Now that all the attention are on the villains, we'll finally know what tricks they'll have up their sleeves since there are two emeralds left to get, several areas already succumbed to subspace, and Sonic being Nack's target for the "last time". After being challenged by a rebellious member, both Ramirez and Selvaria wounded and threatened his life to show that they weren't messing around anymore. Good thing a familiar Zeti stopped by to say hi and she's got some urgent news for them. As for the news, let's just say they have something to do with the "new recruits" that were implied in the earlier chapters and you'll know their identity soon. Without further delay, let's get this party started!
Both Ramirez and Selvaria kept their eyes on the green intruder as they still threatened Trouble Bruin's life for challenging them in their own territory. The toy bear glanced at Zeena's unimpressed face with a look of surprise since he did want someone to save him from his imminent death at the hands of these cruel lovebirds. She rolled her yellow eyes slightly and sighed like a teenage girl that had a bad day with her embarrassing boyfriend being the drama queen she was. Ramirez started right back at him victim with the same frightening look and kept his eyes on him to show that he's lucky that he could still live for now.
"Since things are getting pretty late for now, I highly suggest that you report back to the West Wing for now and never come back to us with such damned ignorance," he said coldly before lowering his blade from the victim's body.
The toy bear levitated off the ground and dusts his damaged body with a pair of mechanical arms that grew from the sides of it.
"Like he said, never go against your superiors no matter how much you don't like them. If I had activated my true power, then I would have easily disposed of you myself since those of Valkyrian blood should never be messed with. Take note of that for future references while you repair that trash you would call a body," she remarked after putting her rapier away.
While still terrified from that close call, Trouble Bruin gulps and quickly floats past out of the room and past Zeena. The green Zeena had focused her attention on the scared off bear and quickly grabbed his body with a magnetic energy beam. This caused Trouble Bruin to go back to his grouchy self as he groaned in anger from this happening and watching the green queen's angry face.
"And one more thing before you get back to your precious repair room, never talk mess about any of my allies. And I mean any members of the Deadly Six in case you didn't get it the first time, Teddy," she said while staring him down.
While Trouble Bruin is already pissed about being grabbed by Zeena's beam, he didn't want to make a single sound or else Selvaria and Ramirez would go for his head next.
"I may have been on this ship for so little time and haven't met every single one of you here, but you don't have the right to call any Zeti an idiot when I'm around," she finished.
With that, she lets go of him and allowed the toy bear to hover back to where he needed to go. The green Zeti scoffs in disgust and headed back to Selvaria's room to speak with them about their next objective. Both of them were back to their organized attitudes after that last argument with Trouble Bruin and await what the newest addition of their group had to say.
"I would have gladly intruded myself to you two and tell about why I'm here, but I've seen that you had you hands to full with that brown piece of junk minutes ago. There's one thing I hate about people like them, gossiping badly about my friends behind my back and I was recently told by Zavok that Eggman had given Zomom another chance. So it's pretty obvious that he'll announce that for everyone tomorrow since the Deadly Six and I normally discuss certain details only between us," she explained after flipping her green hair.
"That's good to here from you since we were wondering what was going to happen to him after his blunder back in Metro City. It's good to hear that you do care deeply for your own allies like a real villain unlike rebellious scum like that repulsive bear," said Selvaria.
"I'm guessing you are here because you have more details to share with us other just telling us about Zomom. And you don't need to introduce of since all of us were informed about everything regarding you and the rest of the Deadly Six some time ago. We've been informed that some "Third Parties" have been assigned to certain groups of the Legion and were wondering who had decided to join our squadron," Ramirez said in a discrete manner.
"You guys seem to be very on task at this time of night and that's what I like about. Anyways, a few of those "Third Parties" had stopped by here and they really wanted to speak to the two of you near the Southern Locker Rooms. Some "fat" witch would like to speak to Selvaria while a mustached wannabe knight wants to speak with Ramirez. So which one of you is which?" she said while checking out her nails in between each sentence.
"I am the Valuan General Ramirez and I'll gladly greet this knight so that we can know what purpose he needs to serve with us," he said boldly.
"I'm the European Commander Selvaria Bles, this witch you speak of will definitely see me soon since I do have questions regarding what type of member she will be willing to be," she said in her trademark commanding tone.
Zeena nods in approval since these two were definitely interesting individuals to her; even after they were threatening Trouble Bruin's live before her eyes earlier.
"You guys aren't half bad, even after properly introducing yourselves and nearly "taking out the trash". I can tell that I'll definitely love getting to know the two of you personally the more I hang out on this ship," she said before turning around, "Follow me and I'll take you to their location since they've been literally dying to meet the two of you in person."
Soon as the green Zeti had left the room, both of the silver haired generals followed after to see what they're dealing with next. During their walk they talked more about their origins and how they feel in love with the gossip girl Zeena to much of her delight. She is very entertained the entire time since hearing about their "love story" and earlier conflicts against their respective enemies had really piqued her interests. After a good twenty minutes of walking through long halls, they had arrived at their destination in which two gaping doors awaited their arrival. Zeena walked in front of her new friends like a fashion model walking down the catwalk and turned to their faces with an enthusiastic expression.
"Well here we are, the locker rooms that we needed to see to speak with our new allies. Ramirez, you need to enter the one on the right to see Mr. M while Selvaria needs to enter the one on the left to see Ms. G. You'll get all questions answered one you speak with them and I hope you two get along fine unlike a certain someone," she said.
"You seriously don't need to worry, Eggman had told us that these guys are willing to cooperate with us on our plan with no problems. As for that worthless trash that you're implying, it only happened just because he just couldn't stop challenging us after a while. We'll gladly speak to these two separately to see what we are up against in this ship instead of the countless other villains we cooperate with," said the Valkyrian woman.
"Like Miss Bles had said, we'll gladly communicate with these guys just to see what they want from us. Lastly, thanks for supporting our relationship and guiding us here," Ramirez said.
He walked past Zeena as Selvaria had did and the two enters their desired rooms in order to see these "Third Parties" up close for the first time. The walkway through the opening became darker compared to how things were on the outside as if he became engulfed in darkness itself. Despite his commanding posture, Ramirez still had a bad feeling about this since the man he's talking to was from another nation even farther than any location the other villains came from and he could possible be equally as strong as him.
Selveria currently had a similar feeling as she walked down her own dark hall to see this witch, who may sound like a threat as big as her based on the third party's status alone. Ramirez entered the room and leered around to see if he could spot anyone in this room full of lockers. Then he spotted a dark figure clad in armor sitting near the eight set of lockers, slouched in an intimidating manner with a massive mushroom hilted weapon sitting behind him. The man did a slight chuckle to his surprised and slowly stood up like a high class general would.
"Come young man, come closer and I shall talk with you about my purpose of being here," he with his gruff voice.
The Valuan general obediently walks towards the tall and wide man unafraid, but with doubts of trusting this man's words.
"So you must be one of the few third parties of this ship. With such armor and the voice of a real commander, I wonder if you have led an army before or have a position similar to me," Ramirez said.
"Yes, I have led an army before and had crushed many opponents with the help of my men and equally powerful followers. If you do hold a title similar to me, then you must be a very powerful leader who's on my final level. Have you've ever been so close to victory, yet lost to the one obstacle that got in your way of obtaining that?" he said.
Ramirez began to think deeply about the older man's words and slowly clenches his fist while remembering his final encounter with the Blue Rogues.
"Yes, it was mostly because I've became so self absorbed with destruction after losing the one man that meant a lot to me and taught me everything I needed to know about serving the Valuan army. It's good to know that we are on the same level and think the same way," he said before lowering his right hand.
The older general did a jolly laugh that was loud enough to travel down the halls that Ramirez had walked through and twiddled with his massive moustache. The younger general waited for the man to stop laughing since knowing the names of those associated with him was a must for someone like him.
"General, I would really like to know your name and for you to state your business here," he said frankly.
The older mustachioed general made a sly grin and stood up to do a trademark pose for a powerful general like him. He cleared his throat and widened his chest under his armor to give a fellow commander of an army like Ramirez and great first impression.
"I am the great Marcus, leader of the Ninteldo Army and a conqueror of many lands. I've been sent here by a new ally to serve your group and help the Legion rule as many places as possible. I promise you that I will be the best of third party service to your men and the rest of the warriors on this ship," he said valiantly.
After hearing these bold words, Ramirez couldn't help but to grow more interested in him. On Selvaria's side of the spectrum, things were a little more insane and less on the serious side. The Valkyrian woman stood speechlessly as she watched something really strange: A magical broom with green eyes flying around a large figure that did a hearty laugh reminiscent of most traditional witches. She wore a black outfit with a scarf wrapped around the tall glass dome that protected her skeletal face, which had a metal covering shaped like a witch's hat to make her look "pretty". She did a comical jig that involved finger pointing as the broom magical danced around her in what can be best described as "disturbing" to Selvaria.
So this is the infamous witch that Zeena was talking about. She has the strangest appearance for a witch if I've even seen one, though I do have a taste of what power she's capable of. She seems to love dancing and rhyming a lot based on what I'm seeing right in front of me.
The witch had stopped dancing and took a gander at her beautiful visitor that she asked to see, while making a sinister laugh in return after thinking about what to say.
"Well hello there my pretty, you wouldn't mind me being spectacularly witty. I am the fantastic Guntilda Winkybunions, I kid you not that I'm as vile as stinky onions. I've came here today to serve the Legion of Subspace, to defeat to your foes like in a tub race. One thing I would like to be heard, is the screams for help from that bear and bird. As you can see that I'm the one, the one that asked you for some villainous fun!" she sang in glee.
The silver haired maiden was still speechless even before she introduced herself as a nursery rhyme character than a threatening witch, but quickly approached her to talk with her like she was asked. The broom itself backed away to give the two women some privacy during their first conversation with each other.
"I am Selvaria Bles of the European Army and I'm much oblique to accept your request. Despite the confusing rhyming, you do seem to have a unique reason of wanting to working with us during our subspace invasion. For a witch I'm expected you to look a little darker and less like a comical machine, but you do look like a very competent member regardless," she said in the nicest way possible.
Grunty sarcastically shrugged with her skeletal eye flaps to show that her rhyming habit was apparently insulted. The witch started to levitate towards her, making her even more uncomfortable from her strange appearance and magical powers alone.
"There's something I really don't like about you. Is it something old? Is it something new? You literally remind me of my silly sisters that had bashed my rhyming, in which I had smashed them for failing my quiz instead of trying. Why don't you lighten up for once woman, instead of being so serious like you hadn't seen me coming? You not only have Mingella's sore eardrums, but also Blobbelda's shapely bosoms!" she said while surrounding her human visitor.
This not only caused the Valkyrian woman to blush after glancing at her well endowed chest, but readies her rapier for an attack after being insulted by this slack jawed witch. Grunty dodged the blade's swing and laughed at her silver haired frenemy in a taunting manner as she descends to the ground.
She dodged my attack with just a levitation spell? She's definitely skilled fighter despite how strange she acts with her humorous way of talking.
"What's the matter, cat got your tongue? Because if you couldn't attack me fast enough, then you must really feel like Breegull dung. You should be happy for being gifted with such a body, since my very first goal was to become quite a hottie. That was until that dastardly bear and bird, had defeated me without uttering a nice word. You see where I'm getting at, right? We are truly destined to get together and fight," she said flamboyantly.
Selvaria took a moment to think about the zany witch's words, thinking of what potential she could have on their side with her power and unpredictable ways of fighting. Gruntilda still fiddled with her finds and grinned in a sinister manner like a master mind while waiting for her new ally's answer. Then Selvaria started emit her signature blue aura to show the witch what power she was capable of, which even caused the skull faced witch to stare in awe.
"Alright Miss Gruntilda, I'll accept you as an official member of our squadron and I really hope that your men are as ready for battle as ours whenever we start this war," she said in a military manner.
Grunty snapped her fingers to have her trusty broom appear by her side for her to grab it as warrior would do with her weapon.
"Very well, you've made the right choice my friend. For which we shall take over this world and send all heroes to their end," she said before breaking off into her trademark witch laugh.
Meanwhile, the insectoid Turbo is walking down the corridor with Zor and the Black Baron to introduce them to someone that had recently joined the crew. The sinister video game mastermind had been informing these two about his arrival since the last day since the Legion of Subspace were close to completing their sinister objective.
"You definitely find him a quite fun member of the group since he doe shave a sick sense of humor and a taste for conquering during our quests to serve the Legion's perfect plan. I guarantee you that he's one guy that you shouldn't judge by his "colorful" appearance," said the Cybug hybrid.
"Big deal, it isn't like a majority of us in the ship doesn't fall into that category. I just hope that he's as dangerous as both you and Eggman had implied he is. The last few days were so tiresome due to the amount of exposition that had to be done, though talking about things that were bad was fine at best," said the gloomy Zeti.
"This playa you've been talkin' about sounds like he's some serious shit. I hope he's wearing a pimpin' design to reflect his "I'm gonna kill you, bitch!" attitude," said the Deathwatch pimp.
Out of the blue, a mysterious being had leap tout of the darkened hall to great his fellow partners in the most villainous way possible. Both Zor and the Baron appropriately jumped unlike the Cyborg candy king next to him since they didn't expect his to jump out of the dark like that, let alone a few seconds after they were talking. He wore a yellow space suit, had the appearance of a fat crow, and the look of his darkened face made him look like the most insane bad guy from space. He slowly looked at his fellow villains and broke into his trademark laughter to fully express his insane, yet unpredictable behavior.
"Greetings Earthlings, I am the famous bounty hunter and servant of Queen Pulsating, Bloated, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-filled, Malformed, Slug-for-a-Butt! The one and only Psy-Crow is at your service to help the Legion of Subspace obtain their master plan!" he said with much flair.
Both Zor and the Baron became speechless from the crow's sudden explanation, mostly due to the disturbing name of the queen that he had mentioned beforehand. Turbo on the other hand was doing his silly laugh to show how amused he was by his partner's explanation and his allies' response to it.
"Awwww hell naw! You not only act batshit insane but that outfit of yours just gives you the look of a dignified killa. It reminds me of some pimp that would usually hang out in the gravity-less streets of Area 66," the Baron responded bluntly.
Zor caught his breath and clears his throat to make himself look profession in front of the fat space crow.
"You got to known when to stop surprising people if you want to get along with others very well. Other than that, you seem pretty interesting and I think I have the perfect role for an emotionally disturbing individual like you," he said in a faux-calm manner.
Psy-Crow pulled out his trusty blaster and flips it like any show off bounty hunter would do to impress his fellow colleagues.
"Just state your business and I'll be really ready for some action. I've heard that you guys were having some conquering fun and this party ain't complete without an evil space mercenary like me," he said in an arrogant manner.
The Baron smiled to reveal his shiny grills, which spelled out the word "Deathwatch", in response to the crow's answer and chuckles along with Turbo. Despite not being a laugher unlike his partners, Zor did a slight smile for once in a life time to express acceptance. On the other side of the spectrum, the Squillas had been mostly defeated now that Zomom had arrived and things are still as violent since more of them were appearing out of nowhere. To make matters worse, some new attackers in the form of Russian Air Force jets were attacking the warship as well. There could be only one man behind this unexpected surprise attack, a certain skilled general who did participate in the Transformed Racing Tournaments once. Dedede is seen being carried by a mysterious man that had helped him out of his spherical prison that Toejam had entrapped him in. The two appeared to have barely survived the Squillas' onslaught just to speak with the owners of this ship about their alliance with them. The blue penguin glanced at the man's face, who looked like quit the brutal fight and he had a dark aura to him.
"I forgot to say this earlier, but thanks for saving me from that cramped ball earlier. Next time I see those happy go lucky fools, I'll really make 'em sorry like I will do for that there Kirby," he said in his usual loud tone.
The man glanced at Dedede's face with his red eyes and intimidated his ally with a "demonic" scowl alone.
"Don't forget the main reason why we are even here in the first place, to serve the Legion of Subspace together instead of doing things alone. It was so foolish of you to even depend on just your pathetic minions instead of having help. Besides, the main reason why I've helped you from the start is because you've seen my half-daughter and I would love to see her lovely face again so that I can crush it," he said coldly.
Dedede remembered that Bandana Dee could seen his message earlier and gathered the rest of the Waddle Dee troops to stop here without getting shot down by the Squillas.
"Well I do have some backup at least and they'll be one their way soon with Kabula as their protection in case things get rough here. I'm still surprised that they are only having a select amount of guys to handle these guys instead of working together," said the confused king.
"Perhaps they could be saving their more valuable members for future references, especially if all of the heroes will come our way soon. Either way, we are finally here and let me do the talking," said the mysterious man.
Soon as they entered the room, the other villains sat in their respective seats as if they were awaiting their arrival with less than impressed. Satan, Max D. Cap, Mishaela, Master Zik, and Purge were the ones in the room that watched Dedede and the mysterious man enter the room. Neff and Balder are already outside helping Zomom and Zazz fight off their aerial enemies while the Magician seems to be hiding somewhere on the ship until he makes it "home". Before the man could explain himself, he sat the tired out king to the side so that he could rest after a long journey to a nearby warship.
"Greetings fellow Legion of Subspace members, I'm here to serve you until you manage to obtain your goal of taking over this world. I am Raidou, an ex member of the Mugen Tenshin Clan and one of the former champions of the first DOATEC tournament," he said loud and clear.
Everyone had grown interested in this tall, dark and mysterious fighter after the announcement and it is mostly due to his dark aura and powerful appearance. Master Zik, who has the most interested in Raidou, decides to surf his way towards him on his wooden staff. The elderly Zeti observes the main's rough appearance with his massive yellow eyes and stroked his chin with a finger.
"You seem like a pretty tough individual just by looking at your face. So tell what brings you here and what material arts are you capable of?" Zik said while being intrigued with him.
"I am a man that knows many martial arts and wants to know everyone one possible to be the strongest martial artist in the world by all means. Thanks to a new ally reviving me, I can not only have revenge against Kasumi to making a mockery of me in the tournament but conquer any strong fighter that dare challenges any of us," said the power hungry fighter.
Both Satan and Max chattered with one another about the fighter's words and that suspicious red aura that emits from his powerful body. Mishaela had kept her eye on him since she did sense a lot of power in this individual, he just feels like he could potentially be useful for future uses since he does crave power just like her.
"Raidou, do you have any minions to join our crew or do you prefer fighting like a lone star?" Purge asked.
The demonic fighter scoffed and looked at the wild haired man that asked him such a ridiculous question.
"Minions are for the weak and unlike those Mugen Tenshin fools, I prefer fighting alone with only my raw strength and power when it comes to fighting. Unlike any of you, I can easily handle myself without any simple minded fool to command for a battle. All I really want is just to have a rematch against that wretched Kasumi and make sure that I'm the one to kill her like she had done to me in the past!" he bellowed.
The white haired Rhythm Rogue raised his left brow in irritation and tired to keep his cool before loosing it around his fellow villains. But this didn't stop all of them to laugh at him as if he were the laughing stock of the world, especially Dedede who was done resting from his rescue. One of the main screen appeared from the ceiling to reveal a new transmission for all to see, which appeared to be someone far different from Eggman. Everyone watched the screen to see what appeared to be a draconic turtle with red hair and thick eyebrows. That turtle also had a green spiked shell, spiked accessories around his wrists and next, and a laugh that puts everyone else's to shame.
"Bwahahahahahaha, hello fellow subspace members and how are you punks doing? I am the King of Awesome and head of the Koopa Clan, Bowser!" said the red haired turtle with such enthusiasm.
All of the villains started to talk among themselves about the subject of Bowser's appearance and who he was in a sate of worry. Zik had a bad feeling about this since he knew that Bowser's appearance alone meant that something big was about to be announced.
"Just as a special announcement, we would like to tell you the list of places that we managed to take over with the help of me, Eggman, and many members of the Legion of Subspace. Now let's get the stinking party started before you guys get left hanging. Station Square, Seaside Hill, Kamuchiro, Tokyo-To, Kyoto, Yuria, Oasis, Guardiana, Mushroom Kingdom, Hikari City, Yokosuka, DOATEC, Vigrid, Paris, Varrigan City, Nightopia, Insectopia, Samba Town, Monkey Island, Spiral Mountain, Mr. Litwak's Arcade, Gallia, Puyo Land, Dragon Canyon, Morning Land, Basel, Crazyville, Metro City, Hell, Greece, Consume, Skeletal Island, Orbot Mines, Hokkaido, Russia, Dinosaur Jungle, Seasonal Shrine, Rogue's Landing, and Zebulos. That shows that we only have two places left to conquer until the whole world is ours and "his's". And it's pretty obvious which locations that I am the one to thank for covering half of these locations with my superior armada and the help of two masterminds," said the Koopa King.
Bowser had stepped aside for a short mad scientist with a strange hair style to reveal himself. He had that sinister air to him due to the skull themed outfit he wore and his massive grin of evil.
"Hello fellow subspace members, I am Dr. Albert Wily and I've also been helping with the invasion due to my newly improved army of Doc Robots. It's such an honor to be helping out such a huge organization that's made for taking over the world. We may not have more than one Chaos Emerald, but we have taken over plenty of many places for now with the help of our Subspace Diffusion Bombs. With the help of Bowser, I've managed to make fully functional replicas that were almost as deadly as the ones that Eggman managed to create at the start of the invasion," the scientist said before breaking into laughter.
This had really caught everyone except Dedede and Raidou off guard since the least expected the operation to be this successful with their help behind the scenes. Just the thought of Guardiana being taken over was enough to make Mishaela happy since this was something that we wanted to happen since then. Satan did a narcissistic giggle since his dream of taking over more than just Puyo Land is finally complete and all he needed was to force Arle to marry him whenever he finds her. Now this time, a new villain in the form of a lanky robot mastermind with a purple cape had revealed himself on the screen. He had the red eyes of a true mastermind and the green dome to match his high intellect.
"Good evening fellow evil do'ers, the great and powerful Dr. Nefarious would like to fill you in on some final details. Other than taking over the last few locations, we have a few more things to do before we see the Dark One himself. Stop a certain hedgehog from foiling our plan, in which we have someone special sent to take him out, and use him as hostage so that the heroes can fork over all the Chaos Emeralds. they've. Think of it as a special last resort just in case we fail to retrieve the remaining emerald from these last two locations and a quick way for all of us to get these emeralds from those idiots," said the robotic mastermind.
This is where things get a little shaky since the Legion of Subspace is close to obtaining their goal and that they have a backup plan to take the remaining emerald from everyone else. Good thing everyone's favorite reporter had recorded the entire conversation while hanging outside of the halls. She blue eyes observed the villains celebration in their room and her heart raced faster than her famous Chu Blasts.
"This is Ulala reporting with something bigger than the many other scoops. The Legion of Subspace is about to fully take over this world and Sonic is about to be targeted in order to get all the Chaos Emeralds. Girls, it's time for you to arrive and help out in Operation Space Channel Rescue," she said into her transmitter.
Not only we finally know who the "new recruits" other than Dedede and Turbo were, but they had many shocking tales to tell their fellow members. Bowser and his crew had taken over many areas with their own Subspace Diffusion Bombs and been essentially helping the Legion out while thy were hunting Chaos Emeralds. While we do know that Nack and Zavok were sent to retrieve Sonic, they plan on using him as a hostage to get the remaining emeralds from the heroes if they actually succeed in capturing him and to make their plan flow well. Ulala had done enough spying on the Legion and its now time for her to get help that had been "listening" to her to whole time. Since they were refereed to as "girls", we'll most likely know their full identity in the next chapter. You'll just have to find out what other shocking things happen next week on Sonic & Sega All Stars: Subspace Unleashed. Don't forget to review, follow, or rate if you've enjoyed everything so far. See ya real soon!