BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Wonder World
Spider-Man: Watch out! It's your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man! Things aren't looking too good. We just learned the Zeti and Anti-Venom have hijacked a machine Eggman built to suck up all the energy from Earth to make themselves stronger. In a few hours, all life will cease to exist, including the life of our friends. We can't let that happen! We gotta stop them, no matter what, even if that includes working with Eggman.
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Issue 8: Icy Engagements
Frozen Factory Zone
BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Frozen Factory (Zone 1)
Frozen Factory is your typical winter wonderland kids would enjoy if it also wasn't a mechanical death trap. An artic floating factory where one could skate along the icy paths to avoid getting crushed by crushers and jump through the holes of rotating gears.
"ACHOO!" Tails sneezed from the coldness through this winter factory.
He, along with Sonic, Spider-Man, and Ruby are walking through this snowy zone, but they're not alone. They are accompanied by their arch nemesis, Dr. Eggman and his robot lackeys, Orbot and Cubot. For what reason? To save their world from being destroyed by the Deadly Six and Anti-Venom who have hijacked his Extractor to absorb the life energy of Mobiant Earth to make themselves stronger, but in exchange, planets, animals, and the countless millions of people down below are dying. If they don't stop the monsters quick, the Earth will be destroyed.
"You alright, little buddy?" Sonic kindly asked Tails checking on him after he sneezed, even giving him a napkin he had for him to sneeze on.
Tails sniffs, wiping his nose with the napkin, "I'm okay. Thanks. Never been a big fan walking through these snow zones. Puts me in the mood for some hot chocolate."
"I could use a cup or two myself after this." Sonic replied, starting to get small chills walking through this frozen place.
Ruby, however, is really feeling the chills. The little silver-eyed huntress covers herself with her arms while shivering like crazy, but still pushes herself to walk forward despite stuttering from the cold weather. "G-g-guys…I'm…c-c-cold…" She stuttered.
"YOU'RE cold? At least you have clothes on. I didn't bring a jacket or anything…Sorry, Ruby." Sonic apologized.
"Y-y-you would think…m-my Aura would p-protect me…It's p-probably that c-cold…" Ruby stuttered again. One's Aura would usually protect themselves from the climate, but this zone is a lot colder than the one's Ruby ever visited, which is not a lot.
"Here. Maybe this'll help." Spidey hands her a thick jacket made of his webbing for her to wear, which instantly does the trick.
"You can make jackets from your webbing?" Ruby questioned, having no idea Peter could be that creative with his webbing.
"How else do you think I survived five hours stranded in the Antarctic while Black Widow refused a cuddle to keep ourselves warm?" Peter said jokingly. "Just stay close to me and you'll be alright. Maybe once we're done saving the world, I'll upgrade your suit with a built-in heater like mine to keep you all warm and toasty."
Ruby gives him a hug for being so kind. "Thank you." She smiled, despite not being related by blood, she and Peter have known each other for so long they've basically become siblings that truly love and care for one another.
"Would you two stop being cute and hurry it up?" Eggman rudely asked his reluctant allies to keep moving.
"Only when you warm your cold soul for others." Peter joked.
"Oh please. I have no soul. I could care less about how others feel." Eggman retorted.
"Do you care about us?" Orbot politely asked his boss.
"Absolutely not! I care less about how you two feel. You actually even like it when I ignore you." Eggman said.
"Arrgh! We love it when our cap'n throws us off the plank every Wednesday." Pirate-speaking Cubot without a body responded.
"So where to, Eggman? This is your machine they're using. Where is it?" Sonic asked his mortal enemy the location of his Extractor.
"It's in Lava Mountain, a few regions from here. That's where we'll find my Extractor." Eggman answered.
"Sounds warmer than this place." Ruby quipped.
"First, we need to make a quick stop at one of the factories I built here in Frozen Factory for some supplies, and to fix Cubot's voice chip because I do NOT want to go through that headache again him speaking like a pirate or a gangster." Eggman said, already had enough of the Cubot Voicechip Saga back at his space amusement park.
"We'll conquer the seven seas…No one's gettin' left behind…La La…" Cubot sang with his terrible pirate voice, much to his master's dismay. Soon after, the unlikely team stood on top of a snowy hill that looks to lead down to the base Eggman was talking about that is designed after his egotiscal face.
"There it is! There's my factory! Do you see it?" Eggman pointed out.
"It's hard to miss, Doc." Peter quipped, joking about the goofy design of the base.
"Looks like a steep way down. How're we gonna get down there without looking like doofuses?" Tails asked.
"In style, of course!" Sonic replies as he tosses each of them, including Eggman, snowboards he found lying around nearby.
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BGM-Sonic Adventure OST-Be Cool, Be Wild and Be Groovy
"Oh yeah! Liking where this is goin'!" Spidey smirked behind the mask.
"I'm not!" Eggman objected, not wanting to take part in this daredevilish stunt. The heroes don't care what he thinks and hop down on their snowboards riding down the hill. "Hey! Get back here!" The mad doctor shouted. Fuming with anger, Eggman follows them on his snowboard, with Orbot and Cubot tagging along on the back.
"AH YEAH!" Sonic grinned, riding down the hill in style along with his friends by performing numerous speedy swerves and turns that splashes snow on the various Badniks and Grimm in his way. During the ride down, he notices a new Wisp capsule containing the Ivory Wisp. Forming a smirk, the hedgehog races for and grabs the capsule, freeing the Wisp inside, and as thanks, was allowed to absorb it. Sonic then transforms into a living, straw-colored lightning bolt referred to as "Ivory Lightning", allowing him to move even faster at lightning-fast speeds by forming treads of electricity on a chain of enemies.
"Haven't had this much fun snowboarding since Ice Cap!" Tails smiled, having the time of his life down the hill.
Spidey approaches and jumps off a trick ramp, performing the most outstanding flips only a spider can, "Eat your heart out, Sebastien Toutant!"
"Woohoo! I should try out for the Olympics!" Ruby joked, jumping over Beowolves and even kicking one in the face with her board.
Everyone but Eggman seems to be enjoying themselves partying down the mountain. The egg emperor is having trouble balancing on his board while sliding down and having a hard time avoiding his own badniks' laser fire. "Stop shooting at me! I command you!" He shouted at his former mech warriors. Behind him comes a Penguinator badnik, followed by a spinning Boarbatusk Grimm, hitting him off his snowboard, causing him to scream while he and his lackeys roll down forming a giant snowball in the process, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"Hey hey hey! Look at that! We're gettin' close!" Sonic told his friends as they near the base. The heroes share one last flip off the ramps, performing stylish moves in mid-air until they landed perfectly and safely in front of the base.
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"That was fun! But where's Eggman?" Peter asked. Then seconds later, a giant snowball lands behind the group and pops out Eggman and his lackey's heads from it.
"Found him." Ruby pointed at him casually.
"And this is why I hate the Olympics!" Eggman scowled, clearly unhappy and quite annoyed.
A few minutes later…Inside Eggman's Factory
BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Tails Gets Angry
Inside the seemingly endless dark factory that has nothing but lights to help everyone see where they're going, Ruby and Orbot watches Tails fixing up Cubot's voice chip. Until he's fixed, Sonic and Spider-Man stand around next to Eggman looking inside this empty factory.
"Whoa, over compensate much? Man, how many military factories does a guy need?" Sonic joked towards his chubby enemy.
"Just enough to hold his weight. Look at this place. You could fit a neighborhood inside here." Peter joked as well, much to the annoyance of Eggman.
"If YOU two weren't always destroying them, I wouldn't need so many or to make them so spacious." Eggman retorted, pointing at the jokesters.
Meanwhile, Tails has just finished up fixing Cubot's voice, "Annnd…done!"
"Good job, Tails." Ruby smiled.
"Thanks for fixing me." The dumbot said in appreciation, back to talking in his normal but still annoying voice.
"Just leave that to me. The fact he breaks so easily proves you can't build things properly." Tails scowled, glaring at Eggman.
"Like it was built by a two-year-old! I would've built something better!" Ruby glared at well, clearly not happy with Eggman either.
"I guess I was an idiot for trying to rely on them…" Eggman responded, facing the youngest heroes with his own sinister glare.
"Huh, I see you're getting it now!" Tails replied angrily as he and Ruby walk forward confronting Eggman, much to the confusion and worry of Sonic and Spidey.
"Whoa, whoa, WHOA! Where did this come from?" Spidey said, with he and Sonic stepping in front of the three to split them up before things could get messy.
"You don't wanna start fighting here, do you!? Calm down, all of you." Sonic told them all to ease up as this isn't the time to be fighting amongst each other.
"But it's not possible to get along with him!" Tails argued, not trusting Eggman at all. This is also very unusual for Tails to start arguing with Sonic.
"We worked with Eggman before." Spidey reminded the two this isn't the first time they had to team up with Eggman to save the world.
"Yeah! And the other times we did, he backstabbed us and almost got us killed! He's the reason our worlds are permanently merged together and were almost DESTROYED seven months ago, just right after we worked together to stop Thanos! As much as I want to, we CAN'T trust him!" Ruby argued with Spidey, which is also a first for her arguing with her big bro, while taking Tails's side not to trust Eggman, mad at him after everything he's done in recent months, and almost brought death to her and her friends on multiple occasions and is starting to get tired of it.
"Ruby, we understand, but right now, we NEED to cooperate with Eggman in order to shut down his machine." Sonic argued, with Peter obviously on his side of siding with Eggman.
"No we don't! Me and Spidey are MORE than capable shutting down his machine! It's almost like you can't trust us we could do it ourselves." Tails retorted, thinking Sonic doesn't trust him or Spidey that they can shut down the Extractor themselves.
"I do trust you guys. But the whole world's in danger because I did something stupid." Sonic argued back, admitting he messed up for freeing the Deadly Six from Eggman's control and now Earth is in trouble.
"We rather trust an actual EGG than Eggman! But just in the small chance we couldn't shut it down ourselves, we have Eggman as insurance. This is also the only way to keep a close eye on him in the chance he DOES betray us. C'mon guys, please, you have to understand." Spidey calmly pleaded with his young friends, hoping they understand their reasoning for accepting Eggman's help.
"Having an argument now of all times…I can tell this is going to be rough." Eggman spoke up, annoyed these so-called friends are arguing with each other when there's work to be done.
Now all four heroes give Eggman an irritated glare and points at him as they all say in unison, "Huh? Isn't this your fault!?"
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Elsewhere…At the Zetis' Base
BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Even a Rose Has Thorns
The feisty selfish member of the Deadly Six, and the only female of the group, Zeena is sitting on a table being the stereotypic girl that files her nails all day and ignores everything else, like destroying a few Avengers she was ordered to hunt down a while ago but hasn't left yet. Zavok accompanied with Anti-Venom comes walking towards her about the hold up.
"Why are you still here?" Zavok asked the zeti girl.
"I'm just getting ready." Zeena replied, still filing her nails.
"Well, you seem to be taking your time." Zavok said.
"Well, it is my time to take now isn't it?" Zeena argued, checking her nails.
"You've been at this for hours. Sheesh. What is it about women wasting time putting on makeup for things so insignificant?" Anti-Venom asked.
"Don't ask me." Zavok replied.
While filing her nails for the umpteenth time, Zeena notices Anti-Venom's fingers stretching towards her and smacks them away, "What are you doing?!"
"What? I'm helping you. Symbiote cream would look good on your face." Anti-Venom joked.
"My face is already perfect, ugly! Your goop would just make it worse!" Zeena retorted, finding some offense to that.
"What are you talking about? It's made me as handsome as a devil." Anti-Venom points to his monstrous face, sticking out his long disgusting tongue to control to mess with the girly zeti.
"And can scare the devil." Zeena responded, crossing her arms and turn around, not wanting to deal with Anti-Venom and his ugliness.
Zavok walks up to the filing girl Zeena and starts spouting words to convince her to hurry it up, "Well what if I told you that you were the only one I trusted to be fast enough…"
"Oh." Zeena turned back around to continue hearing his kind words.
"Smart enough…"
"Hm-mmm."
"And pretty enough…"
"Go on."
"To beat the blue nuisance and his friends?" Zavok finished.
"Well, I'd say you've got the right girl for the job!" Zeena smiled, flipping her hair and walk away after being convinced, and manipulated, to finally fight the D-Avengers.
"You sure have a way with woman." Anti-Venom joked.
"That was so easy I almost feel guilty." Zavok said.
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Frozen Factory
BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Snowball Waltz
"Are we THERE yet?!" An impatient Sonic asked his friends if they've reach Lava Mountain yet, walking with Eggman under the nighttime frozen sky.
"Just hold your horses, Sonic. Just because we know where we're going doesn't mean we'll get there as fast as you can run." Peter replied.
Sonic sighs, expressing "But…it's SO BORING!"
"We would've been there sooner if we weren't dragging tubby along." Tails said, with him and Ruby still not happy working with Eggman.
"I am SO looking forward when this alliance is over, cheeky little fox brat." Eggman scowled at the fox, getting on his nerves once more.
"Just shut up and keep walking, Eggface." Ruby glowered with a deadpan stare.
"Everyone still seems to be in high spirits." Spidey said jokingly, still bothered by his young friends' untrusting attitude with Eggman.
"Because of me." Sonic frowned, looking down sadly.
"Cheer up. You made one mistake. It happens. You were just doing what you thought was right." Spidey said, trying to cheer up his hedgehog pal.
"Which it wasn't. Now the whole world's in danger because of me. Tails may be right. Do we really NEED Eggman for this? The last time we worked together resulted in us getting blasted off the moon by him and Doom." Sonic asked the webhead as he wonders if it really is a good idea to work with the mad doctor, especially considering the last time they teamed-up against a common threat resulted in betrayal and the universe was almost destroyed because of his recklessness.
"Maybe, maybe not. It's obvious we can't trust him, but what other choice do we have in the event we CAN'T shut it down without his help? We just need to watch ourselves. The sooner we shut down that machine, the sooner we can return throwing angry slaps at each other." Peter replied.
While Sonic and Peter were having their own conversation to themselves, so was Ruby and Tails between each other about the topic of Eggman. "Do you think we may have been a little harsh?" Ruby asked Tails as she begins to feel a bit ashamed about their recent with their best friends who she knows they mean well.
"Possibly. Considering everything that's happened recently, I'm just a little worried, ya know." Tails replied, starting to show some regret arguing with his best friend, Sonic.
"Same here. We're here all safe and sound while everyone else on the planet is getting the life sucked out of them. I'm just anxious to see if our friends are alright down there. I know Sonic and Spidey mean well, and I still trust them. It's just Eggman I can't trust." Ruby explained her reasoning why she doesn't Eggman, a statement Tails agrees with whole-heartedly.
"Yeah. I just want to get this done as soon as possible and move on." Tails said, looking ahead sadly.
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The end of their snowy walk is soon about to approach its end. The team stopped when they came across a large snowman blocking their path. "Huh. Look at that. A snowman. I wonder who made this." Sonic said.
"Maybe the princess with ice powers from that one movie everyone seems to hate, only this snowman is 100% less talkative, and bigger." Peter joked.
"Aw, you're adorable." A womanly voice spoke up from the snowman.
"It can talk!" Ruby remarked.
"No, you fool. It's someone else. It has to be one of those disgusting Zeti." Eggman corrected her.
BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-The Deadly Six Theme
And the doctor was right, because as soon as he said that, Zeena reveals herself on top of her snowman, visibly unhappy to be insulted by her looks. "Disgusting?! I'll have you know I, the beautiful Zeena, is a top-level model in both fashion, and murder!" She said. The female zeti uses her green energy whips to smack Eggman, causing him to slide backwards. She then flips off her snowman to the ground to confront the heroes who look ready to fight her. "Now, you wouldn't hurt a lady, would you?" She smirked with a cocky look, knowing how noble and polite some men are to never laying a hand on women, no matter if their good or evil.
"The webbing of justice is unisex!" Spidey quipped, firing a webline to yank Zeena to his roundhouse kick her through her snowman, destroying it because of her.
Zeena grunted in annoyance, "Rude. Don't see you getting a date with that attitude."
"I've been on dates with multiple girls. Have you ever been on one? Maybe with that Zomom guy? Judging from the look on your face, I don't think you know how to ask a person out without looking so embarrassed." Spidey mocked her, which does the job getting her angry.
"The girls you dated must be hideous and stupid to go out with you." Zeena mocked, striking Peter with a swipe from her energy whip. Sonic goes for a Spin Dash, only to get caught by her second energy whip and be thrown at the others. "Try to find me, nimrods!" She taunted them as she buries herself into the snow and summon multiple snowmen like a dozen, half of them looking normal while the other half have bombs on their heads and are seconds away from blowing up.
"Look out!" Tails shouted as everyone jumps away from the chain of explosions and managed to survive.
Formulating a plan that she immediately takes action, Ruby starts destroying the snowmen that keeps popping up, "We need to destroy the snowmen without the bombs. Then she'll have no choice to reveal herself."
Sonic and the others follow her example and start destroying the other snowmen. "Hey, Snow Green. Wanna come out and play, or are you too busy using the snow to hide the pimple on your cheek?" Sonic joked, which acts as a lure to bring her back up to the surface.
As he expected, an extremely worried Zeena pops out of the snow after her snowmen were destroyed to check her cheek for pimples. "A pimple?! Where?! Where's my make-up?!" She asked, very worried for her still-normal face.
"Hah! Gotcha! Girls are so predictable!" Sonic quipped as he kicks Zeena down while she was distracted.
"Uh-huh." Ruby responded to his not-so funny quip with a deadpan stare towards the hedgehog.
"Oh no. You're quite the opposite of predictable." Sonic replied back.
"Thank you."
"If you're really that desperate for a date, you should've asked, just without the killing part." Spidey joked while still clashing with Zeena and her whips.
"I like to play hard to get." Zeena quipped, using her whips to splash snow on Peter for a quick kick to his chest, sliding him through the ground. She then uses her whip to yank Ruby of her weapon.
"Is this becoming a running gag now?" Ruby complained as this is like the fourth time her weapon has been taken away from her.
"If you want it, come and get it!" Zeena taunted the huntress.
Ruby growls and uses her Petal Dance to repeatedly attack Zeena from the air, managing to get some hits in while the other times she blocks her with her own scythe. "Sorry! Ain't yours!" Peter quips, yanking the scythe from the zeti's hands to give the opening Ruby needed for a really good kick to the head. "Here's webbing in your nails!" He barrages her with web bullets while she tries to block them with her hands. Then comes Tails for a Spin Attack knocking her away.
"I got this!" Sonic charges up another Spin Dash, this time going a bit too far as he accidently uses the snow to turn himself into a large snowball. "Okay, I can work with this. SNOWBALL DASH!" He shouted, smacking the flunged Zeena with his snowball dash and defeats her.
"Ugh…" Zeena shakes her head as she gets up from the repulsive smackdown that was given to her and her nails, which she quickly realizes her nails were ruined from the snow mixed with the sticky webbing from Spider-Man. "Gross! Look what you bozos did to my nails! Grrrr! I'll get you back for this! I swear!" She growled, declaring revenge another time as she leaps away from the scene.
"Yeesh! What a drama queen. And I thought Weiss was bad when it comes to makeup." Spidey joked.
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With Zeena defeated for now, the heroes jump back to where Eggman was waiting for them sitting on top of Cubot. "That was cool. Pun entirely intended." Sonic punned. Everyone looks at him with an unamused, confused look, except for Peter, who simply hides his smirk behind his mask.
BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Eggman's Buttons Pushed
A spark appears getting their attention to focus on a screen projected on some ice blocks showing some familiar faces behind this mess: Zazz, Zavok, and a laughing Anti-Venom. 'Hehehe! Thank you all for tuning in to the beginning of the Deadly Venom marathon, where we will talk all day about the end of the world and the destruction of your favorite tight-wearing superheroes! Hahahaha!' Anti-Venom speaks from the screen.
'Sad thing is they're going to get their own talk show for this.' Peter joked within his mind.
Zavok speaks next, 'Your efforts are impressive, little Avengers, but you are DESTINED to fail, as the fat fool has failed before you.' pointing at the furious Eggman.
"I'll get FAT from eating your black hearts, you Eggman wannabes!" Eggman retorted, standing up from Cubot's head.
The heroes look at each other and say, "Whoa!" as they never seen this angry side of Eggman before, not even Sonic and Tails, who had fought Eggman for their entire lives.
Zavok remains unfazed from his pathetic threat, 'Your threats are almost as amusing as your mustache. I must commend you on your invention, though. We get stronger and STRONGER we leech the life from your dying world.'
"Yeah, we've noticed." Sonic quipped.
'Where are you going to live when your world's dead, guys?' Zazz mockingly asked. 'Oh, right! You'll be dead, too! Hehehaha! Too bad for you! Hehehehehe!'
'Place your bets now folks who's going to die first: the planet, or the heroes? In the meantime, the Deadly Venom marathon will continue! Nyahahahahaha!' Anti-Venom cackled like any crazy monster with a sick sense of humor.
Having reached his boiling point, a livid Eggman walks up to the screen with this to say to his enemies with his most menacing performance yet. "I will BURN your worlds, you rebellious scum! I will destroy everything you love and make you watch! I'll…I'll…I'll…" Eggman ferociously starts punching the hard ice blocks with one fist at a time until it collapsed along with the laughing monsters. This stunt really stunned the heroes to the point they have nothing clever to say. They just stand there, looking at Eggman, who's looking at his own damaged fists.
"Boss, your hands…" Orbot spoke up, concerned for the doctor.
"As long as I can still strangle a Zeti and a symbiote, my hands are fine." Eggman replied with such menace it's quite scary. The doctor has just about had it with the Deadly Six and Anti-Venom for ruining his plans and destroying the world. And it would seem he's interested getting a little more personal to teach them the true meaning of fear.
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KFX Here: I did my best to rewrite the Tails's argument from Sonic Lost World to actually make sense by using the Japanese version of that cutscene as a basis for the context in this series, given the last time they worked with Eggman was during Exo War which ended with him and the Masters of Evil betraying the heroes after Thanos was defeated and almost got them and the multiverse destroyed, which is the reason why Ruby sides with Tails.
Question of the Chapter: Did you think I did a good job rewriting the argument between Sonic and Tails, with Spidey taking Sonic's side and Ruby taking Tails's side? I had a little trouble rewriting this particular scene.