Following the mess at ironlock prison, we stepped up our efforts to do damage to the Eggman Empire. Sally managed to step up her attacks on Eggman's factories and warehouses, which in turn made Eggman and Snively step up their efforts to get rid of us. First, we had a bad turn in luck with Ari, who betrayed Sabato resistance when Snively threatened to execute his father. Ari lured Mighty into a trap, which was a giant spinball-style arena that tried to send them down the cute to the special Zone. In the End, Ray managed to rescue Mighty, and together they sent Ari down the hole. Then, the team managed to fight and blow up some deep-drilling giant snake badniks, who were who were drilling for mineral resources deep on our island. Their digging had awakened a mysterious squid-like islander named Kraken, who lived deep under our island. With his help, we managed to trash all of Robotnik's underground mining operations. The havoc we wreaked on that madman's supplies and resources was significant.

We have also had some... interesting events occur in what little down time we had around the base, il cielo ci aiuti . Some of Dulcy's poor flying managed to wreck Mighty's makeshift house, and he and Antione were forced to be roommates for a few nights. That... ended in total disaster. Rotor finally got his robotic girlfriend working, but she decided she was in love with Antoine, and... high jinks ensued. Rotor scrapped the creepy robot, and is now getting closer to our little Sungazer lizard girl instead. We even took a night to tell some of the younger children and orphans in the camp a ghost story about a headless gopher who rides around on an unintelligent 'normal' bison, looking for his missing head. That tale had the children screaming, and running in every direction for hours, until Rosie was finally able to get them calmed down. And Antione almost got himself killed, when he tried to infiltrate Hynea motorcycle gang allied with Eggman's regime. From what Bunny and Rotor told me, those hyenas were ready to eat him alive when they rescued him. Madre di Gaia,the things I have to put up with with this bunch.

Eventually, after six months had passed, word came through our spy networks that Sonic had been rescued from the death egg in orbit, and the resistance was getting ready to make it's big push against Robotnik's rule. Sensing the tide beginning to turn, I went with my sister, Mighty, Antoine and Dulcy across the great ocean to the Wolf Pack's Island, to forge an alliance with our fellow resistance helped them defeat a giant badnik pod that was spreading poison on their island, before making our way back home. But while working with the wolves were learned a horrifying truth; that Eggman was working on a weapon to wipe out all of us islanders. Unbeknownst to Sonic and the other leaders of the resistance back on Westside isle, Robotnik had been constructing a massive doomsday weapon to wipe all of islanders of the face of the earth. If the main war going on with Eggman's main army and Sonic's friends goes badly for Robotnik, this fallback plan Snively is working on for him will make the blue hedgehog's victory is a costly, hollow one.

As we were still trying to learn details on this deadly weapon, our resistance branch completed two more important victories. First, we learned Snivley had sent a team of excavator badniks to our island's ancient megalithic site, called by English-speaking archeologists drood henge (after a more famous site on the island of Albion). Nicole believed he was looking for the deep power stones, two artifacts almost as powerful as the chaos emeralds, that our ancestors had used in the ancient days. My sister led a team of resistance members (Dulcy, Antione, and Rotor) to retrieve the stones before Robotnik's forces could capture them. Sally's team fought Eggman's forces for the pair of stones, and in the end each side walked away with one of the two rocks.

The other major battle was... myself going against the very lesson I had learned at ironlock prison, and leading the team to rescue my father. After Nicole managed to locate to star posts (the pair of magic poles that serves as a gateway to the special zone) I led Mighty, Ray, and Bunnie on a mission deep into the that bizarre dimension to rescue my father. What I found there... was pure and utter chaos. Tilting mazes, tubed shape running paths, checker floored rooms filled with blue spheres... it was like something out of a mad man's nightmare. We did manage to find my father, but his mind was almost completely shattered by the time we managed to pull him out. But the king was not alone in that maddening voi. We discovered an ancient evil Wizard, known only as Nagus, had apparently been banished there by one of my royal ancestors. My team had to fight off Nagus's army of crystal monsters, but we just barely managed to escape that hellish netherworld.

When our family reunited... madre di gaia it was beyond words. Like our human neighbors in Spagonia, family is very important in our culture, and to be reunited with our father again, after believing he was dead... it almost broke my poor sister. When she saw me helping our worn and weary father into the base.

"P-Papà?" She whimpered, putting her hands to her mouth, tears streaming down her face. Our father looked at her through broken eyes, mentally shattered after the months of torture Nagus had put him through. Not able to hold her emotions in, Sally came rushing up to hug him. "Oh papa, non posso credere che sei davvero tu! Pensavamo di averti perso per sempre!" (Oh father, I thought we had lost you forever!)

"Non piangere, mia piccola principessa, sono qui. Mi siete mancati così tanto tu e tuo fratello." (No, my little princess. It overjoys me to see you and your older brother again!) Our father Sobbed, hugging her back, trying to hold back his own tears. "Né Nagus, né Ibilis, né Dark Gaia in persona avrebbero potuto tenermi lontano da voi due." (Nothing could have kept me away from either of you!)

Rosie then walked up, smiling and crying. "Bentornato tra noi, Re Umberto. Il mio cuore sussulta di gioia al tuo ritorno." (It is good to see you again, King Umberto) Sally nanny bowed and curtsied before our father. "Ho cercato di tenere al sicuro vostra figlia, Vostra Maestà, anche se insiste nel voler intraprendere quelle missioni pericolose." (I tried to keep your daughter safe, your highness, but she has a mind of her own about such things).

My father inclined his head towards her, smiling. "Hai fatto bene il tuo lavoro, Tata Rosa, prendendoti cura della mia piccola principessa Salvatrice." (You did well, Nanny Rosie, in taking care of my little Sally.) He looked around at the rest of those assembled. "As you you all do a worthy job, of trying to free our people! Sabato island is truly blessed, to have such a worthy group of protectors!" Our father raised his arm. "Venite, celebriamo il mio trionfante ritorno a voi, miei fedeli sudditi!" (Let us celebrate my return, my loyal subjects!)

And celebrate his return we did! The music, the lights, the dancing, the food... oh, mia Gaia the food! Spagonian cuisine is called the finest type of meal in the world by many... and having grown up eating it, I can attest it is true. Oh, Pasta Carbonara... Prosciutto di Parma ham...Focaccia bread...Ribollita soup! You have not truly eaten, until you have tasted the Sabato island version of Spagonian cooking! Even the humans from the mainland love our delicious masterpieces! And the wine and food flowed freely, as did the warm hugs and laughter (Ray, Mighty,Dulcy and myself tried to stay away from the wine and overt displays of affection- those three are Anglo islanders, and as for me, blame it on my years away at a University in the United Federation, Anglo culture rubbed off on me- il principe dal cuore freddo, my own subjects call me; the cold-hearted prince.) and a party that lasted well into the night.

But the celebrations were most needed by our resistance members- after so much suffering and sacrifice, they deserved something to celebrate! Antoine and Rotor drank themselves under the table, and my sister, Nicole, and Bunnie got so tired and dizzy from dancing with so many boys, they almost fell over in a heap. Everyone danced and sang and joked and laughed as the hours rolled by, and fond memories of the past- of the years before the Eggman empire invaded, and this nightmare descended upon us all- filled our heads and hearts. Even my father was able to forget the tortures that wretched chimera sorcerer inflicted upon him, being with his two children and his friends once again. We needed that laughter and happiness... for we did not know when, or even if, we would be able to experience it again.

It was not many days after our reunion and grand party, that the time for our final attack had come. Sonic and his friends had entered their final battle against Eggman overseas, and so we decided to launch our final assault on his Doomsday device here on the can I say of our final battle with the Eggman empire? My sister and I led an alliance of both our resistance troops, and our wolf pack allies, against the doomsday device itself, sitting in the open valley where Snivley had constructed it. We faced wave after wave of badnik hordes- egg pawns, swatbots, and everything else Snively could trow at us. We clawed, pounded, hacked, slashed and spin dashed our way through the endless armies of robots,but no matter how many badniks we cut down, they just seemed to keep a sigh, I realized what I had to do. Pulling out the sword of Ghianda, my vision went to red, and I dove at the badnik horde with a fury that surprised even my comrades on the battlefield.

Once again, my memories of the battle become spotty after that, and most of what I know comes from what others have told me.I led the others in a charge forward, like some engaged madman, and together we destroyed nearly all of the badnik army. Mighty and Ray helped my sister fight her way into the very heart of the doomsday machine, to find the second deep power stone was being used to power the device. Joining the to halves of, Mighty and my sister went a form of 'super' smashing all the way through the machine and blowing it into tiny little pieces. It didn't take long for our forces to mop up what was left of Robotnik's troops, and it wasn't long after that we received a radio transmission from the main resistance base; Sonic and his friends had defeated Doctor Eggman, and this world was once again free.

Things went rather fast after that; the surrender of Snively and the pitiful remnant of Robotnik's forces, reclamation of the royal palace, and the capital and other cities starting to rebuild. it was like the end of a brief nightmare for our people, who were grateful the war was behind now us. This whole thing would almost feel just like a dream, had it not been for the places destroyed and lives we lost. As to the others, our father returned to the throne after a period of rest, although my sister and I were there to help guide his now unsteady hand. Mighty and Ray continued on their world-traveling adventures, despite our offers to give them a home and noble titles- I'm really going to miss them. Bunny and Antoine-or rather, Scarlett and Danton- became engaged, and eventually wed; my sister was the maid of honor, and Rotor- er, Fisaggo- was the best man. As for Fissago, he has now taken his father's place as the Royal chief engineer-and a certain female sungazer lizard spends a lot of time down in the motor pool with him.

The outside world took notice of our kingdom's heroic struggle against the Eggman empire, and my sister and I ended up appearing on a lot of talk shows all over the islands. The humans even decided to make a television series about our adventures, though they did make some very ridiculous changes that make zero sense; Replacing Mighty and Ray in the Sabato Island resistance with Sonic and Tails, and putting Salvatrice in a romance with the blue hedgehog. (My sister was particularly annoyed by this, as her crush on sonic fizzled out during the war, and the show's popularity hurt her courtship prospects with other islander princes and dukes). They also made Dulcy into an actual full-time dragon, made Nicole into an actual A.I my sister carries around in a computer, brought Sonic Uncle Dr. Charles hedgehog into the story, when he's never actually even lived in or visited our kingdom, and had him creates these magical artifacts called power rings, along with a myriad of other imaginative fabrications. And to pour salt on the wound, they used resistance's code names as their actual names, and even wrote me out of the story altogether!

Still, I suppose it is good that people will remember our struggle for freedom, that we are not just a footnote in islander history. The battles we fought, the struggles we had, the friends we lost... they will ensure a future of freedom and happiness, even if that future lies far beyond our lifetimes. And so I write this now, to record how I perceived this significant events ,how I remember the struggle that defined a generation of this island's inhabitants. And even now, after so many years, I still think back on those times, and how, despite all of our struggles and efforts,the fight for freedom may never truly be over. We must ever be vigilant, to stand up to the Snivelys and Robotniks of the world, lest they come to enslave us again. That it why I write this chronicle, and remember.

Oh, and what of myself and a certain bobcat, you may wonder? Well, I'll ask her when we have dinner here in a few minutes, and I will let you know.

Fino alla prossima volta!

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Author's note: Okay everyone, the reason I wrote this is not to replace or supplant SATAM, but rather to give my perception of it, back when I first watched it. The Prince is what I, and all other watchers of the show, were; silent observers to the events of the show, who wish we could go along and be part of the adventure more. I also wrote this, to find a way to incorporate the concept of Satam and it's characters into the main game/IDW universe, without comprising the concept too much. Sonic Forces with it's eggamn conquering the world gave the perfect opportunity for that, and I also wanted to create a mobian/islander kingdom with cultural ties to Spagonia. Anyway, I'll be doing more sonic fanfic writing for this fanfic's universe in the future, and perhaps these versions of the SATAM cast will show up in those stories... only time will tell.