Sonic tosses Sergeant Simiam's grenade into the skylight of the juice bar, where it explodes harmlessly. Sonic and his friends go to King Max to tell him that, under the orders of Snively, Nate Morgan was kidnapped by the escaped convicts from Devil's Island Gulag: Flying Frog, Sergeant Simian, Lightning Lynx, Predator Hawk, Drago, Sleuth Dawg, Uma Arachnis, and Kodos. Geoffrey St. John insists that the escaped prisoners perished, with the two missing shuttlecrafts having crashed, but Dr. Quack arrives with word from one of the prison guards that the prisoners may have escaped in a third shuttlecraft.