BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Wonder World

Ruby: My name is Ruby Rose, leader of Team RWBY! We ran into Zazz again while looking for Eggman, but he wasn't alone this time. He brought a friend called Anti-Venom, who kinda reminds me of the other Venom. This one is super scary. He has the ability to drain my Aura and Peter's powers, almost permanently! We were lucky we survived and won. But something tells me we'll have to be extra careful the next time we run into him, or the other members of the Deadly Six.

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Issue 4: Eggman's Secret Weapon

Eggman's Base

BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-The Cacophonic Conch

"These Animals are quite underwhelming. I'm disappointed in your incompetent fools. Violently disappointed." Eggman coldly berated his Deadly Six and Anti-Venom for not only failing to capture good enough animals, but also failed to kill the D-Avengers. Violently disappointed as he said, he throws away the rabbit he had in his hand to Orbot behind him.

"We don't care about your disappointment, 'Master'." Zavok bravely said as he touches his so-called boss.

Eggman shuts up Zavok by pulling out his Cacophonic Conch, scaring the Zeti, "Do you care now?" He activates the conch to cause pain to his miserable slaves, reminding them that as long as he holds the conch, they will forever be his slaves. The unique sound from the conch causes Zavok to fall to the ground as he couldn't endure the pain any longer until Eggman stopped playing. "Next time, bring better Animals!" He ordered his demon slaves.

"If you keep playing that conch, they'll just bring back a furball." Anti-Venom quipped.

"That goes for you too, you miserable walking toothpaste!" Eggman retorted at his amnesiac symbiote servant.

"I don't like being called names." Anti-Venom quipped, giving his boss the evil alien eyes.

"Suck it up, or do you NOT want to know the secrets of your past?!" Eggman pointed at his symbiote slave by making him still believe he knows the truth of Anti-Venom's past. Anti-Venom simply snarls but reluctantly shuts up. "Good. Until I have need of you, you and the Zeti continue capturing more animals!" The mad doctor walks off to do his own thing along with his robot lackeys. Now the Deadly Six and Anti-Venom are alone by themselves.

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"You heard the boss. Let's go capture more of those little furballs." Anti-Venom told his Zeti partners in crime.

"Why do you insist working under that buffoon? Can you not see he is torturing us to do his bidding?" Zavok asked the alien lifeform why, despite obviously being mistreated by Eggman, insist on working for him and doing his dirty work.

"Torturing YOU, maybe. But I do this of my own free will, as the most proud, ruthless warrior of the Eggman Empire! And as much as annoying and juicy the Doctor could be, like it or not, I HAVE to follow his orders. It's the only way to recover my memory!" Anti-Venom explained.

"He's LYING to you! USING you, just like he's using us! Eggman doesn't know anything about your past! He's simply taking advantage of your memory loss to do his dirty work, because he is afraid of your power! Use that power to vanquish him and free us from his control!" Zavok retorted at the alien.

Anti-Venom snarls and confronts Zavok face-to-face, looking to start a fight from HIS lies and deceits. "You better shut up now, red mutt, before I-!" His red eyes suddenly widen in shock. Multiple images start to flash within his mind. Images that look vague and dark, but somewhat familiar. Some of these images includes a particular white-skinned "witch" that looks to be from another world getting her hands from a symbiote and a symbiote army terrorizing a city led by this symbiote witch, among other images that are extremely vague to decipher. "GRAAAGH! AAARGH!" Anti-Venom grunted in pain as he takes a step back from Zavok to clench on his head to quell these flashes.

"Hey! What's going on with him?" Zazz asked his boss.

"I don't know. Anti-Venom, what's wrong?" Zavok asked the symbiote, who seemed to have calmed down a bit.

"Images…in my head…I don't know what they are…What they mean…But they feel…familiar…" Anti-Venom replied, trying to process what just happened to him.

"Your memory must be coming back," Zavok quickly deduced that might be the case, "What did those images tell you?"

"There was this lady. A witch. She had a symbiote…Led an army of them…I felt I used to be part of this army. No. It felt like I was…USED? What does that mean?" He described to the best of his abilities what those images told him.

"That's what Eggman is doing to you, don't you realize that now? Your memories are trying to tell you not to be used again. Betray him before it is too late." Zavok manipulated the confused symbiote, see if he could use him to set him and his brothers free from Eggman.

"…No…I can't. That doesn't mean a thing. The Doctor is still the key to uncover my past. You'll have to give me another reason why I should betray him when I'm so close." Anti-Venom stubbornly replied. Even if he was once used before, that's still not enough to convince him to betray Eggman. As the scoffing symbiote turns his back and walks away, Zavok gets a closer look at his neck. There appears to be a tiny inhibitor chip created from ISO-8 attached there. The red zeti quietly deduces Eggman implanted that chip right after he uncovered him to weaken him in case he goes out of line and thinks of betraying him.

"I just might." Zavok muttered, referring to Anti-Venom's earlier comment.

Desert Ruins Zone

Desert Ruins. The second zone that makes up the Lost Hex. As the name implies, this entire zone takes place at an open-spaced desert with Egyptian-theme ruins. "…Sounds like I missed quite a lot." Tails was in the middle of a conversation with his best friend, Sonic, standing next to the Tornado after hearing what he and the rest of the gang had to go through back at Windy Hill.

"Not really. I'm sure we'll run into those Zeti and Anti-Venom again. Pretty soon, most likely." Sonic said.

"We need to be careful, especially around that Anti-Venom guy. From what you described, he reminds me of the ISO-8 crystal we used to cure the Spider-Virus. It had readings similar to a real symbiote with virtually limitless antibodies that could cure anything, from diseases to toxins, other symbiotes…" Tails started explaining the strange and unique properties of the Anti-Venom symbiote based off the "Anti-Venom ISO-8 Crystal" the heroes used during the Spider-Island event almost a year ago.

"And even Pete and Ruby's powers. We found that out the hard way." Sonic replied, recalling their intense first encounter with Anti-Venom, and how Spidey and Ruby almost lost their special powers if Sonic didn't save them at the last second. "But I still don't get it. Anti-Venom tried to 'cure' me of my speed, but couldn't. Instead, could only drain the 'chaotic energy' in me." He told Tails.

"He was probably referring to the residual chaos energy within your body every time you used the Chaos Emeralds. The reason your speed wasn't drained because that part of you is 'natural'. Not 'given' like Peter's powers." Tails explained.

"One advantage being born naturally awesome." Sonic grinned, joking.

While the mobian brotherly duo were having their own nice little chat, the human sibling-like duo were sitting on some ruins by themselves. Ruby sits beside Peter as she watches him adjusting her Crescent Rose to make it more battle-efficient against the Zeti. "Is it done?" Little red huntress asked big bro Spidey.

"Just another second…" Peter replied as he puts the final touches to her weapon. "Finished! Your Crescent Rose is now 100% magnetic proof from any wacko zeti to old mutant geezers that can lift bridges." He joked, handing her back her weapon upgraded with an "Anti-Magnetism" module to keep it safe from being manipulate by the Zeti.

Ruby smiles, "Thanks, Pete. Was gettin' quite annoyed this thing flying off my hand during the fight that Zazz guy." She gets up to cock her gun, morphing it back to a scythe to wield with one hand. "The Zeti are gonna be in for a surprise now."

"Still have to be careful. There's not much we know about this 'Deadly Six', or that Anti-Venom. Who knows what other powers those weirdos have?" Peter told her, wanting his surrogate sister to be careful as he's worried for her.

"I'll be careful, Pete. Promise." Ruby promised to watch herself. She and Peter turn around to see Sonic and Tails walking up to them.

"You guys ready for more exploration?" Sonic asked them.

"Lead the way." Ruby replied, basically saying they're ready.

"Then keep up!" Sonic grinned, speeding off ahead of the others through Desert Ruins.

BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Desert Ruins (Zone 1)

Through this vast desert, the explorative heroes fight off more Badniks and Grimm while saving more animals. Sonic uses his favorite Spin Dash to barrel through a line of Moto Bugs before jumping forward to kick a Crawlton robot. In the air, Tails defeats a few small Nevermores. Ruby cuts down the large Cactus Balls that were in her way all while Spidey jumps over her head to web-grab a Boarbatusk and throw it to nearby quicksand.

"There's sand everywhere. I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere." Spidey joked while swinging through the desert.

"So what's the deal with that Anti-Venom? I thought all the symbiotes were wiped out." Sonic asked while running to start a conversation.

"Just the ones from their home planet that we blew up-Correction. RUBY blew up! There's possibly still thousands of other symbiotes that took over a few hundred planets in the galaxy. Annoying, I know." Spidey joked, bouncing over a Snail Blaster to web throw it away.

During this sweaty venture through the desert, Ruby takes a moment to catch her breath and wipe the sweat from her head. Before she could keep moving, she spotted a new Wisp Capsule in her vicinity holding a "Crimson Wisp". "Sweet! I found a new Wisp!" She smiled.

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BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Color Power: Crimson Eagle

The silver-eyed huntress frees the crimson Wisp from its little home, and as thanks, was allowed to absorb its power. The Crimson Wisp flew right into her Crescent Rose to give it a crimson-colored makeover, but that was only the start. To Ruby's great amazement, her weapon transformed before her eyes into a crimson-colored winged harness, featuring a pair of retractable wings similar to an eagle's that has her personal rose emblem painted on each wing.

"This…is so COOL!" Ruby exclaimed with extreme joy as her new transformable wing pack attaches itself to her back and immediately takes off to the sky, flying high above the desert and her friends. The soaring huntress collects the rings floating in mid-air, performing some incredible airborne tricks with her wing pack while absorbing more Crimson Wisps to stay flying.

"Look! Ruby's flying! That Wisp must have flying capabilities!" Tails pointed to the flying huntress.

"Nice new power up, kid! The Eagle Rose was clear for take-off and is now soaring high through the sky!" Sonic grinned, giving a name for Ruby's Wisp-powered flight pack.

"Falcon's not gonna be happy you're stealing his shtick!" Spidey joked.

"I'm sure he won't mind! WOOHOO! C'mon guys! First one to that temple wins!" Ruby points to a nearby temple dead ahead of them.

"You're on!" Sonic speeds off, racing against his friends to the temple.

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BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Desert Ruins (Zone 1)

Naturally, Sonic beat his friends to the temple just as Ruby's power up vanish and was back holding her regular ol' scythe, but she was still extremely thrilled of the experience flying through the air like a bird. "That was so FUN! Can I do it again?!" Ruby excitedly asked the group.

"It'll be a little hard flying inside this cramped temple." Spidey joked as they now explore the insides of this ancient temple.

"This place is a maze. Where do we go?" Sonic asked, quickly finding themselves lost inside this mazy temple.

"My sensors indicate there's an animal capsule somewhere within this tomb. Let's go follow it." Tails said while looking at his Miles Electric for directions.

Following Tails's lead, the team venture through this gimmicky tomb, and it wasn't easy. They had to decide which pathway is the right way. Avoid various booby traps thanks to Peter's Spider-Sense. Activate switches using motion-sensing spheres. Fight some more Badniks and Grimm. And last but not least, avoid the killer Sandworms that sees the heroes as lunch.

"Go, go, go, go, go, GO!" Spidey hurried his scared pals to climb up the temple to avoid getting eaten. There were some close calls, mostly from Sonic and Spidey, but after eating a few Web Bombs that temporarily clog up their mouths, the Sandworms leaves the heroes alone to their own work, and that work is unlocking another animal capsule which Ruby had the pleasure of unlocking.

"Phew! That was close. Those things saw me as a hedgehog blueberry. Let's get out of here before they think about dessert." Sonic joked about the Sandworms that almost ate them.

"Right…as soon as we figure out where's the exit." Ruby casually remarked, looking around her surroundings for any sign how to exit this weird temple.

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Eggman's Base

BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Calling in the Heavy Hitter

Back in Eggman's super evil secret lair, the mad scientist was re-watching previous footage recorded of the D-Avengers during their time on the Lost Hex. Wanting to get rid of them as fast as he can before they stop his master plan once again, he calls in Zomom to his lab.

"You, fat one! Go take care of those annoying pests." Eggman ordered the fat and dumb zeti of the Deadly Six.

"Who are you calling fat?" Zomom stomped in, making fun of Eggman's weight when he said that.

"YOU!" Eggman retorted, declaring Zomom the fat one. "Now, if you hurry and destroy the Avengers I've got an even bigger sandwich for you." Eggman said, tossing the zeti a giant sandwich that makes him very hungry.

"Oh boy! Sandwich!" He jumps up and catches the sandwich. When he landed, his body mass crumbled the floor, almost causing Eggman and his robot lackeys to fall down while he happily leaps off to the door to confront the heroes.

"Oh…help me…" Eggman facepalmed tiredly.

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Back with the D-Avengers at Desert Ruins…

BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Honeycomb Highway

"Runaway speedster, comin' through!" Sonic joked, passing by or destroying Blaster badniks as he runs down large stretches of wood that leads to giant honeycombs to run inside this makeshift highway.

"This place could not get any weirder. A highway made out of honeycombs and wood? I wonder if this is what all bees have to go through when collecting honey?" Spidey joked during a skydive to avoid a squadron of Balkiry bots and Nevermores shooting at him.

"I could ask, but these bees aren't being too friendly right this second!" Tails replied as he's in the middle of destroying a swarm of Galaga Bee Badniks popping out from holes in the walls of the honeycombs.

In the amidst of slicing up bots and Grimm while traveling down this highway, Ruby was the first to hear Zomom's loud groaning voice, "Watching them run is making me hungry! I hope they get here soon! I wanna gobble them up...After I tenderize them!"

"Um, oookay? Who was that?" Ruby asked one of her friends.

"Sounds like another Zeti. Stay sharp, gang!" Sonic advised his team, speeding up to find Zomom.

"Wow, he's movin' awfully quick! I know fast food's not good for you, but a little taste never hurt anyone." Zomom's voice said, thinking about eating Sonic, which kinda disgusts the hedgehog.

"First those worms, and now this guy? I'm not exactly good enough to eat. Have you seen these quills?" Sonic joked.

"Spider-Sense saying we're close." Spidey informed the group they are reaching Zomom.

"Up there!" Tails points to giant green and purple block-like face floating ahead of them.

"Let's go!" Ruby commanded.

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BGM-Sonic Lost World OST- The Deadly Six Theme

The heroes soared through the air one more time to land on the blocky face to confront Zomom, who falls from the sky to meet his delicious adversaries. "Wow! You guys look delicious, but you're barely a snack!" Zomom taunted the young heroes.

"Thanks. Who are you? The hungry hungry zeti with obvious weight issues? You need to go on a diet." Spidey quipped.

"Heeey! Zomom don't like being made fun of!" Zomom jumped up high to stomp the totem head to send it into freefall, knocking the screaming heroes away.

"We need to get back on that head!" Ruby commanded, then let out a brief yipes from a sudden giant spike ball that spawned from the totem head, "Without getting spiked!"

"Too easy! Just watch!" Sonic performs a somersault kick that releases a wave of air that reflects the spike ball at Zomom, hitting him in the process.

"Follow what Sonic does!" Spidey recommended. Everyone uses their techniques to reflect the spikes balls back at their common foe. "Eat this!" The webhead threw another spike ball with a web throw.

Zomom sees the ball and a couple others coming for him and deflects them with his arms alone, "I don't like food covered in spikes!"

"So why do you want to eat me?!" Sonic asked him.

"This guy's not bright but he sure is strong." Spidey took note of Zomom's rather impressive strength.

"And also slow on the uptake." Sonic added. He allowed Tails to throw him as hard as he could at the zeti while in ball form, then circles around him, disorienting the confused zeti as the speedy hedgehog unleashes a blurry assault of attacks.

"Urgh! You're the worst meal ever! Stop that!" With one smack, Zomom slapped Sonic out of his assault.

"That didn't do much." Sonic noticed his attacks barely fazed the hungry zeti.

Zomom goes over to attack Sonic again but was distracted by a web barrage from the landing Spider-Man. "You're a glutton for punishment, aren't you?" He joked. The webhead punched then flip-kicked Zomom from the face, before Tails attacked him next with a spin attack, and comes Ruby with petal-stream tackle, only to hit the bouncing belly instead and got bounced to the edge of the head.

"You look like a cherry! I love cherries!" Zomom happily said, jumping over for a belly slam on Ruby.

"WHOA!" Ruby shouted with a surprise face, rolling away just seconds before she got smooshed. "That was close. Almost became a Ruby sandwich." She said as she gets up.

"Did someone say sandwich?!" Zomom responded with a dumb smile.

"Oh jeez." Ruby muttered, dodging a rather fast punch from the hungry zeti.

"Chew on these!" Peter leaps in with another barrage of web bullets to distract Zomom for a rapid-fire fist attack on the belly before Sonic kicked him in the back. The zeti thrusts his arms opens and spins, knocking the two heroes away. Tails flies above him and shoots him with his arm cannon that's ineffective against Zomom's incredible defensives.

"Get down from there so I can eat you!" Zomom jumps up to grab the flying fox but missed.

"This guy is tough!" Tails commented while avoiding the hands of the hungry zeti.

"No. He's just that fat!" Spidey joked.

"I'm chubby, not fat!" Zomom retorted, smacking Spidey again with a punch.

"Then stay still so we can give you something else to eat!" Spidey webs up Zomom with enough webbing to keep him still for a few moments.

"Help! I can't break free!" Zomom said, struggling to break free from Spider-Man's super-strong webbing.

"That stuff can hold down a Hulk! Attack him at once! Give him a little something-something that'll be hard to digest!" Spidey commanded his team. Sonic and Tails join together to perform a Rolling Combo, attacking Zomom up front with a combined Spin Attack.

"Ow, that hurt!" Zomom whined as the mobians bounce off his stomach, breaking off from each other for each to grab a strand of Spidey's webbing to bounce slam on the Zomom once again, leaving him wide open for a combo attack from Spidey and Ruby. "Showtime!" Spidey sang.

"CRAWLER PETALS ASSAULT!" The two huntsmen shouted, unleashing a devastating combined flurry of punches and scythe slashes on the zeti, defeating him with a double-kick to the stomach, knocking him to the edge of the totem head platform.

"Snack time's over, chubby!" Spidey taunted him of their victory.

"Does this mean no dessert? Ugh. I'm gonna find something else to eat." Zomom said like the dimwit he is and then takes off from the area.

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"We need to chase after him!" Tails recommended to pursue Zomom. Perhaps he'll be stupid enough to lead them back to Eggman's base.

"Lucky for us I attached a Spider-Tracer on him during the fight. Hopefully he doesn't crush it, or eat it." Spidey said.

"I bet on the latter." Sonic joked.

"C'mon! Lead the way, Spidey!" Ruby said, following Spider-Man to chase down Zomom.

Eggman's Base

BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Eggman's Secret Weapon

Back in Eggman's lab, the evil doctor is observing the screen showcasing a livestream of a large black and red cylinder-shaped machine with a tunnel-like bottom and pipelines leading to storage tanks. Most likely related to his master plan of the month.

"Power levels green, Orbot?" Eggman asked his lackey typing on the controls.

"Power levels: stable. Extractor activated." Orbot replied. The red bot pulls a lever which activates the Extractor. From the screen, Eggman watches as his precious machine performs a scary trick that only the cosmic world eater, Galactus, was thought to be the only one could perform such a feat, but now, it would seem Eggman can now do it too, and that feat is siphoning life energy from the Earth itself. The machine drains the green from the planet into itself, fueling up the tank.

"Good! Good!" Eggman compliments, glad to see his machine performing excellently.

"Hmm?" Cubot idiotically opens up the small tank of life energy stored in the lab and drinks from it as it flows onto his whole body, "Oh yeah, that's the stuff! Feed me, baby! Glug glug glug! I'm feeling stronger by the second!"

Suddenly, the alarms go off, getting Orbot and Eggman's much needed attention. "Levels fluctuating. Reaction unstable. Better shut it down quick, boss, or else it will lock into overload." Orbot read from his control panel.

"Shut it down!" Eggman ordered, getting him to shut down the Extractor, much to the disappointment of Cubot.

"Awww... why'd you stop, boss? I felt great!" Cubot asked, flexing his non-existent muscles.

"The machine is unstable. We just want to borrow some of the planet's energy. We don't want to destroy it." Eggman explained, saying going over the limit extracting the world's energy could lead to the destruction of Mobiant Earth itself. Unaware to the doctor, Zavok was hiding behind a corner the whole time, listening to every single detail about the unstable Extractor.

"Speak for yourself." Zavok muttered, putting a plan together in his mind that might spell doom for the world below, and for Eggman and the D-Avengers.

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KFX Here: Some of Anti-Venom's memories are coming back. I'm thinking of giving the guy an Aura and a Semblance, or at least an Aura, and new abilities based off the Wisps. What do I mean by that? Wait and see.

Alexandria Prime: To answer your question, it's simple. A retcon. I've retconned it back to Peter's powers radioactive-based. One of the many stupid plot points I wrote in Battle for Remnant. Thankfully, a remake is coming for that story soon to fix most of the problems I, and many of you had, of that story. Don't expect it anytime soon. If you recall, that story is a behemoth.

Question of the Chapter: I originally intended to ask this at the end of Exo War but forgot, so let me ask now: What were your overall thoughts with Exo War? Did you enjoy it? What did you like? What did you hate? Favorite moment? Opinions on the original "United Heroes Series" as a whole, ya know, before this new series, United Heroes Adventures?