Other hazards include crushing spikes and flamethrowers, among other obstacles. Like many of Robotnik's fortresses, the entire facility is fully protected with an array of hazards, traps, and machinery, such as an alarm system that will spawn a persistent (though easy to defeat) number of a Badnik, rotating tubes that will make the player move as they spin which later have spikes on the undersides. Knuckles will face the EggRobo, who will drop a bomb upon defeat and cause the base to explode, causing Knuckles to fall into the next Zone. If playing its locked-on form Sonic 3 and Knuckles, then the player will simply fall into the next Zone. If playing Sonic 3, then after defeating Eggman, the Death Egg will explode. However, the launch sequence for the Death Egg commences, resulting in Knuckles falling into the water along with the beam that he was on, allowing Sonic/Tails to continue. Knuckles the Echidna will also attempt to block Sonic's (or Tails') path to the Death Egg and punch them back, still believing them to be trying to steal the Chaos Emeralds. When that fails, Robotnik flees to the Death Egg and Sonic/Tails chases after him in the Egg Mobile (this marks the only time to date that Sonic or Tails has used the Egg Mobile). Robotnik uses three different weapons in an attempt to stop Sonic and Tails: first, he uses a static projectile launcher at the foot of the Death Egg. There are also many pipes that seem to be used for transporting water (as some parts involve the player using the water flow to speed through the pipes the Zone is, in fact, in a lake).Īfter spinning through a tunnel, the player will jump out of the snow and proceed to stop the relaunch of the Death Egg (Knuckles arrives to chase down the Egg Robo).

The surface of the Zone is primarily yellow bricks. The Zone, being the launch site of the Death Egg, features many defenses designed to keep out intruders.

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