The ring deposits you all safely outside the base and seals up afterwards. Neo Metal Sonic doesn't chase after you, which is something of a mercy.
What's significantly less of a mercy is the sky - it's gone dark and ominously stormy, though the clouds spark not with lightning, but with that same green Chaos Energy you've been facing this entire fight. Worse still, there are now far, far too many robotic planes filling the sky - the Egg Fleet seems to go on endlessly, as far as you can see. Though perhaps it would be more accurate to call it the Neo Metal Sonic Fleet.
Sonic and friends arrive shortly, looking pretty banged up but otherwise still healthy enough to make it here, though they stare up at the sky with obvious concern.
"O...kay, this is definitely not what any of us were expecting."
"We will have to take the fight to them, it seems."
"Easier said than done, I'm afraid... I'm not sure how to pinpoint their leader's exact location to send you all with a ring..."
A jolt of green lightning flashes across the sky and Neo Metal Sonic's voice rings out.
"I expect to see you onboard my fleet in one week's time. That includes you, my loathsome copy."
It seems you don't really have much of a choice. For now, tend to your wounds and try to regroup; you've earned a break after today.
[ Things are going totally great! Nothing terrible is going wrong or is going to happen and comedic hijinks are definitely going to potentially continue in this plenty of time left. Absolutely trustable statement. ]
Well, I would be surprised if you did. Though, it is kind of an amusing image. Have you ever considered doing it at all for fun at some point in the future? Just once?
[ Wolfwood encouraging terrible behavior? Perish the thought! Void Archives wouldn't exactly say that it's wrong or anything, either, because they'll always be something like an enabler.
Which is probably more evidence that they're a bad influence, really. ]
I suppose I just have to think it possible.
...That said, I would vastly prefer even greater being able to stop him before he tries it again, and I dare not say it is impossible, though I recognize the potential sheer difficulty of it. Yet, even that seems more plausible then whatever conclusion I came to before.
[ In other words, no, they are not happy with the possibility of a second time. Regardless of however it happens. ]
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Well, I would be surprised if you did. Though, it is kind of an amusing image. Have you ever considered doing it at all for fun at some point in the future? Just once?
[ Wolfwood encouraging terrible behavior? Perish the thought! Void Archives wouldn't exactly say that it's wrong or anything, either, because they'll always be something like an enabler.
Which is probably more evidence that they're a bad influence, really. ]
I suppose I just have to think it possible.
...That said, I would vastly prefer even greater being able to stop him before he tries it again, and I dare not say it is impossible, though I recognize the potential sheer difficulty of it. Yet, even that seems more plausible then whatever conclusion I came to before.
[ In other words, no, they are not happy with the possibility of a second time. Regardless of however it happens. ]