A few seconds later Team Sonic, Sonia and Manic were at Hedgehog Village.

"Did somebody call for a dramatic entrance?" Eggman asked.

"He really hasn't changed much has he?" Sonia said.

"Not really." Knuckles said.

"Tails, get us an aerial survey! We'll take him out from down here." Sonic said.

"Sonic?!" everyone said while Team Sonic, Sonia and Manic leapt back as Giant Robot smashed his fists down. "Princess Sonia, prince Manic."

'So she went home and then they came to help.' Eggman thought and started firing lasers at them, but Sonic, Sonia and Manic easily dodged while Tails flew by in his plane, distracting Giant Robot.

Another laser blast missed Tails, who saw Willy flying his own machine.

"Bogey on my tail. Gonna try and shake him." Tails said and flew off with Willy in pursuit.

Team Sonic, Sonia and Manic ran off to avoid Giant Robot's laser, but they saw Weasel Bandit running off with Lady Walrus's purse.

"He stole my purse! My baby! Pictures." Lady Walrus said and Sonic rolled her eyes.

Sticks and Amy took off after Weasel Bandit, only to find themselves surrounded by Dave and the Stuntbears.

"An ambush!" Sticks said.

Tree Spy was watching Sonic, Sonia, Manic and Knuckles fight Eggman and Giant Robot through binoculars, then used flags to give a signal. T.W. Barker swooped in with Octopus Bot and attacked an ice cream stand, sending the patrons scattering.

"Knuckles, that one's all you." Sonic said and Knuckles ran off, leaving Sonic Underground alone against Eggman.

"Looks like your team is stretched a bit thin, you periwinkle pipsqueak!" Eggman said.

"I can take you one-on-one any day, Egghead!"

"Yeah! She did plenty of missions by herself!" Manic said confusing everyone.

"Who said anything about one-on-one?" Eggman asked and Charlie charged with his mech, followed by Motobugs and Bee Bots.

"Oh you've got to be kidding me..." Sonic said.

Tails was still trying to evade Willy, without much success, Amy got hit by a robot, Sticks kicked it away, but got a burger to the face, Knuckles punched Octopus Bot, but got splattered with ink and smacked away. Sonic Underground got caught by the explosion of one of Giant Robot's missiles and were knocked away as well.

"It's working! The plan's actually working!" Eggman said.

The Sonic saw a bookcase mishmash and got an idea, running over to it.

"Over here, you oversized can opener!" Sonic said and Giant Robot tried to smash her, but she cut to the other side of one of the bookcase shelves and was catapulted into Charlie's Mech.

The resulting short-circuiting shut down Giant Robot as well.

"No!" he said and she jumped up onto the Eggmobile.

"Call off your goons, or I'll smash you into next week." she said.

"I'm busy next week. I mean, I could probably reschedule, but I--"

Then Sonic was knocked away by Shadow.

"Sonic!" Sonia and Manic said.

"Pathetic. Even with all this help, you still couldn't defeat Sonic." Shadow said and Sonic leapt at him, who did the same to her and they bounced off each other.

"It's happening. Shadow has finally joined Team Eggman! I'm geeking out here!" Eggman said and Shadow knocked away the Eggmobile, then went after Sonic again.

They started bouncing off each other around the Village Center, with Eggman trying to keep up.

"Need any help, Shadow? Okay, you've got this one. Ooh, ha ha ha, just missed ya. Allow me to... uh... okay. Just tag me in when you're ready." he said and Shadow stopped.

"Out of the way, you buffoon." Shadow said allowing Sonic to nail him, launching him through the wall of a house.

He leapt back out, grabbed Sonic by the scarf, and leapt upwards with him. They ended up flying right between Tails and Willy, making Willy stop short and Eggman flew up after him.

"Excuse me! I'm with Shadow." Eggman said and Shadow tried to slam Sonic down, but Sonic managed to break away and landed safely.

Shadow landed on the "bookshelf," crushing it completely.

"Hey! Someone worked on that!"

"Your shoddy craftsmanship brings shame on all hedgehogkind. And for that, you shall perish." Shadow said and disappears, shocking Sonic.

He appeared right in front of her and knocked her skyward with an uppercut, then disappeared again and reappeared above her, slamming her down with a kick leaving her in a crater.

"Sonic!" Manic and Sonia said.

"We did it! Sonic was defeated by Team Eggman!" Eggman said and held up a camera. "Victory selfie!" he said and the resulting camera flash temporarily blinded Shadow, allowing Sonic to race up and lay him out with an uppercut of her own.

Tails managed to outmaneuver Willy into crashing into a mountain. Amy and Sticks took out Dave and Weasel Bandit. Knuckles ripped a pair of legs off of Octopus Bot, then used one of them to wrap up Tree Spy.

"You fool! I had him just where I wanted him!" Shadow said.

"Sorry! That one's on me, Shadow. Forgot to turn off the flash. Pic looks great, though, if it's any consolation." Eggman said.

"Enough! How's a guy supposed to destroy his foes with dolts like you wandering around? We'll fight again soon, Sonic, but next time, on my terms." Shadow said and disappeared as the rest of Team Sonic looked at each other then turned and glared at Eggman.

"Now guys, let's not point fingers about who's to blame for this little scuffle..." Eggman said backing away but Sonic smirked, unleashed her medallion along with Sonia and Manic and hit him multiple times. "Ooh! Ow! Hey!" he said when Orbot and Cubot popped up.

"What a swell adventure! I sure hope there's more next year." Cubot said.

"Just think of all the hundreds more stories to be told using the same eight characters and four locations. The possibilities are limitless!" Orbot said.

"Just to be on the safe side, maybe we should start an internet petition."

Then Sonic kicked them and they were gone.

Then she looked at everyone strong and they looked at her back.

"You're the princess that left." Mayor said.

"Yes. I'm the princess that left. I left to end Robotnik." Sonic said.

"Who?" someone asked and she and Knuckles rolled their eyes.

"Eggman!" she and Knuckles said.

"I've known Sonic for years because we worked together back when he went by Robotnik. I just kept it quiet until she was ready." Knuckles said.

"You know, we could always ask mom to do something to these people after what they did to you." Manic said.

"Manic!" Sonic said and smacked him.

"What? They deserve it! Especially Knuckles!"

Knuckles winced while everyone else got nervous.

"He has a point." Sonia said and looked at Knuckles hurt.

"No. I'm still mad at them and am staying at the castle for a while but we're not hurting them. And Manic, put it back." Sonic said and everyone looked at Manic confused while he groaned and put what he took back. "Still the thief you were raised as huh?" she said with her arms crossed and Manic shrugged.

"Hey, when you start something you can't stop." he said and she and Sonia sighed.

"God there's three of them." she muttered and Manic smiled slyly along with Knuckles.

"Who's the third?" Manic asked.

"Rouge." Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy said.

"Ahhhhh."

"Maybe we should have you two meet and see if you start dating." Sonic said and they snickered.

"A hedgehog and a bat. That would be interesting." Knuckles said.

"Now, since Buttnik is gone, so are we." she said and grabbed her emerald. "Chaos Control!" she said and they were gone.

Knuckles watched and knew they screwed up and didn't think they could fix it this time.