

Sonic spawns in Zalgo's corrupted world and finds Robotnik, explaining how he had made a terrible deal with Zalgo and teaming up with Sonic to fix his mistakes. Tails is then forced to run from a wall of pure darkness. Tails then wonders through a bloody area before finding Sonic, he tells Tails that it's a trap before Zalgo teleports behind him, lamenting about how he can't die unless it's by his hands. Tails is once again alive in Zalgo's world and finds the mirror Zalgo was trapped in, he then finds his real body possessed by Zalgo. Robotnik then allowed Zalgo to use Tails as a host body to kill Sonic, however Zalgo betrays him and destroys his lab before going to find Sonic.

If he killed Sonic his soul would be alive in Zalgo's world with no escape, however he needed a body to possess to get the soul of his host to his world. The voice (belonging to Zalgo) expressed his concerns for Robotnik's defeats at the hands of Sonic and makes a deal with the mad scientist. Robotnik, how he captured Tails and found a mysterious mirror that knew who he was. The game begins with diary entries from Dr. Meanwhile Sonic runs through Green Hill Zone and finds Robotnik and all the animals dead, however he comes across Tails who is now possessed by Zalgo, which teleports Sonic to a dark void he can never escape from. However Tails was used as a vessel for a demonic spirit to possess, but eventually broke out of its control and entered a strange area, venturing through it he falls down a hole and into a pit of spikes. Sonic gave up and cowardly abandoned Tails, leaving him to die by Robotnik's hands. Robotnik collected the emeralds himself and prepared his ultimate weapon. After failing to have Sonic collect all of the Chaos Emeralds to save Tails, Dr.
