It was night at Crimson Tower and a meteor flew through the sky towards the tower. A meteorite was seen from the computer room's window. After a while the shooting star distorted an energy wave, stops in midair and dropped to the ground. It rolled along the ground until it hit a SCR-GP robot's foot. The robots in the MeteorTech facility activated by themselves, destroy the walls, and stomp towards the camera. The next morning in Monopole, a car was driven in a tube.
"Robots made by the leading security company MeteoTech are no longer responding to commands, and are running amok all over the world. The international security organization GUN has begun to investigate the event. MeteoTech has not issued a formal-" the radio said.
Tails was driving and Sonic was playing with an Ark of the Cosmos.
"Is this the meteor that fell last night?" Sonic said.
"Yeah! The sound of the impact woke me from my sleep, and I found it outside." Tails said.
"Yaawn..." Knuckles said.
"We'll be at Megalo Station shortly."
Megalo Station was shown from a distance. Their car was going through a tunnel when a surveillance camera detected the Ark of the Cosmos in Sonic's hands. Then Security alarm went off and Knuckles looked up.
"Hm? Hey!" he said and the door behind them was closed and robots were chasing them.
Then they went ahead but the door ahead closed soon and they had to turn back.
"What should we do, Sonic!?" Tails asked.
"That elevator!" Sonic said pointing to the elevator.
Then they turned back again and got in which nearly shook Knuckles off the vehicle. The elevator ascends.
"What's up with them?" Knuckles said.
"Are they the ones from the news?" Tails said.
"Watch out!" Sonic said and they reached the 300th floor and the door opened.
Many robots outside charged at them but Tails rode though them.
"Go!" she said and the robots tried to attack but they managed to shake them off and realized they're going to crash straight through a building. "Brace yourselves!"
Then the wall of the station exploded and she started falling while Tails started flying and Knuckles gliding.
"Sonic!" Tails said and a wave of blue energy was emitted from Sonic's position.
Knuckles and Tails, while flying, turned to look at her floating with the debris of the wall.
"What's going on? Is this the stone's power? Heheh! YAHOOOOOOOOOO!" Sonic said and free-fell towards the station.
Later at Botanical Kingdom Robots were flying over the giant greenhouse, searching for Team Sonic who were hiding within the giant plants inside the greenhouse looking at robots.
"They don't give a guy a break, huh?" Sonic said.
"We can't just stand around here!" Knuckles said
"Right!" she said then was grabbed by Amy. "Whoa!"
"Guess who!" Amy said.
"Amy!? What are you doing here!?"
"Fated lovers are always drawn together, silly."
"Amy..."
"OK, you got me. I was running away from those robots. I was so scared." Amy said and jumped onto her.
"H-hey…" she said and Amy dropped an Ark of the cosmos on the ground confusing Jet.
"What's that?!" Tails asked.
"The cause of all my troubles! I picked it up, and those stupid robots came after me!" Amy said.
Jet listened to them angrily.
"So that's it! Those things must be after this stone!" Tails said.
"I guess that settles it, then. The key to solving this mystery is Meteor Tech!" Sonic said.
Jet was furious until Wave touched his shoulder and he looked to see her and Storm.
"You two!" he said.
"I heard them, too. Let's circle on ahead of them and gather information." Wave said.
"Tch, just wait Sonic the Hedgehog. You won't be calling yourself the world's fastest for long!" Jet said and stood up.
"Hey, Sonic! We've got company!" Knuckles said.
SCR-GP robots were rushing towards them.
"OK... Here we go!" she said and they rode on their Extreme Gears.
MeteorTech Premises Robots were everywhere on the assembly line. Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy were hiding behind a big door.
"Looks like we'll need to watch our step." Sonic said.
Amy tried to take a closer look as a surveillance camera detected the Babylon Rogues behind them.
"Dang!" Knuckles said and pulled her away.
SCR-GP robots started to rush towards Sonic and her friends but they passed them.
"Look out!" Sonic said and turned and looked behind her as the robots passed her. "What?" she said and the robots stopped in front of the Babylon Rogues. "That's...!"
Jet performed Gravity Control and destroyed the SCR-GP robots with his fellow members. Then they landed in front of Sonic and her friends.
"It's been a while, Sonic the Hedgehog." Jet said.
"Jet!" she said when Storm and Wave fell behind him.
"Long time no see, shorty." Wave said.
"Wave!" Tails said.
"We're here to settle the score from last time!" Storm said.
"Any time, Babylon Rogues." Knuckles said.
"Cut it out, Storm! Alright, girly, hand over the Ark of the Cosmos!" Jet said.
"What are you talking about?" Amy asked.
"Don't play dumb! Not after swiping the Ark of the Cosmos right out of our hands!"
"Hey, hold up a minute. Girls hate guys who rush them, Jet." Sonic said.
"Rush? Heh, I'm the fastest thing living in the universe! And today, I'm going to prove it!"
Then a security alarm went off and several robots began coming towards them.
"Sonic, we can't stay here!" Tails said.
"Looks like we'll have to do the reunion later. See ya, Jet!" Sonic said.
"H-hey! Wait!" Jet said.
Then Sonic, Jet, and the others ran down the path ahead.
Later Sonic and Jet were riding on their Extreme Gears down a path.
"You can use that power, too!?" Jet said.
"Pretty handy, really." Sonic said and repelled some robot with a burst of gravity.
Meanwhile Eggman was working with his computer in a room.
"Engage EM algorithm, maximum value. Access mother computer. Mother computer access denied." Mother computer said.
"Why!?" Eggman said and heard the sound of crashing. "Hmm?" he said and stood up. "What's this racket, and now of all times!" he said and went to the door.
Then the door was opened. He pointed somewhere confused, when Sonic and Jet came through and hit Eggman with their Extreme Gear, sending him backwards into his computer's key board.
"What went flying just now?" Knuckles asked.
"Do I look like a ball to you?!" Eggman asked and got up and sat down on his chair.
"Eggman?! What are you doing here?!" Sonic said.
"What do you mean? I own this company! Ahh ha ha ha ha!"
"What!? So you're the ringleader behind this one too, Eggman?"
"Ringleader? What the devil are you babbling about?"
"Come on, cut the act. I'm talking about the global robot rampage!"
"You must be joking. That's been quite a headache for me as well."
"Like we'll believe anything you say!" Knuckles said.
"Calm down. We go way back, don't we? I'll let you in on something. Not even I know why are they've gone amok, but they appear to be following a leader."
"A leader?! ...Well, I guess for now we'll buy that Eggman isn't involved." Sonic said and had a brief flashback of SCR-HD.
"So maybe that has nothing to do with the robots that attacked us..." Tails said.
Then Sonic held out her Ark of the Cosmos.
"Wh-Where did you get that?!" Eggman asked,
"So you were holding out on us, Eggman!" Sonic said.
"Spill everything you know. Now!" Knuckles said threatening Eggman by cracking his knuckles.
Sonic snickered and gave him a thumbs up while Eggman started working with his computer.
"Very well. I'll tell you..." Eggman said and a picture of the mother computer room started coming into the view. "All robot activities within my facility is normally controlled by the mother computer. As the core of MeteoTech network, it was supposed to be the perfect computer. But as of a few days ago, I've been unable to control it remotely." he said and the power unit within the mother computer was shown. "The power unit within the mother computer is a stone identical to the one you're holding. According to my analysis... That stone can covert huge amounts of mass energy into other forms of energy, and exudes a unique magnetic field..."
"Huh?" Knuckles said.
"Shut up and listen!" Eggman said and several SCR-GP robots led by SCR-HD were shown. "In any case, it appears that somehow the robots' leader also contains a stone with similar powers to the one in the mother computer."
"What!?" Sonic said.
So he took out a map of the world and signals were sent from Crimson Tower.
"If my deductions are correct, the robots' leader is using the world's robots in an attempt to collect these strange stones from around the globe." he said
"But why do they need the stones?"
"That even I don't know."
"...They're drawn to one another." Jet said.
"What?"
"These aren't just some rocks. They're spoken of in Babylon clan legend as... Ah! That's right! Girl, give me back the Ark of the Cosmos!"
"Amy's gone!" Tails said.
"Storm's not here either!" Wave said.
"Sounds like we've got a fix on the robot leader's location." Eggman said and started working with his computer again. "Satellite monitor on!"
Three points, one red, another grey, and the last magenta marked on the computer screen. The first showed a picture of SCR-HD, the second Storm, and the last Amy.
"Amy!" Sonic, Tails and Knuckles said.
'Shit.' Sonic thought.
Soon Team Sonic was at Aquatic Capital riding down the road to Amy. Suddenly Sonic saw something and stopped.
"Amy!" she said.
Amy was standing in front of the broken SCR-HD and then turned to Sonic.
"It took you long enough!" Amy said and started beating her as Tails went to the robot.
"What happened here?" he asked.
"Don't ask me! First it comes flying at me full tilt, then it just blows up."
"It blew up?!" Sonic said and went to SCR-HD.
"Wait, does that mean...?!" Tails started.
"What is it, Tails?"
"Sorry... I need to think it through a little more first."
"Hey, where's that meathead, Storm?" Knuckles asked walking closer to Amy.
"He grabbed something out of this robot and high-tailed it out of here." Amy said then a broken part on the robot's back was shown and they waited for a moment.
"So does this mean the rampaging robots will all cool it?"
"I don't think it's that simple. If Eggman started all this by putting that stone in his mother computer, I don't think it'll stop until we remove it." Tails said.
"So where is that?" Knuckles said and they started thinking.
Suddenly, Amy gasped.
"Wait, I remember Storm saying something weird about the thing he took from that robot matching something they found someplace else. Well.. Ohh, where was it he said? Gi... Giga... Something like that. Wait, Gigan..." she started.
"The Gigan Rocks." Knuckles said.
"Right! What you said!"
"You know it, Knuckles?" Sonic said.
"It's a pretty famous ruin among us treasure hunters. A legend about shooting stars tells of some star shard sealed there that can grant your wishes." Knuckles said. "I don't think he would know about it though. He's a thief." he whispered in her ear getting her to snicker.
"Probably not."
"Shooting stars! Sonic let's head to the Gigan Rocks right away! We might find a clue about these stones!" Tails said.
"Leave the directions to me! But they say the star shard is in a sacred chalice deep in the ruins, and getting there ain't easy. Nobody's made it back alive yet. We'll be risking our necks." Knuckles said.
"Yeah! Don't worry! That's nothing new." Sonic said and they rode away as the broken SCR-HD started coming back online.
At Gigan Rocks Sonic and her friends arrived in some ruins with an altar and stopped.
"Was there an earthquake in here?" Sonic asked.
The ruins were further ruined and Knuckles ran to the chalice at the altar.
"It's gone!" he said.
"What's wrong, Knuckles?" Sonic asked.
"The legends say the star shard is supposed to be in this chalice... Did it roll off somewhere in the quake?" he said looking around the alter.
Meanwhile Tails was looking at the painting behind the altar and came closer.
"Hey, Tails, what's up with this painting?" Sonic asked.
"The divine wings..." Tails said.
"Divine wings?" Amy said and walked closer to him.
"Yes, the legendary bird that the gods rode through the heavens. Knuckles, see if you can read the inscription." he said and Knuckles nodded.
"...The divine wings, straddler of stars, lose their plumes to the dark and fall to the ground. The plumes become as stars, returning to this land. We, the children of Babylon..." Knuckles said.
"Babylon?!" Sonic said.
"What connection do they have with these stones?"
"We still don't know that. But could the stones those robots are after be the plumes written about here? The divine wings, straddler of stars... Could they be power units, used to operate some starship?" Tails said.
"So this divine wing thing is..." Sonic started.
"Right... Babylon Garden..."
'Of course it is.' she thought while she and Knuckles looked at each other.
Then Eggman's Egg Mobile flew across the sky above. Following it were the Babylon Rogues in their airship.
"Jet! Eggman!" Sonic said.
"Knuckles, what does the rest of inscription say?" Tails asked.
"Huh? Oh, right. ...We, the children of Babylon, seal one star here, and another within the great scar, formed in heaven's fall, until the time of the divine wings' rising." Knuckles said.
"The great scar?" Sonic said.
"There's more... The great scar, lying in the east among earth stained red by the dawn's light..."
"Eggman and Jet were headed east! The great scar must be the crater formed when the meteorites struck ground. That must be where Eggman found the plume!" Tails said.
"Which means the mother computer..." Sonic started.
"...Is probably waiting there, too."
"All right, time to go catch up!"
At Crimson Tower Team Sonic and Amy were riding in a desert toward the crater.
"Hm?" Sonic said and saw the Babylon Rouges standing at the base of the Crimson Tower.
"Heh, it took you long enough." Jet said.
"Where's Eggman?" she asked and they hopped off of their Extreme Gears.
Jet pointed at the Crimson Tower behind him.
"They call it the Crimson Tower. It's the MeteoTech's signal tower. Commands sent out here relay through facilities across the world to control the robots. In other words, you're looking at MeteoTech's brain!" Wave said.
"That fink Eggman nabbed the Arks of the Cosmos we'd got and ran in there..." Storm said.
"What's he after this time?" Sonic asked.
'Fink?' she thought.
"He's probably planning to use the stones' power to issue an order to all the worlds' robots from this tower. Sooner or later, he was planning to set the robots rampaging." Tails said.
"That was probably his reason for forming the MeteoTech in the first place." Amy said.
"The Eggman Land project again, huh? He never gives up, does he?" Sonic said and got on her Extreme Gear. "Well... Looks like we gotta storm the place." she said and started riding toward the Crimson Tower but suddenly Jet got in her way.
"Hold it." he said.
"Huh?"
"You think I was sitting around here twiddling my thumbs? Sonic the Hedgehog?"
"I follow you. Sorry to keep you waiting."
"First one to nab Eggman gets all of the Arks of the Cosmos!" he said and pointed at the Crimson Tower. "And the title of fastest creature in the universe!" he said surprising Wave and Storm.
"Heh, sounds like fun to me!"
"Let's get started!" he said and everyone rode on the main path leading towards the tower.
At Crimson Tower Eggman was in the mother computer's room. A container for the Arks of the Cosmos came out of the ceiling. Then he started putting Arks in it, when the door to the room opened and Sonic and Jet came in, followed by Tails, Knuckles, Storm and Wave. The wind of Sonic and Jet's Extreme Gears sent Eggman backwards and dropped the Arks of the Cosmos he was holding, which Sonic and Jet grabbed. Then he fell on the computer and got an electric shock and Sonic couldn't help but smirk. The master unit for the Arks of the Cosmos was rejected which Wave grabbed.
"So this is the master unit." she said.
"System error detected. All commands canceled." Mother computer said.
"My Eggman land plans are in ruins, after all these years!" Eggman said.
"Deal with it, Eggman! You're through!" Sonic said.
Then the ground started shaking. Knuckles walked up to Eggman and threatened him.
"A trap?! What have you done, Eggman?!" Knuckles said.
"Look!" Tails said.
"Babylon Garden..." Sonic said.
Then the Babylon Garden was seen outside the Crimson Tower.
"The resonance from all 5 power units must have called it down." Wave said.
"Then the legends were right..." Jet said and he and Sonic and Jet looked at their Arks of the Cosmos.
"Here..." Sonic said and threw her Arks of the Cosmos to him.
"H-Hey! We haven't settled anything yet!" Jet said and she got ready to go. "Turning tail and running away, Sonic the Hedgehog?"
"Running away? Who do you think I am? I'll be waiting... See you at the World Grand Prix."
Babylon Garden was floating next to the Crimson Tower and the inside of the mother computer room.
"Here..." she said and threw her Arks of the Cosmos to him.
"H-Hey! We haven't settled anything yet!" he said and Team Sonic kept going.
Sonic waved him off getting him upset.
"Jet, we have other things to take care of. Let's hurry to Babylon Garden." Wave said.
Jet gave her the Arks of the Cosmos who put them in a suitcase. Then they looked at Team Sonic.
"I suppose we should head home, too." Sonic said.
"Hey, Sonic. Why do you think the ancient Babylonians sealed away that power unit in the Gigan Rocks?" Tails asked.
"Beats me."
"Something's not right..." he said and the painting of Babylon Garden in Gigan Rocks was shown. "The lightless black that assaulted the divine wings..." he said and the painting vanished into a black spiral then a picture of SCR-HD exploding, with its Ark of the Cosmos in its center. "And how that robot chasing Amy just exploded... Oh! We can't let those meteorites get near Babylon Garden!"
Everybody looked at him then an earthquake occurred. SCR-HD broke through a window and started looking for the Arks of the Cosmos. SCR-HD found them in Wave's suitcase and knocked her away to take it. SCR-HD took off and flew towards Babylon Garden. Sonic looked out the broken window.
"How is that thing still flying?! ...Buttnik!" she said.
"I don't know!" Eggman said.
"Whaaat!?" she said confused.
"All I can say is that something nearby is generating a massive electromagnetic pulse. That may have forcibly engaged the program in the robot's buffer!"
Tails, Jet, Knuckles and Storm were standing behind Wave and Tails and Jet helped sit up.
"Sonic, the Babylonians weren't able to control the power of those meteorites!" Tails said confusing everyone and Sonic turned to him and the others.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"I figured out how they can change gravitational polarity! It's a black hole!" he said and the Babylon Garden was shown with light emerging from it. "The meteorites amplify gravity to form black holes-that's the lightless black that attacked the divine wings!" he said and part of the Crimson Tower was shaking.
"The power units are resonating together, forming a giant black hole!" Eggman said surprising so Jet ran to Sonic and they looked outside.
Blue rays of light came out of the Babylon Garden and enveloped the island in a blue light sphere while its stone structure fell apart. Suddenly, Babylon Garden's light exploded creating a colossal shockwave that swept over the landscape. The Crimson Tower's windows were broken and a lot of dust came in. As Team Sonic braced themselves the shards of the windows started floating.
"Wh-what the…?" Sonic said.
Babylon Garden, now Astral Babylon, was sucking everything as a black hole. The Babylon Rouges were surprised. Crimson Tower was gradually pulled apart. Team Sonic was pulled towards the black hole, but they grabbed a hold of the surroundings. A lot of tornadoes were formed outside with one hitting a part of the Crimson Tower. The Babylon Rouges also grabbed a hold of something.
"At this rate, the whole planet will be sucked into the black hole!" Tails said and lost his grip and was pulled toward the black hole, but Sonic caught him.
"Hah!" she said.
"Thanks, Sonic!"
"The world is doomed!" Eggman said and pressed a button and his chair retracted into the floor with him on it.
"Wave! How can we stop this storm?" Jet asked.
"The core unit in the engine room powers the Babylon Garden. If we can disconnect it, that should do the trick." Wave said.
Then Jet turned to Team Sonic on their Extreme Gears.
"I'll go on ahead!" Sonic said and they flew out of the window toward the Babylon Garden and the Babylon Rouges followed them on their Extreme Gear.
Astral Babylon was shown in orbit around the earth as the sun raised. The Babylon Rouges were standing on a rock, looking at Astral Babylon in the sky.
Wave turned to Jet.
"So, are you okay with all this?" she asked.
"Well, much as I'll miss the vastness of the space, this world still has its charm... Besides..." Jet said and the Babylon Rogues were shown from afar.
After a few moments, they all got on their Extreme Gear and flew away.
Back in Monopole, Team Sonic and Amy's car was heading down a tube, with Tails at the wheel, Sonic next to him, and Knuckles and Amy on the back seats.
"Hmm... I wonder what those meteors really were..." Amy said.
"They had some programming that made them try to gather up the other units." Tails said.
"Yeah?"
"It activated when Eggman found the first piece and put it in the mother computer. All the robots went berserk because they were all connected to the network. At least, I think that's what happened."
"But who made that program?" Sonic asked.
"I have no idea. Maybe those ancient Babylonians... Or maybe someone even more ancient... Maybe it was a warning, for people to stay away from power beyond control."
"But the people of Babylon..." Knuckles said.
"I can't believe they were the descendants of aliens..." Amy said.
Then there was a circular explosion in space and Astral Babylon emerged from the hole and headed towards earth.
"They crash landed on this planet in ancient past..." Tails said and the Arks of the Cosmos were rejected from Astral Babylon. "They disconnected the unit..."
"And left it in orbit, hoping that someday, it would fall back down to the surface." Amy said and Astral Babylon was shown in the night sky and a shooting star passed. "Every time they saw a shooting star..."
Then it was back to the present and Sonic pointed to sky.
"I bet they'd wished they could get back to their home planet." she said.
Something was chasing Team Sonic and Amy's car.
"Maybe that's why people started wishing on shooting stars." Amy said and the pursuer was getting closer to the car.
"Sonic!" Jet said.
"Hm?" Sonic said and looked behind to see Jet chasing them.
Jet came near the car and looked at her as he passed. She smiled and got on her Extreme Gear and started racing him through the road tube and among the cars. After a few seconds, Jet passed by a section in the tube, with Sonic right behind him.