Downfall of the Hedgehog

## Premise

Sonic is lost during a fierce kung fu battle - and the desperate Daniel, along with Esther and a replacement droid, R3-S6, must find him before the empire and the arcayans discover the military from the kung fu warriors. And steal Sonic's super powers.

## Synopsis

Because Master Boar has been ambushing Kung fu-fleets, Storming Ox advises that Daniel take his fleet out of the Bothawui reserve and regroup, but Daniel has a plan to defeat Boar. But Sonic would like to join the battle but Daniel does not let his hedgehog brother join the battle. Sonic reassures Daniel so much that he lets Sonic join but only if he stays in his presence.At that moment, Boar' fleet is advancing on his. Daniel leads Gold Squadron in a frontal assault, informing his forces to wait for the right moment as Boar' fleet advances through the forest. This gives Rex and his brigade of AT-TEs behind the trees a chance to ambush the Empire frigates from behind.

Finding his arkeyan droid commander too incompetent to figure out where to retreat to, Boar flees the ship on his personal starfighter. Daniel and Sonic pursue him until a piece of shrapnel embedded in the fighter causes it to careen off course. Daniel later wakes up aboard the Resolute, learning that he was salvaged from his fighter; Sonic was not. However, he informs the Group that Sonic is gone and that they must look for him. Storming Ox sees no reason to find Sonic but Daniel tells the masters that Sonic has great powers and that the Robot King has been hunting for those powersever since the battle for the Jedi Palace Which would be a severe liability should the Super speed fall into Arkeyan hands. Daniel heads a salvage operation to find Sonic, but Esther shows him the robot cold R3-S6, who has better skills than Sonic, calling him Goldie. As they search the debris field, they spot a freighter and dock with it. The komodo dragon captain, Gha Nachkt, claims there is no blue hedgehog on board but allows them to search anyway. Daniel hears Sonic shouts his name and begins to slice through the door that he thinks he heard it in. But Goldie accidentally activates two IG-86 units instead of opening the door. The two Masters manage to slice the droids in pieces as Daniel gets through the door, only to find Gha, who is angry that his droids were destroyed. Esther concludes that Sonic is not on board and they leave. But unfortunately, Gha had the little hedgehog locked in a crate with a restraining bolt on and contacts Arkeyan Conquertron, informing him that the hedgehog is of great strategic value. Sonic later escapes while Gha is sleeping, flushing one of his IG units out of the airlock, only to be discovered by the komodo dragon.

Figuring that Conquertron has a listening post somewhere, Daniel decides to go scouting, but Esther sends along R3, saying they could bond. R3 instead accidentally turns on the tracking device, alerting Conquertron to his position. R3 only makes things go from bad to worse, detaching Daniel's fighter from its hyperspace transport ring, not cutting the engines when he is told to, and disabling the blaster cannons. He is luckily saved by Esther, Elida, Olivia and Rex in the Twilight. Conquertron, frustrated with Daniel's escape, beheads a Arkeyan droid in rage. Daniel chastises the incompetent droid over nearly getting him killed and hopes that Sonic is still out there.