Tails is flying his plane over the canyons, diving down deeper and gliding through. Knuckles flies up alongside him.
"Dude, whatup?" Knuckles waves.
"How can you be flying?" Tails asks, surprised.
"Heh, I'm Sonic powered!" Knuckles is tied to a parachute, and the other end of its rope is tied to Sonic. As Sonic is running, he is pulling Knuckles along with him, like a kite.
"Let's go for a big boy ride!" Sonic begins to speed up.
"Yeah!" Knuckles hits the cliff wall, and bounces off it. As Sonic runs in zigzag patterns, Knuckles hits each side of the cliff and bounces off.
"This is fun! And only mildly damaging to my kidneys!"
"Use your head on this one!" Sonic runs past a rock, but Knuckles hits his head on it, and the recoil pulls Sonic backward. He lands right beside Knuckles.
"You know, in retrospect that may have been bad advice."
"I don't know where "retrospect" is, but it was bad advice here, too." Knuckles replies.
There's a sound of rocks falling. As Sonic and Knuckles look up in amazement, they see a giant creature made of rocks standing up. The monster is holding its head and moaning, then it yawns and looks down at them.
"Huh, maybe it's a friendly gargantuan rock monster." Sonic says. The rock monster roars right in their faces. It blows them both back, leaving Sonic facedown on the ground.
Sonic lifts his head up.
"Nope; he's playing into the stereotype."
Sonic stands up and dodges being crushed by the monster's rock hand. He runs around the monster's feet, and the monster tries to stomp on him, to no avail.
"Here I come!" The monster swats Tails' plane away.
"There I go."
Sonic continues running in a circle around the monster, who again tries to squash him. Knuckles is running toward them.
"Keep him busy, Sonic; I'll give you a hand with his feet with my head." Knuckles leaps over and attempts to headbutt the monster, but that doesn't do anything except make Knuckles dizzy. As he aimlessly walks around, the monster walks away.
"Yes, Grandma, I will have another Gingersnap." Knuckles says, dazed.
(Time Skip)
The monster walks into the green plains, with Sonic still beside him. The monster kicks a massive boulder high into the sky and is heading right towards Fastidious Beaver, who is pulling a lemon cart in the village. Sonic sprints after it, and he safely gets Fastidious Beaver out of the way; the boulder crushes the cart, squirting squeezed lemon juice everywhere. Some of it even lands in a barrel.
"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." Sonic says.
"But I already had the lemons." Fastidious replies.
Knuckles walks up, still holding his head. Not long after, Me, Sticks and Amy come running up.
"You boys care to explain what's going on?" I ask, gesturing to the Rock Monster.
"A giant rock monster is laying waste to the countryside." Sonic replies plainly.
"You mean, "a Granifer Giganticus is laying waste to the countryside". Amy corrects.
"Yeah, thanks for clearing that up."
The Granifer Giganticus moans, then picks a tree up out of the ground, and throws it at us. It lands on the ground right side up, and more lemons fall out of it, all over Fastidious Beaver.
"As previously noted: I already had the lemons."
Tails' plane falls from the sky and crashes down right in front of Sonic, Knuckles, Me, Sticks, and Amy. The engine is smoking, and Tails sighs with relief. But then, it falls to pieces and stops smoking.
"Don't worry; it's still covered by the manufacturer's warranty!" Tails says.
"But you're the manufacturer." Sonic says.
"I knew I shouldn't have given myself a receipt!"
"Guys? Rock monster?" Amy butts in.
The Granifer Giganticus, is now walking towards us.
"Oh right. What do you know about that thing, Amy?"
"Granifer Giganticus is a proud race of mountain dwellers from the time of the Ancients. No one has seen one in hundreds of years."
"That's not true; I just saw one." Knuckles points. The Granifer Giganticus sits down on top of a hut, but it gets crushed underneath its weight.
"He's ignoring the "You break it, you bought it" sign. He really is a monster!" Tails exclaims.
(Time Skip)
Eggman is watching the event unfold on his monitor screen.
"Egad! There's a pitiless monster spreading destruction and horror across the land!"
"Sounds like your kind of people." Cubot says.
"Oh, I'm a huge fan of his work. I must make him my minion; he could destroy entire cities! And clean my rain gutters; they're hard to reach. Cubot, Orbot, go capture him!"
"Why us? There's no way we could catch that behemoth." Orbot protests.
"Well, not with a negative attitude like that. Now get moving! Left, right, left, right!"
"He always says "left, right", yet we have no legs. That's hurtful."
(Time Skip)
The Granifer Giganticus is still sitting down.
"So, so horrible; they were supposed to reupholster my loveseat." Amy says sadly.
"Hey, he's doing what my neighbor's Uncle Tannous does when he has the insomnia; he can never get comfortable, so he's always fluffing his pillow." Tails says.
The Granifer Giganticus groans as he knocks on a neighboring building's roof.
"Like that! My neighbor's Uncle Tannous's next move would be to get up and get a drink of water."
The Granifer Giganticus stands up and walks over to a well. He picks the well itself up off the ground, and the water squirts up into his mouth.
"Like that!"
The Granifer Giganticus yawns, and ducks fly out of his mouth.
"But my neighbor's Uncle Tannous doesn't yawn ducks."
The Granifer Giganticus begins to walk out of the village, yawning and stretching his arms as he goes.
"Hey, he isn't rampaging. You know what he's doing?" Sonic asks.
"Ravaging? Devastating? Marauding? Obliterating? Flinging or scattering to the wings?" Sticks pulls out a book.
"Found a thesaurus in a cranberry bog."
"He's trying to get comfortable. He can't sleep." Sonic explains.
Sticks looks in the thesaurus.
"Slumber, repose, forty winks...Ooh, a cranberry!" She tosses it into her mouth.
"We've gotta help him get back to sleep."
(Time Skip)
Me, Sonic, Tails, Amy, Sticks, and Knuckles are following the Granifer Giganticus through the canyons. He soon reaches a massive boulder and sits down on it, we stop.
"I'm no giant-rock-monsterologist, but our guy looks overtired." Sonic says.
"Nothing brings on sleep like a dose of melody sung by a sweet songbird." A songbird flies up and begins chirping sweetly, but Amy does not look pleased.
"Not you! Me!"
The bird screeches and flies away.
Am clears her throat, and then begins singing.
"Hush, little Granifer Giganticus, don't say a word; Amy's gonna buy you a mockingbird!"
The Granifer Giganticus holds its ears and roars painfully. It then gets up and runs away.
Amy stops singing.
"He's made out of rock! What does he know?"
"Um, okay, that didn't work. Laika, you sing!" Sonic pushes me forward.
"Me!?" I screech. Before I can do anything Sticks clears her throat and tries herself. She begins singing a very horrid version of "Rock-a-bye Baby"; it's so horrid, that the rest of us all cover our ears painfully.
"That's not a lullaby; that's what happens when I drop bagpipes into a woodchipper." Knuckles says with fingers plugged in his ears.
"Yeah, but it's working! He's falling asleep!"
The Granifer Giganticus is laying down in the middle of the canyon path. We all run up a nearby rock cliff, and on the other side, they see villagers with carts of produce stuck.
"That road is the delivery route for all the deli products that come into the village. If the monster sleeps for a thousand years, how are we gonna get potato salad?!" Knuckles complains.
"You know what, giant rock monsters are a pain in the butt. Sticks, keep singing--or, whatever it is you're doing." Sonic bends down. Sticks jumps onto Sonic's back and begins caterwauling again; Sonic runs off, carrying her with him, and the Granifer Giganticus stands up and follows them. Me, Amy, Tails, and Knuckles follow them as well.
"Worst parade ever." Amy groans.
Sonic runs to a clearing away from the deli route, and the Granifer Giganticus moans, leans against the cliff wall, and sits down. Sticks gets off Sonic's back and stops singing.
"It's working! Sleep, my large, rocky friend, and dream of larger, gravely girl monsters." Sonic says. Eggman arrives seconds later in the Eggmobile.
"Release the Bee Bots!" Eggman orders.
Orbot is wearing a hat and scarf. "After you've returned your seat and tray table to the upright position."
Eggman groans, and Orbot presses a button on a screen. Bee Bots swarm out from the Eggmobile by the dozens, and they fire red sphere attacks at the Granifer Giganticus; they levitate around him and generate a ball-shaped net made from red energy. Eggman chuckles, but the Granifer Giganticus snarls, and he breaks free of the net with little effort.
"Hey, that was a very expensive honeycomb cage! If you and I are going to subjugate the world for a thousand generations, I need to see a better attitude from you." Eggman complains.
"Give it up, Egg-Stain; we're not letting you capture Rocky." Sonic launches himself at the Bee Bots in a Spin Dash, Knuckles grabs a large stick and swats at the Bee Bots, and Amy smacks them with her hammer.
"Hey, Bee Bots, follow me!" The Bee Bots all chase after Sonic,and he runs round and round up a peak; once he reaches the top, he catapults himself up towards Eggman, but he misses. However, the Bee Bots can't stop in time, and they crash into Eggman, sending him flipping backwards.
"Might be time to turn on the "fasten seat-belt" sign and head back to the lair." Orbot says. Eggman and all the Bee Bots retreat.
" Okay, Eggman's gone. Sticks, you can start singing again."
We cover our ears, but nothing happens. We look to the side, and there's no sign of Sticks or the Granifer Giganticus; all that's there is what appears to be an unusually shaped rock.
"The monster took Sticks." Tails says.
"Then let's go get her." We all run off, but as they do, the unusually shaped rock expands and changes color, revealing itself as the Granifer Giganticus. He stands up and begins to walk. He also is holding Sticks in his hand.
"Wow, that was good camouflage; you gotta teach me to do that." Sticks smiles. The Granifer Giganticus carries her to a peak, and he begins to climb it, still holding Sticks.
"Not gonna teach me, huh? Fine! Then I'm not gonna teach you how to use gelatin to keep monkeys from swarming into your fireplace!"
(Time Skip)
"I searched all the mountains and canyons; no trace of Sticks." Sonic says.
"I scoured the coastline; bupkus." Tails adds.
Malaika and I searched the jungle; zilch." Amy replies.
Knuckles smiles and rubs his tummy.
"I just finished lunch; nice, fresh potato salad."
"Knuckles, we can't find Sticks! We've searched everywhere!" I say.
Knuckles scratches his chin.
"Not everywhere..."
Picks up a flower pot and observes the spot, but Sticks could not possibly be hiding under it, and as a result, he doesn't find her.
"Okay, now we've searched everywhere."
He tosses the flower pot, and it shatters. Suddenly, an alarm rings.
"That's my Disasterometer!" Tails picks up a machine.
"Disasterometer"? What does it do?" Knuckles asks.
"What do you think something called a "Disasterometer" does?"
"Detects and stores the sound signatures of typhoons, earthquakes, and other disasters? Either that, or it makes snow cones."
The Disasterometer begins detecting Sticks' caterwauling, and Me, Amy, Sonic, and Knuckles cover their ears as it plays.
"That's horrible! What could be causing it?" Sonic asks.
Back at the canyon, Sticks is still singing her horrid song to the Granifer Giganticus, but it roars right in her face.
"I can't sing forever; I'll ruin my voice." Sticks says.
"Hey, that's Sticks!" Tails exclaims.
"The rock monster still has her. Can that tell us where she is?"
"Yeah, I can triangulate her location and get a topographic visual representation." Tails turns a knob, and the Disasterometer prints out a map.
"And somebody mentioned something about snow cones." Knuckles pipes up.
Sonic looks at the map.
"That peak is a mile high, and Tails' plane is out of commission."
"We've got to find another way!" Amy says.
(Time Skip)
"I had to open my yap."
Me, Amy, Tails, and Knuckles are all tied to parachutes, and just like earlier, the other ends of the ropes are tied to Sonic, and as he runs, he pulls them along through the sky. But Amy feels altitude sick because of the mode of transportation.
"Does this thing come with a barf bag?" Amy asks. I kinda agree with her. I don't do good with heights and I'm starting to feel sick myself.
"There's Sticks!" Tails points.
The Granifer Giganticus is sitting on the peak, still holding Sticks as she sings. As Sonic sprints up to them, Amy and Knuckles grab Sticks together and take her away.
"Concert's over, Rocky. You can buy a t-shirt in the lobby." Knuckles calls as we fly away.
The Granifer Giganticus reaches up and tries to grab Sticks again, but she and her friends slip out of his reach, and he roars furiously. (Dunno why this is an exact description of what my two year old brother does when I take away something he shouldn't have.)
The draft from his roar is so powerful, it blows Me, Amy, Sticks, Knuckles, and Tails even further away.
"New fun fact about Granifer Giganticus: their breath smells like dead jellyfish." Amy says.
"Can we please find somewhere to land?" I ask, holding my stomach.
The Granifer Giganticus slides down the peak and chases after Sticks.
"Now what are we gonna do with him?" Knuckles asks.
"No worries, guys; I got a plan." Sonic sprints off.
(Time Skip)
Eggman is outside, trimming one of many bushes that resemble him while Orbot and Cubot watch.
"Hey boss, who's your leafy lady friend?" Cubot asks.
"Stop flopping your hinges! Since you two botched the capture of the rock monster, I need the peace and quiet of my meditation garden to calm my nerves."
"May I say, sir; it's working like a charm." Orbot says.
Suddenly, Sonic dashes by, and when he passes the bush, all the leaves blow off.
"Ugh, he'll want us to put the leaves back on. I'll go get the glue gun." Cubot says glumly.
Once we land, I basically collapse on the floor, my stomach still churning. (I'm not being dramatic by the way this is what would literally happen to me 🤣)
The Granifer Giganticus walks up, and he steps on another one of the bushes.
"Hey, do you mind? Don't stomp on the topiary!" Eggman yells.
Next, the Granifer Giganticus picks up a gazebo and tosses it to the side, smashing it to pieces.
"Okay, I thought "Don't stomp on the topiary" also implied, "Don't drop a gazebo on it".
Granifer Giganticus roars.
"We can't just stand here and watch Eggman's place get trashed." Sonic says.
"You're right." Knuckles sits down and watches.
"Good news, the Disasterometer recorded Sticks' singing, and I've put it on an endless loop." Tails explains.
"That is good news." Amy replies.
Tails presses a button, and the recording of Sticks' singing begins. The Granifer Giganticus yawns and lies down on Eggman's topiary.
"Oh, sorry about the flowers, Eggie."
"How long must I endure this?!" Eggman cries.
"It takes Granifer Giganticus about a year to fall completely asleep. But we could always turn it up." Amy explains.
"No, no; that won't be necessary." Eggman says.
"Come on, guys; saddle up." Sonic says but pauses once he sees me still on the floor. He takes me out of my parachute and decides to carry me instead.
"How come Malaika get to be carried!?" Amy exclaims. Sonic doesn't say anything but just smirks before running across the ocean, pulling everyone else behind him, away from Eggman's lair.
"Ah well, maybe I can make a fountain out of his nose, a coy pond in his belly button. Cubot! Orbot! Bring me potting soil; evil potting soil..." Eggman orders.
(Time Skip)
I wake up to find myself in Sonic's hammock. I thought we were at Eggman's lair? I must have passed out when we got there. A voice snaps me out of my thoughts.
"Hey, you feeling better?" I turn to see Sonic standing by the shack door.
"I'm good. A bit of a headache though. I'm not the best when it comes to heights." I try to get up, but my head starts pounding.
Sonic must of noticed the pain I was in as he raised a brow in concern.
"Maybe you should just rest for now. You can call me if you need anything." He says. I nod and lie back in the hammock, closing my eyes before falling asleep. Sonic lingers for a minute.
'She's cute when she sleeps - Wait WHAT?! Snap out of it Sonic!' Sonic shakes his head with a small smile before running off.