Entering Bygone Island

"Boy, what a situation we are in." Sonic stated, trying to assess the situation with his companions while at the headquarters with Tails, Amy, and Knuckles. "We know that Imperator Ix has six of the chaos emeralds while we don't have any."

"Well, as long as the nut ball doesn't have all the emeralds, we should be fine from what Tikal had explained." Knuckles commented. "Chaos can't become Perfect Chaos unless he all seven chaos emeralds."

"We don't have any leads on where they might be." Tails said.

"I think we should try to start with Bygone Island." Knuckles answered.

"Bygone Island?" Amy asked.

"I learned about that place awhile back from Eggman." He stated. "It is a difficult island to reach and it is one of the few places that Julain didn't take."

"Bygone Island." Tails answered. "Of course, if Imperator Ix gets there and claims it, it'll be difficult to do a strike against him. It'll be a perfect place to hide to."

"Knowing that the Nocturnus Clan were allies to the battle birds, they would know about the place and its importance." Amy said.

"What are we waiting for?" Sonic answered. "Let's get to Bygone Island asap."

The four of them took the Tornado and flew out of the hanger over the waters. After some time flying, they arrived at the tropical island. Tails had landed the plane on the sandy beach. Sonic was the first one to step down.

"There doesn't appear to be any trace of Imperator Ix." Sonic stated. "But we need to make sure to go over the island before…"

"SONNY!" a glad voice shouted. Then, a blue hedgehog with a brown taupe wearing a Hawaiian shirt and Bermuda shorts came out and hugged him.

"Wait, what!?" He stated. The other three looked at him as they got off the plane.

"I'm so glad that you are okay, my son." He stated. Then, Sonic looked at the guy.

"What, dad?" Sonia asked.

"I knew you'd remember me." He answered.

"This is Sonic's dad?" Tails asked.

"Wow." Amy replied.

"The queen must have a really weird taste in men." Knuckles stated.

"I'm just surprised to actually find you here, dad." Sonic said stunned.

"Don't worry, son." He replied. "I was looking for you. You must have been worried."

"I sure was. I'm just glad you're safe."

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Hedgehog." Tails said.

"Oh, Sonny. Who are these ones?" The hedgehog asked.

"These are my friends." Sonic said.

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Knuckles added.

"The same with you as well." The older hedgehog answered.

"Uh, Mister Hedgehog? What's that glass thing hanging from your shirt?" Amy asked. The hedgehogs looked down.

"Oh, dear. I didn't know my monocle had fallen off." He stated. "Thank you, kind sir."

"SIR!?" Amy stated, loudly. "I'M A GIRL!"

"Huh?" The hedgehog answered as he put the monocle on and looked at Sonic. "WAIT A MINUTE, YOU'RE NOT SUNNY!" He backed off of Sonic a good distance. "I am terribly sorry, I confused you for someone else."

"I thought it was too good to be true." Tails thought.

"Well, who are you anyway?" Sonic asked.

"My name is Jules." He stated. "And you are?

"Sonic the Hedgehog." Sonic answered.

"OH MY GOD, IT'S SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!" Jules stated. "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!" He turned to the nearby house. "BERNIE! BERNIE! SONIC THE HEDGEHOG IS RIGHT OUTSIDE!" Then, another blue hedgehog with a blonde tuft of hair looked out the window.

"AAAAAAH, OH MY GOD, SONIC IS HERE!" Bernie shouted. "I didn't expect a world hero to be here. I better set the table and make some dinner for the guests." Knuckles started to hide behind Tails.

"Knuckles, why are you behind me?" The fox asked the echidna.

"I'm scared of these guys." Knuckles stated.

"Why?" Tails asked in confusion.

"Can't you see his wife looks like Sonic in drag?" Amy went over to Sonic.

"Do you… know these guys?" She asked.

"I don't know them." Sonic stated covering his eyes.

"It'll take a while for dinner to be made." Jules stated. "What do you want to talk about?"

"First off, what can you tell me about your son?" Sonic asked.

"Well, he's a cyan hedgehog." Jules stated. "There aren't a lot of hedgehogs on this island."

"Okay…" He replied. "Do you know anyone who might have a motive to strike against you?"

"What's a motive?"

"A motive… nevermind." Sonic answered.

"Do you know anyone who might be bad guys?" Amy asked him.

"Well, there is the lightning bolt society." Jules stated scratching his chin. "We're worried now, if they didn't kidnap our son."

"Don't worry, we'll get your son back." Sonic answered.

"Is there anyone on this island who might help out?" Amy asked.

"Well, there is the guardian of the jungle." Jules replied. "But…"

"But what?" Tails asked.

"She's a little crazy."

"She's the only one." Knuckles thought to himself.

"We'll get your son back. Just tell us where this guardian is and we'll have your son back before dinner." Sonic stated.

"She's in the forested area nearby." He pointed to the nearby jungle.

"Alright, let's go guys." He stated.

They entered into the area. There was trees around the area and the four walked through vigilantly looking for the hedgehog named Sonny.

"Who were those guys?" Tails asked.

"Just a bunch of hilljacks." Sonic stated.

"How do you know that?"

"When I was living with Grandpa Paulie on South Island, we lived in a country home." Sonic explained. "Our neighbors were farmers and we would occasionally help them with the land.

"I didn't know you were a country boy, Sonic." Amy stated in surprise.

"Yeah, I kind of am." Sonic replied. "My grandpa was never a fan of living in a city. And I learned that some mobians give the rest of the country boys a bad name." He went up and turned around. "Don't worry, I'm sure we won't find any more of them on this…"

At that moment, Sonic got hit by a green camo-colored jeep. There were two bears in the jeep that had stopped.

"Mike, did we just hit somethin'?" One of the bears asked.

"Gritz, you always say I hit somethin'. Quit complainin' 'bout my drivin'." The other stated. They turned and faced the other three.

"Whooey! Look at that dame." Gritz stated. "She's a very nice broad."

"Let's take her back and treat her to a nice meal." Mike answered. Gritz threw a lasso out and it wrapped around Amy Rose.

"HEY! WHAT ARE YOU…?" She stated. She was pulled onto the vechile by the rope. "HEY!"

"AMY!" The other two shouted.

"LET ME GO, YOU BRUTES!" She shouted as she struggled to escape from the bounds. The jeep took off with her revealing Sonic face-first in the mud. He looked up and saw the license plate say 'Git Er Dun' on it.

"SONIC!" She shouted.

"Ow." He stated as Tails and Knuckles went up to him and help him up.

"Sonic, two bears just came up and drove off with Amy." Tails said. Sonic looked up and saw the tire tracks made by the jeep.

"You two, go and find the guardian of the island. I'll go rescue Amy from some rednecks." Sonic answered.

"I hear ya." Knuckles replied. Then, the group split into their respective paths.

Tails and Knuckles arrived at a burrow in the middle of the jungle. The two stood there in confusion at the place.

"What is this place?" Tails asked.

"I don't know." Knuckles answered. "Maybe there is someone home and we can ask the resident about the guardian of the island."

"Hey, what are those voices of there?" a feminine voice stated.

"It's just some guys outside." Tails answered.

"It's you again?" She stated. "I'm ready for ya."

"Ready for us? We don't even know you." Knuckles answered.

"You're not gonna take my brain or lock me away." She stated as she came out. She was an orange and black badger wearing leather skins. "YOU'RE NOT TAKIN' ME OUT!" She charged right at them with a wooden boomerang in hand.

"WHOA!" Tails stated as he dodged out of the way. She was paying attention particularly at Tails that she didn't notice Knuckles. The echidna swung down a big tree branch knocking her out.

"What?" Knuckles answered. "It was out of self-defense." A while later, the badger came to tied up in a chair. She struggled to get out but couldn't. She noticed the boys right nearby. "Oh, you're awake."

"Let me outta here this instant." She stated.

"Hey, hey, calm down." Tails said.

"How can I calm down when you're a double crossing government agent conspiring with an evil alien overlord?" She replied. "Let me tell you, I've prepared for your petty invasion of Mobius." The two guys just looked at her.

"Ooookay, um…" Tails answered. "I was asking if you can tell us where we could find the guardian of the island."

"What do you want with the guardian of the island?" She asked.

"Sticks the Badger, guardian of Bygone Island." Knuckles added.

"HOW DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM!?" She roared. "HOW DID YOU INFILTRATE MY MIND!?"

"I just read the sign that was outside your door." Knuckles replied.

"Oh…" Sticks stated, calming down. "But how can I know I can trust you?"

"We are from West Side Island." Tails replied.

"Ah, West Side Island, the only place that isn't affected by the evil aliens." Sticks stated. "Okay, I can trust you now." Then, Knuckles released her. "Thanks."

"You're welcome." He answered. "What are you talking about?"

"I have seen the signs of an alien invasion coming in the future, and Mobius will be under attack." She started to hyperventilate. "And they are going in invade our minds. And and make us their mineless slaves." She was shaking Tails as she said this. Then, she let go. "But don't worry, I have contacts with guys to mass produce tin foil hats to protect the population from enslavement."

"Uh, I think she's a little crazy." Tails whispered to Knuckles.

"You think?" Knuckles replied.

Meanwhile, Sonic caught up and found the jeep was parked. It was nearby was a wooden shack with an outhouse. He found the two bears sitting on ball chairs made from a satellite dish. But so far, he didn't see Amy.

"They must have her kept in that shack." Sonic thought as he tried to sneak by them. Then, he heard the sound of a cocking shotgun.

"Now, where are you goin' intruder?" Griz stated with the shotgun.

"You kidnapped my girlfriend, Zeb and Clem." Sonic answered them. "And I'm going to save her."

"We aren't Zeb and Clem." Mike stated. "We're Mad Mike and Big Griz."

"That's what it says on our platinum belt buckles." Griz stated.

"Wait, you can afford having a platinum belt buckle but can't afford to get a new car?" Sonic asked in confusion.

"Hey, that car is special!" Mike stated. "We found it while we were mowing our lawn."

"Listen, if you don't leave right this minute." Griz commented. "We will capture you and throw you over the ledge."

"And you will see why it is called Nutcracker Cliff." Mike replied. Then, he motioned to Griz. "Griz, check to see if the squirrel nuggets are ready. It'll be dinner time and save some for the pretty broad."

"I'm not leaving without Amy." Sonic answered.

"So, that's her name?" Mike stated. "I'll remember that. But you aren't goin' to find her in the home we built."

"Yeah, she's in the outhouse." Griz added.

"Griz, be quiet." Mike rebuked focusing on him. "We can't let that blue rodent know where we hid the broad." Then, he turned back to the hedgehog. "Don't mind him, he's an idiot. What the…" He noticed Sonic was gone. The bear turned and noticed Sonic got Amy out of the outhouse and untied. "HEY, STOP!"

"Let's get out of here." Sonic stated. Without thinking, Sonic and Amy got into the jeep and drove off.

"HEY, THEY'RE STEALIN' OUR JEEP!" Griz stated, firing off rounds towards them.

"Quick, get to the pickup." Mike answered. Then, Da Bears chased the jeep with a red yet slightly rusted pickup truck. They chased them down the road and passed a turkey's house. The sputtering and blasting from the Bear's pickup frightened the turkey.

"TAKE COVER!" the turkey shouted as he hid in the house. "THE HATFIELDS ARE SHOOTIN' AT US AGAIN!"

Sonic drove the jeep towards the area where a car could enter a cornfield and turned off the car. He and Amy got out of the jeep and ran into the field. Da Bears stopped their truck in a way that the jeep couldn't escape.

"We got 'em now." Mike stated.

"There's no way that they could escape us." Griz answered. But then, they saw a light surround the truck and it started to levitate. "What's happenin' Mike?" Then, the two bears looked up.

"Oh no, not those guys again." Mike replied in fear as they saw a UFO right above them. They saw red and black aliens.

"Probing! Probing!Probing!" The aliens chanted, repeating the phrase.

"AAAAAAHH!" The two screamed. Then, the UFO took off with the two bears and the pickup.

The five were able to converge together again near a trailer park. They stopped to catch their breath for a moment.

"Sonic, we got the guardian of Bygone Island." Tails answered.

"So, this is Sonic the Hedgehog?" Sticks asked.

"Yep." Sonic stated. "And Amy is freed." Then, Knuckles sniffed the air.

"Why does Amy stink?" He asked.

"I don't want to talk about it." She replied in irritation.

"Well, it's time to find Sonny." Sonic answered.

"Help me." They heard a voice from the trailer park say and they turned to the area.

"It sounds like a kid's voice who needs help." Tails added.

"Let's go." Sonic answered. The five of them entered into the trailer park until they came across a very large trailer with a lot a propane tanks nearby it that was separate from the others. They had found the cyan hedgehog kid as a prisoner and found a few mobians in red robes and each was wearing a fez.

"So, what do we do with the kid?" the first one asked.

"Well, we are going to use him to take over Bygone Island." The second stated.

"Hey, what gives you the right to boss us around?" the third asked.

"Because I'm the one who has the purple fez." The second bantered. Team Sonic huddled together and formed a plan, while Sticks went to the side and through her boomerang at them.

"It's a badger chick." The first one said.

"After her." The third one replied. The three followed Sticks completely leaving Sonny behind.

"Well, that's one way to get rid of some bandits." Tails stated. Amy went forward and untied the boy and got him out of there. The fox went over and opened the propane tanks; he hid with the others. Sticks came back and the lightning bolt society chased her into the trailer. She left and locked the door outside.

"Hey, what happened?" the first asked.

"Time for them to go." Tails replied, throwing a lit match at the propane. The propane exploded and the trailer was sent flying out of there.

"Are you okay?" Amy asked Sonny.

"I'm sure alright." Sonny answered.

"Well, let's head back before those two start worrying about what's going on." Sonic replied.

"My work here is done." Sticks answered. "Got to get back to improve the defenses of my burrow in the case of an economic meltdown and a zombie apocalypse." The four just looked at her in surprise.

They returned to Jules' house and they were outside at the picnic table. There were bowls set down in front of them from the kitchen.

"What is this?" Sonic asked.

"Well, this is supper." Jules answered.

"Uh, okay. I'll go with it." They saw Sonny wolfing it down. Knuckles is slurping the juices.

"This isn't that bad." He said. "What is this exactly?"

"It's Possum stew." Jules replied.

"Uh, excuse me." Knuckles went to the side for a minute to barf up the meal. Tails just scooted his bowl over to Sonny.

"I hope you didn't see that possum off the side of the road." Amy commented. The hedgehog didn't say anything. Then, Sonic's eyes went wide and he looked at the bowl of stew.

"That's it. We're outta here." He stated as the four went back to the tornado.

"Don't you want dessert?" Jules asked.

"No, thanks." Sonic answered and the plane took off from the island.

"It's almost like they're proud of being stupid." Knuckles commented. "No wonder Julain didn't want to rule that island."

"He probably lost some brain cells just setting foot on the island." Tails added.

Meanwhile on a beach, the lightning bolt society was on top of their big trailer and they had the frightened look on their faces.

"Zeb, Clem," the one in the purple fez said. "We try to take over Bygone Island and we ended up getting a serious case of the crabs." They were surrounded on all sides by big crabs. Then, a light came down on them. "What's going on?" Then, they heard some simultaneous voices.

"MORE PROBING!"