What started as a fairly normal day for Sonic battling D.R.A.T. (those loonies who want to restore Robotnik to global domination, you’ll recall) soon took a turn for the much worse! Though Sonic was able to defeat the cultists, one of their members put into motion a dastardly plan, launching a pair of missiles in completely opposite directions. The D.R.A.T. member taunted Sonic that not even he was fast enough to be in two places at once! Never one to shy away from a challenge, Sonic ran off after the missiles as fast as he could go.

Quickly catching up to one of the missiles, Sonic ran in circles beneath it, creating a tornado that blew the missile way off course and into outer space. I hear it collided with a computer monitor or something, not sure exactly how true that is.

As for the remaining warhead, Sonic was pushed to his limit to stop that one! As he reached the deadly device, it was less than a foot off the ground and far too close for Sonic to pull the same trick as before. Sonic decided the safest option was instead to contain the explosion itself in his famous Speed Cocoon manoeuvre. Amazingly, Sonic managed to walk away from the blast unharmed.

To his confusion, Sonic found that everyone around him had frozen! Mobians playing baseball stood stock still as the ball hung in midair. Others seemed to be playing a game of statues. As Sonic looked closer, however, he realised nobody was moving!

Sonic wondered if a supervillain with time-altering powers was on the loose and decided to read a newspaper for information- the paper practically exploded in his hands at the touch! At this point, Sonic noticed a clock nearby had moved ahead, but only by one second! The baseball fielder had caught the ball too! Time was still moving, just incredibly slowly! Yeesh, I know all about that one, but that’s another story for another time… maybe I’ll tell you a bit about it next issue.

Sonic eventually realised that time was moving as normal, but he was travelling at such a hyperactive speed, everything else looked slow around him! He decided he needed to relax to try and calm down and reach a normal speed. Spotting a local Cyber Café (which is probably now a Starlightbucks), Sonic got an idea. Awakened sometime later by his best buddy Tails, Sonic explained he needed to take drastic measures to fall asleep and reset his speed. Tails clocked the web page Sonic had been reading: the Trainspotter’s Web Page! Sonic had been so bored he’d fallen asleep in the middle of the day. Fortunately, he was back to normal, with Tails noting that his friend had made a speedy recovery. For once, though, it was slowing down that had saved the day for Sonic!