A Wild Win

"A Wild Win" is the forty-sixth episode of Sonic X.

Plot
Continuing the fight for the Chaos Emerald the fight left off with Knuckles fighting Chris, however Knuckles refuses to fight him. Chris tells Knuckles to give up, but Knuckles tells Chris to look and see who he has to fight next. Upon discovering that he has to fight Amy or Rouge, he gives up in horror. Amy and Rouge fought, ending in Rouge being the victor. Mr. Tanaka was up against Emerl, but forfeits. Mr. Stewart was suppose to fight Lucky, but runs away due to Scarlet Garcia recognizing him. In the semi-finals, Emerl was able to beat Lucky, without even touching him. And Knuckles faced off against Rouge, leaving Knuckles the winner. In the final round, Knuckles and Emerl fight. In the first few minutes, Knuckles overcomes Emerl, however, Emerl counterattacks him using Sonic's Homing Attack, and then gives him a beating. Cream eventually decides to throw a towel so Emerl would have to give up, but Knuckles forfeits the round before she does so. Meanwhile, Sonic got up to Eggman, and was able to knock him out.

With Emerl winning the tournament, he earns the Chaos Emerald. However, the Chaos Emerald's power causes him to go on a rampage, and starts attacking everyone at the tournament, and begins destroying the city. While Cream and everyone else does not know why Emerl is being destructive, Chuck Thorndyke believes that an "uncertain reaction" between Emerl and the Chaos Emerald caused him to be like this, and Eggman even finds out that Emerl was originally an ancient fighting machine.

Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, Amy, and Rouge try to stop him, but because Emerl is capable of copying abilities, none of them are able to succeed in doing so. Eventualy, Emerl lures the gang to a cliff, and then knock off Sonic and Knuckles off into the sea, only to be saved by Cream. Cream then tries to communicate with Emerl, but it does not have an effect on him.

Emerl then tries to attack Cream, but Sonic defends her, causing him to be punched critically. This of course, causes Cream to become shocked, so she and Cheese attack Emerl. During the fight, Emerl does not attack back at all, which first confuses Knuckles and Rouge, but Chuck then realizes that Emerl cannot copy multiple skills at once, giving Cream and Cheese enough time to hit him.

Cream and Cheese finally give Emerl the last kick, and then knock him off the edge, making him fall into the water. Before he is destroyed, though, he regains memory of when he first met Cream, Cheese, and the others. Emerl begins shedding tears, proof that he was not just a Weapon of Mass of Destruction, he also had a heart. He then explodes, leaving Cream and Cheese crying over his death.

Trivia



 * It is stated that Emerl can only copy the skills of one opponent at a time when fighting Cream and Cheese however when Emerl was attacking the tournament stadium and the people inside as well Sonic, Knuckles and Rouge attacked him directly at the same time and he managed to copy all three of them and counters them with a more powerful verison of their attacks knocking them each across the stadium arena which contradicts Emerl's ability to copy skill of one opponent at a time when fighting against Cream and Cheese.