Robotnik had pulled up a glass case containing Sonic's lost quill. And with a click, he activated the quill as a chaos power battery. The egg-pod shuttered with a reactive spar, and blue energy started coursing through the entire machine--Robotnik included. Shivers of electricity surged through his mustache, and the creep sped up not quite to Sonic's hyperspeed but close enough.
"Yoo-hooooooooo!" he called to Sonic as the drones caught his pace and came into focus. "Don't run off now, hedgehog! It'll only hurt worse if you do!"

- Chapter 14