Hello everyone, Big Red here. So we are finally having the true battle begin on the Lost Hex now that the G.U.N. and World Destruction Committee has arrived. Mecha Sonic will now be fighting seriously when his position is at stake and he has one chance to redeem his usefulness to Dr. Eggman. Expect the appearance of some surprising fan favorite villian later on, which you will soon see. Now let's get this chapter rolling.

The Deadly Six would gaze around what a complete mess the Lost Hex is in despite this only being Windy Hill of the other countries. Many windmills were now on fire or at least partially destroyed from the attacks. Many parts of the land are already crumbling away due to the severe damage from enemy forces. He also noticed that less of the native Wisps and other animals were around compared to how abundant both species were. But most importantly, many Zeti houses were now in complete ruins thanks to everything Mecha Sonic forces had done. Just the sight would only anger these six Zeti even more at the thought some heartless beings would this far because they wanted little to do with the Legion anymore. Zavok would be the least surprised as Eggman is only a reminder of why he hates all beings from Earth initially for thinking they were no different from him. But seeing how Sonic and friends forgiven him during the mothership raid reminded him that there were good people out there that shown less malice to him. Compared to the very former allies that did not want to save him when Isaac's rampage almost killed him. These thoughts ponder his head as he really hopes everyone with him are right about proving to be of help in saving their dying world. Zeena once again tries her best to hold in any tears knowing that her family is in grave danger during a critical moment like this. Zomom desperately looks around to see if his mother is somewhere safe at least. Even Zik would only shake his head at what became of this world now that he sees it with his own eyes. Zazz is already seething with rage while at the same time trying not to do anything reckless by jumping into a fight before anyone else. Zor instead chooses to look at his blue rose as if it's the only thing less depressing than the ruined Windy Hill.

"Let us not forget why we are here. To destroy everyone that is associated with that fool Eggman and keeping what remains of our people safe. Seeing him go through with his plans of Zeti genocide is already disgusting to see. Our home will be avenged and when this is all over we can try to rebuild it from the ground up," the leader said remorsefully.

"Understood, my pupil. As someone who been a part of the worst fights in my youth, this state is even worse than any war we've previously fought to protect our people. We used to be slaves to that rotten egg, but now is our turn to go through with our original plan of revenge against him. The hedgehog is a bright one, he is not our enemy. But the only true enemy is the one who holds ill will to Zeti kind and thinks he can get away with crumbling a prosperous foundation like the Lost Hex," the size Zik said before tapping his staff.

"Forget food, I want to devour all of the monsters that did this to our home. There is nothing tastier than squeezing someone that hurts our people until they explode and slurping every single ouch of their insides. They do not even deserve to be alive after this," the angry Zomom said.

"Boss, do not hold me back from doing anything. Once I get my hands on these punks, I will keep clawing and pounding them without an inch of their life. You mess with my friends and home, you deserve to be sent to a place worse than Hell itself," the aggressive Zazz said in a terrifying voice.

"Whatever, I do not care how angry you get. As long as you do the brutality away from me. Not that I mind any misery happening to the ones that deserve it," Zor said before lowering his rose.

"I swear if my parents or little brother are hurt, these fashion disasters will be beaten until they look uglier than someone on a bad hair day. This girl will not stay nice forever, not after what she is seeing," the furious Zeena cried.

The robot Deadly Six would see that their masters had finally arrived just in time. Robot Zik would begin pressing some coordinates on a device to help transport them all back to the ship safely while they had time to escape. Any remaining Badniks would still charge at them while they were looking away. Then Cheese charged immediately to destroy them all in one fell swoop thanks to orders from the nearby Cream.

"Cheese, make sure those scary robots do no think about hurting our friends," the young rabbit called. "Chao chao!" the bow tied wearing Chao replied while still destroying his enemies.

The robot Zeti would be pleased that more allies are here to help finish what they've started.

"Keep fighting the fight, young seeds. We will be going back to the ship for repairs. The rest is up to you and our masters," he said.

"Give them all hell for me, will y'all? I still want to see them get crushed in the end of the day, robot Zazz said.

"Take care, do not forget to tell the real Zeena that I did my best to keep her rowdy little border safe," robot Zeena said.

"Whatever, take us back to the ship already. I am tired of all the senseless destruction and violence anyway," robot Zor complained.

"Bye bye, my stomach was getting full anyway after eating the last few of those silly robots," robot Zomom said.

"Good luck, you all should do well against that Mecha Sonic fool if you are careful enough. One last thing, do not let him use that Chaos Emerald in his hands," robot Zavok warned.

All six of them would eventually disappear in a blue flash to signify their safe trip back to the cloaked ship above. Cream grew concerned by the words she heard from the red robot about the Chaos Emerald.

"How does he have one of the emeralds? Did that mean Eggman trust one to him just to stay in control of this place?" she wondered.

"I would not put it past him. It only means we will have to destroy that robot immediately. As if seeing Centurion get nearly killed isn't serious enough," Ali said angrily.

"He already crossed a line trying to kill him. He need to make this quick and not waste any time. I still owe him a nice headbutt for taking advantage of me earlier," Ristar said.

"Same for him trying to kill my friend. I wish the Chaotix luck on healing his wounds. I will just have to think of a way to fight that cruel machine without his help," Orta laments.

"I will help out. I may be a little rabbit, but I am still strong enough to be of help. I really want to make up for letting that mean Eggman kidnap me and Cheese a while ago. Mama, I will make you proud by saving this world," the determined rabbit said.

Orta could feel some nostalgia in Cream's words when thinking about her relationship with Azel and how she spent years fighting alone after her death. But then she grew worried and wondered if she will arrive soon.

"But I wonder where my mother is. She should be on her way here. Her dragon is far from slow and quite powerful of an air fighter," she said.

"There is nothing to worry about. They should arrive when the time is right. For now, we need to find that spiky metal monster and destroy him if it means getting one of the stolen emeralds back," Prince Ali warned.

Dytto is already doing her best using her healing powers to try saving the near dead Centurion and bleeds all over from his last attack. Unfortunately, the damage is near grave and not enough could be done. Her healing could only accomplish closing the wound and healing the neck bones that were shattered, however his strength is close to gone to make him a competent fighter anymore. Only a divine being in this case crane help, the same one who gave him another chance at life to fight Neff.

"Pl…please…call Athena…only she has connections to her father…who can be the only one to give my power back. I was too care…less to let my guard down and I am only….a weak mortal stripped of my power due to almost dying. You got to please do that favor for me….or else I would not be able to help….all of you anymore," the sickly man begged.

The water fairy did not know what he meant by his words, but would only feel sad that her healing is not good enough to bring him back to his full strength. Meanwhile, the Chaotix were already doing their best to help keep the wounded dragon alive. Charmy would be in charge of fanning the creature's face with his buzzing wings to keep him cool. Vector would be applying pressure to the masses of tissue to his wounds to stop the bleeding. Mighty is holding down his wings to make sure he did not think about flying away in his state. Espio would act as the guard that would make sure no stray enemies would think about attacking him.

"The perimeter is clear. I will keep watch, do your best everyone. This dragon will not die on our watch," the chameleon replied.

"Good job, Espio. It's a great thing that my wings will never get tired. This guy will have to stay cool as long as he is in good hands," the hyperactive bee said.

"Holding him down is hard. This guy is really stubborn if he wants to keep fighting when we are only helping him," the armadillo said.

"That's in his nature. Dragons are fighters, of course they would want to retaliate against those that hurt them. But this guy knows we should keep him down for a while before he is in better condition. Orta loves him and we as the Chaotix will make sure he is nursed back in good condition to fly again," the determined crocodile said.

"Correct. I will wish everyone well in taking down that Sonic robot. This one is different than Metal Sonic, I have a feeling he is on another level compared to him," Espio replied.

"Yeah, I want to kick butt with them but we know that taking care of this dragon is more important. They better save some room for us to join once we bring this flying boy back in good condition. But I wonder when the rookies will get here," he said.

"Let's just pray that the ship doesn't crash and they die because of your careless plans," Mighty said in concern.

Mecha Sonic finally recovers from his attack as he rose from the pit below. He is now angrier than before as this hit is worse than the one Centurion or Ristar had given him. His would have his sinister red eye on the six Set that dare stood up to him, recognizing them as the real Deadly Six than the laughable robot copies that failed to meet his expectations. Zavok could tell the blue menace wants kore as he growls once more at seeing him recover this fast.

"So you are back from that hit? Here I thought it would be anticlimactic for the one responsible for damaging the Lost Hex is so weak. Come back here if you want more of my true power. You will be nothing but scrap when I get through toying with you," the Deadly Six leader dared.

"Likewise, the mighty warriors of this pathetic world is finally in my sight. Eggman will be proud when I kill all six of you as promised. This will only be a piece of cake as long as I have the Chaos Emerald in my hand. But to make it more fun, I will see if I can kill you all without using it. Where is the satisfaction in slaughtering you all in seconds?" the cruel machine announced.

"The only one will be slaughtered here is you, bolt face! Don't act like you are just disposable scrap just to be used as a shield from the one we really want to kill, Dr. Eggman!" Zazz beamed.

"A threat? From the so called strongest warriors of the Lost Hex who gotten their sorry behinds humiliated by my mere copy Sonic? Sad, you are all nothing but talk instead of genuine threats," Mecha Sonic said.

"The more you talk, the more you are teasing my stomach. I will make sure your head will be between my jaws and crunched until you go down my throat to be digested. Never underestimate the Deadly Six," Zomom threatened.

"If anything, you should look in a mirror. Because you are the ugliest robot that I've ever seen. Those shoes? So outdated and angular. Those limbs do not even look proportional to your puny body. And your face, it only reminds me of how insufferable that hedgehog used to be. But even I would say you are more disgusting than him in ways that even Zomom look cuter in comparison," Zeena shouts.

Zomom glared at his green ally as he could not tell if her words about him were an insult or compliment.

"All of you are only insufferable to listen to. How about we get this fight started so your mouths get shut down permanently? No wonder all of you Zeti are simple, no threat, and ugly on top of that. Just like the pathetic humans that dare oppose our great leader Dr. Eggman. Even I would be more satisfied killing them than your pathetic race or this planet," the machine barked.

These words would only anger the Zeti just for how offensive his thoughts on all Zeti kind were. Even the ding Zeti wouldn't appreciate being called these things at all. Some even contemplating the idea of rebelling now that they have the help to do so.

"Have you looked in a mirror, Tall and Menacing? I do not know about you, but you are a serious case of pot meets kettle with your ideology. But of course I would not expect a useless pawn to a moron like Eggman to have the self awareness to know that his life is too meaningless to know what it means to be superior to everyone. I hated how happy and smiling that hedgehog was, but you are a whole new level of loser for your condensing attitude and being all holier than thou when you are just a mere machine. Come back to us when you do not have an ego too big for that ugly mug of yours," Zor called.

Zeena and Zazz gasps as they never seen their usually gloomy ally this aggressive before with words. Even Master Zik couldn't resist chuckling at his pupil's words along with the usually serious Zavok. Mecha Sonic would be at his limit for how much he could tolerate any more words out of the Zeti that challenged him and whips out his machine gun arm cannon for his first attack.

"How about you eat those words when your colorful corpses are video captured after your deaths? Die!" he shouts before firing.

Zavok then changed from laughter to serious once he saw the bullets coming in their direction.

"Everyone, split up! We will all focus on reducing this fool to the scrap he is," he called.

They instantly scattered to avoid the rapid fire bullets that made way to their standing spot. Their heated battle would finally begin as the remaining heroes approached the dying body of Centurion. Ali and Orta couldn't believe what they were looking at as the frail Greek man looked like he wouldn't last after having one good hit in his current depowered state. Dytto could only do nothing but shake her head to let her master know that the idea of healing him is close to impossible with her current power. The Prince knew that desperate times called for desperate measures as their enemy went this far for his dirty trick.

"Orta, stay here and keep him safe. I will help the Deadly Six destroy that monster. For not only what he did to your dragon, but for also nearly killing a valuable ally like him," he said in a serious tone.

"But shouldn't we think of a way that we can save him first? I doubt he would even stay alive if we were to take too long fighting that blue monstrosity," she said.

"Master, we will have to contact Athena and have her talk to Zeus. It is the only way we can save him since his power is the only reason he stayed alive for so long. That is one thing we can do," Dytto suggests.

Ali had the feeling that this is the only option they had since Athena was already told to stay aboard the ship for this mission along with the other non-combatants. Cream looked back and gasps at a serious sight behind them.

"Everyone look, we have more enemies to worry about!" she called.

Storms of Nefarious droids, Bullet Bills, Fire Demons, Hige Hige Bandits, Bulborbs, Stalfoses, Krushas, Venom Army soldiers, Elite Pirates, Sniper Joes, Cyclops Devils, Octobombers, Black Sugar Spearmen, shrine maiden ghosts, Black Hole tanks, Shadaloo dolls, Pigmask soldiers, werewolves, ghosts that serve Blinky's gang, como Dark Matters, Mashers, Crimean mages, Dr. Bad Boon's men, Alpha Gang members with their own dinosaur minions, Team Rocket grunts with their trademark Pokemon, Sledge Bros, Darknuts, Fleamen, Zeti that were possessed by the Dark Matters, Zeti that were corrupted by the Phazon, Monoeyes, Specknoses, Octotroopers, Wandering Gooms, Crimean soldiers, Chimaeras created by Dr. Adonuts, Medusa Heads, Sheargrubs, Dweevils, Scarfies, Wheelies, NZ's, Crimean generals, Tellies, Demon Towers, Klumps, Klaptraps, Koopa Troopas, Black Hole infantry soldiers, Shadaloo soldiers, Sireens, Defensive/GUARDs, M35 Wasp Units, M85 Infantry Units, Mass-Produced faces, and Hammer Bros were running their way to the source of attack.

The G.U.N. tank arrived just in time from a long flight to see what is going on. Shadow would catch wind of the Deadly Six already engaging with Metal Sonic all at once. Zavok trading blows with the steel doppelgänger of Sonic as the remaining Deadly Six would assist in taking on the Egg Pawns that distracted them. He would also glance at the incoming army that is heading their way, coming to the conclusion that these large numbers were responsible for taking over the Lost Hex from the start. He could recognize nearly none of these enemies as if they serve someone who he may know as possible new recruits of the Legion. This concerned the black hedgehog as he didn't expect the idea of them gathering new allies this soon. Mega Man would finally land his Rush Jet, allowing his red canine companion to shift back to his regular form. Both Proto Man and Roll would finally teleport beside him in flashes of light to regroup with their brother. The Clockwork Knights finally landed their toy horses to prepare for battle. Then Shogun stops his vehicle completely for Taupy to act as the lookout for him. The small bear Beastman would see the army before him and made a wicked smile of excitement.

"Looks like we have a lot of wankers to deal with. Just let me off so we can get this bloody scuffle over with," he said.

"I would prefer if you stay inside of the vehicle. This world is crumbling and you can't fly. A real warrior would fight on suitable ground for a battle," Shogun said.

"Can someone tell me what happened with Centurion? I can find a way to use Chaos Control to take him back to the ship," Shadow said.

The sickly warrior instead used what little strength he had to tell Shadow what he really needs.

"C…call Athena…have her talk with Zeus…to give my power back….I want to still fight…and not be useless…to you all," he said.

"You've done enough. What will make a difference if we ask a God to heal you when we also have an army heading our way. It's too dangerous for you to stick around, I will just take you back to the ship. Let us handle everything for you," the hedgehog replied.

"Shadow is right, you are in bad shape and we do not know if it will be easy to convince this Zeus character to give your powers back when we have enough enemies to worry about here. Leaving you here any longer will not only be a burden to the capable fighters, but also put you in danger. That is an order," Rouge insists.

As a prideful warrior that hates to lose, Centurion would only keep fighting despite his bad condition.

"Please…give me a chance to redeem myself…I almost had it all…until he got me. I don't want to retreat like…weak warrior. Don't just send me away when I was…saving Ristar," he said.

Selvaria had nothing to say for the matter as this situation hits closer to home. Mostly when the Europan army was disappointed in her defeat at the hands of Alicia despite both being of Valkyrian blood. Even Maximilian was starting to lose faith in her at the time before her last mission in Ghirlandio. Ramirez also starts to feel for Centurion's wise as he did not like the idea of making any of his superiors look bad. This would remind him of how hard he pushed himself to be the perfect trump card for Galcian in the Valuan army. A loud roar would be heard that alerts the entire group, which would slightly vibrate the ground from its intensity. Atolm finally arrives with the rest of the World Destruction Committee ready to drop off the remaining fighters. Azel agreed on a special plan of her own that involves flying to other parts of the Lost Hex and destroying any potential bases with her dragon's beams. Sackoby also arrives with the goofiest smile now that he is done enjoying his fun flying trip. Jack, Sora, Alicia, Welkin, General Winter, Phantom R, Kreese, Howard, and Agent Seven jumps off of the large dragon. Ecco chooses to help fly the Freonian child off as he is the most fragile compared to the these fighters who would better take large falls than him. Seeing Ecco already transformed gave Ali an idea, thinking about it the more he looked at Dytto. The fairy is confused at why he is staring at her and turns her head.

"Is there anything wrong, Master?" she asked.

"I have a plan, but it will require me having to use up all the water I have in hand for it to work. You think you can create enough water for Ecco to swim inside? His sonar may come in handy. Try to control the water her swims in as much as possible, as long as he can still resurface to breathe air. Make sure he is not beached as he could possibly die if he is on dry land too long and him falling down would also be dangerous. I am counting on you for this," he said.

Dytto would realize that he meant the dolphin that would always be in the tank back on the ship, gasping deeply.

"But what about you? Aree you sure you will not need my help fighting by your side?" she asked.

"Do not worry about me. I have enough bombs, arrows for my crossbow, and swords to go around. Breaking any of my weapons would be no big deal as long as I got many in hand. Just do me a favor and help keep Ecco alive in the water," the prince said.

Dytto nods and flew her way to the seagull above to talk out the plan with him. Then the prince would pull out his crossbow while loading it to make sure he has all the ammo needed for this war. The army is finally approaching everyone within a good sixty feet away. The Stalfoses snarled at the thought of killing their prey while the Bulborbs growled just to show how aggressive they were. The Crimean mages would take out their stalves and tomes for battle while the Krushas let out vicious crocodilian growls. The Sledge Bros and Hammer Bros readied their hammers for throwing as they gotten closer. The Omega Pirates would raise their massive Phazon coated arms as if they were expecting any energy to absorb. The ferocious dinosaurs that the Alpha Gang commands were letting out their loudest roars as if they wanted to decimate their incoming foes. The Rocket Grunts would already have their Golbats, Houndooms, Arboks, Sandslashes, Raticates, Weezings, Persians, Machamps, Hynos, Marowaks, Venemoths, Vileplooms, Muks, Haunters, and Electrodes out of their Pokeballs to fight in the name of their organization. The Black Hole tanks would already be targeting their possible victims of their deadly tank shells just like their last war. The many Mechon units would already have their red targeting lights locked on the heroes before them in attack formation.

Neither of the heroes shown any fear except for Sora growing weary that she may have to be forced to run in her princess gown once more. Jack would only puff his cigarette before breathing smoke as if he had no care in the world about anyone wanting to kill him. Agent Seven already smirks as the mechanical soldiers caught her eye as potential hacking targets to control. Selvaria instantly activated her blue Valkyrian flames and readies her ancient Valkyrur weapons for battle. Ristar would await his friend from Freon to finally land thanks to Ecco's help, before the seagull would see Dytto use her magic to create a large sphere of water. The seagull instantly dives inside of the bubble before shifting back into his familiar dolphin form. While he is aware of this risky plan, he is happy to swim and fight in his more versatile form after hearing out the fairy's words. Using his echolocation again, he thanks her mentally.

I really appreciate you wanting me to fight at my fullest. Let's make sure we stick withy the plan and not let me run out of this water. My sonar will greatly help in destroying the toughest armor these guys have. Are you ready?

"Yes I am, I will not fail Master Ali. We will make a great team with my mystical waters," Dytto replied.

Despite his requests, Shadow would hold out the Chaos Emerald anyway to send Centurion back to the ship. The weak warrior could do nothing but shed tears at the thought that he will be cast aside due to his injuries.

"I am sorry, but you will have to go back to the ship until we can figure something out. As it stands, you are better off not being out in the open to be infected by Phazon nor possessed by those black one-eyed creatures. Chaaaaaaaaossss Controoooool!" he announced.

The dying Centurion would be warped away instantly despite his protests, which would allow everyone to focus on the incoming army behind them.

"You did the right thing, Shadow. Prideful types like him need to learn that his life is not worth risking when the stakes are high on the Lost Hex. We will do our best to save Zavok's world while there is still time," Rouge said in a serious manner.

"Time is already slim, I could tell the damage here is too severe and wasting more time will result in all of us falling down. Destroying that army is one thing we need to do," Ramirez calmly said.

Orta finally sets up her gun once more with another chance to redeem failing to kill Mecha Sonic. The robotic blue hedgehog is already too busy taking on the six vengeful Zeti that tried their hardest to pressure him. A simple one-inch punch from Master Zik easily damaging his entire body in one fell swoop before Zazz slash at his chest with powerful claws.

"Damn...you. I will figure out a way to destroy all of you pests," the wounded robot said.

He instantly swipes his metal arm to knock away Zazz and fires his machine gun at Zik, which defends himself with his spinning staff. Zomom appears directly above him to slam his massive yellow fists on his head to send him to the ground. The resulting crash would cause the hiding Zeti to peek and see that their heroes finally arrived to help them all. Some could tell that these were the real deal after recognizing their techniques and personalities.

"They are back, we are saved. I hope the Deadly Six can save us from these monsters," one Zeti said.

"That's the real Zavok and Master Zik without a doubt. The other four members have to be as real as them," another Zeti said.

"They gave the upper hand against that steel monster. Go Deadly Six, give them bell!" a female Zeti said.

"Go Deadly Six! We believe in you. Avenge all the brave warriors that gave their lives trying to save the Lost Hex," a younger Zeti said.

"Zeena honey, kick that metal monster's butt. We believe in you and so does your father," Zangia called.

"Hey, don't just pretend I can't fight with my sister!" Zane shouts.

"Son, you will have to leave it to her for now. Just stay where you are like the robot her said,"Zaria said.

Just the voices of their people cheering them would boost the six's notable to defeat the robot even further. Zavok would be the most passionate as destroying the one who serves the man responsible for this distraction would be enough to crave his hunger for violence. His last blow would once again send Mecha Sonic flying high for meeting his fists of fire. Zeena deals an electrical blast to the robot as he flies before Zor sucks his shadow bat army on him.

"Go tear him limb from limb. Not that I care about the results," Zor said silently.

The black flying creatures would be viciously biting at the damaged body of Mecha Sonic in a shadowy feeding frenzy. He managed to snack away a few of the bats only to be swallowed by more of them.

"I will not lose to you pests!" he sounds before screaming.

This would scare some of the black bats off of him before charging at Zor. Zomom jumped in time to block the punch with his own hand, holding back the from connecting. To see a usually gluttonous and carefree guy like Zomom angry is an example of him no longer holding back in this fight. Mecha Sonic immediately raised his other arm to change it into a rocket launcher. Zeena grabs it with her own electric whip ability and fillings the Sonic robot once more for Zavok to uppercut him. The resulting punch almost dislocated before Zik slams an entire giant steel ball on top to smash it back in place and crush him.

"A good lesson to learn is never judge your opponent by appearance. They can deceive your mind into being clouded with blind ignorance and weaken your skill," he remarks.

Everyone would finally be clashing with the allied forces that met to battle in an intense way they never experienced before. Orta blasts a few Stalfoses in their skulls to disorient them from enhancing in combat. A Stalfos would be inclined to chase their own skull as their eyes is the best way to see their own prey in battle. One actually drew near her to swipe only to be dodged. "How about you take this!" she shouts before destroying the entire skull with a charged blast. The entire skeletal body falls apart as without a skull, their magic can no longer control all bones together. It wasn't until a Darknut appears before her with his black blade ready to kill. Then Prince Ali would stagger the armored beast with his own Black Knight sword to defend his woman.

"If you want a fight, then you have one. We will fight one on one and see who's the deadliest fighter," the skilled prince said.

The silent knight would only keep focusing his energy on him as those standing up to a Darknut are seen as a threat to them. Jack Cayman slices around to cut all the Mechon units that stood in his path and punched the few Krushas that tried to face him. He's a very versatile mercenary that fought monsters and other strange Deathwatch participants in the past to adapt to these strange foes. A Moblin-esque Stalfos stands above him with a massive club ready to swing.

"Not this time, you ugly skeleton bastard," he said before beheading the beast.

The headless skeleton instantly drops his club to look around for the skull that bounces away. Being good with quick kills, Jack leapt after the skull to instantly punch it with his cybernetic hand. As the skull explodes in bony pieces and dark magic, the rest of the Moblin skeleton crumbles apart. The serious man takes a moment to enjoy his smoke in the seconds he had to refuel. Welkin and Alicia trade gunfire with a few Black Hole Infantry in a heated territorial war. Octotroopers would join in with their machine gun ink fire if it meant spawning more ink that creates reinforcements. The Gallian soldier noticed this strange phenomenon as he snatched his wife from the incoming strange liquid.

"What is this, some kind of fluid?" he wondered.

"Thanks for stopping me. I'm not sure if it's poison or we both would had sank in that fluid," the thankful wife said.

They would notice more strange figures rising from the purple ink in question. This included Octoling Warriors and more Octotroopers ready to meet their new targets. The former humanoid figures would cock their Octoshot's aggressively to prepare for war. Both Gunthers would get their grenades ready to blow them up. After a toss, Welkin and Alicia rolled out of the way to dodge the rapid fire ink bullets that aimed for them. They could tell that each missed shot is only creating more puddles of ink that could spawn these possible soldiers when not careful. Welkin fires at an Octoling a few times with his gun to make it explode into more ink. Alicia follows her husband's lead to fire at the Octotroopers that drew closer in their massive ink puddle.

"There's too many of these ink creatures, how can we combat them when they are so fast?" Welkin said.

It wouldn't be until Ecco appears to swim at top speed inside the water bubble that Dutton controls. Their plan is working as the water not only shaves the ink puddle to clean it, but instantly kill the Octo minions with their inability to maintain form near water.

"Great work Ecco, you are warding them away!" Alicia called.

The dolphin cackles in joy as he continue his path of cleaning up all the ink. The Octotroopers begin scattering while some Octoling chose to hide in Octopus form in the ink to avoid being seen.

"Don't fall back men, we still have our targets in sight. Fire!" a Black Hole soldier commands.

Before his fellow soldiers could do so, they were shot down one by one thanks to the marksmanship of the Gallian soldier couple. Welkin smirks now that he's reliving his victorious glory days once more.

"Who said anything about being your target?" he said.

Alicia laughs at her husband's sense of humor before continuing her fire at the remaining Infantry soldier. The Black Hole tanks fired at Selvaria several times in an attempt to destroy their powerful target. Instead, she deflects a few tank shells with her lance before bashing through the last one with a powerful shield charge. Her azure flames were burning brighter than usual due to her intense determination to dominate the battlefield.

"Do not give up, men. We will blow that woman apart with our best shots. If not, I will call our general to send in the Super Tanks. Keep firing at will!" a Black Hole Tank soldier shouts.

The large tanks still fired all they had despite Selvaria's superiority over their worst shots. Her Valkyrian blood makes her a superweapon that surpasses even the Gallian and Europan army's strongest weapons. One which is capable of decimating a small mountain in an older scuffle of the EWII.

"Fire all you want, but anyone who dare steps up to the descendant of the mighty Valkyrur only deserve divine punishment. This is your last chance to escape with your lives if you treasure them dearly," she warned with her crimson eyes on the attacking squadron.

The tank riding soldiers would only keep attacking instead of taking her threat as words to fear. These were men who served the Black Hole army that once threatened the world before under the commandment of Sturm. It taken all the other nations of Green Earth, Yellow Comet, Orange Star, and Blue Moon to take them down at once. Sturm's original plan was to ravage the entire planet with his deadly Meteor Storm technique, which summon powerful meters which can ravage when the toughest of armies or even raze countries when used at full power. Then take over what fallen countries are left with his army last standing for his quest of global domination for his people. If there is anything one can say about his army, they are persistent and refuse to fall to any forces no matter how strong they are in numbers and strength. As Selvaria deflects more tanks, she is beginning to lose her will to hold back her strength any longer. The next thing she would do is begin charging all the aura in her Valkyrian spear for her next devastating attack. This would trick the soldiers into thinking she is planning to surrender the battle as they bask in overconfidence.

"Sir, it appears she is raising her weapon. Maybe we should give her time to truly surrender instead of keeping it up," another Black Hole soldier said.

"Negatory, we will kill her even if she surrenders. Our commander Strum wants us to conquer everyone we can. No prisoners held, all destroyed. Or else that means our dream of ruling all countries on this planet will be for naught," the Black Hole corporal said.

The tanks once more aimed their barrels directly at Selvaria if it mean a final shootdown to fully destroy their powerful target. The silver haired woman only closed her eyes as her lance gathers most of the power it needs for this large swing. This would only feed into the tank soldiers' arrogance and confidence that they will kill her in this next attack.

"Ready! Fire all at once!" the corporal shouts.

All tanks fired their six shells directly at Selvaria. The Valkyrian woman would finally unleash her powerful slash to send a wave of blue flames at her foes. The wave not only repels the shells, but devastates all tanks with ease in a destructive attack. Then the same wave would travel to destroy almost all of the army with ease. Even some allies like Gunther family, Jack, and the 7th Dragon duo barely dodged it in time. Agent Seven was already in the middle of hacking some Mechon into her own personal robot soldiers. The process was slightly difficult due to their Entia tech being quite complex compared to anything she ever worked with before. The Mass Produced Face mechs would give her the most trouble as their size and ferocity would make them the hardest to approach easily. Sora already served as backup with her special singing if it meant buffing the defenses of her agent ally at all.

"Stand up tall and take the shots, because your body is where it gets the hots. Not even the strongest of bombs will chip away as your mind calms. This is the greatest way to win a fight, because we all know when it is wrong or right!" the princess sang.

The blue aura surrounding Agent Seven would be an example of her boosted durability to take the blows of these mechanical behemoths. One already attempts to smash her before she would get the chance to control one of their fellow brethren.

"Shoot, I will have to go at things another way. Maybe if I use the flying guys I've hacked to reach a higher point. But then these lugs would swat at them easily. Think Seven, you are a brilliant mind who can hack any machine no matter the danger. You can do this," Agent Seven says to herself.

"Look alive, you got another one going to hit you!" Princess Sora called.

Seven nearly dodged the swipe and lands in one of the Wasp mechons that she taken control of for safety. The steel insectoid robot then flies into the air to carry the mistress it serves to take her at a safer height.

"Good boy, now take me back down. I can jump on the heads of one of the big guys if it means hacking at least one of them at once. You can have your other blue eyed buddies distract the others, got it?" she said to the robot.

The wasp robot nods and flies back down at high speeds. The other non-controlled Mechon instantly locks on her with red lights to try shooting down their potential target. Seven pulls out her pistols just in case she had to try defending against the shots. Some of the Mass Produced Face Mechons would jump their massive bodies into the air to make things worse.

"Damn it, I will have to think of something," she said.

The other robots that Seven hacked would finally swarm around the larger Mechon to force them to try attacking with their large arms. The agent smirks as her drones are doing their best at serving her.

"Thanks everyone, now leave the rest to me," she said before jumping off the flying robot.

One large robot would be too busy swing it's massive arms around at the disobedient Mechon that attacked. The other Mechon below accidentally firing it from below didn't help matters as their trackers froze on the wrong target. Unfortunately, one of the hands of another Mass Produced Face Mechon connects with Agent Seven and flung her back to the ground in one hit. Had she not had Sora's special song buff her, then that hit would had done more serious damage to her body or even bones. She slowly gets back up to her feet after that hit as she is determined to at least hack one of the larger Mechon at all.

"I like a challenge. You big guys are only making me even more interested in taking over your system. Count in, I will have to try extreme methods to have my hands on your tiny metal heads!" she declared with the wildest smile ever.

Taupy takes down a few Shadaloo soldiers with his martial arts, each being strong blows to their weakest points. He's an expert martial arts fighter that likes to exploit weaknesses when dealing with his larger targets. But what started the fights is how they called him a cute little bear, an easy way to piss him off and cause the Feral to go on a rampage.

"Is that the best you weaklings got, kuma? Who's the cute little bear now? The next person who calls me cut will be torn apart by my knife, kuma. None of you need me to carve into all of you bastards," Taupy yells.

Some of the cautious Shadaloo members would be too frightened to approach the angry yellow bear after seeing just how ferocious he could get in combat. They all shivered in their boots at the thought something so small would be just as threatening as the very Street Fighters their boss Bison wants them to deal with.

"What the hell...is that thing? It suddenly went berserk when one of our men called it cute. I'm already scared of this monster," one of them said.

"It's just a t...teddy bear that talks. There's no..no way it would be of any threat to Master Bison, right?"

Just hearing that would only cause the eyepatch wearing bear to glare at the goons immediately. They all gasps in unison now that he's getting ready to rampage once more in his anger.

"N..now you've done it, you idiot. We...re about to die at the hands of that puny mascot freak," another goon shouts.

He would soon be punched so hard in the face that most of his bloody teeth would be flying out of his mouth. It was at this point that Taupy no longer has any sense of compassion for these thugs that judge him for his adorable looks. The other goons screamed before they attempt running away from the rampaging small Feral.

"I've heard that you punks! Get your butts back here so I can carve you all into pieces, kuma! You better be lucky that I'm not like the other Ferals that butcher you humans into food for the market. It's too late for any apologies!" he screams angrily.

Some would already be kicked in their backs or have their necks snapped in less than a minute to fully escape their punishment.

"I need to report this to Master Bison immediately. But first, I need to get the hell away from that pint sized ursa terror!" a frightened goon screamed.

Masses of Koopa Troops and Wily Forces would be completely frozen in their tracks. This is the result of Ramirez using his Silver Tundra move to immobilize any that dared to attack him. He's a tactical fighter that likes to crush all means of movement for his enemies before dealing the finishing blow. A Hammer Bro helplessly try to chip away at the bitter ice that froze his shell and feet in place. A Sniper Joe is struggling to chip all the ice off of her frozen arm cannon with his shield as the low temperature chills disrupt his intense systems. Ramirez silently walks past his frozen targets without saying a word. Koopa instantly twitched themselves in fear at the thought they would be cut down soon. Tellies tried to rotate their blue-can like bodies to escape the ice that frozen them shut. Even the Bullet Bills that are used to kamikaze techniques fears the idea of being cut apart by their chilling opponent.

"It's no use. My ice is very strong, nothing can escape it as the Silver Moonberries are what power it. It's one of the strongest for a reason, making me your worst nightmare. Accept your facets, submit to the only feeling that you can hold on to for your final moments. Your fear," he says in a chilling tone as he kept walking toward them.

All of the frozen Koopa Troop and Wily Forces a started to flinch at the thought that this would be one of their final moments. Little did they know that he would only walk past them without any care as if he only wanted to make them think they would die this second. A Koopa quickly opened his eye to see that he didn't do anything to him at all as he kept walking away from him. Then a Sniper Joe looos around with its single one eye to notice that nothing happened to him. All of the frozen enemies would be completely relieved that nothing happened as their aggressor simply walks away. But that is far from the truth as the silver haired man dramatically raised his sword into the air for a reason. This spoon follows into him slowly resheathing his blade silently and quietly with grave.

"Farewell, may we meet again in the afterlife," he silently said before

finishing the action. The blade finally being engulfed in the scabbard would only cause all enemies and ice around them to be shattered on sight. The robotic enemies were completely destroyed in frozen metal chunks as the Bullet Bills explode to destroy the shells of all Koopas and Hammer Bros immediately. A devastating attack from what used to be Galcian's strongest commander in the Valuan army. Next up, Shadow warps all around the area to knock out every Crimean soldier one by one with powerful kicks and punches that their armor did little to withstand. Some desperately tried to cast Sleep and Bolt on Shadow, only to miss due to his blinding speed. He in turn quickly snipes the mages with Chaos Spears to knock them out from being any trouble for his allies. That's until an Omega Pirate jumps near him before snarling ferociously. Shadow is smart enough to avoid the mutated beast's blue claws that one hit would had instantly infected him with Phazon.

"You will not be corrupting me today! This heart belongs to nothing but Maria's wish to protect this planet. You are no better than those black hearted aliens I wish to never associate with again!" he shouts.

He fires a few Chaos Spears at the hulking alien at full force. The mutated pirate's power absorption luckily absorbs the Chaos Emergy within his blue hands to avoid any severe damage. "Damn, how am I supposed to defeat you without any contact when my Chaos Spears will only be absorbed?" he said in annoyance. Shadow would only notice the bulging blue swellings on the body of the beast. Not only they are the main source of the Space Pirate's power, but appear to be clear weaknesses to destroy. The hedgehog instantly thought of a great idea that unfortunately involves using the spare weapons that G.U.N. supplied him with in case there's a situation he faces a foe immune to his Chaos energy attacks. It would be a massive rocket launcher that dwarfs him in size with all the firepower needed to destroy the toughest aliens. The beast instantly recognized this weapon as a threat and raises its arms in the air for a Phazon charged shockwave. The hedgehog knew that attacking him bow is an option as this infectious substance would be great harm to anyone innocent involved.

"Oh no you don't! Eat this, Phazon abomination!" Shadow shouts for firing the first rocket.

The flying explosive finally met the blue shoulder swelling and bursts it in a powerful enough shock to stop the beast's attack. It roars in pain with the Phazon infected blood spewing all out of its wound as Shadow runs around gif another opportunity to attack. The creature swipes again only to miss and have another of its Phazon lymph-nodes destroyed.

"You are nothing more than a big and slow target. No wonder you are such an unsightly abomination. Just let me be the one to put you out of your misery," the hedgehog said.

He aims the barrel of the rocket launcher in the creature's face before blasting it completely with its Phazon levels already weakening. Once the creature finally toppled over, this would gather the attention of more lower level Space Pirates to fire at Shadow with their plasma wrist guns. Shadow instantly teleports to appear directly behind the confused creatures. One of the creatures attempted to slash him with their wrist blades only to miss its target. Shadow kicks the creature had enough to make it spew yellow blood from its head, then he blasts away another that tried to attack him from the side. Shadow would continue kicking down every other Space Pirate that charged at him from every direction with ease and precision.

"Is that all? I've expected more from planet raiding goons that work for a cruel space dragon. I've beaten aliens just as pathetic in the past and all of you are no different," he brags as he continues beating them one by one.

It weren't until a blue shockwave would be coming his way from another Elite Pirate that he thankfully foreseen. As the hedgehog teleports, some unfortunate Space Pirate victims would be caught in the crossfire as there Phazon already enters their body. Their bodies would already be turning blue and veiny as a result of the blue hazardous substance infecting their body. The Space Pirates have experimented with Phazon for years since its discovery and Shadow would witness just what happens firsthand to anything that's falling victim to its corruption. Some Pirates would be growing massive blue swellings on their bodies along with drastically overgrown arms from their body falling to handle it. Others would be growling larger in their upper body or even legs due to the different reactions of the material in their body. Overall, these mutated Pirates would be more unstable and aggressive compared to the more collected Elite Pirates that had the proper experimentations before their "birth". That is not all as the Phazon wave started to affect other members of the allied army.

A Koopa would be mutating into a hulking blue shelled monstrosity with an underbite and larger than average red eyes. A Sniper Joe turns complete blue with a skeletal face underneath the hood and Phazon running in its blaster. A canine Venom soldier eventually grows larger and feral with blue drool and a horrible fanged face to match his new animalistic mindset. A Darknut's muscles expand to the point of bursting out of its own armor having veiny pulsating blue muscles and horns growing from the helmet. A Bulborb would swell up with blue spots appearing and longer fangs appearing from it upper jaw, now sporting a pair of souls blue eyes to match its corruption. Not even Pokemon were safe from this corruption as several of Team Rocket's Pokemon were now rampaging mutated beasts that succumbed to the effects of the Phazon. A Phazon infected Golbat would viciously attack his own trainer, now infecting him with the corrupting blue fluid from his fangs. Another trainer is coiled by a Phazon Arbok, now feeling his veins slowly becoming blue from under his outfit from the Phazon. A Phazon mutated Machamp would already rampage and attack other Rocket Grunts with his blue fists, leading other Grunts to try holding his arms down with black whips. Unfortunately for them, the Phazon is trailing from the knots of the whips to the very hands of the Grunts to infect them completely.

"What the heck is going on? My hands are burning up all of a sudden and this blue stuff is growing all over me," a male grunt panicked.

A female Grunt lifts her shirt to reveal that her navel is all veiny and blue in graphic detail as a result of her body rapidly corrupting.

"I am getting infected, help me!" she cried with tears pouring down her face.

Another infected Grunt would be rolling around his back as he is experiencing pain even worse than being singed by an Arcanine.

"Holy Arceus, this is bad! Boss Giovanni needs to get his scientists on the job for an antidote!" her peers shout after turning away from the horrible sight.

The Black Hole infantry soldiers were not very lucky with corruption either as their own army suits did little to protect from the blue mutagen affecting their bodies. Many of the soldiers were screaming and barely in a mood to fight anymore as the pain and intense mutating got in the way of their desire to fight.

"My skin, it's getting ready to burn. I can't take this pain at all," a soldier screams.

Seeing all the pain and misery they were going through because of their own allies is making Welkin and Alicia have less of a reason to fight.

"What's happening to them? We narrowly dodged some blue wave that alien did abs now these soldiers are suffering? Are they that reckless when working together?" the alarmed husband said.

"We can't attack them now, they are in serious need of help. It wouldn't be right to hurt them when they are already suffering from that alien's infection," the terrified wife said.

One soldier is already in tears as his face breakouts horribly with blue veins all over and excess blue blood pouring out. He pulls out a gun and aims fir his own head as a form of mercy kill since this horrible mutation is agonizing enough to drive me to death. This horrified Alicia as she really wanted to help the guy avoid something this rash.

"Fo...forgive me, Commander Sturm. I can't take this hell anymore. I'm taking myself to hell right now!" he screams one last time.

She gasps from the sight of him blasting his own head apart in a gruesome end, Welkin shielding her eyes as this is worse than all the lives lost in their past wars. Other soldiers would also be self mutilating themselves with their knives or attempting to cut off their infected parts to stop the corruption with no avail. Welkin is highly disgusted as it only shows that these allies are even more cruel than anything the Legion ever did with their own men. He felt nothing but anger and disgust at seeing these soldiers he originally saw as enemies being victims to a spreading alien disease that cause horrifying effects. Not even the Octo minions were safe either as the ink being effected with Phazon caused all Octotroopers and Octoling to swell in horribly ways due to their bodies not handling the Phazon at all. Some of them exploded into more Phazon ink to be spread while others would succumb to it as essentially living Phazon zombies that act autonomously. This is no different than the Sanitized Octolings that were mass produced by Commander Tartar's own disease that he harvested to punish their species in the Inkopolis undergrounds. The fact one Octoling cries blue tears as it prepares to explode only upset Alicia further at the sight.

"What's the meaning of this, they are only killing their own as if they are just expendable. These aren't villains, but monsters who care little about how they win or the numbers they lose. Not even the Gallian army would stoop this low with their artificial Valkyrian projects. They are all just despicable and unforgivable!" she cried aggressively.

"Alicia, we can do nothing about it. Even touching them will get you infected too. I know how you feel dear, this is just too disgusting for words. It would only get worse if this stuff start spreading to throughout planet if not stopped. The innocent Zeti that's alive would be wiped out by this disease. Even worse if it starts spreading to Earth too. Damn it all," he said in an aggressive but comforting time.

The Phazon infected Zeti were already attacking mindlessly from the start, spreading their disease even further to the Murasame oni and werewolves that were unlucky victims. The werewolves in return would be biting the Klaptraps and Mechon, turning them into suffering killing machines that mindlessly attack each other. What was originally a war is now a survival test for all heroes to avoid getting any trace of Phazon on them. Shadow would realize this after see most of his enemies starting to turn blue and aggressive.

"Everyone, run and report to your ships!" he shouts.

Shogun instantly heard the hedgehog's order and navigates his ship to find where Taupy is. He would already be backing away from a group of Phazon infected Shadaloo goons that were cornering him. He could tel that the blue stuff isn't worth touching as the psychotic mutated men drew closer and closer to him.

"Can we all just talk things out? I get that you all were upset about me beatin your bloody men, but I am not someone worth spreading your deadly disease on, kuma. Get away from me, I am not going to send my dear Muffy on you all," he said nervously as he backs up.

One of the goons lunged at him and narrowly he dodged the infected hand swipe. It wasn't until Shogun would finally reach him as fast as his Deadly Assassin finally arrived to save him. The samurai reached out his hand to snatch Taupy in time before he even gotten the Phazon spread to him. The small bear Feral jumped in the driver's seat completely safe and in tears.

"Thank you so much, kuma. I will never threaten you again for saving me a blue disease from running my body," he cried in a thankful manner.

"It's nothing. We are realizing that this mission is more dangerous than ever," Shogun said.

Both Clockwork Knights would be riding their horses into the air in cowardice from the Phazon Sniper Joes that were shooting at them.

"We will consider our competition a draw. Let us take a tactical retreat to avoid being puppets to that deadly virus unlike our opponents," Sir Pepper called.

"Indeed, old friend. I am too young to have my fine steel body corroded by something so foul and fiendish," Sir Ginger replied in fear.

Orta, Ristar, and Prince Ali are left to run on door as their dragon is far from ready to fly again. Even Dytto would be struggling to carry the water blob that contains Ecco due to her already bring close to the limit of her summoning.

"You..will have to turn back into...a seagull and fly. It's almost time for me to go," the fairy said.

"If only we can stop, I would shoot another water bottle with the Golden Armlet if it means keeping you going for a while," the prince said.

"I never seen a virus like that before. Suddenly, our enemies started either being mindless beasts or instantly dying because it's too much for them. This is like a living nightmare, not even Greedy's dark corruption would be be harmful to their hosts," the star alien panics.

The Phazon Octolings fired all the Phazon Ink they had to continue spreading their plague as far as they should. Jack Cayman already snatched Princess Sora and Agent Seven once he saw the large Mechon already becoming walking Phazon victims. The agent would be greatly disappointed as she hates being interrupted once she find a or ledge to candidate to hack.

"Can you let go of me, you big lug? I was close to taking over that beauty. Don't you all want to win this fight?" she asked.

"Not when that blue virus is spreading all over these guys. Would you want to become a mutant blue zombie? Then follow my league and stay in my arms," the stern mercenary ordered.

Howard and Kreese would be following the three after they realized their attacks had no effect on the Dark Matters. The black one-eyes creatures continues to pursue them as they see the two as valuable hosts.

"I don't know what's worse, the alien Bubonic Plague infecting all these bastards or these wannabe Cthulhu 8-balls wanting to steal our bodies," the former said.

"Don't you mean the alien AIDS as that stuff is plaguing them more than an average hooker during Happy Hour? I'd rather get my body snatched by these dark sex offenders than have my favorite tool covered in blue warts and all sparkly," the latter said.

"That's just disgusting, Kreese. I would rather not think about the idea of my dick being ugly as those blue warty freaks. Scratch that, even I wouldn't want my manly body being turned into a lumpy blue Incredible Bulk on drugs," Howard said in disgust.

"Will you two give it a break? This isn't Deathwatch and this could be your final careers if you don't take this serious enough," Jack coldly says while carrying the women.

"Thank you, someone finally tells those two to stop being such crass annoying, foul mouthed men!" Sora shouts.

"Well hey Princess Tight Up the Panties, it's our job and we get paid for commentating everything we do. We are arguably the funniest characters in the story and deserve to tickle everyone's funny bone. Or even their funny boners," Kreese said.

"Knock it off! Anyways, I need to contact Azel to see if she can bring that dragon of her's back here for help," Jack said.

Shadow managed to regroup with Selvaria and Ramirez as the hordes of Phazon infected soldiers approached them. The hedgehog blasted a few as far as they could with his rocket launcher to buy time for Rouge's return.

"I need back up. Rouge already said that she is on her way here. We just need to do all we can to keep their distance away from us," the hedgehog ordered.

Ramirez uses Silver Nightmare to control a Phazon Darknut into slashing his own allies. He knew that he couldn't control them for long as the Phazon is already crawling up the very Silver Moon strings his magic created.

"I'll do as much as I can. My other Silver techniques require me getting closer and my ice would be too easy to corrupt," the silver haired man said.

Selvaria is already charging enough of her Valkyrian waves for another powerful wave to destroy this mutated army.

She is already angry and fearing the idea of becoming as horrid as these mutated monsters.
But most of all seeing the unfair treatment of the soldiers overall that truly disgusted her. A good deal of them are now helpless Black Hole soldiers that cried as their bodies were no longer the same as they shot each other and others with Phazon coated bullets. A lot of these soldiers felt very close and begged for someone to put them out of their misery for being controlled by this nightmarish virus. And that's not much to say about the Rocket Grunts who are still helplessly mauled by their own mutated Pokemon, some begging them to stop as they were not fat enough to retrap them with their Pokeballs. Even those captured by the Pokeballs instantly break out as the amped up Phazon makes them strong enough that even a Super Ball wouldn't be enough to hold them down. Selvaria knew what a true commander would do in this situation while also growing even more disgusted at the idea the Legion considers this acceptable treatment to their own men.

"Those folks, thinking their lives are expendable and deserving to be tortured by a damn virus. Not even Maximillion would go through these lengths as he makes the Artificial Valkyrian armor safe enough where the Ragnite don't poison the bodies of his own soldiers. This is truly foul, to believe that I used to side with these monsters in the belief that avenging him was worth it. Sick. Truly sick!" she angrily said.

Ramirez already seen the Phazon slowly traveling back toward his fingertips after his puppet did as much fighting as he could.

"Damn it, I'm calling off the spell. It's up to you Selvaria," he called.

He instantly ends the spell to disperse all strings, freeing the Darknut that already slaughtered a few of his men. Only the humanoid soldiers were spared as he don't seen himself ever wanting to kill soldiers who don't deserve a fate like death. Shadow tossed the empty rocket launcher at a row of creatures before unleashing a storm of Chaos Spears at the waves of enemies. Rouge would already be flying her way with the G.U.N. ready for her allies. The bar is utterly shocked at everything she could see with so many victims to this deadly alien virus Ridley's forces could harness. With the stakes high, she knew that leaving her allies defenseless would have them be next potential victims.

"Shadow, I'm coming right now! Get ready to do your last round of attacks to fend them off, some are already trying to attack our vehicle," she said through her communicator.

She isn't wrong as many Space Pirates, Sniper Joes, and Venom Soldiers were already trying to gun down the flying black vehicle. Even the mutated Sledge Bros hurled massive Phazon coated sledgehammers at her to try bringing their target down.

"Selvaria, unleash you wave soon as the vehicle gets closer. Don't worry since Rouge will make sure to avoid it in time," Shadow ordered.

Selvaria nods as she already has the full flakes she needed for this next attack. Ramirez already backed out of her way if it means giving her room did the next attack. Cream is already seen flying away in fright with Cream with a pack of mutated Medusa Heads baring their bangs and Phazon snake hairs at them. The rabbit had never been this frightened in a good whole, not when she is at high risk of dying from a possible virus spreading all over the battlefield. There were times she wished that Vanilla or Emerl is really there fir her, heartbroken at the cruelty surrounding her.

"I really don't want to seem like a load, but this is too scary. Amy and Mr. Big is lucky they do not have to be in this much danger," she cried.

Even the normally brave Cheese is just as scared, having tears fly from his blue saddened face. "Chao chaoooo!" he cried.

"I know Cheese. Those scary snakeheads are getting closer. Maybe Rouge can help us get away from them fast enough," the crying hopeful rabbit said, "Mr. Shadow, can I ride with you? Make some room, these snake haired monsters will not stop chasing us!"

Shadow grew concerned as spacing force everyone else may be an issue as if they didn't have bigger problems to deal with. Rouge already drew closer and closer, as her wears already picked up the cries of Cream nearby.

"Get on, we can let you and your Chao friend on without any trouble!" she called.

The teary eyed rabbit then nods and immediately flew closer to the flying tank while she could. Cheese quickly follows his friend as he could tell the mutated Medusa Heads were flying closer than ever to his vulnerable small body. Shadow and Ramirez instantly jumped into the vehicle before Selvaria finally unleashed the final blue flame wave from her lance. The countless rampaging infected victims would be instantly defeated by this attack and pushed many others away from pursuing the other heroes. General Winter already had a fellow Russian pilot pick him up before they both taken off in a jet for flight. Heather narrowly grabbed the Freonian child before he had his head snatched by the incoming Phazon Stalfos. Ristar activates his Anti-Gravity shoes immediately to star floating into the air.

Orta used this time to grab his hands and shouts, "Grab my legs! It's the only way out of here!"

Ali obediently jumps to grab at his woman's legs and held on tight. Dytto is now replenished of her summon magic time as he flies off with the water blob containing Ecco being carried away. Mega Man also decided to fly away with the Rush Jet as Proto and Roll shared Item 2 for flight.
The kind hearted robot maid looked back to see the menu Grunts and soldiers reduced to nothing more than crying half desks or infect mutants that continued their rampage. As a robot that loves to help others or nurse them, the decision to leave them behind without a way to cure Phazon was hard enough for her.

"Don't look back Roll, we just can't save them. There is no cure that exists and trying to make one isn't worth it when they are the enemy," the red robot said.

"Let us not think that way, Proto Man. Did you not see how unstable those robots appeared? It's like they want to stop but the pain is overriding their systems. Even the human victims there were miserable and regretting being involved with allies that could infect them. This is a reason why we have to do something," Mega Man said.

Proto Man liked how his brother is optimistic and always willing to help both robots and humans alike no matter how good or bad they were. But at the same time, he is a realist and would rather not actively help anyone who is a threat to the state of their world no matter how miserable they were. His years of being a loner helped in his neutral mindset over what happens to anyone, innocents or those like Wily that want to take over the world. Not that it really stopped him from helping Mega Man on the occasion like the Roboenza outbreak and Bass's staged innocence with Mega Man.

"Then what is your plan? We can not save them if we risk being infected by the same virus. Samus knows more about this virus than we do. Did her former Federation ever invent a way to suppress it?" he asked.

"Yes. They made one, but it was only in digital form and worked as an anti-virus for the Aurora Units. They have yet to make anything that works for organic victims of the Phazon Corruption. We would not know unless we somehow get the information from Samus, she still has the code from her last time associating with the Galactic Federation. But that would require me teleporting to her location and asking for it. You and Roll can come with, but the idea of leaving the group behind would be risky if we are careless enough," the blue robot explains.

"So you all know of a way we can stop this virus from spreading?" a voice asked.

The three DLN robots looked to see Rouge and Shadow driving the G.U.N. tank right next to them, with Selvaria comforting a crying Cream and Ramirez stroking Cheese to calm him down.

"Perfect timing. I need your permission to teleport to Samus with Proto and Roll if it means getting data for the Phazon vaccine. Maybe I can bring a scientist that excels in bio sciences to come with us if it means helping Dr. Light in the process of creating a vaccine for organic beings on the ship. It may take some time, but we will have to buy time and make sure these infected soldiers do not spread it to any more possible victims," Mega Man asks.

Shadow had a hard time thinking if this is the right move when there is still Mecha Sonic and the rest of the Lost Hex to worry about. Then he realized that Phosphora, Dark Pit, the Outrun couple, and Azel were strangely missing as if they wanted to take care of the other regions themselves.

"I can vouch for your plan. Because as it stands, we want to bring the Lost Hex back to normal don't we? Which also means making sure that virus do not spread to any other potential victims. We promised the Deadly Six that any living Zeti left are to be saved at all costs, something we will not fail on. I have a plan of my own to try quarantining the infected in one spot," the bat said.

"As long as we try not to be too violent with them as a lot of them are victims that did not deserve it. The real problem are those mutated Space Pirates as they are the reason this all started. If only there is a way that we can separate them," Ramirez said.

"There is also the fact that they are hurting each other as we speak. Some looked like they were on the verge of death already or died already due to not being able to take that blue virus. It will have to be fast one if we will save many lives. I never thought I would be the one to say that even though they are their enemies and part of the organization that threatens the universe, they did not deserve the disgusting fate they have. This is even too low for the Legion to do," Selvaria said.

Cream continued crying into the chest of the comforting Valkyrian woman as she is the only stand in for her missing mother.

"I miss my mother. She is still out there and probably being hurt by that terrible Eggman. She is too sweet to be taken away by a bad many like him. I really hate that mean old scientist for what he did," she cried.

Selvaria once more consoles her with a stroke to her cream colored furry forehead.

"There, it will be alright. I promise you that we will find your mother and bring her back safely. Such a man deserves to be brought to justice once we get our hands on him," she said.

The hedgehog finally made a clear decision as he felt there is too much at stake to waste time on a good solution.

"Very well, you have my full permission to go back to the Delphinus. Look for a man named Dr. Frank N Stein. If he can create a strong monster like Chuck D. Head, then there is no doubt he would be help working with Thomas Light. I'm counting on you three to get back here as soon as you can," he said.

Mega Man nods as his siblings did too with a clear goal in mind.

"Everyone, let's teleport back to the ship and find Samus for the vaccine data!" he said.

"Right!" Roll and Proto Man said in unison.

Eventually, all three of them and Rush instantly teleported into beams of light to escape their positions. This left Item Number 2 to disappear digitally as if it's no longer in use.

Shadow uses this time to look back at Rouge once before before asking," What is this plan of yours?"

Meanwhile, the Deadly Six are still getting the upper hand over Mecha Sonic as the robot is now in a critically damaged state from taking all six of them at once for too long. He fought with all the new weaponry he had installed except one as it is only his last resort. Zavok chuckles at the sad state the blue machine is in as he expected a better challenge out of him without a Chaos Emerald.

"Is that all you had? You were all bark and no bite for a machine that is a failed copy of Sonic. How does it feel to lose to beings you consider "simple and no threat"? Now you are only moments away from being fresh scrap to be fed to our Zetibots. Or we can use your tech to make improved ones. All you havre to do is stay still and we can crush you in one fell swoop," he said.

"Your time of trying to destroy everything our Founding Zeti had done for this world is over. You lack the discipline, skill, and mind to defeat the strongest Zeti the Lost Hex has to offer. We did not even need to use our electromagnetism either due to your exterior being frail as a ripe chestnut," Master Zik gloats.

"Just hurry up and explode already because you are starting to bore me. Those that bore me in a fight deserve nothing but a swift death," Zazz snarled.

"What lame comeback do you have for your final moments? I guess none because you are too busy being all "how can mere Zeti foil my plans of genocide for Master Eggman," Zor said.

"Master Eggman? More like the Master of Rotten Eggs with a side of Failure," Zomom said.

"That one is actually pretty clever. Though I am partial to Eggman, Master of Desperation. Needing all the help of so many people to do the work for him while he is sitting scared in his ship," Zeena joked.

The damaged robot would only grow irritated at the thought that he is being undermined while Eggman is being called a coward by these colorful beings. He searched in his programming to search for the trump card he needed to deal with these Zeti, the same tool that Eggman used to conquer the Zeti in the past after he first discovered their domain. He would use his hand to create a special shell shaped tool that come out of the palm of his blue hands with spikes and a hollow inside. An almost exact replica of the Cacophonic Conchs found on the Lost Hex. Zavok instantly recognized this and couldn't believe what he is seeing.

"What is that? It better not be what I think it is," the alert Zeti said.

Master Zik then taps his staff to alert the laughing Zeti at what is happening before them.

"So you were able to make your own conch. That Eggman is a wise one for predicting exactly what hurts us when used in the wrong hands," the old Zeti said.

"If you blow on that shell one time, I will rip you in two!" the angry Zazz threatened.

He remembered the agonizing pain that shell's shrill noise made to this day as that was the worst part of serving Eggman. This is due to the sounds of that conch having an effect that disrupts the neurocells of a Zeti and cripples their very will to fight back. It is also works as a great way to weaken a Zeti's overall strength, making it less than likely for them to take control of any tech with their electromagnetic manipulation. Zomom is already quivering in fear due to his clear PTSD of having to hear that conch's noise again. There is a reason why all conchs were usually outlawed from use on the Lost Hex due to their harmful affects on all Zeti.

"You wouldn't dare blow it. Because we will make sure to kick your metal butt twice as hard if you dare think about it," Zeena threatened.

All she had is nothing but terrible memories of being enslaved by Eggman at the risk of him blowing that cursed shell to correct them. Even all the stories she told her parents about it horrified them at the thought that outsiders would be cruel enough to treat their species that way if they ever were to find these conchs. Eggman's cruel treatment of the Deadly Six along with Sonic foiling their plans of revenge overall soured the views all Lost Hex inhabitants minus the Wisps and animals had of any being in the world below them.

"Of course, you were so scared of losing that you get the one thing that hurts all Zeti. Give me a break, you sore loser," Zor complained.

Even if he did not care much what happens, he is still quite afraid of feeling the conch's painful music once again with his own group nonetheless. Mecha Sonic would do nothing but laugh maniacally at how all the Zeti acted from threatening to frightened in seconds all because he had the one tool that would make this fight a living hell for them.

"You all remember this shell quite vividly. The one weakness your proud race have being something that will stop you from being a threat to my robot forces. Let me all fill you on a new secret, Eggman upgraded his machines to have that same effect as the Cacophonic Conch. Which means not only your electaoimanic controls will have no affect on them, but their very attacks will be more than enough to harm your kind. This is how we defeated the toughtest warriors who were under you. Killing them or even beating them into submission. It all felt quite satisfying to see the weak looks on their faces, that losing resolve from a crushed spirit, and watching them beg for mercy like we will not complete our mission for Lord Eggman. He is right, perhaps putting all of you out of your misery is the best move for quite the pathetic race. Being reduced to sniveling weaklings by the sounds of a mere shell," he said in cruel detail.

Zavok would have just about enough of his words and lunged at him quickly.

"Never say that about the Zeti again. I will make sure your face cease to function!" he yelled in rage.

"No Zavok, that's what he wants!" Master Zik called.

Mecha Sonic instantly starts to blow on the conch moments before Zavok's attack would connect. Just one ouch of the strange conch's sound would instantly stop the red Zeti leader in his tracks. The other Deadly Six would be reacting to that noise just as they done before when Eggman used it. Zavok held his head and let out a painful groan from feeling the intense pain of his nerves starting to go haywire from the sound.

"Too...late. That…runt is already gettin started," Zazz cried with his hands on his head.

"Just like the last time….. we are powerless…. to that stupid.. shell," Zeena said in terrible pain.

Mecha Sonic blows on the conch once more to cause the mighty Deadly Six leader to fall to his knees with both hands on his head whilst crying in extreme pain. The others accordingly screamed in unison from the feeling of their bodies falling victim to the intense affects of the shell's sounds. Zik starts to fall on his tiny knees while trying to hold his grip on his staff for balance. Zomom would experience the worst panic attack ever from feeling this traumatic pain once more as he stomps his feet violently to try ignoring the sensation. Even the mostly indifference Zor would be falling to his in agony before his rose would begin fluttering in the wind. He tries to reach for it, only to squirm again within hearing the Cacophonic Conch's demonic howling once more. Zeena would be desperately clawing at the very ground after having fell to it from the conch's sound crippling her main body functions. He howls in a mixture of pain and sadness from feeling this hellish noise once more. Zazz would be having a mental breakdown and started blindly attacking everywhere if it meant trying to break from the control of this shell's horrible echo as the metallic hedhehog keeps blowing. The heartless machine would only stare at the six colorful warriors now reduced to unstable enslaved mess who were greatly harmed by his own doing. Zavok held nothing but anger as he pounds the ground aggressively in response to the intense pain in his body.

"Is this what the mighty Deadly Six is? A bunch of sniveling jokes who fall victim to a mere shell? This is truly a sad sight to see. To believe you were this close to destroying me when you had the chance. Now it's my turn to make all of you suffer with my new anti-Zeti technology. I will blow this shell as long as I need to until you six are weak enough for me to make your deaths swift," the cruel robot announced.

Zavok looks at the robot once more with intense eyes of hatred, fists feeling tight enough to burst in any moment of violence.

"You...better take that back...Zeti are not the inferior beings you think they are. At least you aren't a mere toy that anyone can control...including us. You were lucky to be spared the idea of me...forcing you to blast you own... carbon face off with ease...we will beat your disposal body in due time," he said in a weak manner.

Zazz is already lying on the ground in pain and howling due to not wanting to take another blow of the shell.

"Make it stop... make it stop! I will claw myself into nothing if this torture keeps up," he cried aggressively.

"The more I hear that noise, the more I want to cry. Is there a way that I can just smash that shell and take a bite out of that stupid metal hedgehog?" Zomom moaned.

"I am with you, just hearing that sound is irritating and I can't even look at my own nails anymore. The moment they break, I will make that sad excuse of an emotionless tool will be smashed by these hands," Zeena complained.

"If we will do anything, we need to hope for the a miracle. That shell will only hold back out full potential. There's no doubt that if we get any close to him while he's blowing it will only result in more than a simple defeat," Master Zik warned.

It wouldn't be until the conch is shot out of Mecha Sonic's hands by a familiar electric bee stronger that was shot from the left.

"What?" the surprised machine said.

Than a familiar chameleon reappears directly behind him to stab him immediately with a special kunai made to pierce the most durable of robots. He continues to restrain the wounded robot while he could with a great ninja submission hold to bind him.

"Now! I got him in a good position!" he shouts.

Mighty and Vector appears to help up any fallen Zeti to get them in a good position to walk. The larger Zeti like Zomom and Zavok would be carried by Vector while he hauls the elderly Zik on his crocodilian back. Out of the blue, Jack Cayman appears with his chainsaw fully revved to attack the restricted Mecha Sonic. The chameleon disappeared in time before the charged weapon would finally pierce right through the wounded chest of the robot. This caused Mecha Sonic to scream in pain with his main systems failing after the stab. The mercenary is flowing red as a result of Sora's music boosting his strength to a level that would be strong enough to harm the powerful robot. Agent Seven would be waiting right behind him as she hopes she can have the chance to hack Mecha Sonic after he's fully incapacitated. Jack presses even harder with the revving chainsaw, causing the robot to scream in pain once more with so much of his internal systems being sliced apart by the weapon. He grits his teeth to hold his cigarette in place as he is enjoying this swift kill on the restrained robot.

"Go go go, cut down all of his processors and chips. That bad robot will regret all the things he did here," Charmy cheered.

Zavok would slowly open his eyes to see that he isn't on the ground anymore and now held by a familiar ally. He looked up to see Master Zik still struggling to regain his senses and saw Zomom waking up after his stomach growled.

"I hope that we can just destroy that robot soon. I need me a good meal," the large Zeti said.

"Now is not the time to think about food. We have a lot of work to do rebuilding our home," Zik warned.

Zavok would look back to see that Mecha Sonic is being dealt with by a magic boosted Jack already without much else to do. His eyes would also wander to where the rest of the Deadly Six is with so few of them there. Zeena would wake up to see Mighty is holding her alongside Zor and scowled.

"How about you let go of me unless you want five red cuts on your face, pervert," she barked.

Mighty would only shake his head with a nervous smile as he did not like being accused of such a thing when Vector ordered him to save her.

"Just do not mind her, she is always like that when someone of the opposite sex holds her. And I am thankful that you are not smiling while carrying me around. Smiles always make me cringe," the gloomy Zeti said.

Espio made his way to the fallen Zazz to carry him away. The first thing he would see is the fact he is floating and growled in annoyance.

"If you are a ghost or something, then let me go so I can pulverize you!" he yelled. "How about you don't, it's just me using my cloaking ability. A true ninja never allows himself to be detected," the invisible Espio said.

Zavok would only be grateful that allies came in time to put an end to the Cacophonic Conch's hellish music from doing any fatal affects on the only warriors the Lost Hex had left to offer.

"Thank you for helping us out. Had he kept going blowing that infernal shell, all hope for Zeti would had been lost after everything these monsters had done. Letting our guards down was a big mistake," he said remorsefully as Vector carries his body.

"No problemo, we are the Chaotix. As high class detectives, we care for everyone in danger. Free of charge or not. That dragon is doing fine back there, he is in good hands Orta coming back to take care of him soon. Just leave the rest to us. That's if Jack here isn't the one to finish him off completely," the crocodile said with a smile.

Mecha Sonic's arms were already starting to grow limp due to the severe damage done to his body along with Jack thrusting harder than before with his spinning chainsaw blades. Sora would be watching at a safe distance to see if she may need to sing once more before the effects of the magic placed on Jack were to run out.

"Hurry up already, I want to hack that bad boy and make him mine. Just do not slice him apart or it will only make things harder for me," Agent Seven shouts.

Jack ignores her request as he would rather make this death as painful as possible before things settle down.

"Any last words before you wind up being a shell of your former self, you steel pincushion?" he asks the dying robot.

All is not close to lost when he had one last trump card up his sleeve just for this very moment. He lifts his arm once more to reveal that he had a Chaos Emerald in his hand the entire time in his enclosed hand. Once he revealed it, this would only make the monochromatic assassin grow alert at what he planned to do next. The distorted cackling he makes despite the grave injuries he is in would only sell the idea that things were already lost before it ended.

"What are you waiting for, just slice him apart before he uses its power!" Charmy said.

"Are you mad? I want him to just smack the gem off his hand. I would rather not have a good hacking opportunity like this slip," the agent remarks.

"No way, do you want that crazy robot to brat all of our butts? That is why Jack needs to tear him apart before things get worse," alarmed bee barks.

"So? And risk having to rebuild him all over again after he is chopped up? Hell no, I want that fine specimen to be in fair condition so I can hack him!" Agent Seven yells.

"Or how about we stop arguing and do something before it's too late and Jack become his first victim of a beatdown?" Princess Sora shouts at both of them.

Jack is still conflicted on what to do next while he is still shocked to overcome the fact that his perfect plan was nothing more than a failure. Not even an opponent like Martin left him this stumped at being a high diff fight for him. Mecha Sonic laughs for one last time as he raised the red gem into the air next to his head.

"You… should had aimed for the head, fool. Now it's my turn to decimate….. you along with all the others that dare make a mockery….. of the ultimate machine," he said.

Before he could react, a flash of red engulfs him completely along with everyone else. This is only the beginning of worse things to come.

Meanwhile, Alberto would be flying his Ferrari with his girlfriend and the Virtua Cop duo toward what could be the first location for them to find any possible bases to destroy. They would be flying over the yellow endless dunes of Desert Ruins as the temperatures sharp rise compared to how chill Windy Hill was in atmosphere. Powerful winds would be blowing the countless grains of sand below and the cacti ominously stood within the barren dry wasteland everyone traversed. Not a single Zeti is in sight at all as the flying gang looks around for signs of life. Although they did see massive amounts of destroyed stone structures and a burning forest in the distance. And that is not to say of the partially burned and blasted floating donuts in the edible parts of Desert Ruins, appropriately called Dessert Ruins. Clarissa slightly stood with her hand over her face to try looking in a good way without being blinded by the hot sun. Sweat would be rolling down her skin in the right places from the intense head. Alberto is smart enough to keep an eye on the road as staring at his girl in the right place would had caused all four of them to crash into the sand below. Janet would be in the middle of replacing the ammo in her pistol if it means managing which bullets would be the most reliable on the mission. Hardy would be in the middle of contacting an old friend on his special police walkie talkie for a good while. The stern cop had the feeling the two would have to work together again for the first time in years since their last criminal case.

"I was wondering, is it possible for you to grab a police helicopter with a few other precinct units for back up. I have a bad feeling about this and you are probably the only one I trust with the job. Janet and I are doing well. But with the rising dangers these subspace guys are proving to be, you need to bring all the back up possible. Maybe bring some other good police weapons if possible. I doubt a flimsy taser and nightstick will be enough against these guys," he said.

"No problem, partner. I missed talking with ya for a while. The good old days were quite fun, kicking E.V.I.L. butt and stopping illegal gun trading in the name of justice. My name isn't James Cools for nothin. What do you say, I will be excited to shake hands with you once more when we get to this Lost Hex place. I head reports of countless debris falling in a forest near Central City. Even the President wanted severe investigation of this strange phenomena. Is this where I got to go?" the laidback voice said.

"Yes, that debris is without a doubt a result of the severe damage happening to the Lost Hex. If we do not stop it soon, then plenty of lives will be lost. Both on that planet and on the forest below and even Central City itself next. I would imagine that enough G.U.N. troops are aware of the collateral damage, we have some representatives with us to complete this mission," Hardy replied.

James held his voice to think for a moment. He is always one for the excitement of stopping criminals. But to fly to a place that is falling apart will not be an easy task no matter how many fellow cops he bring to the scene for the full scale search. He did feel relieved to know that members of an important organization like G.U.N. were also there to be involved in a case worth looking into.

"That is very cool, bro. So what ya say, we will bring enough skilled members that will likely not lose their own lives. If we survived taking on E.V.I.L. three times, then there is no doubt that our fellow blue stars of the law will fail. Glad to hear that Janet is doing splendid working with you since the Outrun Bay investigation. I heard it was a success out there for you helping destroy that monster that threatened the sea and chase away some Legion members. If I am not mistaken, didn't one of them join you? As a fellow follower of the law, I would be skeptical if I were you since being backstabbed when the world is at state is a high risk. You know what I'm sayin?" the blonde cop asked.

"I can understand your worries. Selvaria is trustworthy. She had a little spat with her lover that happened to be too loyal to the Legion. You see, Amy went out of her way to heal her as the right thing to do for anyone hurt. The man went nuts and slashed the pink hedgehog down as if she were a threat. Then the two had their relationship drama and fought over which side was right or wrong. After he gotten chased away, she did so much to help us and the G.U.N., and well World Destruction Committee to save Sonic from the main mothership. We barely made it out alive and succeeded. Along with that same guy who had their spat with Selvaria atoning for his actions. I am not sure what they said to each other, but he finally realized that it was not worth being a part of a terrible organization like them. They are great assets to the team, exceptional commanders with battle experience and trained some aspiring civilians from Outrun Bay to be soldiers. You know, that reminds me alot of you and me when we were rookies in our local police station. Those were the days," Hardy explained.

"Aaaah, the times you and I were having target practice. The chief had to let us repeat the course because we were too focused on headshots despite him wanting us to be good at disarming criminals than killing. Or even the time we once did a practice run of how to stop a robbery, which we were messing up at the part where we had to not get fooled by the smooth words of a robber. You know, back when we were just simple guys who really loved those old cop movies. Wanting to be one of the best cops that any district can depend on in times we have so much chaos. Those were great times. We were like best friends. Not that I am jealous of Janet or anything, she is a good cop herself back when she was a rookie that worked with us in our last mission. They are more tolerable than the new guys," James said while sounding disgusted at the end.

"The new guys? I never thought the VCPD would be willing to hire new cops that soon," Hardy asked.

James held his breath as he did not want to be too loud in talking about his major displeasure of these two.

"Just a couple of obnoxious young ones who completely miss the point of being a cop. One is too busy playing his loud video games than paying attention to the mission and another is complaining about her uniform being too tight to wear. I never even once question the polices of the Virtua City Police Department but these two are really breaking my spirit. It's no wonder I am glad that I can work with you instead of these brats. Not that they are kids since of course the department would never let a kid be cops, but you know what I mean," he replies in clear annoyance.

"They are the future, you can not expect them to grow too fast. That is why a veteran like you need a level head and teach them the ways of justice. We were all like that in our older days, think of it as you realizing how you were when you were inexperienced," Hardy said.

The man on the other line went silent as he hates when his partner is right about the things he say.

"Cut it out, we are not like them. Sure we were both reckless in our youth as rookies, but we did not whine about how tight the uniforms were or focusing on handheld video games instead of staying focused. They have a long way to go until they reach the heights we went in our career," James replied.

Hardy laughed out laugh at his words as he is the same partner he always worked with from the gold old days. Janet would be wondering what was so funny that he is being too loud for her liking. Clarissa herself would be completely lost on what is really going on at all as the heat is really bothering her. Alberto still keeps his eyes on the path to find the very they needed to save, dodging the few Sandworms that leapt out of the sands looking for food. Clarissa would be glad that she has her seatbelt on if it means not being food to a terrifying annelid that loves the sands. Janet would aim her gun at the large creatures if it meant taking down a possible threat.

"No, do not attack them. That would only provoke them to chase after us. You know better than to put us in greater risk, Janet," Hardy warned.

"Hey, what is happening up there? You guys have some enemies on your tail?" the walkie talkie asked.

"Not at all, James. These are a flock of Sandworms native to this planet that just happen to be hunting. We are all passing them with no plans to attack as we are in no mood to look for trouble," Hardy replies.

But then next thing that happens immediately caught them off guard. A Sandworm would be struck with a few massive plasma blasts that angered it while alerting the other nearby Sandworms. The massive blue beast bellowed loudly before starting to seek the flying Ferrari as a possible target. Janet saw this and screaming loudly, causing Hardy to nearly drop his walkie talkie as a result.

"Didn't I tell you not to shoot at those beasts? Now we are about to get eaten!" he shouts.

"What the hell is going on and why are those ugly worms trying to chomp down on our ride all of a sudden?" Clarissa shouts.

Alberto instantly looks in his rear view mirrors to see the now massive long beasts leaping and digging in the yellow dunes behind them to pursue the flying prey.

"God damn it, which one of you decided to tick off the native wildlife? And here I thought I made it clear that no one shoot or attack anyone!" the Latino driver shouts.

"It wasn't me, I was looking at the sun and ignoring those ugly creatures," Clarissa said.

"I know it was not you, baby. You are too obedient to ever disobey any rules I make in our red ride. I have a feeling one of you cops decided to screw up for everyone," Alberto continued.

"I was in the middle of a call with an old friend of mines to call for back up, so do not think about blaming me. Also, James and the rest of the VCPD are not here yet if you think about blaming them either," Hardy said.

"And I listened to Hardy when he told me not to shoot it. There can only be one possible conclusion. We are being followed by someone who knows of our arrival," Janet beamed.

"Which is precisely correct. We only did that as a way to prove to you that you heroes have no place on this world," a communication said.

Alberto would look at the HUD of his car's system to see a mysterious transmission he is receiving. The other passengers would lean their faces to see the screen as well if it meant finding out who is this mysterious person. The voice sounded rather menacing and like that of someone who takes his message very serious. With the Sandworms still chasing everyone in a large pack, things would only be crazier for the group.

"Who the hell are you?" Alberto demanded.

In the distance behind the entire pack would be a series of fast moving red and white space fighter ships that just happen to be following them. The numbers would be up to four with the leader flying father ahead of his other three allies. They also shared another thing in common, which would be the Star Wolf symbol that is embroidered on the sides of each vehicle. A familiar chameleon would act as the leader for these notorious space mercenaries that acted as the commanders of the few Venom soldiers on the Lost Hex.

"The name is Leon Powalski and we are here to assassinate all of you for trying to stop our plans," he said.

"We are Team Star Wolf, one of Andross's best forces for the army that clean out the trash. As the hier to his highness and my uncle, you should bow down to the name Andrew Oikonny!" the simian flyer said.

"When anyone sees my rose, they would only be reminded of their imminent death. You can call me Panther Carosso," the panther ladies man said in his chilling voice.

"If you all value your lives, just surrender and we will not kill you. Just turn yourselves in so I, eeerrr all of us can be paid for our excellent jobs in the name of the Venom Army," Pigma said before snorting greedily.

Team Star Fox's greatest foes are back to their usual cruel hunt for bounty with four heroes in the tightest situation ever. Meanwhile in Tropical Coast, Dark Pit and Phosphora would be flying past the many floating planetoids with juicer pits around them. The two would realize how strange this area appears to be when most of what they could see are giant apples among other gigantic fruit all around them that seem to be examples of how strange the flora are on this planet. The Goddess of Lightning could see there do not seem to be any signs of life yet or any possible Zeti to save from these enemies. The black angel would also be scanning with his violet eyes to try looking for any possible foes that could possibly jump at them. His wings soared with grace as they flew through the tropical country at speeds faster than the eye could see. Soon they6 would eventually run into a large portion of land that begins with a massive basin which leads into endless blue oceans. The two would notice what appears to be a special underwater tube system that would lead between the many coral reefs below. Countless tripical fish of all kinds would be swimming in the seas to really showcase the diversity of the Lost Hex. Unfortunately, there would be parts of the tubes that were cracked or even straight up broken that. Chances were that mass flooding happened in the inside to prevent anyone from exploring the underwater viewing. But that isn far from all as Dark Pit and Phosphora would see the beaches before them. Countless palm trees were ravaged or even uprooted as if enough destruction happened here. The determined angel had the feeling that they are not too far from finding who is the main cause of this. Phosphora would be worried at who would goi as far as destroying something as beautiful as this beach or the underwater tunnel system for that matter.

"We are getting close. I can feel it. We just have to be on a look on on whoever may await us when following this path," she said.

"I know, Viridi already said ahead of time that we have a few guilty targets ahead of us. We just have to be careful since these are not like anything we ever fought before in Greece. Just stay on guard, Phosphora," he warned.

The two would fly past the countless destroyed trees along with some scored scrubs that are seen during their flight. Silence still drones on as they would have yet to see any possible signs of their unseen enemy around them. He still had a feeling that they are still possibly hiding instead of revealing who they really were. Phosphora looks to the left to see if there were anything out of the ordinary worth investing in. All she would would see were countless water spouts that trailed inn different directions around the beaches. Usually Zeti would use this as a way of traveling to other parts of the coast or even the juicer islands that float around the area. The lightning goddess had a bad feeling that this is all a part of something bigger that the villains want their enemies to follow if it mean a surprise attack. Suddenly, a massive tornado would be coming their way from the seas to attack them.

"Look out!" she called before the two split away from the swirling vortex that came their way.

They narrowly escaped what was clearly a surprise attack that would had sucked them up and disrupted their flight. The two were far from alone when this is not a normal water spout that the Zeti would consider a part of their coast.

"Whoever you are, show yourselves!" Dark Pit shouts as he readies his Dark Pit Bow.

Next would be a massive yellow nuke that narrowly hits the two once more before they split again.

"Can you cowards at least show up? We have no time for your games!" Phosphora shouts.

A group of robots would finally appear on the beach as a form of a group. These were some truly terrifying robots once created by brilliant scientists from Dr. Wily to Dr Cossack, even ones that were recently created by Dr Light himself. They would be none other than Fuse Man, Tundra Man, Torch Man, Block Man, Bounce Man, Blast Man, Acid Man, Impact Man, Turbo Man, Junk Man, Cloud Man, Tengu Man, Search Man, Grenade Man, Blade Man, Commando Man, Sheep Man, Crystal Man, Gravity Man, Star Man, Tomahawk Man, Centaur Man, Yamato Man, Dive Man, Drill Man, Bright Man, Heat Man, Bubble Man, Crash Man, Needle Man, Flash Man, Pirate Man, Burner Man, and Magic Man. These Robot Masters were once formidable foes that were defeated by Mega Man only to be rebuilt once more for the sake of serving Wily's plans for conquest once more. Or in the case of the recent DLN robots, being reprogrammed to serve Wily after he kidnapped them once more despite his last plan with them failing. They were the ones responsible for the damage done to Tropical Coast and simply waited to ambush anyone that planned to stop their destruction on this once peaceful beach country. Grenade Man laughs wildly as he been meaning to find someone to "detonate" him once more. Blade Man grinds his purple katana arms together to sharpen his deadly blades. Heat Man would be seen smoking a cigarette before having it burn to a crisp due to his body overheating. Search Man's two heads would be arguing with each other to see who gets to be the first to use their Homing Sniper on their targets. Tomahawk Man grinds his famed Silver Tomahawk on the the ground before emitting a powerful war cry of passion. Needle Man erects the spikes on his head now that he is happy to puncture new prey. Gravity Man floats mysteriously as he is levitating pieces of the ground below him with his gravity powers. Torch Man performs a series of flashy flaming martial arts to show just how powerful he is as a fighter. Drill Man grinds his two drill hands together to have them prepared for digging. Both Dark Pit and Phosphora would be surprised that they have so many potential targets to fight in one area as they are aware of how strong Mega Man himself can be in a fight. Fighting this many Robot Masters would be the equivalent of fighting many Mega Men alone, making this a difficult fight the two gotten themselves wrapped up in them.

"This is real bad, but we have no choice. Phosphora, try and not fall to these walking scrap piles for me," the nervous angel said.

Frozen Factory would see the gates that was originally guarded by a few Rocket Grunt stat to look out for any possible intruders. Though they would be out cold as the Chaotix jet crash landed in this part of the Lost Hex on accident due to the rookies losing control of their flight. It would be a miracle that the two survived the crash at all thanks to their training guaranteeing the durability to last the worst of accidents. Derrick and Britney would already be climbing from the wrecked ship with sore muscles and fuzzy.

"Just hold on to my hand, I will get bus out of here. We are lost but we will find some way to fix this ship if we can steal some tools from these guys without being detected," he said.

Brittney tries her best not to fall and started to follow his footsteps.

"I really want to give that crocodile a piece of my mind for getting us in that mess. Because I am being less inclined to join his stupid agency if he lead us to getting us nearly killed on some uncharted island," she complained.

"Well, let's hurry inside. It's cold as hell out here. I never expected us to land in a place that we should had worn coats in," Derrick demands.

The two wondered aimlessly toward the base as three figures would be watching them from the bushes. Two of them happen to be one of Giovanni's elite, the admins of the Team Rocket organization infamous for carrying out their biggest tasks. One of them would be a Pokemon himself, but this one is capable of speech to an amazing degree compared to his own species. They would carefully watch the couple entering their base with their own plans to carry out in this frozen wasteland's base. One of them would be speaking into a communicator to talk with the one and only leader of this Pokemon trafficking organization.

"This is Jesse, we are all watching the intruders after they just happened to crash in our base. They seem to be lacking any Pokemon, just being a bunch of weak college students. What should we do about them?" the older woman said.

"Attack them anyway. Leave no evidence. There is no way we will underestimate the young ones after one last foiled our organization. This is the only chance we have in rising back in power and it's thanks to our new allies," the sinister boss said through the device.

"Roger that, we did make a helping in chasing out those colorful freaks on this floating hexagonal rock to take all the resources they have. This would had made a nice new hideout, but too bad this world is falling apart after everything our allies had done," a blue haired man said.

"Which is why we need to hurry with the time we have now to take what we all can get. I like the progress we are making, but sometimes these allies conflict with different ideals. We don't feel much like a team but only doing what benefits our own selves than everyone. But it's better than staying underground in Kanto forever. Do not forget, we need to take out any intruders at all costs. Doesn't matter if you use guns or your own Pokemon to do the job," the sinister boss said once more.

"Meowth, that's right. We will take care of those twerps for you faster than a Dodrio. We will not fail the job," the talking cat Pokemon said.

Well how was that for starters, shocking? We get a good idea just how unstable the entire Legion and Smash alliance is when Phazon runs amok on all the soldiers. Some dying as a result or still suffering from the effects of the corruption. Everyone retreats and now have to think of a plan to handle this situation. To make matters worse, Mecha Sonic instantly uses the Chaos Emerald to really become a threat to the Zeti and Chaotix that oppose him. Team Star Wolf is hunting down the Outrun crew and Virtua Cops to stop their mission, Wily's robot minions ambushed Dark Pit and Phosphora for entering their turf, and Team Rocket would be currently spying on the unsuspecting rookies. What is happening with Azel and her dragon companion Altom will be explained in the next chapter along with showing how powerful Super Mecha Sonic really is. See you all next Saturday.