Chapter 7: Lost World

Within a few days, Mina and Sonic head back to the landmass of Soumerca where Station Square is located. They reached out to the Station Square National Museum to meet with the director Jewel the Beetle. They go up the stairs to be at the entrance for a human guard to stop her. "I am Mina Mongoose, I have a personal appointment with the director Miss Beetle," Mina said as the guard nodded his head.

"Of course, she will be in her office," the human guard said as the couple went into the lobby to be still impressed by the displays showing up inside.

"Wow, they put up more display lately since last time," Mina said looking amazed by the exhibits to head for Jewel's office.

"Indeed," Sonic said as the couple went up the stairs to go into Jewel's office with the beetle talking with her best friend Tangle.

"Gee, Whisper was so cute being teased like that," Tangle said as Jewel sighs at this.

"You never change huh?" Jewel asked as Tangle had a big grin on her face.

"Not really," Tangle said as she turned around to see the duo coming into Jewel's office. "Hey guys," Tangle said as she high-fived Sonic.

"What's up Tangle, how things are going?" Sonic asked.

"I am just chilling, just hanging out with my little pal here," Tangle said as Jewel sighed at this.

"Being her loud self as always, I need to talk with Mina and Sonic. I will catch up with you at lunchtime," Jewel said.

"Oh yes, you were talking about the Mystic Ruins. I was drifting off from it," Tangle said to wave to the others as she moved out of there.

"There she goes," Jewel said as she offered them both seats. "You want to talk about the Manuscripts of Onyx?" Jewel asked.

"Yes, we need to know where did you find it," Mina said.

"Well, We found it deep within Mystic Ruins temple. Remember where you went to find that Chaos mural," Jewel said as Sonic remembered 6 years ago during the Chaos crisis.

"Oh yeah, we got to go back to that old echidna temple," Sonic said as Jewel nodded her head.

"Yes, but you must go deeper to find the chamber where we found this artifact. Sadly, it's covered with Eggman robots like they are protecting it or something. I wanted to explore more but couldn't. You must go even further if you want to uncover this mystery and why this new villain wants the tablet," Jewel said as she handed them a map she had charted for the known parts of the underground maze deep under the temple.

"This is helpful, thank you, Jewel. This is helpful," Mina said as Jewel nodded her head.

"I am glad I can help you out. Many parts of the temple complex are vast and unknown, be careful of the robots and traps within the labyrinth," Jewel said as the duo went away with Jewel pondering over this. "After the whole thing with the Nocturnus Clan and Shade, why does this Echidna stuff start appearing now," Jewel said as she gained some artifacts Rouge gained from the Twilight Cage allowing her to study it for GUN. "What a mess," Jewel said as she began to head for lunch with Tangle.

Sonic and Mina head for the train station as they wait for the bullet train. "Gee Mina, we can just run to Mystic Ruin," Sonic said as they saw the train coming onto the platform allowing them to enter inside. The train speeds off at a rapid pace as they sit down on their seats.

"It would look suspicious and we don't want to give Naugus the edge over us," Mina said as someone yelled for a group of young women consisting of humans and Mobians approached her.

"Oh my god, are you the Songoose?" the wolf girl asked.

"Yep I am," Mina said as all the girls screamed at her.

"You are so pretty, is that your adventuring outfit?" the human asked as her adventurer's outfit was a blue tank top, a white skirt with black bike shorts underneath, black fingerless gloves, and blue boots.

"Yes, I wear this when I am going on adventures with my boyfriend," Mina said as they coo at her outfit.

"You are so adorable," the human woman said as Mina felt flattered by their compliments.

"Thank you, my stop is coming up soon. Nice to meet my fans," Mina said as they saw the rustic area of the Mystic Ruins area with Tails Workshop not too far from the train station.

"Well time to head for the Great Rainforest to get to the ruined temple complex,' Sonic said as the duo rushed out at rapid speed. Sally is looking for the distance to spot them coming towards the rainforest.

"Sir, I see both Sonic and Mina heading for the ruins," Sally said via telepathic link.

"I see, I have foreseen this. Make sure those ruins will be their graves," Naugus said.

"Yes," Sally said as she commanded all Badniks on standby for Sonic and Mina to arrive. "If all else fails, I got to use one of the mechs to fight against them," Sally said as she observed the situation for she is keeping an eye on another group within the area trying to steal secrets from the ancient past.

"Sally Gal, you okay lately?" Bunnie asked on the radio as Sally looked at the sun high in the sky worrying about her kingdom.

"I guess, I miss my kingdom. It's under the control of that moron," Sally said.

"Well Sal, we need to swallow our pride and get through this. We need the funds from this wizard to aid us in recapturing the Kingdom of Acorn," Bunnie said as Sally shook her head.

"I know, I know but we are backlisted by my government meaning no one is going to help criminals like this," Sally said.

"Then you made Hooligan INC and just rolled with it," Bunnie said as Sally sighed at this.

"Yes I did and we have to do dubious things to pay for bills and equipment. Enough to take back my kingdom and get rid of my criminal status," Sally said.

"Indeed, we need to work with Naugus for now until we get what we want," Bunnie said as Sally nodded her head.

"Yes I agree, stay safe Bunnie," Sally said.

"Stay put Sally, we will get your kingdom back sooner than later," Bunnie said as she was in their airship floating above the ocean. Bunnie gazes down onto the ocean with Bean coming into the room.

"Hey Blondie, thinking about something," Bean asked as Bunnies shook her head.

"Just thinking about my best friend. She is worried about the things we are going to do moving forward," Bunnie said.

"Don't worry about it. I will stand by your side 100%," Bean said as Bunnies looked at him with a bright smile on her face.

"Thanks, Ducky," Bunnie said to kiss him on the cheek making the green duck blush. "Oh, did I make you hot and bothered sugar?" she asked with a teasing tone with her southern accent making it a treat for the ears.

"Well, I guess. You are very easy on the eyes," Bean said as he looked at her top which revealed her deep cleavage. Bunnie giggles at this as he strokes her robotic hand onto his cheek.

"You are quite the sweet talker are you?" Bunnie asked with a flirty tone.

"Quite easy to do with a sweetheart like you," Bean said as he got close to the beautiful female rabbit.

"Oh, my sweet Ducky," Bunnie felt his hand around her waist. Fang appears within the deck to spot the two looking pretty close together.

"Yo, what's going on here?" Fang asked as the two young adults broke away from each other.

"Oh nothing," the two were red in the face as Fang raised his eyebrows at this.

"Whatever, maybe pull her cottontail next time. Rabbit girls love that," Fang said in a joking tone as Bunnie pointed her arm cannon at Fang.

"Don't joke about that jackal," Bunnie said upset with his attitude.

"Fine, fine. I will be going now," Fang said as he walked away.

"He ruined the mood," Bunnie said as Bean rubbed the back of his head.

"He sure did, well I need to clean up my bomb gloves. See you later blondie," Bean said.

"See you later Ducky," Bunnie said to him with a playful wink as they went about their business with Fang in the background.

"Very interesting, Sally and Bunnie are going to stab our client in the back when they get the chance. Very interesting indeed," Fang said as he walked away with a nasty grin on his face.

Elsewhere Sonic and Mina are running through the maze-like Great Rainforest but it's taking longer than they thought. "Gee, this place was always confusing to navigate," Sonic said as they were blazing through the grass and swamps.

"I know, it's pretty annoying but we can see the temple now. We shouldn't be too long from now," Mina said as they spotted several Egg Pawns firing their blasters at them.

"More bad guys here which means we are on the right track," Sonic said as he used homing attacks to chain blows to take out a whole group of Badniks. Mina conjures her arm cannon firing electro orbs to blast away several Egg Pawns.

Then an Egg Hammer appears to swing its large hammer with them both swiftly dodging its blows with Egg Flappers firing their lasers at them. "Void," Mina fires a mini black hole to suck up all the Egg Flappers making them disappear.

Sonic strikes the Egg Hammer with a Homing Attack but the robot knocks him backward.

"Let me help you, Cube," Mina pounds her arm cannon onto the ground to entrap the large robot into a blue energy cube. Sonic uses his Homing Attack against it and breaks apart with ease.

"Thanks, partner," Sonic said.

"No problem, we are getting close with these guards around," Mina said as several Egg Flappers were guarding the entrance of the old temple. "Hover," Mina fires a wave of energy to make all the enemies weightless with Sonic easily knocking them into walls and smashing them into bits.

"Come on, let's head inside.," Sonic said as the couple headed inside with a trio of Mobians watching from the distance.

"So, they are after the secrets of the old Echidna Empire. Allowing them to become the dominant power on Mobius for thousands of years and even reach the stars," he said.

"Hey Dr. Starline, when we take the treasure within," a female said as the evil platypus cracked a smile on his bill.

"Be patient Surge, we will uncover the secrets within the depths of these ruins but the old doctor's robots are all over the place," Dr. Starline said looking through his smart scope to survey the area.

"We can just smash through these guys alright," a big Mobian said as Starline had a big smile.

"In due time Thrash, you will get your revenge soon enough," Starline said as Thrash crossed his arms.

"Better be," Thresh said.

"Come on, let's go. Let's go," a little fox boy said.

"Calm down Kit. This is going to be fun. That faker hedgehog and his ditz girlfriend are inside," Surge said.

"Indeed, we will take them down very soon," Dr. Starline said as all four of them entered the temple from another door to go inside.

Elsewhere Tails is working on Shard the Metal Sonic on his worktable. "Thanks for giving me a tune-up Tails," Shard said.

"No problem Shard, It's pretty cool you are on the good side compared to the other Metal Sonic we have to fight now," Tails aid as Shard is a pretty nice robot compared to the new Metal Sonic who is very ruthless and a true sadist. Taking pleasure in almost killing Amy and making Sonic suffer because of it.

"I used to be like that, reliving those memories is not a pleasant time for me," Shard said as Nicole looked on to show sympathy for the poor robot.

"Yes, you were a bad guy before. You are one of us and even stopped Black Doom and his army from taking over the planet Mobius along with your teammates and Team Dark," Tails said.

"Yeah that was a wild ride back then and now we have to fight this unknown enemy Ixis Naugus. A powerful wizard, can we do this?" Shard asked.

"Of course, we can. We have been fighting bad guys for over 9 years now. We can do this," Tails said despite becoming a teenager not too long ago, he still managed his cheerful outlook when he was a kid.

"You are right, we can do this," Shard said as Tails nodded his head.

"Okay, I am done with the hardware side and Nicole will be updating you. I will be right now," Tails said as he walked out of the main room.

"Oh hello, I heard all about you Shard. I am Nicole the Holo Lynx, please to meet you," Nicole appears in front of him as he is taken aback by the lovely appearance of this cute slender lynx wearing a purple dress with no shoes.

"Wow, you look nicer than I expected," Nicole said as she looked at the handsome-looking robot who is a black-colored Metal Sonic with a green gem in the middle of his chest. His green digital eyes showed a winking expression.

"Well, you are quite pretty looking Nicole," Shard said as Nicole glowed in the face from his sweet comment.

"Thank you, no one called me pretty before," Nicole said.

"Well first time for everything right," Shade said as Nicole nervously laughed at this.

"Oh my, her chest feels fuzzy. What is this feeling?" Nicole wondered as these emotions are quite new to her. "You are like Sonic, pretty charming," Nicole said as she sat with Shard to talk with him.

"Him beating me up in the past so many times, He rubbed his charm onto me," Shard joked as Nicole laughed at this.

"Oh yes of course," Nicole said as she wanted to change the subject to not die of embarrassment. "So how are your teammates doing?" Nicole asked.

"Well, Tangle is with a childhood friend Jewel. Whisper and the boss Ace were on a date today. Rouge and Omega are on a mission and Shadow is hanging out with Cream today," Shard said.

"Everyone is doing something. I would like to get to know you better, you are quite pleasant to be around," Nicole said as she placed her solid hand onto Shard's metal hand.

"I would like that very much," Shard said as Tails came into the room to have a sly look on his face.

"Hey, you two. You are getting pretty cozy there," Tails teases the Ais for them to be very bashful about this.

"Oh Tails, how long were you there?" Nicole asked as her furry face became red.

"Long enough, so cute," Tails said as Shard got off the table.

"Well, I need to get going. Thanks for the tune-up Tails and it's nice meeting you Miss Lynx," Shard said sounding charming for Nicole is getting red from this.

"Oh my, I am happy to be of service to you. Come to me anytime and we can enjoy more talking," Nicole acting very awkward and bashful.

"I can ditto that statement, bye," Shard said as he flew out of there.

"Seems like that is a nice thing to meet with a new friend," Tails said.

"Yes friend, sure," Nicole said sounding meek about it and having a blush on her face. She resumes her work as Shard is sticking within her mind.

Sonic and Mina are inside to see a large chamber filled with worn walls and floors. "This place has seen better days," Sonic said as Mina tightened her grip on her arm cannon getting ready to use the Wisp powers.

"Come on Sonic, let's explore and get deeper inside. There will be more robots getting in our way," Mina said.

"You got it, babe. Let's bust our way through," Sonic said as the duo rushed through the twisting halls of this temple complex. "Gee, this place takes me back to once we were dealing with Chaos," Sonic said as they dashed through some blocks trying to stop their progress.

"Oh yes, it was around the time were began dating right?" Mina asked.

"Yep, one of the good things that came out of that mess," Sonic said as Mina giggled at this.

"So smooth Big Blue," Mina said as they saw several walls blocking their way. "Drill," Mina summons a drill that sticks out of the barrel of her cannon as she speeds forward with a drill in hand to smash through the stone walls easily.

"Nice moves," Sonic said.

"I learned from the best," Mina said as Sonic smashed through several more walls with a spin attack.

Both managed to take down the walls trying to block them but a ton of blocks were cutting them off. "Time to double team this, Double Boost," Sonic said as the couple used their combined speed to blast through hundreds of blocks smashing them all to pieces to reach a chamber to catch their breath.

"Oh boy, that was nuts. This is only the first line of defense in these ruins," Mina said as they looked around to see weird paintings on the walls. "Look at this, did you see it before?" she asked as she pulled out her smartphone to start taking pictures of the murals.

"Not really, I was running throughout the whole place," Sonic said.

"Knuckle's Clan and their civilization. They say that Knuckle's clan was part of the larger colony that took root here within Soumerca including the Nocturnus Clan which they fought a war over a few thousand years ago," Mina said.

"The guys we recently fought over a year back?" Sonic asked.

"Yes, the very same group have roots here on the landmass. Knuckles' Clan and the Nocturnus Clan are offshoots of the original Echidna people who originally came from their homeland the mysterious Albion," Mina said.

"I never heard of it," Sonic said as Mina finished taking photos with her smartphone.

"Because it's lost to time, no one knows where it is. Anyone who did know is dead or not our friends," Mina said.

"What about Shade, she was locked up in the Twilight Cage for over 4000 years," Sonic said as Mina shook her head.

"She was a basic foot soldier. No offends for Shade but she is not a loremaster of the echidna people," Mina said.

"I see, let's go deeper in these ruins," the duo sped down the long corridors for they suddenly saw spikes on the floor begin to pop up.

"Oh no Sonic, these spikes are all over the hallways," Mina said as the spikes are catching up from behind at a fast rate.

"Okay let's Double Boost out of here," Sonic said as they combined their speed to dash through the vast hallways that seem to never end as the spikes on the floors begin to go even faster than before.

"Oh crap, they are spikes coming in front too. We are going to be boxed in," Mina said as spikes are appearing everywhere in front, back, and on the sides. Nowhere for them to jump or run on.

"Well, we need to think of something fast," Sonic said as Mina looked at her arm cannon to set it to the Drill Wisp.

"Sonic," Mina said showing him the Drill Wisp.

"That's my girl," Sonic said as Mina was in front with Sonic in the back.

"Light Speed Dash, Drill," Mina powers up the drill to come up with Sonic using his lightning speed to push Mina forward. Her drill form is cutting across the floor to smash through all the spikes as a huge wall appears with spikes all over it.

"Time to smash through it," Sonic pushes Mina forward to pierce the spikey wall to appear within a chamber clearing out of the trap. "Damn, that was crazy," Sonic said as Mina lays onto him,

"Yep but together, we managed," Mina said as she felt exhausted trying to catch her breath. They see another set of murals on the walls to see a great city being under siege by Perfect Chaos.

"This looks similar to the mural I saw several years ago," Sonic said.

"Perfect Chaos, what a mess that was. A greedy people enraging the wraith of a powerful entity driven by grief and sadness," Mina feels sympathy for Chaos.

"Yeah but we managed to calm him down and put him to rest," Sonic said as Mina took more pictures with her phone.

"Let's keep moving," Mina said as something busted through a wall.

"Not so fast Sonic and Mina," Sally's voice pops out of the robotic snake with a drill in front of its head.

"Oh; you must be Princess Sally. Glad to meet you," Sonic mocks her as Sally has no time for his games.

"Oh; I know all about you Sonic, you were the local hero of Acorn Archipelago defeating Eggman on South Island and Westside Island back in the day," Sally said as Sonic remembered his first adventures were there.

"Oh yeah, that was when I was a kid taking on Eggman back then. Very simple times back then," Sonic said.

"No time for memory lane. I am here to prevent you from getting the information within these ruins. This Egg Serpent would be enough to deal with you," Sally said as she piloted the huge mech.

"Bring it up princess, I busted Eggman's crap before and this will be no different," Sonic prepares to fight with Mina by his side. Sally fires several missiles with them dodging but the blast knocks Mina into a hole.

"Sonic," Mina said as she disappeared into the darkness.

"Mina," Sonic is pretty upset with him for spin dashing into the head of the metal beast to knock it into a pillar. "You piss me off now, time to rip that bot to pieces," Sonic said as he prepares to fight Sally in the ancient ruins.

Back with Mina using the Hover Wisp powers to make her float until she reached the bottom to be much deeper within the ruins. "Oh boy, Sonic can handle himself. I need to find info on the Onyx Horde or something pointing to it," Mina said.

"Well, well. Sonic's little girlfriend has come to greet my presence," Dr. Starline appears along with his henchmen Surge the Tenrec, Kitsunami or Kit the Fennec, and Thrash the Tasmanian Devil behind him.

"You are Eggman's greatest fanboy," Mina joked as Dr. Starline looked angry at this.

"I am not, I am way past caring about Robotnik and his nonsense which seems to be his undoing," Dr. Starline said as she aimed her arm cannon preparing to use her Wisp powers.

"I don't have time for you, I need to find what I am looking for," Mina said.

"Well, I am afraid you would have to go through us to get it," Dr. Starline said as all four of them teamed up to fight against Mina.

"Fine, I fought Eggman and his goons multiple times. You are just a knockoff anyway," Mina said as she struck Dr. Starline as he began to order his minions to go after Mina.

"So Songoose, can you fight my speed," Surge covers her body with electricity to speed at Mina. Mina uses her speed to dodge her attacks as she kicks her on the side of her head.

"I can compete with your speed. Sonic trained up my legs and let me show you," Mina is speeding blitzing Surge as they try to outpace the other. Mina dodges Surge's lightning punch but she kicks her in the back of the head.

"Cube," Mina slams her arm cannon on the floor to entrap Surge in a block of energy as she kicks her into a pillar.

Kit the Fennec uses his hydrokinetic powers to twist the pools of water around to strike at Mina. "I will help big sister," Kit said as Mina used her speed to dodge but she got hit in the chest launching her into a pillar.

"Water and Lightning powers. Not good," she thought as she is running away from Kit's beams of water. Mina uses Burst to launch fireballs to make the water beams vaporize on contact.

"Quake," Mina fires a stone ball to summon spikes of rock to block incoming water blasts from Kit. She uses the stone structures to block their pursuit of her.

"You can't hide behind this guy," the large Tasmanian Devil Mobian manages to use his fists to smash through them very easily.

"Oh boy," Mina is shooting up more stone spikes and walls with Thrash easily breaking them down with his raw super strength. Mina dodges his strikes and sees he destroys a thick stone pillar with ease. "Oh, he is as strong as Knuckles," Mina thought as Surge lobbed a lightning bolt at Mina to send her flying into a wall.

Mina keeps going with her dodging Surge and Thresh as the big Mobian pounds onto the ground to shake the area making Mina lose her balance. "Taste my screams," Thresh unleashes a large sonic boom to use it as a weapon to knock Mina into a wall. Her eyes were ringing pretty hard from the sharp noise.

Kit pulls out water from a pool nearby and entraps Mina inside trying to drown her. Surge begins shooting thunderbolts into the water sphere keeping Mina shocked. "This is pretty simple, Thrash execute her and we can go on our merry way," Dr. Starline ordered as Thrash picked up a huge boulder about to turn Mina into a red stain on the wall.

"As if, time for some combos. Drill + Laser," Mina combines two Wisp powers to shoot out of the water sphere with lightning speed to be in drill form. She targets Thrash to connect with his left arm severing it clean off.

"Damn it, you little bitch," Thresh screamed as blood oozed out of his gaping arm socket. Mina is behind the four as she fires a Hover attack to make them all float harmlessly in the air. "Laser," Mina becomes a blue beam of light to bounces around the walls to cut into the four villains several times.

Mina stands on a pillar to use another combo power. "Burst + Rocket," Mina fires a flaming rocket from her arm cannon. All four got caught in the fiery explosion as Thresh is out of the fight with Surge and Kit still supporting Dr. Starline.

Starline activates his special glove containing a Tricore allowing him to boost his attributes three ways via speed, power, or flight. He switches his Tricore to power mode as his body is covered in a red aura boosting his raw strength to match Knuckles' power. "Looks like I have to pick up the pace from Thrash. Clever trick, now attack," Starline said as the trio went after Mina at once.

"Bomb + Spike," Mina fires explosive discs from her cannon to embed on the side of walls and pillars. Dr. Starline thought she missed as he clashed with Mina punching her as she blocked it with her arm cannon to send her flying across the room.

"You missed; mongoose," Starline leaps at her as he passes one of the stuck discs on a pillar. He triggers its proximity as he gets caught in the blast knocking him away.

"You miss the point, good doctor. Bomb + Cube," she entraps them in explosive energy cubes for them to get blown up scattering them across the room. "Burst," he engulfs herself in flames to speed towards Surge. She hits her with a flaming tackle to knock her into a pool of water.

"Big sister, you are done for now," Kit unleashes waves of water with Mina using fireballs and lightning orbs to vaporize them as they get near her.

"Hover," Mina fires a wave of energy to send Kit floating in mid-air as she fires a bunch of fireballs, She burns through his water shield and scores a few hits knocking him out of the fight.

"Kit," Surge said as she and Dr. Starline were double-teaming Mina as she used her speed to avoid their attacks. Starline's blows are breaking stone to dust with Mina able to avoid his strikes. She ducks under the bunch of thunderbolts from Surge as she kicks her in the chin to knock her into the air.

"Time to end this, Rocket + Bomb," Mina fires a single rocket from her arm cannon heading for the duo.

"Just a little missile," Starline is not impressed as several micro missiles encircle the main one. His eyes widen with surprise as they avoid the eight missiles hitting the floor but each missile spawns 8 cluster bombs.

"What the hell," Surge said as this caught them off guard as all bombs exploded at once destroying the floor and sending the four falling into the depths of the ruins.

"I will not forget this," Starline curses Mina as the hole is plugged by debris. Mina falls onto the floor as she is on her knees feeling very weak from the fight.

"Oh boy, that is intense. Those Wisp combo moves saved me this time," Mina said as she rested on the ground catching her breath. "Dr. Starline has gotten some new muscle in those three goons. Surge, Thresh, and Kit huh, I better watch out for them. I hope Sonic is dealing with that chipmunk," Mina said as she rested for a bit.

Elsewhere Sonic is rushing around at high speed away from Sally's Egg Serpent for it digs through the floor of the ruins. "Hold still," Sally commanded as the turrets on the mech fired laser bolts at Sonic but he dodged every single one.

"Say pretty please with a cherry on top," Sonic said as Sally was annoyed by his taunting.

"You know, you are very annoying," Sally said as Sonic ran up the walls to use a Homing Attack onto one of the green nods along the body of the mech. He strikes it to destroy a section of the Egg Serpent. "Damn it," Sally said as she launches missiles at Sonic as he is bouncing off the walls and pillars avoiding their blast radiuses.

"Come on, princess. Is that the best you can do with this heap of junk?" Sonic slides under a pile of rubble to avoid the lasers and missiles. He spots three more nodes for the weakness of the mech.

"Not on your life Sonic," Sally unloaded more ammo onto Sonic but he saw his opening to strike the second node with a Homing Attack leaving two left. The next section blows up making the mech even smaller than before.

Sally fires a ton of lasers into the wall to bust it open into a large area filled with water with just a few platforms as dry land. "I got you where I want you Sonic," Sally said as the Egg Serpent swam in the water to smash into the remaining pieces of dry space trying to drown Sonic.

"I got to time this right," Sonic thought as he saw Sally destroying the remaining platforms. He sees the third node as he leaps onto the patches of dry space to use a Homing Attack to slam the third node.

The section of the serpent is destroyed leaving very little of the robot left. "Oh Sonic, eat this," Sally pops out of the water with Sonic running away from the barrage of laser fire as he leaps to destroy the final node defeating the Egg Serpent with Sally still in the egg pod.

"Sorry Princess, can't beat with toys like that," Sonic said as Sally was very annoyed by this.

"Fine, I don't want to deal with this. I let the robots deal with you," Sally said as she retreated out of there.

"Man, that woman is a bit headstrong. I need to head back to where Mina fell," Sonic speeds back to the hole in which she fell. He spins and drills through the debris to land in a wide chamber with a bunch of water pools around. He noticed Mina sitting in a corner trying to rest. "Babe, you are okay?" he asked as Mina had a bright smile on her face to go to hug her boyfriend.

"Baby, I knew you were alright. Yeah, I am fine too," Mina said as Sonic noticed the bruises and cuts on her skin and clothing.

"You got into a big fight here?" Sonic asked as the whole platform suffered a lot of damage.

"Yes Dr. Starline and his goons were here," Mina said as Sonic looked on with surprise.

"Seriously, that Eggman fanboy was here?" Sonic asked.

"Yes, and he had help. All three of them had special powers which made them hard to deal with. I had to use Wisp combo moves to beat them," Mina said.

"Man Mina, you truly learned from the best," Sonic said as Mina went to kiss him on the lips.

"I did, all thanks to you Big Blue. I'm all rested up now. Let's keep going deeper into these ruins," Mina said as they found a chamber having murals which have weird images on them. "Sonic, this is it. It says Onyx Horde," she said looking at the writing on the walls. She takes out her phone to take pictures for Jewel to look at.

"These are creepy," Sonic said as the images of powerful-looking mechs etched on the walls loomed over a huge city.

"It does, this is a gold mine of information. Getting these to Jewel will be our main goal," Mina said as Sonic looked over to his right to see a tablet with a map on it.

"This would be an interesting find," Sonic said as Mina slipped it into her bag.

"Yep, let's get out of here and avoid any more fights," Mina said as they ran out of the ruins and outside. They head back to Station Square Natural Museum to meet with Jewel again as she is not surprised they came back so soon.

"Well, got anything for me?" Jewel asked as Mina handed her several photos and a stone tablet showing an ancient map. "Oh, you did get some big intel here. Hopefully, this will lead us to Albion and get to the bottom of this mystery. I will contact you by email Mina and check with you," Jewel said.

"Thank Jewel, we will be going now," Mina said as Jewel sighed for her to get to work.

"The past is coming to haunt us, just like Chaos and Gerald Robotnik," Jewel said as she began going those the data and images for research.

Elsewhere another pop idol Honey the Cat is doing a show at the Station Square National Mall Complex with Human and Mobian fans cheering for her on stage. A cute 21-year-old Honey wearing a pink frilly dress is surrounded by her adoring fans. "The sweetness of the heavens. I love you, Honey," a male fan said as Honey sported a cutesy smile to melt his heart.

"Thank you, sir. I am very grateful you like my music. Remember everyone I am doing a charity concert in Central City within a week. I hope you support me along with my employer Breeze Media. With your help, we will make Mobius a better place to live. After we deal with the bad guys of course," Honey gives her fans a cute little wink as the crowds go wild.

"We love you, Honey," a female fan shouted.

"I know, I know. I need to go," Honey said as she sped through the crowd to get in a limo for her driver to pull her away from the crowd.

She is in her limo as she lets out a fat sigh along with her fake happy smile disappearing. "Gee, good grief. I am finally away from those losers," Honey said as she turned on the TV screen to contact her boss Breezie.

"So how did the meet and greet go?" Breezie asked to broadcast herself on the screen.

"It's all coming together boss, they are eating my words out of my hands like the degenerates they are," Honey feels dirty from being around so many desperate men.

"Well, you can sell their lungs if a pretty face tells them to do it," Breezie said as she could feel her profits soaring from her number one pop idol to help sell his products.

"I know right, show them a pretty fantasy wife, and they each drop 50,000 credits per order. It's insane how crazy these weirdos are. So how is your partnership with the new boss of the Eggman Empire?" she asked.

"It's quite remarkable, he is just easier to deal with than Robotnik but also more dangerous. He has many plans within his mind which make him more unpredictable than Robotnik ever was," Breezie said.

"You are cutting a good deal. All this drama from his rise to power has generated a lot of views and views turn into cold hard cash," Honey said.

"Indeed, I will keep my ear to the ground. I am not a woman to be played with. Besides, I have the resources he needs. Keep going my favorite pop star," Breezie said as the CEO cut the line with Honey being concerned with Mina Mongoose.

"That Songoose, my rival. I need to step up my game so I would be the true top pop idol in the world," Honey has a nasty look on her face to come up with a plan to put down Mina's singing career for good.