Sonic in Between.
Author's note: This will either be a one-shot story or a two-story set between chapter 19 and the epilogue of "Sonic and the Power of the Wisps".
Summary of Story 1: Set between Chapter 19 and the Epilogue of "Sonic and the Power of the Wisps": While happy that Mobius is free from Eggman, Sonic finds that he has trouble adjusting to this new change. It's up to Tails to lift his best friend's spirits.
I don't own Sonic the Hedgehog. All rights belong to Sega.
Sonic's Concerns.
It had been such a crazy adventure in the past two days, and today in particular had been the toughest and most exhausting for Sonic the Hedgehog. The journey throughout Eggman's Incredible Interstellar Amusement Park, rescuing the friendliest aliens in the Universe, nearly getting killed more times than he could count, the inner struggles of his emotions which caused him to hallucinate until the suggestion from Shadow the Hedgehog made the blue young hero finally find it within his heart to forgive him which ended the hallucinations of the evil giant Werehog and his dear friend Light Gaia/Chip for good, the latter whom Sonic was sad to see go, but knew it was for the best.
Plus the battle against Eggman who after four long years of conflict, had finally met his end by being eaten by the Wisps' mother called Mother Wisp who, having her Hyper-Go-On stolen, had become the Nega-Mother Wisp whom Sonic had to return to normal by the power of the Chaos Emeralds, the fifteen year old was about ready for a break for a day or two.
"Ahh...Man, what a day." Sonic sighed as he flopped onto the couch, still feeling quite full from eating all of those delicious Chili Dogs after he and his friends, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Cream and Cheese, Rouge, the Chaotix, even Shadow and Omega had celebrated his latest victory in saving not just the world, but the entire universe. Most had gone home half an hour ago and that left him and his best friend/little brother to clean up and had just finished.
"I'd never thought I'd see you be this exhausted after an adventure and eating all of those Chili Dogs, Sonic." Tails teased, even as he slumped onto his favorite chair, quite tired himself from all of the excitement. "Maybe you're out of shape."
"Hey." The blue hedgehog chuckled, mocking a pout. "I'll have you know that I'd just saved the entire Universe, spent the last two days foiling Eggman's usual taking over the world plot, saving aliens, almost ended up baked in a giant blueberry pie, having been swallowed twice by a whale who was friendly and did that just to help me out since he let me go, I think I deserve a little break."
The two-tailed fox giggled. "That's a good point. So, other than that, how do you feel? Ya' know...emotionally?"
Smiling, Sonic replied honestly. "I feel great. Sure, I'll always miss Chip, and I miss Yacker and all of those cute aliens already, and it feels kinda weird knowing that Baldy McNosehair is now gone, but it's like I said, I've never been better. Knowing that we're finally free from Egghead's evil plots and all of those robots, I might get bored with no evil villains to fight, but I can manage. Besides, I've got the best friends and family I could ever ask for. Plus my speed, love for adventure and freedom, our entire planet which has been our home for our whole lives, what more could I want?"
"I'm really glad." Tails smiled as well. "Especially since you finally recovered from two months ago."
"Me too, li'l bro." The older Mobian said, sitting up before sighing. "To tell the truth, when I fought that Werehog in my heart, there'd been times when I was so scared that I thought I was done for. It felt so real, and just when I thought I beaten that thing, I accidentally thought about the time when I was Dark Spine Sonic, which somehow made the mutant fuzz-ball mutate even more, turning himself into a Dark-Spine-Werehog, and even grew bigger."
Sonic shuddered over that memory despite that he no longer had that intense fear of the monster. "Just glad that didn't happen for real. Me being Dark Spine and having a giant Werehog wanting to eat me were bad enough, but for that thing to become what I saw? No thanks."
His best friend/little brother looked a little scared over that information. "I've never seen you as Dark Spine, but I don't think I wanna find out or see that in the Werehog either. Brr!"
"Be glad you didn't see the former part, buddy. That scared the heck outta me in the aftermath." The teenager responded. "But hey, let's not talk about anymore scary stuff, 'kay? This is supposed to be celebration night! Our first night of no Egghead to worry about! A brighter future!"
"Yeah, 'cause I wouldn't wanna celebrate with any scary memories or stories like it's Halloween." The eight year old kit agreed, smiling again a little, before yawning cutely while attempting to cover it with his mouth, but failed. "But at least I'll be able to sleep knowing that we don't have him causing an ambush or anything like that."
"That's the spirit." Sonic smiled once more, before scretching his arms up over his head as he too yawned. "But yeah, I think it's time to hit the sack."
He looked over at the clock on the table and noticed that it was well past 10:40 PM in the middle of the night, which made him lightly chuckle. "Heh. No wonder we're exhausted. It's been a busy day, right, bud'?"
When he didn't get an answer, the blue hedgehog looked over to his friend only to find that the young fox had quickly fallen asleep on the chair, his twin tails subconsciously wrapping around his body, one used as a pillow and the other as a blanket. It made the fifteen year old smile fondly at the cute sight. Seeing his little brother like that will always be so adorable. As silently as he could, Sonic stood up before approaching the sleeping kit and scooped him up into his arms, carrying him upstairs towards the eight year old's bedroom.
Once opening the door and stepping inside, Sonic pulled back the quilts before gently laying his little brother in bed, taking off his shoes and set them aside next to the bed, and then covered Tails' body with the blanket up to his chin.
"'Night Tails. Sweet dreams." Sonic whispered, gently ruffling the young cub's head before carefully kissing it. "I love you."
"...Love you, too...Big bro..." Tails sleepily replied, apparently dreaming and half-consciously heard the three words.
It made the blue hedgehog chuckle softly, before silently talking out of the room and closed the door behind him. He made his way into his own bed room before taking off his shoes and laid down in bed, covering himself in his own quilt as he tucked his hands behind his head, staring up at the ceiling. Even though he was exhausted and was more than ready for a good night's sleep, there was still that lingering feeling of oddness, knowing that his enemy was gone for good. Yes he was very relieved that Mobius was at long last free from the evil man's terror plots, and he had been perfectly honest with his best friend on what he said.
But the more he thought about it, the more Sonic felt that Eggman's death really bothered him a whole lot. He still couldn't believe that the mad doctor's plan backfired so hard that it ultimately destroyed him, just as the blue hedgehog had actually predicted back on Planet Wisp yesterday. He never thought it would actually happen.
"Eggman...I'm not sure if you're in the afterlife or down below, but I hope you can at least finally see the error of your ways. 'Cause if ya' still haven't even though you're gone, and you still hate me for foiling your evil plots, maybe your cousin Maria will talk sense into you. Or even your grandfather. I...as much as it feels awkward and I still hate you for all the horrible things you've done, I'm sorry for not being able to save you, even though you'd probably still do your evil ways." Sonic whispered, wondering if the mad scientist could actually hear him.
The cobalt speedster felt rather torn on the last thought. For four, almost five years now, he wanted the evil scientist to give up being a villain and change his ways. Now he wasn't certain. 'Cause even if he did, there's always a chance he could change back. It had been a nice break and Sonic had been pretty convinced that after the whole ARK thing that Eggman had given up despite that he'd been bored. But to hear that he hadn't really given up but simply taken a break himself, he was disheartened.
Maybe it was best if Eggman had died. Still, Sonic couldn't find it in his heart to take away another person's life, and he didn't want to. Unless if his enemies had taken away the lives of his friends, maybe, but that was mainly due to rage and vengeance, and he had come pretty close in doing that. He wasn't a fan of death, and he never will be.
"Well, nothing can be done now. Just gotta move forward, I guess." He sighed, closing his eyes as he felt sleep begin to over his mind while attempting to forget about the horrors and instead thought about happy memories.
In a few mere minutes, Sonic was fast asleep.
"RRRRRRRWWWWWWWAAAARRRRR!"
Sonic couldn't believe what he was seeing, as he stood in the burning and withered dying decay remains of Planet Wisp. The once peaceful and beautiful world full of life and nature, the home of the sweet, adorable, little aliens that were created by the giant, just as kind Mother Wisp along with the world itself, was now all dried up, burning, and becoming covered in nothing but dirt and metal.
On top of that, as he had no idea how it was possible, but all of the Wisps that he had saved, his friends that he rescued, and those he'd never seen before, were all trapped inside the capsules pleading and crying for help. Plus the Mother Wisp had somehow returned as the Nega-Mother Wisp.
Among the trapped aliens was the cute familiar curl-headed Wisp who was crying for help, and Sonic wasted no time in racing over after gasping in horror, placing his hands onto the glass that separated him from his sweet friend.
"Yacker! Yacker, are you alright!?" The blue hedgehog cried out frantically. THe little alien nodded, but looked absolutely terrified and seemed to have been crying for sometime which broke his heart. "Don't worry, buddy! I'll get you and everybody out, and I'll save your mom!"
"Not this time, you nasty little pincushion!" A horribly familiar voice bellowed which made the teenager's blood run cold.
Looking up sharply to see who had spoken and hoped that it wasn't who he thought it was, to his horror as he gasped in sheer disbelief, hovering over the giant nega-possessed alien was an Egg Mobile, with the very man he never expected to see ever again; Dr. Eggman who was alive and well.
"E-EGGMAN!?" Sonic shouted, feeling his heart stop at that very moment. "You're alive!?"
"Oh ho ho ho ho ho! Surprised, Sonic? Did you really think I was digested within the Mother Alien's stomach? That was a robot replica made to be like me! I was hiding back on Mobius to wait for the right and perfect moment to strike!" Eggman laughed evilly.
That made Sonic's blood boil and he mentally chastised himself for not seeing this sooner. He growled furiously at his enemy. "You sleazeball! I should've known! Let me guess, you decided to try out that same idea Metal Sonic used as he pretended to be you to avoid in fighting me yourself, you coward!"
"It was the perfect oppotunity to save myself the trouble, as well as collect the Chaos Emeralds...Which I have now!" The evil scientist responded, pushing a button to open up his hatch and revealed a small board which had all seven aforementioned emeralds set neatly in a circle.
If Sonic felt cold in horror before, he certainly felt like he was frozen solid now. His heart dropped into his stomach. Just when things couldn't suddenly get any worse, now Eggman had everything against the blue hedgehog.
"No...NO!" The fifteen year old screamed, as his only other option to free Yacker's mother again, to stop the mad doctor...even if he could still fight, there was no way Sonic could win this time for sure. "Eggman, stop this!"
"You think I will listen to you? This is just a taste of my most brilliant plan ever! Now be a good little hedgehog, and observe!" Eggman said coldly, pushing a button while the Nega-Mother Wisp began to become covered in pink energy, before he hollared. "CHAOS CONTROL!"
"NOOOO!" Sonic screamed, before shielding his eyes as the brightness of both the Chaos Emeralds and the Nega-Mother Wisp became too much for him. He then heard the pained and sickening moans of both the giant alien and Eggman, a disgusting sound of something being forcefully pushed into someone's skin which made him feel nauseous.
When the noises stopped and the light dimed, the blue hedgehog lowered his arm while opening his eyes, and gasped in dismay and horror that Yacker and all of the Wisps were all suddenly lifeless and grey. Having lost their lives somehow.
"YACKER!" He screamed in heart-break, before the monstrous growl made him look up and the blue hedgehog felt another huge wave of horror wash over him. Both the Nega-Mother Wisp and Eggman were gone.
Or to put it more simply, they were not gone, but pretty much...become one. They fused by the negative power of the Chaos Emeralds along with the Negative energy of corrupted Hyper-Go-On. While most of the giant twisted alien's body was the same, the only differences were that added with the mouth was Eggman's ugly nose, mustache, eyes with his glasses deeply attached, in place of the mouth-like hands were his now purple gloved ones, and the body itself was the same colour as his jacket. The flower on top of the head had become even brown and hairy.
And above the monster's eyes were the Chaos Emeralds deeply seeped into the skin, glowing in darkness.
"E-Eggman? Y-Yacker's Mom?" Sonic stuttered, unable to believe his very eyes.
"BWAHAHAHAHA! AH HA HA HA HA HA!" The monster bellowed which made the blue hedgehog cover his ears and winced at the horribly and painful loud laugh. "THE MOTHER ALIEN IS NO MORE, AND I AM NO LONGER DR. EGGMAN, LITTLE HEDGEHOG! I AM...EGG-WISP!"
"What've you done!?" Sonic exclaimed, horrified and devastated. "You just killed all of the aliens and become an even worse of a monster than you already were!"
"THAT IS WHERE YOU ARE WRONG, SONIC. I HAVE BECOME MORE POWERFUL! I'M UNSTOPPABLE! I AM A GOD! NOW, ALL OF THE UNIVERSE SHALL OBEY ME!" Egg-Wisp, formerly known as Dr. Eggman, declared evilly.
"NO! I won't let you!" The hero of Mobius shouted, and while his chances of winning this time were slim, he had to at least try and take out the monster. He then attempted to Homing Attack at the face, but Egg-Wisp grinned evilly before simply blowing air which made the hedgehog spin in mid-air before being pushed back.
"AAHHHH!" The teenage hero screamed before crashing onto the ground hard. Before he had the chance to recover, Egg-Wisp then slammed his giant hand down onto him, not crushing him to death but enough to pin him to the ground so quickly that he was helpless and trapped underneath the palm. The hand then clasped him and lifted him up towards the face.
"GOTCHA!" Egg-Wisp sneered evilly, holding the trapped hedgehog tightly in his grasp and close to his face where they met from eye to small body.
"L-let me go!" Sonic shouted, struggling to wiggle himself free, but the grip tightened and he quickly couldn't even do that. All he could do was glare to mask his fear as he didn't want to believe that the evil monster had won. "You won't get away with this, Egg-Wisp!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! YOU ARE IN NO POSITION TO STOP ME! NOTHING AND NO ONE WILL! FINALLY, I HAVE WON! THIS VICTORY HAS MADE ME A LITTLE HUNGRY, AND YOU LOOK LIKE A DECENT MEAL, HEDGEHOG." Egg-Wisp grinned.
The last of Sonic's courage was all but gone in an instant, as he gasped in sheer terror, the full reality of his fate had already been sealed. Now he was frightened out of his mind, his resolve crushed and his life about to end before his very eyes. He pleadingly shook his head, feeling completely lost and utterly defeated.
"No...No, please! If you're that hungry, why don't we order in a pizza or something?" The blue hedgehog shakily begged.
Egg-Wisp ignored the terrified hero's pleads, and simply told him darkly. "GOODBYE FOREVER, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG." He opened his mouth and began to bring his prey towards his jaw-like mouth.
Sonic felt fear mount over fear, whimpering as he struggled to try and get out of the grasp before he would end up being end, but knew that in the end that he was about to die. About to become Egg-Wisp's first meal, and to his dismay that all of his friends, his family, and all of Mobius and the Universe, were soon to follow.
"NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" He screamed just as he was gobbled up right into the mouth...
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHH! AHHHHH! NO! NO, DON'T EAT ME! EGG-WISP! EGGMAN!" Sonic screamed as he tossed and turned in his bed, before screaming himself awake as he jolted upright, his eyes wide open while panting heavily and feeling very warm that his body was covered in cold sweat.
Disoriented and very shaken, the blue hedgehog glanced around to see where he was. The sight of his bedroom greeted him, dark but lit up by the full moon's light shining through his window. It took him a few seconds to realize what has happened and while the adrenaline refused to go away just yet, he breathed a huge sigh of relief, inhaling before exhaling to try and calm down.
"A dream...It was...just a nightmare." Sonic whispered to himself, placing a hand over his face. His heart pounded furiously in his chest, before he glanced over at his alarm clock on the bedside table and groaned. It was only 2:00 AM in the morning. It was going to take ages for him to fall back asleep.
'Great. Even with Eggman gone, he still haunts me in my sleep.' He grumbled in his mind, thoroughly annoyed, and boy did the dead guy haunt him in his sleep. The vivid image of the evil scientist fusing with the Nega-Mother Wisp by the power of the Chaos Emeralds still left him very shaken.
If Eggman were still alive, would he have really gone that far?
"Oh, man..." The cobalt teenager whimpered at the very thought, and what else the nightmare had said which made him begin to cry, covering his face with his hands. "What if it was just a robot of him I fought? What if Eggman is still here? What'm I gonna do?"
"Sonic!? Sonic, are you okay?"
Quickly looking up upon hearing his little brother's frantic and worried voice, Sonic saw Tails having opened the door and, looking a bit pale and rudely awakened but extremely concerned for his well-being, raced over as his expression only grew when he saw the blue hedgehog's state. Realizing that his screaming accidentally woke the two-tailed fox from slumber and having him see him like this made the teenager feel guilty.
"Tails...Tails, I'm so sorry, buddy. I'm really, really sorry! I didn't mean to wake you. I'm so truly sorry, li'l bro! I'm sorry!" Sonic exclaimed profusely as he apologized, standing up before pulling his best friend into his arms, and repeated his apologies.
"Sonic? W-what happened? Is something wrong?" Tails asked more softly, shocked to see his big brother like this and, fearing that the blue hedgehog was now right back at square one over his guilt, hugged him back as he tried not to cry.
"I'm so deeply sorry, Tails. I-it was just another nightmare. I'm sorry that I woke you." The blue hedgehog whispered, holding his sweet little brother closer in his embrace.
"I've never heard you scream like that with a nightmare before." The two-tailed fox admitted, glancing up at his best friend's face. "From what I heard, it was about Eggman again, wasn't it?"
Knowing that he was caught red-handed, Sonic sniffled as he tried to calm down while nodding, and sighed, admitting. "It was the worst one I've ever had. He...he took over Planet Wisp, captured Yacker and all of the aliens, Yacker's mom was...was a Nega-Alien again...and Eggman...he...he merged with her with the Chaos Emeralds, turning into a giant, horrible monster, and called himself Egg-Wisp...!"
The eight year old kit gasped in horror when he heard this. "T-That's awful!"
"Worst part is...before that, he...he said that the Eggman I fought and thought was eaten was just a robot...Tails, I don't think Eggman is gone. I think that dream was a sign...telling me that he's still here on Mobius, somewhere...! He could be alive, and planning another evil plot...!" Sonic continued and revealed his new fear, hugging him tighter and began sobbing. "And if that's true, then...then we're not free. We have to keep fighting him over and over and...Oh, Chaos, my nightmares of him winning will really come true!"
"You mean...like when Metal Sonic tricked everybody by pretending to be Eggman?" Tails asked hesitantly, and the upset hedgehog nodded grimly, crying uncontrollably. The two-tailed fox, horrified, quickly suggested. "S-Sonic, I don't think we should be too worried! It was just a nightmare. Remember when you had that nightmare of that sleeping gas thing in the Egg Shuttle the other day?"
"Y-yeah?" The teenage hedgehog replied, hearing these words and remembered that he had that nightmare the day before yesterday during his fifteen minute nap. As it had humiliated him to admit it, he had been paranoid about that, but he couldn't shake off this new lingering fear of this possibility. "But what if it's different this time?"
Before Tails could answer, Sonic sighed, taking a deep breath to calm his nerves and shook his head. "I have to go and find out. I have to check his base somewhere to make sure. He's pretty slippy when it comes to his escapes, but that won't stop me from finding him."
He let go of his friend and sat on the edge of his bed, now miserable. "If he is still alive, then that slimeball tricked me again. He might as well have built himself a robot replica before he built that Interstellar Amusement Park. If he could do all of that within two months, then he could've done that too without me even realizing it."
As the two-tailed fox took a seat next to him in great worry, Sonic looked so hopeless for having such new worries that only filled in the same constant worry of the evil doctor planning another plot over and over again. "So much for our new lives without him around. I guess things haven't changed after all. Just another day of Ro-butt-nik losing and beginning another plot of revenge against me and trying to take over the world. Why am I so blind?"
Fresh new tears filled his eyes, and he buried his face once more, asking more to himself than feverishly. "Why!?"
"Sonic, you don't know that. It was just a dream, and even if he did manage to do something like that, it would've taken three months instead of just two." Tails quickly tried to reassure him, feeling heart-broken of how his brave and courageous older brother had once again fallen into depression just when he had finally forgiven himself just hours ago.
When that didn't seem to work, the eight year old then attempted to come up with something despite how tired he felt and how freaked out he was for having been woken up by his adoptive older brother's screaming. Then an idea came into mind and suggested, "I'll go with you and we'll check his security cameras at his base, to look back at all of what he's been doing for the last two months, that way we'll find out for sure if he is still alive or not."
"Y-You think he'd be dumb enough to keep a recording?" Sonic, hearing this and feeling a little bit of hope rise, looked at his adoptive younger brother and asked.
"Well, he was dumb enough to build Cubot who isn't very bright, had no idea that fish was in Sushi, and had Bokkun as the Bucket O' Sushi Chef." Tails pointed out, shuddering at the memories of the suffering he endured when he tried the said horrible cooking.
That made Sonic laugh over that, wiping away his tears as he added. "And dumb enough to leave both Cubot and Orbot in charge of the Elevator and left the keys for pretty much anybody to find."
The two adoptive brothers laughed over Eggman's stupidity he'd done in the last two months. Now that the blue hedgehog thought about it, maybe he was just overreacting again, and the robot replica part in the dream was just that; part of the dream, and not made in reality. While he still felt a little uncertain on whether or not it is possible, the fact that the two-tailed fox came up an idea, which the hero of Mobius would probably need his help with this investigation, and pointed out the facts of how stupid the evil scientist was, or still is, made him feel reassured and better.
"I'm sorry, Tails. Maybe I am being paranoid, but after a nightmare like that, guess I'm just shaken. Plus, Eggman can be hard to predict sometimes." Sonic sighed as the laughter faded.
"You don't have to apologize, Sonic. You just had a rough couple of days." Tails told him, "If it were for me, I'd be freaking out a lot, too. To tell the truth, I'm not yet used to the idea of Eggman being gone in a single day."
"Guess it'll take a while in getting used to, assuming that he isn't still alive." The blue hedgehog shrugged with a sad smile, before placing an arm around the younger Mobian's shoulders and gently pulled him into a comforting embrace. "Thanks for cheering me up, buddy."
The eight year old leaned into the embrace as he rested his head onto his big brother's shoulder. "You always done it to me all the time that I lost count. I wanna do the same for you."
"And you have. You're my best friend, and my little bro." Sonic replied fondly, gently kissing the top of his little brother's head. They stayed like this in each other's embrace as they shared another loving and brotherly hug for a while before he asked. "You wanna sleep with me, tonight?"
"Is that to comfort me, or to comfort you?" Tails couldn't help but tease.
"Both, I guess." He lightly chuckled sheepishly, scratching his head in embarrassment.
"Wouldn't it be a little bit cramped, though?"
"Don't worry. I've slept in tighter spaces. I'll be fine."
While he did want to comfort his older brother even further, Tails was admittedly shaken for having woken up to the sound of Sonic screaming in fear from the nightmare and felt that he would be having nightmares after hearing the story of that said nightmare. So he nodded and accepted the offer. The blue hedgehog smiled, before repositioning himself in bed and young kit snuggled up in his friend's arms and chest while the older Mobian pulled the blanket over shoulders, making themselves comfortable despite the bit of a squeeze. But it wasn't the first time this happened.
"Night, Tails." Sonic whispered.
"Night, Sonic." Tails whispered back, resting his head on his big brother's chest.
The cobalt hedgehog still felt guilty for having woken up his little brother, and still felt worried about Eggman's survival or not, but now felt relaxed, knowing that no matter what, he always had his friends/family, and if the evil scientist was still alive, then Sonic will continue to protect Mobius from him.
If he truly was dead, then it will take a while to get used to this idea.
As it turns out the very next morning when Sonic and Tails got up bright and early despite the frightful awakening from the nightmare, neither one nor their friends had anything to worry about, because as luck would have it after infiltrating the remaining base which has been abandoned for quite possibly a few days prior to both of them venturing up, there was no evidence of the Eggman robot and had actually heard him speak before departing for his Interstellar Amusement Park, unaware that it had been a one way trip.
That made Sonic feel very relieved, and thus his new life without fighting his enemy had really began.
Meanwhile, in the far away dimensional world...
'Oooh...Where am I? I feel like my head's about to explode...' These thoughts belonged to none other than Eggman, who, after being swallowed whole within his Egg Mobile by the Nega-Mother Wisp, couldn't remember much apart from being gulped down towards her stomach that would have been his doom.
Instead, as he began to regain consciousness, the evil scientist was left sprawled in his chair in his Egg Mobile which was surprisingly the right way up, and unknowingly to him, were five familiar robots that also suffered the same fate as he would have been that surrounded his dome.
"Do you think he's dead?" Decoe asked, worriedly.
"He doesn't look like he's moving." Becoe said, gravely.
"I'd go and check in his pulse, but none of us have any idea if this unusual world's oxygen is the same as on Mobius." Orbot stated the obvious.
"Ah, who needs air? We can handle it just fine!" Cubot asked happily, still completely clueless.
"That's because we're robots, and even Mobians have better luck breathing in space. Eggman on the other hand is human and humans can't do what Sonic and his friends could." Becoe pointed out as he, Decoe, Bokkun, and Orbot all looked at the stupidest robot ever created with dry looks.
An awkward moment of silence.
"I didn't know that." The yellow robot admitted, dumbfounded as he scratched the top of his head, causing the other four robots to slump in exasperation.
Bokkun then decided to try the next best thing. He hovered up to the glass of the cockpit and knocked on it three times, which got the man's attention as he groaned before sitting up with an exhausted and irritated look, as he at first couldn't believe that he was still alive...and in the last company he wanted to be with right now. That gave three of his minions a fright and even Orbot and Cubot jumped, while Decoe, Becoe and Bokkun screamed.
"AAAAAHHHH! Dr. Eggman's alive!" The smallest robot exclaimed.
"Of course I am, you useless junk heap!" Eggman grunted angrily. "Where have you all been?"
"S-sorry, doctor! We just remembered the Mother Wisp an-and by the time we did, you already left to fight Sonic!" Becoe fearfully apologized.
"We also kinda hoped that he'd beat you to use the Chaos Emeralds to stop the giant alien!" Decoe added, shaking like a leaf.
"However, as we were evacuating, she has fully transformed into the Nega-Mother Wisp and swallowed us whole. We all thought we were going to be destroyed." Orbot added, more calmly.
"But then there was this weird purple and black hole thingy inside the stomach and we ended up falling into it, then we found ourselves stuck here in this dump of a wasteland place." Bokkun continued.
"At least the colours all are interesting, even if they look weird." Cubot added.
Eggman was just seconds away from screaming out that he didn't care for any excuses, but when he heard what Bokkun said, he stopped himself and just listened. He placed his fingers under his chin as memories of what happened to him came back instantly; the moment the Nega-Mother Wisp had swallowed him up, he was all but certain that it was the end and he had finally met his demise, being defeated by the teenage hedgehog for the very last time. Then there was that hole Bokkun described.
"Hmm...Yes, I do remember also seeing the unusual hole you have described, Bokkun, when I was swallowed by the Nega-Mother Wisp." The evil doctor said thoughtfully. He looked around his surroundings and took sight of the unusual wasteland for the first time. "Perhaps it was due to the negative energy produced by the non-Hyper-Go-On power, thus transporting us into another world."
This made him suddenly realize that, against all odds, he once again survived and Sonic obviously thinks Eggman himself is dead.
"Heh heh heh heh, heh." The evil doctor chuckled, speaking to himself while thinking about the blue hedgehog. "You think that is the end of me, Sonic. But relax now while you can, because I will return, and when I'm ready, I will crush you and take over Mobius...!"
The robots looked at him in confusion, as he bellowed skyward. "That's right, hedgehog! You haven't seen the last of me yet! Dr. Eggman will be back! Oh ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho!"
"Um, one problem, boss." Orbot spoke up, interrupting Eggman's moment of survival. "Do you know where we are and how can we get back to Mobius? Let alone where we can find it?"
A long pause of awkward silence.
"Um...Uh...Er...Hmmm..." The mad scientist murmured as he tried to think, realizing that while he was still alive, he had no idea where he was, how to get back to Mobius or how far it was from this new world. He then slumped and groaned. "No."
Great, just when things were looking up a bit, he was stuck on an far away alien world no way back just yet.
"CURSE YOU, SONIC!" Eggman screamed at the top of his lungs in pure anger, his voice echoing through out the entire area. After a moment of silence, he turned his attention back to the robots and ordered, knowing that the sooner he found the solution to this problem, the better. "Don't just stand there! Start pushing! My Egg Mobile is out of commission at the moment!"
"Y-yes, doctor/boss!" Decoe, Becoe, Bokkun, Orbot and even Cubot exclaimed, quickly racing behind the Egg Mobile before pushing...inch by inch, slowly but surely.
"Push harder!" He commanded impatiently.
"Um, where are we going, Dr. Eggman?" Becoe asked, nervously.
"To wherever we can find in repairing this piece of junk, and then look for any answers of how that portal connected to the Mother Wisp brought us here so that we can use it to return to Mobius! Now less talking, and more pushing!" Eggman answered quickly.
He then turned his attention to what's ahead of him, and growled in rage. "You may be lucky for a while, little hedgehog. I will destroy you, even if it takes years before I see you and your little kindergarten cohorts again...! You will be mine!"
Far up ahead of them in a city of the unknown world that would take them three to four or five days to get to, a figure of a tall person in a black cloak, long tentacle arms in snake skin, black boots with laces in snake designs, his hood covering his face, except a trace of a large skin, dinosaur like muzzle, if not of a T-Rex's head, it's teeth shown as he breathed deeply, stood on a tall building as he gazed up at the sky.
"I sense a lifeform coming. Another evil one to remain trapped in the Prison of Evil, or something else entirely?" The figure spoke in a deep-ish male voice, sounding rather concerned but hidden it well. "I should inform my master and see what he thinks. I pray that the Devour of Existence, one that devours Time, isn't freed from it's eternal prison."
With a wave of his arm, the figure turned before walking away knowing that he would need to keep an eye out.
Because in three days time, he would know who has arrived.
A/N: This leads into the Epilogue of Sonic and the Power of the Wisps. I'm still debating on whether I should make this a two-shot or not. Guess we'll wait and see. This was due to a bit of a writer's block on my other worked on story Sonic's Space-Time Adventure which is a sequel to the Power of the Wisps story.
Don't worry, the sequel will lead into another sequel which will be linked to both the Epilogue of the Wisps and to this.
See you later!