They are now in a motel.

"The floors were sticky. The crowd was rough."

Sonic is jumping excitedly on a bed while Tom grabs some ice for his and Y/N's bruises as he got punched by some random guy while Y/N had punched off the strong man that made her fist hurt.

"And the odds were against us. But there was no stopping Donut Lord, Light Blue Angel, and the Blue Blur! Scratch another one off my list."

Sonic scratches off the item on his bucket list. Tom sits down on the bed while Sonic sits on the other one with Y/N next to him.

"You are a weird little dude." Tom commented.

"Tell me about it." Y/N joked.

He hands Sonic and Y/N a makeshift ice pack, and Sonic starts imitating Tom as he tends to his bruises, which makes Tom notice and he gets annoyed. Y/N rolls her eyes at this and winced slightly at the pain on her knuckles from pressing the ice into it.

"Okay." Tom said.

"So, what are we gonna do now?!" Sonic asked excitedly.

"I'm gonna pass out watching TV. I think you should too."

"But this is our last night on Earth! I want to soak up every last second!"

"All right, anything you can find to do in this room, you knock yourself out."

Sonic looks around and zips all over the room, doing pretty much everything he can to amuse himself. Finally, he finishes up with a shower and comes back to the bed wearing towels on his head and body, and slippers on his feet.

"Good times."

Sonic lets out a flatulent sound, which annoys Tom even more and Y/N disgusted at this.

"Ugh!! Sonic!! Really?!"

"Oh, come on."

Tom waves the air in disgust and lays down in the bed.

"That's awful. What did you eat?"

"I think it's called a... chili dog?" Sonic guessed.

"You might want to check your fur on that one, buddy. Hey, so, what's this next planet you're supposed to go to like?" Tom said.

"It's no Earth, I can tell you that. There's no people, just breathable air and giant mushrooms and stuff. Nasty stuff." Y/N explained.

"Well, look at it this way; at least you won't be the only 'fun-guy.'"

"No. Don't ever do that again."

"I liked it."

Sonic looks around the room.

"I'm really gonna miss this place. I know we have to leave Earth to be safe, but what if Longclaw was wrong? Maybe me and sis could have a life here."

Tom looks at Sonic and Y/N, then gets up.

"Alright. We should get some sleep."

"You sleep. Don't worry about me. I'm gonna stay up all night enjoying Earth while I can!" Sonic reassured.

"Sure, kid. As long as we're on the road by 8:00."

Tom turns a lamp off and he sees Sonic sleeping peacefully while mumbling in his sleep.

"I had a chili dog. That's why my farts smell..."

Tom tucks Sonic in and then he notices his bucket list and sees all but one thing crossed off. The final item on his list, "Make a real friend", is seen, which makes Tom a little concerned inside. His troubles worsen when he hears a news report on the television.

"Thomas Wachowski, accused of committing an act of domestic terrorism. Wachowski is considered armed and dangerous. Any information regarding his whereabouts should be reported to local authorities immediately."

"Pretty bad, huh..." Y/N commented, making Tom realize that she's not asleep.

"I almost forgot about you. So... what did you want to do before you and your brother leave?"

"I always wanted to make a music to have the world listen and to... well... everything. I even wanted to take some fighting lessons if I'm ever going to defend myself. Heck, even some books I want to read."

"What are you reading now?"

Tom gestures to the book in her hand she took out after Sonic fell asleep.

"This one called 'Crave'. It's a very interesting love story. Kinda out of a Twilight movie I've been hearing about."

"Trust me. You don't want to watch that. It's... too cliché." Tom chuckled.

"Noted." Y/N chuckled back, looking at her sleeping brother. "I promise Longclaw that I will always be there for him."

"You really care for him."

"He's the only family I've ever got. Ever since we lost Longclaw, I've been working so hard to make him happy and I wanted to protect him from those that will harm him one day. But sometimes I asked myself if I'm strong enough..."

Y/N grips onto her emerald necklace out of instinct.

"You're already strong enough." Tom assured. "You showed me how determined you are to help Sonic when he needs you the most. Don't forget that. Heck, you caught me off-guard when we first met and you... kinda scared me."

"Kinda runs in the family. And... maybe you're right."

"I sure am. Because you are the most amazing person anyone could ever have and Sonic is lucky to have you."

This made Y/N smile at him before looking back at the sleeping Sonic, letting those words repeat in her mind.

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Siskiyou County Line, California

Sonic, Y/N, and Tom are driving into California.

"So, what's on your bucket list?" Sonic asked.

"Who, me?" Tom questioned.

"Yeah. Everyone has a bucket list, right?"

"Well, sure, but, I mean, you're the one leaving Earth, and I'm not planning on dying anytime soon."

"Don't be so sure. Your best friend is a magnet for danger."

"Oh, are you anointing yourself as the bestie?"

"Mm-hmm."

"A little presumptuous, but-- I mean-- What, no-- I-I like you, of course, but, you know, we're not best friends."

"You tucked me in last night. You even tucked in sis when she was finished reading her book.

This made Tom chuckle while Y/N look a little embarrassed.

"Fine, fine, fine. Best animal friend." Sonic declared.

"That would be my dog, Ozzy." Tom stated.

"Okay. Let's drop this increasingly humiliating topic of conversation. Bucket list. Give it to me!"

"Okay, there is one thing. In Green Hills, I've always felt, I don't know, more like a babysitter than a real cop, you know? So I want a chance to prove myself, under real pressure. I'm gonna move to San Francisco, become a street cop. And, I don't know, see if I have what it takes."

Tom looks over at Sonic, whose jaw is dropped open in shock. He the looks in the bad to see Y/N looks slightly surprised and sad..

"What? Why-why is your face doing that?"

"You're leaving Green Hills?!" Sonic exclaimed.

"Okay."

"B-B-But why? Why would you leave Green Hills?"

"This may be hard for you to understand, but Green Hills is a small town. It's a very small town."

"Uh, it's not small! There are hundreds of people."

"That's a small town, dude!"

"It's a perfect town, and the people need you." Sonic said.

"Yeah. They even treated you like a apart of their family." Y/N added.

"Please, I clean out their gutters, I jump-start their cars in the winter. They could call anybody to do that."

"Sure, they can call anybody, but they don't. They call you."

What they didn't notice is a large battle machine equipped for traveling on roads drives down the road where they are.

"You're not making any sense!" Sonic shouted.

"Would you calm down?" Tom asked in annoyance.

"You come from a great town with great people and, by my count, zero bad guys trying to kill you!"

The drone car catches up to Sonic, Y/N, and Tom.

"Besides, what could possibly be more important than protecting the people you care about?" Y/N asked, not wanting this argument to make things worse.

Tom thinks for a second while Dr. Robotnik initiates a weapon for the drone car, a large harpoon. Y/N's necklace glows green, causing her eyes widened in alarm.

"Look, I get your poi--"

The drone car fires the harpoon straight through the back of the truck and catches the dashboard, making Tom and Sonic yell. Y/N had managed to dodge that harpoon on time if it weren't for her necklace to warn her. Suddenly, her hand glows green and it brings out her green whip.

As Tom swerves to yank the harpoon loose, Robotnik activates the drone car's winch and it pulls Tom's truck slowly towards it.

"You know what? I was wrong about you. You're not the Donut Lord at all! You're more like... the Jerk Lord!" Sonic glared.

"Have you noticed the harpoon stuck in our dash?!"

Tom slams on the gas pedal and the harpoon starts coming loose, and Tom slams the truck against a traffic barrier, knocking Sonic out of the truck and onto the windshield.

"Sonic!" Tom and Y/N exclaimed.

Sonic starts radiating blue energy as he kept confronting Tom.

"Me and sis were forced from our home! Your home is perfect, and you're leaving it! Why would you do that?!"

"Your body!"

"It's glowing again!"

"Oh, no, no, no, no, not again!"

"Hey, hold on!" Tom warned.

"Why?!"

"Because I'm gonna do this!"

Y/N holds onto the seat tight as Tom slams on the gas pedal again and the harpoon lets go of the dashboard and Sonic goes flying before he curls into a Spin Attack and runs into the drone car, releasing an electromagnetic pulse that knocks the drone car on its side. Tom then turns his truck around and drives back to Sonic.

"Sonic!"

Tom notices Sonic in his ball form.

"Sonic!" Y/N yelled in worry.

Sonic uncurls and gets up slowly, groaning.

"Guess I had a bonus life."

He notices the drone car on its side and runs up to it and does a funny dance..

"Oh, yeah, baby! Sonic, one. Big tank, zero. I'm sorry. Did we get that on camera?"

"How are you not dead?" Tom asked with a smile.

"I have no idea! Do you see me dancing?"

"Yes, we saw you dancing." Y/N grinned.

"Is that all you got?!" Sonic taunted at the drone car.

Robotnik sends out another robot drone to continue the pursuit.

"Uh-oh."

"Sonic! Get back in the truck!" Tom said.

"You go! I'll catch up!"

Tom drives away and Sonic zips back to the truck and climbs in. He then notices a smaller car drone that just deployed from the damaged drone car.

"I think that tank just had a baby."

The smaller drone car prepares its weapon, a homing mine dispenser, and shoots homing mines at the truck.

"Incoming!"

Tom swerves to avoid being caught in the explosion, and the homing mine heads straight for a minivan ahead of Tom.

"It's my turn!"

"You just had one! It's mine!"

The girl and the boy are fighting over a tablet.

"Hey, stop fighting or I'm taking that thing away!" Father scolded with a warning.

"Yeah, right, Dad."

The homing mine attaches itself  underneath the minivan and unleashes an electromagnetic pulse, sending it flying and the family screaming until the minivan stops. Meanwhile, Sonic climbs to the back of Tom's truck.

"Where are you going?"

"Just drive the car. I'll take care of this. And if I don't make it, just ditch me. You seem good at that."

Sonic was about to jump from the back of the truck when Y/N comes up next him and beats him to it. She activates her rocket roller skates from the bottom of her red boots and begins skating towards several more homing mines. She brings out her whip as it begins to glow electricity and whips it towards the homing mines as they explode. She does the same to the other while kicking one at another, and finally approaches the smaller drone car with a homing mine in her hand and peers right into the robot's camera and starts insulting, which infuriates Robotnik.

"Hey, Robotnik! Hope you're having a good time trying to destroy us. Too bad your ego is about to get shocked like this!"

Y/N slams the homing mine down on the smaller drone car and the electromagnetic pulse sends it veering off course and crashing into hills while Sonic watches from inside Tom's truck.

"Yes, we did it!"

Now a new type of robot continues the pursuit.

"We did not do it. Who is this guy?"

Y/N scoffs and skates back to Tom's truck.

"You never told me you can go fast like me! Since when did you get yourself rockets?!" Sonic exclaimed in shock.

"A girl gotta have her secrets!" Y/N grinned with pride.

"My turn."

Tom unbuckles himself.

"Here, just keep us going straight. I put us in cruise control."

Tom and Sonic switch seats while Y/N stays in the back outside of the truck to help Tom out.

"Ha-ha, I feel just like Vin Diesel!" Sonic laughed.

Tom reaches for a flashlight.

"'It's all about family, Tom.'"

The segway robot brandishes sharp spikes on both sides of the wheel as it catches up with Tom's truck. Tom opens the door and prepares to attack. He swings the flashlight but the robot dodges. Y/N spins her electric whip and swings it at the robot, but it dodges again.

"Quick suggestion. Roll up into a ball and smash him with your body." Sonic said.

"Whoa! Where'd you learn how to drive?!" Tom asked in shock.

"Here, in this truck. It's happening as we speak!"

Sonic swerves the truck to dodge the robot.

"I can't reach it! Bring him in closer!"

"What?"

"Bring it in closer! Hit the brakes!"

"Oh, you mean this one?"

Sonic steps on the gas pedal instead.

"The other brakes!"

Sonic steps on the brakes and gives Tom the opportunity he needs and he swings the flashlight upward, knocking it over.

"Ha-ha! Whoo!" Tom cheered as he climbs back inside the truck.

Y/N made sure the robot is completely destroyed as she throws her electric whip towards it, exploding it in the process. It comes back to her like a boomerang and it disappears back into her emerald necklace. This made her look at the gem in wonder and amazement.

Robotnik sends out one last robot, a tiny helicopter, and it catches up to Tom's truck.

"Aww, this one is cute. Let's keep him." Sonic cooed.

"I don't think that one is cute.." Y/N said, looking concern.

The helicopter starts slicing through the metal of the truck, working its way around the window frames.

"Oh, come on!" Tom groaned.

"How could something so adorable be so terrible?"

"Don't ask!"

The helicopter is almost done slicing.

"You've got car insurance, right?"

The whole window frame comes loose and flies off, causing Sonic and Tom to scream. Then, Sonic grabs the helicopter.

"Buzz off."

Sonic yanks off the body, but now the core is stuck to his hand and starts beeping like a time bomb.

"That doesn't sound good."

"No, beeping is bad! Get rid of it!" Tom shouted, sounding alarmed.

"I'm trying!"

Sonic tries to shake the bomb off his hand.

"Throw it out the win-- throw it anywhere!"

"Hurry, Sonic!"

"I can't get it off!"

"Allright, I'm pulling over!"

Tom pulls over and drives a little ways away while Sonic tries to get the bomb off his hand, until he thinks he got rid of it.

"Did I get it?"

Tom notices the bomb stuck to Sonic's forehead.

"Nope."

He runs to Sonic with a handkerchief.

"Here, hold still."

Tom pries the bomb off Sonic's head and throws it far away.

"It's going, it's going... it's still here."

Tom holds his hands up and notices the bomb now stuck to his hand and he tries to shake it off as well but Y/N helps him get it off and got it, and got it stuck in her arm instead. She tries to remove it, but Sonic gets it off her hand and tries prying it off his own hand with a stick.

"Get off me!"

It works as the bomb is now stuck to a large rock.

"Ha-ha! Nailed it!"

Sonic brings out his hand out for a high-five when Y/N notices the bomb is clicking even faster.

"Sonic! Move!!"

The bomb explodes, sending Sonic flying and Tom and Y/N jumps off the ground from the shockwave. After the dust settles, they see Sonic lying unconscious on the ground.

"Sonic!!!"

They run up to Sonic and gently turns him over.

"No, no..."

"Sonic... bro..."

Tom presses his ear against Sonic's chest and looks around.

"Hey, come on. You're alright. Wake up. Wake up."

"Come on, bro. Don't leave me too..." Y/N whimpered.

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Meanwhile, in Robotnik's truck interior, Robotnik is panting and breathing heavily with Agent Stone watching.

"Did we get 'em? No, no, there they are. They're real survivors, those three."

Robotnik slowly turns to Agent Stone.

"Can we have a moment?"

Both Robotnik and Agent Stone walk over to a wall.

"Pin yourself to the wall."

Agent Stone does so and Dr. Robotnik presses his face almost very close to Agent Stone's.

"You know, I won't miss you when you're gone. Human beings are unreliable and stupid, and I care very little about them. My machines are diligent, relentless. THEY'RE EVERYTHING TO ME!"

Robotnik notices a blue and light blue lights glowing from inside Agent Stone's coat and pulls out Sonic's and Y/N's quill and inspects them.

"おもしろい (Interesting.)"

Robotnik presses the two tips of the quills to his tongue and the energy gives him a shock, making his head twitch violently and causing some headache a little.

"Hmm?"

He tries handing the quills to Agent Stone, who looks a little confused.