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"Attack on Pinball Fortress" is the forty-first episode of the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog television series. Despite being produced as the forty-first episode, it aired as the twenty-ninth episode during the show's original run.
Appearances
- Sonic
- Tails
- Wes Weasely
- Sergeant Doberman
- Scratch
- Grounder
- Dr. Robotnik
- Soldier
- Customer
- Artists
Plot
In a desert town, two artists are making pottery with one of them commenting that Robotnik will be defeated for good, just then the two are hit with a beam making them stupid. It turns out Doctor Robotnik has unleashed his "Stupidity Ray" on Mobius, knowing that the newly-stupified Mobians will be too brain-dead to stop him. As Sonic and Tails rush into the two, Robotnik attempts to hit Sonic with the ray to make him stupid. Sonic however proves to be too fast and at one point ends up hitting Scratch by accident. The badnik seems unaffected as Robotnik says it can't make him more stupid then he already is.
Meanwhile in the town, Sergeant Doberman is trying to get a soldier do some training which the soldier doesn't want to as he knows it's too hard. Just then a beam from the Stupidity Ray hits him, making him a straight obedient soldier, giving the Sergeant an idea. At the same time, Wes Weasely is trying to sell a set of blank encyclopedias to a smart guy who doesn't want to buy them. The moment he's hit by the ray however, he changes his mind and buys it also giving Wes an idea. Finally Sonic manages to defeat Robotnik by catapulting a mule behind him, making the mule kick him across the desert with Scratch and Grounder following. With Robotnik gone, Doberman and Wes try to get the Stupidity Ray for themselves each claiming that their goal is for the better of Mobius. Eventually the two fight causing Sonic to destroy the ray by throwing a rock on top of it. Just then, Sonic gets a message from Robotnik via communicator who says that the ray may be destroy but he still knows how to build it. He plans to build a giant Stupidity Ray inside his Pinball Fortress (a reference to Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball, and mocks that even Sonic himself will be stupid.
Hearing about the giant Stupidity Ray, Doberman and Wes decide to tag along with Sonic and Tails. While Doberman says he can get into the fortress with his skills, Wes says that many of the traps in the fortress were made by the H.D.S.V.A.D.L and knows how to get past them. The two later fight over whose better much to Sonic and Tails' annoyance.
Arriving at the fortress, the gang notices that the outside is highly guarded while Tails whose watching from above sees that Robotnik has nearly completed the ray. Seeing the gorge, Sonic has Wes and Doberman play baseball with a ball of twine and after Doberman hits the twine across the gorge, Sonic ties one end to a rock and the other to a pipe and waits for the others. Doberman then uses a movable pulley to get across and leaves Wes. However Wes, quickly grabs Doberman's legs resulting in both of their pants falling down and another fight at the other end.
Once all three at the fortress, Robotnik starts firing missiles at them where they start heading to the door where Wes says it's a strong door by the H.D.S.V.A.D.L that can take hours to pick. But he also adds that the door has a rust problem which he shows by spraying the door with brown liquid from his thermos making it collapse allowing them to get in.
After bumping into all kinds of bumpers and flippers in the pinball area, the three wind up in a lava chamber where they encounter a robotic Scorpion (a scorpion-like guard robot reminiscent of Scorpius from the first stage). After Robotnik tells Scratch and Grounder to finish the ray, Doberman attempts to destroy the Scorpion with his machine gun which doesn't work. Sonic then attempts to do it and spins around the robot, causing the ground around it to collapse and fall into the lava, allowing the three to continue.
Robotnik then orders Scratch and Grounder to point the Ray at the door and activate the ray when Robotnik says "shoot" who plans to use the ray to hit Sonic. To his surprise, Sonic comes in and says he surrender and offers him a gift. However this turns out to be a trick as Wes and Doberman emerge and surprise him. When Sonic plans to destroy the ray, Wes and Doberman intervene wanting to use the ray for their own purposes. When Robotnik taunts them saying that they can't have it, the two turn their weapons on him. Robotnik then says "Oh Shoot" and Scratch misinterprets it as a command and hits Robotnik with the ray.
When Scratch and Grounder ask if he's okay, Robotnik is too stupid to notice and pulls on a nearby handle which is revealed to be the destruct lever. The base explodes sending the fortress and its inhabitants into the air while Sonic, Wes and Doberman jump out of the fortress. Tails attempts to save them but they're too heavy and all four of them land in a nearby oasis while the fortress along with Scratch, Grounder and Robotnik crash lands in the hills nearby.
With the Stupidity Ray destroy, both Wes and Doberman realize they're better off without the ray as smart soldiers in the military are the best ones and a world full of idiots would take the fun out of Wes's job. All of them point out they were a good team before saying "not!" as they all laugh. Meanwhile at the wreckage of the fortress, Robotnik (whose still under the effects of the Stupidity Ray) pulls the destruct lever again despite Scratch and Grounder's warnings causing them to explode again.
Title in other languages
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Trivia
- The alternate name of this episode is "Force Three from Mobius".
- There are Mario sounds when Sonic, Doberman, and Weasely bump all around a pinball machine before being confronted by the scorpion robot.
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