[Shadow] Sonic, you have to get out of here.
-[Sonic] What? -[Shadow] It's you.
He's after your energy.
[Sonic] What are you doing?
[Shadow] This is for your own good!
[Sonic] Shadow!
[screams]
I don't care what Shadow says.
If he thinks I'm about to run from a fight, he has another thing...
[screeching]
...coming?
[Sonic] I'll stop you eventually, Nine.
[grunts]
Ah!
Need... solid... ground!
Woah-oh-oh! [yells]
[shouts]
[grunts]
You want to play rough? Fine by me.
Eat rock, you hunk of junk!
[mechanical squawk]
[grunting]
That's it. Move along, nothing to see here.
Sorry, Shadow. I'm going to need some help to stop Nine.
And I know just the place to find it.
[intro music playing]
[screams]
[groans]
Ugh, never thought I'd be glad to be back in New Yoke.
Whoa.
Everything is collapsing. This is terrible.
[Nine] Is it?
That seems odd coming from you.
As far as I can tell, you only care about your own home.
Nine, we were supposed to fix this together.
Are you doing this?
No. This disruption was inevitable once the Chaos Council opened these portals.
I'm just taking what I need to keep my world safe.
And now I just need the finishing touch.
Then you're going to have to catch me.
Don't you realize the power I have in my fingertips?
You can't run away from me.
[loud groaning]
[yelling]
Oh, no. What's happening? Agh!
[gasps]
Agh!
You good?
[Nine] I know you're fast enough to save them all.
That's the hero you are.
[panting]
Oh, not again.
Hang on. I'm coming.
[Nine] You can't do this forever, Sonic.
You're all alone now. Help me, and all of this stops.
No, that's not true. I can save--
No!
[grunts]
[screeching]
[whimpers]
What was that about me being all alone?
You'll never--
Who was that? He looks like Mangey.
[growls]
The fox has betrayed us.
It's kind of a long story.
[frustrated grunt] The energy is still unstable.
Sonic's outside the Council's HQ perimeter. Go get him.
Sonic.
Should have known you'd be here. Nine finally showed his true colors.
I tried to warn you.
She's the last one. Move towards the Yoke.
Weird. It sounded like you just said, "Move towards the Yoke".
She did.
It's the safest place to keep us away from those
giant tears that are growing by the second.
Yeah, I know that's a problem,
but it's the Yoke,
hideous eyesore, monument to tyranny,
home of the Chaos Council. That can't be safe.
Look around, Sonic. Nowhere is safe. Where else would you have us go?
Oh, no.
I'm tired of waiting for you to accept your future, Sonic.
Bring him to me alive.
-Are those... -Angry metal death birds?
Yep. Worst petting zoo attraction ever.
These birds are after me. I need to move.
I'll see you back at the Yoke in a jiffy.
Fools. As if we'd ever offer shelter to the common rabble.
We barely have enough energy and reserves to save ourselves.
[gibberish]
Here, birdie, birdie, birdie.
-[exhaling] -[screeching]
[yelling]
Woah!
[yelling]
[chuckles] Works every time.
[yelling]
[grunts]
I probably shouldn't have made them angry.
[beeping]
[Sonic grunting]
You can run as fast as you want. It doesn't matter.
I know where you're going,
Grim Birdie Alpha, head for the Yoke.
I won't let you hurt anyone else.
Agh!
[pants]
Had enough?
Poor Sonic. So brave. So powerless.
Bring him to me!
Hey bird brains. Get off my lawn!
Huh?
[babbling]
This is where you thank us, you miserable rodent.
You're helping me?
Helping? More like using. We need your energy.
-For what? -We'll talk later.
Plus, if we don't stop this crazy fox,
New Yoke City and us
won't be around for much longer.
[screeching]
Ah!
[mechanical grunting]
Huh. Cool.
[babbling]
You're only drawing things out.
There's nothing you can do to stop me.
Oh, really?
I can't believe I'm saying this, but Eggmen,
let's go bash some birds.
Behind me, simpleton. I'm the leader here.
Au contraire, Mr. Doctor. I clearly lead this multitude.
All right, let's speed this up, Eggmen.
We have some belligerent bird bots to bash.
Ya!
Hold still, you confounded cockatoo.
-Nice shot. -Indeed, it was.
And now for another.
We're on the same side right now, remember?
Old habits.
[babbles]
Age before baby.
[mechanical squawk]
[screams]
That one was mine. I saw my shot. Hit it first.
Oh, please.
With your eyes? You couldn't hit the ground if it weren't for gravity.
[frustrated groan]
No. Not yet.
Not again.
Come back, coward. We are not done.
It looked to me like he didn't want to go.
I think his powers are on the fritz.
How? If he's managed to complete the prism,
he should have nearly unlimited power.
He still needs something. Me.
No. Not again.
This is preposterous.
Just having these things in our home is an affront to everything we hold dear.
You know what? You keep talking, Doc,
and my fist will be affront to your face.
[babbling]
Enough. Stop.
They started it.
They started all of this.
And we'll gladly finish it. You ungrateful--
Oh, for the love of, keep a sock in it, Deep, and let the hedgehog speak.
[sighs] I made a deal with the Chaos Council.
[all gasp]
You made a deal with these egg-omaniacs?
Nine is using the Paradox Prism to siphon energy into the Grim.
He's created this protective dome to keep his world safe,
which has accelerated the decay of the Shatterverse started by your portals.
We're running out of time.
We can't escape him anymore, not while he's got the prism.
But if we use my energy and the Council's Shatter Drive,
we can protect ourselves without doing any damage to the Shatterverse.
At least until we can figure out how to stop him.
So the deal is, I charge their drive,
and they give us sanctuary inside the dome.
I want to hear it from them.
Ugh, the hedgehog speaks the truth.
Once the dome is up, we'll let most--
[clears throat]
All who wish will be allowed inside.
[beeps]
Hey, what's he doing with the energy extractor?
Stop him.
Heel, you beast.
Oh, hey, look. Efficiency just increased by 38%.
So they're going to drain your energy?
There has to be another way.
I don't think there is. You've all seen it.
The worlds are falling apart. This dome is our only hope.
How much energy are we talking about?
Heh, nothing the hedgehog can't spare, I assure you.
Sonic, you realize that you cannot trust the council.
I know, but I don't have a choice.
Look, I know you don't trust each other, and you probably shouldn't.
But right now, we all have bigger problems.
Told you we couldn't trust that fox.
As much as it pains me to admit it, Sonic's right.
For once, everyone in New Yoke is on the same side.
We're all just trying to survive.
Once this is over, we'll go back to freeing the city.
-And protecting our forests, -And saving our seas.
And we'll go back to crushing you under our heel.
Uh, but only after we've saved New Yoke.
See you on the other side.
[rumbling]
Structural integrity of the yoke is at 67%. Guy's got game.
Another blast like that and this whole building will collapse on top of us.
[babbling]
You're only delaying the inevitable.
Nothing will stop me from getting Sonic.
We need that shield up, now!
Faster! Faster, you fool!
[groaning]
[frustrated groan]
So, it worked?
Of course it worked, you insipid fool!
Oh, that's it. Time to crack some eggs.
[grunting]
Are you able to function?
Who, me? Sure.
Never better.
[frustrated yelling]
Well played, Sonic. You might be safe for now...
but not everybody is.