And, we're back! Ah, that was fun, not writing about action for a little bit. That will be changing now. It's time for action! Time for Sonic to show everyone how cracking the Eggman is done!

"Sonic," Knuckles said as he and the rest of the Resistance entered the room. "You being alive is the best news we've had in months."

"Well, I AM the definition of good news when it comes to stopping Eggman's plans," Sonic grinned, leaning against the wall.

"No kidding," Stitch remarked as he walked in. "If all those stories were true."

"Of course they are!" Amy proudly declared as she walked to the terminal in the center of the room. "It's Sonic we're talking about!"

Everyone stared at her oddly.

"…You're his number one fan, aren't you?" Angel sweatdropped. Sonic sighed, facepalmed, and shook his head.

"Yep," He deadpanned. "Out of a lot."

"That sounds… Oddly familiar…" Aurora noted, before sweatdropping as she remembered a certain white experiment who had to deal with a similar issue. She didn't get the chance to dwell on it before Summer floated in.

"Sucks to be you, then," Summer yawned, not stopping as he made his way to the door on the other side of the room.

"Where are YOU going?" Rouge crossed her arms.

"To bed. Going up to that floating death trap was so bothersome I could die," He deadpanned, before disappearing through into the corridor.

"S-Sorry a-a-about him… H-He's…" Lady Kuroko stammered, looking down at the ground as if ashamed.

"Eh, don't worry about it," Sonic waved it off. He pushed off the wall and walked towards her. Lady went "Eep!" and shrank as he approached. Sonic sweatdropped.

"You're kinda shy, aren't ya?" He noted. Stitch and Aurora looked at each other.

"…You have no idea…" Aurora sighed. Sonic opened his mouth to say something, but was quickly interrupted by Knuckles loudly clearing his throat.

"ANYWAY," Knuckles started. "I've got some bad news. Our intel indicates that Eggman's got a weapon's factory in Green Hill Zone, pumping out munitions for his war effort."

"Oh, great," Angel sighed, remembering what she had seen Eggman do to that place. Just what she needed: another reminder of it.

"Ngh…" Silver groaned. "We can't take out Eggman's home base in Metroplolis if he's got a factory supplying him."

"Way to state the obvious," Slang rolled her eyes. Shadow (598) looked thoughtful for a moment.

"You're bringing this up because you want someone to destroy it, don't you?" He asked. Knuckles nodded. The red echidna then looked over at Sonic.

"Look, Sonic. I know you just got back, but we're spread a little thin. You think you can do something about it? We need that factory in Green Hill Zone destroyed."

"Wait, hang on!" Angel started. "He just got back from being in prison for six months, and already, you're-!"

"Sure!" Sonic interrupted. "I've got six months of payback I'm dying to spend. This sounds like a good start!"

Angel felt her words die in her throat. Just like that, Sonic had invalidated all of her concerns, with a big, cocky grin plastered on his face.

"Great!" Knuckles grinned. "Give me the word when you're ready, and we'll take you there! Maybe you can show the rookies a thing or two about dealing with Eggman."

Angel facepalmed when she heard that. Without looking, she already knew that Stitch was primed to explode on the red echidna in three… two…

"No need to take me or anything," Sonic shook his head, interrupting Angel's mental counter. "I'll just run there. It'd be faster anyway."

"Whatever you say, Big Blue," Rouge said.

"Hey, before I go, you guys got any chilidogs? I'm starvin'," the Blue Blur asked, looking around.

"Figured you'd ask that!" Vector said, before pulling one out from nowhere and throwing it at Sonic, who snatched it out of the air and took a bite. Aurora blinked.

'Where'd he get that from…?' She wondered, making a note to ask about it later.

"Thanks, man," Sonic said between bites, before shoving the last of it into his mouth. The blue hedgehog gave a cocky smirk.

"Alright, I'm game! Let's do this!" He declared. Stitch grinned in response.

"Count me in!" He cackled. Before the two could get very far, however, Amy held out her hand.

"Hold it, you two!" She said. Both stopped to look at her.

"What?" They asked. Amy reached under the terminal in the center of the room, before pulling something out. Stitch knew what it was immediately, and he grinned.

"A new weapon!" He exclaimed in excitement, almost tossing his Burst Wispon aside, much to Angel's exasperation. The other experiments, save Slang, who simply scoffed, regarded it curiously. The weapon, while similar to said Burst Wispon, was instead a pale yellow in color and looked like a lightning bolt, rather than a fireball.

"Yep! It's a new model Wispon we've been developing. Here, take it with you," Amy explained, tossing it over. Stitch caught it and gave it a once-over before nodding in approval.

"Anything else?" He asked.

"No, that's about it," Amy said. "Just be care-"

"Thanks! We're outta here!" Sonic cut her off, blasting off out the door with Stitch in tow. Amy visibly deflated.

"-ful."

Sonic and Stitch dashed down the pathway at high speed. For Sonic, this was just another casual jog to one of Eggman's bases to tear it down. For Stitch, it was taking everything he had to keep up with the blue hedgehog's insane speed.

"The enemy's factory is inside the pyramid," Knuckles clarified over the comm link. "I can send reinforcements if you don't think you can handle it."

"Yes. When they fail, those of us who are actually competent will take over," Slang said, coldly. Stitch grit his teeth. God, she was irritating…

"No need!" Sonic said, brushing off Slang's comment as he Boosted through the hordes of Egg Pawns in front of them, picking up a good thirty Rings as he did so. "The two of us are more than enough! We'll blitz the place and open up a path for the Resistance! Right, partner?"

"Ih! Assuming we don't just tear it down ourselves!" Stitch allowed himself to cackle as he imagined himself ripping the factory to pieces.

"Okay, then," Angel said, hesitantly. She sounded as if she wasn't comfortable with them being out there. Or was just unnerved by the maniacal cackle. Or both. "Just get back safely, okay? Boojibuu?"

Stitch smiled reassuringly. There was no way for Angel to see it, of course, but he felt the need to do so anyway.

"Don't worry, Angel! We'll be okie-taka!" He declared.

There was a Dash Panel at the end of the path, one that the two blue-furred creatures sprang off of. Seeing a pipe just ahead of them, Stitch shot his grappling hook at it, and held out his hand to Sonic just as he began to swing. Instead, to Stitch's mild surprise, Sonic simply curled into a spinning ball and followed the exact same trajectory right next to him.

'Probably just using his speed to make a cushion of air to keep himself aloft,' Stitch figured before shrugging it off.

There were a few more badniks waiting for them on the platform they landed on.

"Hey, mind if I try this thing out?" Stitch asked, eagerly looking at his new Wispon. Sonic grinned.

"Knock yourself out!" Stitch grinned back upon hearing the Blue Blur's words. He squeezed the trigger, causing a rope of electrical energy to burst forth from the weapon's barrel. Grinning, he swung it, allowing the whip to slice the robots in half.

"Catalina would love this thing," He noted, using the whip to latch onto another robot before pulling it in, allowing Sonic to Spin Dash right through

"Who?" Sonic asked as he uncurled, and he and Stitch leapt off of the platform and through several long rows of Rings.

"One of my older sisters," Stitch said, grabbing a Buzz Bomber out of the air with the electric whip, before slinging it off into the distance. It still felt weird to say that, all things considered, but it wasn't exactly an unwelcome revelation.

Sonic raised an eyebrow as he ran circles around an Egg Pawn, causing it to start staggering as if it were dizzy. He then kicked it, sending it flying off of the platform.

"'One of?'" He asked. "How many are you, exactly?"

"Thirteen," Aurora answered. "Thirteen siblings."

"…Uh…" Knuckles seemed to mentally reset when he heard that.

"Big family," Silver noted with a lowly whistle.

"…And hectic…" Aurora sighed. "Many of us inherited father's more destructive tendencies…"

"Hey, against Eggman, that's a good thing," Amy responded.

The two then leapt through several more rows of Rings, eventually landing on a platform that was below them. They blasted through it before coming to a large, curved pipe that was sticking out the end of it.

Noticing the curvature of the pipe, and realizing it was their only foothold, Stitch noticed another, smaller vertical pipe nearby. He shot his grappling hook at it, grabbed Sonic's hand, and the two of them drifted along the pipe's surface, causing the soles of Sonic's sneakers to throw off a shower of sparks as they did so.

"Not bad, partner!" Sonic nodded in approval as they came across another Dash Panel that launched the blue duo into the air. Stitch saw the pyramid that they were heading for towering over them in the distance. He then noticed a long road stretching out before them. He inwardly groaned. Great. Nothing but running. Sonic grinned, however, and as soon as they landed and went through the Star Gate in front of them, he turned to Stitch.

"Time for the two of us to team up!" He declared. Stitch cocked his head in confusion, only to blink in surprise when he saw Sonic's hand was glowing blue, and he was positioning for a hi-five.

"…What are you doing…?" Angel asked, sounding slightly uneasy.

"A hi-five? Really?" Slang sighed. "That's all?"

Stitch looked at his paw for a moment, before hi-fiving Sonic as a response. The instant he did so, it was as if he'd been plugged into an electric socket; an intense rush of energy flowed through him, begging for release.

"…Woah," He said simply. Sonic grinned.

"It doesn't matter what obstacles they put in our way. We'll just blow past everything they throw at us!" He jumped into the air, curled into a ball, and started spinning. Stitch felt the strong urge to do the same, before jumping and curling into a ball himself. A blue aura ignited around them both.

"Ready?" Sonic asked. "Double Boost!"

Before anyone could say anything, Sonic and Stitch suddenly shot forward with unprecedented speed!

A swarm of robots, having not noticed them, DID notice a thundering noise approaching them with incredible speed, only to get mowed down and sent careening into the distance when the duo of blue blurs came rocketing through them.

"What the-!?" Shadow (598) started, sounding taken aback.

"W-Woah… I-I-I can barely see t-them…" Lady Kuroko squeaked.

"I can't see them moving," Aurora said, sounding awed.

Having since noticed them, several dozen robots tried to stand in their way. Without exception, each and every one was sent flying, being flung out of the way by the two with contemptuous ease.

As they ran, dozens of Rings began to fly towards them, as if they had some kind of magnetic field. As they collected them, Stitch felt the energy flowing through him swell immensely. Sonic did as well, and this caused them to speed up even further. In the blink of an eye, the far-off pyramid was now mere yards in front of them and closing in fast.

"Yeah! That's how it's done!" Sonic exclaimed as the two of them shot up the side of the pyramid. There were several rows of Buzz Bombers in their way. In a flash, the two of them tore right through them, sending them flying off into the distance at record speed. "We've got unstoppable speed and timing! We just have to keep this up!"

The two of them went through another large mass of Rings, before being tossed into the air and off of the end of the path by several Springs. Stitch felt the incredible rush of energy subside, and the fiery blue aura vanished.

"Looks like we've got our entrance!" Stitch noted, seeing a massive hole at the very top of the pyramid that seemed to lead directly into its depths.

"You should be able to get into the factory through there," Amy said. "We won't be able to keep an eye on you two while you're in there, so stay alert!"

"Be careful, you two! …Especially you, Stitchie!" Angel added. Stitch just gave her another unseen smile of reassurance.

"Heh. This should be fun!" Sonic grinned. Below them, lasers began to activate, blocking off sections of the shaft they were now falling into.

"You've got a pretty weird definition of 'fun'," Stitch remarked (not that he was one to talk) as the two of them held out their hands to slow their rate of descent. In particular, Sonic let his quills spread out into a make-shift parachute, allowing him catch air easier. They swerved to the right, then the left, avoiding the first two sets of lasers. As they did so, there were several 10 Rings just below which they promptly grabbed. Then, more lasers, these ones rotating around the shaft, lit up below them. Sonic and Stitch positioned themselves in the center, allowing them to neatly fall through.

There were three more sets of lasers, each of them circling around the shaft. Stitch and Sonic found it easier to just stick near the middle and slightly adjust their course to avoid the beams, before hitting the ground.

There was an Ivory-colored Wisp waiting for them down there. Sonic grinned upon seeing the Wisp, before giving it a friendly wave.

"Hey! You gonna help us out?" He asked. The Wisp nodded, before making strange gibberish sounds. It then phased through Stitch's Wispon in a brief, electrical flash.

"LIGHTNING!"

"So, you know what that one is?" Sonic asked, casually.

"Gaba?" Stitch tilted his head to the side. "Oh, um, no."

"Alright, lemme tell ya: the Ivory Lightning power lets you use a little move called the 'Light Speed Dash'. You can use it to pretty much fly along a trail of Rings," Sonic quickly explained. Stitch raised an eyebrow at the technique's name but decided to say nothing of it. He saw that there was a long trail of Rings in front of them, just waiting for them to travel along it.

"Alright, let's do this," Stitch said, running up to the Rings with Sonic in tow. Stitch squeezed the trigger. In a flash, he suddenly found himself and Sonic in the air. There was another Ivory Wisp waiting for them.

"…Woah," He whistled lowly. Sonic, who had grabbed onto him and was dragged along for the ride, grinned. The Wisp jumped into Stitch's Wispon, priming it once more.

"LIGHTNING!"

Stitch squeezed the trigger again, this time ending up, once more, in mid-air, with a trail of Rings and a Wisp waiting for them. As Stitch went to work repeating the process, Sonic spoke up.

"So," Sonic started. "They're building weapons here, huh?"

Stitch blinked. "Oh, yeah, seems so. And if reports are to be believed, they're making everyone work like they're robots, or something…"

For the first time, Sonic's expression darkened a bit.

"Yeah, well, it'll be Eggman's turn to be pushed around when I get a hold of him," He stated, almost matter-of-factly. Stitch fought the urge to shudder at the hedgehog's tone.

When they emerged from the Ring trail, they saw a small, hovering robot floating underneath a Dash Ring. Without missing a beat, Sonic rammed it with his Homing Attack. This had the effect of propelling him and Stitch into the Dash Ring, sending them flying forward a short distance, where a pit and a bend in the road faced them.

Thinking fast, Stitch used his grappling hook on some nearby pipes, allowing him and Sonic to swing across the rather deep pit below them. Swinging around the corner, they saw several of those robots conveniently floating there, waiting to be bounced off of. Sonic curled into a ball and slammed into the nearest one before charging into the next at blinding speed. Physics caught up a moment later as both robots exploded.

Getting an idea, Stitch shot out his grappling hook, latching onto one of the furthest robots before reeling in the hook, allowing himself to be carried by it into the robot, smashing it. Before he could start falling, another Wisp flew in and phased through his Wispon. Conveniently enough, there was a trail of Rings waiting to be dashed across.

"Nice thinking!" Sonic complimented as he and Stitch came out of their dash. There was one more floating robot ahead of them, leading Sonic to use his Homing Attack on it. Noticing the path below, he Stomped, grabbing Stitch's arm as he did so. The instant they landed, Sonic Boosted forward, right through a large group of Rings. There were several large lines of Egg Pawns lying in wait for them.

Without stopping, Sonic simply barrelled right through them, seeing as an object weighing 77 pounds and moving at the speed of sound isn't likely to care about some thin sheets of metal that a certain egg-shaped mad scientist thinks means 'armor'.

At the end of the path, the two were launched into the air by a Dash Panel, then launched further by a series of Dash Rings. Barrelling through three of them, they eventually found themselves falling down a vertical shaft. Sonic grinned, realizing where they were.

"That was a cakewalk!" He declared triumphantly. Stitch heard Angel sigh in relief.

"I don't know why I was even worried," Amy said.

At the bottom of the shaft, a series of Dash Panels sent them rocketing towards the center of the factory, where construction lines lay ahead of them.

A mace came crashing down on the Egg Pawn's head, instantly crushing it flat. Another, meanwhile, burst into flames before collapsed into a molten puddle of liquid metal.

"Hey, Galatica, that all of 'em?" Asked a very large red-and-blue experiment, with an eyepatch covering his let eye asked. He was panting lightly from exertion. Behind him, a very small green-and-pink experiment, holding a wand, was also panting slightly. Surrounding them were the remains on a small army of robots.

In between pants, the smaller experiment, evidently named 'Galatica' responded. "It looks like it, dear…"

She sat down, trying to catch her breath. It didn't take her long, however, and she looked up at her companion.

"Now… I think we can focus on our situation…" Galatica said. The larger experiment just gave her a puzzled expression.

"…What situation?" He asked. The smaller experiment sighed.

"Well, we could start with 'where are we?'" She responded. The larger experiment blinked, before looking around. They were standing atop a rather large skyscraper, in an odd-looking city. Below them, strange roads and pipes connected to large, flat platforms, vaguely reminiscent of pinball machines, that were sticking out of the buildings.

"Um…" He paused. "We're in a city?"

"You know, Odin, I love you, but sometimes…" Galatica shook her head in exasperation and amusement. She stood up and looked up at him.

"More importantly than that, there's something else we need to address: where are our daughters?"

That seemed to click. Odin whipped his head back at her in alarm. Before he could say anything, however, the smaller experiment held up her paw.

"Dear, even though we're both worried, you know as well as I do that they can all handle themselves," She reminded him. "Why, Slang and Fang by themselves could probably handle more of these things than you and I can."

Odin blinked.

"That's… true, I guess, but what about-?"

"Stella could as well, but knowing her, she'll do anything she can to avoid trouble. Clover and Angel…"

She blinked.

"Well, if there's anyone we should look for, it should be them," She conceded, before placing a paw to her chin. "Although, if I had to guess…"

"Guess what?"

"If I had to guess… They're not alone," Galatica said, smiling slightly at the thought. That time, Odin seemed to get what she meant, and his expression darkened. Galatica laughed a little at his expression.

"Oh, come now, honey, you know that they're growing up," She smiled. Odin responded by grumbling under his breath.

Still amused, Galatica looked out at the setting sun.

"Well, then, I believe we should get going."

Alright, so this one took a while. Let's chalk it up to a bit of writer's block, and an obsession with Fairy Tail courtesy of the anime's ending. With that out of the way, hopefully, I'll be able to start cranking out updates again.