Prologue: Brand New Day, Brand New World, Same Old Evil
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Earth Prime. Mobius. Remnant. These three worlds represent what one would call "parallel dimensions". Dimensions that have many great similarities but glaring differences. Earth is home to such marvelous heroes that are always ready to protect the world. Mobius belongs to anthropomorphic animals that constantly fight for their freedom. And Remnant is a fairy tale brought to life along with its warriors. Since the dawn of time, these worlds and its heroes stood separate in their own universe, until a day unlike any other arrived.
An evil force used a great power to merge these universes together and threatened to conquer this new world. The heroes of this united world worked together to defeat this evil. It was a long, tough battle, but the heroes managed to thwart this evil and save the world. Unfortunately, certain circumstances have made it near impossible to separate the worlds as they once were, leaving them merged forever. The heroes of this new world made a promise to protect their new home from anyone that dares to threaten it. 7 months have passed since that "Convergence". The people of newly-named "Mobiant Earth" have grown used to living in a world filled with new cities, zones, and most importantly, the people from the universes different from their own. A brand new world with a new story just waiting to be written. And that story will begin now.
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Above the clouds of Mobiant Earth
"Where is it…" said an egg-shaped scientist talking to his two robot lackeys. That scientist's name is the evil Doctor Ivo Robotnik, but no one cares about that name and prefers to call him Dr. Eggman.
Eggman is an evil genius that was born on Mobius and has spent many decades trying to take it over by turning harmless animals into killer robots, but a certain blue hedgehog always got in his way to foil his plans. He was one of the villains partially responsible for the fusion of worlds and spent many months in prison to pay for his crimes. But as if prison could hold a genius with an IQ of 300. In due time, he made his escape without anyone knowing, but it was only a matter of time until people figured out and formed a manhunt for the dangerous genius. To avoid this, he located a place in the skies that no one knows about and was regarded as a myth, making it the perfect hiding spot and the perfect place to begin his plans for world domination. So, together with his robot underlings, the sassy Orbot and the dimwitted Cubot, and three Buzz Bomber Badniks, Eggman set off to find this "lost world".
Riding on his Egg Mobile and after hours of searching above the clouds, Eggman founds what he was looking for: a mysterious, unexplored continent floating in the sky above Mobiant Earth, looking very hexagonal with different parts of the continent housing a variety of different areas.
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Eggman smiled gleefully and a bit creepily that he was the first person in the world to uncovered this lost continent. "There it is, boys…The flying continent of Lost Hex! And my ticket to world domination!" Eggman said, rubbing his maniacal gloves.
"Neat!" Cubot said.
Eggman parks the Egg Mobile in an open-field in a pasture of planetoids with an appearance similar to a "green hill". "Ahhh, breathe that fresh air! Look at the sparkling water! I can't WAIT to pave this place over!" Eggman smiled as he and his robots walk together through this oddly-familiar zone.
"Does this place look familiar to anyone else?" Cubot asked, getting the strange feeling he's been to a place like this before judging from its "green" and it "hills".
"Oh, not at all. Completely original terrain here for sure." Orbot replied, possibly joking it's hard to tell. He turns to his egg boss to ask an important question, "Not that I don't enjoy some downtime, boss, but what are we doing out here?"
"Ohhh, is it lackey appreciation day? Or a scavenger hunt? Are we lookin' for somethin'?" Cubot babbled.
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"Oh, you've found something." A mysterious but tough and threatening voice startled the villainous group from behind their backs, scaring Cubot and Orbot to close themselves up. Eggman turns around to be greeted by what appears to be one of the locals: a red creature with horns with a very stocky build and claws that just spell deadly.
"Any intruders of Lost Hex find the same thing. Trouble." The red creature threatened Eggman.
"Ah, you must be one of the fabled 'Zeti' I've been looking for," Eggman smiled, stroking his mustache without a care in the world, seemingly not afraid of this Zeti, "Thank you for making my search all the more simple."
"You came here knowing what you'd find? You're either incredibly brave or laughably foolish—perhaps both? What name shall we put on your tombstone?" The red Zeti taunted as he walks closer to confront his new enemy, scaring Orbot.
"Boss, sir? He's almost in striking distance!" He told his master but Eggman's not worried, as he even does a mocking bow to the Zeti.
"I am Dr. Eggman—the most brilliant scientist in the world, and soon to be your new master." Eggman boldly said to the tough-looking Zeti.
"HAHAHA! Very good. How do YOU plan to control ME?" The red Zeti taunted, finding it laughable someone like Eggman could control him.
"By beating you into submission, of course. FIRE!" Eggman points his Buzz Bombers to attack the Zeti. The red beast easily leaps from their blasts, then proceeds to touch his head with two fingers to perform a special technique that, after pointing his fingers at the Badniks, allow him to control them and turn to his side, leaving a shocked Eggman with just his pathetic lackeys.
"It's been some time since I got to play with someone else's machines. Very creative designs. You were saying something about beating me into submission?" The red Zeti once again taunted the mad doctor.
"Fascinating…" Eggman pondered the Zeti's strange ability to control magnetic fields.
Cubot whispers to Orbot, "Psst! If we save ourselves, can we blame it on weird-alien-mind-control?"
"Shh!"
Though his lackeys look worried against this new foe, Eggman surely isn't as he whips out a mysterious conch from his jacket. The conch is very long, with long pointy spikes on the outer surface and is colored dark purple. Also, its opening glows red. "Ah, right. On to the subjugation." Eggman said. He blows into the conch, causing it to glow red and gives off a low-pitched sound that seems highly effective, and painful against the Zeti as he desperately covers his ears to block the sound.
"…Must…resist…" Too bad for him, the conch's powers prove too much for even this mighty beast and forces him to kneel before his new master.
"Well? I can do this all day." Eggman smiled with a menacing, creepy face.
"NO! N-No. I…I relent." The Zeti said while sweating the pain off of him.
"'I relent…?'" The smiling Eggman puts his hand over his ear to taunt the Zeti to saying the right words he wants to hear.
"I relent…master." The red beast begrudgingly said, deeming Eggman as his new lord and master.
"Yeah, maybe that self-preservation talk was a little premature." Cubot said, regretting his words from before.
"The exceedingly rare, and completely worth it, Cacophonic Conch, ladies and gentle-bots." Eggman showed his bots his new toy for enslavement of the Zeti, the Cacophonic Conch.
"Ah, and here I thought you'd taken up collecting sea shells." Orbot joked.
"Now then, whatever you name is…" Eggman speaks to the still weakened Zeti he subjugated.
"Zavok." The Zeti gave his name.
"Yeah, sure. Whatever. For my plans to succeed, I need an army. But first, find me a nice, quiet place where I can set up my base of operations." Eggman ordered his new Zeti minion.
Zavok whole-heartedly doesn't want to but he has no choice but to follow Eggman's orders as he doesn't want to hear an encore of his conch-playing skills. "Follow me." The Zeti said, leading a gleeful Eggman and his minions to a place where he could set up a lab to work in.
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Eggman's New Base on the Lost Hex
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Begrudgingly, Zavok leads Eggman and his pathetic lackeys to a spacious dark, empty room with lights to help them see. "I suppose 'this' is to your likening?" The red zeti asked his master.
"A little spacious and empty, but I could work with this." Eggman commented.
Nervously, Orbot starts tugging on Eggman's pants to get his annoyed attention, "Um, boss. What is that?" He points to show him what appears to be a giant white web hanging from the ceiling, but the web looks more "alien" than a normal spider web or one from a particularly annoying spider-themed hero. More importantly, this alien webbing seems to be holding something, a white cocoon hanging from it.
"Alien cobwebs? And what is that it's holding?" Eggman asked while narrowing his eyes to stare at the alien web. "You, Zavok, explain now!" He asked his new minion.
"To be honest, it's a mystery to me too. Showed up here nearly a year ago." Zavok answered, having the faintest clue what this alien webbing means.
"Well clean it up! I want this place spotless by the time I set up a lab!" Eggman ordered.
"Hmph." Zavok scoffs but reluctantly follows his orders. The powerful zeti fires a fireball to burn the alien cobwebs, but not the cocoon it was holding. With the webbing destroyed, the cocoon drops down in front of Zavok and Eggman making a loud thump that made them guess something, or someone, was inside it.
A disturbing alien growl was heard from within the cocoon that frightens Orbot and Cubot. From inside the sack is a creature that immediately opens its alien red eyes from its black eyespots after his "nest" was destroyed and he was forced to be awaken. "RRRAAAAGH!" The creature breaks free from its web cocoon by cutting it open from within using its two white hands that can morph into sharp blades. This creature appears to be a white symbiote that has a black spider-emblem on his chest with an overall appearance that reminds one of the deceased symbiote named Venom.
"GAH! What's a symbiote doing here?!" Eggman exclaimed in shock that the Lost Hex was also home to a symbiote, and a dangerous-looking one from what it seems.
"Who…has awakened me…from my slumber?" The vicious symbiote asked, giving a stare to a frightened Eggman and an unfazed but slightly intrigued Zavok. "You…you two look like a good snack to BITE on. I don't remember the last time I've been so famished. I don't remember much at all…but to KILL PREY!"
The white symbiote pounces at Zavok first, seeing him as a better opponent unlike Eggman who runs for his life. The alien creature sends Zavok crashing to a wall with just one punch. The red zeti quickly recovers and leaps to his side before the alien could follow up with another deadly strike. "Where do you think you're going?" The alien protrudes tendrils from his body to chase and grab Zavok by the arm, then proceeds to have fun slamming him on the floor repeatedly, "I cannot wait to crush you! Nyahahaha!"
The alien might've underestimated Zavok a bit, as just before the next slam Zavok reorients himself and lands on his feet this time, pinning himself there as he uses his strength to hold the tendrils on his arm, "You remind me of one of my brothers and your strength is formidable. But you will still lose." With a mighty yank, Zavok pulls the alien to a heavy punch that knocks him back a few feet, but it was not nearly enough to put it down.
"Oh, you want to play ROUGH do you? Fine! I can…do this…all day…" Suddenly, the alien feels weak, possibly for being trapped in that cocoon for so long. He kneels down in exhaustion while Eggman and his robot lackeys watch from a distance, "Where…where am I? WHO…who am I? I…I…" The symbiote with amnesia then just falls flat on his face unconscious, confusing and/or intriguing the surrounding party of the mystery of this new symbiote.
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A few hours later…
The unconscious white symbiote was placed in a liquid green tube now that Eggman has finally set up his lab for research and conquest after that little battle. Eggman uses this opportunity to scan the symbiote and learn anything that might prove useful.
"Never thought we run into symbiote up here. Not one that has amnesia." Orbot said to his boss as he works.
"Just what I needed: more killer aliens. Like the mess a few months ago wasn't terrible enough." Eggman replied, still researching the symbiote.
"Who do you think is being controlled by the symbiote?" Orbot asked, wondering who the host of this white symbiote could be.
"Like I care! And it's not like the symbiote is in control. Unlike most symbiote, this one appears to be totally insentient." Eggman replied, saying the symbiote isn't "alive", so whatever actions it commits, it's because of its host. He presses a button on his computer that gives him more information about this white symbiote, "Oh, this is interesting. This symbiote doesn't possess the same weaknesses as others. It's totally immune to all forms of fire, sonics, and electricity. And look at this. The antibodies it produces are off the charts. It has the potential to cure anything it touches!"
"Like what, boss?" Cubot asked stupidly.
"Anything! We're you not paying attention?! This 'Anti-Venom' can cure just about everything, from diseases to people with super powers!" Eggman retorted. Then immediately, he ponders something a great thought deeply, "Like maybe annoying speedsters…or people who gained their powers from radioactivity…Perhaps can drain one's Aura and Semblance permanently…" Then a huge, wide, very creepy smile forms on the doctor's face as a wonderful idea pops up in his head.
"Orbot! Release Anti-Venom!" Eggman ordered his orb-shaped lackey.
"Is that what we're calling him?" Orbot asked.
"That's what I'M calling him! Hurry it up! We do not want to keep our amnesiac friend stuck in a cocoon for another year!" Eggman smiled.
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Orbot presses a button that drains the liquid from the newly-named Anti-Venom's tube. Once the liquid was drained, the tube opens up to allow the amnesiac symbiote to drop down. "Hmm…" Anti-Venom checks himself to see he is back to full strength, "I'm back at full strength. How?"
"Thanks to my genius accelerating your healing factor." Eggman walks up to his former foe.
"Who are you?" Anti-Venom asked the smiling doctor.
"I am Dr. Eggman, the greatest scientist genius of Mobiant Earth! It was I who revived you from the dead, Anti-Venom!" Eggman replied.
"Anti-Venom? Is that my name? I-I don't remember." Anti-Venom asked, having no memory of his past at all.
"It's natural." Eggman replied.
"What do you mean?" Anti-Venom responded.
"I don't know." Eggman shrugged.
"Stop playing dumb!" Anti-Venom retorted.
"I'm not playing dumb. Hohohoho! Ohohohoho!" Eggman laughs, flapping his hands to his sides, which makes Anti-Venom suspicious but honestly more confused. "You see, you once worked for the Eggman Empire but suddenly disappeared for almost a year until I found you." Eggman lied to Anti-Venom, giving him false information about his past.
"Eggman Empire…? I worked with you?" Anti-Venom asked, actually buying his lie.
Eggman nodded, "Indubitably. You were one of my top enforcers. You're not the first symbiote that worked for me. There were two more like you, but one of them was a traitorous brat and the other is in a coma," He said, referring to Cinder Fall and Salem respectively, two people he used to work with in the past, "You're all I got, Anti-Venom. Continue working for me to conquer the world below and I'll tell you about your past."
Anti-Venom ponders this proposal that might give him the answers he needs about his past, about who he was and how he ended up on the Lost Hex. "I…believe you. I will help you on your conquest." Anti-Venom agreed to work with Eggman and stay dumb to his lies.
Eggman smiled, "Excellent! It is so nice to have you back, Anti-Venom!"
"Dr. Eggman. I have returned with my team."
Zavok's voice is heard as the red Zeti re-enters Eggman's lab along with five other deadly Zeti: A feisty green color to match her feisty personality, Zeena! A yellow fat fan of the noms, Zomom! The pink zeti with sharp horns and a sharper tongue, Zazz! The blue braindishing both age and wisdom, Master Zik! And finally, the brooding spy, Zor!
"Let me introduce you to my 'Deadly Six'." Zavok told his master.
"Do I kill them?" Anti-Venom casually asked his new master.
"Why do you want to kill your new friends? We're all friends here, right?" Eggman asked both parties he has enslaved either through persuasion, lies, or force, something that irks Zavok to no end.
"All of you are going to help me build an army strong enough to take over the world. And to do that, we need animals. LOTS of them! I've already hired a few more flunkies to kidnap the animals of New Vale City. The Deadly Six. You've got work to do on the world below, so go down there and bring me animals. Anti-Venom. You will stay here for now." Eggman ordered his new minions. "Chop-chop! We don't have time to waste! I have a world to conquer, and a few enemies that need to be taught a lesson!" Eggman said sinisterly, smiling maliciously at the thought that with an ally as strong and unique as Anti-Venom who can "cure" anything, including super powers, and the Deadly Six who has the powers to manipulate magnetic fields, he is practically unstoppable. And no hedgehog, spider, or a few Huntsmen could beat him this time.
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KFX Here: The Lost Continent is now officially underway. Prologue is done. The beginning of this issue was based off the "Archie Sonic Halloween Comic Fest 2013" that served as a comic book prequel to Sonic Lost World. So if the dialogue looks familiar, there's your answer. The mystery of Anti-Venom serves as a major plot point in this story and will go more into detail as it progresses. Next time, we finally get to reunite with Spider-Man and his interdimensional friends.