Special Five: Carnival Island Chaotix/Come-A Chameleon

**Carnival Island Chaotix** and **Come-A Chameleon** is the fifth two part special of Sonic X: Heroes Forever.

## Characters in Carnival Island Chaotix

* Sonic the Hedgehog (Mentioned)
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Cream the Rabbit
* Cheese the Chao
* Amy Rose (Mentioned)
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Shade the Echidna
* Rotor Walrus
* Bunnie D'Coolette
* Vector the Crocodile
* Espio the Chameleon
* Charmy Bee
* Saffron Bee
* Liza the Chameleon
* Mighty the Armadillo
* Ray the Flying Squirrel
* Sonia the Hedgehog
* Julie-Su
* Archimedes the Fire Ant
* Sir Charles Hedgehog
* Vanilla the Rabbit
* Chocola the Chao
* Jules Hedgehog
* Bride of Constant Vigil (Debut, mention)
* Hope Kintober
* E-02 Heavy the Robot
* E-03 Bomb
* Chris Thorndyke
* Chuck Thorndyke
* Emerl/Gemerl (Debut)
* Next (on TV)
* Frankly (flashback)
* Metal Sonic (flashback)
* Doctor Eggman (flashback, as Robotnik)
* Scratch (mentioned, unnamed)
* Grounder (mentioned, unnamed)
* Rachael Hops
* Riff

## Plot

The special begins with Hope, Tails, Shade, Rotor, Sir Charles, and Chuck Thorndyke had finished reconstructing Emerl, now renamed Gemerl due to being given a power gem to work with. Gemerl has a bit of trouble grasping the fact that he had died and now he had essentially been brought back to life, but, is relieved he doesn't have the power to mimic things anymore as he doesn't want to hurt others. Tails mentions that Cream has been missing him and Gemerl should go and say hello.

Meanwhile, Cream, Cheese, Vanilla, Chocola, and Bunnie are all watching the Next Show and Vanilla is wondering about humans' strange forms of entertainment, but, Bunnie admits that if Cream and Cheese like it, it fits just fine. The group hear Gemerl crashing down the stairs and Cream quickly helps him up, happy to see him back in one piece. The doorbell rings and Vector shows up with some flowers for Vanilla, but, not before tripping up. Vanilla helps herself to the flowers and Charmy and Saffron turn to normal size after they were buzzing around some flowers, Espio and Liza make their presences known, and Heavy and Bomb also walk inside. Charmy reveals they want to chat with Mighty and Vector wanted to bring flowers to Vanilla, much to the crocodile's embarrassment.

In the living room, Mighty is doing some exercises while Sonia, Jules, and Chris were standing on the couch. Mighty warmly welcomes his friends and is about to introduce them to Chris, but, the young human admits he knows them, but, doesn't know what Carnival Island is all about. As it turned out, the Chaotix all had various reasons for going to Carnival Island: Vector wanted to hone his detective skills, Espio wanted to hone his ninja skills, Charmy and Saffron were on a date, Mighty was trying to rescue Ray from Badniks as he wasn't as skilled with combat back then, and Heavy and Bomb were doing menial labor by Eggman. After a brief moment of feeling worried, Chris asks what Knuckles was doing there and the group decide to fetch Hope so they can head to Angel Island to ask Knuckles his side of the story.

Knuckles and Julie-Su leave Archimedes in charge of minding the Master Emerald while the echidnas go to check out the visitors. Knuckles then launches into his tale, which took place two months before the Chaos Control incident and not too long after the Master Emerald was put back in its rightful spot. The red echidna gets a vision to go to Carnival Island to look for the Chaos Rings and is even more shocked to discover the emerald is talking to him now after he had been guardian for a while.

On Carnival Island, Knuckles pretends he's a tourist to try and trick Frankly to learn about its secrets. They head to Isolated Island.

Meanwhile, Vector arrive to practice his detective skills and he unknowingly runs into Espio, who was invisible. Espio takes Vector's actions as hostile - mentioning that he's the son of the Bride of Constant Vigil - and Charmy and Saffron break things up. Double meanwhile, Mighty swam from a boat to Carnival Island to find Ray, which attracts the attention of Vector and the two bees. Vector tries asking outlandish questions for what Ray looks like, much to Mighty and the bees' confusion. Suddenly, Robotnik shows up and begins to taunt Mighty by telling him Ray is trapped in a Combi Catcher, and also mentions Charmy being a prince. Metal Sonic is then deployed to release the Combi Catchers. Saffron is caught first and in an attempt to rescue his fiancée, Charmy is trapped, too. Vector and Mighty also get in a tangle with a makeshift smoke bomb and are caught as well.

Espio sees everything and realizes he has to help them. Despite them being annoying, he wouldn't let innocents suffer like that. Heavy and Bomb manage to corner Espio, much to his annoyance, but, Heavy admits they've turned on their creator as he and Bomb had been replaced by a chicken and drill robot. After a tactful translation from Heavy of what Bomb is saying, Espio tells the two robots about the other Mobians that are trapped. Heavy and Bomb promise to help and they decide to get more help from Knuckles. Espio is surprised by the fact that there is an echidna on the island as they're not too many echidnas left.

Knuckles meanwhile is worrying about the state Robotnik left the island in and he finally takes his anger out on Frankly, destroying him with a Megatron Hook. Espio and the two robots witnessed this and Knuckles wonders what Espio is doing with the robots. Though the red echidna is suspicious, he doesn't let innocents suffer if he can help it, especially if Robotnik is involved. Heavy and Bomb also show a map to the two Mobians and give them a large number of Tether Rings they inadvertently created from Power Rings they pinched from Robotnik. The quartet go around to rescue the others.

After everyone had been released and they found six brightly colored rings, they gathered at the world entrance to stop Metal Sonic. Mighty asks Knuckles why he was on Carnival Island at all and he explains the cryptic message given by the Master Emerald. Before he can explain anymore, the Red Chaos Ring Knuckles has on his wrist starts showing some fire elemental powers. The other rings slowly start to flash too: Espio's black ring has darkness, Bomb and Heavy's white ring shows light, Vector's blue ring shows water, Charmy's green ring shows wind elements, and Mighty's yellow ring has earth powers. Much to Chris' surprise in the present day, there's a total of eleven basic elements: Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Light, Darkness, Lightning, Metal, Sound, Mind, and Energy.

Back in the flashback, Knuckles realizes the rings have the power of the Master Emerald within them, however, he and the others realize they still have to deal with Metal Sonic, who uses a dark ring to power himself up to Titan Metal Sonic Kai. Vector leads the charge to take down the heavy metal creature. Titan Metal Sonic Kai uses a Plasma Pulse Attack, but, Charmy redirects it with the wind powers of the Green Chaos Ring. Titan Metal Sonic Kai tries another attack, only to be blinded by the Light Ring from Heavy and Bomb. Mighty and Espio use their earth and darkness rings to surround Titan Metal Sonic Kai and as Saffron and Ray step back, the six rings all take effect at the same time. This is too much for Titan Metal Sonic Kai and the dark ring shatters.

With Metal Sonic defeated, Knuckles decides to lead the group over to a warp ring to take everyone to the Master Emerald. Normally he wouldn't do this, but, this was a desperate time. Once the group get near enough, the power from the Chaos Rings seeps back into the Master Emerald and the rings turned powerless and grey. The group are a bit sad to lose their new powered gifts, but, realize it's for the best. That being said, Knuckles was able to make the rings into communicators. Heavy remarks that this went against everything Robotnik programed him to know, which just made everyone raise eyebrows. When the commutators were handed out, Heavy and Bomb said they'd share one and Charmy and Mighty allowing Saffron and Ray to borrow their respective communicators. Vector also asks if everyone would be willing to join him to become a detective agency and everyone agrees. Knuckles being surprised to hear that Mighty and Ray also know Sonic. Vector also remarks that he knows their first job: find a real paying job, much to everyone's chagrin.

In the present day, Chris knows that Julie-Su came later, but, doesn't know where Liza comes from. Espio is then prompted to tell the story as part one of the special ends.

## Characters in Come-A Chameleon

* Cream the Rabbit
* Cheese the Chao
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Vector the Crocodile
* Espio the Chameleon
* Charmy Bee
* Saffron Bee
* Liza the Chameleon
* Mighty the Armadillo
* Ray the Flying Squirrel
* Sonia the Hedgehog
* Julie-Su
* Bartleby (mentioned)
* Vanilla the Rabbit
* Chocola the Chao
* Argyle the Crocodile (Debut, mentioned)
* Bride of Constant Vigil (Debut, flashback)
* Lady Windermere (mentioned)
* Hope Kintobor
* Chris Thorndyke
* E-02 Heavy the Robot
* E-03 Bomb

## Plot of Come A-Chameleon

Part 2 of the special begins in a flashback where younger Espio is making a doppelganger that doesn't go too well and is being scolded by his father. In the present, Espio reveals just how much his resents his dad, much to Chris' worry and Liza mentions how much she resents Espio's dad, too.

Back in the flashback, Espio's mother, Bride of Constant Vigil, is observing Espio's movements and it's revealed that while she was hard on Espio, he admits that she only did that for the sake of making him a stronger ninja. The dark purple chameleon is able to get a break and socialize with Liza, who is currently tending to her flowers. Unfortunately, Espio gets near the wrong type of flowers - Pin Flowers - and they start to attack him. Liza admits she's made it a mission to study rare and unusual flowers, but, Vector realizes she's been drooling and she embarrassedly lets Espio carry on. It's also revealed that Liza was one of Espio's two childhood friends. Though she did prank Espio a lot, she did make Espio's childhood more bearable.

Some unspecified time after the Pin Flower incident, the Chaotix are on Earth trying to make ends meet. Vector had done 'real jobs' for free, while chores were the only things available for a price. Espio and Vector start getting into a fight about their respective crushes, much to Saffron's annoyance, though Charmy is amused until the fight becomes physical instead of verbal. Thankfully, Liza shows up with a Lavender Bomb which calms Espio and Vector into a sleep, and a mask so that she is free from the effects of the lavender. Liza remarks that she heard that the group are looking for a new member and Vector is skeptical about this as Espio often pulls 'stiffies.' Unfortunately, Liza takes it the wrong way before Vector clarifies that Espio's color changing scales go out of control. Regardless, Liza is accepted and the group hold a toast to her being a new member of the Chaotix.

A few days later, the group introduced Julie-Su to Liza and the team is as strong as ever. Chris wonders if Julie-Su, Liza, and Saffron formed a team due to their Ability Types being Power, Speed, and Fly, respectively. The girls admitted they didn't because Saffron wasn't much of a fighter and Julie-Su is with Knuckles on Angel Island most of the time, but, they'll consider it. Chris also wonders how Espio and Liza's clothes turn invisible and it's because their clothes are soaked in chemicals that react whenever the chameleons turn invisible, too. It's also revealed that Liza's mother is the village gardener so she learns a lot about plants, but, everyone learns ninja skills due to the clan being proud of what they do. Charmy and Saffron both mention their past from the destroyed Golden Hive Colony and Charmy admits he wasn't proud of his prince status due to the fact there was rules for everything. Sonia mentions her 'upper class' past and how she was betrothed to Bartleby by Lady Windermere when she was a child and Charmy also mentions he was betrothed to Saffron. Chris mentions Simba and Nala and realizes he hasn't shown the group the movie and decides to show them later, but, when Vanilla is unnerved by the mentions of death, he decides to leave that off the table for a while. Vanilla also walks off, but, drops a keychain, revealing her to be a lover of rock music, much to everyone's, especially Cream and Cheese's, surprise. When asked why she didn't speak to Cream about it, it was because many of the rock songs mentioned words Cream wasn't supposed to use. Vector empathizes with the fact that raising children is hard and much to Vanilla's surprise, he reveals he has a son because the mother used him to lay an egg and she was going to give the young crocodile to a stem cell research facility before even hatching. He also mentions he named the young one Argyle, after Lake Argyle which Downunda and coincidentally, Australia, both have. Vector also moved to Northamer at a young age, revealing his accent. Everyone then decides to head back to the mansion, saying goodbye to Knuckles and Julie-Su as part two of the special ends.

## Trivia

* Rachael and Riff break the fourth wall by mentioning that Metal Sonic was an older design and that was possibly the one who kidnapped Amy when she and Sonic first met.