“BOO!” He snarled to life while pulling another of his ingenious mushroom levers. Robotnik’s latest machine sprung into action, and like dominoes falling across a board, mushrooms collapsed all around on the would-be scavengers.

One had its legs taken out from underneath it. Another took a hit directly to the face from “Agent Stone.” In the end, all that mattered was that they were on the ground, and Robotnik was on his feet.

“I outsmarted them all!” he cried in triumph. “Not to be supercilious, but by the transitive property I am now The Smartest Life-Form in The Universe!” Robotnik danced his way toward the still-wavering ring portal and toward freedom. “Farewell, land of funky fungi!”

-Chapter 2