Now, we've just looked at the first series of Sonic X, also known as seasons 1 and 2.
But there was another series which many refer to as season 3,
which we'll be looking at right now.
It starts off with Super Sonic facing off with a mysterious and tough foe.
This foe would like the Chaos Emeralds,
but Sonic, as a last resort, spreads the Emeralds across the universe
and then loses his power.
Meanwhile, a mysterious visitor from space happens to crash land
and wishes to tell her story to no one else but Sonic.
Sonic is found and taken care of by Eggman.
Wait
What?
Eggman taking helping Sonic?
Well, it turns out their little war has become a game where one can't do anything without the other.
Soon after, the new enemy,
known as the Metarex
land on the planet to acquire the Planet Egg.
One could say it is like the planet's soul that keeps life stable and flourishing.
Everyone tries to fend of the Metarex,
but eventually fail.
Meanwhile, back on planet Earth,
6 years have passed and Chris Thorndyke, now 18 years old,
hasn't been able to let go of Sonic ever since his departure.
He has been working on trying to get the portal to work again so that he can visit Sonic once again.
He succeeds by using the Master Emerald as a materialization point,
but things don't really go according to plan.
Sonic!
Apparently someone didn't like Chris being older than Sonic.
After all that, the visitor, named Cosmo, finally tells them:
Many planets in space have fallen victim to these destructive machines.
Their goal is to gain control of the universe, by using violence.
To rule every planet, many planets in the Galaxy have been destroyed over the years.
They come to these planets, to steal the Planet Eggs and lock it inside a crystal.
I don't understand what their true ambition is,
but I know that those planets rot away.
When the Planet Egg is stolen, its planet rots away and dies.
So now they have to travel into space in order to collect the Chaos Emeralds,
beat the Metarex,
and return with the Planet Egg before their world is completely gone.
Now tell me if the basic story here sounds familiar:
7 magic items get spread across the universe,
and now our heroes have to gather them up
in order to prevent a disaster from happening on their home planet.
Anyways, in order to get this ship to travel across light years of deep space in seconds and have a chance against the Metarex,
they need a powerful power source.
I'm sure Knuckles won't mind.
What are you doing!
They get off to a shaky start,
but eventually get out there.
Sonic, spin to start!
OK!
However, following them close behind is Eggman and Rouge.
So, with the Master Emerald and any other Chaos Emeralds they come across as their Chaos Emerald radar,
they end up on many planets,
fight many Metarex,
return the Planet Eggs,
discover that the Metarex are creating fake Chaos Emeralds,
travel through strange phenomenons,
and Tails falls in love with Cosmo.
You're so pretty, Cosmo.
The view is pretty.
Ah, such young love...
Yuck!
Eggman follows our heroes in order to steal the Chaos Emeralds for himself,
Rouge tries to steal the Emeralds from anyone possible,
and we find that Shadow is revived and collects the Emeralds for Eggman.
Also, Eggman makes deals with the Metarex,
and they take turns breaking those deals.
We also learn that the Metarex and Cosmo are the same species, and are plant life forms.
Long ago these plants were at war with the animals.
The plants could transform themselves in order to get the upper hand,
but at the price of drastically shortening their life.
The female plants prepared to leave the planet,
while the male plants were researching in how to transform without dying.
They were successful by using Planet Eggs,
but ended up being monsters themselves.
The females tried to stop this by bombing the planet,
but some survived, now known as the Metarex.
Their mission is to create a perfect universe of order and tranquility,
by having the plants consume the animals with the help of Chaos Emeralds.
They finally confront the Metarex,
but because they have all 7 of the real Chaos Emeralds
the big transformation starts and it all looks hopeless.
With the help of Eggman's ship's power and the Master Emerald,
they deliver a big blast to hopefully end it all.
It seemed to work as the Chaos Emeralds were neutralized by the Master Emerald,
but the Metarex doesn't want to give up just yet.
He creates a cocoon that will protect him and sends out energy transferring waves that will take the energy from the animals and give them to the plants.
With the Chaos Emeralds, Sonic and Shadow turn super,
and with the help of the Planet Eggs
they barge in and give the Metarex cocoon a good thrashing.
But the Metarex is a stubborn guy who decides to compress all the energy and blow up the whole universe.
While people try to figure out if using the cannon with super ammo will work,
Cosmo has a revelation.
Cosmo.
You can do this.
You just have to use your crystal to save your friends and everyone else.
I'm the only one who can do it.
She does her final transformation,
and goes off to contain the black ball.
But this won't permanently suppress the Metarex and she...
She asks Tails...
To shoot her.
Cosmo.
That sure is dark...
To ask her boyfriend to kill her.
After some time of Tails agonizing over the whole ordeal,
he finally...
Sends the 2 super colliding hedgehogs to...
Man, can this get any sadder?
Actaully...
Hello, Reyn?
Could you play for us a sad tune?
*SNURFFLE*
So anyway...
The Planet Eggs get freed and are returned to their rightful planets, and everyone returns home.
While Chris thinks about how he's going to live on Sonic's world,
he gets a message from Eggman saying that he can return Chris to Earth.
Eggman says there is only a small window of opportunity left, so Chris can't go around and say goodbye to everyone.
But I think he just wanted to get rid of the person that can rival his genius as fast as possible.
And so life returns to normal with Eggman taking over the world, and Sonic & Co. fighting him off.
So that was Sonic X, the last of the Official Sonic Animated Cartoons as of yet.
It seems to be as fun as Adventures or Underground,
though I'm not sure about the seriousness of it...
But why did we have to take two weeks?
It was because they ignored us, and left to play by themselves.
That's right!
We are very essential to this program...
Not to forget, Eggman Sir is also very essential.
What? Too small?
I could not see it, so merge again?
Then WATCH IT WITH A BIGGER TV!
There are some inconsistencies like...
Sonic is unable to breath in a liquid atmosphere,
and yet he has no problems breathing in nothing?
Both Eggman and Chris use spacesuits so we know there's no oxygen out there,
but the rest of the anthropomorphic animals seem to have no problems
breathing,
speaking,
and navigating
through an atmosphericless space.
Well, seeing as this was made by Sonic Team and they know how Sonic rolls,
I guess this is the official story to Sonic's life.
Though another inconsistency seems to crop up.
If Sonic and everyone else was returned to their own world,
why do we keep seeing humans in Sonic games that came out after this series?
I know at least 2 of them involve parallel dimensions.
Though I suppose they may not be in any chronological order,
but by the looks of things, it doesn't look like Sonic Team can keep much consistency.
So, out of all of these, what would my rating be?
Actually, I'm not good at stars so lets just make a list, ok?
As my number 1 with most consistency:
Well, of course it had to be...
Number 2 would be the Archie Comics,
for their serious parts in the later comics.
Number 3 would be Sonic the Hedgehog the OVA.
And...
Maybe Sonic X gets the 4th place,
though it could be tied with the others.
So out of all of this, is there any real Sonic Canon out there?
Well, with the freedom of parallel universes, dimensions or realities,
I guess anything goes...