Bea the Bee

Bea the Bee is a character that appears in the Sonic Boom television series. It is a Bee Bot unit that was adopted by Amy Rose as a pet.

Concept and creations
Bea's robot model (the Bee Bot) was chosen out of Eggman's minions because the Bee Bot had a tighter alliteration.

Appearance
Bea is an average-sized Bee Bot, a robot which resembles a mechanical bee. She has a silver thorax with a cyan-glowing engine attached on each side by a short wing, a black-striped abdomen, a red stinger with a cyan tip, and two sets of transparent pink wings on her back. She also has a silver, rhombus-shaped head with a serrated mouth, two antennas and cyan eyes with slit-like pupils. Originally, her abdomen had yellow stripes, but these would be painted magenta by Tails to differentiate her from other Bee Bots.

Season two
Bea was originally a Bee Bot who got hurt from battling Team Sonic in an attempt to help Dr. Eggman steal the Fregosi Sapphire. However, Amy took pity on her and had Tails repair her, who gave her a personality chip. Naming her "Bea", Amy nursed her back to health and trained Bea to be her pet. Amy later hid Bea in Gogoba Village so Eggman could not take her back after he saw them, but Bea left when Eggman recalled her remotely. Bea then accompanied some Bee Bots identical to her, which kept Team Sonic from attacking them, who aided Eggman with a scheme and kept Team Sonic at bay. Due to Bea's training though, Amy would manage to single her out, only for Bea to get shot by Mega Bot. She was later repaired and repainted by Tails, who gave her a Fregosi Sapphire shard as a battery, and returned to Amy.

Personality
Bea is only capable of speaking in incoherent buzzing. Originally, she was just like any other Bee Bot: ruthless in battle, single-minded and unquestioningly dedicated to her leader's orders. While devoid of a personality, she did possess a degree of free will and emotional capabilities, allowing her to make her own choices and express certain opinons. Regardless of this, she was weak-willed and depend on Eggman to avoid being sent to the scrapheap, meaning she could not act independently for long before coming groveling back to the doctor. As per her programming, she would also only obey orders after being threatened.

After having a personality chip installed into her, Bea steadily rose above her programming and gained a more emotion-based personality. During her recuperation under Amy's care, Bea proved herself to be docile and accommodating, even in the presence of former enemies, eventually becoming a very affectionate and loyal, pet-like being. Early on though, she was still prone to respond aggressively, like when she fired lasers at a puppy for barking at her. After some training though, Bea became more calm and obedient, although she turned out to be a slow learner by nature. Like a dog, she will also wag her stinger when happy, make puppy faces in hopes of getting treats, and get positively motivated by the promise of treats.

Powers and abilities
Bea possesses the same abilities as other Bee Bots, but is a bit stronger than the average unit as a result of having a Fregosi Sapphire shard as her power source. She is, as such, capable of high-speed flight, almost matching that of Sonic's running speed, and is quite nimble and agile. Combined with her size, this make Bea hard to hit. For armaments, she possesses a stinger than can fire energy beams or small devices and tools with pinpoint precision, like Honeycomb Cage units or nails.

Bea possesses a couple of additional abilities. She has a laser targeting system on her forehead and she are capable of projecting talking holograms. She can as well detonate herself, although that ability will destroy her. As an Eggman robot, she is also able to receive power remotely from Eggman's lair.

Weaknesses
Being an Eggman robot, Bea originally relied on Eggman's lair to provide her with power. As such, should the lair run out of power, then she would too. This dependency was eliminated after Tails gave her a rechargeable battery (which later got switched out with a Fregosi Sapphire shard). Also, despite having technically defected from Eggman, she is still susceptible to the doctor's override codes which can bring her under Eggman's control again.

Specifications

 * CPU: Personality chip
 * Power source: Fregosi Sapphire shard

Amy Rose
Amy Rose is Bea's owner and the one responsible for her current existence. After Amy rescued her from the battlefield where she was left for scrap and let her have a personality chip, Bea accepted her attempt to nurse her back to health. Afterwards, the two of them became very close and did all sorts of activities together. While Bea was raised and trained by Amy, Bea became very fond of Amy and followed her everywhere. Even when Dr. Eggman took control of her systems, Bea's connection to Amy proved strong enough for her to react to Amy's commands. Also, after Bea woke up following her second destruction, the first thing she did was caressing Amy.

Dr. Eggman
Dr. Eggman was Bea's original owner and was build to serve him. At first, she was blindly loyal to Eggman and his orders. After being given a personality and developing a bond with Amy however, Bea left Eggman behind in favor of Amy. When they finally reunited, Bea took a complete disinterest in Eggman and even showed fear at his attempt to make her return to him by force.

Trivia

 * Bea was first revealed in a sneak peak for the second season of the Sonic Boom television series in Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice.
 * Bea can ingest materials like nuts and oil.