History Recap / SonicBoomS2E51EggmanTheVideoGamePart1

%%* TeleportSpam: Shadow overwhelms Team Sonic with this.

* ManipulativeEditing: Eggman edits an interview with Sonic he recorded in order to make it sound like he's trash-talking Shadow. When the edited footage is shown to Sonic's dark doppelganger, it's painfully obvious that it's been manipulated, but funnily enough, Shadow, [[TheComicallySerious of all people]], ''still'' falls for the ruse.
-->'''Sonic''': Shadow?-he is-weak-that-wind-bag-could-never-beat-me.-What a-weak-weak-weak-wind-bag-he is.
-->'''Shadow''': This aggression shall not stand. Sonic and his friends shall pay!

-->'''Tails''': Shadow? What are you doing here?
-->'''Shadow''': Fox hunting.

* TeleportSpam: Shadow overwhelms Team Sonic with this.

The direct approach may not have worked out, but Eggman doesn't give up on his plan. He goes to Sonic's Shack and interviews Sonic about Shadow with microphone and camera in tow, hoping to get him to insult his rival into attacking. Instead, Sonic answers the doctor's questions with neutral remarks; he mentions that he realizes how tough Shadow is, in spite of the "whirlwind" that was their last showdown, and hasn't thought about seeking another fight with him. Eventually, he gets impatient and cuts the interview short by walking off, much to Eggman's annoyance. Later, Shadow gets his brooding rudely interrupted when Eggman enters the cave he apparently lives in. Fortunately for his continued existence, Shadow reacts to this with annoyance rather than violence, and his unwelcome visitor shows him the recording of the interview with Sonic... but not the way it was originally filmed. Eggman was forced to work with what little he got out of the Blue Blur, so he took the clip apart and spliced it back together in a way that makes it sound like Sonic ''did'' trash-talk Shadow. Somehow failing to notice that Eggman's editing skills are lacking (and by "lacking", we mean "''horrendous''"), Shadow doesn't appreciate Sonic's insults, swearing vengeance on the hero ''and'' his friends.

After returning to his lair, Eggman watches the footage along with Orbot and Cubot, and while he's satisfied with his motion-capturing of Team Sonic, he doesn't feel so confident about his clumsy stunts. Taking Orbot's subsequent suggestion (as his own, anyway) and deciding he needs someone with far better fighting skills than himself to serve as his motion-capture stand-in, Eggman endeavors to find a foe of Sonic he knows that can ''really'' give him a challenge. He later finds the foe in question blazing a dark red trail through a canyon. He stops the speeding entity by getting in front of it, revealing it to be none other than Sonic's dark counterpart, Shadow the Hedgehog. Eggman offers him a proposition, but that's as far as he gets; Shadow ''immediately'' shuts the attempt down by telling him to get someone else to do his dirty work, as he ''never'' wants to team up with the doctor again. That's not hard to believe, considering that [[Recap/SonicBoomS1E52ItTakesAVillageToDefeatAHedgehog the one time]] it ''did'' happen, Eggman only succeeded in cementing himself in Shadow's eyes as a pathetic excuse of a villain and a waste of his time to interact with (and Eggman's premature "victory selfie" that kept him from claiming victory in his duel with Sonic didn't help matters). He subsequently orders Eggman to get lost, and knowing that he has no chance of budging the stubborn hedgehog's decision (in fact, it's likely Shadow will put him in a body cast if he persists), Eggman has no other choice but to comply, all the while grumbling to himself in irritation.

The direct approach may not have worked out, but Eggman doesn't give up on his plan. He goes to Sonic's Shack and interviews Sonic about Shadow with microphone and camera in tow, hoping to get him to insult his rival into attacking. Instead, Sonic answers the doctor's questions with neutral remarks; he mentions that he realizes how tough Shadow is, in spite of the "whirlwind" that was their last showdown, and hasn't thought about seeking another fight with him. Eventually, he gets impatient and cuts the interview short by walking off, much to Eggman's annoyance. Later, Shadow gets his brooding rudely interrupted when Eggman enters the cave he apparently lives in. Fortunately for him, Shadow reacts to this with annoyance rather than violence, and his unwelcome visitor shows him the recording of the interview with Sonic... but not the way it was originally filmed. Eggman was forced to work with what little he got out of the Blue Blur, so he took the clip apart and spliced it back together in a way that makes it sound like Sonic ''did'' trash-talk Shadow. Somehow failing to notice that Eggman's editing skills are lacking (and by "lacking", we mean "''horrendous''"), Shadow doesn't appreciate Sonic's insults, swearing vengeance on the hero ''and'' his friends.

In the Village Center, Knuckles is telling Tails a bartender joke when Shadow blindsides (sorry, ''pummels'') Knuckles into a wall, with Eggman and his Spy Bots returning to watch the action and capture it from multiple angles, respectively; Eggman commentates throughout on how well certain aspects of the fight will translate into his game. Shadow continues to attack the two Team Sonic members relentlessly, tricking Knuckles into accidentally punching Tails out of the fight with a well-timed teleport and then beating the echidna to a pulp as he realizes his error. Amy and Sticks arrive and attempt to fight him as well, but soon enough, Shadow teleports away. The two girls glance around, expecting the dark hedgehog to return at any moment. But the one place they ''don't'' look is behind them... which is exactly where Shadow reappears before grabbing them both and lifting them ''several feet'' into the air. He doesn't even bother to ''look'' at them as he callously tosses them aside to plummet to the ground. Obviously, the landing is ''not'' soft, and it leaves Amy with barely enough strength to activate her Communicator and weakly call Sonic for aid before she collapses.

With concern for his friends a likely factor, Sonic's on the scene almost immediately after receiving the call, and he's horrified to find his friends in excruciating pain and struggling to get to their feet. And then he spots the culprit: Shadow, floating to the ground and saying it's about time the "slowpoke" arrived. Sonic, ''not'' happy about the situation unfolding before him, demands to know what Shadow's done, but only receives a shoulder charge from him in response, the strength of the blow causing him to fly through three trees and into the village wall. Not long after, Shadow stands menacingly over a stunned Sonic as he lies in the rubble, once again on the verge of finishing him off and settling the score. This is where the adventure ends for now (yes, an annoyed Knuckles bemoans the cliffhanger ending, as has become tradition), and one thing's for sure: Sonic and company ain't walking away from ''this'' battle unscathed... if at all.

** When Eggman tries to advertise his new '''Stache Smash'' video game, he asks Tails, Knuckles, and Mark what the newest, coolest video game is. Tails and Knuckles respectively guess ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Super Plumber Bros.]]'' and ''[[Franchise/MortalKombat Mortal Bloodsport]] [[SequelSnark VII]]''.