Sonic Purge

Third Victim

The Victim Select appears again with Tails, Knuckles and Eggman, Tails is still dead with Knuckles also now dead.

Knuckles' once-strong face is now a grotesque, ravaged landscape of terror. His eyes, once bright and fierce, are now sunken and bloodshot, with dark circles etched beneath them like a canvas of exhaustion and despair. His skin is deathly pale, with a sickly sheen that seems to absorb the light around him. Deep gashes crisscross his forehead, cheeks, and chin, like the ragged edges of a torn page.

The skin around his eyes is puffed up and bruised, with a faint latticework of crimson veins visible just beneath the surface. A jagged, serrated scar runs across the bridge of his nose, as if it had been ripped apart by an unseen force.

His mouth is a twisted, macabre grimace, with lips stretched taut over teeth that seem to be razor-sharp and pointed. The skin around his mouth is pulled taut, like a stretched drumhead, giving him a perpetually snarling appearance.

Eggman Selected

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Secret Base Zone... Located on Angle Island... Which is currently on fire...

Eggman's voice boomed through the intercom, his thick accent dripping with anger and authority. "Badniks, listen up! We've got a situation on our hands! The...the 'sonic' menace is running rampant through the base! I want you to get out there and take him down!"

He glared at the monitor showing the "Sonic" figure tearing through the corridors. "You're just trying to humiliate me, aren't you, Sonic? Well, I've got news for you: I'm not going to let you get away with it!"

The badniks stationed around the base scrambled to respond to their leader's commands. "Get the Beebots online! We need to swarm that that Hedgehog immediately!"

As he watched the chaos unfold on the monitor, Eggman's face turned redder with rage. "Foolish hedgehog! You think you can outsmart me? I'll show you what it means to cross Dr. Eggman!"

He slammed his fist on the console, causing the monitor to shake slightly. "Get out there and give me results! I want that Hedgehog destroyed!"

Suddenly Sonic stopped on the camera as the Badniks surrounded him, making Eggman smile. Sonics head snapped toward the camera but instead of seeing a cocky smile and emerald eyes all there was, was darkness, suddenly the camera went offline for a second before turning back on, with Sonic gone and just scraps of what used to be Badniks.

Eggman did not like this one bit, getting up from his counsel and tapping on his watch. "Metal Sonic, meet me in the lower parts of the base, theirs something up with that insufferable Hedgehog and I can't let him get near me."

The screen goes black.

... Zone

As Eggman made his way through the ... Zone, the air grew thick with an eerie, unsettling atmosphere. The black and white tiles beneath his feet seemed to stretch on forever, like a never-ending maze. The only sound was the creaking of the metal stairs, which seemed to lead only down, down, down into the depths of the Zone.

The doctor's eyes scanned the dimly lit corridors, his gaze piercing through the shadows. The darkened windows, lined with rusting bars, seemed to stare back at him like empty eyes, devoid of any light or warmth. The very air seemed to vibrate with an otherworldly energy, as if the Zone itself was alive and watching him.