Mm, nothing warms my cold metallic heart like a self-sabotaging rebellion! It begins with that scurrilous squirrel, Princess Sally, sulking in the woods and brushing off Sonic like the royal brat she is. Then she voluntarily flies off to meet me, Dr. Robotnik, under the laughable hope of “negotiating” for her father’s release. As if I’d waste time on talks when I can make a shiny new robot out of her instead!
Of course, the blue pest, his two-tailed sidekick, and that bumbling coward Antoine try to crash the party. But no sooner do they shout “trap!” than they fall into one—my trap, a lovely little pop-up cage straight out of the ground! Meanwhile, my Buzzbomber chauffeur delivers Sally right to one of my state-of-the-art factories, where a pair of trusty SWATbots begin dragging her toward a roboticizer for a well-deserved upgrade.
But nooo, Sonic just has to crash through my wall like a spiny blue wrecking ball, destroying my SWATbots, my machine, and my entire dramatic moment! And then—to add insult to injury—they reveal they stole my Atomic Ray Gun! Thieves! Filthy, flea-bitten thieves!
They escape in one of my own vehicles—another theft!—and drag the princess back to Knothole, where she gives them a tongue-lashing for ruining her “brilliant” plan. Turns out, she had some gizmo in her boot that could’ve restored my mindless machines to their sniveling organic selves. Honestly? I should’ve just roboticized the whole forest years ago and saved myself the migraine.
We begin with Sonic doing something productive for once—fishing. But who bites his line? None other than my aquatic masterpiece, Jaws! After gobbling up his fishing rod, Jaws chews through the dock and sends Sonic tumbling into an underwater trap. Classic! He ends up captured and dangling above a submerged roboticizer—ready to be processed into one more loyal servant of science.
Meanwhile, that second-rate Rotor and eager little Tails go looking for their fishy friend. Rotor retrieves a clunky old submarine (where does he store these things?) and the two dive down to save Sonic. The nerve!
Just as Sonic is about to get upgraded into a perfect machine, he escapes via spin attack—again! But the fool exhausts all his air doing so. The hedgehog was this close to a watery grave... until Rotor’s bubble-blowing bath-toy saves him and smacks poor Jaws out of the way. The roboticizer gets trashed, Sonic gets his breath back, and Jaws slinks off to sulk in the murky depths. Bah!
I swear, one of these days I’ll install hedgehog-proof walls.