Sonic is the guest of honour at the first ever Sandy Bay Zone Sonic Con, also attended by his friends including Tails and Amy- and he's bored senseless! Tails chastises Sonic for being ungrateful and rude to patrons but Sonic complains about spending a day "at the nerd emporium" not being his idea of fun. As if to prove his point, he gives Tails a tour of the convention hall, which features events such as Porker signing his memoirs and Knuckles performing atrociously bad stand-up to a baffled audience. Just as Sonic thinks his day can't get any worse, who should show up but his old friend Sally Acorn- not a problem in itself, except she's brought her news camera with her and is catching Sonic in the midst of all the geekery!