Duel of speed

## Premise

Daniel, Esther and replacement droid R3-S6 embark on a dual rescue/sabotage mission when they discover Sonic is being held at Arkeyan Conquertrons' secret enemy listening post.

## Synopsis

Sonic manages to transmit the location of Conquertron's listening post on a Ruusan volcano, which the Twilight picks up. Though advised by Rhino, Ox and Croc to wait for reinforcements, Daniel heads a rescue mission to save Sonic before his powers fall into Arkeyan and the Empire hands, as well as plant a bomb.

Gha Nachkt and Conquertron attach Sonic to a table with metal hangers on his arms and legs and tortures him to tell the kung fu warriors' secrets. Sonic strongly refuses no matter how strong the blows Arkeyan Defenders gives him. Conquertron orders Arkeyan Rip-Rotors to start the machine that will take Sonic's powers and asks them to kill him in the process. Gha demands more money, but Conquertron decides to give it to him by firing a laser sight at him who kills him. When the kung fu team arrives at the station, Daniel separates from Esther and the clones, heading out alone to find Sonic. Unbeknownst to them, R3-S6 is actually a spy for the Arkeyans, and alerts Conquertron to their presence. Esther and the clones infiltrated the reactor control room, but they had to confront and eliminate the security battle droids. After that, Conquertron orders his Arkeyan Defenders to take Sonic to the ship and take his powers there.

Meanwhile, Daniel has succeeded in finding Sonic, and duels Conquertron's Defenders. When they are defeated, Daniel loosens the metal hoops and Sonic throws himself into his arms.After hugging each other for a while Daniel and Sonic order everyone to rendezvous in the south hangar. Unfortunately, Esther does not hear them, as Conquertron has engaged her and her clones. Conquertron send master Boar against them and he kills all clones but Rex and Denal. Esther defends herself against Boar's blows and retreats to a room filled with spare droid parts. She hides from Boar, but R3 gives her away. Boar destroys her comlink, and traps her. As Daniel and the clones, who have succeeded in planting the bombs, meet the Twilight in the hangar, R3's treachery is revealed when he traps them and activates Arkeyan War Machines to fight them, as Daniel's suspicion on the golden droid's true allegiance is true.

Sonic says he can open the doors for them. But Daniel, who is afraid of losing Sonic again, denies the proposal. Sonic persuades Daniel and he gives Sonic another chance. Boar, meanwhile, suspends himself from the roof in the storage room and is able to find Esther, using one of the Arkeyan large, metal hands to grab the kung fu student's throat and disarm her. The Boar descends to the floor, picks up her spear and examines it. Esther coughs and gags trying to free herself, but she can’t release herself from the grip on her throat. Boar is confident that R3 had trapped the others, stating that after he eliminated Esther, her cousin was next. Esther, not afraid of dying believes Daniel would still succeed in destroying the base. At that moment, Daniel orders Rex to activate the explosives, despite the fact that the squad is still in the station.

Rex complies, and as the station shakes with the multiple impacts, Esther is able to use her spear of water to sever Boar's hoof that is clamped around her throat. The kung fu student jumps onto a shelf, causing the shelves' contents to drop out, and the shelves themselves began to topple over in a domino effect. Esther escapes into an air vent and retrieves her spear with the water element before fleeing. Boar slashes at the vent Esther was in with his offensive and pig-sniffing; however, the kung fu student is able to evade being sliced to pieces, and she heads for the hangar bay. Esther rejoins the team, who defeats the Arkeyan War Machines and escapes in the Twilight, detonating the bombs. Boar and Conquertron escapes the station in his ship, Soulless One. Daniel leaves in Blue Ship to pick up Sonic.

Meanwhile, Sonic manages to open the hangar doors, but R3 moves to intercept him, and the droid and the hedgehog face each other in combat. Sonic pushes his Arkeyan counterpart over the edge with its spin dash, but R3 grabs him with a suction cup. Sonic succeeds to tear off the cable, and the R3-S6 falls into the Ruusan volcano and melts into the lava. Sonic is then rescued by Daniel.

As they leave the place, Daniel contacts Rhino, Ox and Croc. While they succeeded, Ox disapproves of Daniels choice to risk the mission and all their lives to save a blue hedgehog who can not kung fu. While Esther is happy they got Sonic back, she agrees with Ox. However, Daniel says Sonic is more than a hedgehog: he is his brother. And Sonic says that Daniel is the best brother in the world.