Wood Zone

Sonic was running through the zone, grinding on vines, giving chase to some Egg Flappers and Spinners. Amy and Tails followed close behind.

"Here I thought our trip back from Yurashia was going to be a boring one!" Sonic laughed. "Try and keep up!" He homing attacked and destroyed a few of the robots. Amy ran faster, swing her hammer at the robots, while Tails flew higher, dropping ring bombs on the machines. Only a few bots remained. One of the Flappers got out a cannon and opened fired. Suddenly, a boomerang came out of some bushes and destroyed all the Flappers still there. Sonic heard gunfire and the last few Spinners when down. Tails and Amy walked up to Sonic.

"Wow! You were so fast, it didn't even look like you moved!" Tails cheered.

"That's my Sonic," Amy said, staring at Sonic. He was sure that she had a crush on him at this point.

"I… I didn't do anything…" Sonic said.

"Spies!" a voice yelled. A female badger walked out of the bushes, with a boomerang in her hand. "I thought I told you agents of Egg Marching Band to stay from our village!"

"Egg Marching Band?" Tails asked.

"She means Egg Army," a female bandicoot said, putting away a small gun. "Besides, you guys don't look like you're with Robotnik."

"That's because we're not," Sonic said. "We're against him, actually."

"An enemy of Robotnik is a friends of ours, aren't they, Sticks?" the bandicoot asked.

"Yeah," Sticks said, putting away the boomerang. "How bout you guys come with us to our village? The Mayor been want tourist ever since he got that statue of himself in the village centre."

"So you're name's Sticks," Amy said. "So who are you?" She pointed at the bandicoot.

"Name's Perci," the bandicoot said. "We make up the Freedom Fighters for Knothole, along with someone else. What about you three?"

"I'm Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog," Sonic said. "And these two are Tails and Amy."

"Sonic?" Perci repeated. "You mean THE Sonic the Hedgehog, who defeated Robotnik?"

"The one and only," Sonic said.

"You inspired us and many others to become Freedom Fighters!" Sticks cheered.

"Wonderful, he needed an ego boost," Tails whispered to Amy, sarcastically. The five of them walked along, however, known to them, there were being watched by robotic bug with a camera.

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A giant snake looked on his monitor, watching the five Freedom Fighters. He had a robotic suit, giving him arms.

"So, THE Sonic the Hedgehog decided to come to Knothole." he said. "I must get rid of him!"

"Whatever you have planned, it won't work, Lyric!" a mobian said, who was hanging upside down, over a pit of lava.

"Quite!" Lyric ordered, slithering over to him. "Dr. Robotnik is gone! No one knows where he is is what happened to him. I'll use this robotic suit to take control of his robots, take over his Egg Army Bases and that army to take over the world!"

"You mean use the very same robots which everyone knows how to defeat?" the mobian asked. "The same ones which failed Robotnik in the past?" Lyric sighed, looking annoyed. He reached for a lever, pulling it, dropping the Mobian in the lava. He laughed as he watched the victim struggle to get out. Lyric merely smiled.

Knothole Village

Sonic, Tails, Amy, Sticks and Perci walked in. They were greeted by Mayor Fink.

"Ah! Sticks, Perci!" Fink said. "You're back! And with tourists!"

"Not just any tourist," Perci said. "Sonic the Hedgehog!"

"And his friends!" Sticks added.

"Wonderful!" Fink yelled, happily. "The fact that the Hero of Mobius decided to drop by here will surely raise tourist!"

"We can't stay long," Sonic said. "We need to head back Mobotropolis to meet with Princess Sally!"

"Of course!" Fink said. "I can't stop you from leaving when there is important matters about!" They all heard a large explosion.

"Help!" Mike the Ox yelled, along with other villagers, running away from some Egg Pawns. The started shooting down the housing.

"Well, I guess we could stay for a bit longer!" Amy said, getting out her hammer, running towards the robots. Tails got out his arm blaster (from Sonic Battle) and started shooting at the Pawns, as they shot back. Sonic homing attacked the robots. Sticks threw her boomerang while Perci used her blaster to shoot the robots.

"Ha!" Sonic laughed. "Too easy!" Suddenly, he was grabbed by a green robotic arm.

"Puny Hedgehog!" the owner of the arm roared. "You risk your left for a battle you lost to begin with!" Perci tried shooting the robot, but couldn't even dent it. He swatted her away. "Now, all of Knothole will fear Crocbot, destroyer of the blue hedgehog!"

"That's nice!" Sonic smiled, spin dashing his way out and homing attacking Crocbot, endless. However, there were still lots of Egg Pawns left. Suddenly, Lyric flew over and landed.

"Not now, Lyric!" Perci yelled. "We're busy!"

"Makes my timing all the more perfect then, doesn't it?" Lyric smiled. He pressed the button on his chest. Crocbot and the Egg Pawns froze in place, until they started attacking the heroes again.

"What did you do?" Tails asked.

"The robots are under my control!" Lyric laughed. "I will leave this village… for now! However, as for the Heroes of Mobius…" Lyric shot an enerbeam at Sonic, Tails and Amy, tying them. He pressed the button again, making the disappear. "I need you out of the way! Come, my new army!" Lyric said, flying away. "You will need new upgrades!" The robots flew away.

"I do hope the others are ok," Perci said.

Mobotropolis

Sonic, Tails and Amy appeared.

"We're back!" Amy said.

"What about Sticks and Perci?" Tails asked.

"They'll be fine!" Sonic said. "Besides, the Freedom Fighters always win!"

Bonus Story: Battling Battle Birds Pt.2

Veg-O-Fortress Remains

Antoine, Bunnie and Rotor were tied to a pole. Speedy, XV's son, was setting up explosions along with some of the soldiers. XV was taunting the Freedom Fighters.

"We have been ordered to blow up this whole place!" XV explained. "Destroying any machines or data that the Egg Army doesn't want you Freedom Fighters messing with!"

"Bombs are ready, sir!" Speedy said.

"Good boy!" XV laughed. "As for you three, you'll blow up with this fortress!" Unknownst to any of them, Metal Sonic, surviving his falling lava when he fought Sonic, crawled toward the Battle Birds' ship and attached himself to it. His reasoning for crawling was that his legs were burnt off.

"Set the timer for 10 minutes, Speedy," XV ordered. Speedy did as told. "Now then, where are my keys?" XV looked his his pockets and couldn't find them. Rotor noticed them on the floor and stood on them, hiding.

"Found them," Rotor whispered to Antoine.

"Stop the timer!" XV yelled, worried.

"I can't!" Speedy yelled. "You said to get one where it was impossible to turn it off!"

"Listen, I know where they are!" Rotor said.

"Then hand them over!" XV ordered.

"Nope," Rotor said. XV got on his knees.

"Please! I'll do anything!" XV begged. The Freedom Fighters smiled.

5 Minutes Later

"Ok, juggled while standing on a ball, I made you cookies, I repaired Bunnies' robotic parts, and much more!" XV yelled. "Just give me the keys!"

"Then just free us," Bunnie said. XV did as he was told. Rotor lift his foot so XV could grab the key. He ran towards the ship with his troops, unlocked the door, and ran in, with the Freedom Fighters following behind. They flew away just as the base blew up.

To Be Continued...