Issue 6: A Xeno Reunion
BGM-Dragon Ball FighterZ OST-Spirit
"I wonder if my future self is okay?" Kid Ruby asked herself, staring out the distance on the back seat of the Spider-Buggy with the other Remnant kids.
"I'm sure they're fine. They're probably statues like everybody else. Just got to find the area they're in and save them. Easy as that." Kid Yang smiled to cheer up her little sis.
"We can't be reckless either. One wrong step and our future selves will cease to exist." Kid Weiss warned the sisters about their safety or else they could die along with their future selves.
"I wonder what my future self looks like," The young Ruby wonders, turning over to the drive seat where M. Tails is sitting, "Tails, uh, older Tails, do you know what our older selves look like?"
"Let me show you." M. Tails presses a button on the vehicle's control to pop up a holographic image in the back seat, showing the Kid RWBY a group shot of their older, future selves.
The children gasp in awe to see how different, more beautiful, and awesome they become in their teenage years. "Wow! I look so COOL! I actually have my own scythe!" Kid Ruby exclaimed in ecstatic joy.
"My future self looks beautiful…" Kid Weiss said, staring in awe at her teenage self.
"I look awesome! But why do I have a robot arm?" Kid Yang wondered.
"It's a long story." M. Tails responded, visibly embarrassed.
The young Blake takes a moment to observe her future self, noticing the bow hiding her cat ears, "A bow? It doesn't look bad on me." She said with a little smile.
"Of course you would like it, cat girl. Hiding your true identity to stab people in the back." Kid Weiss said to the kid faunus, still being a bit racist to faunus in general unlike her future self.
"We're not like that! The Faunus just want to live in peace with humans!" Kid Blake retorted, taking offense to that comment.
"Save it for someone who cares!" Kid Weiss replied, crossing her arms and ignores her, depressing Blake.
"I care!" A sudden Spider-Man Prime casually lands on the back of the Buggy, jump-scaring Weiss.
"Gah! Spider-Man! Where did you-?!"
"Listen, Weiss. Not all faunus are bad that want to destroy business companies and annihilate all mankind. I mean, there are some that would do that, but the same could be said for humans, am I right? We're not perfect either." Peter started lecturing in a light-hearted tone to the young heiress.
"Um…"
"Look. I am "well aware" what you're going through at this point in your life, with your dad and your company. Trust me when I say, it gets a LOT better in the future. And you'll start to see Faunus are just like us. The only difference is some of them have cute little kitten ears like this adorable cub." Peter says while ruffling Kid Blake's hair, making her giggle and smile.
"Yeah," C. Tails speaks up from the passenger seat, "People used to make fun of me for having two tails. But then I met Sonic and everything worked out great. We became best friends." The young fox said with a smile.
"So, want to say something to your now-future friend?" Peter asked the child heiress.
The young Weiss shares a stare with Blake, "I'm…sorry for being mean to you." She genuinely apologized.
"And I'm sorry if some Faunus are treating your family badly." Kid Blake apologized even though it wasn't totally necessary.
"Ahhh, see? Progress. I'm sure I broke the timeline doing this, but, uh, who cares," Peter joked, "Now stay sharp. I think we're closing in on the next Time Hole." He says as they close in on the white-colored Baxter Building and its colorless prisoners.
BGM End
"Looks like we have quite a party over here." M. Sonic jokes as he spots six statues of his friends in front of the Baxter Building.
"Jaune. Pyrrha. Johnny. Sue. Rouge, and…" Peter shuts up for a moment when he spots a woman around his age in a cat costume, "Black Cat? I didn't know she was invited."
"Who's she?" Kid Blake asked the amazing web-slinger.
"My ex. We have a complicated relationship. I seem to be a magnet for beautiful cat people." Peter said, rubbing his head. The child faunus stares at Peter for a moment, confusing him when he notices her, "…What?"
"Nothing." She shakes her head after developing a small attraction to the Spider.
"Whatever you say, weird cat kid." Peter replied as he walks into the time portal.
"I am not weird!" Kid Blake retorted as everyone else enters the portal.
City Escape
BGM-Sonic Generations OST-City Escape (Modern)
The Time Portal opens above the steep roads of a San Francisco-like city. The heroes pop out as they begin falling down from several feet in the air. As everyone else screams, M. Sonic whips out four capsules from his Skill Bracelet, gripping them tightly in his hand. "Think fast!" He yelled out as he tossed three capsules at the Spiders and his younger self.
"What are these?!" Miguel asked while in free-fall.
"Just open it!" M. Sonic replied.
The Spiders did what they were told and pressed on the capsules, popping out navy blue snowboards under their feet. "Snowboards?!" Miguel questioned.
C. Sonic popped out his capsule for a skateboard to ride on, "Cool!"
The moment they arrived on the streets, Team SSSS starts snowboarding down the road with the Tails and Kid RWBY following them from the Spider-Buggy. "WOOOOHOOOO!" M. Sonic exclaimed in joy from relieving this moment in history.
"Never snowboarded in San Francisco before!" Peter avoids the incoming cars, web zipping above some traffic and lands, narrowly avoiding Classic Sonic when the little hedgehog hopped off a grind rail in front of him.
"Sorry!" C. Sonic said with a smile and tricks off a ramp.
"C'mon, Parker, speed up!" Miguel taunted, using Peter's own words as he passes his predecessor.
"I hate you." Peter mumbled.
Modern Sonic continues to play around and narrowly sliding away from parked cars, tricking off multiple ramps and grinding on a powerline all to impress the young ones from the Buggy. "Lookin' good, Sonic!" Kid Yang told the hedgehog.
M. Tails looks on ahead to see that Team SSSS are taking a slightly different pathway away from the streets, "Looks like we're splitting up! We'll regroup as soon as possible!"
"Take care, gang!" M. Sonic and the other time patrollers separate from Tails' group and tricks off a ramp into a narrow spot within the city. They ditch the snowboards and head out on foot, coming across new, actually old types of enemies like G.U.N. mechs and time-displaced Public Eye police shooting at them.
"The Public Eye's here too?" Miguel questioned as the heroes easily defeat them on the way.
"So that was your future we visited before." Peter says, piecing it together he briefly visited 2099 during his fight with the Vultures.
"Yeah, but I don't recognize these mechs." Miguel web shoots down a Gun Beetle off the air.
"These are G.U.N. robots. At this time, they hunted me down like a wanted criminal because they mistook me for Shadow, thinking I robbed banks and other junk." M. Sonic explained his history with this area while boosting through G.U.N. robots.
"I know how that feels. Waaay too much." Peter remarks what he deals with on a daily basis.
"Who's Shadow?" Classic Sonic asked his future self.
"A hedgehog that you shouldn't confuse me with him. For one, I'm more cheerful." Sonic joked, still wondering how the media mistook him for Shadow despite the very obvious difference in skin color.
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BGM-Sonic Generations OST-City Escape (Truck Chase)
The sizzling Team SSSS made it back to the streets and regrouped with the others, just in time for a giant GUN Military truck to start chasing them. "What the SHOCK?!" Miguel exclaims as everyone else stares in fear and begin running away from the crazy mad truck destroying everything in its sight.
"THEY HAD A TRUCK CHASE AFTER YOU?!" Classic Sonic shouted.
"They were really persistent!" Modern Sonic replied.
"OH GOD, OH GOD, OH GOD, OH GOD," Peter loudly shouts while the Remnant kids scream out in fear, even louder when the darn thing summons saw-blades from the cab.
"IT NEVER HAD RAZOR BLADES BEFORE!" M. Sonic shouts when he looked back.
They all ride on rooftops with the GUN truck still roaring after them. "CAN THIS THING GO ANY FASTER?!" Kid Weiss shouted at M. Tails, who's too busy trying to outdrive the mad truck.
Soon, the heroes decided to run along a building. "Ha! It'll never catch us now!" M. Sonic grins, only for the unbelievable thing to happen as the truck actually boosts off a rooftop and begin driving on the side of the wall they're in, "OH COME OOOON!"
"Optimus Prime is pissed!" Peter quipped.
"Who?!" Miguel asked on context of his reference.
"You're killin' me, O'Hara." Very lucky for the heroes, they miraculously outran the persistent GUN truck into another time hole that popped up out of nowhere, taking them into another point in history.
BGM End
Radical Highway
BGM-Sonic Generations 3ds OST-Radical Highway (Modern)
In a giant half-built red highway full of skyscrapers at night, The Time Patrollers once again fall out of the portal screaming. The Sonics saved themselves by grinding down the suspension rails. The Spiders shoot out a webline and swing over the bridges. And the Spider-Buggy landed a bit bumpy on the ground before racing through the highway.
"Are we at the Golden State Bridge?" Peter asked.
"We're at Radical Highway-!" M. Sonic barely dodged a blast from the multiple GUN bots, Blue Eagle planes and Public Eye cops from all directions trying to kill the party.
"Shock! Did they send the whole military after you?!" Miguel jumps over combat planes, webbing them up and avoids missiles.
"Not even the Atlas military would send "this" may troops on one guy!" Kid Weiss stated as she covers her head from all the explosions and gunfire.
"This "is" Sonic the Hedgehog we're talking about! Makes sense to go all-out!" Peter said, webbing up and throwing GUN beetles at Public Eye helicopters.
"But that was Shadow, not me!" M. Sonic retorted.
"Welcome to my world!" Peter compared the current situation to, again, what he deals with almost every single day of his crime-fighting career, though possibly not to this extent.
"But we're not in your world!" Kid Ruby remarked.
"Oh, you adorable little girl who doesn't understand figurative language." Peter quipped.
Classic Sonic spots another time portal opening up ahead, "Another portal! Hope this one takes us to a place less hectic!" He says as the heroes enter the portal before the missiles reached them.
BGM End
Remnant, Vale (Battle for Remnant Vol 1 timeline)
BGM-Dragon Ball Xenoverse OST-Cutscene: Alternate Age
It's nighttime at a quiet warehouse district somewhere in the city of Vale. Hundreds of shipments of Schnee Dust Company containers are seen here. Bullhead ships descend in the middle of the cargo containers and extend a ramp for a black hooded individual with a metallic fanged mask to walk out.
"All right, grab the tow cables!" The White Fang goon ordered his fellow White Fang members from the aircraft with his rifle.
"Hey! What's the holdup!?" Roman Torchwick, an orange-haired man wearing a black bowler hat asked the WF goons as he gestures widely while coming down the ramp. "We're not exactly the most inconspicuous bunch of thieves at the moment, especially when there's a certain bug that might be in the area, so why don't you animals try to pick up the pace?" He asked the soldiers. A White Fang goon holds up a coil of rope to Roman who begins to berate him, "No, you idiot! This isn't a leash!" He starts to look around until suddenly Blake Belladonna (an older one. Here we'll call her "Vol. 1 Blake"), appears behind him with her blade at his throat, "What the-Oh, for f-!" He rolls his eyes before getting cut off by the teenage faunus.
"Nobody move!" Blake told the White Fang, who're ready to aim and shoot her to hell.
"Whoa! Take it easy there, little lady," Roman calmly said to her. "As the White Fang close in on her, Blake uses her free hand to go for her bow and remove it, causing the ribbon to fall away to reveal her faunus cat ears.
"Brothers of the White Fang! Why are you aiding this scum?" Blake asked them after they've lowered their weapons, unsure with themselves until Roman started laughing.
"Oh, kid, didn't you get the memo?" He asked her.
"What are you talking about?" She replied.
"The White Fang and I are going in on a joint business venture together!" Roman's eyes start to glow red, along with the other White Fang as they get enveloped in their dark Xeno mode. Blake notices something is different about the White Fang, like they've changed suddenly. She was so distracted and confused she was left open to be grabbed by the neck by a big, human tough guy in a yellow jacket, accompanied by a fancy man in a purple coat and a mustached man wearing a cowboy hat.
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BGM-Sonic Forces OST-It's Good to See a Sonic
"Hope you don't mind the Enforcers par-taking in this shindig." The leader of the Enforcers, Montana, with his buddies Ox (holding a struggling Blake) and Fancy Dan, spoke to Roman, who simply smiles and lets them join despite just meeting.
Then someone throws a banana peel on Roman's head, causing him to look up and growl at Sun Wukong, a monkey faunus leaping from the container above Roman and drops down on the criminal's face feet-first, rolling up and readying himself to fight, "Leave her alone!"
More Bullheads arrive and open up to let more Xeno White Fang troopers as well Xeno Alchemax robots descend on the scene, completely surrounding Sun as Roman gets up and smirks at the overwhelmed, monkey, "You're not the brightest banana in the bunch, are you kid?"
All dark-powered foes slowly aim their weapons and corner Sun, making him wonder what he should do to save himself and Blake. "Terminate!" An Alchemax robot points his arm cannon at Sun and gets ready to fire, until a time portal opens behind the faunus, grabbing everyone's attention.
"What?!" Roman questioned.
Out of the portal comes the Time Patrollers after narrowly escaping GUN from Radical Highway. When the White Fang and Alchemax robots start firing at the new company, the Sonics spin attacks a majority of them while the Spiders web threw them to the walls and floors, saving Sun in the process.
"We narrowly avoided getting blasted just to get blasted. Least they're not GUN. Where are we this time?" M. Sonic asked.
"This looks familiar. Think we're in Remnant." Peter says while looking at his surroundings.
"SPIDER-MAN?!" The Enforcers, Roman, Vol. 1 Blake, and Sun exclaimed in both shock and absolute confusion.
"Huh," Peter turns to Vol. 1 Blake being held hostage by Ox, "Hey, I found Blake! The older one, taken hostage by the Enforcers? Haven't seen these guys in a while."
"We've arrived at another change in history. That's not Blake. Not the current one you know." Miguel explained.
"TWO Spider-Men?! With…two blue rat faunus things?! And, uh, fox driving some spider vehicle," Roman exclaims in absolute confusion, "Just what the hell is going on around here?!"
"Who's this lame-o?" Classic Sonic asked Peter about Torchwick.
"I don't remember." Peter replied, completely honest with his answer as he hasn't fought or seen Torchwick in months since he's dead in the current timeline, and Peter's been occupied with much more important, universal-ending missions. That, and, compared to someone like Wilson Fisk, Torchwick isn't that threatening to commit to memory.
"You don't…I'm Roman Torchwick! You've been the bane of my existence for months! Kept making fun of my name!" Torchwick reminded Peter of all his insults to his criminal empire.
"That does sound familiar…" Peter taps his muzzle as he slowly remembers Torchwick and all the times he's embarrassed him, "Ah, whatever. Maybe beating you up will jog my memory. Let go of the girl, Ox! Holding her for too long will give you bad luck, and perhaps rabies." He joked while talking to his old foe, Ox, with an unamused Vol. 1 Blake glaring at Peter.
"I don't want some stinkin' rabies!" Xeno Ox's eyes glow red as he throws the teenager Blake miles into the air to the oceans.
"BLAKE!" Sun exclaimed in horror.
It didn't take long for Modern Sonic to zoom in and jump into the air to save Vol. 1 Blake and meet back with the others before they noticed him. "You okay, Blake?" M. Sonic asked her.
"W-When did you…" Vol. 1 Blake is astonished to meet someone much faster than her Ruby save her in a blink of an eye.
"You'll continue to be amazed in the future." M. Sonic joked with a smile until he notices more White Fang troops and 2099 robots showing up. He turns to the Tails and Kid RWBY in the Buggy, "Tails! You know what to do!"
"Right!" M. Tails nodded as he drives the Spider-Buggy to a safe hiding place away from the fight. As they leave, Kid Blake turns around to stare at her future self. The older Blake glances at her younger self, blinking a few times until she slowly realizes that's her she's looking at.
BGM End
BGM-Spider-Man: Edge of Time OST-Fighting Enemies
With the children out of the way, Vol. 1 Blake and Sun accompany Team SSSS in dismantling a few 2099 robots and crippling some corrupted White Fang soldiers and the time-displaced Enforcers. "I don't know what's going on or how you all got here, but I will not let you interfere with this operation!" Torchwick said before getting kicked in the face by Spider-Man Prime.
"This operation wouldn't happen to involve stealing hundreds of Dust for Norman Osborn and Cinder, infiltrating Beacon and sabotaging the Vytal Festival to disrupt world peace and destroying Beacon at the end, am I right?" Peter babbled and revealed his plans out loud because of his future knowledge, baffling Roman how he knows basically his whole plan.
"H-How did you know all that…?" A flabbergasted Torchwick asked.
"Lucky guess." Peter quipped.
"GRRAAAAGH! Enforcers! Destroy him NOW!" Torchwick shouted.
"Don't worry. We'll squash the bug." Montana leads his Enforcers to battle Peter.
"If you guys couldn't beat me when I was a rookie, what makes you think you could beat me now?" Peter asked while firing his Suspension Matrix to lift the Enforcers into the air, leaving them helpless to Spidey's spectacular air combos and web strikes to their defeat.
Roman growls as he's left no choice but to fight the bug himself. He uses his cane to fire continuous, flaming missiles that Spidey effortlessly dodges. "You seem a little tense. Maybe it's all that dark energy in your head." Peter quipped, web yanking his cane and smacks him with it, then throws Roman at Miguel, "Hey future me! Want a piece of old action?"
"I hate old news." Miguel quipped as he punches Roman in the face. The Spider-Man of Tomorrow is then blindsided by an energy blast to the side by an old man in a cyborg body, along with the Spider-Man of Today getting smacked by a woman's umbrella in a Neapolitan ice cream-themed outfit.
BGM-Sonic X OST-Battle
"Take that, Spider-Man." The cyborg man said.
"Silvermane!" The Spiders exclaimed before looking at each other in confusion.
"There's a Silvermane in your future too?" Peter asked his future self.
"It's actually the same Silvermane from your time period. He's still around because of his cybernetic-enhancements." Miguel explained.
"Neo," Torchwick exclaims in confusion as he looks at his umbrella-holding partner, "What are you doing here?! I didn't tell you to be here!" He asked, receiving a silent shrug from Neo, responding she has no idea why she's here.
"The disruption in time must have brought them here." Miguel guessed as Neo and Silvermane 2099 goes into their Xeno Mode.
"What's going on?!" Vol. 1 Blake asked, totally lost in all this time-traveling talk.
"Seriously! What are you guys talking about?!" Sun loudly asked.
"We'll explain everything later. Right now, it's time to fight!" M. Sonic told the faunus.
"I don't understand what's going on, or who some of you are, but…I have a feeling I can trust you." Vol. 1 Blake said.
"That's the way. C'mon!" M. Sonic grinned, leading Blake and Miguel against Silvermane while Peter fights Neo with Classic Sonic and Sun.
Silvermane withstood a spin attack from M. Sonic and follows up with an energy blast, but the hedgehog was too fast for him and avoided damage. Miguel lands a good punch on the Maggia boss and uses an Accelerated Decoy to avoid getting punched. "You can create clones too?" Blake asked the future Spider, comparing his decoys to her shadow Semblance.
"I move so fast I leave copies of myself." Miguel sends forward three more decoys to attack Silvermane, allowing Blake to strike the old man with a blade strike. "You should've retired from crime a century ago, old man." Miguel strikes him with his talons.
"I may be old, but the Maggia will never die." Silvermane proclaimed.
"Tell it to all the history books." Miguel web throws Silvermane for M. Sonic to defeat with a charged homing attack.
Nearby, Classic Sonic and Sun fail miserably fighting Neo. The pink-dressed villain easily incapacitates Sun in one-on-one combat, knocking him to a crate with her umbrella. And while Classic Sonic is more than fast enough to keep up with her, he always finds himself shattering a glass-version of his opponent. C. Sonic grunts, "Why can't I seem to hit her?" He asked before getting blindsided by Neo.
Thankfully, Spider-Man Prime easily sees through her tricks, 'Because they're illusions. Oh man. This is just WAY too easy.' He said in his mind, comparing Neo's tactics to guys like Mysterio that does this thing for a living. Neo flips over and starts fighting Peter one-on-one and seems evenly matched with him. "Oh. You're not bad for a girl who brought an umbrella to a fist fight. It's not raining. Why do you carry that thing around with you anyways," Peter babbled. Neo stays silent while Peter continues to block and deflect each of her umbrella swings, "You're not much of a talker. Makes us the perfect pair. Me, the blabber mouth. You, the silent person who's about to get her butt whooped massively." That little comment slightly irritated Neo, getting her to strike Peter and blow him back a bit. When she dashes towards him with a dark-enveloped umbrella swing, she quickly finds out it was an afterimage she attacked. She stands confused as she stands surrounded by multiple false copies of an Amazing Spider-Man using his speed to leave several identical afterimages.
"Your illusions are impressive, to qualify as Mysterio's sidekick," Spider-Man's voice taunts her but she has no idea which clone is the real one, "With my heightened Spider-Senses, I know EXACTLY who's the real you. Too bad you don't know which ones the real ME." The real Peter strikes the real Neo, who was standing above on a container, down on the floor with a powerful kick finisher, webbing her to the ground so she won't cause any more trouble.
"Not bad, Spidey." Classic Sonic complimented Peter's skills.
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"How is this possible?! How can someone like Neo could be defeated?!" Torchwick asked, stumped.
"Now make this easier on yourself, Conan, and give up." Peter mocked.
"It's ROMAN!"
"Nah. Boran sounds more fitting." M. Sonic mocked, getting the Vale crime boss to twitch in anger and rage.
Just before Peter could take a step, his spider-sense rages to incoming danger. A powerful, telekinetic shockwave blasts Team SSSS screaming across the warehouse area.
"SPIDER-MAN!" Vol. 1 Blake shouted.
The time-travelers crash through a couple empty Schnee Dust containers. They slowly get up, shaking their aching heads. "Was that supposed to happen?" M. Sonic asked.
"I think so." Peter answered. He looks up to see four interesting individuals standing before them: a yellow-and-orange man covered in an unusual texture pattern with white eyes and no hair, a woman entirely made of green gas, a purple energy man hovering in the air, and a big looking strong guy covered in metallic steel.
"Right. Right. The U-Foes. I remember this part painfully," Spidey quipped, recognizing the enhanced White Fang top elites experimented on by Norman Osborn, granting them powers similar to the U-Foes of Peter's dimensions.
BGM-Sonic X OST-Sonic's Fight
"Two insolent bugs and two dirty rats? Guess we should put them out of their misery." The orange-colored one called Vector, leader of the U-Foes, powers up his unknowing Xeno Mode along with his teammates. He telekinetically lifts multiple large containers and throws them at Team SSSS.
"How did you beat these guys last time?" Miguel asked Peter while avoiding the thrown containers.
"I had a little help." Peter says while web-striking Ironclad, the metal man.
"We have that covered." M. Sonic grins as he faces off with Vapor, the woman who can alter her form into any known gas. The gassy villain forms into a poisonous gas around Sonic, causing him to cough repeatedly.
"You can't beat my gases, little hedgehog." Vapor taunted him.
"Your gases smell. Phewee. What did you eat?" M. Sonic joked to annoy her. The blue blur quickly uses his speed to form a large tornado that sucks up the screaming Vapor into the air.
"Hahahaha! Why're you running away, bugman? Don't you want to see what I can do?" The radiated X-Ray laughs as he chases a swinging Spider-Man 2099 with his radioactive blasts.
"I've seen enough to know how to beat you!" Miguel retorted, finding the thing needed to win. A lead pipe. He yanks it to his hand and web strikes over to X-Ray, comboing him with the lead pipe because it disrupts his energy form. He then stabs him with the pipe, causing him to scream before he kicked him to the floor.
"RRAAAAAGH!" Ironclad charges at the Amazing Spider-Man like a mindless animal.
"The tryouts for football is next week, Ironclad. Get your dates right." Peter joked as he vaults over the villainous metal man while charging up a vibrating seismic blast from his web-shooters, and when he lands behind Ironclad he fires them, disorienting him.
"Ugh…W-What…Can't see." Ironclad said, stunned and dazed.
"That's my cue." Peter web strikes and slashes his stingers on Ironclad, hurting him.
Not far, Classic Sonic is seen taking on the leader of the U-Foes, Vector, who laughs to taunt his small opponent, "You're a small one. What can you POSSIBLY do against me?"
"Kick your butt." Classic Sonic smirked.
Vector gets annoyed and telekinetically lifts more containers to throw at the young blue hero. Classic Sonic jumps and run from container to container until he reached Vector, smacking him to a building with a powerful spin attack. He goes in for another, but Vector uses his powers to grab and repel him to crash over a container. Classic Sonic shakes his head, a bit dazed, when Vector starts throwing energy blasts at him. The hedgehog dodges them and charges up a mighty spin dash. He unleashes his attack, but instead of attacking Vector, he circles the whole warehouse area to gain more speed and confuse Vector with his tactic until he was suddenly hit with the spin dash, blowing him away to rest of his allies.
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"That wasn't so bad. Hehe." Classic Sonic chuckled while standing with his teammates.
Vector growls at his adversaries, silently wondering how his team is losing to such impudent insects and rats. Then, he feels his stomach turning, and can tell his teammates are feeling the same, 'Wh-What's happening? I feel a surge of pure, dark energy! Where is this coming from?'
It was at that moment Peter's spider-sense went through the roof when he senses the U-Foes's Xeno power increasing, "Something's wrong. What's happening to them?"
"The quantum energy that tainted them is…evolving, exponentially." Miguel checked from his wrist device.
BGM-Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 OST-Villainous Form
"NRAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" The U-Foes roared when their dark Xeno aura erupts with newly-evolved power and mighty shockwaves that almost blows the heroes out of sight. The second stage of their Xeno Mode changes the U-Foes's body to a frightening white and purplish hue, granting them a white and black aura. Their pupils take a purplish blue glow. They also gain the face of the Time Eater as a symbol on their forehead, symbolizing they are completely under its control.
Team SSSS stare in fear at the powered-up Xeno U-Foes. Modern Sonic glances at the sky and finds something familiar. "Look!" He points to the mysterious Time Eater itself hovering above the warehouse, growling at the heroes before disappearing in its Time Hole.
"This must be another birthday present!" Peter joked as everyone turns back to the Xeno U-Foes.
Xeno Vector cackles madly as he telekinetically lifts a dozen containers and hurls them at astonishing speeds at Team SSSS. Before the four heroes could wonder how to dodge this one, the crates were suddenly sliced in half, saving the heroes.
"What?" Peter remarked.
"Spider-Man!" A familiar, girly voice captures Team SSSS attention. They turn around to see it's the Ruby Rose of this time period coming to help them along with the other members of this time's Team RWBY, as well as some assistance from Sun and Penny Polendina, just like in the original timeline. "Are you okay? We came to help." Vol. 1 Ruby told Peter.
"Ruby…Right. You guys helped me out back then too." Peter said.
That comment left Ruby a little confused, "I don't really know what-." She was quickly caught off by the increasing power from the Xeno U-Foes, shaking the ground with their bubbling power.
"What's going on?!" Vol. 1 Weiss asked.
"The quantum energy is rising extremely by the second, to the point of shaving off their own life! We got to stop them before they become unbeatable!" Miguel answered.
"Not a problem!" Spidey clenches his right fist as a purple aura surrounds his body, then coats him completely into his Aura Arachnid Mode, which leaves an astonishing impression on the Team RWBY of the past.
"H-How did you…" Vol. 1 Ruby is left in a state of shock from witnessing Peter's "new" power.
"Everyone! Choose a Foe and tear them apart!" Aura Arachnid Spider-Man ordered.
"Hehehehehe…HAHAHAHAHAHA! This power! Such vast power! It's different from what the Professor gave us! It feels…absolutely incredible!" Xeno Vector laughed madly.
"And there's more…far more power flowing into us!" Xeno Vapor said.
Aura Spidey vanishes in a flash and reappears to punch Vector, who blocks the attack causes a massive shockwave from their stalemate, "You fools! There's a power FAR beyond your understanding controlling you, warping your mind! We have no choice but to take you down!"
"You cannot stop me!" Xeno Vector repeatedly fires dark energy blasts but the transformed Spider swiftly dodges each and every one of them. Spidey sharpens his aura claws and blitz Vector with ferocious attacks before being telekinetically repelled away. Peter uses his aura to burst out of Vector's control and webs up two large metal crates and throws them at Vector, burying him. The dark villain almost immediately breaks away and gets into a fight with Ruby and Blake. The two Huntresses-in-training work together, and while they did get a few good strikes, it only served to irritate Vector and get them caught by his power. Vector maliciously chuckles and charges up an energy blast in his palm to devastate the girls. Suddenly, Aura Spidey appeared above Vector and strike him down with a roaring Kumodama, causing a big explosion that saved the girls.
"C'mon, big guy! Is that all you got?!" Modern Sonic smirks, taunting Xeno Ironclad while fighting with Vol. 1 Yang. The fast-moving hedgehog dodges Ironclad's attacks with ease and overwhelms him with lightning-fast homing attacks.
"Not bad, hedgehog. You're probably as fast as my sister." Vol. 1 Yang smirked as she punches Ironclad in the cheek.
"Heh. This is just a speck what I can do," Sonic grins, getting into position to charge up his Light Speed Attack, surrounding himself in a light-blue aura, "Let me show you what happens when I get serious. Full power! With me?"
Yang's hair flares up as her iliac eyes turn red, "Yeah!"
"Haha! You punks don't have the strength to stop me!" Xeno Ironclad taunted.
"She has the strength! I have the speed! Wonder what happens when the two combine?" M. Sonic asked. Before anyone could blink, Sonic blitz the metal Ironclad from all directions at amazing light-speed. Ironclad roars and unleashes a dark shockwave that temporarily blows Sonic away. Ironclad charges at Yang and the two collide fists that shattered nearby glass and crates. Because of his immense increase in power, Ironclad was going to overwhelm Yang if Sonic didn't kick a shockwave of wind down on Ironclad, giving the blond Huntress a chance to combo him with brutal punches.
"Ever played volleyball?" Modern Sonic asked Yang, who quickly understood his plan. Both heroes jump into the air, and Yang gives it everything she got to palm-slam a curled-up Sonic to send him booming down on Ironclad, forming a powerful explosion and a large crater where Ironclad lies defeated.
Meanwhile, Spidey 2099 and Vol. 1 Weiss is having their own trouble dealing with Xeno Vapor. No matter how many times the two heroes strike her with physical attacks, they just phase through her like it's nothing. Weiss growls, "How can we beat her?"
"She should still be weak to different forms of energy. Do you have anything like that?" Miguel asked the teenage heiress.
Weiss equips her rapier with yellow Lightning Dust, "How 'bout this," and fires lightning bolts that does actual harm to Vapor in her gaseous form.
"Nice! Keep doing that. I have a plan." Miguel leaps away to find something that'll defeat Vapor for good. Meanwhile, Weiss strikes Vapor with different elemental attacks like rapid fireballs and ice shards, and while they are effective, they're not enough to completely defeat her.
"Prepare to die, Schnee!" Vapor transforms into hydrogen gas and charges at Weiss.
"Oh good. You just made this easier." Miguel pops back up with an oxygen tank and sprays a hose of oxygen on the gassy villain. "Let's see what happens when you mix hydrogen with oxygen!" He says as Vapor screams for her life and turns into a puddle of water on the floor. Miguel shots a web shot at the puddle so it can soak in and trap Vapor.
With Classic Sonic, he runs and swerves from Xeno X-Ray's radioactive beams and spin attacks him. X-Rays retaliates and blasts the young hero with an energy beam, giving Sun a chance to fight. The monkey faunus got a few good shots in until X-Ray grabbed his staff and transferred his power through it so it can blast Sun at point-blank range.
"I feel like he shouldn't be this powerful…" A dazed Sun said.
"He's shouldn't." Classic Sonic replied, turning to both Sun and Penny. "Keep him distracted. I might know a way to beat him."
"Sure thing, little hedgehog guy!" Penny accepted the task.
As C. Sonic zooms away, X-Ray tries to stop him, "Where do you think you're going," blasting multiple energy blasts at the running hedgehog. Both Sun and Penny strike X-Ray at the same time to get his attention. "You buncha kids! You can't stop me!" X-Ray blasts the two and knocks them back, but Penny was able to backflip to her feet and solely confronts the radiated menace. X-Ray roars and unleashes a powerful energy blast at Penny, who bring together her blades to form a circular ring to protect herself and absorb the blast, but the amount of energy quickly proves intense for her to absorb.
"I…can't take it anymore…" Penny said, struggling as she already reached her limit.
"Don't worry…" Classic Sonic returns to the battlefield, holding a lead pipe Miguel used recently, "Because I am here!" He stabs X-Ray with the lead pipe, causing him to scream in pain until he couldn't take it anymore and collapsed on the ground, defeated. After Penny unleashed the energy she absorbed to the sky, she too would've collapsed if C. Sonic didn't grab her in time.
"I gotcha, kid. Good job. Take a break." C. Sonic told her. Their break was short-lived as a massive shockwave blows the three into the air. Xeno Vector is the only one left standing and continues clashing with Aura Spider-Man and the other heroes. Aura Spidey launches multiple flurries of punches before being repelled by Vector, followed by Vol. 1 Ruby who strikes him repeatedly with scythe slashes before being blasted away, and lastly Modern Sonic using his speed to overwhelm Vector until he unleashed a powerful blast that blows away everyone.
"I've had enough of you meddling fools!" Xeno Vector snarled, pushing his telekinetic power to the max and starts crushing the heroes onto the ground. "With my power, I will crush you all! Nothing you can do now can save you!" He starts laughing maniacally.
Hiding from a safe distance, the Tails and Kid RWBY watch the heroes losing ground against Xeno Vector. "They're losing!" Kid Ruby said.
"Don't worry. They got this." Classic Tails assured her.
"Just give them time. When things are at their worst, they will prevail." Modern Tails said, continuing to watch the battle reach its climax from the side.
"Hahahaha!" Xeno Vector laughs as he hovers above his enemies.
"His power's incredible…" Miguel commented while being pushed to a crater.
"This…really hurts!" Vol. 1 Ruby shouted with her face planted on the floor.
"Yo, Spidey…Think it's time to end this?" Modern Sonic asked Peter.
Peter struggles to stand on his feet, slowing getting on his two legs, radiating that fierce purple aura around his whole body. The lenses on Aura Spidey's eyes temporarily turn slitted, as well as his mask form sharp teeth that worry Vector. "I won't lose…to someone like you…I won't let anyone down! GRAAAAAAAGH!" He lets out beastly roar that's a combination between man and spider, unleashing a mighty shockwave that shatters nearby windows and flings Vector away.
"That kid…He's neither human nor faunus. What the hell is he?" Xeno Vector wondered in shock as Spider-Man launches himself from his web slingshot at amazing speeds.
"You're finished!" Peter declared and kicks Vector so hard in the chest, he makes him crash through multiple shipping containers and into an empty warehouse, knocking him out cold.
BGM End
An exhausted and depowered Spider-Man falls down on his knees and pants heavy breathes. "Pheeew! That was rough. Let's hope nothing like that ever happens again. Oh, who am I kidding." Peter joked. He stands up to see the rest of Team SSSS, the Vol. 1 Team RWBY, Sun and Penny reunite with him.
"Spider-Man! That was so cool! I didn't know you could do that!" Vol. 1 Ruby said to Peter, referring to his Aura Arachnid Mode.
"Thank goodness for that, Pete. I thought we were toast for sure." Classic Sonic speaks while accidently revealing Peter's secret identity to the Team RWBY, Sun and Penny of the past.
"WHAAAAAT?!" They all responded in surprise.
"Peter is Spider-Man?!" Vol. 1 Ruby exclaimed.
"Oh for the love of…" Both Peter and Modern Sonic face-palm.
"Well this just got awkward." Miguel casually commented.
"I wasn't supposed to say that, wasn't I?" Classic Sonic scratches the back of his head.
"Noooo." Peter said angrily at the kid hedgehog.
"I thought they knew." Classic Sonic replied.
"Only Blake at this time." Peter revealed.
"What?! You knew Peter was Spider-Man this whole time?!" Vol. 1 Weiss said as she turned to Blake.
"Uh…." Blake nervously scratches her hair with no remark.
Peter sighs as he grips on his mask, "Let's just get this over with," he says as he takes off his mask to re-reveal himself to his friends from the past, who all gasp to see Peter Parker really is Spider-Man.
"Peter…You're really Spider-Man," The Yang of this time period asked in shock, "Why didn't you tell us?"
"And why do you look a little different? You look a little taller. A little mature." Vol. 1 Weiss asked.
"Well it is my 18th birthday today. Actually, I've been 18 for over 6 months ever since I time-travel back when first entering your dimension…" Peter said.
"Time travel? Dimension?" Vol. 1 Ruby starts to get confused from what he's talking about.
Peter clenches his eyes, "Ugh. Look. I'm gonna try to make this brief and easy to understand because there's not a lot of time left."
"There really isn't." Modern Sonic joked.
"I'M Peter, but not the Peter you know right now. I'm from several months later in the future, reliving these events." Peter explained.
"Wait? So you're REALLY time-traveling?" Sun asked.
"Whooooa. So who's the other Spider-Man? Is he you in your future?" Penny asked.
"No. I'm Miguel O'Hara. I'm the Spider-Man from the year 2099." Miguel answered for himself.
"And these two," Peter points to the Sonics, "They're from a dimension different from ours. This is Sonic the Hedgehog as a teenager…" He points to Modern Sonic.
"Sup." He waved with a smile.
"And this is Sonic the Hedgehog as a child." Peter then points to Classic Sonic.
"Yo." He smiled.
"Okay. I'm really confused. Why are you time traveling?" Vol. 1 Ruby asked.
"History is changing. Being erased from time. Right now, there's this "time-eating monster" ripping through the timeline and destroying everything. We've been chasing it and it brought us here, to this time period to correct the changes that were altered." Peter explains.
"That might explain why Torchwick and the White Fang felt different, where those "Enforcers" and that "Silvermane" guy came from." Vol. 1 Blake said.
"And why the U-Foes were stronger than their historical form. If we weren't here, you all would be dead and history would be changed for the worst." Miguel told the Remnant heroes of this time period.
"Okay, I think we understand so far, but…that still doesn't explain why you hid your identity from us?" Yang asked Peter.
"Or how you did that weird transformation with your aura." Weiss added.
"That one is because I bonded with a Spider-God, among other strange things." Peter casually dropped a bombshell on his friends from the past.
"WHAT?!" The girls, Penny, and Sun exclaimed.
Peter puts his right hand in front, "Long story. And to answer your first question, it's because I wanted to keep you all safe. If my enemies knew about you, you all would be in serious trouble. I've lost too many good friends to those who figured out my secret," Peter somberly explained as he puts back on his mask, "You're all probably mad at me, and I wouldn't blame you. But right now, I need to go back to ensure you guys still have a future."
The second Time Key shows itself in the air and descends into Peter's hand. "It's another Time Key." Classic Sonic noticed.
"Second one. That leaves one more to complete the set." Peter said, using the key to open up a time hole back to the White Space Manhattan.
"We should get a move on. We don't have much time left, do we?" Modern Sonic punned.
"Stop." Miguel quickly retorted, not in the mood for time puns.
"He's right. There's a time and place for everything." Classic Sonic grinned at his counterpart.
"I mean it!"
"Quit it, guys. We can make puns another time." Peter quipped.
"GUYS!"
"Hahaha!" The three pun-masters laughed. Vol. 1 Weiss and Blake feel pity for Miguel being stuck with a bunch of jokesters. The Ruby and Yang of the past simply laugh at the heroes' terrible puns.
The Sonics and Miguel walk into the portal, and as Peter was gonna do the same someone calls him out, "Peter!"
"Hm?" Peter turns around to see Ruby, and the other members of this time's Team RWBY as they all give the confused wall-crawler a hug, "Why are you guys hugging me?"
"For good luck, silly." Ruby said as they let go of Peter.
"You're not mad at me?" Peter asked.
"Why would we be mad? We understand why you kept your secret from us. If we're still together in the future, I'm sure that means something." Weiss smiled.
"We still don't really know what's going on, but we know you can fix it. You always have." Blake smiled.
"So go out there and save our history. I'm sure "our" history is a really time-stopper." Yang punned, making Peter chuckled.
She gives him a good-luck kiss in the cheek, with Peter gently rubbing it. "Heh. Don't worry. I won't screw this up." Peter said.
"You better." Weiss joked.
"Are our future selves also helping you, or any version of us?" Ruby asked.
Peter's lenses widen as he tries to come up with a decent way to tell them the truth, "Uhhhhh…"
"HEY! SPIDER-MAN! FUTURE ME! WE'RE LEAVING!" A loud Kid Ruby shouts from the Spider-Buggy as she and the other Kid RWBY take a moment to wave hi at their future selves (of this time period anyway) before Tails drives into the portal.
The Vol. 1 Team RWBY stand there absolutely stunned with no words to learn child versions of themselves are helping to save all of time. The girls look at Spidey, who repeatedly looks back and forth from the portal in sheer nervousness. Peter takes one last moment to look at the Team RWBY of this time period before he awkwardly walks into the portal as it closes, leaving a really stunned, and really Team RWBY of Volume 1 behind to comprehend everything.
"Uh…" Ruby finally spoke.
White Space Manhattan
The time-traveling heroes return back to a restoring Baxter Building and the people in front of the building. Jaune, Pyrrha, Johnny, Susan, Rouge, and Black Cat all find themselves returning back to normal and greet the heroes who saved them, with Black Cat and Rouge blowing a kiss to Spider-Man Prime and Modern Sonic respectively.
"We're free!" A happy Jaune exclaimed.
"Thank goodness." Pyrrha smiled.
"Thanks, gang. That's the first time I've ever been stolen." Rouge said to the heroes.
"You could say that again. Explain, Spider, why I wasn't invited to your birthday party?" Black Cat asked Peter.
"Because I didn't know it was my birthday or had a party." Peter casually answered his ex.
"You "were" always ignorant." Felicia joked.
"Where's that big, giant monster thing that took us? I want another piece at it." Johnny says, raising his flaming right arm.
"Cool your jets, Johnny. We'll find it. Just make sure everyone's safe in the meantime." Peter suggested.
"Fantastic." Johnny puts his hands on his hips, disappointed he won't take part in this time-breaking adventure.
"That's what we are." Susan chuckled.
"Where's my sister?! Is she okay?!" Jaune asked, worried for her sister, Saph.
"She's back at the park. She's fine, Jaune." Modern Sonic told him.
"Really?! Thanks, you guys! You're the best!" Jaune happily said, smiling.
"So, why are there different version of you, and younger versions of Team RWBY?" Pyrrha asked about the heroes' counterparts.
"We're gonna keep getting asked this until we're done, right?" Peter sighed.
"Yup." A tired Sonic replied that makes Peter groan.
BGM-Sonic Mega Collection OST-Intro Theme
Modern Sonic: I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog. Isn't this a nasty place in history.
Spider-Man Prime: We're back in the middle of the Symbiote Invasion.
Classic Sonic: You guys got aliens invading?
Spider-Man Prime: Yeah, it was a thing. Not a fun time. Which is why we can't let history change here. Last thing I need is a symbiote Donald Trump controlling the country.
Next time on D-Avengers: Generations-
Venomous
Spider-Man Prime: I hate symbiotes. Why can't they leave me alone?
KFX Here: To anyone wondering, yes, the "Xeno Mode" that empowers villains from the past and future was directly inspired by the dark aura stuff from Dragon Ball Xenoverse.