The second Metallix, from Sonic the Comic #50. (How this time paradox works at all has been debated, and even artist Richard Elson is confused by it. The Miracle Planet was restored to its natural state, and Metallix was apparently erased from existence. Back in time, Sonic was able to prevent the planet's cyberforming and then return to the present to pass the Time Stone to himself and complete the loop. ДЇortunately, Sonic received help from a time-travelling version of himself from the future, who gave him a Time Stone with instructions to use it to head into the past.

Not even ramming it after running around the entire planet could do Metallix any damage. Once on the Miracle Planet, which had been completely cyberformed by Robotnik, Metallix was able to draw limitless power from the planet itself, becoming able to raise forcefields and discharge electric bolts. In the end, Sonic won, and Metallix was forced to call a tactical retreat by capturing Amy once again and taking her up the chain to the Miracle Planet, with Sonic hot on their trail. Sonic arrived and battled Metallix, the two of them moving so fast that Amy could not see what was happening. In order to draw out Sonic, Metallix kidnapped Amy Rose and brought her to Never Lake. The first Metallix from Sonic the Comic #25. The new robot was thoroughly tested, obliterating practice robots resembling Sonic, before his first public appearance: attacking the Emerald Hill Zone in search of Sonic.

'Operation Metallix' was created by Robotnik and his chief scientist, Grimer, as a means to destroy Sonic once and for all. Metallix first appeared, in shadow and apparently incomplete, in the final panel of 'Girl Trouble, Part 2', after Sonic had rescued Amy Rose from Robotnik's Egg Fortress in the Special Zone. The first Metallix from Sonic the Comic #27.

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