Issue 20: The Conqueror

Divine Dragon Grounds

"And PLEASE stay down," shouted an armored-up Spidey, right after blasting the last remaining Risen to ashes. Before the united heroes raid Walhart's castle to save their captured friends, they decided to retrieve Lady Tiki to further even the odds. Spider-Man, Ruby, Tails, Lucina, and Say'ri led found Tiki sleeping at the sacred Divine Dragon Grounds so she could regain her power, but while she did that, out of nowhere, a never-ending horde of Risen soldiers invaded the place, forcing the heroes to protect her until she was done. After a lengthy battle that dragged out more than it should've, the heroes successfully protected Tiki, leaving themselves totally exhausted.

BGM-Fire Emblem Awakening OST- "You have power... like mine"

"Oh thank goodness…I thought that would NEVER end," panted Ruby, lying on the ground exhausted.

Spidey walks up to greet the waking Tiki with Ero by his side. "Child! Wake up! That's enough sleeping for one millennia." A rude Ero said.

Tiki yawned. "…Oh, hello there, Other."

"Are you unharmed, Lady Tiki?" Say'ri asked the Voice of Naga.

"Yes, thanks to you. I apologize for the delay, but the rite has borne fruit." Tiki replied.

"So you managed to take the power of the divine dragon?" Tails asked.

"Some of it, yes. ...It's strange. This power had always isolated me. Many were the days I wept alone, cursing the charge placed before me..." Tiki said, feeling a little sadden she's been alone for so long, especially after the passing of Marth and her old friends of old.

"That place did seem really boring." Ruby remarked.

"Lady Tiki…" Lucina somberly spoke.

"But now my power has a purpose, and the world needs it to avoid a ruinous future. And so I shall offer it freely. Allow me to join you." Tiki offered her help to end this cause.

"…Are you certain?" Lucina asked.

"I hope so. We just spent 20 minutes facing off an endless undead army." Spidey said, still feeling really sore to the back.

"I am," Tiki nodded. "I've had quite enough of living in solitude, thank you. Besides, I've always longed to better know this world. Now I can help you save it."

"Then let's hurry this up already. I'm itching to seep my stingers in fleshy prey." Ero said, causing Tiki to chuckle.

"The child of the spider, working together with the child of the dragon. I know for certain, with our powers united, we cannot lose." Tiki smiled.

Ero grunted. "Whatever you say. Just don't mess me up."

"Aren't you being rude to the cute, little dragon girl? She could make a good girlfriend for you." Spidey asked his inconsiderate other half.

"She's a child compared to me, boy. And I'm not one into romance. You can have her." Ero replied.

"But I already have a girlfriend." Spidey responded.

"Like that stopped you before?" Ero stoically said.

"Would you shut up?!" Spidey shouted at him, all while Tiki laughs at their bickering, as she does find Spider-Man pretty cute.

Ruby and Tails materialize their Extreme Gears and hop on top of them, ready to ride back to the others. "Excuse me, but what are those…flying sticks?" Tiki asked, not having the faintest idea what a hoverboard is.

"It's our Extreme Gear. We're still practicing for the DX World Grand Prix that's starting soon in our world." Ruby answered happily.

"DX World Grand Prix?" Tiki looked adorably confused when asking this.

"Apparently, milady, it's a racing tournament." Say'ri answered.

"Racing? That sounds like fun. Can I join?" Tiki happily asked.

"Sure!" Ruby replied with a smile.

"I would like to join this "Grand Prix" too." Lucina smiled, as she too is interested in an event she never heard of ever.

"Assuming the world doesn't get destroyed." Peter said so casually, worrying Lucina. He then picks up Tiki like a princess, causing her to blush for a second there, and starts flying to the sky. "C'mon, everyone! We don't have time to waste. We got a castle to raid." He flies off back to camp at mach speed, much to Tiki's delight as she could never fly this fast in her dragon form, with the rest of his team catching up either Ruby's or Tails' Extreme Gear.

BGM End


Outside Valm Castle

With Tiki by their side, the heroes and the entire Ylissean army unites outside the large castle of Valm for the final battle against the Conqueror Walhart and his united empire, but to their constant wonder, they don't spot a single Valmese opposing them, at least not yet anyways.

"…Where is his army?" Chrom asked, wondering why they haven't come out to fight.

"They're still inside. Each and every one of them." Spidey answered, using his spider-sense to confirm his response.

"Hmm…" Robin ponders.

"They're probably buying time. For what, we don't know yet." Sonic guessed.

"Spider-Man. Do we have a plan how we're gonna take down Walhart?" Flavia asked how they're gonna defeat an Exo-powered Walhart that now has infinite strength.

"Not yet. Still working on it." Spidey replied, still thinking of ways to defeat Walhart.

"Is it possible we can take him down," Lissa asked. "If he now has ultimate power, he can wipe us all out with a single axe swing."

"Rule 101 about would-be conquerors, Lissa: Whenever they gain ultimate power, their inflated ego won't allow them to use half of it. We'll be okay." Spider-Man said, speaking from experience with the likes of Thanos or Green Goblin whenever they gain absolute power but rarely use it to their fullest potential, and Walhart is no exception.

"You sure?" Lissa asked.

"Of course. When are we ever wrong?" Ruby smiled in response to her friend, causing Lissa to regain hope and smile brightly in return, as oppose to Blake, who stands idly by herself as she's still worried about the fate of her friends inside the castle.

To comfort her, Sun walks up and puts his hand on her shoulder, getting her attention. "Don't worry. I'm sure they're okay. Who knows? They probably thinking of ways to take down Walhart from the inside." He said, encouraging her to let go of her moody state and smile.


Inside Valm Castle

Scarlet Spider slowly wakes up to find himself stuck in an oval-shaped capsule inside Walhart's throne room. "Where…Where am I…?" He struggles to twist and turn so he could break out, but the electric rings surrounding himself prevents him from moving an inch. "Goddammit." He cursed. He quickly learned he wasn't alone, as he's in the middle of a row of the other captured prisoners, specifically Shadow and Yang on his left, and Amy and Ilia on his right. "Hey! Guys! Are you alright? Answer me!" He shouted, which slowly got them to wake up.

"…Ugh…" Shadow said as his eyes start opening.

"Wh-Where are we…?" Yang asked, still feeling really groggy.

"I think we're in Walhart's castle." Kaine replied after glancing at his surroundings.

"How did we get here…?" Amy asked, still feeling weak.

"Walhart beat our asses." Kaine simply replied, reminding them of how Walhart used the War Stone and easily defeated them and killed Basilio.

"Yeah. Now I remember…" Ilia replied, still not fond of the butt-whopping they received earlier.

Kaine continues his pointless struggle to break free from his little prison, but with each attempt, the capsule electrocutes all his nerve cells, causing him great pain whenever he puts the smallest of effort in escaping. "Darn it…" He panted heavily.

"It's no use! Give up this useless resistance!"

BGM-Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) - Theme of Dr. Eggman

The maniacal Dr. Eggman walks into the throne room, accompanied by the sinister Dr. Octopus, both here to greet their awakened guests. "I see you're all awake now." Eggman laughed.

"Eggman! And Octavius!" Scarlet growled, struggling to break loose once again, only to get shocked once again.

Octavius chuckled. "It's futile, Scarlet Spider. There is no room to escape."

"Maybe if you had a Chaos Emerald, but I took the liberty of harboring it for myself while you were asleep," Eggman holds out the green Chaos Emerald that was in Shadow's possession, taunting the dark hedgehog while he's imprisoned. The evil genius also takes out the sixth red Chaos Emerald he found on this world. "I even found another Chaos Emerald for my own. Hahaha!"

"So, instead of finishing us off, you kept us alive to gloat over!" Yang smirked, still injured.

"Crushing you is easy! Crushing your spirit is worth the extra effort!" Eggman smirked to her face.

"You're so corny."

"Just be glad we're locked up here. After what you bastards did to Basilio, I won't rest until you and Walhart are a bloody smear on my fist!" Kaine threatened.

"You truly are different from Spider-Man when it comes to making threats. Too bad you're both the same when you can't live up to them." Doc Ock sinisterly grinned.

"Just watch." Kaine said with a menacing tone.

"Yeah! Once Sonic learns what happened to us, you'll both be sorry!" Amy proclaimed until she heard the disgusting chuckle coming from a walking Excellus and Cervantes entering the throne room.

"Your foolish friends have no idea what they've just stepped into! Eee hee!" Excellus chuckled.

"And what have you stepped into? An ocean pile of ugly?" Kaine insulted the Valmese tactician.

"You…" Excellus glares at Kaine with murderous intent.

"Ahhh. Excellus. Cervantes. Are you ready for the end of this war? Once we defeat the heroes, world domination is entirely in our grasps." Eggman asked.

"Mmm, the anticipation before a battle. My hairs stand on end—every one of them! Makes it difficult to brush, if I may say... But today's struggle will set the course of history, once and for all." Cervantes said.

"Today's "struggle," Cervantes? I think you mean today's SLAUGHTER." Excellus chuckled.

"I like the way you think, Excellus." Octavius grinned.

"The Resistance will destroy itself, all of us needn't so much as lift a finger. The Ylissean League thinks the dynasts no longer fear us... But they don't understand how...persuasive my methods can be! Hya ha ha! They'll know once they see their former friends with knives to their backs!" Excellus said.

"Chives and flapjacks, you say?" Cervantes scratched his confused beard.

"The battle is won before it's started, and without us risking any further casualties! Hya ha! Brilliant, if I do say so myself. And really, no one else is capable of judging... Ah well... Tea, Cervantes? My dear scientists? I have a stash of gray-root blend here...simply divine..." Excellus offered.

"Why Excellus, thank you. It IS quite a divine 'stache, isn't it, eh wot!" Cervantes said, misinterpreting his fellow general's words as always.

"He means "STASH," bearded moron!" Eggman yelled at him, confusing him even more.

"Huh?"

Yang laughed, mocking them of their glorious stupidity. "What a bunch of goofballs."

Excellus sighed. "If only there were someone with the intellect to appreciate my talents…"

"Ahem. We're standing right here, you know." Octavius gave the pathetic tactician a deadpan stare when he blatantly forgotten he and Eggman are the only other intellect individuals around him, as well as one other.

"Cervantes." Walhart walks into the throne room, gathering everyone's quick attention and Excellus' worry.

"Walhart…" Shadow growled, as well as Scarlet when they see the Exo-powered conqueror in their sights.

"Y-yes, my master!" Cervantes replied nervously.

"Who is the pinnacle of man, in body, mind, and spirit? Who is greater than the gods?" Walhart asked with such a daunting voice it scares his men, except for Eggman and Octavius, to the hairs.

"Your mom." Kaine interrupted, receiving an agonizing energy blast from Walhart's Exo Stone for his disrespect against his absolute superior.

"Scarlet!" Ilia shouted.

"Only you, my master!" Cervantes replied.

"Don't forget about us." Eggman responded, grinning alongside Ock.

"Well, Excellus, that seems to contradict your last statement. What say you?" Walhart asked his worthless tactician.

"...M-my master! I assure you, I meant no offense! I only celebrate achievements in your service, master. To your glory." Excellus said.

"Glory is won on the battlefield! Glory is meeting your enemy's eyes and watching the hope drain away with his life... Glory is not won holed up in a castle with plots and cowardly schemes. And I'll be dead before I let some dynast farm lord take today's glory in my stead." Walhart explicitly told him.

"Oh, why yes, of course! And so well put, my master, hya ha... I only meant that—." Before Excellus could fully explain his reasoning, however, Walhart ignores him and walks away, as he doesn't see him worthy of his time any longer.

"That sick mind of yours sees much, Excellus. That much is certain. But for someone so clever, you really can be quite daft." Cervantes mocked the tactician.

"What?! You DARE speak to me like some child? ...Like your EQUAL?!" Excellus responded in offense.

"Ta ha ha! Your equal? No, fear not. I will never think of you as my equal, worm. Now if you'll excuse me, I would shave and wax up before the fight..." Cervantes leaves Excellus to Eggman and Octavius.

"Broom-faced twit! To hell with him...with the both of them!" Excellus cursed on his supposed "superiors."

"Calm down, Excellus. We still have our mission to accomplish, remember," asked Octavius, implying of some other mission that involves the three of them, entirely separate from Walhart's war. "Try to keep your wits in the meantime."

"Pfft. Fine. Let Walhart charge ahead, the big, stupid lobster…WE'LL end up on the winning side one way or another!" Excellus laughed.

"It's only a matter of time." Eggman punned, causing all three of them to laugh as they exit the throne room, leaving behind their imprisoned prisoners.

BGM End

"That was weird. Wonder what they were talking about?" Amy wondered.

"Who cares?! It doesn't matter if we can't break free!" Yang tries to use her immense strength to break free from her capsule, but like Kaine, gets shocked to hell for making the slightest bit of effort. "Damn it! Isn't there ANYTHING we can do?!"

"I might have an idea." Scarlet announced.

"So, what're waiting for? The author's permission? Just do whatever you're thinking and bust us out of here!" Yang replied.

"No. Not yet." Kaine replied.

"Why?!"

"Let's wait and see how things turn out, then I'll cut us loose." Kaine said.

Yang scoffed. "If you weren't a cute clone of Spider-Man, I would continue arguing," Yang sighed. "Alright. Let's wait things out."

"Hope you know what you're doing." Shadow said to the clone.

"Not entirely, but let's have faith things will go smoothly. Roughly." Kaine said, secretly hoping Peter succeeds outside if he wants his little escape plan to work.


Outside Valm Castle

After so long of waiting for Emperor Hornhead to show himself, the Ylissean Army finally meets the ruthless conqueror himself, standing menacingly in front of thousands of his united soldiers while Walhart's on horseback.

"Well, well, well. Look who finally decided to show his ugly mug?" Sonic cockily smirked as they confront the conqueror.

"That's him, isn't it?" Chrom asked Say'ri. "Walhart…Brave of him to face us."

"Brave? Aye. But more likely he just wants to enjoy this himself." Say'ri said.

Walhart takes a few steps further so he could properly greet his challengers. "You do your sister's legacy proud, Prince! But humanity already has a savior."

"Me? Is he talking about me? Oh, I'm sure he's talking about me." Spidey babbled.

"Not you, insect! A conqueror who broke stronger men than you when they refused to bow." Walhart replied in annoyance of Spider-Man's childish attitude.

"Who are you talking about? Are you talking "Kang the Conqueror," because he was more of a "conqueror" and slightly more intimidating than whatever you are trying to be?" Spidey mocked the Valm conqueror, visibly angering Walhart to no end.

"Insolent bug," shouted Walhart. "I am going to "savor" tearing the supposed "Hero-Spider" to pieces! Warriors of Valm! Ride with me now! Together we will stamp out this final pack of insurgents and unite the world!" Upon their master's command, the Valmese Army rush towards the Ylisseans.

BGM-Sonic X OST-Battle

"This is it!" Ruby said, holding her scythe to her side.

"It's showtime!" Sonic shouted as they all head to fight their common enemy. Chrom swifts strikes through enemy forces, avoiding the castle's and fort's upgraded cannonballs that are trying to kill him. Thankfully for the prince, those cannons didn't touch him once Sonic homing attacked them while riding on one of the two King Taijitu Weiss summoned, with the heiress commanding her pets to destroy everything in sight, which they promptly do.

"One for the bards!" Virion, riding a Taijitu, shoots down a few Valmese wyvern knights in the sky, while Knuckles jumps down from one to devastate the Valmese with a powerful earthquake punch.

"Oh yeah! Who's next?! Who's next?!" Knuckles eagerly asked, working together with Robin to demolish the incoming drones and/or human foe with their combo attacks.

"Checkmate!" Robin declared after activating his Ignis ability to his Elthunder and destroying the surrounding goons.

On another side of the battlefield, Maribelle and Lissa are healing some of their men while Ruby was in the middle of protecting them from harm's way. She swiftly combos her opponents at blasting speeds, quickly splitting her scythe into short dual-wield, energy scythes to unleash even more mayhem. "Don't blink!" She quipped while smashing a mage into Henry's position so he could discharge them with a powerful dark magic blast.

"What a "dark" defeat that was." Henry chuckled at his pun, causing Ruby to roll her eyes in cringe, finding her sister's and Spidey's puns a little funnier than this weirdo.

Speaking of Spidey, he's seen teaming up with the two transforming manakete of the group to burn a lot of butts that are trying to overwhelm them with sheer numbers. "So many faces for me to punch. I have totally hit the jackpot!" Spidey strikes down his foes with his mechanical waldoes before smashing them with his giant aura fist thanks to the Other's powers.

Nowi burns a whole group of Eggman's E-2000 robots all by herself, leaving Tiki to destroy the bots that would've blind-sighted the young manakete. "It's so awesome working together with another manakete." Nowi said in happiness.

"Same here." Tiki responded.

"Hey, dragon girls! A little help would be nice!" Spidey said while shooting DX-Tech powered web bullets at his foes from his morphing spider gauntlets.

"We're right with you, Spider-Man." Tiki said. She and Nowi unleashed a combined fire blast that takes down a good portion of Spider-Man's opponents, leaving the webhead to defeat the rest with a giant energy Kumodama sphere formed from his spider-legs, blowing them away with a devastating explosion.

BGM End

Walhart grows annoyed to see most of his men falling to the hands of his enemies, especially to such outworlders who have no place or say in how to save this world, believing only he alone can save the world from its incoming threats. "Call in the reinforcements! Let the cavalry rain upon them like a blizzard of swords! And where is the doctor? His precious mech should be mobilized this instant!" He shouted, referring to Eggman when calling for him. Soon, the conqueror finds himself confronted with the annoying rats that are actually his enemies: Chrom, Robin, Lucina, and the remaining D-Avengers led by Spider-Man.

"Alright, Walter. I'm only going to ask this once: What have you done with our friends?" Spidey asked the conquering king of Valm.

"You have nothing to worry, insect." Walhart answered but not explicitly.

"What does that supposed to mean?" Blake asked with a sinister glare.

"You better have not laid a finger on them, for your sake." Lucina threatened.

"Why do you fools resist me?" Walhart asked his enemies.

"You enslave the weak and kill the able. You are the enemy of peace." Chrom answered.

"I would end the reign of the gods, and you object on moral grounds?! Blood is spilled in any new birth, Prince. And in many a just cause, as you know..." Walhart responded.

"That's not a reason to start a war. You've put so many innocent people at risk." Spidey said.

"Says the child harboring a monster of a god." Walhart said, aware of Peter possessing the highly powerful, and extremely dangerous Other inside his body. Peter stays silent as he continues to hear what Walhart has to say. "You, the hero that will save our world? Don't be ridiculous. You are a freak! A menace! Neither man nor beast! If not disposed properly, you will become a danger to this world, just like the fell dragon!"

"I can say the same thing about your breath, but will I complain? No, 'cause I am polite like that." Spidey casually joked as this isn't the first time someone called him a menace to the world.

"I am going to kill you, insect. Once you and that monster you've bonded to is gone, I will unite this world!" Walhart said.

'Never thought I meet a human so idiotic and unthreatening.' Ero stoically said in Peter's subconscious. Despite the insults, Ero doesn't really care if he's called a "monster of a god." He'll just keep fighting a good fight, just like his human half.

"That is no justification for what you've done." Chrom said to Walhart.

"By whose laws do you judge me? Yours? Your sister's? The gods'?" Walhart asked.

"You cannot—."

"Look at you! Are you not ashamed?" Walhart asked the prince. "Your mind is filled with nothing but secondhand beliefs. You dance upon the stage of your gods like a mindless puppet! THAT is what I reject: being a slave to tradition, to obligation. The old ways. Damn the gods! Damn their fates and their destinies! I will have true freedom! Any man who offers less is my enemy." Walhart intervened loudly.

"This guy's nuttier than a fruitcake." Sonic shrugged.

"Enough! I don't require every detail of your twisted philosophy. You're a villain and a murderer, plain and simple. And I am the justice you deserve." Chrom said, ready to fight, along with his friends.

Walhart laughed as the War Stone's energy slowly develops his body with power. "Better, Prince. Much better! Be not an agent of someone else's justice, but justice itself! Now, let us fight as two great men, freed of their gods. I grant any challenger the chance to test his will against my own... But you, too, shall be found wanting!"

"Get ready to be kicked out of the market, Walmart!" Spidey mocked.

"Is that good news you and Robin thought of a way to beat him?" Weiss asked.

"Not really," said a casual Spidey and Robin, causing Weiss to sigh. "I just need a few minutes to scan his armor, then maybe I can-." Holding that thought, Spidey surrounds his friends in an energy force field once his spider-sense warned him of a fire blast coming from a giant, mechanized dragon that shares the same characteristics and color scheme of the fell dragon, Grima, though not nearly as large as the original.

BGM-Shadow the Hedgehog OST-E.G.G.M.A.N. (Doc. Robeatnix Mix)

"It-It can't be…" Lucina stutters in fear, thinking this dragon is truly Grima already resurrected, but that quickly proved to be false once they heard the familiar laughter coming from Dr. Eggman, riding his new mech on its head.

"Dr. Eggman!" Sonic recognized his arch-nemesis.

"It's about time you arrived, doctor." Walhart said to his genius accomplice.

"Excuse me for arriving a little late. Here I am! Piloting my brand-new Egg Dragon, to burn away the pesky vermin that thinks they can win a war!" Eggman maliciously chuckled to his adversaries.

"This looks different from the last Egg Dragon I broken down to scrap." Sonic taunted.

"This's the EGG DRAGON! Not Egg Dragoon!"

"I don't care what it's called. You created a machine based on Grima. Why? He's a demon. A monster that'll soon destroy the world." Lucina told the egg-shaped Doc.

"I know. The perfect image to spread fear and terror across the land. And thanks to the two Chaos Emeralds I have, my mech is as strong as the original, possibly even stronger!" Eggman laughed.

"Is he bluffing?" Chrom asked, looking just as worried as his daughter.

"Most likely. Eggman likes to exaggerate to the maximum." Tails calmly replied.

"Hehe. If you don't believe me, how about I show you, personally, a glimpse of my power." Eggman said, prepping his mech dragon for battle.

"Bring it on, Eggman! I can take you on, all by myself!" Sonic proclaimed. He turns to Spidey, "You guys try to survive against Walhart. Meanwhile, I'm going to enjoy cracking Egghead open!"

"Wait! Are you sure?!" Lucina immediately objected, thinking that Sonic doesn't stand a chance if this mech truly is as strong as Grima.

"Be my guest." Spidey gives his blue friend a fist bump, and before he knows it, Mobius's fiercest arch-enemies tangle blows once more.

BGM End

BGM-Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) OST-Egg-Wyvern Boss

"You keep getting in my way, you pesky little hedgehog! I'm going to enjoy taking you out myself!" Eggman declared, firing multiple lasers emitting from the air to attack the fleeting, speeding hedgehog.

"Right back at ya! I'll finish this here!" Sonic smirked. The blue blur runs past all of Eggman's laser blasts so he could run up the walls of Valm Castle and bounce off them for a spinning homing attack on the egg cockpit.

"Hah! Miss me!" Eggman flies aside to avoid Sonic's attack. As the hedgehog lands in the middle of the battlefield, he starts charging right at him while he's temporarily vulnerable. "Here I come, Sonic!"

Spotting the large horn on its head, Sonic leaps into the air just as Eggman was about to pierce his body with his horn. Sonic gleefully homing attacks the horn so he could hold onto it, thinking it should be possible to stir the mech to danger. "Is this robot allergic to cannon balls? Let's test out that theory." Sonic grinned as he spots the cannons mounted to Walhart's Castle.

"Wait! What are you planning?!" Eggman asked in worry. The mad scientist clashes with the hedgehog over control of the Egg Dragon, but Sonic was successful in directing the mech into the right side of the castle, tricking the automated cannons to shoot at the dragon, causing serious damage to the mech. And to add insult to injury, Sonic crashes the robot into the right side of the castle, causing part of the castle to collapse on top of it.

"Eggman! Be careful! You're destroying my castle!" Walhart shouted while defending himself from the persistent heroes' attacks.

"You…I'm just getting started!" Eggman fires multiple missiles from the shoulders, just for Sonic to leap from them, kicking a few right back at Eggman before he feels a metal-breaking spin attack to the cockpit that sends him crashing to the right side of Valm Castle.

"Eggman! How hard is it to exterminate a simple rat?!" Walhart asked, now irritated by the slow destruction of his castle.

"There is nothing "simple" about this rat! Now keep quiet!" Eggman replied after getting his robot airborne.

"You DARE speak that tone to me?!" Walhart asked before Blake kicked him in the face.

"Hey, Eggman! What's the matter? Experiencing some difficulties?" Sonic taunted his egg foe.

"Nothing that can't be fixed!" Eggman presses a button that launches a chilling ice beam at Sonic from his tail. Sonic quickly retreats, directing the beam to freeze some of Walhart's strongest soldiers. While running, Sonic spots a fort that has its own cannon. He hops back of the weapon and directs it to shot down Eggman from the sky.

"This is it, Eggman! Prepare for another humiliating defeat!" Sonic declared while weakening the Egg Dragon.

"I am not losing! Not again!" Leaving him no other choice, Eggman charges his fire blast to maximum while avoiding Sonic's cannon balls. Once he reaches full power, he blasts Sonic with everything he's got, obliterating the fort and everyone inside it, including Sonic. "Hahaha! How do you like THAT?! Toasty, wasn't it?" Eggman punned, thinking his arch-nemesis is dead for the umpteenth time when it's clearly not the case. A bright red light suddenly flashes from the destroyed fort, blinding Eggman's vision for quick moment for a certain Red Star Ring-powered hedgehog to pierce through the Egg Dragon with a single strike. "No! It can't be!" Eggman said in denial while trying to regain control of his mech. The Egg Dragon starts to blow itself up and falls on top of an unsuspecting Walhart before it completely explodes.

"Nice one, Sonic!" Ruby cheered for the heroic hedgehog as he lands on the ground, holding the fifth and sixth Chaos Emeralds he recovered from the Egg Dragon.

"If the original Grima is this hard, then we have nothing to worry about." Sonic gave Lucina confident thumbs up that they can certainly beat Grima if he ever revived, making the future princess really, really relieved.

BGM End

Unsurprising to no one, both Eggman and Walhart survived the explosion thanks to the latter's Exo Stone which formed a barrier to protect them both. "You have failed me, doctor." Walhart berated his "partner."

Eggman growled. "At least I actually put in effort! The only reason you haven't lost yet is because of MY armor and that Exo Stone!" He shouted, but Walhart is left unfazed.

"And he's going to lose, right here and now!" Chrom declared, standing beside his friends and allies.

"Hmph. You think you have won? You blow as if to douse a candle, but you only stoke the fires of hell!" Walhart and Eggman retreated back into the castle with the help of their men covering for their escape.

"Walhart has retreated into the capital! Fie, will this war never end?!" Say'ri wondered.

"Darn. Just when I figured out a way to beat him." Spidey said, now knowing how to actually beat Walhart and his Exo Armor after scanning it during their brief fight.

"His men gave their lives to secure his escape. Guess they won't lay down until he does." Blake commented.

"Then we must pursue and see that the deed is done." Lucina stated.

Suddenly, loud shouting can be heard approaching the castle. "Whoa. Incoming." Knuckles warned his friends of the swarming dynasts surrounding the Ylisseans.

"Damn! We're surrounded! The dynasts ride against us!" Chrom said, ready to battle against the former Resistance.

"Wait just a sec! Something's different about them." Ruby noticed but can't properly answer what is different.


Inside Valm Castle

BGM-Fire Emblem Awakening OST- "Now, that's a declaration of war if I've ever heard one!"

Excellus has been informed of the battle from a common soldier and is greatly shocked to hear Walhart was defeated, albeit temporarily. "H-he lost? But how...? How could the Conqueror be conquered?! He's insurmountable! Incontestable! Invincible! ...But then that means... Oh my... Good-bye, then! Do see to it that—." The nervous tactician, having learned of Walhart's "loss," was about to make his escape when he unintentionally ran into his emperor.

"Going somewhere, tactician?" Walhart asked him.

"M-master! I... I was just coming to make sure you were all right. Are you hurt?" Excellus nervously responded.

"Rally our forces in the capital. We will put an end to this here." Walhart strictly ordered.

"At once, my master. Only... Have you considered, perhaps, waiting just one day? I do have the dynasts and their men on the way. With them to help us, we—."

"Have you seen the battlefield? No, I suppose not. Take your head from wherever it's lodged, and peer out into the daylight, snake. I'm sure your mighty intellect will quickly understand what's happened. Though if you had half the mettle of that Ylissean tactician, you'd already know..." Walhart said.

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"M-Master, I don't-." As Excellus was speaking to his "lord and master," the Valmese soldier informs his superiors of what's currently happening outside the capital.

"The dynasts, sir! From the southlands! They are making to siege the capital!" He said.

"But that's...that's impossible. We had an agreement! Just like I had with... Oh dear... The southern dynasts... Did they find out about Yen'fay?" Excellus gasped in horror.


Back Outside Valm Castle

BGM-Fire Emblem Awakening OST- "Don't you put any stock in this destiny hogwash!"

"What's happening?" Sun asked in confusion of the now helping dynasts.

"This…boggles the mind…" Say'ri said, also visibly confused.

"Do you recognize them?" Chrom asked her.

"Aye, sir. They're from the southlands…States that betrayed us for the empire...Or so I thought." Say'ri answered him.

"Well, their allegiance seems clear enough now." Flavia remarked.

"I can hardly believe it... Theirs are the lands my brother commanded. Finally, now, they come to answer the call?" Say'ri questioned.

"Only because they TOO want to honor Yen'fay's sacrifice." A sudden Silver Samurai walks up to greet the heroes.

"Silver Samurai. So you're the one that rounded up the dynasts." Spidey said.

"Aye. Now it is time we end this war, just like I promised you, Say'ri." Silver Samurai said to the younger sister of his deceased comrade.

"Aye. Thank you for your kindness, Silver Samurai." Say'ri said, grateful for enemy-now ally helping them in their darkest hour.

"It's taken a lot of hard work to get here, Say'ri. A lot of sacrifice. From you, from Basilio, from your brother. Don't forget this moment." Flavia told her.

"Aye, my lady. Aye." Say'ri kindly smiled.

"Now, let us finish what we began. Are you ready, Spider-Man?" Chrom asked his co-commander.

Spider-Man smirked underneath his mask, as his eyes glow and his body starts to surround itself in an energy web cocoon, meaning it's time to finalize for the final battle against Walhart. "Yeah. Me and Ero are ready to go wild!" With a loud beasty roar, Spidey and Ero fuse together, perfect finalizing into the divine primal state of Shin Black Ace Spider-Man, much to the astonishing awe of Lucina, Say'ri, and Tiki, as they never felt a power so close to rival the gods. "Ylisseans assemble! Let's go have ourselves a grand party!" He said with such a cocky bravado.

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Sonic: I'm Sonic! Sonic the Hedgehog! It's an all-out war between us and Walhart. With his Exo Stone, Walhart is practically unbeatable, but Spidey has a plan that'll give us an edge to take him down. Let's go, Walter! Your reign over Valm ends today!

Next time on D-Avengers: The Fell Awakening:

The Web, the Sword or the Knee

Sonic: Heh. Spidey's pretty cocky when he finalizes, huh?


KFX Here: First, I want to address the "Kaine x Blake" pairing. I know some of you in the review section don't really like this pairing and can see it as "forced" (Even though there were some development between the two around the ending of Spider-Island DX, and it's implied they've been working together for the past month at Houston since Spider-Island DX). I understand. That's okay. The only reasons I decided to try out this pairing because: One, they both have troubled backstories. Two, I wanted to give Blake the mentor role over Kaine to teach him in becoming a better person, similar to how she was the apprentice to her former mentor, Adam. And three, because spiders ALWAYS seem to have a weird attraction to cats and vice versa (cough *Spider-Man and Black Cat*), so I might as well keep that tradition going strong. If you still don't like this pairing, there's still room for development in the future, and I don't mind some advice, as long as you're not assholes about it. And if you still don't like this pairing, tough shit.

Now to describe what is "Black Ace" and "Red Joker" Spider-Man for those that didn't read Battle for Remnant:

The Ultimate Totem Fusion between man and spider, Shin Spider-Man. Thanks to his armor which is powered by ISO-8 energy (or in this case his DX Tech Node which was created from the Exo Chaos Stone), Spider-Man can "finalize" with the Spider-Totem God, the Other into either the hypersonic Black Ace or monstrous strength Red Joker, both which are further enhanced to their "Shin Variants" thanks to the "Perfect Synchro" ability they obtained in Flaming Web of Light and Shadow.

Shin Spider-Man's personality is a mixture of both Peter and Ero's characteristics. Like Peter, he's extremely cocky and loves to taunt his foes, but at the same time can be absolutely dangerous and aggressive like Ero. Possessing a lifetime of a mystic spider warrior's combat experience, combined with the scientific ingenuity and creativity of a teenager, either form of Shin Spider-Man is the ultimate transdimensional fighter for any situation, easily a threat to anyone that dares challenge him.

(And yes, I took a page from Megaman Starforce 3, because I love that game)