Lair On Lockdown


 * Dr. Eggman: For years I plotted and toiled, working tirelessly day and night to find the truest essence of evil. And now I finally done it... with my new online ticket selling business!
 * [Team Sonic angrily emerge into the HQ room.]
 * Sonic: [Angrily] You've gone too far this time, Egghead. We just bought tickets to "Koala Palooza" and your fees are outrageous!
 * Dr. Eggman: Whateve do you mean? My service just has a few humble processing charges.
 * Amy: What about the convenience fee for printing tickets at home?
 * Dr. Eggman: You can always get them shipped or pick them up at the venue.
 * Tails: But then there is shipping or "we'll call" fees, and it's no longer convenient!
 * Dr. Eggman: I just added another fee... for having an annoying face. Robots, collect!
 * [Eggman's robots emerge out of two separate doors. A laser gun from the ceiling turns over and fires lasers at Knuckles. Knuckles dodges and punches an oncoming Crab Bot. A pincer heads towards Amy but she hammers it away, hitting another Crab Bot heading towards Tails. Tails deploys an Enerbeam on the laser gun, and uses it as a rope to kick a Mantis Bot. Sonic spin attacks another Mantis Bot. A Mantis Bot claw flies towards Sticks, but she uses her bo to knock it back, almost hitting Eggman who jumps out of the way. It hits the control panel engaging the lair's occupant sorting process.]
 * Computer: Engaging occupant sorting.
 * [Four separate tubes emerge from the ceiling. They suck up four of the members of Team Sonic, Dr. Eggman and Orbot, but Sonic and Cubot hold on.]
 * Sonic: Just. Gotta. Shut. It. Off!
 * [With Cubot grabbing Sonic, Sonic holds on to a chair and presses a button on the control panel disabling the process. The both fall to safety.]
 * Sonic: I did it!
 * Computer: Emergency lockdown in effect.
 * [All the doors on Eggman's Lair lock down, leaving all eight characters trapped in different rooms.]
 * Computer: Lockdown will release in 48 hours.
 * Sonic: 48 hours? It's not so bad. I can wait it out. [Looks at his Communicator and snaps] What's taking so long! I gotta get out of here!
 * [Sonic tries to break the locked door down by Spin Dashing, albeit unsuccessfully.]
 * Sonic: This force-field. It's inpenetrable!
 * Cubot: Yeah, and you can't get through it either.
 * [In desperation, Sonic pushes Eggman's chair and the Mantis Bot blade embedded in the control panel out of the way and presses a button on the keypad.]
 * Computer: Verbal password required.
 * Sonic: Quick! What's the password?!
 * Cubot: [Shrugs]


 * Tails: [On his Communicator] We're trapped in the lair basement. Can anyone read me? [To Amy] These force-fields must be blocking communication. Until the lockdown is disabled, there's nothing we can do.
 * Amy: There's one thing we can do: tidy up! This basement's a pigsty.
 * Tails: [Groans]


 * [Sticks tries punching the locked door open, but fails.]
 * Sticks: Just perfect. Trapped in an evil madman's lair and the only company I got is some soulless robo scum.
 * Orbot: Would a soulless scum bot be able to do this?
 * [Orbot impersonates a hand detaching and attaching a finger. Sticks screams.]
 * Sticks: Get away from me with that voodoo!
 * Orbot: How about some small talk. Uh... How's your family?
 * Sticks: Like I'm gonna give my personal information to your robot database.
 * Orbot: All right... Oh, what about some party games? I spy with my little eye...
 * Sticks: You spy? So the truth comes out...
 * Orbot: How about I just sit in the corner and give you some space?


 * Dr. Eggman: I can't believe this! Help! Let me out!
 * [Eggman bangs the door in desperation.]
 * Knuckles: We're screaming and hitting stuff now?!
 * [Knuckles bangs a box in desperation. Eggman sits on the floor.]
 * Dr. Eggman: [Miserably] So this is what it's come to. A prisoner in my own lair. And to make things worse, I'm stuck with that knuckleheaded knucklehead Noodles! And I feel like such a fool.
 * Knuckles: Ah, don't worry. I do foolish things all the time. Hey, we're twinsies!
 * Dr. Eggman: Ugh...


 * [Amy pushes some boxes out of the way, and discovers some dirty-looking Mootonium drums.]
 * Amy: I can't believe it! These drums of hazardous waste are filthy!
 * Tails: [Holds Amy's brush] Look!
 * [Tails uses his Communicator to scan the substance]
 * Tails: According to my readings, these barrels are full of radioactive Mootonium. We should be fine as long as they stay in a cool temperature.
 * Amy: But just to be safe, maybe we should move to the other side of the room?
 * [Both Amy and Tails step back and run to the other side of the room.]


 * Computer: Access denied.
 * Sonic: [Grunts] We can figure out Eggman's passowrd. What haven't we tried? How about Eggman's favorite... I don't know, kind of music?
 * Cubot: Easy. Dubstep polka cord!
 * Computer: [Buzzes] Access denied.
 * Sonic: Favorite color?
 * Cubot: Clear.
 * Sonic: How is that even...
 * Computer: Access denied.
 * Sonic: Maybe we're going about this the wrong way. What kind of stuff does Eggman really care about?
 * Cubot: Moustache grooming, that sassy judge from TV who takes no guff, your approval...
 * Sonic: Pff. If Eggman wants my approval, he'd give himself a cool password, like... "chili dog".
 * Computer: Access granted.
 * Sonic: Huh? Touche Egghead! Now let's turn off this lockdown. Uh... nah... egh... Eeny, meeny, miny...
 * [Sonic presses random buttons. A setting on the control panel activates.]
 * Sonic: I think we just did something!


 * [The lights in the living room go off.]
 * Orbot: There appears to be a lighting malfunction. Allow me.
 * [Orbot turns on his eye lights. The light blinds Sticks.]
 * Sticks: Oof! Turn those off! I'm not gonna sit here in a blackout getting stared down by some beady eyed robot!
 * [Orbot turns his eye lights off.]
 * Sticks: I get it. You're gonna sneak up on me in the cloak of darkness. Well, I'm not falling for it. Turn those lights back on!
 * [Orbot turns his eye lights back on again and notices an AC vent.]
 * Orbot: An AC vent. Might that be our ticket to freedom?
 * Sticks: Yeah. And I ain't paying no convenience fee this time.


 * Dr. Eggman: [Miserably] Look around Nickles. Every failed invention and science project of my life is in this room. [Pulls stuff out of the box] A can from Eggman's Tomato Sauce|my old tomato sauce. The decapitated head of my Swifty the Shrew|Shrew Bot. A dinosaur egg from when we went back in time.
 * Knuckles: Who could forget that classic adventure? Hey, what's this?
 * [Knuckles picks up Zippie. Eggman drops and breaks the dinosaur egg to look at it.]
 * Dr. Eggman: Is that... is that Zippie? My first robot! [Picks up the robot with glee] Oh, this takes me back! I used to be so full of hope back then...
 * Knuckles: You know what I do when I start to feel down?
 * Dr. Eggman: No. What?
 * Knuckles: I have no idea. I feel great all the time!


 * [Orbot tries to open up the AC vent with Sticks help.]
 * Orbot: Just... About... Got it!
 * [Orbot grabs the vent and pulls it off. However, they lose their balance and fall off the ladder they stand on, landing on the floor. Orbot sits up and turns on his eye lights.]
 * Orbot: If we want to crawl through, we'll need to turn down the force of the air conditioning.
 * Sticks: I'm all over it.
 * Orbot: It's very simple. You switch off the red button, re-adjust the level of the green knob to sixteen. At the same time...
 * [Sticks pulls the AC wires out from a panel behind the wall. The AC turns off.]
 * Orbot: Primitive, but efficient.


 * Tails: Did the air conditioning just shut off?
 * Amy: I hope so. It was getting a little chilly in here.
 * Tails: While I do care about your comfort, I'm slightly more concerned about the half dozen barrels of radioactive Mootonium that need to stay cool so they won't explode.
 * [Amy and Tails rush over to the Mootonium barrels and blow air on them, trying to keep them cool.]


 * [Orbot and Sticks crawl their way through the vent. As Orbot stops, Sticks bangs her head on Orbot's bottom half.]
 * Orbot: I'm not sure if we should take a left or a right here.
 * Sticks: I thought you said you know Eggman's lair like the back of your hand.
 * Orbot: Let's be honest. Does anyone really know the back of their hand as well as that phrase implies?


 * [Amy and Tails continue to blow air on the barrels. Tails runs out of breath.]
 * Amy: You OK? Better take a break. I don't want you getting hurt.
 * [Orbot and Sticks fall out of the vents and land on Tails, hurting him.]


 * [Dr. Eggman tests Zippie and it wheels around the room.]
 * Knuckles: [Laughs] What a silly little robot. He can't even talk good like me do.
 * Dr. Eggman: No, you dolt. Zippie's circuitry is so simple, he can only communicate through Morse code. Wait a minute... [Stands up] I've got it!
 * Knuckles: While you do have a unique look, I wouldn't say you had it per say.
 * Dr. Eggman: Not that. Morse code! We can use it to send messages to the other rooms. And come on, I have it. [Points with his finger] Now hand me that wrench.
 * [Knuckles hands Eggman the wrench, who begins tapping on the wall in Morse code using the wrench.]


 * [Amy, Tails, Orbot and Sticks hear tapping noises]
 * Amy: Does anybody else hear that?
 * Tails: It's Morse code!
 * [Orbot runs to the wall that is being tapped and listens.]
 * Orbot: It's Dr. Eggman. He says he's trapped in the storage room.
 * Tails: We better tell him about the unstable Mootonium.
 * [Orbot taps the wall back to Eggman in Morse code.]


 * [Eggman listens.]
 * Dr. Eggman: Oh no. I knew I forgot something during spring cleaning: my 330 gallons of volatile radioactive ooze. We're gonna put the kibosh on this lockdown before the whole place blows sky-high!
 * [Eggman taps the wall again.]


 * [Orbot listens.]
 * Orbot: Dr. Eggman is sending directions on how to override the security system. We need to relay it to the HQ room on the other side of the lair.
 * [Tails runs to the opposite corner of the room with his wrench.]
 * Orbot: "Listen closely you shrill little..." Oh let's leave that little part out. "To turn off the lockdown. First you..."


 * [Tails taps on the wall. Sonic and Cubot hear it.]
 * Sonic: What's that?
 * Cubot: Sounds like Morse code. A catastrophe in the lair basement? Huh. Honestly, I'm a little rusty. I haven't spoken more since I dated that telegraph machine.
 * Sonic: Details Cubot?
 * Cubot: We drifted apart... lot of different things. Ohoho! You mean in the lair? Oh, something about a dangerous substance about to explowsh. Explowsh? What's "explowsh"?
 * Sonic: You mean explode?!
 * Cubot: Ah, that makes more sense. The lair's about to explode! To shut off the lockdown, find a gray slider on the console and slide it down...
 * [Sonic presses the slider down to the bottom]
 * Cubot: About halfway.
 * Sonic: Oh...


 * [A claw noose grabs Knuckles feet, sending him flying around the room.]
 * Dr. Eggman: No, No, No! I said halfway down. Honestly, why do they hurt me so?
 * [A Montage plays. Sonic presses another button that triggers another trap, sending Knuckles flying. The next setting appears to increase the temperature of the room, forcing Sticks and Amy to keep the Mootonium cool.]


 * Cubot: And the final command is "c161g", and then the doors open.
 * [Dramatic music plays as the doors do not open. Sonic bangs on the doors in desperation.]
 * Sonic: No, no, no, no, no no no! I did everything you said! Why is it not working?!
 * Cubot: Maybe you left the caps lock on?
 * Sonic: Of course I didn't leave the caps lock on! [Rushes back to the keypad] Well, found the problem, completely "uncaps locks related". [Chuckles nervously] "c161g".
 * [The doors in all rooms finally open]


 * [Everyone runs outside as the Mootonium destroys the whole lair. Everyone celebrates except for Eggman.]
 * Sticks: [To Orbot] You really helped save our butts in there Orbie. Of all the robotic abominations against nature, you're the one I hate the least.
 * [Orbot smiles.]
 * Dr. Eggman: It's gone. Everything I ever built... destroyed.
 * Knuckles: Not everything.
 * [Shows Zippie to Eggman. Eggman grabs Zippie and hugs it.]
 * Dr. Eggman: [Happily] Zippie! Oh thanks Snuffles! I really owe you one. Anything you want, you got it.
 * Knuckles: Well you could refund our service fees on those Koala Palooza tickets.
 * Dr. Eggman: Tell you what. How about 4% off your next purchase, not to be combined with any other offer.
 * Knuckles: Done and done!
 * [Knuckles shakes hands with Eggman. Zippie displays a disappointed eye and shakes its head as the screen fades to black.]