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Flying Battery Zone
Second Zone, Sonic & Knuckles
Number of Acts: 2
Level themes: flying fortress, industrial
Sub-boss: Gapsule
Sub-boss for Act 2: Barrier Eggman (S&K)
Boss: Hang Mobile
Maximum rings, Act 1: 299 + 30
Maximum rings, Act 2: 259 + 20

Flying Battery Zone is the second zone in Sonic & Knuckles (the eighth zone in Sonic 3 & Knuckles). It is entered when Sonic or Knuckles latch themselves to Robotnik's flying airship as it passes through Mushroom Hill Zone. Both characters spin through a hatch to leave the airship for Sandopolis Zone.

Sonic 3 Connection

This level was originally meant to be between Carnival Night Zone and IceCap Zone in Sonic 3, with the cannon from Carnival Night shooting Sonic to the flying fortress. Sonic and Tails would have traversed this level normally, but Knuckles would have skipped this level entirely due to teleporting from Carnival Night directly to IceCap. This also explains the lack of Knuckles-only paths in this zone. At the end of the last boss, your character runs down a hallway and hits a panel off the ship. This panel was intended to be the snowboard for Sonic in IceCap Zone. It is believed that the level was moved over to Sonic and Knuckles to balance out the amount of full levels in each game (6 Levels Sonic 3, 6 Levels S&K, not counting Hidden Palace and Doomsday, which are actually sublevels.) A custom icon has also been found in S3, so it can be assumed it was very near completion before it got moved.

Bosses

Flying Battery Zone has three bosses: one in act one, two in act two.

The first boss is an animal capsule with a boss in it. Get on top of the button on its head. When its eyes flash, move off the button and it will hit itself. Repeat this five more times to defeat it.

The second boss is another self-defeating boss, yet an "homage" to a similar boss from a previous game. You just have to avoid the laser as the cage gets smaller and it will eventually defeat itself. You will then be forced to race upward away from an upward-moving platform to avoid being crushed.

The third boss is Eggman swinging on a pair of chains. Avoid being hit by the spiky arms and bursts of flames it shoots, and when the ship starts swinging up and down, use this chance to hit it. It takes eight hits to defeat. An interesting note about this boss is that it is the only time Knuckles fights Dr. Eggman (at every other boss point in his story, he faces the EggRobo instead). This was most likely an accidental oversight with the switch to Sonic & Knuckles.

Instruction Manual Description

Go flying on Robotnik's warship. Watch where you step—sneaky traps are everywhere!

Sonic Team Commentary (from Sonic Jam Strategy Guide)

This zone has particularly distinctive music, doesn't it. With Sonic 1 and 2, we were working with Nakamura-san, so we couldn't get any extra music, but since with 3 we had the music done in-house, we were able to have a whole lot of music made up for us. We picked out from that selection the music that fit each zone best.

Takashi Iizuka

Enemies

These enemies also show up in the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 US Manual, further proof that this level was intended to originally be in Sonic 3.

Trivia

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