“Today must be a good day for me because I haven’t seen eggbutt anywhere,” Sonic said to himself as he was running through the streets of Station Square. “Nothing can go wrong.”

Or he thought because after he said that, he heard an explosion not too far away from where he was at.

“That sounded like it came from Station Square’s First National Bank!”

Sonic sped off ahead and turned left to the bank’s location. Once there, Sonic saw a big opening where the explosion was at the entrance of the bank, and standing on top of the flight of stairs was none other than Metal Sonic. Two patrol cars were parked in front of the stairs with the police officers pointing their guns at Metal Sonic.

“Freeze, robot!” shouted one police officer. “Put the money down and get on the ground!”

“I don’t take orders from the likes of you,” Metal Sonic said.

“Then you leave us no choice. Fire!”

Gunshots were fired as the bullets flew toward Metal Sonic. The robot hedgehog used his shields to deflect the bullets.

“You think you can take me down with those peashooters? Let me show you my gun,” said Metal Sonic.

Metal Sonic raised his arm and fired a laser at the patrol cars. The police officers moved out of the way as the laser nailed both patrol cars. Metal Sonic looked at the destruction that he caused as well as a certain blue hedgehog. Metal Sonic pressed a button on his headset.

“Master,” Metal Sonic called.

“Metal, what’s going on?” Dr. Eggman asked. “I’ve got you on radar, but you haven’t moved yet. Are you running into any trouble?”

“I had a run in with the police, but they weren’t a problem.”

“Excellent. What about Sonic? Has he showed up?”

“He just arrived.”

“Good. You know what to do. This plan cannot fail, so don’t screw it up.”

Metal Sonic switched off his headset, looked back at Sonic and took off.

“Come back with that money, you tin can!” Sonic shouted.

“Sonic!” shouted a voice. Sonic turned around to see Tails approaching him on his Cyclone. “What happened here?”

“Metal Sonic just robbed the bank and he’s now getting away. I’ll go after him while you try to cut him off.”

“Will do, Sonic.”

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Sonic chased Metal Sonic through the streets and was about a few feet away from him.

“You won’t get away from me, Metal!” Sonic shouted at him.

“We’ll see about that,” said Metal Sonic. Metal Sonic fired laser shot after laser shot at Sonic. He had to decrease his speed some to dodge the lasers; giving Metal Sonic a huge lead. “Try to catch up to me now.”

Metal Sonic turned around to see Tails with his Cyclone ready to fire.

“Give up, Metal! You can’t escape this time!”

“That’s what you think, fox freak.”

Metal Sonic turned and went down through an alley. Sonic saw this and made a sharp turn to the alley with Tails following him. After a few twists and turns through the alley, Sonic and Tails came across a fork in the pathway.

“Uh oh,” said Tails. “Metal Sonic could’ve gone either way.”

“Then we’ll split up,” said Sonic. “I’ll take the left while you take the right.”

Sonic sped through the alley only to end up on another main road. He looked around and didn’t see any sign of Metal Sonic.

“I went the wrong way. Hope Tails has better luck than me.”

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Tails was now walking through the darker part of the alley. He made sure to check everywhere very carefully. What he didn’t know was that Metal Sonic was watching him in a dark corner about a few feet away. He pressed the button on his headset again.

“Master, I’m almost at the destination,” said Metal Sonic.

“Yes, Metal. I can see you perfectly on my radar. Is Sonic still following you?”

“Negative, but that fox freak is.”

“Hmmm. It doesn’t matter who it is, execute the plan anyway. We’ve come this far, and we can’t turn back now.”

Metal Sonic turned his headset off and stepped out of the dark corner. He fired a laser at a brick wall to get Tails’ attention. Once he done that, he took off; making sure that Tails was following him. After a few turns, Metal Sonic made it to his destination where Dr. Eggman was.

“I got you now…Dr. Eggman?” said Tails.

Eggman waved at the two-tailed fox. “Well, hello there, fox boy.”

“Give back that money you stole!”

“I was just about to do that.”

The next thing Eggman did surprised Tails. He made his Egg Walker nail Metal Sonic with a laser, which sent him to a brick wall. Then he used a claw to scoop up the moneybag and gave it to Tails. Tails couldn’t believe what was happening. Why would Eggman attack his own creation? Tails looked at the damaged Metal Sonic, then at Eggman, and back at the moneybag.

“This has to be some sort of plan,” Tails said. “I won’t fall for it this time, Eggman.”

“That’s where you’re wrong. I’m tired of my plans always failing. That’s why I’ve decided to join the good side.”

“Join the good side? Nice try, Eggman.”

“But it’s true. If I was lying then why would I attack Metal Sonic and give you back the money?”

Eggman had a point. Tails looked at the moneybag again and back at Eggman.

“Don’t think I trust you completely. You helped out today, but you’re still the mad scientist we all know about. I better hurry back and give this to Sonic.”

As Eggman saw Tails leave, he began to laugh evilly.

“That plan worked better than I thought. Sure he doesn’t trust me now, but soon they will all believe that I’ve changed.” Then he looked at Metal Sonic. “You can get up now, Metal.”

Metal Sonic opened his eyes and sat up. “Did it work?”

“It was perfect. That fox boy was almost convinced that I’ve changed. But this is only the beginning. We must go back to the base to plan our next move.”

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Sonic was tapping his foot on the pavement while waiting for Tails to show up.

“What’s taking Tails so long?” he asked himself. “I hope he didn’t have any problems.”

Then he was relieved to see Tails walk out of the alley.

“Hi, Sonic. I’ve got the money back.”

“Awesome job, Tails. I knew you could do it.”

“Yeah, but I didn’t.”

“Come on, Tails. You deserve some of the spot light.”

“Really, Sonic. I didn’t stop Metal.”

“Then if you didn’t, who did?”

“Dr. Eggman did.”

Sonic couldn’t believe what he just heard. He stuck his finger in his ear to make sure it was cleaned out. “Uh, run that by me again.”

“Dr. Eggman stopped Metal Sonic and gave the money back to me.”

Sonic burst out laughing. “That’s a good one, little buddy. Seriously though, who stopped Metal?”

“I told you; it was Dr. Eggman.”

“Are you sure it was him?”

“Would I be lying about something like that?”

“No, it’s just that egghead wouldn’t do something like that.”

“I know. I couldn’t believe it myself.”

“Did he say why he did it?”

“Yeah. He said that he was tired of his plans failing, so he decided to join the good side.”

“Join the good side? Sounds like an evil scheme plotted by eggbutt. Well, we better hurry and take this bag of money back to the police.”

When they went to the police station, Sonic and Tails told them about what happened, but they only got a big laugh about it. As they left, Sonic only had one thing in his mind.

‘Why would Eggman do this?’

To be continued…