The Mysterious Life Form Chaos/A Chaotic Day

**The Mysterious Life Form Chaos** (or, **A Chaotic Day**), is the twenty-eighth episode in Sonic X: Heroes Forever.

## Characters:

* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Tikal the Echidna (First physical appearance; Flashback)
* Amy Rose
* Cream the Rabbit
* Cheese the Chao
* Sally Acorn
* Bunnie D'Coolette
* Antoine D'Coolette
* Ray the Flying Squirrel
* Mighty the Armadillo
* Rotor Walrus
* Sonia the Hedgehog
* Manic the Hedgehog
* Julie-Su
* Dulcy the Dragon (Mentioned)
* Mina Mongoose
* Big the Cat
* Queen Aleena Hedgehog/Bernadette Hedgehog
* Amelia Rose (Mentioned, not named)
* Joseph Rose (Mentioned, not named)
* Inca the Echidna (Mentioned, not named)
* Pachacamac the Echidna (First appearance; Flashback, not named)
* Lily (First appearance)
* Froggy
* Hope Kintobor
* Christopher Thorndyke
* Chuck Thorndyke
* Ella
* Chaos
	+ Chaos 2
	+ Chaos 4 (First appearance)
* Doctor Eggman
* Bocoe
* Decoe (Does not speak)
* Scratch
* Grounder (Does not speak)
* E-100 Alpha/ZERO (First appearance)

## Plot

The episode starts when everyone is having a coffee break to unwrap the mystery of Chaos. Sonic asks why they are taking a break, but, Hope reasons by saying they needed to think of a new way to take it down. Knuckles is stunned that Chaos was able to swallow up the Chaos Emeralds like they were candy and Julie-Su remarks it can transform with less than seven of them. Sally doubts it's possible to take down Chaos for good and this is when Knuckles explains that he thought Chaos broke the Master Emerald, but, with the new info he received from Chaos and the Master Emerald being its prison, he realizes that it wasn't the case and something else must have done it. Chris asks why they weren't guarding the Master Emerald now and Julie-Su explains she convinced Knuckles to take a stroll on the island and when they got to the alter, the Master Emerald was fragmented. Chuck tells the echidna pair not to blame themselves. Chris asks Big if he saw something in the forest that looked like Chaos while he was looking for Froggy. Big explains that after Froggy swallowed the blue puddle in the previous episode, he grew a tail. Big said he tried to catch him, but, he was faster than him and hopped away with a Chaos Emerald he also swallowed. Chuck says that they'd better find Froggy fast or he won't survive long because Eggman will do anything to seize an Emerald and give it to Chaos. Big explains he found a lure while looking for Froggy, and Hope reveals that it was one of the power ups she's made. She also tells the others that over the past six months, she has been making upgrades for all the Mobians who had been on Earth who are 20 years and under and residents of the Thorndyke Mansion and she hid them all over Station Square and the Mystic Ruins, taking caution so Eggman wouldn't find them. She sadly reveals Eggman found two of them already, but, they'd be useless for him as Hope put a fail-safe on them so Eggman can't use them for evil intentions. Knuckles said he already has the Shovel Claws as a family heirloom, but, Hope says that it may not be enough. She starts passing out lists to her friends of the various upgrades, some have three while others have two. Knuckles only has one extra one because he has the Shovel Claws and Rotor also has just the one upgrade. When Chris asks about Dulcy, Hope explains that she didn't need any upgrades. Satisfied that everyone has their lists, Hope suggests everyone split up. Sonic, Antoine, Bunnie, and Sally decide to go find Tails and Rotor to help them look for the Chaos Emeralds and their Upgrade Items, Knuckles and Julie-Su would go look for the pieces of the Master Emerald and their Upgrade Items, and Team Music would go to the city to look around for more Upgrade Items while Mighty, Ray, Chris, and Big decide to find Froggy and their Upgrade Items together.

Down at Tails' workshop at the Mystic Ruins, the young fox is sadly tinkering with the X Tornado while Rotor is tinkering the Y Tornado. The walrus asks the fox what's gotten him down and Tails admits his misses his friends. Rotor guesses, however, that Tails really means he's missing Cream, and Rotor tells Tails that Bunnie told him that Cream's missing the young fox too. Tails blushes and Rotor tells him that he hasn't eaten in two days. Rotor advises he stop for lunch and he's made Tails a sandwich, to which Tails agrees to go and eat. Sonic's group finally arrive and they notice Tails eating his sandwich. Sally immediately becomes concerned that this is his first meal in two days and Tails explains he's been missing everyone, especially Cream. Bunnie tells Tails that he'd best be saving up six months worth of hugging for her and Tails admits he's got that and much more. Sally then notices anklets on Tails' shoes and he explains they are the Jet Anklets, allowing him to fly faster than he does normally and he just found them last week. At this point, Sonic's group decides to tell Tails and Rotor about Chaos, they suspect Eggman is the one to release it, and they are back to square one on searching for the Chaos Emeralds. Tails says he found the green Chaos Emerald yesterday and Rotor tells Sonic he's been working on a way to stop the Chaos Emeralds from scattering. Sonic tells him that's a bad idea because that would make it easier for Eggman to nab them. Sally then explains to the group that the West Island has once lived prosperous lives thanks the Chaos Emeralds, but, once they were stolen, things went south very fast. Rotor thanks the group on stopping him from his mistake and everyone is ready to start searching for the Emeralds. Sonic and Sally jump aboard the X Tornado and wonder why Rotor isn't doing so, until he reveals his upgrade: the Nanomorph Matrix, which gives him a suit of battle armor. Tails then hops into the X Tornado's cockpit, Rotor turns his thrusters on and Bunnie holds Antoine tightly as the original Knothole Freedom Fighters prepare for takeoff.

Meanwhile, back at Casinopolis, Knuckles and Julie-Su see some police officers. After declining to get their photos taken, the two echidnas see that a crime that happened because of the hole in the building. Knuckles asks what the crime was and a policeman says that a glowing object fell from the sky. Knuckles, Julie-Su, and the police go inside to look. When they find an Emerald Shard, Knuckles picks it up, but, is transported to a version of Mystic Ruins 4000 years ago. Knuckles walks around and finds an echidna named Tikal with her father, Pachacamac. Tikal begs her father not to seize the Chaos Emeralds, but, as her father ignores her, Knuckles is transported back to Casinopolis of the present. Julie-Su asks Knuckles if it was another Chaos Vision and he says yes. The police decides to let Knuckles keep the piece of the Master Emerald and he explains that it can enhance or neutralize the Chaos Emeralds. The officer and Julie-Su ask why Knuckles would explain this if thieves could steal it, to which he shrugs it off and asks the officers to keep their eyes open for more pieces of the Emerald.

Back in Windy Valley, the X Tornado has just detected a Chaos Emerald somewhere in the valley. Everyone lands and they see three floating items on the ground nearby. Tails realizes they must be Upgrade Items because his Jet Anklets had the same glow these items have. Antoine approaches his item first: the Broadsword, which can allow him to do a Double Sword Beam. Next is Bunnie, who finds her Wrist Blaster, which can allows her to perform a Double Shot. Last is Sally, finding her Acorn Shield, which allows her to Boost. Sonic congratulates "Team Acorn" for finding their first Upgrade Items. They are all surprised, but, agree that it makes sense, as Sally's a Speed-Type, Bunnie's a Fly-Type, and Antoine is a Power-Type and they already very tight-nit. Sally, however, points out that they don't have a Team Blast and Sonic says that his team could help them with that later on. Tails points out they still need to find a Chaos Emerald and the group quickly get back on track when Tails grabs the Emerald from the plane. They realize it's underground, so Sonic uses a Power Ring to dig underground and successfully finds the blue Chaos Emerald, making up a new technique called "Homing Comet". Rotor hopes find the rest of the Emeralds will be easy, but, Sonic says it's difficult, especially when he had to go into a pocket dimension to find them.

Eggman arrives and charges at the original Freedom Fighters and he misses. Tails drops the Emeralds and Eggman steals them. As Eggman flies away, Bunnie attempts to use her new Double Shot technique, but, there's no detectable damage. Eggman activates the Egg Hornet's drills and Sonic suggest the group take out Eggman like they did before he and Tails left Knothole. Eggman, feeling nostalgic himself, calls out some SWATBots and Tails immediately does his Tail Swipe move to take out some of them in front of him, but, unfortunately feels sick afterwards. Sonic then goes to fetch the Emeralds while Team Acorn take out the SWATBots until there's one group left. The group merges into a Mega SWATBot and Team Acorn uses their upgrades to their advantage to destroy the Mega SWATBot. Sonic then jumps onto the Egg Hornet, but, Eggman shakes him off just as Rotor throws a Power Ring in Sonic's hand and uses his Spin Dash against a drill. Eventually, Sonic's powered up spin and Homing Attack was too much for pressure for the drill to handle and they shattered. Eggman tries to escape, but, seemingly accidentally spilled the Emeralds he stole into a lake. This is part of his plan however, because Chaos is in that lake. Using the two Chaos Emeralds, Chaos 2 transforms into Chaos 4. Tails wonders about Chaos 1-3, but, Sonic tells him it's not a good time. Chaos 4 uses a windy wave to blow Team Acorn, Rotor, Sonic, and Tails away. Sonic attacks, but, Chaos 4 submerges underwater and Sonic lands on a lily pad just in time, also questioning where it came from. Chaos uses a tornado to knock Sonic off the lily pad, but, there are more lily pads around so Sonic uses them for a surprise attack on Chaos 4. The group think that Chaos has been defeated, but, he is not. Chaos 4 uses another windy wave in an attempt to knock Sonic out. A horrified Sally leaps into the water to reassure Sonic that she's with him and safely brings him to shore. The two then do their signature Double Spin Dash combo and reduce Chaos 4 to a puddle. Upset about another losing battle, Eggman retrieves Chaos inside his Egg Mobile and they both retreat to the Egg Carrier. Sonic laments without an Emerald, the X Tornado can't fly, but, Tails reveals that Hope managed to fix the bug so that Power Rings can make it fly. Sonic, Sally, and Tails hop back into the plane, Bunnie grabs Antoine, and Rotor uses his armor to take off once again to give chase.

Down in Station Square, Amy comes across Team Music and she mentions how she missed them. Sonia explains about the "Chaotic" problem they have and Amy asks how she can help. Mina then explains they have been looking for their Upgrade Items: Sonia's found her Opera Gloves, Mina's got her Heart Song and Manic has his Gripper Brace. Between the three of them, they had four more upgrades remaining and Amy says she'll help them search. Just then, the Egg Carrier floats above Amy, Team Music, and Station Square and the X Tornado flying close behind. Amy sees something falling from the Egg Carrier. The Flicky lands on Amy though despite this, Amy and Team Music feel sympathy for it and decided to take care of it. Due to her parents living on a Mobini Ranch, Amy can identify the Flicky as a girl. On the Egg Carrier, Eggman then tells Scratch, Grounder, Decoe, and Bocoe to keep firing as they missed the X Tornado, but, they say it's difficult at the speed their going. This time, it hits the X Tornado despite Tails' best efforts to move the group out of the way and Manic and the girls rush to the rescue.

Later, Ella, Cream, and Cheese return from shopping and Rotor approaches them. Cream asks if she can go to the workshop to say hello to Tails and he winces, explaining Tails isn't in the workshop at the moment. An excited Cream rushes past Rotor to see Tails, but, is horrified to see the poor fox on the couch with bandages around his forehead and unconscious. Sonic explained what happened and poor Cream bursts into tears finding out that the first time she saw her crush in six months was him injured. Bunnie assures Cream it isn't her fault and tells the others to leave the young pair be. Amy says she's going to the shops, much to Sonia's disgust, but, she lightens up once she realizes Amy is going to make a gourmet meal for Tails once he wakes up.

Tails wakes up and finds bandages around his head as well as a crying Cream. He apologizes if he's worried her and Cream instantly starts kissing Tails multiple times. Tails was then told that Eggman happened and wonders where everyone went. Cream tells him that they wanted to leave them alone and she and Tails embrace and pet each other's heads. Cream then gives Tails the "Funny" kiss.

Meanwhile, Amy and the Flicky are out shopping, the former excited about cooking Tails a meal. Realizing the Flicky looked sad, she introduced herself to the Flicky and the Flicky introduces herself as Lily, which Amy says is a cute name. The happiness doesn't last for long, however. Alpha/ZERO recognizes Lily and Amy attacks him in retaliation, but, realizes her Piko Piko Hammer doesn't work. Without any second thought, Alpha/Zero grabs her and Lily. Manic hears Amy scream and tries to rescue her, but, no luck. Alpha/ZERO uses his jet packs to fly away and Amy and Lily are captured, leaving poor Manic frustrated he couldn't save her, that he was supposed to be Amy's hero, and he was breaking his hands by punching the sidewalk. "Bernadette" finds her son crying and he explains how he tried to do something, but, it backfired. "Bernadette" tells Manic to not think of it as a failure, but, as a chance to learn and says they need to help heal his hands. Manic reluctantly follows his mother back to the Thorndyke Mansion as the episode ends there.

## Differences between this, the real episode and Sonic Adventure:

* In the real episode, Knuckles explains he wasn't guarding the Master Emerald because it was "too late" when he woke up. In this story, it was because Julie-Su had convinced him to take a walk around Angel Island and the Master Emerald was shattered when they got back to the alter.
* No one was looking for Upgrade Items in the real episode, but, in Sonic Adventure and this episode, they were. In addition, Knuckles already has the Shovel Claws in this episode and the Sonic X original, but, in Sonic Adventure, he did not.
* In the game, Tikal was explaining all the various upgrades by flying around the characters in her "glowing light" form. In this episode, it was Hope explaining them via her wrister. She'd read a description of the Upgrade Item when she received a message via her wrister so that her friends would know what to do with them.
* No one questions why Knuckles would explain the Master Emeralds power in the real episode. Here, the officers and Julie-Su do call Knuckles out. Sonic also questions the lily pads.
* The Dark Legion and Nocturnus Clans were never mentioned in the original episode or Sonic Adventure. This is because the Legion was a Comics exclusive thing and the Nocturnus Clan was non-existent at the time of this episode's release.
* The SWATBots were completely absent from the original episode, again, because they were a SatAM/Pre-Genesis Wave thing.
* Sonic was able to escape Chaos 4's water due to using the wind attacks to his advantage in the real episode. In this episode, Sally has to rescue him.
* Amy was with Cream and Cheese when Lily fell and when she was shopping in the original. In this episode, Cream and Cheese were with Ella when Lily fell while Amy was with Team Music and when she was shopping, Amy was just with Lily. Cream was staying with Tails as she had missed her crush for a very long time.
* The scene with Tails having a dream about him and Sonic battling one of Eggman's robots was cut, most likely to include the Tails and Cream scene. Chuck and Sonic were also absent from when Tails woke up due to Bunnie's request.
* Amy managed to identify Lily as a female Flicky due to her parents living on a Mobini Ranch and translate what Lily was saying to the point of learning her name. In the real episode, Amy has no such background, and she and Cream just give the name Lily to the Flicky. In the game, Amy just calls the Flicky "Birdie".
* In the real episode and the game, Sonic is the one to see Amy in trouble and try to save her. Here, it's Manic.
* Amy and Lily being kidnapped ends the original episode, while this episode ends with "Bernadette" checking on her son and getting him treatment to be healed.