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

Sonic: I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog! We disabled Apocalypse's tower and freed New Vale from his control, but Apocalypse escaped through a teleporter. Not sure where it leads. Probably his super-secret base. All I know we've pushed him to a corner. There's nowhere you can run now, Apocalypse! We're coming for you!

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Act 12: Survival of the Fittest

Apocalypse's Pyramid

BGM-X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse OST-Teleport Chamber

Standing out in the cold night of Giza, Cyclops and Magneto wait patiently above a hidden staircase erupted from the ground that leads into the pyramid, waiting for the arrival of Professor Xavier before they could start their raid on Apocalypse's hidden base. Cyclops looks up to see the Sky Patrol descending from the clouds and landing at a safe spot next to the pyramid. Seconds later, the two mutant leaders see Xavier walking out of the ship alongside Sir Charles as they greet them.

"Glad you made it safe and sound, professors." Cyclops said.

"Likewise. We got here as fast as we could. Good job contacting us when you arrived. Is everyone else safe?" Xavier asks as the four of them walk down the staircase, with Magneto being kind enough to use his powers to levitate Xavier's wheelchair as they were walking down.

"There were some resistance when we teleported in, but it helped pass the time waiting for you." Cyclops jokes a little, leading the professors into the teleport chamber, where the rest of the X-Men, Freedom Fighters, and Brotherhood are hanging around after they just finished destroying some ancient Egyptian security robots.

"Professor Xavier, what's the current status of New Vale City?" Sally asked, wondering what's happening at the city after they disabled Apocalypse's tower.

"Thanks to your efforts, the remnants of Apocalypse's force are falling quickly. The authorities expect to regain total control of New Vale City in a matter of hours." Xavier congratulates the heroes for saving the city.

"I've been wondering. Why did the teleporter atop of Apocalypse's tower lead us inside a pyramid?" Sonic asked.

"This is one of the pyramids of Giza. Remember, Apocalypse grew up in ancient Egypt. For all we know he may have helped build this structure when he was a young man." Xavier answered.

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BGM-X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse OST-Pyramid (Quiet)

"Time grows short. We must hurry and stop Apocalypse before he harnesses the Chaos Emeralds. Even with six, that's more than enough to make him an unstoppable threat." Magneto recommended.

"No." Xavier objected. "If we are to succeed, we must find Team RWBY before Apocalypse uses the emeralds."

"Why not just find Apocalypse and stop him?" Knuckles asked.

"He left that teleporter in New Vale because he wanted us to follow him. And I refuse to blindly walk into whatever trap he prepared. Team RWBY is our only hope of discovering what Apocalypse has planned." Xavier replied.

"Knuckles would be that person to blindly walk into a trap." Sonic grins, making fun of his gullible echidna friend.

"Shut up!" He retorted.

"But isn't Team RWBY under mind-control?" Shadowcat remarked.

"For the moment, but I believe me and Sir Charles might've devised a plan to free them while you were busy saving the city." Xavier claimed.

"Really? How?" Tails asked in shock.

"With this." Uncle Chuck takes out from his handbag a special helmet that he created alongside Xavier, which remarkably looks similar to a similar mutant detector device the X-Men recognize.

"Isn't that Cerebro? I thought it was destroyed when Apocalypse attacked the mansion." Jean remarked.

"It's a portable version of Cerebro crafted by me and Xavier which incorporates my Roboticizer technology." Chuck started. "While I was being held prisoner by Apocalypse, Eggman delightfully gloated to me about his 'Celestial Cyberization' that he used to transform the girls into Horsemen. I used that knowledge to work with Xavier to create this special helmet. With this enhanced Cerebro amplifying Xavier's telepathic powers, he should be able to exploit a weakness in the design and find a backdoor in the Cyberization programming, reaching deep into their neural cortex and disable Apocalypse's control over Team RWBY permanently." He explained their plan to free Team RWBY.

Sonic happily snaps his fingers to the good news, "Awesome, Uncle Chuck!"

"But have you tested it yet so you won't accidently fry their brains?" Sally ask the mutant professor, not wanting to take risks with this plan.

"We haven't gotten the chance to test it, but Nicole has made calculations. They should only suffer a minor migraine. All we need now is a power source, and I believe our Chaos Emerald should suffice." Xavier replied, looking at Sonic who wields the last emerald.

The hedgehog approaches the professor, handing him the Chaos Emerald, "Here you go, Prof." Then, Uncle Chuck hands Cerebro to Xavier, so he could insert the emerald into the forehead component. Once inserted, he puts on Cerebro, activating it as the emerald on the helmet starts glowing.

"Cerebro is ready. Now we must find Team RWBY." Xavier says, as the heroes begin trekking through the dangerous labyrinth that is Apocalypse's pyramid.

"This entire pyramid is a maze. Who knows where they are or we are, and we don't have a lot of time to look around while Apocalypse is scheming. Makes me wish they'd just ambush us or something." Sonic tiredly complaining, too impatient to search an entire pyramid for his missing friends.

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BGM-Shadow the Hedgehog OST-Heavy Dog

His wish is granted as out of nowhere, the brainwashed Team RWBY teleport into the scene behind the heroes. "Thanks for jinxin' it, hedgehog!" Wolverine said sarcastically while popping out his claws.

"Hey! Talk about service! Now, how about you girls free yourselves and we'll…" Sonic jokes, only for the girls to lunge at him with their signature weapons, prompting Nightcrawler to quickly save the sighing hedgehog, "No, of course it wouldn't be that easy."

"Surrender the Chaos Emerald!" Blake demands while clashing her sword with Wolverine's claws.

"Over my dead body!" Logan retorted.

"Cover me while I charge the emerald's power! Then I'll link myself with one of the girls to free them!" Xavier orders as he starts focusing with Cerebro.

The united heroes do everything they can to protect Xavier from the ferociously deadly attacks of Apocalypse's Horsemen. You got Sonic, Sally and Rogue clashing head-to-head with Ruby. Antoine running away from being frozen by Weiss until she was pounced by Sabretooth. Psylocke locking blades with Blake. And Rotor and Colossus going all-out against Yang in a heated battle that shakes the battlezone.

"We're fighting all four Horsemen now. Keep your guard up!" Sally advises her teammates.

"We have them outnumbered and outmatched! There's nothing to worry about." Iceman cockily claims, while unleashing an ice blast to freeze Yang. But it would seem the ice mutant forgotten she can burst into flames using her Semblance and break herself free, then violently punches the ground sending a wave of flaming earth rushing towards Ice Man and other combatants, knocking them off the ground.

"We'll take your lives as well as the Chaos Emeralds!" Yang proclaims, until she was struck back by a fierce swing from her mother's blade.

"Don't be so hotheaded if you think you can defeat your own mother." Raven calmly remarks, pissing off her own daughter as they fiercely lock their respective weapons into mortal combat.

Ruby and Weiss utilizes an enhanced version of their Ice Flower team attack that unleashes powerful, razor sharps shards of ice at their enemies. Pyro melts their ice shards with a simple blast from his flamethrowers, while Cyclops knocks back Weiss with an optic blast. Ruby quickly teams up with Blake for their Ladybug technique to fiercely attack Cyclops and Pyro with their frightening speed, that is until the much faster Sonic knocks them away with his Homing Attacks.

"Sorry, ladybug, but when it comes to speed, I have you forever beat!" Sonic mocks them, but then lets out a loud, "WHOA!" as he narrowly dodges being frozen by Weiss. "Chill, Ice Queen. If I recall, you wanted to become a Huntress to improve your family's company into a better future. Don't see how Apocalypse will help ya, unless you plan on making him a worse CEO than your dad." He mocks, which infuriates the mind-control Schnee.

"Shut up, you…you…My head…" Weiss clenches onto her aching head, as it seems Sonic's annoying quips are somehow helping her fight against Apocalypse's control.

"Good job, Sonic. You gave the opening I need to dive into her mind and break her free from Apocalypse." Xavier concentrates on Cerebro, as the Chaos Emerald embedded into it glows with power. He uses that energy to fire a mental beam straight at the stunned Weiss, causing her to scream in pain as she's being mentally disconnected from Apocalypse's control. Once Xavier was finished, Weiss falls unconscious on the ground to rest, hopefully free from Apocalypse.

"She's good. Now to free the others." Xavier stated, as it's time to free the other members of Team RWBY.

Meanwhile, Blake and Yang just used their Bumblebee move to knock down Raven. Tails and Bunnie try to attack the faunus, only for her to leap back and immediately bounce forward to slash at the mobians. Shadowcat, Big, Mystique, and Amy want to get their hands on Blake, but she summons several clones at once to keep them still with their relentless attacks.

"You're not making this easy on your fellow cats." Shadowcat quips, while phasing through a clone's attack.

Magneto suddenly slams the ground with his Magnetic Shockwaves, destroying the clones and knocking away Blake. She quickly recovers and fires a large energy beam from her sword at him, sending the master of magnetism flying to a wall. "I'm sorry to do this to you, Blake." Colossus apologizes, as he appears behind her and grabs her into a strong bear-hug, slowly crushing her body to rapidly deplete her Aura.

"Let…me…go…!" She grunted, struggling to speak and break free from his powerful grasp.

"Listen to me, Blake!" Wolverine approaches her. "You're an X-Man! Break free from Apocalypse's control! He's turning you into another Adam Taurus! Is THAT who you want to be?! You've promised to dedicate your life to fight corruption and forge peace between Faunus and Humans! This is NOT the time to give up on that dream!" He said, trying to reason with her heart and help her fight against Apocalypse's brainwashing.

"Logan…help…" Blake sincerely says, seemingly fighting back against the mind control.

"Professor!" Wolverine turns to him.

"Keep her steady!" Xavier concentrate on Cerebro again, using it to telepathically break Blake free from Apocalypse's corruption. Just like with Weiss, Blake falls unconscious after the procedure and is gently laid on the ground by Colossus.

"Two down, two to go!" Sonic grinned.

"But the other two are sisters. They'll be tough to put down." Logan states, looking at Ruby and Yang putting up a good fight against their opponents.

Storm blasts Yang with a lightning bolt, allowing Rogue to pummel her with flying punches, but Yang manages to grab her arm during her assault and ruthlessly smashes her onto a wall. Amy lands a decent strike but was quickly deflected, just as Beast appears behind and grabs the blonde brawler as she struggles to break free from his strong grasp. "Stop this, Yang! Are you willingly to kill your own friends and mother?!" Beast reasons with her, only for Yang to burst in flames and break free from his grasp.

Psylocke throws psychic ninja stars at Yang, who deflects them with a wave of fire from her arms, but that was just a distraction for Knuckles as he burrowed out of the ground to deliver a furious spiral uppercut to the jaw that sends her flying across the area. "Hey Raven! Start acting like a parent for once and punish your daughter!" The echidna shouts at the tribal warrior.

"Keep her still!" Raven remarks as she disappears through a portal.

"You better not be chickening out!" Knuckles retorts, brawling ferociously with his flaming rival.

Yang dodges one of Knuckles' punch and smacks him out of her sight, but immediately after, she got struck from behind by Raven after hopping out of a portal. Yang snarls, turning around to throw a powerful flaming punch at her own mother, who swiftly blocks the strike with her electrified blade. They lock their weapons at each other tight, with mother and daughter struggling to gain an advantage over the other. "I'm sorry I was never there for you. I'm a dangerous woman. I left you alone to protect you. But I see now I was only protecting my own insecurities. You're stronger between the two of us. You know strength better than I. Now use that strength to overcome Apocalypse!" Raven pleads with her daughter to resist the eternal one.

Subtly, Yang start relenting back her own strength because of her mother's words, allowing Raven to win the clash and knock her down so Juggernaut could pin her to the floor. "This will only take a moment!" Xavier rolls to them and uses his telepathic powers to free Yang from Apocalypse's influence, knocking her unconscious in the process. "She'll be alright, Raven." Xavier assured her, who quietly nods in understanding.

"Now all that's left is Ruby…" Sally remarks, but was rudely interrupted when she and the rest of the united heroes were painfully scattered around thanks to the powerful dark flash emitted from Ruby's corrupted Silver Eyes. "And make sure her eyes don't obliterate us!" Sally weakly finished.

"No time to take get some eye drops, but these might do!" Sonic quips, rushing to take one of Blake's ribbons while she's unconscious and boost towards Ruby. "This is it, kid! Show me who you really are: A Huntress or a Horseman!" He grinned. The blue blur and the scarlet rose boost at each other, rigorously clashing at intense high speeds that are hard to keep up for anyone else. Ruby fires off several rose-filled tornadoes from her scythe, but Sonic counters them with wind blasts of his own that create smokescreens. Through the smoke, Sonic blitz through with a Spin Dash, but was violently deflected to a wall by Ruby's soul-draining scythe. Before Ruby could land another deadly blow on the aching hedgehog, she was blasted away by Cyclops and was quickly disarmed by Sally.

"Big mistake!" Ruby tries to use her corrupted eyes again to kill them, but her sight was suddenly taken away from her thanks to Sonic using Blake's ribbon to blind her, "Hey!"

"I know how much you like surprises, Ruby, so enjoy this one!" Sonic grins, kicking the scarlet Huntress towards Xavier, "Now, professor!"

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Xavier uses Cerebro at its full power, connecting to Ruby's mind and completely erasing Apocalypse's influence over her mind and soul, freeing her from his evil. Ruby groans from her mind being cleansed and falls down unconscious next to the rest of Team RWBY, who are now all free from being the Horsemen of Apocalypse.

"Whew. Finally." Sonic wipes the sweat from his forehead, panting a little after an exhausting battle with Team RWBY. "You sure they're okay?" He asks Xavier.

"As far as I can read, they are no longer under Apocalypse's influence. For now, they need rest." He replied.

But it didn't take long for Team RWBY to groggily wake up from the floors, still with their cybernetic enhancements but with their eyes returned to their respective normal color, meaning they have full control over their own mind and body again.

"You girls didn't sleep long. Is it really you, Ruby?" Sonic grins, asking his fellow speedster if she's back on his side.

"Sonic…Yeah, I believe so. I don't think Apocalypse or Eggman has control over us anymore." Ruby replied, having returned to speaking like a normal human girl again.

"Are you all alright?" Cyclops asks the recovering Team RWBY.

"Aside from being pummeled by our own friends, yeah, I believe we're fine now." Weiss quips while tending to her migraine.

Blake is looking remorseful and extremely distraught of her own actions against humanity, "Everyone, forgive us! We betrayed you. Tried to kill you. How many people have we-?"

"DON'T." Wolverine interrupts her. "Don't do that to yourself, kid. You weren't in control."

"We are just happy you are safe." Storm approaches the distraught faunus and gives her a passionate hug to let out her silent tears.

"Ororo…I'm so sorry…" A tearful Blake cries on her shoulder.

"It is alright, my child." Storm sincerely says to calm her down.

Meanwhile, Raven approaches her freed daughter from behind with a sincere worried expression on her face, as she's not sure how Yang is feeling at the moment. She looks at Yang, who is on her knees, stunned, and refuses to face her own mother, meaning she's also feeling remorseful of her own actions. "Yang…are you alright?" Raven calmly asks her daughter.

"I hurt him…" She says tearfully, as she remorsefully remembers her devastating battle with Spider-Man from earlier and remembers almost killing him, her own boyfriend, "I said…horrible things to him…I tried to kill him…Kill you…I wasn't in control…How could the both of you ever forgive me…"

Raven kneels down next to her daughter to say some words to comfort her wounded soul, "I… should probably be the one to ask that." She said, as her teary-eyed daughter finally looks at her. "It's…my fault things turned out this way. I never wanted you to get hurt. Not like this. I…I'm sorry…" She gives her daughter a passionate hug as tears well up in her eyes, feeling guilty for her daughter's condition.

"Yeah…Me too." Yang said tearfully, accepting her mother's apology as they seem to be finally mending their relationship, something that Wolverine seemed to have noticed but stayed silent

At the same time, Ruby also apologizes to Sonic for all the trouble she caused him and the rest of her friends, "Sonic. I'm so sorry-!"

"Rubes, it's cool. It wasn't your fault." Sonic said casually with a grin, which surprise the young Huntress since she tried to kill him.

"But I-!"

"Not. Your. Fault." Sonic repeated, still smiling.

Ruby stood confused, looking at the nonchalant hedgehog for a moment trying to figure him out, but decided to drop it with a smile, "…Nothing fazes you, does it?"

"Nah, girl. I just roll with it." Sonic grinned, which got a little giggle from the adorable huntress before they shake hands.

BGM-Sonic Adventure 2 OST-Strategy

"Team RWBY." Xavier calls out to get their much needed attention. "I know you still need time to recover, but it's desperate we know about Apocalypse's experiment." He said.

"Our heads are still a little fuzzy, but I recall he's trying to complete some ancient prophecy regarding the '7 Lights of Chaos'." Ruby replied, scratching her head while trying to recall her memories while as Apocalypse's servant.

"7 Lights of Chaos? Are you talking about the Chaos Emeralds?" Sally remarked.

"That's what he told us. Said the emeralds showed him visions and some hidden hieroglyphs in his tomb regarding the power of 'The Seven'." Weiss replied. "He had Eggman build a machine called the Nexus that would harness the power of the emeralds and supercharge them with Celestial technology. The machine then transfers that power to him. Once the machine is fully activated, Apocalypse will be nearly invulnerable."

"All to fulfill a secret but dangerous prophecy." Blake started. "For the world to be conquered and enslaved by Apocalypse and all will forever be ruled under one law: The survival of the fittest."

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BGM-Sonic Heroes OST-All Heroes Gather

"An Age of Apocalypse." Magneto described this horrific prophecy he had just heard.

"An age we must prevent at all cost." Xavier remarked.

"We still have the final Chaos Emerald. If we hurry, we can destroy the Nexus before he could absorb the other emeralds' power, then we can finally defeat him." Sally said.

"You girls stay here and rest with the professors. We're going to defeat Apocalypse." Cyclops orders the huntresses.

"What?! No! We're coming to help!" Ruby objected, as Team RWBY insist on coming along for the final battle.

"But aren't you tired?" Antoine asked.

"We're too FURIOUS to be tired!" Weiss retorts, sharing a furious expression with the rest of Team RWBY. "Apocalypse used us! HUMILATED us! Forced us to betray humanity and fight our friends! We're not gonna stand here and let him get away with that! He's going to PAY DEARLY!" She angrily stated.

"What do you think, B?" Rogue asks the cat Faunus on her personal opinion about this decision.

"Apocalypse threatens all life on the planet and turned me against my friends! His evil MUST be stop!" Blake responds with a rather serious glare, as she has found a new hatred for the eternal mutant.

"We don't know how long our enhanced powers will last, but we at least want to use them for good this time. We know where the Vault of the Ages is. That's where Apocalypse and Eggman are building the Nexus." Ruby stated.

Yang approaches her team with her eyes flaring angry red with rage while scarily cracking her knuckles, ready to seek revenge against Apocalypse for forcing her to hurt the people she loves, "Let's go already. I gotta create some havoc." She stated with a serious tone and a furious glare.

"Never seen you girls so angry. I like it!" Knuckles grinned.

Sonic chuckles with his own grin as well, "Heh. Guess we have no reason to stop you. ALRIGHT!" The excited hedgehog smashes his fists together as Ruby, Sally, Cyclops, Magneto, Xavier, and Raven stand alongside him, while all of them stand in front of their united team of heroes consisting of the Freedom Fighters, the X-Men, the Brotherhood of Mutants, and Team RWBY. "Let's do this, everyone! Let's go show Apocalypse what happens when he messes with the DREAM TEAM!" Sonic declared with a sarcastic grin, as the united heroes are ready for the final battle to save their world from the Eternal One.

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BGM-Sonic Heroes OST-System Screen: Select

KFX Here: This is it. The final chapter to Rise of Apocalypse is upon us. Team RWBY are free from Apocalypse's control and join the heroes for the final battle against the eternal mutant and Dr. Eggman. How will this climatic showdown transpire? Find out soon.

Next time: The Age of Apocalypse!

Triva of the Chapter: Though Fate of Two Worlds is the first story in the United Heroes Series, my first published story was Avenging Knights.

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