Epilogue: Reunion

New Vale City…One Week Later

BGM-Sonic Unleashed OST-Apotos Day

One week has passed since Eggman and the Deadly Six were defeated. The planet has been restored to its beautiful glory. The people are safe and sound. Peace has returned once again.

Sitting outside a Jamba Juice shop, Sonic and his friends, Tails, Amy, and Mary Jane, are relaxing drinking smoothies on a round table. Sonic takes a sip from his strawberry smoothie and sighs with joy for having a delicious drink. Then comes a paper report kindly slammed in front of him that's graded with an "A+" on the corner of it to get his attention Ruby Rose and the rest of Team RWBY have joined up with him wearing casual clothing that matches their colors.

"Ta-da! A+ on my history report!" Ruby smiled.

"That's great, Ruby." Tails smiled

"Awesome job, kid. Knew you'd ace it." Sonic smiled as well while Team RWBY takes a seat with their own bought smoothies.

"Thanks!" Ruby replied with a happy smile.

"I still can't believe Professor Oobleck fainted after your presentation." Yang said in regards of Ruby's history report.

"If I was a history teacher, I too would faint if your report's about an unexplored floating continent home to vicious Zeti that almost got the world destroyed." Weiss joked before sipping from her smoothie.

"What's been going on with you?" Blake asked the hedgehog what he's been doing since Eggman's latest defeat.

"Nothing much. Just taking it easy." Sonic replied, leaning back on his chair to relax.

"Where's Peter?" Weiss asked MJ wondering where their late-swinging friend could be as he promised to hang out with everyone today.

"Unfortunately, he's still Peter." MJ joked.

"That's terrible." Weiss quipped.

"Hey guys, sorry I'm late…" The gang turns their heads to see yawning good friend, Peter Parker, walking towards him with baggy tired eyes accompanied with some more yawns.

"Hi, Peter!" Ruby happily waved.

"Rough night?" Amy guessed correctly as the sleepy Peter takes a seat with his friends.

"The worst. Spent all night crime-fighting until somebody punched me in the face and reminded me I had to study for three exams and complete an English project due today. I'm SO exhausted. I got no sleep at all." Peter tiredly said, laying his sleepy head on his arms atop the table.

"You SERIOUSLY need a better work schedule. College is going to flat-out murder you." Amy advised him.

"Somebody kill me now…?" Peter tiredly joked. Weiss stares at him while quietly raising her rapier to "jokingly" accept his request like before, and like before, Ruby silently puts down her weapon.

"Have anyone heard from Eddie Brock?" Ruby asked, switching topics to talk about Anti-Venom, who suddenly disappeared after the Lost Hex adventure a week ago.

"Nope." MJ replied.

"I did hear some things like people being saved by a 'walking white parasite' and criminals being hanged up by 'white slime' with their heads eaten off. That's probably him." Tails said.

"Who else would enjoy eating people's heads off?" Weiss asked.

"People that enjoy eating heads." Sonic quipped.

"Brock is dangerous. Unpredictable. He's wearing a symbiote for goodness sake." Weiss said as she's cautious of Brock and doesn't fully trust he has turned over a new leaf and think it's a bad idea to let him do as he please.

"That may be true, but everyone deserves a second chance, right? You guys gave me one when you learned I was a faunus." Blake calmly argued with the Ice Queen.

"This is different. We're talking about an ALIEN from space bonded with an insane man that tried to kill Peter and other heroes for years." Weiss argued.

"People can change. Yesterday, some people in F.E.A.S.T. got really sick and the medicine we used weren't enough. Then this morning, I got a call saying they were cured after they met a 'strange man in white clothing' who had a 'healing touch'. Wanna guess who that is?" Blake responded, saying Brock actually helped the people who were sick at F.E.A.S.T.

"All I'm just saying, if he gets out of line, he NEEDS to be stop." Weiss said, deciding to trust Blake's words that Brock could change, as long as he doesn't do anything bad that could get them all killed.

"I'm sure that won't ever happen. Right, Pete?" Sonic asked the web-slinger but doesn't get a response. "Pete?" He asked again. Everyone turns around to see Peter has completely fallen asleep on the table.

BGM End

"He's asleep." Tails stated the obvious.

"Maybe he's dead." Weiss darkly joked.

"Should we wake him up? I think he's drooling." Ruby asked.

"Nah. Let's leave him like that." MJ said, chuckling as Peter continues snoring during their entire hangout.

Manhattan Cemetery

Eddie Brock does something not a lot of people normally do: Staring at their own gravestone. Almost a whole year passed since Brock made the ultimate sacrifice to save the world from that symbiote infestation. Everyone thought he was dead, unaware to the public that he survived that day and was sent to the Lost Hex in a coma. Wearing a hooded white jacket and black pants so no one would recognize him, Brock stands in front of his tombstone to check it out alone in peace.

"Look at me, staring at my own tombstone. That's something you can't do every day." Brock said to himself. "A whole damn year passed. My god. Everything's changed. Maybe because my memories are still a bit fuzzy. I'm so lost. Guess I only came here to say goodbye to the old me. Old me was not only lost, but confused. Full of rage. A monster. But I suppose I'm still am most of that. I should probably get out of here before someone wonders why I'm talking to my own grave." He said. Before Brock could split, he heard a loud sneeze not far away from him followed by a few oddly familiar voices.

"ACHOO!"

"How many times are you going to keep sneezing?"

"I can't help it!"

"Have you tried taking some medicine?"

"Of course I did! You think I WANT to be sick forever?"

"Be quiet, both of you."

Brock slightly turns around just enough so people can't see his face underneath his hood so he could spot the three individuals talking to each other: The person that was sneezing is a mint green-haired young woman wearing pale green and white casual clothing. The one making fun of her cold is her silvery gray-haired male partner in casual gray clothing. And the one telling the two to shut up is the leader of this group, a gorgeous young woman around Brock's age with amber eyes and ashen-black hair wearing casual crimson and yellow jacket and black pants.

'Those guys…They are…?' Brock recognizes the group, people that he became good friends with in the past before his "death".

"It's nice coming back to the city once in a while, right, Cinder?" Emerald Sustrai asked her best friend and leader of their little group, Cinder Fall.

"When it's not constantly attacked by aliens and mutants, then yes." Cinder replied.

"Ah, I miss those days." Mercury Black said, putting his hands behind his head while they walk.

"I don't." Emerald scoffed.

"That because you hate fun." Mercury joked.

"I HATE getting involved in world-ending catastrophes." Emerald retorted.

"We weren't even in New Vale when that weird green hurricane or whatever sucked the life out of us and left us dead." Mercury said, referring to the crisis that just happened a few days ago involving the Deadly Six, and Anti-Venom, but they don't know that.

"What was that all about, anyway? Was it that 'Galactus' guy I kept hearing about?" Emerald asked.

"Don't ask me." Mercury responded.

"Cinder?" Emerald turned back to the crimson girl.

"If it was Galactus, we would've seen his face covering the sky all over the world. Whatever happened, it's over. Let's leave it at that." Cinder replied, having the faintest idea what really happened a week ago.

As the group continues passing by the cemetery, Cinder senses something. Her Toxin symbiote senses another symbiote not far away from where she's standing. "Hmm?" She looks around to find the source of this other symbiote until her gaze focused on the hooded man standing before Eddie Brock's tombstone.

"Who's that next to Brock's grave?" Mercury asked her as he and Emerald also look at the person she is staring at.

"I don't know." Cinder replied, narrowing her eyes at the hooded man having no idea that's Eddie Brock looking at his own grave.

'I should get out of here. Can't meet them like this.' Brock decided to walk away as he's not in the mood to talk to his friends, the friends he sacrificed his own life to save, thinking it's too early to reveal his resurrected presence to them.

Brock tries to walk away and prepares to camouflage himself from their glares, but Cinder has other ideas and called him out before he could do anything, "Stop right there!"

'Goddammit.' Brock cursed.

Cinder's group walks towards the hooded man and stands behind him and gets ready to interrogate him. "You didn't think I'd let you walk away? Start talking. Who are you?" Cinder asked him, wanting to know the identity of the person wearing a symbiote and why he was staring at Eddie Brock's grave.

Having no other choice and feels like it's a better time than any, Brock does his dramatic reveal. He puts down his hood and turns around to greet his old friends with his face. The moment Cinder's group saw his blond hair and familiar blue eyes and face, they were shocked to see it's their old friend back to life.

"Eddie Brock?" Cinder remarked, visibly shocked as she was never shocked before.

"Hey, Cin. It's been a long time, hasn't it?" Brock replied, a bit awkwardly.

"Everyone thought you were dead. How are you still alive? Where have you been?" A shocked Emerald asked him.

"Long story, being stuck in a coma for almost a year in a floating continent hanging out with six colorful demons that almost destroyed the world a few days ago." Brock answered, giving a brief explanation what happened to him after all this time.

"No kidding?! Are you sure you're not a clone or an illusion Emerald made up?" Mercury joked, which annoyed Emerald of course.

"No. It's him. I can tell." Cinder confirmed that this IS Eddie Brock brought back to life.

"Because you two have a connection?" Mercury teased her possible romantic relationship with Brock, and the fact they both wear symbiotes, which earned him an annoyed elbow to the chest from the crimson symbiote host.

"I'm surprised you're taking this so well." Brock said to Cinder.

"A LOT has happened since you were…away. Nothing really surprises me anymore." Cinder said, used to every type of weirdness that has happened in her life ever since her first meeting with Spider-Man and Venom.

"So I've heard. You guys are your own private mercenary group, right? Team Toxin? And Cinder is a superhero in San Francisco?" Brock asked.

"Central Francisco." Cinder corrected him of the new name for the city since the Convergence.

"Right. I've been dead for a whole year, only to come back to learn worlds collided?" Brock questioned what he's been missing out.

"It's a long story involving aliens and cosmic space stones, and a purple titan that threw a moon at me." Cinder smirked, referencing the chaos that was the War for the Exo Stones.

"Sounds like I missed one hell of a party. Would've been more fun if I was around." Brock smirked back.

"Quite possibly." Cinder quipped.

"You still remember your promise, right, about the Spider, and yourself?" Brock asked her if she still remembers her promise about one-day defeating Spider-Man while also following her own path in life.

"It's a work-in-progress." Cinder grinned.

"Wait, what promise?" Emerald asked, lost and confused.

"It's a trade secret among us symbiotes." Cinder replied.

"Trading secrets now? There really IS something between you two." Mercury teased her once again, which got Cinder to scare him with flaming eyes this time while Eddie just smiles from their antics, as he could tell things really have changed about his friends from Remnant.

"ACHOO!" Emerald sneezed again. "Sorry. Been sick since the planet almost died a week ago."

"My bad. Here." Eddie touches her shoulder with a white symbiote hand, cleansing her of her cold without even trying. Seconds later, he pulls his hand away as Emerald notices she's not sick anymore.

"How did you do that?" She asked, questioning what symbiote trick did he do to cure her.

BGM-Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds OST-Ending Theme 3

"Like I said…" Eddie began as his white symbiote emerges from his body, surprising his friends as he transforms into a symbiote they never seen before. "It's a long story." Anti-Venom finished. "Since you're all in town, let's hang out together for old time's sake. Let's continue protecting the innocent by crushing skulls and eating the brains of any criminal that has a face of evil! I hope you haven't gotten SOFT since I've been dead!"

Cinder slyly smirks, "Soft? Me?" before her red and black symbiote emerges from her body, transforming her into the merciless Pure Symbiote, Toxin, "Yeah right. I guess I have to remind you I don't show ANY mercy to my enemies!" She said, secretly happy to be working with Brock again after such a long time, as he does bring an interesting joy to the group that's a bit hard to explain.

"Gahaha! That's more like it! Let's go prey on some worthy prey! Always remember: With great power comes great FUN! AHAHAHAHA!" Anti-Venom grinned, webbing up to something and swings as he leads his reunited friends to whatever bad guy they could come across.

BGM End

Somewhere in a grassy forest…

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

Three Mobini bunnies were hopping through the peaceful forest until one of them stopped and found something sticking out from the ground that appears to be a mustache. The bunny comes over and starts pulling and tugging on it. The mustache sinks into the ground as a hand sticks out from underground and the bunny runs away scared, running into Orbot with Cubot still attached to him.

"Here he is." Orbot said after finding the hand of his master, who they lost after he fell from the Lost Hex a week ago. The orb-bot digs Eggman out from the underground, long enough for him to bring his upper part of his body, even his head, from the ground.

"Ugh! Took you long enough. Get me out of here!" Eggman ordered.

Cubot notices something is missing from Eggman's face and tries to tell him, "Boss, your face-."

"Yes, your face," Orbot quickly interrupts him by pulling on Eggman's hand, bringing his whole body from the ground, "It's good to see your face!"

As Eggman wipes the dirt from his body, Cubot is still insistent to tell him something is wrong with his face, "Uh, boss, your face—." before Orbot flattens his head to keep him quiet.

"Is a little dirty! Let me wipe that for you." Orbot said, trying to wipe the dirt off of Eggman's face with his gloved hand.

"You're being weird. Let's get out of here before my day gets any worse." Eggman said before walking away from the scene, possibly wanting to go home, get some rest before plotting his next evil scheme.

"Why can't we tell him about his mustache?" Cubot asked his buddy as he's been trying tell Eggman half of his mustache is gone after the fall.

"I think it's better to wait until he separates our heads. Then you can tell him and get all the glory." Orbot replied.

"Great! Thanks!" Cubot happily replied.

It didn't matter though as the wind did the work for them, causing Eggman to notice half of his mustache is missing and turns around in anger. "What's wrong WITH MY MUSTACHE?!" He yelled out in anger, scaring his dumb-bots to run away screaming for their lives.

BGM End

KFX Here: And that's officially it for The Lost Continent. Hope you enjoyed it. It's possible we could see Anti-Venom again in the future. Who knows, I haven't thought that far ahead. But I do have story details for the next few stories. Check these out:

The P.H.A.N.T.O.M. Menace

A Spider-Man: Friend or Foe adaptation and sequel to Lost Continent. A mysterious new enemy shows up with an army of foot soliders called P.H.A.N.T.O.M.S. to take over the world using meteor shards that contain symbiotes. Nick Fury enlist Spider-Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, Ruby Rose, and Axl to travel around the world and stop this new threat and their mind-controlled villain army, all before Prom Night.

Contest of Smashers

A new story based off Super Smash Bros. 4 and Marvel Contest of Champions. Spider-Man and some of his friends are invited to take part in a fighting tournament hosted by Master Hand, Crazy Hand, and the Elders of the Universe, The Collector and The Grandmaster. Your favorite smashers like Mario, Link, and many others from Smash 4 are planned to appear.

Cyber Metal Madness (tentative name)

A new original story with a new dynamic. After four years in high school, Peter Parker finally graduates and attends college at ESU. But he's not the only one climbing into a new life. Mecha Spider-Man and Metal Sonic returns after betraying their masters and have their own plan to take over the world with the use of cyberspace. Spider-Man and Sonic the Hedgehog along with their friends must work together to stop the rouge robots.

What to note about Cyber Metal Madness:

Metal Sonic and Mecha Spider-Man are the main villains

The story will take the Sonic Adventure approach focusing on two different perspectives: Spider-Man and Sonic. Some chapters will focus on Spider-Man while others focus on Sonic. Both characters will each have follow their own story that ties into the other's.

Spider-Man's story will have characters like Team RWBY appear while Sonic's story will have allies like the Freedom Fighters to appear.