Issue 4: Team-Up of the Century
Stardust Speedway Zone (Bad Future)
It's a dark night sky in this corrupted, polluted dystopian city Team 2099 find themselves in. The roads they walk on are corroded and discolored, giving it a grim tone that frightens Classic Tails, Kid Weiss, and Kid Blake.
"Where are we? This place creeps me out." Kid Weiss said, slightly frightened.
"Looks like we're on Little Planet. Didn't think I come back here so soon." Classic Sonic answered as he walks fearlessly in the front.
"What's Little Planet?" Kid Blake asked curiously.
Classic Sonic turns his head while he talks to answer, "It's a small world that appears on my planet one month every year. When I checked it out recently, my arch enemy, Dr. Eggman, conquered it using all the crazy time gimmicks that place's riddled with," He turns his head forward, "But I'm sure I put this place back in a "good future". Why is it still like this?"
"Probably a time distortion caused by that creature." Miguel answered.
BGM-Sonic Generations OST-"Rival Battle: Metal Sonic"
During their walk, Kid Blake's cat ears perk up when it hears a faint sound approaching. "Do you guys hear that?" She asked the group.
Miguel turns around and uses his Accelerated Vision to enhanced his vision to see great distances from far away. He spots what appears to be a small robot that looks identical to Sonic flying towards them at great speeds, "It looks like a robot Sonic, and it's heading right towards us."
Classic Sonic's eyes widen, instantly figuring out who he's talking about. "Metal Sonic! We gotta move!" He instructed and starts running. Tails grabs Blake and flies while Miguel carries Weiss and swings, catching up with Sonic. Unfortunately, Metal Sonic quickly caught up to the group and charges up a ring-shaped electrical field called the "Ring Spark Field" that destroys the road, causing everyone to scream. Sonic and Miguel uses the falling debris to get back up, along with Tails just flying himself to safety. Sonic smirks while bouncing on top of Metal Sonic when it tried to drill attack him. Metal beeps and shakes his head and proceeds to attack Sonic again but he jumped over him.
"I'll handle Metal! You guys stay put!" Classic Sonic instructed his friends and speeds off to fight Metal.
"I don't like sitting on the sidelines." Miguel complained, wanting a piece of the action.
"No offense, but you'll probably get in the way. It's hard to keep up with Sonic when he's like this." Classic Tails told the future spider.
"Seeing him fighting his robot double almost makes me wish I'm fighiting "my" robot duplicate." Miguel said.
"Aww! So you do love me?" A crazed-sounding robot voice enters Miguel's ears. When he heard that familiar voice, the spider of tomorrow quickly leaped from a claw swipe to the torso. He looks to find himself confronting a Spider-Man look-a-like with a red and blue costume, mostly colored red with a giant black spider logo on the chest and red eyes. "It's my best friend! I've missed you so much!" The Spider-Android said to Miguel, who looks shocked to see him again.
"Flipside?! I thought you were destroyed! What are you doing here?!" Miguel asked the crazed android.
"I just want to have some fun with you. Though you might not like what I have in stored." Flipside summons his talons from his fingertips.
"Kids, stay back!" Miguel ordered the children as he dodges a talon slam.
"You have your own robot clone?!" Classic Tails asked.
"Its name is Flipside, a crazy android created that mimics the first superhuman it sees, which happened to be me," Miguel explains while avoiding Flipside's punches, "But because it was created during the Heroic Age, it didn't have any records of me, so it used the original Spider-Man and the Venom of that era instead!"
"I'm so happy you know so much about me! But did you know I can do this now?" Flipside powers up a dark aura, morphing his hand into a red tendril and slams it down on Miguel. The future spider quickly creates an Accelerated Decoy to avoid getting cut into two.
"Aw shock. He's powered up by that same negative quantum energy. Just what that psycho needed." Miguel said. The psychotic android laughs maniacally as it throws its tendrils in a crazy fashion at the spider hero. Miguel was able to bounce off each tendril and web strike the lunatic, jumping over behind him. "Too bad for you, I'm faster than the original Spider-Man! You can't keep up!" He proclaimed while whaling on Flipside with lightning-fast, claw swipes. He goes for a punch but it surprisingly missed.
"Don't need to. I have the original Spider's "Spider-Sense". Haha! Wish you had this!?" Flipside taunted, kneeing Miguel in the chest and web throws him through multiple lampposts. He leaps over and pounds his powerful fist on Miguel but he springs away and instead punches the road, causing it to collapse in the process.
'Gonna have to think a little harder with this guy. Might have an idea.' Miguel thought. He projects forward to Decoys to attack Flipside. The crazy android instantly claws them away as Miguel swoops in with a massive punch that rocks the android, causing him to skip on the road a few times.
Flipside growls and roars at Miguel, showcasing his venomous fangs and long teeth as a result of being a combination of Spider-Man and Venom, "That hurt! I thought you were my friend!"
"Try to catch me and we'll talk!" Miguel swings away, goading Flipside to chase him.
Meanwhile far, far away, Classic Sonic is dealing with his own mechanical clone, who's also powered up with dark quantum energy. "We're not gonna race this time? I don't mind. Swiping the floor with you will be sweeter." Sonic smirked. Metal Sonic lunges forward at Sonic, forcing the hedgehog to jump out of the way. That stunt leaves Metal in a weakened state, "Tired already? How disappointing," as Sonic spin attacks him. Metal regains his senses and charges up his Ring Spark Field, unleashing two columns of electricity Sonic has to slow down to avoid getting hurt. After using it, Metal is left vulnerable again for Sonic to counterattack. "That can't be it, can it?" Sonic continues taunting his duplicate.
Irritated, Metal snaps the street lights and throws them at Sonic. Before the hedgehog could even dodge, a webline is seen grabbing the lights. "Mind if I borrow these?" Spidey 2099 swings in between the hedgehog showdown.
"Sure, but why?" Classic Sonic asked.
"Spideeeeey, come back! I want to play a little longer!" Flipside shouts as he catches up with the heroes and Metal.
"Who?" Classic Sonic raises an eyebrow on Flipside.
"You're not the only one who has a robot duplicate." Miguel says as he throws the streets lights at Flipside, causing him to repeatedly shout "Ow" each time he gets hit by one. "Shall we finish these guys together?" He proposed to Sonic.
"Okay! Let's finish this." Classic Sonic grinned.
"You know what, I'm starting to think you don't like me! That's fine! I won't lose sleep once you're dead!" Flipside jumps into the air and fires a barrage of dark web bullets down on the heroes. If that wasn't enough, Metal Sonic powers up his "V. Maximum Overdrive Attack" to its maximum and lunges forward at the heroes. The spider-hedgehog duo was able to outrun their enemies' attack, which leaves Metal exhausted and vulnerable again.
"How 'bout you make friends with this guy!?" Miguel shouts as he web throws Metal right smacking on Flipside, sending them both flying into Sonic's direction. The young hedgehog follows up with a charged up spin dash and hurls both robotic menaces into the air. Both heroes jump up and kick their doppelgangers away simultaneously, causing them to explode in the process.
BGM End
"Nice one!" Classic Sonic smiles and gives the future webhead a bro fist.
"You weren't bad yourself, pipsqueak." Miguel smiles behind his mask.
"Sonic! Spider-Man!" Classic Tails shouted and runs up to the victorious heroes with Kid Weiss and Blake. "You guys were awesome!" Tails smiled.
"Wow. I never saw Huntsmen fight like you two." Kid Weiss said, amazed by the heroes' battle prowess.
"You guys would certainly give the Grimm a run for their money." Kid Blake said, equally amazed.
"We're happy to please." Classic Sonic smirks. Suddenly, a bright light appears above the heroes. A shiny purple gemstone floats in the air, slowly descending into Sonic's hand.
"What's that?" Miguel asked about the emerald.
"That's a Chaos Emerald! I didn't know they were here!" Classic Tails exclaimed while pointing at the gemstone.
"What's a Chaos Emerald?" Kid Weiss asked, confused just as much as Blake.
"Lemme put it this way. What's your most powerful energy source?" Classic Sonic asked the girls.
"We have what we call "Dust"." Weiss answered.
"Okay, whatever those are, multiply it by a billion and you've got the idea." Sonic said, frightening the kids of the dangerous power of a chaos emerald.
"This emerald is as powerful as a billion Dusts?!" Blake exclaimed, surprised.
"Yeah, and that's only one. There's seven of these bad boys in total. Have all seven, and you basically become the most powerful person in the world." Sonic told them.
"How do you know that?!" Weiss asked.
"I used them once to destroy a giant space station. Turned gold and everything. Pretty cool." Sonic said so nonchalantly while wiping his nose.
"Sounds pretty useful. Let's get out of here and see if we can find more of these things." Miguel commanded as the team make their way to find an exit out of Stardust Speedway.
White Space Manhattan
"Mmmmmm…" Kid Ruby glares her confused eyes on the three Time Keys she was given to hold, riding the back of the Spider-Mobile with her sister and Tails on the driver's seat. After some rest, Spider-Man Prime and Modern Sonic's team continued exploring the White Space City to rescue more trapped civilians, but so far they've found nothing. Besides the areas they've already restored, the rest of the New York is completely empty, and there haven't been any new time portals lately.
"We've been exploring for an hour but still nothing," Spidey said after having not found any new portals yet, "Maybe those keys…What do you think they do?"
"To unlock stuff?" Sonic quipped.
"I know that, Mr. Smartass, but unlock what?" Spidey remarked.
"Language!" Kid Yang criticized Peter after blocking her little sister's ears.
"Sorry!"
"I can probably locate the source with a matching signature. Ruby, can you pass me a key?" Tails politely asked. The young silver-eyed child gives the fox a Time Key. He uses the tech of the Spider-Mobile to analyze the key for a matching signature they could follow, "Found it. It's at Empire State University."
"Let's go!" Spidey commanded as the team heads for ESU. The D-Avengers soon arrive at the Greenwich District and park outside the colorless Empire State University. "Empire State University. After high school, I'm definitely coming here for my degree." Peter said while they walk.
"What do you plan on studying?" Tails asked him.
"Biophysics."
"Ooo. That's a nice one."
"I have no idea what you two are talking about." The non-science geek Sonic commented.
"When I grow up, I want to attend Beacon and become a Huntress!" Kid Ruby happily said, unaware that's pretty much what she's doing in the future.
"You'll have to attend Signal first." Kid Yang reminded her sister.
"Oh yeah."
"Are we "sure" they weren't de-aged and lost their memory?" Sonic asked, referring to Ruby and Yang.
"No. It's most definitely their past selves. Back when they were kids." Spidey replied, almost convinced the Ruby and Yang with them are younger versions of them from the past.
"So, where are their older selves?" Tails asked.
"Probably statues like the others. I'm sure we'll find out soon enough." Peter answered. They stop when they found what they were looking for: a large floating gate in front of the ESU entrance that's made of gears, cogs, and locks.
"Here it is! This must be what the keys are for!" Tails explained.
The three Time Keys start to glow from Ruby's hands and begins to rise to the air on their own. The keys enlarge themselves to fit the keyholes on the gate and unlock them, opening up a strange purple portal that leads to the unknown.
"It opened." Ruby noticed.
"Whoa! I'm sensing something really dangerous in there." Spider-Man sensed.
"You guys stay back. We'll check it out." Sonic said and runs into the portal with Spider-Man. As the others stand back and watched their friends enter parts unknown, they hear another, younger voice approaching them.
"Hey, look! I found another portal!"
Tails, Ruby, and Yang turn around and sees Classic Sonic running towards them. The young hedgehog doesn't seem to notice the three heroes as he rushes into the portal with a cocky chuckle.
"Sonic! Aw shock! Hold on just a second!" Spider-Man 2099 swings above Tails's group and zips into the portal after Classic Sonic.
"Sonic…Spider-Man…" Tails says slowly, shocked just as much as Ruby and Yang to see another Sonic and Spider-Man pass by them.
"Huh?!"
Tails turns around and becomes shocked to meet his shocked, classic self, accompanied with Kid Weiss and Kid Blake. "Are you…?!" Both Tails stare at each other. Both the young Weiss and Blake simply stare at kiddy Ruby and Yang as they happily wave at them, glad to be meeting other kids that looks to be from their world too.
Boss Gate, Inside Mirror Room
BGM-Sonic Generations OST-Cutscene 4
Both Sonics walk with their respective Spider partners on the other side of a large black and white hallway with white chandeliers and a wall with transparent glass cutting through the middle of said hallway. And at each end of each hallway is a stone door.
Both groups stop for a second when they noticed their counterparts through the mirror, unaware that the other is actual real. Both Sonics check themselves out and straight their quills. Both Spideys wipe the dust off their left arm and check if any part of their costume is damaged. The Sonics open their mouth to check their teeth, getting a weird look from their Spideys. The hedgehogs rub their bellies and pats them a few times, but something about Classic Sonic's fat belly set something off about both Sonics and Spideys. The four heroes give their counterparts a weird look and tap the glass to see what's up. Then, they all heard a familiar voice.
'Take a good look at yourselves!'
"Dr. Eggman!?" Modern Sonic exclaimed.
"Eggman?!" Spider-Man Prime questioned.
"What?" Spider-Man 2099 and Classic Sonic notice how their reflections are moving differently from them, then they all look at the stone door ahead.
'It's the last look you'll get before we close your eyes forever! Hoo hoo hoo!' Eggman laughed.
"So you're the one behind all this!" Miguel believed and follows Classic Sonic into the door, leaving a very stunned Spider-Man Prime and Modern Sonic behind to notice them.
"Wait! Was that…?!" Peter exclaims as he recognizes the other Spider-Man.
"Another Sonic and Spider-Man?! Wait a second!" Modern Sonic says before the two present heroes makes an immediate dash to follow their counterparts, but the doors closes before they could enter, blocking them out. Both heroes flip backwards, landing on the ground by their back flips and shakes their heads with their eyes shut. They jump to their feet, with Sonic putting one hand on his hip, stunned, while Peter crosses his arms, wondering what is going on now.
BGM End
Death Egg
Above a past version of Mobius, Spider-Man 2099 and Classic Sonic find themselves running around in an orbital space station. "Where are we?" Miguel asked, swinging through the cold space station.
"We're in the Death Egg. Looks like Eggman rebuilt it." Classis Sonic replied. The time-displaced heroes speeds off, only to get blinded and grabbed by six, highly tech-out pink tentacles that dropped out of nowhere.
"Where did these come from?!" Miguel asked as he struggles to break free from the tentacles.
"So, we finally meet." A woman wearing golden-colored, futuristic "Octo" armor that covers her eyes with goggles and support her tentacles drop down to greet the intruders.
"You're not Eggman. Who are you?" Classic Sonic asked.
"That tech. I recognize that. You work for Alchemax." Miguel deduced.
The woman chuckles, "Correct. I'm Serena Patel, head of Alchemax's Shadow Division. But I also liked to be called…Doctor Octopus!" The Doc Ock of 2099 introduced herself.
"Never heard of this Shadow Division." Miguel quipped.
"Yes. That's why it's called "Shadow Division"." Patel replied to his unfunny joke.
"Ah, Touché. So how did you end up in this era, Patel?" Miguel asked the beautiful but dangerous scientist.
BGM-Sonic Generations OST-Boss: Death Egg Robot (OST Version)
"Like you two, I too was caught in that giant rift in space-time and was sent here, where I allied with someone that shares my genius and ambitions," As soon as Patel finished and thrown the heroes to the ground, a giant red-colored mech that resembles a certain egg-buffoon appears from the elevator behind her.
Classic Sonic instantly recognizes the mech and the man piloting it, "Eggman!"
"Hoohohoho! I see you've become acquainted with Dr. Patel. Now I will finally finish you along with your new spider friend!" Eggman declared, prepping his Death Egg Robot into gear while Ock 2099 stands beside her partner. Miguel and C. Sonic does the same and dash off to fight their respective rivals.
Miguel swings in to confront Patel. The lovely scientist uses her deadly arms to attack the future spider, forcing him on the defensives and dodge her nasty strikes. "These tentacles are pretty fast." Miguel commented.
"Mmm. You like? I modelled them after the original Doctor Otto Octavius of the Heroic Age. I'm a big fan of his work. Too bad the world refused to appreciate all his great achievements!" Ock 2099 said.
"Because he was a psycho?" Miguel quipped, still on the defensives of her mechanical arms.
"Soon, I'll realize all his dreams, starting by killing the successor of his greatest enemy!" Patel declared.
"Might have a tough time doing that," Miguel starts webbing up her six arms to make them slow and useless temporarily, which is just enough time for him to web strike up and wallop the girl Ock. "I make it a rule not to hurt such lovely woman, unless they're psychotic and trying to kill me." He quips to get on her nerves. She growls and breaks free from the webbing to continue battling the annoying bug.
Meanwhile, C. Sonic jumps away from Eggman's extending claw attack. "Is that the best you can do?" Sonic taunted his nemesis.
Eggman growls, "I will flatten you!" He commands the Death Egg Robot to jump onto the hedgehog. Sonic quickly moves before he landed and spin attacks the butt of the mech. "Not bad." The egg scientist complimented his foe. Soon after, the elevator arrives in a room of the Death Egg where one could look through the tall, stain-glass windows to get a gorgeous view of Mobius. "We're not done with you two yet. This is only the beginning!" The Death Egg Robot makes a mighty stomp to the center of the room, sending C. Sonic and Miguel fly on top of one of the platforms.
Ock 2099 hangs in the center of the room with her tentacles, pressing a few buttons on her gauntlet to activate the Dimensional Timed Bombs in the room. She grabs a few with her tentacles and simply says, "Bombs away," as she throws the bombs at the heroes, getting them to hop around like circus clowns avoiding thrown tomatoes.
'Gotta throw these bombs right back at her.' Miguel thought but it seems impossible with Eggman extending his arm to attack him.
"Follow me!" C. Sonic directs Miguel in front of a Dimensional Bomb. "Hey Eggman!" Sonic makes a funny face to goad Eggman into attacking them.
"You impudent rodent! How dare you mock me?!" Eggman extends his arm and accidently hits the bomb instead once the heroes jumped away in time. His arm and his mech in temporarily immobilized long enough for Sonic to run up the arm and attack the head.
"No you don't!" Patel prepares to interrupt Sonic's attack but Miguel wouldn't allow her and throws a bomb at her while she was distracted, immobilizing her and her arms.
"You seem like a nice lady. Sorry to do this to ya, but ya know, hero stuff." Miguel web strikes into the air and beats on Patel, even using one of her arms to attack her with. C. Sonic bounces on the Death Egg Robot a couple of times, weakening it for a Miguel to throw Patel right on top of the head.
"What?! Nooooooo!" Patel screams as the Death Egg Robot starts to explode with her in the vicinity.
BGM End
Miraculously, both she and Eggman are still alive and lie in the wreckage of the Death Egg Robot, coughing madly from their defeat.
"Think we should help them?" Miguel asked C. Sonic.
"With the chance of getting blasted or strangled, sure why not." C. Sonic shrugs.
BGM-Sonic Generations OST-Cutscene 1
Both heroes rush over to help their enemies, but once they got close enough, they were suddenly blown back as a mysterious energy captures the evil scientists, which happens to belong to that time-eating monstrosity appearing from its time hole. "It's that creature again!" Miguel noticed.
"And it's taking the doctors!" C. Sonic pointed out their enemies being lifted up to this "Time Eater".
"What is that thing?! Why is it taking us?!" Patel shouted, scared.
"No! No! Sonic! Save us!" Eggman screamed. It was too late for them as the Time Eater pulls them into its time hole and disappears, cutting off their screams for help.
BGM End
"They're gone." C. Sonic stated.
"So those two weren't behind this? Just what the shock are we dealing with here?" Miguel crosses his arms, pondering what to do next.
White Space Manhattan, ESU
After being blocked off to the boss door, Modern Sonic and Spider-Man Prime walk out of the gate to reunite with their friends, only to be stunned when they are greeted with three more "familiar" faces.
"Welcome back." Modern Tails greeted his friends while standing with Kid Ruby and Kid Yang.
"Hi." Classic Tails greeted his "new" friends along with Kid Blake and Kid Weiss.
M. Sonic and Peter had to blink a few times to check if they're not crazy to see two Tails. "Huuuh?" They both said.
"Another Tails?" Sonic asked, stunned.
"Blake and Weiss are also kids?" Peter questioned, shocked.
"So you also know us?" Kid Weiss asked the two shocked heroes.
Before more questions could be asked, a bright green light illuminates the sky above ESU. Slowly, the whole university and its students are restored back to normal, as well as the green Chaos Emerald that was floating above the Time Gate and floats down to M. Sonic's hands.
"It's another one of those Chaos Emeralds!" Kid Blake pointed out.
"A Chaos Emerald?" Kid Ruby asked, tilting her cute confused head.
"What's a Chaos Emerald doing here?" M. Sonic wondered, staring at the green emerald in his hands. He then hears footsteps walking out of Time Gate and turns around with Peter to be shocked to see C. Sonic and Miguel approaching them, who are also shocked to suddenly meeting their counterparts face-to-face.
"Y-You're…" Both Spider-Men points fingers at each other.
"Miguel O'Hara?" Peter recognized the Spider-Man of the future, from their last team-up against the Green Goblin months ago.
"Peter Parker?" Miguel recognized the Spider-Man of the past.
"What are you doing here?" Both Spider-Men asked at the same time.
M. Sonic's encounter with his younger self is also left bizarre as they stare at each other. "You're me. A younger me." M. Sonic said to his classic self.
"Yup. And you look like an older me. That's pretty cool, and a bit weird." C. Sonic said to his modern self.
"I can't believe it. There's two of me. Two of us." M. Sonic said to Peter.
"Well, I'm kinda used to this but, yeah, it's surreal." Peter remarked as they stare at their counterparts.
"I think I've figured everything out." C. Tails said, finally putting all the pieces together.
"Yeah, me too." M. Tails remarked with the same thoughts.
"Doubles of us…"
"Places and enemies from our past and future…"
"We're traveling through time and space!" Both Tails said at the same time, shocking almost everybody who just listened to them.
"We're…what?" Kid Ruby asked, rightfully confused for a six-year-old.
"Time traveling," Peter answered, shaking his aching head, "I was afraid of this. I hate time traveling."
M. Sonic walks up to the child versions of Team RWBY, "So that means, you're really a past version of Team RWBY."
"Wait a minute! I'm in a team?! With these kids?!" Kid Weiss points at the other, future members of Team RWBY.
"You're a kid too, you know that?" Kid Yang crosses her arms while glaring at the child heiress.
"How did this happen?" M. Sonic asked.
"It has to do with that big "thing" that just kidnapped Eggman along with that female Doc Ock." Miguel replied.
"There's a 'female' Doc Ock?" Peter questioned.
"It sounds like the same thing that kidnapped your friends. I mean, our friends. You know what I mean." C. Tails said after confusing himself because of all this time traveling weirdness going on.
"No need to work yourself up, Tails. We know what you mean." C. Sonic smiled.
BGM-Sonic Generations OST-Cutscene 1
Suddenly, Peter's Spider-Sense tingles as the whole White Space zone violently shakes. From its time hole, the Time Eater appears once again to give the restored civilians a fright and a half. "There it is!" M. Tails pointed out. The united group watches as the Time Eater flies overhead and then disappears into another time hole.
BGM End
"Where'd it go?" Kid Ruby asked innocently.
"We need to find that thing, and fast!" M. Sonic recommended, with his past self and the Spiders agreeing.
"Alright, Time Patrollers! We're moving out! Team SSSS is on the move!" Peter gave himself and Miguel, along with the Sonics, their own team name inspired by how teams are named in Remnant.
"We need a better team name." Miguel criticized as the newly-formed Team SSSS leave their friends behind and run off to find the Time Eater.
BGM-Sonic Mega Collection OST-Intro Theme
M. Sonic: I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog. This's the first time I'm teaming up with myself. Gotta say. It's pretty sweet.
C. Sonic: You visit some pretty weird zones. Who's the electric guy?
M. Sonic: That's Spidey's enemy. Electro. And it looks like he's not alone.
Next time on D-Avengers: Generations-
Twin Electro
C. Sonic: I get to fight some really cool opponents in the future.
KFX Here: We're done with the Genesis/Year 1 era. Onto the Dreamcast/Year 2 Era, where we get to revisit some of my old stories like "Fate of Two Worlds", "Battle for Remnant", and "Flaming Web of Light and Shadow". Some of you may be wondering when will Team RWBY will meet their past selves, but that unfortunately won't happen until much later.
Also, given how expansive the United Heroes Universe has gotten since the beginning, if you're interested to do one, I will allow spin-off stories set in this universe. All you have to do is contact me to get my approval and keep me updated on your story.