The E-21 Ballios is a robot that appears in the anime series Sonic X. It is a mass-produced E-Series robot created by Dr. Eggman that is designed for playing baseball.
Description[]
The Ballios has a black metallic body reading the words "Eggs" on its chest and its shoulders bulge out resembling an American football player. It stands on its black feet with silver and purple-coloured legs with yellow spots. It also has blue optics and wears a black helmet with a yellow "E" on its silver and purple coloured head.
History[]
In the Sonic X episode "Unfair Ball", Dr. Eggman decided to challenge Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends to a game of baseball after a Chaos Emerald was discovered at Station Square's Diamond Stadium. Arriving at the stadium ahead of Sonic and friends, Eggman saw that Tails was already present and talking to the stadium's groundskeeper, Albert Butler, who had found the Chaos Emerald. Using his Egg Mobile, Eggman snatched the white Chaos Emerald and was prepared to do the same with Tails' green Chaos Emerald before Sonic arrived. With the opposing team present, Eggman introduced them to his own team of Ballios robots.
When the game got underway, the Ballios robots proved to be quite effective players. They quickly struck out Chris Thorndyke with their incredible fastballs, then started playing dirty using their extending arms to get a strike on Tails. Amy then retaliated by using her Piko Piko Hammer instead of a bat and the Ballios units got her out by throwing one of their own into the air to catch the ball. When Amy started pitching later on, she dismantled a Ballios by directly hitting the batter with a powerful curveball. The Ballios continued to use their extending limbs to their advantage to jump over the other players and get to bases. One Ballios also hit a Home Run out of the park, while another pitcher got dismantled by Amy as she was batting, but Dr. Eggman's team still gained the lead by four runs.
The Ballios' targeting system ended up being its own undoing, however, when confronted with Cheese. Pitching against a creature of such small size resulted in it throwing weak pitches and resulted in a walk for Cheese after four balls and an admonishment from Dr. Eggman. Next up to bat was Cream, and through some advice from Chuck Thorndyke, she made the Ballios that was pitching blush and earned herself a walk after it dropped the ball. With the game all tied up at 35 to 35, the deciding moment came down to a Ballios trying to strikeout Chris. Three strikes were scored, but thanks to a fumble from the receiving Ballios, Chris managed to score a run and win the game. With one last dirty trick up his sleeve, Dr. Eggman ordered a Ballios to detach its head and attach it to Sonic's scalp and explode to get the game called off, pretending it was a malfunction. With Sonic and Knuckles distracted destroying the explosive, Eggman cut his losses and fled with his single Chaos Emerald while the rest of the Ballios managed to escape in the ship from which they were deployed.
Capabilities[]
Being built for the purposes of playing baseball, Ballios are built as an athletic robot, being both excellent pitchers and batters. They are able to extend their arms and legs across long distances to their advantage when throwing or catching balls, and possess a significant deal of super strength; they can throw accurate pitches moving at high-speeds, bat away pitches across far distances or even throw another Ballios (which each weighs 120 kg) up into the air. Ballios also have the ability to detach their heads. Their heads have a jet on the bottom which allows them to fly once detached, and they can grow claws to attach themselves to a target and then blow themselves up.