Page onePANEL ONE: Largest panel on page. Wide, scenic view of Green Hill Zone at midday. Sonic stands off to one side in the foreground, looking over his domain. Reference: vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/so… SONIC: Green Hill Zone, South Island.SONIC: Lush green fields. Clear blue lakes. Beautiful skies.PANEL TWO: Closer shot of Green Hill Zone, revealing a Buzzbomber floating nearby, a Moto Bug rolling across the grass, and a Chopper leaping out of a pool of water. Sonic stands off to one side in the foreground of this panel, seen from behind.SONIC: And crawling to the brim with evil, bloodthirsty robots.PANEL THREE: Close-up on Sonic's face, his eyes narrowed in determination.SONIC: Looks like just another day.---Page twoPANEL ONE: Sonic leaps forward, spin-dashing into the Buzzbomber. The Moto Bug dashes away, clearly terrified out of its robotic mind. The Chopper darts back into the water.SONIC: Buzz off, ro-butt!BUZZBOMBER: Why you--!SFX: CLANG!PANEL TWO: Sonic leaps out of the wreckage of the Buzzbomber, this time aiming for the fleeing Moto Bug. A Flicky bird flies out of the broken Buzzbomber. The Chopper sticks its head out of the water, sweating (somehow) and looking as scared as the Moto Bug.SONIC: Nobody messes with my turf! Green Hill is my home!MOTO BUG: Yipes! He got Fred!CHOPPER: You're on your own, dude! I can't swim on land!PANEL THREE: Sonic (in spin-dash form) collides with the Moto Bug, sending a small animal (Picky pig) flying out of it.SFX: KER-BLAM!SONIC: Two for two! And that just leaves...PANEL FOUR: Sonic stares at the Chopper, suddenly a lot more nervous and visibly shaking. Chopper stares him down evilly.SONIC: Um... I need YOU alive! To bring your boss a message!CHOPPER: Yeah, you keep telling yourself that.---Page threePANEL ONE: Sonic points angrily at the Chopper, eyes narrowed. The Chopper looks back sarcastically.SONIC: You tell your boss that it ain't cool to lock little Mobinis inside evil robots. Capice? Because I won't go so easy next time!Chopper: Yeah, come over here and say that. What's your problem? Scared of fish?PANEL TWO: Sonic and Chopper continue to talk, with the smashed Moto Bug in the foreground, crackling with electricity.SONIC: You talk pretty smack for a guy whose allies just got smashed. You REALLY wanna push me?CHOPPER: Come ON, spiky boy! We both know you ain't gonna--PANEL THREE: Sonic kicks the damaged Moto Bug into the water, electrifying the entire pool. The Chopper screams in electronic pain.SFX (WATER): KER-SPLOOSH!SFX (ELECTRICITY): ZZZT!CHOPPER: (big text) YAAAAHHH!PANEL FOUR: Sonic looks smugly at the scorched Chopper, who glares hate daggers at him.SONIC: You were saying?CHOPPER: Fine, fine, FINE. I'll tell him, you spiky psycho. But know this...---Page fourPANEL ONE: Close-up on the Chopper's face, looking menacing and crackling with electricity.CHOPPER: ...you will live to rue the day you messed with the creations of Dr. Ivo Robotnik!PANEL TWO: Chopper continues to glare hate daggers at Sonic, who stands by the pool, still looking smug. They're both silent.PANEL THREE: Same as Panel Two, but in this one, Sonic and Chopper speak up.SONIC: Robotnik? What kind of a name is that? Is the guy a robot, too?CHOPPER: He's only the complete and total conqueror of Mobius. Where have you been living, under a rock?PANEL FOUR: Sonic starts revving up to run out. Chopper quickly splashes back into the pool.SONIC: Whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm not giving my address on the first date!SONIC: Just tell this 'Ro-Butt-Nik' of yours that if he thinks he can stuff all my animal buddies into metal trash heaps--SONIC: --then he's got another think coming!---Page fivePANEL ONE: Sonic speeds off away from the lake and towards a far-off chili dog stand.SONIC: And that's life for ya. One moment you're just running deliveries for the greatest chili dog stand EVER...PANEL TWO: Sonic skids to a stop at the chili dog stand, which seems deserted. A note is left on the counter.SONIC: ...and then the world goes bonkers.SONIC: That's strange. Uncle Chuck's out, and Muttski usually greets me when I get back. Whatever happened...?PANEL THREE: Sonic picks up the note on the table and reads it. His eyes grow wide in shock and anger. (A picture of Sonic with Uncle Chuck and Muttski is seen in the background.)SONIC: "Attention all Mobians... by order of the kind and generous overlord Dr. Ivo Robotnik..." whoa, he's outlawing chili dogs? What gives?PANEL FOUR: Sonic continues reading the note, his anger replaced with blank shock.SONIC: "...on account that every living creature on South Island is to be roboticized immediately..."SONIC: Whoa.SONIC: I don't know what 'roboticized' means, but things just got mondo serious.---Page sixPANEL ONE: Green Hill Zone. A Splats (rabbit) badnik hops around, humming a cheery tune. Sonic is speeding in the background, heading in Splats' direction.SPLATS: Dee do, dee do, dee do, dee dee do...PANEL TWO: Sonic angrily slams into Splats at top speed, leaving it intact, but pinning it to the ground.SONIC: Where are they?Splats: !?PANEL THREE: Still pinning Splats to the ground, Sonic interrogates it.SONIC: Uncle Chuck and Muttski. Chuck's a light blue hedgehog with a white handlebar mustache, and Muttski's a dog. A Mobini dog, with tan --SPLATS: A-All organic creatures have been ordered to proceed to the nearest containment pod to await roboticization!SONIC: Containment pod?PANEL FOUR: Sonic zooms off and away from the Splats badnik, which remains intact (lucky for it).SPLATS: Southernmost point of Green Hill Zone. You can't miss it.SONIC: Cool. Thanks. Now stay out of trouble or I'll smash you. Deal?SPLATS: You're welcome... I think.---Page sevenPANEL ONE: Elsewhere in Green Hill Zone, a large containment pod looms over a line of anxiously waiting Mobians, flanked by armed Swatbots. Floating next to the containment pod is an Egg Mobile, which Snively Robotnik is sitting in. On the other side of the containment pod is a glass cylinder large enough to fit a Mobian inside, with a large mechanical box bearing various switches and buttons connected to it with tubes. This is the Roboticizer.SNIVELY: This way, people of Mobius! This way to your glorious future!PANEL TWO: The first one currently in line, an unroboticized Bunnie, snaps at Snively. Snively is unperturbed.BUNNIE: Ya call this 'glorious'? Yer takin' away what makes us Mobian!SNIVELY: Yes... what makes you rebel and argue and fight among yourselves. What makes each day a never-ending struggle. Really, you ought to be thanking me.PANEL THREE: Bunnie glares up at Snively, who clearly could care less about her or about this job for that matter.BUNNIE: Is that whatcha really think, or are ya jus' readin' the cue cards?SNIVELY: This is my JOB, you insipid longears. Smile and wave, recite the lines, keep everyone moving.PANEL FOUR: Two Swatbots grab Bunnie to force her into the roboticizer machine. Bunnie struggles in vain against them. Snively is having a rant.SNIVELY: You think I wanted this on a lovely day like today? I could be playing tennis. Tennis! But I'm stuck roboticizing you ungrateful lot!BUNNIE: Oh mah stars! HELP! Somebody help!---Page eightA series of small panels on the page.PANEL ONE: Wide shot of Sonic speeding across Green Hill Zone.PANEL TWO: Close shot of the Swatbots forcing a terrified Bunnie inside the Roboticizer.BUNNIE: Help! Some'un help me!PANEL THREE: Sonic grows nearer to the containment pod and the Roboticizer.PANEL FOUR: The Swatbots flip the switch on the Roboticizer, bathing Bunnie in light.SFX: WUMMMMM...PANEL FIVE: Sonic skids to a stop, watching in horror as Bunnie starts to transform into a robot.SFX: WUMMMMM...BUNNIE: AHHHH!!!PANEL SIX: Sonic spin-dashes into the metal box of the Roboticizer, smashing it to pieces. Lots of smoke fills the air.SFX: KER-BLAM!---Page ninePANEL ONE: Sonic leaps out of the wreckage of the Roboticizer.SONIC: Whoosh! Not sure what that just did, but it needed wrecking. You okay, lady?BUNNIE (oos): Oh, mah stars...PANEL TWO: A robotic arm slams through the glass cover of the Roboticizer, shattering it.SONIC: Yii! Too late!BUNNIE: Ah wouldn't say that, sugar-hog...PANEL THREE: Bunnie emerges from the broken Roboticizer, revealing her roboticized legs and left arm. For now, she doesn't notice them. Sonic is shocked at the discovery.BUNNIE: ...Ah'd say yer jus' in time.SONIC: Dear Walkers, you're... you're...BUNNIE: Ah'm what?PANEL FOUR: Snively (in the Egg Mobile) floats in, glaring daggers at Sonic and Bunnie. Sonic is unrepentant and pretty snappy.SNIVELY: You fools! Don't you realize what you've just done?SONIC: Smashed up an evil machine that you're using to turn all my buddies into robots? Yeah, I get that. You got a problem with that?---Page tenPANEL ONE: Snively looks down his (considerably long) nose at Sonic. Bunnie stands next to Sonic, clearly ticked off.SNIVELY: Haven't I seen you somewhere before, hedgehog? Back in Mobotropolis?SONIC: Yeah, I wouldn't forget that nose, Colin. But what happened to your HAIR?PANEL TWO: Snively presses a button on the Egg Mobile, causing it to rise up into the air. Bunnie starts backing away slowly. Sonic stays where he is.SNIVELY: The name is Snively, you spiky vermin. And don't play dumb with ME! You know full well what happened!SONIC: If I knew, I wouldn't ask, would I?PANEL THREE: Flashback time! Behind Snively, the traditional 'dream cloud' reveals Dr. Kintobor and a younger Snively with thick brown hair working on a complicated machine -- the Retro-Orbital Chaos Compressor. Source: vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/so… SNIVELY: You know full well Dr. Kintobor and I were working on a machine that would drain all evil from the planet and contain it within the Chaos Emeralds. We were going to end the Great War and usher in a world of peace!PANEL FOUR: Sonic, even more confused, keeps talking to Snively, who's getting increasingly angrier. Bunnie facepalms with her metal arm.SONIC: Yeah, I get that. But the machine blew up, right? I wasn't even there at the time. I was at school!SNIVELY: Then how do you explain that we saw YOU just shortly before the machine exploded?---Page elevenPANEL ONE: Sonic looks up at Snively in the hovering Egg Mobile, protesting his innocence. Snively remains unmoved. Bunnie moves her metal hand in front of her face, suddenly realizing, in shock, what it's made of.SONIC: I'm telling you, I wasn't there! I don't know what you're talking about!SNIVELY: You cost me my HAIR, you little rat. But I was lucky compared to Kintobor! He lost his arm, his eyes, and his MIND!PANEL TWO: Sonic continues to argue with Snively. Bunnie looks down at her metal legs, and her ears spring up in alarm.SONIC: I know. I heard about that. But it wasn't my fault!SNIVELY: Then why did you and your uncle leave Mobotropolis so quickly after?SONIC: Unc said it was for my own safety! Which is something YOU clearly don't care about, considering what you're doing to these poor Mobians!PANEL THREE: Snively turns to the crowd of angry Mobians fenced in by Swatbots. Sonic mocks Snively. Bunnie runs a hand along her metal legs, clearly freaked out.SNIVELY: I don't need to explain anything to a petulant child. You've made a bad job even worse, and I'm not going to let you get away with that!SONIC: Ooh, I'm SO scared, needlenose. What are you going to do, stab me with your schnoz?PANEL FOUR: Snively presses a button, and a large wrecking ball drops out of the Egg Mobile, transforming it into the Egg Mobile-H. Sonic and Bunnie stare up at it.SFX: THWAP!SONIC: (quietly) Okay, sorry I asked.---Page twelvePANEL ONE: Sonic turns to Bunnie, just now noticing her discomfort. Bunnie is visibly shaking, staring at her mechanical limbs. The wrecking ball floats in the background, about to strike.SONIC: You okay there, miss?BUNNIE: (quietly) Ah'm a robot.SONIC: Cyborg, actually. Can you still run?PANEL TWO: The wrecking ball comes down at Sonic, who quickly dodges out of the way while scooping up Bunnie, keeping them both safe. Bunnie is stunned and having difficulty processing what's going on.BUNNIE: Yii!SONIC: Never mind that. Good thing you're lighter than you look.BUNNIE: (quietly) What a day this has been...PANEL THREE: Sonic, still holding Bunnie, takes off across the grass, running away from the containment pod and the crowds.BUNNIE: What in th' heck y'all doin'?SONIC: Snidely's mad at me, so I'll lead him on a merry chase away from those Mobians. Think you could clean up a bit back there with your metal limbs?PANEL FOUR: Bunnie looks down, ashamed. Sonic is sympathetic.BUNNIE: Ah'm not shoa... what tah do with these clankin' thangs.SONIC: Got it. I'll find a safe spot for you, and after I wreck this thing, we can -----Page thirteenPANEL ONE: The wrecking ball of the Egg Mobile-H hits Sonic and Bunnie, sending them flying apart. Snively sneers at them from up top.SNIVELY: Going somewhere, Nicky?SFX: BLAM!PANEL TWO: Bunnie and Sonic pick themselves up, dusty but not seriously harmed.BUNNIE: Ya okay, sugah-hog?SONIC: Worst bruise is on my pride. Let's wrap this up.PANEL THREE: Sonic leaps on top of the wrecking ball, spikes sticking out like needles. There's a palm tree standing close to the Egg Mobile-H, close enough that the Egg Mobile is touching its leaves.SONIC: Neat trick there, Snervy. Want to see another one?PANEL FOUR: Sonic spin-dashes straight up the wrecking ball's chain, breaking through the bottom of the Egg Mobile and launching Snively into the air. Remember the palm tree.SONIC: I came in like a wrecking ball!SONIC: All I wanted was to smash 'em all!---Page fourteenPANEL ONE: A smug Sonic grabs a terrified Snively in midair, grabbing on to the palm tree's leaf with his other hand to make a makeshift parachute.SONIC: And that's how it's done, Shiftry.SNIVELY: The name is Snively!SONIC: You keep telling yourself that.PANEL TWO: Sonic makes a ten-point landing on the ground as the Egg Mobile crashes behind him. Bunnie applauds.BUNNIE: Way tah go, sugah-hog!SONIC: Thank you, thank you.SNIVELY: You fools! Don't you realize what you've done?PANEL THREE: Snively furiously points off in the distance, where the severed wrecking ball is rolling towards the crowd of Mobians that they left behind.SNIVELY: That ball is going to crush whatever it runs into! My uncle will kill me for this!SONIC: Well, thank him for saving me the--SNIVELY: THIS IS FREKKING SERIOUS!PANEL FOUR: Sonic unceremoniously dumps Snively onto the ground and turns to Bunnie. Bunnie's still in a bit of a shocked state.SONIC: Kay then. I'm gonna need some help, miss...BUNNIE: Bunnie. Bunnie Rabbot.SONIC: Bunnie. Let's do it to it.---Page fifteenPANEL ONE: Sonic scoops up Bunnie, running after the rolling wrecking ball. This time, Sonic is all seriousness. Bunnie is a bit confused.SONIC: I saw you punch through that glass earlier. That new arm of yours is pretty strong, right?BUNNIE: Ah... ah think so...PANEL TWO: Sonic catches up with the ball just enough so that its chain is in Bunnie's reach.SONIC: Can you grab that chain and start pulling?BUNNIE: Ah'm... not shoah...SONIC: No time to not be sure! Just do it!PANEL THREE: Bunnie grabs the chain, and Sonic quickly slams into reverse, trying desperately not to let go of Bunnie. Bunnie struggles to keep a hold of the chain.SONIC: I've got it in reverse! Pull pull pull!BUNNIE: Ah think mah arm's gonna pop outta mah shoulder!SONIC: Just keep pulling!PANEL FOUR: Foreground: the wrecking ball, formerly headed straight for the Mobian crowd, suddenly changes direction and slams into the containment pod instead. Background: on the other end of the chain, Sonic and Bunnie watch in shock.SFX: KER-WHAM!SONIC: That... is gonna leave a mark.---Page sixteenPANEL ONE: Sonic runs down the hill and sets Bunnie down on the ground.SONIC: Everyone okay?BUNNIE: Don't look like it hit any'un...SONIC: What's in that big rust bucket, anyway?PANEL TWO: Bunnie and Sonic look up at the containment pod.BUNNIE: This'us where that Snavely guy stuck th' roboticized folks. Think they got hurt?SONIC: What happens when you get roboticized, anyway?BUNNIE: Nothin' good, ah'll guess.PANEL THREE: Seen from inside the pod. With a heave of her mechanical left arm, Bunnie lifts the wrecking ball away from the containment pod. Sonic and Bunnie peer inside.BUNNIE: An' thah we go.SONIC: I see lights in there. Little red lights.BUNNIE: Those ain't lights, sugah-hog...PANEL FOUR: Seen from behind Sonic and Bunnie, looking into the pod. Many pairs of red dot eyes look out from the darkness. But visible up in front are Uncle Chuck and Muttski, both visibly roboticized.BUNNIE: ...thay're eyes.UNCLE CHUCK: (robotically) Non-roboticized life forms detected. Priority: detain and present to nearest Egg Boss for roboticization.---Page seventeenPANEL ONE: Sonic stares blankly at the roboticized Uncle Chuck and Muttski. Bunnie grabs Sonic by the arm (with her right arm) and tries to pull him away.SONIC: No... it's not possible...BUNNIE: Sugah-hog? We gotta move it!PANEL TWO: Robo-Muttski lunges at Sonic, growling deeply. Sonic jumps back in shock, breaking loose from Bunnie's grip. Sonic's face is pleading. Bunnie's still trying to convince Sonic to leave.MUTTSKI: RALF RALF! GRRR...SONIC: Yii! MUTTSKI! It's me, boy! Don't do this!BUNNIE: Jus' get out!PANEL THREE: Bunnie grabs Sonic with her metal left arm and starts running while carrying him. Sonic protests heavily.SONIC: What? I can't just LEAVE them! They're my family!BUNNIE: They'ah roboticized! An' they'ah tryin' ta make ya like THEM! That Snavely did somethin' to 'em!SONIC: And we've gotta fix this! Somehow!PANEL FOUR: Bunnie pulls Sonic behind a palm tree. She's clearly discomforted, but doing her best to stay calm and quietly explain to Sonic what they need to do next. Sonic is in a state of shock.BUNNIE: Sugah... ah'd love ta help yer folks, but we ain't got what they need! We've gotta find some'un who can help them, an' we can't do that if they catch us! We'ah outnumbahed an we've gotta find help!SONIC: But they've rounded up everyone in Green Hill Zone! Who CAN we get help from?---Page eighteenPANEL ONE: Bunnie motions to the edge of Green Hill Zone and Marble Zone.BUNNIE: The'ahs a buncha ruins in Marble Zone wheah no'un lives. We can stay theah a while an' get our bearin's, then head ovah ta Spring Yard Zone fer help.SONIC: You know anyone from Spring Yard Zone?PANEL TWO: Bunnie and Sonic start off towards Marble Zone.BUNNIE: Not personally. But it's bettah than nothin'.SONIC: Then we head to Marble Zone. I'd kick Snerdly's butt myself, but there's too many robots and too many innocent people around. Can't risk the collateral.PANEL THREE: Sonic looks up at the sky, gazing at cloud images of Uncle Chuck and Muttski (deroboticized) above him.PANEL FOUR: Sonic follows Bunnie into the ruins.BUNNIE: We'ah gonna win this, sugah-hog. Trust me.SONIC: ...yeah. Let's do it to it.END