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Chapter 3: New king and thinking of a rescue plan.

New Mobotropolis

Within the city of New Mobotropolis, the citizens were all gathered in a huge crowd surrounding the crystallized Titan Metal Sonic head; cheering the name of the evil wizard Ixis Naugus who is seen standing on the crystallized head of Titan Metal Sonic, laughing in victory at the cheering from the crowed. After some more laughing from Naugus, he then chooses to speak.

"Do you see now, good citizens of New Mobotropolis?! I am the one who can protect you from both Nicole and Dr. Eggman. So please tell me... who should be your king?!" Naugus asked the citizens.

"YOU!" the crowd shouted in reply to Naugus' question before continuing to cheer for him again.

Leaping Dow from the crystallized Titan Metal Sonic head he landed a few meters away in front of Elias Acorn, another member of the royal family, current king of New Mobotropolis and brother to Sally Acorn, before walking towards him. "The people have spoken boy. You have heard my claim to the crown. Pass it to me." Naugus demanded, stopping in front of Elias and holding his hand out so Elias would pass him the crown.

"You served the two generations of acorns kings before me. I will not be the one to give it up to you now." Elias replied, showing no intention in giving Naugus the Crown which causes the wizard to frown. "You seemed so reasonable before the attack..." Naugus replied to Elias's defiance.

However before the conversation could continue any further the are surprised as they are both pushed out of the way by Sally who steps in front of the crowed before speaking. "That's enough! Has everyone of you lost you lost you minds?! Naugus is the bad guy!" Sally shouts at the crowd, frustrated.

"We can choose the council! We should choose our king too!" Geoffrey St. John shouts from within the crowd, trying to turn things in Naugus's favour. "YEAH!" the crowd shouts, agreeing with Geoffrey's statement.

"Do all of you really want to shake things up when the Death Egg is flying around?! Do you really want to do this when Sonic has been Roboticized?!" Sally asked the crowd, causing the eyes of everyone in the crowd to widen in either fear or horror at her reveal of Sonic's Roboticization.

"...what?!" Elias asked, wide eyed horror at what Sally has revealed causing her to turn around to look at him sadly. "Sonic is gone?", "Roboticized?!", "but I thought...", "how is anyone going to beat Eggman now?," were some of words spoken by the citizens in response to the revelation of Sonic's roboticization.

In the crowd Mina Mongoose, a yellow mongoose mobian, famous singer across mobius and a close friend of Sally, Sonic and the freedom fighters, could be seen with her hands over her mouth and tears in eyes while looking at her boyfriend Ash who was trying to comfort her know how upset she was after hearing the news of Sonics roboticization.

Geoffrey could also be seen in the crowd with his eyes clenched shut and his fists clenched in frustration. 'focus Geoff, focus. Settle all of this first, then worry about helping Sally and the others save him' Geoffrey thought to himself, calming himself down.

Back with Elias and Sally, Elias had put his hands on Sally's shoulders looking directly at her while shaking her. "What do you mean "roboticized"?!" Elias asked his sister, panicking now, "That technology isn't supposed to work anymore!" he finished letting go of Sally's shoulders.

"As far as I can tell, Eggman did something which caused the world to blank out for a few seconds, and now it seems that roboticizers work again. Sonic... he saved all of us by destroying it, but... he was roboticized instead..." Sally explained to her brother in hopes he would calm down, but it did little to help.

Naugus, who was listening to Sally's explanation on how Sonic was even able to be roboticized, widened his eyes at Sally's mention of the world blanking out. 'That white-out was the doctor's doing? So he is the reason that I hear...' before he was cut of by the voices that haunted his head since the effects of the genesis wave, a device that Eggman had used to temporarily rewrite to world, was reverted.

"Us? Yes." The first voice finished and answered for him. "This body will be ours again..." The next voice said to Naugus trying to torment the wizard further.

"Quiet all of you! Let him seize the opportunity that has been presented to him!" the third and final voice shouted at the others, causing them to be quiet.

"Opportunity?" Naugus asked him, wondering what opportunity he meant. "You want the young king's crown. You have proven yourself to be more powerful than him. But now you can make him to look weaker still..." The voice answered the evil wizard, causing him to grin evilly. "Yes... yessss" purred Naugus with an evil grin stretching from ear to ear.

At the same time Sally was still discussing about the situation with her brother. "...and both planes are down." Sally finished explaining to Elias who was still nervous.

"And you said that the defences were too much." He said repeating what Sally had said about the Death Egg's defences earlier in their conversation. "We... we need another way onto...".

Before Elias could finish what he was saying Naugus had then decided to speak to the citizens. "My dear mobians!" he yelled, getting the crowd's attention. "Do you want a king who is distracted by his own fear over the loss of your blue hero?" he asks pointing at the young king. "Or do you want someone who, by Elias' own admission, has lived only to serve the kingdom with all his power, who you all know can protect you and save your hero?" he then asks them with his hand on his chest. "YEAH" the crowd responded being won over by Naugus' statement against Elias.

Elias looked at Naugus, terrified that the evil wizard has likely won. Sally on the other hand, glared at Naugus in anger for using Sonic's roboticization to achieve his goals. "Do you any shame?!" Sally shouted at Naugus but was completely ignored. Before anymore words could be spoken Geoffrey dashed past Elias taking his crown as he did.

"The people have spoken!" Geoffrey declared before walking towards Naugus who was bent on one knee, ready to accept the crown. Geoffrey steps in front of Naugus and placed the crown on his head officially making him king. Naugus stood as Geoffrey turned to Elias and Sally before raising a fist in the air. "They want the true king of Mobotropolis. Hail to our protector!" Geoffrey yelled causing the crowed to start cheering.

"Save us from Eggman! Save Sonic! Brick and mortar!" the crowd cheered with Naugus grinning in victory.

Sally walked up to Geoffrey and grabbed his arm glaring at him. "You don't care at all about Sonic? About betraying everything that he lived and fought for?" Sally asked him, causing him to narrow his eyes at her.

"I have my mission to complete, Sally. I can't let all I've lost distract me. If you have a problem with that, grow up." He responded, swatting her hand off his arm.

"What about the civilians that were crystallized by Naugus magic?" Amy asked getting Naugus' attention along with the crowd.

"A minor mistake made in the heart of battle." Naugus replied causing Amy to face him. "Where are they now?" Naugus asked Amy causing her to shake in slight fear.

"They are at the hospital." Amy answered him nervously. "but you..." she tries to continue but is ignored as Naugus turns away from her. "To the hospital!" he shouts before marching to the hospital with everyone bar Sally, Elias, Amy, Tails, Bunnie and Antoine following him.

"When did everything start falling apart?" Amy asks sadly, completely disheartened with everything going to hell lately.

Elias looked as everyone walked by them with a frown on his face. "Naugus has taken the crown, the kingdom and the people, and with Sonic gone..." He answered before turning to look at them. "You five stay here and decide on what to do next. I need to go back to the castle and... take care of things." He orders them before making his way to Castle Acorn. "And try and tell mother and father about all of this." He whispers to himself with a his hand on his forehead.

Sally then turns to her friends to which they look at her for orders. "Bunnie and Antoine, you go to the hospital and make sure nothing bad happens" she orders the couple causes them to nod and make their way to the hospital.

"What shall we do aunt Sally?" Tails asks her.

"You and Amy inform the council everyone else... about Sonic. I have to think of plan on how to save him." Sally tells him "I have an idea on what it will be but..." she trailed off.

"Ok Sally, but don't do anything rash" Amy says to her sadly before she and Tails makes their way to the council with Sally making her way to Freedom HQ, not ready to face Sonic's family yet.

Freedom HQ

After half an hour of running, Sally finally made it to Freedom HQ. After entering she makes her way through the base and runs into the main computer room.

"Hey, Nicole. Could you please patch me through to Angel Island please? And while you are at it, could you repair the damage made to the city during the attack?" Sally asks Nicole but receives no answer causing her to worry. "Nicole? You there?" Sally asks worriedly.

After a few minutes there was no verbal response from the sentient A.I but in stead Sally sees text typing itself out on the screen. What the text that Nicole had written broke Sally's heart.

"I am here Sally. I was in the hand-held on the Death Egg. That was my original body and now it's gone. I was there when Sonic sacrificed himself. He was a good friend to all of us. I know how close you and him were, yet I let him sacrifice himself,. He's gone now, I'm sorry." It read, causing Sally to wince sadly.

"Listen, I'm going to get him back. But to do that I need to get in touch with Knuckles to do so." Sally tells her friend. "Could you tell Knuckles to open a warp ring please?" Sally asks her.

After a few minutes of waiting patiently, a warp ring appears in the centre of the room. Sally, seeing it, walks towards the warp ring. However before she steps through Sally looks over her shoulder at the screen with a Sad smile on her face.

"Nicole, please don't hide behind text and talk to me next time. What happened to Sonic is not your fault. The one to blame for it are Eggman." Sally says to the screen, hoping to cheer the A.I up. 'And me' she thinks to herself bitterly.

Shaking the dark thoughts out of her head, Sally walks through the warp ring quietly, which then closes behind her, leaving Freedom HQ in silence.

Angel Island

Sally steps out of warp ring onto Angel Island and sees Knuckles, Julie-su, and Charmy bee. Knuckles is standing there waiting for her while Charmy could be seen flying around.

"There she is. Am I finally done playing operator now?" Julie asks her boyfriend to which he nods.

"Sure. Thanks 'Su." Knuckles thanks her before turning to Sally as she begins to speak"

"Just the Echidnas that I needed to see." Sally states, slightly happier now. "Knuckles, could you to do me a favour and lend me a warp ring please?" Sally asks him.

"Well Mighty and Ray took one and you stepped through the spare." Knuckles informs Sally, pointing at the open warp ring, causing her to nod. "What's up for you to need one Sally?" he asks to which her expression saddens.

"Well you see, it's like this..." Sally says sadly.

Sally then proceed to explain everything that had happened, including the new Death Egg and the attack on New Mobotropolis, the world blanking out because of the Genesis Wave, Eggman's World Roboticizer and finally Sonic's sacrifice and roboticization. At the end of her lengthy explanation Julie-su and Charmy look at her with shocked looks on their face. Knuckles, however, was a different story.

"SONIC GOT ROBOTICIZED, AND THEN YOU LET EGGMAN GET AWAY WITH HIM?!" Knuckles shouts at Sally furiously causing her to flinch heavily and look down sadly.

"Knuckles, stop" Julie-su says sternly causing him to calm down.

Knuckles, seeing Sally's saddened expression, looks at her regretfully before deciding to speak.

"Sorry Sally, that was insensitive for me to says" Knuckles apologises to Sally causing her to look at him and smile sadly.

"No Knuckles, you have every right to be angry, but I need you to loan me a warp ring so I can hop over and bring him back safely" Sally replies to the Echidna causing him to wince this time.

"Sorry Sally, but that won't work I'm afraid, because you need to know exactly where the Death Egg is. Not only that there is now way you could Save him on your own." Knuckles says regretfully causing Sally to look at him worriedly.

"What do you mean?" Sally asks Knuckles but Julie-su steps forward to answer for him.

"You see Sally it's like this. We were told about what happened to the Brotherhood. Hearing about it we tried to use a warp ring to rescue them...but even though we knew where to go, it wouldn't transport us. Dr. Finitevus invented them, so he must have some special way of getting them to work between zones. Even if it had worked, we'd have no idea what dangers were on the other side. That was my point then, and it still is now." Julie explains to Sally.

"So it looks like we both have to wait until an opportunity arises." Knuckles says to Sally seriously causing Sally to frown sadly.

"Alright Knuckles, forget about it, I'll figure something else out" Sally says sadly walking towards the warp ring. "Sorry for wasting your time" she apologises to the two Echidnas, stepping through the warp ring.

The three mobians watch as the warp ring closes with Knuckles looking downcast.

Julie puts an arm around Knuckles before speaking to him "I know you and Sonic were friends, even if you did but heads a lot. If you want to talk..." she starts but is stopped mid sentence when Knuckles shakes his head.

"Contact the others. If Sonic is roboticized, then we need the whole island on guard" Knuckles orders Julie-su, receiving a nod from her in response.

Freedom HQ

Sally steps out of the warp ring and sees Tails completely out of breath.

"Sally... your back, where did you go?" the young fox mobian asks her.

"To get help from Knuckles. Sadly he is unable to help us out, so I need to think of another plan" she answers him. "What's wrong tails?" she asks him causing him to look at her with an excited smile.

"Antoine just arrested Geoffrey for treason!" tails says excitedly.

"Really?!" She says, completely surprised.

Death Egg

Meanwhile on the Death Egg, Eggman was currently in his robotics lab taking measurements on Mecha Sonic who was standing on a pedestal in the centre of the room as Eggman was doing so. Snively could also be seen there with a note book in hand and was seemingly reading out the current status of the Death Egg.

"...and the good news is that the reserve power seems to be holding. We lost a lot of power when you fired on the city, but we're making up for some of it now that we launched that Titan Metal Sonic." Snively informs the evil scientist.

Eggman ignores him as he puts down the measuring tape before goings over to a metal crate and starts to search for something, likely metal parts. Snively doesn't seem to notice as he continues to read out his notes.

"Damage seems to be largely contained to the roboticizer chamber, but there are wiring issues throughout the Death Egg and with the Chaos Emerald missing, our efforts to repair things are significantly—" Snively stops when he looks up to see Eggman holding two differently shaped pieces of metal to Mecha Sonic's left arm. "—you're not listening to a word I'm saying, are you?" Snively asks him rhetorically.

"Yes! Yes, this will do nicely." Eggman says, clearly happy with the pieces of metal before setting them down to the side before looking at Snively, annoyed, "What? Can't you see I'm busy? Eggman asks him.

"We are underpowered and barely flying!" Snively yells at him, "Its a miracle we haven't crashed yet, and you're working on one robot!"

Eggman starts to scowl in barely restrained anger at the smaller overlander before walking up to him and grabbing the paper with his left hand causing him to shake in fear.

"The Egg Mites will handle the repairs..." Eggman starts in a dark tone before ripping the note book from Snively's hand before throwing it to the side causing paper to fly everywhere.

"the Chaos Emerald will be found..." He continues before holding down Snively's nose with one finger, "and I had a network of refuelling depots prepared before I thought of using the Chaos Emerald."

After finishing his small rant he removes his finger from Snively's nose causing it to bounces up and down, "So relax" he says joyfully, his mood doing a complete 180, before walking over to Mecha Sonic, "Now get out and let me work".

"Fine!" Snively yells before walking out of the room with a look of pure rage on his face, "If you're going to distract yourself like this, I'll take full advantage joy the situation!"

Eggman proceeds to pull a down a two pronged claw to hold Mecha Sonic's head still, "Oh you annoying little hedgehog!" he says happily starting to monologue, "You used to be a huge problem for me."

Walking over to a metal crate, he opens it and takes out a piece of technology, "You were the main force of that group of children and managed to upset almost everything for years. The princess was your leader, but you were their W.M.D." he continues before putting on a pair of goggles.

"You mat have saved half of Mobius from me, but you exposed the strength and courage of the Freedom Fighters" he says picking up and turning on a blow torch, it's blue flame lighting up the darkened room, "And I plan to make the most of that!" he finishes darkly.

All that could seen and heard were blue lights and the sound of the blow torch cutting through metal.

Authors note

I'm really sorry for not updating in a while I was busy with school and playing on breath of the wild on my switch which I got for Christmas. Speaking of Breath of the Wild next time you see me will be the first chapter of a fanfic on that game which I plan to start.

Hopefully you enjoyed this chapter and I will see you all next time and please don't forget to review, I appreciate and advice on how to improve, peace.