"Power Rock N' Roll"
Sonic, Sally, Antoine, and a cloaked figure are walking through a long underground tunnel.
Antoine keeps on looking around, "W-Why, why do I keep on going on such… scary missions."
"Would you prefer to stay at Knothole on 'Naugus lookout duty'?" Sonic says, looking over his shoulder.
"Eh!" Antoine's teeth start to shake.
Sonic laughs slightly, with Sally shaking her head, "There's nothing to be scared about." The group reaches the end of the tunnel. "After all, we're going to see old friends."
The group looks over Lower Mobius, with the cloaked figure especially notices the large energy crystal above Lower Mobius, which has cables stretched down to a domed building.
After a few moments, the group of four are walking through Lower Mobius, with different people watching them.
"Why's everyone staring?" Antoine asks, before he tries to look at the bottom of his shoe, hopping on one foot. "Did mon step on something?"
"I don't think they're used to visitors, Ant," Sonic says, before Antoine falls down.
"Not used to them."
The group look ahead to see Griff and Dirk approaching them.
"But happy to receive certain visitors," Griff finishes, before he takes Sally's hand and kisses it. "And you're at the top of the list, Princess."
Sonic rolls his eyes.
Griff then notices the cloaked figure, as he releases Sally's hand, "So who is your mysterious friend."
"Actually, Griff, could we talk in private?" Sally quietly asks Griff.
"Sure thing, right this way," Griff says, as he starts to lead away Sally, Sonic, and the cloaked figure.
Antoine, back on his feet, dusts himself off, when he notices Dirk, and approaches him, "Excuse me, your name Dirk, oui?"
"That's right," Dirk says.
"Thought so, mon has a very good memory for names," Antoine starts. "For example, there's another Dirk, who is the leader of the Southern Freedom Fighter group. Though you two're probably not related, since you're a warthog and the other Dirk's a rhino."
"Probably not, it is a pretty common name in the South, after all," Dirk says.
"Right, right," Antoine says, looking down slightly.
"May I help you with something?" Dirk asks.
"Yes, well, as a former member of the Royal Guard, perhaps you could take some time to train a former Royal Guard squire," Antoine puffs out his chest, with his hands behind his back. "That would be mon. Me."
Dirk's eyes widened in surprise.
Griff leads Sonic, Sally, and the cloaked figure into a large rounded room, with half of the Power Rock in a small chamber, and wires going from the chamber to the ceiling.
"You surely have changed things," Sally says.
"We had to," Griff starts. "The Power Rock half you gave us to sustain Lower Mobius proved to be a little too powerful. So we modified this room into an Energy Crystal Chamber."
"Could use some decorations," Sonic says, with his arms crossed. "Maybe a new chili dog stand."
"This is probably the most private area in all of Lower Mobius," Griff says, before looking at the cloaked figure. "So, who is your friend?"
The cloaked figure looks at Sally, who nods her head, before they pull back the cloak, revealing it to be Uncle Chuck.
"Are you serious?!" Griff says, upon seeing Uncle Chuck. "You brought one of Robotnik's roboticized goons here."
"Hey, watch your tongue, you two-bit…" Sonic starts.
"It's okay, son," Uncle Chuck places a hand on Sonic's shoulder.
"Griff," Sally gets him to look at her. "Robotnik is gone. And even before that, Sir Charles' freewill had already been restored."
Griff sighs, "Fine, I'm not happy, but I trust you, Sally. Just don't let anyone else see him."
"I already was afraid of that," Sally admits, with Sonic crossing his arms and looking away.
"Okay, now, what exactly do you want?" Griff asks.
"Well…" Sally starts, before Uncle Chuck approaches.
"Actually, I need to take a look at that," Uncle Chuck says, pointing ahead.
Griff looks past himself, at the Power Rock half in its chamber.
Inside a room within Robotropolis, Snively watches a security camera feed on a large computer, seeing Naugus standing in the middle of a room, with the Secret Scroll of Maga floating in front of him, as purple energy circles around it.
"My translation spell will decipher the scroll soon enough, but…" Naugus says, as he looks away. "But I sense a source of power. Not as strong as the Deep Power Stones, however, it could come in handy." He looks away from the floating scroll. "And it's right beneath Robotropolis."
Naugus disappears in a flash of energy, leaving behind the floating scroll.
Snively continues to watch, confused.
"You must be out of your mind, or transistors, if you think I'll allow you anywhere near our half of the Power Rock," Griff tells Uncle Chuck.
"Back off, Griff," Sonic gets between Griff and Uncle Chuck. "Before I make you back off."
"Hold on, both of you," Sally approaches the pair. "There's no reason to get upset." She turns to Griff. "Listen, our half of the Power Rock was destroyed. We just need to analyze yours."
Griff crosses his arms, "And why would that be?"
"Hum, well," Sally rubs the back of her head, nervously. "Have you ever heard about the Chaos Emeralds?"
At the edge of Lower Mobius, Dirk straightens up a training dummy, before looking over at Antoine.
"Okay, Antoine, a simple punch, just like I show you," Dirk tells him.
"Right, mon got this," Antoine says, before he runs toward the training dummy and throws a punch but runs right into the dummy, falling down.
Dirk sighs, "Maybe something simpler…"
Antoine looks ahead to see a Ratbot, before he jumps with a yell, "Ratbot!"
Antoine then realizes that a couple people were carrying the deactivated Ratbot by.
"Hum, yeah, we've been finding these deactivated ratbots in the tunnels," Dirk explains, as Antoine watches the people carrying the Ratbot. "So we have been collecting them, with plans to disassemble them for parts."
The Ratbot is tossed in a landfill with several other ratbots.
On top of a nearby building, Naugus appears from energy, before he looks around, "An underground village? And after all this time, I thought I've seen it all." He then notices the landfill of Ratbots, as the people are walking away. He grins.
"No, the Chaos Emeralds are just a myth," Griff says, rubbing his brow.
"My father believed they were real," Sally says.
"And if they are, what's that have to do with the Power Rock?" Griff asks.
"My father left behind these data files," Sally starts. "They're damaged, but we're able to restore as much as we could. And from what we found, the Power Rock might be giving off similar energies to what the Chaos Emeralds might give off. So, maybe, if we analyze your piece of the Power Rock, it could help us find them."
"Listen, Sally, that half of the Power Rock is the only thing capable of powering the Energy Crystal that allowed us to live down here," Griff says. "I'm not gonna risk it on 'mights' and 'maybes'."
"I won't hurt or damage the Power Rock," Uncle Chuck tells him. "I won't even have to touch it."
"You did say you trust me," Sally reminds him.
Griff sighs, but before he could say something, they hear the sound of screams from outside.
"What's that?!" Griff calls out.
Griff, Sally, Sonic, and Uncle Chuck rush to the room's door, going outside to see several Ratbots roaming Lower Mobius, chasing and attacking people.
"The Ratbots reactivated?" Griff realizes, before he turns to Uncle Chuck. "This is your doing, is it?"
"What did I say about backing off?" Sonic gets in Griff's face.
Sally pushes herself in between Sonic and Griff, "We don't have time for this."
"She's right, we must stop the Ratbots," Uncle Chuck says.
"Right," Griff agrees, before the group runs ahead.
A Ratbot growls at people running ahead from it, before Sonic spin dashes and slams onto its back, bouncing off it. The Ratbot spins around, whipping its tail, which wraps around a lamppost. The Ratbot growls as it tries to pull its tail free.
"Here, let me get that for you," Sonic jokes, before he spin dashes again, cutting through the lamppost, which falls down and crashes onto the Ratbot, surging it with electricity.
Another Ratbot gets a person cornered, when it hears a whistle, before turning to see Sally waving at it. The Ratbot starts to charge at Sally, who runs away and pole-vaults over another Ratbot, causing the other one to crash into it.
Antoine runs ahead, holding up a fist, "Just a simple punch, just a simple punch." He stops right in front of a Ratbot, which growls at him, before he turns and runs ahead.
A child falls down in front of a Ratbot, before Uncle Chuck jumps onto the Ratbot's back and Griff helps the child to get away.
Uncle Chuck tries to pull on the Ratbot's neck, before managing to turn it as the Ratbot's head slams against a wall, twice.
Uncle Chuck's POV is scanning the Ratbot, as a thick line appears around it, "This energy that's powering you all, it's similar to Naugus' magic."
Uncle Chuck places a hand on his chin, "I wonder."
A couple Ratbots group together in front of the landfill.
"Griff, with me," Sally says, as she pulls off a railing at the side of a flight of stairs, with Griff doing the same.
The Ratbots growl, as Sally and Griff run to them and throw the railings, with the Ratbots whipping their tails at them, wrapping the railings. Then Sonic spin dashes around the Ratbots, forcing them to back up and fall into the landfill.
Sonic comes to a stop at the edge of the landfill, with Sally and Griff coming over to watch and see the Ratbots surging with electricity.
"I don't want to complain, but that was a little too easy, was it?" Sally asks.
"Of course it was, I'm here," Sonic says, with Griff rolls his eyes. Sonic then looks around. "Hey, where's my uncle."
Griff looks ahead, before he immediately turns around, "Don't tell me."
In the Energy Crystal Chamber, Naugus is at the center chamber, reaching for the Power Rock.
Suddenly, Uncle Chuck jumps onto Naugus' back, pulling him away from the chamber, "I should know you would unleash those monstrous on incident people as a distraction. That's just diabolical enough for you."
"I never like you either, 'Sir' Charles," Naugus says, before flexing a blast of energy, launching Uncle Chuck off his back.
As Uncle Chuck starts to push himself back onto his feet, he sees Naugus several feet away.
"Now, speaking of being 'diabolical'," Naugus says, as energies surround his claw hand.
Suddenly, Sonic spin dashes against Naugus, knocking him back several feet, then Sonic lands in front of his uncle, "You back off too, Nut-gus."
Sally and Griff also run into the room, with Sally helping Uncle Chuck up.
"Very well," Naugus angrily says, before looking over at the chamber. "This paper weight would barely be a snack." He then looks ahead. "Soon enough, I will have true power!"
"'True power'?" Sally whispers.
"But your interference must be paid in kind," Naugus shoots a blast of magic through the ceiling, hitting the energy crystal above Lower Mobius, shattering it.
Naugus disappears in a swirl of magic, as parts of the ceiling come down.
"Watch out," Uncle Chuck pushes Griff out of the way of some debris.
Griff starts to push himself up, when he sees Uncle Chuck lying on the ground, with his foot under the debris.
Sonic and Sally push themselves up, amongst the damaged pieces of the ceiling, when they see Griff lift up the debris, allowing Uncle Chuck to pull his foot free.
"Thank you, hum, Sir Charles…?" Griff says, as he releases the debris.
"Likewise, son," Uncle Chuck says, as he stands up, with a hand on Griff's shoulder.
Shortly later, everyone in Lower Mobius looks up in the darkness.
"What're we gonna do now?" someone asks.
"We have no lights, no energy," someone else says.
Sally, with Sonic, Griff, and Uncle Chuck, approaches, "Everyone in Lower Mobius is more than welcome in Knothole."
"I think I speak for everyone, when I say we accept the gracious invite," Griff says, as he shakes Sally's hand, and everyone starts to cheer.
"That's perfect," Antoine says, before he turns to Dirk. "We can continue mon training."
"Yeah, perfect…" Dirk nervously responds.
"How are you doing, unc?" Sonic approaches his uncle.
"I'm fine, son," Uncle Chuck says, before he holds up the half of the Power Rock in his hand. "But I don't think the Power Rock will be able to help us find the Chaos Emeralds after all."
"That's stink," Sonic says, with a hand on his hip.
"But it's not all a lost cause," Uncle Chuck says, as he looks at the Power Rock half. "Now, I can rebuild the Power Ring Generator."