The Emerald Hill Zone is playing host to Enviro-Fete '98, a fayre that sees inventors producing creations that are friendly to the environment. Things aren't going well, with Roger Bodge displaying a self-warming bath and Tyson Dense missing the point with a vehicle designed to cut down trees. However, Tekno the Canary is instantly given first prize with her solar-powered Hover Scooter. Bodge congratulate his fellow entrant, Amy Rose glad that "non-winners" can take defeat maturely. Unfortunately, Dense has taken offense to his snub and chases down the heroes in his machine. Hopping on her scooter, the girls take fight into the forest, but the trees are easily cut down by Dense. An insect is then pulled away from his picnic when a tree almost flattens him. Fed up, Amy takes out her crossbo