The Plot to Sonic Speed 2

**Prologue: The Story So Far**
A while ago, an evil man named Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik attempted to take over the world using the powers of the 7 Chaos Emeralds. However, not only did he fail, he ended up indirectly creating his downfall. His deeds brought together three heroes who took him down. Sonic, a superfast blue hedgehog. Tails, a super smart twin-tailed fox, and Knuckles, a super strong Echidna and protector of the Emeralds. Together, they defeated Eggman, and for a short while, peace returned to the world. However, all good things must come to an end, and Robotnik has new plans up his sleeves...

**Chapter 1: Trouble in Mobius**
The game opens with Sonic sleeping underneath a tree, with his pet bird Flicky napping alongside him. A note floats down onto his nose, which causes him to sneeze and wake up startled. Reading the note, it's a letter from Tails telling him to meet him at his house to see a cool invention he's been working on. Excited, Sonic hops up and revs himself up with a spin dash, then speeds on over to Tails place.

After arriving, Tails shows him his latest invention: a modified version of the E-103 Gamma suit Flicky was trapped in by Robotnik, which is now made so that Flicky has full control over it. Both Sonic and Flicky are excited to try it out, but before they can load Flicky in, Knuckles bursts through the door. Turns out, the village is under attack by badniks! Without a second thought, Sonic tells Flicky to wait here as he, Tails, and Knuckles rush to the village. Flicky is sad to see Sonic go, but then his glaze directs to the Gamma suit...

The three arrive at the village to see it being ransacked by Badniks, who look like they're searching for something. Two villagers in particular are fighting them off pretty well. Sonic and the others help them out, and the two villagers thank them. They introduce themselves as Amy Rose and Mighty, but before they can continue, more Badniks come their way. Tails realizes that they're probably here looking for the Chaos Emerald, so the crew, along with Amy and Mighty tagging along, go off to Sonic's house to grab the emerald before they do.

When they arrive at Sonic's house, it's too late: a strange, blue robot who looks like Sonic has completely destroyed his house and has taken the emerald. Sonic demands that the doppleganger drop the emerald. The metal counterpart says nothing, and instead sends out a giant rusty-looking mech to attack them. Before it can attack, however, the crew are saved by Flicky, piloting the E-103 Gamma mech. The six of them prepare to battle the giant Badnik.

They manage to destroy the Badnik, and the metal Sonic robot clutches his hand in anger and decides it's best to just leave and go find the next emerald. As he flies away, the group come together to discuss what just happened. They also explain Flicky and Gamma to Amy and Mighty. They realize that the metal Sonic guy is after the Chaos Emeralds, and decide that its time for another adventure. And so, with three new companions, the group take off after Metal Sonic to stop him from gathering all 7 Emeralds.

**Chapter 2: Wait, We Have Ruins?**
The crew follow Metal Sonic to some ancient ruins of some sort of civilization. Sonic had no clue this place even exited, and Knuckles explained quickly that, a long time ago, Echidnas lived here until a horrible monster wipped them all out. Tails notes that Metal brought backup and the ruins are swarming with Badniks. Mighty just says that it makes it more fun, and leaps out of the bush they were hiding in to bash some robots. Amy sighs and comments that he's always like this as the rest join him.

They make their way into a giant pyramid thing, inside of it a Chaos Emerald. Before they can grab it, Metal Sonic finds them and, speaking for the first time, demands they stand aside. Instead of doing so, Sonic just tells his copycat to go steal someone else's identity. Enraged, he demands that Sonic never compare himself to him ever again, and rockets towards the blue hedgehog, ready to wipe the smug grin right off of his face.

The gang manage to bang up Metal Sonic pretty good, and Tails even manages to swipe the Emerald from earlier away from him. Now really pissed off but understanding they he's outmatched, he swears they haven't won yet and makes a swift getaway. Sonic is worried about where Metal is gonna go next, but Tails tells him not to worry about that right now. The best course of action is to take the fight to Robotnick himself. He informs the group that Eggman apparently built himself a Chemical Plant base, and the crew head over to it.

**Chapter 3: The Mastermind Revealed**
As the crew arrive to Eggman's Chemical Plant, they decide the best course of action would be to split up into teams of three: Sonic, Knuckles, and Amy go through a robot factory section to free some animals, while Omega and Mighty went with Tails to shut down the security. The plan mostly goes without a hitch, save for Knuckles accidentally alerting Eggman of their presence, and they all meet back up for the final stretch.

Bursting into Eggman's main office, the mad scientist demands to know why these rodents are in his base, then figures that they somehow found out that he had a chaos emerald. Before they can correct him, Eggman sends out his newest invention: a giant mech (that resembles the Death Egg Robot) called the Egg Scrambler. The mecha manages to knock Sonic out a window and into an arena, which Eggman admits he had built to test out robots, and the two prepare to fight each other once again.

Sonic manages to defeat the Egg Scrambler and demands that Eggman give him the Emerald and call off the robot army attacking Mobius. Eggman reluctantly gives Sonic the Emerald but tells him the robot situation is out of his control. He explains that he was creating a robotic copy of Sonic, one that could harness the power of the negative energy inside the Chaos Emeralds. After it got a taste of the Negative Energy, however, it rebelled against Eggman, stole an army of robots, and set out to find the rest.

He states that if the crew really want to take care of Metal Sonic, they should find the Emeralds before Metal does. Eggman then hands the crew a map of the Emeralds and says he'll stay out of their way for now. He then tells them to get out before gets really angry. After they leave, the crew decide to split into teams of two for the first three locations, then go together for the final area.

**Chapter 3.5: Rider of the Wind**
Before the crew can set off, Sonic is visited by a green bird carrying a hoverboard. He tells them that his name is Jet and that he's been looking at Sonic for a while, and wants to challenge the Blue Blur to a race to see if he can match his super sonic hoverboard. Though everyone else wants to go, Sonic decides a quick race wouldn't hurt, and tells him that they'll race from the beach to Tails house (AKA the first level). They begin the race.

Though he was fast, Jet was beaten by Sonic. The bird admits that he is impressed, and asks if he would want to race again in a different location. Sonic agrees and tells him to call him up whenever he wants to race. Right now, however, he has to go save the island. Jet wishes Sonic luck as the hedgehog runs back to his friends.

**Chapter 4: Mushroom for Improvment**
Sonic and Tails head for the first Emerald location, a section of Mobius known as Mushroom Hills, famous for their very tall mushrooms the size of trees. Once they get there, however, it's full of shady looking people digging all around and chopping down mushrooms, turning bits of the hills into wastelands. Both are upset that someone would do this, and decide to take these guys down while also looking for the emerald.

After a while, the two come across the person behind the wreckage: Fang, a mercenary Sonic fought way back when. Turns out, after being defeated, Fang struck it rich and formed himself a whole bandit army, and is currently looking for the Chaos Emerald. Not for the power it holds, but just to sell it off at a very high price. He calls over Bean and Bark, and they attack Sonic and Tails. After a short fight, the duo are victorious, and Fang decides its best to just run. As the bandits retreat, Sonic finds the Chaos Emerald behind a rock.

**Chapter 5: Under Pressure**
Amy and Mighty go to an old temple that belonged to the Echidnas, where the next Chaos Emerald is. Currently, due to its poor condition, it has been flooded to the brim. Amy is unsure at first, but Mighty just brushes it off and says to just hold your breath and enters the temple. Amy runs in after him to make sure her childhood friend doesn't kill himself. They face plenty of underwater trials, including findings bits of an underwater city.

When they finally find the Emerald, the two are soaking wet. Before they can dry off, a odd-looking water monster shoots out of the water and attacks the duo. They are forced to flee, but despite the water monster's efforts they make it out of the temple alive with their lives and with the Emerald too. They take a moment to wonder what the heck was that thing before Mighty brushes it off as a really advanced Badnik. Amy doubts it, but decides it's a better answer then thinking some monster lives in the water as they run back to Tails place.

**Chapter 6: The Breached Beach**
Sonic decides to head to the next location along with Amy, the place being the tropical beaches of Mobius. Both take a moment to appreciate the nice views...only to be cut off by some villagers running past them, claiming that a monster has invaded the Beach Houses. Amy realizes it has to be that water monster and tells Sonic about it. Both agree that the Emerald has to wait: this monster business is more important.

Once they locate the monster, its seen holding the Chaos Emerald and walking towards a Chao. Sonic thinks its trying to hurt the poor thing and attacks, but the monster backhands him away. To Sonic's surprise, the monster starts to pet the Chao and lets it play with the Emerald. That moment makes Sonic and Amy realize that this monster might not be so bad. Unfortunately, it's still mad at Amy for earlier, and the duo are forced to fight the creature.

After a bit of fighting, Knuckles shows up to break it up. Surprised at the monster, he tells the others that this thing was a ancient guardians of the Emeralds named Chaos, and was once friends with the Echidnas until they pissed it off. He then explains to Chaos that they need the emeralds right now and that afterwords they'll give them back. Deciding that its better then fighting, Chaos hands the Emerald over while Amy apologizes for earlier.

**Chapter 7: Too Hot to Handle**
The final emerald is on an entirely different island, which Gamma and Knuckles decide to go to. It's the old volcanic desert he, Sonic, and Tails once went to during their first adventure. Gamma is still not used to his new mechanical body, however, and crashes at shore. To avoid any more crashes, Knuckles decides its best to just run there, and so the two run off to reach the volcano core, where the Emerald is located.

Once they get there, they are greeted with a familiar face: a Lava Golem, similar to the once Knuckles and the crew fought on their first adventure but much bigger. Still, the two have no problem taking it down. They grab the last emerald and take their leave. Little do they know, they are being watched by Metal Sonic. He chuckles to himself, knowing that the Emeralds will be coming to him very soon...

**Chapter 8: Man (and hedgehog) vs Machine**
Now with six Emeralds, the crew realize that Metal Sonic has to have the last one. They figure that he has to be on the big, floating mechanical island in the sky, floating up there while chained to the ocean floor. Wondering how they'll get in, as Tails plane would just get shot down, they are called outside by none other then Eggman, who has decided that for the sake of making sure he has a world to rule to help the heroes. He brings them aboard his Egg Fleet and launches an all-out attack on Metal Sonic's floating island.

While Eggman's Badniks and Metal's goons have an all out war, Eggman has the heroes attack the ship from three different parts. Sonic and Knuckles work to take out the defenses, Amy and Tails find the computer room and shut down most of Metal's fleet, and Might goes with Gamma to loosen the chains keeping the island stable. It goes well, besides Sonic having a rematch against Fang, Bean, and Bark.

With Metal's forces basically ruined, the crew and Eggman go to Metal Sonic's base of operations at the top of the mechanical island. The moment they step foot in, however, they are all knocked out by a quick electric charge trap the robot had set for them. Metal then quickly grabbed the six emeralds they had and absorbed all of their negative energy, giving himself incredible power before the heroes even wake up. He mocks the heroes for making this so easy and heads for the core of the floating island, leaving the drained Emeralds behind.

**Chapter 9: Power of the Emeralds**
Wondering what they can do to stop him, Knuckles gets an idea based off of an old fairytale the Echidnas told about a legendary warrior using the Emeralds to become a powerful fighter. Knuckles tells Sonic that Metal only absorbed the negative energy, and that Sonic could use the positive energy to gain a super powered state. Sonic decides to do it, having no other choice, and uses the positive power of the emeralds to become Super Sonic. The hedgehog can't help but geek out at how cool the form is, but quickly heads after Metal.

Once he reaches the inside, the powered up Metal is surprised to see Sonic in his new powered up form, but states that the negative energy was still stronger then the positive energy and that Sonic still has no chance. While fighting, Metal reveals his grand plan: to drop the mechanical island on top of Mobius, destroying the island and anyone who has a chance of stopping him with it. Angered, Sonic fights harder and, after a tough fight, batters Metal up.

Metal still has one last trick up his sleeve, however. He merges himself with a bunch of metal scraps nearby, turning himself into a 20-foot behemoth of robot parts he calls the Overlord Form. He and Sonic have another fight, and even though Metal has become much stronger, Sonic still manages to defeat him. Sonic then finishes off Metal by dragging him by the foot, swinging him around, and throwing him into the superheated core of the island, incinerating him and returning the negative energy to the Emeralds.

The rest of the crew run in to see Sonic finish off Metal, and all celebrate his defeat. Eggman interrupts the celebration by telling them that he needs a reward: he gets to keep the floating island. Deciding its better to just give it to him then argue, they let him keep it. When asked why, Eggman states that he's gonna build a really shady Casino on it to strike it rich, then use the money to build more robots. Sonic tells him that they'll be ready for him if he attacks. Because he also owes them, Eggman lets them use a small ship to return home.

**Epilogue: Sonic Got Through Act 2!**
Back on Mobius, the islanders hold a celebration over defeating Metal and saving the island. The main crew sit on the beach, eating Chilli Dogs and drinking soda, and welcome Amy and Mighty into their friend group. As they watch fireworks go off, they are surprised to see Chaos come out of the ocean. Everyone gets ready to fight except for Sonic, Amy, and Knuckles, who invite the creature to sit with them. Chaos happily lays next to them as a confused Tails asks who the water guy is. Knuckles sighs and starts to explain as the screen fades to black.

*The End (Though not for long!)*

**New Game + Post-Credit Scene**
Beating the game on New Game + adds an extra scene to the ending, however. It shows a mountain top on Mobius, with a silver hedgehog looking down at the partying villagers. He then wispers to himself "I've found him. The Iblis-" before getting cut off by Big, who was sitting on the island as well, asking him what he is doing, he replies that he's on a top secret mission for his queen. Big replies with "Cool." and continues fishing as the silver hedgehog just teleports away.