Big Decisive Battle on Latitude 0!!/Map of Mayhem

**Big Decisive Battle on Latitude 0!!** or **Map of Mayhem** is the forty-seventh episode of Sonic X: Heroes Forever.

## Characters

* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Sally Acorn
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Cream the Rabbit
* Cheese the Chao
* Bunnie D'Coolette
* Antoine D'Coolette
* Shard the Hedgehog
* NICOLE
* Maria Robotnik
* Shadow the Hedgehog
* Rouge the Bat
* E-123 Omega
* Payback Fox
* Rotor Walrus
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Julie-Su
* Mighty the Armadillo
* Ray the Flying Squirrel
* Sonia the Hedgehog
* Manic the Hedgehog
* Amy Rose
* Shade the Echidna (Does not speak)
* Mina Mongoose
* Ash Mongoose
* Silver the Hedgehog (Does not speak)
* Blaze the Cat
* Marine the Raccoon
* Dulcy the Dragon
* Sir Charles Hedgehog
* Vanilla the Rabbit (does not speak)
* Chocola the Chao
* Queen Aleena/Bernadette Hedgehog (Does not speak)
* Jules Hedgehog (Does not speak)
* Omochao
* Gemerl
* Hope Kintobor
* Abraham Tower
* Mr. Hanson (first appearance)
* Mr. Smith (G.U.N.) (first appearance)
* Christopher Thorndyke
* Chuck Thorndyke
* Topaz McCarther
* Doctor Atsumi Cadberry (First appearance)
* Commander Eastwood
* Scarlet Garcia
* Michael K.
* Christina Cooper
* Director of Central Intelligence
* Mr. Tanaka
* Ella
* Card Passer (First physical appearance)
* Doctor Eggman
* Snively Robotnik
* A.D.A.M.
* Decoe
* Bocoe
* Bokkun
* Grounder
* Scratch
* Coconuts (Does not speak)
* Sleet
* Dingo
* Brandon Mutt
* Blake Prisma
* Rachael Hops
* Riff

## Plot

This episode begins with Hope, Topaz, Card Passer, and other G.U.N. personal on the Seahawk. Unfortunately, Card Passer isn't the least bit polite to Hope or the other Mobius residents on Earth, calling them freeloaders and doing publicity stunts when Hope points out they are essentially trapped on Earth against their will with no way to return home and they're fighting off Eggman and his lackies every time they cause trouble. Another Commander, Commander Eastwood, gets Passer to stand down when fog rolls in. Topaz meanwhile is radioing headquarters about the fog, only for interference to come in the form of Eggman. There's also some Mobius technology Hope can't identify coming from a ship heading toward them. Fearing an attack, Topaz tells headquarters what's going on and begs them to turn the Seahawk around, but, they loose contact.

Scarlet Garcia reports this information on the news, and Sonic, Tails, Cream, Cheese, Gemerl, Shard, Chris, Chuck, and Team Acorn are watching the TV. They all hope that Hope was okay and Chuck suspects foul play. Bunnie agrees with him and figures Eggman is a suspect and everyone present with the exception of Gemerl agrees to check it out. Sonic empathizes with him given his own incident where he couldn't swim for five years until Maria healed his old injuries and Gemerl wonders where she got to.

As it turns out, Maria and the rest of her team minus Topaz and Hope are with Michael K., Christina, and the Director of Central Intelligence listening to the last whereabouts of Topaz, Hope, and the other Seahawk members. Maria worries about them being hurt and Shadow hugs her reassuringly. Michael is wondering how the ship could have disappeared and Rouge and Omega suspect Eggman and Shadow adds that the ship would have access to some deep military secrets.

Eggman and A.D.A.M. were meanwhile hacking into computers while Decoe, Bocoe, and Dingo point out that hunching his back over is bad for his posture, much to his annoyance, and he gets some info on Knuckles and Julie-Su. The two echidnas having found something "really useful," according to Eggman.

Down in the Middle East, a human, Dr. Cadberry, is putting his new piece of information away safely, when Scratch and Grounder, disguised as mummies, spook Dr. Cadberry so much he drops the map and the two run away with it. Dr. Cadberry sounds the alarm before passing out.

Meanwhile, Knuckles and Julie-Su are purchasing chive buns when Scratch and Grounder rush by and Knuckles drops his bag of buns. Julie-Su picks it up again and gets him to calm down, before the duo see a building with an unusual neon sign. The echidnas check it out, but, they get too much information due to it being a belly dancing bar. Taken aback, the duo depart and decide to go back to Angel Island, not wanting to stay up too late for a while after this.

Grounder and Scratch are covered in kiss marks and Bocoe, Decoe, Dingo, and Coconuts think this is hilarious while Sleet rolls his eyes and Eggman puts the map into the computer. A.D.A.M. continues to make snarky remarks and Eggman told him he was to make snarky remarks at Sonic and his friends, but, A.D.A.M. reveals he changed his coding, which shocks Snively. Eggman has now uncovered the land of Murasia.

The next day, Knuckles, Julie-Su, and Professor Atsumi Cadberry, as his full name is, explains everything to those at the Thorndyke mansion with the exception of the belly dancers, and the city of Murasia is something like the real life Atlantis, which Chris compares to Mu, a location from a movie called Atragon, which he had been shown by Mr. Tanaka when he was six. Sally then realizes that Scratch and Grounder must have been the ones to steal the map from Dr. Cadberry. Thankfully, he has a digital copy which NICOLE enhances, much to Dr. Cadberry's intrigue. The yacht is to carry the X and Y Tornadoes as the group head out to sea, but, Knuckles and Julie-Su decide to opt out of the mission as they have to guard the Master Emerald. Rotor decides to pack some shields with them, Aqua, Tornado, Invincibility, and Gold, which is a new one he had been working on. He starts to ramble before Bunnie cuts him off and they have to go after Ro-butt-nik, which gives Sonic a throwback to times gone by.

Sonic, Tails, Team Acorn, Team Balance, Team Music, Chuck, Shard, Cadberry, Amy, Cream, Cheese, Rotor, Sir Charles, Shade, Mr. Tanaka, Ella, Team Dimension, Dulcy, and Chris are all ready to go - Chris wanting to go and save Hope while also jumping at the chance to ride a dragon - while Gemerl, Vanilla, Chocola, Jules, Aleena, and Ash remain behind.

The journey takes three and a half days and the group seem to be doing fine, until Sonia mentions Eggman and supposedly jinxes the group, which Ray agrees with. Shard starts worrying when Tails points out the volcano is active when a battleship drivien by Eggman rises up from the sea, much to Amy's annoyance. Sir Charles quickly activates shields when Bokkun shows up with the message from Eggman. Sonia decides to toss the TV right back at Bokkun so it blows up in his face, much to Mighty's amusement. Sally then realizes Eggman must be on the ship and tells Tails, Rotor and Sir Charles to fire at the ship to keep Eggman at bay. Unfortunately, NICOLE realizes Eggman has hostages and one of them is Hope. Cream realizes that must have been what had happened to the Seahawk. NICOLE decides to sneak onto the ship to rescue everyone as her nanite body means she can shapeshift. After kissing Shard reassuringly, she heads off.

In the X Tornado, Tails finds something on the radar/sonar, and he, Cream, Cheese, Amy, and Manic realize it's another battleship. Blaze realizes it's G.U.N.'s battleship, but, it starts firing. NICOLE is very shocked, as is Payback, and Abraham Tower gets Smith and Hanson to back down. Omochao wishes he could help Hope and Rouge gets an idea: she gets the G.U.N. Fort V3 to fire at Eggman with the human weapons and Team Dark head out to rescue the hostages.

Hope, Topaz, Passer, and the others are trapped in the prison and NICOLE materializes and opens the door. Hope is happy to see her and Topaz gives her a friendly greeting, but, Passer is not happy with taking orders from another Mobian. The rest of Team Dark reunites with Hope and Topaz - Omochao and Maria are especially happy to see Hope, and Shadow and Rouge managed to catch Card Passer's slander on Rouge's communicator on speaker mode, Abraham Tower having heard everything. NICOLE, Team Dark, and the rest of the Seahawk's crew rush out to the bridge.

Eggman is so sure that there wouldn't be an attack with hostages, but, Rouge points out there's a problem with that. Snively realizes that the prisoners are gone, secretly happy that Hope is safe. Card Passer then is about ready to shoot Eggman, but, Sleet has a plan. He turns Dingo into a rocket launcher - much to Chris' confusion - and Sleet says that Dingo might have eaten "a human made warhead for breakfast." Maria and Topaz don't wish to take that chance and everyone is about ready to move out of the way, when Dingo causes a smoke bomb to cover the villains so they can escape. Amy is wondering if anyone else saw it coming before Marine is about to point out she, Blaze, and Silver are from the future, so they would know that.

Card Passer is caught in the smokescreen just as Shadow Chaos Controls everyone to safety and is heavily reprimanded by Abraham Tower. He then insults Abraham Tower's wife and he decides to have Passer forced into the brig by Shadow for the trip home and will be discharged from the military dishonorably. Rouge threatens Passer to have his wrist broken by Shadow if he messes up again.

NICOLE returns to the yacht and reports that everyone is safe and Cadberry feels this could be a big mistake. Ella and Mr. Tanaka leave him alone, but, Chuck tells him that if Eggman finds the hotspot things would be dangerous. Everyone looks to the volcano as the episode ends.

## Differences between the episode and this version

* Card Passer doesn't appear until episode 50 in the actual show. He's also got a subplot of him being fired from G.U.N.
* Sonic's fear of water is completely dropped and it's passed to Gemerl instead. Gemerl also doesn't accompany the group on the mission. Sonic also doesn't fall into the ocean.
* Knuckles did accompany the group in the real episode. Here, he and Julie-Su do not because they're looking after the Master Emerald.
* Knuckles and Julie-Su do enter the belly dancer club, but, this was more of curiosity before realizing how much of a shock it was inside. In the real episode, Knuckles enters there by accident after chasing Bocoe and Decoe when they made him drop his chive buns.
* By contrast, Cream and Cheese *do* accompany the group on the trip to Murasia while they don't in the real episode, even riding with Tails, Amy, and Manic in the X Tornado.
* Due to the increased number of characters, both the X and Y Tornados had to come to give everyone more room to travel.
* Chris has extra motivation for coming along - Hope, his older sister figure, is in trouble.
* Omochao greets Hope, relieved she's alive, rather than Rouge saying this to Topaz.
* Scratch and Grounder are disguised as mummies rather than Decoe and Bocoe. Everyone with the exception of Sleet, Snively and Eggman are laughing at them when they arrive back at Eggman's base.
* The X Tornado doesn't malfunction, so Tails and Chuck don't need to fix it like in the real episode.
* The exposition about the Murasians is cut out of the episode because the TV is blown up much sooner.
* Tails uses the X Tornado to fight back against Eggman to distract him from heading toward the island while Rouge tries to rescue the Seahawk crew in the real episode. Knuckles and Sonic also have to fight an energy ray from Eggman when he's trying to blow up the volcano. Neither of these events happen in the real episode.
* Rouge has to bribe the crew to stop them from firing at the ship to save the Seahawk crew in the real episode. In this one, Abraham gets everyone to hold their fire and then Rouge suggests a distraction while she and the rest of Team Dark rescue the Seahawk crew, not knowing NICOLE is already doing it.
* In the real episode, Eggman distracts Rouge by asking where his chaos emerald went even though he didn't have one, much to Rouge's embarrassment. In this take, Sleet and Dingo use a fake rocket launcher to scare everyone into thinking they were going to be destroyed, but, the smoke bomb got the villains out of the way.

## Trivia

* Eggman makes a nod to Thomas the Tank Engine which Grounder lampshades, a favorite show of TobyandMavisForever2, MrBLUERANGERHERO and Acutie
* Rachael, Blake, Brandon, and Riff all break the fourth wall in the beginning of the episode as usual, while Eggman breaks the fourth wall when he mentions the first crossover.