
This episode along with " Not So Buena Girl" was originally scheduled to air on September 21, 2002.This episode and the storyline were adapted into the book as "Pinball Problems".Meanwhile, El Portero is washed up on a beach and meets up with a girl. But then Snow Pea (kind of) saves the Mascaritas. until Sonic Sumo reveals that he fixed the Sonic thing and now Rikochet falls. Rikochet uses pulverizing pinball to defeat the bullies. So Rikochet returns to his friends, who are being beaten badly by the bullies. El Portero thinks he shouldn't give up either. He won the game, but he was stuck as a ball and go no respect, just like Rikochet was! He said nearly the exact same things, and Rikochet takes it to mean not to give up. Rikochet meets a soccer ball friend - El Portero, the Goalkeeper. Rikochet laments about himself being a pinball, and thinks it can't get any worse when he gets kicked into a sewer. The goal of the game is to survive and get to the top of the tower alive. Each level (dungeon) of the game is a contained area inside a tower. Masked Dog runs up, but buries Rikochet, but he can't move. The Pinball Wizard is a dungeon crawler pinball hybrid, and an arcade adventure game, where the main character is propelled into action by a set of flippers, like the ball in a pinball machine. The truck stops and barely misses Rikochet, but Snow Pea rides by on a bike and hits Rikochet into a mud puddle. They are about to fight but Rikochet rolls down the hill in front of a traffic light. Buena Girl and The Flea push him up the hill as they run into three bullies. Sonic Sumo will have to get some parts from Japan, as Rikochet is stuck bouncing around the school. Rikochet breaks the sonic thing and now is stuck as a pinball. He uses his Pulverizing Pinball to attack Sonic Sumo, but Sonic Sumo uses Sonic Freeze to freeze him in pinball form. He uses his Sonic Catapult and almost defeats Rikochet, but he's not given up. He gets up and continues the match, but Sonic Sumo uses his technology to knock him out again.


Rikochet is frozen to the shape of a pinball and finds life more difficult until he meets a soccer player who was frozen to the shape of a soccer ball a decade ago!
