Four Sides to Every Story is the eighth episode of Sonic X Skylanders Academy Season 3.
Synopsis[]
Jet-Vac believes someone vaporized Eon, and his four main suspects Eruptor, Scratch, Midnight and Stealth Elf -- who each having differing stories.
Appearances[]
Characters:
- Master Eon
- Hugo
- Spyro
- Sonic
- Tails
- Knuckles
- Stealth Elf
- Eruptor
- Jet-Vac
- Pop Fizz
- Midnight
- 'Dark Scratch'
- Bad Breath
- Chill
- Food Fight
- Roller Brawl
- Echo
- Hex
- Skull
- Strykore
- Kaos
- Dreamcatcher
- Wolfgang
- Chompy Mage
- Chef Pepper Jack
Plot[]
On a peaceful day, Hugo makes his way to the Library to meet with Master Eon, but finds it empty. He sees in horror the remnants of Eon's clothes, a ray gun nearby, and what appears to be his remains in dust, concluding that someone has vaporized him. Hugo quickly rushes out of the room to get help.
Hugo and Jet-Vac soon round up their prime suspects, who were present at the time of Hugo's discovery: Stealth Elf, Eruptor, Midnight and 'Dark Scratch', since for some reason they were all unconscious with Midnight being the only one with a headache after getting hit in the head and is applying an icepack to dull the pain, and are gathered at the Academy's basement for interrogation.
Eruptor is the first to confess, claiming it was "the monster" who was responsible. Stealth Elf views this as unlikely since Eruptor kept watching an Undead Invasion horror movie several times the previous night. Even so, Eruptor shares his story during the day of the incident, where after Jet-Vac's class, Eruptor becomes paranoid when he heads back home, hearing loud noises outside that implies the monster is nearby. Eruptor decides to make a run for Eon's study in order to seek refuge from his pursuer, he briefly encounters the shadowy figure when he reaches the entrance. Eruptor carries on and hides under Eon's desk. He hears Master Eon entering, and hears him speak to someone, but only to hear a blast going off and Eruptor discovers Eon's vaporized remains. Eruptor runs away in fear, but gets knocked unconscious by his claim of the monster.
After hearing Eruptor's finish, Stealth Elf refuses to believe such a story, leading to Jet-Vac to question her claims. Stealth Elf, though hesitant, points the blame to 'Dark Scratch'. Her story begins the same day Eruptor's story takes place. After class, Stealth Elf stays outside the house in order to train herself, which Eruptor mistakenly hears as noises the monster makes. When Eruptor rushes out of the house, Stealth Elf was on the roof, where she notices 'Dark Scratch' carrying suspicious items from her field of view, and appears to follow Eruptor, so she decides to quietly follow him as well. When all three make it to the Academy, Stealth Elf explains that Eruptor mistook 'Dark Scratch' for the shadowy figure of the monster. Stealth Elf explores the Academy's halls and eventually hears the same blast Eruptor heard, she continues walking and finds 'Dark Scratch' appearing to be "cleaning up evidence" with a broom, but before she could ask any further, she also gets knocked unconscious. With this story, added by previous suspicions, Stealth Elf concludes that Scratch is responsible for vaporizing Eon.
"Dark Scratch's" immediate reaction is laughter, claiming Elf's story is exaggerated and prepares to reveal her story. During Jet-Vac's class, she explains that she didn't mean to hit Jet-Vac with a spitball, which prompted Eruptor waking up from his nightmare from the horror movie, but actually a squirrel that intended to sabotage the lecture. Nonetheless, Jet-Vac punishes 'Dark Scratch' to janitorial duty but she intends to do it later afternoon, after claiming to do a series of heroic acts. Afterwards, she returns home and picks up the janitorial equipment, but notices Eruptor rushing out of the house. This all leads in contradiction to Eruptor and Elf's claims, that due to 'Dark Scratch' lugging all the janitorial equipment on her back and a lightning flash, Eruptor mistook her appearance as a monster. 'Dark Scratch' did not intend to follow Eruptor because she was assigned to clean at the Academy, and that she wasn't removing evidence but was just mopping the floors after Eruptor left behind a trail of gravel in the hallways while he ran in fear. 'Dark Scratch' does confirm hearing a blast, startling her that causes her to tip the bucket over. When she prepared to clean up her mess, she also got knocked unconscious by someone.
With this in mind, Midnight then explains the lightning from the earlier stories. After class, he was trying to mass harness his techno-magic which resulted in last night's lightning storm. He confirms following Eruptor and the others to the Academy and of hearing blast, but instead getting knocked out right after that, he found Stealth Elf, Scratch and Eruptor unconscious and when he tried to go find help, he got knocked out for an unknown reason instead of a person doing it.
Meanwhile, the Doom Raiders enjoy themselves in discussion after recent raids have garnered them an enormous storage of pillaged wealth. Kaos, comes out of his room feeling depressed as he reveals that he gave up all their treasure to his father, Strykore, without consulting the Doom Raiders, and did not even expressed gratitude in return. The Doom Raiders lash out on Kaos, since the lack of money means they can't afford any food. Kaos tries to resolve their food issues by stealing a nearby Mabu farmer's flock of sheep. The farmer, however, manages to dissuade Kaos from stealing his sheep by offering him a treasure map that seems to hold directions to the island of Arkus, while also giving up his pirate hat. When he shows it to his crew, the Doom Raiders are unimpressed, but Kaos argues that once they find Arkus, his powerful father would finally respect him and most likely grant them any reward for their services, such as food. The Doom Raiders reluctantly accept Kaos's offer, but threatening him of being eaten if he disappoints.
After a long journey with the Doom Raiders starving, Kaos finally manages to discover the island of Arkus. They quickly venture the island but halt their travel, when they stumble upon a building store named Arks R' Us, where the Mabu farmer Kaos encountered earlier is also the owner and he welcomes them, revealing that the treasure map he gave is actually a flyer for his ark store. Wolfgang angrily grabs Kaos and prepares to eat him for failing to deliver his promise. Fortunately, Pepper Jack happily informs them that the ark store's grand opening has free barbecue offers inside, saving Kaos from ultimately being eaten. However, Pepper Jack warns him that it is only temporary.
Back at the academy, all of Eruptor, Stealth Elf, Midnight and "Dark Scratch's" stories are validated as truthful from Jet-Vac's lie detector, leading to no solid confirmation of the culprit's identity. Hugo suddenly recalls another way of finding out who was responsible; he suggests checking his recently installed surveillance system after Eon demanded to know who was responsible of stealing his tuna salad lunches; which, ironically, Hugo was responsible. Shortly after, Hugo brings the projector and shows the footage during the time of the incident. The footage reveals that when Eruptor fled the Library for help, he blindly charged through Stealth Elf and 'Dark Scratch', explaining why they all went unconscious, which Midnight soon discovered but was knocked out by the bucket banging itself on his head after it was sent flying when he slipped on the wet floors; also explaining the black dragon's headache. But as the video continues, it reveals Jet-Vac was also present in the hallway, walking down the hall in a trance and the footage ends.
Jet-Vac is shocked to learn that he may be the one responsible of vaporizing Eon, despite not recalling such an event. Suddenly, Master Eon enters the room with Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Spyro; all decked out in beach wear, much to the shock of the Skylanders. Eon reveals that he actually went out swimming at the lake with the hedgehog, fox, echidna and purple dragon for the whole night after Knuckles invited them all for a relaxing moonlight swim, explaining why Eon'sothes were left on the floor; t. Tray gun is actually a mosquito repellent that Tails recently made with an older model of his blaster, the pile of dust is actually sand that Sonic and Knuckles inadvertently brought in after a short return from their trip once the mosquitoes made an attack on them at the lake, and Jet-Vac was actually sleepwalking with his eyes open, something that Eon's group had discovered earlier. With the mystery settled, Eon invites everyone at the lake. Stealth Elf apologizes for her wild accusations on 'Dark Scratch', though she is confused that her instincts could be mistaken. 'Dark Scratch' quickly forgives her in spite of this and botthey h reassure their friendship.
'Dark Scratch' suddenly decides to split from the group, telling Stealth Elf that she intends to grab one of Eon's tuna salads as an excuse and meet up with them later. However, she returns to the Library and approaches the surveillance projector Hugo left at Eon's desk. She plays the footage of him mopping the hallway, where an earlier scene depicts a moment of Strykore's sudden apparition to 'Dark Scratch', which the monitors recorded. After discovering this, 'Dark Scratch' ejects the only disk containing the footage and destroys it, preventing the Skylanders from discovering her loyalties to Strykore, though she feels shameful afterwards.
Transcript[]
Four Sides to Every Story/Transcript
Continuity[]
- 'Dark Scratch' diverts Tails, Spyro and Stealth Elf's suspicions about her after hearing Stealth Elf's story.
Trivia[]
- The transition between "Dark Scratch's" side of the story is a reference to the transitions in the Batman series, with the spinning logo.
- The episode also includes a fourth witness, one who witness the unconscious before getting knocked out themself.
- Unlike in canon, Eon had friends with him during his trip to the lake.
- This episode uses the Rashomon effect, a storytelling method in which multiple individuals tell their sides of the same story which includes all of the details that contradict each other with at least one common denominator.
- Regardless of the false circumstances, Hugo's use of the word "vaporized" is incorrect.
- Even though Hugo was mistaken about the circumstances regarding Master Eon, he was incorrect about the actual circumstances even if they turned out to be true. Specifically, there was a pile of sand right next to his helmet which he mistook for dust, in other words, the remains of Master Eon. Even if Master Eon was killed, vaporized particles don't stay on the ground. They would have been taken away in the air after being reduced to an airborne state. Because the remains were piled up on the ground, this would mean Eon wouldn't have been vaporized, he would've been disintegrated.
- The title of the episode is a play on the Extreme album, III Sides to Every Story.
- Sonic's beach attire resembles his game counterpart's Summer outfit from Sonic Speed Simulator while Tails' beach attire resembles his game counterpart's artwork of Sonic Adventure with the exception of the sandals being close-toed.
- Spyro's beach attire includes a purple and lavender version of game counterpart of Tails' swim shirt from the artwork from Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. However, unlike Tails, the purple dragon's shirt has also holes for his wings and back spines.
- This is the second Olympic Games reference. The first being Sheep(ball) Dreams.