BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Wonder World

Sonic: I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog! Finally found you, Eggman! What is that you have in your hand? Oh. Would you look at that? Your toy is now gone. Game over for you, Egghead! Huh? What do ya mean that was a mistake? Uh-oh! The Zeti and Anti-Venom are outta control! We better retreat for now to think up a new battle plan.

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Issue 6: Who Got Us into This Mess?

Tropical Coast Zone

Tropical Coast is the third zone of the fabled Lost Hex. As the name implies, it's an open-spaced beach shore area, with palm trees and oceans that most definitely would scare any blue hedgehog that unfortunately had to retreat here after surviving the rebellious Deadly Six's onslaught. It's even worse when he was forced to retreat along with his arch-nemesis and his bumbling robot flunkies.

BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Who Got Us into This Mess?

"Alas, poor Cubot. I knew him well." Orbot joked as he's seen holding Cubot's head after his body was destroyed during the betrayal of the Deadly Six.

"Arr. Me voice chip's all cattywumpus!" Cubot spoke in a pirate voice, now that his voice chip is once again damaged. These two morobots are hanging out with their master, Sonic, Spider-Man, Tails, and Ruby somewhere in Tropical Coast after being forced to retreat from the previous zone.

"Thanks to Sonic, everything's gone 'cattywumpus'. My Cacophonic Conch was the only thing keeping those six maniacs in check." Eggman said.

"That Magic Conch Shell you were holding?" Spidey joked.

"CACOPHNIC CONCH, you webbed buffoon!" Eggman retorted, not in the mood for jokes.

"What does it do?" Ruby responded with a confused titled look, having never heard of the Cacophonic Conch before.

Tails hops off the rock he was sitting on after checking with his handheld about the conch, "Some sort of a natural inhibitor to their powers. Very painful…

"And very rare." Eggman finished. "The Zeti have an innate ability to manipulate magnetic fields. They can make electronics, including my mechs, do interesting things."

"Yeah. We noticed." Ruby said, having already experienced their magnetic powers in their earlier battles.

"I hired Kraven the Hunter to find the Conch for me so I could control their powers, until Sonic punted it away with his typical stupidity." Eggman pointed at his blue nemesis, blaming him for the Zeti's, and by extension Anti-Venom, murderous freedom to do as they please.

"Get lost, Eggman, and let us get things under control. Isn't it your fault if you think about it!? What are you even planning this time trying to control zeti and symbiotes!?" Sonic retorted, and instead puts the blame on Eggman for daring to once again control creatures that cannot be controlled, a running theme that started with Chaos among other godlike creatures in the past.

"I hope they both eat you ALIVE, you meddling hedgehog. I honestly don't care anymore! Have it your way…" Eggman scowled before walking away with his robot sidekicks.

"Okay, if it pleases the court, all those who think Eggman is a total bonehead raise their hands." Sonic joked. The heroes obviously raise their hands in agreement, and even Orbot secretly agrees with them behind Eggman's back.

"Would you look at that? All parties are raising their hand!" Spidey joked.

"I didn't raise my hand…" Eggman mumbled as both parties go their separate ways in Tropical Coast.

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BGM-Sonic Lost World OST- Tropical Coast (Zone 1)

The dimensional Avengers walk past multiple water fountains overflowing in the area. Ruby and Tails decided to have a little fun playing on them to reach higher altitude while having a good ol' time. "Come on in, guys! The water's fine!" Ruby told Peter and Sonic, who are both watching them from below.

"Doesn't look like it to me! C'mon, let's go! We got more important things to take care of, like hunting down robot-controlling zeti and murderous symbiote that are on the loose." Sonic denied her invitation and walks away.

Ruby jumps down and then Tails does after to walk with the two, "And whose fault was that again?" She asked the hedgehog who was responsible for the Six and Anti-Venom on the loose.

"I thought we agreed it was Eggman. Okay, and yeah, it was kinda my fault too, but don't let Eggman know that." Sonic responded as he does feel responsible for the Zeti's freedom.

"He just doesn't wanna get his feet wet." Tails joked, smirking while looking at his aquaphobic friend.

"I don't want to get wet at all!" He replied.

"Chicken." Ruby joked, calling Sonic a chicken for being afraid of water.

"No, I'm a hedgehog. THAT over there is a chicken." Sonic quips as he points to the Clucker badnik nearby, who makes a strange sound of confusion once he was pointed at.

"It probably doesn't matter if the Zeti are free or not. They're still a threat we need to take care of. One of them has to be around here somewhere." Spidey conversed.

"Don't you still have the big guy's signal?" Sonic asked about the Spider-Tracer he placed on Zomom earlier.

"I told you. It got damaged during our last fight. Have no idea where he or the other Zeti are, or even that Anti-Venom. He's invisible to my Spider-Sense, so I have no idea where he might pop up." Spidey answered.

"That brings up a good question. How was Eggman able to control Anti-Venom?" Ruby asked.

"I heard that red Zeti mentioned something about an inhibitor chip that was planted on Anti-Venom in case he tried to betray Eggman or else he wouldn't get his memories back." Tails explained what he heard from their recent battle.

"His memories?" Ruby repeated, sounding confused.

"Symbiotes can get amnesia?" Sonic questioned towards Spidey as he frees more animals from a capsule.

"Guess so, which made it easier for Eggman to trick the symbiote into working for him. Wish I knew who's the guy behind that suit. I kinda feel bad for him, unless that guy has always been crazy, which it seems he is." Spidey joked.

"He seemed to know you somehow." Ruby told him, remembering in their previous encounters with Anti-Venom that he possesses a deep hatred for Spider-Man despite having amnesia.

"I certainly don't know him. Maybe the next time we meet, we can have a nice, friendly conversation over a cup of tea instead of trying to kill each other." The joking webhead said as the gang continue their walk through the beach.

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Eggman's Base

"EYAAARGH!" A very furious Anti-Venom destroys a wall with just his fist. Zavok and Zazz are with him in the room looking at the raging symbiote while Zomom is eating his sandwich. "Damn you! I was a fool to trust that bloated trickster! Using me to do what he wants! I'll have his head for this!" The symbiote scowled, clenching his fist, still enraged for being tricked and used for Eggman's own plots.

"My sentiments exactly, my friend. We've all been manipulated to do the doctor's dirty work." Zavok agreed, sharing the same hatred for Eggman as much as Anti-Venom does.

"Just tell me where he is so I can crack his body wide open like the rotten egg he is." Anti-Venom said, wanting payback.

BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-A Legendary Master Appears

"You will stay right there, young man." A voice of an elder speaks up, revealing to be the small, old, but highly experienced blue zeti known as Master Zik entering the room where his pupils stand with his walking stick. "It would seem the peaceful days of tending my garden will have to wait while I take care of these matters the rest of you cannot." Zik said, wanting to take on the Avengers himself this time.

"Go back to your garden, grandpa. You're too old and weak for this manly game. It requires muscle. You'll just break your back the moment you exit the front door." Anti-Venom insulted the master zeti.

"Do not insult my master!" Zavok retorted at the symbiote.

"You know I'm right." Anti-Venom quipped.

Zavok turns to his master, the teacher that took him under his wing to train him into a formidable force. After Zik retired from the leader of the Deadly Six, he appointed Zavok to take his place due to his excellent leadership qualities and remained as an advisor to the group. "Please, Master Zik; this is not something you should trouble yourself with. It's beneath you." He told his master.

"Oh, now, don't be concerned." Zik assured he'll be alright. Anti-Venom scoffs thinking an old man like Zik could never defeat young and powerful heroes like the D-Avengers. To prove he's still got the moves, Zik jumps to the air and throws his stick in front of Zazz, surprising him for a moment while he takes the sandwich out of Zomom's hand. Then he jumps over to shove it into Zazz's mouth, bouncing off his stick with impressive speed for a man his age to Anti-Venom's face, bouncing off of him to land behind and sweep-kick him off his feet before he could even notice.

"It will be good to stretch these old bones." Zik said, convincing his disciple that he'll deal with the Avengers personally. He uses his telekinetic powers to retrieve his stick, which causes Zazz to fall on the floor, and briefly uses it as a boomerang to trip Anti-Venom again before finally grabbing it back and walks away to confront the heroes.

"Tch. Showoff." Anti-Venom grunted, clearly annoyed after being tripped twice by an old man.

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Back at Tropical Coast

BGM-Sonic Lost World OST- Juice Archipelago

"WHOOOOAHOHOOOOOO!" The D-Avengers screamed not out of fear but of sheer joy traveling through what appears to be a zigzag windy path in the air made from apple juice. Several flying Badniks and Grimm were just minding their own business when out of nowhere they got intercepted by the giant juice stream carrying three extremely juice-loving kids and one very scared hedgehog fearing of drowning, desperately holding his breath until they landed on a large floating planetoid. The gang come out soaked in apple juice, either laughing from the ride or spitting out the juices in Sonic's case.

"Was that fun or what?!" Tails happily asked Peter and Ruby.

"Think I drowned a few times back there…" Sonic said, coughing out more juices.

"It was incredible! We went all over the place! Knew it was a good idea pushing those giant fruits into those blenders were a good idea, even though it didn't make sense." Ruby smiled joyfully from such a ride through the juice slide.

"Who cares if it defied physics?! Those were the most insane rides I ever went! You can't find those at water parks." Spidey is also clearly overjoyed from the juicy hijinks involving pushing giant fruits into blenders. He takes another look at his costume, which is all drenched in juices and even smells like them. "But now my costume smells like apple juice and pineapple."

"Let's NOT do that again. You guys know I can't swim in water." Sonic complained.

"But we weren't swimming, or even in water. They were fruit juices." Ruby replied, still smiling.

"Still counts as a liquid, petals." Sonic responded.

"We really need to sign you up for swimming lessons." Spidey joked.

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BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-The Deadly Six Theme

"Then allow me be your instructor…"

The startled heroes look on ahead to see Master Zik approaching them on top of his giant apple. "But I should warn you, this is no swimming class, but a class in humility and discipline." Zik said with stern scary eyes for an old timer.

"It's another one of the Zeti!" Tails pointed out.

"Standing on a giant apple?" Ruby remarked, slightly confused as she scratches her head.

"Yo, grandpa! It's 3 pm! Shouldn't you be in bed already?" Spidey joked.

"My name is Master Zik, and I am not that old. I'm only 1,036 years-old." Zik replied with his hands behind his back.

"Sounds pretty old to me. Time to put you to bed, great grampy!" Sonic grinned.

Sonic leads the first assault, charging in with a quick homing attack Zik easily deflects with a swing from his stick. "Too brash!" Zik mocked the hedgehog for diving in headfirst. Spider-Man zips in for the next attack with a webline attached to his stick, but as he approaches the old master, Zik wraps the webbing and pulls the webhead for a swift kick off his apple. "Too headstrong!" Zik mocked the Spider. But this all lead up to Tails distracting him with energy bullets, that he shields from with his spinning stick, for Ruby to cleave his apple diagonally, causing him to fall off his precious fruit.

"Too easily distracted!" Ruby mocked, smirking.

"I do sometimes get caught up in my work." Zik replied. He deiced to use his magnetic ability to steal Ruby's weapon but couldn't for some reason. "Hmm. Interesting." He said, not bothered but more intrigued he couldn't steal her weapon.

"Thank you, anti-magnetism module." Ruby twirled her scythe around, thanking Spidey for upgrading her weapon to make it invulnerable to magnetism.

"Oh, is that why I can't take your weapon? Then how does it feel against telekinesis?" Zik asked. With a simple gesture, he uses his telekinetic powers to steal Ruby's scythe from her.

"Oh come ON!" Ruby complained as this is the third time her weapon has been stolen from her, leaving herself wide open from a kick to the face by Zik.

"You rely too much on your weapon. A true warrior must be a master at wielding their tools, including hand-to-hand combat." Zik mocked while comboing her with swift strikes with his stick. Just as she's about to receive another nasty attack, Ruby ducks, allowing Sonic to surprise the old zeti with a spin attack that knocks him away, quickly kicking the scythe out of his hands in the process back to Ruby.

"A true warrior would also have friends as back-up!" Sonic taunted.

"If that's what you youngsters believe, then show me!" Zik attacks the speedsters with a barrage of blue energy balls from his hands they use their reflexes, and of course their speed, to avoid getting blasted off the planetoid. Zik sighs disappointingly, "Youth is truly wasted on the young. Thankfully, speed cannot defeat wisdom, children!"

"Maybe if add a little insult there. Some mocking over here…" Spidey quipped as he kicks Zik off his game for Tails to hit him with his namesakes. "Y'know, I'm not afraid to hit an old man." He throws a punch, but Zik jumped away from it in time.

"My skills are sharper than your words, brash one! Your insults cannot penetrate my thick, wrinkled skin! ...Of course not unlike light, water, certain moisturizers..." Zik swings his staff swiftly and quickly in multiple directions right on Spidey.

"You fight and speak like an old man." Peter mocked, easily dodging his attacks. He lands a kick that knocks him a few feet back, followed with a barrage of repulsor web bullets. Zik runs around to avoid his attacks and jump-kicks Peter, but the clever webhead used a sticky web shield in time to not only block his attack, but kept him binded.

"Oh. It seems you're not all talk after all." Zik said.

"Why thanks. Talking keeps me motivated." Spidey throws the web shield in the air just as Zik slices it apart. The old zeti throws his staff to hit Spidey with but missed. Just as he dives down and telekinetically brings it back, Peter flips to grab Tails with his webbing and throws him as a ball at Zik, then quickly does the same to Sonic.

"Need a back massage, uncle zeti?" Sonic jokes, with both him and Tails kicking him to the ground. They land next to him seconds later and attack with their fists, but Zik blocks them both with one finger and blows them away with just the force from his thrusting palms.

"For an old guy, he sure is strong." Tails noticed.

"Old guys are always so strong. Very cliché." Sonic joked.

As Zik recovers his staff, he's confronted by Ruby and her scythe. They have a brief clash with their respective weapons, and it seems Zik holds a slight advantage over her thanks to his 1,000-year-old experience. "You have disrespected your elders, arrogant stripling! Now you shall reap what you have sewn!" He breaks the clash between them to try and take away her weapon again, but this time she has a plan.

"Sorry, not this time! Spidey, catch!" Ruby throws her scythe for Peter to catch.

"Thanks, Ruby. I always loved being the spider-reaper." He joked.

While briefly distracted, Zik receives a Semblance kick from Ruby, blasting her away before turning his attention to Peter and the scythe. "On second thought, this looks better on Sonic!" Peter throws the scythe to Sonic next, once again confusing Zik until he got kicked by Spidey overhead the hedgehog.

"Nah. I'm not a weapon's guy like Tails!" Sonic casually throws the scythe to his best buddy as he attacks Zik from below.

"But I already have a weapon. Take it back, Ruby!" Tails tosses it back to it's owner while he blasts the zeti with a single shot from his Arm Blaster.

"You guys don't like my weapon? Aww, that's a shame. It's so awesome, ESPECIALLY when enhanced with a Rocket Wisp!" Ruby grinned after finding a Rocket Wisp in the area while Zik was distracted with all the tossing and the hitting. The silver-eyed child absorbs the Wisp's power to transform into a rocket launcher, firing multiple orange, explosive homing rockets that finally defeats Master Zik in battle.

"You have been tested, young ones, and you've passed. But don't expect the next test to be as easy." Zik warned them ominously before leaving the area.

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"For an old dude, he sure hits hard." Sonic remarked while stretching his arms, saying Master Zik is quite strong, their toughest opponent yet ever since they arrived on the Lost Hex.

"Must have taken his vitamins this morning." Peter joked.

"I wonder if that guy is their leader?" Ruby wondered, thinking Master Zik is the leader of the Deadly Six, which is close but not correct.

"I don't think so." Tails believed he's not the leader of the Six.

"Definitely not. It's that red zeti with them. He seems to be their leader the way he takes command of the others." Peter believed Zavok is the leader of the Deadly Six, which is most certainly true.

"That begs another question: Now that their free from Eggman's control, what do they plan to do?" Ruby asked, with everyone pondering such a very good question. What do the Deadly Six plan on doing now they are free from enslavement and have control of Eggman's entire robot army.

Eggman's Base

Master Zik returns to the lab inside Eggman's base where Zavok is typing on the controls for Eggman's planet energy-stealing Extractor for a specific reason. Anti-Venom just stands around watching next to Zomom, who is too busy eating donuts from his bag.

"I tested the young ones and they're more powerful than I anticipated. They show much potential." Zik informed his fellow Zeti, having come to respect the D-Avengers' strength and battle potential.

"In other words, you got your ass beat. Hehehe! Next time, let me deal with them." Anti-Venom grinned arrogantly.

"I'll consider it, as I also see potential in you, my alien friend. You have only begun to tap into the full power of your symbiote. I also sense you have a troubled soul, mixed with various emotions ranging from loneness, betrayal, to wild anger deep within for years." Zik said to Anti-Venom, sensing his soul and the potential he too wields that hasn't been tapped yet.

"Gee, I wonder why?" Anti-Venom replied sarcastically, crossing his arms, as of course he's troubled after being lied to and awakened with no memory of his past.

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

Meanwhile, Zomom pops a breadstick into his mouth during this conversation, "Who cares about those chumps? Now that I'm free, I want to squeeze Eggman until he pops."

"And eat him, I suppose." Zik replied.

"Well, yeah." Zomom burped.

"I called first dips on the head." Anti-Venom joked.

"There are better ways to make him suffer." Zavok turned around from the controls to his allies.

"But more delicious?" Zomom burped again.

"What would you say if I told you we could destroy Eggman's world and use its energy to make ourselves unbelievably powerful?" Zavok asked his pals of his plan, absorbing the energy of Mobiant Earth to make themselves stronger, but in trade, at the cost of the planet's life, which they don't seem to care one bit.

"Well, I would say that I had taught you well." Zik complimented his student.

"Yes, you have." Zavok replied.

"I would say you're nuts. You want to destroy a whole planet? What if that world holds the secrets to my past?" Anti-Venom insulted, thinking destroying the world is a bit extreme, even for an amnesiac maniac like himself.

"The past is the past, Anti-Venom. From what I've gathered, your past is filled with feelings of revenge towards humanity." Zavok explained, and in a way, manipulating Anti-Venom to fully join his side.

"Revenge…towards humanity…" He repeated lowly, closing his eyes to ponder this thought.

"That is right. Think about it. You're an outsider from space that have ultimate power vile humans like Eggman and that 'witch' want to use you for their own selfish needs. Your unexplained hatred for Spider-Man. The betrayals you have suffered by the humans' hands! Remember your grudge towards him and mankind! And retaliate against them with the greatest terror!" Zavok urged him to remember his past, remember his hatred for humanity.

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Anti-Venom thinks long and hard for a good moment for glimpses of his past. Multiple flashes pop up in his head. Images of Spider-Man and the apparent hundreds of times they have fought in the past, years worth before their "first" meeting on the Lost Hex. His connection with other symbiotes where he led an army of his brethren to destroy the world. What the humans have said about him and why they despise him. Various quotes that he suddenly remembers pops up in his head.

BGM-Shadow the Hedgehog OST-Foolish Humans

'The symbiote race will destroy all…'

'All of you humans are guilty from what we see…'

'As expected from the chosen Villain of Chaos…'

Anti-Venom opens his eyes after remembering more of his dark past, "Yeesss…It's becoming clear." He speaks in a more calm-sounding voice. A dark aura slowly envelops around the devil symbiote. A menacing-looking white and black Aura that has been awakened from his vengeful soul. "I am an agent of destruction. The humans. They don't value life. They will go as far as to take away the life of one of their kind for their own benefit. They tried to destroy me, after they took everything from me! Made me suffer! All of them. Spider-Man! They are foolish creatures that don't deserve to live…!"

Zavok smiles as it seems that Anti-Venom has been convinced to join their cause to destroy the planet below. "On that note, we agree. And it will be Eggman's own creation that cause their destruction." The Zeti says as he turns around to activate the Extractor, stealing energy from the planet below, killing nature, slowly stealing the life from the residents below to the point of killing thousands at a time. Zavok begins to laugh with Anti-Venom and Master Zik joining in now that the countdown to the world's destruction has begun. This would've been a serious and dark moment if it wasn't interrupted with Zomom's burping after noticing his bag of goodies is empty.

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KFX Here: Anti-Venom's Aura has now been awakened and will give the heroes trouble when he fights them in the next chapter. For all those that keep asking me about Anti-Venom's true identity, here's your answer: Wait and see. You might be surprised.

Question of the Chapter: What is your favorite United Heroes story so far? Battle for Remnant? Fate of Two Worlds (RX)? Exo War? God Mission as a few examples.