The Ocean Tornado
The Ocean Tornado (オーシャントルネード号 Ōshan Torunēdo Gō?) is a ship from Sonic Rush Adventure. It is a large, wooden and metal sailboat partly built and captained by Marine the Raccoon. It is used by Marine, Sonic, Tails and Blaze to sail across the oceans of the Sol Dimension. It is colored brown, red, yellow and white and has eagle-shaped bowsprit and cannons. It was the second ship Tails built while stranded in Blaze's universe.
History
The craft's first appearance was in Sonic Rush Adventure. It was the second ship built by Tails, after the Wave Cyclone. It was built with the purpose of allowing Sonic to travel further than with the Wave Cyclone, but it cannot travel in shallow waters.
Materials Needed
The following Materials are needed in order to construct the Ocean Tornado:
- 5 Green Materials
- 5 Bronze Materials
Armament
Gun Turret
Described simply as "guns" by Tails, the gun turret fires standard projectile rounds. It is used mostly on lightly armored ships and aircraft as well as destroying projectiles and bombs sent by enemies. It has 6 rounds per magazine, but reloads incredibly fast.
Cannon
The cannon dishes out heavy damage against armored targets. It has 3 cannon balls per "magazine" but still only takes a fraction of a second to reload.
Flamethrower
The flamethrower is used to pick up lines of rings. The flames stay for about a second before disappearing. This is useful for dealing extra damage while pummeling a battleship with the cannon to destroy it faster. It has a very long reload time. It can be upgraded (the player can choose to upgrade it by going to Tails) so it has more fuel per magazine and the flames stay longer.
Archie Comics
Blaze and Marine about to rescue Shadow on the Ocean Tornado.
While Marine and Blaze the Cat were aboard the Ocean Tornado in the middle of the ocean, they found a drowning Shadow the Hedgehog who had just been kicked into the water by Metal Sonic. Marine and Blaze brought him aboard the ship where he explained how he and Metal came to their dimension.
They then traveled to Southern Island to find Metal Sonic attacking it in his search for that zone's Eggman. Shadow tried to turn Metal against Eggman, but was unsuccessful. Shadow and Blaze attacked Metal and launched him up into the air. Marine then used the Ocean Tornado's cannons to completely destroy Metal Sonic, leaving Shadow temporarily stranded until Blaze gave him her Chaos Emerald. (SU: #1)
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Trivia
- Even though it is classified as a sailboat, the Ocean Tornado's construction lends itself more to the form of a paddle-wheeler.
- The Ocean Tornado is the only sea vehicle from Sonic Rush Adventure to be seen in the Sonic Archie Comics.
- The Ocean Tornado's crashing due to a lack of brakes may be a reference to the Tornado's crash in Sonic Adventure, caused by a lack of landing gear.
- The name suggests that the Ocean Tornado is the Tornado adapted for water travel. This opens the possibility that Tails may have used fragments of his ruined plane to help in construction.