We Can See the Light!/Eggman For President

**We Can See the Light!** (or **Eggman For President**) is the forty-first episode of Sonic X: Heroes Forever.

## Characters

* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Julie-Su
* Rouge the Bat
* Amy Rose
* Cream the Rabbit
* Cheese the Chao
* Shadow the Hedgehog
* Maria Robotnik
* Payback Fox
* Sally Acorn
* Sonia the Hedgehog
* Manic the Hedgehog
* Dulcy the Dragon
* Bunnie D’Coolette
* Antoine D’Coolette
* Mighty the Armadillo
* Ray the Flying Squirrel
* Rotor Walrus
* Mina Mongoose (Does not speak)
* NICOLE (Does not speak)
* Shard the Hedgehog (Does not speak)
* Queen Aleena Hedgehog/Bernadette Hedgehog (Does not speak)
* Vanilla the Rabbit (Does not speak)
* Chocola the Chao
* Sir Charles Hedgehog
* Jules Hedgehog
* Brandon Mutt
* Blake Prisma
* Rachael Hops (First appearance)
* Hope Kintobor
* Ivo Kintobor (Mentioned)
* E-123 Omega
* Christopher Thorndyke
* Chuck Thorndyke
* Mister Tanaka
* Ella
* Officer Albright
* Mister Stewart
* President
* Christina Cooper
* Topaz McCarther
* Betty (First appearance, voice only)
* Jerome Wise
* Doctor Eggman
* Snively Robotnik
* Bertha Robotnik (Mentioned)
* Bocoe
* Decoe
* Coconuts
* E-122 Psi (Mentioned)

## Plot

The episode begins with Jerome Wise snapping out of his hypnosis and realizing he’s at the Thorndyke Residence, thinking he can get even with Sonic for “ruining his life.” Sir Charles corrects him by saying he’s ruined his own life and Mr. Tanaka tells him to lie down, as it’s bad to sit up so quickly. Jerome retorts that his dad is the governor of Maryland and he’ll give the group trouble, only for Ella to retort they already *have* trouble as Jerome is ignorant. He tries to ring his father, but, Betty, the secretary, tells him that his dad’s disowned him. Jerome foolishly blames Sonic for it, only for Maria to reasonably point out Sonic isn’t at the Thorndyke Mansion at the moment. Before Jerome could come up with an excuse, Jules scolds Jerome for slandering his son and tells him Sonic would fight to make sure Earth and Mobius is safe and wouldn’t consider the thought of anyone disowning their family, even “scum like him.” He then tells Officer Albright to take Jerome away and he complies, much to the Robian’s relief. Maria wonders why Jerome is petty and Chuck admits humans have been petty long before the ARK arrived on Earth and Mr. Tanaka says not everyone is like that.

Omega meanwhile is taking out the Egg Pawns, while Snively and Coconuts are watching from Eggman’s base and the latter notes Omega’s been a pain since Psi was destroyed. Snively realizes Hope’s made a powerful weapon against the Eggman Empire, but, ironically, she used metals and technology from said Empire to make Omega. Snively realizes that Hope’s seen through Eggman’s plans, as usual, and dubs all of Eggman’s plans Operation: Certain Failure before he tells Coconuts about his own plan, Operation: Probable Success, in that he built an elevator with leftover parts from a skyscraper. Unfortunately, the lift gets stuck and when Coconuts offers to help, Snively realizes he’s not used to human technology. When Coconuts suggests to use stairs, Snively sarcastically points out Eggman doesn’t really put stairs in his bases. The lift stops again and Snively notes he won’t steal technology from humans anymore due to the unreliability of the human tech he salvaged.

Double meanwhile, Knuckles and Julie-Su are out on one of their usual walks and the red echidna mentions that the Master Emerald sent a vision of people being brainwashed by Eggman. Julie-Su also realizes Sonic’s probably out putting a stop to Eggman’s plans as they speak and she glances up at the Egg Moon. She notes it’s out of line and Knuckles says it can’t move until it’s fixed, but, Julie-Su strongly believes there’s another reason.

Again with the meanwhiles, Rouge, Payback, and Topaz are out flying (the latter two in a helicopter and the former with a headache) when Rouge sees something and asks for the pilot to get them to follow her.

Back at the Thorndyke Mansion, Maria is sadly looking into the pool when Amy comes out to talk to her. Maria admits she doesn’t know where Eggman went wrong, her aunt Bertha was an awful parent, sure, but her uncle Ivo would have been better. Amy tells Maria that everyone has motivations, to make things better for the world in general or for just themselves. Maria also tells Amy that she hoped Eggman would make Mobius a better place and be noble and she feels upset to have that betrayed. Amy explains that one can only control their own behavior and Hope comes outside to find her distant cousin crying. She tells Maria that as long as they remain true to themselves, their names will mean something good one day and she explains that even though humans shot her Overlander body, Maria still told Shadow to protect the humans. Maria feels better upon hearing this and Hope tells her the same thing her grandmother Agnes told her before she died. Hope then mentions they have to find Shadow, Sally, Dulcy, and the Hedgehog Triplets as they may have some injuries that Maria will need to heal.

Meanwhile, the echidna couple manages to find the aforementioned group taking out another Mirror Tower. Sonic suggests for Julie-Su to take out the Mirror Towers with her blaster and she admits while it’s powerful enough to damage it significantly, it can’t take it down. The Egg Pawns would make it hard to get a clear shot and Sally suggests for Julie-Su to help take out the Egg Pawns instead, to which she agrees.

At the Whitehouse, Eggman, Decoe, and Bocoe enter the Oval Office where they run into the President and Christina, the latter two stating that they already know what Eggman is planning. Eggman, however, knows that plenty of humans already fell for the plan and there’s lots of them standing outside the building. The president is confident everyone will snap out of their hypnosis eventually and take Eggman down and Christina says they’ll stop buying the Sunshine Balls. Eggman retorts he bought every non-solar power plant so they can construct more Mirror Towers and Sunshine Balls. The president tells Eggman Sonic is already onto him, but, Eggman is prepared for that.

Sonic’s group had managed to topple a Mirror Tower just as the Y Tornado lands. Maria hops out and asks if anyone is injured and Sonic admits they are feeling sore, plus, the chocolate covered peppers aren’t doing well on Dulcy’s digestion. Maria quickly heals the group and Manic thanks her.

Back with Rouge, Topaz, and Payback, they find the large dome building with no doors. The bat realizes this must be what is controlling the Egg Moon’s orbit and they must destroy it to fix the orbit. Rouge equips her Iron Boots and Pick Nails and kicks the building. Surprisingly, no damage is done and Payback realizes it’s made of Mobibendum-Titanium alloy and they need to regroup with Hope to come up with another plan. Rouge agrees, as it will give her headache a chance to settle.

With Sonic’s group, Chris notes that the Egg Moon can only block the sun all the time if it’s moving and Sonic had noticed it instantly. Sally adds despite their best efforts, Eggman’s control took up a sizable portion of the population. Hope realizes that all the active Mirror Towers the group passed on the way up with a single beam of sunlight each. She inspects the remains of a toppled tower and realizes the solar energy converter has a limited input capacity and can’t handle more than a single beam of sunlight per tower. Hope then says she has an idea. When Cream asks what it is, Hope explains with the Egg Moon out of the way, the sunlight will beam on all the towers at once and they’ll explode. Bunnie thinks it’s a great idea, but, Hope admits it’s easier said than done. Rouge, Payback, and Topaz join the group and explain they found the Egg Moon controller, but, it’s too durable to damage. Hope explains that they have to destroy the receiver so the controller is useless. Topaz then suggests for the group to get the shuttles to go to space.

Eggman had bound and gagged the President and Christina and shows Decoe and Bocoe some new “Eggman money” and an “Eggman credit bill”. While they are basking in their glory, Mr. Stewart frees Christina and the President and puts inflatables in their place. Suddenly, the X Tornado, piloted by Tails with Sonic, Knuckles, and Hope onboard, crashes through the window (Eggman barely dodges). Hope uses her EMP weapon on the robots while Team Sonic uses their Team Blast, Sonic Overdrive, to send Eggman and the robots flying out of the White House, Eggman also realizing the humans were rescued and replaced by dummies.

Out in space, Topaz, Mr. Tanaka (who’s driving), Rouge, Shadow, Omega, Mighty, and Ray fly over to the Egg Moon and Omega, Shadow, and Team Balance head out to destroy the receiver. The receiver is destroyed with ease and this causes the Egg Moon to start moving on its own accord and Shadow warps them back to the shuttle with a fake Chaos Emerald. Ray unfortunately lands on his face, with Rouge teasingly asking Shadow if he still needs practice.

Back on Earth, Cream is very happy to have the sun back again and Ella notes Eggman is in trouble. She’s correct as he, Decoe, and Bocoe all run off into a yes/no guessing game. Rotor asks if he was born in the Acorn Kingdom and Eggman runs in the “no” direction. Antoine asks if he and his parents moved from Mercia to the Acorn Kingdom, to which Eggman runs in the “yes” direction. Bunnie asks if she runs a hair styling boutique and Eggman runs in the “no” direction once more. Finally, he comes to Maria, who asks him if “Maria Robotnik” died as an Overlander or was reborn as her. Eggman is about ready to run in the “no” direction, but, Maria calls him by his birth name and a shocked Eggman realizes that it WAS her, as he recognizes her fierce look when she was defending him from Bertha. He then realizes Shadow was the one behind Maria’s rebirth and she explains that he used a Power Ring and a duplicate to save her. Maria also recounts that she had high hopes for Eggman before her death and during her death, she realized those hopes were misplaced and he betrayed her. Eggman trembles at this and tries to save face, but, Maria already puts Inhibitor Rings on him and tells the officers to take him away. Eggman angrily tells his cousin she’ll regret it, but, she admits that while she doesn’t regret it, she *does* regret the fact it had to be done. Rotor comes over to give some words of comfort to Maria and tells her if she didn’t do it, Eggman would have still caused trouble.

In the van, Eggman curses Maria as he’s sent to prison as the episode ends.

## Differences between this episode and the real episode

* The original episode began with Jerome still leading a mob into the house and Amy getting everyone to escape when Sam and the Speed Team arrive. This episode instead has Jerome slandering Sonic, Jules standing up for his son, and Officer Albright taking him away.
* Maria contemplating Eggman’s evil schemes replaces everyone doubting Sonic turning into the bad guy.
* Sonic is with his siblings, Dulcy, Sally, and Shadow taking down the Mirror Towers and Knuckles and Julie-Su later join them. In the original episode, Knuckles and Sonic get into a battle.
* The President isn’t with Christina in some scenes, here, they always appear together. Plus, neither of them believe what lies are being said about Sonic or about Eggman being the hero.
* Instead of the hypnotized people being shown, they are just mentioned to be outside. Knuckles and Julie-Su also get shown the hypnotized people via the Master Emerald.
* Rouge doesn’t have a headache in the real episode. Here, she definitely does.
* Once again, Helen, Jessie, and Doug are dropped from the original episode.
* An extra scene with Snively making an elevator and Omega taking down robots is added in. This may be to add in extra time to where the humans were telling Knuckles to go and fight Sonic in the original, which obviously was dropped from this one.
* While Knuckles doesn’t seem to understand that the Egg Moon isn’t broken, he does understand enough that Sonic is in the right.
* Mr. Stewart does play a part in this episode, but, it’s really Team Sonic who take Eggman and his robots out of the White House. In addition Knuckles doesn’t go to space in this version, that goes to Shadow, Omega, Mighty, and Ray instead. Rouge, Topaz, and Mr. Tanaka all go to space in both versions.
* Instead of Rouge complaining about liking it better in the dark, she asks Shadow if he needs more practice with Chaos Control with a fake emerald, to which he says yes.
* Instead of Jessie and Helen commenting on the sun’s rays, it’s Cream.
* The questions at the end are very different. For a start, the ones asking the questions are Chris, Tails, Amy, and Sonic. The questions are: Chris: I first met Sonic the Hedgehog when he fell into my living room. Yes or no?, Tails: The X-Tornado can fly more than 300 miles an hour and can withstand attacks by changing into Battle Armor Mode? Amy: Yes or no: Sonic says I'm the prettiest girl in the whole world? And Sonic: Who's the coolest guy around? Me or you?. In this version, Rotor, Antoine, Bunnie and Maria ask their other questions in that order.
* Maria also gives Eggman a disappointed in you speech and reveals she truly was reborn as a hedgehog (the question she asked). She is the one who gets Eggman arrested at the end.
* At the end of the real episode, Chris is the one to break the fourth wall, but, in this episode, Eggman, as usual, breaks the fourth wall, and there’s an additional scene with the avatars.

## Trivia

* Eggman breaks the fourth wall in this episode, referencing the real Sonic X anime, in that everyone fell for his schemes, but, no one did here.
* Brandon and Blake appear again, this time, joined by Rachael, TobyandMavisforever2’s Avatar. Brandon also notes it’s the first time MrBLUERANGERHERO had two co-writers and it won’t be the last. This sets off a spoiler alert warning and Rachael promptly asks for the episode to end, which Brandon and Blake agree.
* Bunnie running a hair style boutique may be a nod to the Archie Comics in which she requested to be Sally’s hair stylist.
* Jules telling off Jerome is partially based off him scolding Scourge in the Archie Comics.
* Though not mentioned by name, Hope gives Maria the same advice her grandmother Agnes did before she died.