EPISODE 27 "The Beginning of Chaotic Days" The Episode kicks off with the voice of Tikal, describing Station Square as a shadow falls over the city. The people are happy for now, but not for long. Angel Island is seen falling into the sea, and the shadow over the land deepens. In some nearby jungle, Big the Cat and his pal Froggy are having a nap in his pad. A white glow shines over them, and a meteor blazes into the jungle floor with a boom. The explosion wakes the pair, and Froggy goes to investigate. Froggy spots a small, purple glow emanating from the crash area. Big follows, and finds the Purple Chaos Emerald. While Big is busy examining the pretty jewel, a small bit of living water creeps toward Froggy. When Froggy turns around, the liquid strikes, forcing itself down the amphibians throat. Big glances back to his friend, and sees him grow a strange tail. Froggy faces Big, takes a mighty leap, and glomps the Emerald. As Big falls startled to the ground, Froggy hops away. It is day once again over Station Square. High above the city, the President has a meeting with his Secretaries and members of GUN onboard Air Force One. His aides tell him that the Chaos Control of the previous day has melded Earth to a different dimension. His new assistant, a woman, also says that a new island full of old ruins has appeared near Station Square, and is sending an archeological team to study the location. The President then asks if Dr. Eggman has been located. The GUN secretary answers that Eggman has disappeared since the Chaos Control. Rouge replies that Eggman will be back soon. The President tells Rouge that Eggman must be stopped at all costs. Stuart comes forward, offering some surveillance photos he has taken of Chris Thorndyke and his furry friends. At the Thorndyke Mansion, Chuck, Cream, Cheese, and Chris are being served breakfast by Mr. Tanaka and Ella. Chris has fully recovered from last episodes danger, and Chuck asks if he is going to the Mystic Ruins and visit Tails. Chris says he can't, he is meeting his mother in town. Chris finishes his breakfast, and jogs off to Station Square. Elsewhere, Sonic is enjoying his return home, whistling in the desolate canyons. In Station Square, Amy is relaxing in her apartment, which she probably got with some funds from the Thorndykes. On the TV, Scarlet Garcia reports from a beautiful beach. Amy already misses Sonic, remembering her adventures with her hog on Earth. Now Sonic is gone, leaving her alone again. She yells out her window at Sonic, somewhere out there. A neighbor bangs on the wall, telling the girl to keep it down. On the TV, a report comes on, the reporter announcing that Dr. Eggman is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, Dr. Eggman is busy activating his new E-100 Robots. Using animals as batteries, he locks the captured creatures inside the robots, making them fully functional. The E-100's step down, ready to serve their master. Before them, a metal door slides open, revealing a number of Sonic shaped balloons. Eggman tells them to destroy the targets. The machines fire a barrage of missiles, annihilating the Sonic-targets. Eggman is pleased with his new robots. Decoe and Bocoe step forward with a laptop, issuing the robots individual numbers and codenames: E-101: BETA, E-102: GAMMA, E-103: DELTA, E-104: EPSILON. Eggman chuckles evilly, already he has the Red Chaos Emerald in his possesion. After admiring the gem for a minute, he orders Decoe and Bocoe to take-off. From the depths of the sea, Eggman surfaces his new vessel: The EGG CARRIER! Transforming it into attack mode, Dr. Eggman wings off to begin his plans of world domination. Back in Station Square, Cream and Cheese receive a gift from Chris's mother, the Yellow Chaos Emerald! Seems she found it on one of her movie locations. She has to cut their time short, as she is needed back on the movie set. Giving her son a big hug, she leaves for work. Outside, Cheese has a run-in with Froggy. As the pair lie dazed Big come tromping up, trips, and nearly flattens Chris and Cream. Froggy bounces off again. Saddened, Big helps Chris and Cream up. The two decide to help the lummox to find his pal pollywog. After a number of hours looking, they find no sign of Froggy. As evening draws on, they wind up near the park. Hearing a sound in the bushes, they investigate. A puddle of moving water flows from the shrubs, quickly forming into CH@OS 0! Cheese seems to recognize the beast, but Cream snatches him away from Chaos. Chaos turns away from the group, and proceeds to wreck havoc, tearing up lamps, smashing benches, chasing citizens. On the rooftops downtown, Sonic is still enjoying his return when he spots cop cars and choppers converging on City Hall. The police have cordoned off the area, while Chaos bubbles under a manhole cover. Reemerging, he is peppered with pistol fire, the bullets harming him not a whit. The stunned cops retreat, Chaos smashing their cars. The crowd flees, but help has arrived. Sonic leaps from the buildings, holding off Chaos from persuing the people. Chaos strikes, but Sonic is too fast. He lands on Chaos' head, but Chaos just shrugs the hit off. Sonic decides to finish him off, runs up a skyscraper, then hurtles down in a Sonic Spin, blasting Chaos apart. Chaos retreats under the manhole, just as Eggman shows up in the Egg Mobile. After some gloating, Eggman takes Cream's Emerald with the Mobile's robotic arm and tosses it to Chaos. Chaos absorbs the Emerald, transforming into CH@OS 1! Chaos is now bigger and stronger, chaos energies flowing through him. Eggman laughs fiendishly, claiming that as Chaos devours more Chaos Emeralds, he gets bigger and badder. Soon he will destroy Station Square, and on it's ruins Eggman will build Robotnikland! Eggman orders Chaos to attack, but before blows are exchanged, Knuckles shows up. Seems Knux is ticked off that Eggman blew up the Master Emerald in order to free Chaos. Eggman deals with this new development by throwing Chaos his Red Chaos Emerald. The monster reforms as CH@OS 2. Chaos attacks, while Sonic and Knuckles split up. Sonic tries to Sonic Spin him again, but now he has an electrical barrier blocking the spin. Knuckles lands a punch, but is instantly batted away. Chaos fires a jet of water strong enough to cut through metal. Sonic grabs Knux, and they leap to safety. Chaos uses his water jet to start cutting down trees, collapsing buildings, and nearly hitting Chris. Sonic and Knuckles attack in unison this time. Knuckles starts whaling on Chaos, while Sonic waits for an opening. Chaos' energy field hurtles Knuckles away. Sonic drops on Chaos with another Sonic Spin, but Chaos still forces the hedgehog back. Knuckles attacks again, this time punching as fast as possible, keeping Chaos occupied. Knuckles hit so fast that Chaos' energy field is overloaded, dropping his defenses. Sonic, in the meantime, was gathering as much speed as possible, blowing right through Chaos in a powered up Sonic Spin. Chaos is knocked out, dripping away into a loose puddle. Eggman is downright shocked over the defeat of his monster. He tractor-beams Chaos into the Egg Mobile. Vowing revenge, the Doc hightails it into the darkness. The sky overhead flares with lightning, Sonic sensing that Eggman and Chaos will be back. To Be Continued! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This review was written by Eli Sheldon aka 'SHADOWBOT' - used with her general permission.