BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Wonder World

Spider-Man: Watch out! It's your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man! Now that the Tornado is fixed, we can finally explore more of this Lost Hex. We landed in some ruins in the middle of the desert. Along the way, we fought another member of the Deadly Six. Though this guy seems more "hungry" than "deadly". Hey! Where ya going, fatso? We still got some more treats for you to eat!

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Issue 5: Rise of the Six

Des(s)ert Ruins

"Well, that's not something you see every day." A slightly confused Spider-Man said in regards of their current location.

"Usually one would find an oasis in the middle of a dessert…" Sonic stared while standing beside Tails and Ruby, both who are also amazed of the "sweet" area they're right now, "This might be overdoing it."

BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Sugar Lane

What Sonic means is that the group stumbled upon a candy-themed area in Desert Ruins while searching for Zomom. They find themselves standing on a road made of colorful licorice floating in mid-air, surrounded by several different kinds of foods like giant cupcakes, humongous donuts, and large ice cream.

As someone who's sweet-tooth matches her love for weapons, it didn't take long for an extremely excited Ruby to shirk her heart out while her eyes are replaced with sparkly stars the second they arrived to this dessert heaven, "WE'RE IN CANDY PARADISE!"

"In the middle of a desert? I've been to some strange places before, but this place DEFINIETLY takes the cake." Spidey responded with a cute little pun.

"Literally. There's cake, cookies, you name it." Sonic quipped.

"Didn't Eggman had a place like this for his space amusement park?" Tails asked, referencing Sweet Mountain, walking with his friends through this "dessert" ruin's licorice road.

"Yeah. A whole planet made of sweets. Who knew we had our own little candyland here of all places?" Sonic replied.

Meanwhile, Spider-Man was looking around for Ruby, who just suddenly vanished, "Where did Ruby run off to?"

"Duh. Where do you think?" Sonic punned, grinningly pointing to the sweet-loving Huntress having the time of her life sitting and eating on top of a large donut with sprinkles and frosting on a licorice pillar.

Spidey walks up below her and jokingly says to her, "Kid! I'm gonna have to ask you to get off the donut!"

"Just a few more minutes! I'm almost done!" Ruby replied, still eating from the donut.

"Don't you have a history report to complete?" Spidey reminded her.

"I'm researching while I'm eating! I'm doing both at once! The best kinds of research involve getting first-hand experience about your topic, right, and that's what I'm doing by eating this donut while taking mental notes." Ruby explained, taking out a chunk of the donut for another bite.

"Well you're not wrong. Just try not to eat the whole zone, rose sweets." Peter replied.

Ruby giggles, "I'll try."

"It does make sense for that yellow Zeti to go through here seeing how he only cares about food." Tails said, flying past a floating pancake.

"Where is tubby anyway? You'd think we'd noticed the big lug moving in to food heaven." Sonic joked while running on blue licorice.

Spider-Man swings from the ice cream cones as he looks at the holographic pop-up map from his wristwatch to show where Zomom currently is thanks to the Spider-Tracer he placed after their last encounter. "Looks like he's outside this area, 15 miles northwest. I'm also picking up a capsule along the path guarded by badniks." He informed the team.

"I'll free the animals. Ruby, cover me!" Tails ordered.

"Got it!" Ruby replies, already equipped with her scythe. The young duo confronts the badniks guarding the capsule. Tails bounces on the Buzz Bombers in his way as he approaches the capsule but before he could activate the switch, he was almost shot by chocolate-covered truffles fired from brown and yellow cannons if Ruby didn't slice them up into pieces, saving the fox.

"Was never a fan of truffles." Ruby joked.

"That's surprising." Tails quipped.

"Just the ones that aren't trying to kill me." Ruby quipped back while destroying ant-based Robot Ants. She then quickly finds herself surrounded by a dozen Moto Bugs ready to attack. Confident, the silver-eyed Huntress spins her scythe ridiculously fast, forming a faint petal tornado in the process, slicing the badniks into two before they exploded, giving enough time for Tails to activate the switch of the capsule, freeing the animals.

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"Nicely job you two." Sonic complimented the duo.

"Thank you, thank you." Tails playfully bowed before Sonic and Spidey.

"We aim to please." Ruby bowed as well. "As much as I want to stay around for dessert, we need to find that Zeti. Where did you say he was?" She asked Peter.

"Not far. He hasn't moved in a while. Probably taking a lunch break." Peter said as the group seamlessly exit the sweet Dessert Ruins back to the sandy Desert Ruins. As soon as they returned to Desert Ruins, Spidey and the gang found their target in no time flat, and let's just say, they were a bit amazed what they're seeing.

BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Zomom's Take-out Lunch

"You're probably right about that." Sonic responded.

"Oh wow…" Spidey remarked.

What's got the group so stunned is seeing Zomom sitting in the desert eating that huge sandwich that was given to him by Eggman earlier. "One word of helpful advice: diet and exercise." Sonic interrupted Zomom's lunch time.

"That's three words." Zomom responded with his mouth full.

"He's got your there." Spidey chuckled, only to shut up when the group gets whacked by the giant sandwich, "Ow!"

"Hey!" Sonic scowled.

The gang tries to run up to the Zeti but again got whacked by his sandwich. "Would you stop swinging that around!" Ruby complained.

"No." Zomom whacks them again with his sandwich. "Think I'll have you four for dessert."

"Don't talk with your mouth full." Sonic quipped.

"Yeah, right." Zomom tries to hit the gang again but this time they jumped over his lunch then quickly ducked under it when he was like, "Hey! I forgot the mustard! Be right back!" He said, stomping away from the heroes.

"He's getting away!" Tails pointed out.

"Where you'd think you're going?" Sonic asked the Zeti.

"Off to the grocery store, presumably." Spidey joked.

"Let's go!" Ruby said, beginning another chase for Zomom.

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BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-The Deadly Six Theme (Orchestra Version)

Zomom runs as fast as his tubby body could allow away from his pursuers. He gobbles down the last of his sandwich before turning around to see the heroes are still on his tail. "Stop chasing me! You're only making me more hungry!" Zomom told them.

"Then how does a knuckle sandwich sound, you bloated banana?" Spidey quipped, zipping towards the Zeti along with Ruby by his side.

"Stop making fun of me!" Zomom retorts, back-arming both the Huntress and the Spider to eat the ground. Sonic and Tails jumps up for a twin dive-kick to the back of the head that knocks him face-first to the sandy floor, then gets up to spit out the sand he accidently tasted. "Plech! That tasted horrible. I'm gonna go find some water to drink. See ya!" He then burrows himself underground to escape his pursuers, accidently leaving behind four Drill Wisp capsules convenient for taking.

"He escaped underground!" Tails noticed.

"Not a problem. Good thing fatso left behind some parting gifts." Sonic jokes, pointing to the Wisp capsules in front of them.

"Do I want to know where he was keeping these?" Ruby asked as her weapon absorbs the Drill Wisp and transforms it into a yellow-colored drill-gun.

"Try not to think about it." Spidey replies as his costume changes color to match the Yellow Wisp and his Web-Shooters turn into drill gauntlets.

After Sonic and Tails absorb the Yellow Wisps to turn into drills themselves, the four heroes burrow underground and drill after Zomom. Despite his best efforts to avoid them, Zomom was eventually caught up by the Avengers as they come out the ground in a new area with the destroyed totem head that was used in their previous encounter.

"Argh! You guys are so annoying, and it's not even dinner time!" Zomom complained about their persistent.

"Just give up now and I promise we'll take you to Applebee's. Deal?" Spidey quipped.

"Do you have any money?" Sonic joked.

"Payday's not until next week." Peter quipped.

"Guys, focus!" Ruby reminded the two to get back in the game just as Zomom prepares his next attack.

"Don't worry! I'll serve my own dinner!" Zomom spins around so fast he forms a large spiraling tornado made of the sand around him, pulling and dropping the tiles from the destroyed totem head to box everyone in a closed area.

"He's trying to suck us in!" Tails noticed, with he and the others doing their best not to get sucked into the hungry zeti's vicious tornado attack.

"Urgh! Sonic, Ruby! Spin-Rose Tornado!" Spidey commanded his speedsters.

The Blue Blur and the Scarlet Rose run up to Zomom and jump high into the air. By combining Ruby's Semblance with Sonic's Spin Attack, the hedgehog is covered in petals as the speedsters circle extremely fast in mid-air in the opposite direction of Zomom's tornado with a tornado of their own to counter its effects, dispersing the both tornadoes at once.

"Hey, no fair!" Zomom said, stunned.

"Hit him while he's stunned!" Sonic said to Ruby as the former prepares a Homing Attack.

"Right!" She replied as she prepares her newest technique called "Petal Dance", which is basically her version of Sonic's Homing Attack but with the use of her Semblance, spinning while wrapped in her cape.

The two speedsters combo the zeti with their coordinated homing attacks before delivering the final hit, but Zomom ain't done yet as he bounces them away with his belly. "Ha ha! How did you like that?" He taunted the grounded speedsters.

"Very useful. Gave me enough time to do THIS!" Spidey quips as he's finished charging up a charged-up sonic wave with his Concussive Blast gadget. He uses it to blast Zomom back to the wall of his little box arena. "Showtime!" He then said. With Zomom dazed for a quick moment, Spidey throws Tails in his ball form as a yo-yo attached to his web and repeatedly attacks Zomom with him, slowly breaking themselves free from this box prison. "Annnd you're outta here!" Spidey followed up another yo-yo attack with a lightning-quick Web Strike, with he and Tails striking Zomom with enough force to break him through the totem prison and setting themselves free, defeating Zomom in the process.

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"OW! You guys are strong. Maybe you're not all thin after all. Which reminds me, it's dinner time! I gotta go find the others!" Zomom then runs away, leaving his enemies behind once again.

"For a guy that size, he sure can run," Ruby says while seeing Zomom run off, "Where is he headed now?"

Peter checks his holo-screen again for directions, only this time there is some static blocking his view, "Tracer must've been damaged during the fight. From what I could tell, he's headed southeast. Spider-Sense's also telling me something rotten is going on in that direction." He said as his Spider-Sense tells him of the tremendous danger in the area Zomom's heading.

"Eggman." Sonic believed that's who Zomom's about to meet up with.

"Very likely. We should catch up and see what's going on." Spidey recommended.

"That'll be a piece of cake. Try to keep up!" Sonic grinned, running down the path Zomom was taking as he and his friends follow him to Eggman.

Soon after, somewhere in the middle of this desert, a very disappointed Eggman is seen sitting on his Egg Mobile behind his Badnik army, led by Anti-Venom, confronting the reunited Deadly Six, who have all failed in their simple tasks that were to capture animals and destroy the D-Avengers.

"I hone your abilities, I equip you with the most powerful mechs I can create, I even give you a giant sandwich, and you still disappoint me." Eggman decided to punish his miserable slaves with a blow on his Cacophonic Conch, once again causing great pain to the Zeti and force them to fall to the ground until he stops, "I'm a compassionate man…"

While he's busy talking, Eggman doesn't notice the heroes hiding behind some ruins next to him. "There he is." Ruby whispered, staring at Eggman.

"Along with the other Zeti, Anti-Venom, and a whole pack of robots. Can't fight them all together. Need a plan. What does he have in his hands?" Spidey quietly asked, looking at the mysterious Conch in Eggman's possession.

"That shell looks like trouble." Sonic believed.

"I'm not too sure…" Peter believed otherwise.

Tails whips out his handheld to begin scanning the properties of the Conch, "I'm examining it now…" But that sounds a little too slow for Sonic as he hops over their cover and runs up to Eggman, arrogantly ignoring the others that tell him to stay put.

"What are you doing?!" Spidey asked the impatient hedgehog.

"Sonic!? I think that thing in Eggman's hand is-!" Tails tried to warn him but it was too late.

"Gone!" Sonic said, already have jumped up to kick the Conch out of Eggman's hands, much to the latter and his lackeys' surprise and the massive face-palming of his friends. "Eggman's shell is gone." Sonic mocked.

Eggman growls, "That was a mistake."

"Whatever. When is it a mistake to take your toys away?" Sonic taunted him.

"When it's the only thing keeping six angry Zeti from controlling my mechs, you moronic hedgehog!" Eggman berated his arch-nemesis for doing something very stupid that could end their lives here and now.

BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-The Rise of the Six

Things have now gone from bad to worse. Thanks to Sonic's stupidity, the Deadly Six have been liberated from Eggman's control. Without the Conch, Eggman is helpless as he watches Zavok chuckle menacingly as the Deadly Six take control of his Badniks and make them aim at Eggman. With a point of their fingers, they command their army to fire at Eggman with extreme prejudice, showing no mercy whatsoever.

"Strike, brothers! Make the fool pay for our abuse and enslavement!" Zavok ordered his fellow Zeti.

Sonic, Spidey, and Ruby are seen dodging the lasers along with Orbot and Cubot. One of the lasers managed to hit Cubot, detaching his head from his body for Orbot to catch. "Yar! Shiver me timbers!" And it would seem the blast also ruined Cubot's voice chip again, making him sound like a pirate once more.

Zazz and Zomom jumps onto the Egg Mobile, which caught damage from the endless assault of laserfire from Eggman's former mechs. After Zomom jumps onto it, Eggman falls out, with his mustache getting burnt from one of the lasers.

"You fools need to be taught a lesson!" Anti-Venom attaches his tendrils on the two Zeti and throws them away with ease, saving his master from their wrath.

"Yes! Good job, Anti-Venom! Protect me!" Eggman ordered.

"No! Do not listen to him! He is using you! Strike him now while he's weak!" Zavok still tries to convince Anti-Venom to betray Eggman knowing he's lying to him, but the stubborn symbiote ain't buying it.

"I've heard enough of your nonsense!" Anti-Venom locks hands with the Zeti's, entering a ferocious clash where the two inhuman monsters and equally matched. "What proof do you have that I should believe whatever you say? Better give it now before I slice you into pieces!"

Zavok punches the symbiote with enough strength to turn his back to him showing the inhibitor chip attached to his neck. With his power to control electronics, Zavok rips the chip out to show to Anti-Venom. "This is my proof. An inhibitor chip designed to either weaken or KILL you in case you go against the Doctor's orders!" He told the surprised symbiote.

"What?!" Anti-Venom reacted.

"It's like I've been telling you! You have been USED, Anti-Venom, just like that witch before! HE is your enemy! The humans are your enemy!" Zavok's words seem to have finally gotten through to Anti-Venom. The snarling symbiote slowly turns to his "master" as he receives another flash of his memories returning, mostly showing him in a first-person perspective going up against Eggman, once in a "high-tech robots company he owned" and in a "crimson tower in the middle of nowhere holding ancient artifacts that could control gravity". These memories tell him that he was never a servant for the Eggman Empire and that Eggman is his enemy.

"You…I never served you. You planted that chip in me…Lied to me… Tried to use me... ABUSE me…" Anti-Venom scowls with building rage, slowly approaching a scared Eggman trying to crawl backwards away from his former slave.

"I-I-I never abused you, Anti-Venom! Really! I was going to help bring back your memories the moment I conquered the world…!" Eggman nervously tried to calm the angry space goo down but it is very clear his lies have no more effect on him as he is really pissed off.

"I will help you conquer the world by PAINTING IT IN YOUR BLOOD!" Anti-Venom roared. The raging symbiote prepares to stab his former master with his handblade. Eggman prepares for the worse, but thankfully for him, Spider-Man showed up and saved his butt, kicking Anti-Venom away before he could kill the mad doctor.

"Get outta here, Doc!" Spidey shouted at Eggman as he holds off Anti-Venom.

"SPIDER-MAAAAAAAAAN!" Anti-Venom yelled, roaring a monstrous one at his webbed enemy. A multitude to tendrils protrude out from his back to attack the Spider. Popping out his stingers, Spidey cuts off as many as he could before a few of them attaches to his left arm and begins absorbing his radioactive powers. As Anti-Venom prepares to pounce him while he's weakened, Ruby shows up and knocks him away with a scythe swing, freeing Spider-Man in the process.

"You okay?" Ruby asked his big bro.

"Fine…We need to retreat! Too many of them!" Spidey replied, panting.

Sonic managed to destroy a few more Badniks by himself all while dodging lasers. One of the Buzz Bombers fired at the rock Tails was hiding behind and destroys it, causing the fox to fall. Seeing this as a losing battle, Sonic comes and picks up his little bro to retreat with Spidey and Ruby.

"I hate to run away from a fight, Tails, but I don't want to see you get fried." Sonic said.

"Urgh…Not getting fried would be nice…" Tails weakly replied.

"Orbot! Cubot! We are leaving!" Eggman shouted at his robot lackeys. The combined efforts of the now uncontrollable Deadly Six and Anti-Venom were enough to force the D-Avengers and their former master, Eggman, to retreat to fight another day.

"Man, I should have listened to you guys!" Sonic said, now regretting his decision of brashly kicking away Eggman's Conch despite his friends' protest.

"Oh, you THINK?" His friends glared at him for making a very stupid mistake that could put the whole world in danger. They run away to hide in the next zone of the Lost Hex figure out their next plan. A zone that is called Tropical Coast.

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KFX Here: I'm back. Been dealing with personal stuff that I will never discuss, unless it's about Avengers: Endgame, which was awesome by the way, go watch it. Also been taking some time off to think of future stories after Lost Continent. If you want a hint what they are, check out my profile page under "Future Stories".

Alexandria Prime: Spider-Man is still bonded to The Other. That hasn't changed. But there will be some minor changes and retcons whenever I do the "Battle for Remnant" remake to have that story make more sense and in-line with future events.

Question of the Chapter: Are any of you interested reading a story that involves cyberspace? You know, something akin to Mega Man Battle Network/Star Force? Also, what are your thoughts on Avengers: Endgame?