Amy the Captive/A Robot Rebels

**Amy the Captive** (or, **A Robot Rebels**), is the twenty-ninth episode in Sonic X: Heroes Forever.

## Characters

* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Julie-Su
* Tikal the Echidna (Flashback)
* Amy Rose
* Mighty the Armadillo
* Ray the Flying Squirrel
* Manic the Hedgehog
* Sonia the Hedgehog
* Mina Mongoose
* Sally Acorn
* Rotor Walrus
* Bunnie D'Coolette
* Antoine D'Coolette

* Big the Cat
* Shade the Echidna (First appearance, flashback)
* Queen Aleena Hedgehog/Bernadette Hedgehog
* Pachacamac the Echidna (Mentioned in flashback)
* Imperator Ix the Echidna (First mentioned in flashback)
* Inca the Echidna
* Various Chao (Flashback)
* Froggy
* Lily the Flicky
* Chaos
* Hope Kintobor
* Lady Agnes Hopkins (First mentioned, seen in photograph)
* Professor Von Schlemmer (First appearance)
* Angela Hopkins (First mentioned)
* Christopher Thorndyke
* Doctor Eggman
* Snively Robotnik
* Bertha Robotnik (First appearance)
* Decoe
* Bocoe
* Grounder
* Scratch
* E-101 Beta
* E-102 Gamma
* E-103 Delta
* E-104 Epsilon
* E-105 Zeta (First appearance)

## Plot

The episode starts at the Thorndyke Mansion, where Aleena is healing Manic hands and the green hedgehog keeps on thinking how he was useless in trying to rescue Amy, and how he was supposed to be her hero but, it seriously backfired. He wishes that he had powers, but, Aleena tells her son to stay still. She gently puts her hand to his forehead and a surge of Chaos Energy pulses through him. As soon as Aleena moves her hand away, Manic realizes the wind can bend to his will, realizing he *does* have powers after all. Aleena said they were merely dormant and he wasn't raised in an environment where he could unlock them. Manic hugs his mother, very grateful.

Meanwhile, Knuckles is pouting about failing his duty of guarding the Master Emerald and that he only has one Emerald Shard. He thinks he failed his duty. Julie-Su, however, tells him he shouldn't give up so easily. She says they couldn't prevent the Master Emerald from fragmenting, but, they could gather up what left, and she kisses him. Knuckles, feeling motivated again, takes Julie-Su in his arms as they glide to see a pair of objects. They are revealed to be Knuckles' Fighting Gloves, which allow him to perform the Maximum Heat Knuckles Attack. Julie-Su, meanwhile, finds her Sniper Lens, which allows her to lock onto multiple enemies at once and accurately hit them every time, which she comments would come in handy.

While that's going on, Chris, Big, Mighty, and Ray are still looking for Froggy. Chris hopes it won't take long and Mighty comments that Big's found his Power Rod, Life Belt and two more Lure-Power-Ups before they got there. Chris wonders if anyone else has found any upgrade items yet, as Mighty and Ray had found one upgrade item each before they got to the fishing spot.

Back at the Thorndyke Mansion, Sonic is checking over his Crystal Ring and Light Speed Shoes, while Sally is checking out her Dash Boots and Grapple Whip. It's revealed that the Dash Boots and Light Speed Shoes help the two Speed-Types do the Light Speed Dash and Sally's Grapple Whip allows her to do the Grapple Bind, which allows her to grab things from a distance, and Sonic wouldn't want to be caught in that. Sally assures she wouldn't use it on him. Tails tells the couple that they should worry about saving Amy first and that Rotor, Antoine, and Bunnie are already aboard the Y Tornado. Mina, Sonia, and Manic quickly board the plane as well and Sonic asks if Tails should really be flying the X Tornado in his condition, to which he replies that saving Amy is more important. On that note, Sonic and Sally jump aboard the plane, Manic vowing to save Amy at any cost.

Inside the Egg Carrier (which is hidden underwater), Amy is locked in a dungeon with Lily. Amy says she'd personally introduce Eggman to her hammer if she wasn't trapped and Lily goes to her to comfort her. She said while Manic wasn't able to save her, the effort was appreciated. She then hears static on her Wrister and she finds out it's Hope. Amy comments she can read her but, the reception is bad, to which Hope explains she was using a secret frequency. Amy tells Hope she and Lily are trapped in a cell on the Egg Carrier and Hope tells her that her Upgrade Items are currently on it. Amy says she'll find them when she escapes and Hope tells her she's trying to escape an E-100 Series Robot, that being E-105 Zeta.

Disconnecting her Wrister, Hope tries to run away from Zeta, and after a failed attempt to try and catch her, he sends an energy blast which traps Hope in a cage. Zeta tells Eggman that Hope has been apprehended after dropping her off, Zeta should report to be repurposed. Eggman then tells Hope she's been a thorn in his side as much as Sonic has and he blackmails her into working for him by calling upon his mother: Bertha Robotnik. Poor Hope was left in terror once she shows up and she was almost attacked with her umbrella. Eggman, however, wasn't so lucky once he tells his mother to go back to her chamber and reveals he saw her a week ago and she forced him to take her in. Eggman then tells Hope to release the fail safe she put on Amy's Upgrade Items and Gamma takes Hope to Amy's cell.

Hope reveals what Eggman and Bertha made her do and Amy and Lily try to comfort her. She sadly takes out her necklace of her other grandmother, Agnes Hopkins, and herself when she was a two year old, both looking genuinely happy, and that she feels that by obeying Bertha, she's dishonoring Agnes' dying wish. Amy realizes Bertha must be scary if *Hope* was scared of her. Both of them hear footsteps and hold onto each other and Lily as Bertha approaches. She comments how it was "poetic justice" for her to be locked up with "a filthy Mobian". After insulting Amy more, the pink hedgehog retorts that Bertha eats garbage for breakfast as a joke and that earns her a wack with Bertha's umbrella. Hope tells Bertha to stop hurting Amy and she insults Agnes. This enrages Hope to the point where she stops Bertha's umbrella from attacking her, takes it, and ties Bertha's mustache to the bars of the cell. Amy then rips off Bertha's mustache and she wails in pain before she says it isn't over as she storms out. Amy then asks Hope if she's alright and she admits she hates Agnes' memory being insulted and that many Overlanders looked down on Agnes because of her positive mindset about Mobians. She also reveals that she was raised by Agnes after her mother Angela died and her father Colin was less than adequate at being a dad, that she was killed by being Roboticized and blown up and that Agnes' last wish was for Hope to stay true to herself. Amy starts crying at the story and gives Hope a hug.

Elsewhere on the Egg Carrier, Scratch and Grounder are arguing with each other on who should test the microphone until Eggman cuts them off. The doctor gives orders to Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon to find Froggy, an unusual frog with a long tail. Without questions, all of the robots leave the Egg Carrier to complete their mission.

Meanwhile, Knuckles and Julie-Su find more shards of the Master Emerald and *both* of them get sent to the past this time. They see Tikal, a group of Chao, the Master Emerald shrine, and a new figure they haven't seen before. Julie-Su, however, identifies this figure to be a member of the Nocturnus Clan by her attire. Tikal is talking to the other figure, revealed to be another echidna named Shade, about fearing for her clan's safety and the conflict with the Knuckles Clan, the Nocturnus Clan, and the Dark Legion. She also fears that her father suspects that she and Shade are friends and Shade voices her own concerns about Ix. Shade then asks Tikal about the water being, Chaos, and the stones that it dubbed the Chaos Emeralds. Shade then whispers a plan to Tikal: to seal her clan away, leaving the lighter orange echidna in shock. Shade says she's willing to do it if it means her clan won't bring harm on Tikal's clan and Tikal wonders if they have the right to use the Emeralds. Shade brings up the fact there is an eighth emerald, an even more powerful one that enhances or neutralizes the other seven, but, Tikal still fears their power. Shade mentions that without the Nocturnus Clan, the motivation the Dark Legion had would be gone, and Tikal and Shade head to the alter. Tikal tells Chaos the idea Shade had come up with and it agrees to allow her to use the Emeralds to do so, only if Tikal recites the prayer her grandmother Inca taught her: "The servers are the seven chaos. The controller serves to unify the chaos." Knuckles and Julie-Su are then sent back to the present time in front of the shrine. They then put together the Emerald Shards he gathered and the Emerald is almost complete. They notice that there is one piece left. The Master Emerald then shows Knuckles and Julie-Su an image of the Egg Carrier. Julie-Su realizes this is going to be a problem.

Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon are still searching for Froggy and they are near where Chris, Big, and Team Balance are. Beta, Delta, and Epsilon all find frogs which don't appear to represent the frog Eggman wanted. Although Gamma hasn't retrieved a frog yet, he notices Big, Chris, and Team Balance have fished out Froggy, but, Gamma steals Froggy afterwards. Eggman, Decoe, and Bocoe witness this and take the Egg Carrier out of the water, allowing the E-100-Series back onboard. Chris, Big, and Team Balance follow Gamma on to the Egg Carrier.

When Eggman sees the frogs with no tails, he gets enraged at his robots while Chris, Big, and Team Balance are caught in the maze of the Egg Carrier. Mighty suggests they split up, but, they hear a fifth voice. Mighty recognizes the green figure as Professor Von Schlemmer and he admits to Chris that he only knows him because Sonic mentioned him. As he's trapped, Mighty bends the bars of the cell to rescue Von Schlemmer, who reveals his real name as Dinglehoper Von Schlemmer. Chris tells him he's a friend of Sonic, much to Von Schlemmer's surprise. Chris informs Von Schlemmer about looking for Froggy and he immediately jumps at the chance to help, noting that Eggman is a rotten creep. He also explains he was an Overlander and the chemicals Eggman used turned him into his appearance and probably made him loony. They all hide to see Bertha walking by and Chris at first mistakes her for Eggman in a dress before Von Schlemmer tells him that she's worse than Eggman. Big insists they need to find Froggy and the five rush off.

Back with Eggman, he's still ranting, then he sees Froggy in Gamma's hand and is delighted that Gamma succeeded. He then tells Snively to eliminate Beta, Delta, and Epsilon, much to the Decoe, Bocoe, and Scratch's dismay. Eggman then tells Gamma to get Lily from Amy, as well as bring Hope to the to the lab. He walks into a room and sees Beta being modified. This somehow upsets him, but, quickly leaves to resume his mission. When he reaches Amy and Hope's cell, he demands the girls to surrender Lily to him, but, Hope just hugs the Flicky close to her, refusing to give up Lily. Gamma questions the logic of the situation, why protect something that's useless to them? Hope then firmly tells them she has personal values and Amy said just because something makes sense, that doesn't make it the right thing to do. Hope nods and Gamma's systems overload. He then shoots at the bars freeing Amy, Hope, and Lily and tells them to leave as saying here would be illogical. The trio leave and Hope notes to Amy that there's something different about Gamma. She decides to disclose it later as they had to get Amy's Upgrade Items in a game of Wack-a-mole. Hitting Sonic would grant Amy 100 points, hitting Super Sonic would grant 500 points, and hitting Eggman would take away 200 points. Amy admits it would be hard to not hit Eggman, but, hitting the real thing was much more satisfying. Her goal is to get 2,000 points to get her first item. After playing for a bit, Amy succeeds at getting 2,400 points and receives her Warrior Feather, which attaches itself to Amy's hairband, allowing her to do the Spin Hammer Attack. Hope explains that a disk in the Warrior Feather allows the air around her while she spins to turn into kinetic energy, which gives her more power when she hits her enemies. The feather itself is a stabilizer. Amy plays the game again, this time she has to beat 3,000 points. She succeeds again with 3,500 points and wins her Long Hammer, which increases her attack radius.

Elsewhere, Sonic, Sally, and Tails manage to find Knuckles and Julie-Su. Sonic explains that Amy's been captured and Knuckles is annoyed it's happened *again*. A confused Julie-Su asks the boys if this happens a lot and they confirm it has. Upon hearing about how they can help, the echidnas join them on board, Knuckles hops on the other wing with Sonic, and Julie-Su hops into the back seat of the front cockpit. The X Cyclone transforms back into the X Tornado and they take off.

Unknown to everyone, Hope and Amy come into the room where they see Zeta is being repurposed, much to the shock of the girls, and Hope explains that Zeta caught her before. She sees some parts that were removed entirely and she gets an idea: she quickly redesigns a Jet Booster and Laser Blaster for Gamma. Gamma himself comes in and is surprised to see the girls still here and Hope tells him that he has a conscience, which Amy clarifies can tell Gamma right from wrong. Hope also tells Gamma he has a Submission Circuit which is common for Eggman's robots. After opening Gamma's processor compartment, Hope uses her DigiTab with a new program she developed to disable the program completely, but, it destroys Gamma's Jet Booster. Ever prepared, Hope uses an electronic paint job to repaint Zeta's Jet Boosters for Gamma and does the same with Gamma's busted Jet Boosters as Zeta's color as a decoy. She tells Amy that electronic paint can't be sanded off or washed off, much to Amy's amazement. Hope attaches the Laser Blaster to Gamma's Homing Missile Launcher.

Meanwhile, outside, a battle then ensues between the Egg Carrier and the X and Y Tornadoes. Tails and Rotor then spring a surprise on Eggman and transform the two planes into Battle Armor mode, which Tails tells a curious Julie-Su he installed on the plane two days ago, leaving her impressed. Eggman then transforms his Egg Carrier into Battle Mode as well. Rotor manages to destroy any missiles being fired and brings the Y Tornado to land. Sonic tells Tails to bring the X Tornado in for a smooth landing, but, Tails admits that the mode they are in doesn't have landing gear. Sally quickly tells him to switch to another mode, which he does, as the episode ends.

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

* There is a scene with Cream, Cheese, Ella, Chuck, and Mr. Tanaka talking about how they hope that everyone will be alright. This scene is cut and those five characters are also dropped from the episode. It's likely replaced with the scene of Aleena healing Manic and giving him his powers.
* Julie-Su manages to snap Knuckles out of his funk in this episode, but, in the real episode, Knuckles doesn't have anyone with him and he snaps out of it when he receives a vision of Tikal at the burning Master Emerald shrine. In addition, they don't go to the past this early on in the episode. They also find some upgrade items.
* In the original, the X Tornado took off before we see Chris and Big at the fishing spot. In this episode, Big, Chris, Mighty, and Ray are seen at the fishing spot after the takeoff. Sonic also expresses more concern for Tails in the original, while in this one, likely due to so many characters, they get less one-on-one interaction.
* In the original, Amy was disappointed she wasn't able to cook Sonic a gourmet meal and how she was spending weeks practicing the recipes Ella gave her, as well as the fact that a wedge is always thrown into her and Sonic's way whenever they get close, but, he never lets her down. In this episode, she was thinking about Manic rescuing her was well appreciated even though it didn't work.
* In the real episode, Knuckles' flashback was to Tikal learning about how the Master Emerald and Chaos Emeralds work, being granted permission to go up to the alter by the Chao. But, this episode, we see Knuckles and Julie-Su witness Tikal and Shade's friendship and how the Nocturnus Clan was sealed away.
* Much of the battle scene with the Egg Carrier was cut, likely to include the story about Hope's hatred for her paternal grandmother and love for her maternal grandmother.
* Zeta was already in his "repurposed" form when we see him in the show, but, in this series, he was in the same build his "brothers" were in before being repurposed.
* Gamma's "overload" programming was caused when he saw Lily outside the cell in the real episode. Here, it was Amy and Hope pushing him to see the light. In addition, Gamma gets a Jet Booster replacement as well as a Laser Blaster added by Hope in gratitude for helping her and Amy escape.
* In the real episode, Knuckles wonders why he has to go to the Egg Carrier, while in this episode, Julie-Su realizes it's going to be a problem.
* Amy has to play the Wack a mole game like she did in Sonic Adventure to get her Upgrade Items. This doesn't happen in the episode.
* The scene in the "maze" was expanded to allow Professor Von Schlemmer to appear in the episode.
* In the real episode, Sonic asks Knuckles if he needs a lift, and Knuckles hops aboard the X Tornado. In this episode, he explains Amy has been kidnapped and Knuckles and Julie-Su agree to help. Knuckles doesn't even see Sonic and Tails on the Tornado in the game.
* Tails, Sonic, and Knuckles all crash land onto the Egg Carrier in the real episode while in the game it was just Tails and Sonic while Knuckles followed Gamma onto the Egg Carrier. In this episode, Tails changes modes thanks to Sally's intervention and they and Julie-Su land safely.