[Scratch is in his bedroom, trying to assemble the pieces of the Eagle-copter]
Scratch
Hmm… Now, I'm supposed to fit tab A-392 into slot Z-427. [plugs in two wires and ends up getting electrocuted] YEOW-HOW-HOW-HOW-HOO! [explosion evolves; wearily] Oh. Or was that slot X-427?
[A blue hedgehog is running up a mountain path at a very quick pace, then runs down again. He takes a quick corner near a steep cliff. He eventually makes it to the ground and runs along a path. A brown fox catches up to him, flying with his tails. He waves at the heddgehog and shakes his hands. He lets go as he suddenly stops and goes into a Triple Spin. The fox covers his eyes as the hedgehog suddenly dashes off at a very fast speed, causing the pathway to lift off the ground as he passes by.]
MPMiles "Tails" Prower
Hey Sonic, wait up!
[Tails charges up with his tails and speeds up, chasing down Sonic. Sonic, meanwhile, stops at a dark-looking tree on top of a hill. Tails catches up.]
Boy, I thought we'd never find it.
[They are overlooking other hills and a city in the far distance. Behind the two, a tall, lanky, roughly humanoid robotic rooster is hiding in an artificial bush. He pokes out his head, with a communication headset on.]
Scratch
I'm ready, are you ready?
[A small, short, stocky teal robot with tank tracks for feet, is nearby, with a communication headset as well, manning a portable control panel with a big red button.]
Ready! ... Um... Tell me what I'm ready for.
Scratch
Spring the trap!!
[Grounder presses the button on his panel, which springs two hands from the tree, grabbing Sonic and Tails and suspending them in the air. Scratch and Grounder walk over to the tree.]
Scratch
We got ya, hedgehog!
[They start dancing with joy.]
SGScratch and Grounder
We did it! We did it! We did it! We did it!
Hold it guys, you don't want to do this.
Scratch
Oh, don't we?
We mean too much to each other.
Yeah, don't you remember how we first met?
Well, it all started before you were born.
He's out there still! Mocking me with his scurrilous speed! Standing between me and my dream of total domination of Mobius!
Scratch
[turns on the light] Are you talking about Sonic?
TURN OFF THAT LIGHT!!! Can't you see I'm brooding?
Scratch
Oh yeah, sorry. [turns it off again]
That's better. As I was saying, I hate that hedgehog! And I want him captured NOW!
But how are we ever gonna find him?
My deluxe highly-calibrated Hedgehog-omitor has picked up his trail in the Marble Zone. You leave at first light! [presses a button, activating a springy platform that sends Scratch and Grounder soaring outside]
Scratch
BUT IT'S STILL–
So? I'm a little impatient.
Scratch
(interrogating Breezy) We have ways of making you talk, hedgehog!
Scratch
Stupid! (smacks him)
Oh, yeah! Right! We got stupid ways to make you talk! So start blabbin', missy!
Scratch
Tell us where we can find Sonic!
BBreezie
I don't know where he is. I've never even met Sonic!
(zooms in) You have now! (to Scratch and Grounder) Picking on a pretty lady? Don't you bots have any chivalry?
Scratch
No, but Grounder's got a great trick up his sleeve!
(reveals a glue-gun) My new glue-gun. It'll paste your sneakers right to the pavement!
Scratch
Yeah, hedgehog! Stick around! Ba ha ha haaa! (Grounder squirts at a fleeing Sonic, missing him.) Hey, fast-draw! You missed! (smacks Grounder again) Wait till Dr. Robotnik hears about this! Ba ha ha haaa!
(aims at him) Not from you! I'll glue your yap shut!!
Who is this?! I can't talk now! I'm waiting for important news from the ice territory!
PBPolar Bear
Ah, listen up, Your Rottenness - Sonic was just here!
Haha, it's working! My sneaky, devious, underhanded scheme is working!
Scratch
Any sneaky, devious, underhanded scheme in particular?
Yes! My secret agent Breezie has got Sonic running in circles all over Mobius!
Scratch
Breezie is your secret agent?!
Then why did you send us to capture her?
That was the brilliantly sneaky part of my devious and underhanded scheme!
SGScratch and Grounder
It was?
Yes, you dumb-bots! How else could I get Sonic to think Breezie is on his side?
Scratch
(after a brief silence) I knew it all the time!
I knew it before you did!
Scratch
Great acting job I did when we captured her, huh?
(sarcastically) Yeah, great acting. You almost had me thinking Robotnik put a brain in your head!
(punches Grounder, sending him flying into a wall) SILENCE!!!
[showing Scratch and Grounder a new machine] Well, gentlemen, how do you like it?
Scratch
Uhhh... oh, we love it!
Yeah, it's the best one we've ever seen!
Scratch
If we were gonna build ourselves, we'd make it exactly like that.
Scratch
One question.
SGScratch and Grounder
What is it?
[looks frustrated for a moment] It's my new Eggo-Matic-Tunnelizer and Town Terrorizer! [points down to a nearby village] See that ugly empty space in front of my fortress?
Scratch
It's not exactly empty, Your Maliciousness.
That is that whole village right there.
In six hours, that village will be gone!
Scratch
Gone?
Vanished! Destroyed! Obliterated! I'm flooding it! I'm going to tunnel down to the main Mobius reservoir, steal all its water, and turn that town into Lake Robotnik! [laughs evilly]
NO! I want you two to go help Breezie eliminate Sonic! This is one time I'm going to do some rottenness and that hedgehog won't stop me!
But what will happen to all the people?
In a word... they'll all be SUNK! [cackles]
Major fender-bender. Robotnik is not gonna be happy.
[furiously] You did what with my Egg-O-Matic?!
[nervously] Uh, I sorta borrowed it.
[angrily] "Borrowed it"?! You stole it, you pseudo-simian sap! [points at Coconuts] Give it back at once!
[stammering] Oh, right. Give it back, ye-yeah yeah, I'll give it back. I... Oh, uh... I can't.
[spitting at Coconuts] You can't?!
[Scratch and Grounder appear, bringing in Robotnik's damaged Egg-O-Matic.]
SGScratch and Grounder
[in unison] We can!
[They throw the trashed Egg-O-Matic down to the floor in front of Robotnik]
Coconuts totaled it, your supreme sliminess.
[Robotnik gets in Coconuts' face again]
[nervously] I had a little accident. Eh, just a little accident. [chuckles nervously, then shrieks as Robotnik jumps]
Don't ruin my baby! [places hand on his forehead] Oh, I need to sit down. No, Coconuts, you need to sit down!
(Grounder and Scratch walk into Robotnik's fortress after failing to stop Catty Carlyle)
(whispering) We better apologize to Dr. Robotnik!
Scratch
No, let's just go to our rooms!
(grabs the two) Where do you dumb-bots think you're going?
Scratch
We thought you were sleeping, oh gluteus maximus!
How could I sleep when everyone on Mobius is singing that blasted "Sonic's Song"?! It must be stopped! I've got it, I'll put an end to all music on Mobius; no humming, no singing, and no radio. (A bird lands on the tree nearby and starts whistling Sonic's Song, while Robotnik loses his temper) Argh, and no whistling! You blasted... (Bird lays an egg which hits Robotnik in the face)
If you bring Lucas and Sonic back to me, you can name your prize - anything!
Scratch
Your Egg-o-matic hovercraft?
Scratch
This fortress?
You mean, like, like that wrench set over there?
(groans) Even the wrench set!
See ya! (Gets a wrench thrown on his caterpillar track and falls face forward on the floor) I can't move!
Scratch
What are you griping about? You wanted the wrench set, didn't you? [Runs away]
(Grounder's phone begins to ring.)
(whispering to Scratch) Psst, Scratch! It's the Robotnik Hotline.
BGBig Grizz
What'd you say? ...Duuuhh, what was dat?
BGBig Grizz
That's da strangest tummy rumbling I ever hoid.
Scratch
Not really. It always sounds like that when Tails eats onion rings. (Grounder picks up the phone.)
BGBig Grizz
Onion rings?! Dah, of course! How could I be so stupid?
Oh, uhhh... beats me. (burps while still on the phone. Robotnik hears this at his Emporium)
For Grounder's sake, that better have been a wrong number!
(starts teasing Scratch and Grounder) Nyah, nyah! You can't catch me!
You're slow, you're clumsy, you're stupid…
Scratch
Yeah, right! Let's get him anyway! (Scratch and Grounder try to catch Tails, only to run into a wall.)
But you run into walls real good!