou- wait a minute," he stopped in sudden realization. The man slightly turned his head at the moving figure, "How did you know the guy was old and chubby?"

BEEP

This time the sound was above the hedgehog and he instantly looked up. He had found what he was searching for which resulted in a smile.

"Trust me… uhh... sorry, what's your name? You don't have your nametag on," he asked pointing at the man's chest.

"Jerry," he simply responded taking note that he should've requested nametags.

"Right, trust me, Jerry. I've known this guy for a long time. Not really the easiest to get along, but he sure is fun to mess around with," he replied with hint of cockiness.

Finally, Jerry's mind clicked. This voice he kept hearing began to sound familiar and somehow recognizable. He didn't know what it was, but it reminded him of the determination for freedom and a better life. The never ending fight for free will and being given that feeling that things will be alright in the end even when at its darkest.

That's when it hit him.

"… That voice…. it can't be…" Jerry squinted his eyes and focuses directly at the darkish figure. The illusion seems to have cleared away a tad and he could make out some blue, a little red, and… white hands? Hands aren't that white. Could they in fact be gloves?

Realization swept through Jerry's mind, he got it.

"You're kidding me," he gasped in disbelief.

Sonic turned to him, "Something wrong?"

"Are you Sonic the Hedgehog the Savior of Mobius?" he questioned with random determination.

"Savior of Mobius? That's a new one," the cocky blue hero thought. "Yep, that's me," the hedgehog waved his index finger at Jerry, "but ditch the savior of the planet and all." He pulled back his finger and extended his thumb back at himself, "Just call me Sonic."

Jerry couldn't believe what he was hearing and just looked at him for a good hard moment before turning away. "Wow, sorry. I just… wow. I wasn't expecting this."

"I'm flattered, but time's ticking and I gotta find out what he took. You remember anything?" asked Sonic tapping his foot.

"Yes," Jerry turned back at the hedgehog. "This "Eggman" walked in and stole what I and my co-worker just found. It was a re-"

BEEP

The rather tired man sighs in irritation, "I'm sorry, but can't you hear that?"

Sonic smiled, "Yep, I got you." He replied confidently as he pointed to a flat metal sticking out of the ceiling. "I could've sworn it was just a fire alarm at first, but I guess not."

The blue blur ran up to the desk in front of him, jumps on the rim with his right foot and kicks off, spins in mid-air, and grabs the electronic tearing it off the ceiling.

He waved the device at Jerry, "McNosehair here tried pulling a fast one on us."

The surprise appearance of the explosive terrified Jerry terribly and he almost fell from trying to back away so suddenly.

"Is that seriously what I think it is?" he asked raising his voice in fear.

"Yeah, the good doc left me something to play with," he joked as he turned the device over. On the backside it had an engraved Eggman logo with a red digital countdown timer below it. "Pfft, this is lame. He gave me an alarm clock with his ugly stamp on it," Sonic joked while he smirked pointing at the device.

Jerry however didn't care for his comedy and felt very threatened now that his life could end in a matter of seconds. "Please, get rid of it. I've had a rough morning," whimpered the frightened young man.

"Hey, don't worry," Sonic threw the bomb into the air, caught it with his other hand, and gave Jerry the thumbs up. "I'm not called "The Fastest Thing Alive" for nothing!"

With that being said the blue blur literally became a blue blur and rocketed out of the room. His unmatchable speed left a blast of after wind that overtook Jerry and his grip broke loose from the table.

As Jerry fell back he thought that the bomb had gone off and had thought he had tasted death. But as laid on the floor he slowly regained his vision and saw that the hedgehog and bomb were nowhere in sight.

He was still alive.

"Thank you," Jerry muttered.

15 seconds until detonation…

As the almighty Eggman sat there, he picked up the red jewel from beside him. He brought it up to his eyes and stared immensely into the emerald. "As long as that little pest is occupied with saving the wounded…"

The mechs that were once ascending with him before noticed he had stopped and returned to hover beside their master. Dr. Eggman peered through the Chaos Emerald and smirked as he read the numbers on the countdown.

10 seconds until detonation…

"… he shouldn't have noticed what I have left for him."

One of the doctor's leading squad trooper hovered over to him. It spoke in a low monotone speech modulator, "Doctor, what if the hedgehog somehow stopped the trap?"

At supersonic speeds, the extremely quick anthropomorphic hedgehog jet through the roads once again. He jumped onto a car, trampolines off it into the sky, and grabbed a nearby flag post. Sonic swung over and under the pole a few times to gain more speed. The post bended upon the hedgehog's increasing force.

Sonic let go of the flag post and flew 35 feet into the air feet first to the top of a building. When the blur landed on top of it he instantly resumed sprinting.

Out of the corner of the hedgehog's eye he saw something circular and shiny. Sonic looked over to his left and saw the notorious Egg Mobile above him a little off in the distance.

To no surprise, his infamous arch-enemy Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik was piloting the hovercraft with several of his robot minions surrounding him. Upon further inspection he could see the madman hold something up to his face and a reddish glow shooting out of it.

Sonic chuckled to himself, "You found another one, huh? Well, I'll be the taker of that."

He then took a sharp turn left and ran towards the edge. Sonic jumped at the last second as his foot hit the edge of the roof.

The red-coated man hmph'd, and placed the bright red jewel back in its compartment.

He shifted his arms back to the armrests in a relaxed position. "There's no way Sonic can dispose of the bomb properly without bringing harm to others." Eggman turned to the side to face his combat servant, "It is impossible!"

Although with the hedgehog's mighty leap he was a few feet short from the top of the second building. He quickly grabbed the outer lining of the roof as fast as he could before accidently faceplanting himself into the wall. The momentum of his jump caused his feet to follow through and land on the bottom side of the lining. He pushed off of it and back flipped over the edge of the outer side and on top of the building in a kneeling position.

Sonic brought up his head and saw that the Eggman was fairly close length wise, but pretty far up height wise.

"Can't be long now…" he thought as he checked the countdown.

4 seconds until detonation…

"Oh shoot!"

Without hesitation, Sonic crouched and began to continuously charge his spindash.

"Your theory sounds logical, Doctor," the robot finalized.

"Yes, I know," he replied in his usual gruff voice.

Eggman looked back down at the shop waiting patiently to watch the explosion and the horrific ending scream of his great adversary, Sonic the Hedgehog.

He crossed his legs, folded his fingers, and muttered.

"You didn't win this time, Sonic."

After many rapid whirls of charging, Sonic released his spin dash and bounded outward. He shot into the air faster than any known projectile with both of his arms behind his back gripping tightly onto the bomb. Zooming through the sky he flew straight for Eggman.

The wingless, but apparently, flying hedgehog clasped his hands together and started doing slow, but powerful, somersaults. After completing the third one he did a fast-motioned somersault and let go of the explosive device. The bomb hurled directly for Dr. Eggman at amazingly fast speeds.

0 seconds until detonation…

Seemingly out of nowhere, Eggman heard a loud explosion from behind him followed by the snapping of metal. The force of the absolute power caused his mobile to arch forward quickly. This took Eggman by great surprise and he fell forward out of his somewhat relaxed position and onto his control panel.

With what little reflexes he had the madman scampered to grab a hold onto the inner rim as he leaned backwards for dear life. The hovercraft came to a sudden stop as it crashed and penetrated itself into the side of a building. Now that he was stuck in the building's side he collapsed fully on top of his control panel and the short protective glass.

He steamed with anger as he pulled himself up while hearing off to the distance surviving Egg Robos trying to make out what just happened. One of them started to alert the other with the phrase, "Threat found, firing" over and over again while attempting to shoot at the intruder just before receiving a swift silence.

As the infuriating Eggman got back to his feet he looked behind him and saw the last of his surviving robots fall to the ground in pieces like the rest. He put his hands on his head and yelled, "Nooo! What just happened?!"

The doctor's rage began to increase every second wondering what was responsible for this.

Or who.

He grabbed the inside ridges of his mobile and leaned outward to see if the store was in rubble. Eggman didn't see any further change, nor remains of the hedgehog's body.

"I don't understand, how this is possible?!" he shouted.

Silence surrounded him until light footsteps sounded from behind him followed by a confident voice.

"Oh, come on, Eggman. I thought with such a big brain like yours you could figure it out," the voice remarked as he stopped walking.

The doctor's eyes widened and his mind clicked, "Sonic!" Dr. Eggman instantly looked behind him expecting to see the hedgehog from the hole his Egg Mobile created.

The creature above him then whistled and yelled, "Yo, up here!"

The red-coated man tilted his head up and found the source of the voice.

Sonic held onto the side of a window's edge looking down at the obese crazed scientist. He then jumped off the side of the building and stomped on the Egg Mobile's wings. The force of his powerful landing caused the aircraft to release itself from the side of the skyscraper.

The blue hero was in a kneeling position and looked directly at the doctor with his usual cocky grin slapped on his face. "What's up, Eggman? How you doing these days? We haven't talked in a while, ya know."

Eggman wasn't pleased to see the annoying animal and was extremely disapproving his presence.

"Grrr," he sat back down in his seat and took control of the mobile, "you're going to regret landing your filthy feet on my hovercraft, hedgehog!" Eggman grabs the two control sticks and rams both of them to the right.

Sonic wasn't expecting Eggman to take such drastic action and was caught surprised. He slipped a bit before grabbing hold of one of the wings.

"Get off you arrogant pest!" yelled the man furiously.

"Come on now, I just want to hang out with you is all!" the hedgehog complained.

Eggman scoffed and began to switch between turns of left or right in hope to confuse Sonic and throw him off. Within his tunnel vision of rage he couldn't see that the mobile was heading straight for a building. However, Sonic is able to see perfectly through all the blurs since being used to such speeds.

He took notice of the flying vehicle heading straight for another building and loosened his grip.

"Your fault, I'm outta here!"

The hedgehog jumped off while the madman didn't even notice his departure. Eggman doesn't realize how dangerously close he was hurling towards the building. Just as the crazed scientist saw that there was no longer a blue blur stuck to his mobile he crashed right into another building.

"Bah!" he yelled in anger.

The doctor doesn't see this, but when he impaled himself once more the red Chaos Emerald broke free of its compartment and flew out of the mobile. As Sonic fell back onto the top of the building behind him he saw the bright red light of the emerald.

"The Chaos Emerald!"

Within an instant Sonic back flipped, landed on the roof, and shot off over to the red emerald just before Eggman found out what he had taken. Once in his hands Sonic hid the jewel behind his back in a joking manner.

Eggman sat there for a good few moments recovering from his dizziness of the barrel rolls before looking back at the irritating hedgehog. Sonic just stood there as a huge smile broke out on his face. The doctor hmph'd and tore himself out of the building by initiating the engine and shooting out of it causing more of the side to crumble.

"So what if I wasn't able to kill you? I can save it for another day and the Chaos Emerald is all I wanted. I still win Sonic! Ah ha ha ha ho ho ho ho ho!" he concluded turning around and beginning to return back to his Egg Carrier.

Sonic rolled his eyes, "Pfft, yeah, if that were the truth."

"It is correct you fool!" Eggman shouted as he continued flying. He looked to the side of him and opened his compartment to show Sonic his prize. "It's right here, get a loa- oh no!"

The blue hedgehog began to whistle and the madman's spectacles picked up a faint red light from behind him. Eggman instantly maneuvered his whole Egg Mobile around and saw Sonic whistling a tune as he flipped his emerald in the air while his eyes were closed.

"Gah! No way! I can't believe this!" he shouted before zooming down at the apparent blue thief. The red-coated man halted his aircraft several feet away from Sonic. "Give back the Chaos Emerald now!"

Sonic stopped whistling, "I can't Eggy."

The blue anthropomorphic hero caught the emerald with his other hand and opened his eyes.

"You took this without paying, and that's no good!" he shouted pointing directly at the smug faced villain.

Eggman had enough and his frustration had reached its limits.

He slammed his fists onto the control panel, "Enough! You're going to give me the Chaos Emerald one way or the other!" Eggman pressed a different button on his panel.

Up from above, the Egg Carrier's shadow took over top of the two. The sun had been blocked out and darkness overtook the light. From one of the Egg Carrier's compartments a barrage of explosives dropped out of its hold.

"Here Sonic... take… this!" Eggman levitated higher into the air.

"Take what? I already have it in my hand," Sonic replied as he held up the emerald. "See?"

The devious scientist opened another screen on his monitor showing a map of the Egg Carrier and his bombs hurling towards their position.

"You won't be holding it for much longer."

BOOM

"Wha-" the sudden explosives took Sonic by surprise and one hit right in front of him. The force caused him to fly back letting go of the Chaos Emerald. Explosions continued to implode from all around him and the hedgehog hit the ground.

Sonic quickly got up in a crouched position with his arms over his face for defense. Many pieces of the roof were blown open and its remains were thrown all around Sonic. Through the dust the blur saw the emerald, ran over to it, and grabbed it off the ground without stopping.

With the mystical item back in his hands, Sonic maneuvered all around the area avoiding all incoming explosions from above. One shot out from his side which caused the hedgehog to sidestep in natural instinct. Another exploded from in front of him and Sonic hopped to the side, planted his feet, and cart wheeled clear over the explosion and landed before switching off to the other direction.

He continued to dodge all the explosions from all angles without getting hit once.

"Hah, this is pretty fun Eggman! Great idea for a warm up, preparing my agility and all!" Sonic jeered.

Eggman frowned in disapproval, "All things come to an end, now it's your turn." He pressed a button and one of the Egg Carrier's compartments opened and out a mech fell out of it.

Sonic continued to jump around and the mass booms stopped ringing in his ears.

"Oh come on now! I was just getting used to it!"

BOOM

A 10 foot tall mech had landed motionless in front of the hedgehog. Its clean mechanical shine reflected off sunlight into Sonic's eyes. The hedgehog had to bring up his hand for a moment and blink a few times before looking back.

As the blue hero lowered his arm to his side he gave off a ridiculously cocky grin.

The machine was circular like most of the Eggman's dangerous creations, but this one was larger. Its midsection was fairly wide and heavily plated with very hardened metals to defend against the strongest of attacks. Legs underneath the massive centerpiece were arched forward and not just connecting straight to the ground. It curved forward with a smooth cut metallic material extending out on top of the back shin forward underneath the mechanical foot. On both forearms of the mech a large thick blade extended out from the arm and curled downward past the robotic hand. Noticeably, the hands weren't as large as the rest of the mech's parts and in fact, looked rather flimsy in comparison.

"For a second there I thought you had nothing in store for me," Sonic remarked crossing his arms.

The crazed human laughed at the hedgehog for a good five seconds before clearing his throat.

"Behold! The Egg Slicer! With this, I'll be able to tear you apart and humiliate your speed against the overwhelming power of my own creation!" gloated the madman as he flew over top his machine. "But that's not even the best part!" His mobile pounded itself into the circular top and its globe flew overhead, "now I'll personally be able to butcher you into pieces, you wretched rodent!"

Sonic bounced in place, "Yeah, yeah, see if you can keep up. Hopefully, we won't get interrupted like the fight I had earlier."

FIGHTSCENE

Eggman cursed Sonic's name as he escaped via Egg Carrier

Dr. Eggman: Just because you stole my Chaos Emerald doesn't make you anywhere close to being a hero of anything! You're a straight up crook and a huge annoyance! One day, I'll have you cornered, helpless to move, and within my grasp at last. Then I shall be the last to laugh as I squeeze the very last ounce of life out of your little body! Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but certainly soon, hedgehog. Oh ho ho! ... Yes ... very soon.

"I'll be looking forward to it," Sonic replied in his usual cocky manner.

After seeing the doctor escape via Egg Mobile he turned his attention to the Chaos Emerald. It was tossed to the side from the battle and remains of the vicious evil doers' machine. The heroic hedgehog walked over to it and picked it up. Sonic stared into it and his mind clicked within the first few seconds.

"Wait a sec; didn't Tails need this for something?"

His memory from earlier this morning came back to him. Sonic could recall himself jumping off a cliff trying to reach someone.

FLASHBACK

At seven o' clock in the morning in Mystic Ruins a certain blue hedgehog was running to the edge of the cliff overlooking the whole area. As he dug his heels into the ground to stop him from throwing himself off the cliff, Sonic could see in the distance an X-Tornado.

"Tails," he thought.

The marvelous flying machine curved itself to the right out of the tropical runway. It smoothly climbed higher above the ocean at a nice cruising speed.

Sonic took a quick glance to where Tails was headed and noticed that he was ascending closer to the mountain ridge where he was.

Knowing what to do, Sonic stepped backwards with his right foot, took off at full speed, and leaped through the air aiming for the combat plane. Lucky for him, his timing was dead on and the lighting fast blue blur landed right on the wing of the X-Tornado.

The pilot of the plane became startled, not expecting anything or anyone to hit him.

"Wha- what was that?" the fox asked in confusion.

Tails frantically searched all around him for any sign of danger or attackers. He sat up straight and looked behind him to see if there was anything attacking him. Instead of seeing other aircrafts he saw a well known friend on his wing.

Sonic did a two fingered salute at Tails, "Hey buddy, how's it going?"

Tails puffed a sigh of relief, "Oh good, for a second there I thought I had trouble on me."

"Nope just me," simply replied the blue hedgehog.

With the concern of danger behind him the two-tailed fox returned his attention back to his piloting.

Sonic continued, "So, what are you doing up so early, flying the X-Tornado and all?"

"I could ask you the same question," Tails replied. "I'm on my way to Angel Island to collect the Master Emerald from Knuckles."

Sonic's face morphed to a confused expression.

Tails continued, "I'm going to bring it back to my workshop and run some-"

The hedgehog interrupted his fox friend, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, let me get this right. Did you just say you're going to bring the Master Emerald back with you? Ain't that gonna mean that Angel Island is gonna fall?" he asked trying to figure out why he was able to do this.

"Yeah, it's inevitable."

"… and Knuckles is cool with it?"

"Yes, I convinced Knuckles to let me borrow the emerald for a few hours," he responded all calm.

"No way, for real?" Sonic reacted still not believing his ears.

Tails nodded, "Wasn't that hard. I told him that it was important to me and the tests that I planning on doing are crucial to advancing my machines. I began to diverse deeper into what I was planning on doing, but he told me that he'll let me do it if I stopped making his brain hurt."

The cyan hedgehog laughed, "Ok yeah, that really is Knux. Can't believe you bought him into it, but cool," he finally believed giving a thumbs up. "Let's just hope he doesn't get pissed if things go wrong."

"Eh heh... yeah," the kitsune replied laughing shyly.

Sonic stretched out across the wing and propped an elbow, "So, what are you going to use it for?"

"Hm?"

"You know, whatever you're gonna do with the emerald."

"Oh yes," Tails understood. "I'm going to be running an experiment to see if I can manipulate the limitless Chaos Energy inside it so I can use it for my machines and gadgets. Increasing the performance and all around abilities as well." the fox explained with much enthusiasm.

"Cool, but wouldn't have using any other Chaos Emerald been easier?" Sonic questioned as Tails made a face. "You could've used this time for sleeping in. Instead of having to get up at seven-thirty in the morning just to get a whopper sized version of a green Chaos Emerald hauled into your lab."

The skilled engineer shook his head laughing lightly, "Maybe, but I have bigger plans that require the use of the Master Emerald's unlimited potential."

Sonic motioned him to continue, "And that is what?"

Tails looked back at his big bro with a little smile, "You'll see."

Sonic hmph'd, "Why does it always end like this?"

"I like to surprise you with my machines?" Tails shrugged.

"True."

FLASHBACK END

Sonic lowered the emerald and shrugged.

"Eh, close enough."

With that said, the hedgehog ran off into the distance.

[7/2X/1X]: Self-review coming in the next chapter. Its time to bring out the worst part of me and criticize the shit out of this old story of mine.