STH COM - Saga 2 Ep36

Sonic The Hedgehog - Chaos on Mobius
2nd Saga: The EX Sol Saga

Episode 36 {1}

Previously on Sonic The Hedgehog - Chaos on Mobius... {2}
With help from two of the Sol Emeralds, Blaze managed to locate three more at a place called Machine Labyrinth. Little did they know that the Babylon (Sol) Rogues had beaten them to the punch, and had captured the island's professor and his son in exchange for the three Sol Emeralds. Fortunately, Sonic and Blaze managed to rescue them AND retrieve the Sol Emeralds, but 'Swell' isn't licked yet...
Back on Mobius, Galahad & Macho were leading Knuckles, Julie-Su and TodStar to Mercia, where an unconscious Meg-Le could get some medical treatment. Suddenly, TodStar heard a scream and raced off to find the source.
Can Sonic and Blaze find the last two Sol Emeralds, or will 'Swell' stop them in their tracks? Can TodStar find whoever screamed and save them? And can Julie-Su's sister recover from being De-Roboticized? Find out next on Sonic The Hedgehog - Chaos on Mobius!

Chapter Fifthteen: Birds and Bunnie

Within the small lab in the Machine Labyrinth, Sonic and Rad were helping Gadget's father walk, since he was trapped in a cage for quite a while... {3}
"Ugh. Thank you, gentlemen." He told them.
"No problem." Sonic replied. "Mind introducin' yourself, though?"
"Of course! How rude of me. I am Professor Gizmo, one of the great minds of the Babylonians." Said the professor. Rad was looking around all of a sudden...
"Hey... where're Blaze and Marine?" He asked. The other guys just shrugged.

Blaze was on the edge of the island with Marine. {4}
"So Marine, are you willing to learn how to control your power?" She asked the young raccoon.
"Yeah!" Marine replied with joy.
"Very well." Said Blaze. "But in order to do that, you'll have to be patient, and listen to everything I say. All right?" Marine then nodded. Blaze then began instructing her on how to make their abilities come from the ground, while Sonic and Rad were talking with Gadget and his father.

Back outside Mercia, TodStar had arrived in an open valley... {5}
"Grr... carn, where'd that scream come from?" He asked himself. Suddenly, he heard a scream that sounded similar to the one he heard before. "That's it. By that barn over there..." Before TodStar could get closer however, the barn suddenly exploded! When the smoke cleared, TodStar could see Eggman's Egg Mobile hovering above a machine of some sort. "Strewth... I'm not even here for an hour, and I'm already stopping Eggman!" He said as he ran towards the wrecked barn.

At that moment, Blaze was trying to teach Marine how to meditate, but the raccoon girl was making it difficult! Meanwhile, Sonic was busy talking with Gadget's father... {6}
"I see..." The professor said. "So you are hoping that the seven Sol Emeralds can get you back to your world..."
"Yeah..." Sonic replied. "But what I wanna know is, how come they're Babylon Rogues both here, and back on Mobius?!"
"So they survived..." The professor said to himself.
"Dad?" Asked Gadget, somewhat curious.
"Professor?" Asked Rad & Sonic.
"Long ago, the Babylonians were a proud, technological race." Gizmo told the boys. "Vlad Vulture and myself had been studying our kind while practicing medicine for many years, until he chose to deceive me..."

"How so?" Asked Rad. {7}
"It took me a long time to find out, but I had discovered that Vlad had been infecting many Babylonians within a village with a disease that I could not identify..." Gizmo replied. "...one of the people infected was Gadget's mother..." He paused for a moment to console himself before speaking anymore, making Sonic & Rad a little uncomfortable... "...anyway, it turned out that Vlad had been working with a madman by the name of Talon the Owl. When I heard of this treachery, I told the Babylon High Council, and they eventually captured both Vlad and Talon, and sealed them within part of Sky Babylon, which is that floating island up there." As the professor said that, he pointed up to an island floating in the sky, much like Angel Island back on Mobius, only it looked a little more high-tech.

"So... what's that have to do with the Babylon Rogues on Mobius?" Asked Sonic.
"Somehow, Vlad figured out that Sky Babylon was a port for a ship, and the part they were sealed in was the ship!" Gizmo replied. "Before my very eyes, Sky Babylon was ripped apart, and while one half stayed floating in the sky, the half that Vlad and Talon were sealed in blasted off into space, creating a black hole that we managed to deal with..."
"And you're saying that those two somehow made it to Mobius?" Sonic asked again, and Prof. Gizmo nodded, which got Sonic thinking...

Meanwhile, at the destroyed barn outside Mercia, Eggman had his Egg Mobile holding onto a teenage Mobian rabbit girl, who was wearing a pink tube-top, a brown cowboy hat & jacket and blue denim pants. {8}
"Hey! Y'all better let me go!" She warned as she was waving her legs and left arm (Eggman's Egg Mobile was holding her right arm).
"Hee hee hee. And why should I do that?" Eggman asked. Before the rabbit could reply, a Chaos Spear was thrown at the back of the Egg Mobile, causing it to drop the rabbit into the hole on top of the machine!

"Oh, crud!!!" Yelled the voice of a green echidna that made Eggman laugh.
"*cackle* Why thank you, TodStar." He said as the rabbit screamed out in pain. "With your help, this farm-girl shall become my latest victim of Roboticization!" {9}
"I don't think so, Yolk-head! Chaos... SPEAR!!!" TodStar replied before a Chaos Spear at the machine, but it didn't seem to do much, except leave a mark.
"HA! Is that the best you can do?" Asked Eggman. TodStar merely shook his head while smirking, before he leapt up into the sky, twirling, while his right hand was set ablaze. TodStar then grabbed his right arm with his left hand, held his right hand up high as he curled up into a ball and started spinning down towards the machine (sort of like Sonic's Spin Dash). When TodStar hit the machine with his Flaming Spin Dash, he bounced up to the rabbit and used Chaos Control to help her escape before the machine exploded! Before Eggman could escape though, TodStar had warped above him. "You..."
"...aren't happy to see me?" TodStar teasingly asked while winding up a firey punch. "And I almost thought you cared..." His attack sent Eggman flying whilst screaming!

When TodStar landed on the ground, he fell to his knees and started panting.
"Oh, mah stars!" Screamed the rabbit as she look herself over: Her left arm and both her legs were now Roboticized! "What in the Realm of Iblis did that guy do to me?!" {10}
"Ngh. Looks to me like you've been Roboticized." TodStar replied as he got up and walked towards her.
"Roboticized? Are y'all saying ah'm a robot now?"
"Uhh..." TodStar said while looking her over. "...I'm gonna say HALF. You're lucky I could hear you screamin'. Otherwise you'd be all robot by now!"
"Well, ah guess ah owe you one." Said the rabbit. "Ah'm Bunnie, by the way."
"TodStar, of the Freedom Fighters." This information made Bunnie get a little excited.
"Y'all are one of the Freedom Fighters?" She asked him.
"Uhh, yeah?" Bunnie then hugged TodStar without hesitation. "Bunnie. Bunnie! Robot arm!" He said while choking.
"Oh! Ah'm sorry." She replied as she released TodStar. "Guess ah don't know mah own strength yet *nervous chuckle*..." Bunnie then led TodStar to a house near the wrecked barn.

Back in the Sol Zone, Blaze was leaving flames around the area that Marine could put out. {11}
"HA!! Done!" Marine yelled in satisfaction as she doused the last flame.
"Your reflexes are still too slow, Marine." Blaze told the raccoon while shaking her head. "Perhaps I should have my flames come at you..."
"*nervous chuckle* You're pullin' my chain, right?" Marine nervously asked. Blaze only responded by smirking, and having a flame appear in her hand.
Within Prof. Gizmo's lab, Sonic was a little confused about Gizmo's story, while Marine was running away from Blaze in a panic outside!
"Hold on. How long ago did those two split Sky Babylon in half?" He asked.
"Last time I checked, it was about 100 or so years ago. Why?" Gizmo asked back.
"Oh, I dunno..." Sonic sarcastically replied. "...maybe cause I don't think lil' Gadget over there'd remember somethin' like this!" {12}

"It is understandable why you came to that conclusion." Gadget said to Sonic. "What I didn't learn until recently was that Father and I were placed in stasis after Vlad and Talon disappeared. Although I still don't know why."
"Nor do I, son." Said Gizmo. "Nor do I. However, I do know why we were released from stasis."
"Really?" Asked Rad, suddenly curious.
"I was released because the royal family needed help containing Iblis." Gizmo replied before looking at Blaze. "And it appears that the Fire Jewel is a success."
"Well, mostly..." Sonic pointed out, which got Gizmo's attention.
"What do you mean?" He asked Sonic.
"Well, from what I've seen, Iblis doesn't mean to cause all that destruction..." Sonic replied. "...maybe with Blaze's own flames, Iblis' power's becomes too great for her to control, I dunno." This made Gizmo look back at Blaze, who was teaching Marine how to meditate once more... and still failing!
"(That poor girl...)" Gizmo thought.

At that moment, Knuckles and Julie-Su were watching over her sister, Meg-Le, while sitting near a lake in Mercia. {13}
"One question, Galahad..." Knuckles asked the armored silver hedgehog. "Why are we here, instead of some medical bay?"
"Because the Lady of Never Lake can perform miracles." Galahad replied as footsteps were heard.
"Hmph. I wouldn't call them miracles, Galahad." Said a voice similar to Shadow's.
"Lancelot." Was all Galahad could say.
"Besides, with the constant mayhem that has plauged Mercia for the past few years, she is in no condition to help this monstrosity." Hearing this, Julie-Su got up and stared Lancelot in the face.
"How dare you talk about my sister like that!" She yelled at him.
"Don't push me, echidna." Warned Lancelot, holding his ground.
"Your presance here is unessessary, Lancelot..." Said a voice that resembled Amy's. It also made Lancelot bowed before the lake.
"Forgive us for disturbing your peace, milady, but these travellers come with an injured Mobian who could use your touch." Said Galahad as he also bowed. Before anyone knew it, part of the lake had formed into a Mobian that looked like Amy, only she was wearing a light blue dress. {14}

"...Amy?" Knuckles asked her, but she shook her head.
"I am Nimue, the Lady of Never Lake." She replied with the voice they heard earlier as she knelt down to Meg-Le. She then placed her hands above Meg-Le's forehead and stomach, and some form of energy seeped out of her hands and into Meg-Le's forehead and stomach. "That is all I can do for her right now." Nimue told them. "However, it would be best to leave her here for a week or so."
"Well Knux, you can't stay here that long..." Julie-Su told her boyfriend.
"What? Why?" He asked her.
"Hello? You're competing in the EX World Grand Prix in a few days!"
"Oh, right! If you see TodStar, tell him I'm in Station Square!" Knuckles shouted as he ran off. {15}

"Once I find Macho, I am going to continue my search for the Knights of Mercia." Said Galahad.
"I have actually heard from Percival..." Nimue told Galahad. "She has found Sir Lamorak, and is returning with him."
"That's great news." Galahad said with joy. "Now we just have to find Gawain, and the Knights of Mercia shall be together once more!"
"Actually, you can find him up on Angel Island." Julie-Su pointed out.
"And how do you know that?"
"Knuckles found him up there. He says he's living there now."
"Thank you, ma'am. Now I must find Macho, and make haste for Angel Island!" Galahad then ran off to find his apprentice.

END OF CHAPTER {16}