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Sonic X episode 1 "Enter: sonic the hedgehog" transcript

Moonlit night; Big the Cat and Froggy are sleeping at the side of a lake, and are woken by sirens in the distance.

Eggman's base; two tank-like robots shoot at Sonic, but he easily dodges them. More robots shoot missiles in all directions, which home in on Sonic but explode harmlessly behind him as he continues running towards the base. Several more robots step out of alcoves and start chasing Sonic around the base. Sonic runs over a circular platform that springs up, launching him into the air, and one of the robots punches him away.

TAILS:
Sonic!

Tails flies the Tornado through the base, with Amy in the passenger seat, but some bullets hit the side of the Tornado.

AMY:
Yaah!

Smoke pours out of the bullet holes.

AMY:
It's smoking! What are we going to do Tails?

TAILS:
It's all right Amy! Just a bit further....

Tails pushes a lever and a missile shoots out of the Tornado towards Sonic. The nose of the missile breaks off, and a ring falls out into the forest where Sonic fell. There's a flash of light and Sonic flies back towards the base, glowing.
He smashes the tank-robots one after the other, then pushes one of the larger robots back into another, and goes straight through both, destroying them. A third robot tries to crush Sonic with its fist, but punches the floor instead, and promptly gets smashed by Sonic, who flies up through a window in Eggman's tower.

TAILS:
Hold on, Amy!

The Tornado makes an emergency landing, scrapes along the ground but fails to lose much speed. Amy notices they're heading straight for a huge rock.

AMY:
Look out!

TAILS:
I can't!

Just as they're about to hit the rock, Knuckles smashes it, and the Tornado comes to a stop.

Knuckles! Thank you!

KNUCKLES:
Hm!

He turns his back to them.

TAILS:
Knuckles....

AMY:
What's with that attitude?

Knuckles watches the distant explosions in Eggman's base.

KNUCKLES:
(To himself) Woah, he's really gone too far.

Eggman's tower; Alarms sound, emergency bulkheads slam shut.

DECOE:
Lord Eggman, all bulkheads are in place.

EGGMAN:
Very good. Why must that pest Sonic always interfere?

Cream and Cheese are imprisoned inside a glass capsule.

CREAM:
That's obvious, Mr. Eggman. It's because you're always doing nothing but bad things!

EGGMAN:
Well, he's too late! When the last chaos emerald is inserted in this machine, my mecha will have infinite power.

Eggman holds up a red chaos emerald.

CREAM:
No! Please stop!

CHEESE:
Chao chao chaooo.

CREAM:
That's right, Sonic won't let you!

Rouge sits on a platform near the ceiling and laughs to herself.

EGGMAN:
All bulkheads are in place. He won't be able to break in that easi....

Before Eggman has finished his sentence, Sonic breaks through a door.

CREAM:
Enter Sonic!

EGGMAN:
Aiya.... no matter!

Eggman shoves the chaos emerald into the machine and furiously pushes buttons, then holds up a device.

I'm a step ahead of you. So, all I have to do is press this button. Mwahahahaha!

SONIC:
How about I just take it from you?

A robot emerges from the smoke behind Sonic.

EGGMAN:
I'd like to see you try it.

The robot shoots at Sonic, but he predictably dodges the bullets.

SONIC:
Too slow!

EGGMAN:
Get him!

Rouge ducks behind a pillar as bullets fly all over the place.

That's it, keep shooting!

Sonic jumps between the robot and Eggman, then as the robot turns to shoot him, he dives out the way.

Waah! S-s-stop!

The robot shoots, Eggman ducks, and the bullets hit the machine behind him.

What'll I do?

Sparks fly out of the machine.

Ahh, it's broken!

Everyone looks shocked as the machine glows brightly, enveloping everything in light. Beams of light stream out of Eggman's tower and a sphere of light expands outwards.

AMY:
What the?

KNUCKLES:
Chaos control.

First Big and Froggy, then Tails, Knuckles and Amy are engulfed by the sphere of light.

Sonic is lying on the ground unconscious, and it isn't clear where he is as he wakes up.

SONIC:
Wah? This isn't good. It's not that I just passed out.

He sees the headlights of a car coming towards him.

Wha-what the?

Sonic dashes out of the way, then dodges another car coming from the other direction. Then a lorry stops in front of him, and he finds himself surrounded by cars. Sonic looks around confusedly at the buildings, then the humans.

What is this place? And what are they?

DRIVER:
What is THAT?

SONIC:
Jeez, it's noisy.

POLICEMAN 1:
What is it? A hedgehog?

POLICEMAN 2:
Imagine, someone abandoning it here. Hey there. It's all right, so come here.

POLICEMAN 1:
Are you sure he won't bite?

POLICEMAN 2:
It's all right. I have three cats at home. C'mon.

SONIC:
Huh!

POLICEMAN 1:
Hey, he's giving you a really sassy look.

POLICEMAN 2:
Didn't you hear me?

The policeman tries to grab Sonic.

Gotcha! Huh?

Sonic dodges him.

POLICEMAN 1:
Why you little!

POLICEMAN 3:
Hey, hey. The police don't mistreat animals.

POLICEMAN 1:
But sir....

POLICEMAN 3:
You, stand right over there.

POLICEMAN 4:
Yes sir!

POLICEMAN 3:
Then on my signal, everyone jump him. Move in slowly.... now!

The police all jump on Sonic.

POLICEMAN 4:
I have his leg!

POLICEMAN 1:
I've got his arm!

POLICEMAN 3:
Okay, on the count of three, everyone drag him out. One, two, three!

They all pull, but they're holding each others arms and legs, and Sonic is sitting on top of a nearby car.

POLICEMAN (O.S.):
What happened? Where did that hedgehog go?

Sonic shrugs his shoulders, and suddenly a net lands on top of him.

POLICEMAN 5:
Look, I've caught it!

Sonic starts running, dragging the policeman along by the net.

POLICEMAN 3:
Stop him!

All the policemen grab the net and are dragged along. A police car skids to a halt and Sonic runs over it, sending the dragged policemen to fall through the car window.

Emergency! Emergency! There's a giant blue hedgehog running wild in town! Block off all roads and don't allow civilian traffic onto the highways!

Two policemen are driving along the highway in a car.

DRIVER:
Did he say, "a blue hedgehog"?

PASSENGER:
Hahaha! You know, if we caught that thing and sold it off, we'd be rich. It's gotta just be some flashy, souped-up car.

DRIVER:
Yeah, calling something like that a hedgehog was probably just a joke.

Sonic lands on the hood of the car.

SONIC:
I must have been transported somewhere.

He jumps off and runs ahead of the car into the distance.

PASSENGER:
Um.... how fast are we going?

DRIVER:
120 clicks.

N.B. Clicks means either kilometres per hour, or just kilometres.

PASSENGER:
Yeah?

A helicopter is in pursuit.

HELICOPTER PILOT:
What? Are you saying the patrol cars aren't good enough? Isn't it running down the street?

CO-PILOT:
Is that it?

They direct the spotlight to where Sonic is running along the highway.

HELICOPTER PILOT:
Moving to capture target. Heading north on Central Street. Getting on route 101.

POLICE IN CONTROL CENTRE:
Roger. Patrol number 85, the target is approaching your position. You'd better get ready.

The police have blocked the road ahead of Sonic with barriers and cars.

POLICE AT ROADBLOCK:
We're in position. To get past us, it'll have to dig underground or fly through the air.

Sonic reaches the roadblock and leaps straight over it.

Um.... because it jumped 100 metres.

HELICOPTER PILOT:
This is chopper 3, chopper 3. We're pursuing at full speed, but.... um.... well....

POLICE IN CONTROL CENTRE:
It can't be.... Are you saying you've lost sight of him?

HELICOPTER PILOT:
Bingo!

POLICE IN CONTROL CENTRE:
Captain....

SAM SPEED:
Great. Been a long time since they've let us get fired up. S-Team, move out!

Alarms sound and a light changes from "STAND BY" to "CALLED OUT". Sam Speed and the S-Team head for the police garage.

What's the temperature tonight?

MECHANIC:
On the freeway, it's 15 degrees celsius. It's completely dry.

SAM SPEED:
And the wind from the west?

MECHANIC:
It's calm today.

SAM SPEED:
The weather is on our side.

MECHANIC:
Yes sir.

SAM SPEED:
Okay, I'm going with a medium-soft tire, 5 grooves.

MECHANIC:
Yes sir!

SAM SPEED:
All right. Men, to your vehicles!

He gets in his car and attaches the steering wheel to the dashboard.

MECHANIC:
I've set the 5th and 6th gears for high speed, because I added the special "milk" you asked for.

SAM SPEED:
Thank you.

The car engine starts and the dashboard lights up.

VOICE OVER RADIO:
Captain, the hedgehog in question was on route 101. They lost sight of him at post 58.

SAM SPEED:
Okay, understood. If everyone heard that, let's go!

The S-Team cars pour out onto the highway towards route 101.

Go!

Meanwhile, Sonic sits on top of a street light looking at the stars.

SONIC:
The night sky is the same. The stars, the moon....

Sonic recalls how he was brought here by Eggman's machine.

Is this the power of the chaos emeralds? Is this a different world? Have I travelled through time? Am I alone? Or has everyone come here with me?

Sonic stands up and speaks more confidently:

Well, that's okay. I'll figure it out sooner or later, right?

He sees S-Team approaching from a distance. They stop in front of him and Sam Speed steps out of his car.

SAM SPEED:
Hey, little blue hedgehog. Thanks for really stirring things up.

Sonic turns to leave.

Hold it. When someone's talking, you should listen til the end. This city - it's too peaceful. It's a place without any excitement. In the last year, we've only arrested one person. The idiot deliberately brought his formula machine onto the highway. He was pretending to be a racer. I wonder if he knew his fun would last for only two minutes. The guy was driving from place to place. Heck, in two minutes you can make ramen. Hey, that's the part where you're supposed to laugh.

SONIC:
Hm!

SAM SPEED:
Well, that's close enough. In this town, we're one of a kind. We're the Special High-Speed Highway Force, S-Team. The captain, that's me. People call me Highwest. Sorry my self-introduction was long. From here on out, it'll be quick.

S-Team start their engines and Sonic starts running. Sam Speed, still standing beside his car thinks to himself:

Please survive until I catch you.

The S-Team are chasing Sonic down the highway.

SONIC:
So you want to play tag with me, eh? This'll be fun!

S-TEAM DRIVER:
The hedgehog has poured on the speed. Raise rear wing 20 degrees, full throttle. 1.7 clicks, I'll take the side.

The car engines become red hot as they accelerate.

SONIC:
Yeah! You're not that guy from before.

The cars move around Sonic, boxing him in.

Uh oh. If this keeps up I'm gonna be smashed! But....

S-TEAM DRIVER:
He-he disappeared! Did we run over him?

Sonic knocks on the car window.

Huh?

Then Sonic looks down at the driver from on top of his car.

Hey, quit fooling around! That's really dangerous! What'll we do if some nice kid decides to imitate you?

SONIC:
Kids, NEVER stand on moving cars!

Sonic jumps off the car and runs ahead of them.

S-TEAM DRIVER:
He's trying to make a fool of the S-Team! I'll show him! Let's go! Everyone, FULL BOOST, tail wing 0.5 degrees!

S-TEAM:
Roger!

The S-Team accelerates, and the tail wings point downwards to keep the cars on the ground.

S-TEAM DRIVER:
Full throttle! ....what?

Sonic is still ahead of the S-Team, only now he's running backwards!

Th-that idiotic.... We're being mocked! What is with this guy? Captain, please do something! This is humiliating!

SAM SPEED:
Everyone move clear of the centre lane. It's time to set out my special "milk". I can't believe I actually have to use this. But on my highway, to pass me, that's something I absolutely cannot forgive! Super nitro - ON!

Sam pulls a lever and his engine fills with glowing fuel which gives him a sudden burst of speed, sending him past all the other cars and Sonic.

Out here, I can't accept that someone is faster than me. If you want to pass me, you'll have to break the sound barrier.

Sonic runs past Sam Speed's car, breaking the sound barrier.

Sonic boom!?

N.B. Sonic boom - the sound made when jets etc. cross the speed of sound.

It's over.

S-TEAM DRIVER:
Captain, the D-point!

Sam releases parachutes and slams on the brakes. Sonic doesn't stop, and flies off the end of the road into the air. He admires the view of the city.

SONIC:
The lights are so beautiful. And this place has some interesting characters. This might actually be fun.

Sonic notices he's falling towards a swimming pool.

Wha? A pool? Uh oh....

He struggles to avoid it, but lands in the water creating a huge splash which wakes up a boy living in the adjacent house. When Sonic hits the bottom of the pool he tries to jump out, then tries running to a ladder at the other side of the pool. He can't move fast enough though. As Sonic gives up, the boy jumps into the pool and drags him to safety. Sonic sits on the side of the pool coughing.

CHRIS:
Are you okay?

SONIC:
Yeah, thank you.

CHRIS:
You.... you can talk?

SONIC:
Naturally.

CHRIS:
Wow, you really can talk. I.... I'm Chris. And-and what's your name?

SONIC:
I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog!
END