Sonic the Hedgehog 2

**Sonic the Hedgehog 2** is a action adventure science fiction comedy film directed by Tim Miller and screenwritten by Pat Casey and Josh Miller. The film stars Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog, Christoph Waltz, John Slattery and also features the voices of Adam Driver, Shirley Henderson, Bruce Willis, Keira Knightley, Helena Bonham Carter, Bob Odenkirk, Seth MacFarlane, Katie Cassidy and Jessica Chastain. the sequel follows Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower and Knuckles the Echidna attempt to save the world, while Shadow the Hedgehog, Doctor Eggman and Rouge the Bat attempt to conquer it.

## Plot

The movie begins with a military helicopter (Sigma-Alpha 2) flying over San Francisco with Sonic (voiced by Ben Schwartz) being captured aboard it. Suddenly the pilot starts shouting "What?! The hedgehog is gone! He's taking out everyone aboard!" At that moment, Sonic the Hedgehog jumps out of the helicopter, rips off a piece of the wing to use as a snowboard, and then jumps off. After he destroys a military mech, he encounters a near look-alike of himself named Shadow the Hedgehog (voiced by Adam Driver) who has stolen a Chaos Emerald from the bank a while earlier. Sonic realizes that the military is mistaking him for Shadow. Shadow proceeds to use the emerald to transport to a different location, and Sonic is arrested. At the same time, Knuckles the Echidna (voiced by Bruce Willis) and a mysterious character named Rouge the Bat (voiced by Helena Bonham Carter) are fighting over who owns the Master Emerald. Dr. Robotnik (Christoph Waltz) tries to steal the Master Emerald, but Knuckles stops him in his path by breaking the Master Emerald into pieces. Knuckles and Rouge have a hunt for the pieces of the Master Emerald. Knuckles finds the first three pieces in Egypt. The next day Miles "Tails" Prower (voiced by Shirley Henderson) comes to The Bahamas in search of Sonic, rescuing Amy Rose (voiced by Keira Knightley), her new friend Cream the Rabbit (voiced by Katie Cassidy) and her mother Vanilla (voiced by Jessica Chastain), Big the Cat (voiced by Bob Odenkirk) and E-123 Omega (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) from Dr. Eggman in the process. Then Amy, Cream, her mother Vanilla, Big and E-123 frees Sonic from his cell, and Sonic escapes on a missile. Knuckles leaves Egypt, and heads to the Grand Canyon. There he finds three more pieces of the Master Emerald. Knuckles leaves the Grand Canyon, and heads for the Aquatic Mine. Meanwhile, Sonic gets weary, jumps off the missile, and lands on a small island in a vast jungle. There he confronts Shadow once again. Sonic soon discovers the jungle is going to explode and leaves just in time. When they get back, Eggman is on televisions everywhere and it is revealed he is being taped from a space-station named "Space Colony, ARK". Suddenly half of ARK comes off, revealing a long pointer called the 'Eclipse Cannon' which shoots out a powerful beam and destroys half of the moon. A timer on screen appears saying 24 hours until mass destruction. Later, Tails discovers Space Colony ARK and the massive power of the Eclipse Cannon. He has to find Sonic, tell the President (John Slattery) and escape the military all before it is too late. He eventually finds Sonic and escapes the military. Meanwhile, Knuckles finds the last three pieces he can find of the Master Emerald in the Aquatic Mine. He later pops out of a manhole beside Tails, who is talking to Sonic, Amy, Cream, her mother Vanilla, Big and E-123 over a phone on loudspeaker. Tails chases down the President, then he and Sonic tell the President about the situation they are in. Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, Amy, Cream, Vanilla, E-123 Omega and Big then head for Dr. Robotnik's "secret" base inside the pyramid. Sonic breaks through the security system. Knuckles then has to find three keys to get into the rocket room. Knuckles defeats King Boom Boo (voiced by Frank Welker), the king of ghosts. After that, Dr. Robotnik appears and summons the Egg Golem, which Sonic has to take care of. As soon as he is defeated, they blast off in the rocket. In all the excitement of the space ship, the cargo bay opens releasing the pieces of the Master Emerald Knuckles had collected. Sonic remarks that only the Master Emerald pieces were inside there. Knuckles thinking quickly takes control of the ship causing it to spin out of control. Knuckles jumps ship and lands on a small planet and finds the pieces he lost, leaving Sonic, Tails, Amy, Cream, Vanilla and Big screaming on the ship which then crash lands into the ARK. He defeats Rouge and gets the rest of the Emerald. Meanwhile, in Space Colony ARK, Tails and E-123 Omega are heading for the engine of the Eclipse Cannon. He destroys the engine, so it's up to Sonic now. Amy gets kidnapped by Robotnik and demands the last emerald in exchange. Sonic, who has a fake chaos emerald, makes it to the central control room. Unfortunately for Sonic, Robotnik anticipated the likelihood that one of them had the fake emerald, and after tricking Tails, E-123 Omega and Big the Cat into admitting that Sonic had the fake emerald, Robotnik then shot Sonic out of an escape capsule that was going to explode in the middle of space. Before being launched out, Sonic encourages Tails, E-123 Omega and Big the Cat to stop Robotnik, and tells Amy, Cream and her mother to take care of themselves. Just before the pod exploded, Sonic also considered the possibility of using the fake Chaos Emerald to escape via Chaos Control, due to it having similar wavelengths to an actual Chaos Emerald. All Tails, Amy, Big, E-123 Omega, Cream, Vanilla and Robotnik can see is a capsule blowing up, so they presume Sonic was killed in the vicinity. Tails is so riled up that, in a burst of anger, he defeats the Doctor. Meanwhile, Knuckles (with the full Master Emerald) spots Sonic coming out of a portal. Sonic tells Knuckles how he used Chaos Control to save himself, and speeds to the Eclipse Cannon. Sonic confronts Shadow one last time, and destroys the Eclipse Cannon. Tails, still grieving over Sonic's "death", briefly and half-heartedly attempted to tell his fallen friend that he managed to defeat Robotnik. Sonic, having apparently overheard Tails' comment, responds by congratulating him, causing Tails, Amy, Big, E-123 Omega, Cream and Vanilla to learn that Sonic survived, but also distracts them while Robotnik grabs the last Chaos Emerald. Sonic then told them to look outside. They then look out the window and sees Sonic at the tip of the cannon smiling and giving a thumbs-up to both of them. Meanwhile Dr. Robotnik is infiltrating The Bahamas in search of the Ultimate Life Form A.K.A. Project: Shadow, a weapon created by his grandfather, Gerald Robotnik (Werner Herzog). He finds the "weapon" inside a capsule and by using a Chaos Emerald (and the password M.A.R.I.A.), he soon discovers that the weapon is a male hedgehog. The doctor initially mistakes Shadow the Hedgehog for his enemy Sonic the Hedgehog, and nearly fights him. Then, Shadow proves himself by defeating the military guard fighter. After Shadow defeats him, he leaves, heading for Space Colony ARK and tells Eggman to bring more Chaos Emeralds and meet him on the ARK. Meanwhile, Rouge the Bat is fighting with Knuckles over who truly owns the Master Emerald. Dr. Eggman uses this to his advantage, and attempts to take the Master Emerald. Knuckles stops him by breaking the Master Emerald into pieces. Rouge and Knuckles have to hunt for the pieces of the Master Emerald. Rouge finds three pieces in Saudi Arabia.

Later, Dr. Eggman goes to his base to check up on things, and watch the replay of the news. He finds out that the G.U.N. robots are guarding his pyramid base. He destroys them and goes on inside. While he is watching the replay of the news, he discovers that Shadow had stolen a Chaos Emerald from the Federal Reserve Bank yesterday with everyone mistaking him for Sonic. The scene changes to where Shadow is leaving the bank when he has a flashback of what happened on Space Colony ARK with him and his friend Maria Robotnik (Helena Zengel). He proceeds to speed down the highway, destroying any robot that gets in his way. He later sees Sonic, explains to Sonic who he is and leaves. The next day, Rouge decides to infiltrate Dr. Eggman's base. To do so, she has to find three keys. Meanwhile, Dr. Eggman and Shadow are on board the ARK. Shadow tells Eggman about Space Colony ARK and the power of the Eclipse Cannon. He then puts in the two Chaos Emeralds. They return to the base at the time Rouge finds the last key. Rouge persuades her conditions to Eggman into helping her by giving him a Chaos Emerald, and telling him where three other emeralds were. Before the deal is closed, she introduces herself to Shadow. Shadow, Dr. Eggman, and Rouge headed to the Bahamas, where the three Chaos Emeralds are. Dr. Eggman breaks through the security system and fights Tails, who happens to be nearby. Rouge finds the three Chaos Emeralds and defeats another Military Fighter. However, the fight leaves her locked inside the room. Shadow rushes through the jungle, plants the bomb, finds Sonic and fights him. It ends in a tie, neither of them win because Shadow has to escape the jungle before it blows up. So he grabs Rouge, and warps onto the ARK. Later, Eggman is broadcasted on the televisions everywhere and it is revealed to all he is being taped from the ARK. Half of the station comes off, which reveals a long pointer called the Eclipse Cannon which shoots out a powerful beam, destroying half of the moon. Then, there is a timer on the screen saying 24 hours until mass destruction. At the ARK, Rouge explains that she knows where the location of the last Chaos Emerald is: with Tails. Shadow and Rouge try to catch the Tornado (Tails' plane). Rouge can't catch up in her car and Shadow can't catch them in Sky Rail. They head back to the ARK to tell Eggman. By this time, Knuckles has unlocked the entrance to Eggman's base, so Eggman summons his Egg Golem. However, Sonic damages the head of the golem, causing it to turn on Eggman. Eggman has to destroy his Egg Golem to pass. A while later, he and Shadow (who are still on the pyramid) discovers that Sonic and his friends are on the ARK. Rouge soon discovers that Knuckles is on a small planet with the pieces of the Master Emerald. She finds half of the pieces, then they fight. It is a draw and she gives the pieces to Knuckles. Meanwhile, Eggman has kidnapped Amy Rose. A while later, Eggman discovers Tails, E-123 Omega, Cream the Rabbit, her mother Vanilla, Big the Cat nd Sonic rushes into the room he was in. Eggman shoots Sonic out of an escape capsule which is going to explode and then fights Tails. Despite Tails and E-123's best efforts, Eggman takes the real Emerald. Meanwhile, Shadow witnesses Rouge attempting to take the other six Emeralds and exposes her as a government agent. Rouge then proceeds to show him the results of Project Shadow, with the picture showing an entirely different being. She then asks Shadow that if the picture shows the real Ultimate Life Form, then she wonders who or what is standing in front of her. Eggman contacts Shadow, declaring that someone is attempting to get to the Eclipse Cannon and orders him to stop them before the cannon fires again. Shadow finds it to be none other than Sonic, who he fights and defeats one last time. Meanwhile, Eggman inserts the last Chaos Emerald into the Eclipse Cannon. While he is cheering over his apparent victory, a nearby monitor turns on forebodingly. a alarm blares throughout the ARK's central control room. Eggman is confused and frustrated, as the Eclipse Cannon is not firing. Suddenly, an image of Eggman's grandfather, Gerald Robotnik, appears on the computer monitor. Meanwhile, Sonic and Knuckles return to the Ark's interior, where they suddenly feel a large vibration.At that moment, Rouge appears and declares that they are all doomed, revealing that the Space Colony ARK is heading towards earth at a tremendous velocity. On televisions everywhere, including the ARK, a recording of Gerald Robotnik plays; he explains that the ARK will crash into earth and destroy it along with the human race, with the power of all seven Chaos Emeralds. Eggman comes in and Knuckles starts yelling at him, thinking that Eggman is behind all of this. Instead, Eggman gives Rouge his grandfather's diary and Rouge reads it out loud, revealing that the professor went insane after his granddaughter Maria was killed when the Ark was shut down. Gerald went mad because he loved Maria so much, and was devastated that his own research lead to her death. Wanting revenge on all humanity, he programmed the Ark to crash into the earth when the seven Chaos Emeralds were collected. Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Rouge, Big the Cat, E-123 Omega and Eggman have to stop the energy from the Chaos Emeralds to stop Space Colony ARK from crashing with earth. They then have a plan to stop the Chaos Emeralds with the Master Emerald. Meanwhile, Amy, Cream and her mother Vanilla finds Shadow and convinces him to help save the world. Though Shadow initially refuses, Amy, Cream and Vanilla's words mirrored those of Maria's true dying wish, which causes Shadow to remember what Maria truly wished for; to protect earth and humanity, and to "give them a chance to be happy". He then takes off saying "I have to go now! I need to keep my promise to Maria...and you.". Sonic and Knuckles arrive at the cannon's core, which is designed to resemble the shrine of the Master Emerald, with the Chaos Emeralds there. When Sonic and Knuckles try to get closer to the shrine, Gerald's voice is heard again and a snake/lizard like beast called the Biolizard is awakened. They realize that this is the prototype of the Ultimate Life Form. Shadow appears and distracts the Biolizard, while Sonic and Knuckles get to the shrine and find a space for the Master Emerald. Knuckles does the chant to negate the power of the Chaos Emeralds and the Biolizard disappears after engaging a fight with Shadow. They hear Eggman's voice saying that the Biolizard is still alive, as it used Chaos Control to teleport and fuse together with Space Colony ARK to become the Finalhazard and is keeping it on its crash course towards earth. Sonic and Shadow use the Chaos Emeralds to transform into Super Sonic and Super Shadow, respectively. They fight the Finalhazard in outer space, defeating it and using a super-powered Chaos Control to warp the Crashing space Colony ARK into a stable orbit. However, Shadow's power is drained and he falls to earth, content that he has fulfilled his promise to Maria. As the people on earth celebrate, Sonic returns to the ARK alone, giving Rouge Shadow's ring cuff. As the credits roll, the heroes contemplate on everything that has transpired and their plans for the future. As Sonic and his friends leave the ARK to return to earth, Sonic quietly bids a final farewell to Shadow the Hedgehog in the same manner as Maria.