Amy's Love Escape Journey?!/A Date to Forget

**Amy’s Love Escape Journey** (or, **A Date To Forget**) is the forty-second episode of Sonic X: Heroes Forever.

## Characters

* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Miles “Tails” Prower
* Amy Rose
* Cream the Rabbit
* Cheese the Chao
* Tikal the Echidna (Mentioned)
* Shade the Echidna (First non-flashback appearance)
* Maria Robotnik (Does not speak)
* Bunnie D’Coolette
* Manic the Hedgehog
* Sonia the Hedgehog (Mentioned)
* Sally Acorn
* Shard the Hedgehog
* NICOLE
* Dulcy the Dragon (Mentioned)
* Julie-Su (Mentioned)
* Sleet
* Dingo
* Vanilla the Rabbit
* Chocola the Chao
* Impererator Pir’Oth Ix the Echidna (mentioned, unnamed)
* Brandon Mutt
* Blake Prisma
* Hope Kintobor
* Emerl (first appearance)
* Multiple Gizoids
* Christopher Thorndyke
* Sam Speed
* Scarlet Garcia
* Ella (Mentioned)
* Bobbie Joe/Steven (Mentioned)
* Bobbie Joe's grandfather (only appearance)
* Doctor Eggman
* Snively Robotnik
* Prefect Charyb (Mentioned)
* Prefect Scylla (Mentioned)
* Decoe
* Bocoe
* Bokkun
* Scratch
* Grounder
* Coconuts
* E-68 Bomb Tank (First appearance)

## Plot

This episode and Emerl saga starts with Shade jumping out of a warp, mentioning she needs the Chaos Emeralds to correct her error. As she races off, she doesn’t realize she’s not the only one to leave the warp and a group of Gizoids had followed after her. Shade tries to stay hidden as she runs.

At Eggman’s abandoned fortress, Bokkun is trying to wake up another Gizoid that he had found, which looks slightly different from the one from before and is hooked up to power cables. He tells the Gizoid he’s in charge and they have a mission to do. The Gizoid finally turns on and frees himself from the cables and Bokkun reports his progress to Snively.

In Station Square, Scarlet reports that there’s been a spike in fitness, more specifically, track running, thanks to Sonic and the Freedom Fighters.

At the Thorndyke Mansion, some of the residents are relaxing together with the news report playing on the TV when Amy rushes in with excitement, reporting she asked Manic on a date and he said yes. Bunnie and Vanilla express their excitement for her and Amy explains she’s wearing her new boots and Warrior Feather to the date. Manic arrives to pick up Amy for the date and then the doorbell rings. Curiously, Chris goes to the door and he finds his uncle Sam standing there. He says he wanted to say hi to Chris and ask if Sonic was there so he could test out his new engine against him. Manic states that Sonic and Sally were out to take out rogue Eggman robots, though, the green hedgehog speculated that it was an excuse to go out for a date and Dulcy had told him it was partly true. Amy apologizes for Sonic not turning up, but, reasons that he has responsibilities as a Freedom Fighter and Sam assures her he’ll race Sonic sooner or later. Manic suggests that he race Sam on his hoverboard, which is the same one he and Sonia raced around on when the latter wasn’t using her motorcycle and that Extreme Gear is a more intense version of hoverboards. Amy expresses concern of her and Manic missing out on a date, but, Manic assures Amy she can race on the hoverboard with him. Unfortunately, Amy isn’t very balanced, but, Manic solves the problem by picking her up bridal-style, causing the pink hedgehog to blush. Sam’s car and Manic’s hoverboard take off and Hope comments that Sam is excitable and she’s glad Chris has some sense of normal behavior.

While out racing, Sam, Amy, and Manic all comment on how the wind is strongly blowing against their hair and fronts, respectively, and Manic explains his hoverboard is powered by a Power Gem. Manic asks Amy where she’d like to stop first and she suggests either the park or beach. While the beach is in the opposite direction, Manic says with the hoverboard, they can go anywhere and maybe go to both on the same day.

Down in prison, Eggman, Decoe, and Bocoe are grumpily eating prison food, though Decoe and Bocoe are even more puzzled because they can’t actually eat it (they are thankful they can’t, regardless). Eggman complains to a warden that his brain burns lots of calories, though, the warden just calls it ridiculous and Decoe and Bocoe call it inhumane even though none of the trio are humans. The warden loses his patience and sets down the bucket and while Eggman knows the food isn’t tasty, he knows his strength and intelligence are going down due to him wearing the Inhibitor Rings Maria had given him when he went to prison. Decoe and Bocoe lament about not being able to have their joints oiled and Eggman realizes that he’s relying on Team S6 to give Sonic and his friends a runaround. Becoe and Decoe realize that a lot of things go wrong with Team S6 involved while Eggman tells them not to jinx it.

In Station Square, Sonic, Sally, NICOLE, and Shard are patrolling the area together. When they believe they are in the clear, they see Shade fighting off two Gizoids. Not the type of Mobians to leave another in trouble, Sonic decides to charge up a Spin Dash to take the “robots” out. Shade tries to warn the four of them this is a bad idea, but, it’s too late as a Gizoid charges a Spin Dash of its own, knocking Sonic to the ground. Shade tries to explain the Gizoids will copy attacks and weapons and use them against the group and proceeds to use Leech Blades to weaken the Gizoids and make her stronger. She tries to tell them to leave, but, Sonic decides to attack the weakened Gizoid again. Shade is even more baffled when she hears Sonic call the Gizoid a robot and as he knocks the chestplate open, the quartet are stunned to see it has an organic heart. Shade explains that Gizoids are techno-organics and Shard changes to his Robian form to help with the battle. Sonic asks Sally if Shard can do the Double Spin Dash with him and while she agrees, Shard admits he can’t as his back isn't as flexible anymore. They instead try to improvise to take out the Gizoids and Shard cuts the arm off one enough with electricity to have dark red liquid leak out. Sally suggests she and NICOLE be the ones to try a Double Spin Dash and they charge forward. Unfortunately, the heavily damaged Gizoids disappear for a retreat. Seeing there was no way to get to them, Sally notes that Shade doesn’t jump very high for a goat or rabbit and Shade removes her helmet to reveal she is an echidna. She explains that the helmet is given to anyone with the rank of Procurator and she finally introduces herself to the quartet. Sonic asks why she’s on Earth and Shade at first believes the planet is Mobius renamed, only to quickly find out they are separate worlds altogether. Shade asks if Tikal is still around, only for the others to confirm she’s dead for over 4000 years, much to the orange echidna’s shock. Before she could ask further questions, the five Mobians catch sight of a strange tank. Bokkun is riding on top of it and gets the group to play a “shell game,” which is allowing the tank to fire at the quintet. Sally wonders who’s in there listening to Bokkun, but, Shard affirms their mission to make sure Bokkun doesn’t destroy Station Square. Though the Mobians don’t know it, inside the tank is the Gizoid Bokkun awoke earlier on that day.

Meanwhile, Amy, Manic, and Sam had spent a nice time at the park, but, unfortunately, they are blocked by a flock of sheep in the middle of a field. They back out of the field carefully so as not to harm the sheep.

A bit later, Amy and Manic, covered in dust, enter the general store, asking for a map. The shopkeeper comments the Mobians could use a bath too and Manic mentions they went on a dirt road thanks to Sam’s poor direction, much to his embarrassment.  Amy asks if the store accepts Mobiums. The shopkeeper admits they don’t and Sam tells Amy he’ll pay for the map. When Manic laments that Sonic’s using his map and tells the Shopkeeper he’s Sonic’s brother, the Shopkeeper admits he owes Sonic a lot for saving his grandson, Steven. The shopkeeper then gives Manic and Amy the map as well as a bag of candy. When back on the road, Manic admits while the date isn’t going to plan, it was still exciting and Amy has to agree on that. Sam then realizes that Sonic agreed to race him that *night*, not during the *day*, leading Amy to realize why Sonic was on patrol and Manic says the date is to continue.

Back with Sonic, Sally, Shard, NICOLE, and Shade, Bokkun fires a “Tele-Blast” at the quintet. Sonic runs up a wall and uses it to project himself at Bokkun, while Shard bends the tank’s canon out of shape. As Sally yells a warning, Shade uses her Leech Blades to drain the tank to boost her own energy and uses one side of it to tip it over. Bokkun tries to fly off, mentioning another robot was busting Eggman out of prison, which causes Sonic to toss a rock into him and make Bokkun fall out of the sky. Sonic was a bit puzzled as to who was releasing Eggman from prison, when the others call him over to see another Gizoid was inside the machine. Shade identifies this particular Gizoid as the Ultimate Gizoid and the one who sealed away her clan under her command without her leader’s knowledge. When Sonic asks for the Gizoid’s name, Shade admits he doesn’t have one and none of the non-prefect Gizoids do. Sonic suggests to call him Emerl, as can use the power of the seven emeralds and it would easier than saying “hey you” all the time. When Sally asks about prefect Gizoids, Shade explains they're special Elemental Gizoids, but, she only recalls the names of two, Prefect Charyb and Prefect Scylla. Sonic decides for the group to grab Emerl and get him out of there and Shard says they have to do it carefully.

Back with Manic, Amy, and Sam, they had a rest to get the two Mobians cleaned up in the public bathroom and Sam even buys ice-creams for the two Mobians. Amy notes that Sam is somewhat like Sonic, as they both have a love for speed. Sam states while Sonic only needs his legs to break the sound barrier, he needs a car to get remotely *close* to that. Manic also states no car on Earth can get up to Sonic’s speed and not many cars on Mobius can do that, either. Sam also admits before Sonic came to Earth, he won every race he was part of and it was getting boring and Sonic is the only challenge he has. All of a sudden, a tank-like robot rushes by and Manic calls Hope about what it is. After seeing a visual, she identifies it as an E-68 Bomb Tank, yet another E-Series robot. Hope asks if Amy’s there, Manic confirms she is, and Hope suggests for Amy to do a Spin Hammer Attack so she can damage the Power Gem core. After hanging up, Manic explains the plan to Amy and gets her back on his hoverboard while Sam distracts the robot by turning his car into a racecar. Amy prepares her attack, but, realizes Manic’s hoverboard isn’t big enough for her to get enough room to spin without hitting Manic. Manic then asks if Amy’s bracelets are a pair of Power Rings and she admits they are, causing Manic to get another Power Ring out to strike it against one of Amy’s rings, making Tether Rings. Manic also asks Amy to trust her as he wraps her in the elastic Chaos Energy chain. Once he’s done, Manic lets Amy go and holds his end of the chain, Amy spinning around and around like a top until she can strike the robot and the chain pulls her back into Manic’s arms. The robot manages to slow down and explode, causing Coconuts, Grounder, Scratch, and, much to Manic’s shock, Sleet and Dingo to pop out. Sleet is shocked, too, believing Manic and Sonia were in another dimension until now, but, he taunts Manic, saying getting him will be easy as he has no powers. Angered, Manic launches forward at the five bad guys, punching Sleet with a Wind Fist Overdrive, causing him, Dingo, and Team S6 to go flying into the air. Manic worries Sleet and Dingo will be back, but, Amy assures him she’ll stand by him no matter what.

At the prison cell, Bokkun ends up crash landing into Eggman, Decoe, and Bocoe’s cell, with the messenger robot(?) sobbing that the “echidna girl” didn’t play fair. Eggman at first believes it’s Julie-Su, but, Bokkun admits it wasn’t her and someone else entirely. When Bokkun explains about the pink energy draining blades, Eggman feels it’s familiar somehow, but, the Inhibitor Rings are draining his intelligence so he can’t think clearly, but, he does suspect Sonic got his hands on the Gizoid.

At the beach, Amy starts thinking about how the day was special and she and Manic were grateful Sam could spend the day with them. They admire the sunset for a bit just as Sonic and Sally show up. Sonic apologizes for being late, though, Sam admits he’s on time. Sonic then mentions Shade, much to Manic and Amy’s confusion, so, Sally decides to fill the other hedgehogs in while Sonic and Sam race off to test out Sam’s new car engine.

At the Thorndyke Mansion, Tails, Cream, and Cheese had been playing outside together, but, were getting hungry and were about to wash up for dinner which Ella had prepared. Before they could go in, Shard, NICOLE, and Shade show up with Emerl in tow. When Shard tries to explain what happened, Tails is still confused, and Shard says they’ll fill them in after dinner. NICOLE says Emerl needs to rest, much to Tails’ confusion as Emerl is a robot in his eyes, and an exasperated Shade tells them they have much to discuss as they head inside as the episode ends.

## Differences between this and the real episode

* The real episode starts with Bokkun finding Emerl, while this episode begins with Shade and some other Gizoids escaping the Twilight Zone.
* Amy is far more relaxed, yet, excited and happy in this episode as she gets to spend the day with Manic as well as Sam being able to have a race after all. In the real episode, Amy is ticked off because she believes Sonic “stood her up” when he was really stopping Bokkun on the loose and he still ignores her in favor of Sam in the evening.
* Amy also got the boots for Christmas the previous year while on Earth, while in the real episode, she bought them specially for the date. She also wears her Warrior Feather as a cosmetic piece in this episode, while in the real episode she has a flower headband.
* Furthermore, Sonic was hoping to go on a date with Sally after he goes on patrol, but they unfortunately didn’t get a chance to do that.
* Eggman’s hungrier in this episode than usual because his Inhibitor Rings are draining his strength. In the real episode, there’s no explanation.
* Emerl gets a larger role in this episode and we learn more about him via Shade. In the real episode, he’s not seen after Bokkun abandons him until Cream finds him at the very end of the episode.
* Instead of Cream finding Emerl, Shard, Shade, and NICOLE bring him home.
* Gizoids in the games and anime are robots, but, in this series, they are techno-organic beings.
* In the real episode, we get treated to a flashback of Sonic rescuing Bobbie Joe from a runaway horse. In this episode, the shopkeeper just mentions Sonic saved Steven.
* Sonic battles alone in the real episode, in this episode he’s with Sally, Shard, NICOLE, and Shade.
* The Bomb Tank wasn’t an E-Series robot in the real episode, here, it’s E-Series number E-68.
* Amy uses Sam’s car to get close enough to destroy the robot, but, in this episode, Manic helps her by using a tether ring.
* It’s confirmed that Amy’s rings are Power Rings, but, in the real anime and games, this is never shown.
* Cream was just with Cheese in the real episode when she was about to head inside. In this episode, they are with Tails.

## Trivia

* The fourth wall is broken at the end of the episode, with Brandon and Blake explaining that it was Brandon’s creator’s birthday the day this chapter uploaded and he sadly had to have an appointment which delayed the episode’s release.
* Amy’s bracelets are shown to be Power Rings.
* The prison guard claims that Brains don't burn calories, when in actuality they do.