Manic was stuck to a wall via Rusty's extended arm. Crosshairs from her screen lock on to his head.
"Terminate." she said, prepared a flying fist and launched it in an attempt to attack him.
However, the servos whirs and the fist stalls just as it was about to hit Sonic's head. While she shook, behind her was Nine typing on the keypad. The screen showed Rusty's status, in which they all turn green.
"Now paired." the computer said and he picked up his scanner and configured it.
Then Rebel came in and took out a robot behind him and he aimed his scanner. The light on Rusty's eye turned yellow.
"New admin privileges, colon, backslash, backslash, affirmative, now paired." Rusty said.
At Yoke HQ a ringing tone played on Don't's gadget as the Chaos Council look at the screen.
"Huh? "Paired"? What does she mean, "paired"?" Eggman said.
Back at New Yoke City.
"Amy, are you... you?" Rebel asked.
"No, she's still a Chaos Council tool of destruction." Nine said as a battle involving Rebel went on behind him. "Lucky for you, I'm in control of the robot now. You're welcome. Attack!" he said and Rusty dropped Manic causing him to fall and prepared for combat.
A swarm of Eggforcers stream in past the door. She double-arms one robot, somersaults and landed a handstand in between the rest of them. Then she stretched her legs out wide and twirled them around like a propeller, knocking out the other robots.
Back at Yoke HQ.
"What in the name of omelets have they done with Rusty? To the security room!" Done-It said and clenched his fist in annoyance.
The rest of the Council race towards the security room along with some Eggforcers, while Done-It slowly walked and mumbled alone with his walking stick towards the security room. Rusty pushed down a rising platform full of Eggforcers, landing with a crash.
Meanwhile the Council made a right turn and entered the room. Eggman moved the baby out of the way and uploaded the footage on the screen. They saw a platform burst into flames, the same one from which they deployed their Eggforcers, and a rising Rusty, showing an intimidating look with extended legs. Manic was holding his breath with a laser cutting towards him.
"Whoa...!" he said and saw it and ducked in the nick of time.
Meanwhile, Done-It made it to the entrance of the security room.
"Tell ya what, if I had my..." he said.
The laser cut everything as it traveled around in a circle, including another swarm of Eggforcers just as they walk past the door.
"Rusty Rose, close that door." Nine said and she clanged another group of Eggforcers and somersaulted her way to the door.
With all her might, she closed the large door then Renegade appeared.
"Uh... she's with us now?" he said in hope.
"Duh!" Nine said smiling.
The Council screamed as Rusty punched and broke a code system by the side of the door.
Then Manic appeared, grabbing Rebel and gave her a hug.
"You're OK!" Manic said and Rebel froze so Renegade walked over and split them up.
"Manic, get off her." he said and Manic's smile disappeared while Renegade looked at Rebel looking like she's on the verge of a panic attack. "It's OK. It's just Manic and he's not gonna do anything." he said gently and she nodded and took a deep breath to calm down.
Then the laser came towards them and they duck to dodge it.
"OK, introductions." Rebel said. "You already know Knuckles and this is Tails." she said and the laser came towards her along with Renegade but they dodged.
"Will someone please stop this laser?" Renegade asked.
"And this is Amy."
"I am a killing machine created by the Chaos Council to enforce their autocratic rule." Rusty said
"Well, sort of." Rebel said and the laser came towards her along with Manic, Renegade and Rusty but they dodge.
Then they were startled by a heavy pounding in the distance and looked to where the pounding's coming from, except for Nine, who ran towards the door in the opposite direction.
"This way, or you're finished." he said and typed in the security code for that door.
The pounding door opened, revealing another swarm of Eggforcers, but at the same time, the laser cut across and defeated all of them, to the council's dismay. A Sprite of a laughing Nine appeared on the security room's main screen.
"You've been hacked by Nine." he said and the Council all gasped.
"Gah! Patch us into all the badniks for visuals. FIND THEM! Dr. Deep, we can't let them escape!" Eggman said.
"Totes. So gonna destroy." Deep said, laughed and left the security room.
At Yoke HQ Deep prepared his samurai-style mech-suit and showed off his dance-moves, along with two look-a-like Eggforcers either side copying his motions, also being viewed by the Council.
"Deep, grow up! And your dance moves stink." Eggman said angrily and slammed his fist on the desk. "Find them!"
Then Rebel and the others walked in followed by a triple-screen with Eggforcers approaching from both sides appear and Rebel ran to the right.
"Baddies this way." she said and ran to the left. "Baddies that way." she said and stopped in front of the others. "They're coming from both sides."
The door opened ahead of them and they ran past it. Two of the Eggforcers collide with one another as they approach each other. Renegade noticed shooting coming from behind so turned and approached a wall of downed Eggforcers, pulling off one's parts, before dropping it and running with the crew.
"Come on, gotta get out of here." he said and kept running past Nine.
"Wait, stop. We shouldn't be trying to escape." Nine said.
"What are you talking about? There's robots after us." Renegade said and stopped as Nine jumped in-front of him.
"We get our hands on their energy crystal, we shut down their entire operation..."
"...and take back our world." Rebel said.
""Crystal"? "Energy crystal"?" Manic said and stopped then walked over to cut the argument between Nine and Renegade.
"Sure." Nine said and it hit Rebel.
"The Paradox Prism. Of course!" Rebel said and they saw blasters firing through the gap in the door. "That's how Eggman did all this. If I can get it, maybe I can change it all back. Rusty, where's the prism?"
"Rusty Rose. Do not have clearance to the subsectors of the core." Rusty said.
"Subsectors? I can make my own clearance." Rebel said and blasters fire at them, causing both her and Nine to duck and brace themselves.
They looked back to see another two swarms of Eggforcers approach them, the latter breaking another door open in the process. Rebel and the team leaned onto the wall for cover.
"Let's go." Rebel said and Nine, Manic and Renegade, dodging weapon-fire, came with her and escape to the top of the stairway, with the former continuing to shoot away. "Come on, team. Together, we're gonna fix the world." she said, jumped into a star-pose and fell down the middle of the long staircase, followed by a dive, with the rest of the team following her.
"How does she do this?!" Manic asked looking at Renegade.
"I've been trying to figure that out myself." Renegade said.
Eggforcers emerge from one of the doors and saw Rebel falling down. The falling members appear on the Council's monitor.
"Aha!" Eggman said
Rebel spun in mid-air and waited in boredom, until she was grabbed in the body by a hand, level with where the Eggforcers are marching down the staircase. She was then slammed into the wall, fell to the floor and groaned.
"Ow!" she said.
"Prepare to be amazed, then deceased, by the one and only Dr. Deep." Deep said with a look-a-like Eggforcers drop in beside him ready for combat.
Rebel ducked and brace herself from a laser attack.
The rest of her team were falling behind Deep. Nine Ninja roped back up, followed by Manic. Renegade defeated an Eggforcer to the left while Rusty used her extended arms to latch onto the edges of the staircase. Using her upwards momentum, she punched and took on one of Deep's Eggforcers. After dodging an attack, she used a combo of punches to weaken it. Manic dove into the other of Deep's Eggforcers and tossed it into a group of Eggforcers walking down the steps. As soon as the white robot recovered, he kicked it and continued her battle. Rebel took on Deep. As soon as Deep slammed his buzzsaws down, she snuck him from behind and kicked him, knocking him down. Infuriated, Deep kept trying to attack her with his Buzzsaws, while she dodged every attack. He punched the wall with the Buzzsaw, while she spin jumped to dodge it and landed on top of it, spinning it around with glee. She jumped out of the way again.
Meanwhile, Nine kept shooting Eggforcers. One Eggforcer hit Rusty, but she rebounded off the wall to knock it back. Manic was hit by an uprising Eggforcer but Renegade, from above, punched the robot back down, freeing him. Rebel stared at his current enemy, peeled out and tried some Homing Attacks, with Deep using the Buzzsaws to block it. She dodged the sword, ran in behind and jumped; but got struck by his buzzsaw, sending her flying, with the swords jabbed into the wall either side of her. Rusty was tagged from behind by the white Eggforcer and combats the regular ones; getting hit again by Deep's robot until Renegade glided into it, picked it up and dropped it down the middle of the long staircase. Then he jumped down, tossed one Eggforcer into the wall and another down the abyss while on a level lower, Nine shot another three Eggforcers before flying back up with his tails. With Rebel cornered by Deep, Nine Ninja-rope and pulled an Eggforcer, but was grabbed by another hand. With Deep distracted, Rebel broke free and Spin Attacked him, knocking him down and landing on top of him while preparing for the next danger. A view of the action appears on the screen, only for Rebel to charge a flying punch at it, defeating the Eggforcer. The Council gasped in horror.
"Whoo!" she said, Homing Attacked Deep with a direct hit and delivered the final few blows.
Deep was sent flying, colliding with his own ally robots.
"Thanks for the save. High five!" Rebel said to Nine and they high fived.
"Divert more energy from the crystal to the pods immediately!" Eggman said to Don't who raised a bar on his gadget to maximum.
The Eggforcers were upgraded with a power-up effect shown on the screen. They confront Rebel and his team again. The Eggforcers punch the team blow after blow. Eggman laughed in excitement, as his robots kept mauling Sonic's team.
"Yes!" he said and punched the air.
Done-It slept and Don't played games, while the robots kept their onslaught. The exhausted team reunited.
"What's the plan?" Renegade asked.
"Spin-dash." Rebel said.
"Spin-dash?" Manic said confused while Renegade nodded so Rebel curled into a spinning ball in front of her team-mates.
She spin dashed into and defeated multiple Eggforcers at high speed, annoying Eggman.
"Ah, coconuts!" Eggman said as Rebel returned to Renegade.
Then Rebel spun and tossed Renegade into another group of Eggforcers followed by Nine into another swarm of Eggforcers.
Lines of Blue, yellow and red auras appear from a bird's eye view at the middle of the staircase. The battle with the Eggforcers continue, with Manic dodging cannon-fire and taking out one robot shocked at what Sonic had become. Rusty dropped down and pushed an Eggforcer with her. Another Eggforcer landed by Rebel's feet and started attacking. She dodged a downward arm attack and stepped behind it. She Spin Attacked it and grind it down the barricade of the stairway. She jumped and Homing Attacked another robot on top of a mountain of robot scrap along with Rusty and Renegade.
"What kind of budget are these guys working with?" Rebel asked as Renegade dove into the robot scrap and started digging.
"We're at the sub level. Where's the exit?" Nine said when there was a thud.
"Found it!" Renegade said.
Meanwhile the Council looked at the mountain of Robot scrap with Sonic's Team on their monitor escaping.
"We lost them!" Eggman said and slammed his fist on the desk. "Wake up, Dr. Deep. Find those rebels!" he said and Deep grunted and cleared a few robot parts that landed on top of him, including a robot hand that was pinching his shoulder.
"Ohh!" Deep said.
Meanwhile Renegade kicked a robot part.
"That was awesome! Good work, team. Let's go." Rebel said and they set off, but Nine, struggling to catch up, noticed a left turn and stopped.
"Stop, it's that way." Nine said and they gathered around.
"Well, how do you know?" Manic asked then they heard a crash.
"Uh..."
Suddenly Deep returned, with his swarm of white Eggforcers.
"I'm going to origami that hedgehog!" Deep said and pointed his sword.
"Come on, let's go." Nine said and the crew followed.
While the Eggforcers flew forward, Deep saw his enemies over on his left and stopped.
"Huh?" Deep said and observed the scenario. "They're headed for the core. They're headed for the core!" he said. "Guys, guys, guys!" he shouted, jumping up and down then was shunted to the wall repeatedly by a chain of Eggforcers making the turn, grunting and groaning.
Then he was shunted to the wall on the other side by another chain of Eggforcers making the turn from the opposite side, grunting and groaning. As soon as he recovered, he was bashed on the back and knocked to the ground by another Eggforcer.
Meanwhile Rebel's crew were under attack, but Nine saw and pointed at something ahead of him.
"That's gotta be it." he said.
Along the long corridor was the security door. Eggman observed the activity and was angry and despaired.
"Shut it down! Shut it down! Close all corridors!" Eggman exclaimed and groaned.
Then the doors started to close in-front of Nine's view.
"They're shutting the doors! Hurry!" Nine said.
While blasters kept firing, Rusty stepped into the gap between the first door and blocked both sides, allowing the rest of the team to run past. Renegade lifted up a canister and wedged open the second door. After he and Rusty made it through, Nine kicked the canister behind him, closing the door and trapping the Eggforcers and Deep behind him.
"Open the doors! Open the doors!" Deep said.
Then the doors opened again and a large swarm of Eggforcers walked through and kept shooting. The team hid in safe places, except for Renegade and Rebel.
"I guess dreams don't come true." Renegade said. "Unless you can prove me wrong." he said, lifted up another canister and tossed it in the air blocking blaster fire.
Rebel saw this and seized her chance, showing a determined look. With cannon-fire everywhere, she ran, slid underneath and jumped over it, twirling like a ballet dancer as she did so. She spin jumped towards the canister. He propelled and rode it forward with her legs, intercepting blaster-fire along the way. More and more burn marks appear on the canister as she kept driving it forwards. Manic's jaws dropped in amazement while Renegade and Nine smirked. With the Eggforcers approaching them, Rebel spin dashed the canister into the group of Eggforcers, sending them all flying in a heap backwards. The heap hurtled towards Deep, who got up and saw a large metallic 'boulder' flying towards him.
"Ohh. Aah!" Deep said, screamed and tried to brace himself with his glove, but the 'boulder' slammed into him, and the canister exploded a hole in Yoke HQ, sending him out along with his Eggforcers and falling from a great height.
The residents watch the falling robots crash down to the ground.
"That's him... the green hedgehog!" Denizen Male said and pointed up.
At the break in Yoke HQ, Rebel looked at them, standing on top of a pile of robot scrap. She laughed out loud and turned back along the corridor, only to be confronted by Babble's robot and more Eggforcers. Babble babbled angrily and slammed on his controls. Rebel stopped as soon as she saw it and groaned.
"Enough with the baby. Give me the old man for once." she said annoyed and a swarm of Eggforcers confront the rest of her team. "Nine, how we doing over there?"
Nine was busy tinkering with the security door's code, becoming more frustrated.
"I need more time." he said.
"Hey, it's me you want. Come and get me." Rebel said angrily to Babble who babbled.
As she ran away, he and his Eggforcers went after her. Rusty, guarding Nine, kicked one Eggforcer and punched another. The baby babbled angrily and chased Rebel towards the open hole.
"Who wants to play follow the leader? Cannonball!" Rebel said, spin jumped through the hole and fell down.
Babble instructed the Eggforcers to dive down and go after her so she grind and ran along a rail.
"What do you say? Once around the park?" she asked and the Eggforcers fired at her.
She jumped just before the tunnel, luring one Eggforcer to crash into the wall. She jumped over a hand attack from another Eggforcer and passed Denizen 1998. As soon as she reached the cylindrical tunnel, she jumped onto the cylinder and spin dashed around it, breaking more chasing Eggforcers. She jumped over an obstacle, and then hopped onto a train heading opposite, spin jumping from carriage to carriage and defeating more Eggforcers. The robots stopped and Babble blabbered his robots to charge in the opposite direction. Then Rebel was running forwards again, Spinning around the rail and knocking a few Eggforcers along with Babble's mech suit, sending him to a spin, followed by a furious scream. While the rest of her crew took on more Eggforcers, Babble's pursuit of Rebel continued. He used his right arm to fire blasters at Rebel, which she dodged. He presses the yellow corner button on his robot and went for a fist attack. Rebel jumped up to dodge that attack, but was then punched with the left fist by Babble's robot, sending her somersaulting in mid-air and screaming. Luckily, she landed back on the rail and carried on running and saw Babble's robot on the other side but dodged a standing fist attack. With Babble chasing her, the baby retracted his weapon. Then Rebel did a Super Peel Out and zoomed along the rail. A loop later, Rebel was running behind the robots she's after.
Then she spin dashed along the rail, homing attacking the line of Eggforcers and causing them all to fall and break in a heap onto the road. She tagged Babble's robot, but held on to the rail and got back up. Babble screamed as they charged at each other. Rebel did three Homing Attacks to knock off Babble, crashing it onto the heap of Eggforcers. Rebel landed back on the rail, watching the baby cry and thrash about in a tantrum.
"Ah, the sweet sounds of crying baby tyrants. Music to my ears." she said
Suddenly, a distant rumble was heard and she looked back.
Then she ran along the rail, meeting Denizen 1998 fishing into a safe.
At the end of the corridor, Nine clattered the keys on the security door and a beep sounded.
"I got it, we're in." Nine said and the security doors open up.
Then Rebel made it through the gap in the door wedged open by a broken robot part, and met the team.
"Sonic, we didn't think you'd make it back. Are you okay?" Nine asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Rebel said.
"Come on, let's go."
"Yeah, I thought you'd be flatter than a snake's belly." Renegade said.
Suddenly Renegade, Manic and Rusty were grabbed by a robot's hand and Rebel turned back.
"Need a job done right, do it yourself. Step away from the core, or your friends are toast." Eggman said wearing his robotic mech-suit.
Suddenly the doors started closing in front of him. They completely shut as he nearly made it to the doorway. Rebel tried to push the doors back open, but Nine restrained her.
"Sonic, we have to get to the core!" Nine said.
"No! I've got to help my friends." Rebel said trying to restrain him.
Rusty punched the mech in the head, breaking herself and her team-mates free.
"Ahh!" Deep said.
Manic jumped into it, only to get swatted away by Deep's left arm, banging into the closed door.
"Sonic, go. You have to get to the Paradox Prism, or it'll all be for nothing." he said through the door and kept battling.
"You heard him. Come on." Nine said to Rebel and walked on alone, leaving Rebel frustrated.
Rebel stayed there, touched the door and looked at it miserably.
Meanwhile, Nine was running along the bridge prompting her to come with him.
"Come on!" he said and she finally let go of the door and walked away from it then noticed something up ahead.
"Wait. Is that...?" Rebel said, ran, caught up to Nine and they approached the Shard Generator then heard a thud through the door. "The Paradox Prism."
"So, this is just one small shard of a bigger energy source?" Nine said and heard another thud. "There's... more?" he said and another heavy thud went off and they noticed it.
The mech got its hands wedged on the door, trying to open it; to Rebel, angry.
"Grab that chart, and we'll sort the rest out later."
Then the mech peeped his face through the gap, threatening to open the door.
Rebel put her hand close to the shard. Eventually, she touched it, with energy crackling in electric sparks. Her hand was then attracted to the shard, generating copious levels of energy and causing Nine to panic.
"Sonic, what's happening?" Nine asked.
Rebel realized she can't break free so tried to pull herself away from the shard.
"Nine! Nine!" she said, grunted and screamed as the shard pulled her whole-self in.
"Sonic!" he said shocked as the shard stopped generating, with him looking solely at the shard in misery. "Sonic, where are you? Sonic!" he said. "Sonic?" he said. "Sonic?" he whispered.
Meanwhile Sonic was focusing on her Chaos and taking out a Chaos Emerald.
"Chaos Control!" she said and was back with Nine. "Nine?" she said and was on her back with arms around her neck and tears going down her chest. "It's OK. I'm right here." she was gentle.
Then Renegade and Manic came in.
"Rebel!" Renegade said, ran over to her and joined the hug. "You OK?"
"Yeah. Had to Chaos Control so I'm tired but fine." she said and he nodded.
"What the hell is going on?" Manic asked.
"It's a long story and I need you to get home. This isn't for you guys anymore."
"But-"
"She's right Manic. This isn't your thing. It's hers because she grew up a Freedom Fighter while you grew up a thief." Renegade said.
"Fine. But if you need help just call us and we'll be there."
"OK." Rebel and Renegade said and Manic left.
"If he tells them I'm gonna kill him." Rebel said.
"Hopefully he won't." Renegade said with his arms crossed and she nodded.