Chapter 101: Revolt
As Sonny scouted ahead once Miles had landed the Tornado-1 in the desert area of Lost Hex, he came across a strange creature that was munching on a ridiculously long sandwich. Apart from a pair of black sweatpants that barely fit and a pair of metal cuffs with spikes, the creature was an obese humanoid with no shirt on revealing its pale yellow skin and matching eyes with several small horns on its bald head that were striped pink and black.
"Zom?" Sonny said bewildered. "Is that you?"
"My name's not Zom," said the obese creature as it finished devouring the sandwich. "It's Zomom, and I'm one of the Deadly Six!"
"Doesn't surprise me considering you always hung out with Zaz, who seems to have joined the Deadly Six as well and gone through an extreme makeover," Sonny replied nonchalantly. "Do you know if Zak's in the group, too?"
"I don't know who that is and you're starting to make me angry," Zomom said clenching his fists. "And I always get hungry when I'm angry! Maybe I'll eat you for dessert!"
"That's cannibalism, dude!" Sonny said as Zomom suddenly started spinning rapidly which turned him into a literal tornado.
After quickly transforming into Sonic, Sonny ran as fast as he could to outrun Zomom. Fortunately, he led him away from the Tornado-1 and they soon found themselves at the bottom of a small canyon. It was here that Zomom stopped spinning to catch his breath which gave Sonic enough time to hit Zomom with a Homing attack that knocked the obese creature off his feet. Angered, Zomom got back up and spun once more until Sonic knocked him down again once he stopped. This continued for one more round till Zomom got tired and ran away.
"Well, so much for him," Sonic said and ran back to Miles.
"You found Zom?" Miles said with disbelief.
"Kind of," Sonic replied. "He's possessed by the spirit of Zomom, one of the Deadly Six."
"Did you defeat him?"
"Yeah, but he ran away."
"Where?"
"This way," Sonic said as he grabbed Miles' hand and dragged him along as he ran.
Then Miles turned into Tails and followed Sonic in the air until they came to a cluster of boulders where Zomom, Zazz, and the other multi-colored creatures were gathered before Dr. Eggman who wasn't looking too happy.
"I go through the trouble of giving you every possible opportunity to eliminate Sonic, and yet you cretins still manage to fail me!" Eggman shouted, and pulled out a black conch shell with a magenta glow about it. "This calls for due punishment!"
Before the six creatures could say anything, Eggman blew into the black conch shell and played a few notes on it which caused the creatures to get immediately irritated and groan loudly.
"That conch shell must be what Eggman's using to control the Zeti," Tails said thoughtfully. "At least, that's how I think Eggman controlled them last time."
"Only one way to find out," Sonic said and leaped from the place he and Tails were hiding up towards the Egg Mobile where he kicked the conch shell out of Eggman's hand much to his surprise.
"Sonic! You imbecile!" Eggman growled angrily. "Do you realize what you've done?"
"Apart from stopping your evil schemes?" Sonic said mockingly.
"You've given the Zeti the opportunity to revolt, again!"
Then just after Eggman spoke, his robots suddenly turned their guns toward him instead of on the Deadly Six who were pointing their fingers at Eggman. A few seconds later, all the robots fired at Eggman and Sonic forcing the two off the Egg Mobile as it exploded from several energy blasts coming from the Deadly Six themselves. While this happened, the two robots that were at Eggman's side fell out too. Both were of small size with movable arms and hands but no feet. Apart from one being colored red and the other yellow, they were also distinguished by the shapes of their heads which were spherical and cube-shaped respectfully.
"Oh, dear, this is bad!" said the red robot with the spherical head.
"Very bad!" added the yellow robot with the cube-shaped head just as a gun-shot blasted its head from its body.
"Orbot! Cubot! We're leaving!" Eggman said as he turned tail from the gun and energy blasts while the two robots followed with the red robot carrying the yellow robot's head in one of its hands.
Sonic followed Eggman's lead and grabbed Tails as he ran in the same direction.
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Once they reached a tropical coastline with several islands floating overhead, Sonic Tails Eggman and the two robots rested.
"Well, this is certainly a fine mess," Eggman said as he changed into Dr. Robotnik. "No thanks to you!"
"Hey," Sonic said as he became Sonny once more. "Sonic didn't know about the conch shell-thing till he literally kicked it away."
"But I told him about it," Tails said as he changed back to Miles. "You just didn't listen and wanted to be the hero."
"You know for once I agree with Miles," Robotnik said.
"Will you guys stop blaming me for Sonic's mistake?" Sonny said exasperatedly. "I'm not him, you know."
"So what do you suggest we do?" Miles asked sarcastically.
"We take care of the Zeti," Sonny said as he walked away from Robotnik. "By ourselves without some egg-headed doctor tagging along."
"Fine, then," Robotnik said as he walked away as well. "I didn't need your help, anyway."
So the two parties separated with Sonny and Miles going in one direction while Robotnik and the two robots went in a different one. While Miles went back to the desert area to check on the Tornado-1, Sonny went running along the tropical coast when a walking stick suddenly came out of nowhere and blocked Sonny's path.
"You must be the one the doctor referred to as Sonic," said a small old man in black robes with blue skin and two small horns that were black and yellow who appeared after the stick fell. "I am Master Zik, mentor of the Deadly Six and your personal demise."
"Okay, so if you mentored the Deadly Six personally that means you must've recruited Zaz and Zom after they graduated middle-school," Sonny said.
The little blue man flinched. "How do you know Zaz and Zom?"
"Went to the same school as they did, though they certainly weren't the nicest guys to be around. Did you recruit Zak too?"
"If I told you I did, what would that mean to you?"
"Nothing, except that you're a creep who's due for a serious beating!" Sonny said and changed into Sonic once more.
"Humph! Try and stop me if you can!" Zik said and leaped away as Sonic followed.
To be continued…