BGM-Sonic Adventure 2 OST-It Doesn't Matter (Instrumental)

Sonic: I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog. I was enjoying my vacation when Eggman attacked me with a new mech created from Celestial technology. It didn't last long against me, but maybe because he hasn't mastered the tech yet? How did he steal their tech in the first place? I got a bad feeling about this. Better talk to Sally and figure out our next move.

BGM End

Act 3: Test Subject Outbreak

Mobotropolis, Royal Hills Zone

BGM-Sonic X OST- The White Flower on Top of the Hill

Mobotropolis. The capital of the Kingdom of Acorn! Nestled in the Royal Hills Zone, this beautiful city enjoys a perfect balance of modern technology and nature and serves as a home for the famous Freedom Fighters.

Inside Castle Acorn, Sally sleeps peacefully on her comfy bed until her A.I. companion, Nicole, appears as a small holo-lynx from her handheld on top of a drawer to wake up the princess. 'Rise and shine, Sally! Time to wake up to a beautiful summer morning!' Nicole happily wakes up her best friend.

The chipmunk princess groans in her sleep while turning her head away from the hologram. "Five more minutes, Nicole…It's the summer. Can't I enjoy my vacation sleeping in all day?" She groaned.

'As a hero, leader, AND a princess, you should know saving the world is a full-time job.' Nicole quips with a smirk, annoying her friend even more.

An annoyed Sally groans as she finally decides to wake up from her bed in her pajamas. "I hate my job sometimes…Why can't I be a normal girl that eats eggs for breakfast instead of fighting them before breakfast?" She jokes through a tired yawn.

The princess goes through the morning routine taking a shower, putting on her gear, and having some breakfast with her father, King Nigel Acorn before heading out. "I'll see ya later, dad." Sally happily waves goodbye to her father as she heads out the door.

"Take care of yourself, my girl. Make me proud!" Nigel remarks with a proud smile for his daughter.

After exiting the castle, Sally takes a quick tour of Mobotropolis. She walks pass the mobian civilians, greeting each of them with kind smiles and waving at those riding their bikes or playing around with their Extreme Gear as she makes her way to her destination. The Sky Patrol. The flying base of the Freedom Fighters currently parked on the ground outside Mobotropolis. Sally enters the ship and makes her way to the command deck as she's greeted by her teammates, Amy, Cream, and Cheese.

"Morning, Sal." Amy smiled.

"Morning, Amy, Cream, Cheese. Whatcha doing?" Sally smiles, asking her friends.

"We're about to make breakfast for everyone when they show up. Want some?" Cream politely asks her leader.

"Sorry. Just ate with my dad. I can help you guys cook if you want." Sally offers to help make breakfast, but the sheepishly worried faces on her friends suggest that might be a very bad idea.

"Uh, that's okay. We learned a long time ago you're better eating our cooking than making your own." Amy quips with a sheepish smile, implying Sally is a terrible cook.

"I'm not THAT bad at cooking." Sally remarked.

"If we need any help, we'll call you. Promise." Amy says as she walks to the kitchen with Cream and Cheese.

"Bye, Sally." Cream happily waves goodbye, while Sally responds with her own wave and an annoyed stare at Amy.

Walking away on her own, Sally enters the bridge of the ship to see Tails and the other technician of the team, Rotor the Walrus, tinkering with the ship while their big cat friend, Big the Cat, is carrying heavy equipment around the room. "Hey, guys. Still working on the ship?" Sally greets her friends with a friendly wave.

"Yup. Almost done upgrading the Sky Patrol with our new stealth tech." Tails replies from a chair while interacting with a computer with some help from Nicole.

"Spider-Man gave us the idea to wrap light and sound around the ship. And with a few ideas of our own, the Sky Patrol will be completely invisible to all forms of advanced radar that not even Eggman could detect until it's way too late." Rotor boasted, feeling confident this stealth tech will be very useful against their enemies.

"Awesome. Tell him I said thanks." Sally smiled.

"Will do." Tails replied.

Immediately after, the married Freedom Fighters, the cyborg Bunnie Rabbot and the swordsman Antoine D'Coolette, walk into the bridge holding their luggage. "We're back, everyone! Missed us?" Bunnie happily greets her old friends with a wave and a big smile.

"Bunnie! Antoine! Did the married couple enjoy your trip?" Sally asks as she embraces her rabbit friend with a hug.

"Hawaii ah good this time of year." Bunnie answered.

"Minus the wittle incident involving King Namor, but that's a story for another day. We're just glad to be home safe and sound with our friends." Antoine remarks with a smile.

"Speaking of friends. Everyone's here except for Sonic. Where is he?" Sally asks her friends.

"On a run." Big answered with his simple-minded mind.

Just as soon as Big finished talking, Sonic has already zoomed into the room standing next to Sally with a cocky grin. "WAS on a run. Keep up, Big. Were you worried about me, Sal?" The hedgehog slyly jokes with his best friend.

"Was worried you got yourself into trouble and needed saving." Sally quips with her own sly smirk.

"When have I ever needed saving?" Sonic quipped, looking all cool and egotistical.

"Want me to bring up that incident with Hydro-Man?"

"Spin-dashing him was a good idea at the time."

BGM End

BGM-The Avengers (2012) OST-Helicarrier

While listening to the playful banter, Tails had just finished installing the last updates of their new stealth technology into the computer. "Our new stealth mode has been successfully installed into the Sky Patrol's systems!" He informed his friends.

At the same time, Amy and Cream walked into the bridge. "And breakfast is ready for anyone who wants to eat!" Amy happily informs her pals.

"Good. Nicole, take us to the air. Let's vanish!" Sally grinned.

'Affirmative, Sal!' Nicole responds.

All hands are on deck as the Sky Patrol lifts off the grass and flies to the skies above Mobotropolis. The civilians stare in joyful awe of the flying fortress as the aircraft flies away from the island, flying above the clouds in search of new adventures as the new stealth tech turns the ship completely invisible.

The Freedom Fighters assemble in the meeting room eating breakfast while discussing their new missions. "So what's the topic we should discuss today?" Rotor asks while eating his food.

"Let's continue our discussion how we're gonna handle Freedom Movement Day. We are the ones kinda in charge of that event." Amy remarked.

"Can't wait to beat Quicksilver in that charity race for the 200th time." Sonic quips while cockily leaning from his seat.

"You did not win all 200 times." Tails quips with a smirk.

"I won most of them. He won taking shortcuts." Sonic snarkly quipped.

BGM End

"We'll discuss the Freedom Movement later. We have more important matters to discuss, and it regards our old enemy, Dr. Eggman." Sally said, wanting to focus on a more important topic.

"What's he up to this time?" Bunnie asks.

"Yesterday, Sonic told me Eggman stole data regarding Celestial technology and is planning to create an army with that tech." Sally told the team.

"It's true. Built a drill mech with the stuff to fight me with. Still beat it. No biggie." Sonic casually remarks.

Cream raises her hand to ask the princess a question, "Miss Sally, what are Celestials?"

"From what I know Cream, they are an extremely powerful alien race that have existed for billions of years and control nearly limitless amounts of cosmic energy. They are among the oldest and strongest beings in the entire universe." Sally answered.

"They are really that old?" Cream remarked.

A holo-screen projects itself in the room as Nicole appears on screen in her lynx form to talk to her friends. 'Allegedly, the Celestials had a hand in human evolution since they were cavemen. They're the reason we have mutants and superhumans today because they altered their genetics centuries ago when the world was just born.' She explained.

"So supposedly, they're the reason why people like Sonic are abnormally fast?" Antoine remarked.

"And abnormally cool." Sonic wisecracked.

"Did we even had Celestials in our original universe?" Rotor asked, wondering if they had space gods in their Mobius Dimension.

"Considering the other god-like beings we faced, it's likely they existed too." Tails quipped. "Before the Convergence, our worlds existed in parallel dimensions, meaning Celestials must exist in nearly every universe." He speculated.

"Me and Sonic saw the corpse of a Celestial when we were at the Battlerealm and it was as big as a city. It crashed there from a dying universe, and its blood was the reason the Battlerealm was formed in the first place by merging fractured universes." Amy remarked, remembering confronting a dead Celestial at the multiversal tournament.

"And now Eggman got his hands on their technology. Which begs the question how did he steal tech from literal space gods that could easily vaporize him with a thought?" Rotor asked.

"We're currently unsure. But if Eggman masters their technology, it won't be the world that'd be at stake. The entire universe could be in great danger. We need to find clues on his current whereabouts and put a stop to his schemes. Anyone know where to start looking?" Sally ask her teammates.

Suddenly, Nicole is receiving a call from one of the group's allies. 'I might. Receiving a call from Sir Charles and it's urgent.' The A.I. lynx told the team.

"Uncle Chuck's in trouble?" Sonic instantly stands from his seat, worried for his adoptive uncle.

Nicole answers the call, displaying a video call of a middle-aged hedgehog that resembles Sonic but with a thick mustache and eyebrows. 'Freedom Fighters! I got trouble over here!' Charles the Hedgehog talks to the heroes through the screen.

"Uncle Chuck, you alright?" Sonic asks his uncle.

'I'm fine, Sonic, but we're having an outbreak of cybernetically-enhanced individuals in Westopolis, trashing some of the local warehouses.' Charles informs the crew of trouble in the city.

"Cybernetically-enhanced individuals? Have any idea who's behind the outbreak?" Sally asks the scientist.

'Looks to me it's Eggman. Spotted his Badniks dropping off these test subjects along with upgraded robots using technology that seems out of this world.' Charles replied, shocking the heroes with this bit of news.

"He's already mastered the Celestials' technology?" Sally remarks, wondering how Eggman mastered their tech so quickly.

'Don't know how Celestials fit in with all of this, but you should come to the city right away and help stop this outbreak. Knuckles is already here helping out. I'll meet with you kids soon.' Charles responded.

"We'll be there, Chuck. Don't want to miss this." Sonic grinned, looking forward to the fun at Westopolis.

Westopolis

BGM-Shadow the Hedgehog OST-Westopolis

"Outta my way!" Knuckles exclaims as he furiously punches a cyberized human onto others like him. The echidna brawler fights alone outside a warehouse against a group of these Test Subjects, cybernetically-enhanced humans and mobians tapping into an unknown power that gives them superhuman abilities at the cost of their minds.

Some of the Test Subjects unleash energy beams at Knuckles, who jumps to his side to avoid their attacks. "I'm not done!" He leaps closer, smacking each cyborg away with a ferocious punch before he was pummeled back by a Test Subject possessing inhuman strength.

"Not bad, but I'm just warming up." Knuckles smirk as he punches the powerful cyborg in the chest, uppercutting him with a spiral punch that sends him flying through a warehouse.

The echidna was then ambushed in the back by several blasts coming from upgraded Egg Pawns, Badniks that were enhanced with Celestial technology as evident with a slight futuristic appearance and cyberized blue lines running across their red bodies.

"You bots are a lot tougher than usual. And here I thought this was getting boring." Knuckles quips, always happy when he's being challenged.

The echidna powerhouse drills his fists through the Egg Pawns while avoiding their laser guns, appearing at the other side as they explode into pieces. Several Test Subjects and Badniks group together and advance towards Knuckles, who makes his intimidating stand against them. Before he could throw a punch, Knuckles was immediately stopped by Sonic's unexpected arrival as the hedgehog quickly defeats these new enemies with a rapid chain of his Homing Attack.

"I didn't need your help, Sonic!" Knuckles angrily remarks at his rival.

"As if I'd let you hog all the fun, knucklehead." Sonic quips with a smirk that annoys his red pal.

The other Freedom Fighters arrive jumping off the Sky Patrol to assist containing this cybernetic outbreak. "Freedom Fighters, contain the enemy within this vicinity. We can't let them rampage into the city!" Sally commanded her team.

As the princess land in the battlefield, she is confronted by two Test Subjects approaching her wielding energy blades. Sally crosses her arms and projects her own energy blades from her gloves called Ring-Blades and uses them to block their blades perfectly. She briefly clashes with the cyborgs before disabling them of their weapons and striking them down with a twin slash.

Tails uppercuts a cyborg to the air with his twin-tails and immediately attacks their chest with a quick spin attack before smashing them down with a strong slam from his tails. Antoine slashes Egg Pawns with his sword one by one before swiftly spinning through a line of them for a powerful finisher.

"What's wrong with these people? Have they lost control of their minds?" Bunnie asks, firing an energy blast from her cybernetic arm to pin down a Test Subject.

"Looks like. And these Badniks are running off new software." Rotor remarks, swinging a strong left hook that breaks apart another Badnik.

Amy smacks around more of them with her trusty hammer while Cream and Cheese double-team a single cyborg with a twin kick. One of the brawler Test Subjects throws a ferocious punch onto Big's stomach, but was ineffective considering its size as they were easily deflected by his gut.

Sally defeats two more cyborgs when she notices several of them making their way into the city. "Sonic! Stop them from advancing into the city!" Sally orders her speedy blue buddy.

"Alright." Sonic smirks as he speeds off and easily catches up to the runaway cyborgs. "Sorry, guys. Party's over here." The hedgehog summons a blast of wind from his feet and kicks it at them, blowing them back to the main battlezone where he easily defeats the remaining goons with Homing Attacks.

BGM End

"Too easy. Piece of cake." Sonic jokes after they have defeated their new enemies.

"Which is why I could've handled them myself." Knuckles remarked.

"What're you doing away from Wakanda Island, Knuckles? Shouldn't you be protecting the Master Emerald?" Sally asks the guardian of the most powerful emerald in the world.

"I hid it so I could go on a little treasure hunt. Wasn't expecting to run into whatever these freaks are." Knuckles replies as he points his thumb at the unconscious Test Subjects.

Nearby, Uncle Chuck found the Freedom Fighters after they've defeated the cyborgs and approached them. "Good. You're all safe." Chuck said, relived the kids are alright.

"As always. They weren't THAT big of a deal." Sonic joked.

"But something is definitely wrong about them. I don't recognize the technology behind this new Cyberization or the enhancements for the Badniks." Charles noted, staring at the defeated cyborgs.

Tails kneels down next to one of the cyborgs with his Miles Electric in-hand to analyze them. "Let me see if I can trace the origin of this new variant. Interesting. These people were experimented on with ISO-8, but they're carrying a slightly different ISO-8 signature than the ones I've seen. Their DNA has also been altered somehow granting them super powers at the cost of their minds. Something different from ISO-8 but I can't determine what it is yet." He explained his findings to his friends.

"Eggman usually kidnaps animals for his experiments. Not people. Something weird is going on, and I'm getting the feeling Eggman is not alone on this." Sonic says, believing there is someone else working with Eggman.

"That would explain how he got his hands on Celestial technology so easily." Sally remarked.

"Eggman is now tampering with alien technology that dangerous? When will he ever learn?" Chuck shakes his head, highly disappointed in Eggman's reckless actions.

Nicole appears on Sally's handheld with some breaking news that'll require their assistance. 'Guys, getting reports of another outbreak of these Test Subjects in the city. People are in danger and need immediate assistance.' She informs her friends.

"We'll split up into three teams. Antoine, Big, Cream, you're with me in Team Freedom. Amy, Bunnie, Tails, Rotor, you're in Team Fighters. We'll contain the outbreak and rescue civilians. Sonic and Knuckles. You two search for the ringleader behind this outbreak." Sally ordered, assigning her teammates.

"Where should we start looking?" Sonic asks.

"Find the Blowfish Transporter somewhere in the city. That's the Badnik dropping off these things." Sir Charles answered.

"We're on it. Try not to slow me down, Knuckles." Sonic said, joking with his echidna buddy.

Knuckles scoffs with his arms cross, "Whatever. Let's hurry up. I'm aching for some more action."

"Let's do this, Freedom Fighters! Fight for freedom!" Sally smiles, shouting the team's new slogan as she dramatically points forward.

"Not as iconic-sounding as 'Avengers Assemble'." Rotor criticized, finding their new slogan pretty terrible.

"I'm still working on it." Sally sheepishly responds as the heroes split off into separate groups across Westopolis.

With Team Freedom...

BGM-Shadow the Hedgehog OST-Central City

Sally's group rush into an underground maintenance tunnel that is about to collapse caused by the Test Subjects wreaking havoc for the civilians. 'Can you hear me, Sal? I'm here in the Sky Patrol and will assist Nicole coordinating your team. A Test Subject blew up in one of the maintenance tunnels near that train station. We're looking at a major collapse until emergency crews can get there and stabilize the tunnel.' Uncle Chuck informs her.

"Roger! Big, hold up all that steel and concrete while we keep the enemies off your tail. Cream, you help evacuate civilians!" Sally commands.

"Okay." Big simply responds.

"Okay!" Cream responded.

The ceiling slowly collapses from the destruction until Big lifts the rocks straight back up with his incredible strength, stabilizing the tunnel for now. "Over here everyone!" Cream and her chao help evacuate people from the tunnels as Test Subjects are pursuing them. Luckily, Sally and Antoine stop them in their tracks and strike them down.

"Ze Test Subjects are quite relentless." Antoine comments as he narrowly blocks a ruthlessly swift swing from a cyborg's energy blade.

Sally got punched back by a cyborg bruiser but was able to land on her feet, staring at them accompanied by two other different cyborgs with their own ISO-8 power. "And they're coming in various shapes and sizes, each with their own annoying super power. Big won't be able to lift all that much longer. We need to contain this quickly." She stated.

BGM End

"Then perhaps we can provide some assistance." A new heroic voice captures their attention.

BGM-X-Men 90s OST-Intro

Sally and Antoine turn their heads in shock as they are pleasantly greeted by three members of the X-Men that have come to help, consisting of Cyclops, Colossus, and Shadowcat standing heroic before them. "Ze X-Men!" Antoine recognized the mutant superhero team.

"Colossus, we need someone who can hold up a zillion tons of steel and concrete while simultaneously absorbing hostile weapons fire. You're our guy." Cyclops orders his teammate.

"It seems I am." Colossus responds, easily charging through the foot soliders' various blasts like they are nothing and tackles them to the ground as he helps Big lift the ceiling. "Need a hand, comrade?" The steel-armored mutant smiles at the cat.

"Yeah." Big replied.

"Shadowcat, assist Cream evacuating civilians. Rescue anyone trapped behind rubble." Cyclops orders his other teammate.

"You got it." Kitty replies, using her mutant power to phase through her enemies and knock them out with her martial-art skills. She spots some people trapped underneath rubble and uses her power to phase them out to safety. "This is our stop. Come back to the Shadowcat Express anytime." She jokes as she helps Cream with evacuation.

"Princess, get down!" Cyclops shouts as he touches his visor and unleashes a red energy blast that knocks out several Test Subjects behind Sally.

"Thanks, Cyclops!" Sally replies as she strikes down the remaining cyborgs with a swift spinning attack using both her blades.

At the same time, Antoine notices the emergency crews have arrived to the scene and are already hard at work stabilizing the tunnel. "Emergency crews have stabilized the tunnel. I suggest we pursue the remaining Test Subjects." He told Sally.

"Right." Sally nodded.

BGM End

"Sorry for barging into your work unannounced, your majesty." Cyclops smiles as he converses with the acorn princess.

"I always welcome a fellow hero to drop by. Thanks for the assist, Cyclops. What are the X-Men doing here?" Sally smiles, asking as the two leaders shake hands.

"We got word an old foe is lurking in the shadows continuing Mister Sinister's work after we apprehended him the other day. He's a mutant geneticist called Sugar Man and has been experimenting on clones that he calls 'Infinites' and have been altering their DNA using ISO-8." Cyclops explained.

"So these Test Subjects are clones created by Mister Sinister and a mutant named…Sugar Man?" Sally questioned the weird supervillain name.

"Yeah, and it looks like he recently formed an alliance with Dr. Eggman. We need to contain this outbreak and stop them before they attack more cities. My teammates are already helping out around the city. We can get things done faster if both our teams work together." Cyclops respond, offering an alliance between the X-Men and Freedom Fighters.

"Couldn't agree more." Sally nods, taking out her handheld to talk with Nicole. "Nicole, contact the others that the X-Men have come to assist us." She said.

'On it.' Nicole replied.

With Team Fighters…

BGM-Shadow the Hedgehog OST-Lethal Highway

A group of Test Subjects and Badniks are headed across the highway flipping cars and scaring civilians away with their destruction. Luckily, Amy's group is here dispatching the soliders before they could get loose to another part of the city.

"Simple search-and-destroy here, guys. We cannot let Test Subjects and Badniks get loose in in another district." Amy commands her team as they fight valiantly against the army.

"They won't!" Bunnie remarks as she fiercely pummels some soliders onto a car.

"Especially with us around!" The X-Man, Rogue, flies into the scene to assist her mobian allies alongside Storm and Phoenix.

"Howdy, Rogue!" Bunnie grins, cheekily clapping hands with her mutant friends that shares a similar Southern accent with her.

"Howdy yourself, Bunnie. Long time no see. Mind if I have a piece of the action?" Rogue asks.

"Be my guest." Bunnie jokingly gestures to the group of cybernetically-enhanced foot soliders.

"Ah yeah! Time to go buck wild on these creeps!" Rogue cockily grins as she hits the bridge with a powerful stomp that cracks the ground, violently unleashing a powerful shockwave that sends the soliders flying.

Storm uses her mutant power to manipulate the weather and summon a powerful lightning strike from the heavens to annihilate a large chunk of goons, giving the Freedom Fighters more than enough breathing room to beat down the remaining soliders.

"Tails!" Phoenix shouts as she approaches the young fox. "Beast wants a sample of the new ISO-8 variant to analyze. Can you do that?" She asks him.

"Just hold one down and I'll get right on it." Tails replied.

"Easy enough." Jean responds, using her incredible telekinetic power to completely paralyze a Test Subject with a simple thrust of her arm, rendering them entirely immobile. Tails takes out his syringe device to inject into the clone's body and pull out its experimented blood for analysis.

"Got the sample, Jean." Tails informed her.

"Thanks, Tails. Meet with Beast at the X-Jet. We'll round things up here and meet up with you later." Phoenix replies with a smile.

"Sweet. More for me!" Rogue joyfully dives in pummeling more goons with her immense strength.

"Where is Sonic?" Storm asks Amy as she blows away soliders with powerful wind blasts.

"Out with Knuckles searching for the lunatic behind this outbreak." Amy replied.

"Our intel says Sugar Man is behind this operation. Wolverine should meet up with them soon so we can end this outbreak." Storm responds.

BGM End

With Sonic and Knuckles…

The fighting buddies race through the city as they finally locate the Blowfish Transporter that's dropping the Test Subjects and Badniks attacking the city. 'Sonic, you should be near the dropship responsible for this outbreak. Do you see it?' Uncle Chuck asks the hedgehog.

"See it, Chuck." Sonic replies, staring at the dropship floating near a skyscraper. "We're gonna knock that thing right outta the sky. Ready, Knuckles?" He turns to his buddy.

"Oh yeah." Knuckles grinned.

The friendly rivals grab each other's hand before curling into spinballs, combining the red and blue spinballs into a spiral spinning ball of destruction that dashes through the air and attacks the dropship with incredible force. The combined spin attack was so powerful it easily knocks the dropship right outta the sky, causing it to crash to the street where thankfully no one was around to get hurt, except for the person piloting the dropship inside.

"Aaaargh! Who are the vermin who knocked me outta the sky!?"

BGM-X-Men Legends 2 OST-Core Control (Action)

Sonic and Knuckles land as they see a freakish mutant that has a huge head for a body walking out of the wrecked dropship. This mutant scientist has four arms, a mouth full of razor sharp teeth and a very long tongue that can pierce almost anything as he angrily confronts the two heroes.

"Who's the freak?" Knuckles asked.

"I am Sugar Man. Mutant scientist from an alternate timeline that is trapped here to ensure the High Lord's will reign over this world as well." Sugar Man introduces himself to the heroes.

"Sugar Man? More like the freaky cheese ball from the black lagoon. And who's this 'High Lord' you're talking about? Surely not Eggman." Sonic joked.

Sugar Man sinisterly chuckles, "Of course not, but his technology has been proving useful to our cause despite being human. You're all in for a real treat... and by the time you find out what, it's gonna be way too late. Me and Eggman make a helluva team, don't we? And you haven't even seen the real boss man yet."

"So Eggman's just a pawn in this game. Doesn't matter to me. I'll put a stop to whatever you wackos are up to, starting with you freakizoid." Sonic quipped.

The freaky mutant grins maliciously as he takes out a hammer, an axe, and two blasters for each arm and readies himself to fight against the heroes. "I'm gonna add you to my menagerie. Give me a week and your mother won't recognize you, new blood." He fires his blasters at the heroes, who quickly avoid his rapid shot as they dash towards him.

Sonic attacks the mutant in the face then immediately appears behind his back, kicking him to Knuckles as he brutally punches the scientist. "Try as you might, but my advanced regeneration allows me to heal from injuries with ease." Sugar Man claims as he instantly heals from their quick assault.

"So we have to beat you up faster? I can live with that." Sonic quips as he kicks the mutant into the air to pummel him with lightning-fast spin attacks that are too fast for Sugar Man to heal from. The hedgehog then kicks the wounded mutant to Knuckles, as he grabs a broken lamppost and ruthlessly bats the scientist to a building.

"Give it up, Sugar. You don't stand a chance against the two of us." Sonic remarks as Sugar Man painfully stands up from his injuries.

"Then how 'bout we even the odds." Sugar Man summons from his wrecked dropship the surviving Test Subjects to his side. "I was in the middle of corralling a bunch of Test Subjects into my new Infinites soliders when you destroyed my ship, happily experimenting and torturing them with their new powers." He evilly grins as he commands his soliders to use their psychic powers to suddenly paralyze Sonic and Knuckles into place.

"What the…?" Sonic grunts as he can't feel his body moving.

"Errr…I can't move…" Knuckles struggles to move any part of his body, but even his incredible strength can't break free from a group of psychic soliders.

"Of course you can't! Their psychic powers have turned off your motor functions, rendering you immobile. Your speed and strength are all but useless to you. But to me you'll make fine test subjects." Sugar Man sadistically smiles at the paralyzed heroes.

BGM End

"Dude, you need to chill out." A new hero enters the conversation as he instantly freezes the Test Subjects with his mutant power, saving Sonic and Knuckles and surprising Sugar Man that his army are frozen in ice.

BGM-Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds OST-Theme of Wolverine

The mutant scientist looks to the sky and is horrified to see three members of the X-Men led by Wolverine approaching him. Ice Man rides on his ice slide with a smile as Blake and Wolverine jump off it. "The X-Men!" Sugar Man exclaims in utter surprise, before Wolverine slashes him away with his indestructible claws.

"Are you two alright?" Blake asks her mobian friends as they regain control over their bodies.

"Don't worry. We're fine. Thanks for showing up with the X's, B." Sonic thanks his faunus friend as he stretches his legs to make sure they're working again. "Not sure if I asked, but do you have a X-Man codename yet? I know you used to go by 'Black Tiger' at one point and Kitty already has Shadowcat. Do you call yourself Dark Cat, or Nightcat? Black Cat?" He joked.

"I suggested Nightshade but she didn't like it." Ice Man quipped.

"Blake or Belladonna is just fine, guys. And isn't there someone called Black Cat already?" Blake remarked.

"That didn't stop that other girl from sharing the name Hawkeye." Sonic quips, mentioning Kate Bishop.

Meanwhile, Sugar Man is getting his butt whooped by Wolverine and Knuckles. He tries to attack Logan with his powerful tongue, but it was deflected by a swipe from his claws. "Game's over, bub. Time to call it quits." Logan proclaims.

"Never!" Sugar Man retorts as he uses his ability to shrink in size, escaping from Logan's sights for a moment before he regrows and smacks him around with his hammer. Knuckles tries to punch him but he shrank and regrew himself for a vicious counterattack with a swing from his hammer.

"I hate it when he shrinks himself. Hard to fight him when he's as tiny as an ant." Iceman quips, as he, Sonic, and Blake fall under an annoying assault from the tiny mutant.

"He might as well be invisible. How do we stop him?" Sonic remarked.

"By playing a little game of cat and mouse." Blake quipped.

The faunus X-Man concentrates as she uses her cat ears to block out every other sound so she could only hear Sugar Man's movements. Despite him being tiny, Blake was able to pinpoint his location. And instead of pouncing him like a cat to a mouse, she uses her gun to shoot him like a hero to a villain. Sugar Man screams as he's blasted off the ground while forced to regrow into his normal size.

"Sonic!" Blake calls him to finish off the scientist.

The hedgehog quickly dashes for Sugar Man, spinning towards him as he vibrates his leg rigorously for one incredibly powerful axe kick down on his face. Sugar Man yells as he plummets to the ground, forming a small crater in the process that he lies there painfully in his defeat.

"No more sugar for you." Sonic jokes with a grin while staring at the beaten mutant.

BGM End

BGM-Sonic Rush OST-Theme of Strained Event

Wolverine approaches the groaning scientist as he pops his claws in front of his face, threatening to kill him if he doesn't answer his questions. "Alright freak ball, you got 'til the count of three to tell us what yer boss is plannin' before I start slicin' up some arms!" He growls.

Bravely, Sugar Man scoffs at the animalistic mutant as he retorts, "Threaten me all you want, it will not change your fate. A new age is upon us. An age where the strong survive and the weak perish. And all of you will soon be by new guinea pigs."

"Good thing we cleared up who the weak one is here." Knuckles insults the beaten mutant.

"Iceman, turn him into a popsicle that'll cool down his healing factor. We'll leave him and his little army for SHIELD to pick up." Wolverine orders.

While Iceman freezes Sugar Man into a crystal, Sonic walks up to Wolverine to ask him an important question regarding their mutual enemy. "Do you know what's goin' on, Wolverine? Who's the 'High Lord' Sugar Man mentioned and why is Eggman workin' with him?" He asks the mutant.

"Someone who will bring the apocalypse to every living being on this planet. Humans, Mutants, Faunus. Even folks like you are in deep trouble by this guy, if we don't pull together and stop him." Wolverine describes their terrible nemesis.

"Is he Magneto?" Knuckles remarked.

"Someone far worse and much older. Even Magneto doesn't like this guy." Wolverine answered.

"Does he have a name?" Sonic asked.

"Many, but we'll answer all your questions when we regroup with the others at the institute." Wolverine said vaguely as he walks away to regroup with the other X-Men.

"Wolverine hasn't changed a bit. Whoever this dude is sounds pretty hardcore if he got Eggman cleaning his heel. Can't wait to meet him." Sonic quips with a casual grin in response to this new, big threat.

"You wouldn't be saying that if you knew who we're up against." Iceman jokingly quips.

"Care to tell me?" Sonic remarks with a smirk.

"Nah. Rather keep you in suspense."

"That's cold."

"Hence the codename 'Iceman'." Race ya!" Iceman rides on his ice slide as he and Sonic race each other to their teams.

"Do you know who we're up against?" Knuckles asks Blake as they walk behind their friends.

"Sort of. And if the rumors are true, then all of us are in grave danger. C'mon. Let's go regroup with the others." Blake replies, as she and Knuckles run together to regroup with their friends and discuss the coming apocalypse.

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KFX Here: Just like in the Post-Super Genesis Wave timeline in the Archie Comics, Uncle Chuck is not a blood relative to Sonic the Hedgehog but an uncle-figure to the blue blur. This chapter serves as a reintroduction of the Freedom Fighters as they finally team-up with the X-Men against Apocalypse.

Next time: Joining forces!

Question of the Chapter: What would be the perfect X-Man codename for Blake Belladonna?

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