Metropolis (Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood)


 * For other uses of the name, see Metropolis.

Metropolis (メトロポリス) is a location in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. The game actually starts with the destruction of Eggman's Metropolis. GUN attacks the city in full military force, while Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy battle the Doctor on board his latest Egg Carrier (which bears closest resemblance to the Egg Stingray from the end of Sonic Heroes). Tails succeeds in sabotaging the Carrier, such that the airship disintegrates and crashes into Metropolis, devastating the city in a massive explosion as the GUN forces and the heroes retreat.

Following this defeat, and with Eggman missing and presumed dead, the ruins of Metropolis were left to rust. The only visitors were those human scavengers brave or foolhardy enough to raid the ghost city for salvageable metals and technology, until more guests began to arrive.

Under Marauder Control
The black-clad Marauders secretively moved into the ruins of Metropolis, using the devastated city as their main base of operations on Sonic's world. The Marauders hacked into obsolete Eggman robots, deploying them to guard their operations while Procurator Shade moved forwards with the plan to capture the Chaos Emeralds. Using the Emeralds, the Marauders were able to move Angel Island from above the Mystic Ruins to Metropolis.

In Chapter 5, Eggman provisioned Sonic with the necessary information to infiltrate the Metropolis Underground and stop the Marauders. The hedgehog arrived seconds too late, though; after expropriating the Master Emerald from its plinth, the Marauders abandoned the stronghold and returned to the Twilight Cage&mdash;leaving Knuckles's floating continent to crash square into the city.

Metropolis Ground Zero
Chapter 6 sees the Sonic's team battling through the rubble of what is now Metropolis Ground Zero; the stronghold now doubly devastated, and half-crushed underneath Angel Island. Eggman's Hazard Vault was broken open by the impact, sending crazed, unstable robots rampaging through the streets. After restoring electricity to Robotnik's weapons lab and collecting necessary components to build a spacecraft (the Cyclone), Sonic and friends were able to follow the Marauders into the Twilight Cage, leaving Eggman behind to "guide [them] through re-entry on the way back" and prepare for an impending Marauder invasion should the team fail.

In the end sequence of The Dark Brotherhood, the team returns from the Twilight Cage to find Metropolis entirely rebuilt–and bristling with weaponry. Eggman promptly shoots the Cyclone out of the sky in a cliffhanger ending.

Trivia

 * This stage has many cameos of broken-down objects related to the Sonic the Hedgehog series, including a EggRobo, a Sega Genesis, a drill mobile of Marble Garden Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and numerous capsules with design from Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
 * The music is a remix of Panic Puppet Zone from Sonic 3D Blast (Saturn version).
 * Some parts of the music are also used in the music of some boss battles.
 * The music used for Metropolis Ground Zero is a remix of Tidal Tempest (Past) from Sonic CD.