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

Sonic: I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog. Thanks to Raven, we found one of Eggman's bases in space called the Asteroid EGG hoping we would take care of him and Apocalypse for good. But it was all a trap to lure us away from Mobiant Earth and fly us right into the sun while fighting Ruby and Weiss, who are also under Apocalypse's control. We stopped them but they escaped, but we managed to stop the asteroid and save Uncle Chuck in the process. But we might be too late to save New Vale, as Apocalypse just conquered the entire city and is ready to conquer the whole world!

BGM End

Act 9: Rotten to the Core

Sky Patrol

BGM-X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse OST-X-Mansion

"He certainly knows how to throw a party." Sonic jokes while watching footage of Apocalypse's takeover of New Vale City.

After piloting the Asteroid EGG back to Mobiant Earth, the united heroes returned with Uncle Chuck to the invisible Sky Patrol to discuss their new plan of attack against Apocalypse's forces now that they have grown strong enough to take over New Vale City with ease.

"Apocalypse has been one step ahead of us this entire time. He knew we'd go to Raven for help and lured us away from the planet in hopes of destroying us, while he was free to conquer New Vale City with no one to stop him." Sally deduced, visibly annoyed of Apocalypse's deadly cunning.

"Precisely." Xavier remarked. "Apocalypse's invasion of New Vale City was incredibly swift. And the attack also coincided with a number of high-ranking leaders mysteriously falling into comas." He informs the teams.

"Yeah, now the military has no chain of command. Any idea how Apocalypse accomplished that?" Cyclops asks him.

"No, and the situation is quickly growing worse. Department H reports that Apocalypse is planning attacks on major cities around the world. We cannot allow that. Therefore, our primary objective will be to disable his military infrastructure." Xavier said with a plan in mind.

"That's a pretty tall order. Makes you wonder where are the Avengers and Fantastic Four during a crisis like this." Rotor says, wondering where are the rest of Earth's mightiest heroes at this moment.

"Isn't the usual excuse is they're in space?" Sonic quipped.

Xavier replies, "Other heroes like Dr. Strange and the Defenders are still on the planet fighting Apocalypse's forces. While they keep them busy, we'll weaken his army thanks to new information uncovered by Nicole. At the moment, we know of two facilities important to Apocalypse's war machine; The Core and the Infinite Factory." He said, informing the heroes with this useful information.

"What's an Infinite Factory?" Knuckles asks, as Nicole appears on an holo-screen to explain what she uncovered.

'That's where Apocalypse creates his army of clones. If we destroy the factory and the super computer that runs it, Apocalypse's war effort would be seriously hampered.' Nicole explained.

"And what about The Core?" Cyclops asks her.

'It took a lot of searching and a little assistance from Sir Charles, but I managed to locate The Core as a nuclear plant in Ontario, Canada. It's Apocalypse's primary source of energy. If we could disable it, Apocalypse's military would be starving for power.' Nicole explains about The Core.

"Sounds like security there is gonna be very tough." Beast remarks, having a feeling The Core will be difficult to infiltrate.

'That's why I'll be part of the team to help you disable The Core while another team will head out destroying the Infinite Factory.' Nicole offers to lend her support in the coming mission.

"Meanwhile, the rest of us will stay here guarding the Sky Patrol in case we are spotted by Apocalypse's army. I know the ship's stealth mode render us completely undetectable, but it's better to be safe than sorry in a time like this. That is why I am thinking we set up camp at the old Weapon X Facility as a temporarily base until we have completed our current missions." Xavier recommended.

"It'll certainly be one of the last places anyone would think to find us." Wolverine crosses his arms in response, as he has a personal history with the Weapon X program.

"Curious to see what your 'old home' looks like. It might make for a good campsite for me one day." Raven playfully converses with the Weapon X mutant.

"Your funeral." Wolverine dryly remarks.

"Get into your teams quickly. The fate of the world may well hang in the balance." Professor X told the heroes that the situation is truly getting serious now considering the current circumstances.

"Like that's anything new. Don't worry, professor. We know what's at stake. We got this." Sonic grins confidently, completely believing they have a shot weakening Apocalypse's army.

BGM End

The Infinite Factory

BGM-Sonic X OST-Sonic

The alarms in the cloning facility suddenly went off as the factory is currently under attack by the united heroes blowing up the joint. Several Infinite soliders are blasting Iso-8 beams at Magneto, who easily blocks their attacks with his magnetic shield as he casually walks through the factory entrance. Sonic, Knuckles, and Bunnie run pass his shield to quickly knockout the soliders, giving some room for Cyclops, Beast, and Psylocke to join them in the assault.

"So how're gonna shut this place down?" Knuckles asks Beast while pulverizing more clones.

"According to Nicole, there are three sections we need to destroy: The Mutant Fusion Core, Infinite Engineering and Genetic Processing. Destroy them and the super computer, then this entire facility will fall apart!" Beast said while fighting the soliders, grabbing a clone's head and ruthlessly throwing them at their fellow soliders.

"Me and Sonic will destroy the computer! The rest of you partner up and destroy everything else!" Cyclops ordered, running with Sonic towards the super computer.

Bunnie partners up with Psylocke as they fight their way into the Genetic Processing room that houses the DNA Storage. Bunnie keeps the guards occupied as she blasts several of them to the wall, punching a striker in the face before instantly blasting him onto more soliders. Psylocke's psi-blade makes quick work of the other soliders as she leaps forward slicing the DNA tanks in half, effectively destroying the Genetic Processing room.

Knuckles rampages with Beast as they work together deactivating the Infinite Engineering room. While Knuckles have fun wrestling with mutated Infinite soliders, Beast starts the power source and turn off the emergency override, causing the pumps in the room to overload with power and blowing up Engineering.

Magneto has it easy. He arrives in the Mutant Fusion Core by himself as he takes on a whole army of Infinites. He uses his Magnetic Tempest technique as he fires a volley of metallic projectiles in every direction, destroying most of the soliders before disassembling the rest and the core with his Magnetic Shockwave, which nearly destroys the Infinite Factory.

"The Fusion Core is disabled." Magneto informs his allies through their comms.

'We're done here as well. Cyclops, have you and Sonic destroyed the super computer?' Beasts asks the duo.

Meanwhile in the super computer room, Cyclops jumps away from a spiky Spin Dash to avoid getting crushed by a bulky, mechanized copy of Sonic as it confronts the mutant menacingly with its dark orange visor. "Not yet. Ran into one of Sonic's robot clones." Cyclops replied to Beast as Sonic stands next to the mutant leader.

"It's Mecha Sonic!" Sonic scowled, recognizing the clone as the guardian of the Infinite Factory.

'Is he the same one that tried to steal the Master Emerald that one time?' Bunnie asked.

'So Eggman rebuilt him.' Knuckles snarled.

'You must destroy the Super Computer quick! It's modeled on Mister Sinister's neural patterns. If it's not taken care of, it can rebuild the Infinite Factory!' Beast informs them.

"We'll finish him off quick! Sonic, get him into position in front of the super computer!" Cyclops orders while blasting the Super Badnik with numerous optic blasts.

Mecha Sonic defends himself from the barrage before getting knocked back by Sonic. The sinister robot rolls into a spiky ball and floats in midair and homes in on his living counterpart. Sonic counters with his own Homing Attacks and the two clash at incredible speeds in the air, while the hedgehog slowly goads the robot to stand in front of the large computer. As Mecha Sonic prepares to attack again, Sonic shouts, "Now, Cyke!" and jumps straight into the air as Cyclops unleashes his Mega Optic Blast at Mecha Sonic, blasting him and the Super Computer at the same time with a huge beam that destroys both of them.

While the Super Computer blows to smithereens, a holographic projection of Mister Sinister appears furious before Sonic and Cyclops. "No! What have you done?!" Mister Sinister asks them furiously.

"Is that Mister Sinister?" Sonic asked.

"No. It's like Beast said. It's the Super Computer based on his intellect. The real one's still in prison." Cyclops replied.

"Curse you, Cyclops! You may have shut down this holographic generator, but the others won't be so easy. You're only prolonging your pain. Why not give up and admit defeat?" Mister Sinister laughs maniacally as the entire facility begins to explode.

"This coming from the 'genius' who's real self is already rotting in jail?" Sonic taunts the dying super computer.

"No time for taunting, Sonic. Everyone, we're clearing out! And let's hope the other team shut down The Core." Cyclops commands everyone to flee from the exploding Infinite Factory as part of their work in halfway done.

BGM End

The Core

BGM-X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse OST- Holocaust & Stepford Cuckoos Battle

"HRRRAAAAAGH!" At The Core, a large mutant that appears to be an energy skeleton suspended inside an orange crystalline armor unleashes a powerful plasma blast from his hands at Phoenix, who narrowly deflects it with a flaming psychic barrier and mentally hurls a large piece of debris at the armored man. And while he was staggered, Colossus rushes over to pummel him with his metallic fists.

"We're keeping Holocaust busy. Have you connected Nicole into the core console?" Phoenix asks Sally as she continue fighting the armored mutant, Holocaust.

Somewhere else in the facility, Sally, Tails, and Antoine has beaten several Badniks and Infinite soliders as the princess connects her handheld into the core console, allowing Nicole to access its security system and learn how to shut the place down.

"Just did. Nicole, what can you tell us?" Sally asks her A.I. buddy.

'Okay, the good news is, we can permanently shut The Core down. The bad news is, if we do it wrong, we wind up killing everyone in a ten-mile radius.' Nicole warns the team.

"Let's try to avoid that." Sally responds.

'I agree. Find the Reactor Security area. It contains a console that'll let you drop the force field in front of the reactor area.' Nicole instructs them on their objective.

"You heard Nicole. Let's go." Sally leads her Freedom Fighters through The Core as they fight their way through Apocalypse's forces. While Jean's group is fending off Holocaust, Sally's group opened the door into the Reactor Security area, lowering the core shields and shutting down the security gate.

"The security field's down, Nicole." Tails said after he shut down the security field.

'Great. Now you can access the two reactors – one in the blue sector and one in the yellow sector. But before you do anything else, you have to drop the rods and then activate the reactors. That'll get the coolant system running at full capacity. If you don't drop the rods first, you'll be subjected to harmful levels of radiation.' Nicole instructed.

"We'll be sure to do that. Not a fan of radiation." Antoine remarks while slicing down an Egg Pawn.

"How's your group holding up against Holocaust, Jean?" Sally asks the telepath on her current status.

Meanwhile, Jean just got blasted to the ground by Holocaust. "He's being really stubborn." She remarks over the comms.

"You dare disrupt The Core and attempt to shut it down? For that you will face my wrath!" Holocaust declares, swinging a brutal fist that knocks back Colossus across the room.

"Cover me!" Raven orders Mystique as she rushes to battle Holocaust. Mystique blasts the mutant with a barrage of energy bullets from her pistols, distracting him while Raven slams her Iso-8 enhanced elemental blade onto the ground to freeze his legs. While he's stuck in place, Raven unleashes a deadly assault of lightning-fast slashes that hurt and annoy Holocaust, forcing him to quickly melt the ice and viciously grab her by the throat and slowly draining her of her life energy.

"I can drain your energy to increase mine own to CRUSH you interlopers! And then Apocalypse will resume his conquest of Mobiant Earth without restraint!" Holocaust boasted.

Raven struggles to speak as her energy is slowly being taken from her body. "Looks like someone's…in for a rude awakening." She weakly quips before transforming into a bird to escape his grasp, which surprised him.

"How is that possible-?!" Holocaust remarks before getting kicked in the face by Mystique.

"Her name is Raven. As is mine. So it shouldn't be surprising turning into birds is one of our specialties." Mystique mocked while transforming into a bird herself, flying alongside the bird Raven around Holocaust to leave him confused and unable to blast them while they're so small. They turn back to normal as the Ravens perform a brutal double-kick right on his face, dazing him a little for Colossus and Phoenix to get in on the action.

Meanwhile with Sally's group, they have just lowered the controls rods in both sectors. "Both reactors have been taken care of, Nicole." Sally told her.

'Good job. That opened the radiation containment doors. Now you get into the last section of The Core and locate the two coolant pumps and destroy them.' Nicole instructs as they rush into the Core Control.

"Sounds easy enough." Sally jokes.

"Please don't jinx it." Antoine remarks, as the FF quickly destroy the coolant pumps.

"Both coolant pumps are destroyed!" Tails stated.

'Awesome! Just one last step. Find the primary power console and activate it. That will fuse the rods and make the reactor useless.' Nicole said.

"We're almost done!" Sally says while attacking an Infinite solider on their way to the power console.

'And so are we!' Phoenix states through the comms.

Back with Jean's group, Colossus locks hands furiously with Holocaust and knocks him down to his knees with one powerful punch. Noticing he is ripe for defeat, Phoenix channels her cosmic flame around herself as she goes full power. "I'm at full power! Get clear! Phoenix Inferno!" She shouts as she fires the cosmic flames at Holocaust in the shape of a giant phoenix. The rest of her allies jump away as Holocaust is utterly consumed by the rage of the Phoenix, leaving himself heavily burn and too weakened to fight anymore.

"I can't…be beaten by the likes of you…" Holocaust weakly said as he falls down unconscious.

And just as Holocaust was beaten, numerous explosions begins to tear apart The Core in several areas. "Sally, what just happened?" Phoenix asks, as her group spots Sally's group running towards her from the explosions.

"The rods in both reactors just fused and is blowing this power plant to kingdom come. Our mission is complete. Let's return to camp before we get blown to kingdom come as well." Sally replied. Jean nods in agreement as the heroes escape the exploding facility and return to base with an impressive victory.

BGM End

Weapon X Facility

BGM-X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse OST-Weapon X Facility

"So this is where you were born, Wolverine?" Sonic asks the clawed mutant, after his group finished their mission at the Infinite Factory and rendezvous with the others at the long abandoned Weapon X Facility hidden in Canada.

"Technically speaking. This is the place where those bastards bonded my skeleton with Adamantium and brainwashed me to do their dirty work, but I was too difficult for them to control and broke free." Logan explores his former home with the hedgehog for a bit, as he reminisces of his painful past as part of the Weapon X Program.

"You were always so stubborn." Raven's playful voice caught the annoyed attention of Wolverine, as he and everyone else sees her group returning from their mission at The Core.

"You're still alive?" Wolverine scoffs at the tribal Huntress.

"I don't need a healing factor like yours to stay in the game, but it would be pretty useful." Raven jokes with him.

"Our mission at The Core was a success, professor. That power plant's useless to Apocalypse now." Sally told Xavier.

"And we shut down the Infinite Factory. Apocalypse isn't going to be adding any more soliders to his army." Cyclops added.

"We still have Badniks to worry about, but with The Core and the factory destroyed, things should be smooth from here on out." Sonic grins confidently.

"Great job, teams." Uncle Chuck smiled.

"Thank you everyone. With those facilities disabled, Apocalypse's plans of conquest have been quashed." Xavier said with a hopeful smile of his own, as they are finally turning the tide against Apocalypse.

"So what are we waiting for? Now's the perfect chance to save Team RWBY!" Sonic said, as he believes this is their chance to rescue Team RWBY from Apocalypse's control.

Xavier frowns as he sadly looks at the bigger picture, "Those are just…four lives. We have a greater responsibility to the millions of people in New Vale City. We must free them from the tyranny of Apocalypse."

"But who knows what that monster is forcing them to do that would ruin their families' name and reputation?! The people they might hurt!" Sonic retorts, wanting to start an argument with the professor.

"We understand how you feel, Sonic, but they would want us to save New Vale first before saving them." Sally calmly tells him to look at the bigger picture and promises they will save Team RWBY.

"It isn't going to be easy. Apocalypse's military is dug in everywhere." Wolverine stated.

"Agree. But once we've returned to New Vale, we should be able to formulate a plan of attack." Xavier said.

Sonic sighs to calm himself down, "Alright, I understand. The sooner we save the city, the sooner I'll make Apocalypse regret controlling my friends!" He promises with a serious expression, as the united heroes plan to return to New Vale City and save it from Apocalypse's control.

BGM End

BGM-Sonic Heroes OST-System Screen: Select

KFX Here: We are nearing the end of this storyline. About 4 more chapters left. The heroes will return to New Vale City as they prepare to take the fight to Apocalypse's Tower!

XenoSlayer983: I'm not interested in the Mobius movie, but I have been meaning for the character to play a role in one of these stories besides cameos. Perhaps for a Halloween special.

Next time: The battle for the final Chaos Emerald! The brutal break-up between Spider-Man and Sunbreaker Yang!

Question of the Chapter: Who is your favorite Horsemen of Apocalypse in this story? Explain why.

Remember: I have a forum page! Link can be found on my homepage or search for the "United Heroes Series" forums!

BGM End