Author's Note: Nothing much to say, so, happy reading!

I do not own any rights to Sonic the Hedgehog or any of the related media. All rights go to Sega.


Chapter 13: Going Bananas.

It has been a few days since the day out at the Emerald Coast which had turned into a little adventure, with a Chaos Emerald newly found. While things had relatively calmed down a little, the situation with Chris's new abilities to sense the Chaos Emeralds was worrisome. Sonic in particular was definitely worried for his human friend.

On top of everything else, Shadow's return but memory loss problem didn't help and while Rouge had been keeping him away from Station Square at all times despite his and Sonic's heroics in saving the world months ago, GUN could be on their case and would no doubt try and capture the black hedgehog.

At this moment during the night back at Cream's house, while the family slept peacefully undisturbed by what was going on, even though Chris had another uneventful day at school and even got good grades in English and Art, the twelve year old boy's sleep was restless as he moaned and groaned, unconsciously clutch at the sheets tightly. Another nightmare was taking hold and it was worse than the previous times.


Inside Chris' Dream...

Lost in the dark in the shockingly familiar streets of what Chris realized he knew it by heart, yet it wasn't Station Square as he had come used to seeing almost everyday, but another he never thought he would see again. As the young Thorndyke nervously walked along the streets, he was shocked and horrified to notice that the streets were empty, cars were in ruin, buildings beyond repair.

On top of that, in the distance, he could see the Statue of Liberty, except half of the face was gone, huge crater like holes on the side from top to bottom, the metal fire of the flaming torch smashed, and the crown's horn parts snapped off.

"W-why am I back on Earth again? What happened to New York? This can't-this can't be real!" Chris exclaimed, horrified beyond belief. It looked as though the city had been hit by a huge attack of something that it destroyed everything.

"Child of the Distance World..." A familiar voice echoed all around him, causing Chris to softly gasp as he looked around. "Healer of Chaos...Beware the hearts of dark ones. The beckoning is coming."

"It's that voice again!" The twelve year old boy softly exclaimed. "Please, tell me who you are! What you do mean the beckoning? I don't understand!"

"You must choose your place. Those of your dark origins, the hearts of the dark ones...Both worlds are in danger." The voice cautioned. "They will soon find the world of the Savior of Mobius."

Before Chris could ask again, he felt the earth shake which made him nearly lose his balance before he heard voices and spun around, only to gasp in horror to see...his family still in those strange outfits approach him slowly.

"Christopher Thorndyke...You must come home to us this instant." Nelson spoke in a dark voice.

"W-what...?" Chris took a few steps back, frightened of what his family was doing. He had been scared of them before, but this was a new level of terrifying.

"Come home, child. You are a Prince of what is meant to be, you must be the Prince that you truly are." Lindsey said, grinning a terrifying smile.

"I don't understand what you mean!" Chris pointed out, shaking his head. "I'm not going back to any of you! And I won't let you get to Sonic!"

"It is your destiny, Christopher. The truth path of what you must take." Chuck warned darkly. "We are the true humans of the Earth and you are-"

Again the words were cut off and the Earth-Boy was left in the dark...except this time he found himself in a most blustering New York, except it was strangely much more advanced in technology with hover cars like in the movies shown above him. People were going out on their business until a sudden quaking shook again, causing Chris and virtually everyone else to nearly lose their balance.

"What's going on!?" Chris exclaimed in horror, before a flash of light caught his attention and when he looked up he saw a large explosion and beam shoot up into the sky before it began to spread across the city.

Many people seeing this all screamed in horror and confusion before they began to flee for their lives. The young Thorndyke in the meantime found himself frozen in fear, gasping as the explosion got closer and closer. He quickly tried to shield himself with his arms as he screamed in fear...


Gasping in horror, Chris jolted upright and panted as his heart rate accelerated, feeling too warm and disoriented while trying to figure out where he was for a moment.

"Chris, are you okay?" A familiar young and very sweet voice spoke with a tone of pure worry, followed by a cute but concerned squeak of 'Chao', making the boy look to his right and saw both Cream and Cheese, along with the six year old's mother who all looked very worried.

"C-Cream? Cheese? Mrs. Vanilla?" Chris murmured, the fog from his mind beginning to clear up a little as he then realized what happened, before sighing in relief. It had been another bad dream...yet his eyes widened as he realized that it was too much like the first dream just days ago, only it somehow involved New York being destroyed, then rebuilt to futuristic technology and then re-destroyed.

And what did that voice mean by beckoning?

"Is everything alright, dear?" Vanilla asked, worriedly as she sat on the edge of the bed.

"Y-Yeah, I'm fine. Sorry about that." The twelve year old boy said, though he failed to hide the shaking in his voice.

Cream was the first to notice as she asked gently. "Did you have a really bad dream again?"

Chris, hesitant, nodded. "I guess so. Though I..." He lowered his gaze as he realized that, with the strange warning of a beckoning and that Sonic's life could be in grave danger from his own family, he needed to tell him the importance of it.

"Hey, don't worry. I'm sure it was all just a bad dream. Plus, there's no way your horrible family would ever find you here, especially in Mobius." The teenage Mobian softly reassured.

As much as he wanted to believe that Sonic was right, he began to sense that maybe it wasn't the case. Could it be the Chaos Energy messing up with him? Still, maybe it was just dreams and he was over reacting.

"Sorry. I'm thinking too much." The twelve year old boy muttered.

"Maybe we can go out today, Chris." Cream suggested sweetly. "Sonic and Amy always told me that doing other things keeps you from thinking about your bad dreams."

"I think it's wonderful idea. Perhaps the three of you could help me in getting supplies in baking for Charity in a few weeks." Vanilla smiled in agreement.

Even though it sounded a little girly, Chris had to admit that both ideas sounded great and while he was worried about his dreams, Cream was right. He needed to get his mind off of it.

"That'd be great." The twelve year old Earth-Boy replied, smiling a little.

Little did Chris, Sonic and all of their friends know was that something else was about to happen.


Meanwhile, Rouge had reluctantly returned to GUN while telling Shadow that she would be back and had explained the situation to her superiors of the Organization. To say that the current commander, Commander Stefan, and his second in command Lieutenant Tower, who was almost beyond his 40's, or 50's, were shocked and a little bit outraged was an understatement.

"What!? What do you mean amnesia?" Commander Stefan demanded, glaring at the female Mobian who stood calmly.

"It's exactly what I'm saying, sir. Shadow only has bits and pieces of memories, the first he vaguely remembered is Sonic. So he decided to ask him for a little info and now Shadow wants to bring Sonic with him to learn more about his past from the Space Colony ARK." Rogue explained, not fazed by her commander's reaction. She had expected the outcome sooner or later and hoped that it wouldn't cause any further problems than necessary.

"Are you sure it is no trick, Agent Rouge?" The Commander questioned darkly.

"Shadow may have been rough a few months ago, but he's no liar. I even restrained him from forcing answers out Sonic and told him to be more civil. Eggman on the other hand and that strange giant monster that appeared out of nowhere, that's a different story." The bat thief smirked slyly over Shadow's wish to beat Eggman over the head.

That would be pretty amusing given how much trouble the evil scientist has caused.

"And is Sonic aware of this?" Lieutenant Tower questioned suspiciously.

"He has no idea that Shadow wants to take him to the ARK for a little joy ride."

'More like you are being tricked and Shadow plots to kidnap Sonic the Hedgehog, tricking all of you into believing he has lost his memories.' Stefan thought to himself, narrowing his eyes as an idea formed into his mind. He strongly believed that Shadow was up to something much more and only helped Sonic to save the world months ago to gain some grounds.

It had been believed that the black hedgehog had died after he and the blue teenage hedgehog sent the ARK back into orbit, but now it was clear that the Ultimate Lifeform, as far as the Commander was concerned, faked it. Professor Robotnik's evil creation was far too dangerous, he was using his own agent for his own purposes to gain people's trust and then eliminate Sonic, whom the man had to admit, the Mobian hero was just a child and as far as he was concerned, the teenager should not have even made an audience with the President.

In fact, the Commander felt that the President was failing the United Federation of Nations. He must be replaced for a more powerful leader, one who would lead the people to righteous. If only he could find the right people, but who and where?

For now, he had to play along, but also secretly keep watch on the creation which was far too dangerous to roam free. Man who creates things must be able to control them...Even Eggman knows how to control his robots despite wanting to take over Mobius as it's Emperor.

"Fine. You are given permission to take Shadow the Hedgehog to the ARK, and see if you can bring Sonic as well, whether or not he refuses, that is left for debate." The Commander of GUN finally replied after a moment. "But should Shadow do anything suspicious, you are to apprehend him."

"Leave it to me, Commander. Just so you know, I'm not kidding with the memory loss problem." Rouge smirked, though she sensed that her superior was up to something. She could see it in his eyes, but she knew, much to her inner annoyance that she couldn't do anything about it. The only thing she can do was prove that she is correct with her assumptions.

With a mock salute, the Mobian Bat walked out of the room to begin her mission and find Shadow to let him know of the news, being given permission to re-visit the Space Colony ARK. Not that she was looking forward to it, but it was a start.

But the moment she was out of the room, Stefan turned to Tower and began. "Lieutenant."

"Sir?" Tower responded smartly.

"Have the soldiers and agents on high alert should there be any problems. I want you to also investigate any more incidents of what has happened at the Emerald Coast." The Commander ordered sternly with a tone that left 'no questions' sharply in his voice.

"Yes, sir." His Lieutenant nodded, before taking his leave out of the room as well. But once Tower had also left, now on his own, Commander Stefan

then stood up and approached the window of the building that looked over Station Square, his hands behind his back.

"This will not go on any much longer. The President will be replaced, the order from the time of my father must return. Not even Sonic is to stand in the way. And Project Shadow...will be destroyed. But I will need help to take them all down." He narrowed his eyes, deep in thought.

He will find the answers to all of this. This Commander Stefan was certain of it.


On Angel Island, Sonic and Tails, both concerned about Chris' condition over the growing Chaos Energy within him, decide to visit Knuckles to let him know what is going on. The two Mobians arrived in the old Tornado give it a run and give the X Tornado a bit of a break. Upon arrival, the blue hedgehog and the two-tailed fox walked up to the stairs of the pillar where Knuckles stood guarding the Master Emerald like he always did.

Though the red echidna sensed their presence and spun around in a fighting defensive, only to see that it was his blue rival and the young cub approach before relaxing his posture.

"What do you want now, Sonic?" Knuckles questioned immediately, apparently in a really foul and concerned mood.

"Heya, Knuckles. What's up?" Sonic greeted with a wave.

"What's up? Don't you give me that, hedgehog! I'm not a mood right now!" The guardian of the Master Emerald growled impatiently, surprising the younger Mobians who blinked.

"Whoa, somebody got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning." The hero of Mobius remarked, shrugging a little.

"What's wrong, Knuckles? Why are you acting like this?" Tails asked, worriedly.

"The Master Emerald. It was acting very strangely."

"Strange? Whaddya mean?" Sonic asked quizzily.

"I'm not sure, but remember the dream I told you about the other day? Since then on and off, the Master Emerald gives out strange energy feeling I've never felt before. To make things more complicated, it doesn't help I keep hearing this unfamiliar girl's voice." Knuckles shrugged, as even he was baffled with the whole situation.

"Hmm...This is very strange. Why would the Master Emerald act this way?" Tails asked, thoughtfully.

"I'm not even sure. I think it can sense something's happened with the Chaos Emeralds." The red echidna shook his head.

"'Cause of Eggman's machine that blew up?" Sonic questioned, folding his arms. "That's weird. First a giant sea shell swallowed a Chaos Emerald and turned into a giant monster, now this?"

"Huh?" Knuckles blinked, confused. "A giant shell that turned into a monster by swallowing a Chaos Emerald?"

"It happened while the both of us, Amy, Chris, Cream and Cheese went to the beach the other day. We're not sure how it happened but we did manage to get the Emerald back." Tails explained.

"Eggman tried to snag it away from it, and you're gonna love this: Shadow's back and he helped us to beat his robot and the sea monster." Sonic added, smirking a little as he knew what the echidna's reaction was going to be like.

As predicted, Knuckles gaped in shock and disbelief. "Shadow!? He's alive?"

"Yeah, but the thing is, the poor guy's got amnesia, and the only clue he's got so far is the memory of me fighting him for the first time. Rouge found him and has since been trying to speak to me for answers for the last few weeks or so." The hero of Mobius explained.

He and his little brother then explained to the older Mobian what happened, including that of Chris' new ability to sense the Chaos Emeralds presence in a surprisingly slightly stronger way than even Sonic could despite the cobalt teenager having unknowingly developed his since growing up.

"Hmmm...If the kid's Chaos Energy is increasing in a matter of weeks, this is going to create severe issues." Knuckles frowned deeply, arms folded. "I think we going to have to bring Chris here for Chaos Therapy to help him at least control his new powers and not let them take him over or overwhelm him."

"Isn't that the Therapy where we have to sit still in front of your giant rock and try not to fall asleep for two hours?" Sonic asked, a little incredulously. He once ended up doing that himself since, as much as the blue hedgehog hated to admit it, he wanted to make sure his own Chaos Energy didn't go all haywire either.

Thankfully since his mind was strong, he only had to go through it for at least three days. The first two were agonizingly boring that he ended up falling asleep a couple of times...which resulted in getting a punch on the head by the irritated older teenager who scolded him for not focusing. It wasn't his fault that was so boring and he had wanted to move and run around since running was what kept him nice and calm. As Knuckles would put it, Sonic's will power and mind were strong and stable enough for him to able to channel his power, and since he had such compassion for his friends, helping others and always willing to think of them first before himself, he had no issues with using the Chaos Emeralds.

"It's the Master Emerald, and yes, it is. It's good for the heart and mind for those who use the Chaos Energy when it gets a bit too much for them." Knuckles corrected in annoyance. "It also requires in being still and remaining aware to let the Emerald calm your mind, which you don't seem to handle."

"Hey, I take naps at my own free time, and it's not my fault that therapy sessions and yoga classes are boring that it puts people to sleep." Sonic argued, pouting.

"Calm down, Sonic. Personally, I think it would be a good idea for Chris to go through the Chaos Therapy. We'll just have to schedule on what days he can do them." Tails quickly spoke up, hoping to prevent his two older friends from arguing again...or fighting each other.

"Hmmm, that's gonna be tough." The blue hedgehog hummed, concerned. "I want Chris to able to live a normal life as possible."

"Good point. Plus with the Master Emerald acting up, now might not be a good idea after all." The two-tailed fox lowered his gaze, realizing that his suggestion was a bad one. He smiled in sadness when his surrogate brother gave him a comforting rub on his back with a soft smile of his own.

"You're right. You'd better keep on eye on the kid in case something else happens, and if Shadow causes any problems, with or without amnesia." The red echidna nodded, his eyes closed for a moment before opening them. "Just so you know, I still don't trust the idea of him being in our world. Especially since he's the only human thus far that can end up using Chaos Energy."

"That might be true, but with or without it, I still think Chris is a lot happier than he ever was with that cruel family of his. I get more of a bad feeling from them and they're like millions of light years away." Sonic shrugged with one shoulder.

He also thought back to that strange dream he had a week ago, one that made him feel a little uneasy yet he couldn't understand the meaning of it. While the blue hedgehog told his friendly rival about one dream at least, he hasn't told anybody about the latest one since he couldn't understand the meaning of it and he didn't want to scare their human friend away.

"Dear child of Mobius, the two worlds are in grave danger. You must protect the child of the distant world. Protect him from the hearts of the dark ones. The beckoning is coming. He must choose his place...Either in your world, or the world of his dark origins he does not yet know."

"Please, young hedgehog. I beg you. Protect my dear Christopher from our evil family. Protect him...benevolent Sonic."

'What kind of beckoning did that voice mean? And the other one...who was she? Was I hearing a ghost of at least one friendly member of Chris' family? But how can that be?' Sonic thought to himself, a little freaked out over the whole situation. He didn't normally have dreams like that, or the ones about the people in space suits talking about taking over the world, or a giant sea monster made out of water where one could see it's brain.

In hindsight, it didn't make sense since Sonic the Hedgehog wasn't a believer in ghosts. Because as far as he knew there was no such thing as a ghost.

"I guess you got a point. I hate to admit it, while he doesn't belong here, he's not bad of a kid. Just keep an eye on him, Sonic. We don't want Eggman to know where he came from." Knuckles finally shrugged.

"I will, but I'm not gonna be his bodyguard or spy on him. He's had enough of that to last for a lifetime. He all wants is friends he can hang out with and a family who love him." The blue hedgehog sighed, scratching his head. "Still, if anything happened to Chris, I'd never forgive myself. It's my fault that it got like this, and I really gotta make it up for it."

"Sonic..." Tails trailed off, worriedly. He couldn't deny that he was worried about Chris as well. Over the last month, everybody he knew grew pretty close to the human boy. The young kitsune himself was getting close to him like another older brother besides Sonic, who had really gotten quite close to the young Thorndyke.

As the trio talked, none of them were aware that just below Angel Island and within the forest, a portal created by Professor Chuck Thorndyke purposely opened up and revealed another small robot with the same kind of substance that affected the giant clam days ago, as it came tumbling out and nearly dropped the vial. Due to being on auto pilot with a new video feed, it managed to regain it's balance and kept it's hold on the vial, scanning the area of the forest, before it's head opened up to reveal tiny propellers and as it spun like a helicopter, the little robot then flew away to find samples of the world.


When Chris, Vanilla, Cream and Cheese went to Station Square to get the bakery supplies, they met up with Amy who agreed to help out. For a good measure, the kindly mother rabbit allowed the children to buy some sweets and cookies for themselves for their good behavior even though she cautioned them to not eat too many to avoid in getting tummy aches.

During the whole trip, while it was a little bit boring, at least he still got the chance to hang out with his friends, and Cream's mother was still so nice, a complete construct to his own mother back on Earth, and he had even forgotten about his parents and the dream. Being out here really helped make him feel better.

"I've never had sweets from the store before." Chris remarked, really surprised and unable to believe his luck. Not only he bought some for himself, he even gave some for his caretaker and three of his friends. He even bought some for Sonic, Tails, Francies, Danny, and even went to the fruit store close by to buy some grapes for Knuckles since the blue hedgehog and the two-tailed fox once told him that the red echidna loved grapes.

"Well, sweets do make people's day." Amy stated as she and the others began to head back to the train station, smiling proudly at today's work. Even though she had been worried about Chris since the near disaster at the beach, it made her happy to see him seemingly in good spirits.

"Mama, what kind of baking are you going to make?" Cream asked her mother, with Cheese chirping in curiosity as well.

"Well, I'll be making my cupcakes and muffins, dear. And also some cake and banana bread as well." Vanilla answered warmly.

"Wow. All of that sounds so delicious, Mrs. Vanilla." Chris remarked in surprise. That, and also that he never had banana bread before, and he always wanted to know what it tasted it like. He had Ella's banana pie...with no sugar.

"All of the recipes will be made from bananas." The kindly rabbit mother then giggled. "Of course, it is for the Banana Festival they hold every year, so I wouldn't be too surprised if there are Banana splits as well."

'That explains why we bought all of these bananas and other fruit. Plus banana cake, cupcakes and muffins really sound so good, I wonder if I can come with for the festival and help out.' The young Thorndyke thought to himself, as he and the others all began to feel hungry just hearing and the thought of the delicious food.

As though reading his mind, Amy began to daydream as she sighed happily, her mouth starting to water a little. "I just love the Banana Festival. It always has the best desserts. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it. Ahh..."

"Me too. I've never even tried a Banana Split before." Chris agreed, which again surprised and shocked his new friends and caretakers, who all stared at him while he shrugged. "Long story."

"Well, we're going to fix that." Amy, still angry at how her new human friend's family had treated him on Earth, declared with determination. "We're all going to the Banana Festival in a few weeks: The five of us, Sonic and Tails, and you're going to try out every single Banana recipes!"

"Uh...Sure, Amy." The twelve year old boy sweat dropped a little, before turning to Vanilla and asked. "Would it be alright if I invited Danny and Francies too, Mrs. Vanilla?"

"Of course you can, dear. No one should miss out on the fun." Vanilla smiled warmly.

"Wow! Thank you." The Earth-Boy said happily, having excited to be told no, but then again, the Banana Festival did sound like fun.

Little did anybody know that more dangers were about to take place.


For the next few weeks, Chris helped Vanilla, Cream and Cheese to make and bake the Banana treats which looked, smiled and after taking a few tests, tasted so good he was getting more and more excited for the Banana Festival. Amy in the meantime told Sonic and Tails about the invitation which they accepted, and they in turn told them about what Knuckles said despite that the Master Emerald was acting very strangely.

As Sonic predicted, Chris had been frightened but the hero of Mobius quickly calmed him down and told him that they would all help him sort things out. Despite still being scared, the twelve year old boy felt safe to be with his friends and they all agreed to keep his new abilities a secret, only telling Danny and Francies who decided to help out and were enthusiastic in going to the Festival.

By the time they arrived at where it would take place, Chris was once again beyond amazed.

"WHOA!" Chris blinked, surprised at the sight before him: The Banana Festival was held at just outside of Station Square in a large field, with huge stalls and a inflatable building set up filled with everything that was Bananas. Plus there were even activities, toys, games and rides based on the fruit. "No wonder they call it the Banana Festival! It's like a Banana Themepark!"

"Yeah. Pretty cool, huh?" Sonic smirked in agreement, having expected this sort of reaction, before adding jokingly. "One would think that they'd all drive themselves bananas with this place."

"Yeah, no kidding." The young Thorndyke chuckled.

"I keep on forgetting to ask all the times that I've come here. What's the special occasion?" Francies asked, curiously as for years she had wondered about it, but each time the festival had been so much fun she kept on getting so distracted that she would end up forgetting about it.

"They say that a long time ago a person ended up washed up on an Island where he had to plant a banana tree to survive. Legend says that one Banana grew so big that sailors discovered and rescued him weeks later and brought all of the fruit with them. People would be amazed and celebrate it on this day and since then decided to make it a tradition." Tails explained.

"That's really cool!" The twelve year old girl remarked, smiling. "This makes the festival even more fun."

"Let's go help Mama take all of the cakes and bakery and have fun!" Cream declared excitedly.

"Yeah! All of those Banana desserts are waiting for us!" Amy agreed happily.

"C'mon, guys!" Danny gestured.

The young children smiled and laughed happily while Sonic chuckled, calling. "Leave me some of the desserts! I may be a guy for Chili Dogs, but there's a Banana Ice Cream Sundae callin' my name!"

Vanilla giggled, smiling warmly to see her daughter, the young three Mobians and the human boy who all had become like surrogate children to her be so excited. Especially on a day like this. As mother, she was concerned for their safety, and only wished they would have happy and peaceful futures. Except for one major problem that was a continuous threat.

Dr. Eggman.


While the group hurried into the festival, none of them were area that the evil scientist himself had sent in yet another giant robot that was known as E-65, as within his flying fortress that was launched a short time ago, Eggman himself, still plotting to reach the Space Colony ARK once more, grinned evilly.

"One thing good about this year's Banana Festival is that I can steal all of that food for my little trip and wreck everything apart by also causing a huge Egg Festival in it's place...and destroying Sonic and his friends." Eggman snickered, rubbing his hands together in glee. "And once they are out of the way, I can move onto my next plan to travel up to the ARK and gain more information on Shadow and Sonic's new friend in less than two weeks."

The E-65 robot, being deployed far from where the Festival was, landed on the ground, and within it's two chest orbs were Decoe and Bocoe, who were piloting it. As such, the huge Ape-Bot roared before it pounded it's chest, and the control cockpits, threatening to crush the two smaller robots who cried out in alarm, not liking this.

"E-65 is going bananas!" Decoe shrieked, fearing that he and his fellow companion would get pounded into pieces.

"Don't monkey around! We have a mission to complete!" Bocoe screamed, clinging onto his seat in a panic.

Doing as ordered, E-65 roared, waiting for the next command.

"Now, E-65, go and smash that trash and wasted food!" Eggman commanded from the Egg Fort.

E-65, as instructed, then took off with it's jets and began to make it's way towards the Banana Festival...yet the same little robot that Chuck Thorndyke sent in was flying straight towards it and recording everything it saw within the more forest areas in the past few weeks...

Which on Earth, unbeknownst to everyone in Mobius, was the past few months.


After helping Vanilla to take and set up the Banana bakeries and sweets, with her permission as she decided to stay to help the Charity even though they promised to be back soon, Chris, Cream and Cheese, Sonic, Tails, Amy, Francies and Danny hurried to enjoy the festival themselves. They rode on Banana Ferris Merry-Go-Rounds, Banana Bumper Cars, played Banana Bowling, even though Sonic Spin Dashed into them by being the bowling ball himself which made his friends stunned while Amy and Cream both laughed at just how silly the blue hedgehog was.

They even played games, tried out the utterly delicious banana themed foods with Amy having the large cake and ice creams, and Chris had fallen in love with the Banana Split, everything that was so tasty he would've tried more if it weren't the fact that he was starting to get full and he didn't want to get a stomach ache.

"You guys were right. The Banana Festival is awesome!" Chris said happily, wearing a big large Banana hat on his head, as were Danny and Francies.

"I'll never get over the Banana Simulator part." Danny said, grinning as he carried the souvenirs.

"The Banana Festival is always so much fun! I love coming here every year." Cream said happily, before asking her little Chao in her arms. "Do you like it too, Cheese?"

"Chao, chao! Chao!" Cheese waved his arms in delight.

"Every year the Banana treats keep getting yummier and yummier." Amy sighed in delight, licking her Banana Frozen Yogurt.

"It sure was a really fun day today. Better than last year." Tails agreed.

"Glad you guys are havin' fun." Sonic smirked, his hands tucked behind his head. He was really relieved that everybody was having a great time, especially his best friends. The blue hedgehog had yet another fun day out even though themeparks were not much of his thing. But he had to admit he thoroughly enjoyed himself.

Still, even as the few weeks went on without much of an incident despite taking out yet another annoying robot one and half weeks ago as Eggman attempted to attack yet again, Sonic couldn't help but think about the on and off dreams he had. Why was he having them? Was it some kind of warning?

One way or another, the fifteen year old hedgehog knew that he had to be ready for it.

"I wonder what we should do next?" Cream asked.

"There's the Banana Ice Show that's gonna start in half an hour." Francies suggested excitedly.

"That sounds really fun." Chris agreed, as he hasn't even seen a normal Figure Skating before either. The more he spent time here on Mobius with his friends, the more he had an exciting moment of his life.

"Great, then let's-" Sonic was suddenly cut off when a loud sound of jets flaring up and a monsterous metallic roar filled the air, causing the blue hedgehog and his friends along with everybody else to look up behind them.

To everyone's shock, dismay, and horror, a giant monkey-shaped robot began to approach, about at least 50 feet tall. It landed on the ground with a thud just outside of the entrance of the festival and roared. The crowd except for Sonic's group all stared up fearfully, wondering what it had come from.

"A giant gorilla!?" One man exclaimed, fearfully.

"What is that thing!?" One woman asked, bewildered.

With Sonic's group, most of them were shocked and terrified, while Sonic himself, also shocked, was more annoyed and angry as he almost instantly knew what this thing was, as did Tails and Amy who both began to panic.

"Not another robot!" Sonic, Tails and even Chris, also realizing what was going on, exclaimed simultaneously.

"This is the second time in less than a month Eggman's come to ruin a festival!" Amy grunted angrily, while scared but she attempted to hold back her fear for Cream and Cheese's sakes.

"That thing's like a robot version of King Kong!" Danny remarked with a sweat drop.

Chris had to agree, as during his time here, he discovered that while some times were different, Mobius and Earth shared a lot of common things, and the King Kong franchise was one of them. He had even seen his own mother play a role of Anne in a reboot she stared in two years ago even though for whatever reason he wasn't allowed to watch that either, and one would think he would be able to. Then again it was role she hated but accepted none the less due to her acting career.

"What does Eggman want this time?" Franchies demanded.

"I'll bet it's to just cause trouble and ruin the festival." Tails stated, nervously.

"Not if I can help it!" The hero of Mobius declared bravely, smirking. He then instructed his friends "I can take care of this giant monkey. You guys see to find Mrs. Vanilla and get to safety. Tails, Amy, you two help to evacuate the festival."

Everyone nodded in agreement with Chris and Cream telling Sonic to be careful, before they slightly split up with the teenage hedgehog racing straight towards E-65 to fight it while the others hurried to find Vanilla and help to evacuate the people. Those who were at the entrance were running for their lives, screaming in panic and terror. The giant ape robot stomped straight towards the festival's entrance to get started on causing chaos and destruction.

"What a time to be running away, yet neither of the people in the crowd resemble to a blue hedgehog who is as visible as long as he actually stands still." Decoe remarked from the cockpit.

"You mean like that coming straight towards us?" Bocoe questioned, pointing up ahead as a blue streak was racing straight towards them and the giant robot with a look of determination on his face, showing no signs of fear what so ever.

"But that really is Sonic! He is here!" The yellow robot cried out.

Realizing this, the grey robot knew what to do and told the bigger robot he and his companion were controlling. "Move in, E-65. Go capture Sonic and find his friends now."

E-65 roared once more, except that it began pounding it's chest again like a true ape, frightening the two smaller robots.

"Wait, pound on Sonic, not on us!" Decoe screamed, panicking.

"Stop it! That's enough!" Bocoe screamed, once again hugging his seat.

While the ape-mech was pounding, everyone was unaware that Chuck Thorndyke's little robot has spotted it and latched onto it's back, drilling a hole before it removed the cap of the liquid before pouring it into it's parts. However, just as it began to fly away and around it to capture it's picture as it was built with a camera, E-65, Decoe and Bocoe noticed this before the giant robot, seemingly annoyed by it, crushed it by capturing it with it's right hand, but the work was already done as the subtance was about to take control of Eggman's robot.

Unaware of this, E-65 began charging straight towards Sonic who smirked.

"You're a pretty big chimp! What are you supposed to be, King Kong's son?" Sonic taunted with grin, running straight underneath the giant robot who attempted to catch him, but landed face-first onto the ground with a huge thud, rocking the ground a little. The hero of Mobius skid to a stop just as E-65 pushed itself up and looked over it's shoulder.

"Hey, you artificial ape! I'm right here!" The cobalt speedster challenged.

The giant robot stood and made to turn around to attack Sonic, charging while the teenage hedgehog sped away, leading his opponent as far from the park and from anywhere near people. But as he did, E-65 was about to increase as it jumped and made to thrust him with it's closed up fists. The cobalt hedgehog smirked before speeding out of the way, narrowly avoiding in getting squashed while the ape-mech's impact caused a cloud of dust as it created a small crater on the ground.

"Ha! Too slow!" Sonic taunted confidently. "That big ape moves more like a slug."

But just as the dust cleared, to his shock it seemingly disappeared like it wasn't there to begin with. His eyes widened as he looked around wondering how it just vanished. "Huh? Where'd it go?"

Suddenly E-65 landed right behind him and Sonic felt the ground shake too late before it then landed a punch at him, sending the stunned blue hedgehog to the ground as he grunted at the surprised attack. He landed on the grass, hissing in pain before he pushed himself up.

"How'd that happen? That big slug just slugged me!" Sonic exclaimed, wiping away dirt and invisible blood that slightly dripped from his mouth. But to his shock it punched the ground again and sending more dust of cloud which forced him to shield his face with one arm while attempting to avoid in being sent flying again.

When the dust cleared, the giant robot disappeared again and he tried to looked around to see where it went to this time...only for E-65 to reappear behind him and kicked him forward. Sonic cried out in pain and alarm before hitting the ground hard, skidding to a stop, landing on his side as he grunted. Pushing himself up, Sonic looked over his shoulder to glare at the enemy, only to gasp in shock that it was about to punch the ground again.

Realizing what this thing was capable of and knowing that he had to figure out how to stop it, Sonic got up quickly and made a run for it, hoping to still lead E-65 away from the Banana Festival and all of the people in it, especially his friends and family.


Back at the Banana Festival, everybody was attempting to leave while Tails and the others were still waiting worriedly for Sonic.

"Do you think Sonic will be okay?" Chris asked, worriedly as he and his friends waited at the entrance.

"I hope so." Cream murmured in concern, hugging her mother who held her and Cheese close for support. "Mama, I'm so worried."

"Everything will be alright, sweetie." Vanilla tried to reassure, despite her own deep concerns for the teenage blue hedgehog who she had come to know as her oldest surrogate son.

"I'm going to go help Sonic in the X Tornado. He might need help." Tails finally decided, narrowing his eyes as he had used the plane to transport himself, Amy and Sonic earlier while Chris, Vanilla, Cream and Cheese, Francies and Danny took the train and buses for easier ground access.

"I'm going too!" The young Thorndyke declared with determination, not willing to let Tails go by himself despite that the two-tailed fox cub had much more experience with Sonic in fighting against Eggman's robots than he did.

"Me too!" Amy added, narrowing her eyes. "Sonic's going to need all the help he can get."

"Count me in!" Francies decided, much to her friends' shock. "I know it's risky, but there's no way I'm staying out of this."

Chris and Danny were both about to argue the point and Tails and Amy both felt uncomfortable about it, the knowing glare from the young twelve year old girl made the boys flinch a little, before they shared an uneasy glance and then at Vanilla who didn't feel or look comfortable in letting all of them go, making the Earth-Boy realize what he said.

"Um, if that's okay with you, Mrs. Vanilla." Chris hesitatedly requested with a sweat drop.

"Alright, Chris. Just be careful, all of you." The mother rabbit nodded. Despite her deep concerns for the boy under her care and the other younger Mobians as well as the other human children, their love and friendship within Sonic was so strong she couldn't find it in her heart to deny them.

Especially since Chris was very close to Sonic over the last nearly three months since the boy came here to this world.

With that agreement, the four children hurried to where Tails left the X Tornado while Danny and the kind family stayed behind hoping for their friends' safe return as well as Sonic's safety.

But in a far distance away from where they were, the X Tornado flew into the more opened field along where Eggman's Egg Fort, the E-65 robot and Sonic, as well as the evil scientist hovering to the unbeknownst teenage hero in the Egg Mobile were at.


In the meantime, Sonic was still struggling in his fight against Eggman's robot, dodge-rolling out of the way when it did become visible once, but he was still unable to lay an attack on it and was forced to run even though he was suffering injuries.

'Eggman built this robot with camouflage ability.' He realized in his thoughts, glaring all around while trying to sense where it would be this time. 'How can I defeat something I can't even see?'

Just as the hero of Mobius tried to sense and see where the giant robot was even though he was in the middle of an open field a few trees as he ran further away from the festival, all of the sudden E-65 reappeared from his left and punched him so hard and so fast he hasn't even seen it coming again. Grunting in agony the blue hedgehog rolled over and tumbled before landing face first on the ground. Breathing hard at the surprise attack, Sonic pushed himself up just as he heard the annoying evil laughter and glared up to see his nemesis hovering over to him.

"Looks like you have slipped on more than just one banana peel!" Eggman taunted with his trademark ugly grin.

"Eggman!" Sonic snarled, standing up with his eyes narrowed. "You have a thing for make people's live miserable, don't you?"

"It's what I do, because I take the pleasure in making my life pleasent." The evil scientist responded. "As you know, E-65 strikes without warning, able to turn invisible even through trees and dirt!"

Sonic just hissed agitated, just as E-65 punched the ground again to turn invisible once more, forcing the blue hedgehog to leap back and try and get away even as he attempted to attack it, but ended up unable to see where it was. When he was about to try something, he felt something huge suddenly grab him from behind, holding him by the torso and legs.

"Wha-hey! AHHH!" Sonic screamed, just as the thing that grabbed him was E-65 who returned to visibility. Trapped within it's grasp, he then tried to wriggle, squirm and pull himself free, but the trip was too strong. Still he kept trying. "Hey, get your paws off of me! Let me go!"

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Excellent work, E-65! Now squeeze Sonic and make sure he remains trapped in your grasp. Make a monkey out of that hedgehog!" Eggman laughed, confident that he was about to win this time.

The giant robot did as it was commanded, and increased the pressure on the fifteen year old who grunted, being squeezed painfully win it's grip. None the less Sonic still tried to get out of it, his heart hammering in his chest, and as much he tried to hold it in and mask his fears, he was absolutely terrified. But he couldn't give up. His friends and family were counting on him. If only he could just have the strength to get out of E-65's robotic hand.

"You won't get away, Sonic." The evil scientist informed him. "You're mine!"

"Oh yeah!? We'll see about that!" Sonic glared back, while he still struggled to free himself. He wasn't about to let his enemy capture and then kill him now. The blue hedgehog was determined to escape no matter how hard it was even if the situation was looking pretty slim.

By then the X Tornado flew in and from the inside, Tails, Amy, Chris and Francies all gasped in horror when they saw the giant robot had clasped their best friend and hero within it's grasp, the blue hedgehog struggling to get out of it and Eggman grinning with victory.

"No, Sonic!" Chris exclaimed in horror.

"I can't get a clear shot without hurting Sonic!" Tails exclaimed, fearing for his surrogate big brother's safety. "Gonna have to get in closer and lower!"

"There's Eggman!" Francies cried out, pointing at the familiar ugly man in the Egg Mobile.

Amy narrowed her eyes, fearing for her 'boyfriend's' safety before she unbuckled her seat belt and opened up the hatch, causing her friends to wince at the gust of wind blowing at their faces before they realized what she was doing.

"Amy, wait!" Tails and Chris both cried out, even as the former got the plane close and above the giant robot. But the pink hedgehog girl didn't listen as she jumped out and fell straight towards the massive robot.

"Let, him, GO!" Amy shouted, taking out her Piko Piko Hammer and with a loud cry, she bashed E-65's head so hard that it stumbled back, with Decoe and Bocoe crying out in alarm as they held on for dear life.

The impact also caused it to lose it's grip on Sonic who, seeing this, pushed at the giant metal fingers with most of his strength before he managed to get loose enough to leap out free and jumped to the ground, relieved that his friends, while worried for their safety, came to his rescue.

"No! How could you!?" Eggman exclaimed, his hands on his head in dismay. How could have Sonic's friend arrive to save him yet again, and turn things around. And just when the evil scientist was this close in winning for once, especially when he had Sonic in his grasp.

"I told you to keep your rotten robots away from MY Sonic, Egghead! Do it again, and I'll flatten you like a pancake!" Amy snarled after she landed on the ground, hammer ready for another attack.

"Thanks, Amy!" Sonic waved at his self-proclaimed girlfriend, before he glared up at E-65 before he quickly charged with a yell, head-butting it in the chest and forced the giant robot to stumble and fall onto it's back and not letting it have a chance to even recover yet.

"You little-! Don't think you can get away this time!" The mad doctor growled, pushing a button which launched a missile straight towards the twelve year old girl.

"Look out!" The blue hedgehog exclaimed, quickly picking up his friend before racing out of the way, easily avoiding the attack but unfortunately created more dust of cloud and smoke, giving E-65 the advantage to turn invisible again.

"It seems you're about to go up in smoke, Sonic!" Eggman grinned, launching more missiles to prevent the two hedgehogs from getting away, no matter how hard Sonic attempted to avoid in getting caught up as while he can get himself and a now shocked and screaming Amy out of the firing line, E-65 could attack them anywhere.

"Hey, that's not fair, Eggman!" Francies exclaimed angrily.

"Careful, guys! This robot can camouflage itself!" The hero of Mobius called up to the others.

"I've got you now!" Eggman declared evilly.

Tails was about to try and scan to find the E-65 and open fire while also attempting to distract Eggman, but to his and the human children's horror, the giant robot turned invisible again, which then was about to launch a sneak attack when Amy could hear it's movements and gasped.

"Sonic, look out! From your left!" She screamed.

"Huh!?" Gasping, Sonic leaped out of the way, narrowly avoiding the giant Ape-Mech who missed it's swing before he sped away with his friend.

Tails used this to his advantage and opened fire at the robot who was too slow and could only shield itself with it's arm, but it was getting some damage from the X Tornado's own missiles. Decoe and Bocoe were screaming and held on for dear A.I life they had.

Seeing that the situation was getting more and more dangerous, Chris saw that Eggman was about to launch another attack to distract Sonic and the others and make E-65 invisible, before he narrowed his eyes and like the last time and just as Amy did, he got out of the seat and awkwardly and carefully walked along the plane's left wing, much to Tails and Francies' shock.

"No, Chris! Don't!" Tails exclaimed, realizing what his human friend was about to do, horrified.

"Wait, it's too dangerous!" Francies cried out worriedly, wondering what was her new friend thinking.

"Leave them alone, Eggman!" Chris shouted as he made the risky jump yet again, much to his friends' horror as Sonic and Amy both noticed and gasped.

"Chris, no!" Sonic and Amy both screamed out, while narrowly avoiding another one of E-65's attacks.

By the time Eggman looked up, the twelve year old boy landed successfully in the Egg Mobile only for the evil scientist, seeing him and snickered, tilt the ride to roughly to the left. The Earth-Boy screamed in alarm while trying to hold on, and even grabbed hold of the doctor's mustache, and managing to hold onto the side of the vehicle at the same time.

"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Eggman screamed painfully, and if the situation was different, it would've been comical.

"You better leave my friends alone, or you'll regret it!" The young Thorndyke shouted, even though he quickly realized just how dangerous this situation was and that he was being very reckless, but at the moment he didn't care. All that mattered to him was trying to save his friends' lives.

"We're coming, Chris!" Tails cried out as he flew in to save the human boy.

"We've got to help Chris!" Amy exclaimed fearfully.

Sonic tried to think of a way to help save his human friend, before E-65 turned invisible yet again before an idea formed in his mind. Telling his self-proclaimed girlfriend to hold still, much to her confusion after he realized that hearing it was the only way to beat it, he stood still before closing his eyes.

'I can't see that thing, so I'll have to hear it.' The blue hedgehog thought to himself, listening for the robot's movements and where it would attack next while keeping a puzzled pink hedgehog close to him to keep her safe.

As the hero of Mobius listened carefully and the Piko-Hammer wielding girl gazed at him and around worriedly, she then realized what he was doing and decided not to break his concentration. Sonic heard it's movements, stomping on the ground and the branches of a tree, before he felt heard it about to land right in front of the two hedgehogs. Quickly opening his eyes, the blue hedgehog then dashed forward and bashed right into it's chest, forcing it to turn visible again and it crashed onto it's back.

"Hang on tight, Amy! We're going to save Chris!" Sonic instructed, allowing his friend to hold onto him, as he then sped forward quickly.

"You grubby little brat! Let go of my mustache!" The evil scientist growled, attempting to pull Chris' hand off of his face as this hurt like nobody's business. Not to mention that it was ruining his 'beautiful' mustache...

Even though Eggman is no Prince Charming.

Unfortunately, Chris lost his grip and began to fall, screaming.

"CHRIS!" Sonic screamed out.

"OH NO!" Amy exclaimed.

"Chris, no!" Tails screamed out while Francies gasped in horror.

Racing to go faster and telling Amy to hang on tighter, Sonic quickly leaped up high into the air and glared at Eggman who flinched in fright while attempting to fix up his mustache, and gulped at the furious look the cobalt teenager held on his face. The young Mobian then axe kicked the Egg Mobile over his and Amy's heads, sending Eggman flying like a soccer ball straight towards the recovering E-65 while the evil doctor screamed a high-pitched squeal. As he did, Eggman panicked as did Decoe and Bocoe who held on for dear life, just as their creator crashed into the giant robot and collapsed onto the ground, damaged and battered, the evil scientist and his two lackies dazed with their eyes spinning, stars circling around their heads as they groaned.

The two hedgehogs then quickly landed onto the wing of the X Tornado before Sonic gently set Amy down and jumped to catch Chris who continued to fall.

"I'm coming, Chris!" Sonic shouted, his arms out while willing himself to get closer to his human friend who continued to scream.

Thankfully the blue hedgehog caught him in his arms, and flipped to make sure they would land safely, grunting a little as he landed on his feet, and sighed in relief with the slightly shaken Earth-boy in his arms.

"You alright?" The blue hedgehog asked, worriedly.

"Y-yeah." Chris nodded, guilt-ridden for getting himself into trouble.

"That was really reckless. You could've gotten yourself killed." Sonic said firmly, though by the look of his friend's face, he still remained gentle since he sensed that the human boy had already realized the consequences of his actions.

"I'm sorry, Sonic. I just wanted to help." The twelve year old boy lowered his gaze, knowing that his blue hedgehog friend was right.

Sighing, Sonic gently set him onto the ground and shrugged. "I know. Kinda had this same conversation with Tails when we first met. I shouldn't hold you guys back, but next time, just promise to try not to do that sort of thing again. Okay?"

"I promise. I was just really worried and...I wasn't thinking straight." Chris sighed, his heart sinking over his stupidity, before blinking in surprise when the blue hedgehog gently placed a hand onto his shoulder.

"All things considered, you guys saved me again. Maybe I'm losing a little bit of my touch. But either way, things are working out, right?" Sonic continued, smiling softly and giving his friend a wink.

"And you guys saved me. Thanks, Sonic."

"Hey, we're friends. Not only we look out for each other, we have all sorts of fun. That's all that really matters." The hero of Mobius pointed out with a shrug. "So, thanks again, pal."

Chris's eyes widened in realization, before he smiled and nodded in agreement, just as Tails called out from above. "Hey, Sonic! Chris! Everything okay down there?"

"Yeah, Tails! And thanks for the help, guys!" Sonic waved up at the X Tornado.

As Sonic and Chris talked and Tails was about to land the X Tornado thinking that they had defeated the robot, Eggman growled in irritation for the tides being turned against him as he pushed himself up on the E-65's chest and his Egg Mobile badly damaged.

"Don't just lie there! Get Sonic and his friends!" The evil scientist barked angrily.

But as E-65 was about to move, the serum that was sent and unknowingly soaking into the circuits of the giant robot began to take over, causing it to malfunction and go into disarry, and it's eyes were now glowing ominously red and to make things more complicated, the alarm was set off in the pilot seats, confusing and alarming Eggman, Decoe and Bocoe.

"Hey! What is going on!?" Decoe exclaimed, as he and his companion tried to get the controls to work but were failing miserably.

"The controls on E-65 are not responding!" Bocoe cried out, panicking.

"What are you dumbots doing? Get to work!" Eggman snapped.

"We can't, doctor! All of the controls are being corrupted, and it cannot be because of Sonic. The damage is heavy, but not even this would have caused a malfunction." The yellow robot explained, also panicking in fear.

"The systems are somehow being hacked, but it's not because of Tails, or anything we have ever seen! We cannot get it under control!" The shorter grey robot added, and even sweat dropped worriedly. "If you don't move now, Dr. Eggman, E-65 will attack anything and anyone."

"WHAT!?" The evil scientist exclaimed, bewildered. Before he could say anything further, E-65's gleaming red eyes gazed solely onto him before it reached out and grabbed the mad doctor tightly and held him up into the air while standing as he screamed in alarm. "GAH! W-what are you doing, E-65!? Put me down this instant! I built you, so you will do as I say!"

This commotion was heard by Sonic's group who all looked and gasped in shock and confusion to see what was happening, the blue hedgehog exclaiming in disbelief. "What's going on!?"

"Why is that robot holding Eggman?" Chris asked, bewildered.

"Not sure, but I think it's going all crazy." Sonic narrowed his eyes, sensing that things were getting more crazy. He quickly scooped up Chris and once the X Tornado was close enough, the blue hedgehog leaped up with his friend yelping a bit before they landed onto the wing of the plane, as Amy, worried, was about to leap down when her 'boyfriend' and new friend came up.

"The ape-mech is malfunction, but even with Sonic's hits and the hits I caused, it shouldn't be going rogue like that." Tails remarked, confused and deeply concerned. "It's almost like it's being hijacked somehow by an unknown force."

Sonic was about to agree, but the way how the robot's eyes were glow felt hauntingly familiar to him, before he softly gasped as his eyes widened: It was just like with the giant sea-clam monster weeks ago! But it couldn't even be possible, especially since he and Chris couldn't sense a Chaos Emerald inside the giant robot.

E-65 in the meantime gazed up at the X Tornado, with it's sensors scanning the three Mobians and the two humans on board, before it's eyes shrank a little when it gazed at Chris who stood carefully behind Sonic with the blue hedgehog glaring at the giant robot, and, unbeknownst to everyone due to Chuck Thorndyke's serum taking control and thus it was under the control of the cruel Thorndykes on Earth now, Eggman no longer had any control of his own creation. It's mission was to find the youngest Thorndyke now and capture any creature of this new world with it.

It roared once again and pounded it's chest, this time with Eggman in it's grasp and even repeatedly hitting his head against the metal chest, and his two stupid minions screaming out in fear.

"Ow! Ugh! Omph! Stop! Uh! Oh! That! OUCH!" Eggman exclaimed painfully, quickly getting a headache as a result and wondered if his brain was about to get all scrambled.

"E-65 is out of control!" Decoe screamed, fearing that the cockpit's glass would break.

"We have no choice but to get out of here!" Bocoe screamed pleadingly.

Once it stopped pounding, however, before the two robots could even opening up the cockpits, E-65 powered on it's chests on it's own and flew up straight towards the X Tornado with everyone gasping in shock that the robot was on a rampage.

"Now it's coming after us!" Sonic exclaimed, his friends screaming in fright.

"What do we do!?" Amy exclaimed, terrified.

"Better finish this up once and for all!" The hero of Mobius declared.

"What about Eggman? I know he's a bad guy, but..." Chris began to protest.

"Don't worry, he'll be fine. This sort of thing happens to him all the time." The blue hedgehog reassured, and while he was admittedly concerned for his evil enemy as not even Eggman deserved this despite that he did at the same time, but Sonic wasn't heartless, yet he knew that the mad doctor would be alright.

Just bruised on his body as well as his pride.

"Sonic, here!" Tails declared, pulling a lever to shoot out a Power Ring which flew straight towards his best friend/big brother.

Sonic easily caught it in his right hand and clutched it tightly, absorbing it's power as it glowed brightly in golden light. He then began to glow in blue aura as he glared at the giant robot that was heading straight towards them. As the giant robot was getting closer with it's 'captives' while no longer serving it's master, all four of them saw the hero of Mobius glare bravely before he jumped high into the air and dove straight towards E-65, performing his Super Spin Attack.

"OH NO!" Eggman screamed in horror as he, Decoe and Bocoe all flinched and panicked.

"There's no way we are going to win now!" Decoe exclaimed.

"Not only were in for another blasting off, this gorilla is a goner!" Bocoe cried out, nearly breaking apart in panic.

Too late, Sonic bashed straight through the giant robot's chest just above where Decoe and Bocoe were, emerging from the other side. E-65 sparked before it exploded in midair in a giant smoke and dust of cloud.

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Eggman and his two minions screamed, being sent flying into the sky before vanishing in a blink and twinkle, ultimately and humilatingly defeated yet again.

"Go Sonic!" Tails, Amy, Chris and Francies cheered happily, while their blue hedgehog friend laughed in victory, before doing a mid-air somersault and landed safely on the ground.

"Yes!" Sonic cheered, punching the air.

Another victory for the hero of Mobius and his friends.


A few hours later after things had settled down, Sonic and his friends returned to the Banana Festival where they met up with Danny, Vanilla, Cream and Cheese and despite getting scolded for his recklessness, Chris was forgiven and he vowed to try and be extra careful from now on and because he had been so brave in helping his friends, he didn't even get grounded which was a huge relief.

Yet as everyone had headed home and decided to spend a bit of time at Cream's house before Sonic, Tails, Amy, Francies and Danny would head off back to their houses, they discussed on what happened today with Eggman's robot.

"So, what could have caused Eggman's robot to act all crazy?" Danny asked, confused.

"I'm not sure. This never even happened before." Tails replied, thoughtfully. "Unfortunately, since the robot has been completely destroyed, there wasn't anything much left to bring back so I could analyze it."

"Maybe it was having it's own malfuctioning problem." Amy suggested with a shrug.

Despite that it was very unusual for even the evil scientist's robots to do such a thing, the two-tailed fox cub had no other explanations on what happened so far, so he decided to just agree with her. "Mm, probably."

"Well, at least we don't have to worry about that weird robot anymore." Francies pointed out optimistically.

"Everything is alright again." Cream agreed happily, with Cheese chirping happily as well.

"Yeah, and we all had fun today besides Eggman trying to crash the Banana Festival." Chris added with a nod, and while he still felt a little bit guilty for what he did, he was relieved to not get into anymore trouble over it.

All things considered, this kind of life was getting better and better even though there were still mysteries out there he couldn't figure out how or why. Though that left with one single problem.

Whether he wanted to actually go back home to Earth or even stay here in Mobius.

As the others talked while having tea and cookies, Sonic couldn't help but gaze out of the window from the chair he was sitting in, a thoughtful yet concerned frown on his muzzle, absently watching the sunset.

'Why did Eggman's robot's eyes glow like that? The same thing happened with that sea monster. It can't be a coincidence. Whatever it is, I've got a really bad feeling about this.' The blue hedgehog thought to himself.

While things were alright once again now, Sonic could tell, with the mysterious dreams, Chris' increasing Chaos Energy and abilities, and the strange incidents that has been happening lately with both the unusual sea monster and now Eggman's robot having glowing red eyes and going on a rampage, things were only going to get worse.

Like this was a calm before the storm.


Back in Chris's Dimension-One year and almost nine months since Chris' disappearance:

It had been four months since the failure of the prototype robot being sent to another dimension, and another three since Chuck Thorndyke sent in another. Yet the elder Thorndyke had informed his son and daughter-in-law that there wouldn't be anything sent in until at least today even if should the next robot he sent in to the other dimension fail to return as well.

Now they had quite a few pictures that was sent back, and while it was static and like an old 90's broken television, the old man was still able to make out some parts of what was recorded in the other world.

"This thing could only take one or two pictures!?" Nelson demanded furiously, not impressed with the way things had been set. "What is the use of this useless rubbish if we still can not find out where to find Christopher and bring him home!"

"We are still unaware of the full extent of this world, and as it is millions of light years away, our only hope is to send in another larger robot and a pilot to learn more of it and once we know for sure, then we will move in to enter this new universe ourselves." Chuck calmly responded, even though he was thoroughly annoyed with the results as well. "Alas, this will give us a few clues on what we are about to face in the near future."

"And what can you make of the latest picture before the signal was lost?" Lindsey questioned darkly.

"Well, it was the last one to take taken, and it has succeeded in giving us the idea in sending a robot in disguise to blend in with this world's creatures. If Christopher is there, then no doubt he is finally understanding that our home is the true safe haven for him and for us true human race of the planet Earth." The elder Thorndyke explained, typing away at the same time.

"The robot which is poorly designed to look like a gorilla? It is very unintelligent for the creatures of that world to create." The female Thorndyke remarked, rolling her eyes before gazing at her husband. "Am I right, dear husband?"

"Of course, my dear, beautiful wife." Nelson smirked, chuckling along with his wife before they both looked over their shoulders as he continued. "After all, it is a brilliant idea to 'burrow' the King Kong robot replica and have our slaves redesign it to be under our full control."

Behind them and the elder man in the far corner of the room was about a 100 foot tall King Kong replica with false fur and fake leather skin to make it very realistic as, with the hypnosis device, they had kidnapped the designers and forced them along with the other brainwashed people to do their bidding and having created more clones to replace them so that nobody would suspect a thing, with full plans to send it into the other dimension in it's task to capture their son and bring him back to Earth.

They then walked away to order their house servants to make them the most expensive tea, cakes and desserts while leaving Nelson's father to continue his research.

As Chuck continued to analyze the first picture the second robot he had sent in since it was badly fuzzy due to poor weather conditions, he grinned when the image finally began to become a bit more clear to see an interesting rock formation of sorts hidden deep within an uncharted forest.

"Well, what do we have here?" Chuck remarked to himself, typing more to get a clearer picture.

As the image cleared a bit more, but was still in static and a bit of a blur, the elder Thorndyke's eyes widened in pure shock as he leaned closer to the screen.

"A building! It looks just like...A Temple...this is impossible!" Chuck exclaimed.

The image he saw was indeed an old temple with a tree grown right on top of it, it's entrance open as though it was waiting for anyone to enter.

The elder Thorndyke frowned curiously, then whispered. "So this world is inhabited by people who share similar ways of life if this is indeed a temple like in those wasteful fictions?"

This seemed to be a real mystery. Yet the sight of the Temple made Chuck now smirk. "Well, whatever this building is, I must see what is inside of it and learn more of this world's mysteries. It will be perfect for my experiment...and the perfect tool to learn and enslave both this world and the other."

Seeing the newly undiscovered old temple made the elder Thorndyke now wishing to be in this world and learn of it's secrets.


A/N: Now things are will becoming more serious, as Sonic, Chris and their friends are unknowingly being drawn closer to the dangers in relations to what is happening and the Thorndykes are about to really make their move, with an old building that will have a bigger role later on in the story.

What will happen next, only time will tell. I'll try to update this again as soon as possible, and the ARK adventure will come up soon. Sorry for the waiting on that part, and the story is still far from over.

See you later!