Escape from Prison Island/Sonic’s Big Break

**Escape From Prison Island** (or **Sonic’s Big Break**), is the thirty-fifth episode of Sonic X: Heroes Forever.

## Characters

* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Shadow the Hedgehog
* Rouge the Bat
* Amy Rose
* Sally Acorn
* Sonia the Hedgehog
* Manic the Hedgehog
* Cream the Rabbit
* Cheese the Chao
* Dulcy the Dragon
* Rotor Walrus
* Antoine D’Coolette
* Bunnie D’Coolette
* NICOLE (Mentioned)
* Silver the Hedgehog
* Queen Aleena Hedgehog/Bernadette Hedgehog
* Jules Hedgehog
* Ruby the Bat (Mentioned)
* King Terios the Hedgehog (Mentioned)
* Maria Robotnik (Vision)
* Gerald Robotnik (Mentioned)
* Hope Kintobor
* Omochao
* Christopher Thorndyke
* Mr. Tanaka
* Officer Seeker (First appearance)
* Officer Spotter (First appearance)
* Michael K. (Mentioned)
* Howard Watcher (First appearance)
* Captain Westwood (Mentioned)
* Jerome Wise (Mentioned)
* Dr. Eggman
* Snively Robotnik
* Decoe
* Bocoe
* Scratch
* Grounder
* Gold Beetle (Only appearance)
* Laser Hunter
* Flying Dog (First appearance)

## Plot

The episode begins with Eggman interrogating Omochao by taking him apart as the latter is screaming in agony after the former removing his legs and propeller so he couldn’t walk or fly and his radio is damaged so he can’t call his friends for help, either. It’s also mentioned that Shadow had caught Omochao earlier. Omochao calls Eggman a monster, but, Eggman reveals he’s angry at the humans for killing his grandfather and he wants revenge on them for that. Omochao spits oil at Eggman in retaliation as he demands to know where Abraham Tower is and threatening to remove Omochao’s D+ battery. Omochao then casually asks about the Muffin Man and it takes a while for Eggman to catch on that Omochao is giving him useless information, 32 seconds to be exact. Snively makes himself known and reveals to Eggman that he found the location of the vault with the three Chaos Emeralds in it. Eggman then decides to toss poor Omochao into a dumpster and slams the lid shut on him. He then realizes Hope was behind building Omochao and Snively reveals the vault is on Prison Island, meaning he and Eggman would have to go back. Snively also explains he added Upgrade Items to the Eggwalkers, including the Jet Engine (which allows the Eggwalker to hover briefly after jumping), Large Cannon (upgrade to the Volkan Cannon), Protective Armor (self-explanatory), and an EMP Cannon on Snively’s Eggwalker (to disable communicators and jam the radar).

Meanwhile, Sonic is still imprisoned on Prison Island. Howard Watcher announces as he can't escape, the hedgehog decides to kick back and relax in his cell. Another officer comments that Sonic can’t hear Howard and wishes to prove Sonic’s innocence. A third officer then realizes exactly what Howard said about Sonic not being able to swim and the fact Prison Island is in the middle of the ocean. Sonic was also found in Station Square, well away from Prison Island, and the footage doesn’t look anything like Sonic at all. Howard then threatens the officer (revealed to be named Seeker) with a revolver to his forehead and Seeker backs into submission. Howard reveals even if Sonic was innocent, he’d want to keep him at Prison Island, leaving Seeker wondering why Howard was left in charge.

While that was going on, Mr. Tanaka reveal two swan boats and advises for Sally, Sonia, Aleena, and Manic to get in the smaller one as the Mobians can’t reach the pedals of the bigger one. The girls get into the seats while Manic has a seat attached to the back, allowing him to use his wind manipulation for extra speed. Jules decides to keep watch and Chris and Mr. Tanaka get into the bigger swan boat. Chris feels it’s going to be dangerous, but, he needs the experience. Two more officers see the group head in and they realize they are to trap Eggman, while commenting that Howard’s more of a threat than the trap team would ever be.

Meanwhile Eggman and Snively fly by the island Snively activates his EMP Cannon, disrupting the communications around the island as the guards watching the prison screens receive static and attempt to sound the alarm, but, it is disabled. Eggman requires the Chaos Emeralds located on the island along with Shadow and Rouge despite Scratch, Grounder, Decoe, and Bocoe's worries about the fact Tower has upgraded the security system very well despite the fact he’s 50 years behind on Mobius technology and Snively voices his concerns about the fact humans are now catching onto the fact Shadow and Sonic are vastly different in appearance. Eggman plans to distract the military forces focusing on him while clearing a path for Shadow and Rouge for their tasks while infiltrating the island: setting a bomb to detonate the entire facility and collecting the Chaos Emeralds respectively. Sure enough, Eggman and Snively to fulfill their part of the task by distracting the base's defenses. As Shadow and Rouge head towards the entrance and destroy it, Tails, Amy, Cream, and Cheese arrive at the spot with the X Tornado and Dulcy arrives with Rotor, Antoine, and Bunnie on her back. They all realize Eggman’s beaten them to Prison Island and Amy reveals Tails had given his X Tornado some upgrades. They land and Amy sees Shadow and mistakes him for Sonic and heads over to congratulate him. Sally arrives with Sonic’s mother and siblings just in time to see this mistake unfold and express distain and disappointment at Amy, pointing out the various obvious differences between Shadow and Sonic. An embarrassed Amy moves away and Eggman cuts in, repelling the heroes while Rouge and Shadow head inside, also revealing that he’s caught sight of Aleena. Dulcy proceeds to freeze Eggman for a moment and Tails tells Antoine, Bunnie, Rotor, Sonia, Amy, Aleena, and Manic to get moving to the Warden while he, Cream, and Dulcy deal with Eggman.

While on the move, Sonia slaps Amy in the back of her head for her mistake, saying that after fangirling over Sonic for four years she has mistaken a hedgehog that looks absolutely nothing like him for him. Amy believes that there are barely any differences at all, but, Manic just laughs at the notion and Rotor even remarks that Chris was able to notice the difference before Amy did despite only knowing him for a few months. Amy realizes her friends aren’t going to let her forget this, much to her chagrin.

While the groups aren’t paying attention, Rouge slips into the vault through the lasers. She could have used her connection with G.U.N. to get through, but, she felt she needed to test her agility. She hacks into the code with no issues whatsoever and proceeds to look for the Chaos Emeralds. Back outside, Dulcy and Tails are doing their best to deal with Eggman, but, Snively calls him and says they have other stuff to do. Eggman calls the battle a ‘time out’ and flies off, leaving Dulcy, Cream, Cheese, and Tails all confused and hoping the others made it to the warden.

Meanwhile, the rest of the group did get to the warden, aka, Howard, who is shocked the Mobians got through, however, Seeker points out the security system is on the fritz. Bunnie tries to prove Sonic’s innocence by mentioning the hedgehog on the tape looks vastly different to Sonic and Antoine mentions the hedgehog in question is lurking around Prison Island. Rotor even points out Shadow lurking in Weapons Bed, but, Howard just laughs and says he’s still holding Sonic prisoner anyway. Amy is outraged at this and Sonia says they have permission from the president to be here when Howard says he could arrest them for trespassing. Manic protests it’s not fair, but, Howard just uses his nightstick on him and steps on him. Sonia tries to defend her brother, only to get a revolver pointed at her. Thankfully, Antoine destroys it with his Sword and he breaks the nightstick before someone else could get attacked with it. Howard then gets very enraged, only to be punched out by Bunnie while Manic’s mother and sister help him out. A shocked Sally then sees Sonic’s cell is underwater and demands to know how to get to the cell. Howard caves in to her demands and the group rush down there to rescue Sonic.

Rouge manages to find the red and cyan Chaos Emeralds and Shadow set the detonators. He asks what the timer should be and Eggman tells him to set it for 15 minutes, but, Rouge tells him she’ll be out in five, so Eggman tells Shadow to set it for 10 minutes so the trio can get out of Prison Island as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, the rescue party sans Bunnie all head down to the tunnel to reach Sonic in his cell. Sonic is surprised to see his friends, but, is very relieved. Sonia asks why it smells of bleach in the cell and Sonic has a theory that he doesn’t wish to share. Howard sounds the alarm on the Mobians and Sonic reveals he knew about Howard’s plans to keep him trapped on Prison Island. Sally dubs Howard one of the worse humans the Mobius residents met so far and Sonic compares him to Jerome Wise.

While that is happening, Bunnie is tied up and Howard sends some robots to recapture the rest of the Mobians. Spotter, one of the officers from before, tells a shocked Bunnie that some have tried to report Howard before and that he sends both prisoners *and* fellow officers alike to suicide. Bunnie is now fueled with determination to stop this reign of terror.

Unknown to Howard, Abraham and Hope are both watching a security camera and Abraham realizes he’s made an error in putting Howard as the Prison Island warden and G.U.N. has more problems than just Westwood. Abraham has every intention of removing such humans from G.U.N. and Hope is surprised at the context as humans usually refer to their own kind as people. Abraham ungloves his hand, revealing himself to be an Overlander, just like Hope, sent 50 years ago to Earth. Abe also notes Hope reminds him of his childhood friend, Maria, but, Hope admits they have more to do and she can learn more about Maria later.

Back at Sonic’s cell, Amy is about ready to bust it open and tells Sonic to stand back so he doesn’t get injured, though Watcher had done major damage already. Rotor realizes the bars are quite strong, but, Amy tells him she had a good boxercise match with NICOLE yesterday. When everyone sans Rotor and Manic look confused, Rotor informs the group NICOLE had been given nanites to give her a solid form sometime back. A Gold Beetle appears behind Amy and she swiftly destroys it and Aleena and Rotor tell Sonic about Shadow being on the island, with Sonia adding that Amy mistook Shadow for Sonic, much to Sonic’s annoyance and Amy’s embarrassment. Rotor then notices some advanced math on the wall and asked if Sonic wrote it, to which the blue blur flat out says he doesn’t have the knowhow to write that and it was there before he got there. Sonic manages to Spin Dash through the bars easily, much to Manic’s brief confusion before Sonia reminds him how Sonic can’t swim. Amy pounds the door down and everyone makes a break for it.

Howard angrily sets the alarm, not wanting his record to be ruined. Dulcy, Tails, Cream, and Cheese all hear the alarm and wonder why the Warden didn’t just let Sonic go as promised. Dulcy then starts to grow hungry and Cream decides to give her some chocolate, but, she doesn’t know how to pass it safety from her seat. Tails opens the cockpit and Cream tosses some chocolate into Dulcy’s mouth and she eats it gratefully.

Back inside, Bunnie frees herself and tries to find her friends, but, Howard takes Seeker’s revolver and starts firing at Bunnie. She uses her Shield Badge to protect herself and when Howard uses a nightstick, it ends up breaking, much to Bunnie’s irritation. She then kicks Howard to the floor and rejoins her friends, who are relieved she’s okay. She mentions how she had to give Howard a hard kick to the ground, which Amy comments she would have liked to see. Meanwhile, Rouge finds the purple emerald and the Flying Dog starts to attack her and Rouge starts to fight back.

Sonic’s group rejoin Mr. Tanaka and then he, Sonia, Manic, Sally, and Aleena all decided to go off to find Shadow. Amy offers to go, too, but, gets annoyed when she assumes Rotor assumed she wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between Sonic and Shadow, only for Rotor to explain Shadow can pull off Chaos Control with just one Emerald, much to her shock. She asks Dulcy to confirm it, which she admits is the truth. Giving in, she stays with the others.

In the middle of the jungle, Aleena, Sally, and the Royal Hedgehog Triplets manage to find Shadow and the six of them get into a five-on-one fight, demanding to know who he is. Shadow doesn’t comply with answers and gets hit into a tree. Back in the vault, Rouge destroys the Flying Dog, but, the area gets into lockdown due to the explosions. Outside, Mr. Tanaka was leading Tails and Amy to the Swan Boats, but, Tails says he and Amy will ride the X Tornado off the island. While the group aren’t paying attention, Chris starts climbing onto the island, much to their shock. Tails and Amy decide to go after him.

Back at the battle sight, Shadow is having a tough time with Sally and Sonic’s family, when Rouge calls him on his communicator. She mentions how she’s stuck in the vault with the emeralds, but, Shadow is too engrossed in his battle to pay any mind to her. He gets slammed around again, but, this time, Eggman radios in. He’s very annoyed and shouts into the communicator before Eggman tells him about the island detonating shortly. Sally and Sonic’s family all dash off at the message and Eggman leaves Shadow and Rouge to their own devices. Chris meanwhile spots Shadow a fair distance away and Shadow asks Rouge if she’s moved, but, she hasn’t. He’s going back to pick up the emeralds. Poor Rouge is heartbroken at the fact she’s about to die at the age 18 and unmarried, asking her mother to forgive her while crying. Chris grabs Shadow to prove Sonic innocent just as he Chaos Controls to the vault. He then pushes Chris aside to grab the emeralds Rouge had and is about to Chaos Control them out of there, contradicting Shadow’s previous statement on going back for just the emeralds. Rouge asks about what’s going to happen to Chris, to which Shadow is indifferent about what would happen and he’s also annoyed about how Sonic was arrested simply because people were too stupid to notice the obvious differences. Suddenly, time freezes and Silver appeared in the present to give the detonator more time. He mentions he’ll see his ancestor soon as he goes back to his own time. As time resumes, Chris begs Shadow to go back and help Sonic as he would have done that had it been the other way round. Shadow suddenly has one of his real memories as Maria pops into his head. At that, Shadow Chaos Controls himself, Rouge, and Chris out of the vault.

Tails, Cream, Cheese, Amy, and Mr. Tanaka are in the X Tornado with Sonic and Sally on top of it, Manic and Sonia are riding the former’s hover board, Dulcy is carrying Rotor, Antoine, and Bunnie, and Aleena had teleported herself to safety. Eggman and Snively depart, satisfied. Amy and Tails are still worried about Chris, but, Sonic and Mr. Tanaka believe he’s still alive as Shadow had teleported him off Prison Island as the episode ends.

## Differences from this, the real episode and Sonic Adventure 2

* Sonic's cell wasn't underwater in Adventure 2.
* Eggman found out about the humans killed Gerald much earlier than the game or anime.
* The real episode starts with Sonic on Prison Island. Here, it starts with Eggman tearing apart Omochao
* In the real episode, Eggman uses a supersonic wave to destroy the radio frequencies and connection. Here, Snively uses an EMP weapon.
* Eggman doesn't have upgrades in the episode, but, Snively makes them for him here.
* Sonic is still rescued, but, that's because Howard was such a poor police officer, not because most of the humans were being stupid more than necessary.
* Seeker and Spotter were unnamed in the real episode.
* The officers watching the swan boats coming in say different responses depending on the dub: in the Japanese dub, they feel that there's a couple on the boat, in the English dub, they feel someone is sneaking onto the island. Here, while they do know that people are coming onto the island, they allow them because they know they are trying to catch Eggman.
* Amy doesn't fight Howard in the original and merely goes to get Sonic. Here, Bunnie stays to find Howard while the others rescue Sonic.
* Cream and Cheese are completely absent from the original episode despite being in the Sonic X show. They got to ride with Tails and Amy in the X Tornado here, even if they don't do much.
* Shadow is visibly more annoyed at both Rouge and Eggman calling him than he was in the real episode or the game. Though, in the game, Rouge called Shadow before he found Sonic and Eggman after the two hedgehogs take a breather in fighting, while in this one, Shadow, Sonic and his family and girlfriend are in a five-on-one fight and in the real episode, Sonic and Shadow are in a duel.
* In the real episode, Rouge doesn't break down crying talking to her mother like she does here and she's also not too concerned with marriage in the real episode, either.
* Silver doesn't make an appearance in Sonic Adventure 2 or the anime series because he wasn't thought of yet.
* In the game, Shadow has visions of Maria when Rouge calls him and decides on his own to go back and rescue Rouge, only to be distracted by Sonic. After the battle, he wordlessly goes to save her and does so with seconds to spare. Here, Shadow takes a bit more convincing to rescue both Rouge and Chris.
* Howard is much more aggressive here to the point where he has made people commit suicide. In the real episode, he just acts like a typical bully at best.

## Trivia

* The opening scene is loosely based on Gingy telling Lord Farquaad about the Muffin Man in the movie Shrek.