Issue 9: The Miraculous Tag-Team

Plegia Castle

Inside the dark halls of Gangrel's castle, a Plegian soldier is reporting regretful news to his king and his lovely subordinate, all while a lazy dark hedgehog sleeps above them on his web net.

"So, Captain, let me be certain I understand your report... Not only did you NOT confirm that the Ylissean party carries the Fire Emblem... But you can't be certain Prince Chrom is even among them? ...Is that the gist of it?" Aversa asked the nervous scout.

"Y-yes, milady! The air was thick with sand—even their number was difficult to ascertain." The trembling solider replied.

"Perhaps if you had gotten closer, Captain. Here, let me show you..." Aversa creepily walks towards the scared captain to show him a "proper" example.

"N-No! I'm sorry, I—Huargh!" Were the last words of the captain before Aversa killed him.

"Apology accepted." Aversa smiled.

"Do try not to kill ALL the soldiers, my dear. We'll need a few for the welcoming party. The Ylisseans will be here soon—Chrom and the Emblem among them, I'm sure. That bleeding-heart prince would never put good sense before his sister!" Gangrel said.

"…And when they arrive?" Aversa asked.

"It will be a massacre worthy of their legendary father!" Gangrel ominously replied. The Mad King thrust his head up to the ceiling where Grimadoom is resting his eyes. "Grimadoom! Stop lazily around! Prep your robots for battle! And where are those other Chaos Emeralds you were supposed to collect?" He demanded, which really put a damper in Grimadoom's mood, angering the dark hedgehog.

Without showing any signs of movement, Grimadoom appears right in front of a scared Gangrel, threatening to blast him to oblivion with an energy sphere directing on his chest. "Learn your place, you miserable whelp. Why should a weakling order me around? You've only gotten this far because of my help. We'll collect the other Chaos Emeralds later, AFTER we kill the Ylisseans and take their emeralds. Now how 'bout YOU go prep your men while I go meet with Morlun. This will be the last time you speak to me that way, otherwise I will call off this partnership and save the prince the trouble of ripping you off the face of the planet." The menacing hedgehog finished his malicious threat towards the Mad King, powering down his energy and walks away from the room, leaving a stunned Gangrel to his knees that he was seconds away of being killed, but also leaves an even more intrigued Aversa behind, unknowingly getting her to smile creepily.


At a Plegian Clothes' Shop

"Hmmm…I don't know…" Morlun said, looking at himself in front of a mirror while trying out a new coat, much to the boredom of Grimadoom. "…Do you think this makes my butt look fat?" The Inheritor asked the hedgehog.

"I don't care! Did you seriously call me for clothes shopping!" Grimadoom retorted, then senses the presence of another behind him. "What do you want? Can't you see I'm NOT busy?" He asked the smiling Aversa.

"That's perfect, because I want to talk to you about-."

"I'm painfully aware what you're going to say," Grimadoom interrupted, somehow aware of Aversa's TRUE thoughts and alliances, "Let's discuss the matter later, protégé of Validar." He said, making Aversa form a bigger, more malevolent smile than before.


Shepherd's Camp

A Ylissean Spy runs into the camp to inform Chrom and his allies of his successful mission infiltrating the Plegia Castle. "The exalt is the be executed at the castle on the morrow. I heard it from the king's own lips, sire." The spy informed them.

"This is it, then." Basilio said.

"Exactly as you two predicted." Chrom said, giving credit to Robin and Spidey's strategic plan of how things will likely go through with the enemy.

"When you've been a superhero for as long as I have, figuring this stuff out is easy. Now we need to wait for Tails to complete the ISO-Dampener and we'll be good to go." Spidey said.

"ISO-Dampener?" Flavia asked, not knowing what the spider-scientist is talking about.

"It's designed to weaken Grimadoom to give us a fighting chance since he's the physical manifestation of the ISO-8. It should also have a secondary effect of disabling all robots and defensives caught in the 30-mile blast radius." Spidey explained to the confused khan.

"Which leaves you and Sonic for the fight of your lives." Robin spoke, knowing that Sonic and Spider-Man are the only ones capable of handling Grimadoom and Morlun while everyone else saves Emmeryn.

"Yeah. We'll be fighting our death sentence, or at the very least distract them. Won't lie…I'm a little scared." Spidey admitted as the stakes have never been higher.

"Chin up, there! Show some confidence! It's your thinking that's got us this far. The plan is risky, but only as much is called for." Flavia smiled to the heroic web-slinger.

"We'll find a way to see it through, Spider-Man. Don't worry. This time tomorrow, we ALL be swapping stories with Emm on the road home." Chrom said with full confidence that everyone will come out alive at the end of this.

"Hope you're right." Spidey replied, not sharing the same optimism as Chrom.


Dark Void

Standing before his dark master, the not-so dead Validar speaks. "Master Grima, Exalt Emmeryn is to be put to death on the morrow. Events will soon be back on course." He said while Grima keeps quiet, "Ha ha, yes, I should never have doubted the truth of your words. The yoke of destiny cannot be cast off! Even as they resist, they write your future with every step, O great one!" The maniacal sorcerer laughs while his Fell Master continues to stay silent.


Next morning at the Shepherd Camp

"…AAAAH!" Robin yelled as he woke up, with Lissa and Ruby standing beside him and Peter, who is still sleeping not far from the tactician.

"Robin? Hey, Robin! What's wrong? Was it a nightmare?" Lissa asked the huffing awakener.

"Is… that what it was? Y-yes, it must have been... I'm sorry." Robin said, then gets spooked again after Ruby used her whistle to wake up Spider-Man.

"C'mon, Pete. Time to rise and shine." The cute little Huntress said to the yawning arachnid.

"…I just had the weirdest dream, or was it Ero's? I dunno. Something about it felt off," Peter said, rubbing the back of his head. "Anyways, you better give me a good reason why you woke me up with your whistle." He said, annoyed.

"Frederick says it's time to march. And we can't start the plan without our amazing web-slinger or our master tactician!" Ruby smiled, just like Lissa is right now while the sleepyheads sigh in tiredness.


Plegia Castle Courtyard

The entire courtyard is filled to the brim with Plegians and automated machine guns planted all across the field as well as a few other booby traps thanks to Grimadoom's surprising intellect. Hundreds of men and robots stand below the beloved mad king as he's about to give a "righteous" speech before the exalt's execution, who is standing on the very tip of an extremely thin platform with an axe-wielding brigand standing behind her.

Gangrel stands inside the mouth of a dead dragon skeleton while Grimadoom and Morlun watch eating popcorn from a nearby pedestal, ready to hear his all-mighty speech. "Good people! Warriors of Plegia! Welcome! Welcome, one and all! Your anticipation electrifies the air! We ALL remember the crimes of Ylisse... Would you have their witch-queen answer for them? Here? Today? NOW? YEEEEEEEEEEEES! Finally, we will have JUSTICE," Gangrel looks at the barbarian behind Emmeryn, "EXECUTIONER! If you would be so kind…" He kindly ordered.

Just moments before the axe lays down on Emmeryn's beautiful head, he is repeatedly shot in the back by a multitude of machine gun web bullets. As the barbarian falls unconscious, Emmeryn notices a hovering spider-bot right there before her eyes.

'Hey, your majesty. Nice view. I think I can see your castle from here.' Spidey joked from the spider-bot, talking from a faraway place.

"Spider-Man?" Emmeryn questioned his "strange" appearance.

"Wait! What's goin' on?" The confused Gangrel asked.

The Spider-Drone hovers closely to the exalt, ejecting two small, high-tech earplugs for her to wear. 'You should put these on.' Spidey advised. Having no idea what to do but trust him, Emmeryn puts on the earplugs in each ear. The little flier then hovers right in front of the exalt for an important announcement for the entire courtyard. 'HELLO, MORONS OF PLEGIA! Before we continue your "wonderful" execution attempt, how 'bout we begin the festivities with a concert starring your favorite teen idol! Let's hit it!' Spider-Man activates the loud speaker function of his spider-drone to play Justin Bieber's "Baby" at maximum volume. The sounds of this teen singer's horrible voice and terrible music deafens the ears of everyone in the yard not wearing noise-reducing earplugs.

"AHHHHHHHH! WHAT IS THIS GARBAGE?! DON'T TELL ME THIS IS MUSIC?! MY GRANDMOTHER SINGS BETTER THAN THIS MONSTROSITY!" Gangrel shouted while covering his ears in an attempt to block out the horrible music.

'And that's our que. Stay here, ma'am. We'll come and pick you up as soon as the concert is over.' Spidey said to Emmeryn, using his Spider-Drone to continue playing that god-awful music.

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"EVERYONE: NOW!" Robin shouted, running alongside the entire earplug-wearing Ylissean Army to do battle against the weakened Plegian Warriors.

"Take out all the soldiers first! We'll deal with the Mad King later!" Chrom commanded his fellow army.

Flavia laughs at the fact the first phase of their plan succeeded. "Truly an extravagant plan, Spider-Man! Much better than the original strategy involving my axe!" She said while fighting the deaf Plegian mooks.

"I like my plans to have a little personality." Spidey said in his Arachna-Prime Armor, taking to the skies with his fellow pegasus knights.

"That's great! So can someone SHUT OFF THAT MUSIC! IT'S KILLING ME!" Weiss complained, with Grimadoom casually blowing up the music-producing machine. "Thank you."

Without having to listen to any more garbage, the Plegians can now properly focus on decimating their eternal enemies, but they remain clueless to their back-up plan. While a group of barbarians are killing their Ylissean counterpart, a swarm of tiny yellow spiders called Camel Spiders start to encompass their entire lower half of the body. Eventually, this weird infestation starts to crawl on the whole Plegian soldiers, making them motionless target practice for the Ylisseans while their distracted being scared and helpless of the bugs.

"Spider-Man! It's working!" Tails informed through their comms.

"Hahaha! Camel Spiders! Glad I remembered I could talk to spiders!" Spidey said while bombarding the ground forces with aerial repulsor blasts.

'You're welcome, by the way.' Ero said to Pete that he was the one who reminded him of that ability he granted Spider-Man.

While easily dispatching the wyvern riders, Spider-Man detected Grimadoom and Morlun distracted with the spider swarm down below the warzone. "There you are. Hope you like your present!" The Web-Slinging Avenger toss a medium-size sphere to the ground, a few feet away from Grimadoom. Before the distracted hedgehog could wonder what that device is, it explodes, releasing an enormous electromagnetic pulse that not only disables all of Plegia's mechanical defensives, it also weakened Grimadoom's ISO power by a good margin.

"Urgh! That blast weakened me? Clever little bug." Grimadoom respectively complimented the webhead's smarts, despite not being as powerful as he was before. He turns to his communicator, "All remaining troops: Fire at the Spider! Knock him out of the sky!" He commanded.

A multitude of anti-air rocket launchers proceed to fire at the airborne soldiers, with a good portion of the Ylisse's pegasus blown to pieces, but not a single rocket hits the swerving Armored Spider-Man. "Miss me! Miss me! Miss-!" A single rocket managed to blow him away while he was taunting, "Shit!"

"Language!" Blake retorted while disabling mounted machine guns, followed by Sonic in his crimson-hot fire form boosting through enemy lines, leaving his own lines of fire.

Somewhere at the edge of the battlefield, Knuckles and an axe-wielding Lissa have just finished talking to a blond war monk holding his own axe. "Guys! I have a woman named Libra that's here to help!" Knuckles said through the comms.

"I'm actually a man." Libra corrected the embarrassed echidna.

"Oh. Sorry." Knuckles apologized.

Hiding at a fort, Yang and Robin have just finished conversing with a creepy black mage that USED to work with the Plegians. "Copy that. We also have this creepy girl named Tharja I think wants to help us. I can't be too sure." Yang replied.

"Anything to be closer with this guy." Tharja said while staring her seductive eyes at the nervous tactician.

"Wait a second. No one else is gonna deal with the fact that Blake just said "Language"?" Peter asked, still on that previous comment while striking the flying mechs with his mechanical waldoes.

"I know," Blake said, hopping over an ice clone she just produced to freeze the incoming Plegians, leaving them at the mercy of Virion's wind arrows. "Just slipped out."

Nearby, Chrom deflects a laser shot right back at a Plegian Knight robot with his sword, followed by Ruby slicing it up with her scythe, throwing the scythe like a circling boomerang at the surrounding mooks while Fire Sonic and Nowi blast away the annoying mages.

"Alright, Sonic! Go! Join up with Spidey!" Ruby directed the hot-red hedgehog.

"You are the only two fast enough to reach Emmeryn! We're counting on you!" Chrom said.

"No problem! The two of us can finish this!" Sonic grinned before fire boosting through enemy defensives without batting an eye.

"And for gosh sake, watch your language!" Spidey quipped.

"That's not going away any time soon." Blake sighed.

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Sonic gets closer and closer to the skull dragon mountain up ahead, later joined by Spider-Man. As they arrived, they could see Emmeryn still a few short miles away, but they can clear see King Gangrel and Aversa waiting for them on top of the skull.

"Damn you, bug-lover! You've ruined everything!" Gangrel growled, blasting the dodgy heroes with magical lightning from his Levin Sword.

"Trying to stop us now? Heh! What a joke!" Spidey mocked the Mad King, making him even angrier.

"What did you say? Now I'm REALLY mad!" Gangrel retorted, trying to blast at the heroes again, but this time Spidey was the one who attacked by blasting away his Levin Sword right out of his hands.

"Payback time, Gangrel! You're finished!" Spider-Man was prime and ready to blast Gangrel into submission so he could safely save Emmeryn. Then, faster than anything his spider-sense could detect, he is buried to the desert grounds from a single punch from the malevolent Morlun.

"It's about time we met again, my meal." Morlun smiled.

"Morlun!" Sonic recognized the totem hunter.

"Don't forget about me, dear brother." Grimadoom sinister taunted his genetic relative, as the dark hedgehog slowly hovers down next to Morlun.

"Grimadoom. It's nice to see your face again after our last encounter. Hope you're not too ashamed to get embarrassed again, this time by such a loud audience you assembled here." Sonic sassily mocked his clone.

"Heh. Mock me all you want. Just because you weakened me, doesn't mean it'll be an easy fight. I'm MORE than capable of still ripping you, atom by atom." Grimadoom deviously smirked.

"Let's see you try after I do THIS!" Sonic smirked. The flaming hedgehog mentally materializes the three Chaos Emeralds they've collected so far and pops out another Red Star Ring from his bracelet. With all these extraordinary sources of power, while still in his Fire Mode, Sonic absorbs each one, transforming his entire body to have a scarlet-colored body scheme with black accents and spiked-up hair, surrounding his body with a raging fire aura.

"It's time to turn up the heat! Chaos Fire Sonic blazing for battle," Sonic introduced himself in his new pseudo-super form, "But that's not all! We still have one last ACE up our sleeve!" Sonic smirked.

"Hmm?" Grimadoom said, wondering what the hedgehog is talking about. Slowly, the whole courtyard starts to lightly simmer from a small tremor, but as the more it simmers, the harder these tremors start to hit, temporarily stopping the fight between the Plegians and the Ylisseans.

"Huh?! An earthquake?!" Gangrel responded to these sudden tremors shaking the desert yard. The Mad King suddenly gets spooked when he notices streams of dark purple and red energy that strangely look like webbing swarming around the crater Morlun punched Spider-Man into, incasing that crater in a large purple crystal orb with the emblem of the spider painted on it. as the quakes intensifies.

"This power! Is it…?" Chrom wondered if it who he thinks it is.

Ruby smirkingly nods, "It is."

Morlun becomes intrigued, as he never witnessed a phenomenon like this ever in his career as an Inheritor. The Devourer of Totems notices something from within the crystal, four pairs of sinisterly-looking red eyes, shaped in a spider pattern. The crystal starts to break apart, piece by piece, until it suddenly explodes in a twister of purple energy, almost blowing away everyone within the vicinity. But on top of the disappearing twister, there appears to a dark-looking figure that looks like Spider-Man but slightly different. He has huge pinkish-red wings leaking energy that allows him to fly. His entire armor looks a little more primal than it originally was, taking characteristics from an actual spider.

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"ALL RIGHHHHHT!" Spider-Man said, possessing a dual-wield voice between his human voice and Ero's voice, flexing his muscles to show off to both armies, leaving them awe-struck at his incredible transformation.

"Who are you?" Morlun asked this new figure, can't determining if this is really the same Spider-Man he's encountered

"Can't you tell, Morlun? I can't blame you though since this is the first time you've seen me like this. I am the awesome fusion between Spider-Man and the Other. The true form of a Spider-Totem. Now prepare, Inheritor, for the awe-inspiring might of BLACK ACE!" Shin Black Ace Spider-Man makes his grand entrance, unleashing a beasty roar while his purplish blue aura explodes, scaring half of the Plegian Army. The Black Ace Spidey lands right next to Chaos Fire Sonic, both looking extremely confident for the fight in front of them.

"Now, let's end this, huh?" Sonic smirked, preparing for battle.

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From her rocky thin platform, Emmeryn watches in incredible awe of what she has just witnessed. "Black Ace… "When two distant souls form a true unison, the legendary miraculous power is born," She quoted the story told in legends about the Hero-Spider, "…Is this that power…Amazing…"

With the Ylissean Army, everyone is just as shocked and awe as their dear exalt. "Unbelievable! Is this the power of the Hero-Spider?! I can't even BEGIN to fathom his power!" Frederick said in total surprise.

"I can feel his energy all the way over here. Both his and Sonic's. To think there are warriors out there that possess powers that could rival that of the gods." Chrom stated.

"YEAH! GO FOR IT! KICK THEIR BUTTS, YOU TWO!" Yang cheered on for their lead warriors.

"SHOW NO MERCY!" Lissa cheered loudly.

"GO GET 'IM, SONIC, SPIDER-MAN!" Tails cheered as well, along with the rest of the Ylissean Army.

Back to the beginning of what is the ultimate tag-team duel this world will ever experience, both teams glare at each other, waiting for the other to land the first strike. "What's wrong? Are you afraid to fight? With the two of us working together, we're the ultimate tag-team." Spidey taunted the inter-dimensional villains.

"Now, c'mon. I'm tired of all this waiting. It's giving me the itch to kick your butts even harder." Sonic taunted, showing his cocky smirk.

Despite being weakened and standing up against two extremely powerful foes, Grimadoom stands there completely calm and collected, sinisterly chuckling at his opponents. "Fine. Have it your way." Grim said, and in a sudden burst, his enormous dark blue aura explodes, accompanying half of the courtyard, disintegrating all those that were unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity, which includes a good portion of Gangrel's men.

"G-GRIMADOOM! HOW COULD YOU?!" Gangrel responded in utter shock.

Spider-Man and Sonic are a bit surprised to see Grimadoom still possesses so much power in his weakened state, making it painfully aware this won't be an easy fight, especially with the immortal and incredibly strong Morlun helping him. "Now, before I'm done with you…despair, for the fact that you fools ever thought to defy me." He chilling threatened the two super-powered heroes that dare stand in his way.

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Both armies just stand motionless, as they too are interested in this epic battle that is about to unfold in front of their very pupils. Without hesitation or worry, Spider-Man and Sonic deliver the first striking punches at their two enemies who managed to block the attack but were still blown back to a couple of nearby mountains. The spectacular heroes ram their fists straight at them again, smashing them through boulders and mountains, but they still can't seem to deliver any sort of real damage, moreso to Morlun who doesn't even flinch.

Outside the mountain, they all finally start clashing rapid-firing punches, but to their surprise, Spidey and Sonic were blown back, bounced across the battlefield by the villainous duo's frightening teamwork. When Sonic quickly recovered, he and Grim clash spin attacks across all areas, leaving Black Ace Spidey to deal with Morlun. The Totem Hunter grabs onto Peter's leg and smashes him around the field, giving him no chance to escape his grasp until Spidey transformed in his dinosaur-themed Shin Red Joker mode and kicks Morlun away, making him actually flinch.

"Catch me if you can!" Spidey taunted, leading Morlun to narrowly dodge a flaming spin dash from Sonic, who temporarily leaves Grimadoom to Spidey. "Meteorite Barrage!" Spidey shouted, firing off several meteor-shaped spheres of light above the dodgy Grimadoom before Sonic attacked him from behind, but in a quick instant Morlun double axes the heroes to the ground, but they instantly rise back up right after Spidey transformed back to Black Ace and the two fight Morlun simultaneously for a bit until Grimadoom joined the fray. Their fight leads back to the main courtyard, clashing at invisible speeds over both awe-struck armies, demolishing parts of the large yard from their clashes.

Finally, much to their shock, the heroes are overpowered yet again, punched straight to the ground, panting heavily, then grunts in pain when the invincible villains proceeds to crush them beneath their heel, grabbing them by the hair/helmet. "It's over." Morlun simply spoke as they proceed to heavily punch the two, causing their mouths to gasp in utter pain before being blasted away, covering them in a huge explosion.

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"Spider-Man! Sonic!" Chrom shouted, wondering if they're okay behind that huge puff of smoke.

The seemingly victorious villains share a triumphant smirk, but unaware to the both of them, something from underground starts to shake, popping out huge, thick tendril webbing that traps them motionless. "What?!" Grimadoom said, shocked at his predicament. Then out of nowhere, the two villains are beaten back by a flaming huge spin attack that smashes them across the ground, dealing some decent amount of pain to Grimadoom and minor annoyance to Morlun, especially when they see Sonic and Spidey are still alive.

"There's no rush, gentlemen. We still have unfinished business to address." Red Joker Spidey taunted.

"If you thought we were trying before; you've seen nothing yet." Chaos Fire Sonic smirked, surrounding himself in crimson flames.

Spidey quickly gives Chrom a glance, silently ordering him to keep fighting the Plegians while they're distracted. "Got it," replied Chrom, turning back to his army, Everyone! Continue fighting! We're not done yet!" He commanded as the battle between Ylisseans and Plegians continue.

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Meanwhile, Sonic and Spidey resume their intense, high-speed clash between Grimadoom and Morlun, trading monstrous punches that trembles the entire yard just the sheer force of their epic blows. The opposing super powers clashed until they reached a stalemate between elbows, equally trying to knock out the other through an intense struggle. "Annoying gnats!" Grimadoom insulted.

"Feeling's mutual!" Spidey replied, leaping back to the air so he could lift the large chunk of ground the two unsuspecting villains are standing on with his webbing, pulling them toward he and Sonic's blazing fists of pain, finally doing some real damage against the two. In retaliation, Grimadoom lifts his right hand to the sky, creating a long dark blue energy sword that easily touches the heavens above so he could strike down at the pests that think they are a challenge for him, decimating anything that touches his blade, organic or inorganic. With every touch there is a loud explosion filling the warzone.

Not wanting to see anyone getting killed, Plegian or not, Spidey morphs back into Black Ace mode to form two black and purple-filled energy swords in both hands so he could cut through Grimadoom's spirit blade, allowing Sonic to attack him with a blazing spin attack. The two are then quick to defend themselves from Morlun's brutal assault, who's physical strength surpasses that of Grimadoom's, giving the two a lot of trouble.

As Morlun snatches onto Spidey's face, Sonic quickly saves him with a homing attack to the head, freeing the fused spider and causing Morlun to spit out blood. Now knowing Morlun is at his most vulnerable after letting his guard down, Spidey and Sonic work together to keep him distracted long enough to fire their biggest blast at him, but that barely wounds him. Still, the little scuffle did give Grimadoom enough time to charge up his energy, firing off a large dark beam that's strong enough to decimate the entire courtyard, killing everyone in the area.

As both armies look in terror at their death, Spidey and Sonic quickly counters with a roaring Ultra Kumo Hadoken and a screaming large fire beam respectively, combining their powers in an effort to stop Grimadoom's blast. The two large beams struggle to keep in a stalemate, with neither side pushing for victory in this awe-strucking clash. Morlun was able sneak attack the heroes, hugging them by the necks so Grimadoom could do away with them since Morlun is invincible.

"Goodbye!" Grimadoom smiled, overpowering their beam with his. Spidey and Sonic struggle to block it but eventually are swallowed whole by the beam, screaming for their lives as the beam encompasses them in a large explosion that destroys a good chunk of both Ylisseans and Plegians.

"SPIDEY! SONIIIIIC!" Ruby yelled in great concern.

Everyone on both parties are in utter shock, believing the outworldly warriors were killed in the explosion. "Yes, we've won!" Gangrel said, thinking he's victorious.

"You really think it'll be that easy?!"

Out of nowhere, a humongous beam blast Morlun across the darn country, surprising Grimadoom and the others. "What?!" The shocked hedgehog turned to see an enormous blue Man-Spider Avatar piloted by both Black Ace Spidey and Chaos Fire Sonic.

"Here comes the big one!" Sonic grinned. Both he and Spidey combine their energy to command the Man-Spider to launch another large beam at Grimadoom from its mouth, who already counters with another destructive beam, with this version growing larger with every passing second. "There ain't no way we losing this one! …NOW! Full…"

"POWERRRRRRR!" They both roared simultaneously, unleashing an even bigger blast that envelops Grimadoom with an almighty scream, causing the entire sky to explode from the intense rumble.

"Nice! They got 'im!" Knuckles happily clenched his fist while the entire Ylissean army cheer in victory.

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With the explosion gone and the smoke disappearing, Grimadoom silently floats in the air in battle wounds, grunting to himself in anger for losing to such pests. Starting to have trouble controlling his power, he slowly falls down to the ground where Black Ace Spidey and Chaos Fire Sonic are waiting for him with their friends.

"Urgh…Can't believe I've been pushed to such a pathetic state." Grimadoom berated himself for his failure.

"You never needed our help to do that." Spidey mocked, angering the living ISO-8 manifestation.

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"Robin! Their wyvern riders have fallen! The skies are clear! I'm giving the signal!" Chrom said, giving a simple hand motion that alerts Captain Phila and a few pegasus knights to land next to them.

"Your grace!" Phila said to Emmeryn.

"Phila! I'm so glad to see you're safe! But how-!" Emmeryn wondered.

"Khan Basilio's men freed me. Come, we must hurry!" Phila said as she attempts to fly up and rescue Emmeryn.

"What? Pegasus knights? How did they... That damned Ylissean tactician does NOT play fair!" Gangrel said.

"Heh heh heh... Yes, well. Neither do I." Aversa smiled, alerting Grimadoom to perform his play in this. While she summons a surrounding number of Risen, Grimadoom summons a plethora of Grimm beasts with his color scheme, completely under his control.

"Risen and Grimm?! Oh no! They're everywhere!" Ruby shouted.

Grimadoom laughed. "Wasn't expecting that, were you?" He taunted.

"Damn! Not now!" Chrom cursed.

"Bwa ha ha! Oh, did an army of living corpses and beasts just APPEAR out of the blue?! Truly, the heavens smile upon mighty King Gangrel this day! Bwa ha ha ha!" Gangrel cackled.

One of the Risen and Grimm engage Phila to a battle, instantly killing her with a single strike. "Risen…How…Y-Your Grace, I…Forgive me…Uhh…" Phila said with her dying breath.

"Phila!" Emmeryn shouted.

"Hahaha! Did you lot really think you've got us beat? Watch as your glorious plan crumbles in the screams of your allies." Grimadoom said as the other Risen and Grimm kill the other pegasus knights with ease.

"Not while we're still here. We still have enough power to finish you all." Spidey said, standing beside Sonic, still not out for the count.

"Oh really?"

Spidey and the others look to the horizon, and to their absolute horror, they see Morlun standing on the very edge Emmeryn was standing, holding her by the neck, slowly choking the very life out of her.

"MORLUN! NO!" Chrom yelled at him, demanding the totem hunter to release her this instance.

"How should I go about this? Should I absorb her life essence into mine? Or should I drop her to her death," Morlun hovers Emmeryn straight to her doom. "Maybe I should do both. Let her try both opportunities." He said, taking a small chunk of her life energy and then proceeds to throw her off the cliff, to the shock of the Ylisseans but to the great anger of Spider-Man, as he's instantly reminded of when the Green Goblin dropped Gwen Stacy off the George Washington Bridge and was accidentally killed when Spidey tried to save her.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NO MORE!" Black Ace Spider-Man zooms at hypersonic speeds, filled with rage to save Emmeryn, not wanting another repeat of Gwen Stacy. Sonic and Ruby would've joined but they are forced to deal with Grimadoom, who still has enough strength to delay them. Thankfully, much to the great relief of Chrom and Lissa, Spidey was able to catch her in the nick of time and flies back to the air, having no idea that it was just bait to lure him in for Morlun to knock him and Emmeryn back to that thin cliffside.

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With no help from their friends any time soon, Spidey and Emmeryn are at Morlun's mercy, getting their life squeezed at the hands of the Inheritor, but even while he's in his grasp, Spider-Man doesn't care. He almost broke his promise he'll save Emmeryn, no matter the cost. And the rage burning inside him that she was used as bait to lure him in pisses him off to no end.

"I'll kill you! I'm going to kill you! LEAVE! HER! ALONE!" Spidey protrudes his spider-legs from his back to stab Morlun, smacking him down to the ground, leaving Emmeryn behind so he could have a piece of this nonsensical Inheritor. He brutally starts swinging at Morlun while in hard-hitting Red Joker mode, but each monstrous punch doesn't even tickle the damn guy, he just takes it, not even flinching or grunting until he blasted Spidey back afar.

"YOOOOOU! This a battle between me and you! NO ONE ELSE, MONSTER! Just how many more innocent people are you going to keep killing until your satisfied?" Spidey demanded.

"As many as it takes until my dying breath, but I assure you'll be the one dying today." Morlun calmly replied.

BGM-Dragon Ball Super OST-A Secret Plan with One's Life on the Line

"Heh. If that's the case, I won't be dying alone. I'll be taking you for the ride! It'll be fun!" Spider-Man charges up his massive crimson energy, detaching the disk gears from his shoulder pads into the air. He aligns themselves to his position, commanding them to fire large amounts of red energy into him, absorbing their power into his palms and thrusts them forward, charging a chaotic crimson sphere ready to fire. "You're not lending another hand on her! I promised I'd bring her back safe and sound, no matter what the cost! 'Sides, I am REALLY eager to see just how invincible you really are! I'm gonna break you like a kit-kat bar! I wonder if you really tried that? I'll give you a piece in hell!" He sassily quipped, even in this serious situation, seriously scaring the pants off of King Gangrel that he still possesses so much power.

"Hehe! Yeah! Show him what you got!" Sonic encouraged his webheaded friend.

"You got this, Spider-Man!" Robin shouted.

"If this what'll take to do him in, then I say go full force!" Blake said.

Despite the whole yard shaking and the entire scenery turning a scary red from all this crazy energy, Morlun stands there, in front of the blast zone, calm and motionless. "Awwww! Is Morlun too scared to move? Don't worry! You still have a few more seconds to move out of the way!" Spidey warned the Inheritor.

"Come." Morlun simply spoke, which serves but make Spidey smirkingly grunt.

"Now, Spidey!" Yang shouted.

"Hit Morlun with it! GO!" Chrom shouted.

"Crimson Solar Breaker!" The Red Joker Spidey discharges a ginormous red beam of pure ISO energy at Morlun, who at the last second properly defended himself as he's enveloped in the blast, obliterating a large portion of the entire kingdom, leaving an enormous ravine to be seen for miles.

BGM End

"Yes!" Lissa happily fist-bumped.

"A direct hit!" Knuckles said.

Even the mighty Grimadoom was struck with awe at such power, can't even begin to imagine if Morlun actually survived the blast. Spider-Man stands in place, barely possessing any power left in both his armor and willpower, panting himself exhausted looking towards the massive smoke that slowly starts to disappear, where he actually sees Morlun slumping on the ground, seemingly defeated and killed.

"Hahaha! And here I thought you were tough! Guess even immortal animal hunters can't beat me! Now do you see? No predator can ever beat the-!" Then, to his most absolute horror, Spider-Man quickly senses something is wrong, something is very wrong. Once he caught another glance at Morlun's seemingly dead body, it was gone in a terrifying flash, but to where-.

"SPIDEEEEEEEY!" Sonic screamed.

BGM-Dragon Ball Super OST-Unwinnable Battle

Standing just mere inches away from him, a sinister, glowing-eyed, and completely un-damaged Morlun charges up his own cackling energy sphere right darn close to the stunned Peter's chest, using the energy he absorbed from the Chaos Stone that Dr. Doom granted him before he left, combined with the other cosmic energy he absorbed from different cosmic Spider-Men across the multiverse.

"You weren't half bad. But in the end, you're still prey. Like I said before, nothing personal." Morlun complimented his prey.

"…Your majesty…RUN…!" Spidey managed to speak to Emmeryn just before he's encompassed in an excruciating energy sphere that could kill the strongest of gods. The Hero-Spider screams in the worse ways possible before an enormous explosion envelops the area.

Emmeryn and the other Ylissean warriors are in complete shock that Morlun survived, unharmed, and defeated the Legendary Spider-Man as if it was no trouble at all. "N-No…No, no, no…" Robin said in disbelief.

"We've lost…" Chrom said, clenching his hand in silent rage.

Completely depleted of energy, Spidey deforms back to his normal armor mode and unconsciously falls flat on his face to the ground, barely clinching to his life as both he AND Ero are on their last legs. "SPIDEEEEEEEEEEEEY!" Sonic yelled, now going light-speed to come and save his friend just as Morlun starts feasting on his life force, but someone even faster pummels the hedgehog to the ground.

Sonic quickly bounces back up, only to angrily sense Grimadoom standing right behind him. "It seems the light speed just isn't enough!" Grim taunted the heroic hedgehog, angering him to attack but quickly moves out of the way, standing in the same position he was just in before. "What's wrong now? Losing speed, Sonic?" Grimadoom continued taunting the hedgehog, brutally assaulting him with a flurry of attacks that soon prove too much for Sonic, causing him to depower on the ground unconscious, losing the three Chaos Emeralds in his possession to Grimadoom, now granting Plegia four Chaos Emeralds in total, including the one on Gangrel's neck.

"Thank you for your lovely donation, brother. I'll be sure to repay you back by funding your funeral." Grimadoom sassily quipped, charging up a finishing energy blast to kill off Sonic.

"SONIC! NO!" Knuckles yelled.

Gangrel laughs, feeding off the Ylisseans total despair and helplessness. With Sonic unconscious, Spider-Man's very life force being drained, and the remaining warriors surrounded by undead zombies and Grimm, all hope seems lost. "I believe this is what they call a reversal of fortunes. Now... grovel before me. Plead! Beg for your worthless lives!" Gangrel demands.

"I'd give up my life before I beg for it from you." Chrom retorted.

"Oh, now THAT is a good line. A fitting epitaph for your tombstone, perhaps? But it's not just your life in the balance or your loser friends. The exalt still stands upon the block. And I have a dozen bows trained on her. All it would take is one word from me..." Gangrel creepily points them to Emmeryn still standing on a rocky cliffside.

"Emm! Hold on, I'm—."

"ARCHERS! If this Ylissean pup so much as twitches, let fly your arrows!" Gangrel interrupted.

"Ruby! Can't you use your silver eyes to do something?" Weiss said to her.

"I can't! Grimadoom's blocking my powers somehow!" Ruby stated that Grimadoom put some "psychic lock" to accessing her silver eyes to activate, since he does possess her DNA, making it so easy for him to turn it off without even trying.

"Damn it!" Yang cursed.

"I…I'll kill you!" Chrom said to Gangrel.

"Go ahead! I welcome it. Just know you were responsible for Big Sister's bloody demise! ...And what of the rest of you? Eh? Who wants the honor of killing the exalt? ...No one? Bah! Your merry band isn't quite so headstrong anymore, is it? Pathetic!" Gangrel cackled.

"Damn you!" Chrom cursed.

"Now, now, my boy—no one needs to die today. Not you. Not the exalt. Not your friends. Just lay down your sword and give me the Fire Emblem." Gangrel offered them a chance.

"…I…"

"Chrom! You can't trust him!" Robin said to him.

"There has to be another way!" Tails said.

"Of COURSE I can't trust him! I'm not an idiot! But if I say no, he'll kill her! Not just her, but Sonic and Spider-Man! The latter who put his life to save us! The gods are cruel, damn them! My sister and friends or my duty... A problem with no right answer, yet I must choose!" Chrom said, completely muddled in thought he's repeatedly scratching his hair for answers, any answers.

"You can't give up! There has to be another way! There always one!" Ruby said.

"If there is, I can't see it... Ah, gods!" Chrom replied, still enormously confused.

"I will count to three! Throw down your weapons, or your exalt becomes the world's largest quiver. One! Two! Thr-." Gangrel said until Chrom interrupted him so he could speak.

"Gangrel, hold! …You win. Everyone, lay down yo-."

BGM End

"No wait!" Emmeryn spoke up, gathering everybody's attention, including Grimadoom's and Morlun, the latter stopping his feeding on Spider-Man, keeping him on a silver of his and Ero's very life, so they could all hear what the exalt has to say.

"SILENCE!" Gangrel ordered.

"Emm…" Chrom somberly said.

"King Gangrel, is there no hope you will listen to reason?" Emmeryn asked.

"You mean listen to more of your sanctimonious babble?! I think not. No, all I want is to hear a THUNK of arrows, and a SPLAT as you hit the ground. Take one, long, last look from your perch. You do so enjoy looking down on people... Then prepare to meet the ground, and your maker! That is, unless if someone were to give me the Emblem... NOW!" Gangrel demanded, keeping Emmeryn quiet.

"ALL RIGHT," Chrom shouted, getting everyone quiet so he could talk, "All right... Emm, I know you won't approve, but this is my final decision. MAYBE someday we'll face a crisis where MAYBE the Emblem would've helped. But I know for a fact that Ylisse needs you, today! The people need their exalt... And we need our sister. If those dark days should come, we'll face them together." He said to his dear sister, making her warmly smile.

"Chrom…Th-Thank you. You and Spider-Man, thank you. Thanks to you, I know now what I must do…" Emmeryn kindly said.

"Emm, what are you-." Chrom wondered what she has plan, but something hidden deep within his heart already knows what she might be doing.

"Plegians! I ask that you hear the truth of my words! War will win you nothing but sadness and pain, both inside your borders and out. Free yourselves from this hatred! From this cycle of pain and vengeance. Do what you must... As I will do. See now that one selfless act has the power to change the world!" Emmeryn said with an awe-inspiring speech.

"Emm, no! No!" Chrom starts running to go save his sister before it's too late, but some giant Beowolves block his path. To his aid, the remaining D-Avengers instantly destroy them, clearing a path for Chrom.

"Chrom! Go! HURRY!" Ruby shouted so she and her friends could distract the Grimm long enough for Chrom to make a break across the landscape for Emmeryn. Neither Grimadoom nor Morlun bother stopping the running prince once he passes them, as they silently know it'll be too late once he gets there, but they'll take the time to see how far we travel just for her for the sheer amusement.

BGM-Fire Emblem Awakening OST-No reaction…Was I wrong then?

Emmeryn initially watches Chrom's desperate sprint to save her, silently turning ahead of her face to the edge of the cliff with a stern look. 'No reaction…Was I wrong then?' She thought in her head, watching a bird soaring in the sky. 'Chrom…This is some torch I'm passing you,' She then closes her eyes and bows her head, "Hmph…So be it."

BGM End

Ruby was able to quickly break free from the Grimm and Risen so she could hurriedly catch up with Chrom to help Emmeryn, but Grimadoom nonchalantly trips her to the ground, keeping her and her friends in a time bubble, leaving just a speeding Chrom to the exalt's rescue. Emmeryn opens her eyes and looks up again, this time with a determined and serious expression on her face.

BGM-Fire Emblem Awakening OST-I've never seen one fall so gracefully

She takes a single step forward, now standing on the very edge of the cliff itself. Chrom puts out a hand, signaling Emmeryn to stop what she's about to do, but her gaze remains straight ahead. After a brief pause, she falls, stiff-backed, from the edge of the cliff. She could hear nothing from Chrom's screams as he reaches his hand towards Emmeryn's descending figure, all while she thinks to herself one last time.

'Chrom…Lissa…' The latter standing behind a crumbled wall, covers her eyes and bends over, with Emmeryn not able to hear her painful screams of agony. '…And all of my people.' Emmeryn closes her own eyes as well, 'Know…that I loved you.' She last thought. As the bird disappears into the clouds, Chrom, now walking in tired strides, collapses to his knees in front of Emmeryn's lifeless body, burying his face in his hands, breathing heavily.

"Emm…"

BGM End

Everyone on the field entirely devastated at what just transpired. The Great Exalt of Ylisse, Emmeryn, has committed suicide to save Chrom the anguish of a difficult choice. "Oh gods…" Robin said in utter horror.

"DAMN YOU, GANGREL!" Chrom roared, full of rage and vengeance of the man that pretty much killed his dear sister.

"NOOOOOO!" Lissa cried out in pain that her beloved sister is dead.

Seeing that there's no point, Grimadoom releases the time bubbles on the Avengers, freeing them to mourn for the deceased exalt. "Aye. This is quite the mood-killer. I don't even feel like killing anymore today." He casually said, leaving him wide-open for Ruby to sock him in the face with her bare hands alone. "Yup. I totally deserved that."

"Bwa ha ha haa," laughed an overjoyed Gangrel, extremely happy that stubborn exalt is now dead, after so many years, "Well now! ...How disgustingly noble. And so lovely a fall! Here I thought death to be an ugly thing. I've never seen one fall so gracefully, in fact. ...And I've seen many fall! Ah... So ends Emmeryn, Ylisse's most exalted! But how can we ensure everyone remembers this beautiful moment of her sacrifice? Perhaps we should gather up her body and put it on display! Bwa ha ha..." He continues cackling in sheer joy.

"Gangrel! You die today!" Chrom declared to end this sickening war today.

"No, boy!" Basilio and Flavia appeared on the yard. "I secured an escape route! We have to flee!" He shouted.

"B-But…her body…I have to…" Chrom replied.

"You have to RUN! Now do it! Robin! Don't let him do anything stupid! Scarlet Rose! Retrieve Sonic and Spider-Man!" Basilio ordered.

"On it!" Ruby nodded, quickly picking up the unconscious body of Sonic, making a break for Morlun to rescue Spidey.

"Don't even think about it, child." Morlun said, ready to knock her to hell, but a furious Knuckles and Yang smashes Morlun to the ground and pick up Peter's lifeless body.

"C'mon, Peter! Stay with me! Stay with me! I don't want to lose you!" Yang tearfully said, hugging Peter's body.

"Let's go!" Knuckles ordered, gesturing everyone to hurriedly leave the premises at once.

On a faraway area close to the courtyard, Marth arrived only a little too late as she sees everyone retreating. "No! No…I'm too late…Our bleak future is written once more…And darkness awaits us all."


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Chrom: My name is Chrom, prince to Ylisse. My sister…she's dead. And some of my best friends are too deeply wounded to wake up. This is all my fault. Wh-What can I do now?

Next time on D-Avengers: The Fell Awakening:

Renewal

Chrom: Emm…