Yuli-Ban

[DEVIATION] Sonic came through the jade-karst tunnel with daylight wheeling ahead of him. Down the inside of the stone loop, up the far wall, upside down for one bright instant, and out through its broken end. The updraft caught him over the gulch. “Whooo!” Three Buzz Bombers rose to meet him. He spread his arms, let the wind turn him, then curled into a ball. One impact carried him to the next; the third sent him sailing over the far cliff, wings and yellow armor clattering into the gap behind him. He landed running and followed a string of rings around a bend—  Straight toward a missing section of mountain. “Whoa!” His heels cut two grooves through the dirt. Pebbles went on without him. Sonic leaned forward, hands on his knees. The road resumed a long way below. Between here and there lay enormous craters, sunlight caught in their glassy bottoms. A fallen rock tower dammed the river; water shouldered over its sides and poured into a ravine whose pale, freshly broken walls