I've been hiding something from you

Cry of the Wolf

In the Great Unknown the Wolf Pack was fighting the test pod.

Meanwhile Snively was in Robotnik's command center reading a printout.

"Oh, my. This is serious." Snively said.

"Hmm..." Robotnik said.

"Excuse me, Sir."

"Doomsday. Even the name has a poetic ring. Don't you think, Snively?"

"Very poetic, Sir, but..."

"It won't be long now, Snively, when we will see my poetry in motion. Doomsday will finish the job I started during the coup. Before... before that miserable hedgehog came along!"

"Yes, Sir, but..."

"Sometimes my brilliance amazes even me. Don't you agree, Snively?"

"Oh yes Sir, but..."

"But what?"

"The Wolf Pack, Sir. They've sabotaged the test pod."

"They what?!"

"Here, Sir. Read it for yourself.

"I thought we eliminated those miserable beasts. Put up the surveillance tape." he said and the monitor showed a replay of the wolves attacking the pod. "What's the damage?!" he said incoherently grumbling.

"Minimal, Sir. Engineering says it can be back online in six hours."

"Then get out there, Snively, and make it happen!"

"Yes, Sir." he said. "Oh boy, I'd like to get your nose in a vice someday." he mumbled.

"Stop grumbling and find me those wolves!"

At the Great Unknown.

"Yo Nicole. Is this it?" Sonic said.

"Magnifying, my main Sonic. Information on Great Unknown is limited. Area relatively uncharted." Nicole said.

"Nicole, please display the King's Freedom Fighter list." Sally said.

Antoine yawned.

"I am too boring with this journey. It is taking too awfully longer if I ask me." he said.

"Well, nobody's asking you, Ant." Sonic said playing with his medallion.

'Try waiting for sixteen years to see your mom and thirteen years to find out you have a brother and sister and meeting them.' he thought.

"We can't set up a Freedom Fighters network unless we find them first, Tony." Dulcy said.

"Nicole, magnify Freedom Fighter groups located in the Great Unknown." Sally said.

"The only group located in this area is the Wolf Pack, Sally." Nicole said.

"Display existing data."

"An ancient culture with a remarkable respect for nature. Following Robotnik's takeover, they remained loyal to the Queen and then King and were consequently driven off their land."

The word 'Queen' caught Sonic's attention.

"So where do we find them, Nicole?" Sonic asked.

'Could they know what happened to mom?' he wondered.

"Their home base is twenty-one point three kilometers south-southeast of the Great Canyon. There are five possible routes."

"Cool! Which one is the shortest? In English."

'Please know about mom.'

"Go straight, hang a left, then a right."

"I'll scout ahead. What do you think, Sal?"