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Dear Uncle Merlin,

Okay, strap yourself in because this one’s about to get absolutely crazy!

So Doctor Robotnik is apparently pretty mad that he couldn’t get his hands on the Chaos Emeralds. He has no idea we’ve hidden them in the North Cave! So he must have decided to create his own synthetic emeralds. Well, too bad for him they were even more volatile than the real deal. But these emeralds had their own crazy powers and I guess Robotnik had no problem unleashing those powers.

See, Robotnik launched this crazy TV station, the Robotnik Broadcasting Company. It was some totally bogus channel that sent out hypnotic waves designed to control the mind of anyone who watched it. The really weird thing is they all started making factories for Robotnik, totally hypnotised by him! That was just the distraction, though. While I rescued our friends- with Sonic’s help, of course- Robotnik set his plan in motion and distributed his phoney emeralds! Suddenly, the Zones of Mobius were in total disarray! The warthog and crocodile tribes of the Jungle Zone entered into a war with one another- and nobody knew why! They’re both peaceful tribes dedicated to the preservation of their culture. But, of course, their minds had been warped by the emerald Robotnik had dropped in their midst. It was like they both wanted to keep it for themselves, like that skinny guy in that King of the Rings film Porker likes. It’s a good job we were on hand to defuse the situation and destroy the fake emerald, turning things back to normal. Everyone was really friendly after that!

That wasn’t the only war breaking out. Scrap Brain City- a settlement founded where the old Scrap Brain Zone used to be- was having a conflict of its own! Galen, leader of the Scrap Brain City cats, had totally lost his marbles- again, thanks to the emerald dropped into the city. I guess Robotnik really took exception to those guys using the name of his old base. Anyway, Galen had gone all paranoid and kicked out a bunch of people from his town- everyone except the cats, basically. But that led to a group called The Outcasts forming, led by Ravis. Ravis was going to lead an uprising and recapture the city. I had Sonic infiltrate a group of Outcasts who used secret codenames: Number One (he was a badger), Number Two (a bird) and Number Three (a dog). It was all very clever. Sonic was Number Four but he’s just Sonic again now. Anyway, it turns out Ravis was the father of Number Three and all he really wanted was to be able to live in peace with his son. One destroyed fake emerald later and everyone as making nicey-nice again.

Weirder than that, we ended up transported to the Hill Top Zone- which had been covered in ice! We met a group of monkeys and I made friends with a nice monkey girl named Mildred. She was dead helpful, we worked together to fight off some Prime Badniks!

Anyway, by now we’d pretty well figured out Robotnik was behind it all. We followed the trail edge of space, if you can believe it, where we came upon an abandoned old space station but no sign of Robotnik. Better than that, though, there was a very helpful robot living there called RO-55, but I figured it was easier to call him Ross. Anyway, a smaller robot burst out of Ross’ chest, a bit like that scary Spacecreatures film Sonic likes. He was definitely not a good guy ‘cause he swiped the emerald Robotnik had left on the station and headed back down to Mobius!

Obviously, we followed and came upon Robotnik’s submarine, the Golden Egg. Robotnik was loading this thing up with loads of the synthetic emeralds, obviously intent on causing chaos (no pun intended) all over Mobius. You’ll be pleased to know that not only was the Golden Egg sunk thanks to my heroics, but so were Robotnik’s plans. And the Robotnik Broadcasting Company went off the air when the sub sank too!

The best bit was, all the equipment Robotnik had left to make his hypnotised victims build his factories was just as good at tearing them down!

Write to you soon!

Miles

“Tails”

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