Emerl the Gizoid

"Always ready to go!"

***[SPOILER WARNING: This posts contains spoilers for Sonic Battle and some minor Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood spoilers.]***

**Emerl the Gizoid**, or **Emerl**, is a side character from the **Sonic the Hedgehog** series that has only appeared in **Sonic Battle.**

## Canon

### Past

Emerl is a Gizoid created by the Nocturnus Clan, rival of the Knuckles Clan, to be the ultimate war machine. Possibly due to his existence, the Nocturnus Clan were taken away from reality due to causing great imbalance on the world, with the only one saved from such fate being Emerl himself, who remained deactivated for a long period of time after the event. Eventually, he was discovered by Dr. Gerald Robotnik and brought to the Ark for research purposes. After studying the Gizoid's capabilities and features, the doctor accidentaly triggered his "Berserk" state, causing half of the space station to be destroyed. Seeing how much damage the Gizoid has and could possibly cause due to his battle data, Gerald installed a new programming inside of Emerl's data, giving him a "Soul" similar to the one of his granddaughter, Maria, and a safe word used to return the Gizoid to a docile state if destruction were to be imminent. Afterwards, Emerl was once again abandoned.

### *Sonic Battle*

After many years, Dr. Eggman rediscovers the lost Gizoid, taking him in with the hopes of using his technology and power for his favor, even showing his power to him for a Link to be established between both of them. However, due to his lack of memory of any previous battle data and refusal to copy new ones, Emerl proved himself useless to the doctor, causing him to be thrown into the ocean. This caused him to wash away into Emerald Beach, where he was found by and stablished a Link with Sonic the Hedgehog. With a new Link made, Emerl continued to follow Sonic whenever he went, learning more and more things to fill in his empty data bank. After an accidental discovery on how the Gizoid became better deppending on how many Chaos Emeralds he had currently absorbed, Team Sonic & Co. decided to search for them in hope of bringing Emerl to a more suitable level of knowledge and general behaviour, along with Sonic himself giving the Gizoid the name of "Emerl", due to the fact he had somewhat of a link of the Chaos Emeralds.

After a considerable amount of time spending time with many of Sonic's friends, and enemies, Emerl manages to reach a point where he had absorbed 6 Chaos Emeralds already, and with the help of Shadow the Hedgehog, he was not only given the last emerald, but also saved from a "Factory Reset" state by the usage of Gerald's safeword. With that, Emerl managed to retain his newfound personality and memories, now happily living with Sonic and friends. But only for so long.

After Dr. Eggman revealed his plan to attack the planet with a giant deadly laser cannon called the Final Egg Blaster, Team Sonic decide to establish a teleport towards Eggman's Death Egg, with the only exception being that only person could pass per energy charge. Emerl decides to selflessly go first, ready to fight and defeat the doctor to save the world from his plan. After a decent fight, Eggman seems to surrender, causing Emerl to lose his guard and accept the doctor's ask for forgiveness out of naiveness. With that, Eggman takes the chance to use the Final Egg Blaster on a nearby cluster of star, exploding each and every one of them in front of Emerl, with the aim to restablish his previous Link with the Gizoid by force. Alas, the plan didn't work as intended, while Emerl did have his link restablished, the amount of residual energy the Final Egg Blaster caused by exploding the stars overloaded Emerl's power sensors and, eventually, his systems too, causing his "Berserk" state to return.

Now with the intuition to use the Final Egg Blaster himself to blow up the planet, Emerl was out of control and with no apparent way to return to normal. Taking this into account, Sonic decides to jump into the Death Egg via teleporter, carrying with him the Master Emerald to try and nullify the power of the Chaos Emeralds present inside of Emerl. However, after seeing the bright light caused by the giant Emerald near him, Emerl gets irritated and manages to break the Master Emerald to pieces before it could do any sort of effect on him. Now, with no other options left to take, Sonic takes on Emerl in a 30 second fight to try and stop him and return the Gizoid to his senses. After this (physically and mentally) difficult fight, Emerl begins to lose conscience, but also returns to his original personality. While Sonic tries to reassure him everything would be alright, Emerl knew it was his time, due to a last programming made by Dr. Gerald, he was fated to self destruct in the critical state that he was. And so, after saying his final goodbyes to Sonic and all of his friends that were watching their fight, Emerl dissapears and dissipates in a bright explosion of light, leaving behind nothing more than a Chaos Emerald shard.

## Pre-Paradise

Emerl was forcefully removed from his homeworld right before his defeat from Sonic, causing him to lose all but one Chaos Emerald that was still kept inside of him. Due to that, he also lost any memory past his achievement of the 7th Emerald, along with any copied data beyond that point.

## Plot Involvement

After waking up inside of his Hotel Room, Emerl decides to set off towards the outside of the Hotel to explore and try to know where exactly he was. After wandering the jungle area and exploring a cave, he is met with Doctor Starline at the outisde of it, whom he makes a sudden new alliance, believing the doctor to not be a threat and to actually be reformed from his evil ways, as he's explained.

Not so long after, he finally discovers that some of his friends are actually here by entering contact with Sonic after uncovering his online identity, who in turn is surprised to see his robo-friend alive again. Both of them plan a meet-up for them to see eachother physically, along with bringing his other friends and possibly soon-to-be allies along. While the meeting yet didn't happen, Emerl manages to enter the Team Sonic group chat, in which he first meets (albeit virtually) Blaze and Silver, and also reveals to Shadow, Cream and Knuckles his alive status.

After the drop of Angel Island into the Hotel's dimension, the group decide that their meet-up should be realocated to Sky Sanctuary. And, with that, they prepare to set off.

## Character Relationships

* *Sonic the Hedgehog -* The titular protagonist of the **Sonic the Hedgehog** series. Sonic is Emerl's Link, needless to say, he is very close to Sonic, in a way that he could even consider himself a relative of the hedgehog.

* *Doctor Starline* - An antagonist from the **Sonic the Hedgehog** series - specifically hailing from the **Sonic the Hegdehog IDW Comics.** While confused about his status and motives at first, Emerl decides to consider Starline as an ally.

* *Shadow the Hedgehog* - One of the main characters of the **Sonic the Hedgehog** series. Somewhat of a battle rival to Emerl, but also a figure he looks up for information about who he is and what he can be.

* *Cream the Rabbit (& Cheese the Chao)* - One of the main characters of the **Sonic the Hedgehog** series. A close friend of Emerl, whom he trained and protected from Chaos Gamma.

* *Knuckles the Echidna* - One of the main characters of the **Sonic the Hedgehog** series. A friendly rival to Emerl, typically annoying him with his smugness and naivety.

* *Silver the Hedgehog* - One of the main characters of the **Sonic the Hedgehog** series. A newfound ally.

* *Blaze the Cat* - One of the main characters of the **Sonic the Hedgehog** series. A newfound ally.

## Trivia

* Emerl was the first submitted, and subsequently approved, Sonic the Hedgehog character.

* Despite his lack of needed Chaos Emeralds, Emerl was able to function at the same capacity to when he had 7 of them absorbed since his arrival due to residual Chaos Energy left behind by them. However, this energy won't last forever, and overuse of it for attacks or simply maintaining an active state will waste away this reservoir.