Infiltrate! Area 99/Sonic to the Rescue

**Infiltrate! Area 99** (or, **Sonic To The Rescue**) is the second episode that happens in the series, Sonic X: Heroes Forever.

## Characters

* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Cream the Rabbit
* Cheese the Chao
* Sally Acorn
* NICOLE
* Mighty the Armadillo (First appearance)
* Ray the Flying Squirrel (First appearance)
* Bunnie D'Coolette
* Hope Kintobor (First appearance)
* Christopher Thorndyke
* Nelson Thorndyke (Voice only)
* Lindsey Thorndyke (Voice only)
* Scarlet Garcia (Voice only)
* Chuck Thorndyke (First appearance)
* Mr. Tanaka (First appearance) (Cameo)
* Ella (Mentioned)
* Nate Morgan (Mentioned)
* Doctor Kai Narasu (First appearance)
* Police Officer
* Doctor Eggman
* Decoe (Cameo)
* Bocoe (Cameo)
* E-33 Buball (Cameo)

## Plot

The episode starts out the morning following the events from the night before. Sonic, Sally, and Chris are at their mansion's balcony with Chris on the phone with his mom and Sally explaining to Sonic that NICOLE had been damaged from the water. Sally decides to be careful with NICOLE until they know where Tails is. When Chris admits that he dove into the adult swimming pool, his mom becomes shocked, only to be relieved that he rescued a pairs of "cats", much to Sonic's disgrace and Sally's confusion, Sonic claims he is a hedgehog and Sally is a squirrel-chipmunk hybrid. Chris responds that his mom would not believe her son from rescuing a blue talking hedgehog and a squirrel-chipmunk hybrid with a blue vest and asks Sonic and Sally when and how did they learn to talk, to which Sonic believes it was either Mobodoon on Christmas Island or Mobotropolis, but he doesn't really remember, and Sally doesn't remember either. Chris then talks with his dad on the phone, who had be notified of the situation by his wife. In the end, Sonic shakes his head in dismay while Chris tries to feed his new and unusual guest with cat food since he checked on the internet that most hedgehogs love cat food, but Sonic does not favor cat food. Chris suggests crickets, but that resulted in the hedgehog jumping away and going for a run, but, not before Sally explains the situation on how Mobians work.

After some time, Sonic returned to the mansion and he, Sally and Chris watched the incident of what happened in the first episode on the news. The citizens being interviewed mainly claimed that Sonic and Sally were no regular animals but Sonic does not seem to care much about what the humans think of him. At that time, Chris' grandfather Chuck walks in and informs his grandson about the incident yesterday only to see Sonic and Sally sitting there on the couch next to him. Sonic, Sally and Chuck stare at each other eye to eye before Chris covers Sonic and Sally with pillows suffocating them until Sonic knocks his pillow away. After Chuck realizes he is indeed the blue hedgehog, he grabs a screwdriver in attempt to tinker with him as if he were a machine until Sally manages to distract him. Chris convinces Chuck that Sonic and Sally were not machines but in fact a real talking blue hedgehog and a real talking squirrel/chipmunk hybrid with a blue vest on. At that moment, the T.V presented them with video footage of Cream and Cheese being trapped and wanted to be left alone from the firemen attempting to rescue them. Sonic and Sally are relieved to see that they were not the only ones that got sent to Earth, and wish to save them, but, they couldn't under the realization that they have no idea where to look.

Gathering at the mansion's garage, Chuck contacts the government and finds out that their friends were captured by the authorities and located them on a top secret military base located in the middle of a desert named Area 99. Sonic notes that the military base shares some similarities with a typical base of Eggman. The government apparently hypothesizes that these strange creatures may be a new danger or mysterious threat sent to spy upon and destroy the world and Chuck wonders if they are right. Sonic, feeling insulted, decides to leave with Sally to go and rescue their friends, but Chuck does not allow it unless Sonic and Sally agree for their assistance. Chris questions Chuck whether he is being serious about this mission and Chuck responded that he's being serious and reminds Chris that he would not want to have a boring life like his father's, giving him the opportunity for some excitement so Chris agreed.

The four of them drive off into the desert towards Area 99's location. Sally and Sonic comment how it's nice they have help from Overlanders, and mention their friends Nate and Hope. Chris tells them they are called humans in this world. Sonic complains about the speed they are moving. Chuck gives Sonic and Sally each a small Infrared Scope with a communicator. Chuck explains that Area 99 is full of security lasers and with the Infrared Scope, Sonic and Sally can detect and avoid them. With Sally in his arms, Sonic then takes off through the road at high speed. After witnessing Sonic's speed, Chuck gets excited and hits the accelerator pedal hard to keep up with him.

Meanwhile, in the research lab of Area 99, Cream and Cheese are being examined, much to their fear. They don't realise that three pairs of eyes are witnessing this. The human-like girl is about ready to cut the power to allow the armadillo and flying squirrel to infiltrate the base, when Sonic and Sally burst in and the five bump into each other. It's revealed by Sonic that the trio are Mighty, Ray and Hope. Upon the realization that they and Sonic and Sally are working toward a common goal to save Cream and Cheese, the five of them band together, though plan to celebrate their reunion later. Sally and Hope decided to find the power grid, while Sonic, Mighty and Ray find their friends. Hope manages to disable the laser grid for the time being, making the mission a bit easier. Sonic reveals he can no longer swim due to a shock through his legs, and the trio had to be careful due to taking their friends back with them.

At that moment, the power goes out thanks to Sally and Hope's efforts, and Sonic releases Cream and Cheese from their prison. Sally and Hope are unaware of the radio-controlled paper airplanes which was sabotaging the power further. Cream and Cheese are introduced to Mighty and Ray, and then to Hope and Sally as everyone regroups. One problem though: the whole area's power turn back on, and Sonic tells Mighty to protect Hope while Ray and Sonic make short work of the cameras. Sonic then grabs Cream while she holds Cheese and they begin to race to the door, only for it to start closing. Ray grabs Cream and Cheese while Mighty holds the door open. The others catch up and lasers go off, causing them to run again, only for the cameras to be hit with swarms of mini radio paper aeroplanes. The group race upstairs, with Ray carrying Cream and Sonic and Mighty helping Sally and Hope respectively.

Cream thanks everyone for rescuing her and Cheese, and at this point, Sonic hears the Tornado. Tails, naturally, is the one driving it, and Bunnie is flying alongside. Mighty, Ray and Sonic break the wall, and Tails catches the trio on the Tornado's wing. Creams starts to blush when she realizes it was Tails who had come to the rescue with the mini radio airplanes, and Tails winks at her while asking his friends to hang on, especially Hope.

Seeing the plane with Sonic and his friends on it, Chris and Chuck return home. As Sonic's friends introduce themselves, Chuck takes interest to the tiny airplane devices, but Tails admits that Hope is even more creative. The group then start talking about how Mobius is populated by both Overlanders and Mobains alike, and about the possibility of there being others on Earth too. At the end, they realize that Dr. Eggman must be within their midst and as proof, the doctor is shown on an unnamed island inside his fortress, plotting to take over this new world and build his Eggman Empire on it as the episode ends.

## Differences between this and the original episode

* Sonic tries to go off to save Cream and Cheese without figuring out where they were, only to return a few seconds later in the original episode, but here, Sonic and Sally don't even attempt to go anywhere.
* In the original episode, Chuck Thorndyke simply knew where Area 99 was with no explanation, but here, he outright states that he previously worked at Area 99 before his retirement.
* Cream is shown blushing at Tails in this story, but in the original episode, there is no such interaction.