You walk through the Final Zone again, but instead of a boss, you see a broken mechanisms and a portal ring, similar to ring-portal in Special Zone, but gray. You enter it and suddenly you find yourself in the Special Stage Level, identical to those ones in S3&K, only there is fire in the background, and instead of tiles, there is earth from the Green Hill Zone. Eggman or the so-called Poach comes to you with bad intentions Ohoh, finally someone who is NOT that NASTY EXE HEDGEHOG?!