Chapter 107: Alien
"Whoa," Sonic said as the alien creature left his body and changed him back to normal. Afterwards, he was overcome with so much exhaustion to the point of changing back into Sonny instantly. "That was…crazy!"
"You're finally back," Miles said casually as he sat next to the light blue-colored alien with the pink eye. "You were gone for a pretty long time."
"Did you see that, Miles?" Sonny said breathlessly. "That weird alien thing somehow merged with my body, turned me into this super-powered flying laser-thing, and then it popped out after several seconds passed!"
"You're actually not that far from the truth," Miles replied. "That thing you merged with and this little guy that's been hanging around me are aliens, specifically Wisps."
"How do you know that?" Sonny asked.
"Tails told me," Miles answered. "He said that back when he and Sonic were alive, they foiled a plot by Dr. Eggman that involved creating a giant amusement park similar to the one we're in where he captured these Wisps and harvested them for energy while turning their native planets into attractions for the park itself."
"That sounds awful," Sonny then proceeded to take off, "I'm going to find Eggman and see if he's up to the same thing."
"Okay," Miles said after him. "I'll stay here."
It wasn't long before Sonny came across Eggman floating in his Egg Mobile near a cluster of liquid tubes on a balcony filled with creatures similar to the ones he and Miles encountered earlier while Orbot and Cubot watched him count each creature individually.
Once he was done counting, Eggman sighed. "Not nearly enough aliens!"
"Want us to get more?" Orbot offered.
"No, I want you to get me a cheeseburger and shake," Eggman said irritably. "Of course I want you to get me more aliens!"
"Y'all want fries with that?" Cubot said in a strange Western accent before being hit on the head with a wrench thrown by Eggman.
As the two robots prepared to leave, Eggman flew around the tubes musing to himself. "Once I get enough aliens, I'll harvest their Hyper-go-on energy and then nothing will stop me!"
"Um, boss, look over there," Orbot said and pointed to Sonny who was standing behind Eggman a little ways off.
"Sonny!" Eggman exclaimed turning around to face him.
"Who are you calling 'nothing'?" Sonny said and transformed into Sonic.
"Argh! I don't have time for this," Eggman said with annoyance. "Release the Big Boy!"
Upon his command, a colossal Ferris Wheel ride emerged from behind the balcony powered by several rockets while a large robot with elongated arms and a big red eyeball in the middle of its body held on cackling maniacally.
"Well, time for me to stop stopping," Sonic said and charged at the giant Ferris Wheel.
He avoided the rockets that came flying towards him and used the moving platforms that moved in circular motions to reach the big red eye and hit several times before the robot exploded. Then with that, the Ferris Wheel sank down into the abyss below but Sonic managed to get off the ride in time before it was long gone. While Eggman had left before the battle began, Orbot and Cubot were still present but ran away as soon as Sonic came towards them.
Then after Sonic freed the Wisps that were inside the glass tubes, he went back to Miles who was tinkering with his PAD.
"Did you find Eggman?" Miles asked.
"Yep, and he spilled his big plan before noticing me," Sonic said transforming back into Sonny. "He's planning to capture as many aliens as possible to harvest them for something called 'Hyper-go-on' energy."
"Hm, never heard of such a thing." Then Miles looked at something in front of him that Sonny couldn't see and blinked. "Really? That's what it is?"
"What?" Sonny asked.
"Tails says that Hyper-go-on energy is what gives the Wisps their unique powers," Miles said. "Eggman must be using them to power some kind of device."
"Does Tails know?"
Miles looked ahead of him and shook his head. "He doesn't remember."
"That's a shame," Sonny said and noticed the PAD had a small radar built into it now. "What have you been working on?"
"A translator," Miles said proudly. "This way, we can communicate with the Wisps more easily."
"Um, shouldn't you try contacting the G. U. N. Commander and let him know what's going on up here?" Sonny said dubiously.
"I did, but the transmissions I sent kept getting reflected back," Miles said. "My guess is that Eggman is somehow blocking any signals sent from inside the dome down to Mobius."
"Then that means the satellites that went missing are either being kept here somewhere or they were destroyed."
"If they were destroyed, there would've been satellite debris raining down on the planet below several hours ago. No, I think it's the latter."
"So if we can't get in contact with the Commander, we're going to have to deal with Eggman ourselves," Sonny said and smiled at the thought.
"But we should also look for the missing satellites and I think the Wisps might be able to help us." Miles then stood up and pointed the radar between Sonny and the light-blue Wisp. "Ask it something."
"Okay," Sonny nodded and looked at the light-blue Wisp floating in front of him. He then said in a slow voice, "Are you a Wisp and what is your name?"
The light-blue alien made several gestures and squeaky noises which Miles picked up on the radar. Sonny looked over Miles' shoulder, but all that the PAD showed were 0s and 1s.
"It's in binary code, so only I can read it." Miles explained then he said, "All right, based on my on my calculations, it is indeed a Wisp and its name is Yacker."
The light-blue alien nodded approvingly.
"Wow, your translator's spot on!" Sonny exclaimed. "Guess you really are a genius."
"I had a little help from Tails, who made a similar translator when he and Sonic first encountered the Wisps, but I did most of the work because Tails trusted I could do it," Miles said.
"Sweet," Sonny said then turned back to the Wisp named Yacker. "We're looking for these devices called satellites, and we were wondering if you could help us find them."
Yacker in turn tilted his head sideways in confusion.
"I don't think he knows what a satellite looks like," Miles said.
Sonny noticed a nearby trash-can and stood behind it with his arms stretched out. "They look like, um, this."
In response, Yacker shook his head.
"He still doesn't get it," Miles answered wearily.
"Oh, well I picked up this map after Sonic beat this giant robot Eggman sent after him that shows a couple of the planets that are attached to this park," Sonny said and took out a folded piece of paper which he gave to Miles. "Maybe the satellites are located on one of them."
"That might be possible," Miles said and noticed Yacker waving his arms frantically and looking worried.
"What's he saying?" Sonny wondered.
"He says that we must 'save them' over and over again."
"I'm guessing you're talking about other members of your race," Sonny said to Yacker.
The light-blue alien nodded in response.
"Then it's settled," Sonny said firmly. "We'll go check out these planets and see if the satellites are there while freeing some more Wisps along the way."
Miles nodded in agreement and Yacker flew in circles around Sonny's head looking happy as the three of them took off.
To be continued…