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[Outside of Echidna Town, which is far away from the Ebonywood, Bill the Echidna is approaching the fearsome Echidna Town City East Gate. A crocodile guard watches as Bill zooms past him, tired from the journey. With a cry, he lands head first on the ground outside the entrance doors, clutching a scribe. In an instant, two crocodile guards thrust their spears in his face.]

Bill: Wait, wait, wait wait! I bring a message! [The guards keep their spears pointed.] From Brother Andrew! [The crocs relax slightly. The enormous entrance doors are opened. Minutes later, a large crocodile overseer, who happens to be the rear guard of the East Gate, is standing in front of the frightened Bill, reading the scribe. What he reads enrages him.]

Crocodile Overseer: WHAT?! "Double the guard? Extra precautions? Your prison may not be adequate?" [He slams the scribe shut and glares down at the sniveling Bill. The guards behind the yellow echidna grip their weapons, equally outraged, and stare daggers at him.] You doubt my prison's security?

Bill: Absolutely not. Brother Andrew does. I'm just the messenger. [He gulps, intimidated.]

Crocodile Overseer: I'll give you a message for your "Big Bro". [He proceeds to lead Bill along the bridge across from the doors.] Unlimited access to the Echidna Town East Gate is impossible!

[Bill looks in awe around the massive brick wall. He then looks over the side of the bridge into the dark and seemingly-bottomless abyss. The Overseer suddenly smacks Bill on the back, startling him and knocking a quill from his body, which floats down from the bridge.]

Crocodile Overseer: [Laughs.] Impressive, isn't it?

Bill: [trembling] Oh yes, it's very impressive. It's very impressive!

[The overseer leads him deeper into the lower sector of the East Gate, while gloating about the security.]

Crocodile Overseer: One way in, one way out, one thousand guards, and one prisoner.

Bill: Yes, except that prisoner is Lancelot's most trusted, notorious mercernary...

Crocodile Overseer: [to guards] Take us down.

[The guards obey, and the elevator descends in the darkness towards the very bottom area of the Easter Gate's Lower Sector. The crocodile overseer shakes the elevator to scare Bill, and laughs at his frightened reaction. Eventually they reach the bottom. Bill is led towards a set of heavily-armored doors, which open one after the other.]

Bill: Oh my...

[The final door falls forward, creating a bridge towards a circular stone island in the middle of the abyss. In the middle of the island is a figure shrouded in darkness.]

Crocodile Overseer: Behold. This here is "Hiretsuna". Lancelot's most skilled second-in command and most wanted criminal of all Ebon.

[Bill's eyes widen.]

Bill: I'll, um... I'm just gonna wait right here.

Crocodile Overseer: [Laughs.] It's nothing to worry about. It's perfectly safe. [He pushes Bill across the bridge, and follows after.] Crossbows! At the ready!

Bill: Crossbows?!

[In sentry towers around the walls of the Lower Sector, guard train enormous crossbows on the figure on the island as the overseer and Bill approach. Hiretsuna, once a skilled mercernary, is now weighed down with chains tied behind his arms, along with his neck being held by both chains attached to enormous rocks hanging over the sides of the island, immobilized by a special stone carapace shell on his back.]

Crocodile Overseer: Hey, tough guy! Did you hear? King Moyer Ranna's finally going to give someone else the Ebon Scepter and it ain't going to be one of you!

Bill: What are you doing? Don't get him mad!

Crocodile Overseer: What's he gonna do about it? I've got him completely immobilized. [He stamps on Hiretsuna's right foot, which crunches on impact. Bill leaps back with a gasp, but Hiretsuna makes no movement. The overseer laughs.] Awww, did I step on the wittle piggy's footsie? Awww...

Bill: I'm good! I've seen enough! I'm gonna tell Brother Andrew he's got nothing to worry about.

Crocodile Overseer: No he doesn't. [They walk back across the bridge.]

Bill: Okay I'll tell him. Can we please go now?...

Andrew: Grandmaster Ekkletos, You've summoned me? [He looks up, still bowing.] Is something wrong?

[He looks up at a tortoise shell perfectly balanced on a thin wooden staff. Grandmaster Ekkletos, a wise and elderly asian elephant, emerges slowly from his meditative position and climbs down effortlessly.]

Ekkletos: Why must something be wrong for me to want to see my old friend?

Andrew: So... nothing's wrong?

Ekkletos: Well, I didn't say that.

[Andrew looks up, concerned. Ekkletos lifts up his trunk... and blows out a candle. And another candle. And another. And another. Ekkletos opens his mouth to say something, then blows out another candle. Finally, an impatient Andrew uses most of his guardian training to blow them all out.]

Andrew: You were saying?

Ekkletos: I have had a vision... Lord Lancelot will return.

[Andrew looks stricken. Quick, impressionistic images of a large, shadowy figure (Lancelot) flash in his mind. Andrew is rattled.]

Andrew: That is impossible! He's still banished!

Ekkletos: Nothing is impossible.

Andrew: [He stares in horror for a second before reacting.] Bill!

[Bill comes marching in, and Andrew gets in his face.]

Andrew: Head towards the East Gate and inform all to double the guards, double their weapons. Double everything! Lancelot does not enter this city!

Bill: Yes, Brother Andrew!

[Bill runs off, but then hits a column. Then he is off. Back on Ekkletos, as he walks away from Andrew.]

Ekkletos: [to himself] One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.

Andrew: [He rushes back to Ekkletos.] W-we have to do something. We can't just let him march on back to Echidna Town and take his revenge! He'll, he'll—

Ekkletos: [He looks onto the alter of the Ebonywood Temple] Your mind is like these clouds, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.

[Andrew and Ekkletos stare onto the alter. Ekkletos gentlyopens up a window with his staff, letting the sunlight shown on an intricately-polished purple crystal-lie sphere hanging from what appears to be a large scepter.]

Andrew: ...The Ebon Crystal?

Ekkletos: [Looking up with Andrew.] It is time.

Andrew: [Looks at Ekkletos.] But who? Who is worthy to be trusted with the secret to limitless power? To become... the new High Priest of Ebon?

[A short pause.] 

Ekkletos: I don't know. 

Viola Ruma: What do we do now, Brother Andrew? With the boy now gone, who will stop Lancelot?

Andrew: All we can do is resume our training and trust that in time, the real hero of Ebon will be revealed. [Andrew opens the courtyard doors, only to find himself face-to- face with Sonic's quills. Andrew and his monks are taken aback.]

Andrew: What are you doing here?! [Sonic is in the middle of the courtyard, his legs spread wide apart on two training horses. Sonic looks back over his shoulder to see Andrew and the monks staring at him.]

Sonic: Hey! Huh... Good morning, Andy! I just thought I'd warm up a little. [He tries to lift one leg, but fails.]

Andrew: You're stuck.

Sonic: Stuck?! Whaa? Pfft... stuck... does this look stuck to you... Yeah, I'm stuck.

Andrew:[To Bill] Help him.

Bill: Oh dear. [Bill approaches, gingerly grabs Sonic by the his tail and attempts to pull him up by using a bit of his strength.]

Sonic: Maybe on three. One. Two- [Bill pulls him up and Sonic lands back onto his feet.]

Sonic: Thanks ^^

Bill: Don't mention it.

Sonic: No really, I appreci—

Bill: EVER. [Sonic remains silent as Bill returns to stand by the group.]

Andrew: You'd actually thought you could learn to do a full split in just one night? It takes years to develop one's flexibility... [Andrew flings two boards into the air, and Patty steps forwards.] and years longer to apply it in combat. [Andrew snaps his fingers. Instantly, Patty leaps up and executes a perfect split kick. Sonic becomes awestruck. Patty lands, glares at Sonic and returns to Andrew's side. The broken chunks of board land all around Sonic as he dodges, a large one knocking him onto his chest. Sonic picks up the piece of splintered board and hides it behind his back.]

Andrew: Put that down! The only souvenirs we collect here are bloody knuckles and broken bones.

Sonic: Yeah, excellent! [He chucks away the chunk.]

Andrew: Let's get started. [Andrew snaps his fingers. Andrew's acolytes all gather in a line in the courtyard and Viola and Sonic face off.]

Viola Ruma: Are you ready?

Sonic: I was born ready— [Viola Ruma lashes out with her right leg, pushes Sonic onto the ground and brings him crashing back down on his lower back.]

Sonic: OW! Oh...

Viola Ruma: I'm sorry, kiddo! I thought you said you were ready!

Sonic: That was awesome! Let's go again. [salutes][Irritated, Andrew snaps. Bill twirls a bamboo staff. He lunges at Sonic (also wielding a staff) who takes a comical beating. Sonic and the Griffin prepare to spar atop the turtle bowl. CRASH. Sonic falls in and is tossed around like a sack of soup. The Griffin hovers above the bowl and looks to Andrew. Agitated, Andrew snaps. At this time, the sun is setting. We see a series of shots of Sonic falling onto his back at the work of some invisible opponent, who turns out to be... Genai. Andrew smiles. Flat on his back, Sonic manages a salute. This time, Andrew has had it.]

Andrew: I've been taking it easy on you, hedgehog, but no more! Your next opponent... will be me.

Sonic: Alright! Yeah, let's go! [The monks exchange worried looks. Sonic and Andrew face off.]

Andrew: Step forth. [Sonic doesn't even finish the step as Andrew whirls him around with no effort and and bounces him onto the floor holding him into a ball like shape.]

Andrew: The true path to victory is to find your opponent's weakness and make him suffer for it.

Sonic:[In pain, but delighted.] Oh ho, yeah! [Andrew tosses Sonic around again.]

Andrew: To take his strength and use it against him. [Sonic bounces Sonic repeatedly on the ground. He then tosses him onto the ground again, and grips Sonic with both his hands.] Until he finally falls, or quits. [Sonic feels totally inspired.]

Sonic:[muffled] But a true hero never quits. Don't worry, Brother Andrew, I won't give up, no matter what! [At his breaking point, Andrew flings Sonic into the air and then leaps at him with a flying kick. Sonic crashes out of the door and tumbles down the steps. The monks walk outside and watch him fall.]

Patty: If he's that smart, he won't even bother to come back up those steps.

Bill: But, he will.

Viola Ruma: He's not gonna quit, is he?