Emergency Launch! X-Tornado!/Satellite Swindle

**Emergency Launch! X-Tornado** (or, **Satellite Swindle**), is the eighth episode that happens in the series Sonic X: Heroes Forever.

## Characters

* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Amy Rose
* Cream the Rabbit
* Cheese the Chao
* Sally Acorn
* Ray the Flying Squirrel
* Antoine D'Coolette
* Bunnie D'Coolette
* Mighty the Armadillo
* Sir Charles Hedgehog
* Rotor Walrus
* NICOLE (Mentioned)
* Sonia the Hedgehog (First appearance)
* Manic the Hedgehog (First appearance)
* Queen Aleena Hedgehog/Bernadette Hedgehog (Mentioned, unnamed)
* Marie D'Coolette (First mentioned, unnamed)
* Armand D'Coolette (Mentioned, unnamed)
* Queen Alicia Acorn (First mentioned, unnamed)
* King Maximilian Acorn (First mentioned, unnamed)
* Elias Acorn (First mentioned, unnamed)
* Cheryl the Armadillo (First mentioned, unnamed)
* Bill the Armadillo (First mentioned, unnamed)
* Hope Kintobor
* Christopher Thorndyke
* Chuck Thorndyke
* Ella
* Mr. Tanaka
* Next (First appearance)
* President (Mentioned)
* Doctor Eggman
* Bocoe
* Decoe
* Bokkun
* E-90 Super Sweeper (Only appearance)

## Plot

The episode starts out with Eggman putting his robot cards into the Selection Machine right off the bat. It lands on an incredibly large green robot known as E-90 Super Sweeper. It takes off into the sky and then into space after being released from Eggman's base. The personnel at Area 99 receive word of the rocket launch of Super Sweeper. They immediately know this has to do with Eggman. Eggman then activates his robot in space. Super Sweeper produces a large red vacuum and uses electricity to draw in and eventually suck into its body all the satellites in its wake above the planet. This disrupts military communications and Area 99 panics. Eggman claims that he is going to use them for robot parts, effectively killing two birds with one stone. The leader at Area 99 demands contact with help.

Meanwhile, at the Thorndyke Mansion, Cream and Cheese are watching "The Next Show". Chris is trying to explain to Hope about how "The Next Show" was made for little kids to enjoy, but, adults also watch it. Hope admits she still doesn't understand humans. Just then, Amy and Ella are putting pies freshly baked on to the table in front of Hope, Chris and Tails, and Bunnie and Antoine follow shortly after. Ray, who was cleaning the window, flies in to join the others, and Ella explains that Amy, Bunnie, and Antoine are so good at baking, she may be out of a job. Amy wonders if Sonic and Sally (who are currently on the roof), would want some pie, but, Tails tries reaching for it instead. She grabs the plate and swings it back which causes Tails to get launched behind her and hit the TV. As soon as he collided with it, the TV immediately went to static, but,, Cream is far more concerned about Tails himself, who has a bleeding nose. Cream immediately starts tending to him and Amy apologizes for accidentally flinging him into the TV. Chris tries to use the remote, but, the TV doesn't do anything and Bunnie worries that Cream can't watch her program, but, Cream doesn't care. At this point, Sonic and Sally come in through the window in response to hearing Tails in pain. Tails says he's been better and Amy and Bunnie explain the situation to Sonic and Sally. Hope checks her cell phone in response to this and realizes that there's no satellite reception. Before Sally could question things further, Bokkun flies in and produces a mini television set. Everyone quickly hid behind some furniture, expecting an explosion. Dr. Eggman comes on the screen showing him a video of Super Sweeper sucking in all the satellites in the stratosphere (including the television satellite), which surprises everyone. Eggman continues to tell Sonic that he should stay out of the way for he is only having a little fun using the satellites to create more robots, and that goes for Hope too. He then says that Bokkun will become obsolete to which Bokkun begins cries at. Chris asks what E-90 is to Hope. Hope replies that E-90 is one of Eggman's robots and after a data search, realizes it's a robot that can operate in space. Cream then asks what a stratosphere is. Chuck then bursts in and puts it plainly that "It's a layer of air miles above and it's as high as the sky!", then grabs Bokkun and tries to take him away because of his noise. Bokkun tells him to let him go then produces an explosion. Bokkun flies off laughing leaving Chuck extremely charred, despite Hope's attempts to warn him.

Chris tries to make a pun, but, Hope quickly pulls him back on topic by explaining that not even Fly-Type Mobians could reach the problem her uncle caused. Chris suggests using the Tornado, but, the idea is quickly shot down due to the fact it's a bi-plane. Hope then realizes there's a large number of fly types in their ranks at the moment, and Sally starts to try and think of a way to protect the Mobians from the vacuum of space, only for Sonic to explain he and Rotor were totally fine when they went up into space. Sir Charles then explains why that is: the unusual properties of Chaos Energy, and that some Mobians had more energy than others. After Sonic gets the others back on track, Hope tells Sonic and Tails to get into the Tornado while Bunnie and Ray give it a boost. Cream wishes to come, but, Hope tells her to remain behind. Mighty and Sally are also told to come, and Hope says she'll get into Ability Type discussions later on. The crew go to the Tornado and take off to the sky while the others wish them luck. Eggman spots them on his radar and has Super Sweeper fire at them. Mighty manages to use his shell to reflect some blasts off it, and Tails pilots the Tornado away from the E-90, claiming to be too fast for it. After a reprimand from Sally, Tails gets an idea: he turns the Tornado around which Bunnie decimates with her cannon, and Tails flies circles around the E-90. Eggman gets dizzy before Tails arranges the plane upright and shoots back at the E-90. The Mobians quickly dodge a container and fly in closer, but, Eggman regains his balance before launching missiles. With a Tether Ring, Sonic and Mighty quickly take care of one of the missiles and it's launched back at the E-90. Eggman then claims it is time to stop playing and has Super Sweeper try to suck them in. Tails pulls on the thrusters while Bunnie and Ray give it a boost. This works for a bit, until the group realizes the clouds are being sucked in. It only gets worse as Tails' propeller suddenly blows. Smoke pours out of it and it stops spinning. They then begin to plummet towards the sea. Tails pulls at the lever with all his might and they had just missed the water.

Sonic and Sally are thinking about what happened on the roof and start to try and rethink their plan in the evening, while Rotor, Hope, Tails, Sir Charles and Chuck were having a meeting on what to do in the garage, when Sonic and Sally tell them their theory of the Tornado being too slow. Tails starts to get ideas on rebuilding the Tornado, and that a Chaos Emerald would be far too powerful to charge it up. After suggesting a backup engine to use the extra energy, the group realize they don't have the resources to rebuild the Tornado. Chuck then surprises everyone with his secret lab, and decide to just build a new plane because there's so much material. They would have to use material from the Tornado to do so as human technology isn't near as advanced as Mobian or Overlander technology. The Intelligence-Types worked late into the night and are ready to go to bed, except for Hope who explains she's been in hyper sleep for twelve years and she makes the final adjustments.

The following morning Cream wakes up to see the TV working again. However, when it comes on she sees Eggman's mug onscreen with a logo that says "Egg-TV" on it. This scares Cream enough to wake up Tails (whom she was sleeping near the whole night), and Eggman's announcement wakes up the other Mobians in the room, scaring Ray as well. Mighty almost uses a strong word when he realizes there's children present. Eggman tells the viewers that they are watching the "Dr. Eggman Show". He then begins to relay his cleaning of the stratosphere plan to the people watching. He then shines a light on himself and the audience is treated to Dr. Eggman gloating into a microphone before twirling around and jumping at the camera, to which Bunnie remarks that Eggman is a bad singer.

Super Sweeper takes off into space. The leader at Area 99 issues an attack on the robot. The scene then cut to Tails calling for Sonic. Sonic jumps down from the roof and asks Tails how it all turned out, to which he says Hope finished it up. As everyone lines up outside, Chuck opens the garage to everyone and shows them the brand new plane. Tails admits he doesn't know if to call it the Tornado X or the X Tornado, but, Sally says they should take down the E-90 before they do anything with the name. After checking to see if they had Fire Shield capsules, Tails tells Hope, Sonic, and Sally they will be on a test flight together. Sonic said the Tornado only seats two, but, Sally points out the extra canopies, making Sonic satisfied. Meanwhile, Super Sweeper begins to suck in the satellites. The Area 99 personnel command their satellites to fire on E-90. However, the attacks do literally nothing as a shield comes up and stops all the lasers. Back on Earth, Sonic, Tails, Hope, and Sally board the plane with Hope being Tails' Co-Pilot. They then take off into the sky, officially launching the "whatever they agree to call this thing" for the first time. Amy is baffled by Tails' comment before Sir Charles realizes Chris decided not to come. Rotor admits he managed to convince Chris not to go on the test flight and he's been avoiding Eggman a lot lately. Chris is in his room trying to make a plane sculpture, worrying about going out on an adventure again.

Bocoe and Decoe point out that something is headed toward E-90. Eggman gets frustrated, knowing his niece had something to do with what's about to go down next. Missiles gets launched at the X-Tornado. Sonic jumps out from the plane and begins to hop on each one of them, effectively sending him high enough into the sky to land on Super Sweeper. He is shot at by laser cannons on E-90 and quickly dodges them. Sonic charges at it, but, continues to be shot at. He resorts to jumping to try and escape, but, that doesn't work either. Tails eventually flies by and destroys the cannons. Eggman gets angry and presses more buttons which activate more cannons on E-90. The lasers all fire at the X-Tornado and all miss. While they focus on Tails, Sonic rams through the large cannon and destroys it. They continue to go higher and Sally asks Sonic if he's okay as well as how he manages to hold onto a flying plane without falling off. Sonic says he's a bit shaken, but, doesn't know how to answer the second question. Sonic lands on Super Sweeper and grabs hold. Eggman grins, claiming that he has Sonic now. He sends E-90's vacuum to suck in Sonic. Tails won't allow it and turns on his booster switch. It rockets the X-Tornado over to Super Sweeper. Tails fires at the vacuum and destroys it.

Eggman literally gets madder and begins to pound on more buttons. He drops another hunk of steel at them. He flies past it and picks up Sonic. They go higher into the stratosphere. Sonic begins to shiver. Sally starts worrying and Hope quickly realizes it's 50-below in space. It gets worse when Sonic and the plane start to freeze. Tails can't use the Power Ring because the launcher is frozen shut, but, Hope has an idea: after being given a Power Ring, she attaches the yellow wire to it and a Fire Shield capsule. The ice melts off Sonic and the plane and Sonic launches into a Fire Dash, causing the missiles to explode. He then bursts into Super Sweeper and destroys him completely from the inside. Sonic, Tails, Hope, and Sally head back to Earth after a job well done.

Sonic is soaking his feet in a tub of warm water while Ella gets him a chili dog with Caliente Chili. Sonic gratefully takes it and Ella was also informed of Sonic's heart problems from Sally. Chuck congratulates Sonic who claims that it wasn't him this time as he hands the credit over to Tails, Sally, and Hope. After some debate on who should get the credit, Hope admits they all had their role to play. They high-five in celebration. Amy then enters with a beautiful array of ice-cream, but, Hope claims while her intentions were good, her timing was less than ideal. Instead, Cream and Mighty take some ice cream, while Ray just wants a peanut-butter sandwich.

Hope then goes in depth with each of the Ability Types: Speed-Types have a gift for natural speed, like Sonic, Amy, Sally, Mighty and Ray. Fly-Types either have natural flight or some other mechanism to fly, sometimes both cases apply, examples being Tails, Cream, Cheese, Bunnie and Ray. Power-Types are incredibly strong and the only two power types present are Antoine and Mighty. Should one of each of these three types get together, they form a team, and each of the ability types are stronger or weaker against another type: Speed has strength over Fly, Fly has strength over Power and Power has strength over Speed. Balance-Types mean that someone has equal amounts of skill in two or more categories and have no real weaknesses over other types, which include the likes of Ray and Mighty. Mighty's dad was a Power-Type, Ray's mom was a Fly-Type, and their other parents were Speed-Types, explaining why they became Balance-Types. Intelligence-Types don't have special abilities, but, make up for that with their heightened intelligence, which include Rotor, Sir Charles, NICOLE, and Hope herself. They mostly act as support to an already established team and have no advantages or disadvantages. The last type is Variable-Type, which allows the Mobian to change their Ability Type at will, which Sonic reveals his mother was a Variable-Type. Hope then concludes that Mobians without Ability Types are few and far in between while the inverse is true for Overlanders. Should they end up with an Ability Type at all, it's usually Intelligence. Mobians with Ability Types usually show signs of these skills around 4 1/2-8 years old, but, Sally reveals she only got her speed when she and Sonic used the Deep Power Stones, and her speed kicks in randomly. On top of that, her parents and brother don't have Ability Types, either. Antoine admitted his mother didn't have an Ability Type, but, through training with his father, his abilities were slowly awakened and the warp to Earth has enhanced his abilities.

While Hope and the Mobians were giving the humans the lecture, two hedgehogs were in the forest wandering around looking for something. The male one, Manic, gets out his hover board, and the female one, Sonia, hops on, hoping to not be seen by anyone or run into any danger as the episode ends.

## Differences between this and the original episode

* Antoine and Bunnie help Amy and Ella with the pie baking, and Ray was cleaning the windows before entering the living room.
* Cream is more worried for Tails' safety while her concerns for the TV are non-existent. Subsequently, Sonic and Sally come in to see what happened when Tails got hurt rather than to see what the noise was.
* Amy also apologizes for Tails getting hurt. This doesn't happen in the real episode.
* During the conversation about different programs that couldn't be watched, Ella mentions Lindsey's movie in the real episode. Lindsey's not mentioned here.
* Tails doesn't officially name the plane in this episode, but, in the real episode, the X Tornado was named right away.
* Cream wakes up Tails and tells him about her concerns before everyone else. It's also mentioned they were sleeping near each other. In the original episode, Cream doesn't wake up anybody and everyone only wakes up when they hear Eggman's voice.
* Hope and Sally join Tails and Sonic in space, while Chris opts to stay behind and make a plane sculpture. In addition, the extra seats were added to the plane without Chris asking to do so.
* A fire capsule was used to help Sonic and the plane warm up, but, in the real episode, this wasn't used.
* In the real episode, Ella offers Sonic some soup. In this episode, Ella brings him a chili dog.
* The original episode ends with Sonic not wanting any ice-cream, while this episode ends with Sonia and Manic in the forest.