Chase the Hero Sonic!/That's What Friends Are For

**Chase the Hero Sonic!** (or, **That's What Friends Are For**) is the fourteenth episode that happens in the series Sonic X: Heroes Forever.

## Characters:

* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Amy Rose
* Cream the Rabbit
* Cheese the Chao
* Ray the Flying Squirrel
* Mighty the Armadillo
* Sonia the Hedgehog
* Rotor Walrus
* Sally Acorn
* Manic the Hedgehog
* Bunnie D'Coolette
* Antoine D'Coolette
* Sir Charles Hedgehog
* Rosie Woodchuck (Mentioned)
* Jules Hedgehog
* Queen Aleena Hedgehog/Bernadette Hedgehog
* King Maximilian Acorn (Mentioned, unnamed)
* Amadeus Prower (First appearance, flashback)
* Rosemary Prower (Mentioned, unnamed)
* Armand D'Coolette (Flashback)
* Bernadette Hedgehog (Flashback)
* Lady Windermere (Mentioned)
* Ferrell (Mentioned)
* Hope Kintobor
* Abraham Tower (First appearance)
* Christopher Thorndyke
* Chuck Thorndyke
* Helen
* Ella
* Mr. Tanaka
* President
* Jerome Wise
* Police officers
* Doctor Eggman (Mentioned)
* Doug (First appearance)

## Plot

Following Eggman's defeat, the episode and Chaos Emerald Saga starts at the White House with Jerome Wise bringing the President exciting news for his upcoming election, but, the President displays uncertainty regarding the Mobians who are the real heroes responsible for defeating Eggman. Wise greatly panics about this as the popularity with the Mobians have greatly increased which he could replace the President, to which he replies most of them would be too young to even attempt to join their ranks. Wise suddenly thought of an idea to host a victory celebration party at the White House and invite the Mobians and the media so that the citizens can recognize the Mobians and improve public relations with them. Wise proceeds to get the preparations ready, but, the President reminds him to go easy on the wine so that people don't get hangovers.

At the Thorndyke Mansion, Ray had just finished cleaning the windows when he hides from those delivering the mail. He pops out again and, much to his surprise, finds a letter addressed to the Mobians from the President. After slipping on the newly waxed floor, he rushes to Chuck's lab to inform the others. Hope then reads the letter, revealing the black-tie event and that the Mobians will be interviewed. Relief washes over the Mobians in that they don't need to hide anymore and Amy is excited about the food, but, Sonic admits he doesn't like getting dressed up. On top of that, he fears how he'll break the news to Helen, one of Chris' classmates. Sally then reveals that the party is in two days, so they can move that event to before the party. The scene then flashbacks to Sonic and Sally's first meeting with Helen by the river leading to that island, where they saw Helen's wheelchair stuck in the mud. Sonic and Sally proceeded to rescue her. After greeting each other, Helen told Sonic and Sally that she wanted to visit the island. She mentions that her father at one point wanted to take the family to visit the island, but, he has been too busy working for long hours and has yet to fulfill that promise to this very day. Disheartened, Helen is desperate to go to the island so Sonic and Sally agree to take her. Sonic needs to get his preparations for his trip and rescheduling and runs off with Sally in tow. Though everyone is excited for the black tie event, Sonia reveals that the Mobians have nothing appropriate for it. Chris, Ella, and Mr. Tanaka decide to take them to the mall.

At the mall, the Mobians are astounded by the sheer grandness of it and they reveal their bazaars back on Mobius are nothing like this. Sonia says she's been saving up on Mobiums, but, Hope admits they don't have much use on Earth and that Chris had to cover for her when she tried to pay for a crepe. Chuck then tells the Mobians to let the family worry about the cost, to which the Mobians are grateful for. The Mobians also feel uncomfortable with all the aside glances from the humans and hope it will lift up within a few days. At this point, everyone realizes the clothes are too big for them and they may try over by the kids section, as Mobians are much shorter than humans. Manic isn't pleased with the idea, but, Sonia believes some clothes may fit them in that section.

At that moment, Sonic and Sally return from rescheduling their plans with Helen. They tell their friends it went well and Sonia and Manic wish it went as well for them. Just then, Amy comes out with a red dress which seems to be a perfect fit for her and she also points to the dresses in three other colors: blue, pink and silver. Sally is a bit surprised, but, Manic is distracted by Amy's beauty. Unknown to the Mobians, a disguised G.U.N. agent his commander that the Mobians are starting to catch onto the fact that something is up. Abraham tells his agent the Mobians aren't to be harmed. Back with the Mobians, Cream has changed into a smaller pink dress (much to Bunnie's joy) while Sally is in the blue dress Amy pointed out before, saying it would do nicely. Bunnie dons the bigger pink dress and admits it may take her a while to get used to it. Sonia puts on the silver dress, which she takes a liking to immediately. Meanwhile, with the boys, Ray's sleeves are a bit long, but, he rolls them back to make it work. Mighty too puts on a tux, but, his shoulders are a bit tight so he adjusts them accordingly. Antoine is the only one in a full tux and he's pleased with his look too.

That evening, Sonic and Sally are on the roof of the Thorndyke Mansion and the former tells the latter about how he was thinking about his parents. Sally tells Sonic that her father said that his father was quite an adventurer, which is where Sonic figures he gets his explorer side from. Sally also said her father said Sonic's father was a good solider and that with or without an Ability Type, he was more heroic than most of the Royal Guard back then.

From afar, Jules and Aleena are watching the younger couple, and they keep in mind that Sonic is in good hands. Aleena starts to remember the first time she had seen Jules' heroics, when he had saved Amadeus Prower. A flashback shows a younger, organic Jules with his brother, Charles (who hadn't been knighted yet), and it's also revealed that Charles had been using chemicals in his lab which had aged him prematurely. Jules is also upset that he's now 20 years old and the only one in the family without an Ability Type and he also reveals that Amadeus' high jumping ability could classify him for a Fly-Type. They hear civilians screaming and rush toward the noise. They quickly realize Amadeus is in the clutches of a crab robot and despite Armand's best efforts, he's knocked back. Jules grabs Armand's sword and manages to pry open the claw, rescuing Amadeus from the robot. A younger Aleena witnesses this and is amazed. After Armand finishes off the robot, another random royal guard member is giving Jules a scolding, to which Armand quickly reprimands him and tells him that Jules was much braver than some of the other members of the royal guard. Later, Charles and Jules are on Christmas Island together and they catch sight of a ring they had never seen before and one of Charles' devices deduces that the ring is made of pure Chaos Energy. Intrigued, Jules grabs the ring and feels a surge of power going into his body. The two hedgehogs then look around to see if anyone knows what the ring was. They are greeted by a lavender colored hedgehog named Bernadette, who reveals the ring is in fact a Power Ring and they must be brought to the queen. They meet Aleena for the first time and she asks Jules if he felt any power surging into him, to which he admitted he did. Aleena realizes the Power Ring, which was connected to the Speed Ability Type, showcased Jules' potential to be a Speed Type, but, that was never unlocked. Aleena then presses her hand to Jules' head, releasing the potential within and Jules started to speed around the room. He was very surprised, but, impressed by his new talent and promises to use his talent to help those in need. In the present, it's revealed Jules did keep that promise and he and Aleena hug.

Sonic and Sally finally get to the lake with Helen and they help her into the boat. The three all put on life-jackets and Helen is a bit confused as to why Sonic needs one as she thinks hedgehogs can float. Sonic admits that he can't. The blue blur then grabs onto the back of the boat and starts running at top speed to act as a makeshift motor. Helen compliments Sonic's speed and he tells her that his mom has him beat when it comes to that. Sally and Sonic start learning more about Helen's dad and that he works very hard at being a grocer. Helen also admits that she was bound to a wheelchair due to a hiking accident when she was five. The parents blame themselves and have to find extra jobs for money so they could pay for surgery so she could walk again. Sonic admits it's no one's fault and that life can throw curve-balls at you, like how Sonic, Sally, and their friends are trapped on Earth because of the Chaos Control warp, but, they are making the best of things until they can go back to Mobius. They also tell Helen that her parents are only working so hard because they love her very much and Sonic and Sally also explain about their own parents being roboticized and robbing them of their free will. Helen expresses worry for them, especially when she finds out that Sir Charles made the Roboticizer and that it was made for old people to live longer, but, Eggman decided to use it to make slaves. Sonic, however, promises to make sure no one on Earth suffers that fate. The trio arrive at the meadow of flowers which Helen's father mentioned about. This is an beautiful sight to Sonic, Sally, and Helen as they see the meadow seemingly covering a large area of land. Sonic proceeds to pick one flower for Helen, but, she stopped Sonic from doing so to which he understands to leave the flowers as they are. They continue to admire the flowers when they hear the sound of a jet above them. Glancing up, they see Jules and "Bernadette" from above and Sonic hugs both of them tightly, crying tears of joy. Helen expresses concern for Jules being roboticized, but, he explains his free will was restored. Both "Bernadette" and Jules admire the flowers, saying it reminds them of Christmas Island and that it has the highest concentrated amounts of Chaos Energy on Mobius. Sally then goes on to tell the story of Queen Aleena who prevented Eggman from taking over Christmas Island, and "Bernadette" confirms that Aleena is real, a Mobian more powerful than Eggman would ever be, which is why he wants to find her. "Bernadette" also tells Helen that she was Aleena's childhood friend and lady in waiting, and Helen wonders if she'll see Aleena one day, to which "Bernadette" winks at Sonic. The group decide to go home as it's getting late in the day.

When they arrive back at the Mansion, Sonic introduces Chris to his parents and Sonic explains that Jules was roboticized. At this point, Sir Charles arrives and hugs Jules in a brotherly reunion, and Charles warmly greets Aleena, forgetting it was meant to be a secret. At breakfast the next morning, the other Mobians are made known about Jules and "Bernadette's" presence, and Amy is confused about the situation. "Bernadette" shows her true self Aleena to Amy, making her shocked. Sir Charles explains that the original Bernadette was Aleena's lady in waiting, her best friend... and his wife. He admits that while Rosie does help, it's still tough to move on. Aleena turns back into Bernadette after Amy promises not to tell anyone about her. Later, the limo arrives and everyone is set to go to the party. Sonic is nervously fidgeting with his tie before Sally helps him and ties it for him as well as calming him down.

The party begins with the guests and media at the White House, expecting everyone's visit. A limousine appears outside and when the passengers, Chris, Chuck, Hope, and the Mobians stepped out, they were warmly greeted by everyone. After a lovely lunch, the interviews start off with Sonic himself. He says he's 15 and he admits he's not the leader of the Mobians, three of them would be his parents and his uncle. He doesn't know his top speed, saying he's been too focused on taking down Eggman. Sally gets her turn, stating she's 16 years old, she's a squirrelmunk who comes from a long line of said species, and her middle name is Alicia. She also tells them Sonic is her boyfriend. Sally also explains it's rare for Mobians of other species to date each other, but, not unheard of and that some Mobians think that because they're "purebreds" they are "superior". However, Sonic's family does not have that mentality. Sally also explains that because of her usage of the Deep Power Stones, she now has the abilities of a Speed Type, but, can't control it at will like Sonic can. Up next, Mighty explains he is an armadillo and 16 years old, as well as the third strongest Mobian. Mighty also explains when he was five, he was too proud of his strength and ended up destroying a village by throwing a boulder. Ever since, he used his strength as a last resort. Ray walked over next, saying he was 10 years old and a flying squirrel, though, he has some ground squirrel blood due to his father. Ray revealed he used to get scared of everything, but, after meeting Mighty and Sonic, he became much braver and his stutter remained because he didn't get speech therapy. Ray also revealed his uses Chaos Energy for thrusts in order to fly and all Mobians and Overlanders have Chaos Energy to some degree.

On Hope's turn, she admits that Overlanders and Mobians are separate species altogether and the closest thing to human Mobians are primate Mobians. Hope also tells the interviewers that Overlanders usually have four fingers and toes while humans have five, though Hope, Snively, and Eggman were born with five fingers and toes. She also says that humans were more welcoming of other species than Overlanders were, though, she is one of the few exceptions of the Overlanders. Hope then states her age, 14 years old. Jules was up next, saying he was once organic, his Robian body was because of the Roboticizer and there is a way to reverse the effect. He also says that Sonic will prevent the worst from happening to those on Earth too. Jules then tells the interviewers he was the test subject for the Roboticizer and lost his free-will, much to their shock. Relief washes over them when Jules said that once the Doomsday Project was destroyed, he and the other Robians had their free will restored. Next is Sir Charles, who tells the interviewers the same story that Jules told Helen about the Roboticizer, as well as the fact that Jules was the test subject on the Roboticizer because he was wounded in battle. He also admitted his time around chemicals prematurely aged him and how he turned back to normal. Next, "Bernadette" steps up, and she says that while Jules is a Robian, he's still the same hedgehog she fell in love with, causing the interviewers to go "aww". She also reveals she's 42 years old and has triplets, so, she doesn't want anymore kids. Sonia and Manic take their turn together and Sonia admits there was prophecy where they and their mother were to overthrow Eggman one day. She was sent to Lady Windermere and Manic to Ferrell while Sonic remained in the care of Bernadette. When "Bernadette" was asked of her relation to Aleena, she asked the information would not leave the building and with the promise, "Bernadette" turns into her true form of Aleena, telling them what she said to Helen the previous night. Next it's Bunnie and Antoine's turn, Antoine being 20 years old and a coyote while Bunnie is 18 years old and a rabbit and her maiden name is Rabbot. The 'T' was silent, but, became pronounced after she was turned into a cyborg. Sonic had saved Bunnie from being turned into a full Robian and the process wasn't painful, but, uncomfortable. Rotor was up next, his age is 18 years old and he's a walrus. He also says he helped to build and design the Y Tornado and that Mobian and Overlander technology wasn't special by Mobius standers. He directs praise over to Hope, who decides that it's time for Amy to go up. She states she's 12 years old, a hedgehog, and that her Piko Piko Hammer weighs twice as much as she does. She also explains she does boxercise everyday and gets offended when asked where she puts her hammer. Hope quickly soothes things over as she explains Mobians have a fourth-dimensional pocket where they put things when they aren't using them, but, it's considered rude to talk about. Last, but, not least, it's Tails and Cream's turn: Tails says he's 8 years old, his real name is Miles Prower, and he's a fox and Cream is six years old and a rabbit. Cream also tells the interviewers that Bunnie is her older cousin, Tails says his parents had one tail each, and Cream tells them her Chao friend is named Cheese. When asked as to if Tails is a bit young to be piloting aircrafts, he reveals that Eggman mass produced vehicles that were so simple even a four and a half year old could work them. Eggman then revoked the law of Mobians piloting vehicles until they were a certain age to encourage more reckless behaviour and pollution, but, forgot that Mobians were smarter than that. The interviewers thank the Mobians for their patience and cooperation.

At the end of the day, Sonic and Sally are stargazing on the roof, remarking the week had been a good one, but, Sonic doesn't want to let his guard down. Sally guessed that Eggman would be 10 steps ahead already and Sonic believes that they should be careful, even if the humans were accepting them gradually. The happy couple stares at the moon as the episode ends.

## Differences between this and the main episode:

* In the real episode, the President and Jerome Wise were afraid that Sonic would be elected president, which they continue to worry about throughout the episode. However, in this episode, that problem goes away very quickly when the president thinks that Sonic and his friends would be too young to be in the running.
* In the real episode, the President and Jerome Wise are just focusing on getting Sonic to the party. Here, they want everyone to be the special guests of the party.
* Ray was shown getting the letter along with other mail and hiding from the mail carriers. In the original, Chris only gets the one letter just as Sonic was leaving the house.
* Sonic and Sally reschedule their day with Helen, thus altering much of the original episode. Helen's day goes smoothly with the flowers, and the only interruption the trio got was Sonic's parents coming down to say hello.
* Because Sonic and Helen racing from G.U.N. was cut, a lot more scenes were added in: shopping for fancy clothes and the currency in Mobius VS Earth, and flashbacks to Sonic's parents' past.
* The party goes as planned, unlike the real episode which the party goes very poorly due to Sonic not showing up.
* The ending of the episode in the original was Helen explaining the day to her parents. This ending was Sonic and Sally stargazing.