Ray the Flying Squirrel (Chaos Emerald)

Raymond "Ray" the Flying Squirrel is one of the heroes of the Chaos Emerald series, and is also Pancake's best friend. A former street thug, Ray was once an enemy of Sonic the Hedgehog, but quickly redeemed himself and became a lifelong friend. Brave, boastful and dependable, Ray is a very talented martial artist and one of the most gifted fighters on earth, possessing skills and traits that allow him to fight alongside his fellow Freedom Fighters when major threats loom. Although by the latter half of Chaos Emerald Z and Chaos Emerald Z Kai, he retires from fighting, but still trains and fights on occasions when needed. He was voiced by Noriaki Sugiyama in the original Japanese dub and Yuri Lowenthal in the American English dub.
==Chaos Emerald Z/Chaos Emerald Z Kai==
==Black Arm Saga==
Over the next five years after the events of the Knuckles Jr. Saga, Ray retires from fighting and becomes a professional baseball player. However, despite the job paying well and being the best on the team, Ray still longs for the days of being a fighter.
After learning about Sonic's death in his fight against Scourge the Hedgehog, Ray, Mighty the Armadillo, Espio the Chameleon, Charmy Bee, and Big the Cat are summoned to Locke's lookout in order to train for their upcoming battle against the Black Arms: Shadow the Hedgehog and Juggernaut the Hedgehog. Ray and the others enter the pendulum room in order to experience how strong the Black Arms are and is transported to Planet Shadow 100 years into the past. Despite their best efforts, they are easily defeated. When they are transported back to the pendulum Room, Ray and the others feel incredible fear, but become even more determined to become as strong as possible to defeat Shadow and Juggernaut. After completing their training on Locke's lookout, Ray and the others trained on their own until the Black Arms arrived.
==Mephiles the Dark Saga==
After being killed by an exploding Black Arm Imp during the Black Arm invasion of earth and thanks to Locke's influence, Ray was allowed to train on the Ancient One planet in the otherworld, he is joined by his other allies that perished in the battle: Espio the Chameleon, Charmy Bee, and Knuckles the Echidna. The Ancient One tells Sonic that they have all crossed Dragon Road in a far shorter time than he did and that they requested for tougher training than what Sonic had received.
He and the others are able to witness Knuckles fusing with Norman the Echidna and later Sonic's battle with Mephiles the Dark on Angel Island. During that time, Ray and the others were fighting against the Sleuth Dawg Force, Ray fights Tumble the Skunk and (similar to Sonic in the original Chaos Emerald) defeats him with relative ease. When thinking that Sonic had died during Angel Island's explosion, he relays the information to everyone through Maria James. He is eventually resurrected 130 days later in the first batch of wishes from Himmel and lives at Maria's house with Pancake, Maria, and Shadow.
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