Sonic Boom!

Aim Low

Eggman was attacking. Again. It was basically no surprise since he usually did this every day. But today was another story....

The sound of Sonic slicing off a robotic arm was heard from a distance, and a second later, a robotic arm fell to the ground. Eggman stepped up to it. He glared at Team Sonic, however, Penny noticed it was a little less threatening than usual.

"You may have defeated my Scorpion Bot, but I've got one more trick up my sleeve!" He said. He pressed a button, and out popped a huge robot with some sort of radar dish. Eggman laughed as it fired up slowly. "Just give it a sec! Needs to warm up."

However, before the so-called trick even happened, Sonic destroyed it in seconds flat. Eggman stared at it dumbfounded as Sonic walked past him with a smirk. "Still waiting on that trick!"

Eggman grumbled, slumping as he walked over to his Egg mobile. Penny raised a brow at this. Usually, Eggman was all fired up and yelling threatening things at them.

But not today.

Sonic frowned at the gang. "Is it just me, or has Eggman not been bringing his a-game lately?"

"Maybe our a-game makes his a-game look like a z-game!" Knuckles said. He sighed. "That's much worse if you understand the alphabet!" He scratched his head. "Isn't it?"

"Really, Knuckles?" Penny giggled.

"It does kind of feel like Eggman's just going through the motions." Tails said, glancing at his friends.

Later...

"Wow, Amy!" Knuckles said. "You weren't kidding! That is one big ball of twine!"

Before Penny could reply, the ground started rumbling and a whole avalanche of rocks tumbled towards them. Thinking quick, Sonic zoomed up to the ball of twine and grabbed a piece of it, creating a fence of some sort. The rocks instantly stopped rolling as soon as they hit the twine fence.

"Eggman's been a lot more creative lately!" Penny hummed. She smiled at Knuckles. "Don't you think?"

"I try not to," Knuckles admitted to the human girl.

Penny slapped her forehead.

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Later, Penny aided Sonic, Amy, and Knuckles as they built a sculpture of Tails and his plane.

"You know, we haven't seen Eggman in a while." Sonic pointed out, brushing off his hands.

"That's a good thing, right?" Knuckles asked.

"You know, you're right," Penny said to Sonic, adding another thing of sand to the plane. "I wonder what's keeping him."

Sonic walked up to Penny, Knuckles, and Amy. "I think he's up to something." Sonic frowned. He picked up Penny in his arms. "Penny and I'll check up on him."

Penny let out a surprised squeak, clinging to him as he sped off in a flash. The sudden turn of the wind caused the sand sculpture to drift away, revealing the real Tails sitting in the real plane. The fox coughed and lifted his goggles, blinking, and grinning sheepishly.

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Soon, Sonic burst into Eggman's layer with Penny hiding behind him. "Ah HA!" Sonic growled at Eggman. "Caught you just as you were..."

Penny's mouth dropped open. Eggman was lounging around on his couch, wearing his hot pink onesies which were covered in gunk, and eating nachos. Empty pizza boxes littered the layer, and his eyes never left the screen TV.