# Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Sonic the Hedgehog 3, also simply known as Sonic 3, is an American live-action/CGI fantasy film based on the video game franchise published by Sega. The movie stars Jim Carrey, Ben Schwartz, Lee Majdoub, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, Shemar Moore, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, and Idris Elba in the reprising roles from the second movie. The movie also features Krysten Ritter, Keanu Reeves, Alyla Browne, and James Wolk. It is distributed by Paramount Pictures. The movie has Sonic and his friends trying to stop a more powerful, vengeful hedgehog named Shadow, and are forced to reluctantly call on their archenemy, Dr. Robotnik, to help stop him.
    Directed by Jeff Fowler. Produced by Neal H. Moritz, Toby Ascher, Toru Nakahara, and Hitoshi Okuno. Screenplay by Pat Casey & Josh Miller and John Whittington, based on the video game franchise published by Sega.

## Team Sonic
### Sonic the Hedgehog

* Hey, hey! My state-of-the-art security system! [swings the nunchaku around before hitting himself in the head] It still works.
* I gotta ask, one hedgehog to another, who does your highlights?
* Konnichi-whaaa?
* There's two Eggmen now?!
* Uh, nice magic marble. Real scary. [the "marble" activates, turning into a mini black hole] Aah! That actually is real scary!
* Check this out. Trick shot!
* Somebody better call Google Maps.
* Tom, Maddie, we need your help on a super... Knuckles, do you mind? [Knuckles: Oh, excuse me.] Tom, Maddie, we need your help on a super dangerous top-secret mission!
* Stop right there, robo-scum!
* [to Shadow] This ends now!
* Now, this might hurt a little!
* Alright, boys, try and keep up!
* Pro tip: if you're gonna take a shot at the fastest creature in the universe, you better not miss.
* That's a new trick.
* [last lines; after being saved by a hammer-wielding cloaked figure] What?! Who are you?! [the figure removes her hood to reveal herself as a pink hedgehog named Amy Rose]

### Miles "Tails" Prower

* Come on, Sonic! Catch up! Yeah!
* Start with the giant fireball?
* He looks just like you.
* Who is this guy?
* Calm down, Knuckles! This is a Chao Garden. One of the top 10 must-see spots in all of Tokyo! It's the perfect place for us to blend in!
* Oh, I'm not Sonic's assistant, we're teammates. He's the leader, Knuckles is the muscle, and I'm the gadget guy! We all have a role to play.
* Gotta be faster than that!

### Knuckles the Echidna

* [burns his marshmallow for a s'more] I have dishonored my marshmallow.
* Finally, some action!
* He is much more impressive than the hedgehog I fought previously. [Sonic: Dude, I'm standing right here.]
* [laughs] He(Tails) does look like a Pokémon! Pika-pika!
* [sees Stone; gasps] It's the Goat Milker!
* Nothing scares an Echidna warrior.
* There's no such thing as a friendly ghost.

## Shadow the Hedgehog

* 2024? I've been trapped for 50 years?
* Why won't you leave me ALONE?!
* You're a colorful bunch.
* You jumped out of a G.U.N. helicopter. There's nothing to talk about.
* Don't try to follow me.
* The more you talk, the harder I want to hit you!
* I don't know what I'd do without you.
* I'm tired of giving you warnings.
* I've spent 50 years reliving what they did to her. This IS who I am inside.
* (watching a scene from "La Ultima Passion") Gabriella should kill them both. She's not a prize to be won.
* When we're done, there won't be anything left to rule.
* You were right about one thing: this ends now.
* Go ahead, finish it! What are you waiting for? Do it! I'm right here!
* The light shines, even though the star is gone.
* So this was your plan?
* I don't know anything about my home.

## Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik

* [watching "La Última Pasión"] Let that be a lesson to you, Juan! Family is a field of emotional claymores... that leave you abandoned, betrayed, and weeping while you eat cake, which creates copious amounts of adipose tissue, and what some callous individuals refer to as... man-boobs.
* Let's... [grabs Agent Stone] ...do this!
* It's as if... [with Gerald] ...we're two characters in a movie, being played by the same actor!
* Double your villains, double your fun!
* The Robotniks have entered the chat.
* Our destiny awaits.
* Set up defense! [his suit produces... an actual picket fence] Damn you, autocorrect!
* [Ivo, Tails, and Knuckles manage to turn the Eclipse Cannon's laser away from Earth...] I did it... I did it...! [...but it slices the moon.] Ooh... Look what you did!
* (in Spanish) Go with God, stinking hedgehog.
* If I can't rule the world, I might as well save it!

## Professor Gerald Robotnik

* Two Robotniks are way worse than one!
* Holy crab!
* I know, grandson, a woman in the military.
* In exchange for my freedom, I gave G.U.N. the most powerful weapon mankind has ever seen, capable of delivering a precision strike anywhere on Earth.
* [while spanking Ivo] I... will... not... try... to stop... my... elders... from... destroying... the... world!
* Shadow. I see you've chosen betrayal, and you were once so useful to me.

## Maria Robotnik

* Wow. Look at all those stars. They're like diamonds. My grandfather says it can take hundreds of years for the light of a star to reach Earth, and by the time you see it, the star might not even exist anymore. Isn't that crazy?
* You're my friend. And you can do or be anything you want, not because of your powers, but because of who you are in here.

## Dialogue

    [A storm brews above Prison Island in Tokyo Bay, Japan. Inside, a GUN guard joins Kyle in a balcony overlooking a chamber.]
    Guard: [first lines] Oh, yes! You got donuts.
    Kyle: I already ate all the Boston Cream.
    Guard: Kyle!
    [Kyle shrugs while the guard looks down at a chamber containing something below]
    Guard: This place gives me the creeps.
    Kyle: Relax, that popsicle hasn't moved in 50 years.
    [Shadow, a red-streaked black hedgehog, is seen in the chamber, sleeping and dreaming. In his head, he hears music. He sees Maria Robotnik, a human girl, playing a guitar. His face softens as he sees her hold his hand under the stars. Then he sees himself flee with her from a squad of soldiers. The two of them lose their grip, and their hands separate. His brow furrows in the capsule, and his heart-rate monitor spikes on one of Kyle's screens]
    Guard: Is that normal?
    Kyle: No... [checks another screen] Someone's hacking the system!
    Guard: What?
    [A laughing Eggman symbol appears on Kyle's screen.]
    Kyle: The containment tech is destabilizing! He's waking up.
    [The guard sounds the alarm. Two squads of G.U.N. soldiers converge in the chamber, aiming their blasters at the capsule. Just as Shadow starts to stir from his slumber, his heart-rate goes down, and he calms down, prompting one soldier to sigh with relief. Until suddenly, Shadow scowls as he opens his eyes, which glow red, and punches the capsule's glass, freeing himself. He steps out, silent, but seething, and teleports from one soldier to the next, incapacitating each with a single hit before any of them can take a shot at him. Shadow vanishes after uppercutting the last soldier up to the balcony's glass, startling Kyle and the guard.]
    Kyle: We need more guys.
    Guard: That is all the guys.
    [The soldier slides from the balcony and hits the floor with a loud thud. Outside, one of Prison Island's walls bursts open. Shadow marches out, his eyes still glowing red, and sees Tokyo in the distance. He teleports down and skates across the stormy sea toward the city.]
    [At a campsite in Green Hills, Montana, Miles Prower, a.k.a. Tails, a yellow-orange and white fox with two tails, gets into a ready stance, narrowing his blue eyes. On the left beside him, Knuckles, a red echidna, does the same, narrowing his purple eyes. In a rubber duck float, diving flippers, and sunglasses, Sonic, a blue hedgehog, walks in the middle of his friends while eating a chilli dog]
    Sonic: [mouth full of chili dog] Wait a second, I thought we were going tubing. Hold on, hold on, is this a race?
    Tails: You're going down!
    Knuckles: It is my destiny to claim the throne of Family Champion, hedgehog!
    Sonic: Haha, cute! Are you sure you wanna challenge the fastest creature in the universe? I mean, that's kinda my whole brand. [spins out of his floatie] OK, Tom and Maddie, count us down!
    Tom: Right! [to Maddie] Don't worry, a little sibling rivalry is healthy. Me and my brothers used to do this kind of thing all the time.
    Maddie: Tom, your brothers are lunatics and neither of them were born with the power to trigger a global, cataclysmic event, so...
    Tom: That's a fair point. Did you hear that, boys? No cataclysmic events, alright? Let's try to keep this cataclysmic-less.
    Sonic: 10-4!
    Tails: Got it!
    Knuckles: Understood, Lord of the Donuts!
    Maddie: Then, on your marks, get set, go!
    Sonic: And way out in front, to the surprise of absolutely no one, it's the Blue Blur, the Red-Shoed Rocket, the one, the only--
    Tails: [flies above] C'mon, Sonic, catch up! Yeah! [flies ahead]
    Sonic: What in the what now?
    Knuckles: [running ahead] I am also defeating you, hedgehog!
    Sonic: Seriously? Alright, you know what? Time to light the afterburners! [accelerates past, grinding up a fallen tree] Look! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Air Hedgehog!
    Sonic: [passing the Goal Plate, dancing] Yes! I did it! I... [sees Tails and Knuckles tapping their feet] ...lost?! How is that even possible? I do not lose!
    Knuckles: I am also defeating you, hedgehog!
    Sonic: Okay, okay, I get it, man. No need to rub it in.
    Tails: C'mon, Sonic, catch up! Yeah!
    Sonic: [getting Déjà vu] Wait, what's going on?
    [Sonic distorts Tails' face upon touching it and yelps in shock. He does the same to Knuckles' face.]
    Sonic: Why are you guys acting like... [looks up, sees Tails' hologram projectors] Holograms! Which means I remain the undefeated speed champion of all time! Yeees! And the crowd goes wild! But also, what's going on? [hurries back to the campsite]
    Tom, Maddie, Tails, & Knuckles: Surprise!
    Sonic: Wait a second, you guys, what is all this? [points to the banner] "Happy B-Arthur Day?"
    Maddie: No, it's "Happy B-Earth-day."
    Tom: Today's the anniversary of the day you came to Earth, bud. It's your Earth Day birthday.
    Sonic: So, the race was just a distraction, which I totally didn't fall for, by the way, good try, though, so you could throw a party for me?
    Knuckles: Today we honor you, hedgehog.
    Tails: If it wasn't for you, none of us would be here right now.
    Tom: The boys are right, bud. Y'know, the day you came to this planet is the day all our lives changed forever.
    Maddie: And we became a family.
    Ozzy: [barks, subtitled] You stole my hoomans.
    Sonic: You guys, I don't, I don't know what to say, except... Let's party! [high-fives Tom]
    Tails: Toga! Toga!
    Knuckles: It's now on 'til the break of dawn!
    Sonic: Thanks for the surprise party. It really means a lot to me.
    Tom: Ah, you deserve it, pal.
    Sonic: [sees something in the distance] No way, is that...? [runs off]
    Tom: [walking after him] Wha-- Dude, just for once, walk at my speed.
    [Tom drops down into Sonic's old cave from the first film.]
    Tom: Whoa, Sonic, this is your...
    Sonic: Yep, my old cave.
    Tom: Oh, man, I can't believe this is where you lived all those years.
    Sonic: (re: nunchaku) Heh-hey! My state-of-the-art security system! [flails them around and hits himself, again like in the first film] Still works.
    Tom: Hey, bud. what's this? [finds a drawing of young Sonic and Longclaw]
    Sonic: Wow. You know, I drew that on my first night on Earth. I wanted to remember where I came from. I still miss her. You think Longclaw would be proud of me?
    Tom: I know she would, pal. Because even though you lost her at such a young age, you didn't let your pain change who you are... in here. [points at Sonic's chest]
    Sonic: Yeah, in my lungs.
    Tom: [amused] Or your heart.
    Sonic: Heart, right. Yeah, makes more sense. Not lungs, heart.
    Tom: That's the thing about life, Sonic, it's all about the choices we make. You're gonna make some good ones, and... knowing you, you're gonna make some bad ones. [Sonic innocuously rolls his eyes.] But, as long as you remember to listen to your heart, you're gonna make the right choice when it matters the most.
    Sonic: Thanks. I don't know what I'd do without you.
    [Cut to Shadow miserably marching in the rain in Tokyo as Sonic continues.]
    Sonic: I'd probably be a totally different hedgehog.
    Shadow: 2024? I've been trapped for 50 years? [soon finds himself surrounded by GUN soldiers]
    GUN Soldier: [via megaphone] We've got you surrounded!
    Shadow: Why... won't you leave me... alone?!
    GUN Soldier: Take him down!
    [The soldiers point their guns at Shadow, who angrily charges up his power in response.]
    Knuckles: I have dishonored my marshmallow.
    Tails: It's really just a question of temperature and distance.
    Maddie: It's not a competition.
    Tom: This is so nice.
    Maddie: Peace.
    Tom: Quiet.
    Maddie: Finally.
    Tom: Finally.
    Maddie: What did we do?
    Tom: Or what did they do?
    Tails: (to Sonic) What did you do?
    Sonic: I dunno, I do a lot of stuff.
    Rockwell: Mr. and Mrs. Wachowski. (to the boys, with more spite) Aliens.
    Sonic: "Aliens?" Excuse me? It's not like we're from different plan--Oh, yeah, we are. I guess we are aliens. Please continue.
    Rockwell: I'm Director Rockwell. There is a very dangerous situation unfolding right now in Tokyo. Commander Walters is requesting Team Sonic's immediate assistance.
    Knuckles: "Team Sonic?" Who picked that name?
    Sonic: Love it, 10 out of 10, no notes. Tom and Maddie, put the s'mores on ice, because Team Sonic is off to save the day!
    [Team Sonic boards the helicopter. Sonic waves goodbye to his family as they take off.]
    Maddie: Remember! Make good choices!
    [Tom gives a thumbs up, and Ozzy waves goodbye.]
    [The G.U.N. helicopter exits a Ring over Tokyo as the instrumentals of "Neon" by ONE OK ROCK start up. Tails sits in the cockpit with a British G.U.N. pilot.]
    Tails: Good evening, and welcome to Tails Airflight 1012. We're looking at an on-time arrival into Tokyo!
    Sonic: Okay, Captain, we've got a rogue alien on the loose. How do we find him?
    [They both notice a large explosion at the Shibuya Scramble Crossing.]
    Tails: Uh, start with the giant fireball?
    Sonic: I love it, let's start with the giant fireball!
    [Sonic and Tails join Knuckles in the back.]
    Knuckles: Hahaha...! Finally, some action!
    Tails: Okay, time to gear up. [pulls out some handcuffs] Titanium handcuffs. Completely indestructible.
    Knuckles: I don't need your silly gizmos, fox. And you know why? Because I am...
    Sonic and Tails: [reciting with Knuckles, unamused] 1,000,000% muscle.
    Knuckles: Yes, good, you've been listening.
    G.U.N. Pilot: We're over the drop zone.
    Sonic: Alright, here we go. Showtime!
    [Sonic slides open the helicopter door, and the team looks down at the Crossing.]
    Sonic: Now, look, we don't know if it's Godzilla or Hello Kitty down there, but as long as we stick together, there is nothing we can't handle. Team Sonic on three!
    [As Sonic counts up, he, Tails, and Knuckles each put their fists together one by one.]
    Sonic: One, two, three...
    All Three: Teeeeeam...
    Sonic and Tails: ...Sonic!
    Knuckles: (at the same time) ...Knuckles!
    [Sonic groans, then he turns to Rockwell.]
    Sonic: Talk about low budget flights. No food or movies? We're outta here!
    [Team Sonic jumps out of the helicopter, and the vocals of "Neon" kick in as they dive down to the crossing.]
    Knuckles: What happened here?
    Sonic: Looks like G.U.N. got their butts kicked. Keep your eyes open. Tails, anything?
    Tails: Whoa. These energy readings are off the charts.
    [Suddenly, a G.U.N. humvee is chucked their way.]
    Sonic: Look out!
    [Sonic and Tails brace for impact, but Knuckles steps in and catches the humvee, holding it up with one hand.]
    Knuckles: 1,000,000% [winks and tosses the humvee aside]
    [An ominous silhouette looms above in the smoke. Hearing footsteps, the team witnesses Shadow walking up a mound of fiery debris.]
    Sonic: Whoa, are you guys seeing this?
    Tails: He looks just like you.
    Knuckles: Impossible!
    Shadow: You're a colorful bunch.
    Sonic: Uh, excuse me? Why do you look like me?
    Shadow: I don't look like you. You look like me. Why do you look like me?
    Sonic: Hey, y'know what, I'll ask the questions, new hedgehog. Who are you?! Why do you look like me?!
    Shadow: This is a waste of time. Walk away, before you get hurt.
    Sonic: Whoa, whoa. Easy, buddy. [takes out the electric handcuffs] We don't want to fight you.
    Knuckles: Actually, Sonic, I would like to fight.
    Sonic: Not now. (to Shadow) Why don't you stop throwing cars at us for a second, and come down here to talk?
    Shadow: You jumped out of a G.U.N. helicopter. There's nothing to talk about. [turns to leave]
    Knuckles: Alright then, enough!
    Sonic: Knuckles, no!
    Knuckles: [jumping after Shadow] Let us talk with our fists!
    [Shadow teleports to Knuckles and twists his fist. Knuckles shouts in pain, then Shadow kicks him upward, teleports, and kicks him again, repeating the combo before kicking him back down. Knuckles bounces off the pavement and crashes into a nearby store.]
    Sonic and Tails: Knuckles! [they run over to help him up]
    Sonic: Knuckles, are you okay?
    Knuckles: No, not really, ow...!
    [Shadow teleports down to their level.]
    Tails: Who is this guy?
    Knuckles: [as he and his friends get into fighting stances] He's much more impressive than the hedgehog I fought previously.
    Sonic: Dude, I'm standing right here. Now, come on, he can't take us all at once!
    [Shadow uses his teleportation ability to easily take down Team Sonic within seconds.]
    Sonic: OK, he took us all at once. [collapses]
    Shadow: [walking past] Weakling.
    [Shadow commandeers a G.U.N. motorcycle. Sonic looks up in time to see him kick up a G.U.N. energy pistol into his hand.]
    Shadow: Don't try to follow me.
    [Shadow drives off while Sonic gets back up.]
    Tails: Sonic, I know that look! Going after him is a bad idea!
    Sonic: When has that ever stopped me? [runs after Shadow, eyes glowing]
    Sonic: Ugh. 1.21 gigawatts. [sees the handcuffs shackling him to a railing] Oh, you've gotta be kidding me.
    Tails: [arrives with Knuckles] Sonic! Are you okay?
    Sonic: I'm fine, guys. And before you ask me, I handcuffed myself for tactical reasons that I do not have time to explain.
    Tails: You shouldn't have gone off on your own. We're supposed to be a team.
    Sonic: Sorry, buddy. I'm still working on this teamwork thing.
    Knuckles: So, now what?
    Sonic: Well, I'm not jumping out of any more helicopters until we get some answers from G.U.N. We need somewhere to regroup.
    Tails: I know just the place!
    Knuckles: AHH! It's an ambush! You'll never take us alive, foul beasts!
    Tails: Calm down, Knuckles! This is a Chow Garden. One of the top 10 must-see spots in all of Tokyo! It's the perfect place for us to blend in!
    Japanese Girl: (to Tails) Are you Detective Pikachu?
    Sonic: Yes, he is!
    Knuckles: Haha! He does look like a Pokémon! (off Tails' sassy look) Pika-Pika!
    Sonic: Commander Walters!
    Walters: [sitting down] Sonic, thank God you're all okay. I'm sure you have questions.
    Sonic: Just a big, ticked off, red-and-black one. Who was that guy?
    Walters: Shadow's story began a lot like yours, Sonic. But where you found family and friends on this planet, Shadow found only pain and loss.
    Stone: Doctor, we have visitors.
    Dr. Ivo Robotnik: Reeeally? I thought I was having an anthropomorphic nightmare, where the only person I could trust in the world showed up with all my worst enemies, while I was in a bathrobe, playing congas on my big, fat belly!
    Stone: Sorry, sir.
    Sonic: I don't believe it. Eggman's alive?
    Tails: And he's never looked... worse.
    Ivo Robotnik: [chuckling] Well, maybe this is what "not giving a damn what you think I look like" looks like.
    Stone: Sir, right now, we have an even bigger problem.
    Ivo: Oh, come on...
    Stone: There's an imposter out there, using your technology.
    Ivo: [turning back to the monitor] "Imposter." That's impossi… What?! [Recorded footage of the hacked egg drones plays on the monitor] No... My sweet, mechanized spawn! Whomever this party-pooping posse is looking for has stolen my persona, and the precious babies from my egg sac. Well, I'll soon "egg sac"-t my revenge. You see what I did there? [off Stone's laugh] It's time for the dramatic soap opera twist, where this Pablo reveals his Juan! [goes over to one of his devices, shoving trash out of the way.] By cross-referencing the precise coordinates of each drone's energy spikes, I can track my babies to the imposter's base of operations, right about… [points at a location] there.
    Tails: Sonic, I hate to say it, but I think we're both after the same person.
    Sonic: Hold on, hold on. You're not suggesting we team up with Doctor Ro-butt-stink, are you?
    Knuckles: Perhaps the fox is right. It could be our only chance to find this mysterious, more impressive hedgehog.
    Sonic: [groans] All right, Egghead, I hate to say it, but it looks like we're partners.
    Ivo: On one condition. [holds out his hand, gesturing Sonic to give him something]
    Sonic: [unfortunately knows what it is] Dude, you have serious issues. [plucks out one of his quills and begrudgingly gives it to Ivo. Ivo puts it to his tongue, and it shocks him with Chaos Energy.]
    Ivo: Let's... [grabs Stone] DO THIS!
    [Ivo noisily struggles in his changing room. Stone is startled but quickly regains his composure and continues to wait patiently until Ivo opens the door.]
    Ivo: Tinker Tailor, I need room. Think Elvis, circa 1976.
    Stone: But sir, I don't have the proper materials.
    Ivo: [rips off Stone's shirt] Found some! [hands it to Stone, shuts the door]
    Stone: Resourceful.
    [In a flashback, Maria and Shadow lie side by side in a field of flowers over the military base, gazing up at the stars in the night sky.]
    Maria: Wow. Look at all those stars. They're like diamonds. My grandfather says it can take hundreds of years for the light of a star to reach Earth, and by the time you see it, the star might not even exist anymore. Isn't that crazy?
    Shadow: The light shines... even though the star is gone.
    Maria: Yeah, it does. I wonder which one you came from, Shadow.
    Shadow: I don't know. I don't know anything about my home.
    Maria: This is your home, Shadow. Earth.
    Shadow: [sits up] Maria, do you think I'm... dangerous?
    Maria: [also sits up] What are you talking about?
    Shadow: The way the scientists look at me, I can tell they're afraid. Like I'm the horrible thing from that movie we watched. I don't know... what I am.
    Maria: You're my friend. And you can do or be anything you want. Not because of your powers, but because of who you are... in here. [points at Shadow's heart]
    Shadow: I don't know what I'd do without you.
    [Maria smiles and holds Shadow's hand. They resume stargazing, with "End of the Line" starting up again. They share a brief look, with Shadow smiling along.]
    [Back in the present, Maria's record player abruptly scratches to a stop. After a moment, Shadow goes on to find his old capsule, now broken. He gazes into the glass from the outside and places his palm against it, just like Maria did when they first met, but sadly this time instead of happily. Suddenly, he hears footsteps, turning around and charging his fist with Chaos energy until he recognizes the figure, whose face is shrouded from the audience.]
    Shadow: Professor?
    Professor: It's good to see you, Shadow. I knew you'd come home.
    Shadow: I can't get her out of my head. The pain... It's too much.
    Professor: And that is why we have to punish them.
    [Outside, Sonic and Ivo emerge from a Ring]
    Sonic: OK, I don't like you, and you don't like me. Let's get this over with quickly.
    Ivo: [bumps Sonic aside] Out of my way, Dork-upine.
    Sonic: [sarcastic] Dork-upine?! Really clever!
    [Tails, Knuckles, and Stone, still without a shirt, follow them to the base's doors as the Ring closes behind them.]
    Ivo: [knocks] This door is 6-inch-thick solid steel and a pressurized latch. I'll need a moment to calculate the molecular density and invert the venting mechanics.
    Knuckles: [simply punches the doors down] I unlocked it.
    Ivo: Subtle as always, Fists-for-Brains.
    [Inside the base, Shadow hears the doors being knocked down]
    Professor: Easy, Shadow. Those are the guests I've been expecting. Let's give them a warm welcome.
    [Team Sonic, Ivo, and Stone enter the base.]
    Stone: Whoa, what is this place?
    Sonic: Looks like a military base, but nobody's been here for years. I wonder if it's haunted.
    Knuckles: Haunted? Nobody said anything about being haunted.
    Stone: What's the matter? You afraid of g-g-g-ghosts?
    Knuckles: Nothing scares an Echidna warrior.
    Sonic: Uh, yeah, do you remember what happened last movie night?
    [Cut to a brief flashback of Knuckles screaming in fear... at Casper the Friendly Ghost. He holds onto his friends' hands, crushing them in his terror.]
    Sonic and Tails: AHH! Let go-let go-let go-let go-!
    [Cut back to the present.]
    Knuckles: There's no such thing as a "friendly ghost."
    [Sonic rolls his eyes, unconvinced. Tails still visibly feels the pain in his hand. They soon come across three hallways.]
    Sonic: So, which way do we go?
    Ivo: I know! We should split up. Everyone with hideous, brightly colored fur take the left and the middle. Stone and I will go right.
    Sonic: No, no, no, no, no. I'm not letting you out of my sight. Tails, you and Stone go left. Knuckles, you take the middle. Eggman, you and me go right.
    Ivo: By all means. We could use some time together. To work on your trust issues.
    Sonic: You know what, you're right, I should be more trusting. I mean, you've only tried to kill me twice!
    Knuckles: Just a dark, creepy hallway. Nothing to be afraid of. You hear that, ghost?! You don't frighten me! [A pipe blows steam behind Knuckles, startling him.] Get… a… grip. [turns around to find Shadow right in front of him]
    Shadow: Boo.
    [Knuckles screams in fright.]
    Stone: I'm just gonna come right out and say this... You're adorable.
    Tails: Oh, um, thanks...!
    Stone: So, what's it like being Sonic's assistant? You have a daily routine? Paid time off? Benefits?
    Tails: Oh, I'm not Sonic's assistant. We're teammates! He's the leader, Knuckles is the muscle, and I'm the gadget guy. We all have a role to play. That's what makes the team so special. That and the fact we're best friends.
    Stone: ...You are?
    Tails: Well, yeah, just like you and Eggman, right?
    Stone: (stammering, nervously chuckling) Of course, yes! Me and the Doctor, best of friends! [looks away, sad] That's definitely what we are.
    [They then hear something suspicious, but it's just a rat scurrying by.]
    Stone: Hm.
    [Behind them, Shadow menacingly floats down, his red eyes glowing in the dark. Stone and Tails turn around and scream in unison.]
    [Sonic and Ivo investigate a room housing Maria's old tent.]
    Sonic: Whoa, look at all this stuff. This was more than just a military base or a lab. It was a home. People lived here. [finds a framed photo of Shadow and Maria with the glass broken] He had a family.
    Ivo: Is that what I smell? The stench of domestic harmony?
    Sonic: You ever wonder what your life would've been like if you had a family?
    Ivo: Hm... no.
    Sonic: Maybe you wouldn't have gone full supervillain.
    Ivo: I have no parents, no aunts, no uncles, and something about my attitude renders me... [looks at his reflection] ...undesirable to all possible genders. [Sonic follows a trail of footprints leading into the next room while Robotnik continues.] My future is a cul-de-sac. The Robotnik name ends... [pulls out Sonic's quill] ...avec moi. Yes, I know French. [shocks his tongue again]
    [Sonic's attention is diverted as he enters the adjacent lab housing Shadow's old capsule.]
    Sonic: Whoa, is this where you grew up, Shadow? No wonder you're so mad. This place could really use a beanbag chair and some comic books. What happened here?
    [As Sonic inspects the capsule, Shadow suddenly teleports in and smashes Sonic's head against it, cracking the glass even more.]
    Shadow: I'm tired of giving you warnings!
    [Shadow throws Sonic against the lab's machinery and charges a Chaos energy-infused punch, knocking Sonic out again.]
    Ivo: Where'd you go, hedgehog? I wasn't finished trauma-dumping. [As he looks around the room, he finds his drones neatly stacked and inactive.] My... darlings! [hugs his drones] My eggy-weggies!
    [Then the door to the room creaks open, and the Professor slowly enters, singing Barbara Streisand's "The Way We Were."]
    Professor: ♪ Memories... light the corners of my mind... misty watercolor memories... ♪
    [As the Professor walks into view, Ivo discovers that he bears a striking resemblance to him.]
    Professor: ♪ ...of the way we were... n't! ♪
    Ivo: I... don't believe it.
    Professor: Don't you?
    Ivo: It's impossible.
    Professor: Is it?
    Ivo: It couldn't be.
    Professor: Couldn't it?
    Ivo: I'm...
    Professor: Are you?
    Ivo: Imposter! You stole my babies! [activates his drones via his glove] They know who their real daddy is, drone-napper!
    Professor: [laughs] Magnificent creations, my boy. I borrowed them to lure you here and reunite our family. You see, Ivo. [removes glasses] I'm your grandfather: Gerald Robotnik.
    Ivo: My... grandfather? But how? And why? And who did what with whom?!
    Professor Gerald Robotnik: You hail from an ancestry of excellence, tied directly à moi. Yes, I know French.
    Ivo: [closely inspecting] You do look like me. But fatter, and older. And there's that funny smell. But the resemblance is uncanny. It's as if...
    Both: We're two characters in a movie [slowly turning to the camera] being played by the same actor!
    Ivo: But I need real proof!
    Gerald: Ivo! We have very little time.
    [Ivo commands a drone via his glove to shoot at Gerald's feet. Gerald hops over the bullet and immediately reconsiders.]
    Gerald: But I could field a couple of queries.
    [Ivo starts walking around Gerald and quizzing him.]
    Ivo: Name the most elegant formula in mathematics.
    Gerald: Euler's identity: e to the i times pi plus one equals zilch.
    Ivo: European capitals arranged alphabetically by the fourth letter.
    Gerald: [yawns] Riga, Monaco, Sarajevo, Tirana.
    Ivo: The speed of light divided by the speed of sound divided by the speed of the bus in the movie Speed.
    Gerald: [mimics calculator beeps] 17,893.33333...
    Ivo: Rounding up.
    Gerald: 17,894 mph.
    Ivo: And, for all the marbles...
    Gerald: Good, I lost mine.
    Ivo: A rare lung disease, and the longest word in the English dictionary.
    Gerald: Em...
    Both: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis!
    Ivo: [whispering in shock] Pop-Pop?
    Gerald: In the saggy flesh. But lookin' pretty good for 110. [shocks his tongue on Shadow's quill]
    Ivo: Oh, Grampy-poo! [hugs Gerald] Where have you been my entire life? [pulls back] Wait. [angrily] Where have you been my ENTIRE LIFE?!
    Gerald: Locked in a top-secret prison for the last fifty years. Made it kinda hard to send Christmas cards. Now, you're probably wondering why I brought you here.
    Ivo: You didn't bring me here. I used my unparalleled intellect to track you down.
    Gerald: Per the plan I concocted with my unparalleled intellect. You'll see. I have the answer to everything. C'mon, kiddo.
    [Ivo follows Gerald with a skip in his step. Behind them, the drones form hearts in their optics.]
    Sonic: Oh, no. Someone tell me this is some kind of concussion-induced nightmare... There's TWO Eggmen now?!
    Ivo: Double your villains, double your fun!
    Gerald: Two Robotniks are way worse than one!
    Ivo: (to Gerald) Chest bump? No. (to Stone) Stone, why are you tied up? Do that on your own time. You sicken me.
    Shadow: You must be the long-lost grandson.
    Ivo: And you must be another stinking hedgehog.
    [Sonic redirects his attention to Gerald just as Tails and Knuckles regain consciousness.]
    Sonic: So, you're the one behind all this? The Shadow breakout.
    Tails: The attack on Walters!
    Knuckles: That musty old man smell?
    Gerald: How dare you insult me with your unsolicited exposition! Shadow, get the key.
    Shadow: Where is it?
    Sonic: Ha! Good one, Hot Topic. Do you really think we'd be that stupid, to bring the key right to you? [Shadow takes the key from Tails' backpack.] Yup, we're that stupid.
    Shadow: G.U.N. took everything from us. And now we are going to take everything from them.
    Gerald: With this. [activates a small hologram] My masterpiece of malevolence: the Eclipse Cannon. In exchange for my freedom, I gave G.U.N. the most powerful weapon mankind has ever seen, capable of delivering a precision strike anywhere on Earth. Our first target: G.U.N. headquarters!
    Sonic: But firing a weapon that powerful could threaten millions of innocent lives!
    Gerald: Yeah, terabyte me! [Ivo chuckles at Gerald's pun] This is one of two keys required to launch the Eclipse Cannon. The other is locked inside G.U.N. headquarters. Once we have both, I will take rightful control of my weapon.
    Ivo: I'm in.
    [Ivo's crab mech floats down into the chamber.]
    Gerald: Holy crab!
    Stone: Spacious and crustaceous.
    Ivo: [to Team Sonic] Thank you so much for inspiring this little adventure. It really worked out for me.
    Sonic: And you wonder why I have trust issues!
    [As the Robotniks and Stone board the crab, Shadow teleports above Team Sonic.]
    Sonic: Shadow, wait! Don't do this! I know you're hurting, but don't let that change who you are inside!
    Shadow: I've spent fifty years reliving what they did to her. This is who I am inside.
    Sonic: Uh, nice magic marble. Real scary.
    [The "marble" unleashes a vortex, absorbing the base's ruins.]
    Sonic: Aah! That actually is real scary!
    Tails: It's a mini black hole! It's going to suck in all the matter in this base!
    [A piece of debris knocks loose the pillar that the team is chained to, and they start being pulled in.]
    Knuckles: Fear not, friends! Even my teeth are muscles!
    [Knuckles bites down on a loose cable, keeping the team from being absorbed.]
    Tails: Sonic, try to reach one of my Rings!
    [Sonic manages to grab a Ring from Tails' backpack.]
    Sonic: Got one! Check this out. Trick shot!
    [Sonic flips the Ring up and kicks it to try to open it, but it keeps bouncing into debris being pulled in.]
    Sonic: Come on... come on... come on...
    Sonic and Tails: Come on...!
    [Knuckles loses his grip, and the team is pulled towards the vortex, but the Ring opens right in front of them, transporting them to safety at the edge of a nearby cliff. The team briefly celebrates before witnessing the black hole devouring the mountain and disappearing.]
    Sonic: Yikes. Somebody better call Google Maps.
    [The crab's computer scans the crater where the mountain and abandoned base once sat: "No lifeforms detected."]
    Ivo: I've spent years trying to cleanse the cosmos of that spiny, blue speed freak, and you did it... in one afternoon.
    Gerald: There's nothing we can't destroy together, my boy.
    Stone: Charting route to G.U.N. headquarters in London, sirs. ETA: four hours, as the crab flies.
    Gerald: By all accounts, we're ahead of schedule. We should take this time to get to know each other better.
    Ivo: Wow, what...? You mean... spend some qu-qu-qu... ality time?
    Gerald: You've waited for this your whole life. How would you choose to spend one perfect day with your new grand pal?
    [The Wachowskis' living room is cluttered with signs of various activities, from loaves of bread, a knitting set, to a painting of Ozzy. Tom, dressed in a "Donut Lord" sweater, finishes building a model Taj Mahal at the table.]
    Tom: And done! Masterpiece. Look at that.
    Maddie: Yay! [wearing an "All or Muffin" apron, she brings more bread and joins Tom on the sofa.] It's really been great having time to ourselves.
    Tom: Right? Absolutely, I just feel so relaxed. Y'know, clear-headed?
    Maddie: Look at all these new interests we found.
    Tom: I've got so many hobbies.
    Maddie: (whispering) So many!
    Tom: After the action and adventure of the last few years, I could get used to this.
    Maddie: Same.
    [Suddenly, the room starts to shake. The bread pans wobble, puzzles break apart, and the model Taj Mahal comes tumbling down. A Ring appears, and Team Sonic emerges, still chained up, with Knuckles in front.]
    Sonic: Tom, Maddie, we need your help on a super… Knuckles, do you mind?
    Knuckles: Oh, excuse me. [turns around so Sonic faces Tom and Maddie]
    Sonic: (Thank you. As I was saying.) Tom, Maddie, we need your help on a super dangerous, top-secret mission!
    [Tom and Maddie mull it over.]
    Tom: Thank God.
    Maddie: Let's go.
    Tom: [both getting up] Yeah, we're in.
    Tails: Really? You're in, just like that?
    Tom: Yeah.
    Maddie: (same time) Yes. It was getting so boring without you guys here.
    Tom: (overlapping) So boring.
    Maddie: No offense.
    Tom: No, none taken. (to Team Sonic) I mean, whatever crazy plan you're cooking up, the answer's yes.
    Maddie: Yes.
    Sonic: Great! But first thing's first, what is that?
    [Sonic points to a ventriloquist puppet of Tom with Sergeant Sprinkles. Tom picks it up off the floor. Maddie is unamused.]
    Tom: Oh, this is... (puts on a voice) Little Tom! (normal voice) Isn't he great?
    [Team Sonic is too stunned to speak.]
    Maddie: I told you to get rid of that. It's very creepy.
    Tom: (as Little Tom) I told him to get rid of you. (normal voice) Okay, that's going a bit too far...
    Maddie: You're in so much trouble.
    [Tails sets his Miles Electric on the living room table, creating a hologram of G.U.N. HQ.]
    Tails: Okay, this is it, the belly of the beast: G.U.N. headquarters in London.
    Maddie: Aw, Tom, we're finally gonna get to see London together...!
    Tom: Hey, I told you we'd get there someday, baby.
    Sonic: Okay, so here's the plan! I run in super fast, fly over that water, no problem, then right when I get to the--
    [Sonic's hologram turns to ash upon running into G.U.N. HQ's shield, leaving only his shoes behind.]
    Sonic: AHH! What just happened?
    Tails: Congratulations, you just got incinerated by their energy shield. We'll need to shut it down by planting a USB drive in their server room. That will give me full control over it. (re: Tom and Maddie) That's what we need you two for.
    Tom: A couple badass spies, that's what we are.
    Maddie: Mr. and Mrs. Smith. [fist bumps Tom]
    Tails: Once we disable the shield, you'll face... the laser hall. These high-density bad boys will cut you into tiny pieces. And cut those pieces into even tinier pieces.
    Sonic: Once again, AHH! Can't we just get Tom Cruise to do this?
    Tails: Nope, because not even he could break into... the vault.
    Sonic: Why is it empty in there?
    Tails: Because we have no idea what's on the other side of that door. To prevent the vault from ever being accessed by a Ring, all images and schematics have been wiped from G.U.N.'s database. So, for the last leg of this heist...
    Tom: (as Little Tom) We're goin' in blind. (off Maddie's look, quietly) Sorry.
    Maddie: Okay, I'm just gonna say it. It sounds like this plan would work a heck of a lot better if Sonic used the Master Emerald to go golden god mode to get the key.
    Sonic: No way, Maddie. The Master Emerald is too powerful to ever use again. We made a promise to each other to keep it hidden.
    Tails: In a location only Knuckles knows.
    Knuckles: As Guardian of the Master Emerald, anyone who tries to take it away for any reason will become a sworn enemy.
    Maddie: Okay-okay, sheesh, no need to get all growly on me, buddy.
    Sonic: You guys are always telling us to make good choices. Well, this is the right choice.
    Tom: Okay! I guess we're going to...
    [Ivo rises out of a manhole, joining Shadow, Stone, and Gerald in an alley as "London Town" by Giggs and Mr Eazi plays. G.U.N. HQ sits across the Thames.]
    Ivo: London, baby!
    Shadow: (to Gerald) GUN headquarters is right there! Let me go in, get the key, and destroy anyone in my way! I want revenge!
    Gerald: Patience, Shadow. Just let us handle this. And I promise, you'll have revenge... on a scale you can't possibly imagine.
    Ivo: C'mon, granddaddio, we've got... dirt to do! (to Stone) Suits.
    Stone: Right here, sir. [presents a briefcase with two suits]
    Ivo: Stone, babysit the hedgehog. Keep the crab on a low boil. (to Gerald) It's time for more family bonding. [takes the suitcase, joins Gerald]
    Stone: C'mon, Shadow. Got fresh avocados in the crab. We'll make guac. [goes down the manhole]
    Shadow: (100% serious) Revenge guac!
    [Sonic sits on top of the London Eye capsule and immediately gets impatient, speaking into his comm with his friends and family.]
    Sonic: Guys? Are you ready for me yet? I've been waiting here all day.
    [Tails flies to the roof of 20 Fenchurch Street, setting up his Miles Electric.]
    Tails: Sonic, we literally just started! Tom, Maddie, are you in position and ready?
    [On the ground, Tom and Maddie scout G.U.N. HQ with binoculars, dressed in G.U.N. soldier attire.]
    Tom: We were born ready.
    Maddie: Let's do this.
    Tails: Knuckles, how 'bout you?
    [Knuckles kneels over one of Big Ben's gargoyles.]
    Knuckles: I have taken my perch atop the giant clock. Now, where is this glass I'm supposed to break?
    Sonic: Actually, Knux, your job is to break glass in case of emergency.
    Knuckles: Understood. I will shatter this glass like the jaw of a vile foe.
    Sonic: In case of emergency.
    Knuckles: I will pulverize it like the skull of a loathsome rival!
    Sonic: Just to be clear, the emergency is the important part.
    Knuckles: The glass will beg for mercy under the shadow of my mighty fist!
    Tom: Guys, remember, we're a team. Now, let's focus.
    Maddie: Please!
    Sonic: You know what? Let's move on.
    Tails: Alright, everyone knows what to do. Tom and Maddie, you guys plant the USB drive. I'll disable the traps. Sonic will snag the launch key. And Knuckles, you stand by to...
    Knuckles: [eagerly puts his fists together] Break glass in case of emergency.
    Sonic: See? He gets it.
    Maddie: (to Tom) Then we're all set.
    Tom: Hologram time. [hands her a Tails-made disguiser] You go first.
    Maddie: [clicks her disguiser, turning her into a hologram version of Rachel, speaking with her voice] Tom! It's me, Rachel. Can you believe it? We're both in London together!
    Tom: Have you met your sister? Try again. Unless... you're not up for this mission? Yeah, maybe you wanna be back in Green Hills baking sourdough and--
    Maddie: [grabs Tom by the collar, acting more abrasively.] Thomas Michael Wachowski! You brought aliens to my wedding, punched up my husband, and buried me in an avalanche. Your day of reckoning is at hand! (That better?)
    Tom: [strained, scared] Yeah, that's perfect. [after being let go] Okay, now for her better half. [clicks his disguiser, turning into Randall Handel and admires the size of his own arms] Hoo-hoo, my name is Randall, and I am too much to "Handel." [flexes] Welcome to the gun show! [Maddie nods along] Baby, would you describe me as jacked, juiced or shredded?
    Maddie: I would describe your head as swollen. Let's get to work.
    [Tom and Maddie, respectively disguised as Randall and Rachel, enter G.U.N. HQ, marching to the agent at the front desk.]
    Tom: Agent Randall Handel. I'm here to have lunch with my lovely wife Rachel.
    Front Desk Agent: Oh, I'm sorry, Agent Handel, this facility's currently locked down. Command-level clearance only.
    Tom: One minute. [turns away, whispering into comm] Tails, we have a problem here.
    Tails: They must've tightened security after Shadow's escape.
    Maddie: I got this. [to the front desk agent] You must be new here. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Rachel... Rachel Gonna-Get-You-Fired. Do you know what G.U.N. stands for?
    Front Desk Agent: Of course. Guardian Unit--
    Maddie: [mimics incorrect buzzer] Gettin'. Ultra. Nasty. Do you want me to get ultra nasty? Nasty-nasty?!
    Front Desk Agent: No, ma'am.
    Maddie: Okay, then. Then why don't you take those little sad fingers and start tippity type-type-typin'?! Mmm-hmm, that's right, go on.
    Front Desk Agent: Sorry for the inconvenience, ma'am.
    Maddie: Mmm-hmm... That's what I thought! [passing through] My God, I love being Rachel!
    [Tom and Maddie lift their disguises and find the door to the server room. Maddie then disguises herself as Rockwell.]
    Maddie: Did it work?
    Tom: [admiring] Yeah... [Maddie smacks him.] Ow!
    [Maddie inputs a code at the door and speaks into the intercom.]
    Maddie: Director Rockwell. Seeking access to the server room.
    Agent's Voice: Just one moment, ma'am.
    [Just as Tom and Maddie exchange smiles at their success, Tom sees something concerning down the hall.]
    Tom: Oh, no. No-no-no-no. It's her, it's her, it's the real her...!
    [Maddie turns around and sees the real Rockwell with a few soldiers walking their way.]
    Rockwell: ...the incident in Colorado.
    G.U.N. Soldier: Still assessing.
    Rockwell: What do you mean we're still assessing?
    Tom: What do we do?
    Maddie: [lifting disguise] Quick, change faces!
    Tom: Okay.
    [Tom frantically clicks his disguiser, but it instead cartoonishly distorts his face and voice with each click.]
    Tom: Did it work? [off Maddie's weirded out look] What's going on? Why're you looking at me like that?
    [The disguiser changes Tom's face to Sergeant Sprinkles, then the head of Little Tom.]
    Tom: (with Little Tom's voice) What am I doin' wrong?
    [The disguiser then changes Tom's face to Ozzy's. Maddie chops the disguiser, changing Tom into Randall again just before Rockwell and the soldiers approach. "Randall" salutes while Maddie turns away and pretends to look occupied.]
    Tom: Aye-aye, Captain!
    [Rockwell simply gives Tom a look and walks away with the soldiers without breaking stride.]
    Maddie: "Aye-aye, Captain...?!" Who are you, Popeye?!
    Tom: [lifting disguise] I panicked! I was panicking.
    Maddie: Geez! Get it together.
    [The door to the server room finally opens.]
    Sonic: Are you guys finished yet? This is taking for-ev-er!
    [Sonic does the Sonic Unleashed E-Rank emote, falling to his knees and slamming the capsule with his fist, accidentally getting the attention of the people inside.]
    Sonic: Uh-oh.
    Knuckles: Has the time come to break the glass? Or at least break something.
    Tails: It didn't work.
    Sonic: Did you put in the right way?
    Knuckles: Try punching it!
    Tails: Do not try punching it!
    Tom: Ah! Take it out and blow on it.
    Maddie: Yes!
    Tails: Oh, come on, Tom.
    [Tom blows into the drive a couple times, letting Maddie have a turn, too.]
    Tails: There's absolutely no scientific evidence to support--
    [Tom puts the drive back in. The server room's lights turn yellow.]
    Tails: Never mind, it worked!
    Tom: A little trick from the 90's.
    Maddie: The best decade ever, right? [high-fives Tom]
    Ivo: [decloaks] The Robotniks have entered the chat. [realizes] Wait. Poppy seed? Grand geezer...? ¿Dónde está--?
    Gerald: I'm right here! [decloaks] If you weren't family, I could've gut you like a pheasant! [rethinks] I mean... try to keep up.
    [Ivo's crab waits in the sewers. A familiar soap opera plays inside.]
    TV Announcer: And now back to... La Última Pasión.
    Gabriella: Última Pasión can only belong to one.
    Juan: No... it can only belong... to Juan!
    [Reveal Shadow watching the show (and making memes come true) while Stone whips up some guac.]
    Shadow: Gabriella should kill them both. She's not a prize to be won.
    Stone: Kill this, murder that... You need to lighten up, Shadow. We're about to rule the world.
    Shadow: When we're done, there won't be anything left to rule.
    Stone: That is dark, even for you. What are you and the professor up to?
    Gerald: What now, my cunning cohort?
    Ivo: Just a little teamwork...!
    Gerald: Hey... The lasers... don't seem to be penetrating my suit. They're conforming to the shape of my bodacious bod.
    Ivo: Of course. I designed these suits to create a field of laser-bending thermal distortion. Wasn't sure it would work 'til now.
    Gerald: You're heartless, son.
    Ivo: Hmm.
    Gerald: Rotten to the core.
    Ivo: Mm-hmm.
    Gerald: I'm... so proud. So, now we can just dance right through.
    Ivo: That sounds like a challenge.
    Tails: The Robotniks are almost at the vault!
    Sonic: We're outta time. I'm going.
    Tails: No, Sonic! I haven't disabled the traps yet!
    [Sonic loops around the London Eye and launches straight off.]
    Sonic: Too late! [hits the ground running] Look at me, I'm running on the wrong side of the road! Oh, I gotta take in the sights.
    [Sonic (de)tours London faster than the eye can see. He recreates the Beatles' album cover with his afterimages at Abbey Road...]
    Sonic: Paul, John, George, the other one!
    [...spins up the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain at Piccadilly Circus...]
    Sonic: Loud American coming through!
    [...runs through Buckingham Palace one room at a time...]
    Sonic: 'Scuse me! Pardon me! 'Ello, guv'nor! Which way to Hogwarts?
    [...comes out with a king's crown, coat, and scepter, along with a teacup...]
    Sonic: Hear ye, hear ye, Sonic the Hedgehog wants a cuppa tea!
    [...and leaves them on an unsuspecting King's Guardsman...]
    Sonic: Hold this for me, please.
    [...before finally heading for G.U.N. HQ.]
    Tails: You're not gonna make it!
    Sonic: I can make it.
    [Sonic boosts forward and speeds up along the Tower Bridge, launching high in the sky.]
    Knuckles: You're not gonna make it!
    Sonic: I'm gonna make it!
    [Sonic dives toward G.U.N. HQ, almost fully shielded.]
    Sonic: I'm not gonna make it. I'm not gonna make it...!
    [Suddenly, Tails flies in, spinning Sonic around and throwing him through the shield before it closes.]
    Sonic: Made it!
    Tails: Woo!
    [Sonic runs into the lobby and up the stairs.]
    Sonic: 'Scuse me, comin' through, no time for autographs, gotta go, bye!
    Ivo: Our destiny awaits.
    Sonic: Stop right there, robo-scum!
    Ivo: Let's do this...!
    Gerald: Copy!
    [The Robotniks run into the vault, but a couple floor panels turn red and pull them to the floor.]
    Sonic: Too slow, Eggmen. Now if you don't mind, I've gotta get that key--
    [Another floor panel turns green, suspending Sonic off the ground.]
    Sonic: My feet! Why can't I use my beautiful feet?!
    Rockwell: Because... [walks in, holding controls] this vault is armed with variable gravity.
    Gerald: No kidding?
    Rockwell: Green goes up, and red takes you down, hard.
    Sonic: Rockwell, listen to me. The Robotniks are planning to--
    Rockwell: [flicks Sonic] Oh, they're planning on stealing the second key, just like you are? Yes, I'm aware. [pulls the key] I called it the second Commander Walters was attacked, so... thank you for taking the bait and falling right into my trap.
    Ivo: I don't believe this.
    Gerald: I know, grandson. A woman in the military.
    [G.U.N. soldiers bring Tom, Maddie, and Tails into the vault. They find Sonic and the Robotniks trapped by Rockwell and the vault's variable gravity.]
    Tom: Robotnik. Goin' full spandex, huh? (re: Gerald) Who's the fossil?
    Ivo: That's my grandfather, you dough-eating dimbecile!
    Gerald: (re: Tom and Maddie) Who're they?
    Ivo: A couple of bleeding hearts, here to rescue their emotional support animals.
    Rockwell: Enough! It's over. The only way you're leaving here is in handcuffs. There is no other way out.
    Sonic: You know, there might be one other way out.
    Rockwell: And what is that supposed to mean?
    Sonic: [on Knuckles' comm] Hey, big guy, I think it's time to...
    [Knuckles launches off the face of Big Ben, propelled forward by the Flames of Disaster.]
    Knuckles: Break glass in case of emergency!
    [Knuckles glides straight through G.U.N. HQ's energy shield and breaks into the vault, roaring and slamming his flaming fist down against the floor. The resulting shockwave blasts Rockwell back, and Knuckles snags the vault's gravity controls from her.]
    Knuckles: Ha! Nothing can stop Team Knuckles!
    Rockwell: Open fire!
    [The soldiers obey, firing on Sonic, who frantically flips over their shots.]
    Sonic: Knuckles, turn this stuff off! Hurry!
    Knuckles: [thumbs up] On it!
    [In true Knuckles fashion, the echidna smashes the controls with his fist. The controls turn all red, forming an X-eyed frowny face.]
    Knuckles: Uh-oh.
    [Tails facepalms as the vault's gravity goes haywire, randomly sending soldiers up and down.]
    [As Rockwell hurries rounds a corner with the second key, she sees Tom (disgusted as Walters) with a cast down the hall, much to her surprise.]
    Rockwell: Commander Walters, sir. You're...
    Tom: Still alive? I'll die before I let that key fall into the wrong hands. [Rockwell walks up] Thanks for keeping it safe. I'll take from here.
    [Rockwell instinctively feels that something seems off...]
    Tom: That's an order, Director Rockwell.
    [...but she can't refuse handing him the key.]
    Tom: Now, organize the reinforcements.
    Rockwell: Yes, sir. [marches off]
    [Tom exits the corridor and clicks his disguiser.
    Tom: [briefly changes to normal to radio the others with his real voice] Guys, guys, I got the key. I repeat, I got the key. Now, let's get outta here. [changes back into Walters, but suddenly Shadow crashes down from the ceiling.]
    Shadow: [vengeful] Commander Walters...!
    Tom: No-no, no, wait!
    [Shadow teleports and delivers a Chaos energy-infused punch, knocking Tom unconscious. As Shadow takes the dropped second key, the disguiser deactivates and changes Tom back, much to Shadow's confusion.]
    Shadow: What...?
    Sonic: [running in] Tom, everyone's clear! C'mon, let's go! [sees Shadow] You. What're you...? [sees Tom] Tom! [runs over to the gravely injured Tom on the floor, trying to wake him up; voice breaking] Tom, what happened? Speak to me, come on. Come on, come on, come on, it's going to be okay. Please, please, please, get up. Come on, please, wake up. Wake up, wake up, wake up, come on. Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up!
    [As Shadow watches, he is reminded of when he was in the same position as Maria after she was killed by the explosions]
    Shadow: [in flashback] Maria.
    Sonic: [to Shadow; angrily] What did you do?!
    [Shadow looks at the key, remembering the mission, and steels himself.]
    Shadow: What I had to. [teleports away]
    [In the Eclipse Cannon, Gerald waits in his new suit while Ivo finishes putting on his own.]
    Ivo: ♪ I'm a chip off the old block, I'm a chip off the old block, I'm a chip off the old block... ♪
    [Suddenly, "E.G.G.M.A.N." rings from Ivo's suit. He makes a phone sign with his hand and speaks into his glove.]
    Ivo: What do you want, Stone? I'm busy.
    [Stone talks into his smartphone back outside by the Thames.]
    Stone: Doctor, I have a bad feeling about this. I don't think your grandfather's been completely honest with us. Something Shadow said... There's more to their plan.
    Ivo: How dare you... You've been jealous of my long-lost grand pop-tart since the very beginning! I no longer require your obsequious groveling. Consider this your notice of termination. Your letter of reference will be L for "loser." Of course, I'll expect you to stay on until you've been successfully cloned, but you and I are done! Like a blackened catfish dinner!
    Stone: Sir, it's too dangerous, and I'm not there to protect you! I already lost you once, I...!
    Ivo: [hanging up] Unsubscribe. Blocked and reported.
    Stone: ...I can't lose you again.
    Tails: It'll be OK, Sonic.
    Sonic: It'll be OK? Tom is fighting for his life, and you think it'll be okay?
    Knuckles: The fox is simply trying to comfort you.
    Sonic: Comfort's not what I need right now. I need to stop them. By any means necessary.
    Tails: Wait, you don't mean...?
    Sonic: The Master Emerald.
    Knuckles: The emerald must never be wielded for vengeance. Not ever. We swore a sacred oath.
    Sonic: Don't talk to me about oaths, not now.
    Tails: But you told Tom using the emerald wasn't the right choice.
    Sonic: Well, now it's the only choice! And if neither of you have the guts to help me, then I'll do it alone.
    Tails: But I thought the three of us were a team! I thought that's what made us special!
    Sonic: I'm not asking you twice, Knuckles. [powers his fists] Where is the Master Emerald?
    Knuckles: [powers his fists] Your heart is being consumed by anger, hedgehog. You are in no condition to make decisions right now!
    Tails: I know you're upset about Tom. We all are!
    Sonic: Last chance. Where… [his eyes glow blue] is it?!
    Knuckles: Don't do this. [they exchange furious glances, and then Knuckles hesitantly calms down] Part of our oath is to trust each other, and I must abide by that promise even if you have chosen to break it. But heed this warning. The Master Emerald is guarded by a fearsome warrior, and to seize this ultimate power, you'll have to go through him.
    [Ivo and Gerald watch Shadow running at super-speed around the Cannon's core.]
    Ivo: Excuse me, Grampasadoble. What is that thermonuclear gerbil doing?
    Gerald: Infusing the core with Chaos Energy. That's my little secret: the Eclipse Cannon is about to turn this planet into a flaming pile of rubble, wiping out everything in a 25,000 mile radius... including us.
    Ivo: WHAT?! [laughing incredulously] We can't annihilate the Earth!
    Gerald: Hm?
    Ivo: By combining our genius, we can rule humanity together!
    Gerald: Humanity is a failed experiment. If anyone should know that, it's you. All your life, you've been rejected by this world. You have nothing down there... no one who cares about you.
    Ivo: But I have you now. We're family... we have each other.
    Gerald: Oh, Ivo... you're no Maria. The moment I lost her, my family was gone forever. The only way to give Maria's life meaning is to destroy the world that took her from me... so I'm burning it all down!
    [Shadow teleports back down.]
    Shadow: It's done.
    Gerald: Good work, Shadow. I'm prepping the firing sequence. [flicks a switch] The weapon will be fully charged in ten minutes.
    [Shadow puts his hand to the window, just like in his capsule fifty years ago, and looks out at the planet below].
    Shadow: It's almost finished, Maria. You will have justice.
    [Shadow and Gerald notice a golden light flying up from the planet.]
    Gerald: What is that?
    Shadow: Is G.U.N. launching missiles at us?
    Gerald: Impossible. It's moving too fast.
    [Ivo takes out Sonic's quill, which changes from blue to gold before his eyes.]
    Ivo: [realizing] It's him...!
    [Super Sonic blitzes Shadow straight out of the Eclipse Cannon, leaving a hole in the glass window. A metal door seals the hole before the Robotniks can be pulled into space.]
    Super Sonic: (enraged) You've hurt my family! This ends now!
    Shadow: Now you know my anger, the pain I felt for fifty years! And you made the same choice I did.
    Super Sonic: I'm nothing like you!
    Shadow: We'll see.
    [Super Sonic and Shadow reenter the atmosphere and crash-land in a volcanic region, creating a crater upon impact. Once the dust clears, Super Sonic notices that Shadow has vanished.]
    Super Sonic: Show yourself, coward!
    [Shadow teleports behind Super Sonic and knocks the Chaos Emeralds out of him, reverting Sonic to his base form. They see the Emeralds falling in the air and both make a mad dash for them at the same time. A pillar of golden light shoots up from the Emeralds, and when it leaves, Sonic sees that he has regained his Super form... but Shadow has also gained his for the first time, his limiter rings glowing with power and his fur whitish gold. Super Sonic tries to punch Super Shadow, but the latter effortlessly blocks, the impact causing the earth to crack beneath their feet.]
    Super Shadow: You were right about one thing... This ends now.
    [Super Shadow strikes back at Super Sonic, and a fight for the ages begins between two hedgehogs full of anger and godlike power.]
    [The Robotniks watch Super Sonic and Super Shadow fight around the world from the Eclipse Cannon.]
    Gerald: What's happening? Where are they?
    Ivo: [points up] Up there.
    Gerald: [looks up] Where?
    Ivo: Higher.
    Gerald: [looks higher] Hmm?
    [Ivo chops Gerald in the neck, causing the latter to fall in pain.]
    Ivo: Left yourself open. [runs for the Cannon's controls]
    Gerald: Ivo! What are you doing?!
    Ivo: Thwarting your evil plan!
    [Gerald catches up to him with a nano jetpack. Both Robotniks begin fighting each other, and they start by grabbing each other's mustaches.]
    Both: [screaming] OW-OW-OW-OW-OW-OW!
    Ivo: Not the mustache!
    Gerald: Agreed!
    Ivo: Let go on three. One, two, three!
    [They both let go and shake their mustaches before Gerald creates a giant fist out of nanobots.]
    Ivo: [mockingly] Ooooh... A nanofist. I haven't seen that since I hate-watched Green Lantern in 2011!
    Gerald: I was saving it for Comic-Con. But now there won't be a Comic-Con! [slaps Ivo]
    [Super Sonic and Super Shadow continue their fight all the way to Greece. Super Shadow teleports behind Super Sonic and kicks him down into the Parthenon.]
    Super Shadow: Why are you alone? Where are your friends? [Super Sonic merely grunts in pain.] They tried to stop you, didn't they? But you came anyway. Your anger was too much. What kind of hero abandons his friends to pursue revenge, abandons his family?
    Super Sonic: Don't you dare talk about my family!
    Super Shadow: And here I thought you cared for them. Especially the one... What's his name? Tom?
    [His rage exploding, Super Sonic punches Super Shadow so hard that he sends him straight to the moon and knocks him out of his Super form. Super Sonic comes charging after him, grabbing him by the chest fur, his fist poised to deliver the killing blow.]
    Shadow: Go ahead! Finish it!
    [Super Sonic pants heavily, ready to hit Shadow, but still hesitates.]
    Shadow: What are you waiting for?! Do it! I'm right here! [points at his heart]
    [Super Sonic's eyes widen, remembering Tom's words in the cave.]
    Tom: You didn't let your pain change who you are... [points at Sonic's heart] in here.
    Super Sonic: [calms down and lets Shadow go, looking at himself with remorse] This is not who I am.
    Shadow: What are you doing? You won. Take your revenge.
    Sonic: [reverts to base form, sits down sadly] There are no winners with revenge.
    [The two hedgehogs sit in somber silence. Shadow looks up at the stars, remembering Maria's words.]
    Maria: (echoing in Shadow's mind) Wow. Look at all those stars. They're like diamonds.
    Shadow: The last time I sat beneath stars like this, I was with her. I've felt this pain for so long, it's all I know.
    Sonic: When I lost Longclaw, I felt the same way.
    Shadow: Did your pain eventually go away?
    Sonic: No. But in time, I learned there's something more powerful than pain. The love we felt for each other. That's what you need to hold on to, Shadow. Maria might be gone, but your love will always remain.
    [At that moment, the sun peaks out from behind Earth, illuminating them both.]
    Shadow: The light shines, even though the star is gone.
    [Sonic sees Shadow's understanding, along with the Eclipse Cannon still looming over the planet in the distance.]
    Shadow: This whole mess is my fault. I've been so blinded by rage, I thought... I had no choice.
    Sonic: [stands up, offers hand] You always have a choice.
    [Shadow thinks for a second, then takes Sonic's hand and gets back up.]
    Sonic: Making the right one is never easy. One more thing I learned, is that when you really screw something up... you can't fix it on your own.
    [As a familiar tune begins to shred, Shadow smiles for the first time in fifty years, and the two hedgehogs dap up into their Super forms once more, readying themselves for the final battle.]
    Super Sonic: Gotta go fast!
    Super Shadow: Don't tell me you've got a catchphrase.
    Super Sonic: That's right, new hedgehog, and everyone loves it!
    [At long last, the vocals of Crush 40's "Live and Learn" kick in, and Super Sonic and Super Shadow launch off the moon together toward the Eclipse Cannon.]
    Gerald: [spanking Ivo with his nanofist] I... will... not... try... to stop... my... elders... from... destroying... the... world!
    [Ivo makes a nano drill and drives it into Gerald's foot. Gerald shouts in pain and relents, so Ivo rolls away and gets to his feet]
    Gerald: Playtime is over!
    [Gerald makes a pair of nano scorpion pincers and a tail, the latter destroying the Eclipse Cannon controls.]
    Gerald: There's no going back now!
    Ivo: (to glove) Set up defense. [accidentally makes a fence] Damn you, autocorrect!
    [Gerald lunges to attack with his pincers but Ivo blocks it.]
    Ivo: (to glove) Mantis.
    [Ivo makes a pair of mantis blades, hovering around Gerald's next attack via mantis wings.]
    Ivo: I'm right here, arach-nerd.
    [Gerald lunges again, but Ivo catches his pincer with one mantis blade and slices off part of his mustache with the other.]
    Ivo: Hahahahaaa...! That's what I call "mantiscaping."
    Gerald: That's elder abuse!
    [Gerald prepares his pincers for another attack, only to spin around and whip Ivo off the platform with his scorpion tail. Ivo hangs on the edge, but before Gerald can finish him off, the Eclipse Cannon's alarm and computer voice divert his attention.]
    Computer: (repeating) Alert.
    [Gerald retracts his nano weapons and sees Super Sonic and Super Shadow on the monitor.]
    Gerald: Shadow, I see you've chosen betrayal. And you were once so useful to me.
    Super Sonic: Ready to recycle some tin cans?
    Super Shadow: Just try to keep up.
    Ivo: [hanging over the Eclipse Cannon's hatch] Please, Grampsy! Don't do this.
    Gerald: Sorry, kiddo. "Bring Your Grandkid to Work Day" is over. [opens the hatch, causing Ivo to hold on for dear life] Any last words?
    Ivo: Just... one thing... that I never thought I’d say.
    Gerald: What is it? [mockingly] "I love you"?
    Ivo: No. It was something even better, but I'm not gonna say it if that's the way you're gonna be!
    Gerald: [nonchalantly] 'Kay. Bye.
    [Gerald stomps on Ivo’s hand, sending him falling.]
    Gerald: [laughs evilly and sighs] Grandchildren. All the fun and none of the responsibility.
    [However, Ivo flies back inside, carrying Knuckles and being carried by Tails through their Ring, while holding Super Sonic's glowing quill.]
    Ivo: Who said life was pointless?
    Gerald: [shocked] Huh?
    Ivo: [sneers] Oh, right. You did.
    [Ivo uses the quill to zap Gerald's behind, sending him flying into the energy field, disintegrating and killing him.]
    Tails: Woohoo!
    Knuckles: Victory!
    Ivo: Say what you want about my granddad... He made one hell of a bug zapper. [blows on the quill and tosses it aside]
    Tails: We've gotta stop that laser!
    Ivo: I knew there was something I was forgetting.
    Super Shadow: We're out of time! The Cannon is about to fire! Where are you?
    Super Sonic: Oh, y'know, just makin' friends.
    [Super Sonic flies in Super Shadow's direction, the last of the G.U.N. Hunters rounded up and chasing him.]
    Super Sonic: They're all yours!
    [Super Shadow unleashes dozens of Chaos Spears and destroys the Hunters. Now unimpeded, the two hedgehogs head for the Eclipse Cannon.
    Super Sonic: Follow me!
    [They enter the Eclipse Cannon's line of fire just as the timer runs out.]
    Super Sonic: Now, this might hurt a little...!
    [The Eclipse Cannon fires, but they struggle to block the beam with Super Sonic's energy.]
    Super Shadow: So, this was your plan...?!
    Super Sonic: Would someone mind shutting down the giant death ray...?!
    [The Eclipse Cannon is about to blow, but Eggman tries to stabilize it. After containing some explosions, he deploys a camera drone and makes an announcement.]
    Eggman: This is Dr. Ivo Robotnik, dedicating my final livestream to one very special henchman... [on a London jumbotron] Agent Stone.
    Stone: No, no. Doctor, wait!
    Eggman: If I can't rule the world, I might as well save it! And the one and only person who ever cared about me...
    Stone: Don't do this, Doctor, please!
    Eggman: Stone, you were more than a sycophant to me. You were... a syco-friend. [Stone tears up] I'll miss your lattes with steamed Austrian goat milk. I love the way you make 'em! [Stone smiles] So, I guess there's only one thing left to say. [makes robotic noises and movements] It's been a real drag! Thanks for nothing.
    Tails: Sonic, look. [They look and saw the explosion up in the sky.] Shadow and Robotnik. They sacrificed themselves to save everyone.
    Sonic: You always have a choice. Guys, I'm really sorry for running off like that. I shouldn't have left you behind. The truth is... you're the best teammates a hedgehog could ever ask for. And the best friends. Can you ever forgive me?
[Knuckles ponders for a moment before raising his fist up for a fist-bump.]
    Knuckles: Team Sonic?
    [Sonic smiles and hugs Knuckles instead.]
    Sonic: How about just "Team?"
    [They all hug together.]
    Sonic: And way out in front, to the surprise of absolutely no one, it's the Blue Blur, often imitated, never duplicated, the one, the only--
    Knuckles: [punches through a tree] Let's do this!
    Tails: Yeah! [activates a winged jetpack] Hahaha!
    Sonic: Alright, boys, try and keep up!
    [The team races off into the sunset in high spirits.]
    [Sonic arrives at what he thinks is the finish line for his race.]
    Sonic: Sonic the Hedgehog is Family Champion once again! [looks around] Tails? Knuckles...? [sees a sign for the New York State Park] Okay... Yeah, I overshot the finish line.
    [A crack of lightning appears behind Sonic, revealing a look-like robot of himself (Metal Sonic) crouching in a Terminator-like fashion. His eyes light up, and he starts to walk towards Sonic.]
    Sonic: Okay, so how do I get back...?
    [Metal Sonic starts charging his arm cannon before firing it at Sonic and destroying a part of the forest. He then looks around and sees that Sonic is still alive.]
    Sonic: Pro tip: if you're gonna take a shot at the fastest creature in the universe...
    [Sonic punches Metal with a chaos energy-infused punch, knocking him back.]
    Sonic: ...You better not miss.
    [Metal readjusts his hands and head to face Sonic.]
    Sonic: Uh, I'm flattered by the cosplay, but you got a few details wrong. [Metal's eyes narrow.] I can't blame ya, though. It's hard to copy perfection.
    [Suddenly, several red eyes light up in the background, revealed to be a surrounding squadron of silver Metal Sonics.]
    Sonic: That's a new trick.
    [The Metal squad charges at Sonic, but before they can reach him, a hammer enveloped in pink energy comes in and slams them one-by-one. The hammer then flies back to a hooded figure jumping in before the broken moon, who smashes the last remaining one.]
    Sonic: What?! Who are you?!
    [The figure removes its hood, revealing itself to be a pink female hedgehog named Amy Rose, who smiles at him]

## Deleted scenes

(during the scene where Sonic, Tails and Knuckles encounter an overweight Robotnik)
    Agent Stone: He's also become a very big fan of telenovelas after his multiple surgeries in Mexico. (flashback plays, showcasing the aftermath of Robotnik's defeat in the previous movie; voice over) He broke every bone and punctured every organ in his body when he fell off that mech.
(in the flashback, Stone carried Robotnik in his shoulders, and nursed him to health. Cut to present)
    Robotnik: Steam sales aren't covered by my insurance. But it doesn't matter, anymore. My days of evil-doing are over.

## Cast

* Ben Schwartz — Voice of Sonic
* Jim Carrey — Ivo and Gerald Robotnik
* Keanu Reeves — Voice of Shadow
* Idris Elba — Voice of Knuckles
* Colleen O'Shaughnessey — Voice of Tails
* James Marsden — Tom Wachowski
** Shemar Moore — Randall (disguise)
* Tika Sumpter — Maddie Wachowski
** Natasha Rothwell — Rachel (disguise)
* Lee Majdoub — Stone
* Krysten Ritter — Director Rockwell
* Adam Pally — Wade
* Alyla Browne — Maria Robotnik
* Tom Butler — Walters
** James Wolk (young)

## External links

* Media related to Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (film) on Wikimedia Commons
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