Sonic couldn't stand it anymore. He ran with nowhere to go and found himself rounding first. In an instant,, he hit home plate again and started all over. With each lap around the diamond, his red sneakers chopped deeper into the dirt. He made a lap in a blink. Then in a heartbeat. Then in the moment between seconds. And the faster he went, the more his fur and quills tingled with that chaotic blue energy. Faster... the air wavered in the heat... faster... streaks of electric light formed a diamond-shaped vortex... faster... the world became a blur of hot white lines and then...
KA-BOOOOM!
The entire field exploded, knocking even Sonic off course and into the dirt. He squinted and just caught a massive wave of blue chaos energy shooting up and out across the sky. And then everything went dark.
"I never went that fast before," he said in disbelief. "This is... not good."
The hedgehog spun through town, finding pitch-black houses and dark streetlights everywhere. The shock of his outburst must have burned out the electrical grid for all of Green Hills.

- Chapter 4