Several Flickys are heard chirping. A seedy hedgehog named Sonic dashed by as he collected six rings that were floating on the ground by, collecting six Rings which were floating above the ground. In another portion of Green Hill, A character named Big the Cat is slowly walking with Froggy on his seen head. Sonic speeds right by him, causing the cat to spin, and toss his fishing rod into the air..
"Woah!" Big yelped as he began spinning around, Sonic dashed by to help stop the cat from spinning.
"Sorry, Big. Sorry, Froggy. Can't chat, gotta go help our friends!" Sonic apologised as he dashed off.
"No problem, Sonic!" Big smiled waving in Sonic's direction while Froggy croaks.
Cuts to next scene. Sonic is running through a different part of Green Hill.
"Home is where your friends are, as they say"
Sonic winks.
"And that's Green Hill, where the best beaches, palm trees and Chili dogs, are just the tip of the iceberg."
Throughout Sonic's voiceover, the episode cuts to several short flashback clips, first of Pipp, Amy, Big, Knuckles, Tails, and Birdie around a palm tree, then Amy presenting the palm tree to Sonic, Pipp is relaxing on the picnic blanket by Amy, Tails is shown flying near the tree, and lastly Sonic gazing longingly at a plate of Chili dogs held by Big.
The camera then cuts to a scene of Pipp.
"Sorry forgot to mention: that's my, well our new pony-Pegasus friend, Pipp Petals, she's a Princess and a younger sister I'll explain about her later"
Cuts back to the original scene.
"We've saved this place a million times, from this doofus."
Tails, Pipp, Knuckles and Amy are riding the Tornado with Rouge following in tow is played, followed by another clip of Dr. Eggman laughing. After this, it cuts to another clip of Shadow the Hedgehog destroying a rock in Green Hill.
"And then there's Shadow. It's complicated, more on him later too"
Cuts to another clip of Sonic and co. standing side-by-side in Green Hill. After this clip, the episode returns to showing Sonic's present journey, dashing up the Temple Mountain in Green Hill.
"The fact is, we never lose! 'Cause when you got a crew like mine, there's nothing that can stop you!"
Sonic reaches the top of the Temple Mountain, and enters the cavern entrance at the top.
"Hey, guys! I made it!" Sonic smiled as he stopped himself from slidddong of the edge.
Pipp, Amy, Knuckles, Rouge and Tails are shown in the cave, prepared for battle.
"You're late!"
Cuts to Dr. Eggman who is deeper inside the cave.
"Sonic!" Eggman turned to face his swarm enemy.
"Eggman!" Sonic smirked closing his fists together.
Eggman is shown standing beside the Paradox Prism, partially embedded into the rock. Around him are Orbot, Cubot, and several Burrobots. A giant mech is also seen behind him.
"Just in time to watch me claim the Paradox Prism and transform your disgustingly green world into something more... "
Eggman laughs maniacally.
"….Me!"
Sonic drops down to the floor of the cavern.
"Yaaaaaaaaaaawnn"
Sonic's teammates rush to his side.
"Yep. I 'yawned' you, Eggman!" Sonic joked tilting his head then back to face his enemy.
Eggman begans to get angry and helds a fingure pointing to Sonic and his friends.
"CRUSH THEM ALLLLLL!!!!"
A horde of Badniks composed of Burrobots, Buzz Bombers, and giant Caterkillers charges forwards from Eggman's side of the cave. Sonic and co. rush towards the Badniks from the opposite side. Sonic destroys a burrobot with a Spin Attack, Knuckles destroys another one with a punch, Rouge flys through the air, destroying a Buzz Bomber with a kick, Amy destroys another Burrobot with her Piko Piko Hammer, and Tails uses an remote controlled laser cannon to blast a Buzz Bomber. Pipp yelled a cry as she flew down and whacked a Burrobot with the end of her selfie stick. Sonic spins around attacking other Badniks, but is bashed by a Caterkiller, causing him to drop Rings.
"Whoa!" Sonic yelped.
Luckily good old Tails managed to fly down and catch him.
"Sonic!"
"Yo, Tails!"
Tails, tosses Sonic, who performs a Spin Attack, and speeds towards Knuckles, who is fighting several Badniks.
"Knuckles, You okay, buddy?" Sonic asked his red echidna friend.
"Nothing flusters me, Sonic..." Knuckles grabs an attacking Buzz Bomber, and throws it into a wall.
"...Except when you're late!" Knuckles growled as he dashed off.
A Caterkiller approaches Sonic from behind. Rouge comes in with a swift flying kick, and knocks it away.
"Thanks, Rouge!" Sonic waved to his bat-friend.
"Don't mention it. Literally." Rouge encouraged him as she darted off.
Amy destroys a nearby Burrobot with her hammer. Its disembodied head starts rolling away, but she catches it. Three Flickies fly out of a hole in the head's underside.
"Amy!" Sonic smiled when dashed over, and leaned on the head.
"Sonic, Where have you been?" Amy asked.
"Got a little sidetracked."
Sonic spins off up a wall, and attacks several Badniks. Amy destroys another Badnik with her hammer.
Cuts to Pipp who was struggling to get for hoof out of a rock which she embarrassing trapped herself in.
"Ugh!" She grunted as she continued to struggle her way free the pony girl flapped her Pegasus wings to try and break free, Sonic saw she was in trouble and spin attacked the rock. Pipp is now free, she smirked softly at him.
"Thanks, slowpoke"
"No, problem Princ…. HEY!" Sonic scowled at her realising what she meant shrugging annoyed as he dashed off. Pipp smirked prank-like at the hedgehog.
Several Burrobots attempt to drill away at the rock attacking the prism to the ground, but are unable to break it.
"Want something done, do it yourself!" Eggman climbs into his mech.
Cuts back to Sonic, who spins over to Pipp, They continue fighting Badniks.
"Sonic, we don't know what the Prism is capable of. Be careful." Pipp convinced seriously.
Sonic rolls his eyes and dashes off towards Eggman.
"If Eggman wants it, it can't be good!" Amy added.
"Got it!" Sonic responded as Eggman gripped the prism with his mech, and begins trying to remove it.
"Step away from the rock, Eggman!" Sonic demanded.
"Not this time, you fool!" Eggman refused.
As Sonic gets closer and closer to Eggman, the Prism is shown becoming looser and looser due to Eggman's efforts. Once close enough, Sonic jumps and spins towards Eggman and the Prism.
"Sonic, wait!" Tails cried raising his hand.
Sonic is about to hit the prism, which is glowing brightly, Pipp gasps as she sees this and flutters to Sonic's side.
"Sonic, Pipp NO!" The rest of them scream as the Paradox Prism shatters into shards, producing multicolored beams of light which blast Sonic's friends backwards. Additionally, they are all caught in the blast. Suddenly, all the light in the area is sucked into where the Paradox Prism once was, leaving the area in total darkness.
…
Pipp and Sonic appear both unconscious out of a blue rift, followed by several large shards. Multicolored energy is pulsating on and Pipp's purple Music Note with a gold crown Cutie Mark and on Sonic's shoes. As they drift through the Void towards a bright red light, a giant astral figure resembling Eggman appears.
"One day I'll destroy that pony and hedgehog, and the world will be a brighter place for it, lit by neon." The Eggman figure snapped.
Sonic and Pipp drift towards an astral figure of Tails.
"As long as I'm around, you'll always have a wingman!" The Tails figure smiled.
Both of them continued to drift towards an astral figure of Amy Rose.
"The forest is the most beautiful place on earth!" The figure of Amy convinced.
Pipp and Sonic drift towards an astral figure of Knuckles.
"I don't need the details, just tell me who to smash!" The Knuckles figure snapped.
They both continue to drift towards an astral figure of Rouge.
"You may not like the way I do things, but I get things done!" The Rouge figure chuckled.
They continue drifting, away from the figures.
"Hey, I may be the one who can bring everyone together, but there's only one Princess and hedgehog they'll follow into battle!" The Amy figure added offscreen.
"Heh heh! I don't need an army when I've got friends like you, Pipp and Sonic!" The Tails figure proceded offscreen.
"I will rule the world, and no rodents are going to stop me!" The figure of Eggman winced offscreen.
"We'd follow you anywhere, Sonic and Pipp!" The figure Amy said offscreen.
Pipp and Sonic are pulled into the red light, and the screen fades to white..
"Nothing could break our friendship, Sonic and Pipp" The finale worlds from Tails spoke up.
…
In a surge of blue energy, a weakened Pipp and Sonic are teleported to New Yoke City, in the middle of a street.
Painfully, Sonic rises to his feet. "That's a sonic boom of a headache!" He groaned.
"Wh-where am I?" Pipp groaned as she sat up, Sonic gasped facing the girl.
"Pipp, your here too?!" Sonic asked her pointing at her.
"Pfff'a heck I wish not!" The Pegasus snarked annoyed as her and Sonic begin walking through the city, but they are interrupted by a vehicle with a loud horn and bright lights coming his way.
"Hu?" Pipp raised her eyebrow. "Aah!" Her and Sonic scream as they are hit by the vehicle, but they climb up to the top.
"Uh..." Pipp whimperd but was interrupted by another horn, coming from a monorail-like vehicle above them Sonic quickly ducks and grabs Pipp under.
"Aah!" She yelped startled by the sudden move but sighed in relief as she realised Sonic had just saved her. "Close one, thanks slowpoke!"
"Stop calling me that!" Sonic groaned.
The vehicle hits a bump, and both of them are knocked off, landing next to a bleak-faced citizen on a moving sidewalk.
"Aah! Ow!" They both screamed as they hit the bend of the sidewalk, and fall off into the street, where they are swept around by a street sweeping robot.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Sonic yelped as he got launched away into a wall, Pipp fluttered next to him.
"Why can't I remember how I got here? Think, Sonic, think!" Sonic notices the bright energy coursing through his shoes. "Whoa, what is up with my shoes?!"
Sonic then glances to Pipp's Cutie Mark which was glowing a bright pink colour. "Hu, Pipp… is your Cutie thinly supposed to glow like that?" Sonic asked pointing at it.
Pipp raised her eyebrow confused and glanced to her side and to her surprise it WAS glowing. "AHHHHHHHHHH!" She screamed but Sonic placed his finger on her lip.
"WHAT THE HECK DOES THIS MEAN?!" The Pegasus gasped.
"I haven't seen anything like this since I ate truck stop chili dogs." Sonic responded. "Maybe try calling in our friends"
"Tails? Amy? Heck, I'll even take Knuckles at this point!" Sonic turns to Pipp. "Try your friends"
Pipp nodded and began calling her pony friends. "Zipp, Sunny, Izzy, Hitch… Misty?!"
They both walk off to confront a citizen on a moving sidewalk.
"Uh, pardon me, what do you call this place?" The citizen ignores Sonic.
"Are you ignoring me? You're ignoring me. Why are you ignoring me?"
The citizen walks off.
"Why is everyone ignoring me?!" Sonic moves to a different sidewalk, and questions a different citizen.
"Can anybody give me and my friend a straight answer around here?!"
The other citizen also ignores Sonic, then walks away.
"And you're busy staring at nothing. Okay…"
A loud horn suddenly sounds out. Pipp and Sonic cover their ears to block out the noise.
"Hu?" Pipp gasped.
The source of the horn is revealed to be a floating circular device with text displaying on it.
Pipp reads off the text. "'Welcome to New Yoke City. You're welcome?'"
"Never heard of it. Has to be far from home." Sonic added.
Denizen 1998 quietly walks past them and stands next to Sonic while the hedgehog is distracted observing the city.
"Where are the mountains, the beaches, the palm trees?" Sonic notices Denizen 1998 with Froggy. "Big! Froggy!"
Pipp froze. "Sonic… WAIT! I don-"
Sonic hugs Denizen 1998.
"Whoa! Uh...!" Denizen 1998 gasped confused.
A video camera is shown watching the situation.
"Am I glad to see familiar faces! I thought I was losing my rings, you know what I mean?" Sonic hesitated. "What is going on here? Are you wearing pants?!"
A spotlight suddenly appears on them. Denizen 1998 puts his hands up, while Pipp and Sonic look up to see what is going on.
"Unidentified citizens, Alert! Alert!"
The Security Drone plays a siren.
Denizen 1998 and the other nearby citizens flee from Sonic and Pipp.
"Big, Don't go!" Sonic begged.
Several Eggforcers drop down from above.
"You are in violation of city ordinance 27 B/6."
"Sorry, don't speak robot." Pipp rolled her eyes.
"By the authority of the Chaos Council, stand down or be disassembled."
The robot arms its two cannons.
"'Chaos Council?' Sounds important. Give me directions, and I'll take it from there!" Sonic commented.
Two more Eggforcers arrive behind Pipp and Sonic who attempt to dash off. However, Sonic initially finds himself unable to run, before his energized shoes suddenly cause him to blast away at incredible speed, leaving a trail of energy in his wake. Pipp sighed and flapped her wings and followed him.
"Wha...? Whoaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Sonic dashes through the city, and into an alleyway. His shoes start slipping, Pipp gasped for breath as she continued following him.
"Dammit, heck Sonic!" Pipp growled.
"Woah, woah! What's up with my shoes?!" Sonic slams into a wall, and picks himself up.
"Ugh! I'm not used to all these walls." Sonic looks around himself. "And where are my Rings?"
Pipp shrugged, Two Eggforcers approach them and begin firing laser blasts. Sonic defeats them both with a jumping Spin Attack, Pipp slat it with her selfie stick, although no Flickies emerge.
"Robots without Flickies? Now, that's new." Sonic snarled.
More Eggforcers arrive and shoot lasers, narrowly missing Them Sonic dashes off again, but is blocked by a transport vehicle.
"UGH, SONIC" Pipp growled. "I CAN'T TAKE IT!" She began to follow him again.
"Whoa!" Sonic takes a sharp turn, causing some of the Eggforcers to slam into the vehicle.
"Wha...!" Sonic dodges another vehicle, but begins slipping towards another one, which quickly approaches.
"Whaah! No, no, no, no, no, no!"
Sonic slides inter the vehicle, and continues running while avoiding lasers.
"This is not. Working! I gotta get off the ground!" Sonic takes a running jump off a vehicle, grabs Pipp's hoof and grabs onto the underside of a monorail. It brings them to the top of a building, with the Eggforces still in pursuit firing lasers. They barely dodges them.
"Whoa! Aah! Uhh...!"
Sonic notices a giant machine lowering a new floor onto a building. He jumps off the monorail, and lands on the building, with the new floor lowering above him. His shoes start slipping again. The Eggforcers follow both Pipp and Sonic chasing them to the edge of the building. Sonic dodges laser fire, and jumps off just before the new floor is added, crushing the Eggforcers.
They both scream, as they are thrown from the building by the explosion, and Sonic performs a Spin Attack to land safely on the streets, Pipp flutters down besides him, A camera watches them…
Cuts to a lab, where Rusty Rose is watching Sonic and Pipp through the camera in real-time.
Cuts back to Pipp and Sonic.
"Smog, concrete, evil robots. It's like everything I hate all in one place!" Sonic groaned.
Cuts back to directly showing Sonic and Pipp.
"Where are we?" Pipp asked.
Sonic gasps upon seeing a wall with a checkered texture similar to the soil of Green Hill.
"Oh, no!"
Sonic grabs Pipp who yelped and dashes off through the city and up a tall building, in a panicked fashion.
"Please be wrong. Please be wrong!"
Upon reaching the top, Sonic jumps and spins, launching himself in the air, and allowing him a view of the city. Sonic looks down to see a checkered loop-de-loop.
"The Loop-de-Loop..."
Sonic remembers a similar loop from Green Hill, before darting his eyes to another part of the city.
"Hedgehog's Pass..."
Sonic is showing thinking of Hedgehog's Pass in Green Hill. His gaze then shifts to a small building, with Sentry Drones heading towards it.
"And that should be Tails' lab!"
An image of Tails' Lab in Green Hill flashes on the screen. Sonic and Pipp begin falling.
"Aw, Tails, what happened?" Pipp added.
Tails is flying the Tornado through the area Pipp is in the seat behind Tails.
Cuts to Sonic fighting the Eggcrusher on a cliff. Several Buzz Bombers fly past.
"Come on, Egghead, show me what you got!"
Eggman Chuckles. "That's the spirit, rodent... the spirit of a loser!"
The Eggcrusher raises its first, and brings it crashing down. Sonic dodges.
"Takes one to know one. Ha!" Sonic dodges another strike, and attacks the mech with a spin.
Cuts to Amy and Knuckles, who are fighting Burrobots at the foot of the cliff.
"Why do I feel like Eggman's keeping us off the main stage?" Amy asked confused.
"Eggman's got us fighting the Badniks so he can have Sonic all to himself!" Knuckles announced.
"Let's go crash his show!"
Amy and Knuckles jump up terrain leading to the cliff, and destroy the Burrobots there.
Sonic laughs as he dodges another strike, landing on the fist, which is stuck in the mountainside.
"One scrambled egg, coming up.!"
Sonic performs a Spin Attack, knocking the Eggcrusher backwards, and leaving it teetering on the edge of the cliff. Eggman's can be heard screaming and groaning.
Pipp and Tails watch the situation from the air, in the Tornado.
"Hmm. I don't like this. Dr. Eggman's too smart not to realize how terribly positioned he is." Pipp whimperd.
Tails brings up a handheld device, which shows a scan of the mech's outline, and makes a beeping noise.
"It's almost like he's..." Tails gasps at what he sees. "He's not in there!"
"Quaking in your tiny shoes at the might of my Eggcrusher? It's understandable. I'm rather astounding." Eggman snapped.
"In your dreams! You bring it, I break it, Eggman. That's the game!" Sonic performs a short dance. "and I'm still the undefeated numero uno!"
"Then put your quills where your mouth is, unless you're scared!" The Eggcrusher moves its fingers in mock fear.
Pipp gasps as Tails quickly flies the Tornado in, and fires several blasts at the Eggcrusher, before swooping away again.
Eggman grunts.
"It's a trap, Sonic! It's a trap!" Tails yelled.
Sonic glances around. "I don't see a trap, though I guess by definition I wouldn't see a trap if there was one."
Eggman laughs maniacally.
"Something funny, egghead?" Sonic mumbled.
"You are! Watching you try to think with that two-cent brain of yours is hilarious!" Eggman chuckled.
"Sonic! You gotta listen! It's a trap!" Pipp yelled.
Eggman grunts, and fires several small blasts at the Tornado, followed by a large red laser, all of which barely miss, while Knuckles and Amy look on.
"You're as stupid as your mutant, two-tailed fox friend is ugly! And especially that pretty-pink Princess Pegasus girl of yours is so dumb and she stupidly can't even think, her sister is just like her… all control freaks!" Eggman smirked.
Pipp gasps and sobbed tilting her head away from Eggman wiping tears form her eyes with her left wing.
"Oh, you're really asking for it!" Sonic growled.
"Yes... I am!" Eggman smirked again.
"You can mess with me, Eggman! BUT NO ONE MESSES WITH MY BEST FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!! WHAT DID PIPP EVEN DO TO YOU?!!!!!!" Sonic growled as he dashed off from his vantage point.
Pipp sniffled still thinking about Eggman's discussing words.
"SONIC NO!" Tails yelled.
Sonic jumps off the ledge, and spins directly downwards towards the Eggcrusher. He knocks it off the lower edge, and continues spinning, driving it toward the ground, while Pipp still with left over tears in her eyes, Amy, Tails, and Knuckles watch, aghast. Soon, Sonic rams the Eggcrusher to the ground, creating a massive blue wave of energy, which spreads across the entirety of Green Hill, knocking residents off their feet, and causing Big the Cat to drop his rod while fishing.
"Ohh!" Big yelped as Froggy croaks.
From afar, Shadow witnesses the blast in annoyance.
Back at the foot of the cliff, a large crater is now under the remains of the Eggcrusher. A newly-formed fault line travels from the crater, up the Temple Mountain, to its peak, where it breaks a large portion of, leaving a visible cracked wall. Sonic is shown on top of the Eggcrusher's remains.
"Whoa! Didn't know I had that in me!" Sonic starts gleefully dancing. "That's what you get for messing with my friends, Egghead!"
Sonic looks inside the cockpit, but only finds a mysterious device.
"Hu? Wh-where's Eggman? He must have ejected. Well, looks like we win again, HEY, TAILS, PIPP! He's not even in here. Lame, right?!" Sonic chuckles.
Tails looks on in annoyance as Pipp scowled at Sonic, sniffing the last bit of tears in her eyes.
"Too chicken to face us in person. Whatevs! Couldn't have done it without ya, buddy!"
Tails and Pipp both fly away in the Tornado.
"Hu?" Sonic gasped.
Knuckles and Amy arrive at the former scene of the fight.
"Whoa, Tails looks upset!" Knuckles said confused.
"And Tails never gets upset." Amy thought hard. "Did you see Pipp's eyes were filled with tears?"
Knuckles nodded weakly.
…
Cuts to next scene. Eggman emerges from behind a palm tree holding a communications device, with Orbot and Cubot at his side.
"It worked! Without the power of that blue buffoon, we would have had to dig for months. Thank you for the earthquake, Sonic, and thank me for my plan, which went off spectacularly!" Eggman smirked.
"And it worked, too!" Cubot added.
"Of course it worked!" Eggman growled. "I just said that! Ugh, let's go. Papa wants his Prism!"
Eggman walks away, tossing the communication device behind him, where it bounces off Orbot's head and hands in the robot's right hand. Orbot and Cubot follow Eggman.
…
Sonic dashes up to the lab, which has its garage door shut. Sonic inputs the code '1992' on the keypad outside, and the door opens. Tails is seen inside typing on a keyboard. Sonic slowly walks up to him, holding comic books. Cuts to Pipp who huffs at Sonic annoyed turning away from him in her chair she sniffled.
"Yo! How's my genius friend?" Sonic smiled.
"Hey, Sonic." Tails responded weakly.
"Humph!" Pipp sniffled still facing away from Sonic in her chair.
"I brought you both a comic" Sonic helds one in his hand.
"Thanks, Sonic, you can put them over there." Tails gestures behind him where Pipp was whipping her eyes with her wings.
"Don't tell me your still upset from what Egghead said about you and your sister?" Sonic asked leaning against the chair spinning her to face him.
Pipp sobbed a tear. "Go away, Sonic!" she sniffled. "Even if it was a joke, my heart broke…"
Sonic and Tails glance at each other worriedly.
"NOPONY SAYS THAT ABOUT MY SISTER!" She sobbed.
"I think she's upset about it because she hasn't seen Zipp for a while" Tails explained to Sonic.
Pipp overheard. "YES…!"
Tails jumped startled.
"Sorry…" Pipp hesitated. "It's just… I miss her…"
"You'll find her soon" Sonjc convinced her but she refused to listen and turned her chair back around and scowled.
Sonic chuckled nervously. "How about a little break from the big brain stuff?"
"I can't. Something's not right. I gotta figure out what Eggman is up to."
Sonic sadly walks up to Tails, and places the comic books on the lab's table. He then spins Tails' chair around so the fox is facing him.
"Sorry, Tails. I didn't mean to upset you. In fact, I've never seen you so upset. I just kinda got into the moment and..." Sonic paused. "I guess that hurt Pipp as well"
"Sonic, it's cool. Really."
Sonic and Tails glance the the girl in surprise.
"But thanks. I appreciate it…" Pipp sighed.
"Don't you think it was weird that Eggman wasn't in the Eggcrusher?" Tails added.
"Uh, not really. I mean, he is a total chicken. But I did find a hunk of junk in the cockpit where his big butt shoulda been." Sonic smiled.
Tails: "Hunk of junk, huh? Wonder if that was all part of the trap?" Tails quickly gasped. "Tell me you didn't toss it in the barge of Badnik parts."
Sonic looks up nervously]. "Uh..." He dashes off, and returns just as fast, holding the Speed amplifier. "Junk speedy delivery! You smash it, we dash it!"
Tails grabs the Speed Amplifier. "Whoa, lemme see that! It wasn't a trap, it was a trick. You've never created a blast that destructive."
A flashback clip is shown of Sonic defeating the Eggcrusher, with the Speed Amplifier activating right before the explosion.
"I think that this device was some sort of speed amplifier. Long story short, he used your speed against you!"
"The fox is on to something…." A familiar voice piped up from behind Pipp.
"Hu?" Pipp jumped and glanced to a bat glancing back at her.
Sonic and Tails look towards the direction of the voice to see Rouge sitting above in a rafter of the lab.
"Rouge?" All three of them gasp.
"How did you get in here?" Sonic asked.
"He played you for a fool, Blue." Rouge admitted.
"Pfft! Please!" Sonic scoffed.
"What would he need a massive explosion in that area for?" Pipp coughed clearing her throat.
"Well... I have a hunch." Rouge spreads her wings and gently floats down to Pipp, Sonic and Tails. "You see, I've been searching for years for a super rare and shiny gem called the Paradox Prism."
"Paradox Prism?" Sonic asked.
Sonic and Tails look at each other in confusion.
"Legend speaks of untold power, and it's buried deep within the Green Hill bedrock. My guess is that he used your power against you to try to find it."
"Fascinating. But what I really want to know is, how did you get in here?" Sonic changed the subject.
Rouge froze a slat confused look at the hedgehog. "…You left the door open."
Pipp, Sonic and Tails glance at the Lab's door, which is wide open.
"Gather your crew and meet me at the top of the loop-de-loop." Rouge smiles excitedly. "Let's find out what Eggman is up to!"
The camera pans towards the summit of the mountain, showing several Caterkillers which are collectively deploying a artificial cloud around it. At the top, Eggman, Orbot, Cubot, a mech, and several Burrobots lie outside a cracked mountain face.
"At last. The Paradox Prism! So close!" Eggman peers through one of the cracks, gazing into the cavern behind. "It was only a rumor for so long, and now inches from my grasp. Countless times I have tried to modernize this hunk of earth only to be defied by that simpleton Sonic. Now, it's finally going to happen. And it's all the sweeter because the blue baboon handed me this prize..." Eggman claps, and walks onto the hand of his mech. The hand raises, and one finger forms a small bridge, which Eggman walks across to enter the cockpit. " ...without realizing it. So, thank you, Sonic. For now, I stand at the summit of-"
"Of the mountain." Orbot added confidently.
" ...of a new age! The age of-"
"Pretty lights?" Cubot added excitedly.
" ...the age of the Eggman Empire" Eggman readies the mech, while the Badniks congregate behind it.
Orbot and Cubot look at each other.
"OOOOOHHHHH, Catchy!"
Eggman uses the Mech's strength, Eggman breaks down the cracked wall leading to the cavern, and walks offscreen into into the new passageway. "And now... " Eggman screams as a large crash is heard, and Orbot and Cubot look through the entrance to see Eggman's mech flat on the ground of the cave. Eggman steps out of the mech.
"Why didn't you idiots tell me how big that first step was?!"
"Sorry, Boss." Orbot whimpered.
Eggman gets back in the mech, activates its lights, and brings it to its feet again. He slowly walks it through the cave, shining its spotlight on surfaces.
"Where is it? I know you're here somewhere." The light shines on the paradox prism, casting multicolored rays across the cavern. Eggman chuckles, and laughs maniacally.
Sonic is standing on top of the loop, gazing at the Temple Mountain.
"I think Rouge is right. Eggman picked that spot for a reason." Pipp points to the site where the Eggcrusher was defeated at. "Why else would he hide a power amplifier in his own Eggcrusher?"
"So we start at the scene of the crime." Knuckles' eyes widened.
"Exactly! Let's go investigate and see if anything might lead us to this Paradox Prism you guys are talking about." Amy encouraged.
…
Pipp and Sonic continue falling from the building.
"Paradox Prism. Right. That's what Eggman was after. How?"
Pipp and Sonic land flat on the ground with a thud, and groan.
"No, no, no." Sonic sees a wall adorned with the Chaos Council's symbol, and begins walking towards it, Pipp catches up
"We didn't leave Green Hill… This IS Green Hill. He did it? I don't know how he did it, but he did it… Eggman won"
The eyes on the symbol glow bright red, and sound a siren. Several Eggforcers arrive, and fire lasers.
"That would mean... Badniks, We gotta find Tails!" Sonic grabs sho yelled again as he dashes off. Another camera is shown watching them.
Cuts to the same lab as before, where Rusty Rose is again watching Pipp and Sonic through the camera in real-time.
Cuts back to both Pipp snd Sonic.
"Badniks. We gotta find Tails"
A light flashes on in the lab's hallway, and the shadow of Mister Doctor Eggman is projected onto the scene. Rusty Rose begins watching footage of Pipp and Sonic's earlier actions in New Yoke City.
"Who are you two?!" Rusty Rose glanced at the pony and the hedgehog.
"More ungrateful rebels?"
Rusty turned around to her surprise it was Mr. Dr. Eggman…
"No. Something new. Not in the databanks." Rusty Rose types on the control panel in front of her, and a visual of Pipp and Sonic's energy profile is brought up. "Their energy profile is... intriguing. The Unidentified Running Organism has outrun the Eggforcers and is heading towards Babble's area. "
Babble's logo is shown of a screen of the panel.
Cuts to next scene. Pipp is flying besides Sonic who is dashing through Babble's area of the city. They head straight by a citizen being threatened by a gray Eggforcer. The Eggforcer notices them and gives chase.
"Finding Tails would be a lot easier if everything was covered in grass and palm trees, like it should be." Sonic winced looking around.
Dr. Babble in his mech hovers down right in front of Pipp who skids to a halt.
"FLAPPIN' WINGS!" She yelped as it almost hit her.
The mech drops to the ground with a thud.
"Eggman, finally! I don't know what you did, and I don't know how you did it, but I'm gonna kick your Ro-butt!" Sonic snarked.
Pipp scowled. "Hah, nice to see you get beaten up after trynna kill me for your own sake!"
Babble laughs and presses the button on the door of his mech suit, causing the color roulette to start, much to Sonic and Pipp's confusion. The color roulette slows down and lands on the yellow icon. The baby rattle shaped mace arm appears out of the funnel of the mech suit's arm as Babble shakes it.
"What is that, a baby rattle? Not exactly scary..." Sonic glanced at Pipp who burst out laughing.
Babble uses his mech suit to uppercut Pipp the pony girl screamed as she was sent flying to the wall as Babble continues laughing.
Sonic growled angrily. "HEY, LEAVE HER ALONE!" Sonic ran up-to the Pegasus and pulled her up to her hooves.
The purple icon on Babble's mech starts ringing it turns to Sonic the mace-arm retracts as Babble crawls towards them, Sonic attempts to run, but his shoes slip.
"Whoa! Come on, shoes!" Sonic grabs Pipp for confirmation of not being in trouble.
Babble leaps at Sonic, barely missing. Sonic jumps over Babble, and continues running.
"Ha ha!"
Sonic's shoes slip again, sending him and Pipp into a wall.
"Ow!" Pipp yelped.
Sonic jumps another punch from Babble, and runs up the mech's arm, but slips again. He picks himself up pulls Pipp who yelled with him and continues dodging, then runs up a building, allowing him to slam down on Babble, Knocking the mech on its back helpless. Sonic circles the mech at high speed, creating a tornado which spins it around into the air. Then Sonic's shoes slip again, causing Sonic and Pipp to veer off into a wall.
"Whoa! Unh!"
Babble whines as his mech drops to the ground and slides into a wall.
"Okay, Eggy, you tell me what you did and how to fix it!"
The cockpit opens, revealing Babble's true nature as a baby.
"Whoa! You really are a baby. What in the name of Green Hill's going on?"
Pipp froze taking a good glare at the baby in confusion but screams immediately as Sonic grabbed her ONCE AGAIN and dashed of.
The cockpit on Babble's mech closes again, and the mech springs into action again, pursuing Pipp and Sonic through the city, and slamming into several walls along the way. The color roulette begins spinning again, while Babble makes baby noises.
"Ugh! Sorry, kid, I don't bust up babies!" Sonic looks in front of him, and sees several Security Drones dragging citizens into a large pipe.
"Go home, change your diaper, think about your choices, and tell Eggman I'll deal with him later. Right now, we've got a fox friend to find!" Sonic quickly changes direction, running into the pipe Pipp flutters behind him.
Babble attempts to follow, but doesn't fit in due to the size of his mech, and is instead stuck in the opening. Babble reaches the mech's hand through, but fails to grab anything. He whines, as several Eggforcers arrive to pull him out. Babble starts crying and punches one Eggforcer away in a fit. From a ledge above, Rebel Rouge and Renegade Knucks witness the situation.
"He's fast, powerful, and hates the egg. We gotta follow this guy." Rebel Rouge convinced.
"I don't know, Rebel." Renegade Knucks shrugged. "That other girl he was with could be trouble, What if we follow her right into the hands of the Chaos Council? Feels like a trap!"
"When have I ever steered us wrong?" Rebel paused. "Rhetorical question."
…
Sentry Drones fly past, carrying captured citizens. Pipp and Sonic follow close behind. Soon, they arrive at the Scareport, and Sonic jumps off the tracks onto a platform while Pipp fluttered over and landed next to the hedgehog.
"Departing trainsport from Circle Station arriving in the Scareport..."
A wider view of the area is shown. Several monorails are present nearby, as well as tubes leading to other parts of the city.
"Oh, man, I could really use a familiar face right about now." Sonic winced.
Pipp looks around, and notices a citizen resembling Tails with mechanical tails, who enters one of the tubes.
"Sonic!" Pipp yelled making Sonic stop running. "LOOK!" She pointed to the figure she saw.
"Tails, Buddy?!" Sonic dashes off Pipp groaned as she began to catch up again as exit the pipe, Sonic weaves through the crowd in an attempt to keep up.
"Tails! Tails!" Sonic waved but it just ignored him and moves around a corner into a tunnel. Sonic and Pipp follow but finds no sign of him.
"Wait, what? Hmm."
Pipp and Sonic slowly walks through the tunnel, until he notices a door and keypad resembling those on Tails' Lab.
"Huh! I knew you were here somewhere. Please be the same. Mmm..." Sonic types '1992' into the keypad. The door clanks, and slides open.
"Tails, you crafty fox!" Sonic and Pipp walk into the room.
"Finally something around here makes sense.!" Sonic notices the devices and equipment in the room.
"Weird. Nothing about this is like Tails' workshop." Pipp confirmed as she glanced spring the workshop, Sonic notices the figure typing away on a control panel.
"Yes! There's my two-tailed genius friend!" Sonic spins the chair around. "SURPRISE!"
Nine Gasps, raises his wrench aggressively, and growls.
Pipp's eyebrow raised as she backed up. "Ahh, Sonic that ain't Ta-"
"Tails! It's me, your best, uh... Sonic cut her off.
Nine walks forwards slowly and aggressively.
"What did you just call me..?!"
Nine presses a button on his belt, extending all seven of his mechanical tails.
"Uh... Tails?" Sonic winced.
"The name's... NINE!!!"
Nine jumps into the air, and pounces at Sonic, who barely dodges. Nine begins climbing the wall of the room.
"What do you want? Who sent you?" Nine yelled as he climbed to the ceiling, and redirects the lamp to shine on Sonic brightly. Sonic is momentarily blinded, allowing for Nine to drop down Pipp gasped as she saw the hedgehog's danger and jumped in front of him causing Nine to knock her down.
Pipp falls onto some cylindrical containers. She picks one off herself and began dodging Nine's rapid strikes.
"Whoa! Heck! How many tails do you have?" She yelped as Sonic landed next to her.
"NINE!"
Sonic goes in front protectingly gets to his feat, and kicks Nine away. Nine dashes back, and grabs Pipp's hooves worth one of his arms and Sonic on the other with his robotic tails. He then swings them around, tossing them out of the room and over the subway tracks. A monorail speeds by at that exact moment, catching Pipp and Sonic on the roof of its cars. Nine quickly grabs on. As the monorail speeds through the Tunnel, Nine continues fighting Pipp, ignoring Sonic and chasing her across cars.
"Tails, stop! We're buds! Amigos!" Sonic landed in front of the Pegasus protectingly Sonic pulled Pipp wohh the him as he spins off the monorail, and onto the beam it runs along. "Best friends!"
Nine jumps off the monorail onto the beam, and charges at Sonic "I have NO friends!"
Sonic dodging Nine's strikes while slowly walking backwards. "No friends?! You have the best friends!"
Another monorail speeds by, and Pipp, Sonic and Nine jump onto it. At a platform below, a Rebel Denizen is seen recording the situation on a device, which has Rebel Rouge on the line.
"Target located. We're at the Scareport."
Cuts to a building in New Yoke City. Rebel Rouge and Renegade Knucks are operating from on top of it.
"Loud and clear. On our way!" Rebel Rouge spreads her wings, and flies off. Renegade Knucks follows close behind.
Cuts back to Pipp, Sonic and Nine, fighting on the monorail. Nine suddenly hops in front of Sonic, and continues attacking.
Sonic continues dodging. "You've been working out? Who's your trainer?"
Sonic got hit by a strike from Nine. "Ow!"
"Sonic!" Pipp yelled.
"I was trained by the misery of life and this foul and heartless city." Nine charges directly at Sonic, hurling him backwards
"Snap out of it! We go way back." Pipp and Sonic hop off the monorail and onto another one passing by on the second track, speeding in the opposite direction. Nine follows.
"All my best memories of Green Hill have you in 'em, and you're not punching me."
Nine lunges at Sonic again. Sonic continues dodging my jumping around the monorail. Soon, they both jump off onto the beam the second monorail runs along. Sonic slowly backs up as Nine crawls forwards
"Don't you want to go home? Blue skies, sunny beaches, palm trees?"
Another rebel is seen recording the incident from a platform below. Another monorail speeds by, and Pipp, Sonic and Nine jump on it. Nine continues crawling forwards.
"I don't know what kind of mind games you're playing, but it won't work!" Nine lunges at Sonic, who dodges, causing Nine to slip and topple off the monorail. Nine manages to grab on with two of his tails, leaving him dangling from the side with his other tails scraping the ground.
"Whoa!" As Nine attempts to climb back up, and horn blares, headlight shine directly at him signifying another monorail approaching swiftly on the other track. Just before the other monorail would hit Nine, Pipp flapped into action, and grabs nine out of harm's way, leaping though the air to a platform, which they land on and tumble across, before coming to a Sonic landed next to them.
"You saved me?" Nine panted glaring at the girl, Pipp nodded.
"I've been trying to tell you that we are friends." Sonic confirmed.
"Fabricated stories won't keep me from beating you back, intruder, and IDIOTIC PEGASUS INFRASTRUCTURE!" Nine snapped. "YOU CAN'T COMMUNICATE PROPERLY!" He began to go for her but Sonic cut him out.
"Stop. Just...stop. We're friends. Best friends. This has to ring a bell. From the very moment we first met, you were a happy, brainy little fox doing happy, brainy little fox things."
A pixelated flashback is shown of Tails walking through Emerald Hill Zone. Two bully foxes jump out from behind a bush. One pulls on Tails' tails, while the other jeers.
"Some blockhead bullies were picking on you for having an extra tail. I ran by, and they lost interest in being jerks."
In the flashback, Sonic runs by, knocking the bullies out of the way. Sonic winks at Tails as he continues running, and Tails flashes a thumbs up gesture before flying after Sonic.
"How do you know about that? That's not how it happened... and you weren't there."
Another pixelated flashback is shown of Nine walking through New Yoke City.
"I was a kid, minding my business but not minding my surroundings."
Like before, Two bully foxes jump out from behind a bush. One pulls on Nine's tails, while the other jeers.
"Some creeps came along and picked on me for having one extra tail."
Nine is shown crying and running from several shadowy representations of his aggressors.
"I took a beating."
Nine is shown alone in a white room, cowering in fear.
"It was the same for years, until I used my cunning fox brain to give me a real way to fight back."
Nine is shown in a lab, wearing a welding mask and using a welder on something. More shadowy representations of his aggressors are seen in the background. The flashback then cuts to another scene, where Nine has finished his work. Seven robotic tails extend from behind him.
"I take care of myself and need no one. Period"
"NO ONE HAS FRIENDS HERE!… Why do you think I live down here? To avoid everyone... you and especially her included. Nine sits down in annoyance.
"Doesn't make sense. You are Tails, but you're not. Here, but gone?" Sonic glanced confused.
"So...so what else did we do?" Nine asked changing the subject.
Sonic stops pondering the situation, and turns to Nine. "Well, first of all, you have the coolest plane."
Nine looked confused. "I do?"
"It's called...'The Tornado'"
Sonic starts running and punching in place. His shoes glow brightly, while his glow Pipp's Cutie Mark flows a bright pink but no one has noticed yet…
"And we fought and busted Eggman like, so many times, I've lost track."
"You mean the Chaos Council?" Nine added.
"No, I mean Eggman." Sonic corrected.
"So, Mr. Doctor Eggman, then?"
"Sure. Sounds good. Look, we've had our share of ups and downs, but when we stick together, we never lose."
Sonic pats Nine on the back.
"And when all's said and done, there's no better reward than sharing a chili dog with your best pal. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. We've got a lifetime of adventures and memories together."
"Um, I... I think your logo and shoes are smouldering." Nine points down at Sonic's shoes and then to Pipp's side where her Cutie Mark is.
"AHHHHH!" Pipp screamed. "WHAT THE HECK DOES IT EVEN MEAN?!" She sobbed angrily as Mine covered her mouth with his hand annoyed by her screaming.
Sonic looks down in surprise. "Of course they are. What else can go wrong in this crazy place?" Sonic sits down in frustration.
"The only thing I despise more than people in my space is whiners."
One of Nine's robotic tails places a gun-like device in his arms. Nine points it at Sonic.
Sonic panicked. "Wait! I thought we just had a bonding moment!"
"Stay still." Nine activates the device. It shoots a cyan light which Nine gradually directs down Sonic's body, stopping at his shoes. The gun then projects a holographic display of Sonic's energy levels, which Nine reads, then does the same to Pipp.
"Curious. There's low-level energy throughout your entire body. But possibly a Regulator could... Follow me!"
Nine uses his mechanical tails to crawl off. Sonic and Pipp follow.
…
Sonic is examining Nine's inventions, while the fox types away at a computer.
"I, uh, like them by the way." Sonic added.
"Those ratty old sneakers? Obviously." Nine rolled his eyes.
"No, I mean I always thought your extra tail was cool, but the metal ones? Man, you're amazing!" Sonic smiled.
"Uh, sure. One last touch." Nine swivels his chair around to face Pipp and Sonic. He hands Sonic four Regulators. "I may not have confessed of how to stop your mark from glowing but for a fact I have managed to figure out his, Attach these. They might be able to regulate the excess energy coming off your gear so the don't explode."
"Might?" Pipp whimperd.
"This energy is still a mystery."
Nine attaches a Regulator to each of Sonic's gloves, and a Regulator to each of his shoes.
The Regulators begin to glow with blue energy, and make a mechanical whirring sound. Pipp backs up as Sonic and Nine watch in suspense. Suddenly, Sonic glows brightly, and his shoes and gloves transform into more stylized forms.
"Whoa! What are these?!" Sonic dashes back and forth. "No energy overflow, and the look." Sonic gazes appreciatively at his new attire. "I mean, come on. Mwah!"
Pipp scoffed and turned away to not get touch in the conversation.
"Ah, curious. They're still your gloves and shoes, only now they seem to have attuned with the energy in your body instead of resisting it. I wonder why that is." Nine conferenced.
Sonic dashes up to Nine. "Oh-ho, these are killer! No more slipping and sliding, no smoke. Thanks, Tails. I mean, Nine. Time for a test drive." Sonic dashes out of the lab, Pipp flew over to catch up.
"No, wait, you dopes, It's not safe!" Nine followed after them.
Pipp and Sonic emerge from a pipe in the streets of New Yoke City. Nine follows close behind.
"Hey, if the mad scientist/loner thing doesn't work out, you should get into fashion accessories. Stylin'!" Sonic smirked.
"Shhh! We need to maintain a low profile. The Council has eyes everywhere." Nine hissed.
Sonic walks backwards. "When you get your memory back, you'll remember that low profile isn't my thing. Want to run up the walls?"
"What? No!" Nine snapped, but startled as him and Sonic heard Oipp yelp. Suddenly, both Sonic and Tails are grabbed by the first of Babble's mech in the same one as Pipp which emerges from behind a corner. Several Eggforcers arrive.
Babbles baby talks as he holds Pipp, Sonic and Tails threateningly near the cockpit of his mech.
"Ugh. Not the baby!" Sonic groaned.
Pipp growled. "HE FREAKIN' TRIED TO KILL ME!"
"I told you two to keep a low profile." Nine hissed.
"No, you didn't."
"Yes, I did."
"No, you didn't."
"Yes, I did."
Babble's mech blasts off, with Pipp, Sonic and Nine still in its left fist. The Eggforcers follow.
"No, you didn't." Sonic added.
Pipp scoffs.
"Are you sure we were best friends?" Nine suspects.
From atop a building, Renegade Knucks and Rebel Rouge watch.
"Blue Streak has a friend?" Regeneration Knucks convinced.
"Didn't look friendly. But whoever he is, he's involved now!" Rebel Rouge clenches her fists.
Cuts to a giant building in New Yoke City, adorned with the logo of the Chaos Council. Inside, Sonic's limbs are restrained by electronic shackles from a restraining device. The room is in total darkness. Footsteps are heard.
"Who's there? Hello? Hello?" A bright light suddenly shines directly at Sonic who grunts.
"Ow! A little warning. Man, that's bright." Sonic blinks a few times as his eyes begin to water. He begins to notice this. "Hello? Tissue?"
A door opens, and in walk two Eggforcers, along with a captured Pipp and Nine.
"You're wasting your breath." Nine announced.
"Pipp, Nine, is that you?" Sonic's vision is shown to be blurred. "Are you two the small blurry things or the medium blurry things?" Rusty Rose walks by.
"Or the big blurry..." Sonic gasps. "Amy?! Amy! All right. Now we're getting somewhere. Got a key?"
Rusty Rose types at a computer. "Negative. My identification is... Rusty Rose."
Sonic gasped aghast. "You're a robot!"
"No. Mechanically enhanced. Survival required adaptation, as you will soon learn."
"Oh, Amy." Sonic sighed.
"Rusty Rose. Cease talking. You will need all the breath you can muster if you are to survive."
The door opens, and five figures on hovering chairs enter, obscured by the shadows.
"More silhouettes? Who does your lighting?" Sonic winced.
"The Chaos Council." Rusty Rose presses a key, turning on a spotlight on above Dr. Done-It. "Dr. Done-It."
Dr. Done-It grumbles and his sleep, then wakes up. "I'm awake, I'm awake. Go on, you were saying."
Rusty Rose presses a key, turning on a spotlight on above Dr. Deep. "Dr. Deep."
"The philosophical ramifications of this discovery rock my very core."
Rusty Rose presses a key, turning on a spotlight on above Dr. Don't. "Dr. Don't."
Dr. Don't is playing on a handheld gaming system. "Whatevs?"
"And you have already met the baby, Dr. Babble." She presses a key, turning on a spotlight on above Dr. Babble.
Dr. Babble babbles angrily.
"That is the angriest baby I've ever met!" Sonic snapped.
"And finally, Mr. Dr. Eggman" Rusty presses a key, turning on a spotlight on above Mr. Dr. Eggman.
"Oh, so that's who you were talking about!" Sonic glanced at Nine.
Pipp and Nine rolls their eyes.
"By the dumbfounded look in your eyes, I gather you've come to grips with the gravity of your situation." Mr. Doctor Eggman conducted.
"'The Council?' Looks like an Eggman family reunion. When did you call in reinforcements, Eggy?" Sonic snapped.
"We are not a family, rodent. We are The Council. One makes five."
The other four other members of the council move their chairs directly behind Mr. Dr. Eggman's, making it the only one visible. Then, they move them back.
"Five makes one!"
The Chaos Council laugh maniacally.
Sonic groans. "So many Eggmans, so many questions." He sighs. "Does anyone have an aspirin?"
"I could use some!" Pipp raised a hoof. "MY HAIR IS RUINED!"
"How could you not know?!"
"We're famous." Dr. Don't added.
"We are what we are. Always have been, always will be." Mr. Dr. Eggman confirmed.
"So this creature made all that fuss?" Dr. Done-it moves his chair up to Sonic. "Doesn't look like much..." he pokes Sonic with his cane]. "To..." he pokes Sonic with his cane again" ...Me." He ONCE AGAIN pokes Sonic with his cane a third time.
"HEY! I respect creaky old stuff, but poke me again, and I'll crack your antique shell, Egg-gramps." Sonjc growled.
Dr. Babble points at Sonic, and babbles angrily.
"I told you. It seems to know who we are, yet we have no information on it in our databanks." Mr. Dr. Eggman told him.
"It' Really?" Sonic groaned.
"Like it popped into existence from nowhere." Dr. Deep explained.
"What? I've been here the whole time, dude." Sonic corrected annoyed.
"Perhaps answers lie in the energy signature the creature exhibits." Rusty Rose presses a key, and footage from earlier of Sonic outrunning Eggforcers plays on a TV screen in the room. "May I suggest a series of grueling life-endangering diagnostic tests?"
"Not helping, Amy. You know I don't do well on tests!" Sonic snapped.
"Those in favor of stress-testing this blue rabbit, say yes."
All of the Chaos Council members except Dr. Don't raise their hands.
"Oh, yes, please!" Mister. Doctor Eggman agreed.
Dr. Babble babbles happily.
Instead of raising his hand, Dr. Don't presses a 'yes' button on his device. The device restraining Sonic is lifted off from its base, and placed in a sealed chamber with a glass wall for the Chaos Council to watch through.
"Hey, hey!" Sonic growled.
"Rusty, put him through the paces. Let's see how powerful he is!" Mr. Dr Eggman demanded.
Rusty Rose presses a key on the access panel. Sonic grunts, and struggles against the electronic shackles binding him.
"Do not fight them. It will only end badly for her and him.
Rusty Rose points to Pipp and Nine An Eggforcer prods Pipp with an electric weapon, electrocuting her.
"UGH!" She screamed as she was electrocuted.
"PIPP!" Sonic growled. "NO ONE MESSES WITH HER!"
Rusty Rose presses a key, and the shackles deactivate, causing Sonic to drop to the floor of the chamber.
"Okay, let's start the test. The sooner we do this, the sooner Pipp, Nine and I can get out of here!" Sonic said confidently.
Rusty Rose presses another key, and two laser turrets emerge from opposite walls. One fires at Sonic, and he barely dodges out of the way.
"Lasers. I hate lasers." Sonic groaned.
Both turrets begin firing rapidly, and Sonic continues running to dodge.
"Nice!" Mr. Dr. Eggman laughed.
Sonic runs up a wall, and rapidly circles the turret there, causing it to lose focus on him. The other turret prepares to fire. Sonic then jumps in the space between the two turrets, causing both to fire. A slow motion shot of Sonic dodging at the last minute is shown, which leads to the laser cannons shooting each other. Mr. Dr. Eggman snaps his fingers, and Rusty Presses a hey to re-capture Sonic. The entire chamber then moves upwards, while Sonic is forced to the one below through a hole in the floor. In the new chamber is a curved conveyor belt. After being released, Sonic runs on the belt, avoiding moving laser beams while the belt ripples and bends. Cuts to another portion where Sonic runs past a crusher and between a set of Spikes to bounce on a Spring. In mid-air, Sonic avoids several more sets of spikes, before landing on a fan, which he runs on to make it rotate and carry him upwards. He then kicks it away, sending it spinning into the crusher, which it cuts in half. Sonic wipes his hands, while the Chaos Council look on in interest. Rusty Rose presses another button, and the shot cuts to Sonic running in a rotating hollow glass sphere with spiked ballss bouncing around inside it.
"Seriously? A hamster ball? What is wrong with you people?!" Sonic glared through the hamster ball he was in.
"The tests are still inconclusive. His maximum limits remain unknown." Rusty confirmed.
"Make the blue badger run!" Dr. Done-it demanded.
Rusty Rose presses a key, and the rotation of the glass sphere speeds up.
Sonic grunts. "Come on, Amy! Some compassion for your boy Sonic! You can't suddenly be this heartless!"
Rusty Rose walks up to the glass barrier of the chamber.
"Birdie would disagree!" Rusty commented.
A portion of Rusty Rose's robotic torse opens up, revealing a defeated-looking Birdie inside.
Birdie chirps sadly.
"That's so messed up!" Sonic gets hit by a Spiked Ball, and tumbles around the sphere."
"Sonic!" Pipp yelped as she and Nine get electrocuted again by the Eggforcers.
Sonic begins running faster and faster. "You want to test me, Eggheads? Question: How do you tick off a hedgehog? Answer: Mess with his friends!"
Sonic performs a Spin Attack, and begins speeding along the interior of the sphere at rapid speed.
The computer shows Sonic's energy level rising. A repeated beeping is heard. The Chaos Council, except for Dr. Don't watches on in interest.
"I totally call dibs on his quills." Dr. Don't commented.
Sonic grunted as a mass of blue energy is forming in the sphere.
The computer shows Sonic's energy reaching dangerous levels. The building begins shaking.
"I knew it. He's got the same energy that powers the city!" Nine gasped.
"The energy field is supercharging our systems." Mr. Dr. Eggman convinced.
The computer begins to spark. Rusty Rose backs away.
"Turns out the blue possum has some juice after all." Dr. Don't spat.
Sonic starts straining.
The energy generates a great white light. Cuts to Sonic, who can only is still running, and can only see the mass of energy around him.
"Sonic, it's broken! It's all broken!"
A familiar voice of Shadow convinced Sonic.
"Shadow?! Uh-oh, I think I'm starting to hallucinate!"
Several short flashbacks are shown: Sonic's defeat of the Eggcrusher, Shadow witnessing the blast, the meeting atop the Loop-De-Loop, and Sonic fighting Shadow. Then, it flashes back to directly after the meeting on the Loop-De-Loop, where Sonic, Pipp, Amy, Knuckles, Tails, and Rouge are present.
…
"Let's stick together and we'll..." Amy was cut off.
"Perfect! I'm gonna ring up. Meet you there." Sonic jumps off the loop, and dashes away.
"Sonic! I guess he didn't hear the 'stick together' part?" Amy sighed.
Pipp scoffed annoyingly. "Does he ever?!"
"No. But he also hasn't let us down when it really counts. You know Sonic. He'll catch up at some point." Tails said sure on point.
Cuts to next scene. Pipp, Knuckles Tails and Amy are flying in the Tornado, with Rouge flying on her own close behind. They fly around the site of the defeated Eggcrusher.
"Wow! Are you guys seeing this? Look at the fault line. It goes right up the mountain!" Tails yelled.
The fault line's path is shown up to a point on the Temple Mountain, where it can no longer be seen due to a cloud obscuring it.
"Ugh!" Knuckles groaned.
"Anyone noticing that?" Amy points to a cloud. "That cloud hasn't moved an inch. Something's unnatural. Tails!"
"Already on it!" Tails turns the place towards the Temple Mountain and flies up it through the cloud. He notices a hoard of Badniks pointed toward the cavern entrance. "Whoa. Do you think Sonic's in there?"
"With all those Badniks still standing?" Rouge gasped.
"Our pal's not exactly the stealthy type." Knuckles snapped.
Pipp gasped worriedly. "We got here before him? How?!"
"Find a spot to land. Let's find out what's going on." Amy nodded.
Tails has the Tornado descend.
Cuts to next scene. Sonic is running through an open area of Green Hill.
Sonic chuckles. "We can wrap this up before dinner. Mmm. Chili dogs. But first, just in case Eggman gets in a lucky shot, Rings!"
Sonic grabs four rows of rings. Suddenly, Shadow appears, and charges directly at Sonic.
"Ahhhh!"
A stylized slow-motion show of Shadow punching Sonic is shown. Sonic is sent flying...
