During the altercation, the President and Old Man arrive and are trapped in their aircraft, but Metal saves them. Tails manage to corrupt Metal's data, and Sonic severely damages him. Sonic encounters Metal and the two have a lengthy battle. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles go to the ice caps, where Sara is being held hostage by Robotnik, planning to marry her so the two will rule over Planet Freedom after the Land of the Sky's decimation. Sonic wakes up in Green Lake City and returns to the Presidential Palace, learning of Metal's goal from the President. Tails and Knuckles return to the Land of the Sky, where Tails learns that Metal is out to destroy the planet by digging into the ice caps that hold the Land of the Sky together, allowing lava to emerge and melt the ice. Sonic and Metal battle, but Metal easily overpowers Sonic. Robotnik appears in Metal Robotnik's remains and reveals he lured Sonic to copy his mind, personality, and abilities for Hyper Metal Sonic. Robotnik's newest robot, Hyper Metal Sonic. Knuckles frees Sonic just as the machine crumbles to the ground, revealing Dr. They arrive just in time, but when Sonic pulls the lever, the machine traps him and scans his body. The episode ends with Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles heading to Robotropolis.Īfter entering Robotropolis, Knuckles distracts the enemy robots while Sonic and Tails try to stop the generator in the heart of the city. Unbeknownst to them, Metal Robotnik is revealed to have been controlled by Robotnik, with Sara unwillingly in tow. Knuckles the Echidna arrives and rescues them, and all three team up to destroy the mecha. Once there, Metal Robotnik tries to stop them from reaching the generator. He asks Sonic to head to the Land of Darkness to stop it in exchange for the President and Sara's lives. After giving exposition of how Planet Freedom works (explaining the two 'dimensions' of the planet, The Land of the Sky, and The Land of Darkness), Robotnik explains that a giant mecha named Metal Robotnik ('Black Eggman' in the original Japanese release) has exiled him from his utopian city of Robotropolis ('Eggmanland' in the original) and sabotaged the Robot Generator, which will explode by sunrise the next day. Robotnik has taken the President and his daughter Sara prisoner. Sonic the Hedgehog is relaxing on the beach of South Island with Miles 'Tails' Prower, when Old Man Owl arrives with a message from the President asking Sonic to come to his office. The city and terrain strongly imply that Planet Freedom is a post apocalyptic Earth that was built upon with floating islands, with certain landmarks suggesting that the ruins are those of New York City.

Most of its terrain is untamed and mountainous, but a crumbling city serves as the location of Robotnik's empire. The Land of Darkness can only be accessed in one of two ways: by a whirlwind-like 'portal' in the Land of the Sky, or via a warp zone, an extradimensional link between two points on Planet Freedom. The Land of Darkness is the actual surface of Planet Freedom, a post-apocalyptic wilderness with the dastardly Robotnik as its sole living inhabitant. According to Knuckles, if this ice network was destroyed, Planet Freedom's rotation would hurl the Land of the Sky into outer space, undoubtedly killing everyone on it. The Land of the Sky consists of an unknown number of continents that drift high in the stratosphere of the planet, all of them connected to a massive ice formation which also serves to anchor them to the planet's surface below. Unlike other Sonic the Hedgehog media, the setting of the series is in the world of Planet Freedom, which is split into two distinct realms: the Land of the Sky and the Land of Darkness. Taking the English dub into consideration, it is also the first Sonic animated media to not feature Jaleel White voicing the titular character. Robotnik in the English release), Metal Sonic and a few supporting characters created exclusively for the OVA. The anime features Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Dr. The series was later licensed and dubbed in English by ADV Films, which released it as a single direct-to-video film on September 7, 1999, to coincide with the international release of Sonic Adventure. Produced by Pierrot and directed by Kazunori Ikegami, the OVA was originally released in Japan on Janu(1st episode) and Ma(2nd episode). Sonic the Hedgehog ( ソニック★ザ★ヘッジホッグ, Sonikku za Hejjihoggu) or Sonic the Hedgehog the Movie, is a two-part 1996 Japanese original video animation (OVA) based on the video game franchise by Sega.

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