Visions are flooding into Sonic’s mind. He is battling the Death Egg Robot aboard the Death Egg. He is racing Shadow on the Space Colony ARK. He, Tails, and Knuckles are battling the Egg Emperor. And he’s befriending aliens… on an interstellar amusement park?
Sonic drops to the ground, holding his head. Were these visions of the past? Future? New memories?
Nicole helps Sonic to his feet as people run past them. “Nicole? Am I back in New Mobotropolis?
What’s everyone running from”
“Oh” Sonic says as he looks up and sees the gigantic, mutated Tails Doll. The only resistance being Tails.
“Alright, Nicole! Get me up the speed! What’s going on” Sonic asks.
“Dr. Eggman sent Tails Doll as an undercover agent to disrupt the nanites in the city. Cream eventually caught on and she led a charge with Team Freedom to confront Tails Doll, right before it mutated by absorbing the city’s nanites”
“Amy would be proud” Sonic smiles. “Come to think of it, where is Amy? Where’s Silver? And what happened to Team Freedom”
Suddenly, Tails hits the ground, catching Sonic’s attention.
“Right. First things first” Sonic yells, running to Tails’ aid. “We take care of the giant monster first! Then we track down our teammates.”
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Ixis Naugus, now inhabiting Geoffrey’s body, wields the purple Chaos Emerald in his staff. He watches Sonic and Tails battle the mutated Tails Doll from inside Castle Acorn.
Naugus has grown tired of the Acorn Council. He wanted to be king of the Acorn Kingdom, but now he must share his rule with these incompetent councilors.
Naugus then reflects on how he has complete control over Geoffrey’s body. He could only influence the council with one emerald. But with at least one more, he would have complete control over them. In fact, he could convert them into his own order of brainwashed sorcerers.
But where would he acquire more Chaos Emeralds?
Mammoth Mogul absorbed the gray emerald into his chest. G.U.N has the green and red emeralds. The location of the blue emerald Dr. Eggman had is unknown. And Naugus dreads returning to the Special Zone for the remaining emeralds.
Finally coming to a decision, the skunk wizard disappears into the shadows…
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Sonic helps Tails up, asking if he’s alright. “You alright, little buddy?”
“Sonic! Regular attacks won’t work on this thing. We need to combine our attacks”
“Gotcha! Listen, I have an idea. This thing reminds me a lot of Metal Madness. So, I’m thinking it must have a weak spot” Sonic stares at the giant red gem in Tails Doll’s chest. “And I think it’s obvious what it is.”
Sonic and Tails perform a Rolling Combo and speed towards Tails Doll. Tails Doll attempts to attack with its tentacles, but the Rolling Combo cuts through the tentacles with ease.
The Rolling Combo then rolls up Tails Doll’s body and shatters the red gem in its chest. Inside of the red gem is Tails Doll’s original small body, which Tails pulls out.
The small doll activates its antenna gem and the mutated body begins to repair itself… but it just as quickly falls apart again as Tails rips off the doll’s antenna gem.
Tails throws Tails Doll in the air. And when the doll falls back down, it’s shredded to pieces by Tails’ spinning tails.
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Meanwhile, Dr. Eggman is walking through a savannah desert. His clothes are ripped and burned from his latest defeat. And he is dying of thirst and hunger.
He trips and collapses to the ground. Turning on his back, he begins to talk to himself, telling himself that he can’t die like this.
Just then, the doctor hears something. When he looks up, he sees an Egg Carrier in the sky. And it’s headed for his location. But it’s not a model he recognizes…
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Back in New Mobotropolis, Tails crushes Tails Doll’s antenna gem in his hands. With the gem destroyed, nothing else would disrupt Nicole’s nanites.
With one threat neutralized, Sonic and Tails question where their friends went. One minute, Team Fighters and Team Freedom were fighting different threats. Then reality is warped. And now, people find themselves displaced across the world.
Another vision pops into Sonic’s head. He realizes that the reality he lives in has been altered.
The “Dr. Robotnik” Sonic remembers never existed. Instead, Dr. Eggman replaced him and has been written into this reality’s new history.
Sonic manages to shake off the dizziness caused by his visions. However, he wants answers for what happened to his reality…
