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Tom found himself in the dining room, staring at the two caged and unconscious mobians in shock. They happened to be in separate cages, as he did take note of the fact that the two were tackling each other possibly, before he had entered in. Now, he felt that it was the best time to wake them both up. Slowly, he brought a spatula and poke the blue hedgehog's head, getting no reaction in the course.

So, the police officer jabbed the spatula at [Name's] head, their eyes shot open, as the edged away from the spatula and wavered their bandaged hands ferociously at the human. Tom backed away in shock, glancing at the [Colour] quill he had found earlier and looked back at [Name].

"Away from me with your annoying weapon, Donut Lord!" From the sudden emotion of sparked-up of fear, some icicles appeared in [Name's] cage and the [Animal Name] shuffled back from them. Tom jumped back in shock, as the cage the [Colour] mobian was in fell down with them inside of it. "Agh!-- Stupid random icicles and cage..."

"The [Colour] devil, and--" Tom muttered to himself, looking at the electrifying blue quill and glanced at Sonic, who was still unconscious. "--the blue devil." Finishing off, the police officer turned around and tried to contemplate this all, holding the sides of his head in shock. "Just witnessed the [Colour] devil shoot some icicles and it can talk, as well!"

As his back was faced, Sonic had become conscious and tiredly opened the cage door with ease. He glanced down at the trapped [Colour] mobian, who managed to spark some more ice onto the cage lock. "Woah, Teddy Bear! You can do that cool, ice power stuff?"

Tom turned around sharply, quickly placing his phone down and moved back in surprise to see Sonic out from his cage. [Name] rattled the bars on the cage even more, shaking the cage and moved it to see Tom more better, the ice started to grow more onto the cage lock.

"Donut Lord?" Sonic murmured, rubbing his eyes and his ears twitched within realisation. Tom's stance was tense in even more of the revelation of shock for himself, "It also talks. They both talk. You're not...--You're both not here to abduct me, right?"

The blue hedgehog grabbed the side of the cage to steady his droopy posture, "You abducted us!" Tom held out hand in defense towards the hedgehog, slowly nodding in a hesitant and agreeing manner.

"Okay, that's a fair point. What are you two? And, why were you both fighting it out in my garage?" The police officer glanced down at the [Colour] [Animal Name], who was still shaking the cage they had themselves trapped in.

"I needed somewhere safe." Sonic scratched his cheek and [Name] interrupted with, "And, you're the only person he could think of, Donut Lord, which was why I came to the garage; to stop him. So, if you could be of some help, get me out from the stupid cage!"

The rattling of the bars on the cage worsened even more, the [Animal Name] ended up tumbling inside their cage, trying to get out from the nets they were wrapped in. Tom took a few more steps back, before trying to ignore the uneased feeling he got from [Name], looking back onto Sonic.

"Why do you both keep on calling me Donut Lord?"

"'Cause, you talk to donuts. And, the you eat them if they get out of line." Sonic merely shrugged, stating this sentence as if it was the most obvious thing ever. The police officer, once again, nodded reluctantly and responded with, "Again, fair."

Feeling more awake, Sonic looked around, realising that he wasn't on Mushroom Planet, but still on Earth. "Wait, wait, wait. Where are all the mushrooms? Why am I still on Earth? What is...Oh, no! I lost my rings. Your snake took my rings!" The blue hedgehog pointed an accusing finger at the caged [Animal Name], who merely nodded.

"Yep." They said, popping the 'p' and sighed. "The snake was veiled in by the light or something. I knew, I should've left out that feature..." They grumbled within annoyance, shaking their head silently.

Tom furrowed his brows in utter confusion, spreading his arms out in the allegation of his emotion and looked between the two. "What?" Before another word could be distributed, low rumble was heard amongst the three, [Name] finally barged through the cage lock and the ice from it flew off, as they fell with an 'Oof!', with the nets still wrapped around them.

"What's happening? Is this your mother ship? I'm not in the mood to get probed." Tom quickly made his way over to the window, drawing the curtains to the side by a bit, while [Name] was flopping about aimlessly on the floor and tried to wriggle out from their nets.

"You think you're worried? I'm not even wearing pants."

"And, I've just recently discovered that I might have possible ice powers, just now, since the Author only got the idea of giving me this." The [Colour] mobian merely said, but it was all muffled from their cheek being smooshed against the ground they were laying on.

Behind the curtain, was revealed to be a huge truck with beaming red lights. "What the..." The brakes hissed, the vehicle coming to a stop. Sonic peeked out as well, from underneath Tom and let out a yell of shock, closing the curtain immediately. "They're coming for me, and possibly for them, as well when they find them too!" The blue hedgehog pointed to [Name] in including them as well.

"Great, now I'm involved?! I just wanted to capture you, and call it a day."

"Who's coming for either of you two? And, what's that got to do with me?" 

"I don't have time to explain, but you have to help us." Sonic said, ignoring [Name's] capturing comment.

"Uh, no I don't." Tom raised a finger in argument, an anxious laugh left his mouth in disbelief, "Why?"

"Well, my legs, which normally would be classified as lethal weapons, feel like spaghetti. And, Tedd--"

"Don't call me that!"

"Well, Mutant Turtle Raph is too trapped in the nets they got themselves in and their legs are also like spaghetti. We need your help--"

"I don't, I have this under control. I have been trained for this--" [Name] leaned against their cage roughly and jumped up onto their feet, only to fall down onto the floor. "Nevermind..."

Sonic then continued on and looked up at Tom with pleading eyes, "Please. It's life or death." Tom narrowed his eyes at the scared hedgehog, then looking at the [Animal Name] that was still tied up in their own nets.

The brown-haired police officer merely let out a final sigh, "Fine. Come with me." Sonic's face brightened up with and he smiled at this solution coming up, his hopeful look was turned onto [Name], who was still on the floor. Sonic took a huge step off from the table to come and help [Name] out, but he ended up face-planting onto the floor from the case of spaghetti legs.

"Uh, little help?" Sonic grumbled, gesturing to him and [Name], as Tom came back to pick up the hedgehog and pulled the [Animal Name] along by the rims of the nets.

...

[Name] and Sonic were now in the attic, Tom was hanging onto the ladder leading up there and pointed his finger at the two. "Alright, stay here and be quiet."

"Not like, I can even move anywhere else." [Name] spat back in annoyance, gesturing to the nets they were wrapped around in, though some frost started appearing onto them and that caused the [Animal Name] to furrow their brows in shock.

"Good plan. Great plan! We're all already working so well together. Practically finishing each other's sentences, right [Name]?" Sonic seemed to be buzzing with excitement from the fact that they were both in the Donut Lord's attic right now, that he didn't bother to await for [Name's] gruff response.

Tom widened his eyes, not knowing what to say and started to climb down, closing the attic door. Sonic's left ear twitched, as he quickly waved at the retreating officer. "Okay, bye."

"Wait, human lord; release me from these stupid nets!" [Name] yelled out, but it was too late. An angered groan left them, as an oncoming silence overfilled the attic. Although, the speedster broke off the silence by saying;

"I've always wanted to know, how do you make your cool invention-thingies?" The [Colour] mobian raised an invisible brow in disbelief from this question, before letting out a small breath; "I just do. Whatever comes to mind, when I am motivated to capture you, which is always because you are on my mind."

"I--I am...?" Sonic perked up, sitting beside [Name] and widened his eyes a bit. [Name] merely rolled their eyes, a grunt leaving their mouth. "Don't take it the wrong way, hedgehog. Capturing you is on my mind, for it's my destiny."

"Yeah, but my destiny is to, uh, not get captured by you and it's been that way for years now." The blue hedgehog responded, tilting his head to the side and fiddled about with his gloves. Immediately, he stood up quickly from seeing a flying drone enter from the top window of the attic and the speedster pulled [Name] up, draping them over his shoulder.

"Agh! Put me down, hedgehog!" [Name] flailed their legs about in retaliation, before putting a halt to it and let out a defeated sigh. "It seems that my ego has gone down, now that I am being hoisted away into hiding by the enemy."

The two hid behind a shelf, as the drone started to scan around the area. Sonic jumped into a pit of balls, curling himself up into a ball and he had unintentionally dragged [Name] into the pile as well. So, the [Animal Name] forced themselves to curl up into a ball as best as they could from still being tied around in the bundle of nets.

Frost started to grow onto the balls, as the whirring of the searching drones fell upon the two's ears. "Okay, I'm a ball, a normal ball. I'm blending in, like a ball."

"Shh. Stop talking." [Name] harshly whispered, the frosty ice rapidly grew onto the inanimate objects, as Sonic looked out from his quills and sent [Name] a look.

"No, you stop talking."

"Be quiet, Sonic."

"You be quiet, [Name]."

The childish argument between them both had finally settled down, as worry started to flow throughout the blue hedgehog. "Oh, I hope they aren't scanning me with X-rays. I had kind of an embarrassing lunch."

"Well, when I am out from these nets; I will bash them all so much that they'll end up seeing each others' X-rays!" [Name] uttered out, an evident glare upon their face, when they stared at the scanning drones.

"I don't know, if I should laugh at that or be worried." Sonic input in, his eyes squinted with slight confusion. Unexpectedly, another drone flew in from the opening of the window and started to scan as well.

The two drones were closing in on the alien mobians and they could just scan them at any moment.

"Don't freak out. Don't freak out. Don't freak out."

"Don't make a war-cry. Don't make a war-cry. Don't make a war-cry-- Oh, I don't care!" [Name] yelled out in rebel, shuffling about through the balls harshly and started to tumble down the staircase, making their way into the kitchen.

"Teddy Bear!" Sonic cried out, then he let out a shaky breath and raced away from the attic, rolling down the stairs as well. "Why don't you have your staircase carpeted?" Rolling down into the kitchen, he bashed against the table legs and he sprung out from his ball position to see [Name] struggling a bit in the bundle of nets.

Shifting about, the two hid underneath as Tom and another person walked on inside. The other person had an wildly peculiar moustache, going by the name of Dr. Robotnik. Though, the two were only met with a raccoon eating away at the cake Maddie had gotten for Tom.

"Here's the thing. I'm never wrong." The doctor raised a finger in argument, irritation blared upon his facial features, as Tom held a smug look and patted the doctor's shoulder. "Well, first time for everything, I guess."

The raccoon quickly scurried away, as Tom half-heartedly offered the doctor some cake, to which Dr. Robotnik let out a sarcastic laugh in return. Turning around, Dr. Robotnik was about to leave, but he came to a halt upon seeing something that immediately brought him into an even better mood;

A tuft of [Colour] fur was found and it seemed to feel cold under his touch, frost dancing around on it and a blue quill, alongside it.

"Look at that." It was now Dr. Robotnik who had the proud smirk upon his face, and Tom's face was decorated with a new look of fear. "I was right. Note the lack of surprise. Shall we try this again?"

Whether or not he'd get a response from Tom, the doctor merely didn't care, as he had started whistling 'Flight of the Valkyries' and a much more larger drone made its way in, its threatening demeanour irked the police officer.

Sonic widened his eyes in shock, upon seeing the much larger drone make its entrance and [Name] watched on with some slight interest. Though the interest turned to shock, because the drone was now on the brink of shooting at Tom.

"I'm going to give you 5 second to tell me where those things are. 5..."

"I don't know, what you're talking about."

"4..."

"Hey, tough guy; I'm a cop. And, you're threatening an officer." Tom tried to gain the upper-hand in his confidence, bringing out his badge, but the scientist wasn't fazed at all.

"How can you threaten somebody, who never existed? 3...Come on! Rack your brain. You might be able to come up with some lame excuse to go on living in 2..."

Tom hastily put his badge away, sparing a quick glance at the drone that was ready to fire at any moment and the officer looked back at the annoyed scientist. "1!" Sonic didn't want anything bad to happen to his favourite person, so he zoomed out from his hiding space and wavered his arms out in a surrendering motion.

"Wait! Don't hurt him!" In response, the doctor let out a petrifying shriek, as [Name] pinned their ears down from the shrieking and hopped out from their hiding place, almost free from their tied-up state. The corners of the room had icicles appear from [Name's] franticness of urge for the doctor to shut up.

Though, the wish was granted, as Tom punched the living daylights out from the other. The drone sharply faced the officer, rapid beeping commenced, as it saw the police officer as a threat now and started shooting its ammo everywhere.

The Donut Lord grabbed the speedster hedgehog and the tied-up [Animal Name], all three ducked underneath the table to dodge the ferocious bullets. "This feels excessive."

Now, [Name] was just almost undone from the stupid nets, as the drone was reloading. Tom then whispered, "Stay behind me." The brown-haired officer glanced back to only see a bundle of nets on the floor, and no little alien creatures in sight.

...

While Sonic was fighting off the bot, [Name] had ran out from the house and saw Tom's car in sight. But, they came to a quick halt and ran around to the back garden to retrieve something;

Their beloved hoverboard.

Now, they had what they needed. The [Colour] mobian started running towards the car, as Sonic and Tom came out from the house as well. "Oh, don't tell me that's all you got! I'm just getting started! Let me know, if you want to go round 2 with the blue."

Opening the car door, [Name] jumped onto the driver's seat with a malicious grin and gripped the steering wheel, while Sonic sat on the passenger's seat. Tom raised a brow at [Name], who begrudgingly and reluctantly headed onto one of the backseats.

Tom revved up the engine of his car, and they were off.

The 3 of them were now officially on the run.