Hi all! Here's the next chapter- enjoy!

The smoking skyscrapers of Station Square were getting ever closer to Sonic. Pushing himself to cut like a knife through the air in front of him was child's play.

Small robotic Eggman drones noticed the impending streak of blue light, and launched rockets towards it. But the rockets always hit the ground in the spot where the hedgehog had been just a second before- and he was already thirty feet away from that point by then.

Then, one drone got smart: It fired its rocket at where the hedgehog would be in a second's time. But, of course, Sonic noticed. He flicked his heels and flung himself up in the air, spinning into a ball as the explosion hit just behind him. He landed right on top of the flying drone at such a velocity that he went right through it, causing it to shatter into a fiery ball of countless pieces.

As the desert came to an end, Sonic came across a large road leading into the city. Sonic glared up at the massive carrier in the sky as he sprinted towards it.

Sonic reached the city, and weaved through a few trashed streets before jumping onto a lamppost, which he stood on as if he was on the floor. Before him in the sky was a grey, floating, egg-like ball. Inside it was a large, moustached, egg-like man.

"Well, well, well, Eggman. Back to your old tricks again?" Sonic chuckled, folded his arms and tapped his foot. "Took you long enough."

"Humph." Dr Eggman frowned indifferently at the hedgehog. "Sonic. I must admit, you're here a little earlier than I anticipated."

Sonic smirked. "There's no slowing down with me, Egg Head."

Eggman muttered an obscenity under his breath before bursting into classic-villain-no-one-can-stop-my-evil-plan-monologue mode: "FOOL! For too long I have had to endure your pitter-patter feet scrambling my plans all the time! But this stops now! This time, I will be the victor!"

Sonic sighed and rolled his eyes. "Here we go again…"

"As you can see, I have improved upon my previous designs of my Egg Carrier… My floating fortress in the air, from which I can observe my empire."

"Oh, is it floating?" Sonic noticed sarcastically. "Oh yeah! You really are a genius, aren't you? I never would have gotten that by myself…"

"QUIET, YOU FOOL! I'm BOASTING!" Eggman took a second to breathe, to calm down. And then, he turned on evil-grin mode. "Sonic, now you have met your match. This new Egg Carrier is completely unsinkable! Pitter-patter foot proof!" Eggman took a second to laugh. Sonic sighed again. "Sonic the Hedgehog… meet the new and improved: EGG CARRIER 15.0!"

Sonic couldn't stifle a chuckle, and spluttered into a full blown laughing fit. "Hahahahahhaheheheeheeh… Jeez, have I really blown up that many? Hahaaaa!-Whoa!" Sonic was laughing so much, he nearly fell off the lamppost. This made him stop laughing, but he now had a fixated smirk.

Eggman just sighed. "You might mock it, but just look at what I have done to Station Square!" Car wrecks were on the roads. Smoke was billowing from buildings. Explosions, screams, and rat-tat-tats of miniguns could be heard in the distance. Eggman's floating orb elevated a few feet in the air, to show Sonic his 'importance.' "This time, no one can stop me!"

Sonic just tutted. "It's the same old plan. You capture poor helpless critters and shove em in the guts of a robot, and then use them to blast everything, so you can use them to rule the world! Conquer and tyranny! Mwahaha! Et cetera."

Eggman frowned. "Well, somehow, you know my plan…"

Sonic rolled his eyes and facepalmed.

"But this changes nothing!" Eggman rose a little higher, raising his voice as he ascended.

Sonic shouted up at him. "You shouldn't have taken a crack at Tails!" he stated strongly. "We both know, I'll stop you again!"

Eggman frowned. "What was that about Tails?" he dismissed it and shook his head. "Now, I leave for my Egg Fort. My metal minions! Make this meddling hedgehog MUSH ON THE GROUND! HAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

As Eggman flew away to his Egg Carrier, dozens of gunship drones gathered around Sonic, as well as an entire platoon of robots on the ground. They all cocked their weapons at him. Sonic smiled wildly. "Here we go again. Again."

Sonic was gone from the lamppost by the time rockets and flurry of bullets had blown the top off it. Sonic was now a ball, homing in on the air drones, blowing them up on contact. Once all the flying drones were scrap metal, Sonic landed in between two robots, whose slow reflexes meant they shot each other. Sonic smirked, and decided to take this idea up a level. He weaved in and out of the robot platoon with incredible speed. The robots were accidently shooting on themselves. Their own guns were ripping them to shreds. Now all but one of the robots was down. Sonic jumped on top of it. "Hey, Davey!" Sonic knocked the top of its metal head. "Up here!" Sonic back-flipped off. Without hesitation, the robot turned its gun on itself, and blew its own head off. Sonic smiled at the scrapheap he'd made, from which dozens of cute furry animals emerged from.

Above him, Eggman's Egg Carrier began to rumble and turn. It slowly started to head off into the distance, towards Green Hill Zone. Sonic zoomed off, hot on its tail.