Enerbeam

"We need to open that gate. We won't be able to budge that ourselves. Let's use the Enerbeam to move it into place."

- Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric

Enerbeam is a device utilized in Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric and Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal. It is an energy tether the player can use to pull and latch onto objects for either combat, puzzle solving or exploration.

Description
Enerbeam, as its name implies, is a tether made of an energy beam that is formed from a metallic shackle. It consists of several lightning bolts intertwined to form a whip. It can extend when necessary, behaving much like a bungee cord. Its color matches its user's primary color (e.g. Sonic's Enerbeam is blue). The Enerbeam is a versatile device which can be used for many purposes, both for navigation and in combat.

In Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric the Enerbeams are colored according to the playable characters: Sonic's Enerbeam is blue, Tails' is yellow, Amy's is pink and Knuckles' is red. In Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal though, all the Enerbeams are purple.

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
In Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, the Enerbeam can be used to activate gimmicks or move objects by latching onto some objects and then pulling them or grab onto Ener-Rails and Zip Targets to travel through a level. In combat, the can be used to grab and throw enemies to damage them or pull protective shields away from enemies to expose them to attacks. The damage dealt with the Enerbeam can be increased with the Fastball Special Power Glyph

To use the Enerbeam to pull objects, the player must press on the Wii U GamePad and move the left stick. To lasso enemies, the player must press to grab them, aim with the left stick and release  to throw them.

Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal
In Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal every playable character and rival can use the Enerbeam from the start of the game. It is used to swing on grapple points or remove shields from certain enemies. With the Mega Grapple upgrade unlocked, the player can instantly destroy enemies when grabbling them instead of just removing their shield.

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
In Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, when Lyric was imprisoned, he was given four Enerbeam tethers to chain him in his tomb. When Team Sonic accidentally reawakened Lyric a millennium later, Lyric used the tethers to bind the team while he escaped. Tails managed to free the heroes though and then recalibrated them to suit their purposes. In the final battle Lyric uses them to capture them once again.

Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal
In Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal, the Enerbeams are some of the ancient technologies that were supposedly discovered by Amy and Tails when they were investigating some ruins. These Enerbeams were then given to Sonic, Knuckles and Sticks who used them to find Amy after she was kidnapped by Lyric. It is unknown how Shadow and Metal Sonic have one, although it is possible Lyric gave Shadow his while he was under his control and Metal Sonic had a device installed to mimic the Enerbeam.

Trivia

 * In early demos of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, the Enerbeam's name was stylized as "EnerBeam."
 * In an interview with Bob Rafei, it is implied that the Enerbeam tether idea came from the Ring Power gimmick from Knuckles' Chaotix.
 * The Enerbeam works very similar as the the Swingshot from the Ratchet & Clank series.
 * In Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal, Shadow, Sticks and Metal Sonic are able to use the EnerBeam, despite not showing any signs of having the ability in Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.