Running towards the top center of a see-through floor, Sonic, Tails and Amy finally make it as they're standing in front of Eggman's next creation, Egg Claw.

"Well if it isn't the lovebirds, Sonic and Amy! What's this? Even the fox boy still fights back against me?" Eggman is surprised that Tails is still fighting back with the same courage as Sonic and Amy.

"Eggman!" Amy called while raising her Piko Piko Hammer.

"Dr. Eggman!" Tails shouted.

"That's right, kids! You fell right into my trap!" Eggman cackles after finally trapping Sonic Tails and Amy is a large bowl as the trio exclaims, seeing a bunch of bumpers and flippers appearing out of nowhere.

"What is this!?" Amy shrieks while falling down.

"I don't know!" Tails exclaimed.

Sonic grunts while glaring at Egg Claw as Eggman laughs maniacally and points down at the trio.

"You've entered 'Robotnik's Pinball Madness Mania!' Prepare to get my prizes because I'm already seeing them right in front of me!" Eggman giggles while snipping his machine's claws and releases lightning sparks tracking on each end of the claw.

"That's a silly name to come with. Why not just Eggman's Spinball?" Said Sonic, frowning as he's unimpressed.

"Hm… Maybe you're right. I should've thought that myself." Eggman agreed with Sonic for once as he thinks of an accurate name for his game. "Anyway, I'll have you little brats destroyed when I catch all of you as my prized possessions!"

Sonic shakes his arm as Amy pats her yellow skirt and picks up her hammer and Tails is hopping with confidence.

"Bring it, Eggman." Sonic taunts Eggman, grinning about the fun he's about to get.

"Prepare to die!" Eggman dives down as the trio jumps as they split, making the Egg Claw hit the floor.

This leads to Sonic spin dashing as he circles around while bouncing on different bumpers and hopped so high up by the flippers while distracting Eggman.

"Huh!? What the!?" Eggman growls while levitating upwards, starting the claw to electrocute Sonic, but is unable to catch Sonic's speedy body. "Why you! Stop moving!"

"Heh! Try and catch me, Egghead!" Sonic slips through the Claw as the claw hits the bumper, causing it to pop as Eggman hits the wall without any control.

After that, Amy swings her hammer by pushing Eggman towards the other side as he screams, leading to Tails swinging his tails and smacking Egg Claw to the other side again.

As Egg Claw is going zigzag to either direction by Tails and Amy, Eggman hits the wall again, causing the room to crack, making Eggman feel dizzy.

Eggman then comes across Sonic who was bouncing on his head and catches Tails who was flying.

Tails now carries Sonic and Amy, shocking Eggman to the point that 3 children are never to be underestimated.

"You know, Tails. For a first timer, you're pretty good." Sonic sticks up his thumb, making Tails blush while giggling.

"Thanks, Sonic." Tails then focuses back to Eggman, leading a trio of animal children to prepare themselves.

"Give it up, Eggman! You lost!" Amy shouted.

Eggman isn't done as he drops the claw down with a thick string attached to the neon Egg Mobile and it swings by tapping its spark-covered claws.

"Or not." Amy spoke too soon.

"That's right. I'll never give up! Not without you little brats!" Eggman pulls a sinister grin while preparing to have Sonic, Tails and Amy as his sources of power.

"Tails! Dodge!" Sonic shouts.

"Right!" Tails immediately dodge from a swinging claw that's about to electrocute them as Tails flies all over the glass battlefield, making Amy scream and Sonic grunt.

A claw misses again as it hits the wall, the ceiling and the floor, cracking the whole room and damaging the pinball items as Eggman keeps missing.

That is until he smacks the trio and grips his claws on Amy, causing Amy to drop her hammer as she shrieks.

"No!"

As Sonic and Tails fall to a cracked floor, the duo gasp as Amy is being squeezed and electrocuted, causing her to yell out as pain is going all over her body.

"OW! AAH! S- SONIC! TAILS!" Amy screamed.

"AMY!" Sonic and Tails yelled.

"Ohohoho! Not so tough now, are you!? Sonic, if you wanna save your little girlfriend, I suggest you hand over the chaos emeralds!" Eggman raises his hand while squeezing and electrocuting Amy.

"The chaos emeralds!?" Tails has heard of them as they bring power to those that possess it, making him fear that Sonic is giving them to Eggman. "Sonic! Don't do this!"

"No! Don't give it to him!" Amy felt the same as Tails, knowing what Eggman will do with these colourful gemstones.

Sonic lowers his head, thinking that Eggman is lying to him in order to destroy earth and make his new land with its remains.

Then Sonic stops.

He heard the whole story from Isabella, making him question if it's all true.

Then Sonic lifts his head up.

"Eggman, is it true? You were friends with Isabella, the G.U.N. nurse."

"Isabella? Ah yes, that mongoose old friend of mine. Why do you ask?"

"She knows who this Gerald Robotnik guy was, but is it really worth destroying the world because of your family?"

"No, Sonic. It's not about the death of my grandfather and my hatred towards G.U.N. that led me to this path. It's my ambition to follow my grandfather's footsteps. I only want your islands as my map so I can create a bigger empire. Eggmanland is just the beginning. You think I was motivated by petty revenge? It turns out you and I are not so different after all." Eggman concludes his answer to why he's doing this.

Although G.U.N.'s history left a bad taste in Eggman's mouth, he still desires to take every island as his own and he doesn't care if it harms nature, it only benefits his happiness.

"So there's your answer. If I give you the emeralds, will you let Amy go?" Sonic asks while releasing the chaos emeralds out of his body as they float around him.

"Sonic! Don't!" Amy shrieked.

"Sonic… Why?" Tails gasped.

Sonic nods to Tails and approaches Eggman, only for Egg Claw to lower itself while slowly releasing Amy to the cracked floor.

As the chaos emeralds are floating towards Eggman, the trade is set.

"Sonic…" Amy is horrified that Sonic did all this to save her life, making Sonic nod to her and look back towards Eggman.

"I know. Hey, Eggman. I guess you're pretty fair after all." Said Sonic.

"Don't push your luck, Sonic. Now that the emeralds are mine, the Death Egg will fly and the world is going to be mine." Eggman chuckles while widening his grin and pressing his speaker. "Boys, we did it. The chaos emeralds are now ours."

As the caller releases a bunch of men and robots cheering, Sonic smirks as it surprises Amy.

Eggman is confused by Sonic's smile as if he's not sad.

"What? Why are you smiling? You lost!" Eggman said.

"Nothing much. You forgot who's behind you this whole time." Sonic reveals his truth.

To Eggman's shock, he checks to see how many chaos emeralds he has.

6 emeralds.

"What the!?"

"CHAOS SPEAR!" Yelling from above, Tails is chucking glowing yellow spears, causing Eggman to shriek while dodging In his Egg Claw.

"Checkmate, Eggman!" Sonic finally bounces up and then dashes past by yanking 6 chaos emeralds from Eggman.

Amy is surprised that Sonic actually planned all this in order to outsmart Eggman.

"So this is how chaos powers work? Amazing." Tails is surprised with how this ability works as he hands over the yellow emerald to Sonic.

Sonic grins while surrounding the chaos emeralds between himself with Tails and Amy.

"Come get some, Eggman!" Sonic calls while he, Tails and Amy are ready to beat their usual opponent.

"Why you! Give them back!" Eggman yells as he swings his claw machine as Sonic zooms away, only for Amy to whack the claw and Tails to fly upwards.

Eggman grunts, only for Tails to land on Eggman like a piggyback ride and pull his moustache, causing Eggman to shriek as he tries to shake Tails off of him.

While distracted, Amy leaps as high as she could, leading to her raising her hammer above her head and Sonic charging his spin dash.

"Ready, Amy!?" Sonic calls while he spins like a ball.

"HIYAH!" Amy slams Sonic down, leading to Tails leaping off of Eggman And Sonic piercing through the machine, causing explosions as Eggman screams.

As for Sonic, he slams himself towards a cracked glass floor, causing it to smash as a bunch of glass falls above a bunch of adults, causing them to evacuate as they scream, leaving Duo to look above.

Unfortunately for Duo, Sonic crashes onto him while continuously spinning on Duo's stomach as Duo himself screams with pain.

Even worse, glass shards and a destroyed machine are falling straight towards him and Sonic, causing Duo to raise his arm.

Then CRASH!

Afterwards, the casino is completely wrecked and the only ones lowering themselves from above are Tails and Amy.

As they land, Amy rushes towards a pile of rubble and a broken machine, leading her to grab a hand that reveals himself to be a fatally wounded Sonic.

"Sonic!" Amy cries while hugging Sonic, knowing how much pain he went through.

"Sonic! Are you okay!?" Tails asks while worried that Sonic is in pain.

"This is all my fault! I shouldn't have gone too hard on you!" Amy apologises as she regrets hammering Sonic through the ceiling.

"Nah. At least we beat him." Sonic chuckles while patting Amy's head.

"So I guess we're still going to Metropolis then, huh." Tails can tell it's not over yet.

"Yeah. Eggman isn't going to stop until he runs the Death Egg. Let's go." Sonic said, being carried by Tails and Amy as the trio are leaving.

That is until they encounter a violet skinned anthropomorphic octopus man in a cloak, leaking dark blue blood out of his body, making Sonic realise that it's the shape-shifter's true form.

"Is he okay?" Amy asked.

"I don't think so." Tails had a feeling he, along with Sonic and Amy, had come across a dead body.

"Let's just go. It's not worth standing there and doing nothing." Sonic concludes while he and his friends leave the body behind.

In the end, the chaos emeralds are still in Sonic's hands as the trio are exiting the casino building.


Outside at night.

A bunch of blinding lights are turned on as Sonic, Tails and Amy flinch.

"What the heck!?" Tails exclaimed.

"What's going on!?" Amy is just as shocked as Sonic and Tails.

Sonic can see a silhouette of an anthropomorphic chipmunk woman in a long dress who is approaching the trio.

Tails gasped after witnessing the said woman.

"It can't be…"

"It seems we finally meet again, Prower." The chipmunk woman calmly said, causing Amy to defend Tails while glaring at her.

"Who are you?" Amy growls, thinking that it could be some sort of Eggman's trap.

"No. It's her. The Queen of Acorn, Alicia Acorn." Tails reveals the woman, causing Amy to gasp as she remembers what Tails talked about earlier.

"You mean… You're the lady Miss Prower had problems with?" Amy asked.

"Ah, so you know Rosemary. It's been a while since we last talked with each other." Alicia muses the moment she had with Rosemary, making her look down on Tails as well as Sonic and Amy.

Sonic raises his arms while blocking Tails and Amy from the G.U.N. soldiers as a bunch of firearms are pointing at the trio.

"What do you want?" Sonic calmly asks while smirking.

"You, of course. Since you know my daughter very much, I'd like you to come with us." Alicia's eyes are something not to trust as Sonic and Amy fear what the queen will do to them, especially Tails himself.

Silence.

Sonic moves his head as he sees a G.U.N. soldier carrying the same octopus man that Sonic took down earlier, making him grunt.

"Sonic the Hedgehog! You, along with Amy Rose and Miles Prower should do as the queen said. Get in the car." A G.U.N. soldier calls while opening the car door.

There's no option left as they're stuck with a bunch of humans and anthropomorphic animal adults, especially a single queen glaring at the trio, even though they still couldn't see her face behind the blinding lights.

Sonic then looks to the side, leading him to nod.

Tails and Amy are seeing what Sonic sees, making the trio prepare themselves

"So… Are you coming?" The soldier asked.

"Heh. Sure thing, let me go grab my stuff from the Tornado." Sonic said while pointing his thumb at the direction he looked at.

"Okay then?" A soldier is confused about why Sonic said that.

That is until Sonic, Tails and Amy started running.

As they run, the soldiers exclaim as the trio are heading their way to escape.

"After them!" The soldier yelled as he and his members were chasing 3 children before they escaped.

As Sonic jumps onto the ladder, Tails flies by, only to leave Amy being captured As she screamed.

"Amy!" Sonic and Tails exclaimed.

"Don't worry about me! Go!" Amy shouted while letting Sonic and Tails go on.

As Sonic and Tails nodded, strings appeared as it tangled Tails' tails, causing him to yell and fall.

"Tails!" Sonic fails to catch him and then climbs up in order to escape.

To his shock, more G.U.N. members are on the rooftop only for Sonic to get smacked down as he yelled and fell to the ground.

Unfortunately, 3 children are forced to get handcuffed as Sonic, Tails and Amy are struggling to escape, only for Alicia to approach Sonic and pull up his quills which had Sonic grunting in pain.

"Honestly. I was just being nice, but I guess you're no better than that trash eater, Rosemary. The so-called fairytale Sonic the Hedgehog. Take them to prison until we have a talk with the Commander." Alicia orders after dropping Sonic.

"But, ma'am."

"Do it, or I'll report you to Commander Tower." Alicia hisses at the anthropomorphic bird G.U.N. soldier, forcing him to agree.

"Y- Yes, ma'am." The G.U.N. soldier waves as the other soldiers are pushing Sonic, Tails and Amy into the car as they're now stuck with the Kingdom of Acorn.

Sonic glares at Alicia as Alicia herself is looking down on Sonic.

Sonic and Amy have the impression that Alicia doesn't treat Tails too well after his familial relationship with his mother, making Sonic pity Tails as Amy leans onto him.

"Don't worry, Tails. They won't hurt you. I'll take care of them if they do." Amy coos.

"Thanks, Amy." Tails leans onto Amy, knowing Sonic feels the same way.

As the trio are taken away, Alicia is watching the building being wrecked by Eggman and the kids, making her sigh and walk away along with the remaining G.U.N. soldiers.


On the other side in the alleyway, a traitorous G.U.N. soldier is carrying Mimic the Octopus, knowing how much he suffered from Sonic and his friends' beatings.

"Doctor, Mimic's okay. He's just not in good shape. We need to take him to the medics." The traitorous G.U.N. soldier called.

[It's a good thing he's okay. I need you to keep an eye on G.U.N. since they got the chaos emeralds with them.] Eggman ordered.

"Yes, doctor. I'll do that."

[Good. Do not fail me this time, Agent Stone.]

Revealing his dark skinned bearded mouth, Agent Stone looks to his right and places Mimic onto the Egg Mobile while Eggman sighs and then flies off.

As Agent Stone picks up a phone, he rings the Commander while standing in the alleyway.

"Commander, it's Agent Stone. Dr. Eggman has gotten away again." Agent Stone said while hiding the truth.

[I see. Return to the kingdom.]

"Sir." Agent Stone hangs up, starts up his motorbike and leaves the Casino Night City.