Sonic didn’t know what the guard was talking about. He totally had this under control! So much so that he absolutely did not freak out when he realized he was driving a stolen bank vault on wheels into an ice-cream truck surrounded by kids. “Don’t panic!” he yelled. “This is only a drill . . .”

It’s a funny thing about speeding along in your life. The faster a superspeedy alien hedgehog could move, the more it seemed like everything went in slow motion. So when Sonic jumped from the truck and pulled off its wheels while it was still in motion, the action felt like a month for him. But the people on the street couldn’t see anything more than a hypnotic blue blur, circling around the truck over and over. In a breathless whirlwind of a moment, the armored auto collapsed onto the street—grinding to a halt just inches from the ice-cream truck.

See? Totally under control.

-Chapter 1