Manik, Lara, and Sonia were developing the photos Lara had taken of the pyramid construction site. Luckily, Josh had the gear necessary for developing photos.

"Man, Jo was smart to have all this darkroom gear lying around," Manik remarked as he handed Lara one of the photos to hang up.

"Yeah, he was. That's Josh for you. Always prepared," Lara said as she attached the photo to a rope with clothespins. Soon, Manik, Lara, and Sonia had all they needed to show Rocket and Sally. They packed up the photos and headed over to Castle Acorn. Sally and Rocket were just talking when Manik placed the photos in front of them.

"You need to see these in order to know where Josh and some of the other Mobians had disappeared to."

"We actually had several missing persons reports filed, but we thought nothing of it," Rocket said before he and Sally looked at the photos Manik, Lara, and Sonia had developed.

"My God. It's like they're building something."

"They are. A pyramid that'll be the beginning of Ohra's new empire," Manik said.

"Ohra? NICOLE, report in," Rocket said. Seconds later, NICOLE materialized beside Manik.

"What do you need from me," she asked.

"Manik mentioned a person who goes by the name Ohra and I was wondering if you can run a search on that name."

"I'll get right on it." NICOLE then began her search for any important information on Ohra.

"There," she said.

"Find anything," Rocket asked.

"I did. It seems Ohra was conspiring to overthrow the empire he was a part of and build an empire of his own. Because of his treason, Ohra was mummified and buried deep underground where he remained for many centuries."

"Until an archaeology team dug him up and brought him here. They disturbed his imprisonment and unleashed Ohra unto the world. Now he's going ahead with building his empire again," Sally said.

"We have to stop Ohra before it's too late."

"That's the problem. Ohra ordered all his slaves to complete the pyramid by the end of the day. We don't have a lot of time left to stop Ohra," Manik said.

"You're right. We need to move fast. Could you show us exactly where Ohra set up shop?"

"Yeah. Come on." Moments later, Manik accompanied Rocket and Sally to the exact spot where he, Lara, and Sonia found the pyramid before. Rocket had a bag with a bomb inside slung over his right shoulder.

"There it is. We can try passing ourselves off as slaves, but Sally and I probably couldn't get too far. Rocket, on the other hand, can," Manik said.

"How can Rocket get by all those slaves," Sally asked.

"There. Look at their eyes." Sally and Rocket took a good look at the slaves and saw they all had red eyes.

"Manik's right. I can get close because I got red eyes like the rest of 'em. Watch my back," Rocket said before he walked off. He did a perfect job of passing himself as one of the slaves.

"He's in. Hopefully, he can bring down that pyramid down." When Rocket was close enough to the open top of the pyramid, he grabbed the bomb out of the bag, armed it, and dropped it into the pyramid. Before he could get back to Manik and Sally, he was halted by Josh and Ohra.

"Who are you," Ohra asked.

"Just another slave working, sir."

"And what was that you just dropped in the pyramid?"

"Nothing, sir. I was just disposing of a object I had found that didn't belong here," Rocket answered.

"Josh," Ohra asked, turning to Josh.

"I'm pretty sure it was a bomb, sir," Josh answered.

"Interesting. Shadow, Dominic, grab the impostor. Rouge, retrieve the bomb and disarm it."

"Sir, yes, sir," Shadow, Dominic, and Rouge said in unison before they started fulfilling their orders.

"You can't stop my empire from becoming reality and neither can your friends. Sonia, Lara, seize his friends," Ohra ordered.

"Sir, yes, sir," Lara and Sonia said in unison before dragging Manik and Sally out into the open and over to where Rocket and Ohra were.

"You actually thought I didn't see your friend taking pictures of all this? Well, I did!"

"I can definitely tell you've been dead for centuries because of your breath. Man, it stinks," Manik said.

"You just sealed your fate. Lara, toss him over," Ohra ordered.

"No," Rocket said before freeing himself from Shadow and Dominic.

"You leave him alone!"

"Fine. Then you'll go in his place." Ohra then grabbed Rocket and threw him to his death.

Is this really the end for Rocket the Hedgehog? Can he survive the fall or will he finally meet his end? Find out in the final chapter of Rise of Ohra!