Sonic Boom (transcript)

This is the English transcript of the SatAM episode Sonic Boom.

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[Various computer readouts are shown, then switching to a scene of Robotropolis at night. A small flying robot goes by the screen as the scene follows it around Robotropolis. A green shuttle-like robot crosses paths with the robot and the camera switches to the new robot, following it up a building's side. It approaches an entrance to the building while a scout vessel flies by. The robot enters the building and lands on a rotating platform. The platform rapidly declines down a shaft, with a display showing floor numbers. Once it reaches 51, a door opens and it drives through. Entering an industrial-like complex, it approaches another shuttle-like robot, this one yellow.]

Shuttle Robot: All secure.

[The robots go their separate ways, with the camera following the yellow one. It enters a hatch.]

[Nearby, through a shaft, Sonic is rushing along when he stops. He looks back and whispers loudly.]

Sonic: Come on! Come on! Get the old legsky out guys.

[ Antoine D'Coolette and Cat slowly catch up to Sonic, out of breath.]

Sonic: I'm waiting!

[He looks out a vent beside him and sees the green robot from earlier approach it.]

Sonic: Chill! Swatbot!

[Sonic, Antoine and Cat stand to the side as the vent opens. Using its arm, the bot shines a light into the shaft and looks around. After some time, the bot stops and opens its main glass compartment, revealing Sally Acorn.]

Sally: Hi guys.

[Sonic looks over as she exits the robot.]

Sonic: Bout time, Sal. You ready?

Sally: Ready!

Sonic: Okay guys, let's do to it. Cat, Antoine, you guys cover our backs. Any bots show up, give us the signal. Any questions?

Antoine: Yes, I have a question. What if...

[Sonic interrupts and leaves the shaft.]

Sonic: Cool.

[Sonic drops down to beside Sally.]

Sonic: I'm outta here. Let's lock-and-load Sal.

[The duo walk away from the area with Cat and Antoine watching from the vent.]

Antoine: Bon voyage!

Cat: Good luck!

[Sally and Sonic, in the industrial-like area from before, walk on-top of a ramp-like contraption. Above them is a large plane. Sally opens up a hatch on it, with Sonic boosting her up into it. The fuselage is full of electronics. Sonic remains outside, while looking in on Sally working.]

Sonic: Man, what is all this stuff?

Sally: It's the brains of the plane.

Sonic: And you're gonna do a little brain surgery, right?

Sally: More or less. First I have to break the access code, get into Robotnik's mainframe computer, and reprogram the launch data.

[Sally takes off a device from one of her boots and continues to work.]

Sonic: Then kaboom, these stealth butts are luncheon, yes?

Sally: They're luncheon, yes.

[Sally puts the device, NICOLE, into a slot on the station she's working with.]

Sally: NICOLE.

NICOLE: Ready, Sally.

Sally: Access main database.

NICOLE: Password, Sally.

Sally: Run decoding program for X.

[A holographic display appears with a grid. Numerous password combinations appear as NICOLE tries to determine it. It eventually stops on one word: Meteor. Sally looks at the display closely as Sonic, taps his hands on the metal frame of the fuselage impatiently.]

Sally: Sonic, do you mind?

Sonic: Not very well. (?), not hedgehogs.

Sally: Well show a little patience.

Sonic: Hey, hey, hey, patients are for hospitals. We're in robo-country, and that makes me itchy.

[He looks out from the fuselage and sees two shuttle-like bots roaming around.]

Sonic: Whoa, hurry it up, Sal. Party-crashers' coming.

NICOLE: Incoming message.

[A message comes up on the holographic display: Bean.]

Sonic: Bean?

Sally: Oh my gosh, Sonic, my father called me Bean when I was little. NICOLE, give me message origin.

[Sonic looks outside again and sees one of the bots still roaming around. It starts to come toward the duo.]

Sonic: Sal! We gotta put the pedal-to-the-metal!

Sally: I have to check this out. It may be from my father!

NICOLE: Message origin: Area 12, Sector 9, Quadrant 32.

Sally: The Dark Swamp?!

[The bots get closer. One passes Sally's abandoned bot and looks curiously. In the shaft itself, Antoine and Cat standard at guard while the bot looks through the vent. It eventually leaves, prompting Antoine to give off a sigh of relief.]

Antoine: What is taking them from so long?

Cat: Those computers can be tricky. Relax, Antoine.

Antoine: Relax? Yes! Yes! A very good ide...

[Antoine leans on the vent causing it to open and him to fall out. He lands at the feet of the bot that was checking the vent. It starts firing lasers at him as he runs for cover back into the shaft, screaming all the way. Some of the shots enter the shaft, causing both Cat and Antoine to run deeper into the shaft.]

Sonic: Oh man, Ant did it again! Look Sal, when I juice, jam for the air duct. I'll meet you at the usual place.

Sally: Be careful, Sonic.

[Sonic departs from the fuselage and lands on the ground. He looks at the two bots and runs at them.]

Sonic: Yo, Swatbutts.

[They start firing their lasers at him as he dodges them with ease.]

Sonic: How about a little laser tag?

[He passes by the bots to the side, making them chase after him. Once gone, Sally runs toward the vent and is helped up by Cat and Antoine.]

[The bots continue to fire at Sonic, missing every shot. More bots have joined, but Sonic responds to this by weaving between all of them, causing confusion. In the shaft, Cat, Antoine and Sally are making their way through it. Sonic's continuous swerving has made the bots confused.]

Sonic: Yo, Swatbutts, aren't you looking for me? I'm the only one around!

[The bots eventually break out of their confusion and fire at Sonic, who is on a pile of scrap metal. He dodges it by hopping backwards and into the shaft. The bots continue to fire but miss as Sonic rushes after the rest of the group.]

[Reaching a T-intersection, Antoine and Sally run left, but Cat stops and looks back, seeing one of the bots from earlier approaching.]

Cat: Here comes trouble!

[Cat walks off to the right as the bot enters the intersection. It proceeds after Cat to the right.]

[In a dank area outside Robotropolis, Antoine and Sally approach an aged wall. They both sit on an old pipe as Antoine lets out a sign.]

Sally: It's Sonic!

[Sonic zips over the two and runs back, approaching Antoine in anger.]

Sonic: What happened, Antoine?

Antoine: It was not my fault. Cat said I should relax, and I leaned against the...

Sonic: ...yo! Where's Cat?

Sally: He was right behind us in the tunnel a-and then we lost him.

Sonic: Swatbots must've busted him. I'm juicing back.

[Sonic goes to run off, but Sally stops him.]

Sally: Sonic, I'm sure that message was from my father. I'm going to the Dark Swamp and find him. Antoine can come with me.

[Sonic responds in shock.]

Sonic: Antoine?!

Sally: Yes, Antoine.

Sonic: You're kidding, riiight?

Sally: I'm kidding...wrong!

Sonic: Wrong?

Sally: Right!

Sonic: Right or wrong?

Sally: You're wrong, I'm right...as usual.

[Sally takes Antoine's arm and walks past Sonic. Sonic responds by grabbing his stomach.]

Sonic: Excuse me while I chunk my breakfast.

Sally: Whatever. Come on, Antoine.

Sonic: Yo, Sal.

[Sonic runs up to Sally and Antoine.]

Sonic: Soon as I find Cat, I'll blast for the swamp. Be mondo careful.

Sally: You too, Sonic.

Sonic: Gotta juice it loose!

[Sonic charges up and rushes away in a trail of fire.]

[In Robotropolis at night, in Robotnik's lair, he lowers his chair in his control room while Snively slowly walks up behind him.]

Robotnik: Tell me Snively, how did the hedgehog get past all my security?

Snively: Through an air duct, Dr. Robotnik.

Robotnik: An air duct?

Snively: Yes, sir

Robotnik: Then seal it fast!

Snively: Yes, sir. One more thing, sir, we captured a Freedom Fighter.

Robotnik: Well, that's good. That's very dang good, Snively.

[Robotnik rotates his chair to face Snively.]

Robotnik: Where is he?

[Snively points beyond Robotnik.]

Snively: Bring in the prisoner!

[Robotnik rotates his chair again as two of the bots from earlier drag Cat into the room. Cat struggles to escape, despite having a restraint on.]

[A thunderstorm has started in Robotropolis, lightning striking near Robotnik's lair.]

Robotnik: Tell me where Knothole is, old boy, and you have my word that you will not be...roboticized.

[Cat is bound to a chair near Robotnik.]

Cat: I'm not telling you nothing about nothing, Robotnik!

Robotnik: Ooh, I wouldn't be so sure about that, old boy. I have machines of all kinds, marvellous machines, that can do things you would not believe.

[Cat gulps.]

[Sonic zooms into Robotropolis, going through the various streets. He eventually stops at a side of a trench as a shuttle-like Swatbot flies by. He ducks and the bot flies by, not noticing Sonic. Sonic gives chase to the bot as it flies away. It enters a building and stops, deploying a ramp. A Swatbot and Cat depart the shuttle. Sonic, hidden from cover behind a building support, watches on. He sees the Swatbot escort Cat into an elevator.]

Sonic: Hang in, Cat.

[He looks around and rushes at the elevator, but the door has closed. He enters into a spindash and wedges himself into the door, causing it to open. He stops and looks up at the immensely tall elevator shaft. Walking back, he charges up and runs up the shaft, leaving a trail of fire. As he continues up, he sees another elevator coming his way. He quickly spindashes into the nearest door, wedging it open. He looks around and notices Cat in a jail cell. Cat is asleep on a bench.]

Sonic: Psst! Cat! You alright?

[Cat wakes up and walks over to Sonic.]

Cat: Robotnik's surveillance picked up Sally. He knows she's heading for the Dark Swamp. You gotta save her!

Sonic: But, what about you?

Cat: It doesn't matter.

[A laser blast narrowly misses Sonic, he ducks while Cat returns to his bench.]

Cat: Go, Sonic! Go!

[Sonic gasps as he runs off dodging laser fire.]

Sonic: Not to worry, Cat, I'll be back!