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"Sonic Colors: Rise of the Wisps - Part 1" is the first episode in the Sonic Colors: Rise of the Wisps web series. It first aired on the official Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube Channel on 19 August 2021.
Synopsis[]
Something is rotten in Sweet Mountain! Dr. Eggman and his robot henchmen are devilishly up to no good. After narrowly escaping one of Eggman’s facilities, a lone Jade Wisp searches for help and comes across Sonic and Tails. Will Eggman and his robots be served their just desserts?[1]
Appearances[]
Characters:
- Cubot (flashback)
- Dr. Eggman (flashback)
- Jade
- Miles "Tails" Prower
- Metal Sonic
- Orbot (flashback)
- Rebel Wisps (flashback)
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Yacker
Races and species:
- Human (flashback)
- Wisp
- Blue Wisp
- Cyan Wisp (flashback)
- Green Wisp (flashback)
- Jade Wisp
- Orange Wisp (flashback)
- Pink Wisp (flashback)
- White Wisp
- Yellow Wisp (flashback)
Locations:
Items:
- Miles Electric
- Options Satellite
- Wisp Capsule (multiple)
Plot[]
Inside an undisclosed base of Dr. Eggman's on Sweet Mountain, there are various Wisps stored away in Wisp Capsules. These captured Wisps roll along a conveyor belt and fall into a pit with other imprisoned Wisps. It is then revealed that Orbot and Cubot are responsible for the base's operations, being the ones who deliver the captured Wisps into Eggman's alien drainer machines. However, the robot duo accidentally drop some of the Wisp Capsules, releasing some Wisps who try to escape. However, Eggman himself then enters the base and catches the loose Wisps with his bare hands. Eggman then proceeds to put his hand-caught Wisps in the alien drainer, laughing ominously in Tails' voice at the same time. It is then revealed that this sequence is a flashback, which Sonic interrupts. In reality, he and Tails are listening to a female Jade Wisp's - nicknamed Jade by Sonic - accounts of past events on Sweet Mountain, which are translated by Tails with his Miles Electric. Sonic explains that he interrupted Tails' explanation because he found his Eggman impression within the story, which he was rather into, to be hilarious. Tails thus, to his amusement, gives Sonic the offer to read out loud the Jade Wisp's story himself. Sonic pretends to decline, but takes Tails up on his offer because he has been working on his Eggman imitation.
Resuming the flashback, Sonic reads out an Eggman-style monologue. At first, he reads out loud the text on the Miles Electric faithfully. However, he begins changing his tone of voice and starts making up lines that make fun of Eggman. Eventually, Tails tries to interrupt him, but Sonic gets into the role as Eggman and pretends to get scared of himself. Immediately after, Tails asks Sonic to stop ad-libbing and read out loud what his translator actually says. Sonic explains that he found the original translation dry and wanted to spice up the story. As Yacker hands the Miles Electric back to Tails, however, Tails asks him to respect the Jade Wisp's background story and listen to what she has to say. Resigning himself and plopping down on the ground, Sonic asks the Jade Wisp to nevertheless add some fictional twists to her story if she sees fit. Apologizing on behalf of Sonic, Tails asks Jade to continue her tale.
Jade begins telling the story from where she left off, with Tails reading it out loud. She explains that Eggman left after capturing her siblings. However, the Jade Wisp satisfies Sonic's request for a plot twist with a made-up tale about how Eggman left in a cool car that ultimately exploded, followed by the appearance of a dinosaur, which Sonic appreciates. Nonetheless, the Jade Wisp returns to the accurate version of her story afterward, explaining that after Eggman left the base, he delegated Metal Sonic to watch over the Wisps and his aide robots. Orbot and Cubot in particular were ecstatic about working with a marvel of engineering like Metal Sonic. While Orbot was more accurate with his words about how happy he was to work with whom he considers his "big bro", Cubot's voice chip malfunctioned again, which caused him to speak out random announcements that interrupted Orbot. Responding to Metal Sonic's silence, they presented their task to him: to have the Wisps in the base processed and shipped out across the planet without doing anything stupid. All three of them then proceeded with their assigned tasks. However, while Orbot tried to impress the impartial Metal Sonic, Cubot's bumbling behavior embarrassed him in front of Metal Sonic.
As soon as the robots had their backs turned turned, a Blue Wisp rebel emerged from hiding, followed by a Green Wisp, Pink Wisp, Orange Wisp, Yellow Wisp, and Cyan Wisp, all of which sported similar rebel-themed attire and appearances. Taking advantage of Metal Sonic's attention to the processing of other Wisps, the rebel Wisps picked up a few Wisp Capsules with their siblings inside and destroyed them, thus freeing them. One of the freed Wisps was the Jade Wisp herself. Impressed by the rebel Wisps, the Jade Wisps tried helping them. She attempted to do so by phasing into Cubot without him realizing it, causing the robot to become temporarily intangible and the Wisp Capsules he was holding onto fell out of his grasp. However, her carelessness while flying around the base caught the attention of Metal Sonic. Frightened, the Jade Wisp flew away from Metal Sonic's grasp and hurried towards the rebel Wisps. However, the rebel Wisps scattered when the Jade Wisp reached them.
Metal Sonic started chasing Jade, while Orbot and Cubot tried to catch the other escaping Wisps. In the end, Metal Sonic managed to catch most of the rebel Wisps. Eventually, the Jade Wisp was cornered by Metal Sonic as well. However, the Blue Wisp rebel gets in between the Jade Wisp and Metal Sonic, turning itself into a giant cube that forces Metal Sonic to hack and slash at it with his claws. Jade then ends her story by remembering her escape and the Blue Wisp rebel's sacrifice, causing her to start crying. Tails and Yacker calm her down though, and the fox cub reassures her that Sonic will help free her friends. Noticing that Sonic is looking away from them however, Tails questions him on if he had been listening at all. To his surprise, a serious Sonic reveals that he has been listening all along, and that he has his mind set on getting back at Eggman's robot lackeys on behalf of Jade, but does not know where to find them. As Tails reveals from his translation of Jade's words that she can lead him there, Sonic tells them about how he does not tolerate bullies and promises the Jade Wisp that he will save her friends (although he asks her not to tell more stories). Sonic then rushes off, with Tails and Yacker following him. Jade then looks away briefly before following her departing friends.
At the same time, Metal Sonic places the captured Blue Wisp rebel in the alien drainer and turns it on.
Goofs[]
- Curiously enough, Sonic is able to read the Miles Electric's translation of the Wisp language despite it having been stated in Sonic Colors that the translated text is written in binary code which only Tails can read.
Trivia[]
- Cubot's voice clips in this episode are derived from the announcer's voice clips in Sonic Colors (voiced by Roger Craig Smith), specifically when Sonic is doing tricks on a Trick Jump Panel and announcing the "Rocket!" Color Power.
- In the Japanese dub, all of Cubot's announcer's voice clips are left in English, aside from the "Rocket!" Color Power line which is derived from the Japanese announcer (voiced by Fumihiko Tachiki).
- A dedication to the late Keisuke Nagai appears in the post-credits of this episode.
- The text "You are always with us in the life we lead" is derived from lyrics from the Sonic Unleashed song, "Dear My Friend"; "You are always with me in the life I lead".
Video[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sonic Colors: Rise of the Wisps - Part 1. YouTube. Sonic the Hedgehog (19 August 2021). Retrieved on 19 August 2021.
- ↑ 『ソニックカラーズ アルティメット』ショートアニメ「Rise of the Wisps」第1話 日本語吹き替え版. YouTube. SONICMOVIECHANNEL (19 August 2021). Retrieved on 19 August 2021.
- ↑ 【索尼克缤纷色彩:威斯的崛起】第一集(日语中字). Bilibili. SEGA Asia (20 August 2021). Retrieved on 20 August 2021.
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