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Dear Uncle Merlin,

I hope you’re doing well and everything is great back home in the Nameless Zone. I’m doing great! It’s been non-stop fighting off the bad guys almost since I got here. You’ll remember from my other letters how, Sonic- my sidekick- and I fought off Doctor Robotnik and his plans to harness the weather as a weapon! And you’ll remember how I told you about how I went into space and we brought down the Death Egg!

Well, it wasn’t long before Robotnik was back up to his usual tricks! We thought he’d been trapped in the Death Egg as it exploded. No such luck for Mobius. As a matter of fact, Robotnik tried setting up a walled city he called Robotropolis not too far from the outskirts of the Green Hill Zone. He and his robots kidnapped a bunch of my friends- Sally, Flicky, Johnny, Tux, Porker, Joe, me I managed to escape when Sonic res with Sonic by my side. Sonic had been complaining about not being able to finish a level on his Technobot game on the Game Gear but we had no time for that- it was time to stop Robotnik!

We managed to infiltrate the city and we found there was kind of a weird hierarchy of robots. Bronze robots were the drones, silver robots were a little more important, gold robots were super-tough destruction machines and then we found out there was a single platinum-class robot.

Anyway, we explored the city and managed to rescue all of our missing friends, as well as a rat named Boombox. He was pretty cool! He was looking for his girlfriend, Dancer, she’d been taken too. It seems like there’s a whole underground information network of rats, and some pretty shady criminal elements working with Robotnik. I guess Boombox and Dancer didn’t feel like pledging loyalty to egg-breath ‘cause he kidnapped them and held them hostage in the city! Luckily S I was on hand to save them, and we even reunited Boombox and Dancer! They live in the Green Hill Zone now!

Anyway, we had to figure out what this platinum Badnik was. We realised Robotnik was powering his robots with bootleg Game Gear carts running basic programming. We found a strange computer room where you could be zapped into video games. They were all super basic, ‘cause Robotnik’s too cheap to splash out on the latest games but they were no match for S my super game playing skills! There was a bit of a weird moment when the machine created a bunch of copies of Sonic but it’s alright ‘cause only the original exists now- and I’m glad, I wouldn’t want to be without my sidekick!

So it turned out the platinum robot was beneath this giant star-shaped building in the centre of the city. Scratch that- it pretty much was the city! It was huge! Robotnik had built an entire fake city just to construct the biggest Badnik yet! Seriously- think of the tallest thing you can imagine. This thing was way, way taller than that!

And that’s when I realised the robot was the Technobot- the final boss of Sonic’s game! Robotnik was going to stomp our Green Hill Zone home flat! Naturally, I found a way to get to the top of the machine and used Sonic’s Game Gear to control the robot, dumping it in the water in the Green Hill Zone where it floated away out to sea, deactivated. Maybe some fish will be able to turn it into a home! Afterwards, we had a great party with oodles of cake! We’re having a lot of parties lately.

Obviously I couldn’t have done it without Sonic, he’s a great pal!

Anyway, I don’t want you to worry- I’m definitely not in any danger here in the Green Hill Zone. I’m loving every moment saving the world!

Got to go now. We’re going to have a scary movie night. Sonic always picks the corniest films.

I’ll write to you soon,

Miles

“Tails”

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