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Original Sonic Miniseries Publication Details Issue  2 Date Published  January 1993 Publisher  Archie Comics Production Staff Cover Artist Scott Shaw Writer Michael Gallagher Pencils Scott Shaw Inks Jorge Pacheco Bill White Letters Dan Nakrosis Colors Barry Grossman Nanci Tsetsekas Editor Daryl Edelman Editor in Chief Richard Goldwater First Appearances Characters Bat Brain Burrobot

Archie Sonic Miniseries Issue 2 was the third issue of the Original Sonic Miniseries.

Summary

Story One

"A Crowning Achievement" - Part One

Princess Sally calls Sonic the Hedgehog to discuss a special item in her father's jewelry box. That special item is the Crown of Acorns along with the four Freedom Emeralds atop it. Meanwhile, Antoine is training several mobians for his "army" against Dr. Robotnik. Sally asks Sonic to give her the family crown, but it's not in the jewelry box. They are in shock, until Sonic suggests that the emeralds were stolen from one of Robotnik's metallic spies, who is posing as one of Antoine's soldiers. They aren't certain who it is, until Sonic runs repeatedly in a circle, which starts up smoke from his speed, which turns on the smoke detectors. The smoke detectors rain down on everyone, causing one of the army men to rust and shiver (this one turns out to be Robotnik's robot). The robot explains he has scattered the emeralds and that he will explode. Sonic rushes to send him out of the base, until he finally explodes.

"A Crowning Achievement" - Part Two

Sally is crying, thinking Sonic is dead, and hesitating to say she loved him. Sonic turns out to be alive, explaining he used all his speed to carry the robot out, until it exploded the entrance of the base. He also states he saw a Robotnik blimp surrounded by Buzzbombers and Bat Brains. Sally sends Sonic AND Antoine off to retrieve the emeralds. They inflate their own hot air balloon in just seconds, with Antoine speaking into the balloon about his college days. Once they're up, they fly towards the blimp, only to be shot down by a buzzbomber. Antoine bails, while Sonic destroys the robots by jumping on each one of them with a Sonic Spin. He also uses it to smash into the blimp. Antoine catches Sonic in mid air, but along the way, they notice a SWATbot which was piloting the blimp. The SWATbot falls to the ground, and breaks itself. During the process, a freedom emerald jumps out and Sonic retrieves it. Before the SWATbot completely dies, it explains to Sonic and Antoine that the freedom emeralds are in the air, land, sea and underground. While they already collected one of the freedom emeralds from the air, Sonic tosses it to Antoine and orders him to give it to Sally. Afterwards, Sonic dashes off to find the other ones.

"A Crowning Achievement" - Part Three

Tails is fishing in the lake, when Sonic rushes into the water, and accidently catches his foot in the fishing pole's string, and brings Tails under with him. Sonic assumes the next freedom emerald is in the underwater cave that he entered last month. But suddenly finds Tails with him this time. Before they get into conversation, Jaws ambushes the duo and chases them into the cave, where they find the second freedom emerald. Afterwards, Tails uses his waterproof marker to make a fake drawing of Sonic and him cornered against the wall. Jaws foolishly bashes into the drawing, thinking it's the real Sonic and Tails. While Sonic and Tails rush off, Jaws lies on the lake floor, helpless and in pain.

"A Crowning Achievement" - Part Four

Sonic orders Tails to give the second freedom emerald to Sally, but afterwards finds a SWATbot running with another freedom emerald. Sonic snatches the emerald, but falls through an underground trap in doing so. Sonic is encountered by Burrobot, who steals the freedom emerald off of him and drills through the wall, but almost hits Sonic. Burrobot crashes through the other side of the wall, almost hitting Sonic again. Sonic repeatedly runs around Burrobot, making him throw the emerald Sonic collected, and another one the robot collected earlier, into his hands. After hours of running, Sonic is still puzzled as to which way is the exit of the underground maze. Sonic finally realizes that he can just use a Sonic Spin to fly up to ground level. In doing so, he pops through the floor of Rotors workship, with the rest of the team is cheering for Sonic. The freedom emeralds are put back in place on the crown, while Sally boldly explains that with her crown retrieved, her team can finally stop Robotnik with true magic and bravery.

Quotes

Key Events

• The Freedom Emeralds from the Crown of Acorns are retrieved

Background Information

• Although not directly named, a robot Pig disguised as a guard in this issue is likely an Auto Automaton.
• The Crown of Acorns would come to play a significant role later in the series, this particular crown and the freedom emeralds and their recapture were faded from the storyline and retconned to the "source of all" as the origin of the crown and how it was stored in the king's own mind in the Hall of Limbo.
• Robotnik gives the fist sign that he has an ego problem by spending a whole page ranting that in the other 21 pages, all he got was "a short cameo on a tiny screen."
• The cave Sonic found the underwater emerald is the same cave from last issue. And Sonic can still swim.
• This was the last issue of the miniseries to be drawn by Scott Shaw.