Sonic, Tails, Monkey Khan, and Sally break through the dome covering New Mobotropolis, having returned from the Dragon Kingdom. Geoffrey St. John tells the Iron Queen to pack it in, but she refuses; she summons forth Iron NICOLE and orders her to smash her friends out of the sky. With a devious smile, NICOLE instead uses the nanites to trap the queen in an orb and brings her up-to-date; reverting to her true form, she announces that she's been free of the Queen's control for some time and has updated her defenses against the Queen's Magitek. The Iron Queen is indignant, refusing to believe a machine has gotten the best of her; she tells NICOLE that she is nothing but a tool, a thing, but NICOLE replies that her friends have helped her grow into something more. Angered, the queen uses her o