BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Wonder World

Sonic: I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog! With Eggman by our side, we set off to Frozen Factory and fought the only girl of the Deadly Six with an obsession with beauty and nails, Zeena. During this time, me and Spidey got ourselves into an argument with Tails and Ruby whether we should trust Eggman. I know we shouldn't, but because of me, the whole planet's in trouble and we need to use everything we have to save it, that includes working Eggman. I hope those two understand.

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Issue 9: Chilling Reception

Frozen Factory Zone

BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Double Down

"Is this a casino?" Sonic questioned his new environment. Team Spidey, including Eggman, found themselves in an oddly-placed casino area in Frozen Factory.

"In a frozen factory? I don't even see any snow here. Where's the consistency? At least you can make a pun outta that dessert area from that desert we were in earlier." Peter joked, walking through the casino and taking out some Egg Pawns and Grimm that were polluting the area, or playing with the pinball tables.

"Um, Tails. Why does this slot machine have yours and Sonic's faces on it?" Ruby points to one of the many slot machines that has her friends' face symbols.

"Ask Eggman, 'cause I always find myself asking that same question when we visit these casinos." Tails replied as this isn't the first time his symbol were in slot machines Eggman built in the past, slightly turning his cold glare to the mad scientist behind him.

"It's 'cause I really hate your faces." Eggman replied, scowling as usual.

"Then why is it always our faces that gives out rewards and yours take them away?" Tails replied, saying the symbols of the heroes always rewards them with rings, unlike Eggman's who makes people lose rings.

"A malfunction that I can't seem to fix to this day!" Eggman retorted.

"Creator of these casinos for years and STILL can't figure out the problem?" Ruby mocked him.

"Zip it, scarlet brat!" Eggman shut her up so he could return focusing on his work, putting back on his goggles to continue tinkering with his clothes with his tools.

"Let's go play some pinball!" Cubot said.

"A bit difficult since you have no arms." Orbot joked, carrying his buddy's head to the nearest pinball table.

Watching some of his friends/allies playing pinball for a minute, something starts ringing from Spider-Man's belt buckle. He takes out the Avengers ID card that was ringing and answers it to see a hologram of the armored Avenger, Iron Man, calling. "Tony. How are things holding up down on Earth?" Peter asked his mentor, who is already aware of the planet's energy being taken thanks to the Deadly Six.

'Not good. The Avengers and Freedom Fighters are spread thin around the world keeping people safe until we can stop this crisis. We're doing everything we can from our end to slow down the progress of whatever's sucking up the energy from the planet, but without direct access to the device, we're basically delaying the inevitable.' Iron Man informed him of the Earth's current status, which isn't looking too good.

"How long do we have?" Peter asked somberly.

'By my estimation, about 4 hours. You need to hurry and shut down the machine. We're not gonna last much longer.' Tony replied.

"Hang in there, Tony. We got this." Peter assured the CEO.

'I know you do. Good luck, Spider-Man.' Iron Man said, then turns off the call.

"You heard Iron Man, Egghead. Stop messing around with your clothes and hurry it up. What're you even doing anyways?" Sonic asked his arch-nemesis as he wonders why Eggman is tinkering with his own uniform.

"Just putting the finishing touches on my trump card. Ooh-hoo-hoo! The Zeti won't know what hit them!" Eggman grinned, raising a suspicious eyebrow from Sonic, making him wonder what is his "trump card".

"C'mon, kids. Enough gambling. You're underage. You can do it later." Peter joked towards Tails and Ruby, both who were having a bit of fun playing with Orbot and Cubot at the pinball tables.

"I'm old enough to gamble." Cubot responded.

"Doubtful. And I don't think you'd reach the height requirement either." Peter quipped to the bodiless bot as everyone exits the casino.

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BGM-Sonic Lost World OST- Even a Rose Has Thorns

Back outside to the winter wonderland, the heroes quickly reunite with the girly zeti, Zeena, who looks to have been waiting for them ever since their last encounter. She sits on top of stump, minding her own business filing her nails as usual until the heroes encountered her.

"Ah, great. It's little Miss Zeti." Spidey quipped.

"Move it or lose it, snowcone!" Sonic said to her.

"The last time we met you and your friends ruined my nail art. Now I have to reapply a whole new coat." Zeena told them, having not forgiven them for ruining her nails with webbing and snow and whatever else they did before.

"Is that really so important?" Ruby remarked with a deadpan stare.

"Oh my gosh, are you serious? We are so, so sorry." Sonic seemingly apologized to her, who seemed to be forgiving him.

"Well, in that case…" Zeena started replying with a smile until Spidey started speaking.

"Oh no, what he meant to say we are so sorry you have nothing more important to do in life?" The webster finished the mocking Sonic started, which definitely got them back on her bad side.

"Ugh! You're going to pay for that…as soon as my nails dry." Zeena looked at her nails, then leaps away with the others chasing after her, well, everyone except for Eggman.

"Hold on! Wait for me!" He shouted as he and Orbot hurry to the upcoming battle.

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

Zeena leaps and hops through the area while the heroes give chase. As she runs, she takes a small glance backwards and smiles to see the heroes are ice-skating to catch up to her. "Can't run from us forever!" Sonic taunted.

"Or skate from us forever!" Peter joked.

"Aww, it's cute the way you guys keep trying to get past all the death traps, and enemies, and stuff. I think they kind of like me!" Zeena taunted.

"When your nails are busted, we adore you." Peter quipped, truly intent to earn Zeena's hatred. Their chase leads them to an ice-covered arena big enough for all of them, bombarded with a nasty blizzard that definitely sends chills to their spines.

"AH! It's cold!" Ruby shivered intensely, doing her best to keep herself warm.

"And slippery!" Tails noticed after almost slipping on thin ice.

"Ahahahaha! I'm so happy you're all here, because I have a very important question to ask you." Zeena laughs as she sits atop of a large rising Snowman Mech at the corner of the arena. "Do you want to fight a snowman?!" She sang, firing smaller snowman bots as projectiles to attack them.

"Chili with the references, Elsa!" Sonic quipped, barely managing to avoid the bots because of this blizzard.

Spidey finds it difficult using his webbing to do much in this fight and forced to rely on natural skills to avoid attacks, "It's no good! I can't use my webbing in this blizzard, and I can't stick to the ground because of this ice!"

Nearby, Ruby does her best to slice up the small bots with her scythe while enduring the blizzard, "Me too! Having a hard time using my Semblance in this weather or shoot my gun!"

"Times like this REALLY makes me wish Ice Queen was here!" Sonic said, for once wishing Weiss was here to help him.

"We need to find a way to attack her from a distance-WHOA!" Tails got interrupted as he just BARELY jumps over Zeena's metal ball strikes utilizing her energy whips.

"I like guys who shows initiative! Mostly because I don't HAVE any initiative…But you're never gonna get close to me, baby Avengers!" Zeena taunted the heroes, smacking them all with her large metal balls. Another one comes for Spidey, who quickly gets an idea.

"Got an idea!" Spidey said. Using that spider-strength he occasionally boasts, he grabs a metal ball and starts to play tug-a-war with Zeena, stomping his feet through the icy floor to stay still. "Sonic! Get on!" He calls out to the hedgehog. Sonic hurries and jumps on the ball, ready to fire. Peter lets go, much to Zeena's surprise, as the ball flings back to smack her to the face, followed by Sonic to Homing Attack her a few times on top of the snowman.

Zeena quickly recovers and notices a few scratch marks on her once self-gorgeous face. She immediately fumes with anger, shouting, "How DARE you stain this face!" She punches Sonic so hard he gets knocked crashing down to the icy floor, forming a small crater in the process.

"Agh! She feels stronger. Must be all that energy she absorbed from the planet." Sonic noticed Zeena's a lot stronger than the last time they fought.

"We need a new plan? This blizzard is getting worse!" Ruby said, noting the snowy blizzard is really starting to hamper their battle tactics.

"I'm thinking! Thinking!" Tails urges himself to think of a plan to save themselves and stop Zeena, but again, the blizzard is making it hard for him to think clearly.

"Don't worry. I got just the thing. HAHAHAHAHA!"

Out of nowhere, Eggman dressed in holographic brawler type energy armor stomps down in front of his childish allies to confront Zeena himself. His green Hard-Light Armor that has spring-like shoulder and ankle pads, along with a helmet and torso armor piece resembling is Big Arm mecha. This energy armor covers his head, shoulders, arms, hands, torso, ankles, and legs.

The D-Avengers, even Zeena, are amazed to see Eggman himself has joined the battle. "Whoa! Is that…?" Tails begin to question, visibly stunned.

"A holographic energy armor?" Peter finished.

"So that's what you were working on earlier." Sonic said, finally figuring out why Eggman was tinkering with his clothes earlier.

"Coool!" Ruby remarked, amazed.

"You insolent little zeti! I will make you suffer for going against me!" Eggman threatened her.

"The Doc wants to play with his horrible fashion sense? What's that supposed to do anyway?" Zeena smirkingly taunted her former master.

"THIS!" Eggman grins, forming an arm cannon with his energy armor, firing a blast powerful enough to obliterate her snowman, crashing her to face-plant the icy floor.

"Want to play hard to get?" Zeena grunted. She throws another one of her metal balls with her whips, but to her astonishment, Eggman grabs it with ease, yanking on the cord to bring the zeti to his right hook.

"I do not feel sorry hitting a girl, especially the ugly zeti kind!" Eggman grinned.

"UGLY!" Zeena exclaimed.

"That's what I said. Bye-bye!" Eggman punches the ground, causing the ice to crack into two towards Zeena, causing her to temporarily loose balance for him to attack once more while her guard's down, smacking his fist to her head onto the floor at gun point. "Tell Zavok that Eggman is THROUGH playing games and that I am coming to reclaim what's mine. And when we meet, I will show him NO MERCY, to him, to you, or the rest of the Zeti, even to that walking parasite, Anti-Venom! Farewell." With a fully-powered charged shot, Eggman blasts Zeena long away from the arena, never to be seen for a long while.

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Somehow, with Zeena's defeat, the weather has calmed down. No more blizzard that'll ruin the heroes' day and put Eggman in the spotlight, at the same time Orbot and Cubot have finally caught up.

"Whoa. I hate to admit it, but that was kinda awesome!" Sonic said, impressed with Eggman's battle armor and the fact he saved their lives.

"Where was THIS earlier?" Peter asked the Doc, just as his energy armor disintegrates.

"Still being charged, and I could only use it for five minutes until a lengthy charge period. The Zeti made a grave mistake for making fun of an evil genius scientist earlier, and for that, they will not be forgiven!" Eggman said with absolute menace in his voice, clenching onto his right glove to emphasize how much he truly loathes the Deadly Six now. Eggman and his lackeys walk ahead of the stunned heroes, who were still shocked from his threatening words for a bit, until they regained their senses and catch up.

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

Before they exit Frozen Factory, they come across some broken down Badniks that were no doubt destroyed from Zeena's temper tantrum followed her defeat by Eggman. The heroes walk up to see Orbot finish making a snowman body for his bodiless pal, Cubot. "I am getting tired of lugging your head around, pal, so I made you a snow-bot body!" He said.

Orbot then places Cubot's head on the snowman body, who begins complaining, "I can't feel my legs!" causing Orbot to laugh at him.

"Truly, your robots are a reflection of your genius, Doctor Eggman." Tails mocked Eggman by mocking Orbot and Cubot of their stupidity.

"What would happen if you place his head on one of these robots?" Ruby wondered.

"Hey. You just gave me an idea. Ruby, help me out for second." Tails popped.

"Okay!" Ruby excitedly assisted him.

Eggman watches the kid heroes put Cubot's head on a robot Crabmeat's body and shake his head in annoyance. He then turns to have a little discussion with Sonic and Spider-Man how they're going to end the Zeti, "I think I know a way to cause the Lost Hex to implode using null-gravity effects. We could destroy the Zeti and Anti-Venom in one quick stroke."

"And exterminate every living thing around them! Are you out of your mind!?" Spidey disapproved of his explosive idea, saying all the animals that also live on the Lost Hex will also get killed in the implosion.

"Of course there'd be some collateral damage, but…" Eggman admitted.

It was then Sonic's turn to argue with him, "'Collateral damage?' What kind of monster-"

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BGM-Sonic Lost World OST-Out of Character

While they argue, Peter's Spider-Sense triggers as it points to Cubot for some strange reason. The cube-bot's head is now attached to a Crabmeat's body thanks to Tails and Ruby. While those two are focus reading whatever's on the Miles Electric, the now-hostile Cubot prepares to lunge at the distracted kids.

"Tails-!" Peter shouted but was quickly cut off by Eggman, who also noticed Cubot about to attack them.

"Tails! Rose kid!" Eggman leaps to shove Tails and Ruby out of the way from Cubot's wrath just before either Sonic or Spider-Man could do so. With their friends saved, Peter blinds Cubot with webbing for Sonic to kick his head off the robot body and hold in his hand.

"I'm sorry. I suddenly felt very mean." Cubot apologized.

"Not the best idea to put the dimwit's head on a battle bot." Eggman calmly berated them.

"In hindsight I've got to agree with you, Doc. Thanks for the save, again. Um…can you get off us now?" Tails asked, with him and Ruby still crushed by his weight.

"I can't breathe…" Ruby muttered.

"I can't figure you out. One second you're contemplating genocide, and the next you're saving two of your worst enemies." Sonic said, starting to get confused with Eggman's character.

"I'm a complicated guy." Eggman responded as he gets up.

"Guys! What's gotten into you two!? You're not acting like yourselves either!" Sonic scolded both his best friend and speedy buddy.

"Let's be careful next time, please. We already have enough disasters to deal with as it is." Spidey also, in a joking manner, scolded the two for being a bit reckless.

"Sorry…" Ruby lowly replied, looking down sadly.

"We were just trying to help." Tails muttered as he too starts to look down in the dumps, as he wanted to make up not figuring out a way to defeat Zeena earlier if it wasn't for Eggman to the rescue. This definitely looking good for the heroes, more specifically in terms of their relationship. The stress from this uneasy alliance with Eggman, and the slow death of their planet, is starting to strain the brotherly relationship between Sonic and Tails and the sibling bond between Peter and Ruby. It makes one wonder if they'll be fixed by the end of this journey, or at least an attempt.

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KXF Here: Not a long chapter. Not much happened here besides Eggman kicking ass and how this adventure is starting to negatively affect the heroes' relationship with one another. Things will only get much worse from here, believe me.

Note: The idea for Eggman's Hard-Light Armor was taken straight from the Archie Comics. I thought it looked cool there, and given Eggman's hatred for the Zeti here, I decided to give it to him in this story, even though he won't use it a whole lot.

Question of the Chapter: Which sibling relationship do you like and why: Sonic and Tails's, or Peter and Ruby's?