#mushroom planet moment!! kinda.

[tales-of-green-hill]

This comic follows Sonic's story after the conclusion of the Shadow Arc

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Also, this is the beginning of the following arc!

After activating the gateway ring and going through it.

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Here's some old art! (The design of the gateway ring has been altered since)

It's supposed to look pretty and magical instead of icky and gross

[nobodys-hekatonchires]

My thoughts on Earthspark as I watch it

!!Spoilers for Episode 4-6!!

Episode 4

I see Cosmos :)

WHO THE FUCK IS THIS CLOWN

His VA sounds like he's just reading. Wtf was his SMILE oh my fuck. I hate him. His laugh was also gross no

Swindle tho <3 I love Nolan North

Scholder?? This poor man

Wtf is this food. Robby gross...

I hate this episode so far

Just steal the shard

I HATE THIS GUY "surrender thieves" says without passion at all

JUST LEAVE THE FAIRGROUND L, YOU'RE VEHICLE. TWITCH YOU CAN LITERALLY FLY AWAY.

Oh my god...

No one at their place gives a fuck about what's happening right now

Did they just combine????????

Cosmos! YOURE SUCH A UNIT

I guess they didn't want to pay Schloder's VA

That was the worst episode so far

Episode 5

Wheeljack! Such a nerd :)

Wheeljack lost his irises. Ngl i think it looks better design wise

Well, the kids are dead. What a shame.

Poor Jawbreaker "Contanimated" sweet

Wtf is that mushroom.

Wtf is this feeding moment

Not sure how I feel about the syncing stuff

So far, not enough Megatron, Optimus, or Elita.

Keep that deer away from Optimus- nevermind

Who the heck is J'Bam, Dot.

I love Wheeljack

Once again. Do the terrans not have access to comms?? Do they not think it a good idea to ask for back up????? They literally have Megatron and Optimus and Elita on this planet

AM is gonna drain the cave isn't he?

I fucking knew it.

Episode 6

Twitch...you were literally JUST taking to Wheeljack. CALL FOR BACKUP

FINALLY! Although Wheeljack didn't seem to care...wtf

Spitfire is just emo Twitch?

I hope they tell Optimus about the new bot. Kinda seems important.

Are they gonna have to kill the chaos terrans to get their shards?

JUMPSCARE OH MY GOD IM IN TEARS HE SO UGLY

Okay the hug was adorable. Megoplita adopting Twitch plz

Optimus, shut up, let Megatron speak.

What was the point of telling Twitch she can go, if you're gonna let everyone try and take her place.

Goddamn it Megs, I love you

This seems an odd way to pick someone for a mission. I wonder if Megatron and Optimus have had to do this competition...

Wheeljack lost his pupils again

Optimus- your optics- uh...hm

Man, Megatron is such a proud parent

Yes, let's fly into a storm on a METAL bird. Smart, Robbie

The fight was cool but I can't take it seriously with them looking like this

"You look pretty banged up" *not a barely scratch on her* sure sure. You look totally worse than what Hashtag got in the first episode

Not the worst episode, but the OP jumpscare brings it down

[dreamyautumns]

TWST G/T Headcanons go brrr

🍒Ace Trappola ~ The only human in this shvt. He’s wondering what the hell is happening with all the giants and tinies and is casually watching the world around him burn around. He’s constantly messing with Deuce (if he’s giant) trying to get him mad to the point he’ll will destroy half of Heartslabyul with a single punch. Ace LIVES to get this mfer in trouble and he can get away with it cause “he couldn’t possibly cause so much destruction anyways" since he's a regular human. Definitely the main catalyst for any giant related destruction.

🥚Deuce Spade ~ Giant 100%. He would be so clumsy. Half of Heartslabyul is destroyed before the end of the week every month (it’s Ace’s fault). He would be so sweet to Yuu but he’d grab them unintentionally roughly. He apologizes like crazy if he squashes something or is close to stepping on someone. Main objective? Protect his friends and stop anyone trying to hurt them.

💭Cater Diamond ~ Sizeshifting Cater. Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk. But seriously, Cater just being super little one moment for the perfect camera shot while sitting on a flower. Next moment, he's towering over the dom, angling his phone to get a good picture while sitting on the roof. He'll just snatch tiny Trey and Riddle up and randomly take pictures with them. Super affectionate with Yuu as well. He'll just grab them in his hands and nuzzle them with the biggest smile over his face.

🍀Trey Clover ~ Hear me out on giant Trey. He's just baking in his kitchen and he looks down to see Yuu trying to sneak a lick off his mixing spoons and spatulas. He's gotta be sure that no one's accidentally getting baked into his pies and whatnot because that'd be SUPER bad. He typically carries people on his hat so they can spectate whatever he's making. He loves having Riddle in the kitchen and constantly messes with him, whether it be blowing flour in his face or booping his nose with a tiny scoop of strawberry jam.

🌹Riddle Rosehearts ~ He is actually so tiny coded it is INSANE. The tiny tyrant who sits upon Trey's hat and yells at his students. He'll know if you break a rule because he's quite literally listening from the walls. He could be in your room and you'd never even know he was there. He'll announce the opening of unbirthday parties by sitting atop his little dollhouse sized throne and using an itty bitty microphone Cater bought from the store.

🪨Jack Howl ~ Giant Jack + fluffy tail = pure happiness. He's just. So protective over Yuu and he's insanely sweet. If you give him a lil smooch he'll actually think you were the cutest thing on planet Earth.

🪵Ruggie Bucchi ~ Tiny hyena who "borrows" stuff from others (he's a lil sneak). He can get away with stuff too because of his size. He'll just casually sneak into your dorm room and take whatever little scraps he can find. Leona's had to go out and find him if he ever needs little favors from him but has almost accidentally stepped on him one too many times because of how good Ruggie is at hiding.

🦁Leona Kingscholar ~ Giant Leona is actually so perfect WHAT. He's just sleeping over his entire dorm, leaning his head against the terrain outside and flicking his tail, kicking up sand from the ground. Magishift training is even better since Leona can coach his players and all he'd have to do is stand up to be eye level with those flying on broomsticks.

⚡️Floyd Leech ~ I'd say giant Floyd, but lord KNOWS what kinda BS he'd pull. He'll just. Pluck Riddle out the window and tease him. If he's not in a good mood, he'll probably smash stuff and laugh when the "tiny minnows" get mad at him. Such a chaotic giant.

🪼Jade Leech ~ Tiny Jade is an absolute MUST. He'll just go inside his little terrariums and see his mushrooms from a better perspective. He'll easily be able to observe nature and it's just perfect for him.

🐙Azul Ashengrotto ~ Listen; Giant mermaid Azul, Tiny human Azul. I say this because in game, it's actually implied that Azul is a WHOLE lot bigger in his mermaid form than his human form. i'd believe it, given how big octopi IRL can become. Then you have a tiny Azul who's the boss of two giant eels. You violated your contract? Say goodbye and get squished at his command. Tiny restaurant owner and the grand mastermind of the contract scandal in Book 3. Everyone's just baffled that they were swindled by a tiny octopus.

⚱️Kalim Al-Asim ~ Giant Kalim. Clumsy giant good. Jamil has HAD IT with his BS and will advocate for replacing him as their Dorm Leader. Kalim's not trying to be bad, and he's actually so sweet. He'll just observe his dorm mates from the window's of the building's towers. He'll watch the others fly around on his magic carpet. He would pick Yuu up and hold them close to him as he lays down and points out all the stars in the sky. He'd be the perfect cuddle buddy; all you have to do is ask, and you're already sleeping in the crook of his neck as he sits down and holds you close.

🦂Jamil Viper ~ Sizeshifting Jamil W. Jamil who's tiny one moment, and giant the next. He'll get really big in order to handle certain tasks or to stop Kalim from doing something that could potentially hurt him. I just imagine him picking Kalim up from the back of his shirt and dangling him in midair while lecturing him.

🍎Epel Felmier ~ The infamous tiny who's been trying to escape Pomefiore. He's almost had a bunch of successful attempts, but Vil just picks him up by his collar and scolds him for trying to run off again. Epel's dorm escapes are gossiped about around the whole dorm. He's constantly being doted on by his fellow dorm mates (he absolutely hates it). He's challenged Vil to a fight and got flattened under his thumb (he's ok [I think] for now!).

🏹Rook Hunt ~ Giant Rook Hunt so true. He's so SNEAKY. It's crazy how someone his height is able to get around without so much as a booming footstep or a loud sigh. He's quietly observing all the student from clever hiding spots (though his hat gives him away sometimes). He'll carry Vil wherever he needs to go and is so polite, always watching where he walks.

🪞Vil Schoenheit ~ Giant Vil Giant Vil Giant Vil. I NEED him to push over billboards with Neige's face on them. He'll sit on the sides of buildings and pose for photo shoots. He's a giant with a rivalry for a tiny foe (his tiny foe has no idea a giant wants him gone). Makeup products for him are so big he has to store them in a warehouse separate from the school.

🎮Idia Shroud ~ Tiny Idia for sure. He hides amongst his anime figurines whenever Riddle comes banging on the door to drag him to the next Dorm Leader meeting. Tiny Idia making little inside jokes like "I just ate a whole chip today I'm stuffed" and the other person opposite the screen just thinks it's a joke (they don't know they're playing with a 5 inch-tall gamer).

🧿Ortho Shroud ~ Giant mecha Ortho VS itty bitty robot Ortho. Idia just controls Ortho from a cockpit in his room and goes around jumpscaring people (Ortho has to tell him to quit it or he'll grab him out his room and force him to socialize). Then there's tiny Ortho who just. Zooms around like a lil bug. His flying sounds like a mosquito but he's going around helping students whenever he can.

🐊Sebek Zigvolt ~ Human Sebek in a world of chaos much like Ace. He's trying to protect Malleus but Malleus is usually the one who ends up protecting HIM. Sebek making speeches about how powerful and big Malleus is and just getting absolutely spooked whenever one of his giant classmates comes tapping on the window.

⚔️Silver ~ Giant Silver SUPER BIG YES. Sleepy giant who just clocks out whenever he lays against something. Lilia's constantly flying around trying to get his attention and Silver just swats at him like a fly sometimes. He's finally big enough to tell Sebek to stop messing with him (he's accidentally squished Sebek with his head after falling asleep and tumbling over). Silver who is just so sweet and has tiny little birds nestling on his head.

🦇Lilia Vanrouge ~ A tiny, itty bitty terror. He flies around and scares the kids in the dorm and around campus and laughs. He's able to slip through fingers while flying so he can't be grabbed so easily. Lilia's also REALLY fast. He'll go speeding across the hall in a little green sparkle and hide behind Sebek whenever an angry student is chasing him. Peepaw that lives in a dollhouse and sits on the rocking chair, telling Silver stories at night whenever he's trying to sleep.

🐉Malleus Draconia ~ This is SO painfully obvious, but giant Malleus FTW. He just plucks Yuu out of Ramshackle and flies into the sky. He holds them close to him and rambles to them about his gargoyles and the stars. Malleus who causes the ground to shake whenever he moves or gets angry. His voice is so deep it carries across the ground and shakes the heavens. He's so imposing that no one dares go near him or the little human he's acquired. He adores Yuu and will take them with him wherever he goes. Giant Malleus who smashes the Bell Tower during Glorious Masquerade in a fit of rage against Rollo, for even TRYING to hurt his Child of Man. He's so strong he could probably lift Ramshackle dorm clean off the ground with his hand. He would probably even be able to grow his size even bigger so that he towers over NRC. He'd be unstoppable as a giant, but he'd always be so sweet to his human friend.

[sneakydraws]

i wanna see fifty five goldfinch pieces 💔💔

OKAY!! So I have this little series I like to call the great decompartmentalisation of Theo decker... Let me walk you through it. I promise there's art after the massive paragraph of meandering analysis alright

You know how Theo's life is segmented into these distinct episodes? And how he himself is split into multiple different identities, and how much shame and fear there is associated with the idea of those identities mixing? For example: the straight a student living a completely, delusionally idyllic life with his adoring mother and the vanilla teenage troublemaker breaking into people's summer homes with his shady homoerotic bestie. When the two identities come into contact via his suspension, it leads to the most traumatic event in Theo's life, and honestly I suspect that might be the origin of this tendency towards compartmentalisation... I could go through the whole book here but the most prominent examples are Theo panicking at the thought of Mrs Barbour or his therapist finding out about Hobie, his cutting himself off from New York when in Vegas with his other shady homoerotic bestie (the amount of times Vegas is compared to an alien planet...) and his dual post timeskip identifies of charming antiques salesman/fraudulent art stealing junkie. And this often manifests in Theo's reluctance to let people from his different periods interact - see him rushing to stop Boris from talking to Pippa, and him keeping Hobie in the dark about the blackmail, and isn't it kind of weird that the barbours - Theo's soon to be legal family - don't really interact with Hobie and Pippa? Anyway. Basically I thought it would be cool to make a series of little vignettes of theo allowing the people and places and things that represent various versions of Him to interact and thus symbolically healing the disconnected parts of himself... Or something. I have more ideas scribbled down but somehow the only ones I ended up with proper art for is the various holidays (which, holidays are also a weirdly prevalent theme in tgf? Idk whats up with that but it's a good tool for this purpose) so we have:

Christmas Eve at Boris's, featuring Pippa and Hobie - I feel kinda bad for only ever portraying Boris with polish customs but let's be real I'm just using him to show off my own heritage lol. In Poland the main Xmas celebrations happen on Xmas Eve, traditionally with the appearance of the first star in the sky. You eat the mostly inoffensive barszcz as well some truly vile shit, such as mushroom and cabbage dumplings, mushroom and cabbage salad, other items made of mushrooms and cabbage, and finally the most disgusting dish of my life: Jewish style carp. No, it's not quite the same thing as gefiltefish, although that's the Wikipedia page you might use to get to the actual dish. All washed down with compote which I hate. You also break and eat communion wafers while wishing each other stuff, which Pippa is doing with popchyk here hehe

Christmas breakfast as a little bonus despite it not having much of a tradition - I associate it with lots of hams/cured meats, gherkins and maybe Tatar sauce (yum). Much superior to the Xmas dinner imho. Really I just wanted Theo and Boris to have a moment to themselves haha

Christmas proper at the barbours, featuring Boris and Tom cable! I could talk about all the tension and who's diffusing it but honestly I think y'all can draw your own conclusions lol. I just think it would be really funny for the infamous dis-engaged couple to each bring their delinquent boytoys and for Boris the drug dealer to actually come out looking superior

Vegetarian friendly Thanksgiving at Hobie's, as tradition requires! I think he'd love to throw one of his big Thanksgiving parties purely for all of Theo's families to get to know each other... you know, kind of an elaboration on that Thanksgiving illustration I drew a while back! This would be before all the Christmases I think. Boris is winning Mrs Barbour over with his roguish charm lol I think old ladies would like him... Theo in the corner freaking the hell out as per this project's mission statement lmao

And on a slightly different note I wanted Theo Pippa and Hobie to all visit weltys grave. I'm borrowing slightly from the polish tradition of all saint's day, when you clean, decorate and light candles on the graves of loved ones.

[tobiasdrake]

Another flashback, but we've reached the important part: Where I show up!

We saw them as aspirational role models, but they just wanted out. There was so much that went unsaid during those years.

We were young when they started to betray us. This was only "A few years later". We're like five in this flashback.

What a raw deal of an offer.

Teaks explained to me how this works. There isn't a "more favorable" world out there. The multiverse consists of parallel timelines spinning out of Resh'an and Aephorul's conflict here.

There are three kinds of worlds: Worlds undergoing the same conflict we're fighting now, worlds where we lost and everything was consumed by a World Eater, and worlds where we won and the Guardian Gods now bar the Fleshmancer from touching them.

This conflict is the context that governs the multiverse. There is nothing outside of it. The only "more favorable" worlds are ones where we've already won.

And to be honest? I have my doubts that these jackasses can access one of those. Kinda seems like preventing such a thing from happening is the whole point of Guardian Gods, isn't it?

I had complicated feelings about Erlina and Bugraves before, especially after they ruined my fake birthday party. But those feelings are getting simpler by the moment. These guys played them for suckers.

Hahahahahaha no

Can you imagine accepting that offer? "Sure, shady person; Not only will I take you at your word that you're going to give me a better life, but I'll also let you rewrite my memories however you see fit so that I think our deal was whatever you want me to think it was!"

*deep breath* They told them about Torment. Okay, that's unsimplifying and recomplicating my feelings.

Torment was a checkmate of a Dweller. Absolutely. 100%. Its physical location, buried where the eclipse could never touch it, meant there was no way we were ever going to stop it. Even if we killed Woe and even if Strife didn't return, Torment would feed unimpeded until it became a World Eater.

No matter what we did, our timeline was doomed. We were only able to slay Torment because we had... whatever Serai is... with us. She's not a resource that the Solstice Warriors could ever have planned for. She doesn't factor into the calculus.

...this is the first I'm hearing of that condition. When were they going to tell us about it?

I kinda do. I get where you're coming from. Now more than ever.

But. Also? We killed Torment. I know killing Torment was impossible, but we did it. We killed Torment. So. Y'know. If you hadn't ruined my fake birthday then this would be over.

I don't think this is as simple as "right" answer or "wrong" answer. There was a meteor hurtling towards the planet, guaranteed to wipe out all life. Someone came to you and said, "Hey man, I can offer you and your loved ones passage on a spaceship to a new world if you'll help me set off nuclear armaggeddon ahead of the meteor's impact."

It's a moral conundrum. Let everyone die, or save the people you care about in exchange for everyone else dying faster. You're not really selling them out because they're screwed either way, but you are becoming personally responsible for their fate.

I get it. This isn't really about right or wrong.

But it is factional. You made your choice and we made ours. Either someone's going to have to budge, or someone's going to have to break.

We're coming up on the castle now. All of the mushrooms have faces which, as a botanophobe, is a solid 10 on the OH FUCK THAT scale. Once we cross this marsh, we should be clear to enter the castle and confront the Acolytes... and Strife.

I hope they have windows in the castle. We don't have the element of surprise; They tried to stop us from reaching Pocket Eclipse so we should assume they know we have it. But we do have Pocket Eclipse, which is an advantage all on its own.

I feel good about this. We're screwed, but we're going to go down swinging.

Someone seems to be living here. ...hey, wait a second. I just thought of something.

Didn't Teaks say that Yoyo lives in a swamp? Do you think she was talking about this swamp? This is the swampiest region of any island we've been to, save for Roro's swamp. We should keep an eye out for Yoyo.

Supposedly, she's super good at prophesizing. She might have some actually good prophecies for us.

Oh, this has to be Yoyo's home. I can't wait to meet her!

She's not exactly what I expected. But she's not not what I expected either, if that makes sense.

Don't worry, I know all about you. The mystical embodiment of centrism itself. I have absolute confidence that you'll play me straight, because good or bad, you're allergic to the entire concept of agendas.

Not an ally but potentially a valuable resource. I know the drill.

Okay, so we're not getting prophecies, then.

Well, we're on a pretty grand arc. Whole timeline could be decided by what happens in that castle. Do you have anything to share about that, at least?

Damn. Well, at least we tried. Elder Mist and Oracle of Tides both gave us prophecies that we suck too hard to achieve, and Yoyo can only see "grand arcs". I'm beginning to think that divination is overrated as a school of magic.

Or maybe we will get something? She seems pretty freaked out about TIA. Who, to be fair, is absolutely a person to be freaked out by for anyone who recognizes him.

Which is a lot. A lot of people seem to be recognizing him. Maybe this was a mistake, my guy.

[legsandthelightrail]

Another ten years of my Stellaris Terravore campaign, and things are heating up!

First order of business, the medieval fungoids we met last time, the Tryathians, have been fed into the bio-reactors and are now extinct. A brief moment of silence, please. More importantly, we've finally met another interstellar polity, and they're hive-minded like us!

They don't seem to like us very much though... Which, y'now, is kinda fair. The Ma'Karan Swarm isn't the nicest gestalt, we eat planets after all. We've also found another planet of primitives:

These guys are actually right across the empire from the last batch of primitive fungoids. Why there are so many mushrooms so close to each other, I can't say.

Here's where the borders stand as of 2220 I.T. You can't see it this far out, but the Valmennax have a fleet right on the border - it seems war is brewing...

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[delightfuldevin]

BIG BRAIN LORE MOMENT DARE I SAY HUUUUGE BRAIN

Adding a cut cause I want to. It’s not that long, but I do feel like I’m kinda rambling a bit lol

Okay okay. The Stars and Fire/Thunder Gods are the source of magic on the world right? Right. But life? That started on the Moon. And the cubic moon rocks found on the planet (which fell from the Moon) contain Power Moons. Therefore, Power Moons are a power source that was created on the Moon. Initially I considered Power Moons to be of a similar origin as Power Stars (originating from space and falling to the Mushroom Planet as meteors), but I now have reason to believe that they are entirely separate things. Stay with me here, I promise I’m going somewhere with this.

There is an item shaped like a Moon known as the 3-Up Moon, which gives extra lives. I’d say it’s reasonable to assume the 3-Up Moon is related to the Power Moon. Therefore, Power Moons have the ability to give life. There is no item shaped like a Star that gives extra lives, at least as far as I’m aware. This makes the power of Moons and Stars fundamentally different. Stars are indeed extremely powerful, but they are not shown to be able to create or give life.

The important take away here is that Power Moons have the ability to give life and animal life began on the Moon itself. This “Moon Magic” is the source of all life!! Even plant life, which must’ve evolved on the planet itself, likely didn’t start evolving until after the Moon Rocks fell, bringing with them the Moon’s life energy.

Let’s also not forget about the supposed “Moon Goddess” mentioned in the Moon Kingdom’s brochure. The Wedding Hall on the Moon was supposedly made in her honor. If her power created life, a wedding hall dedicated to her would actually make a lot of sense cause marriage is meant to join lives together in an unbreakable bond.

This is suuuch a big deal for my lore stuff! I finally have a source for the beginnings of life!! With so little knowledge about the original Moon Kingdom and the origins of life, it makes sense that most species of the modern day are probably completely unaware of the Moon Goddess’s role in creating life (many probably don’t even think she exists). Pretty much no one worships her in current times. Though maybe the rabbits do now, since they colonized the Moon (I am of the belief that the rabbits were the first to travel to the Moon from the planet and discover the remnants of its ancient kingdom; the original inhabitants were not rabbits themselves).

Now, since the Moon’s power is within its rocks, it also stands to reason that living rock species like Thwomps and their relatives are probably the closest to the source. I’m not sure what having the most life energy would mean, but whatever it means, Thwomps have it. For one thing, it probably means that they don’t require sustenance, as they can survive simply off of the abundance of Moon power they already have. It should also probably make them extremely resilient, which checks out as many rock species are invincible or near-invincible.

Oh, another thing is that items like the 1-Up Mushroom that give extra lives must be a form of Moon Magic as well. Star Magic can heal, but it can’t revive, so that must be the work of the Moon Goddess. They’re still grown like all Power Ups and nobody knows that their origin isn’t Star Magic, similar to Fire and Thunder Flowers.

And finally, despite referring to it as “Moon Magic”, no one is actually capable of using it. Its only known ability would be creating life, which is a bit much for mortals to handle.

Alright that’s all. So endlessly excited about having come up with this!! To think I’d actually be able to figure out a nice neat lil origins of life story! I love headcanons

[movie-robotnik-positivity]

I need someone’s take on this… (Also asked Mystery in case) Fans are talking (joking) about how Sonic is willing to put down anyone who harms his family, especially Eggman. Technically, it’s against Game!Sonic’s moral code. Personally, I kinda like this characterization of Sonic despite him being babey, cuz he experienced grief after Longclaw and wants to prevent anything bad that could happen to his family. But WHAT IF…Sonic gains his moral code in the 3rd movie after encountering Shadow?

Sonic's moral code mostly comes from the IDW comics. The games have some moments where Sonic isn't exactly merciful (the storybook games), but there's already plenty of posts about that...

Movie!Sonic isn’t a murderer or anything, he will only cross that line as a last resort. Like, the moment Sonic learned Knuckles wasn’t actually a bad guy, he no longer wanted to fight (but had no choice).

And despite everything he did, Sonic still gave Eggman a chance to surrender at the end, and only attacked after that mercy was rejected. You could even argue that sending him to the mushroom planet in the first movie was an act of mercy in and of itself. 

TL;DR: Movie!Sonic is merciful, but he’s not stupid. 

[steve0discusses]

S5 Ep 3: Apdnarg is Really Hard to Spell

 Yo guys, people are getting vaccinated, the sun is parting through the clouds, and I felt so nice that I even stopped listening to quite so many throwback 00′s BTS mashups (and yet I keep clicking on these dissonant catastrophes thinking “this time it’s got to be better. This time they’ll figure it out.” and like, no. Turns out you can’t match Brittany’s Toxic with BTS’ Black Swan. You can’t do that.)

This must be a sign that things are getting better. If anything, it means my personal tastes are improving. I mean I only clicked on like 3 “Dark Academia” Playlists where I could pretend I’m some sort of spooky witch in an abandoned library with a bad music player and basic taste in classical music (like can we ban Satie from Youtube for a little while?). Hell, I might even do a prompt update to this blog!

Yeah, you heard me, I’m actually going to stay ahead of the update schedule for Yugioh Abridged (maybe. I haven’t actually watched cuz of spoilers, I just noticed the thumbnail pop up on Youtube and was like “Damn it, they came out of hiatus??? I got hurry UP.”)

Anyway, speaking of the sky parting.

I’ll have you know my bro said this is actually more like a circumcision and it was one of the worst thing I have ever heard.

We get a chance to take in this lineup of confusing and varied character designs, and Joey. who is...still Joey.

The animators probably had to hold a strike in order for them to put Yugi in the audience, lets be real. There are TOO MANY PEOPLE in this shot and one is wearing a turban where you draw every single wrap. I hope those artists charged by the line.

Tea has a subplot where she’s just very frustrated with everyone she knows. They have been traveling together for like many weeks and got trapped in a foreign country so I get it. But at the same time, it’s kind of hard to picture Tea with female friends.

Because right now you got this 12 year old child, the other duelist who does not care about anything besides cards, and Kaiba’s 3 dragon cards that we’ve all collectively decided are female.

Hell it’s almost like the writers are asking themselves why Tea is here. Maybe they forgot. There’s no more ghosts to bus, no more people to knock out with her ass with random Olympic feats. Tea’s just sidelining.

(read more under the cut)

Mokuba is a itty bit bit taller this season, and so I guess that means he can legally climb on top of the cherry picker in order to give a riveting speech.

Really says a lot about Mokuba that he is so unphased about talking to, I dunno...an entire planet of people. Kind of a shame we never see this courage from Mokuba used for anything other than talking really, really big and giving everyone around him a really hard time.

Mokuba takes a moment to dunk on Yugi Muto, as is Kaiba tradition.

And then introduce the first pair of duelists, which obviously must be between the few people in this tournament that we actually know and care about.

Thankfully, in between last episode and this episode, Yugi has figured out who his own Grandpa is. This is a relief, because Yugi is such a mess, that I was fully convinced it would take over half a season for him to recognize it. I mean how long did it take him to figure out he shares a body with a ghost? Like half a season?

Instead Yugi recovered gracefully from not recognizing his grandpa, but it’s not like he bothered to tell anyone else, so the rest of our cast is just gonna be like “Is he my hairdresser? The guy who delivers my mail? Who is this guy who made absolutely no significant changes to his outfit or voice?”

Like sometimes this show goes full Spongebob silly kid’s show and you never know when to take it seriously or not. They might be sacrificing the entire cast next episode. I really don’t know. But for now their big concern is who is grandpa??? Like an innocent card version of “Are you my Mother?”

Faced with public speaking, Yugi decides to have a melt down.

We have seen him face monsters, we’ve seen him on TV dozens of times, he’s been in multiple competitions...but give a speech? Of course he can’t do that. The kid doesn’t attend enough school to know how to do that. Them’s learning skills.

And that was when a newly assembled wife-jet spliced through the sky like a souped up razer scooter and deposited 1 fully equipped Seto Kaiba in a Buzz Lightyear jetsuit.

THE RECOVERY.

Seto always watching over his Brother, ready to save this awkward party if it kills him (and it really should, that suit is held together by two seat-belts), making sure to get on that platform before Yugi starts going off about how he’s half an Ancient Egyptian. (Ah, life before social media. You could just be hella famous and also half a dead dude and people would just not know. I kinda miss the time before I knew literally everything about everyone.)

Please admire how close those flames are to setting Mokuba’s heavily hairsprayed mane completely alight. It would be an unforgettable spectacle.

These were absolutely just random ass jet packs that Gozaburo Kaiba made to kill hell tons of people, right? Like Seto found it in the family cabin, clutched to the heart of some crispy fried corpse and was like “neat! Mokuba! I found a cool toy!” and just plucked that thing out of that skeleton’s clutches and has been flying around for months?

Like this is Seto Kaiba’s Butter Glider, right?

Seriously what type of vehicle license do you need for one of these things? RIP My ‘Seto only has a scooter license’ headcanon.

Which I’m only even thinking about because I’ve had to try and make an appt with the DMV for days to get a freakin REAL ID. I went to sleep in 2019 and I could fly on a plane. I woke up in 2021 and it’s like “Want one last screw you?” and just...can 2020 please stop screwing me over? It’s March.

Anyway, the Jet is removed soon after, so no, this is not part of his new outfit. He goes right back to his Post-S4-Trauma-Normcore.

After wrestling this competition out of his brother’s hands and confusing everyone in the audience, Roland must have gotten the memo to cut the microphone before Seto got too excited and we were quickly ushered on to the next stage of the tournament.

One sec...the BTS Mashup playlist I just clicked on did a Black Swan X 7 rings mashup and it’s the worst thing my ears have ever heard.

Holy crap. I had to actually turn down my volume. Like...Ariana Grande already has music that has way too many overlapping singing parts on it--and then lets just stick a 52-person boy band on top? That’ll fix it. Yeah. Go ahead.

Wow. Even I had to change the song and you know how much I enjoy pop culture mistakes.

Spot the Mickey but like a million times easier because it’s a Massive Dick Shaped Dragon.

Yep. That’s my grocery shopping outfit. Except maybe not a lab coat and a duel disk. Wish I had a duel disk, that would make social distancing just a hell ton earlier. Just a “Yo, only one person in checkout, please” and then bap them on the head with a propelled discuss/hologram.

Anyway, Grocery shopping/Doctor man dueled the Purple Hair Boy, and considering that Purple Hair got screen time and shook Yugi’s hand once--I think that Doctor man doesn’t stand a freakin chance.

Good. I hate him.

Also, every time he breathes he’s gonna fog up his glasses. I have experience in this area. He can’t read his own cards in the same way I can’t read my phone if I’m in the refrigerated aisle.

So the way this tournament works, is everyone has to sit in the stadium to watch the show. Kinda like showing up to a football stadium just to watch a recorded TV monitor...but then again...that is how it feels to watch a football game at a football stadium when it’s live (at least with the tickets I usually get.)

And as we watch Grandpa waiting for his competitor, we find out that his competitor (Joey) is too busy eating snacks to give him the time of day.

Why do cartoon hot dogs always have lettuce? Is that seriously supposed to be relish? Or is there a place in the world where you put lettuce on your hot dog?

Sorry, bro has just informed of his favorite hot dog order, which is absolutely terrible so I will share it with you: a Five Guys hot dog with ketchup, mustard, pickle relish, onions, mushrooms, pickled peppers, and you guessed it--topped with freakin lettuce.

My own kin. How am I over 30 and just finding out that my baby brother thinks it’s normal to walk into a restaurant with normal god-fearing law-abiding people and order lettuce and mushrooms on a hot dog?

I have fully failed him.

The rest of this episode is watching both Joey Wheeler and Mokuba have a shared panic attack while Seto does freakin nothing.

Please remember that Seto has both a jetpack and a dragon wife plane and could have easily solved this problem. But nah.

Then again, Seto Kaiba has given this crew so MANY rides, that maybe he’s tired of being the Soccer Mom for the team?

Like they don’t actually say this episode, but Seto was the one in charge of like...this entire place, do you think he made the 2 for 1 special just to get Joey where it hurts the most? Or does it actually not take any subterfuge to screw Joey Wheeler because he’s just naturally this way?

Like Mokuba wasn’t there when Joey was told “stay right here, and then we will all go together to fight Dartz” and Joey was like “I’mma save Mai from herself although she told me not to!” and then he Hella Died. But, Mokuba did see the result, AKA, Joey’s dead body being carried on the back of Tristan. Maybe Mokuba never realized that Joey died because he went out of his way to be late?

Lets do a tally of every time I can recall with my dodgy memory that Joey was threatened to be DQ’d/pretty much was DQ’d either by his own fault or no fault of his own

-When he wasn’t allowed to go on the boat to Murder Island because he was a stupid nobody kid who did not have a dueling glove

-When he wasn’t actually supposed to be in Pegasus’ tourney and was, in fact, secretly using half of Yugi’s entrance ticket the entire time

-when Bandit Keith stole the ticket that Joey got from Yugi so then Joey had to borrow Mai’s ticket although she had just used it so it really shouldn't have counted. Because, really anyone could have just piggy backed off of each other’s ticket until the whole boat went through that castle.

-When his account was hacked to get entered into Kaiba’s tourney when Kaiba very clearly told him he could not apply solely because he was Joey Wheeler.

-When he was late to his sister’s eye surgery because he got mugged by Marik’s Rare Hunters, so she almost refused to do the surgery.

-When Joey got possessed by Marik, and as Marik, threatened to murder everyone else in the tournament including both of the Kaiba brother’s who’s tournament it was, and then chained himself to Yugi Muto to throw both of them to the bottom of the ocean.

-I think there was a point when he threatened to attack Kaiba in Kaiba’s own tourney while not possessed? Like several times?

-when he got struck by Lightning and almost did not stand up fast enough after being struck by lightning, which is apparently a type of DQ in Duel Monsters.

-When he tried to save Mai from getting hit by a fireball, but then Yugi did it instead, and then so many people were standing on the dueling platform that Kaiba couldn’t possibly DQ them all.

-When he entered the restricted area of the blimp in order to hassle Kaiba into landing the Blimp, which Kaiba did not do.

-When Marik killed Joey before Joey could press the “go” button on his duel disk to play the card that should have won Joey the match.

-When he was dueling a lawyer in a digital universe but then the dice was like...weighted? So Noah had to walk over and be like “The hell is this weighted dice? This is my perfect digital world? How did you even do that?” and then Joey won because the match was no longer legit.

-When Joey yelled at Noah too much and so Noah turned Joey to stone for being a rude ass spectator

-When Mai was like “Wheeler and Valon, listen closely: do NOT murder each other” and then Joey did a murder on Valon so she was like “I guess I have no choice, I was very clear” and killed Joey straight up.

-When Joey decided to block Seto’s fireballs while Joey Wheeler WAS a playing card, somehow disrespecting both Dartz and Seto Kaiba at the same time.

-When Joey was playing cards but then got absorbed into a giant Leviathan and basically couldn’t play anymore after that.

-There’s probably hell ton of S0 stuff I just haven’t seen yet.

-This episode

And Joey runs fast for a montage of wacky things that really have no business being in a theme park. Things like this:

(remember when Bakura almost died from a rock that ended up being a balloon? It comes full circle.)

The stuff that the Kaiba brother’s think is normal and fun.

Anyway Joey fights off a bunch of hologram snakes and bats and everyone is like “Should we tell him it’s just holograms???” And it’s like wow, guys, how many times have these ‘holograms’ straight up murdered Joey Wheeler and everyone else on this cast? Too many? Because I have a google doc with so many deaths on it. 7,805,844,048, to be exact.

Anyway, he gets there with five seconds to spare and Mokuba’s like “well at least you were still entertaining while we filmed you in front of a live audience being a total spaz for 15 minutes straight, so I’ll let you go.”

Grandpa and Joey start playing, Joey completely oblivious that this is just an older Muto, while Hawkins walks up awkwardly and is like “hey guys. I’m so sorry about this.”

(welcome to my font choices, for those new here, I have to make weird font color choices to make sure it’s legible for the colorblind and also for the non-colorblind. This one is not much contrast, so I may change it up in the future, but for now, this is Grandpa Muto’s new font. I apologize to every graphic designer reading this. Please don’t tell anyone who has ever hired me for graphic design about this blog.)

What’s funny about this exchange is that after they find out that Yugi’s Grandpa is Apdnarg (HOLY my brain cannot get around the spelling for that, and I will not change it in the caps. I cannot do a ‘pdn’ ever again), they don’t stand on his side of the field or anything. Hawkins is legit Solomon Muto’s only fan during this exchange and like...damn. Way not to back your Grandpa, Yugi.

Yugi immediately strides up to Mokuba to non-confrontation-ally inform him that he has stepped over a line and Mokuba is like “what are these things you say called ‘lines?’”

According to Mokuba, Solomon Muto begged him to be in the competition so he could relive his glory days (glory days making no sense here, because the game has only been released for the past 15 years, so glory days is like...the before times that can only be referring to disgraced archeologists and Pegasus ((who is, in his own way...a disgraced archeologist, too))) and Mokuba was like

“You trained Yugi Muto, right? Hey that’s good enough for me. This drama is gold. People will eat it up. Hell yes. Don’t be afraid to abduct him a little bit. Maybe trap a couple people in a digital hellscape for a little while? Now we go by Pegasus house rules here, so fire as many lasers as you want, but just make sure not to hit anyone in the face. Oh man, we are going to be swimming in cash. Love it, Muto Sr, love it.”

But I dunno, I feel like Grandpa won’t make it past next episode. It is Joey. We kinda need him to make it past Ep 4 of the arc. If Grandpa Muto becomes the new Joey Wheeler, that will be a weird transition for this show to make.

But that’s all for today, as always, here is the link to read these in chrono order becuase there’s SO MANY that you don’t need to read backwards--don’t do it--just use the chrono tag (and I don’t know if you can add compound tags, but I did separate the Season from the Episode, so if you write S4, it should only pop up stuff from S4. I didn't’ do that to seasons 1-3 though because I just...didn’t.)

https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono

And because I brought it up: here it is, the best BTS Mashup that I found on my deep dive. Like legit--this one isn’t a mess:

Most of other ones are horrible in a fascinating way. Like I’m not even a BTS fan, I think I sort of age out of that metric, I’m just bored and quarantined. And lets be real, we all appreciate a good bop when we hear it.

[therobotmonster]

The Adventures of Albert Sauros: Rumble in the Court of Princess Sparkle-Sprinkle!

Ey, it’s Roderick Friggin’ Rockhammer, ya boy, ya wizard, ya least favorite but it doesn’t matter cuz I’m friends with the guy with the big axe! So sit down and listen while I tells ya about the sweetest fight I ever seen, or else you can tell your friends you got beat up by a gnome with rickets!

Okay, by the best friend of a gnome with rickets, but the point stands.

So long story short, about forever ago my great-grand-whatever saved the life of this dwarf guy and our clans have been best buds since forever even if the Leadstones say otherwise. I’ve been hanging with my ‘cousin’ Borin Leadstone, lettin’ ‘em pay me back for all the hard work grand-whatever did. Also cuz they rescued me from wage slavery from the chizzlers at the Drutch East Primordia Tradin’ company. 

So we’re fomenting some kinda frog-rebellion when my boy Borin and his gang roll up in the Drutch Governor’s personal airship, what they captured on its attempted escape, and they’re all “Get on, ya knobs, we’re going to deliver a chess set to a dragon!”. 

So we goes to this sandcastle in the middle o’ nowhere, and we got the full gang, we got the A team, we got the B team, the C team is there, and the A++ team, which is me. And there’s this giant frikkin’ dragon, and she and this tall lizard who I think is the manager of Borin’s band or something start talking about wakin’ up her ancient granddad to save the world. 

This is when we find out three pieces of vital information. The first, is that cuz my boys broke reality with their mushroom scam, the planet’s spinnin’ the wrong way, and the spell what was supposed to pump the dragons up with ley line energy is instead gonna suck ‘em dry. The second is that Princess Sparkle-Sprinkles ain’t gonna be able to save things on her own, cuz she’s like, twelve (in dragon years). The third is that traditional dwarven children’s drink strawberry quix, is 80 frikkin’ proof. The latter two points were learned, shall we say, after the fact.

So when the frikkin’ energy field holdin’ the golden goldbrickin’ grandpa in sleepytime falls down, there’s guardians, cuz of course there’s guardians, and the dragon kid’s hung over and trying’ to un-ward a magic door, so its time for the Rumble!

And in the every corner, we have a horde of burning coal pseudo-elementals.

In the center of the ring, surrounded on all sides, we have!   (rumble beneath the fold)

The A Team:

The Axe to the Max! The Dwarven Rage! Borin “the Kills-in-art” Leadstooooone!

The Prince of Stab, the Duke of Grab! You won’t see him cuz he’ll see you first... O. G. FASSIL! 

Mr Chomp-and-Circumstance! The endless drone from parts unknown! Professor Talk-A-Saurus Hex himself, Albert O. Sauros!

And ya got me, Roderick Rockhammer! Whattya mean I’m on the B-Team?! What the- Get your hands of me! I’m tellin’ this story-

The B Team:

Lee, Jade Dragonborn Monk. Very proud of his new punches.

Sister Sagittarius. Aarakocra fighter and Ib cultist, survivor of dragons.

Blazin Kush. Dwarf bard, recently both dead and a halfling. Reincarnation is a hell of a spell.

The Pie, fiendish mimic that had a bad mushroom trip and now thinks they’re a carnivorous pie.

The C Team Rest:

Snakey the Mummy. Formerly a snake, reincarnated as a humanoid mummy (reincarnation, hell of  a spell). Just got their first level of rogue.

Dat “Jack” Ass, formerly a partially elemental donkey, reincarnated as a simic hybrid of lizardfolk and elf that’s best described as a sleestak. What’s a sleestak? That’s your heart attack towel rack throwba One of these:

(He’s a druid now, also level one.)

Now fight fans, you may be saying “C’mon Roddy, those coal guys is chumps, your man Borin chops ‘em up like cole slaw!” Sure, that’s true, but the thing is, normally, the team doesn’t have two first-level baby boids to protect.  

There always seemed to be one more coal elemental than there were defenders. WHAM! A coal mass slams into Dat Ass, knocking him straight to unconsciousness and teetering toward death. Albert summoned the spirit of a tyrannosaurus rex to enlarge Lee to dinosaurian proportions as elementals hammered them from every side.

As for our intrepid heroes, luck had abandoned them. Blazen called down healing light only for Dat to be knocked out moments later. Sagittarius took to the skies to snipe, as Lee and Borin went hand to hand with our foes. The coal elementals scored hit after hit, and after a brief success with the ghost gun, Albert was knocked on his tail when the ghost gun experienced a backfire. 

Even I, the great and powerful Roderick Rockwell, was brutally beaten and bedraggled by those smoldering slag piles! Well I had enough of that, so I drw up my mysical-type knowledge, and cast catapult to hurl a chunk of shattered coal into one of the jerks! “In ya face with your buddy’s face!” I shouted, and the tide of the battle, boy it turned! 

Borin shredded his down to nubs! Lee hammed ‘em down with his magic punch-em-ups stuff, and the ghost bust ripped them to shreds. Fazzil was all “stab-stab” and then all “Zap zap!” and arrows just pelted them from the sky!

Lee even ground one “brought down to size” elemental out under his giant talons!  We kicked ‘em where it hurt, and kicked again! And when we were triumphant, what happened?

I had to give an ancient gold dragon an illusionary puppet show.

That’s how it happened, and don’t let nobody say otherwise.

[deadlightcircus]

favourite robotnik moments and observations ( in no particular order )

!!!MAJOR SPOILERS!!!

- “i was breastfed, actually”, “niiiice... rub that in my orphan face.” (mommy issues, check)

- robotnik treats stone like an asshole and exploits his lapdog’s unwavering loyalty and admiration at every turn (which is probably the best treatment you could hope for, coming from someone who can’t stand anything that’s sentient), but i was absolutely not expecting to see some of their dynamic laced with what can only be described as this kinky, repressed homoerotic tension. robotnik grabbing stone roughly by the mouth and pulling him in? robotnik ordering stone to pin himself against the wall before belittling him, nose to nose? (looked like stone intentionally goaded robotnik into reprimanding him that time)?.... das gay my dudes.  - he prevented a coup in pakistan and halted the formation of “azerbaijanistan”, apparently. 

- everything about his chaotic dance number to ‘where evil grows’? flawless. robotnik in his element. at his peak. because what is a villain without an iconic, self-indulgent dance scene. 👏👏

- really want to browse through the rest of his ‘tunes of anarchy’ playlist! can whoever’s managing sonic’s marketing or social media put together an official playlist on spotify? - i like that he still called his robots ‘badniks’.  - “of course i want a latte, I LOVE THE WAY YOU MAKE THEM!” because robotnik is incapable of delivering a genuinely heartfelt compliment, he has to default to being menacing and confrontational instead. (also he can’t allow his true feelings for stone to slip you know? conceal don’t feel)

- [while inspecting sonic’s quill] “omoshiroi...” (interesting). i know people want eggman to say fuck or snooping as usual i see, but me? i kinda wanna hear him randomly utter more japanese phrases.  - the visual gag where every time one of robotnik’s badniks would get destroyed by sonic or tom during the motorway chase scene, a smaller one would take its place? hilarious.  

- maddie and tom ripping on robotnik’s lazytown oc costume: “nice of you to swing by on your way to comic con!” “yeah, what are you wearing?” “it’s a flight suit my evil sportacus cosplay!” - “that was an illegal left, by the way!” [breaks every road safety law known to man] “you’re not allowed up there, it’s one of the seven wonders!” [blasts chunks of limestone out of a pyramid after shooting his ship’s laser gun at sonic]  because it’s only ever unacceptable/illegal if someone else is the perpetrator! - they seem to have omitted robotnik’s “you’re mine, hedgehog!” line that was used in some of the more recent trailers/tv spots, which i found mildly disappointing since he sounded very much like eggman in that moment. at least we managed to get a tease of his raspy eggman-esque voice cracking through during the final scene, though! 

- he’s been stranded on the mushroom planet with agent “stone” for 87 days according to his log.  - ROCKONNAISSANCE. [nasally eggman laughter] 

[strawbunniiee]

A Girl and a Ghost Ch. 3: The King’s Revenge

SOOOOO this is the part where the plot thickens :)

if anybody else wants me to tag them in these chapters so you know when they come out i will gladly do so andksnkfs

hope you enjoy! ive had tons of fun with writing these :D

dont mind me, just lettin my frendos know that this is a thing skfnkdjf

@salamifuposey @monsterbride99 aaAAA when i initially posted this i COMPLETELY forgot to do this a a a a a sorry

King Boo was furious.

How could that peasant, that foul impure abomination of a Boo do this to his beloved crown? It contained his power, it was so incredibly important to him...

And that filthy little purple haired brat! How could she so carelessly throw a rock at him like that?

He plopped his body down in a chair and marinated in his own rage for a few minutes.

After a few moments of enraged silence, he spoke.

"...I have got to get my revenge on those two. But... how will I do it?"

King Boo began to brainstorm a way to get the ghost Rabbid and his little idiot friend in hot water.

"Torture? No, no... one of them is a ghost. It wouldn't hurt him... Torture could be done with the little nuisance however. Perhaps a bit of childhood trauma will teach her not to mess with the wrong people." he thought aloud.

He spent almost fifteen whole minutes thinking of gruesome ways to get back at them, until it finally struck him.

"...Oooh, I know. I know exactly what to do now. It'll mostly affect that bloated rabbit, but I can still do some damage to his moronic pipsqueak pal."

He grinned maliciously and floated towards the doors of his manor.

"I'm about to open up some old wounds of yours, Tommy." he said to himself.

———

Meanwhile, Phantom was racing through the sky with Jawaii in his arms, panicking. He would never let King Boo lay his foul hands on her.

They were both absolutely dead silent the whole time until Jawaii opened her mouth.

"...Do you know that guy?"

Phantom halted for a moment and looked down at the young alien he held. "...Yes, I do, but I don't think I would like to go into detail at the moment. We have a very... rough history, I will say."

"Oh... I get it. It's okay, I won't pry. I understand." Jawaii said.

"Just remember that if King Boo ever tries to hurt us, I'll make sure he will regret it for the rest of his days." promised the Rabbid ghost. "I swear on it."

Phantom resumed his flight and soared down to the ground safely. He gently set her down in the grass.

"That was actually really fun! We should do that again sometime! ...without being scared off by an evil ghost, obviously. That would just make it less fun." said Jawaii.

"I'm glad you were entertained, I suppose... King Boo is quite intimidating. And rude." said Phantom.

Jawaii put her hands on her hips. "Well, yeah! I mean, he made fun of your weight! No friend of mine is getting made fun of like that!"

Phantom laughed a bit. "Oh, don't worry, I wasn't that harmed by that statement. I er, get that all the time."

She frowned. "Why do people tease you about that, that's dumb! Besides, I think you're perfect just the way you are!" She gave him a hug.

He hugged back and smiled. "Awww... thank you. I was born like this, I can't help it you see."

"You're a giant fluffy singing ghost bunny with a mustache, I have no idea how anybody could hate THAT! Cuz I don't."

"Oh, don't make me blush from all of these compliments!" said Phantom, smiling.

Jawaii jokingly grinned evilly. "Never. I'm gonna shower you in compliments 'til you DROWN!"

She cackled maniacally as she began relentlessly saying nice things about him with Phantom begging her to stop. Soon, it became a full-on flattery war to see who could out-compliment the other. They had a grand old time.

Eventually, the sun began to set.

"Oh yikes, I better get home. I had no idea we stayed out here for so long! Mom is probably having a heart attack as we speak!" said Jawaii.

Phantom was quite alarmed, his ears sprung up in worry and concern. "She's having a what?! Oh, poor child, I hope your mother is all right..."

She burst out laughing hysterically.

"Wh-what's so funny? I thought your mother was dying!"

"No, dummy! That was an exaggeration, I meant that she's probably WORRIED about me!" Jawaii continued giggling like a maniac.

"Ah. I see now... Thank you for correcting me!" Phantom joined in on the laughter.

They got themselves together after a moment.

"Oh yeah, mind if you could fly me over to my house..? We're kinda far away from home." said Jawaii.

"Of course!" Phantom replied happily.

Jawaii climbed on his back and the two flew home.

———

After flying back to town, Phantom gently set Jawaii down in front of her home.

"See you soon, my friend. I enjoyed showing you around Spooky Trails today!" said Phantom.

"Cya tomorrow Phantom! I had a good day today too!" She ran up to him and gave him one last hug.

She walked up to her door and waved goodbye to Phantom. He waved back.

"Moooom! I'm hoooome!"

Jawaii's stepmother Stella ran in.

"Oh, Jawaii! Thank goodness you're all right! I was so worried, where were you?"

"Sorry I came home late! But I spent today with a friend of mine."

Stella had a look of pleasant surprise on her face. "You made a friend? That's so wonderful! I know you haven't really ever had any friends, honey, I'm so happy to hear that you finally made one!" She smiled.

Jawaii grinned. "Yeah! I'll tell you allllll about him! He's the best."

They sat down at the dinner table with the food Stella made.

Jawaii dug into her mashed potatoes and ate it like a wild animal that had nothing to eat for the past 3 weeks.

"Honey, chew slowly. I don't want you choking!" said Stella.

"Sorry, Mom..." Jawaii said, frowning.

"It's okay. I don't want you in the hospital or anything, especially after you just made a new friend!"

"Oh, I've known him for a while, actually. We've been hanging out together a lot!" she smiled, her mouth still full of food.

"...Jawaii, sweetie, don't talk with food in your mouth.“

"Oh yeah! Sorry again Mom.."

"Anyways, that's why you've been out so much lately? I'm so happy for you, Jawaii!" Stella smiled.

Jawaii gulped down some water. "Yep! I'm glad I'm his friend too!"

They spent dinner talking about all of the fun adventures she and Phantom had gone on.

Jawaii however, conveniently left out any mention of them being in danger, she wouldn't want to worry her stepmother of course!

"Oh yeah! I meant to ask you this, but I got totally sidetracked but where's Dad? And where's Hakai?" asked Jawaii.

"Your father is out destroying planets again, and your sister is having a sleepover with some friends of hers." said Stella.

"Ohhhh. Wonder why Dad's out so late. Hope he's alright."

"I'm sure he's fine, hon."

Jawaii had another sister though, and her name was Roe. She went to a boarding school and wasn't home most of the time.

She stretched and yawned. "Hey Mom, I think I'm gonna hit the hay today."

Stella gave her a small look of surprise. "Oh! You are? Usually you're quite a night owl. Maybe you're just tired from all your little adventures with Phantom."

Jawaii smiled. "Yeah. Maybe. Anyways, g'night Mom! Love ya, don't let the bed bugs bite."

Stella gave Jawaii a hug. "Aww, good night sweetie. Love you too.”

Jawaii ran upstairs, changed into her nightgown, brushed her teeth and jumped into bed, quickly falling asleep after her long, tiring but fun day.

———

That same night, the Mushroom Kingdom was as quiet as ever when it was nighttime. The once colorful, cheerful inviting land was deathly silent, almost hauntingly so.

Princess Peach was safely tucked in her bed, sleeping peacefully.

But little did the sleeping princess know, this would not remain for long.

King Boo had finally made it to the castle after venturing there to exact his revenge. He knew how dearly Phantom loved Peach. Breaking them apart forever would be the ultimate punishment for stepping on his turf. He knew that either way, the plan would work. If Phantom didn't come to the manor, him and Peach would be separated forever. If he did, however, it would give the vengeful king the chance to trap him and Jawaii in his manor, to torture them and possibly even kill them somehow.

He knew he could kill Jawaii, that was no problem, but Phantom...? Could he possibly do it again? ...No, he's a ghost now. He can't be killed again. But the king knew that even if he couldn't die, he could still make him suffer for as long as he wanted. Possibly even for eternity.

He phased through the castle walls, not having any of the guards notice him. Then, he finally found her room. There Peach slept, defenseless, ready for the taking.

In the blink of an eye, he snatched her from her bed.

Peach immediately woke up and let out a shrill scream of horror, alerting the Toads guarding her door.

But it was too late. He had already burst out her window with her and was headed straight towards his mansion.

———

Tap, tap, tap.

Jawaii woke up very late that night to a tapping sound she heard at her window. She went over to it to find one of the Peek-A-Boos she had met in Spooky Trails, tapping away at her window.

"Hey... aren't you that kid who Phantom is friends with?"

Jawaii rubbed her eye and yawned. "Yeah. Why do you ask? And how are you at my house anyway?"

The Peek-A-Boo had a somber expression on his face. "Well... I have to tell you some... bad news."

Jawaii was horrified of what was about to come out of his mouth next. Did something terrible happen to Phantom?

"His love, Princess Peach was kidnapped by King Boo. And... Phantom is gone. He went off to go save her. Knowing King Boo, Phantom may not come back in one piece. ...The other Rabbids told me it was best to go tell you. That way, you would know where he is. You deserve to know..."

Jawaii was devastated. How could this happen?

She knew she had to save him. And if she couldn't save him... then she wouldn't let him suffer alone.

"...No. I'm not going to let this happen to him."

The Peek-A-Boo was taken aback in surprise by Jawaii's response. "...I dunno if you should go. You're only a kid. You could get seriously hu-"

"I don't care." said Jawaii.

She jumped into her closet and changed into her usual clothes, grabbed a lantern and ran out of the house and into the black, haunted forest that she met Phantom in.

[moonlit-imagines]

Headcanons for dating John Murphy

John Murphy x male!reader

warnings: knife/violence mentions

a/n:

prompt: anonymous: “Yay! I forgot to put my mushroom at the end of the ask asking if i could do two requests 😂, but for my first request I was wondering if you could do Headcanon on what itd be like for a Male Reader to date John Murphy? ~ 🍄”

first of all, murphy’s a bit protective and possessive

he’s already lost so much, he doesn’t wanna lose you either

“this is my goddamn boyfriend! if anyone touches him, me and them are gonna have a problem, do you understand?”

ride or die, babey

he’s always touching/holding onto you somewhere

arm, hood, hand, sleeve, shoulder, leg, whatever

murphy teases you all the time but if anyone else does they’re a dead man

he carved his and your initials into a tree

he carves his and your initials everywhere tbh

especially “date spots” where he takes you out to go sightseeing or just get away from all of the crazy

he also kisses you whenever he can

mainly discreetly, like cheek or neck or hand or shoulder

but sometimes murphy says “fuck it” and borderlines makeout session in front of everyone bc he doesn’t give a shit abt making ppl uncomfortable with pda

“you’re honestly perfect in every single way, y/n”

“and you’re getting soft, john murphy”

“cant help it, it’s your fault”

“it is? well i must be the worst then”

“oh, yeah. the worst. i don’t know how i even put up with you”

sarcast lil shit

aw but u love him all the same

murphy and you RARELY split up but oh boy, when you do it’s time for trouble

seriously you’re usually keeping him under control and when you cant it gets...worrisome

“i cant stay away from murphy for too long, guys”

“look, y/n, by now, he’s probably already committed a double homicide. let it go”

running into each other’s arms

sharing a tent

either one of you falls off the cot in the middle of the night and wakes up in the dirt

“murphy?”

“down here”

“oh, okay”

unspoken bond

tbh maybe you’d whittle a shitty comb out of a piece of wood in your free time and brush his hair out

he pretends he doesn’t like it but he’s always hinting he wants more

literally following each other to the ends of the earth

“will you stay with me?”

“that’s a dumb fucking question...yeah, i’ll always stay”

using murphy as a pillow

“y/n, you’re laying right on my bladder, i gotta piss”

“but im comfyyyyy”

going through a lot of scarring shit together but you guys lived to tell the tale and you lived it with each other so nice 👍

murphy always wipes your tears when you cry

“if you cry any more you’re gonna get dehydrated and die”

not always good at comfort but thats okay

after all the stressful shit youve gone through, you got a good 6 years in space without fighting for your life, you’ll always cherish that shit

sleeping in, doing semi-domestic shit, arguing over who’s turn it is to do a chore, dancing around to no music

“you really are the best boyfriend a guy could ask for”

“oh, well i already knew that”

“i’m sure you did, you cocky son of a bitch, now give me a kiss”

returning to the ground to find some unsavory occurrences

“ooooh boy, babe, can we go back to space now?”

“ask me again later”

squishing/poking his face

fighting side by side like a couple of badasses

flipping out when you got separated again bc like,,,,,he nearly died

“you asshole! i thought i was gonna lose you!”

“unfortunately for you, im still kicking it”

✨new planet, new you✨

only this one was kinda fucked

nvm mega fucked

but you’ve never met an obstacle that you and murphy couldn’t get past together

when he died for a moment, he changed his pov a bit, dragged you aside, and explained what happened

“im going to hell”

“huh?”

“y/n, i saw what’s in store for me and i cant die now, i cant handle what’s next, it’s fucking awful and i cant face it. i cant do it! i cant!”

having to calm him down once he gets overwhelmed by his thoughts

hushing him to sleep when hes upset

pretty much never leaving his side on this foreign planet bc you were afraid of what they may do to you or him

especially him, he kept himself latched onto you

but as all good things come to an end, so do that bad things

the reign of evil was over and the two of you were able to hunker down for a moment and take a much needed break, sometimes you wished you never left the ring

taglist: @alwaysananglophile // @cullens-stuff // @johnmurphyisbisexual //

[capricornus-rex]

Someone Left to Save (16 - End)

Cal Kestis x Reader

Requested by Anon

Summary: The Mantis crew arrives to the capital of Ulfin, in the planet of Pevera, under siege. They meet the local rebel cell spearheaded by the former Republic admiral, Jax Beneb, who seeks to destroy the Empire’s occupation that was aggressively imposed upon while exploiting the planet of its natural resources. A plan is devised to destroy the Imperial’s main base of operations—as well as their influence—in the planet; however, it was a do-or-die mission that you and Cal had gotten yourselves caught in.

A/N: AaAaaAhhHH It’s finally done! After all those weeks, it’s finished! :D Although the bad news is that it’ll be a while before my laptop could get fixed because 1) the brand of HDD I wanted sold out and 2) I asked for an SSD in advance as a Christmas present from my aunt in Florida and the said package will arrive by December to here in the Philippines. Perhaps by then I have the time and money to have it repaired. Until then, I’ll find my own way to publish the other stories.

Tags: Force-Sensitive! Reader, Inquisitor! Reader, Jedi! Reader, Fake Death, Jedi turned Inquisitor, Seduction to the Dark Side, Turn to the Dark Side, The Dark Side of the Force, Aftermath of Torture, Torture, Psychological Torture, Redemption Arc! Reader, Possible Redemption, Premonitions

Also in AO3

Chapters: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 | Previous: Part 15 | Masterlist

16 of 16

When it was safe, Cal carried you again and settled you on his bed in the ship. He checks you again for a pulse, a few thumps underneath your wrist gave him a wave of relief, the stim is probably doings its job in your body by now; he wipes off the sweat and grime off of your brow and proceeds to remove the duraplast armor—leaving you only in the gray suit.

Your eyelids flicker, struggling to open—your sight can only show you blurry shapes, colors, and the light of the room—you speak in grumbles and moans. Whenever you attempt to sit up—Cal would gently plant his hand behind your head, slipping it into the underside of your hair and supporting your neck, carefully coaxing you to lie down again.

"Rest easy, we're heading home," he shushed, but his words rendered as muffled, indistinct noises that eluded your ears.

Darkness takes over you again and your exhaustion brings you to a heavy slumber.

After what seemed like an eternity, your eyes shot open and a sharp gasp entered your lungs at the same time. You feel your back sinking into the soft mattress, the slightest movement made you sore, and you begin to register where you are right now. Your eyes pan left and then right—you never thought you'd find yourself sitting in this very bedroom again.

Just as you were attempting to sit up, Cal comes in with a tray full of food and immediately puts it to the nearest countertop before rushing to you.

"Hey, hey… easy now!"

He sits by your side, supports your back against one arm, and offers the other for you to hold on to. You groaned incoherently until you managed to form words.

"Everything kinda hurts…" you muttered.

"I know, I know," he hummed. "Can you move? Do you want to sit up?"

"I'm trying…"

When you finally sat up comfortably—thanks to the mountain of pillows behind your back—he fed you before giving you a small vial of medicine that Merrin personally concocted.

"Don't worry, I kept an eye on her. No poisonous mushrooms or animal parts,"

You stifled a chuckle, "I was hoping to get a taste of a Gorgara hair."

Your little joke warranted a chuckle out of Cal and you tilted your head back to let the liquid into the back of your throat. The laughter quickly melted away. You smacked your lips and tasted a hint of Jogan berries—you guessed Merrin put it there to mask the original taste, something that ought to be bitter and unpleasant.

Silence in the abode bedroom. There wasn't much to say—despite having a ton of things to talk about in your minds.

Eventually, you sighed and broke the silence, "You know, you really should've just left after I pushed you."

"And leave you there to die for real?"

"I would've survived anyway," you dismissed, your usual confidence lacking in your words.

"I don't think so. I wasn't going anywhere without you,"

You saw the sincerity in his eyes, piercing through the dimness of the room like sunlight to a shadowy room. There's no doubt—he meant what he said.

You looked away, turning your head to the wall of vines on the right; you didn't want to show Cal any tears, so you let them fall from your eyes instead of wiping them away. You didn't turn to him, not until you waited for the tears to dry; he read it as despondency and decided to leave—although he'd wanted a few more moments with you, he knew it's best to give you more time to yourself, to recover, especially now that you're back home in Bogano where it's safe and quiet.

Cal slowly reaches for you, about to touch your shoulder, but he slowly withdraws. You heard the shuffling noise that signaled him standing up from the stool by the bedside, then the footsteps—accompanied by the light clinking of his armor's buckles—and before silence could come next, you swallowed your pride and called to him.

"Cal, wait…"

He stops in his tracks, almost as if he was waiting for that moment.

"Yes?"

You take a deep breath, "Thank you… for saving my life."

He flashed a small, gentle, and kind smile.

"Rest now. I'll be here whenever you're ready, [Y/N]."

He disappears from the room, leaving you in the solace of the abode and its earthy smell wafting around—the scent intrudes your nostrils, flooding you with memories of home. Your heart aches again, but for a good reason somehow; for once, the breath you take felt like your lungs have been freed from a time of suffocation.

You melt into the sheets, patting the mattress and sinking your head into the pillow. You drift off to a comforting slumber, knowing and yet hoping that this is not a dream—it's real.

[the-impostor-among-us]

Chapter 19: darkness

Me, Devil, and Angel were all laying on the ground, shakily standing up. We all turned our helmet flashlights on. It looks like the three of us were trapped inside.

“Wolf! Can you hear me?” I heard Crown through our Radio system.

“Yeah, we’re okay.” I responded. I turned to check on the two Impostors. They were both catching their breath.

“Okay, we’re gonna try and get through the rubble blocking the entrance so we can get to you, but from the look of it it’s gonna be too heavy.” Crown explained.

I sighed. “I expected as much. I have an idea. The three of us will go and find the mineral, and then exit through a different passage.”

I heard some faint arguing before Cautions voice cut in.

“Okay, we’re gonna send you the info you’ll need, we’ve located a second entrance to the caves, so we’ll stay outside, so you can find your way back out, because you’ll have to head into unmapped territory now. Stay safe.” And with that, Caution’s voice cut out.

I looked over at the others, a shiver going down my spine. “Great, stuck with the traitors.” I grumbled.

Angel scoffed, looking away and stepping closer to Devil, who kept a neutral expression.

I pulled up a digital map on the tablet that was in my pack, holding it in front of me and beginning to venture into the caves.

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We had been walking through dark purple-gray caves for what felt liked years. A small glow caught my eye up ahead. With curiosity, I pushed forward. Soon enough, the passageway let us out into a giant cavern. We were in a field of bioluminescent mushrooms. They were all in shades of green and blue. Farther away we’re old abandoned structures, breaking down in front of us.

The three of us looked around in awe for a moment before Angel spoke up.

“This is probably a good place to take a break, maybe sleep. After all, there is no night or day down here.”

I sighed. They were right.

“Alright, yeah.” As we all sat down, setting up tents, I decided to take off my helmet.

The air was cold, but not as freezing and harsh as it was on the surface of the planet. There was slight moisture in the air, and overall, the oxygen content was a bit higher than average for Polus.

A quick scan of a mushroom with my tablet confirmed that they weren’t mushrooms at all, but strange organisms that were plant like, but also animal like, in nature.

I read the info aloud.

“Screamers, these organisms take the gases from the air, and nutrients from the surprisingly rich cave soil, and produce oxygen as well as water as waste products. When damaged, they let out a high pitched screeching sound, hence their name.”

I looked over to see Devil gently removing one from the ground. I tilted my head in confusion.

“Hey, I am still qualified to be in this suit, Biology is kinda my thing.” He explained.

“Yeah, but what are you gonna do with it?” I asked. Angel was sitting off to the side, watching in interest.

“Well, we’ve totally gotta see what it sounds like, right?” Devil said, pulling out a survival knife.

“No, we really don’t.” I sighed. I had to admit, I was slightly curious.

Devil gently brought the blade to the stem of the screamer, lightly cutting it.

Suddenly a high pitched noise was let out. I felt my body seize up. Pain rushed through me, from my ears down to my toes, and I felt an uncomfortable curling in my abdomen.

As soon as it came, it was gone, leaving me to collapse onto the ground, breathing heavily. Angel was watching in shock and glee, while Devil rushed over.

“Are you alright? What happened?” His voice was filled with concern as he helped me rest against the cavern wall.

“It hurt... not just this body but. Me. It hurt me.” I said, still in shock from the brutal attack on my body.

“Did you two not feel the pain?” They both shook their heads. I closed my eyes, leaning back.

“It must be that you’re an alien, we heard the noise but nothing happened.” Devil said.

I nodded, starting to gain some strength back. “We are not doing that again.” I said, firmly.

Devil nodded. I looked over to Angel, who was busy staring at the old structures in the distance.

“Angel? What’s up?” Devil asked.

“Well...” they seemed slightly scared. “You didn’t notice, you were focusing on Wolf. But after the screamer made that sound, I heard a rumbling in the distance, and saw some dust go up.”

We all looked over, hearing screamers go off in the distance. Fortunately they weren’t close enough to cause pain.

“I hate to say it, but... I don’t think we’re alone down here.”

End of chapter 19

Well that’s gonna do it for this chapter! Hope you enjoyed, even though you probably hate me for the cliffhanger.

[niyana-the-ambiguous-mobian]

Oooh boy, i remember announcing this prompt awhile ago and just had everyone immediately worried about it, only to not even write it right away. Dang that was a while ago. It's almost been a month jesus O-O.

I decided to post this without the ask attached so the whole story won’t be spoiled. But oh man did I have to rewrite this so many times, the concept was really interesting to the point it ended up being something completely different to the anonymous ask. But that’s writing for you. It’s also probably the longest fic I’ve written so far.

It kinda didn't feel like it had the "angsty" effect I wanted it to have when writing this, it's one of the reasons why it took so long to get this finished. I don't know, what do you guys think?

This is pretty much this is a What-if? fic that revolves around Robotnik when he manages to come back to earth.

Warnings: there's some mild swearing in this fic.

I'm a Survivor.

“My sanity still.....remains completely absol-....Oh would you just shut up over there!” Ivo laid on the top of a mushroom as held up his hand and clutched his fingers with the other.

“Oh Terry, could you please shut that brat up?” He turned his head over to a medium sized mushroom, next to it a smaller mushroom.

He raised his arms up in annoyance. “I don’t care that brat has a ear infection! He’s been crying for almost two hours now and it’s getting on my nerves!”

He let his arms drop at his side as he closed his eyes, the heat of the sun burning forehead and causing sweat to drip down his face.

For the past couple of weeks, the mad scientist had been wandering around aimlessly through the fungal jungle in search of resources for supplies and hopefully for a way back home.

He lifted his wrist to look at his daily log. “It’s now been 86 god forsaken days since that blue rat sent me to me to this place of the mushiest of rooms.” He moved on his side, propping his head on his hand. “But luckily, you’re the only one that’s keeping me sane agent Stone.”

Turning his head, he smiled fondly at the oddly craved stone lying right beside his head. “You know what it’s like here, no humans, no animals, no garbage trucks that purposely wake you up early in the morning to ‘get the garbage cans’ when they can easily do that in the morning!”

He sighed as he sat up, picked up the stone and held it out in front of him. “One day We’ll come back to that beautiful blue planet of ours and make all of them pay, those fools that mocked me, the entire military that found my inventions to be highly dangerous and tried to hide me away.”

He adjusts his hold on the stone as he rises up to stand, raising his fist in the air. “Oh but I will show them, I will make them pay and show to everyone what happens when you banish the most dangerous mastermind in the entire cosmos!”

He snapped his head at a nearby orange mushroom and gasped dramatically. "I am not being overdramatic Jerome! They obviously know what I'm capable of!"

He pauses as he continues staring at the non verbal fungus, letting out a growl as he made his way closer to it. "Oh you’re one to talk! I can see why Karen left you for Javier! You're always being so obnoxious!"

He glares at ‘Jerome’ for a few more seconds before letting out a huge yell, grabbing the stalk and ripping it out of the ground.

“MY WEIGHT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR REAL ESTATE! THAT WAS YOUR MISTAKE!”

He threw the mushroom and watched as it bounced against the surrounding fungi, disappearing from sight as it fell deeper into the jungle below.

Panting heavily, he turned and pick up agent Stone and cradled it close to his head. “See what I mean? This is what happens when people don’t use the full integrity of their brains? They end up like Jerome, falling into a endless pit of dispair and failures.

“I hope I did you proud Karen.” he murmurs as he walks stiffly by the two mushrooms, avoiding eye contact.

He looked down at his makeshift pack of ship debris, sitting on top was a broken clear tube, containing a thick, giant blue quill inside it.

He stared intently at the pile as his brain worked through his thoughts. He slowly grasp the tube and stares at its faint glow, still beating with the pure energy.

He smiles a crooked grin as he faces the sun setting on the horizon. "And I can't to finally spread what we have discovered to the world."

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Date log: 4@# days since banishment.

Sparks and sounds of zapping echoes throughout the vacant area as Robotnik put the finishing touches on his makeshift portal. He cleared his throat, hoarse from the dryness of the air as he sat back on his knees underneath his smelly, makeshift hut.

"Calibration is at 69.9 percent, dimensional vortex is stabilizing and water rations have officially run out." He drinks the last mouthful of water as he tosses the container away and continues to work on the machine.

"This is the day my young tablet friend, today is the day the world will scream my name with horror and praise! He looks over to the corner of the hut where "agent Stone" is, who was placed on cushion made of mushroom tops.

"Behold, to what is to be one of my greatest creation, a portal to another world." He backs up in awe as he looks at at the machine.

"I'll admit it's smaller than I would've like it be." The machine in question was a small circle shaped design and was only less than two meters in height and size, with the quill as the main power source, still flickering on the ground near it. "It's going to be a tight fit, but it's better than nothing."

He pauses and looks over to agent Stone, walking over slowly and picking it up. "There's one mishap in our success, Stone." He shifts the rock to the crook of his arm. "The portal only has enough energy to transfer only one form of solid mass to our destination....and it's a one way trip."

Even though he managed to get it operational, he soon found out that the power wasn't enough for it to be fully functional for travel hopping. "Unfortunately one of us is going to stay behind."

He glances down at the stone solemnly. "I know this is a tough decision, for the both of us. We've been through alot for these past...." he quickly checks his data log on his wrist. "Five hundred and......something days, now we have to part ways and tell our stories to those who will wonder what we were before this tragedy."

He dramatically puts his hand to his head, closes his eyes and sighs. A moment of silence passes before he peeks a eye at the stone in his arm and tilts his head.

"I literally just poured my heart and soul out to you in a matter of pure respect and the only thing you say in reply is how I managed to survive this whole ordeal with proper food or nutrients?"

"You're making it real hard for me to feel sorry for leaving you behind." His face then morphs into a look of anger. "What makes you think anyone will listen to you? No one here can actually hear you except for me!"

His arms start trembling as he shakes the stone back and forth. "You already know I had to burn my shoes each night for us to keep warm, eat parts of my flight suit, the fact that I need to look at these unshaven legs already disgusts me! Do you really like to mock my distress? You know what happens when you mock me!!!" He starts to squeeze his hands against the rock before droppping the stone completely on the ground, backing up and stares at his hands in shock. "I...*pant* I didn't want to do this, but I have no other choice."

He makes his way towards scraps of unused parts. Getting down on his knees, he starts to spark to wires together and holds them near a small patch of grass.

"No one can figure out what has happened here, it's too risky." He waved a hand over the small flame that ignited and added more grass to it. "I hope-...i know you will understand."

Flames start to climb from the grass to the fungal walls as smoke begins to fill the small space. He coughs as he turns on the machine and waits in anticipation as it hums to life and the blue vortex appears in front of him.

"I'll admit that was nice, having you around all this time. Helping making sure I always kept focus, words of encouragement and your killer chilli stew on Tuesdays." He laughs as the scent of the smoke makes his throat burn. He gets down in his stomach and backs his feet in first towards the opening, he turns his head towards Stone, still laying sideways on the ground.

"Make sure you keep listening to that rock-connaissance, Jerome is still out there looking for me and you'll need it when he comes back." He looks the stone one last time, crawling his whole body through into the vortex, with his hand reaching out to snatch the quill before he disappeared completely.

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The first thing he saw was brightness, due to the natural, obscure lighting of the mushroom planet, his eyes weren't adjusted to Earth's natural light. He felt his arms dangle above his head as he rapidly blinks his eyes and warps his head around. Even at the odd upside down angle, he managed to get his body through little by little.

Wiggling his body around, he eventually fell face first onto the ground as his legs plopped down after him. Letting out a pained groan, he rolled onto his back as he saw to vortex slowly close with a few vapors of smoke spilling out if it before closing completely. A loud, sharp bang echoes as it disappears, shaking the windows and triggering car alarms on street, causing a few of the people to cower and run from the scene.

Despite the brightness of the sun, all he felt was coldness on the side of his body, he could feel the roughness of it's texture, rocks? No, pavement. He groaned as he pulls himself up in a sitting position and looks around. He could see that he was in a open section between two buildings, trash cans and dumpsters took up the space and sidewalk near the leading towards an open road in front of him. An alleyway. He looks past the alley and sees large machines with wheels driving from the left of right. Cars

"Yes...YES!!! HAHAHA!!! IVO ROBOTNIK IS BACK TO RULE THE WORLD BABY!!! He danced around and spun in circles as he caught the attention of a few people walking past the opening, either walking away or stopping to film the crazed man.

He put his arm against the wall to regain his balance as he caught his breath. He checked his wristband and honed in on his current location, after a few painstaking seconds, he saw the text of where the portal had taken him.

Green Hills, Montana.

He felt his grin widen as he chuckled. "So we're back to the place of origin of the battlefield?" For months he always dreamed of getting revenge on those who dealt with him, memorizing their names and faces so he absolutely knew who to make suffer.

Tom....

Maddie....

Wade.....whiplash?

....Sonic......

"That hedgehog....if he's still here..." Walking slowly, he near the end of the alley, still ignoring the few random people filming him. "The energy from the portal gave off is likely to alert someone from the government or even the national guard. Once they come, it's a huge possibility that they could have me arrested due to all that collateral damage I managed to do in San Francisco....eh I'll just blame it on the govenor."

"Officer! Officer! He's right over here!" His head snapped towards the end of the road as he hears a woman yell and point in his direction, alerting two sheriff officers. “Ó, gāisǐ de” He quickly books it down the sidewalk and onto the clearing of the street. He ignores the pain of rocks and debris on his bare feet as he pushes past pedestrians walking on the side walk.

As he ran, he looks back to see how many are following him, causing him to bump into a small figure and crashed to the ground. A high pitched voice cried out in pain as he got back and swipe a quick glance at the person, he only caught a glismp of their abnormally pink hair as he continued to run.

One of the officers, who was tailing behind the others stopped and checked on the person on the ground, a small rabbit girl near her was helping her stand up. "Hey, you alright Amy?" She rubbed her head as she looks up at the officer. "Yeah, I'm alright Wade. Who the heck was the maniac?"

"I have a feeling I know who it could be. It's best if you go and take cover at the veterinary, this guy isn't a normal case we usually deal with." She nodded as she took the young girl's hand and ran the opposite direction as Wade continued after the others.

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"Hey you! Stop!" He kept pushing forward as he cut through the crowd, ignoring the weak, tired feeling in his legs. He changed tactics by running into traffic, nearly getting clipped by passing cars on both sides.

He banked left and ran into a parking lot, serpentining through the parked vehicles. 'My lab should be still around the area hidden in the woods, if I can get there...' The voices of the officer tailing behind him interrupted his thoughts, followed by sounds of sirens wailing in the distance.

'Oh great! Just what I need right now.' He continued to jog through the area until he got to a clearing leading a abandoned warehouse, a ravine flowing with water that leaded into the wooded area right behind the building.

He ducked through the entrance and climbed on top fallen pillars and broken machinery. Putting his hands on his knees, he panted heavy as he stood in the middle of the building.

He could hear the officers voices and their radios through the thin walls. "Geez this guy's fast! Someone radio in officer Wachowski! Tell him we need backup!"

He ran up one of the nearly broken steps to one of the main floors, peeking out the windows as more squad cars showed up. "Wachowski huh? Seems like he's still in charge of this sorry excuse for a police squad."

He reached into his pocket and pulled out the blue quill, gleaming with malice. “Well, he’ll be in for quite a shocker once he sees me again.” With that, he took off his wristband and started gathering metal scraps that littered the floor before running into the darkness of the stairwell.

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Choppers started to hover in the overcast sky around the area as news anchors arrived on the scene and police put up barricades to hold back curious citizens from getting to close while Wade was going over instructions to one of the deputies in the parking lot.

"Marlo, do we have the whole perimeter contained?"

"Yes sir, we have squadrons of three placed at each corner of the building in case he tries to run again."

"Good, any word from officer Wachowski?”

“We’ve been trying to radio him in, he hasn’t responded yet.”

“Well he’d better get to it, because knowing how this man is from experience, he won't stop at nothing."

"What do you mean from experience sir?"

"I took literal a shot at him the first time he came here, I missed but it was a pretty close shot."

"Officer Whipple!" Wade turned his head towards a young voice, looking to see a small, yellow figure running at him.

"Miles? What are you doing here?" A young yellow fox skidded to a stop in front of him, his double tails faltering behind him and pushed his goggles off his eyes as he caught his breath.

"You shouldn't be in this area right now, We just picked up that-"

"I know *pant* I was the one that *pant* sent that analysis in."

"You what? How’d you- Wait a second, all the schools are on lockdown, how'd you even get out?"

"Don't worry about that. I didn't set anything on fire this time."

He crossed his arms. "Do your folks know that you're out here?"

"Ehm, no. I just wanted to see if the analysis was accurate.....is it really him?"

He looked at the kit with a grim expression. "I'm afraid so kid." He saw the child's shoulders tense and fur ruffle on his back as he backed away and went on his handheld.

Before he could console him, another officer called him over from a nearby patrol car. "Hey! Make sure you stay behind the barriers ok?" He sees Tails nod in response as he leaves.

After looking to see that Wade wasn't watching him, he quickly ducked behind a vacant patrol car. Putting in a ear piece, he dialed the contact on his Miles Electric. After two rings, a low voice finally answers.

*Hi Tails. If you’re calling me about the reason why your show wasn't recorded from last night, it was Tom, he didn't want you to be upset about it since he knew it was the season finale and-*

"I'm calling you cause i-Hold on, it was Tom that did that?"

*Yeah...sorry bud. He didn't want to ruin your day.*

"Ok no, that's not why I'm calling. Haven't you heard what's been happening? I thought they were calling you into the field?"

*Yeah they still are, I'm in North Dakota right now.*

"Why the heck are you over there?

*Hey, it's my lunch break and I decided to see a different setting today. Oh I wanted to tell you, they're having this career expo over here during this weekend that I think you'd like to go to since you wanted to-*

"Ok Sonic, I'm gonna stop you right there. You’re not going to believe what I just found out. I-"

*I'm guessing you're calling me about that strange anomaly your scanner picked up earlier?*

"Yes, actually and i don't know why you sound so calm about something like this."

*Probably because everytime we do get something similar to it, it's just another person from our species from our home planet seeking sanctuary so they can live here safely. So I apologize if I'm getting somewhat numb to this.*

Tails huffed at the lazy tone in his voice. “Sonic I'm being serious! This isn't like the time I came here, or even when Knuckles or Amy came here. This is something stronger, like it came from a farther distance."

*I mean I don't think there's any other people that come from another planet that could travel here, not without rings that is.*

"That's the thing, they didn't have the same energy structure like the warp rings. The type of energy they used....are the same ones that your quills give off when you power up."

Tails could swear he heard a sharp intake of breath as he waited for a response. *....What do you mean.....that it matches my energy?*

He lets out a heavy sigh before speaking. "Sonic....he's back."

The silence followed was so deafening, he could hear his own heart pounding in his ears, not even the sounds of the radios or sound of the choppers whirling in the distance could break it. "Sonic, are you still-?"

*I'll be right there.* With a rushed voice, he hung up the call. Tails stared at the picture of call ended as he let out a breath. “Oh man.”

About 20 seconds later, he could see a thin trail of blue closing in and braced himself as a figure appeared near him before he could blink.

The hedgehog’s fur had a more scruffy, wind blown look around his head and torso, sports tape that was wrapped around his forearms, had on a black t-shirt with a gun holster vest, which was empty for a simply more stylish look, and brown belt around his waist that held a pouch and a visible walkie talkie.

His gloves had a black outline, with white coloring around his fingers and palms, black knee pads and wore puma running sneakers, still keeping the red and white color scheme. A single gold ring hung on a chain around his neck, moving side to side as he approached the fox.

Tails stood still as he watched his brother walk toward him, his face neutral and his movements calm. Sonic gave a slight smile as he came over, wrapping Tails in a loose one armed hug. “Hey man.”

He awkwardly pats his back in return. “Hi, did you change clothes on your way here?”

“Yeah.” His voice sounded monotone, as if he was keeping his emotions in check. “Have you heard anything from Tom?”

“Oh, I overheard Wade say that he’s on the other side of town helping with a house robbery report, I don’t know when he’ll be here.”

“Hmm-mmm.” He kept his back turned to him as he continued to stare towards the building. “What about Knux or Ames?”

“I was talking to Amy on my way here, she’s with Cream at Maddie's job and I think Knuckles is with Tom right now.”

“Ok.” Walking closer to him, he could see Sonic’s jaw tightening, a slight scowl on his face as he crossed his arms. ‘I’ve barely seen him like this, each time he acts like this, he seems like a different person.’

“S-Sonic?” He mentally cursed himself as his voice came out in a timid whimper.

“Yeah, what’s up?” He turned his head, his eyes soften, his intense presence almost gone in a instant.

“Um....Do you want any he-.”

“No.” He interrupts him with a sharp voice before clearing his voice and speaking again. “I know you want to back me up in there, but I can’t let you do that. Not for this one.”

“But...Why not for this one? What if he tries something that catches you off guard?”

“He won’t catch me off guard. I fought him before and I managed to get rid of hi-.”

“You don’t know that! I can at least back you up in there so you won't be alone." He could feel his heart race as his voice rose in pitch.

"Tails-."

"No! I'm not letting you go in there alone!" He yells right at him, his voice cracking slightly. Sonic flinches at the unexpected tone before taking the fox by the shoulders and leading him away to a more quiet spot, all the while avoiding the confused glances of the other officers.

"Ok, just take a breath." The cub obliged as Sonic kept a hand on his shoulder. "What's going on?"

"I...just think that it’s a bad idea for you to go in there alone."

"Tails listen to me, this guy is a serious deal. He almost managed to kill me when he first found out about me, he was the first ever person to keep up with me at my speed and he threatened the lives of Tom, Maddie and everyone in this town if I didn't go with him. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here right now."

"I don't want to lose you too, not to someone like him, not again.” His voice became quiet and closed his eyes, as if to hold back tears. Even without an full explanation, Sonic knew exactly what he was referring to.

The young kit had come to this world, looking for him in particular to help save their homeworld. Their efforts weren't enough as the enemy was much stronger than they anticipated and eventually lost the battle, including the planet, with pockets full of mobians coming into the town of Green Hills bit by bit in search of sanctuary.

During all of this, Tails ended up losing his parents in the chaos, turned into metallic slaves among the hordes of lost citizens who suffered the same fate.

Crouching down, he clasped his small hands in his as he spoke softly. “I know you're worried about this, trust me I am too." He gently lifts his head up so he could make full eye contact. "But after what happened here, after what happened to Mobius....I want to make sure I don't make that same mistake again, I don't want you to go through that again."

Tails held his gaze for a few seconds before nodding and wiping his eyes. "O-ok, I g-got it." Soni pulled him into a tight embrace, feeling relieved that he felt him return the hug.

His eyes lit up as a idea popped into his head, he patted Tails back as they pulled away. "Hey, does your Miles Electric still have that 25 foot signal radius?"

"Um yeah it still does, why?"

"I know how you can help me."

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*Can you hear me all right?*

“Loud and clear buddy, just waiting for the all clear from Wade."

*Copy that.* Tails watched from his spot on the roof of one of the surrounding houses, typing in data on his electric as Sonic neared the cleared entrance. ‘I’m not sure what I should be even feeling right now. I don’t feel scared but-.’ He gripped and ungripped his hands as he tapped his foot. He closed his eyes and breathed in and out. “It’s going to be fine.” His eyes snapped open as he heard his walkie go off on his belt.

*You're all clear officer Wachowski, we'll send in two squads after you go in. good luck in there.*

"10-4." He turned the walkie off and trudged into the warehouse. Stepping lightly, he glanced around at pillars and empty rooms, listening for any sound he could pick up.

He jumped slightly as a tiny voice activated in his ear. *Is everything going ok in there?*

He sighed annoyingly. “Yes, so far nothing's in view. Just make sure you watch for anything I can’t see, I need my full ears on this one."

*Oh ok, sorry.*

He cracked his neck and quickly stretched his arms and legs before zipping up to a visible steel bar. Thunder rumbled in the distance as he looked around at the endless rooms of scrap metal. 'Geez intense mood setting much?'

Using his speed, he glanced into each room and staircase as he searched for any sign of the doctor. He got to a inner stairwell as he noticed a footprint of a bare foot on the wet ground. 'Well either that's him or some barefoot hobos have been living here.' He speed to the top and stop near the entryway, perking his ears towards a slight clatter in the hallway.

He cautiously moved forward through the dimly lit hallway as he felt his heart beat in his ears. He lightly slapped his face as tried to control his breathing. 'Come on man get it together! You can't hear anything if you just hear your blood pressure going up.'

"Hello hedgehog." He yelped as he heard the all too familiar voice come from behind him, he jumped into a fighting pose while turning around, he saw nothing but continued to hear the voice. “I was expecting dear old Thomas to join me today, but I this is so much better.” Sonic heard a heavy object fall behind him and spun around to see a wooden pillar had fallen.

“Oh how I missed the look of you cowering in fear." He could hear the sneering in his voice as he continued down the hallway.

Sonic scoffed as he spoke loudly. "Says the guy hiding in the shadows like a damn coward."

"Oh such vulgar words for someone like your popularity, be careful it might ruin your image." He took off trying to follow the voice, it leading him up to the top floor and into a wide, open room.

*Any sign of him yet?*

He whispered as he walked into the room. “Not exactly, he’s doing some creepy, ghostbprojection thing with his voice and I followed it to the top floor. Just scan for anything that looks suspicious in here.”

*Got it.* He rubbed his arms as he shivered against the cool wind blowing through the broken walls and windows. He stood in the shadows as he heard water dripping from the broken pipes and the buildings structure moaning as the air got more humid from the oncoming storm, an assortment of wooden crates scattered around the entire room. 'Not much to hide behind up here, he's just running himself into a corner by doing that.'

"Looking for me?" He felt his spine chill as he looked in the far corner of the room. Sitting crisscrossed on top of one of the wooden crates was the mad doctor himself, giving him a predatory stare and crude grin.

"Yes, I am actually." He swallowed as his mouth felt suddenly dry, despite the moisture in the air. He reached behind his back as he continued to converse with him. "You look horrible."

Robotnik let out a low chuckle as he let his legs fall in front of him, banging hard against the side of the crate. "My apologies, it's been awhile since I've had a decent shower you see."

Sonic continued to stand in the shadows as he unclipped his walkie talkie and raised it to his mouth, stiffening as he saw the human raise his arm towards him, his gloved hand clenched in a fist. "That's a no-no."

Sonic let out a small grunt as he felt the walkie let out a few sparks in his hand before it fell to pieces onto the ground. ‘The heck?’

“Don’t want them ruining our fun now do we?” He jumped down from the crate and walked out of the shadows. The man had looked like he went through a typhoon, his skin had a bad sun kissed color and his flight suit was covered in dirt, grass and mud, his pants were split and tattered above his knees, the sleeve on his right side of his jacket was completely ripped off while his left hand was behind his back, he could faintly see it was covered in a grey-ish color, a faint blue glow could be seen between his fingers. ‘That explains why he was able to destroy the walkie like that, but what is he holding?’

His face was also covered in mud, mixed in with the stubble of a beard growing on his face. His once neat, brown mustache was now unkempt and sun bleached with hints of gray sprouting through, his teeth slightly yellowed and laced with plaque.

“Actually scratch that last comment, you look absolutely disgusting.” Sonic snarked as Robotnik simply shook his head.

“Yeah, the sight of me probably makes you absolutely nauseated. So then why aren’t you coming closer? Unless you’re afraid of a little halitosis?”

*I’ve got two spot located near you, one is 2 feet away, the other is about 3 feet.*

“Ok.”

“Well?” He flinched, upon realizing that he heard him respond to his ear piece, but not realizing that he wasn’t talking to him.

He started to sprint towards the man, getting halfway into the room when he felt one of his legs be pulled back and something thin wrap tightly around both of his ankles, causing him to fall on his hands and knees.

“Gah!” He let out a yelp of pain as he whipped his head towards his legs, finding that thin, metal wires that was leading into the floor boards was wrapped painfully around his ankles.

*Sonic? Sonic, what happened?*

He let out a few grunts as he tried to pull his legs out of the snare but it only made the wires even tighter, digging more into his fur. He tried to loosen the wire from the floor as he heard Robotnik footsteps coming near him. “For someone who runs at the speed of sound, I’m disappointed you didn’t know that was there.

“Well, it’s not like there’s any spotlights in here, if there was you’d be able to see how much you look like a gargoyle that had a bad, cheap spray tan.” He snickers at the poor joke, despite the situation he was in. ‘Oh god, I knew Tom’s jokes would be the end of me eventually.’

“Oh har hardy har, the boy’s got jokes up his sleeves. I have some jokes too, want to hear them?”

“Not really.” Ivo ignores him as he keeps talking.

“Ah here’s my favorite one! What did the hedgehog say to the doctor when he asked what was his condition?”

He remained quiet as he whipped his head towards him, glaring and keeping his hand on the wires, still trying to loosen it.

“Uncontrollable screaming.” Robotnik pressed his thumb to the side of his hand, causing electric shocks to travel from under the floor, up the wire and up the hedgehog’s legs and body.

Sonic immediately dropped his head to the floor, clenching his fists and curled up as he fought against the shocks. ‘Try to focus it....try to focus on it!’ He tried to channel the flow of the electricity currently coursing through him, but it was too much at once for him to handle.

*Sonic! Just hang on! I can see where the currents coming from. Aaand I got it!*

He felt the shocks stop as he limply fell to the side. “Oh damn cheap thing, it seems to have worked though, don’t want you to glow bright like a glow stick again. It’s all thanks that parting gift you gave me.” He opens his hand to reveal the blue quill, attached to some circuitry and connected to screen of his wrist log.

He felt a sudden cold hit his body as he stared at the very same quill that he used against him so long ago. "How do you still have that?"

"It's been with me the whole entire time, of course you didn't realize that when you were on that high shot of energy, with the blue eyes and everything. Maybe I will be able to use this new powers on the humans rather than you? I wonder if they'll be able to hold out as long as you have?"

He felt a snarl come onto his face as he felt his own energy pour out of his quills, his sight became sharper and his hands dug into the wood, scratching the floor. "Don't you even dare think about touching them-." His voice cut off as he felt the electricity activate again, this time more excruciating than the last. He suddenly felt himself getting weaker as the glow of his quills dimmed and his eyesight became blurry.

Robotnik, now closer, let out a noise of surprise as he looked at his screen. "Ay dios mio! I knew you had alot of power in you, but I didn't know you had this much!" Sonic laid on the floor, panting heavy as he heard Robotnik boast about his invention. 'Did..is he trying to drain my power from me?'

Ivo tilted his head to the side as he looked at the hedgehog flinching on the ground. “Hmm the only thing is that wasn’t so much as screaming as I would have hoped, more like tiny baby whimpers. Now, shall we try that agai-....what the?”

He suddenly felt one of his top quills being grabbed and pulled up until he was on his feet, causing the pain to increase in his legs. He grabbed onto the man’s arm in retaliation to let him go but had no effect on him.

“What happened to you?” He questioned, sounding audibly confused as he looks at Sonic. “Why do you look like this?”

He winced as Robotnik kept a firm grip on his ear. He answers with a hiss. “What? I like wearing shirts now, don’t judge me.” Through his broken goggles, he could see the man’s eyes widen as he felt him let go of the quill completely, quickly catching himself with his arms.

He backed up and paced back and forth, muttering to himself. “No,no no no that’s not it. I immediately knew it was you despite your voice sounding different, but your appearance...” He looked back at him with his hand on his chin. “You wouldn’t change this much in just a year.”

Sonic froze, repeating that statement in his mind. 'A year...?’

*Did I just hear him correctly? He just said a year right?* “Yeah, Yeah he did.” Not even realizing he was talking out loud at this point, he sat back on his knees, minding his still trapped legs.

“Why are you referring to yourself in the 3rd person? It doesn’t work that well for everyone like it does for me.”

“Wha-no, you just said it’s been a year since you’ve been gone?

“A year and 6 months actually, that’s interesting how your species apparently hit puberty at a certain rate like that. You look almost completely different.”

Then it hit him, even though he looked disheveled, Robotnik still looked like the same man he fought all those years ago. Just more crazier. “What year do you think it is?”

He was visibly caught off guard by the question, crossing his arms he answered smugly. “It’s the year 2019 of course, don’t know why you need clarification on that.”

“You think it’s been almost two years since you left earth?”

“I know it’s been almost two years and I wouldn’t say “left” earth, forcibly evicted is the word I would use for that statement.”

“Dude....it’s been 10 years, it's currently the year 2029." Silence filled the room as Sonic saw Robotnik flinch as they continued to stare at each other, he went to say something but his voice got caught in his throat as his face morphed into a frown. "That's impossible."

Sonic let out a unintended laugh at the denial. "Impossible? It's been that long here."

"No it hasn't, my calculations might be off by a few months if anything. But it hasn't been a bloody decade."

"You literally just said I looked completely different! I was a teen when you last saw me, I'm in my 20’s now. Heck even the town is different!”

"You can’t possibly be that old now! Your genetics wouldn't show that kind of quick progress."

"Just because I'm a different species doesn't mean I don't age differently than humans."

"How dare you talk like what I’m saying doesn’t make any sense! I know what I’m talking about!”

"Do you? Cause it sounds like what you're saying doesn't even make sense to you!"

“And who’s fault is that!?!” Ivo’s voice rose in volume, making Sonic flinch back at his voice.

“Huh?”

“The reason why I’m like this now is because of you! My entire life was ruined when you banished me to that hellish planet! My mind slowly went mad as each month passed And what do I find when I finally make it back? That a damn decade has past all because you just wouldn’t let me experiment on you!!”

‘I..is he serious?’ He sat there flabbergasted as Robotnik unloaded his inner emotions. “You tracked me and Tom down across so all you could do was perform tests on me like a animal! Why the hell would I go with you after knowing that?”

“It’s better than throwing someone to a inhabited planet with no way to home!”

“You choose that path! It’s your fault that you ended up there! Don’t blame me for doing something that could be so obviously wrong, even to the so called ‘smartest guy on the planet’ and think you deserve better!”

"SILENCE!!" He pressed the side of his hand again, the metal around his hand making a slight crackling sound as Sonic felt the electricity activate once again.

Sonic screamed out and writhed in pain on the floor as he felt energy being drained from all over his body. *Son-ic? Bzzzzt, So-nic!?..bzzzt.* he could hear the signal cut off as the device got shorted out.

Panting hard, Ivo looked at the hedgehog crying out in pain on the floor, feeling no sense of joy, pleasure or anything that he usually would feel when torturing people. He backed away slowly, his mind started to race. 'A full decade? Could that really true? What has happened here when I was gone? Do they all think I'm missing? Do they all think I'm dead? Agent Stone, does agent Stone believe I'm...?'

"POLICE! GET DOWN ON THE GROUND! PUT YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM!" He turned towards the sound of several officers barging into the room, guns drawn directly at him. Two of the officers leading in the front caught his eye, the one he remembered from his last day on earth, nearly hitting him with a single bullet in his air mobile. The other officer in the front he immediately recognized, the man's face was in a scowl as he locked eyes with him with such fierce intensity, before the sound of the hedgehog's screaming caught his attention.

"Sonic?!" He went closer to the body and reached out his hand before recoiling it back in pain at the sharp shocks. He growled as he got up and cocked his gun. "Turn the machine off."

He glances down at his hand and answers him bluntly. "I can't do that Thomas."

"The hell you can't, turn it off now!"

"I mean that I actually can't, I broke the device in hand in my fit of rage." He shrugged his shoulders as his ears picked up more footsteps coming up the stairs.

"What's going- oh no!" He could see a yellow figure run behind the officers and kneels on the ground near the hedgehog, who had stopped screaming and was curled up in a loose ball, still flinching. "Hold on, just hold on Onii-chan." He assured him as he got out a small handheld device and pointed it towards the wires, managing to turn off the currents and started to remove them.

He could hear the cops voice blur out as he watched the small creature work on his tablet, noticing two tails twitching anxiously behind him. 'There's another one like him here? How many more could there be here?'

"This is your last warning! Get down on the ground now!" He ignores their orders as he looks around at the open walls in the room. "No, don't even think about it!"

"Oh I'm thinking about it I'm afraid." With that he sprinted out the nearest open wall, ducking his head as he heard several loud bangs and feels a sharp pain in his leg. He jumps out through the wall, flailing his arms as he fell at the height of the building and fell into the water of the ravine. he heard several shouts coming from the parking lot as he let himself float downriver into the cover of the trees in the woods, still clutching the quill tightly in his hand.

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"Follow where that ravine goes! I want the town placed on a full lockdown! Make sure he doesn't get out of the tristate area and if you find him, be careful and bring him in alive." The others nodded as they ran out of the room.

"Wade!" His friend stopped in his tracks as Tom made his way over. "Make sure you take Knuckles with you and fill him in, you'll need the extra muscle with this one."

"Got it." He raced down the steps while Tom ran towards Sonic and Tails, who had managed to get rid of the snares on his legs while Sonic laid in and out of consciousness.

He got down on his knees and held Sonic's head in his lap, hearing him let out a sluggish moan while Tails scanned his body. "Is he ok Tails?" The cub didn't answer as he scanned over his brother's wrist, monitoring his heart rate. He breathed out a sigh of relief and wiped his eyes.

“His heart rate is normal, i don’t think anything’s broken, he did suffered some burns around parts of his legs from the snare traps. It could be 1st degree but we should have Maddie look at him just to be safe."

"Yeah that's a good idea." He radioed for a ambulance to arrive as he gathered Sonic in his arms bridal style. "It's gonna be okay son."

He went to head towards the stairs but saw that Tails had wandered away, looking where Robotnik had made his escape. "Tails?"

He continued to look where he had fled, looking at the ravine to the trees and shrubs where it disappeared into the woods.

He rubbed his arms as he looked down at the ground before looking at his guardian. "I'm really worried about this."

Tom adjusted Sonic in his arms as Tails walks over to him. "Yeah, I know and I don't blame you."

He shook his head as he came closer. "I mean that I'm worried about who this guy is. I remember all about the crazy stories you guys told me about him, from when he was hunting Sonic to when the government told you about him, but he managed to live on that barren planet filled with nothing but mushrooms for so long. He managed survive all of that."

Tom sighed as they made their way down the stairs. "This isn't a normal man that we're dealing with, he's....something that could be dangerous even to himself if he had the chance.”

"Sonic told me something like that earlier before he went in, It made me even more worried after he told me about why I couldn't go in with him. When I heard him screaming like that and I wasn't able to pick up anything on the electric, I just.....froze, I didn't know what to do until I saw you pull up."

"Well it's a good thing you're a pretty fast flyer and have a very high piercing voice." He joked lightly as they made their way out the building and heard the ambulance sirens in the distance.

"Since he's still out there, there's no telling what's going to happen now that he know about not only Sonic still being here, but also me and any other mobians that live here?"

Tom ponders as he looks at Sonic's sleeping face to Tails' bright blue eyes staring at him.

"I don't know what will happen, but I will promise you this." He gets on one knee, being mindful of Sonic's injured legs. "Not only I, but Maddie, Wade, the whole town, even Crazy Carl will do everything within our power to make sure that all of you guys are safe. It's why you all came here, so we will make sure you stay here."

He smiled brightly and nodded his head at him as he felt his tails wag behind him. Tom winked as he saw the ambulance pull up and carefully jogged towards it.

Tails fiddled with his gloves as he looked around at the civilians, both human and mobian gathered near the barriers to see what was happening. He made his way over toward the ambulance, his fur chilled and damp from the misty rain.

“At this point, this new adventure that has emerged is plauged with so much uncertainty for all of us. But I know that somehow, we will fight through and win this one. Just like my people who escaped the tyranny of our world, just like my new friends and family. Cream, Amy, Knuckles and Sonic, even just like Robotnik. I am a survivor, we are all survivors and I will make sure that our future will no longer be in vain to this new world.”