Stage 9: Circus Park

Player: Tails

Goal: Collect 400 Rings.

Above the bright theme park Tails flew by his self made plane, powered by white Chaos Emerald.

Tails examines the area - "Look at that! It's another of Eggman's theme park. Perfect place for some recharging. Initiate Walker Mode!" - Tornado 3, AKA Cyclone, hides its wings and forms the legs.

The vehicle lands on the ground and Tails proceeds with the mission. On the first road he picks 4 rings.

Around the same area, Tails has bypassed Eggman robots - "Every bullet costs 1 ring within my possession. I have to avoid any unnecessary fights to converse my arsenal."

Tails approached the sliding surface - "Kart Mode!" - Cyclone turns into a car. The vehicle absorbs 5 rings on the straight's middle, either 2 more from right or left, 7 more before the finish elevator. At the race's end, Cycone transforms from Kart into Walker. (18 rings)

The next gauntlet: Jump into 1 of floating drums to proceed. Problem is, drum were floating too high - "I wonder if those robots have some key for a path." - Tails made absolutely sure to hit all of his enemies with precise shots from Cyclone's machine gun, sacrificing 8 rings for 8 bullets, with no misses. (10 rings)

As the robots' last remains vanished, blue-purple ballons emerged on the wall between drum. Tails directed his Cyclone to jump onto them, which served him a higher enough fly to land onto drums.

The next path contained 6 rings. Tails used a couple for bullets against Eggman's robot. (14 rings). When the machine lands on grand plate, Eggman's hologram appears.

- Eggman: Welcome to my park's astonishing shooting gallery! So, how many balloons do you think you can shoot down? Hit the clock and start the game! Let me give you some pointers of how my little shooting game works. When red and yellow balloons come out, make sure you go for the yellow ones... And don't shoot the ones with my face on them!"

Whem hologram disappears, Tails looks up, seeing the black circle with orange arrows - "I should probably come back here later, in case I won't find enough rings laying around the area." - He enters the next room with big ballons for springers.

Upper floor had a line of 3 rings, now placed into Cyclone charger (17 Rings). Seeing a huge gap current position and a lrge enough duct, Tails goes back to surface's edge and commands his vehicle - "Plane!" - Cyclone transforms, following the command.

The plane reaches the speed to fly for the next destination. Tails on his way tails picked another line of 3 rings, smashed the glass capsule worth 5 rings, and blown up 2 ballons worth 10 rings in total (35 rings).

The area with branching paths contained in toatal 8 rings. But 4 Egg robots were on patrol, making Tails to skip the landing.

Cyclone flies through the ring of fire, worth 5 rings; 2 lines with 3 rings each; 3 more in the middle; Next line of 10, leading into the Ring of Fire. (64 rings).

Having reached the slide, Tails commands Cyclone to transform into Kart. While riding, the Cyclone absorbed 6 rings. The Kart flew from the slide's springboard and reached another side of the bottomless pit, where 15 rings were laying. (85 rings).

Flying from another springboard, Tails sees a huge gong resembling the Shooting Gallery Clock - "I wonder, what is this gong for?" - Tails quickly fired a single bullet into it. The gong made a sound and Cyclone's magnet hd caught 50 rings erupting from Eggman's device (134 rings).

Tails commnds for Walker transformation before the Cyclone lands onto branching of 2 step paths, keeping 4 rings each (142).

"GUN's presence here sure solidifies the rumor about one of Eggman's Ring Laundering Operations. I need to hurry." - If GUN retrieves the rings, Tails' mission would fail.

Cyclone picks 8 rings on the turn left (150). The space was too tight for Plane Mode which would've passded onto other side from the downpath, which is where Tails had to go. Fortunately it was possible to bypass Egg and GUN Robots, which saves up his ring ammo, while picking 4 more (154).

The Park Tower was wrapped with a thin circling road. By some mirace road was wide enough for Tails's Walker and he carefully walks around for the other side of Tower.

The next gong was very high. Tails fires 1 ring bullet to get the prize of 50 more (203). - "That should be about half. Will there be enough onwards?" - Tails's deiberation gets interrupted with 3 Egg Robots firing at him. In total it took 6 bullets to win the fight. Picking 6 more around the area had reimbursed the expense.

Cyclone couldn't grind on the rope, Tails transforms his vehicle into plane. While flying, the fox boy sees 3 timers in the air. A mischievous smirk emerged on his face as Tails fired at all 3 clock.

An air ocean of different balloons emerged into sky, Tails remembers Eggman's instructions to hit Red and (preferably) Yellow ones, while avoiding the doctor's logos. While controlling his Cyclone, Tails rams his soft targets until the time runs.

Seeing the number of rings getting charged into plane, Tails rejoiced in loud excitement - "Yeah! That's way more than enough! I just scored the" - Fox covers his mouth with the palm of his hand for little bit, then opens it again - "Jackpot!"

Tails turns towards his real destination - "Now. Back to getting the Chaos Emeralds." - And flies away

AN: Playing Hero Mission of this stage was no problem on my 1st try.

Now let's clarify where are the Chaos Emeralds:

1) Green - with Shadow

2) Blue - with Black Doom

3) Yellow - ???

4) White - with Tails

5) Acua - ???

6) Purple - ???

7) Red - ???

See ya at the Stage 10