What was once a mighty barrier and haven for Mobians keeping Eggman's forces out has been converted into a Hell's Paradise, where the robots that serve to protect have turned against the very Mobians they are meant to protect. Sage Robotnik, an artificial intelligence created by Dr. Eggman, and Omelette Robotnik, a robotic daughter created as his perfected heir, are a force when they concentrate and focus. However, is it truly too late to save West Island?

At Angel Island, the last of the Death Egg remains was scavenged by Jenni's Buzzers, equipped with a technology that can shrink objects down to a more manageable size. The Buzzers fly to the Vespa Queen's cargo hold on its bottom half as they finish up.

Jenni: "And that's that. Thanks to Tails' flying and Sonic's speed, we found the remaining Death Egg pieces in no time flat."

Jenni stood nearby on a hill with Sonic, Tail, Knuckles, and Kicks. Knuckles was looking impatient, though Kicks was pretty chill.

Knuckles: "That took longer than you promised, lady."

Jenni: "Only a couple of notches off. Could be worse."

Kicks: "I don't know. I found it amusing."

Tails: "Hey, at least we cleaned up the island! I hope we can come back here every now and then."

Sonic: "Yeah. Place is pretty peaceful and the air up here is nice."

Knuckles: "As long as you don't bring trouble, I'll leave out the welcome mat."

Sonic: "No promises there, Rad Red. Trouble tends to find me somehow."

Knuckles rolls his eyes before the two shake hands, ending it off rather friendly. Kicks then walks up to Sonic, looking as stoic as ever.

Sonic: "So… Try not to push things, alright? You're tough, but-"

Kicks says nothing before grabbing Sonic… and pulling him into a hug. Knuckles' jaw dropped to the ground hard enough to leave a crater underneath as he stares with widened eyes. Jenni just giggles as Tails looked confused.

Tails: "Wait… Doesn't Sonic already have a-"

Jenni: "You'll know when you're older, Tails. Teenage hormones and all."

Tails tilts his head in confusion before looking back. Kicks let's go of Sonic before stepping back.

Kicks: "Come back whenever. You make things fun."

Sonic: "...Heh. Yeah. You two take care."

Sonic walks over to the Tornado with Tails as it and the Vespa Queen launch off the island and leave. As they leave, Knuckles crosses his arms and looks at Kicks, a serious look on him.

Knuckles: "So when were you gonna tell me you were falling for that hedgehog?"

Kicks: "None of your business. My life is mine alone."

Knuckles gets shot down right away as Kicks turns to him with her stoic expression.

Kicks: "Don't act so jealous either. We chose this life knowing full well what it meant. Years of isolation, it was bound to hit us one day."

Knuckles looks away, gritting his teeth as he walked away, not wanting to argue.

As the trio head back in the direction of West Island, Tails puts on a communication link to Jenni's Vespa Queen mech in order to talk with her.

Tails: "So Jenni? The Death is a considerably big space station. Like many times bigger than that storage unit on the bottom half of your mech."

Jenni: "Wondering how I fit it all in there, are we? Magic Hands tech."

Tails: "Huh?"

Sonic: "Magic Hands?"

Sonic leans from his spot on the wing to listen into the conversation.

Jenni: "Correct. The Magic Hands technology is a work in progress piece of tech that shrinks down inanimate objects to smaller pocket sized versions. With this, tools can just be put in your pocket without taking up space. And in the case of the Death Egg, they are currently bite-sized pieces that fit nicely in a single crate. …Didn't have one on hand, so they are just in a pile, but theoretically they would fit in a crate."

Tails: "Well what happens if the pieces go back to normal size?"

Jenni: "I tested this first. Let's just say the first few tests ended with a… few destroyed metal crates I borrowed from my time in Central City. Quite a waste of perfectly good metal… Anyway, after a few adjustments and further testing, these Magic Hand models now only return objects to normal size by a command on my person. Voice command that is. I say a certain phrase and boom - back to normal."

Sonic: "And what phrase is that?"

Jenni: "...Spike, I wasn't born yesterday."

Sonic only sweats nervously with a smile as Tails gives him the side eye. After a moment of flying, Jenni starts to make contact with West Island, but gets static.

Jenni: "Nicole? Nicole? Are you there?"

Not getting a clear signal, Jenni instead cuts communication before typing in a few commands, allowing her to hack into the current state of affairs on West Island. What she sees causes her eyes to widen. She immediately contacts Tails' Tornado.

Jenni: "Tails. Sonic. You two need to get going on the double. Mach speed to West Island."

Sonic: "Wha? Why? What happened?"

Jenni: "I haven't a clue, but you are needed on the double. I'll catch up; I promise."

Tails: "Sonic?"

Sonic: "She sounds serious. Hit the gas, lil buddy! Next stop, West Island!"

Tails nods before immediately speeding up and away, flying in the direction of West Island. Jenni meanwhile glared as she set the mech on autopilot before standing up.

Jenni: "My island got hacked. Meaning my own robots are all attacking innocent people… Damn it, Nicole. Haven't I told you to make sure all three hundred and fifty eight internal server locks were secured before leaving your post? What caused you to make that mistake? Either way… Time to eject that intruder from my home."

Jenni climbs down to the bottom half of the Vespa Queen before walking up to a tarp covering a stack of blank missiles, empty missile casings meant for warning shots. She orders the Buzzer units to start loading a missile casing into the launcher before climbing into it.

Jenni: "Vespa Queen, land on a nearby island and enter deactive mode after launching the following missile. Allowing you to enter West Island range while it is corrupted would result in you being hacked too. I'll reactivate you once things have cleared up."

She closes the hatch and feels herself getting loaded into the launcher. She takes out one of her syringes to keep her NIDS in check and injects herself with it. With a deep sigh, she pockets the syringe and prepares herself for the launch, immediately feeling the ejection as her heart starts racing. Her injection kicks in, stopping the NIDS from spreading and possibly killing her, but even she felt this stunt of her's might have been pushing it. Either way, she was on her way to West Island.

On West Island itself, shortly after Sage's takeover had begun but only a few minutes before Rosie experienced her side of trouble, Agatha was seen sitting on her bed in her jail cell, meditating in the quiet. That is until she hears the jailhouse door swing open violently and the jail cell open. She turns to see Coconuts standing there with glowing red eyes, glaring at Agatha.

Agatha: "What is it that you-"

Agatha didn't get to finish that sentence before she dodges a few coconut bombs being tossed her way. She manages to dodge them before she quickly closes the distance and slams her palm onto Coconuts' face, slamming her to the floor.

Coconuts: "All hail, Robotnik!"

Agatha: "Ugh… To hell with it. If I am going to prison, then I'll at least give a real reason! Hellfire Explosion!"

Agatha's palm glows while still on Coconut's face, following a bright light as the jailhouse explodes violently, leaving only a shell of its former self standing as Agatha tosses away the remains of the robot.

Agatha: "I'm in enough of a mood that I've stopped giving all manner of care for what happens. Centuries of living this cursed endless life and I get dragged to jail over something I didn't cause."

Agatha stomps her foot onto the skull of the robot before seeing Police Bots walk toward her like zombies out of a horror movie. Only with laser guns pointed at her.

Robots: "ALL HAIL, ROBOTNIK."

Agatha: "Although… I may have missed some further context…"

Agatha quickly levitates a part of the ground to shield herself from the lasers before sending her shield flying at them, proceeding to rush her way through the streets as she sees people getting attacked and captured by the rogue West Island robots.

Agatha: "Now I am certain that I've missed some context… What the heck happened in the last hour or two?"

She looks into a casino to see a trio fighting back against the robots. Bearanger, Carrotia, and Falke - each pushing back against the Bunny Bots.

Carrotia: "For crying out loud, Bearanger!? What'd you do to 'em this time!?"

Bearanger: "I didn't do nothin'! These bloomin' suckers just attacked us for no reason! For once!"

Falke: "Reeehehe! Botsies go a-boom boom!"

Agatha looked into the casino and debated on just leaving them to their business. But she sighed and looked at the area around them. She then got an idea as she spotted the slot machines.

Agatha: "Oi! Bear guy! Bunny lady said you couldn't hit those slot machines for nothing!"

Bearanger: "You say what!?"

Bearanger roars angrily before grabbing the nearby Bunny Bot and slamming her into the nearest slot machine, causing a chain reaction as the slot machines started to pour coins and flood the casino.

Agatha: "Now get out of the casino! Everyone, out!"

Falke grabs Bearanger as the trio and any civilian ran out of the casino that was slowly flooding with gold coins. The robots though were not perturbed. Agatha's eyes glowed as she placed her palms on the building, heating it as the gold coins started to melt. As the coins melted, the robots started to fall into the liquid gold flooding the casino. Once the robots were thoroughly stuck in the gold, she changed her glowing eyes from red to white as the casino interior starts to freeze, freezing the gold and the robots inside. The civilians cheer for Agatha before the cat takes a step back, very light headed.

Agatha: "Oh no… The room's spinning…"

As Agatha drops, she is caught by Falke who then lifts her off her feet.

Falke: "Excuse me, madam. But the street is not a place for a lady of your calibur."

Carrotia: "What?"

Bearanger: "What?"

Falke: "Oh. Um… Hey, guys! Ya wanna go beat up more bots!?"

Carrotia: "Drop the dead weight and we will."

Falke: "But she helped us… It'd be real mean to just ditch her like that."

Carrotia looked at Falke with a raised eyebrow before looking at Bearanger, who was just confused.

Bearanger: "Um… I understood beatin' up bots. But… I guess that lady helped us out?"

Falke: "Let's take her back to the hideout and then we have fun! How 'bout that!?"

Carrotia glares at Agatha before rolling her eyes.

Carrotia: "Whatevah. I'm better lookin' than her anyways. Bearanger. Smashie the botties."

Bearanger: "Alright! Speakin' mah language!"

The trio then run off, Falke continuing to carry Agatha, though occasionally looking down with a look of concern.

The trio end up coming to a building with a 'Keep Out' hanging off the door - with added text saying 'Beware of Bear' at the bottom. Carrotia flips on a light switch as Falke lays Agatha on a nearby couch.

Carrotia: "So did ya find a date, Falke? Is that, like, it then?"

Falke: "What's a date? I only know the time!~"

Carrotia: "...Ugh… I swear, I can't tell if you're genuinely stupid or secretly smart… Anyway, looks like anarchy's breakin' loose. Sucks to suck though. I can, like, just relax and let Hell break loose out there."

Bearanger: "But I wanna keep smashing!"

Carrotia: "Then go, like, smash then. And leave me to my beauty nap."

Carrotia looked at Falke, expecting him to lift up Agatha off the couch so she can sleep on it. But Falke seemed to… not respond like he usually did. As Carrotia was going to yell, her ears perked up as she heard the backdoor open.

Carrotia: "...Now what…?"

Carrotia pulls out her carrot bombs as she approaches the kitchen leading to the backdoor. As she enters, she turns on the lights and finds… a woodchuck and a pair of cats having just entered and staring at her.

Rosie: "...Oh dear… H-Hello…"

The two stare at each other before Carrotia gave a bored look and just lazily prepared to toss her bombs… until Ivory just kicks her in the shin.

Carrotia: "Ow! You little br-"

Carrotia drops her carrot bombs, causing her eyes to go wide before… From outside, an explosion goes off and smoke leaks out from the backdoor's now blown open window. The group are covered in soot after that, but as Carrotia glared at the trio, Rosie whistled for truce.

Rosie: "Hold! While we are most certainly intruding, we only do it to gather our thoughts on the situation outside! We just need sanctuary for only a little while."

Ebony: "Mom!"

Rosie and Carrotia see Ebony and Ivory in the living room as they see an exhausted Agatha on the couch. Carrotia just pinches her nose before rolling her eyes.

Carrotia: "Break somethin' and I break you. We understand that?"

Rosie nervously nods before walking into the living, sitting on the floor as she starts explaining their current situation from the beginning…

To be continued…