Opening/Deliver Us (Version 2)

*The Prince of Egypt Parodies*presents

*The Prince of Egypt (Sonic version)*

Many thousands of years ago, before Christianity existed, before Columbus discovered the Americas, and before the British Empire, there was royalty in Ancient Egypt. Back when the Pharaohs ruled, a race of religious Mobians known as the Hebrews were enslaved by the royals, robots alike. In the desert on a boiling day, thousands of slaves were pulling the head of a statue of the current Pharaoh while slave drivers whipped them to make them work faster.

Slaves: *Mud!*
*Sand!*
*Water!*
*Straw!*
Faster!

Other slaves were mixing sand, straw, and water into mud with their feet to create bricks for the monuments they were forced to build while others dumped sand, water, and straw in the mixing areas, and the water landed hard on some of the slaves, making them fall in the mud and the slave drivers whipped them. Many other slaves placed the brick mixture in molds to make the bricks while the others carried a load of them to where the monuments were being built and many other slaves dug through the sands with pickaxes.

Slaves: *Mud!*
And lift!
*Sand!*
And pull!
*Water!*
And raise up!
*Straw!*

The slaves near the Nile pulled large vats of water from the river and others lifted the bricks up to the other slaves building the monuments. Some slaves threw straw in the mixing areas, and a robot chicken named Scratch roared as he whipped a slave, "Faster!" As the slaves worked, they sang out loud and Sir Ffuzzy Logik whipped Mighty the Armadillo, who was nearly exhausted from carrying a load on his shoulders, on the back.

Slaves: *From the sting of the whip on my shoulder*
*With the salt of my sweat on my brow*
*Elohim, God on high*
*Can you hear your people cry?*
*Help us now*
*This dark hour*

Throughout Egypt, the slaves worked harder and harder to get through their work and the 'camera' zoomed out to get a larger glimpse of Egypt, and we see slaves carrying heavy stacks on their backs while many others mounted a monument of the Pharaoh. An anthropomorphic albatross known as Storm the Albatross collapsed on the ground, exhausted, and reached his hand for help before he could die from exhaustion, and an anthropomorphic hedgehog, Shadow the Hedgehog grabbed his hand and helped him up. He comforted the albatross until Dragonbreath came over and shoved the two slaves to make them get back to work and kept a close eye on the rest of the slaves.

Slaves: *Deliver us*
*Hear our call*
*Deliver us*
*Lord of all, remember us here in this burning sand*
*Deliver us*
*There's a land you promised us*
*Deliver us to the promised land!*

At a Hebrew village outside the city, guards were swarming around the streets. The Pharaoh feared that one day, the Hebrew population would rise against him, so he ordered his guards to rid the Hebrews of newborn baby boys, only to spare the girls. From one of the homes, there lived an anthropomorphic, quill-less female hedgehog with peach skin and dark purple hair, as well as thistle pink fur and black eyes, wearing a turquoise long-sleeved, loose dress, and a long, lavender headscarf. She was also holding something close to her scarf. Her name was Queen Aleena.

In the hut with her were two young hedgehog children. One of the hedgehog children was an anthropomorphic 6-year-old female hedgehog with fuchsia pink fur, pink hair in a style of curly spikes and a full fringes, peach skin, and black eyes like her mother, wearing a red short-sleeved, loose dress, and a purple sarong. Her name was Sonia the Hedgehog, Aleena's daughter.

The other hedgehog child was an anthropomorphic 6-year-old male hedgehog with peach skin, green fur, black eyes, and shaggy green quills, wearing a white long-sleeved, loose tunic and a red sleeveless, buttonless overcoat. His name was Manic the Hedgehog, one of Aleena's sons and Sonia's twin brother.

As Aleena watched the guards ran through the streets, she sang in Hebrew as she held the bundle protectively.

Aleena: *Yal-di ha-tov veh ha-rach.*
*Al ti-ra vel al tif-chad.*

She pulled her scarf back, revealing a baby hedgehog with blue fur, blue quills, green eyes, and the same peach skin and black nose as his mother and siblings. The second one was a baby echidna with red fur, red dreadlocks, purple eyes, and the same peach skin as his brother and step-family. The third and last one was a baby fox with yellow fur, a white muzzle, chest, and tips of his two tails. She sang to the babies as she wrapped a blanket from their cradles around them to keep them warm.

Aleena: *My sons, I have nothing I can give*
*But this chance that you may live*
*I pray we'll meet again*
*If 'He' will deliver us*

Aleena and her children heard screams coming from the outside and watched out the window as the guards searched through the village, stormed into the Hebrew homes, took away and killed every baby boy they can find. Coconuts shoved Vanilla the Rabbit out of his way and came over to where her newborn son was and took him away, and he left the house as Vanilla cried over the loss of her child. Aleena and her children snuck out of the house while she hid her three newborn boys in her arms, and Sonia carried and hand-woven basket in her arms.

Slaves: *Deliver us*
*Hear our prayer*
*Deliver us*
*From despair, these years of slavery grew too cruel to stand*
*Deliver us*
*There's a land you promised us*
*Deliver us, out of bondage and...*
*Deliver us to the promised land!*

When the coast was clear, the hedgehog family ran through the streets to find a way out of the village. They came to a stop, and Aleena pulled Manic over to her when they saw more soldiers running above the streets. When they were gone, the family kept running through the streets until they were out of the village. They ran across a small part of the desert to the Nile and hid in the oasis to make sure they weren't seen.

They hid deeper in the reeds until they got to the shore. As Sonia set the basket near the water, the three babies started to cry, and Aleena comforted them. She sang to them softly as she placed him in the basket.

Aleena: *Hush now, my babies*
*Be still love, don't cry*
*Sleep as you're rocked by the stream*
*Sleep and remember my last lullaby*
*So I'll be with when you dream*

The baby hedgehog, the baby echidna, and the baby fox moved around in the blanket and got their arms free and the baby hedgehog gripped Aleena's finger gently and started drifting to sleep. Aleena leaned down to kiss her baby son and her baby step-sons on the head sand closed the basket as the three babies yawned and fell asleep. Once her son and step-sons were safely inside, Aleena went into the water and placed the basket down on it and sent it drifting down the river.

Aleena: *River, oh river*
*Flow gently for me*
*Such precious cargo you bear*
*Do you know somewhere he can be free?*
*River deliver him there...*

As Aleena finished her song, tears of sadness flowed down her cheek, saddened at giving up her beloved child. Sonia followed the basket down the river through the reeds to make sure nothing happened while her baby brother was in there. The basket drifted down the river while some monkeys, sitting on a branch watched the basket drift past them. A bunch of fish jumped out of the water and birds flew over it.

Suddenly, a giant Nile crocodile jumped out of the water and a bunch of hippos came out of the water and started fighting each other while making the basket jump over them. Sonia kept up with the basket and gasped as she saw it drift near the fishing boats. The fishermen pulled the net full of fish up while the basket fell out of the net and back in the water and drifted through the other boats. Sonia ran into the river, but she stopped and watched as the people in the people in the boats row their paddles and the basket drifted through the strokes and she gasped when she saw the basket heading towards a boat.

Then the boat came past the basket, and the waves it made caused the basket to drift towards the palace. The basket went through the curtains and herons flew out of the water to move out of the way and it drifted to the land.

At the steps of the water gardens, there was a tall, slender, and beautiful woman with fair skin, long, curly, black hair, green eyes, and red lips, wearing a royal white sleeveless Egyptian dress, gold wristbands, matching armbands Egyptian make-up on her face, and small, golden sandals. She was also standing in the shallows. Her name was Mother Gothel, the queen of Egypt.

In her arms was a young male hedgehog — one two years older than Sonia and Manic - was an 8-year-old male hedgehog with green fur, peach skin, green quills, a black nose, and blue eyes, wearing white gloves and a matching kilt with orange lines. His name was Scourge the Hedgehog, Gothel's son.

Scourge was reaching out to a water lily floating in the water. Gothel picked up the lily and gave it to the little hedgehog, and he started pulling off the petals in curiosity. She looked down and saw the basket floating towards her. She put her son down on dry land and leaned down to look inside the basket. Sonia gasped, believing her brother and step-brothers would be killed if the royal members found them.

Gothel opened the basket and gasped in surprise at seeing the baby hedgehog, the baby echidna, and the baby fox wake up from their nap. They smiled at the queen and she gave them a soft and gentle smile. Sonia sighed in relief and smiled at the sweet happy moment. She sang as she watched Gothel take the baby hedgehog, the baby echidna, and the baby fox out of the basket and hold him gently.

Sonia: *Brothers, you're safe now*
*And safe may you stay*
*For I have a prayer just for you*
*Grow, baby brothers*
*Come back someday*
*Come and deliver us, too*

She watched happily as Gothel held the babies in her arms and the three babies tugged her hair with curiosity and interest, and Gothel kissed them on their heads and held them close. She had taken an immediate love for the three babies and decide to adopt them as her own. Sonia gave her baby brother and her two step-brothers one glance and left to go find Aleena and Manic to tell them the three babies were safe.

Gothel came onto the dry land and came over to the servant women, who were looking over the baby hedgehog, the baby echidna, and the baby fox and they looked at the three Mobian babies with shocked looks and disapproval as the babies cooed happily at their new adoptive mother. The girls looked at the babies, but Gothel glared at them and they looked away. Scourge held his arms up to her and tugged on the queen's skirt, wondering what she found. Scourge said to her, "Mother..."

Gothel looked at her firstborn son and his youngest brother and smiled as they walked, "Come, Scourge. We will show Pharaoh your three new baby brothers..."

She finished as the baby hedgehog, the baby echidna, and the baby fox cooed and she gently touched their noses, "Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails." The queen, the baby hedgehog, the baby echidna, the baby fox, the servants, and the hedgehog child made their way to the palace to show the Pharaoh his three new adopted sons while the Hebrew Mobians worked in their slavery day and night and sang out loud.

Slaves: *Deliver us*
*Send a shepherd to shepherd us*
*And deliver us to the promised land*
*Deliver us to the promised land!*

The song started to coming to an end as we get a glimpse of the rest of Egypt and the Hebrew village as the sun began to set.

The scene ended, and Aleena's voice was heard, finishing the song.

Aleena: ***Deliver us!***