EPISODE 30 "Egg Carrier Battle!" The Episode starts off with a quick recap of last episodes finale. Tails has transformed the Tornado, batting away missiles with it's shield and spike. Tails maneuvers in above the Egg Carriers deck, suddenly remembering that the plane has no landing gear in this mode! The Tornado smacks into a bulkhead with a crash. On board the Egg Carrier, the Triple Threat is ready to rumble. Sonic roars ahead of his friends, drawing Eggman's fire. Eggman orders a missile barrage, Decoe and Bocoe complying. Missiles fly, exploding just behind the speeding Sonic. Turning around, he screeches to a stop in front of Tails and Knuckles. After a second of talking, Sonic spurts ahead, a missile smacking into the deck where he just was. Taking his leave of the pair, Knuckles jumps into the hole, to search below decks for his precious Master Emerald shards. Sonic tells Tails that Knux can go do what he wants, they have to find Amy. Sonic blurs off, Tails flying along behind him. On the bridge, Eggman continues to monitor the meddling animals. Calling Gamma over the intercom, he orders his robot to the main deck. Elsewhere on the flying battleship, Amy and Birdie have managed to escape from the confines of the interior. Amy mutters about Eggman sending E-102 after Sonic, when Decoe and Bocoe show up to recapture them! The lackeys back off rapidly when Amy hauls out her Piko Piko Hammer, but Eggman grabs her mallet from behind. On the level above them, Sonic admonishes Eggman about being nice to little ladies. Amy goes starry-eyed, then whacks away Eggman, Decoe, and Bocoe. Slamming her hammer into the bulkhead, Amy knocks Sonic and Tails off, the pair landing on Eggman! The Doc looks like he has seen better days. The insults are interrupted by Decoe again, grabbing Birdie with a spring-armed clamp. Eggman throws off Sonic and Tails, pushing Amy away before taking Birdie from the clamp. He removed the locket, popping out the Dark Blue Chaos Emerald. Decoe passes the bird back to Amy, who comforts the fowl. At that moment, E-102: Gamma emerges from the hatch. Asking for orders from Lord Eggman, the Doc sics his robot on Sonic. Gamma and Sonic do the standard face-off, Amy trying to halt the fight before it begins. Sonic begins to listen, but Gamma does not. E-102 sucker-shoots at Sonic, who dodges wildly from the spewing lead. Sonic races down the deck, Gamma firing it's jet pack to pursue the hedgehog from the air. The barrage continues, explosions rocking the vessel. Amy tries to stop the duel, but to no effect. As an explosion hurtles a piece of the deck into the air, Sonic leaps up onto it. Gamma fires again, as Sonic turns the debris into a makeshift shield. Bouncing on the metal, Sonic pushes it at E-102, who takes it on the chin. Gamma recovers fast, but Sonic kicks another decking part at the robot, bringing the robot down for good. E-102 lands hard. Sonic rushes forward to blow away the bot, but Amy steps in, telling Sonic enough. Sonic tells her that Gamma is an Eggman killing machine, and it needs to be stopped. Amy replies that the droid helped her, that it is her friend. Sonic relents, just as more explosions boom from the Egg Carrier. Tails looks around, realizing that the Egg Carrier is losing altitude. Eggman snarls madly, then runs back into the ship with Decoe and Bocoe. Tails alerts Sonic to the escaping Eggman, who then tells him to get Amy off the flying fortress. Sonic tells Tails to fly her down to the surface, as Amy tries to wake the damaged E-102. Tails looks confused for a minute, finally nodding in agreement. Sonic runs off into the Egg Carriers depths. Tails tells Amy that they have to go, but Amy only continues talking to the hurt machine. E-102 reboots, seeing Amy in it's optic sensors. Amy tells Gamma that he does not have to listen to Eggman anymore. Tails whirls his tails, picking up Amy. Amy gives a final farewell before disappearing below the Egg Carrier. E-102: Gamma staggers to his feet, activates his jet pack, and roars away as well. In the Egg Carrier, Chris and Big have found the captured Froggy in the center of a large room. Chris starts to move toward the caged tank, until the booby-trapped flooring drops out around it. Now Froggy is stuck on a pillar, with the ship tilting wildly, and a LONG drop on all sides. Big bites his fingers, telling Froggy not to move. Above the countryside, Tails and Amy come across Chuck in the Thorndyke car. Chuck drives the pair back to Station Square, Tails glancing into the sky, where Sonic is still fighting on Eggman's flagship. The Egg Carrier continues to be blasted. The source of the explosions turns out to be Knuckles, who was busy burrowing into the delicate machinery to find his missing Emerald shards. With a shake of his head, Knuckles picks up his gunnysack of gems. As the Egg Carrier careens around the sky, Knuckles is approached by Tikal once again. Again in the past, Knuckles finds the countryside aflame. Spotting Tikal unconscious at the base of the Master Emerald altar, Knuckles hurries to her side. Tikal whispers of a monster that destroyed everything. A loud roar is heard in the distance. Knux eyes the area worriedly. Tikal gets up, running up the steps toward the glowing Master Emerald. Knuckles tries to tell her to wait, but a bright light blinds him... Knuckles once again finds himself back on the Egg Carrier. The ship is falling to earth fast. Big is still running around in a fit, Chris trying to get the cat to calm down so they can save his pollywog pal. The two simmer down over a couple of sodas from an Egg Drink machine that happened to be nearby. Trying again, Big thrusts out his fishing pole, Chris inching out to the tip. Leaning out, Big can almost get Chris in reach of Froggy's tank. Making a grab, Chris slips, hanging on tightly to the pole. Upside-down now, Chris lets go with his hands, hanging on the pole with his feet. Froggy is saved! The trio run to sunlight on the flight deck, only to find CH@OS 4 and Dr. Eggman waiting for them. Chris cries out for Sonic. Eggman spots Froggy in Big's grasp. He orders Chaos to get the frog, who has swallowed a Chaos Emerald and possesses his own tail. Chaos advances, walking on it's flippers. Chris and Big beat feet, but Chaos leaps over them, causing Big to smack into his bulk. Big is dazed, and Froggy is taken by Eggman. Squeezing on the amphibian's stomach, he forces him to expectorate the Purple Chaos Emerald. With a wave of a handkerchief, Eggman now holds both the Dark Blue and the Purple. The madman tosses them into Chaos, who reforms into CH@OS 6. Flying above his servant in the Egg Mobile, Eggman drops Froggy, who is absorbed by Chaos. Big rushes forward, jumping to save his friend, but he only lands hard against Chaos' side. Chris gives it a try, climbing on Big and up on the water beasts back. Chaos tires of the interlopers, using his tentacles to absorb Chris and Big as well. Trapped inside of Chaos, Chris watches as the Chaos tail disappears from Froggy and sprouts from Chaos. Eggman is ecstatic. Only one more Chaos Emerald to go! His revelry is interrupted by Sonic booming out from the Egg Carrier's power core. Sonic drops toward Chaos, who throws it's tentacles at the hedgehog. Grabbing one, Sonic grinds down the appendage, denting Chaos. Sonic tries to reach Chris, but Chaos reforms again, bouncing Sonic from the dent. Eggman yells for Chaos to attack. Chaos complies, sweeping Sonic from his feet with his many tentacles. Sonic is being pounded hard. With a laugh, Eggman tells Chaos to finish his adversary. Sonic awaits the final blow, which never comes. Knuckles is back, holding away the tentacle with his gloved fists. Sonic and Knuckles plan for a second, then leap to the attack. Zooming forward, Knuckles brandishes his Shovel Claw, using it to literally carve away Chaos's head. Sonic seizes his chance, using the monsters momentary weakness to smash it with a Sonic Spin. Chaos is finished again. Chris and Big breath deep, while Knuckles picks up one of the six Chaos Emeralds that Chaos had absorbed. The Egg Carrier can't take anymore. Sonic tells Chris and Big to take the X Tornado off the ship. Eggman tries to sneak away unnoticed, but Decoe and Bocoe blow their masters cover. Sonic quickly leaps on the Egg Mobile, the craft spinning off wildly. Chris and Knuckles find that Big has already strapped into the Tornado and fired it's engines. They run toward the plane, yelling at him to wait. The aircraft takes off, Knux and Chris hanging onto the wings for dear life. Only Decoe and Bocoe are left. After a bit of deliberation, they leap from the deck, pulling their chutes. At the Thorndyke's, Amy is wondering if Sonic is OK. She talks to Birdie some more, asking about how she had obtained a Chao Emerald for her locket. The Locket clicks open, revealing Birdie and her family. Amy asks if Eggman had also captured them. Birdie gives her a nod. At this, Amy stands up, eager to find Birdie's parents. With a cheep, Birdie follows. In the meantime, Sonic has landed in the jungle of the Mystic Ruins. Head buried in the earth, Sonic spins his feet, trying to find purchase to pull himself free. A little later, he pulls loose, his speed careening him though a few trees. Rubbing his head, Sonic glances up, spotting the Mystic Ruins Temple before him. In Station Square, it looks like the President's assistant has fallen on hard times. He is reduced to grubbing for food in alley dumpsters. Guess the guy is a true political hack. He also seems to be a bit crazy. At that very moment, Dr. Eggman appears in the Egg Mobile. Spying the evil scientist, the man raves at him, saying that he is the reason he was fired from the President's cabinet. Offering him an item, Eggman drops it to the alley floor. With a deranged laugh, he stumbles forward, eager to find out what the item is. When he gets close, he gets a little suspicious, asking Eggman what it is. Eggman tells him it's a missile. The cubed-shaped item begins to expand, it's mechanisms building it up into a gigantic rocket! Scarlet Garcia immediately hits the airwaves, alerting the entire world that a huge explosive has been found in the city. Eggman activates the missile, waving goodbye to all of the people. The rocket jets skyward. Dr. Eggman bids farewell to the city that caused him so many problems, flying off to relax in his Final Egg Base, humming his cartoon theme. As the Egg Missile whistles over the city, Tails spots it and gives chase from the air. The missile lands in the freeway, nearly smashing a number of cars and punching a hole through the overpass. Tails lands amid a crowd of spectators, just as Bokkun floats up. Pulling out his TV, he tells the people that Dr. Eggman has a message for them. Eggman tells the assembled townsfolk that the missile is set to go off at any moment. As the crowd flees, Eggman also tells Bokkun that he will go out with the blast as well. Tails wonders what Sonic would so in this situation, and realizes that he would try to stop the bomb. Station Square citizens gather around Tails, begging with their eyes for him to do something. Flying up, Tails disassembles the wiring cover, while Bokkun circles in the background, counting down to the bombs detonation. Tails is conflicted between the red and blue wires. He picks one, then the other, never making up his mind. He thinks back to the day he first met Sonic on South Island. Making his decision, he cuts the red wire with his clippers. The bomb is deactivated, Tails gives a happy cry, and the crowd goes wild. Tapping his shoulder, Bokkun shakes his hand in gratitude, then calls him an idiot as he flies off to rejoin Dr. Eggman. At that very moment, Tails wonders what became of his airplane. Near the Mystic Ruins, Big brings the X Tornado down roughly. The guys, expelled from the craft after hitting some trees, take a breather from their close call. Knuckles is the first up. When Chris asks the echidna where he is off to, Knux says Angel Island. Crossing a bridge, Rad Red disappears into the jungle. Big wakes up, wondering aloud where they are. When Chris reminds the cat that they are in the Mystic Ruins, the X Tornado finally slips from the braches of the trees and slams into the sand. Chris sees a glow issuing from the hole where the Tornado hit, and recovers the final Chaos Emerald, the Grey. With a yell, Chris hauls off after Knuckles, while Big and Froggy swim down the lake back to their pad. To Be Continued! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This review was written by Eli Sheldon aka 'SHADOWBOT' - used with her general permission.