It was little more than an hour since Sonic and Sally had taken off on the Tornado plane; Sonic was already growing bored as he was anxious and impatient for them to land and to get to do something. He was tapping his gloved fingers on the door to the plane where his elbow was rested. Sally managed to turn her head to give him a look as if to silently ask 'do you have to do that?'

Sonic gave a little bit of a snicker causing Sally to sigh; deciding to relay his boredom with some small talk he then asked "so Sally... Sal... You think that you will be able to use those wrist sword things that my uncle gave you alright?"

"Sal; is it? To answer your question; I will be just fine. Duelling practices with blades were among the many lessons that I had studied growing up as the princess of the kingdom. Along with some martial arts and I tried some athletics." Sally then explained as Sonic took it in and thought of something.

"Can I ask something Sal... I like the jacket and shorts look but it doesn't look very princess like..." Sonic then asked as Sally sighed.

"After Robotnik destroyed my home; I ended up needing to loot a clothing store to change my appearance so that I can try to escape... I honestly like these a lot more than the dresses that I had to wear as a princess; certain things about being a princess I never liked as well as a certain etiquette and how to address certain annoying people..." Sally explained sounding honestly as Sonic then gave a frown.

"Yeah... I don't think that I would take having to be a prince myself... Be too stuffy and filled with rules; I always thrived for the feeling of adventure..." Sonic then told her as Sally looked down at the water and then started flying down. Sonic looked and saw that it looked like a large industrial building on a platform that seemed like a a small island. "I am guessing that it's not natural..." Sonic muttered as Sally shook her head.

"The Chemical Plant Zone... A factory set up by Robotnik to create dangerous chemicals for use in his empire... I was trying to break into it some time ago but I failed to get past security and had to escape... Robotnik was having a visit at the time and went on my trail... That was right before I crashed onto your home..." Sally explained as she then went and carefully landed the plane on top of the structure triggering an alarm; Sally then extended her wrist blades and made an entrance through a nearby vent for her and Sonic to go through.

They made it through to the corridor with Eggforcers patrolling the area to look for the intruders; Sonic then jumped in and started throwing himself at them in his ball form. "Now for my newly trademarked Spin Dash you wastes of metal!" Sonic taunted at the Eggforcers as they started firing at them with Sally using her wrist blades to slice through their legs, arms and through their bodies.

However from the walls came out a green oozy substance and Sonic found himself stuck in it and Sally found her feet stuck as well to their confusion.


The Eggforcers took them to a lab with large tabs of oozy liquid; one was green, one was dark blue and the largest one was dark pink with pods with the liquids around the lab. "Princess Sally; fancy having you drop off again and I thought that you would be smart enough not to try that again. Doesn't matter as the great Dr Robotnik has gave out a huge bounty to you and your porcupine friend." said a voice as appeared was a man in a labcoat and he had shabby greyed hair and a large beard. He then put out a bouncy ball and threw it at the tab of blue goo and it started bouncing up and down at great speed and their eyes widened at this though Sonic was glaring at the porcupine comment.

"My great achievement... Mega Muck and this facility has given met he means to work and perfect my creation! Green can stop things in their tracks like you all, blue can make them bounce and pink..." the man said as he started laughing with Sonic and Sally laughing. Sally discretely had her arms behind her back as she got out her wrist blades and kneeled down. "The pink can make people weak and sick... One day we will be able to create a way to turn the entire water supply into pink Mega Muck, make all the Mobians too weak to be willing to even think of standing up to Robotnik!" gloated the man as Sally then gave Sonic a look as if to say get him distracted.

"Hey... Beardo Scientist Guy... I'm Sonic the hedgehog and want to let you know that we both have faced Robotnik recently and we kicked his butt. I don't think that his flunky can make a bigger challenge when we beat him!" Sonic taunted the man giving him a cheesy smile but he shook his head in response.

"You don't defeat Dr Robotnik; you merely escape him temporarily but sooner or later he catches up to you!" the man told them as Sally was getting to work slicing at the green Mega Muck at her feet. "He gave me purpose again... I was a misunderstood scientist in the United Federation; working on chemicals that could be used to revolutionise warfare but the higher ups locked me up for war crimes... There I rotted away until they let me out with a collar around my neck with enough explosives to blow me up if I stayed out of line. I was to be part of a shadow task force sent out to kill Robotnik after what happened at the Kingdom of Acorn, to use what I could get my hands on to create a toxin or an explosive against Robotnik... He knew of my work and disabled my collar after taking out the rest of the team first... Gave me this place and in less than a year... I had used my work to create this... Including something to finish you off..." the man explained as Sonic just nodded to his story.

There was a flying pod of pink Mega Muck; "A special toxin called Megatox; going to melt your body into pink Mega Muck! I haven't tested it yet but I could do with trying it; while the bounty is highest with you alive... Even if this does melt you then I can use the surveillance footage as evidence to my master that I had you to claim the dead bounty!" the man taunted as Sally sliced through the green Mega Muck.

"Sounds gross but your ingenious plan... How does us escaping and kicking your butt fit into it?" Sonic asked as he then started spin Dashing at the Egg Forcers and Sally then started moving about to kick and slice at the Eggforcers. The man was taken aback and went to his controls but Sonic jumped and Spin dashed at his pod damaging the controls and making the pod malfunctioning to the man's anger.

"You can't win... Even if you do escape here today... You can't win against Robotnik as while mad; he has ambition and genius... He has the power of 6 of the legendary Chaos Emeralds!" the man taunted but Sally started giggling and Sonic bursted into laughter to his confusion.

"He HAD the Emeralds but we beat him so badly that he lost them along with his Egg Carrier!" Sonic then taunted right back at him but the man looked on in denial and didn't notice that the pod containing the Megatox was right above him. He then started trying in vain to push the button to summon the green Mega Muck on the ground but it wasn't responding; a stray blast from a damaged Eggforcer hit the pod causing it to spill the Megatox right over the man's head.

Sonic and Sally looked on in horror and disgust but looked away and Sally used the wrist blades to slice a door through the wall. The man's loud screams filled their ears as they started running; they didn't notice as his pod ended up crashing with his seatbelt destroyed and activated the ejector seat at time for him to fall right into the vat of pink Mega Muck.

Sonic and Sally managed to make it to the main power chamber; Sally sliced at the controls and Sonic went and gathered his blue electricity to blast himself at it Malfunctioning it. Sonic got Sally onto his back and ran through the facility dodging Eggforcers until they were able to find the vent they climbed out of.

They went through it and quickly got into the Tornado with Sally flying it off as the power exploded from the Chemical Plant Zone and caught on fire. "If that scientist guy survived that Megatox then doubt he could survive that fire... Not that it's a lost considering what he was working on..." Sonic muttered freaking out as Sally slowly nodded.

"Indeed Sonic... There was nothing worth saving in that place..." Sally replied in a low voice as they flew off into the sky.


The fire ended up dying out and it left the facility in a destroyed ruin on it's platform; the pink Mega Muck had melted the man's body. However from the vat; a gooey arm stretched out with no skeleton inside of it...

The scientist here has his likeness based on the Buyer from Knuckles who they didn't give much of a backstory or even reveal his name. Just kind of a lame rip off of Robotnik from the first Sonic movie but without the charm, personality or presentation. Plus if you haven't guessed; I have made this scientist a Canon Character All Along for Megatox from the Fleetway comics so probably not the last time we will see him again.