PROLOGUE: It was a dark and cold night on the planet Mobius. The notorious Dr. Eggman had ruled Mobius with an iron fist ever since he finally got rid of the pesky hedgehog who always stood in his way for decades: Sonic. Now a rebel faction calling themselves Freedom Fighters plan to overthrow him, to rid their planet of this mad doctor's polluting grip once and for all. A small group of Freedom Fighters led by Sally Acorn hid in the bushes surrounding Eggman's palace. They had planned to sneak in and assassinate him before he could be able to get rid of them. It was when they were trying to find a secret entrance to the palace that they noticed members of D.R.A.T, a cult that worships Eggman as a sort of twisted saviour, as well as a few E-series robots, surrounding a body lying on the pavement, as if they were mourning it. Sally and her group slowly emerged from the bushes and joined the circle to get a closer look. Sally Acorn gasped in shock as she looked down at the lifeless body. It was the body of none other than the mighty dictator Ovi "Eggman" Robotnik himself, now nothing more than a mere cadaver on the pavement, his skull having been cracked open from the impact of a great fall, exposing the brain. "If you have come to kill him, rebel," a D.R.A.T member said, "you are far too late". The leader of D.R.A.T, a young Mobian rooster named Grand Chief "Whip" Zephyr, gestured towards the fallen form of the former dictator with his neck chain adorned with a golden carving of Eggman's nose and moustache. "This was once our idol. Now it is our gift to you as you leave this mortal coil and take your rightful place in the heavens." he said, as he placed the chain around the corpse's neck and signalled the robots to carry it back to D.R.A.T's headquarters before watching them do so. "Who would've thought," Sally Acorn muttered to herself. "I always assumed he was crazy, but never like this…" She then took out her comlink and called up the Freedom Fighters' database to confirm what she had just seen. She managed to contact the others and informed them that Eggman was dead. PROLOGUE ENDS HERE
Meanwhile in what appeared to be the Green Hill Zone, Eggman chased Sonic and his friends around the grassy plains, as the latter group had trashed yet another of his evil schemes. Yet this time, Eggman noticed that something started to feel off, as it no longer felt like he was chasing four teenage interlopers across checkered hills but now felt like he was in hell, and the creatures he was "chasing" were actually eldritch demons guiding him to the place where he would be tortured for eternity. Even worse, it seemed that the more he tried to attack the "Mobians" with the Eggmobile's built in weaponry, they would shrug it off and keep running as if nothing happened, even when he managed to get a direct hit on them, and as he chased them the "Green Hills" would become less green and all the trees and flowers would decay as both the ocean and sky surrounding it slowly became crimson red, almost like blood, with Sonic and friends decaying as well, their skin becoming as wrinkly as a raisin,their gloves becoming skeletal hands, and their eyes becoming empty sockets. As he continued to chase them through the rotted field, he saw the bodies of the various creatures he had killed and enslaved, including the ones he had forced to become his minions by trapping them in cold robotic shells, and not only that, but as he chased them to the edge of the world, he saw the same scenery outside his vehicle, which was also covered in red and black stains. He knew that he had to end this, or he would be doomed, so he drove his vehicle straight into the abyss, and as he fell, the landscape changed again, and the very air he was breathing started to warp and distort around him as demonic laughter echoed across the void. Suddenly Dr. Eggman found himself standing in front of a giant, sentient tree that looked as if it had been ripped right out of the Garden of Eden, and inside its branches, he saw the faces of the innocent Mobians he had tortured and murdered, and all around him was a swarm of insects and monsters, and all of them began to chant in demonic whispers: "YOU DID THIS TO US." "YOU MADE US SUFFER." "YOU ENSLAVED OUR WORLD." "NOW HE WHO COULD NOT BE OUTRUN" "WILL MAKE YOU SUFFER." "WE WILL TORTURE YOUR SOUL FOR ETERNITY." "AND MAKE YOU PAY FOR YOUR EVIL!" Dr. Eggman screamed and cowered in terror and confusion, as the otherworldly creatures surrounded him and started to force him forward. He could feel his sanity slipping away, as he was being pulled by the unearthly forces of the afterlife, and he did everything he could to resist, but his efforts were futile as he was dragged deeper and deeper into the limbo dimension, until at last he landed, face down in a shallow pond of blood, and he slowly rose to his feet, staring at the reflection of a face in the mirror on the wall. It was the decayed and distorted version of Sonic from earlier staring back at him, and the voice that spoke to him was now that of the real Sonic himself, saying: "YOU ARE BOUND HERE FOREVER." But the next thing he knew, the mirror shattered, and he was looking again at the face of a terrified Dr. Eggman, screaming and writhing in agony as he realised that the dream he had earlier actually happened and his soul was trapped in a nightmare world where nothing made sense anymore. It was then that many miniature Sonics emerged from the abyss and began gnawing at his flesh, and it was in that moment that Eggman finally gave up and embraced his fate, doing nothing but sing his favourite lullaby as the horde of Sonics ate him alive, as he finally realised that this time, there was no escape for him…
A gentle breeze from Hushabye Mountain
Softly blows o'er Lullaby Bay
It fills the sails of boats that are waiting
Waiting to sail your worries away
It isn't far to Hushabye Mountain
And your boat waits down by the quay
The winds of night so softly are sighing
Soon they will fly your troubles to sea
So close your eyes on Hushabye Mountain
Wave goodbye to cares of the day
And watch your boat from Hushabye Mountain
Sail far away from Lullaby Bay…
