Sonic quietly sat his bag down near the door of Tails' house. "Thanks for letting me stay here." He smiled.

"No problem, I figured 'Hey he got Eggman to run away, he should probably not have to sleep out in the streets.' Y'know." Tails replied. "I'll be in my workshop down the path out the back door if you need me. Make yourself at home." With that Tails left to go work on whatever it was he was working on in his workshop.

Sonic sat quietly for a minute. "Nope can't sit around..." He grabbed his notebook and his pen, and quickly wrote a note. "Going on a run, might or might not be back before sunset. I don't really know yet." He sat it on the counter and ran off

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"Has anyone seen Sonic?" Tails asked as he met up with his and Sonic's friends at Meh Burger. It had been two years since Sonic first arrived and just the day before, Eggman had been taken away by the royal guard for attempting to recreate the Robotisizer. A device used to turn people into mind-controlled cyborgs, it had originally been created by Robotnik who had been the reason for the war several years ago.

"Not since yesterday." Amy answered. "Why?"

"Because he left this note on the counter." Tails said as he sat the note on the table in front of his friends. "He's going back to the Mainland."

"Why?" Amy questioned as she picked up the note. "I'm sorry I didn't say bye, but I have to go back to the mainland, I wish I had time to say bye, but there's something I need to take care of in Mobotropalis"  She read out loud. "Isn't Mobotropalis the capital? What's he going there for?"

"He said that he was from a big city, maybe his family is there?"

"Maybe."

"What did he mean by something he needs to take care of?"

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Sonic tapped his foot on the floor of the plane as he stared out the window, smoke was rising above the forests, and machines could be seen destroying the country side. The hedgehog could only hope his siblings and mother were okay. The plane lurched, an explosion was heard from the back of the plane, the passengers gasped, the plane began to lose altitude. It was falling. "Oh god." Sonic mumbled as the plane barreled through the air towards the ground. He had half a second to think, then they hit the ground.

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"He's not picking up his phone." Amy grumbled as she sat her phone down.

"If he's still on the plane, then he won't get any calls." Tails pointed out as Amy's phone started ringing.

"Hello?"

Ow Shit. Hey Amy, so-

"Why didn't you say bye to us?"

Ames I'm sorry, Shit ow, the plane-

"Sorry doesn't cut it mister, we were worried."

Ames-

"We didn't know why, you just up and left"

Ames the plane crashed.

Amy paused. "Are you alright? Are you hurt?"

I'm not okay, I'm injured, and He mumbled something at the end.

"And what Sonic?"

Robotnik escaped prison, he's attacking, ow, everything.

"Is that why you-"

FUCK!

The line went dead. "Sonic?"

"Amy? What's wrong?" Tails asked.

"He yelled fuck and then the line went dead."

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"No no nono nonnononono." Sonic panicked as he tried to get away from the robot that had grabbed him and stepped on his phone. He tried to reach for his medallion, which was hidden under his bandana, but couldn't pull his arms out of the robot's grasp.  

"Target, Hedgehog, captured." The robot beeped. "Returning to headquarters."

"This is not the hedgehog you're looking for?" Sonic blurted quickly and loudly.

The robot beeped again. "Incorrect hedgehog. Error- E- Er- Error." The robot started to spark as it let go of Sonic, who grabbed the remains of his phone and darted off.

"That, was close." He breathed. "Too close." He looked at his destroyed phone. "I guess I should probably find something to call Amy with, she's probably panicking..."

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Don't worry, I'm okay Ames.

"Why'd you yell-"

A bot grabbed me and stepped on my phone, that's why I'm using a landline. Sonic paused, Hey, Can you tell Tails that I'm alright, I feel like he's probably worried out of his mind.

"I would, but he hopped in his plane a few minutes after the line went dead and took off."

Call him. Make sure he's okay, the plane I was in was shot down.

"Sonic-"

I'll call when I'm somewhere safe, there's bots at every corner, and I'm not even in the outer city of Mobotropalis.

"Okay, stay safe."

I'll try.

Sonic hung up and Amy sighed. She punched in Tails' number. Hey, I'm trying to fly my plane.

"Tails, Sonic's okay, he can't call because his phone got stepped on. He probably doesn't want you to-"

I'm gonna help Sonic. He's in trouble, and he shouldn't have to do this alone.

"Tails-"

Tails hung up.

"Oh that turd."

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Sonic rushed through the outskirts of Mobotropalis City, the Capital of Mobius. It, was a big ass city, and the castle was at the center. That's when he heard a familiar drum solo. "Manic." He ran towards it, and spotted his brother. "Hey Bro!" He yelled as he destroyed a few bots. 

"Sonic that you?"

"Who else would it be sticky fingers?"

Manic laughed as he continued to cause small earthquakes under bots. "I'm just glad you're okay, Mom, Sonia, 'n I've been worried."

"How're Mom and Sonia? They alright?"

"Yeah, I see the guards told you what was going down."

"Coming home to fight the Mustache-Brain himself is a pretty good reason to visit." Sonic joked as the last bot in the area fell. "Mom 'n Sonia at the castle?"

"The guards didn't tell you?" Manic asked "Ol' Butt-nik took over the castle, we've got the van 'n that's it."

"Why not the old Freedom Fighter bases?"

"After you left some rich dude bought 'em and made them into museums."

"Bought them from who? They belonged to the city, and were hidden."