Battle Kukku XVI

Battle Kukku 16th (グレイトバトルクック16世 Gureito Batoru Kukku Juuroku Sei), aka "Speedy" (スピーディ Supīdi), is a character and recurring boss in Tails Adventure for the Sega Game Gear. This green-feathered bird is heir to the throne of the invading Battle Kukku Empire.

The Battle Kukkus appear to operate a rather idiosyncratic system of archontology, pre-emptively granting the crown prince an imperial numeral while his father is still very much alive and well and throwing bombs at people. Perhaps as a means of circumventing the nomenclative confusion, the prince goes by his nickname, Speedy. He is first encountered in command of the Kukku troops on Polly Mountain, and later in the Battle Fortress.

Polly Mountain 1
After fighting his way up through the avain soldiers swarming Polly Mountain, Tails finally reaches Speedy, who immediatly bolts straight skywards. The fox (with a suddenly infinite flight gauge) must pursue the crown prince as they dart amidst the mountain's upper limits. Speedy periodicly attacks Tails with a corkscrew dive-bomb from above. There is no means of actually damaging this boss; like Robotnik in Sonic 1's Labyrinth Zone, victory comes simply by making it to the summit of the mountain. At this point Speedy, exhausted, drops the Pink Chaos Emerald and is shown flying back to the Battle Fortress.

Archie Comics


Speedy debuts in Sonic Universe #17 (part one of "Trouble in Paradise"). He along with two soliders survillance Tails, Antonie, and Bunnie, entering Cocoa Island for Bunnie and Antoine's long overdue honeymoon. The three are then shocked when they see Tails ability to fly. Then he tells the soliders to keep watch while he reports to the "Battle Lord". At nighttime, the armanda attacks the island. When Tails and his robot, T-Pup, goes off to help Bunnie and Antoine, Speedy zooms out of nowhere. They battle each other, with Tails tryies to get answers from Speedy, but he remains silent. Speedy then throws Tails to the roof of his workshop to the ground. He then introduces himself, and calls Tails a "freak".

Trivia

 * Bean the Dynamite and Jet the Hawk both look similar to Speedy, since all three have green feathers and yellow beaks.