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"Station Break-In", originally titled in Japan as "Space Fortress Metal Planet", is the sixty-third episode of the anime series, Sonic X. It first aired on 21 March 2005 and 19 November 2005 in France and the United States respectively.

Synopsis

Discovering that the last two Chaos Emeralds are inside a Metarex fortress, Dr. Eggman suggests a truce between him and Sonic to work against their common foe.

Appearances

Characters:

• Amy Rose
• Bocoe
• Bokkun
• Cheese
• Christopher Thorndyke
• Cosmo
• Cream the Rabbit
• Dark Oak
• Decoe
• Dr. Eggman
• Knuckles the Echidna
• Maria Robotnik (mentioned)
• Metarex Pinchershead (only appearance)
• Metarex Pterano (only appearance)
• Metarex Trooper
• Miles "Tails" Prower
• Rouge the Bat
• Shadow the Hedgehog
• Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Super Sonic (flashback)

Races and species:

• Chao
• Cosmo's species
• Echidna
• Human

Locations:

• Sonic X Zone
  • Earth (mentioned)
    • United States (mentioned)
      • Prison Island (mentioned)
  • Metarex Space Fortress (first appearance)
  • Space Colony ARK (flashback)

Items:

• Air Shoes
• Blessed Amulet
• Chaos Emerald
• Comlink
• Limiter
• Piko Piko Hammer
• Planet Egg (mentioned)

Vehicles:

• Amy's Spaceship (first appearance)
• Blue Typhoon
• Crimson Egg
• Egg Mobile
• X-Tornado

Misc.:

• Chaos Control
• Chaos Spear
• Eggman Empire
• Hammer Attack
• Screw Kick
• Super State (flashback)

Plot

Three days after the underground adventure, Doctor Eggman discovers that the last two Chaos Emeralds (cyan and yellow) are located inside the Metarex Space Fortress. The Crimson Egg and the Blue Typhoon arrive on location at the same moment. Eggman suggests that he and Sonic work together to enter the fortress. His plan has a group enter first and disconnect the fortress' security system, so the other team could penetrate the fortress. Eggman sends Shadow and Rouge while Chris volunteers to accompany them. They enter with the help of Chaos Control where Chris finds the control room and they succeed their mission.

Sonic and Knuckles penetrate in the fortress aboard the X-Tornado; Amy and Cosmo follow them and Eggman, Bocoe and Decoe are right behind. However, Eggman secretly installed a special device on each ship so he can take control of Sonic and Amy's ships. Eggman almost succeeds, but Sonic finds the emeralds first. The only problem: he is welcomed by an entire army of Metarex, led by Dark Oak, the Metarex leader, and the battle is about to begin.

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Regional differences

• The whole scene of Eggman checking for defense systems within the Meterax base, followed by Rouge trying to get him and the crew to think of a way to break in was cut in the dub.
• A six-second close-up of Eggman as he discovers that Sonic and crew cannot find a way in the base either was removed from the dub.
• Bokkun pleading Eggman not to go along with his plan was cut in the dub.
• To decide on who goes into the base, Cream suggests rock-paper-scissors in the original, and picking names out of a hat in the dub.
• The flashback Chris has of Shadow is not only layered with a vintage effect in the dub, but heavily edited so that the only thing we see is Chris crying while holding the ring.
• The Metarex Pinchershead originally made some distorted roaring noises that went mute in the English dub.
• The "DO NOT ENTER" sign is completely removed in the English dub.
• Sonic's flashback of Dark Oak has a vintage effect added as well.

Trivia

• The yellow Planet Egg scene in this episode is re-used in Mission: Match Up.
• Tails' head is healed two days after the events of "An Underground Odyssey".

Title in other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Japanese	宇宙要塞メタルプラント	Space Fortress Metal Plant
Chinese	梅達列克斯的要塞	The Metarex Fortress
French	La base des Métarex	The base of the Metarex
German	Die beiden letzten Emeralds	The last two emeralds
Italian	Sfida senza regole	Challenge without rules
Spanish	El planeta Metal, la fortaleza espacial	Metal Planet, the space fortress
Russian	Космическая крепость: Металлическая Планета	Space fortress: the Metal Planet

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