Back at Castle Camelot…
Percival, Lancelot and Gawain made it to the castle to see Merlina sitting down on the grass with Ogilvie and Maurice by her side with their swords. The youngest triplet brother noticed them and took out his air-powered sword.
"Halt!" he cried out, preparing to attack but his older brother stopped him.
"No," he told him. "Let them do as they please,"
"And I thought you were here to protect me," Merlina sighed. "but I guess I was mistaken,"
The eldest triplet growled at her with a glare. "I chose to be here to keep an eye on you, not protect you,"
"Why is that?"
"You know why, wizard. I don't trust you, not one little bit…"
They then turned to the Knights of the Round Table as Lancelot stepped forward.
"We have orders from the king," he said. "have you any last words?"
The wizard stood up and smirked at them. "Your 'king' was nothing more then an illusion my grandfather conjured up."
"What?!" Ogilvie's eyes widened in shock.
"I knew you were up to something, traitor!" Maurice snarled as he took out his crystal sword.
"You've better start explaining Merlina." Percival demanded.
"Yeah," the lime-eyes hedgehog pinned his ears. "what's going on?"
"Can't you see?! She was fooling us all the whole time!" the jade-eyed hedgehog was enraged.
"Meeerrrliinnnaaa!"
The group looked up to see Sonic dropping from the sky with the Excalibur's scabbard.
"You!" Gawain glared at the newcomer. "How did you come by that scabbard? Where is the King?"
Ogilvie and Maurice quickly ran over in front to protect their brother. Percival, on the other hand, held her comrade back.
"Wait." she whispered to him.
"This is all he left," Sonic explained to them. "after he disappeared in a puff of smoke. Just like one of the Knights of the Underworld."
Merlina came forward. "There was never any King Arthur."
"Huh?!" the younger triplets were confused while the eldest went in front of his brothers to protect them.
"What the fuck is going on here, Merlina?! Talk!" he pointed his blade at her.
She didn't oblige. Instead, she just smiled at them.
"Well done and thank you, Maurice, Sonic, and Ogilvie," she took the scabbard and clutched it to her chest. "With this scabbard I can erase my grandfather's biggest mistake…"
The scabbard glowed bright and her hair began to grow longer as magic surrounded her.
"What?!" the brothers took out their swords, ready to battle.
"I shall make this kingdom eternal…"
With that, she blasted energy towards them, making them scream.
"All of you, GET BACK!" Caliburn shouted and the three ran off with the Knights of the Round Table behind them.
A vortex above with black lightning and dark magic appeared in the sky as the six knights escaped Castle Camelot. Sonic led as he ran with Maurice using his crystals to float and Ogilvie flying fast by his sides while Lancelot skated behind them, Gawain tried to catch up with him and Percival hopped on the castle walls' debris. The leading hedgehog slashed another wall with his sword so they could escape then they all ran off to a hill top to safety.