Green Hill Zone

Sonic ran, looking for the door towards the hidden city.

"It has to be here somewhere…" Sonic said, running towards a bridge. Two Newtrons followed him and stopped at the entrance the bridge. As Sonic ran on the bridge, the Newtrons shot the rope of the bridge, making it fall, along with Sonic. However, Sonic landed right in front of the golden door.

"There it is!" Sonic said, pleased. However, his smiled went away he realised the door was open. "Shoot! Eggman must've already found it!" The two Newtrons watched as Sonic ran in without caution, to catch up with Robotnik.

"Doctor Robotnik, sir," one of them said to a inbuilt microphone. "The rodent has entered the Labyrinth Zone."

"Good!" Robotnik laughed, on speaker. "I will give the order for the Badniks at Star Light Zone to capture any construction workers and to force them to work on my new Zone…"


Labyrinth Zone

Sonic ran in, not looking where he was going and accidentally ran into one of the many water slides, which dumped him into a pool water, sinking to the bottom.

"Oh no!" Sonic thought, holding his breath. "No, no, no… Not water! I can't swim… Just calm down, Sonic. Stay calm and we can get out here." He looked up and saw the surface was high up. No way he was going to get up there. He decided to walk further in, destroying the Jaws Badniks on the way.

"Oh no," Sonic though. "I'm running out of air!" He looked up, to see an Unidasu, surrounded by spike balls. "See Eggman is getting smart with these Badnik designs…" The Unidasu started launch the spike balls at Sonic, who ran away to a crack on the floor, where a bubble came out. Sonic swallowed the bubble.

"Good... I have a bit more air!" Sonic said. "Now then…" Sonic jumped into a ball, after all the spike balls were gone and destroyed the Unidasu.


Deeper into the Labyrinth

Sonic walked further, collecting air bubbles every now and then.

"The fact it's called Labyrinth Zone worries me," Sonic thought. "It's bad enough I can drown and get lost, but who knows where the giant ring is?" He reached some stair which lead to the surface, which, without thinking, he ran up. Once on dry land, he took a moment to breath.

"Stupid machine!" Sonic heard a voice said. He peeked from behind a corner to see Robotnik kicking his Egg-O-Matic.

"You've only had 3 battles and you're already breaking down?" Robotnik yelled at it.

"To be fair, Eggy, it lost those 3 battles…" Sonic said. Robotnik turned around. "And I really shouldn't have let it live the first time!"

"Burrobots! Attack!" Robotnik ordered. Two Burrobots appear from the ground and grabbed Sonic's arms, holding him place as the Robotnik jumped into the Egg-O-Matic and flew up the Labyrinth. The water started to rise. Sonic spin dashed out of the Burrobots's grips, destroying them. He then jumped from platform to platform, chasing Robotnik, while avoiding spears coming from the walls and statues breathing fire.

"Get away, you horrible little hedgehog!" Robotnik yelled. "I haven't got an Egg-O-Matic expansion for you this time!" Sonic hit the underside of the Egg-O-Matic.

"You've caused enough pain and suffering!" Sonic said, barely escaping the raising water. "You need to be defeated!" The two reached the top. Robotnik blew up part of a wall, leading outside, and flew out. Sonic ran towards the hole, but stopped as he noticed he was up very high, as the chamber he was in was in a cliff. He looked out and saw a view of Star Light Zone. Sonic walked back in the chamber and looked at the markings on the wall. The writing was in a language Sonic didn't understand, the was 3 holes carved out to fit the same gemstones Sonic had been collecting. Sonic placed them in the holes. Part of the wall next to the markings opened up, revealing a secret room. Sonic walked in, to find a statue of an echidna, holding out a yellow gemstone.

"No ring?" Sonic asked himself, taking the gemstone and walking out. "Meaning no vision to the next area…" He looked outside to Star Light Zone.

"Star Light seems like a good first place to start looking!" Sonic smiled, taking back his other 3 gemstones from the wall. He ran towards the hole and jump out into Star Light Zone.