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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 27 (S02E27) |
| Episode no. | 79 of 104 |
| US premiere | 13 May 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 9 April 2017 · Les robots venus du ciel – partie 2 |
| Written by | Alan Denton & Greg Hahn and Bill Freiberger |
| Storyboard | Jordi Valbuena |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
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Robots from the Sky: Part 2 is episode 27 of Season 2 of Sonic Boom, the CGI comedy series made by Technicolor Animation Productions with Sega of America. It premiered in the United States on 13 May 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
Tails survives the cliffhanger thanks to a book in his strap, and the shooters turn out to be the Cubot prototypes, suddenly hostile. Pressing their self-destruct buttons stops them, and Tails finds the same malware that infected the visitors’ ship. At the lair, meanwhile, a mysterious signal makes Orbot and Cubot walk out on Eggman mid-bath, and every robot he owns follows.
The machines descend on the village, Orbot and Cubot included, insisting Eggman didn’t give their orders. Tails traces the malware to the city in the clouds, whose coordinates he copied from the ship, so he and Sonic fly off while Knuckles, Amy and Sticks hold the fort. Their hopes of help from FriendBot vanish when he turns up infected too.
The route is patrolled by sentry ships, and a dogfight follows, with Sonic leaping out to spin-attack one before Tails catches him in mid-air. With more sentries ahead, Tails swaps his plane for a downed sentry craft, which docks itself and carries them unchallenged into the city. What they find there is a ruin.
Trivia
- Part two of four. According to Sonic Wiki Zone, Knuckles complains about cliffhangers at the end of each of the first three parts.
- On DVD in the US: NCircle’s Season Two, Volume One (May 2021), Robot Uprising! (2020), The Complete Season 2 (2021) and The Complete Series Blu-ray (2022).
- French title: Les robots venus du ciel – partie 2. The episode aired in France on 9 April 2017, before its US premiere.
Watch the Episode
NCircle Entertainment, the show’s US home-video label, has not uploaded this episode on its own to YouTube at the time of writing, though its official channel carries two-episode compilations and Season 2 marathons. Season 2 is on DVD from NCircle (The Complete Season 2, 2021) and has been on Hulu and Netflix; see the series page for details.
Part of our Sonic Boom Season 2 guide. See the series page for the cast, the redesigns, the games and the comics.
Sources: air dates, writers and storyboard artists from Luke’s original Sonic Scene episode list, cross-checked with Wikipedia, Sonic Retro (Wayback copy) and Sonic Wiki Zone; synopsis written for Sonic Scene from the episode summaries on those sites; title card and screenshots via Sonic Wiki Zone, copied to our media library.