MAIA

"Processing... processing... processing... Whoa, cool!"

- MAIA, Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric

MAIA is a protagonist who appears in Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. She is a robot designed by Lyric. She was one of the many MAIA units operating Lyric's Weapon Facility, but rebelled against Lyric and helped ensure Lyric's downfall about 1,000 years ago with the aid of Sonic and Tails

Appearance
MAIA is a spherical dark grey robot with a rounded, yet long and thin white plating which covers the middle of her front body and stretches far behind it, akin to a fin. This plate has Ancient ruins on it and one large, completely blue eye in the middle, along with a smaller lamp above and below it. She also has a oblong white and dark grey handle hovering on each side of her body, along with two round-shaped black and blue lamps on the bottom of her body and a ball on her rear. She also has a retractable antenna on one side.

After 1,000 years, MAIA has only slightly changed in appearance. In addition to her eye being dirty and seemingly fractured, her body is covered in rust and green moss.

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
MAIA encounters Knuckles and Amy while searching for Sonic at the Abandoned Research Facility. After Knuckles tells it where Sonic is, it finds Sonic and Tails while they were looking for one of the Chaos Crystals. MAIA then opens a portal for Sonic to enter the past. As Sonic and Tails are about to enter, they are distracted by Shadow who challenges them to a fight to prove he is stronger. Following a battle that took them through different time periods through MAIA's portals, Sonic kicked Shadow into a portal, which MAIA replied was leading to the near future separate than theirs. The two enter the portal once MAIA stabilizes it.

Friends/allies

 * Team Sonic
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Knuckles the Echidna
 * Amy Rose

Enemies

 * Lyric the Last Ancient

Trivia

 * In one cutscene, Q-N-C's dialogue suggests that MAIA is mass-produced.
 * An unused character profile for MAIA in Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric says that her name stands for "Manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Administrator" and that she is the boss program that runs Lyric's Weapon Facility.