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Sonic the Hedgehog (TV series) The Doomsday Project (transcript)

This is the transcript for the Sonic the Hedgehog episode, "The Doomsday Project".

[The Doomsday Machine fades in. A wider angle shows the device surrounded by a high, security wall.]

[The camera pans to a temporary HQ nearby, then moves up to a bank of windows through which Robotnik is revealed standing, hands clasped behind him, gazing admiringly out at the machine, Snively at his side.]

Robotnik: An object of beauty, don't you agree, Snively?

Snively: Very lovely. Sir,

Robotnik: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Snively, and within twenty-four hours, I will control every inch of this planet.[pauses] That is beauty. [holds up a remote, points it at the Machine.]

Robotnik: The dream begins. [pushes a button. A red light blinks on.]

[Various angles show night engines roar to life in sequence, smoke billowing from exhaust vents. The ground shaking from their power. Robotnik smiles as the entire building atop which he stands shakes violently.]

Robotnik: [smiles] Beautiful music, Snively.

Snively: Beautiful, sir.

[From the base, the machine engine beams shoot out in all directions and... massive tubes telescope from the machine, striking the ground and boring straight down.]

[A full moon gives the forest an eerie glow and backlights the lookout post high in a tree where Antoine yawns and "bobs", fighting sleep, while Sonic peers through hi-tech binoculars.]

Antoine: [yawns]

Sonic: [slowly scans with the binoculars.] Sure is quiet out there. Ant.

Antoine: [snores loudly off screen]

[Sonic snaps a look at Antoine leaning back against the tree, mouth agape.]

Sonic: [leans into shot] Yo, Ant!

Antoine: Ahhhhhhhhh! [jumps straight up, does a half-gainer and lands on his butt.]

Antoine: [rubs his head] Why are you screamings too loud?

Sonic: We’re supposed to be on watch. Ant, not takin’ the ol’ nap. Now keep your eyes open.

Antoine: [widens eyes.] My eyes are open. [picks up the binoculars, looks through the wrong end.]

Antoine:Nothing ever happens in Knotholes...

Sonic: Get a clue. Ant... Robotnik’s Doomsday Machine is gonna be cranking serious real soon.

Antoine: Hah... and hah again. That stupid machine is not searings me.

[ a huge shaking tumbles Antoine right over the safety rail and he plummets. Sonic reacts, grabbing the railing to steady himself.]

Antoine: [while plummeting] Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!

[The shaking continues as Sonic races down a trunk of a tree, passing Antoine, who has hands over eyes, still yelling]

[Sonic hits the ground, skids to a stop and looks up. He sees Antoine falling, still some distance away. Sonic taps his foot, checks his watch, then looks up and catches Antoine, hands still over his eyes.]

Antoine: [still screaming]

Sonic: Yo, Ant. ANT!!

[Antoine's eyes fly open, he looks up at Sonic.]

Antoine: Are you the angels?

[Sonic rolls his eyes, drops Antoine on his butt.]

Antoine: I am living? Oui! Oui! I am not squished like a rug. Oh, thank goodness to me. [kisses his own hand, wrist and on up the arm.] I loves you. I loves you too much.

[The ground beneath them cracks open. Sonic grabs Antoine (still kissing himself) and streaks away as a huge tube thrusts up out of the ground and a Doomsday Pod emerges. Sonic skids up nearby. They both stare at the pod.]

Sonic: It's a Doomsday pod.

[It sits quietly for a beat, then suddenly beans shoot out, withering the grass around it. As the ground trembles and actually glows, it blackens, then the ground slowly dissolves into a toxic cesspool.]

[The warning bell glints in the moonlight. Sonic skids to a stop, a trembling Antoine clinging behind him.]

Sonic: Sound the alarm. Ant.

Antoine: Oui, Oui.

[Sonic blasts off as Antoine starts ringing the bell.]

[Camera cuts to Rotor's Workshop with the bell clanging in distance. Rotor hustles out, rubbing his eyes as Sonic skids into shot]

Rotor: Sonic, what up...

Sonic: [breathless] Doomsday Pods in the meadow, killing everything in sight.

Rotor: But the reports said next week-

Sonic: [interrupts] Rote, I need that metal-eatin’ stuff mondo pronto!

[Rotor and Sonic run inside. The view from a crane reveals the Doomsday Pod scorching a swath of destruction straight for the huts, an enormous tree in its path. The base of tree light beams travel beneath the tree, engulfing its roots. The soil churns as the roots vaporize. A loud creaking sound comes as the tree starts to fall.]

[Sonic reacts to the creaking sound as Rotor pulls a crate off a shelf. Sonic blasts to the door, reacts, then streaks back as Rotor removes three baseball-sized plastic capsules from straw packing.]

Sonic: Gotta jam. Rote! [grabs Rotor and they blast for the door.]

[Sonic and Rotor roar out the door just as the tree smashes the workshop flat. Rotor looks back, wide-eyed as Sonic skids up.]

Rotor: My workshop! Oh no!

Sonic: Rote, gimme one of those metal-Eatin’ things!

[Rotor hands Sonic a capsule. He blats off]

[The pod surges forward, headed for the huts, leaving a wide path of glowing destruction behind it. The camera pans to Sonic as he skids up in front of the pod, he cocks his arm...]

Sonic: Hope this works.

[Sonic hurls the capsule and it directly hits the pod. The pod vaporizes in a cloud of green smoke.]

Sally:...the other Freedom Fighter groups have been on alert for weeks.

[Sally inserts a message in a tiny compartment on one of two Jet Doves sitting on the table. Sonic paces nearby.]

Sally: It won't take long for them to get here...

[Sally hits a button on a remote. The Jet Doves' tiny jets ignite and they streak off. Sonic stops pacing, stops beside Sally as they look after the doves.]

Sonic: Won’t take long for those Pods to wipe everything out, either. [pauses] Any idea how many pods Robutt-nik can launch, Sal?

Sally: [pulls Nicole from her vest.] Nicole show us the Doomsday Machine.

Nicole: Accessing, Sally.

[A hologram of the doomsday machine appears above Nicole.]

Sally: Internal schematic. Pod launch area, please, Nicole. [Hologram changes to line drawing of the pod launching area.] Capabilities, please, Nicole. [Line drawing animates, showing pods being released.] I checked the schematics we took from Robotnik and the best I can calculate... ...the Doomsday Machine can release hundreds of pods...

Sonic: [interrupts] Hundreds?

Sally: Every hour. The tunnels reach all over the planet.

Sonic: Oh, man. So there's already hundreds out there?

Sally: At least.

Sonic: We gotta move fast.

[Cut to a meeting of the Freedom Fighter leaders watching a hologram of the doomsday site. Ari the Ram, Lupe the wolf, Pollo the Rhino, Dirk the Bear, Sally and Sonic. Below, in the background, groups of Freedom Fighters assembled around campfires. Sally points at the temporary command center in the Doomsday site hologram.]

Sally: If most of our forces strike here...

Antoine: [breathless] Mah Princess! Halt the pressings!

[Antoine and Tails run into shot. Antoine is holding infra red recon-like aerial photos.]

Sonic: [takes the pictures. Ari and Sally look over his shoulder.] Definitely not cool.

[Photo Shows a solid line of Swat-Bots and Hover-Units arrayed around the perimeter of the Doomsday Site. More Hover-Units on patrol above.]

Ari: Assault force won't work. Princess. We'd never get past the security.

Sally: [flips a switch on Nicole. The hologram disappears. She looks at the others, determined.] Then we switch to plan "B".

[Scene is the Robotropolis Refinery at night with Pipes running everywhere, huge tanks and Hover Trackers (like the ones we saw in "Spyhog") in line to be filled. The camera pans to a control platform above tankers. Two Tech-Bots stand on platform, one motionless with its back turned, the other supervises the automated fueling procedure.]

[A tanker pulls up. Tech-Bot #1 pushes a button on console and a hose lowers into shop, clamps to the top. The HOSE EXPANDS and tanker fills. A red light blinks and a beeping sound plays that signifies tanker is full. The hose disconnects and the next tanker quickly pulls up.]

[Tech-Bot #1 pushes two buttons and the lowering hose stops. The camera pushes in on "Tech-Bot's" face. Through the eye-slits, we see it's Uncle Chuck. Uncle Chuck throws small capsule at empty tanker, marking it with a brown smear. He punches another button and tanker moves through without being filled. Chuck turns to motionless Tech-Bot, flips a switch, then walks away as Tech-Bot #2 comes to life and turns back to control console. As next tanker begins the "fueling" sequence...]

[The camera wipes to the sky high above Doomsday site. Dulcy flies through heavy cloud cover. Ari and Lupe, both wearing parachute packs, ride on her back along with a stack of costumed dummies.]

Ari: [yells over wind] Are we close, Dulcy?

Dulcy: [yells back] We should be. I'll check. [takes deep breath]

[As she exhales and blows a small hole in the clouds, revealing they're coming up on the Doomsday Site.]

Dulcy: There it is. Get ready.

[The camera widens to include the Freedom Fighters captured hover-unit with Polio and Dirk visible in the cockpit. Ari looks behind him and points down. Polio and Dirk give him a "thumbs up".]

[A fuel convoy pulls into unfueling depot near the Doomsday Machine. A hose clamps onto lead tanker, drains its fuel. The camera pans to the tanker with a brown smear. The tanker hatch creaks open and Sonic drops into shadows beneath it. He looks around. The camera goes to Sonic's perspective The Doomsday security wall is 50 yards away across open ground, criss-crossed with moving spotlights. Sonic looks up at hatch and signals. Sally and Bunnie jump down, followed by Antoine, who stumbles and falls on his rear. Antoine's yelp is quickly muffled as Bunnie clamps a hand over his mouth. Sally looks at her watch.]

Sally: [whispers] Fifteen seconds...

Lupe: [checks her watch.] We’re right on schedule. Ten seconds...

[Ari and Lupe toss dummies overboard from the hovercraft. The camera follows the dummies as parachutes pop open and they float down, disappearing into the clouds. The hovercraft hatch opens and Dirk tosses more parachute-equipped dummies overboard. An alarms screeches as parachuting figures drop out of clouds toward the site. Hover-unit spotlights scan the skies]

Sonic: [beneath the fuel tanker, quietly] Let's do it. [zips toward the wall to yards away, the others follow. Antoine suddenly trips on his own feet and hits the ground. He grabs his ankle as Sonic zips to Antoine, clamps a hand over his mouth, muffling his yelp, and zips away with Antoine.]

[Cut to Robotnik's temp. command center. Robotnik watches monitors filled with parashooting figures.]

Robotnik: Ah, the guests have arrived...[pushes a button].

[A monitor zooms in on Hovering Swat-Bot as it plucks a dummy from the air.]

Robotnik: A dummy diversion. How appropriate. But we can't make it too easy, Snively. Alert the ground forces.

[The Freedom Fighters get close to the security wall near the Doomsday machine. A searchlight beam sweeps past, then Sonic zips over the wall with Antoine in tow, rolls down the opposite side and skids to a stop beside Sally and Bunnie waiting in the shallows of the Doomsday Machine. Sally looks at a small hologram projected by Nicole. The hologram fades as Sally points toward the Doomsday Machine.]

Sally: That's the spot.

Sonic: [pulls a metal-eating liquid capsule from his backpack] Get ready to jam...

[He heaves the capsule against the machine and a green cloud of smoke instantly forms. It quickly clears, revealing a hole in the wall. The Freedom Fighters run inside as alarms shriek]

[Alarms sound as the four Freedom Fighters hurry into the Doomsday Machine behind Sonic.]

Snively: Sir, they're inside the machine. Shall I alert the forces?

Robotnik: [sits nearby in a smaller version of his "chair". He forms a peak with his fingers and smiles.] No, Snively. Let them explore. Maybe they'll find my little surprise.

Snively: [turns away with a disgusted look and mutters] Your stupidity will ruin everything, you ugly boil.

Robotnik: [leans forward, eyes narrowing.] What was that, Snively?

Snively: [turns with a nervous smile.] Oh, I said, the Doomsday Machine's are going to need more oil...Sir.

[About half-way up the machine is a rounded ledge with windows looking into the intricate machinery inside Ari and Lupe land on the ledge. They pop loose from their chutes and start to climb upward when they're suddenly caught in a searchlight beam from a Hover-Unit.]

Robot Voice: Freeze, intruders. Hands behind your heads.

Air and Lupe: [exchange a look]

[Camera cuts to the 1st level of the Doomsday Machine. The walls are a maze of huge pipes with an "Alien" look. A metal STAIRWAY leads to a door above. Three tech-bots work at a control console, pulling levers, pushing buttons. Sonic streaks behind the Tech-Bots. They turn and look, but he's already gone. The tech-Bots turn back to panel as the camera pans to Sonic hiding beneath the stairway. He peers out.]

Sonic: [low; to himself] This is too easy. Wonder what the round guy's got up his ol' sleeve? [pause] One way to find out. [zips away]

[Sally, Bunnie, Antoine wait behind a huge pipe. Sonic skids next to them.]

Sally: [whispers] Anything?

Sonic: [whispers] Couple Tech-Bots. No prob. [then, pointedly] Long as Ant doesn't trip over anything.

Bunnie: Like his feet.

Antoine: [too loud] What is being wrong with my fee... Mmmpff! [Bunnie clamps a hand over his mouth.]

Bunnie: Put a sock in it, Antoine.

[The tech-Bots are busy at control panel. Sonic leads the others past them. Antoine holds his own hand over his mouth. They run up the stairs, reach a doorway at the top. Beyond is a long, empty passageway. Sonic motions the others to stay.]

Sonic: [whispers] Wait. I'll check it out.

[Sonic steps inside the passageway. Nothing. He zips forward a little. Still nothing. He turns back to others...]

Sonic: No prob! Let's...[He freezes as the lights suddenly dim, then come back up.]

[Two large energy balls appear in the middle of the passageway, pulsing with electricity. Deep humming sound comes from them. The balls are about 15 feet away. Sonic takes a tentative step forward, then both balls streak straight toward him. Sonic blasts to the side as the balls narrowly miss him, one singes his butt. He jumps, grabbing his butt.]

Sonic: Ow! [points] Now you're gettin' me mad.

[As Sonic streaks up the passageway, the balls, crackling with electricity, turn and follow. He zigs and zags, but the balls doggedly pursue. Sally watches anxiously, Bunnie and Antoine behind her.]

Sally: Sonic! They're sensing your motion!

[Sonic dodges one ball, then the other, but one grazes him as it goes by. Crackling sound as electricity crackles on Sonic's shoulder. Sonic skids up, holds stock-still. the balls hover on opposite sides with that ominous humming.]

Sonic: Motion, huh?

[He blasts toward far end of passageway. Both balls instantly follow. He slows until the balls are right on his butt. Tiny lightning crackle out, zapping his bottom.]

Sonic: Ow! You already got me there! Juice time.

[Sonic races straight toward the wall, barely keeping ahead of the balls. At the last second, he accelerates and runs straight up wall and onto the ceiling. Both balls slam into the wall and disappear in a flash of light that fills shot. Light fades, revealing Sonic, frizzed out, vibrating, glowing slightly. Sally runs to his aide.]

Sally: Sonic, are you all right?

Sonic: Now I know how a lightbulb feels.

[Camera cuts to Dirk and Polio atop the Doomsday Machine, peering down through the skylight. We see the glass-domed massive brain below, pulsating. As they pull ropes with grappling hooks from their packs. They set the hooks and lower the ropes. Polio starts to rappel down when suddenly, they're caught in the glare of bright spotlights. Three hover-units train their searchlights on the hapless Freedom Fighters from above as four SWAT-bots converge.]

SWAT-Bot: Freeze, intruders. You are surrounded.

[Camera cuts to the Doomsday Machine's pod launch area. A dark, forbidding area, eerily-lit by the glow of a giant vat of bubbling liquid. A giant automated claw holds a pod shell (like an exo-skeleton, with complex equipment attached to the inside of frame) and lowers it into the liquid. A beat, then it raises, revealing a completed Doomsday Pod. The claw as it moves pod to a conveyor-ramp and releases it. claw moves back out of shot. follow pod as ramp activates and pod is transported into a tunnel opening. A massive door (think artillery) slams shut, sealing the tunnel. A big, muffled explosion occurs. The door swings open and the pod is gone. Another pod is transported into tunnel opening. As the massive door slams shut, the camera pans to Sonic and the others watching.]

Sonic: We gotta stop this.

[Sally whips Nicole out of her vest.]

Sally: Switch to corn mode, Nicole.

Nicole: Corn mode active. Scrambled channel open.

Sally: [holds Nicole like a radio, pushes a button.] Group two, report.

[They wait, listening. No answer. Sally tries again.]

Sally: Group three, report.

[Camera cuts to the temporary command center. Swat-Bots lead Polio and Dirk, both bound into the Command Center. Camera cuts back to the pod launch area. Sonic, Bunnie and Antoine watch Sally.]

Nicole: No response. Sally.

Bunnie: This sure doesn't look good...

Antoine: Perhaps they have been captivated.

Sally: I think you're right, Antoine. We're on our own.

Sonic: [shakes his head.] Wrong, Sal. I'm on my own.

Sally: Sonic, you're not-

Sonic: [interrupts] C'mon, Sal. The plan's blown. You gotta get outta here.

[Camera cuts to Robotnik's command center. Robotnik stands beside Snively, watching the Freedom Fighters on monitor.]

Sally: And what will you do?

Sonic: What I do best. Wing it. You guys take a Pod out.

Snively: [looks at Robotnik.] Sir, shall I seal the launch tunnel door?

Robotnik: No, Snively. Let them go. By this time tomorrow, most of the planet will be uninhabitable anyway.

[Snively rolls his eyes. Robotnick smiles.]

Robotnik: This will be our showdown, Hedgehog.

[Camera cuts to the pod launch area. Sonic and Sally run alongside a pod, moving down a conveyor ramp. Bunnie and Antoine are already on the pod. Sally leaps up as Bunnie opens the hatch. Antoine and Bunnie jump inside. Sally looks down at Sonic, still running alongside.]

Sally: Sonic, I want to help.

Sonic: This is Power Ring territory, Sal. You'll just slow me down.

Bunnie: [nods] He's right. Sally-girl. C'mon.

Sally: [very somber, hands Nicole down to Sonic.] You'll need Nicole. Good luck, Sonic. [She flashes "thumbs-up" to Sonic.]

Sonic: Later.

[The pod enters a tunnel. Sally pulls the pod hatch down and the enormous door slams. A big muffled explosion happens and the door swings open. The pod is gone.]

Sonic: [holds Nicole up.] You and me, babe. Show me some pictures.

Nicole: No prob, fast guy. Comin' up.

[Nicole generates a hologram of the Doomsday Machine. It's a maze of lines and curves. Sonic looks at it bewildered, scratches his head.]

Sonic: Man that sure doesn't help.

[A flashing arrow appears, pointing at one of the pod launch areas.]

Nicole: You are here.

Sonic: Cool.

[Camera cuts to Robotnik's command center. Snively reacts as he sees Nicole's hologram of the Doomsday Machine on the monitor.]

Snively: [frantic] Sir! He has the master schematic!

Robotnik: [Robotnik calmly nods.] No matter, Snively. My "special surprise" never appeared on any schematic.

[Robotnik touches a button on his belt. His rocket shoes roar and he lifts a few feet from the floor and hovers.]

Robotnik: It was designed and built under my personal supervision. Now it is time to take matters in hand. Open the skylight, Snively.

Snively: Yes, Sir. [Snively slaps a button on the console. The skylight opens. Robotnik flies up and out.]

[The camera pans the perimeter of the circular, skylighted room. We see hi-tech equipment with flashing lights and bubbling tubes interwoven into the equipment. Then the camera pans to a huge pulsating brain encased in a thick plexiglass casing in the center of room. The metal door slams open, revealing stairway as Sonic skids in, looks around suspiciously.]

Sonic: Too easy. Round Guy is up to somethin'.

[He shrugs off his backpack, pulls out flat heat charges with flashing red lights coming from various angles]

Sonic: Light-up time.

[Sonic blasts around the room, slapping the heat charges onto equipment and the Plexiglass, sticking to where he puts them. He zips out the door, down the stairs and stops.]

Sonic: Do it to it, Nicole.

Nicole: Heat's on. Sonic.

[A red glare comes from the doorway. Sonic shields his eyes.]

Sonic: Whoa. Hot stuff.

[Inside "Brain Room", the heat charges glow bright red. Equipment melts and bubbling tubes crack, the liquid hissing as it turns to steam. The Plexiglas surrounding the brain turns bright red. In the stairway, Sonic is still shielding his eyes against the glare. We can hear plastic tubing and pipes cracking from the heat. The glare fades. Then quiet.]

Sonic: Adios, Doomsday Machine. [He blasts up the stairway. As Sonic skids in the brain room, he looks around, grins.]

Sonic: Cool.

[The machinery is melted into SLAG. The camera sweeps to brain. Plexiglass surrounding it is unscathed and the brain still throbs.]

Sonic: It's history. [reacts, startled.] Hold on. Not cool.

[We hear hissing as Sonic reacts. A floor-hatch inside the Plexiglass enclosure hisses open and Robotnik flies up, holding a remote.]

Robotnik: [echoing] So, Hedgehog. How do you like my new diamond-glass dome?

Sonic: [glowers.] It stinks, Robutt-nik.

Robotnik: [smiles.] In a strange way, I shall miss you, Hedgehog. [pause] Ciao. [Robotnik triggers the remote.]

[As the walls surrounding the room slam down into the floor, revealing massive laser projectors around the perimeter of the room. Broad beams of laser energy strike the floor all around the room, turning the metal to molten slag. They sweep forward toward Sonic. He has no escape.]

Robotnik: [echoing] Oh, the diamond glass reflects laser beams. But I'm afraid they're quite deadly... especially to Hedgehogs...

[As the beams sweep closer and closer to the wide-eyed Sonic, the screen fades to black]

[Robotnik smiles as laser beans move inexorably toward Sonic.]

Robotnik: I've waited a long time for this,

Hedgehog. A long time.

Sonic: [watches the beams inch closer, turning the metal floor to molten slang as they come.] Double-trouble time.

[He whips two power rings from his backpack, one in each hand. A flash of golden energy appears as he superspins just as the laser beams strike him.]

Robotnik: [raises his arm in triumph.] Yess! Too late. Hedgehog!

[Sonic is a spinning blur. The whirl of golden energy fight against the laser beams. Clouds of smoke pour off.]

Sonic: [desperate straining sounds]

[Sonic's spin speed increases. Suddenly, the laser beams are reflected, striking outward in a pyrotechnic display which melts the laser projectors as sonic superspins down, disappearing through the floor.]

Robotnik: [is livid. Pounds his fists repeatedly.] No! No! Impossible!

[The camera cuts to the Temp. Command Center. Snively watches on the monitor as Robotnik disappears through the floor hatch. The monitor turns to white noise]

Snively: The fool should have listened to me, but nooooooo.

[The camera shows lava pools from "Drood Henge". Uncle Chuck and Tails are there waiting. Tails is tossing pebbles into one of the pools. Uncle Chuck looks up as Dulcy drops into view from out of the clouds and flies towards the shot on "landing approach." Her wings wag back and forth as she tries to level off. Sally, Antoine and Bunnie cling to her back. Antoine covers his eyes.]

Antoine: Sacre bleu-cheese!

Sally: [pats Dulcy on the shoulder.] Straighten it out, Dulcy.

Bunnie: Ya'll!! doin fine, Dulcy-girl...little lower on the left wing...

[The ground tilts from side to side, coming up fast. Uncle Chuck and Tails scatter. Dulcy's face screws up in anticipation of pain.]

Dulcy: Ho, boy. This one is gonna hurt...

[As Dulcy sets down on her kneepads and skids across the ground, kicking up dust. She turns around, looks at Sally. Big smile.]

Dulcy: [brightly] Wow! I did it!

Sally: Watch where you're going, Dulcy!

[Dulcy looks around and reacts as she plows into one of the hot springs, dousing everyone on her back. Uncle Chuck and Tails run to them as Sally and Bunnie jump down, then Antoine; he stumbles and flies into a hot spring.]

Antoine: Ahhhhh! Big splash!

Uncle Chuck: Sally, where's Sonic?

Sally: [frowns, shakes her head.] The other teams were captured. He... he went in alone. He...

[Sally turns, looks around as we hear Sonic's approaching woosh.]

Sonic: [skids to the Freedom Fighters, trailing a cloud of debris and dust. They gather around him.]

Sally: Sonic, did you do it?

Antoine: You are making the big boom-boom?

Tails: Cool, Sonic.

Sonic: [shakes his head.] Didn't happen, guys.

[Everyone's bummed. Antoine faints.]

Sally: [Sally hugs Sonic.] You did your best. Sonic.

Tails: Now whatta we do?

Sonic: I dunno. Big Guy. I'm clueless.

Uncle Chuck: [rubs his head, pacing.] We can't give up. There must be a way.

Sally: But, Uncle Chuck, whatever Robotnik has covering the computer brain seems indestructible.

Uncle Chuck: [stops, looks at the others with an idea.] There is still one possibility.

Tails: What, Uncle Chuck?

Uncle Chuck: The Deep Power Stones

Sonic: [looks surprised.] No-go, Unc. We only have one. Robutt-nik's got the other.

Uncle Chuck: [smiles, puts his hands on Sonic's shoulders.] Not after you take it from him.

[Its quiet, Deserted. Sonic skids to a stop just outside of HQ and looks around. Wind blows some paper across the street.]

Sonic: [offscreen] Cool. They're all at Doomsday.

[Sonic straight up the side of Robotnik's HQ. He makes it inside of robotnick's war room. It's empty. Monitors off, no indicator lights flashing.]

Sonic: Let's pick up the pace, Nicole.

[Sonic taps his foot, drums his fingers as he holds Nicole in front of Robotnik's safe. Blue light beams shoot out from Nicole, scanning the electronic lock (four read-outs with flashing numbers). Sonic's fidgeting makes the beam unsteady.]

Nicole: Just chill. Sonic. You're stressin' me.

[Sonic stops tapping, drumming. We hear beeps and clicks from Nicole. The electronic lock numbers begin to change with answering beeps until all four displays read "0000". It makes a loud click.]

Sonic: [reacts as safe swings open.] Way past, Nicole! [Sonic rifles through the safe, flinging papers and disks until the safe is empty.] Nothin'.

Nicole: We keep looking, right?

Sonic: Right. [Zips away]

[The camera turns to Robotnik's desk near the door. The deep power stone (held in a sculpture) is holding down papers. Sonic streaks past the desk, ruffling the papers. A beat and he skids backwards into shot. He grins.]

Sonic: Way cool. [He grabs it and roars off]

[Camera cuts back to lava pools of the Great Unknown. Uncle Chuck and Sally huddle over a laptop-electronic tablet which is filled with glowing line drawings showing various angles and equations.]

Sally: The Pod took a steep drop at first...maybe 300 meters.

Uncle Chuck: That could be a problem.

[We hear Sonic's approaching woosh. They turn as he skids to a stop carrying the Deep Power Stone. His slipstream blows their hair back.]

Sonic: Got it. [He whips the stone out of his backpack, holds it up.]

[Uncle Chuck grins as he sees the Stone. Sally takes it from Sonic. ]

Sally: Sonic... we have a plan.

[We see the Doomsday Site looming in far in the background as Sonic and Sally streak towards it.]

Nicole: Chill here. Sonic. [Sonic skids to a stop. Nicole beeps] You're right above it.

Sally: [releases her grip on Sonic] Supply check. Metal-eating capsules.

[Sonic pulls the last Metal-eating capsules out of his backpack, hands it to Sally.]

Sonic: Check.

Sally: Deep power stones.

Sonic: [Sonic pulls both deep power stones out.] Check.

[Sally takes one of them, puts it in her pack, hands the capsule back to Sonic.]

Sally: Okay, now remember, once we connect the stones, we have...

Sonic: [nods] Thirty seconds. Check. [realizes] Whoa, Sal. What's this "we" stuff?

Sally: [Sally leans close, determined look.] Because I'm going with you.

Sonic: No way, Sal... You-

Sally: [Sally puts a hand over his mouth.] We're in this together. Sonic Hedgehog, however it ends. Check? [She releases her hand.]

Sonic: Check. [pause] Hold on. [Sonic grabs Sally and superspins into the ground]

[Camera cuts to the Doomsday Tunnel. It's dark with metal ribbed sides. We hear Sonic's superspin approaching, then Sonic and Sally spin through the tunnel's metal roof and drop to floor. Sally switches on a flashlight, plays it on the sides.]

Sally: Okay, now, we-[breaks off] Ohmygosh! A Pod!

[Sonic takes out the last metal-eating capsules just as the pod bears down on them, filling the tunnel. Sonic heaves it and the Pod vaporizes in a cloud of green smoke that rolls over them. We see Sally's flashlight through the smoke. Sally and Sonic are coughing.]

Sally: One minute before the next one.

Sonic: Piece of cake. Hang on! [They streak up the tunnel]

[The camera wipes to the Brain Room. The place is trashed, floor irregular from melting. Laser projectors now metal lumps, but the brain still pulses with life. Sonic and Sally emerge from the shadows, each holding a deep power stone. Sally shakes her head.]

Sally: But we have no idea how big the explosion will be. What if it destroys more than Doomsday?

Sonic: Like what?

Sally: Like the whole planet.

Sonic: [paces] Not cool. But what else... [snaps his fingers] What if we put 'em together the other way?

Sally: Incredible power. Yes. It could work.

[The camera pans to a Spy Sphere as it silently moves into place behind them, the lens glowing red]

Sally: Nicole, analysis please...

[Camera cuts to the Temp. Command Center. Snively checks monitors as Sonic and Sally appear.]

Snively: Sir! Sir! The Hedgehog is back.

Robotnik: [swirls around in his chair, glares up at the monitor.] How did they... [notices Deep Power Stones] The Stones! [Robotnik leaps to his feet, slaps a button on the console.] All Swat-Bots! Deploy to the Brain Room! Bring me the Stones!

[Camera cuts back to the Brain Room. Sonic and Sally listen to Nicole.]

Nicole: ...the power is identical to that of Power Rings, but greatly amplified.

Sally: Greatly amplified? How much?

Nicole: Ten thousand times. It could prove harmful.

Sonic: [taps his foot, drums his fingers.] How bad?

Nicole: You may not survive.

Sonic: That's bad. [looks at Sally] Gotta go for it, Sal.

Sally: Yes.

[He holds out his hand for their "handshake", but she quickly hugs him instead.]

Sonic: Enough huggin' already.

SWAT-BOT: Freeze, intruders. [Swat-Bots swarm through the skylight and through the door.] Turn over the power Stones.

[Sonic grins, holds up his Stone. Sal grins, holds up the other.]

Sonic: Come and get 'em, Swat-Butts!

[They press the wavy edges of the two stones together. White light pulses from the stones ad the joining edges disappear. A huge glow of white light fills shot. It quickly clears and we see Sonic and Sally bottom-lit in white light, vibrating.]

Sonic: Whoa....

Sally: So this is what Power Rings feel like. Wow! Let's do it to it!

[Sonic and Sally make a lightning-fast pass around the room, their white light streaming behind like a comet's tail. The swat-bots fly apart. Sonic and Sally race out door.]

[Camera cuts to the outside of the Doomsday Machine. Twin streaks of light streak in and out at incredible speed. The doomsday machine starts to glow. The ground rumbles and shakes.]

[Camera cuts to the Temp. Command Center. The room shakes. Robotnik reacts, scared stiff! Snively stares, transfixed at a monitor. Robotnik races to a wall and slaps a panel. Wall slides back, revealing a "Robotnik-sized" escape pod. He opens door and climbs inside. Just before he closes it, Snively runs up to him]

Snively: Sir...?

Robotnik: Sorry, Snively. Only room for one.

[The Door hisses shut and the escape pod launches up and out.]

Snively: [glares after him.] You don't give me enough credit..."Sir".

[He hits a switch. A hole irises open in the floor, revealing a small elevator. Snively descends and the hole irises shut behind him]

[Camera cuts to the outside of the Doomsday Machine. Twin streaks of light continue to criss-cross inside the doomsday machine. It glows brighter and brighter as we see Robotnik's escape pod streaking upwards. Inside the brain room, the white glow grows brighter. A blast of white light shoots up through the brain, vaporizing it. The white light shoots straight up from brain room reaching high into sky. Robotnik can see the light from his pod. He screams]

[Two white streaks emerge from doomsday machine seconds before it vaporizes. The streaks enter command center. Thite light leaks from all windows. They streak back out. On the command center, Lupe, Ari, Polio and Dirk run out, jump into a Hover-Unit and Blast off.]

Robotnik: I really hate that hedgehog! I hate him! I hate him! Hate him! Hate! Hate! Hate! Hate!

[As the command center vaporizes just as the hover-unit blasts off, white streaks criss-cross entire site. White light glows like a dome as all structures vaporize. The glowing streaks race to nearby hillside and stop. We see two glowing figures. Sonic and Sally glow brightly as they watch the glow fade from the Doomsday Site, leaving the place flat and barren. Sally's fur is standing on end. Sonic's spikes are glowing like fiber optics.]

Sonic: All right! We got Robutt-nik!

Sally: I don't believe it. We actually did it!

[They high-five, creating an explosion of white light. Sally grins at Sonic and pushes in closer.]

Sally: Wow. If a high-five does that...What happens with a kiss?

Sonic: [Sonic's eyes widen. He puts his hands up.] Whoa. I don't wanna find out! Outta here.

[He streaks away. Sally giggles and streaks after him. The camera goes to a high look-down angle as the two streaks race after one another. In the distance, they finally merge into a huge white like that illuminates the Great Unknown]

[In Knothole, Sonic and Sally (both back to normal) watch from the Meeting Place as below, all the Freedom Fighters celebrate, laughing and shouting]

Sonic: [looking depressed] No more Robutttnik. Too bad.

Sally: [Sally's head whips around. She's amazed.] What? Too bad?

Sonic: Hey...without villains, what do we heroes do?

[Sally has tears of compassion well up in her eyes. She manages a smile and puts her head on Sonic's shoulder.]

Sally: [softly] You'll always be my hero.

[Sonic puts his arm around her]

[The camera cuts to the Doomsday Site. Small rubble and Swat-Bot parts are all around. A pile of rubble moves as a hole irises open and Snively climbs up. He puts his hands on his hips, looks around.]

Snively: Now, it's my turn.

[Credits roll]

External Links

• The Doomsday Project Script at Saturday Morning Sonic

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