Back at the village; the residents were still in their panic and Monica decided to retrieve from her home her camera used for position as a reporter for her school's news show. "Monica here at the scnee of the mass panic here in Green Hill Village as the ultimatum has been delivered by the feared would be conqueror Doctor Robotnik to hand over a princess and... Things are very much in chaos..." Monica told her camera that she had pointed at her with her arm reached out and a microphone in her other hand. "Mob mentality is at full force and... I see the where the Mayor's priorities..." Monica said as she spotted the village's mayor having the staff take his possessions out of his home so tht he could take it to a personal raft.
"Plus I see... Excuse me but isn't that your store?" Monica asked spotting a shopkeeper break open his own shop window so that he could start looting. Then there were people tossing over a vegetable stand which landed over a the leg of a tripped person.
"My leg!"
"My cabbages!"
Chuck went through the crowd and dragged Monica away to their home and looked over her. "What do you think you were doing Monica?" Chuck asked concerned looking over her as Monica raised an eyebrow.
"Trying to do what I do best while Sonic is off doing what he does best: be reckless!" Monica replied with her arms folded and Chuck shook his head.
"Please don't be worrying about Sonic as nothing has happened to him before..." Chuck then told her and Monica stomped her foot.
"That's because nothing can happen to him on this small safe island; Sonic always has his head in the clouds! He dropped out of school so that he could run about the island and wants to go out in the unknown where anything can happen to him; he leaves and I probably will never see him again... Why couldn't he just stay with his band and want to be here on the island... Something big happens and he would rather be chasing his thirst for adventure and his hormones by going with that princess when I need my big brother here..." Monica snapped out with tears in her eyes as Chuck looked at her and pulled her in gently.
"Sonic is a free spirit but that doesn't mean that him wanting to explore Mobius and find adventures where it leads him; that he won't have us and home in his mind. It's what he wants to pursue and I am worried about him as well but we should have faith in him..." Chuck assured his daughter wiping away her tears.
The bridge of the Egg Carrier was crawling with Eggforcers and in the centre was a containment unit with 6 glowing multi coloured emeralds which Sonic probably guessed was the Chaos Emeralds. At the controls of the ship was a rotating throne like chair and it turned around and facing them looking sinister with his hands together was a human figure. He was obtuse with a bald head, goggles, long brown moustache and a dark red and black high collared cloak with black gloves.
"So is this Robotnik?" Sonic asked Sally jokingly as she gave him a look as she turned to face him with her arms folded.
"What was your first clue?" Sally asked sarcastically as Robotnik started laughing sinisterly.
"We meet again Princess and I see that you have made a friend from this nothing island that you tried escaping to; I am guessing this rodent helped you destroyed the Eggforcers that my scouting party next to your crashed ship." Robotnik muttered as his face turned into a disapproving frown.
"That's right; I'm Sonic and I take it very personally when your robots invade my home and you start making threats!" Sonic retorted right back at Robotnik with a glare as Robotnik shook his head.
"You have the Princess to blame for that; trying to fight my conquest. Rabble rousing and trying to start a rebellion as I make Mobius a better place!" Robotnik then said as Sonic was in disbelief and Sally was furious.
"You manipulated my father and took advantage of his trust to stage a coup where you decimated my home! Took our family's emeralds to destroy the place as well as declare war on Mobius!" Sally retorted and Robotnik shook his head.
"Your family has had posession of 4 Chaos Emeralds for generations and were content on protecting their own little spot on the globe... I have higher aspirations and goals... Uniting Mobius under one rule; mine! I have read how democracy, monarcy and stratocracy had all failed on my people's home world Earth... Earth was weak when aliens from beyond our planet invaded and our species only survived by escaping on Space Colony Ark... I had made it my mission to create a robot army powerful enough to protect Mobius from outside threats but I realised that the threats to Mobius may be on the world itself... Mobotropolis has fallen yes but in it's ashes I built the first of many failures to create my army and my my factories all draw power from the 6 Emeralds here... I gathered all but 1 but they are more than enough for me to unite Mobius under the glorious rule of the Eggman Empire!" Robotnik ranted back and then posed dramatically but Sonic and Sally looked unimpressed.
"Everything I have seen on the news... A world ruled by you and your robots isn't any better than one destroyed by aliens..." Sonic retorted and Robotnik scoffed.
"I am through with playing games... You have assisted an enemy of the Eggman Empire blue rodent and I am due for an apology." Robotnik warned Sonic and Sonic smirked back at him.
"You know what Robuttnik; you are right... You are owed an apology... Someone told you that the bald look with that rediculous oustache and that cloak al together worked for you and they owe you an apology big time!" Sonic retorted and Sally was strugglign to restrain her giggles as she covered her mouth. Robotnik looked furious as he then ordered his Eggforcers to attack.
Sonic went to work pushing his body against the Eggforcers while dodging their blasts and Sally was able to move about and dodge the blasts; jumping and kicking the Eggforcers in the torso bits to send them back. Sonic looked and was impressed as he looked her way.
However soon Sally was overwhelmed and caught by them as Robotnik was cackling; then the containment unit of the Chaos Emeralds started glowing. "You have annoyed me hedgehog and your home shall pay; at first I was content on adding this worthless piece of rock to the Empire but if it produced a nuisance like you... It's not worth it... A laser sent down powered by the force fo the Chaos Emeralds shall decimate your little home... I could only wish that there was a chance that you could find the remains of your family and anyone you cared about floating in the water when I am through... Not that you would have a chance as I will have a blast directed at you both!" Robotnik taunted and Sonic looked at him in furious anger.
All because of him; this monster was threatening to destroy his home and decimate his family and everyone he knew on the island. He wasn't super close to anyone outside of his family but they didn't deserve this... Plus the Princess...
His emotions filled him up as he let out a scream and his quills started glowing and the effect sent out a wave that destroyed the the Eggforcers in the area as well as damaging the tech in the bridge. Sonic was next to Sally in an instant and helped her up as she was in awe.
"What how... How can you be so fast in the first place..." Sally muttered in awe as Sonic grinned at her.
"Spent my life running about the island collecting Power Rings; lots of them... Made me faster with every hundred that I collected... Guess that I never knew how powerful it has made me..." Sonic explained as the effect had sent Robotnik back and he forced himself back up again.
"I... Wasn't expecting that... But I was expecting not to expect something so it didn't count..." claimed Robotnik as Sonic looked at the malfunctioning containment unit and then launched himself at a ball at it destroying it. "WHAT? WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" Robotnik cried out in panic as he reached out to the Chaos Emeralds in futility.
Sonic grabbed them and then threw them up as they then were sent flying and making holes in the Egg Carrier. "Good job Sonic; now let's see about finding an escape pod..." Sally said with a smile as the Egg Carrier started going falling down to the ground with gravity causing destroyed Eggforcers to fall and crash through the window. Sonic then grabbed Saly and then ran and jumped through the window.
Sonic then ran and jumped from one bit of falling debris to the next and managed to mkae a long jump to the beach. Sonic then put her down as Saly was startled and took a moment to gather her bearings. "What do you think? Not too bad for thinking on the fly right?" SOnic asked as Sally glared at her.
"There is no way that it should have worked and if we had died; I swear that I would have made sure that you knew no peace in the afterlife..." Sally ranted at him and Sonic laughed.
"You have to admit that it was fun princess!" Sonic said as he got her n her back as he then ran back to the village. "What do you think now?" Sonic asked as Sally's arms dropped and she fell to the ground and Sonic found himself being enveloped into a hug by his uncle and cousin while Muttski went up to Sally and slobbered the downed Sally with his tongue.
Robotnik soaking wet struggled to climb onto a big piece of the wall of the destroyed Egg Carrier; he looked at the destroyed parts of his precious Egg Carrier in the ocean and he was beyond furious. "My precious Egg Carrier... My Chaos Emeralds... They were my ticket to certain domination... This was supposed to be a simple mision to clean up the loose ends of the former royal family of Acorn... I would have been if it wasn't for that blasted hedgehog..." Robotnik muttered indigniantly as he rolled up his sleeve and looked to his gauntlet.
"Send a search and rescue party to the last known coordinates of the Egg Carrier... Have a warm bath and a fresh pair of robes for me... Priority 2 is to find the Chaos Emeralds; use the studies to track the signatures around Mobius. 50 thousand Mobiums to anyone who can help us with that... Priority 1... Princess Sally Acorn and Sonic the hedgehog... 5 million Mobius to anyone that can bring me their corpses... 10 billion to anyone who can bring them in alive! Anyone that crosses me shall pay the price... OWWW!" Robotnik said to his gauntlet signalling back to Robotropolis and then yelled out in pain as a piranha had bit him hard on the leg. "That goes for you two... I shall grab you and have you cooked for tonight's dinner..." Robotnik yelled reaching into the water for the piranha.
Sally watched with the hedgehogs as the villagers realised that it had been more than an hour and nothing was going on and was staring at the mess that they had made awkwardly; they then started cleaning up. "So for my report on this; can I please get a statement on what's next for you princess?" Monica asked Sally turning to her while she got a pen and notepad out.
"Well... Robotnik's flagship is destroyed and he lost his Emeralds but that's a small victory; I don't doubt that he is still out there and his forces still has terriroty and are trying to take more. I should be heading out and continue my goal of stopping him for good. Hopefully him losing the Emeralds will keep him distracted." Sally then told Monica as she then looked to Sonic. "I could use help starting up that rebellion I have been trying to build... What do you think Sonic?" Sally asked smiling as Sonic was taken aback by this.
"I don't know... I would love to but my unc and my cousin are here and..." Sonic then said as Chuck put a hand on his shoulder.
"Your destiny is beyond the island son and Robotnik needs to be stopped. I don't doubt that you are the hedgehog for the job." Chuck told him assuredly as Monica went and hugged Sonic's leg.
"Just make sure that you call back and don't forget about us!" Monica said as Sonic grinned as he then ruffled Monica's quills with Muttski coming up and barking at Sonic. Sally watched this with a smile.
"Plus; I may have a surprise for you..." Chuck said as he got them to follow him. They then were taken to an old cave with a big entrance. "Saw some piloting back in my day and I kept this maintained for an emergency... The Tornado!" Chuck said taking off a tarp to reveal a red painted plane and gave them a backpack. "Supplies as I figured when you both came back that you would be doing this together... Plus Something to help you Princess as this was something that I discovered in a travel..." Chuck explained showing off some golden bands and Sally put them on.
Chuck got them all to stand back and Sally was asotnished to see that she ended up summon light blue blades from it. "Wow... Way past cool..." Sonic muttered as Sally tired some poses with the blades and managed to make them disappear at will.
The plane was pushed out and Chuck and Monica steered clear as Sally (wearing the safety goggles that came with the plane) got into the pilot's seat with Sonic in the offer as the Tornado took off into the air.
