The moment you've been waiting for fans. A chapter that finally explains who the hell are the Legion of Subspace and how this huge organization had came to fruition. This is Eggman's time to gain even more screen time for which he is the most popular Sega villain in history. All villains introduced are originally from their respective games, except an established leader for the KapuKapu race and a black shogun to represent the opposing side in the Shogun related Total War games. This chapter sets the stage for how things went before the actual tournament and takes place beforehand.

In the mechanical base of the Eggman Empire, the determined doctor is wondering around in frustration. Near the end of the meeting room stood a red and black capped jester with pale skin and a golden mask. He was smiling as if he was amused by the doctor's immature behavior. Eggman still paced with a frustrated look since he's reminded of every single failure that he had since he first met that dastardly blue hedgehog.

"You are finally cool, Robotnik?" asked the jester.

"Reala, we can never achieve our own goals if we lost that blasted racing tournament a while ago!" yelled Eggman.

"It is just a pointless competition," said Reala, "Wizeman honestly wouldn't care if I lost against NiGHTS in the race."

"Easy for you to say," said Orbot. "The doctor used this race as a judging factor of his brilliance; ergo it had nothing to do with world domination."

Eggman twitched and turned to the spherical snarker as if he had pushed his buttons. This was the same feeling he had towards him for insulting him after his up close encounter with Dark Gaia.

"You better be lucky that I didn't convert you to scrap metal unlike my last six companions!" he barked.

Eggman opens a case he found that revealed six objects: a golden cup, green drill, robotic chicken-esque comb, silver spoon, gray snout, and an orange shape shifting device. Orbot quickly gets into his Compact Form and rolls away in fear after witnessing that. Reala folded his arms and eventually grew impatient with the doctor.

"I might as well head to the Nightmare Realm since things are getting too boring due to your brain fart," he said.

Eggman eventually stops wondering and starts laughing manically to much of Reala's amusement. Before he laughed, he had his usually goofy grin that he makes when he's got that master plan flowing through his mind.

"Say, what interesting tidbits did you pick up," asked the curious Nightmaren.

"I just thought of the most brilliant idea ever," said Eggman.

Reala starts to express his amused attitude by giggling. This amused the doctor as well since at least someone with a brain unlike his metallic sidekicks who praised him for his idea.

"Why don't you tell me, scientific genius," he said.

"Here's how it will go, my frightening friend," said the doctor. "Back when me and my past self was trapped in limbo after our defeat, an unknown force encased us in shadows. I eventually woke up back in the main section of my headquarters with no explanation. I eventually started doing some massive research on that mysterious being that saved me and found some interesting details," Eggman explained.

Reala quivered upon that statement and thought deeply about who could have been responsible for saving Eggman at that time.

He eventually got a serious expression on his face and quickly said, "You don't mean…it's the Dark One?"

"Exactly!" replied Eggman. "This creature was described as the embodiment of chaos and darkness and could alter space at will. It was defeated many times, most notably by a heroine under the name "Landale"".

Reala gets into a more relaxed posture after making that wild guess.

"So I decided to replicate some of that energy to travel back to limbo to recover the remains of the Time Eater and concoct a material known as Subspace," said Eggman. "This marks the first part of our master plan, Reala."

Reala smiles and starts to laugh maniacally after thinking about how big this plan is compared to spreading nightmares in a kid's dreams. He stops laughing and thought of the best way possible to ask this evil genius more about this dastardly plan.

"So, what else is part of the plan?" asked the mischievous Nightmaren.

"We have to create a series of special bombs to spread this Subspace in a certain areas to trap it in an alternate dimension, which could be a part of our new empire," said Eggman. "Though we can't do that without our own army, and I mean more than just ourselves and our men."

Cubot and Orbot are peeking in the corner of the room to record the doctor's plans since they are intrigued by them. The two robots chattered with each other silently about the subject as their master explains more about this idea.

"You mean that we should hire some other villains to join our plan for the Subspace Plan?" said Reala.

Eggman sets up the monitor and started building a special message to send to the other potential partners before answering him.

"Yes, now you can travel to other locations in the world to recruit those who don't have technology with your dream traveling," he responded.

"You can count on me, Robotnik!" said Reala before entering a portal that he created.

The message was sent to certain locations worldwide with the message, "I am Doctor Ivo Robotnik and I have a special message. If you want to rule the world with the help of someone as smart as me, join the Legion of Subspace and help. It's at the Eggman Empire located near the outskirts of Mystic Ruins and all will be revealed."

Reala returned to the meeting room after an hour and informed the doctor on his progress. He seemed tired due to all the travel that he's just done for the sake of this plan going well.

"I ran into as much people as I could and they agreed to meet here soon," he said.

"Perfect," said Eggman, "My messages were all sent and got relatively positive responses."

Reala jokingly said, "You must be having too much fun with this, aren't you?"

"Of course, this is the biggest plan since the release of Dark Gaia," said the pompous doctor.

"Right, I just hope we…" he was eventually interrupted by a gigantic helmeted man breaking through the wall of the room.

"I heard your message, red one, and I'm here to join along with my army," said the infamous Death Adder.

"Good for you, but please use the door next time around!" Eggman said as a few Egg Pawns appear to fix the wall.

A cloaked sorceress appears out of a dark portal and reveals herself as Mishaela.

"I got the message and I'm here to cause some wreckage, fellow members," she said after bowing down.

A blue cloaked space pirate appears beside her along with a gray horned creature that appears out of flames.

"I heard that a scientist that's smarter than my own creator wants to help me obtain my goals," said The Magician.

A large sentient colorful, winged ship can be seen flying around the base while being piloted by a simian scientist with a monocle and bad attitude. A dark skinned pimp struts into the room with his voluptuous, but deadly ho by his side as if he was going to an all villains club. A bald purple cloak wearing man appeared and transforms into a bipedal rhinoceros to much of the other villains' surprise. A brown toy bear waddles into the scene next to a man dressed in Roman attire claiming to be Napoleon and an orange twin legged, feline alien. A black armored shogun appears along with a multi-armed monster, green suited Chinese man, and an obese red demon. Eggman gets intrigued by the large amount of villains that he had recruited and made a smile even bigger than the ones he's usually make.

"Interesting," he said as a silver haired mercenary and green clad Guan Yu appears into the room. A nearly bald mad scientist along with a green haired humanoid demon and wild haired space criminal were the last to arrive.

"Doctor, it's time to explain as I show the plans that we've recorded," said the two robotic sidekicks.

"Orbot and Cubot, how did you….nevermind. I'll just go along with your idea," said the surprised Eggman.

Eggman explains his fantastic plan to the recruited villains as the two henchmen displays the recorded plans to explain everything. A large amount of chattering can be heard amongst the villains as they seem to get interested in the plan. Death Adder didn't really talk that much since he already gets the entire point of the meeting and wants to leave this shoddy base already. Most of them seem OK with the idea except for Purge, who seems to be surprised at how extreme this plan is.

"Do you have any idea how is this going to work without fail, Eggman?" asked Purge.

"Eggman?" said the Black Baron, "I thought this cat's name is Robotnik or some shit."

"I am fine with either name, after all I did call my empire "Eggman"," said Eggman. "To answer your question my crazy haired friend, I was smart enough to harness this energy and that hedgehog has no idea what this is."

"Fair enough, though why do you need our help?" asked Purge.

"As explained in the recordings, this plan requires teamwork and a huge army ergo it could be a success," said the snarky Orbot.

Purge is then "corrected" by KapuKapu, who is fed up with his questions. This cat made a face that can be the equivalent of a rather grumpy cat that never had any sleep.

"Kapupupu Kapukapukapukapu kapukapu kapu!" hissed the space cat.

Purge looks at his translator and gets mad when he knew what naughty phrase the KapuKapu said.

"You smart little pussy!" said Purge the annoyed.

"Silence! Can't you see that our new captain has something to say," said the booming Death Adder.

"Thank you, now I have to set some ground rules while we are together," said Eggman. "Always follow our plans, never double cross us, never go easy on your enemies, and search for the Chaos Emeralds!"

Dr. Bad Boon gets up from his seat and inserts a disk in Orbot's drive to show Eggman something that would eventually make him mad: the fact that Sonic borrowed the 7 Chaos Emeralds for a fighting tournament. Eggman blew a massive gasket since this was something that wasn't a part of the plan at all.

"That blasted hedgehog is using the emeralds for a fighting tournament?" exclaimed Eggman.

"I have a suggestion," said Neff in his rhino form. "That tournament would be the perfect place to strike first and would be the first area to test out these "subspace bombs" that you plan to use," he continued.

Eggman then smiles and responds, "That's not a bad idea at all, Neff. There's plenty of innocent people for them to focus on so that they'd be too distracted by them and our soldiers to care about the bomb's detonation."

Dr. Bad Boon and Dr. Z handed a set of blueprints to Eggman that show the type of design that the bombs should have and how to make it. He chuckles a little and looked back at the scientists.

"Great job, fellow scientists! You two would make perfect partners for bomb making," said the doctor gleefully.

Dr. Z made a sinister smile in response to the remark and Dr. Bad Boon fixed his monocle while smiling.

"Since there are plenty of fallen warriors that could help us like Bles and Balder, perhaps Neff and Max D. Cap can help me revive them with their necromancy magic," suggested Mishaela.

"Speaking of reviving comrades, I did come across some scrap remains that could be used for rebuilding Warhead and Mr. X," said Trouble Bruin.

"Me and Sir Greedy can borrow that subspace to create some of the vilest henchmen for our special army," said the sly Satan.

All the villains gave their suggestions, which gave Eggman hope that he can actually win for once in a life time.

"Then that settles it! Everyone can start mobilizing to make sure that Operation: Subspace Unleashed is commenced," said Eggman as the villains followed his orders.

Reala created a portal for himself, Mishaela, Neff, and Max D. Cap to enter for the necromancy of even more members. Trouble Bruin hops into his pod shaped mech and fly towards the robot labs for the eventual recreation of Warhead and Mr. X with the material he found. Satan and Greedy hovered outside the hole with a few containers of subspace to create the henchmen. Every other villain steps outside to tell their own separate henchmen the overall plan and how to cooperate with each other. They included soldiers, Morolians, Badniks, KapuKapus, zombies, Nightmaren, ninja, thugs, Puyo, Orbs, rogue dinosaurs, samurai, aliens, demons, monkeys, giants, gunmen, ogres, and many more. Eggman supplies Dr. Bad Boon and Dr. Z the material they need to replicate the bombs in the robot factory downstairs. This gave Eggman the opportunity to start building the warships they need for the invasion with the help of Golden Silver and Purge.

Meanwhile, Rokkaku and his massive police force arrive on the scene to impress the others despite being tardy to the party. Within 3 weeks, things were set and ready to launch as things really get serious. The warships were parked outside the base for each person to handle as the henchmen carry the Subspace Corruption Bombs into them. Satan releases the shadowy beings that would later attack Sonic and friends into the slots so that they can be dispensed in a form of smoke. Mishaela steps out of the portal with a few familiar faces like Selvaria Bles, Azel, Father Balder, Dark Raven, Zeed, and the Vortex Queen (who required a bigger portal to leave). Trouble Bruin hovers towards the last warship with the new and improved Warhead and Mr. X, both which looks even stronger thanks to his technology. Eggman hovers towards the Legion of Subspace in a black outfit with a black mask in a new black Eggpod he made.

"Listen, Legion of Subspace! Our plan is to entrap areas with subspace, spread sheer terror and chaos, recollect those emeralds, and destroy our enemies!" he announced.

Every villain and henchman cheered and raised arms to show how serious they are about the plan.

"First, we should head to the Station Square tournament and attack the coliseum. Then, we should demand every emerald those do-gooders own!" he announced before flying to his new Egg Carrier.

Every member boarded their warship and commenced liftoff to start their first terrifying mission. This is indeed the most villainous scheme that the spherical doctor ever had came up with.

This chapter was exciting, wasn't i? Tell you what, I'll focus more on the villains in the next chapter just so you can get to know each of the more in the next chapter. That way you can become connected to each character and know more about each one than the others who talked in this chapter. It's going to take place during the events of the first chapter, but more focused on them. Remember to rate and review if you liked it!