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Team Sonic was glaring at each other while Team Dark, Team Rose, Silver, Blaze, Sonia and Manic were watching and wondering what was going to happen.

"This is a repeat of when we split up for a while." Manic whispered to Sonia who nodded.

"Too much like it." Sonia whispered.

"What are we gonna do?" Amy whispered to the others.

"I don't think we can do anything." Silver whispered.

"We trusted you." Knuckles said.

"It wasn't me!" Sonic said.

"Oh yeah? Then who was it?" Tails asked.

"I DON'T KNOW!"

"You know what?" Knuckles asked.

"What?" Sonic and Tails snapped.

"I QUIT!" Knuckles said and everyone but Sonic and Tails gasped.

"FINE!"

"I QUIT TOO!" Tails yelled and the others gasped again while Sonic glared at him.

"FINE!" Sonic yelled and looked at Knuckles who looked back and saw the last time he worked with Sonic Underground.

Sonia gasped and they all left the van.

"Huh?" she said.

"We're stuck!" Sonic said and lightning struck again.

Suddenly Manic saw Robotnik from up high.

"Bad news sibs - Buttnik!" he said and the Swatbots aimed their guns again.

"Don't leave! Stick around!" Robotnik said and the Swatbots fired again, getting Sonic, Manic and Sonia stuck in huge dollops of glue.

Sonic was strained and tried to get the glue off, but they stuck on both hands instead

"Sonic!" Sonia said.

"Knuckles, quick! Help!" Sonic said.

"I'm sorry... But... It's for the good of Mobius." Knuckles said and Sonic, Manic and Sonia gasped.

Robotnik lowered and parked his vehicle.

"Surprise, surprise! It was your friend Knuckles who led you into my trap!" he said.

"Knuckles?!" Sonia and Manic said while Knuckles looked at them guiltily then looked down.

"No! I don't believe it!" Sonia said.

"I had to." Knuckles said. "I kept my part of the bargain, Robotnik. Now we find the emerald!" he said angrily to Robotnik.

"Yes! The Emerald. But first thing's first - Bring out the portable roboticizing chamber!" Robotnik said and Knuckles gasped.

"A perfect ending, your roundness. Only you could trick Knuckles into betraying the hedgehogs." Sleet said and more lightning struck.

"You said you wouldn't roboticize them." Knuckles said and Robotnik gasped.

"Not roboticize them?! Did I say that?" he asked.

"Not that I recall." Sleet said and Knuckles gasped.

"I didn't think so. Start with Sonia!"

"Don't touch me you butt-head!" Sonia said as the swatbot grabbed her. "Wha! Hey! Ow!" she said and screamed as they carried her towards the Roboticizer's chamber.

"No!" Knuckles said and prepared a fist attack, scaring Sleet behind the building.

Robotnik also took steps back. As a swatbot came in and blocked the entrance, Knuckles came in with his fists, destroying the swatbot, grabbed the Swatbot's gun and started to shoot.

"No Knuckles..." Robotnik said and the gun was fired at the Swatbot holding Sonia, setting her free.

"Yeah! Get 'em Knux!" Sonic said.

"Ah yeah, get 'em Knux, let 'em have it! Ha, ha... Nice going!" Manic said as Knuckles shot the glue gun repeatedly at it, causing it to fall into the roboticizing pod.

"No! You can't roboticize a robot, you'll overload the system!" Robotnik said.

As the roboticizer overloaded, Sonic struggled to break free of the glue.

"Whoa!" Sonia said and the Roboticizer exploded, blasting her high, still attached to the glue.

"Now to dissolve that glue." Knuckles said and used a different gun on Sonia, removing the glue that was on her.

"Ah!"

Then he shot at Manic and Sonic, dissolving the glue and breaking them free.

"Good to have you back, dude." Manic said and they hopped inside their van while Knuckles destroyed the glue around the Van which drove away.

"He destroyed my roboticizing chamber! Get him!" Robotnik said angrily and Swatbots chased after them.

"Hang on! Manic man stops for no bot!" Manic said and the van drove through two Swatbots, knocking them over.

Lightning struck again and Manic looked away while driving and exhaled in relief.

Sonia gasped.

"Manic!" she said and Sonic immediately tapped Manic, making him alert again.

Lava spread towards them from ahead and Manic gasped, put his foot hard on the brake pedal and the van started skidding.

"No!" he said.

"That chaos wave must have set it off!" Sonic said.

"Better back it up - Or we're hedgehog stew!" Manic said while Swatbots and Robotnik's vehicle chased from behind and lightning struck again. "Yo, we can't go backwards!"

"Follow me!" Knuckles said, jumped out and broke a huge hole through a wall.

They advance through the hole with the lava following them. The lava also headed for Robotnik's vehicle and his swatbots.

Robotnik gasped.

Sleet pressed a button repeatedly, but the vehicle didn't move.

"Huh?" Sleet said.

Instead the vehicle's tail-fin kept hitting the terrain above.

"What are you waiting for, you fool?!" Robotnik asked.

"I'm reversing, I'm reversing!" Sleet said and the vehicle started reversing away from the lava.

Meanwhile Sonic, Sonia and Manic made it to the ground above.

"Quick thinking Knuckles!" Sonia said.

"Yeah - I really dug what you did!" Sonic said and laughed.

"Nice man!" Manic said.

"I never should've trusted Robotnik." Knuckles said miserably.

"You were desperate to save Mobius. I might have done the same thing in your place." Sonia said.

"Hey, are you forgetting something? We still gotta find the Emerald!" Sonic said.

Later they drove in their Camper Van when Sonic saw the bright green light up ahead.

"Hey, what's that!? That's gotta be the Emerald!" Sonic said. "Give me the canister and I'll check it out!" he said to Knuckles and more lightning struck.

Dingo's eyes ran toward the Chaos Emerald while shielding them, but Sonic dashed ahead and saw him.

"Hi guy! What's the prob?" Sonic asked.

"You are, hedgehog!" Sleet said and he and the swatbots arrive and Sonic gasped. "...But not for long!" he said. "Get the Emerald!" he ordered to the Swatbots and a swatbot grabbed the Emerald as Dingo chuckled.

"Sleet! Am I glad to see you." Dingo said.

"You traitor! I'll deal with you later. But first we've got to get the Emerald safe." Sleet said and used the Shapeshift Remote to turn Dingo into a box.

"Oh no, not that, Sleet!" Dingo said and the swatbot put the Chaos Emerald into the box.

"Keep your mouth, and your door shut!"

"That thing may keep me out, but it won't keep the Chaos in! This canister is the only thing that'll contain the Emerald." Sonic said.

"Why should I believe you?"

"Uh, Sleet..." Dingo said and Sleet gasped as Chaos energy tried to protrude through the box. "I don't feel so good!" he said and exclaimed in pain.

"Wuh-oh..." Sonic said as Dingo grew radically and turned into a massive monster, making Sonic and Sleet panic.

They moved away as Dingo edged up on them and trampled over a Camper Van.

"Wait Sleet... Morph him into a kitten, a puppy, anything!" Sonic said and Sleet pressed the button on the remote several times.

"It's not working!" Sleet said.

"Keep trying! I'll be back with help!"

"Dingo! Oh... wow, partner... You don't look so good. Is there anything I can do for you? Is there anything you, you want?" Sleet asked nervously.

"I want... CHAOS!" Dingo said and blew Sleet away.

Meanwhile.

"Did you get the Emerald?" Knuckles asked.

"I think we're gonna need a bigger canister." Sonic said and Dingo approached.

"Chaos! I want CHAOS!" Dingo echoed.

"Dingo? Oh man, and I thought he was ugly before!" Manic said.

"Chaos definitely isn't his look." Sonia said.

"Rargh!" Dingo said and unleashed an energy blast to the top of a mountain, which erupted into a volcano.

He created brick-shaped fists and pounded the top of two nearby mountains, erupting more lava. He roared at the shocked heroes.

"He'll tear the whole planet apart!" Knuckles said.

"Not if we stop him!" Sonic said, gave him the canister and shot at Dingo using his guitar but was unharmed.

"Argh!" Dingo said and smashed down on the ground so Sonic dashed away to avoid.

"Ah!" he said and Manic brought out his drums and banged them repeatedly.

"You call that an earthquake? This is an earthquake." Dingo said and pounded the ground so hard that Manic's drum set shatters.

Manic gasped.

"Whoa dude!" he said as an arch broke off and another volcano erupted.

"He's too strong!" Sonic said and Dingo casually walked away when Robotnik's vehicle arrived by them. "Robotnik! Oh just what we need."

"Get the hedgehogs!" Robotnik said.

"Wait! Dingo swallowed the Chaos Emerald!" Knuckles said.

"He's turned into a monster!" Manic said.

"He'll spread chaos all over Mobius!" Sonia said.

"And your point is..." Robotnik said.

"He's heading straight for Robotropolis! He'll turn you into rubble if we don't stop him!"

"Ooh, I'm scared! As if Dingo could do anything right." Robotnik said pretending. "Get up!" he ordered and Swatbots set off. "Ahh."

"But Dingo stole the Emerald from you! You gonna let him get away with that? You're the man, the Buttnik! The Butt my sir, you're gonna let Dingo make a monkey out of you? You'll be the laughingstock of Mobius!" Sonic said.

"Nobody steals from Robotnik and gets away with it. I do all the stealing around here!"

"That's the old Buttnik I know and don't love! Now picture this... I got a plan to put Dingo in his place." Sonic said and whispered into his ears.

"Hmm... I like it!"

Meanwhile.

"Robotropolis! And it's all mine!" Dingo said and prepared to unleash chaos energy but heard Manic's drumset playing and looked back.

Sonic, Manic and Sonia brought out their musical instruments.

We're gonna tear down the house

Rip up the joint

Doin' the Mobius Stomp

We're gonna shake up the street

Blast out the beat

Doin' the Mobius Stomp

Gonna turn up the amp 'til the speakers are blown

Rock off the roof 'til the cows come home

Come on, come on, come on

The thing's ready to blow

We're gonna tear down the house

Rip up the joint

Doin' the Mobius Stomp

We're gonna shake up the street

Blast out the beat

Doin' the Mobius Stomp

Come on, do the Mobius Stomp

Come on, do the Mobius Stomp

Do the Mobius Stomp

The Swatbots used a glue gun to stick Dingo to the ground.

"I can't walk!" Dingo said while struggling and Sonic pushed Robotnik forward for a moment.

"W-What are you doing? What am I supposed to do now?" Robotnik said and Sonic gave him a thumbs up.

"Just stand right there!" Sonic said.

"Why?" Robotnik asked, and Sonic zoomed off. "No wait!"

"I'm falling!" Dingo said, tumbled on top of Robotnik and spit out the Chaos Emerald.

The Chaos Emerald shards floated up in the air. Knuckles was holding the canister and ran as hard as he could, dove and body surfed along the ground, keeping the canister upright. He caught all the shards and the canister glowed. He closed the lid of the canister and Sonic, Sonia and Manic walked over to him.

"Nice catch!" Sonic said.

"Give the credit to the team!" Knuckles said.

Dingo shrunk away, still on top of Robotnik, who muttered. Dingo suddenly saw Robotnik and put his hands by his mouth.

"Uh oh." Dingo said, jumped off the glue patch and tip-toed towards Sleet while Robotnik rubbed his sore head.

Sleet already had his hands on his hips along with an angry look on his face.

"Uh... Hi, Sleet." Dingo said.

"Dingo! I'm gonna roboticize you! First for stealing the Chaos Emerald, again for letting Sonic escape and a third time for flattening me! And then!..." Robotnik said angrily. "No more Mr. Nice guy!" he said evilly.

Later.

"Athair, we brought you the Chaos Emerald for safekeeping." Knuckles said.

"The Emerald must be kept by you. On the floating island." Athair said.

"But you'll be coming with us won't you, to join the Resistance?" Sonia asked.

"Knuckles' duty lies on the floating island. Just as your duty lies with the Resistance."

"And finding mom!" Sonic said.

"But if you ever need a break from fighting Buttnik, there's always room on the Floating Island." Knuckles said.

"And you're welcome to sit in with a Band anytime!" Sonia said and kissed him.

Then Sonic turned around and ran thinking about when Sonic Underground split up for a minute.

"It's the law! There can be only one ruler of Mobius. I was forced into exile, and then when your mother vanished, Robotnik imprisoned me, afraid that I would claim the throne!" Luke said.

"Aw, bummer! Major drawback to royalty." Manic said.

"Don't worry, bro. When I'm ruler, you won't have to vanish!" Sonic said.

"You? Hah! A ruler needs some culture and sophistication. You can't serve chili dogs at a royal banquet! Besides, I will never wear a mask. Talk about a clashing accessory!" Sonia said.

"Hey, I'm the true representative of the people!" Manic said.

"Hey! I don't recall saying you were the leader."

"Oh, like Miss Perfect doesn't think she's queen already!"

"You've got to admit, I look best in a crown!"

"I'm saying that once I'm ruler, I'm sure we can work somethin' out for you two." Sonic said.

"Hmph. Frankly, I don't think either of you are up to the royal job."

"Oh yeah?!" Sonic and Manic said

"Yeah!"

"Look out! More of Robotnik's troops!" Luke said and Sonic and Sonia gasped.

"Hit it, sibs!" Sonic said.

"Just because I've lived on the streets all my life doesn't mean I can't handle the crown!" Manic said.

"Dream on! I'll be wearing the crown."

"You? I'd look much better in a crown! Diamonds go with my eyes." Sonia said.

Robotnik sniggered.

"Ah, yes! Already the break-up has started, just as I planned. And all it needs is one more little... push." he said.

"Give it more gas!" Manic said.

"Sure, so the wheels can spin even more!" Sonic said.

Sonic, Manic, and Sonia sighed.

"If you were to steer Mobius the way you steer a van, then we'd all be on the road to disaster!" Sonia said.

"Yeah, well, if you become ruler, I'll vanish on purpose!" Sonic said.

"Argh!" Manic said.

"Just so I don't have to listen to you!"

"Well if that's how you feel, then I'll just leave! Go off by myself." Sonia said.

"Yeah! This hedgehog never needed anyone before and he doesn't now." he said and Sonia part ways. "As of now, the Sonic Underground is through! We each go our own way, and may the best ruler win."

"Fine!"

Shadow and Silver looked at each other, nodded and ran to catch up with him while the others watched hoping they could find him and Tails and Knuckles left.