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"A Revolutionary Tale" is the sixty-eighth episode of the anime series, Sonic X. It first aired on 8 April 2005 and 18 February 2006 in France and the United States, respectively.

Appearances[]

Characters:

Races and species:

Songs[]

Japanese version[]

English version[]

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

Plot[]

The episode opens up with Rouge manipulating Bokkun on his pendant, making him serves orange juice while she takes a shower. Elsewhere on the ship, Dr. Eggman and his forces come across a group of humans battling the armada of Pale Bayleaf. The humans were completely overpowered with the Metarex ships, and the attacks were also homed at him too, and as a result, he sent Shadow to take care of them. Shadow then launched himself at the Metarex, destroying their battleships and flipping the table on them, until a Metarex ship came to Molly's ship to attack, but was quickly destroyed by Shadow. Molly looked at Shadow before he left, and during that time, the Metarex battleships were fleeing.

After that, Molly contacted Eggman to thank him for his help, while Decoe and Bocoe were whispering about Molly's beauty in which they were quickly got pound by Eggman. On their way to Cascade, Molly explained the events that lead to the planet as it is now, and their continuous efforts to bring it back as it was. Meanwhile, Eggman ordered Shadow who was aboard the Crimson Egg to get the Chaos Emerald on this planet without Rouge's interference, however, he was distracted by her.

Later, at one of the colonies inside Cascade, Shadow was recalling memories from the last major battle against the Metarex until getting caught in Molly's questions. Shadow while kept dismissing her, Molly expressed her respect and thanked him for the saving, and remarked his similar to the Black Wind in which she explained the legend to him. Finally, Shadow declined that and moved away from her and Rouge, much to Rouge's discontent.

Meanwhile, Eggman continued to receive honors following his assistance during the confrontation with Metarex. But unfortunately caught in a vortex of criticism after informing the soldiers that he cannot stay. Molly then came in time to calm things down. Molly summoned one of the soldiers, Leon, to see if he has found a Chaos Emerald lately. Although he did not know of it at first, he pointed that recently a precious stone fell on the planet and has been kept in a laboratory, after Rouge explained the case to him. Leo then entrusted Molly a security key so she can bring him a floppy disk. Molly, Shadow and Rouge left, while Leon remains at the base, unusually anxious after leading her to a trap.

Along the way to the lab, Molly while in her plane was questioned by Rouge about what lead up to the planet being ruined. In which she replied that the planet was rich and powerful until the Metarex's invasion. She then looked at Shadow while he was running alongside their ship and wished if she could have a similar power to the Metarex to protect her planet. After making it to the lab, Shadow retrieved the Emerald while Molly was going to recover the disk to Leon. But instead of it, she found a dynamite and it exploded. With his speed, Shadow warped Molly and Rouge to another distant, then Molly was wondering to why Leon tried to kill her.

A fleet of Metarex vessels then appeared on the scene. Shadow tried to call the doctor after exploring Leon's intention to give Eggman to the Metarex, but without success, all communications are cut. At the soldiers base, Leon finishes a conversation with one of Metarex kings. But he is surprised by Eggman who had seen very clearly in the plans of it. Leon had indeed intended to betray him as Shadow and Rouge said, and in exchange to the Metarex, so Pale Bayleaf would to spare the last survivors of Leon's planet.

Leon tries to hold the doctor, who still managed to escape through Decoe and Bocoe, which retrieved it in one of his giant robots. Meanwhile, Molly decided to return to the base, despite warnings from Shadow and Rouge for this useless sacrifice. Shadow however joined the fight. For his part, Robotnik gives a lesson to the team of fighters trying to capture it. The fleet of the Metarex having arrived, however instead of lending a hand to Leon and his comrades, they break the contract and decide to abandon them. Molly then arrived aboard her ship and tried to rally her old friends. But they dismissed her and preferred to give up and try to rally the strongest to avoid their death.

Broken, Molly remained aboard her ship while Shadow tried to comfort her. Molly however denied this reality, and rushed toward the flagship before Shadow can counter. Seeing her last smile, Shadow removed the Limiters from his wrists and flew through the Metarex's mother ship lasers and destroyed the whole fleet while Rouge was observing the scene.

At the end of it all, Shadow and Rouge looked out into a sunset in front of Molly's grave and Shadow gave the Chaos Emerald to Rouge, showing that he finally trusts her with an Emerald and tells her to give it to "Eggman" while he was walking away. Despite the damage, Pale Bayleaf survived, and communicated with Eggman.

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Regional differences[]

  • The beginning showing the Crimson Egg flying past asteroids is shortened in the dub.
  • The entire scene of Rouge in the bath forcing Bokkun to make her another drink for her was cut in the dub.
    • Oddly though, another scene with Rouge in the bath in an earlier episode (A Chilling Discovery) was not cut.
  • Pale Bayleaf suggests that "we should teach them (the humans) a lesson" in the dub. He says nothing in the original.
  • A scene of Decoe and Bocoe telling each other about how jealous they are over not having a leader as nice as Molly was cut from the dub.
  • A vintage effect was added onto the vision of Black Wind in the dub.
  • The explanation as to why Cascade is destroyed and abandoned was not shown or mentioned in the dub.
  • Before Eggman agrees to fight alongside the humans, the scene of Bokkun sneaking away and Decoe and Bocoe looking at each other in disbelief was removed from the dub.
  • The scene of Rouge trying to coax Molly from facing Leon was shortened in the dub.
  • In the Japanese version, Molly is killed by Pale Bayleaf's lasers, while in the English dub, she instead escapes and vows to return one day.
  • Molly's grave was digitally edited out of the ending in the dub since her death was cut (although its shadow can still be seen). It should also be noted that in the shot of Shadow throwing the Chaos Emerald to Rouge, the grave can still be seen next to him.
  • In the grave scene, Shadow's brief flashback of Maria was deleted since she did not die in the dub.
  • During the scene where Molly, Shadow and Rouge are heading towards the mine and Molly tells the story of her planet, "Fakery Way", the music that plays in the Mirror Room sections of Twinkle Park from Sonic Adventure, plays in the original Japanese version. In the English dub, this was taken out.
  • In the English dub, Pale Bayleaf tells Dr. Eggman that his luck is running out while communicating to him. In the Japanese version, he says nothing.

Title in other languages[]

Language Title Translation
Japanese こわれた星の上で On a Destroyed Planet
Chinese 茉莉的夢想 Molly's Dream
French Le rêve de Molly The dream of Molly
German Widerstandskämpfer Resistance fighter
Italian Storia di una rivoluzione Story of a revolution
Spanish La Caída de Un Planeta The Fall of the Planet
Russian Над уничтоженной планетой Above the destroyed planet

Trivia[]

  • This is the second episode of Sonic X where Sonic and his friends are absent, the first being "The Adventures of Knuckles and Hawk".
    • However, Sonic (in his super form) and Chris were both seen in a flashback.
    • Aside from episodes prior to her debut, this is the only episode in this season that Cosmo does not appear in.
  • Along with the episode featuring Cosmo's death, this episode is widely considered one of the most emotional ones in the series.
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