Cruise Blues

"Cruise Blues" (Japanese: 出撃!エッグフォートII) is the twentieth episode of Sonic X. It first aired on 17 August 2003 and 14 February 2004 in Japan and US respectively.

Characters

 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Miles &quot;Tails&quot; Prower
 * Amy Rose
 * Cream The Rabbit
 * Cheese
 * Christopher Thorndyke
 * Nelson Thorndyke
 * Chuck Thorndyke
 * Ella
 * Edward Tanaka
 * Doctor Eggman
 * Decoe
 * Bocoe
 * Bokkun

Japanese version

 * Sonic Drive - Opening theme
 * Hikaru Michi - Closing theme

English version

 * Gotta Go Fast - Opening theme (USA and CAN)
 * "Sonic X" - Opening theme (AUS, NZ and UK)
 * Gotta Go Fast (shortened) - Closing theme

Places

 * Ship
 * The Glaciers
 * The ship's cabins
 * Thorndyke mansion
 * Deep ocean

Plot
The episode starts with Chris's Father offered Sonic and co. to a cruise to the glaciers, on a ship. They (except Sonic) are willing to board.Meanwhile, Eggman, Decoe and Bocoe tries to fix and reboot the Egg Fort but the craft fails to launch. Fustrated, Eggman introduced his 3 new inventions one for Decoe, one for Bocoe and one for Eggman.

Decoe and Bocoe didn't like the name of their machines and started accusing Eggman for not asking them what name is there to give their own machines. As they start arguing and arguing the scene changes. Chris is relaxing in his swimsuit with a drink but then Sonic comes to him on his knees to get him off the ship, "C'mon, pal! Can't you see I'm getting seasick here!?" Chris tries to tell Sonic that the ship is for him enjoy, but Sonic wouldn't listen, he just wanted to get off. Everyone else seems to be enjoying in the ship. Sonic had some plans to make. He is going to trick his friends so that he can get off.

Everyone went to the ship's room. They are all sitting in their couches, but then Sonic just dashes in front of them. They were shocked because they've never seen Sonic so hyper before. Amy was mad at Sonic's attitude and interrupted Sonic's run. She tells him to behave and try to make the ship fun for himself. Sonic then pretends that he fainted, Amy and the rest actually thought he fainted and decided to send a helicopter to take Sonic get back home. Sonic, very excited, gets up with joy because he's finally getting out of the ship. But when he opens the door of the helicopter, he sees many senior people coming out of the helicopter along with Tanaka. Sonic ignored them and was going to get into the helicopter. However, the helicopter left. Sonic, on his knees, is very sad that he has to stay in the ship because Tanaka forced him to stay and enjoy. The senior citizens start enjoying with Sonic and co. However, they were a bit annoying. An old lady was watching the clouds with Tails, but then Tails saw the clouds turning darker and began to feel scared. Another old lady was with Cream the old lady asked her, "So, you come from a different planet?" Cream said, "Yes! And since we got to this planet, everyone has been so nice to us!" then the old lady said again, "So, you come from a different planet?" Cream answered, "Yes!" and the process repeats frequently. Sonic was trying to get off the ship by "trying to fly", but it was no use, he kept on falling into the water. Amy wanted to be with Sonic and wanted to play a game with him, but he was too busy trying to get off the ship. An elderly man tells her, "It looks like really like that Sonic guy." Amy gets happy and says, "Really? Is it that easy to tell!?" then the elderly man says, "I'm sure Sonic feels the same for other girls!" Amy gets quickly mad and curious and asked him, "What girls are you talking about!?" Later, the scene changes to where Chris's house is. Bokkun goes inside the house but he sees no one inside Bokkun gets very sad that there is no one in the house and that he is so lonely. Then, Ella comes to him and consoles him. Naughty as ever, Bokkun tricked her by planting a bomb and ran away. This resulted Ella getting extremely furious. Back where Sonic was suffering, Sonic thought of a few sneaky ideas to trick Tails and Amy. He goes to Tails and tells him that the X-Tornado is 'awfully lonely' ever since they left. The fox feels guilty and begins to feel depressed because he's been rude enough to leave the X-Tornado all alone and thus, being tricked by the hedgehog. Now, Sonic goes to Amy, since he knows that Amy is crazy in-love with him, he tricked her that he loves her. Amy believed him and then Sonic said dramatically, "Perhaps I could go on if only you would swing that hammer once more!". Amy believed to what he said and started swinging her hammer as if she was insane. Sonic goes to Chris and Chuck and said that Amy has gone berserk. As Chris and Chuck were wondering why Tails was so depressed and why Amy was so hyper, they were discussing if they could turn the ship around. But, then, they saw Amy telling Cream that Sonic said to her that he loves her and that she's the cutest girl he's ever seen, especially when she swings her hammer. Chris understood that Sonic said that on purpose so he can get off the ship. Chris shouts Sonic's name and told him to behave.

Later, Amy found out that Sonic tricked her and started running after him so that she can whack him with her hammer (Sonic was on top of the pole so that he can get away from her) Amy started using her hammer to break the pole. The ship finally reached the glaciers. However, Eggman showed up and reveals his new Egg Fort 2. Sonic tried to stop him, but he wasn't able to, as he kept on slipping due to the ice. Later, Bokkun came and started crying because he didn't see Eggman for one day and that he is getting away from Ella. Ella comes with the X-Tornado and blasts off Eggman, with a little of Sonic's help.

In the end, the ship continues to sail back from where it started. Tails asks Sonic if he was still seasick, but Sonic finally got used to the ship and told Tails to relax.

Dubbing changes

 * The following scenes have been deleted from the English version:

These pictures show Chris playing chess with an elder.

Trivia

 * This is the first episode that two characters are seen playing chess with each other (although it is not shown in the English version).
 * Sonic tricks Amy by saying, "When you swing that little hammer of yours my heart beats a million times!" but when Amy tells Cream about this she says, "He said that his little heart beats everytime I swing my hammer!" but Sonic actually called the hammer little not his heart.
 * Although in the end of the episode, Sonic was okay with staying in the ship though that doesn't recover his phobia of water.
 * In the Japanese version, Cream states that she lived in Green Hill Zone.
 * In the Japanese version, Amy convinces Sonic to stop misbehaving by warning him about what fans of Sonic X would say to Sonic, thus breaking the Fourth Wall.
 * Ella is the first human to pilot the X Tornado.
 * According to Chuck in the English version, Ella can do anything she puts her mind to except cleaning windows. In the Japanese version, he said he taught Ella how to fly the X-Tornado when he was bored.
 * When Sonic comes up with a plan to get off the ship, he turns to the camera with a sly smirk, thus breaking the fourth wall.
 * The engine room of Eggmans' Egg Fort has the same appearance as the Wave Motion Engine from Star Blazers. The only difference is that it's colored blue instead of the usual red.
 * This episode reveals Sonic can move his ears, since he used them to eavesdrop on Chuck & Chris' discussion before Amy and Cream came in.
 * Chris also acts as the narrator for this episode.
 * This episode's English title is the same one as an episode of Sailor Moon.
 * One of the portraits on the wall at the beginning of the episode is of the RMS Queen Mary, but it has been mistaken as the RMS Titanic. The Queen Mary has three red funnels as seen in the picture, instead of four yellow ones like the Titanic.