Thinking about how in Sonic 3, Agent Stone has little discs that are able to shut off the badniks. This implies one of two scenarios:
1. Robotnik invented them in case of emergency and trusted Stone enough to allow him access to them. I find this unlikely as we are shown clearly that the badniks are incapable of turning against Ivo, so why would Robotnik want to create that in the first place?
2. My personal favorite theory. Agent Stone is just smart enough to create something that instantly incapacitates the badniks because heās awesome














