Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal/Script

This is the script for the storyline of Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal.

Comic
[Scene: ]
 * [A letter saying "Thousands of years ago". Ka-Boom.]
 * Lyric: Now do you see you fools?! I am unstoppable!
 * [The Ancients breaks the Lost Crystal of Power apart. Skreeeeeeeeeeeee. Tha-Koom.]
 * Lyric: No! That crystal was mine! Its power--ARRRGH!
 * Ancient 1: All we've done is slow him. He'll be free one day.
 * Ancient 2: We must do what we can while he's incapacitated. The power of this crystal would have made him omnipotent. We must take the shards and scatter them.
 * [A letter saying "The present".]
 * Lyric: Idiots! It was futile to try to stop me! I will have what's rightfully mine!
 * Shadow: You need an army for that?
 * Lyric: You object?
 * Shadow: No. Justice must be had by any means necessary.
 * Lyric: I like your style. You will serve me well.
 * Shadow: I serve no one.
 * Lyric: I insist! [Puts the Mind Control Device on Shadow's head. Klack.] Welcome to my army fool!
 * [A letter saying "Days later". Rrrumble.]
 * Sticks: I told 'em the rocks were out to get me!!
 * [ Sonic carrying Sticks.]
 * Sonic: Hey, Sticks. Havin' fun?
 * Sticks: Ha! Yer funny!
 * Knuckles: I'll handle these!
 * [Klud. Whump thok.]
 * Tails: Sonic! Grab on! [Tails using an Enerbeam.]
 * Sonic: [Sonic and Sticks grabs an Enerbeam.] Thanks!
 * Sticks: Is this thing safe?
 * Amy: Just grab on! What were you doing down there?
 * Sticks: I was gettin' info from the rocks! I was! An underground army's gonna rise up and destroy us all!
 * Amy: *sigh* I'm going back to my research. Knuckles, I'll need help.
 * Knuckles: 'Kay! Are we there yet?
 * Amy: Nope.
 * Knuckles: Are we there yet?
 * Amy: Nope.
 * Knuckles: Are we there yet?
 * Amy: No!
 * Knuckles: Are we there yet?
 * Amy: Why don't you just... stand guard?
 * Knuckles: Sure! I'll keep this place secure!
 * Amy: Yeah, you do that.
 * [Knuckles is getting lost.]
 * Knuckles: Yup! Keepin' things secure.
 * [A letter saying "Much later".]
 * Amy: ...and these ancient glyphs are still legible! One keeps coming up. It seems to translate to "Lyric"...?
 * Lyric: Am I so easily forgotten?
 * [Amy pulls her hammer.]
 * Amy: W-Who are you? What are you?!
 * Lyric: Pah! I am Lyric timeless overlord of this world! This time, you will help me in my conquest!
 * Amy: Back off, Lyric!
 * Lyric: Not until you tell me what those symbols say!
 * [A letter saying "To be continued in-game!".]

Cutscene 2
[Scene: Seaside Coast.]
 * [Sonic holding the AVA.]
 * Sonic: Tails! I was just online with Amy. She's got a line on those super powerful shattered Crystal Shards she's been hunting.
 * Tails: Cool! [Gives a thumbs up.]
 * Sonic: -but some big crazy robo-snake calling himself "Lyric" slithered in and snagged her!
 * Tails: Not so cool! [Gives a thumbs down.]
 * Sonic: I was hoping you could use your scientific know-how and plucky "can do" attitude to figure out where she is.
 * Tails: First thing we need to do is figure out where she's BEEN.
 * Sonic: You can do that?
 * Tails: Give me ten minutes and I'll tell you what she had for breakfast last September! I've been itching to experiment with this Ancients tech we gloomed from those ruins Amy's been digging in.
 * Sonic: Who says "gloomed?"
 * Tails: I just did!

Cutscene 3
[Scene: Seaside Coast]
 * Tails: Hey check it out! Amy's tablet is still broadcasting! I was able to download some videos she shot while searching for the shattered Crystal Shards.
 * Sonic: She was taking selfies?
 * Tails: Um... sort of. Just watch.
 * Amy: [Offscreen] ...key to... location... Crystal Shards. Knew... I could!
 * Tails: The files are a mess from when she dropped her tablet, but I wrote a program that'll clean them up. It just might take a while.
 * Sonic: I hope you wrote a program that will clean up Sticks because SHE'S doing to be a mess when you tell her her BFF is kidnapped.
 * Tails: You mean when YOU tell Sticks. [Points at Sonic.]
 * Sonic: You mean when YOU tell Sticks. [Points at Tails.]
 * Tails: Let's settle this like gentlemen.
 * Sonic: Rock, paper, scissors?
 * Tails: Only because there's no time for chess.
 * Sonic and Tails: 1, 2 ,3 [Sonic's handsign is scissors and Tails' handsign is paper.]
 * Sonic: Ha! I win! My scissors rock!
 * Tails: I'd have beaten you at chess.
 * Sonic: Don't get lost in the jungle looking for Sticks' burrow. The way she's hidden you'd thing she was a paranoid recluse!
 * Tails: That's a NICE way to put it!

Cutscene 4
[Scene: Seaside Coast.]
 * Tails: Sticks! I've got some good news and some bad news.
 * Sticks: BAD NEWS? You mean like world peace and an end to hunger and universal healthcare?
 * Tails: Well, that would essentially be GOOD news.
 * Sticks: Not if it was actually a plot by ladybug overlords to lull us into complacency so they could EAT OUR BRAINS!
 * Tails: Ladybug overlords?
 * Sticks: EVIL ladybug overlords!
 * Tails: Riiiight... Then, here's the BAD news: An evil robot snake named Lyric nabbed Amy and we don't know where she is.
 * Sticks: That's GREAT news!
 * Tails: It is?
 * Sticks: Yeah! Evil snakes make WAY better boots than evil ladybugs... and Amy LOVES boots! I'm coming Amy!!
 * Tails: Sticks! Wait!!

Cutscene 5
[Scene: Seaside Coast.]
 * Sonic: Sticks! You can't just go running into danger without a plan, a direction, or a clue!
 * Sticks: Why not?
 * Sonic: Because that's what I do!
 * Sticks: Plans are for the WEAK. Impulsive, hysterical action is what's gonna save Amy!
 * Sonic: Do you even know where to look?
 * Sticks: Follow the trail of broken Lyric robots and we can't go wrong.
 * Sonic: I don't see any broken Lyric robots.
 * Sticks: Me either. That's why I'm gonna MAKE some!
 * Sonic: NOW you're talking sense!
 * Sticks: There's no time to talk sense! I've gotta rescue Amy!
 * Sonic: Sticks! Wait!

Cutscene 6
[Scene: Seaside Coast.]
 * Sticks: My boomerang is stuck inside one of those stupid robots. [Kicks the robot.]
 * Sonic: I can help you get it out.
 * Sticks: It's really jammed in his ro-guts, or is it gears? Is that the medical term? [Tries to pull her boomerang, but is stuck.] Wow, it's really in there.
 * Sonic: OR you can pull it out yourself...NO! We'll do it together. Teamwork! It's the only way we're gonna save Amy.
 * [Both Sonic and Sticks pulls her boomerang out the robot and successed.]
 * Tails: Speaking of Amy, I deciphered another one of her logs!
 * Amy: [Offscreen] ...another clue... on my way to Scrapyard... meet up with Knuckles... group hug for me, myself, and I!
 * Tails: Next stop, the Scrapyard to find Knuckles and see he knows about Amy! Hey... Sticks, why is you boomerang gooey?

Cutscene 7
[Scene: Scrapyard.]
 * Sonic: Y'know Sticks? I think the three of us would make a pretty good team!
 * Sticks: I heard there's no "I" in teamwork.
 * Sonic: That's right!
 * Sticks: Then, how does it see?
 * Sonic: Uh...
 * Sticks: I mean, if teamwork doesn't have an eye, then it's blind, right? How are we gonna find Knuckles without any eyes?
 * Sonic: Uh... I... I...
 * Sticks: Oh! TWO eyes! That's plenty enough to find Knuckles! Let's go!
 * Tails: What just happened?
 * Sticks: Teamwork!
 * Sonic: Um, I think that's what just happened. Let's go find Knuckles.

Cutscene 8
[Scene: Scrapyard.]
 * Knuckles: You guys really kicked some ro-butt! I'd have lent a fist, but I told Amy I'd wait right here to help her dig around for some Ancients junk and do some heavy lifting.
 * Sonic: Yeah, well. Amy's been-
 * Knuckles: She just sees me as a piece of meat. Which is awesome.
 * Sonic: But Amy's been-
 * Knuckles: Anyway, while I was waiting for Amy these robots showed up. So of course I trashed them, but now I wonder where Amy-
 * Sonic: Amy's been KIDNAPPED and-
 * Knuckles: Kidnapped? Why are you standing around yappin'? Don't bore me with the details, just point me in the right direction and show me who to hit.
 * Tails: It's WHOM to hit, Knuckles. And according to the latest file I recovered she was data mining in the canyon... or waiting for a dining companion. The signal's pretty bad.
 * Knuckles: Then let's go there and hit some whom!
 * Sonic: Good plan! [Brofist.]

Cutscene 9
[Scene: Shadow Canyons.]
 * Tails: I recovered some more files from Amy's logs!
 * Sonic: How can you do something that complicated while you're busy trashing robots?
 * Tails: Well, y'know... multitasking. I also balanced my checkbook, invented a car that can circle the earth on half a jar of kosher pickles... and came up with a recipe for an organic quiche that's gonna knock your socks off!
 * Knuckles: I trashed some robots!
 * Sonic: That's very nice, too, Knuckles. Let's hear what Amy has to say.
 * Amy: [Offscreen] ...amazing discovery! ...Crystal Shards... just the beginning! ...unlimited power...
 * Tails: Looks like she was broadcasting from the other side of this canyon.
 * Sonic: A canyon full of deathtraps and enemies...
 * Knuckles: You had me at "a canyon full of deathtraps and enemies!"
 * Sonic: Glad we're all on the same page!

Cutscene 10
[Scene: Shadow Canyons.]
 * Sonic: Does anybody but me think that there were a LOT of robots and death traps and stuff out there?
 * Knuckles: Too much action for you to handle, Sonic?
 * Sonic: Ha! As if! No, I'm just saying something big must be going on if there's so many-
 * Tails: Hey! I see somebody ahead, hiding in the shadows!
 * Sonic: It's SHADOW.
 * Tails: And there's your irony.
 * Sonic: Hey! He's running away! That's not his style.
 * Tails: Let's find out what he's running from, or to who he's running!
 * Knuckles: You mean "to whom".
 * Tails: Well, look who's learning grammar.
 * Knuckles: You mean "whom".
 * Tails: Never mind.

Cutscene 11
[Scene: Shadow Canyons.]
 * [Sonic spots Shadow.]
 * Sonic: Hello Shadow, I see you've come out the... shadows.
 * Shadow: There... are... no... shadows.
 * Sonic: It's a joke. Your name is Shadow. Hiding in the shadows. Get it? It's funny. Hold on. You... are... talking... like... a... robot. Wait... Now... I... am... talking... like... a... robot.
 * Shadow: You... will... fail.
 * Sonic: How... do... you... know... what... I mean, how do you know what I'm doing? Do you know where Amy is?
 * Shadow: Your... destruction... is... inevitable. You... will... not... stop... us.
 * Sonic: Challenge... accepted [Handshake.]

Cutscene 13
[Scene: Ancient Ruins.]
 * Sticks: Whoa! I've seen a lot of ancient cities in my life, but this one beats them all.
 * Sonic: How many ancient cities have you seen?
 * Sticks: Twelve.
 * Sonic: Wow, surprisingly normal response. Which one was you favorite?
 * Sticks: Why do you want to know? Are you writing an unauthorized biography about me?!
 * Sonic: There's the Sticks I know and love!
 * Sticks: This place feels like the distant past slammed into the far future, all wrapped up in an incredible present. Feel free to put that in the biography you're writing.
 * Sonic: Since we haven't found a clue for a while, it feels more like a dead end.
 * Sticks: No way. I'm sure Amy left another clue. I can't think of anybody else who even comes close to her powers of smartness.
 * Tails: No one? Not even close?
 * Sticks: Nope. Everybody else seems TOTALLY STUPID next to Amy.
 * Tails: Really? Well I guess I'll just find another clue to prove you wrong.
 * Sticks: Technically, it would prove how smart Amy is since she left it.

Cutscene 14
[Scene: Ancient Ruins.]
 * Tails: If I can just fix this next video log of Amy's we can figure out why she was here...
 * Knuckles: I'm not real big on fixing stuff. Is there anything you need me to break?
 * Tails: Not now. Maybe later.
 * Knuckles: Because that's kind of my specialty. "You want something broken right, just ask Knuckles!" That's what they say.
 * Tails: Literally, that's the first time I've ever heard anybody say that.
 * Knuckles: So... you need something broken?
 * Tails: Besides my concentration, you mean? No I-
 * Amy: [Offscreen] ...the signal...source...stronger down...find a way...
 * Tails: Sounds like Amy was tracking a signal. I bet if I scan all open frequencies I could... bingo! There it is! The signal is coming from underground. We're practically standing on it.
 * Knuckles: Lucky break!

Cutscene 15
[Scene: Robot factory.]
 * Sticks: Amy came through again! Finding her should be a snap!
 * Sonic: "A snap?" She could be anywhere! This is, like, the BIGGEST robot factory I've seen. Lyric assembling an ARMY to do his diry work.
 * Sticks: "Dirty work?" You mean like doing laundry and cleaning rain gutters and slopping the hogs?
 * Knuckles: Doing laundry? Cleaning rain gutters? Does Lyric's evil know no limits!?
 * Sonic: I mean that finding Amy in this place is gonna take a lot of effort!
 * Knuckles: What's the problem, Sonic? Afraid to get your hands dirty?
 * Sonic: No! My point is we're gonna have to DIS-assemble these robots faster than the factory can assemble them.
 * Knuckles: "Faster" is my middle name.
 * Sonic: Yeah? My middle name is "Faster-than-you."
 * Knuckles: What's your first name? "Not?" Ha! Burn!

Cutscene 16
[Scene: Robot factory.]
 * Knuckles: End of the line. the DIS-assembly line.
 * Sonic: I made that joke already, Knuckles.
 * Knuckles: Now you're trying to copy my jokes before I think of them? Pathetic.
 * Tails: Part of me feels bad about the mass destruction of such an astonishing technological marvel.
 * Sonic: And the other part?
 * Tails: The other part's busy figuring out a way to blow this joint into the stratosphere!
 * Sonic: Oh I like that part! Let's go with that one.

Cutscene 17
[Scene: Robot factory.]
 * [Tails typing on computer.]
 * Tails: It looks like this control terminal is being controlled remotely... from ten thousand feet above the ground! Bet that's where Lyric's hiding!
 * Knuckles: Fascinating. Okay, Sir Thinks-a-lot, any other info you need from that gizmo?
 * Tails: No, I got what we needed.
 * Knuckles: Then stand back and let me show you why I'm called "Knuckles."
 * Tails: Because you have those pointy "knuckle" things on your gloves?
 * Knuckles: Huh? Oh, I get it! You know what, that makes more sense. I thought I guess they'd call me "Smashles."
 * [Knuckles smashing the computer.]
 * Tails: Uh, "Smashles," when you're done smashing that terminal, I've got something ELSE you can try and smash.
 * Knuckles: Cool! What is it?
 * Tails: Not what. WHO. It's ME-ME-METAL SONIC and he's coming in FAST.
 * Knuckles: What's HE doing here?
 * Tails: There's only one person who could be behind Metal Sonic's appearance, and, without naming names, he has a really stupid mustache!
 * Dr. Eggman: [Offscreen] Metal Sonic. Protect the factory and eliminate Sonic and his friends.
 * [Knuckles smashed the computer.]

Cutscene 18
[Scene: Robot factory.]
 * Sonic: Anybody see which way Metal Sonic went?
 * Tails: Yeah, he took off toward that volcano. Speaking of which, is anybody else feeling hot?
 * Sonic: Is anybody else feeling lost?
 * Sticks: Is anybody else wishing they brought more peanut butter?
 * Knuckles: Yes. Yes. And you read my mind! [Points at Sticks.]
 * Sticks: Well maybe if you wore the tinfoil hat I gave you THAT wouldn't have happened.
 * Sonic: Come on guys, focus. There'll be time for peanut butter and tin foil hats later. Right now let's just get Metal Sonic. He could lead us to Amy and that snake Lyric.
 * Knuckles: Right! But I'm holding you to the peanut butter and tin foil hat promise.

Cutscene 19
[Scene: Volcanic Crater.]
 * [Both Sonic, Tails and Knuckles bump into each other.]
 * Sonic: OK, it's official, we're lost! Who knew volcanic caverns could be so complicated? We could be here a while.
 * Knuckles: This isn't how I thought I'd go out. I figured I'd go out in a ball of fire.
 * Tails: This is a volcano. It's basically a ball of fire inside a mountain.
 * Knuckles: Really? Oh, well, then this is exactly how I thought I'd go out. Sweet, called it!
 * Sonic: Listen guys, I know we lost Metal Sonic and things look bad, but we'll get out of this. We always do!
 * Tails and Knuckles: How?
 * Sonic: Ummmm...
 * Knuckles: I'm with you so far.
 * Tails: Hold on guys. The algorithm is just finishing up the decryption on another file.
 * Amy: [Offscreen] ...Ancients' plane...volcano...hidden...advanced tech...
 * Sonic: Is she's saying the Ancients had a plane?
 * Tails: A whole HANGAR full of Ancient vehicles, and it's right here in the volcano. If we can get to it, we can blow this joint.
 * Sonic: Before this joint blows!
 * [Suddendly the volcano shaking.]

Cutscene 20
[Scene: Volcano Crater.]
 * [Tails riding a Tornado. Sonic sitting on second front seat, Knuckles clamber and Sticks standing its wings.]
 * Sonic: Are you sure you can fly this plane?
 * Tails: I'm not even sure this is technically a plane.
 * Sonic: You're not filling me with confidence.
 * Tails: We're still in the air aren't we? I'm actually impressed. It's not bad for tech that's thousands of years old.
 * Knuckles: Are there any Ancient barf bags in this thing?
 * Sticks: I don't want to sound crazy, but it looks like we're about to crash into that giant sky fortress.
 * Sonic: Sticks is right! Wow, I never thought I'd say THAT.
 * Tails: Apparently the Ancients didn't need to do much turning. This control yoke stinks.
 * Knuckles: That joke really DOES stink. I didn't get it at all.
 * Tails: Not "joke." "YOKE." It's like a steering wheel. And like I said, it STINKS.
 * Knuckles: Can we just land?
 * Tails: If you consider "crashing" a landing, then yes, we're about to land. Hold on!
 * Knuckles: No yoke!

Cutscene 21
[Scene: Cloud Sanctuary.]
 * [Amy is trapped in the glass ball.]
 * Lyric: That hedgehog has more lives than a cat! And now he's right outside my door!
 * Amy: Here's what's going to happen next: Sonic will kick down your door, and then he's going to kick your reptilian butt. Or maybe he'll set me free first so I can kick your butt!
 * Lyric: I am a snake. Snakes don't have butts.
 * Amy: Then he'll kick your TAIL.
 * Lyric: I'll be happy to give him the opportunity. Then you can watch as I squeeze the life out of him. With my TAIL.
 * Amy: Yeah, I don't think so.
 * Lyric: Once I finish ripping the translation out of your tiny mind and translate this manuscript I won't care what you think. But for now, THINK OF THE TRANSLATION!
 * Amy: I'm thinking there's enough of your TAIL to make a nice pair of boots, a handbag, and maybe a belt.
 * Lyric: If you're lucky I'll let you wear CHAINS when this is over. Robots: neutralize intruders!

Cutscene 22
[Scene: Cloud Sanctuary.]
 * [Amy is freed.]
 * Amy: Thanks for the save, guys!
 * Sonic: Amy! Are you okay?
 * Amy: Oh, I'm great! Nothing like having your mind violated by a giant mutant robot snake. It's like a spa day.
 * Sticks: Aww, now I feel bad for ruining your spa day.
 * Sonic: So, do we go after him or go grab some lunch?
 * Knuckles: What kind of lunch? Tacos? Please say tacos?
 * Amy: Are you KIDDING? If we eat any lunch it's going to be SNAKE tacos!
 * Knuckles: I'm in!
 * Sonic: Of course I'm kidding, Amy! He kidnapped you! And he's got an army of Ancient-tech robots ready to take over the world! And he-
 * Tails: AND he wrecked my awesome new airplane. That snake is going DOWN.
 * Sticks: Yeah! Amy needs new boots!
 * Amy: You read my mind!
 * Sticks: I'm doing that a lot lately.
 * Amy: Between you and Lyric, maybe I do need a tinfoil hat.

Cutscene 23
[Scene: Cloud Sanctuary.]
 * Lyric: Sonic! You're surprising small to be able to cause me so much trouble.
 * Sonic: Size isn't everything.
 * Knuckles: Totally! And I only say that because I'm bigger than the rest of my friends.
 * Tails: Yeah, well, I'm SMARTER than the rest of my friends.
 * Sticks: And I'm more of a paranoid loose cannon with a heart of gold than the rest of my friends. Deal with it!
 * Lyric: What's your POINT?
 * Sonic: The point is, when we work together as a single unit we're UNBEATABLE.
 * Knuckles: That's our secret and we're not telling anybody.
 * Lyric: Well, then, I just have to shatter that "single unit" into tiny little pieces.
 * [Lyric traps Tails, Knuckles, Amy and Sticks into the glass ball.]
 * Lyric: And if you didn't understand that metaphor, I mean I'm going to beat you and your friends into paste, and then continue on to do the same to your world.