The Space Colony ARK Battle/Robotnik's Revenge

**The Space Colony ARK Battle** (or, **Robotnik's Revenge**) is the thirty-seventh episode in Sonic X: Heroes Forever.

## Characters

* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Shadow the Hedgehog
* Rouge the Bat
* Amy Rose
* Sonia the Hedgehog
* Manic the Hedgehog
* Mighty the Armadillo
* Ray the Flying Squirrel
* Julie-Su
* Silver the Hedgehog
* Blaze the Cat
* Elias Acorn
* Antoine D'Coolette
* Bunnie D'Coolette
* Payback Fox
* Cream the Rabbit
* Cheese the Chao
* Marine the Raccoon
* Archimedes the Fire Ant
* Queen Aleena Hedgehog/Bernadette Hedgehog
* Jules Hedgehog
* Olgilvie Hedgehog (Mentioned, not named)
* Sir Charles Hedgehog
* Harvey Who (First mentioned)
* Venice the Mink (Mentioned)
* Biolizard (First mentioned)
* Brandon Mutt
* Chomps (First mentioned)
* Hope Kintobor
* Maria Robotnik
* Gerald Robotnik
* Abraham Tower
* Christopher Thorndyke
* Mr. Tanaka
* Mr. Stewart
* Scarlet Garcia
* Mr. Smith (first appearance)
* Horace Garcia (Mentioned)
* Black-Suited Agents
* Topaz
* Doctor Eggman
* Bertha Robotnik
* Snively Robotnik
* Decoe
* Bocoe
* Scratch
* Grounder

## Plot

This episode starts with Mr. Stewart and Scarlet driving to the retirement home and finding Mr. Smith. They try to ask questions about the accident on Space Colony ARK from 50 years ago, but, things are off to a bumpy start.

Up in space, Abraham is piloting the shuttle and the heroes are trying to reach Chris. Unknown to them, Rouge is taunting Eggman on how the robots messed things up, and asks for the password for the colony. After he tells her, Bertha makes herself known and scoffs at Rouge for allying herself with Eggman and gives Eggman a scolding. Rouge then notes that this may be where Eggman gets his evil nature from and looks up information regarding Project: Shadow. She finds out Shadow was genetically engineered, realizing he is a fake after all. Meanwhile, Shadow and Chris see the Freedom Fighters arrive, and Shadow notes they are a fool to challenge him as he's a match for them even with his Inhibitor Rings.

Back on Earth, Scarlet is trying to press for more information about the ARK raid and even mentioned her father died on the raid, but, Mr. Smith still doesn't budge. Sadly, Scarlet moves off with Mr. Stewart, concluding she was rather unprofessional and Mr. Stewart tries to console her as it is difficult to recount memories like that. Suddenly, the two get cornered by G.U.N. agents and Mr. Stewart urges Scarlet to get to the car as he holds them off. Unfortunately, one gets away and tries to force Scarlet into the car, only for Mr. Smith to knock the agent out. Mr. Smith urges the other two to follow him and Scarlet smiles gratefully. Mr. Smith admits he was an agent at G.U.N. long ago and Scarlet braces herself for more background.

Back out in space, Hope gives some Upgrade Items to the Royal Hedgehog Triplets: Sonic gets a Flame Ring, (which allows him to perform a Fire Somersault and destroy metal), Bounce Bracelet (which allows him to perform the bound jump), some Magic Gloves (which allows him to perform Magic Hands and capture enemies in a ball before throwing them), and his Ancient Light which had gotten lost after he battled Perfect Chaos, Sonia gets a Meteor Anklet (which allows her to the Meteor Kick), and Manic gets a Turbine Brace (which allows Manic to perform the Wind Fist Overdrive). Knuckles gets a bit impatient and wishes to get there quickly, but, Abraham cools him down and gives Sonic another gift: Hi-Speed Shoes, which will allow Sonic to grind on rails at the ARK. When Hope asks why the ARK has Grind Rails, Abraham admits that Shadow was a bit of a thrill seeker. When Sonic questions how Abraham knows Shadow, he admits he'll explain later.

The shuttle lands and Knuckles disembarks with Mighty, Ray, Archimedes, and Julie-Su to find the artificial Master Emerald. It doesn't take them long to find it and Rouge enters the scene shortly after. She admits they can take it, but, Knuckles is convinced Rouge is playing mind games with him, so much so that if he finds that Rouge is being truthful, he'll walk around in a chicken suit on Angel Island for a whole week. Julie-Su raises concerns that if Knuckles does that, Chomps will be chasing him around all week. Unknown to the six Mobians, Silver is watching them and is so frustrated, he grabs Knuckles in his psychokinesis and tells them to just grab the Emerald. Knuckles relents and he gets it, causing his group to move off. Silver mutters that Knuckles is even more stubborn than his grandfather described. Rouge then catches sight of Silver, admitting she doesn't recall having seen him before and Silver immediately becomes flustered. Blaze calls out to him and Silver darts away, leaving Rouge confused. Silver thanks Blaze for the interruption as things were becoming awkward because Rouge is his ancestor. A stunned Rouge wonders how it's possible because he's a hedgehog and she's a bat and she doesn't even have children, let alone a boyfriend at the moment. Blaze then comments they have to stop the Eclipse Cannon and Rouge realizes that's why Blaze and Silver are there.

Meanwhile, Hope is piloting the Cyclone and everyone's following in the Y Tornado. Amy and Elias comment on how creepy the place looks and how it must be from when the place was invaded 50 years ago. Sonic wonders how they will destroy the weapon and Tails hands him a fake Chaos Emerald, saying it has the same wavelengths and properties, but, is less powerful than the real one and is designed to absorb the energy from the Chaos Emeralds and explode. Eggman, however, is secretly watching and manages to grab Amy, Elias, Payback, Bunnie, and Antoine from the back of the Y Cyclone and Snively holds a blaster near Elias' head. Sally and the Royal Hedgehog Family leap out of the Y Cyclone to form a deal with Eggman, putting the Emerald in the middle of a circle. Unfortunately, the six Mobians are trapped in a capsule. Eggman says he wasn't fooled by the fake Emerald and Amy asks him how he knew it wasn't the real one, resulting in Bunnie bonking her on the head. When Amy demands to let her friends go, Eggman does so quite literally and Sonic tells Tails and Hope that they're in charge now, as he, his family, and girlfriend are thrown into space. Elias, Antoine, Bunnie, Payback, and Amy are released and Amy sobs over her mistake as the capsule explodes.

Shadow and Chris see the capsule explode from the window they are staring out at and Shadow reveals to Chris that Sonic and his family and girlfriend were all trapped in the capsule, but, Chris doesn't believe him and rushes down the corridor. Back in the other room, Amy's still crying and Abraham makes himself known to Eggman, who addresses him by his first name. The heroes are confused about this and Eggman reveals that Abraham was friends with his cousin, Maria, and Abraham also knows Eggman's birth name. Everyone is even more confused, even Eggman doesn't know why Abraham has five fingers on his hand and Rotor answers that Abraham was a human and has been born with them. Abraham finally reveals the truth by showing his true hand with his cybernetic finger, revealing himself to be an Overlander. Eggman comments he hates Mobians, but, Abraham admitted his time on Earth has eroded those thoughts away. An enraged Eggman calls Abraham a traitor as he sets a force field trap for Eggman and Snively. Bertha enters and asks her son what he's doing trapped in there and Eggman tells her about Abraham has changed his stance on Mobians. She stares at Abraham with rage.

Back on Earth, Scarlet and Mr. Stewart are now hearing the real story behind the ARK raid, how Mr. Smith and other soldiers were told to go up there to shut things down due to some kind of accident. They knew that it wasn't the full story, but, he and the other soldiers were too scared to question it further. There was a lot of experimenting on the ARK, experimenting with the concept of eternal life or even something called the Ultimate Lifeform. There were creatures on the ARK that looked to be a mix of human and animal and Mr. Smith admitted he recently learned they were Mobians. On the ARK, Smith had found Maria, who was curious to see what was happening, then she immediately ran away, Mr. Smith following her. Though, a young Abraham Tower followed him, too. Maria sets Shadow free and just as she does that, Mr. Smith shoots her down. Back in the present, Mr. Smith is sobbing over his actions and admits that not only was Maria killed, but, so were Abraham's parents and they took him with them back to Earth. When Scarlet asks about an investigation, Mr. Smith admitted that the official report stated it was an accident, but, he knew full well it was not an accident and he had killed poor Maria and he felt the regret for the rest of his life. Scarlet thanks Mr. Smith for his time.

Back in Space, Chris is in full denial that Sonic, his family, and girlfriend are dead. Meanwhile, Knuckles and his group manages to find a warp and Sonic, Sally, Manic, Sonia, Aleena, and Jules tumbling out of it and Sally starts kissing Sonic's face all over, praising him for his actions. Knuckles is completely out of the loop, but, a flashback reveals that while Aleena couldn't teleport the group out of the capsule, Sonic managed to Chaos Control his family and girlfriend to safety just in time, with the fake Emerald Tails had given him before, but, not before Aleena doubts Sonic's idea. Knuckles is stunned by what Sonic was able to accomplish, but, the blue blur and his mother tell Knuckles' group to go help Tails' group while Sonic's group go find the Eclipse Cannon to destroy it.

Further out in the space colony, Rouge is telling Topaz that she's copying the data regarding Project Shadow onto a disk, but, Topaz cuts the call quickly. Not a moment too soon as Shadow enters the room, revealing that he knew about Rouge being a government spy and Rouge retorts that Shadow's also been spying on her. Both of them begin to argue about who was being a fraud.

Back with Tails' group, Abraham is fighting Bertha, Snively and Hope are fighting each other, and those in the Y Cyclone are also fighting Eggman. Hope manages to land a decent hit on Snively's Eggwalker, but, her Cyclone is also blown backwards. Abraham manages to dodge Bertha's various punches and tricks her into punching a mattress near her in a sleeping quarter, causing her to punch that instead and get trapped in the springs. As Eggman taunts the Mobians, Elias gets out his wedding ring and brings out Who's invention, which, coupled with his cross arrow, obliterates Eggman's Egg Walker. Sir Charles asks if it's a Variable-Type Combat Suit and Elias confirms it is, saying that Harvey hasn't lost his touch. Before the group can leave, a robotic hand steals the Yellow Chaos Emerald.

Back with Rouge and Shadow, the former points out to the latter that the original creature was sealed off 50 years ago, but, Shadow points out he was made after the prototype. Rouge said there were *two* capsules that were launched out of the ARK, but, if they were never found, how was Shadow on Prison Island? At that, Shadow starts clutching his head and screaming in agony, begging Gerald not to tamper with his memories. Rouge starts to become puzzled and concerned for Shadow. He manages to snap out of it and his walkie-talkie beeps and Eggman reports he has the last Emerald and some enemies are trying to get the Eclipse Cannon, ordering Shadow to stop them. As he disconnects the call, Rouge asks Shadow if he should be doing this with his memories tampered with and Shadow insists that even if they are tampered with, the memories he has are still his own. Rouge tries to reason, saying there may be something else to be responsible for, but, he insists he needs to do it as he's promised Maria.

A bit later, Knuckles' group see Shadow and realize he's after Sonic, Chris coming up behind saying that he knew Shadow was wrong about Sonic being in the capsule. Julie-Su is still confused, but, then Mr. Tanaka makes himself known and hugs Chris, and Amy, Tails, Cream, Cheese, Sir Charles, Rotor, Bunnie, Antoine, Payback, Abraham, Elias, Topaz, and Hope all come up close behind, Hope looking quite stern as Chris admits he should have stayed with the group. Chris then quickly answers Julie-Su's question about how Shadow thought Sonic's family and Sally were all trapped in a capsule that blew up and he knew Shadow was lying. Abraham explains Shadow was telling the truth, but, Mighty admits his group saw them a while ago. Payback is shocked and Knuckles explains about Sonic's Chaos Control with the fake Emerald, leaving Tails stunned with that information. Amy doesn't believe it, when suddenly, Silver, Blaze, and Marine make themselves known to the group. Blaze explains there's no time for pleasantries and they need to keep the Chaos Emeralds away from the Eclipse Cannon to save Earth from being destroyed, so everyone quickly moves off.

Back with Sonic's group, the six Mobians manage to locate Shadow on some conveyor belts and Shadow's surprise to see them still alive. Sonic reveals the Fake Emerald and Shadow's even more stunned than Sonic's two teammates, wondering just who or what Sonic is. He simply replies he's a guy who loves adventure and Shadow is ready to leap into battle with Sonic's group, but, he and Sally claim they are ready this time. Meanwhile, Scratch, Grounder, Bocoe, and Decoe are powering up the Eclipse Cannon with Eggman holding the yellow Emerald. Back at the fight, Shadow attempts to fire Chaos Spears at Sonic's family and girlfriend, but, they avoid his attacks and Sonia tries to hit Shadow with her Meteor Kick, but, he avoids that, too. Aleena wonders how he can keep it up without getting tired. Some of Shadow's attacks instead hit some of the workings of the ARK, which included the Eclipse Cannon. The rest of the Freedom Fighters realize this buys them time, but, Silver notes they only have thirty seconds to get the Eclipse Cannon. Eggman's team realizes the cannon's damaged, but, decide to fire it anyway and Silver tries to get them to stop. It doesn't work and Eggman forces the emerald into the cannon and tries to fire it. The Emeralds light up briefly, but, stop and instead of a beam coming out of the cannon, a video of Gerald appears on the screen. Grounder wants everyone to get off the colony, but, Marine reveals it's too late and Gerald gives a speech about how the ARK will destroy the Earth by crashing into it in 27 minutes, 53 seconds as the episode ends.

## Differences between this, the real episode and Sonic Adventure 2

* The President, Christina Cooper, and Sam Speed all made voiceless appearances in the original. They are cut from this version.
* Cream and Cheese came to space, while in the original, they remained on Earth with Topaz. Topaz also came to Space in this version.
* Like with the Sonic Adventure 1 adaption for the anime, Sonic didn't get Upgrade Items in the original. Here, he did, as did Sonia and Manic. His Hi-Speed Shoes were also introduced much earlier on than they actually were in the Sonic X series.
* Eggman's a bit more ticked off when Rouge insults his henchmen in this version than he is in the original. Also his mother wasn't in the original confrontation.
* Rouge concludes in this version that Shadow is a fake hedgehog, while in the original she questions who he is.
* Shadow mentions his Inhibitor Rings in this version. While they are important in Sonic X, it's not made clear what they do until the following episode.
* Unlike the English version, it's explicitly stated that Maria was killed by Mr. Smith and it was also mentioned that Abraham's parents were killed, too.
* Knuckles doesn't hijack the shuttle as he did in the games and anime.
* In both the game and the anime, Knuckles has to fight Rouge in order to get the Master Emerald back and she trips up while fighting, leading her to release the Emerald or Emerald shards anyway. Here, she doesn't even try to fight, but, Knuckles is still highly cautious of her.
* It's mentioned that Silver is a descendant of Rouge. This isn't canon in any media at all.
* Instead of just Amy being hostage, it's her plus Payback, Antoine, Bunnie, and Elias, with Elias being threatened to be shot. Amy was threatened in the game.
* Tails doesn't let the truth out about the Emerald, but, Amy does, quite by accident. In addition, some of the game dialogue is slipped in place of the anime dialogue in this scene. The same applies for Sonic's group confronting Shadow later.
* Abraham and Eggman know each other to some degree, while this isn't showcased in the games anywhere.
* Abraham did used to hate Mobians in general rather than have a personal grudge against Shadow like he did in the games, but, has learned to be respectful and kind to them overtime on Earth.
* Sonic didn't just save himself, but, his family and girlfriend, too.
* Knuckles was with Mighty, Ray, Julie-Su, and Archimedes throughout the episode rather than alone.
* Shadow doesn't crush Rouge's walkie-talkie, instead Topaz turns hers off.
* The exchange between Rouge and Shadow when the scene changes is different. In the real episode, Rouge says "That's pretty funny coming from you." and Shadow says "what do you mean by that?". In this episode, Rouge says "That's the kettle calling the pot black." and Shadow says "what's that supposed to mean?"
* Hope fights Snively in their mechs this time, rather than Tails and Eggman fighting one another. In addition, Abraham fights against Bertha and traps her in a mattress. Elias also destroys Eggman's Egg Walker.
* It's made abundantly clear that Shadow's memories were tampered with by Gerald here, but, in the real episode, that's not made clear.
* In the real episode, Rouge is trying to hide most of her concerns about Shadow, but, it's clear she's still concerned. Here, she's more open with her concerns and tries to nudge Shadow into getting him to be responsible for something else.
* It's not made clear to the others how Sonic escaped in the original. Here, Knuckles explains to everyone about Sonic using Chaos Control with the fake Emerald.
* Silver, Blaze, and Marine tell everyone about how the Eclipse Cannon will destroy the Earth and they already knew about Gerald's revenge plans. In the original, they don't have this advantage.

## Trivia

* TobyandMavisforever2's idea for Julie-Su getting injured in the scuffle for the Master Emerald was originally intended to be in this episode, but, MrBLUERANGERHERO pushed it back to Episode 33 instead and tweaked it accordingly.