BGM-Sonic Heroes OST-System Screen: Select

Ruby: Hi! My name is Ruby Rose, leader of Team RWBY! Boy was it tough freeing Haven Academy from the Jackal. More of our friends turned into spiders, and we had to fight a mutated spider-god water monster! Crazy. Just when we thought Jackal was finished, he revealed himself to have survived through cloning. Instead of going after him, let's use the Chaos Stone to find and stop Salem! She's the evil mastermind, right? And Chaos seems to be leading us straight to her!

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Issue 16: Salem, the Immortal Spider-Queen

Evernight Factory, Land of Darkness. Remnant.

BGM-Sonic Riders OST-Theme of Digital Dimension

The fight within Evernight Factory rages on. Their secret mission to shut down the Masters of Evil's plans have gone loud and now the Secret Avengers have been forced into combatting the villains with nothing held back as the sheer intensity of the battles is ruining many areas of the castle.

Local guards of a lengthy hallway can't keep up at all watching two blurs bringing their explosive light speed clash to them. All of them were blown to kingdom come as the fighting escalates between the Yellow Blur and the Black Blur. Both blurs then ram their punches at each other, with Shadow revealing to be the Yellow Blur and Grimadoom revealing to be the Black Blur. The scowling Shadow tries kicking his doppelganger only for his attack to be blocked, enraging him into throwing more quick attacks that the smirking Grimadoom deflects before smashing him into a wall.

"You'll have to try better than that!" Grimadoom taunted his rival.

Annoyed, Shadow takes up on his advice as he bursts into his Chaos Boost state, irradiating his body with a chaotic red aura that leaves him more confident and tremendously powerful. Grima is impressed by his power-up but still believes he can defeat the hedgehog as he powers up a Cosmic Spear, prompting Shadow powering up his own Chaos Spear to counter his attack with an explosive stalemate.

Elsewhere in the factory, Qrow is having a tough time dueling the Immortal Spider-Queen Salem in a training room of sorts. With a threatening flaunt of his Harbinger sword, the Legendary Huntsman rushes at the witch with a high-speed combo of attacks that she calmly evades with her new spider-like reflexes, countering with a mystic blast that Qrow only evaded by briefly backflipping into his bird form before morphing his sword into a shotgun that blows up her left arm. Salem is not bothered by this because of her immortality as she smashes Qrow into the ground with a giant web fist summoned from an airborne sigil, immobilizing him further with spawned shadow hands as her own arm takes this moment to regenerate.

The smiling Salem charges up her magic to prepare his execution, but with a sudden case of bad luck, she is surprisingly struck in the chest by Grimadoom who was viciously smashed through a wall by Shadow. Both villains are electrocuted by his charged Chaos Spear that certainly caused Salem screaming in pain because of her enhanced vulnerability to electricity, weakening her shadowy grip on Qrow so he may free himself and join his teammate in violently slamming their enemies through the many floors this factory has until they reach the massive Dimensional Harvester chamber, where the heroes and villains have a properly brutal yet high-speed four-way clash whilst falling from high in the sky.

"Knew the boys would fall into trouble." punned Rouge, as she and Black Widow are also in the Harvester Chamber amidst battling the mysterious Spider-King.

'Need help, guys?' Nova asked from within their invisible Quinjet.

"On my signal!" Widow retorted, before she and Rouge avoid being webbed by Spider-King.

From the air Rouge bombards the mutated spider with bombs that envelop him in smoke, blinding him from a fierce flying kick from Widow that knocks him out of it. Swiftly though, Spider-King counters with a brutal lariat that knocks down the human spy right before the bat spy kicks him in the face, annoying him into grabbing her leg and throwing her aside right as Widow recovers with a sweeping kick that trips him up long enough for her to shout, "NOW!" through her comms.

A scarlet portal opens nearby from the usage of Raven Branwen's Semblance and her connection to her little brother, a tactic in which the Secret Avengers take full advantage of. Raven blitzes out of her portal to try and surprise Spider-King with a sword slash that was ineffective against his Spider-Sense but was successful enough to cleaving a spider-limb. That was just the beginning of the portal surprises as Nova flies out unleashing a powerful cosmic beam that smashes the monster across the floor, right before Omega appears and goes ballistic with heat-seeking missiles that are just barely blocked by Spider-King's mystical barrier.

"That magic…" Raven recognized the magic that's radiating from Spider-King, right as Qrow and Shadow take a breather with the team.

"So THAT'S what happened to him." Qrow remarked, having calmly deduced the true identity of Spider-King but doesn't reveal it aloud since his teammates have also deduced the truth.

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"These heroes aren't too shabby." grinned Grimadoom whilst descending from the air, reuniting with Spider-King before Salem appears beside them. "They possess a killer instinct the others lack. Certainly giving you a run for your money." He mocked his mother for sole purpose of annoying her.

"Hardly." Salem shoots her child with that annoyed glance.

"Your ex-husband would agree with me if he wasn't being pathetic." Grimadoom then mocked Spider-King after he survived a fearsome assault from the Avengers.

Turning her stern gaze at her enforcer, Salem calmly berates him, "You're disappointing me, Spider-King. If you do not wish to suffer anymore than you long have, you would cease resisting your Queen's demands. The Virus has restored your magic back to what it was millennia ago. Unleash it all at these so-called heroes and kill them, so we may finally reclaim our freedom."

"Yeeessss. Anythinnnng to be with you and a family again. They will be massacred before your lovely eyes." said Spider-King, flirting with his queen that gets Grima rolling his eyes in disgust.

Salem smiles, "You always had a way with words."

Before a monstrous charge is Spider-King unleashing a terrifying roar at the Secret Avengers. For his Queen and their future, he will destroy anyone that gets in their way. But something unexpected in the sky caught his attention amidst his charge. A strange cosmic rift is widening which interests both heroes and villains alike, as the rift is spitting out the bodies of Sienna Kahn and Chaos 0, alongside screams, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" of the Dimensional Avengers as they crash into the chamber.

"The children?!" Salem reacted in shock to their unexpected arrival.

"Chaos must've led them here using a spacetime distortion caused by the Chaos Stone." Grimadoom realized before calmly smirking, "This day is just full of surprises."

Most of the Secret Avengers were also shocked upon receiving reinforcements they never once considered, as the young heroes struggle to recover from that unexpected fall. Ruby was amongst the first to stand up and the first to realize she's sharing a room with her uncle and his secretive team that she was clueless about until now, "Whoa! Uncle Qrow? Didn't know you guys were here."

"Why are they here?" Qrow questioned.

"Dunno. Winter didn't inform us she'd send backup." Widow responded.

"When did these guys become a team?" Knuckles asked about the Secret Avengers.

"Right. Forgot Cap put together our own black-ops unit a while back. Protecting our dimensions from the shadows while we be loud about it." Spidey quipped.

"Thank you, Chaos, for bringing us to the Harvester." Blake said to the water god, "Is there anything else we should expect?" She then asked.

BGM-Spider-Man: No Way Home OST-Sling vs Bling

Her question is answered by Chaos snarling sternly right at Salem about to strike with a bursting barrage of mystic bolts that are targeting both teams of Avengers. Quickly Weiss incants her own magic spell that produces a large barrier of light that reflects all the shots back at the villains, prompting Grima to teleport away whilst Spider-King is swinging around protecting his queen in his grasp. Amidst their escape, Spider-Man suddenly appears before them shouting, "Look out!" as he web-strikes Spider-King in the face, forcing him to drop Salem as she cushions her fall with a swirling cyclone. Sonic wants to strike her next but Grimadoom won't allow it as he surprises him with a teleporting kick, not because he cares about his mother's safety, moreso that he's extremely eager for a rematch with the hero that pushed him to his limits for the first time.

As her cyclone levitates Salem higher into the air, the Witch finds herself relentlessly shot at by Ruby coming to confront her with a scowling glare. "So, the brave Avengers bested the God of Destruction. Congratulations." Salem mockingly smiles at the little huntress, "But you're mistaken if my defeat will be as simple."

"It won't, but you will fail." Ruby coldly countered.

With an arrogant scoff, Salem gathers her magic that she sends at Ruby in short bursts. The Scarlet Huntress uses her Semblance, weaving and dodging between them, then fires a bullet barrage at Salem, only for the witch to easily dodge them and sends a spread of beams that knocks back the kid. But Ruby isn't the only hero she's fighting, as Knuckles lunges toward her with a devastating punch that he slams right into her face, knocking her to the ground for Yang to bash her stomach upon landing, slamming her explosive fists into her face and head as the ground is quickly covered in dark, glistening blood. Even as she's being beaten to a pulp, Salem unleashes a burst of magic to free herself, right before Chaos smashes her onto the Dimensional Harvester with powerful water jets from his hands.

"Another God DARE to curse me with their interference?" Salem angrily scowls at the Mobian Deity, "I will not allow you to ruin my dreams or this Harvester." as she powers up her magic for a special move she had never done before, "Time for you all to share my suffering!"

Twisting the air with mystical hand gestures, Salem twists the very fabric of reality using a spell she secretly learned from Doctor Doom that causes everyone to collapse into the Mirror Dimension, a parallel dimension where the real world isn't affected by all that transpire here. Many heroes are screaming from Evernight Factory suddenly twisting and turning, with floors looking like ceilings and ceilings looking like walls and vice versa.

"WAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOAAAH…!" screamed Spider-Man while free-falling into a widening hole surrounded by the twisting Factory. Though she hasn't perfected this form of magic yet, Salem manipulates the Mirror Dimension into having hallways fold into themselves, with Spidey deftly navigating them as they bend their way around him before he hurtles out a window, making his way through a landing deck as Salem waves her hands to create a magical clothesline that flings him backwards right into the path of a roaring Spider-King lunging at him. But at the nick of time, Raven shows up to save him with a brutal sword slash that sends the King flying through this trippy dimension.

"Screw Kick!" shouted Rouge, suddenly striking Salem's back with a powerful tornado kick that slams her through multiple floating walls, all while Weiss uses her glyphs to help Spidey land beside her.

"You okay?" Weiss asked her leader.

"Yeah. Where the hell are we?" Spidey retorted.

"The Mirror Dimension. Doctor Strange brought me here sometimes for training back at Avengers Academy." answered Weiss, before noticing Rouge has been defeated by Salem as she fires a powerful mystic bolt down at the young heroes, with Nova swiftly coming to deflect the blast and save his friends.

"Why did you guys come to the Factory? Thought you were protecting Mistral." Nova asked his friends whilst Rouge recovers beside them.

"The Spider-Virus's growing out of control and we're a few hours away from the Masters conquering all dimensions. Lost Jackal's trail, but we were able to track down the REAL mastermind about to meet us with her clown makeup." replied Spidey, whilst mocking Salem as she calmly confronts the four heroes.

"Is that so?" Salem muttered, smiling in amusement of them believing her to be the leader of the Masters of Evil that she decides to play along, "Then I cannot allow you to interfere with these final hours. All will kneel before their Spider-Queen." She said coldly before hurtling the heroes away with a surge of violent waves.

Elsewhere whilst surrounded by enormous floating Gravity Dust crystals in this wacky dimension, Spider-King is growing quite furious with the heroes that refuse to succumb to his might. The likes of Ruby, Black Widow, Omega, and Blake have pushed him into unleashing a demonic roar, "GROOOAAAAARRRRGH!" alongside his full mystic power, enveloping himself in a green aura that's bursting many powerful energy blasts that the likes of Sienna, Knuckles, and Nova weren't able to evade. Ruby rushes in to stop him but is beaten and being strangled without effort while Widow's repeated bullet barrage has no effect.

"You…have silver eyes." Spider-King said, leaning in to look at Ruby's face that clues her in on his true identity.

"Omega! Tackle him off of Ruby!" Widow ordered before it is too late for the young huntress.

"Acknowledged. But I rather squash him." snarked Omega whilst brutally tackling Spider-King, forcing him to drop Ruby on a floating platform.

"Ruby!" Blake rushes in to check on her friend.

"I'm fine…" Ruby assured her amidst coughs, "But that Spider…The way he talked about my eyes…reminds me of Ozpin…"

"That's because Spider-King IS Ozpin!" Widow revealed upon reuniting with the huntresses.

"What?" The surprised Ruby retorted.

"He's been missing for days since he left a Vale council meeting. Now we know he was kidnapped to be one of the first Spider-Soldiers for the Masters of Evil." Widow briefed them.

The revelation of Spider-King's true identity doesn't change a thing as he must be defeated and cured of the Virus. Working as a team, the girls hurry to help Omega while he's blocking a powerful beam straight out of Ozpin's roaring mouth. Ruby and Blake hogtie the monster with webbing, with the former apologizing, "Sorry, Professor. We'll cure you, I promise! Just need you to be unconscious!" before Widow kicks him aside.

"Or dead." Omega snarked.

"No!" Widow refuted.

"At least let me burn him into a coma!"

"Not now!"

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Meanwhile, it's hedgehog havoc between Grimadoom and the fastest duo of Sonic and Shadow. They've been spending their whole time in the Mirror Dimension fighting it out to prove who is the superior hedgehog, with Grimadoom displaying a clear advantage over his brothers. Sonic and Shadow went on to attack him but were easily overpowered, being slammed repeatedly to the ground by Grima's psychic powers as he forces more power to cruelly to pin them down.

"This is a problem. These psychic powers…" Sonic muttered, because as no matter how much they struggle, neither he nor Shadow can't break free from his hold.

With a sinister tone beneath his arrogance, Grima begins taunting the hedgehogs, "What's the matter? You two cannot beat me at this level! The Fastest Thing Alive and the Ultimate Lifeform, both cowering before my might." He scoffs, "Might as well put an end to this since you're being such disappointments."

BGM-Super Dragon Ball Heroes OST-Despair Approaching

Once atop a floating wall is when Grimadoom makes his most terrifying move yet. He takes a fierce stance, briefly enveloping himself within shadowy-golden energy that pushes him into yelling, "HRROOOOOOOOH! HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" which further pushes him into erupting with tremendous cosmic-chaos energy that pierces the sky, shakes all of the Mirror Dimension, and unleashes violently massive shockwaves that blows away every hero that were minding their own business. His little ritual was complete and Grimadoom was reborn, stronger than possibly imagined. He has transformed into an appearance similar to the Hedgehogs' Super Form in that his black fur turned gold, his eyes have gone pure red, and his quills have become more flame-like while enveloped within a unique, shadowy-golden aura. This is Binary Grimadoom. The same Supreme Lifeform. Now possessing even superior cosmic power.

"Blue Blazes! He's gone Binary! Just like Captain Marvel!" The shocked Nova noted, as all heroes and villains focus their stern stares at the newly-evolved hedgehog.

"Soon, the universes will be conquered. But I will be the one to finish their heroes." Binary Grimadoom declared with the coldest of malicious intentions.

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Sonic and Shadow can't let him win. They won't let the Masters of Evil have their way with their dimensions. Both hedgehogs stand back up side-by-side, readying themselves for another round of battle with their shared clone. As Grima relishes in his new power, his stern rivals jump onto a platform floating across from him to better face him. Grima take notice and is ready to face them with a grin of confidence, starting by charging at the hedgehogs to unleash an insanely-fast barrage of spin attacks that push them backwards through the entire dimension with both Sonic and Shadow not having any chance to counter.

"Sonic! Shadow!" Tails shouted with great worry for them.

"So this is Grimadoom's power?" The shocked Qrow noted.

With them distracted, Salem takes this moment to attack both heroes, blasting the fox away before locking magic with the huntsman's blade. "Is this the best you can do?" Salem malevolently taunts Qrow as he struggles to overpower her.

There isn't anything Sonic and Shadow can do to counter Grima's supreme power. He has them completely outmatched. But they know better than to give up. Their friends are counting on them. Their whole dimensions are depending on them to win and defeat the Masters of Evil. These positive feelings resonate with the Chaos Stone in the heroes' possession as it shines brightly, calling out to the twin hedgehogs that desperately need the power to save everyone.

BGM-Super Dragon Ball Heroes OST-Go Beyond the Limits

Suddenly with roars from both hedgehogs, their bodies flare with cosmic blue energy that pushes back Grimadoom. He was at first shocked then immediately pleased, happy to see them finally pushing themselves to the max. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Alongside their mighty yells of fury, both Sonic and Shadow charge up to full power with the Chaos Stone. Their fur turn gold, their auras transform into cosmically bluish-golden colors. As Sonic and Shadow open their eyes, they turn orange and red respectively before exploding with outrageous cosmic-chaos energy that causes an Exo Storm that distorts the entire Mirror Dimension, unleashing devastating shockwaves that blow away the likes of Salem and Spider-King whilst Grimadoom could just barely endure them.

It is the miraculous return of Exo Super Sonic. And by his side is the newly-transformed Exo Super Shadow, looking virtually the same as his original Super Form. Both are powered up. Both are glaring and ready to finally prove to Binary Grimadoom who is the superior hedgehog amongst them.

"Super Sonic. Super Shadow. Finally, you show yourselves. If you hadn't, this would have been dull. This is how it will be decided…Who the strongest hedgehog in the multiverse is!" Grimadoom declared, calmly confident with arrogance that makes him believe he'll win.

All hedgehogs take their own fighting stances as they enter the next round of this all-out dimension-shaking battle. Sonic and Shadow launch the first combined attack that stagger Grima swiftly before he fires a blast that force them off him. Spin Attacks collide. Punches clash. Kicks blocked. Their fight is proving to be more evenly matched as intense Light Speed Attacks across the dimension aren't allowing either any slight advantage over the other.

BGM End

Deciding to change tactics amidst their light-speed clash, Grima freezes Sonic in time as he swiftly pulls in Shadow with his psychokinesis to grab a hold of his arm. "I'm amazed to find so worthy opponents. Destroying someone like you gives me joy." Then with threatening chills he says, "And you? Despair. For the fact that you were foolish enough to challenge ME-!"

BGM-Mega Man Battle Network 6 OST-Surge of Power (GaMetal Remix)

Super Shadow has had enough of his boasting as he interrupts with a thrown punch that was evaded as swiftly as him being thrown to solid ground, where he didn't lay down for an instant as him returning fire with a terrifying barrage of Chaos Spears. "Photon Absorber!" With a thrust of his hand, Grima confidently absorbs the Spears to enhance his already horrific power that he channels as dark energy enveloping his right palm, using it to surprise Shadow with a teleporting energy uppercut before creating a large energy sphere which he then fires at his foe. Shadow evades the massive blast with Chaos Control to also surprise Grima with a brutal energy punch across his face, prompting him to take his Light Speed Mode to flee that forces Shadow to pursue him with the same technique. At the same time, Chaos Control wears off on Super Sonic as he's free to move again and utilize his own Light Speed Dash to join his hedgehog brethren, assisting Shadow in his fierce clash with their clone.

"Do you intend to waste ALL of our precious times, or is it that you simply forgot that you could hardly scratch me the last time you used this power?" Grima arrogantly mocks Super Sonic.

Sonic just scoffs, "Funny, 'cause I remember this was the very same form that knocked YOU out last time!"

"That ended in a stalemate! This will end WITH MY VICTORY!" Grima angrily declared upon slamming Sonic with a warping double axe handle, swiftly before Shadow kicks him away, immediately countered with furious psychic shockwaves that blows away Shadow until he's forced to tear across the very fabric of the Mirror Dimension with his gloved hand to slow himself to a screeching halt.

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"Why do you seek to become the strongest?" Super Shadow asked his newfound rival about his ultimate goal.

"What else? Satisfaction. I was made to be a living weapon after all." Grimadoom grinned.

"I see. Your programming is your weakness." Shadow noted, which left the clone both confused and curious of the meaning behind that.

"Hmm?"

Super Sonic then reappears beside his partner smirking, "Let's do it, Shadow. Let's show this faker that nothing's stronger than our will and teamwork." He declared with Shadow grinning in agreement, though Grima smirks in his belief that his power alone can topple all.

BGM-RWBY: Grimm Eclipse OST-Die (Instrumental)

Meanwhile, Spider-Man is holding his own against the merciless magic of Salem. It has been weeks since they last fought each other in an intense matchup like this. The Immortal Witch still hasn't forgiven him for ruining her plans with the Symbiote Invasion and is hellbent to see him dead as she summons a barrage of energy arrows from the sky that she hurls at the webslinger. The Amazing Hero, however, is cocky as he usually is, bouncing around her arrows with his spectacular acrobatics while quipping, "Gotta talk 'bout your new look. It's nice, don't get me wrong, a little more creative than your Maleficent cosplay, but I'd hate to see you mutate into the most hideous spider-she-beast of all time." as he web-throws back two of her arrows to impale her, stunning her for a vicious Ultimate Web Throw that slam her through a floating island.

Not wanting to give her a chance to regenerate, Spider-Man continues with the lightning-fast assault as he goes for a powerful stomp that Salem swiftly deflects with a barrier. "Fear not. I have complete control over my spider-powers. First gifting me the symbiotes, now your own blood flows through my veins? You are that adamant in making me your new mother." The smiling Salem mocks him whilst entangling him on a massive, mystical web net that he's struggling to break free.

"You are WAY too much of an old hag to be my mom!" Spidey quipped.

"I don't mind being you're the new aunt to replace the old. Can already sense she's become more hideous than me." Salem taunts him with the implication of his Aunt May being a spider-monster while charging up her magic for one powerful beam that should incinerate the binded hero.

Thankfully, Nova intervenes using his own body to absorb her energy while Weiss frees her enraged friend from the webbing. "Better shut that trap before I crush your throat!" Spidey threatened the witch whilst webbing himself large spiked fists to provide him extra punching power.

"Now you're sounding like the ideal son." snarked Salem, webbing herself her own energy webbed fists manifesting around her arms that she immediately uses in a lightning-fast brawl against the Wallcrawler, "More worthy of an apprentice than the late and pathetic Edward Brock."

"DON'T YOU DARE TALK ABOUT MY BRO LIKE THAT!" Spidey angrily retorted, which is exactly what Salem wanted to take advantage of as she overpowers him with a countless barrage of punches strong enough to break his ribs, with one final punch capable of causing a massive shockwave that pushes him back far upon impact. She swiftly shifts to symbiote powers to grab him by the throat with a tendril, pulling him toward her morphing arm-blade that is ready to impale him to death.

Lucky for Spidey, a certain electric whip pulls away her arm-blade whilst electrocuting the Spider-Queen, allowing him to break free from her grasp with a brutal backflip kick that knocks her back for Tails to ram away with a Spin Dash. Spidey turns to her savior, who happens to be Sienna Kahn warning him, "Focus! Don't let her rile you up!"

"Taking advice from a terrorist. I really was in trouble." Spidey quipped to calm himself down.

Right as Salem forces Tails off her being, she finds herself landing next to Spider-King after he was assaulted by Omega and Blake. It was then Chaos and Nova's turn to attack at their enemies, with Chaos going after Spider-King, and Nova rushing toward Salem. Sharing a silent nod of understanding, both villains switch opponents as Salem goes after Chaos and Spider-King assaults Nova, surprising and overwhelming them both with a barrage of mystical blasts. Their deadly team-up didn't stop with them as they sense the rageful team comprised of Yang, Rouge, Raven, and Black Widow about to strike from behind. The Royal Spiders combine their mystic webbing to ensnare the group in a massive sphere that Salem allows her consort to play around with, like a soccer ball. Once Spider-King was finished beating their victims around, he smashes the ball away, where it detonates on contact with anything other than the mutated Professor himself.

"GUYS!" The worrisome Ruby rushes in to save her four friends after they barely survived that ruthless assault. But as Salem prepares to execute them with a massive energy sphere, Spider-King ensnares the scarlet huntress with webbing that she won't be able to break free in time to rescue them. This scene reminds her of the moment Spider-Man sacrificed his own life to protect his friends from Green Goblin. A moment to traumatizing for her to forget. And just like before, her eyes start shining bright that gets her yelling, "NOOOOOOOO!" whilst unleashing a bright light that engulfs the area.

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Surprised by the silver light, Salem did nothing while she was consumed whole. The power was overwhelming to a being of pure darkness like herself. Her Dark Gaia Grimm DNA, as well as her symbiote, can't withstand a light that rivals that of a god's. "GWAAAAAAAAAAGUH…!" Salem roared in absolute painful agony as her body melts, losing control over her own darkness as the light dies down upon Ruby being knocked unconscious by Ozpin.

"The heck was that?" Spidey questioned that silver light.

"You were dead when it happened before. Her Silver Eyes have the power to destroy darkness, though she hasn't mastered it yet." Knuckles briefed him about Ruby's special power.

"Certainly did a number on Grandma Sally." Spidey noted, "Now's our chance. Nova!" He calls his cosmic friend to join his side.

BGM-Super Dragon Ball Heroes OST-A Fierce Battle for Death

The battle with Salem. The battle with Binary Grimadoom. Both are nearing their end as both villains are reaching their limits against their respective opponents: Spider-Man and Nova, and Super Sonic and Super Shadow. At once, charging up golden aura and X-Aura respectively, Sonic and Spidey charge headfirst at their own foe with stern glares of determination.

Spider-Man pops out his stingers in time to unleash a flurry of devastating slashes that heavily wound Salem because of her mystical vulnerability to The Other, with the webslinger backflipping over Nova tackling her straight high into the air like a human rocket. At the same time with Grimadoom, Super Shadow fires a plethora of Chaos Spears alongside Super Sonic briefly duking it out with their clone, managing to kick him up for the Chaos Spears to home in and repeatedly knock up the Dark Hedgehog.

The villains aren't done yet. Both Salem and Grima counter their respective assaults with furious blasts that are then easily evaded. Now beginning to have the advantage in battle, Spidey and Sonic overpower their own opponents with amazingly brutal combos that eventually flung their enemies to the highest spot in the Mirror Dimension.

"FINISH THEM!" The recovering Black Widow ordered them.

"YOU WON'T BEAT ME!" Grimadoom shouted in infuriated defiance. Pushing him to maximum power, the dark clone has a Perfect Chaos head be summoned on his forearm whilst it's being charged with tremendous force that is already quaking the pocket dimension. "COSMIC CHAOS CANNOOOOON!" He yelled alongside him unleashing a terrifyingly gigantic energy beam straight down at his rivals.

"HRAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Both Sonic and Shadow countered with their own yell and beams that merge into an equally gigantic, insanely powerful blast, with both beams suddenly colliding with the cosmic force to instantly obliterate the entire Mirror Dimension and return everyone to the real Evernight Factory. For a quick intense moment, both beams clash as equals until the heroes' finally overwhelm the other, with Grima and Salem looking absolutely horrified before they were consumed. The gigantic beam completely annihilates the Dimensional Harvester the same way it opens a hole in the Factory whilst carving a humongous fissure that is stretching across the entire Land of Darkness, all with the villains helpless in stopping it.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Both Grima and Salem scream in humiliating defeat as they seem to be disintegrating into nothing.

BGM End

At last, the chaotic beam stops as it safely explodes at the other side of the Land. Both Super Hedgehogs are exhausted to the point of depowering back to their normal forms. And Evernight Factory is on the cusp of destruction as things are exploding all around the heroes and Spider-King, who is instantly knocked out cold by an explosion that erupts lava from the ground.

"Everything's falling apart! Get Ozpin! We're leaving!" Widow expressed to her teammates.

"What about Grima and Salem?" Yang asked.

"Daaaamn…"

BGM-Sonic RPG Ep 8 OST- Wrath of the Dark God (by Adrien Lozano)

All eyes turn to a mortally wounded Grimadoom kneeling near the ruins of the Dimensional Harvester. He just barely survived that last time, however, the same isn't said for Salem as she has been reduced to nothing but ashes that will take a while to regenerate from. "Man, you're as stubborn as a cockroach. But I guess you got that from us." Sonic mocked his defeated rival.

"Impossible…To think I, the Supreme Lifeform, have lost to these whelps…" Grimadoom weakly expresses his frustrations over his first big defeat.

"It's over, Grima…You and the Masters of Evil are finished. Won't be long 'til we cure everyone of Salem's mess." A recovered Ruby said confidently.

Yet suspiciously enough, Grimadoom laughs at that claim of, "You thought this pile of ashes is our leader…? Pitiful fools. She's the same as the other scientists. Just another pawn working for the King. The true madman responsible for linking our dimensions in the first place. Months ago! Back when their recklessness destroyed Exo-Space and caused The Pulse that plagued our worlds with ISO-8."

"WHAT?!" Spider-Man exclaimed, just as horrifically surprised as his friends by this revelation, "They're the one responsible for all these dimensional disasters?! Who are they?! What's their plans with the Exo Stones?!"

"Why spoil the surprise near the end?" Grimadoom snarked, "Though I can warn you, Spider-Man, that someone from your past has returned from Hell and is just DYING to settle the score with you." He said vaguely.

"Just who are you talking about?" Spidey retorted, still clueless of Kaine's revival as Tarantula. Grimadoom refuses to elaborate, preferring to keep him in suspense as he teleports himself and Salem's ashes out of the exploding Evernight Factory, leaving Spidey to yell, "GRIMAAAAAAAAAA!"

"Forget about him! Shadow, GET US OUT OF HERE!" Black Widow ordered him for a quick escape.

Quickly being handed the Chaos Stone, Shadow uses its power shouting, "CHAOS CONTROL!" to teleport away alongside his friends and the unconscious Spider-King, just as Evernight Factory explodes.

BGM End

At the Master Sanctorum…

BGM-Sonic Unleashed OST-Project Dark Gaia

All three Dimensional Harvesters have been destroyed and their ISO-8 supply have become limited. Though they have lost some valuable assets, the Masters of Evil will not waver as victory is still within their grasp. Doctors Eggman and Octopus are in the depths of their space station putting the finishing touches on their ultimate machine that, once it reaches full power with the Espeon Stone, will be able to transform an entire planet into a spider-utopia.

In a medical chamber, Cubot have just scooped up Salem's ashes to be then placed in a healing capsule where she can safely regenerate. Grimadoom also places himself within a healing capsule alongside his frustrated scowl as he still couldn't believe his loss to Sonic and Shadow. Before letting himself sleep, he silently vows to himself that he will have his revenge one day.

"Both patients have been placed in the healing pods, sir. It'll take about an hour for Grimadoom to fully recover, and an additional hour for Salem." Orbot informed the true leader of the Masters of Evil, Doctor Doom, who's standing before the pods that are healing his wounded allies.

"Humiliating. Moreso with Grimadoom. I created him to be the strongest and still he failed to dispose of mere children." Doom stoically mocks his creation, "He'll be more useful in eliminating the resistance at New York, with Metal Sonic and Mecha Spider-Man doing the same in Mistral and Empire City respectively. Keep them all occupied until the World Spidericizer reaches full power. It's all going according to plan. Soon, we will have all the necessary items we need to obtain ultimate power, now that we know what the Stones of Espeon and Chaos are capable of. Still…" He muttered with a tone expressing slight concern, "Intel suggest Richards is close in developing a cure. While it is unlikely, I cannot risk him interfering in my affairs during this delicate stage." Turning to a monstrous silhouette hiding in the shadows, Doom orders them to, "Go! And express to all dimensions that their days are numbered!"

"As you wish…" And the mysterious being reveals themselves to be Tarantula, now under orders to kill Mister Fantastic and destroy any hope of the dimensions being cured of the Spider-Virus, "Master…"

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KFX Here: It was nonstop action throughout this whole chapter. Grimadoom and Salem have been defeated for now, and the heroes are on their way in learning about Doctor Doom's involvement. The final arc of Spider-Island is upon us, folks. Get ready! It'll be a joyride!

Next Time: Brothers! Twins! Rivals! Fateful Spider-Reunion between Light and Dark!

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