Game Guy

Game Guy is the 14th episode of Sonic SatAM and the second season premier.

Plot
While salvaging a wrecked hover pod, the Knothole Freedom Fighters see a pair of Swatbots chasing a ram named Ari. Sally incapacitates them with an electromagnet. Ari explains that he's the last member of a group of freedom fighters that was captured by Robotnik. Sally is suspicious but Sonic agrees to help Ari save his friends.

At Knothole, the others tap the memory banks of one of the Swatbots chasing Ari and realize he's leading Sonic into a trap. Ari and Sonic travel to a mechanized pyramid but where Ari traps Sonic inside a giant pinball game, where Sonic's inside the ball. The more points Robotnik scores, the more a portal to The Void opens.

Sally and Dulcy fly to the pyramid to try to warn Sonic but are stuck outside and instead fly after Ari when he leaves in a hover pod. He flies to meet Robotnik, who promised to release Ari's friends if he helped capture Sonic, but shows Ari that his fellow freedom fighters have already been roboticized. They save Ari from a similar fate and return to the pyramid. Ari saves Sonic but is sucked into The Void after telling Sonic to look for the king's list of other freedom fighter groups.

Trivia

 * The episode was novelized by Michael Teitelbaum, but its connections with the deeper mythology of the series were cut--instead of a portal to The Void in Robotnik's oversized pinball machine there's a black hole, and Ari isn't sucked in.