The Chaotix Detective Agency/Defective Detectives

**The Chaotix Detective Agency** (or, **Defective Detectives**) is the thirty-ninth episode in Sonic X: Heroes Forever

## Characters

* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Rouge the Bat
* Amy Rose
* Cream the Rabbit
* Cheese the Chao
* Chocola the Chao (First appearance)
* Vector the Crocodile
* Espio the Chameleon
* Charmy Bee
* Julie-Su
* Maria Robotnik
* Shadow the Hedgehog
* Big the Cat
* Liza the Chameleon
* Saffron Bee
* Nack the Weasel (Indirectly mentioned)
* Bean the Dynamite (indirectly mentioned)
* Bark the Polar Bear (indirectly mentioned)
* Mighty the Armadillo
* Ray the Flying Squirrel
* Manic the Hedgehog
* Sonia the Hedgehog
* Sally Acorn
* Dulcy the Dragon
* Bunnie D'Coolette
* Geoffrey St. John (first physical appearance)
* Vanilla the Rabbit (first physical appearance)
* Ruby the Bat (Mentioned, not named)
* Yagyu Lord (Mentioned)
* Ian St. John (Mentioned, not named)
* Froggy
* Chomps (Mentioned, not named)
* Flicky
* Picky
* Ricky
* Rocky
* Hope Kintobor
* Abraham Tower
* Ivo Kintobor (Mentioned)
* Gerald Robotnik (Mentioned)
* Christopher Thorndyke
* Chuck Thorndyke
* Lindsey Thorndyke (Mentioned)
* Nelson Thorndyke (Mentioned)
* President
* Christina Cooper
* E-02 Heavy the Robot
* E-03 Bomb
* Jerome Wise (Mentioned)
* Doctor Eggman
* Bertha Robotnik (Mentioned)
* Colin Kintobor (Mentioned)
* E-01 (Mentioned)

## Plot

This episode and Egg Moon saga starts with Big and Froggy lazing around on a cloudy day, but, sparkles begin to form and it cultivates with a blinding light. Big immediately realizes it has to do with the Chaos Emeralds. Unknown to them, an elderly couple are eating a meal, when a large house crash lands on their house.

A week or so later, Christina is talking to the President about the strange happenings, and five houses have been reported during said week near the Mystic Ruins, saying that the bird creatures are Flickies and the animals as a whole are known as Mobinis. Chuck confirms the president's suspicions that the Mobinis all come from Mobius and they are the general fauna from that planet. Hope and Chris also explained to him that Mobinis are used by Eggman to power Badniks and Chuck also explains that they are peaceful, social and are intelligent to understand the speech of humans, Overlanders, and Mobians. There have been no reports that Chuck knows of that Mobinis have attacked humans, so the president proposes for them to be protected.

Meanwhile, Rouge, Shadow, Maria, Julie-Su, and a disheveled Knuckles are in the roof of a building. Rouge comments that more of Mobius has come to Earth, but, Knuckles is a bit out of the loop due to being chased by Chomps for the whole week. He also regrets not giving Rouge a fair chance, but, the bat assures him it's water under the bridge. Maria's a bit out of the loop herself and Julie-Su explains how Knuckles thought Rouge was stealing jewels for fun, but, she was really doing it to save her mother from the Yagyu Lord, only to realize he was lying to keep Rouge under his thumb. Knuckles also explains if he found out it was true, he'd run around Angel Island in a chicken suit for a week and since he found out the truth, he did just that. Maria offers to heal Knuckles' wounds and he questions if she's had practice. Shadow confirms this as Maria has healed him of his fake memories and with that, Maria uses her healing abilities to heal Knuckles. Rouge questions Julie-Su about the Chaotix and she admits things been quieter and Liza has recently joined, though Espio has been pulling stiffies, Knuckles explaining to a curious Maria that it's when Espio freezes and his color-changing scales go out of control. Julie-Su also mentions the Chaotix found Heavy and Bomb recently, and they had managed to server the link that E-01 was using to spy on the Chaotix. Knuckles notes that E-01 is likely gone and they won't need to worry about Eggman making more E-Series. Maria questions who that is and Rouge mentions that it's her cousin Julian. Maria gets excited, only for Rouge to mention he's not the same guy from 50 years ago. Maria doesn't quite understand and believes that he's just grown up after so long, being a benevolent scientist, only for the four other Mobians to wince in worry. The Overlander-turned-Mobian is a bit puzzled and Rouge sits her down for a serious discussion.

That evening, Hope finds Chris at the wharf and he explains it went better than he thought, though he's confused why he was there. Hope explains it's because he's the first human to come into contact with the Mobians as a friend and they would want his input. Chris worries about the president wanting them locked up, but, Hope assures him that not all of them would be, especially not Sonic in regards to the ARK incident two weeks prior. Chris then worries about Jerome Wise, but, Hope assures him that Jerome's lost all credibility since he conspired with Eggman and continuously denied he was at fault. She then suggests to get back before Lindsey and Nelson worry, to which Chris agrees.

With the Chaotix, Vector is getting frustrated with Charmy being late back, though Espio and Heavy mention that Saffron's with him and will keep him on track. Liza says the group need to learn more about Earth and how they got there and how they are going to get back. Vector explains they got there via Chaos Control and Espio mentions that it's their best bet of going home, but, even desired results leave you guessing. They realize they are stuck on Earth until they can Chaos Control back home and they have to make the best of it. The bees return to the agency and mention they got into a scuffle with Team Hooligan and Liza mentions that as long as they're back safely, that's the main thing. A Mobian skunk then speaks up from a cell, saying that Charmy and Saffron are "undisciplined messes", only for Vector to retort they took the skunk, Geoffrey St. John, down without his Secret Services training. Espio mentions that he brought this on himself by attacking the humans, but, Geoffrey mentions that Overlanders had killed his father. Charmy angerly shuts him down by saying he's not the only one who's lost loved ones in the war, possibly referring to the lost of his own parents and sister. Charmy also reports to his friends that G.U.N. has finished repairing Station Square and Mobini houses started popping up all over the place. The group notes they've been on Earth for almost a full year now and they are still struggling financially. Heavy then suggests they use his built-in camera to make an advertisement for the CDA to get more customers invested and Bomb asks if he can be the director. Vector comments it would be hard as only Heavy can understand him, so he decides for him and Bomb to work together. The organic Chaotix present all start to advertise their agency, but, they get a brief interruption from Bomb before they are able to complete it. Liza then asks Charmy why he said "monkey" at the end, but, he admitted it just popped into his mind. The Chaotix hope it will get more business.

Meanwhile, a missile is launched from Eggman's base and Abraham and Hope manage to work out it's heading for the moon. The president gets a call around the same time from Eggman, saying he's going to be fixing the moon he had previously damaged, much to the president's bewilderment. He also says that getting a perfect sphere would be tricky and he ends the video call. The president and Christina decide to keep their guard up despite what Eggman says and due to the fact Rouge says he can outwit humans quite easily. The moon is swiftly repaired (in ten minutes according to Tails) and a news report is being watched by the residents of the Thorndyke Mansion. Amy feels that Eggman has a plan to put himself into power, to which Mighty and Ray agree, and Manic points out that Shadow is now working for G.U.N. which may put them at an advantage, with Sonia nodding in agreement. Sonic and Sally, who are out on a date, see the new moon in place and immediately piece together Eggman is behind it.

Next day, Vector decides it's time for the Chaotix to solve a third case: the case of the child that got sent to Earth. Espio realizes he means Cream and mentions she was fine the previous week. Vector thinks it's time for Cream to reunite with her mother, though both chameleons have doubts that Vanilla is on Earth or even close by at the moment. Espio then wonders how most of the Chaotix are 16 years old, but, Vector points out Espio sounds much older than he actually is. Charmy realizes everyone's loosing focus and Heavy suggests for them to check the Thorndyke Mansion.

The group note Cream is in there, but, realize Dulcy is snoozing in the backyard, much to their shock. Liza realizes that Dulcy wasn't there last time they visited and Vector suggests Charmy put on the noise-cancelling earmuffs on Dulcy so she doesn't wake up. Charmy approaches Dulcy and he becomes incredibly nervous, which gets worse as Dulcy accidentally catches Charmy with her arm and her belly starts rumbling. She wakes up and is surprised to see Charmy there, who is sweating like mad, explaining the convoluted plan about the noise cancelling earmuffs and bringing Cream to Vanilla. Dulcy then wonders why they didn't ask and Charmy explains Vector comes up with convoluted plans a lot. Dulcy tells the others to come out, much to Vector's chagrin, and Charmy then tells Dulcy he's sweating because he's in the claws of a hungry dragon. This only makes Dulcy angry, only when she says she's a hungry dragon who's bigger than most Mobians, she starts to understand why other Mobians are scared of her.

Meanwhile, Sonic and Sally are on a run and come to face Eggman, confronting him about the new moon. Eggman admits he wanted to make a new half of it to repent for his actions, but, Sonic believes it's a scheme of things to come later. Eggman denies it as they've been doing this for half a decade, but, Sally is as convinced as Sonic this is a ploy for more problems. Eggman admits that he wanted revenge on his brother for putting him in prison only to learn he'd gone to space. He gained a thirst for power and decided to quench it by starting his conquest. He admits he didn't have much of a challenge until Sonic and Sally came along and while he didn't think of the hedgehog and squirrelmunk as a threat, this changed within the five years he'd seen them battling. Eggman admitted he keeps going the way he does because it felt it was all he had left and he resents Sonic because of not just him foiling his plans, but, also for being carefree and full of life, something he lacked as a child. Eggman tried to break the cycle, but, it didn't happen and his mother beating him up didn't help. Neither did his father pressuring him to do law, his brother for putting him in prison, and, most recently, learning about his grandfather going off the rails. Eggman also admitted he went to an amusement park once to see if he liked roller-coasters, but, he admitted he didn't. His love for amusement parks is what got him to create so many Zones with such a theme on Mobius. Seeing things checked out, the Mobian couple decide to leave. They are not convinced on Eggman's change of heart, but, everything else seemed to be true and both Mobians had a new respect on their enemy, but, that doesn't mean Sonic or Sally will hold back in the next fight. Just then, a female voice speaks up and Sonic and Sally glance back with a smile.

Back at the Thorndyke Mansion, Tails asks Espio why they went for a convoluted plan, only for the purple chameleon to mention Vector's stubborn. Mighty asks if it'd make more sense to look for Vanilla before they tell Cream about her and Vector realizes that was a major hole in the plan. He decides to go looking for Vanilla, only for Sonic and Sally to arrive with a young adult rabbit. Cream and Bunnie rush over to her in joy and Cheese rushes over to a brown and yellow Chao named Chocola with equal amounts of happiness. Vanilla thanks Bunnie for looking after Cream and she says she had to because she was her family. Vector starts tearing up from the reunion and Charmy and Saffron comfort him. Dulcy, too, is crying tears of joy.

Meanwhile, Eggman is disgusted he had a heartfelt moment with his arch-enemies of all people and he is determined to take over with his new moon. He pilots his Eggmobile away as the episode ends.

## Differences between this and the real episode

* Big just comments on the lights being "pretty". Here, he knows it's the Chaos Emeralds causing it.
* The humans in the anime are far less accepting of the Mobians and Mobinis to the point they want them "dealt with" in the meeting with Chuck and Chris. In this series, they want the Mobinis and Mobians to be protected.
* The rooftop scene is drastically different. In the original, Rouge and Knuckles are discussing that the humans want to round them up and put them behind bars. In this one, Knuckles, Rouge, Shadow, Julie-Su, and Maria are talking about Knuckles losing his bet, Maria healing Knuckles, the situation regarding the Chaotix and Maria learning about Eggman.
* In addition, because Knuckles and Julie-Su are a couple, Rouge doesn't even try to flirt with Knuckles here, while in the anime, she does.
* In the original, Chris and Chuck express concerns about Sonic and Co. being taken away. Here, Chris meets up with Hope instead and he expresses concerns about Jerome Wise.
* Charmy still takes his time getting back, but, this is because he and Saffron get held up by Team Hooligan. In the original, it may have been because of his younger age allowing himself to get distracted.
* As the Chaotix were on Earth for far longer than the original series (since Episode 15), they have more knowledge of the place and also are aware of what Sonic's been up to. They're also not jealous of Sonic's fame.
* The Chaotix decide to film a commercial for their agency to get more costumers, but, they get interrupted by Bomb. In the original, they talk to the viewers, except for Charmy who gets cut off.
* The humans are far less trusting of Eggman as they were in the original.
* It's never confirmed in the original that it took ten minutes to fix the moon. Here, it's confirmed.
* Amy is angrily wondering where Sonic is in the original, but, here she comments on how the group might have forgot Eggman nearly dropped a colony onto the planet. Other scenes with Amy being angry about Sonic being missing are omitted.
* In addition, Sonic is shown to be alone in the original. Here, he's with Sally on a date.
* While Vector's plan is convoluted like in the original, he's much more serious here than he was in the original episode. Same goes for Espio and Charmy. It's also likely because the Chaotix have met Chris' family prior to this episode, unlike the original.
* In the original, the group thought Ella was a bodyguard. Here, the group get distracted by thinking Dulcy would eat Charmy. Ella isn't even in this episode.
* Eggman's conversation with Sonic and Sally is expanded to explain some of his actions and relationship with certain family members.
* Eggman sees Vanilla in the original, but, in this one, Sonic and Sally walk away and then they run into Vanilla.
* Everyone starts fighting the Chaotix in the original, but, here, they just question why Vector has a convoluted scheme.
* As well as Vanilla reuniting with Cream, she reunites with Bunnie and Cheese reunites with Chocola.
* Espio is bonked on the head with Amy's hammer by mistake in the original, but, instead, Vector and Dulcy are crying to see the reunion unfold.
* The episode ends with Espio still trying to recover from Amy's bonk on the head, but, here, it ends with Eggman preparing for his latest scheme and being disgusted at his heartfelt moment.

## Trivia

* Eggman breaks the fourth wall by saying he's disgusted by the writers giving him a heartfelt moment with his enemies. He also mentions the crossover that's coming soon.
* This chapter takes place in early February. By coincidence, this chapter was released in early February as well.