Picking up a chipmunk girl for a piggyback ride, Bunnie sighs and sees Sonic sightseeing by looking for something further away.

"Mr. Sonic?" Bunnie is curious until Sonic leaps off and dashes off like a cheetah.

Sliding near the pillar, Sonic is seeing murals on broken temples and brimstone next to the grass as if the temple itself is dead.

Marble

Sonic walks around, curious about what this ancient temple is as he walks inside the broken entrance, only for him to be caught by Bunnie from behind.

"Mr. Sonic, don't run off like that!" Bunnie warned.

Sonic turns back to the temple as he stares at the entrance.

As both Sonic and Bunnie walk through a moss covered temple, both Sonic and Bunnie are seeing pictures inside as if it's sending a message via building walls.

"No lava, huh. Nothing but brimstone… How sad." Bunnie sighs while lifting the chipmunk's body up to help stay on her back.

Sonic nods as he agrees, stopping him is the sound of a drill driver that's running.

"Mr. Sonic, what's wrong?" Bunnie asks.

"Sounds like something's drilling. C'mon." Sonic leads the way while Bunnie follows.

As Sonic and Bunnie hide behind the wall, they can see 3 individuals with a bunch of unfinished robots next to the capsule as there's 2 anthropomorphic creatures and a robot rooster.

"Hurry up! The longer you stand around, the less chance we'll get that blue hedgehog!" A robot rooster orders, yelling at a green feathered canary girl in a black and red striped sweater.

"Sorry, Scratch, sir." The canary girl apologises while hastily working on a caterpillar robot.

"That's Mister Scratch to you, bird brain!" Scratch, the rooster robot growls and then pulls out a high tech walkie talkie. "Boss, the hedgehog's incoming."

[Good. When he does show up, do not fail me.] Eggman's voice called.

"Yes, boss!" Scratch hangs up and grins while a teal furred hedgehog, with indigo streaks, in a red dress looks around as she ignores Scratch. "Ya hear that? When I succeed, I'll get a promotion! Isn't it great, baha-hahaaa!" Scratch laughs.

Bunnie gasps whereas Sonic clenches his fists with determination.

"Looks like the girls are in trouble. Mr. Sonic, what should we do?" Bunny asks while crouching down and lets the chipmunk lean on a wall for safety.

"Let's tear this guy to shreds. You get the girls while I beat this badnik." Sonic smirks while standing up and takes the first step before Bunnie grabs his arm.

"Remember what happened earlier? You're still in bandages, so please don't add anymore on yourself." Bunnie said while grabbing Sonic's shoulders.

"Hmph, I won't make the same mistake. Trust me, I got this." Sonic points at himself and then walks in front of Scratch, the green canary girl and the teal hedgehog girl.

Scratch gasps as he's flabbergasted to see Sonic's entrance, leading him to shake his head and grin by pointing at Sonic with style.

"Well look who we have here? The boss' new enemy! The so-called Sonic the Hedgehog!" Scratch cackles while lifting the hedgehog girl's arm as she grunts with surprise.

"Trying to hurt a girl, are you? That's not cool of you." Sonic shrugs his shoulders while unimpressed, thinking how much of a coward Scratch is.

"Silence! If you want to save that precious little girl, then maybe you should give up going after the b-" Being cut off, Sonic dive kicks Scratch's lower region as he squarks. "GAWK! My nuts 'n bolts..."

After that, Sonic swings a kick on Scratch's face as Scratch slides on the ground and hits his beak on a pillar.

Sonic looks at a hedgehog girl while opening his hand to her.

To the hedgehog girl's surprise, Sonic is doing the best he could to face Eggman robots as the hedgehog holds Sonic's hand and stands up.

"You're…"

"Rrgh! Caterkillers! Batbrains! ATTACK!" Scratch squarks as loudly as he could.

The robots' awakening has caught the canary girl off guard as she shrieks.

Before a caterpillar robot called Caterkiller charges, its head is being stomped on as a small explosion frees a chicken as it flies.

"You alright, miss?" Bunnie asks while lifting the canary girl up.

"U- Um…"

"TEKNO! Bring out the Egg Scorcher!" Scratch orders as the canary girl, Tekno shrieks.

"Y- Yessir!" Tekno presses a button, causing Bunnie to shriek as the ground smashes, leading her to fall into a hole by missing the Egg Mobile.

Before Bunnie falls into a lava, Sonic slides as he grabs Bunnie's hand, saving her from her inevitable death.

Sonic growls while pulling Bunnie up, giving Scratch the chance to jump on Egg Scorcher, an Egg Mobile with a fireball cannon below it, levitating above Sonic and Bunnie as the duo are done for.

"What's this? Sonic has brought in a friend? Oh boy, that's a bonus for me! When I'm done with the two of you, the payment will be as good as mine, Baha-hahaaa!" Scratch gloats at Sonic and Bunnie's struggle as the duo are lifting each other up as hard as they could.

Surrounding is not just Scratch, but a horde of Caterkillers and Batbrains as Sonic and Bunnie are done for.

"Mr. Sonic, let me go." Bunnie said as she nodded.

"What!? No way!" Sonic refuses as he pulls Bunnie up harder.

"Do it! You need to fight Dr. Eggman and get to Westside Island! I believe in you!" Bunnie forces Sonic to let go as her hand slips from Sonic's himself.

"Bunnie!" Sonic reaches his arm as Bunnie falls to her demise, leading Scratch to holler out with laughter.

"Aww, how sad! Looks like the rabbit is cooked! Now it's time for you to come with us, you rotten hedgehog, baha-hahaaa!" Scratch laughs as Sonic stands up and glares at Scratch, realising Eggman isn't just after Sonic, but the islands and their inhabitants as well.

As the robots are charging, the pigs and chickens are everywhere as the Caterkillers and Batbrains are being smashed to pieces by a wind, causing Scratch to lean forward out of shock and confusion.

"Wh- What!? Tekno! What happened over there!?" Scratch shouted as Tekno checked the status of the badniks that were sent there.

"Um… They're…"

"Destroyed. Like you'll be." Sonic bluntly said while walking and then running.

"Woah! I'm getting out of here!" Scratch can tell that he angered Sonic, leading him to boost the Egg Scorcher away as Sonic chases him down.

The hedgehog girl is speechless while she stares at the direction Sonic and Scratch move towards at a hasty speed.

As the hedgehog follows Sonic and Scratch, Tekno quickly taps the high tech walkie talkie as she panics.

"B- Boss!"

[Tekno? What's happening?] Eggman calls.

"It's him! He's chasing Scratch around the Marble garden!" Tekno taps the tablet device and sends the recording to Eggman.

With Eggman sighing, Tekno is worried that she's about to be punished.

As the clicking sound happens, Tekno quickly looks back to her device while putting a walkie talkie on her head.

[Excellent.]

"Eh? What do you mean?" Tekno asks out of confusion.

[That means Sonic is finally showing his true potential. That means the more data I gather, the more powerful my creation will become.] Eggman's tone has become more sinister as he chuckles.

"Does that mean I get paid?" Tekno asks with joy.

[Indeed. Keep up the good work, little canary.]

"Yes, boss! I won't let you down!" Tekno cheerfully accepts her payment while doing her job.

After Tekno hangs up, both hands from behind grab Tekno's beak and headlock, causing Tekno herself to muffle as she screams for help.

Afterwards, she collapses as she passes out.


On the other side, Sonic and Scratch are underground as Scratch himself screams whereas Sonic avoids the traps and runs on a bunch of stones floating on the lava as well as avoiding the spikes.

"You rotten blue rat! Burn!" Scratch releases the fireballs out of the cannon as they miss Sonic. "Oh no!"

Sonic grunts while leaping outside under the blue and yellow sky, seeing as Scratch is escaping.

Now Sonic is out of options as Scratch has the advantage to burn Sonic down.

"Baha-hahaaa! Game over, Sonic!" Scratch finally fires Egg Scorcher downwards as Sonic dodges from a spreading fire.

Luckily for Sonic the Marble temples are ancient, meaning he could use that cannon as a weak spot as Scratch taunts Sonic.

"What are you going to do!? You're toast!" Scratch is gloating for his victory as Sonic grins.

"I may be. But have you ever heard of roast chicken?" Sonic asked as he picked up a stone.

"What?" Scratch halt, only for him to realise that Sonic has outplayed Scratch himself, only for him to get his Egg Scorcher clogged up by a stone Sonic picked up and tossed. "Uh oh."

Finally, an explosion has caused the cannon to break as it spreads and an Egg Mobile crashes down on a pillar as Scratch screams and falls to the ground.

Before Sonic approaches Scratch, he stops as he sees 2 strange looking gems as one is blue and the other is red.

"No! The chaos emeralds! Now the boss is going to kill me!" Scratch panics after finding out he lost the gems called chaos emeralds.

"Chaos what?" Sonic tilts his head out of confusion.

"Grr! This isn't over, you stinking hedgehog! I'll be back for revenge! Baha-hahaaa!" Scratch yells while kicking the Egg Mobile, hops on it and flies away from Sonic empty-handed.

Silently, Sonic has won for the first time, but with the loss of his new friend, Bunnie.

As Sonic looks at his own hand, he can hear the sounds of crackling as well as the screams, even he sees the flames as well as the bodies as if Sonic has failed to save most people.

Bunnie was right about what Eggman has done to his home as Sonic quickly holds his head and shakes it while trying to forget about his past.

Lowering his head, Sonic couldn't tell if he's just as weak as he was before.

"Sonic."

Sonic picks up both chaos emeralds while walking slowly.

"Sonic!"

Sonic lifts his head as the sky is becoming evening with it being blue and yellow, making Sonic sigh out of stress.

"SONIC!"

"Huh!?" Sonic exclaims while jumping and turning to his behind.

To his surprise, Bunny is okay while carrying the chipmunk she and Sonic saved back at Green Hill.

"B- Bunnie!?" Sonic gasps as he's shocked to see her again.

"Seems like you spaced out." Bunnie sticks out her tongue while teasing Sonic, only for Sonic to grab her arms. "Mr. Sonic?"

"Bunnie, it's really you, right!?" Sonic desperately asks, unsure if she's still alive.

"Mr. Sonic… You're really worried about me, huh?" Bunnie pulls a warm smile as Sonic blushes and looks away.

"It's not like I'm scared. I just don't want you to die." Sonic said while pouting.

After that, Bunnie hugs Sonic which surprises the blue hedgehog.

"I'm glad you're okay too. I thought you're gone." Bunnie said while embracing Sonic.

"Um… Sure. Can you let me go?" Sonic asked.

As both Sonic and Bunnie are in front of one another, she sees 2 gemstones in front of her own eyes.

"Sonic… These are chaos emeralds. How did you get them?"

"A bucket of fried chicken dropped them when I took him down. Are they important?" Sonic is curious about the chaos emeralds he acquired.

"They sure are. There are 4 other emeralds left, so let's keep them for safekeeping." Bunnie warned as if they're important for some foreseeable future.

Sonic nods while the emeralds are safely hidden in Sonic.

What stops Sonic is the same hedgehog girl from before as she's carrying Tekno with a piggyback.

"You?"

"Thank you." The hedgehog speaks out.

"Hm?" Sonic is confused.

"For saving my life. I must say, for a kid like you, you sure are more manly." Said the hedgehog girl while leaning close to Sonic.

"Ehehe, thanks." Giggling, Sonic blushes while being kissed on the cheek by a hedgehog girl.

Bunnie smirks while seeing Sonic acting like an actual child.

To Sonic's surprise, he sees more animals running out of the temple as he, Bunnie and a hedgehog girl are seeing an anthropomorphic rabbit boy in a coat lying unconscious like the chipmunk and Tekno.

"Another one?" Sonic asked.

"Sure looks that way. Why do I feel like Dr. Eggman is hiding something?"

"Beats me. We need to leave." Sonic said while moving forward and picked up a rabbit boy by giving him a piggyback ride.

Before Sonic rushes, the Hedgehog girl falls as she drops Tekno.

"Oh no!" Bunnie can tell it's not going too well for those around her and Sonic.

"Sorry. I'll just…" The hedgehog grunts until Sonic picks her up with a bridal carry. "Huh? But why?"

"Relax, lady. I can carry 2 people. Right, Bunnnie?" Sonic asks with a positive tone.

"R- Right… Ngh… 2 people huh… Where to, Mr. Sonic?" Bunnie asks while carrying 2 people like Sonic does.

"There's a city nearby. We can go to my mansion there." The hedgehog points in the direction towards a city.

"Sweet! Let's go!" Sonic charges forward as Bunnie rushes along with Sonic.

"Ugh! You're too fast!" Bunnie shouts while chasing Sonic.

The city is a perfect place to rest after hectic events at Green Hill and Marble, even carrying those that are taken by Eggman and are now freed.

Next stop, Spring Yard.