'Revolutionaries' By Richard Morgan

A bewildered Sonic looks upon the Star Light Zone for the first time in Mobius R.R while Talbot grimly explains the sheer scale of Robotnik's evil rule of a once carefree Mobius. Talbot, being the founder and the leader of the Zonerunners, an organisation who are one of the few brave enough to go against the rule of the evil dictator.

Sonic and Talbot have never really been on paticularly friendly terms, but they do keep in touch, as the leaders of the two largest threats to Robotnik.