Series Title - Sonic: Season Three
Episode Title - "Body Double"
Script by - Roland Lowery (aka Jim Doe)
Notes - All directions ("camera" and otherwise) will be in [brackets].
[Opening shot: A white screen with the paragraph below. A
NARRATOR reads the paragraph.]
Narrator: "During the week after Dr. Robotnik's ill-fated Doomsday
Project was destroyed, the Mobian Freedom Fighters celebrated their good
fortune. There was no sign of the evil doctor anywhere. His army of
SWATbots appeared to be frozen where they stood at the time of his demise.
There had been no word from Snively, Robotnik's weasely assisstant."
[Change to next sheet.]
Narrator: "Their victory did not come without a price, however. As
time went by, the Deep Power Stones' seemed to lose their power. This
loss, however, was of little importance to Princess Sally Acorn, who was
finally ready to march into the foul Robotorpolis sprawl, reclaim it, and
ascend her rightful place as Queen of Mobius."
[Next sheet.]
Narrator: "Suspicious of old traps that may have been left in the
city, Sonic the Hedgehog - commander of the Knothole Freedom Fighters and
self-proclaimed 'fastest thing alive' - insisted that he and the other
core Freedom Fighters make a preliminary run through first. As they
approach the city limits, two glowing red eyes watch them from the shadows
. . . "
[Page burns away to black background with two glowing red eyes.
Sound F/X: Laser, burning paper, metal "sheen", then mechanical hum.]
[Black out. Title screen: SONIC in big letters, with "Season
Three" underneath. Second black out. Episode title screen: "Body
Double" with short credits, a small pic of Sonic running by, and heroic
music playing in background . . . original title card and music if
possible.]
[Black out. Establishing shot: Robotropolis.]
Sonic's voice: "Man, you'd think at least SOME of the stink woulda
gotten blown away by now!"
[Pause]
Antoine's voice: [scared] "M-m-mebbe we should not have been comeng
here, mah Preencess?"
[Scene change. Secondary establishing shot of Robotropolis.]
Sally's voice: "Don't be silly, Antoine."
Sonic's voice: [taunting] "Whassa matter, Ant'? Afraid of . . .
GHOSTS?!"
[Scene change: City limits of Robotropolis. ROTOR, BUNNIE, and
TAILS are looking up at the towering buildings while SALLY scans the area
in front of them with NICOLE. SONIC and ANTOINE stand slightly apart from
the rest. Antoine has his nose in the air, arms crossed, and chest puffed
out. Sonic is grinning mischeveously.]
Antoine: [idignant] "Non, Monsieur 'Edge'og! [looks around warily]
Just, ah, just be-eng precocious!"
Rotor: [without looking from the city] "That's 'precautious', Ant'."
Antoine: "Zis es what I am sayeng! Precocious!"
Sonic: [laughs]
Sally: "Okay, guys, I think we're in the clear. Nicole says that
everything - booby traps, factories, EVERYthing - has been shut down for
at least the next ten blocks."
Bunnie: "Why's that, Sally girl?"
Sally: "It's probably some failsafe that Robotnik had built in. If he
died, then his generators would shut down or simply self-destruct."
Rotor: "That way, even if someone got ahold of any equipment in the
city, they couldn't power it."
Sally: "Exactly. C'mon."
[The Freedom Fighters start to walk into the city, but Sonic zips
in front of them and holds out a hand.]
Sonic: [points a thumb at his chest] "Allow me, Sal! I know this
city like the back of my hand!"
Sally: [mock sarcastically] "Neat trick for someone who wears gloves
all the time."
[Sonic, unpeturbed, races into the city. Sound F/X: Some kind of
fast paced music while Sonic speeds around, checking out every nook and
cranny along the street.]
[Scene change: Dimly lit computer panel in Robotnik's control
tower. SNIVELY's hand reaches down and taps a few buttons.]
Snively's voice: "Proceed with attack, MS-01."
Mecha-Sonic's voice: "Acknowledged."
[Scene change: Sonic standing in the middle of a deserted
street.]
Sonic: [yelling] "Looks like it's clear, guys! I'm gonna go check on
Unca Chuck!"
[Scene change: Freedom Fighters walking further into the city,
looking about warily. Antoine is shaking in fright. Sally continues to
scan with Nicole. Tails flies up to the Princess.]
Tails: "Can I go with Sonic, Aunt Sally?"
Sally: [sighs] "I guess so, Tails. [smiles] Keep him out of
trouble, okay?"
Tails: "Okay! [yelling] Hey, Sonic, wait up!"
[Scene change: Street deserted except for lifeless SWATbots
standing silently on the sidewalk. Tails flys up to Sonic, who is running
along unhurriedly.]
Sonic: [smiles] "What's up, little bro?"
Tails: [looking around at the SWATbots] "Those things are creepy
looking."
Sonic: "Ah, they're no more dangerous now than they were before!
[laughs]"
[A laser beam coming from above and in front of Sonic and Tails
hits the ground in front of them, bringing them to a halt. Scene change:
MECHA-SONIC floating in the air, still aiming his arm laser at Sonic and
Tails.]
Mecha-Sonic: "Priority One: Sonic Hedgehog. Priority Two:
Freedom Fighter, Designate: Miles 'Tails' Prower. Surrender or be
destroyed."
[Scene change: The Freedom Fighters, all looking off screen,
except for Antoine, who is huddled on the ground, covering his ears and
whimpering.]
Bunnie: "Did y'all hear that?!"
Rotor: [points off screen] "It came from over there!"
[Sally places Nicole in her boot. Rotor grabs Antoine by the
collar as they all head towards the noise.]
[Scene change: Sonic and Tails looking up at Mecha-Sonic.]
Tails: "Sonic! He - he looks like YOU!"
Sonic: [to Mecha-Sonic] "I don't suppose it'd be too much to ask for
YOU to surrender instead, huh?"
Mecha-Sonic: "By order of the Great Lord Snively, this unit orders you
to stand down in five seconds, or be annihalated."
Sonic: [sighs] "I didn't think so. Alley oop, Tails!"
[Mecha-Sonic begins countdown as Tails airlifts Sonic. Just as
Mecha-Sonic fires, barely missing, Tails hurls Sonic at him. Sonic goes
into a Sonic Spin and knocks the mecha back. Mecha-Sonic recovers and
prepares to fire again, this time at Tails.]
Mecha-Sonic: "This unit's stability has been compromised by Priority
One subject. New tactic: Eliminate secondary target to enhance this
unit's chance for survival."
[Reaction shot: Tails.]
[Sonic lands on the ground, then shoots back up, dealing a massive
uppercut to Mecha-Sonic. The mecha is sent flying up and backwards,
crashing through a wall. Sonic lands again.]
Sonic: [grins] "Y'know, you talk too much!"
[Sally, Bunnie, Rotor, and Antoine run up. Rotor - still
dragging Antoine along - stops to check on Tails. Sally and Bunnie run up
to Sonic.]
Rotor: "You alright?"
Tails: [slightly shaken] "I think so . . . "
Sally: "Sonic, what happened?"
[Sonic points at the hole in the wall Mecha-Sonic made.]
Sonic: "Snively made some kinda weird 'bot that looks like me! No
problema, tho'. I smashed him but good!"
[Sally, unconvinced, pulls Nicole out.]
Sally: "Nicole, scan for the Sonic-like robot and check its energy
readings."
Nicole: "Scanning, Sally [pause] Scanning interrupted. Incoming
message."
[Close up of Nicole's display screen. Snively appears and grins
evilly.]
Snively: "If you are recieving this recording, that means you must
have tried to scan my MS-01 unit. A beauty, isn't he?"
[Scene Change to Reaction Shot: Sally, Sonic, and Bunnie.]
Snively's voice: "I designed him some time ago, but only with the
death of my uncle did I have the ability to create him. His full name is
Mecha-Sonic 01, built to be the dratted hedgehog's evil twin of sorts."
[Reaction Shot: Sonic grimacing. Scene Change: Nicole's display
screen.]
Snively: "Oh, and if you're hearing this, hedgehog, I hope you didn't
just try to punch your way through my creation . . . "
[Scene Change: The hole in the wall. Mecha-Sonic's hand crashes
out of the rubble, and he pulls himself up. No damage has been sustained.
His eyes glow brighter red.]
Snively's voice: " . . . it would only serve to irritate him. End
transmission."
[Scene Change: The Freedom Fighters from angled bird's eye view.
A bright spotlight appears on them and they all look up.]
Mecha-Sonic's voice: [booming] "Threat level of Priority One subject
and arrival of Priority Two collective designate: Freedom Fighters has
forced this unit to enter Aggression Level 2!"
[Scene Change: Close up on Mecha-Sonic's face and chest. One
chest panel has raised up to reveal the spotlight. His eyes flash bright
red, then he drops into the center of the Freedom Fighters. Two energy
lassos fly from compartments in his arms, wrapping around Sonic and Sally.
He then pulls the two in opposite directions and releases them, sending
them flying away. They hit the ground, unconcious. Bunnie grabs the
mecha by the back of the neck, but Mecha-Sonic elbows her in the stomach
then flips her over his shoulder. Scene Change: Mecha-Sonic advances on
Tails, Antoine, and Rotor, who has pulled out an energy pistol and is
shakily aiming it at the mecha.]
Rotor: "S-stay back!"
[Rotor fires five shots, but all of them merely glance off the
mecha's hull.]
Mecha-Sonic: "Designates: Rotor Walrus, Antoine DeCoolette, and
Miles 'Tails' Prower. Threat level: Nominal. [looks at Sonic, Sally, and
Bunnie, with scene changes for each] New orders recieved from Control.
Capture program online. Execute."
[The energy lassos whip out again, snagging Rotor - who drops his
pistol - in one, Tails and Antoine in the other. Electricity arcs through
the lassos, making the Mobians go unconcious. Mecha-Sonic takes flight
and heads towards the control tower.]
[Scene Change: Bunnie's eyes flutter open and she sits up,
rubbing her head.]
Bunnie: "What the hoo-hah happen- [worried expression] Sonic! Sally
girl!"
[Bunnie wakes them up. They step back into the middle of the
street to regroup.]
Sonic: [looking around] "Hey, where's the others?!"
[Sally pulls Nicole out and starts pushing buttons.]
Bunnie: "Ah dunno, shugah. Last thing ah remember, ah was bein'
hauled 'round by that ol' 'bot lahke a sack o' potatoes!"
Sally: "Nicole is picking up the ion trail from Mecha-Sonic's jets.
It's going back to the control tower."
Sonic: "I don't get it, Sal. Why didn't the thing just off us or
capture all of us when it had the chance?"
Bunnie: "Mebbe it c'n only carry so many of us? Or, heck, it may jus'
have not wanted t'carry y'all around, Sonic."
Sonic: [grins] "Yah, I'm dangerous even in my sleep!"
Sally: "Either way, we can be sure that we'll be heading into a trap
if we go to the tower."
Sonic: "Won't be the first time. Let's do it to it!"
[Sally and Bunnie grab around Sonic. After a short bit of revving
up, he blasts further into the city.]
[Scene Change: Inside the control room of the tower. Snively is
looking down at the only lit panel. Mehca-Sonic flies into the room,
still carrying the Freedom Fighters.]
Mecha-Sonic: "Objective completed."
Snively: [without looking up] "Very good, MS-01. Take them to the
prison cells . . . the ones without electronic locks. We will attend to
roboticizing them later, if possible. After you have accomplished you
task, go back out and keep the hedgehog and his friends busy for just a
while longer."
Mecha-Sonic: "Acknowledged."
[Mecha-Sonic leaves. Snively begins to type slowly on a
keyboard.]
[Scene Change: Robotropolis streets. Sonic and Company are
almost to the control tower when Mecha-Sonic flies over head, shooting at
them with lasers. Sonic dodges.]
Sonic: [annoyed] "Man, this guy just doesn't give up!"
[The barrage of lasers force Sonic to turn back around. He runs
into a back alley, trying to find another way around.]
Sally: "I don't think this is going to work, Sonic! We need to get
rid of Mecha-Sonic before we're going to be able to get to the tower!"
[Sonic stops at the end of the alleyway and lets Sally and Bunnie
off.]
Sonic: "Alright. I'll take down chuckles back there; you two get to
the tower."
[Sally nods as she and Bunnie run off. Sonic turns back to face
Mecha-Sonic, who is flying along the ground, straight at the hedgehog.
Sonic blasts out of the way just before the mecha hits him.]
Sonic: "Sorry, pal, but I thought we might need some more fightin'
room!"
[Sonic launches himself forward in a Sonic Spin. Spikes slide
out of Mecha-Sonic's back as he, having already turned back around, enters
a spin of his own. The two clash and hang in midair, grinding against
each other for a moment, then bounce back. They land a few yards away
from each other.]
Sonic: "Ooooh, so you CAN do more than just shoot lasers at me!"
Mecha-Sonic: "Affirmative. This unit has been programmed and built
specially with combat against Priority One subject in mind. This unit
believes that the quaint phrase that organics use is, 'Whatever you can
do, I can do better.'"
[Sonic growls and launches himself forward again as Mecha-Sonic
does the same.]
[Scene Change: The inside of a ventilation shaft grate. The
grate crunches outward, then is pulled away to reveal Sally and Bunnie,
who crawl in.]
Sally: "Alright, we're inside. I hope Sonic can hold off his twin for
a while longer . . . "
Bunnie: "Aw, don't worry 'bout ol' shugah-hog. Ah'm shore he's done
with that ol' 'bot and has done played at least a hundred games o'
Solitare by now!"
Sally: "I hope you're right, Bunnie."
[They continue to crawl through the vents.]
[Scene Change: Robotropolis street. Two blue blurs bounce
around, into walls and into each other. After a few seconds, they drop to
the ground and become Sonic and Mecha-Sonic. Sonic guestures for a "time
out".]
Sonic: "TIME OUT! WHOA!"
[Close up: Mecha-Sonic cocks his head, then back to Sonic.]
Sonic: "This ain't gettin' us anywhere, bolts. How 'bout we try
something else?"
Mecha-Sonic: "This unit is capable of several attack styles. What do
you suggest?"
Sonic: [grins] "A race. First one to circle the control tower and
get back to the edge of the city wins. If you win, I leave the city
without a fight. If I win . . . well, we just go back to fightin' and I
kick your scrap metal head in. Deal?"
Mecha-Sonic: "Considering . . . . . . done. Proposal is acceptable.
Suggested starting point?"
[Sonic draws a line in the dirt with his toe. The two Sonics toe
up to the line.]
Sonic: "Oh, and one more thing. No boosters, no jets, no nuthin'.
Just our feet and the ground, got it?"
Mecha-Sonic: "Affirmative. Addendum: No Power Rings."
Sonic: "Right. Ready, set, GO!"
[The two speed off screen. Close up: Sonic, looking smug.]
Sonic: [talking to himself] "Sucker."
[Camera pulls back to show Mecha-Sonic pacing him. Sonic looks
over and jumps in suprise.]
Sonic: "How-?!"
Mecha-Sonic: "This unit has been supplied with a reconfigured speed
system, similar to the cheetah robot unit you raced previously."
Sonic: [frowning] "Oh. Well, looks like Snively learned some new
tricks . . . but he probably didn't teach you THIS one!"
[Sonic rares back a fist and backhands Mecha-Sonic in the face.
The mecha falls back, rolling head over heels in the dirt.]
Sonic: "Stupid 'bots. All moving parts and no thinking ones."
[Sonic speeds ahead to the control tower.]
[Scene Change: Snively standing over his control panel, typing
away furiously. Only his back can be seen. Sally slips lightly from a
vent in the ceiling. When Bunnie slides out, her metal feet clank on the
floor, getting Snively's attention. The human turns around and leans back
on the panel. His eyes are wide, and he's breathing heavily. He points
his finger at the Mobians.]
Snively: [frantically] "You're too late, Princess! You can't stop me
now!"
Sonic's voice: "No, but I betcha *I* can!"
[Sonic speeds in through the door and stands besides the others.]
Sally: "What are you doing, Snively?"
Snively: [grins evilly] "You're about to see! You're ALL about to
see!"
[Snively turns back to the panel and types one more command. The
panel lights up fully, then so do the ones next to it. Reaction shots of
Snively (triumphant) and the Freedom Fighters (worried and awed) as all of
the lights and computers come on in the room. Scene Change: Through the
window. All the lights of Robotropolis begin to come to life and smoke
begins to pour from the factory smokestacks. Snively presses a
communicator on his wrist.]
Snively: "SWATbots to control room! [hits the communicator again]
Computer! Activate ALL control room defensive weaponry! Target Mobian
lifeforms!"
[Guns of all description slide from the walls, ceiling, and floor,
then aim themselves at the Freedom Fighters.]
Bunnie: "Oh mah stars . . . "
[Five SWATbots file into the control room and ready their arm
lasers and rifles.]
Snively: "As you can see, I have the home advantage. I wouldn't
suggest any of you, especially you, hedgehog, would try to move right now.
The lasers will cut you down before you take your first step towards me!"
[Sally reaches for Nicole.]
Snively: "Aht! Ah! Activation of any computer system within these
walls will get the same response, I'm afraid."
[Sally pulls her hand away from her computer.]
Sonic: "What're you trying to pull here, Sniv?"
Snively: "'Pull', hedgehog? 'TRYING'?! I'm afraid you don't
understand! I've already DONE it! When the doctor died in the explosion
of his Doomsday Device, all of his systems shut down, see, but I was able
to rewire this panel and was in the process of jumpstarting all of the
other computer systems when you Freedom Fighters poked your noses in!
[begins to pace] I had been working constantly for a week, and didn't
want to have to start over from scratch, you understand, so I sent
Mecha-Sonic to keep you all busy until I finished my work, which he did
quite well, I might add."
[Mecha-Sonic blasts in through the door and lands beside Snively.]
Bunnie: "Speak o' th'devil."
Sonic: "Ya got THAT right."
[Snively grins and begins to pet his creation.]
Snively: "He is the closest to perfection in robotics that can be
achieved with the technology level available to date. Since he was not
hooked up to the Robotropolis computer net, he was the only 'bot not
effected by the shutdown."
Sally: [angrily] "Enough with your exposition, Snively. Why are you
doing this? Hasn't your uncle put the planet and its people through
enough?"
Snively: [furiously, shouting] "DON'T TALK ABOUT MY UNCLE! I am NOT
like him! I don't want to rule the world . . . I hardly care for much
outside of Robotropolis!"
Sally: "Then what DO you want?!"
Snively: "I want you to suffer! Suffer for all the humiliations you
and the other Freedom Fighters put me through! You think I'm bald because
baldness runs in the family? No! It's because of all the stress that you
idiots have given me! My stomach already has at least ten ulcers, and I
swear I'm getting shorter with every passing month! You and your kind
have humiliated me at every turn, especially YOU [points at Sonic], you
dratted rodent!"
Sonic: [shrugging] "Oh, c'mon! It wasn't all THAT bad . . . "
Snively: [tugging at his few remaining hairs] "YOU TIED ME TO A CHAIR
ONCE!"
[Sonic winces and grins desperately with another shrug.]
Sonic: "Oh . . . yah, uh . . . that . . . "
Snively: "So, from now on, I'm dedicating my life to making all of you
suffer in any way I can figure out. My first action in that vein is to
expell all of you from Robotropolis, meaning-"
Sally: [interrupting, disheartened] "Meaning that I cannot reclaim
the throne . . ."
Snively: "EXACTLY. But, to make you all suffer properly, I can't have
you dead or roboticized. Meaning you and your three friends that are
being held in the prison cells are free to go."
Sonic: [jabbing a finger in Snively's direction defiantly] "If you
think that's it, you little-"
[Snively fixes Sonic with a steely glare, making the hedgehog
trail off.]
Snively: "GET. OUT."
[Sonic, Sally, and Bunnie slowly walk out the door. Black out.]
[Scene Change: Around the campfire in Knothole. All the core
Freedom Fighters are sitting on the logs except for Sally, who walks up
and sits next to Sonic.]
Sally: [dejectedly] "No luck. I just checked, and Snively has
already changed all of the satellite codes. We can't pirate his
broadcasts anymore."
Rotor: "It'll probaby take about three months to crack the codes."
Bunnie: "So what do y'all think we should do 'till then?"
Antoine: "I am knoweng about ze rest of vous, but I am do-eng ze
planneng to be hideng under ze bed!"
Bunnie: "Besides that, Ant'."
[Sally massages the bridge of her nose with a thumb and
forefinger.]
Sally: "All we can do is start out from scratch. Crack Snively's
codes, do surveillence and learn his schedules, make hacking runs on the
computer net, find-"
Sonic: [shouting, angry] "NO!"
[Sonic stand up and kicks some brush in the fire.]
Sonic: "What yer saying is, we've gotta start all over again? Ten
years down the drain? Just like that?! I don't believe it! I CAN'T
believe it!"
Bunnie: "Shugah-hog, ya need to calm down . . . we'all have jus' had a
bad day is all . . . "
Sonic: "Don't 'sugar-hog' me! I'm not gonna let that little rat do
this to us! I'm goin' after him again. Tonight. Follow me if you want
to help . . . but I doubt I'll need it."
[Sonic speeds off. Sally stands up and moves to stop him a second
too late.]
Sally: "SONIC! Oh, for . . . [sighs] He's never going to learn, is
he?"
Antoine: [snorts] "Soneec larneng zometheng? Zat will be ze world
endeng, n'est pas?"
Tails: "Aunt Sally?"
Sally: [sighs] "Yes, Tails?"
Tails: "I'm scared."
[Sally looks at Tails sadly, sits beside him, and hugs him.]
Sally: "For the first time in a long while, Tails . . . [looks up at
the sky] . . . I am, too."
[Black Out. Roll Credits.]
END EPISODE 1
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