Sonic Battle: Finale!!/A Wild Win

**Sonic Battle: Finale!!** (or **A Wild Win**) is the forty-sixth episode of Sonic X: Heroes Forever.

## Characters

* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Rouge the Bat
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Amy Rose (does not speak)
* Cream the Rabbit
* Cheese the Chao
* Fiona Fox
* Julie-Su
* Shade the Echidna
* Sally Acorn
* Shadow the Hedgehog
* Manic the Hedgehog (does not speak)
* Sonia the Hedgehog (does not speak)
* Mina Mongoose (does not speak)
* Rotor Walrus
* Bunnie D'Coolette (does not speak)
* Antoine D'Coolette (does not speak)
* Espio the Chameleon (does not speak)
* Liza the Chameleon (does not speak)
* Charmy Bee (does not speak)
* Saffron Bee (does not speak)
* Mighty the Armadillo (does not speak)
* Ray the Flying Squirrel (does not speak)
* Silver the Hedgehog (does not speak)
* Blaze the Cat (does not speak)
* Marine the Raccoon (does not speak)
* Honey the Cat (does not speak)
* NICOLE (Does not speak)
* Vanilla the Rabbit (does not speak)
* Chocola the Chao
* Jules Hedgehog (does not speak)
* Queen Aleena Hedgehog/Bernadette Hedgehog (does not speak)
* Sir Charles Hedgehog (does not speak)
* Lupe Wolf (indirectly mentioned)
* Lobo Wolf (indirectly mentioned)
* Marcos Wolf (indirectly mentioned)
* Maria Wolf (indirectly mentioned)
* Canus Wolf (indirectly mentioned)
* Lyco Wolf (indirectly mentioned)
* Leeta Wolf (indirectly mentioned)
* Diablo Wolf (indirectly mentioned)
* Reynard Wolf (indirectly mentioned)
* Maria Robotnik
* Gerald Robotnik (mentioned)
* Sleet
* Dingo (does not speak)
* Emerl
	+ Ultimate Emerl (only appearance)
* Hope Kintobor
* Aerial (indirectly mentioned)
* Athena (indirectly mentioned)
* Christopher Thorndyke
* Chuck Thorndyke
* Mr. Edward Tanaka
* Mr. Stewart
* Scarlet Garcia
* Michael K.
* Christina Cooper (does not speak)
* Elmer Johnson
* E-77 Lucky
* Dr. Eggman
* Snively Robotnik
* Decoe
* Bocoe
* Bokkun (mentioned)
* Coconuts (mentioned)
* Grounder (does not speak)
* Scratch (does not speak)
* Brandon Mutt

## Plot

The episode starts with the continuation of the struggle for the Chaos Emerald. Chris is about ready to battle Knuckles but tells Hope that he’s nervous as Knuckles is much stronger than he is. Chris also mentions that if he wins, he’d have to battle Fiona or Cream. Fiona fights in a dirty way and Cream is a better fighter than he is. Unfortunately, he’s so wrapped up in his fears he slips in a puddle and sprains his ankle.

Knuckles meanwhile has the same fears about hurting Chris as he knows humans aren’t nearly as durable as Mobians. He sees both Chris and Hope coming over with the former limping and because of the injury, Knuckles wins by default. Chris admits he hasn’t fought any Mobians save for sparring matches with him and the Wolf Pack.

The next battle is with Mr. Stewart and Lucky. Scarlet asks Mr. Stewart how he’d rank his opponent when she realizes that Mr. Stewart is Franklin. Knowing his cover’s been blown, Mr. Stewart rushes away, leaving Lucky to win by default for the third time.

Next up is Mr. Tanaka against Emerl with a kendo fighting stick. Emerl copies the technique, but, Mr. Tanaka cowards and surrenders, leaving Emerl to go to the semi-finals.

Cream and Fiona are to battle next and Fiona declares the challenge easy. Cream immediately spin dashes Fiona over as she doesn’t take her seriously and uses a technique called Soft Bomber, squishing Fiona to the ground. She finally flicks Fiona’s nose and is declared the winner of the battle. As she heads back to her seat, Cream sees Rouge, who had trained her for the battle, and thanks Rouge for her help.

Meanwhile, Bocoe and Decoe are still on the run from G.U.N., stating that while they are more durable than things made from Earth metals, they still have limits. Sonic is also still pursuing Snively.

In the semi-finals, Emerl was able to beat Lucky without even touching him (most likely since Emerl can copy Lucky's luck). Cream also realizes that her opponent is Knuckles and the echidna expresses concerns to Julie-Su that if he does fight Cream, he’ll seem like a bully. Cream decides to forfeit as she only joined the competition to take out Fiona, leaving Knuckles to move onto the final round.

Out in the desert, Sonic homing attacks Snively’s Eggmobile to knock him away and he heads back to see how everyone else is doing.

Back at the stadium, Knuckles and Emerl start to battle. Their attacks are very much identical due to Emerl copying Knuckles’ every move. Emerl also had copied the attacks of various others, so he’s got the edge over the echidna. Cream, seeing Knuckles needs help, tries to throw him a hankie. Unfortunately, Elmer Johnson mistakes it for a white flag and believes Knuckles forfeited the match, much to Cream’s distress. It turned out however that Knuckles *did* forfeit the match as Emerl had too many fighting styles to keep up with. Knuckles then tells Emerl he should stick to one fighting style next time they battle, and he says there’s no promises there. Scarlet then gets ready to present the prize to Emerl, much to Hope, Shade, and Maria’s concern.

At the evil lair, Eggman is scolding Decoe and Bocoe for getting chased by the cops, but, Decoe points out that Bokkun, Lucky, and Coconuts were also partaking in the battle. Sleet points out that maybe one of the trio won the battle and Eggman turns on the monitor to see what went down. They realize that Emerl had been the winner, much to their horror.

Michael K. presents the Chaos Emerald to Emerl, but, this turns out to be a mistake as Emerl becomes Ultimate Emerl, launching a full scale attack on the stadium. While most of the present Chaotix, Team Dimension, Maria, and Hope go to evacuate the humans, Sonic teams up with Knuckles, Sally, and Rouge to take Emerl down. This doesn’t go too well as Emerl uses Ult. Air Shot to try to knock them down, but, thankfully Shadow uses his Shadow Guard to block the attack. Shadow challenges Emerl right then and there, but, Rouge advises him to be careful.

Cream, Tails, Cheese, Vanilla, Chocola, Shade, Chris, and Chuck are watching Emerl wreck the city thanks to using all seven Chaos emeralds at once and with his Solar Corona Reactor open, he’ll draw further strength from the solar energy around him. Shade admits Emerl was made for combat and she was tasked with training him, but, she secretly trained him to be gentle. The emeralds awakened his “true” self.

Down below, Shard, in his Robian form, tries to face off against Emerl. Unfortunately, Shard’s attacks do nothing and he’s tossed aside. Cream clings to Tails for comfort, both of them fearing the worst.

Sonic, Knuckles, Rouge, and Sally continue to rush at Emerl to try and knock him down and Shade remarks that as Emerl’s true self, he’s got a strong advantage. Shadow tries to remember a series of keywords that Gerald installed into Emerl’s AI should his true self awaken. Emerl then takes off toward the beach, leaving the quartet to follow him and Maria tells Shadow that at the end of her old life, she told him to “Bring hope to humanity.” Shadow realizes *those* are the words and rushes off.

Everyone, including Amy, Manic, Sonia, Mina, Rotor, Bunnie, and Antoine follow Emerl to the beach. Sonic, Knuckles, Rouge, and Sally are battling Emerl, when Shadow arrives. With Emerl’s attention on the black hedgehog, he gives the code, "bring hope to humanity." Emerl reverts back to his kinder personality and realizes what damage he had done. Just as things were looking up, Emerl’s system starts to overload and C-Fluid leaks from him. Tails, Cream, and Cheese decide to remove the Emeralds from Emerl and proceed to do their Twirl-Wind attack. Emerl is knocked to the ground and his organs begin slowly shutting down. Cream starts to cry as she realizes Emerl is done for, but, in his last breaths he says he was honored to know the everyone and grow from a “baby” to an “adult,” and learn all the emotions that Mobians, Overlanders, and humans possess.

Emerl’s head falls off and as Shade retrieves it and tells Emerl he was a great friend, she realizes that Emerl’s memory chip is intact. While it’s not possible for Emerl to be made as a techo-organic, he can be rebuilt as a robot. Tails vows to oversee Emerl’s rebirth… or rebuild (Shade isn’t quite sure what to make of the situation) and Cream hugs Tails as the episode and Emerl saga comes to a close.

## Differences between this and the real episode

* Chris doesn’t get a chance to battle Knuckles in this episode as he twists his ankle. He’s also worried about battling in the first place as not only does he know Knuckles is powerful, but, he also knows that Fiona fights dirty and Cream is a better fighter than him. In the real episode, he does fight Knuckles, only for the echidna to run away. Chris realizes his next opponent is Amy or Rouge - the former being eliminated much earlier on and Rouge isn’t even participating - and knows that Rouge will do anything to get her hands on an Emerald and Amy would knock him out of the stadium so he fakes an injury.
* In the real episode, Amy and Rouge battle with the latter coming out victorious. In this episode, Cream and Fiona battle with the former beating the latter thanks to Rouge’s training and she was getting Fiona back for harming Tails.
* In the real episode, Knuckles and Rouge battle and Knuckles manages to win thanks to beating Rouge in a tent. In this chapter, Cream forfeits the battle because she just wanted to get Fiona back and can’t win against Knuckles. Knuckles also fears battling Cream because he’d seem like a bully.
* The real episode ignores the fact that Bokkun and Lucky were in the competition, but, Decoe and Bocoe rightfully point out they and Coconuts were battling. Everyone is shocked when Emerl is the winner and is given the Emerald.
* Instead of Cream telling Emerl to take a bow when everyone cheers, Maria, Shade, and Hope exchange concerned looks.
* Emerl transforms into Ultimate Emerl like the video game Sonic Battle and also had six other emeralds.
* Because the grey emerald only appears when the other six emeralds are found, that is the Emerald given to Emerl, completing the set he already had. In the real episode, the emerald given to Emerl is the red one.
* The ending is very different. In the real episode, Knuckles, Sonic, and Rouge try several attacks to knock Emerl out - Rouge is also healed with no explanation - and it’s Cream and Cheese who manage to deal the final blow by knocking Emerl into the ocean. In this episode, Sally, Shard, and Shadow also join in the battle and the others all follow the group to the beach, where it’s Tails, Cream, and Cheese who knock the Emeralds out of Emerl after Shadow uses the keywords to awaken Emerl’s more compassionate side - something which happens in the real game - and inadvertently overloads Emerl.
* Emerl is also to be rebuilt by Tails when Shade realizes his memory chip is intact. In the anime, Emerl stays dead.
* Emerl’s final speech in his original life is based on what he says to the Mobians in the game Sonic Battle.
* Sonic and Knuckles don’t nearly fall into the water resulting in Cream saving them.

## Trivia

* Brandon breaks the fourth wall at the start of the episode, giving a speech about how it’s getting down to the wire with the final eight competitors.