FernGully: The Last Rainforest

FernGully: The Last Rainforest is the first film in the Ferngully series.

While the storyline is virtually the same as the original, it does have its own differences.

Plot
The film tells the story of FernGully, a rainforest near Mount Warning, Australia. A curious fairy girl named Crysta saw a part of the world she and her friends never seen before beyond FernGully and believes humans dwell on the nearby mountain Mount Warning. But the wise sprite of the forest and Crysta's motherly figure, Magi Lune, says humans are now extinct. In the opening scene, she says that they fled, driven away by the attack of an enemy known as Hexxus, the spirit of destruction and all that is toxic to nature, never to return and presumed dead; Hexxus was defeated by the fairies and imprisoned inside a tree. Crysta mentions a black cloud that she saw rising near the mountain, and Magi identifies it as smoke, but nervously dismisses Crysta's speculation that the smoke might be Hexxus, saying "There isn't a force in nature that could release him, and there are no poisons here on which he can feed. Hexxus is trapped for all time." It is implied that Magi shares Crysta's fears, but is afraid to say so openly.

Meanwhile on the President's plane, he remembers what happened six months ago when Chaos Control erupted and a piece of Sonic's world entered their world. He and the people he has with him on board are planning to boost the economy by turning Mystic Ruins into a tourist attraction. The President then mentions that he's still worried that Dr. Eggman may strike any time soon, but one man says that he's got intelligence teams trying to find him. Rouge suggests that he may be taking a break to plan his next move. The President then asks Mr. Stewart howSonic and the others are doing. He shows him some photos that they are doing okay.

At Chris' house, he, Chuck, Cream, and Cheese are busy having breakfast. Chuck asks if Chris could go with him to Mystic Ruin where Tails has set up a workshop, but Chris declines the offer as Linsey has something to show him, Cream, and Cheese after school. After leaving the house, Chris looks up at the sky and thinks to himself, "I know you're out there, Sonic. I sure hope you're okay." Meanwhile in Windy Valley, we see that Sonic is okay.

Elsewhere in Station Square, Amy has moved to an apartment building and thinks of the times she spent with Sonic and how much she misses him. On her small TV set, Scarlet Garcia mentions that the whereabouts of Eggman is still unknown. But we see him in his new fortress making a new line of robots: the E-100 Series, consisting of E-101 Beta, E-102 Gamma, E-103 Delta, and E-104 Epsilon. Then he says it's time to create chaos, walks over to a Chaos Emerald (Red), and launches the blimp from his new undersea fortress, the Kaiba Craft 3, which has been recovered and refurbished into the Eggman Craft 3.

Meanwhile, Linsey shows Chris, Cream, and Cheese a Chaos Emerald (Yellow) she got from a jewelry store. She gives it to Cream as it does not match any of her outfits. At the library, Téa and Serenity read a book and learn about the magical rainforest of FernGully. Later the three of them are walking down the street when Téa and Serenity arrive. They goes over to Tails' Workshop at Windy Valley, and explain to Tails about FernGully, and Tails says he found a Chaos Emerald (Green). And with two Emeralds, it will be easier to find the others.

Sonic and Tails then hop in the X-Tornado (with Téa and Serenity) while Chris takes off in the Tornado-1 and start searching in FernGully. We see Big and his pal Froggy walking down the street in Station Square. Froggy hops over to the spot and sees a Chaos Emerald (Purple). Big follows and sees the Emerald as well. Befriending a mentally unstable yet comical fruit bat named Batty Koda who has been experimented on by humans and now has wires and antennas fused into his head, Crysta follows Tails' plane, mistaking it for a bird. Then the X-Tornado has just detected a Chaos Emerald somewhere in the rainforest. Sonic, Chris and Tails walk around and search, and Chris hears whooshing sounds. When they reach FernGully, Tails says that the Chaos Emerald is inside the large tree (home tree of all the fairies), so Serenity finds and grabs the Chaos Emerald (Cyan). Crysta and her fairy friends (Pips and the Beetle Boys) find humans (Team Lyoko) and Téa realizes that the fairy tales were true. Crysta realizes that an elder fairies were wrong and the humans are alive. She says it was a cyan rock, and Chris figures out it was a Chaos Emerald! Cheese gets mixed up with Froggy. Later, Big accidentaly piles on top of all of them and Froggy swallows the Chaos Emerald Big picked up. Big tries to explain to Chris and Cream what was going on which takes all afternoon. They both offer to help look for Froggy which takes them into the night.

Sonic, Tails and Crysta on the X Tornado heads to Mount Warning in the search for another Chaos Emerald where they finds dead trees all marked with red aerosol paint crosses, which mark them for cutting. The camera then pans through the trees to reveal the source of the smoke, which turns out to be the exhaust from a huge tree leveler. Crysta finds male humans, and accidentally shrinks one named Zak in trying to prevent him from being crushed by a tree. He gets stuck on a spiderweb on the tree that's just about to go through a tree shredder. She tries to get him off but can't when Batty swoops in, grabs them both off of the spider web and blames Crysta for her almost getting killed, because she did not listen to him. Then Eggman shows up and takes Cream's Chaos Emerald.

Zak goes on a wild adventure with Crysta and Batty, nearly getting eaten by a hungry Goanna lizard named Lou, and unexpectedly falls in love with Crysta. Meanwhile, Zak's superiors cut down an enchanted baobab tree that Zak had inadvertently painted an X mark on while trying to spray a fly that was buzzing around him. Unfortunately, this turns out to be the tree Hexxus is trapped in, and the cutting down and processing of the tree by the lumbermill-like leveler machine releases him. Determined to get revenge upon the fairies of FernGully (specifically Magi Lune) for imprisoning him, Hexxus apparently gains power from the pollution, specifically the energy and smoke produced by the Leveler, as he can be seen "drinking" from it like a liquid. He manipulates the lumberjacks and their tree leveler into tearing down the rainforest in the direction of the fairies by the next week, thereby destroying the very fabric of their world. He does this under the vocal guise of their boss.

Crysta of taking care of three baby animals and demonstrating greater control over nature. She and Pips begin a small contest over who can grow the more impressive plant, while Pips expresses a desire to see more of the outside world.

Suddenly, Batty Koda arrives in a panic, warning that human poachers are right behind him. These poachers show up with their dogs and capture the three baby animals. The first rescue attempt while still in Ferngully fails, and results in a huge forest fire, destroying a huge part of the forest and scarring Mother Kangaroo. Pips and the Beetle Boys volunteer to follow the humans to town and rescue the babies, convincing the reluctant Batty to be their guide. They arrive at a town amusement park. They are so fascinated by the rides, they are reminded by Batty to resume their mission.

All this time the fairies have been healing the rainforest and Crysta finds and helps one of the poachers' dogs (she called him Boof) abandoned and caught in a trap. She takes him on a journey to the town. Pips and the Beetle Boys meet a girl named Budgie who is hard at practicing for the clown act. Pips flies over to her and introduces himself and his friends. She gives them shelter in her trailer. Batty has located the poachers' place but the others ignore him too fascinated by modern human utilities. Bark and Batty go to make a rescue attempt, but Batty is caught. But Eggman arrives and charges at Sonic and Tails, and misses, but Tails drops the Emeralds, and Eggman steals them!

Budgie tells Pips that she has been working on her clown act for years, but she has never been all that good. Pips tells her that she is trying too hard, and she should just do it. Back at where the babies are, the animals are very scared and fear they will never get back home. Batty overcomes his terror of the situation and manages to reassure them. Then the poachers take all the cages and load them onto a big truck. At the fair, Budgie goes to a contest stand and wins a stuffed kangaroo, which reminds Pips of the babies he's supposed to be saving. He tells Budgie about them and she offers to help him out.

They all reach the old warehouse. The poachers drive off, and Budgie jumps off a ledge and lands on the truck. They drive past Budgie's grandfather, and he sees that Budgie is hanging on the truck tarp, and he drives after them. Budgie manages to get inside the car and frees all the birds in the cages. The poachers see Budgie trying to get in the car and are enraged seeing all the birds flying away. One of them climbs out of the truck and tries to get Budgie off. She manages to get away from him, but he unlatches the car she's on and sends her rolling backwards on the road. She ends up with one side of the car dangling off a cliff. Batty and Budgie's grandfather manage to save her.

The group then head by clown car to the ship where the animals are being loaded. Pips undoes the conveyor catch so that the catches land in Budgie's grandfather's car. A struggle for the cages ensues between the poachers and Budgie. Boof and Crysta arrive to help. The other dog turns against his former master. The boat gets away and the fairies use their magic to stop it growing a gigantic tree. Nugget almost drowns as he escapes. Budgie and her grandfather adopt Slasher and Boof while all the animals and fairies return home.