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## Mobius-2 (Archie Sonic Comic Universe)

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* Inhabitants
* Map of Mobius
* Planet Mobius

Mobius-2 is a universe within the Sonic Multiverse, this is the home of the Sonic Archie comic series. Where Sonic and his friends face off against the Tyrant Eggman as the Freedom Fighters. They face off with other threats that threaten their peace over Mobius.

## History of Mobius-2 (Archie Sonic Comic Universe)

### Attack on Earth

The Xorda's wrath was incurred upon Earth when an envoy they sent to Earth was captured, imprisoned, and dissected by human scientists. In retaliation, the aggressive Xorda race declared war on Earth. Fearing the impending full-scale Xorda invasion and destruction of humanity, the Hidden City Initiative was enacted. For this project, a handful of small, self-sufficient cities were constructed in concealment and out of view from the Xorda invasion, which were meant to preserve humanity. At the time the Xorda launched their Gene Bombs, only a fraction of the human population had been evacuated to these cities. Unbeknownst to them, some survived, and eventually swelled to repopulate the planet.

The energy of the bomb caused the mutation of many animal species into the anthropomorphic Mobians that now inhabit it, as well as the creation of Mobius' Chaos Emeralds. This latter fact was cast into doubt however when the source of this information—a 12,000 year old robot named Isaac—was revealed to have most of its data corrupted and/or erroneous when he was hacked into by Dr. Finitevus. Over the next thousands of years, as the Earth's surface changed radically over the eons, the hidden cities created by the Hidden City Initiative established a network of communication and trade.

### Isaac

He was created in the distant past by Professor Niven Clarke and was subservient to Dr. Ivan Kintobor. Activated when the Xorda aliens launched their first assault on Mobius, he monitored Kintobor while he was in stasis in his bunker. He is an Alpha 100 Series Mechanoid built over 10,000 years ago. He has a head of Development Team, Doctor Ivan Kintobor, a hardware designer Professor Clarke and software programmer Doctor Niven.

### The First Day of Fury

The first Day of Fury occurred approximately 12,000 years ago, several decades after the Xorda race attacked the planet via the Gene Bombs. The bombs, which were supposed to preserve the planet's environment as it was at the time of their use, instead triggered massive volcanic reactions on a global scale, which hurled billions of tons of dirt and ash into the planet's atmosphere, preventing most sunlight from reaching the planet for over a thousand years

### Saurian Age

The mobosaurs were created as a side-effect of the Xorda's Gene Bombs, which broke down all life on Earth into its most basic components. After thousands of years, mobosaurs began to rise out of the primordial soup created, ushering the beginning of the Saurian Age. However, all the mobosaurs were soon eliminated by the Coming of the Chaos Emeralds, with the exception of three mobosaurs who learned to harness the powers of Chaos Emeralds, which allowed them to become the Ancient Walkers. The Ancient Walkers would use their newfound power to oversee and protect Mobius for thousands of years, in addition to tutoring Aurora and Enerjak, and cursing Mammoth Mogul's Chaos Emerald.

### Coming of the Chaos Emeralds & The Second Day of Furry

The Second Day of Fury occurred roughly 10,000 years ago, when the remaining energies of the Gene Bombs reacted with beryl deposits beneath the planet's surface, forming the Chaos Emeralds. Once formed, This resulted in bizarre weather changes which wiped out the Mobosaurs. However, three Mobosaurs, later known as the Ancient Walkers, managed to survive, having obtained the Chaos Emeralds during their arrival on the planet and gained god-like powers, wisdom and insight from the emeralds.

### 10,000 Years ago - The Ancient Walkers Rise to Godhood

Originally a trio of Mobosaurs-a pterodactyl and two earthbound species-the Ancient Walkers were alive in the time during the *Coming of the Chaos Emeralds* where they first discovered and began tapping into the power of the Chaos Emeralds. At some point they reached a state of higher being through a connection to the Chaos Force, which led them to become the defenders of Mobius. During this period, they predicted the rise of three heroes-Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles, the latter two also known as the Chosen One and the Avatar-who would bring harmony to Mobius through a variety of means.

### Mammoth Mogul (9,000 Thousand years ago)

Mogul was originally a woolly mammoth in the early history of Mobius, some 8,000 years ago due to his association with fellow prehistoric mobian, Mobies. Born some time after the Ancient Walkers and always dreaming of gaining more from life. One day, a Chaos Emerald fell from the sky and became embedded in his chest, granting him enormous power. Despite his vast abilities, Mogul lacked the knowledge of the Chaos Emeralds to correctly wield them, and was driven from his herd. With the immortality the emerald granted him, Mogul lived for centuries, becoming wise and powerful, and founded what would become the mystical Order of Ixis.

### Mobians (10,000- 9,000 years ago)

These Gene explosives caused the native animals of the planet to mutate and rapidly evolve, growing larger and more intelligent. When the aliens returned, they realized that the new dominant species contained a 'sizable percentage of human DNA'.

### **Source of All**

Brave-Light visited Mobius-2 for his thousand year check up. Once he was done, he gifted Mobius with the Source of All, which will choose a brave and pure of heart as a born leader.

### Alexander Acorn

As the various species on Mobius began to develop following the devastation of the planet caused by both the Xorda's destructive attack and the natural disasters around the planet that followed, Alexander noticed that the various species had particular skills and unique abilities. He decided that if the various mobian species were to work together, substantial progress could be made. Alexander had hoped to include the Echidnas in his community, but they chose to isolate themselves and form their own colonies, as they had not only developed at a far greater rate, but felt the knowledge they could provide might be more harmful to Alexander's community than good.

Additionally, Alexander attempted to appeal to the Overlanders, but their aggressive tendencies proved them incompatible with the mobians. However, the various other mobian species which did ally under his banner formed the first multicultural city on Mobius—Mobotropolis. Due to his insights and his leadership, the mobians made him king following the creation of Mobotropolis. He was succeeded in rule by his son Theodore Acorn.

### Overlanders

Some time after the Xorda attack, the Overlanders were still a barbaric species. The Mobian Alexander attempted to integrate them into his all-species society of Mobotropolis, but their aggressive tendencies made it too dangerous.

Unlike their Mobian counterparts, who wished to preserve the environment and therefore remained locked in the medieval age for centuries, the Overlanders hit the industrial age and later the atomic age, developing their capital city of Megapolis in the North-Western hemisphere.

### Origin of G.U.N

The Guardian Units of the Nation were formed to protect the last remnants of the human race that survived the devastation of the Xorda Gene Bombs. As various human cities managed to make contact with one another, they formed the organization in order to ensure their safety, particularly as they recognized that their world was home to strange new forms of life, such as the Mobians. Unfortunately, they developed a rather merciless approach to their mission, and it was rarely necessary.

### Mutates

This is a probable scenario given that the Xordas' Gene Bombs caused the Days of Fury as well as the mutations of the animal and human populations present millennia prior. Others like Nate Morgan have devoted some study of them and believe they are products of the forgotten wars from Mobius' less-distant past. In any case, it would appear they have been around long enough to earn the fear and respect from Mobians and Overlanders alike due to their violent natures and general aggressiveness.

### Dragons

Like all other Mobians, they were a bi-product of mutation by the Xorda's Gene Bombs. Dragons had lived in harmony with inhabitants of Mobius up until very recent times.

### Aurora

Long ago, Aurora, originally named Aurora-La, was an Echidna researcher who researched the Chaos Force alongside her husband, Enerjak. Their research caught the attention of the Ancient Walkers, who allowed them to ascend into the Chaos Force to continue their research and gain greater knowledge of the Force; however, during the ascension, Enerjak became corrupt with power and turned against Aurora-La and the Ancient Walkers. Since he was too powerful to outright destroy, they spread his spirit amongst the Chaos Force. Later on, Aurora-La changed her name to just Aurora and created the three Echidna Tomes. Ever since, she has worked to spread enlightenment throughout the world.

### Enerjak

Enerjak was originally a Chaos energy scientist who lived and worked in Albion with his love Aurora-La. They progressed in their work to the point where they attracted the attention of the Ancient Walkers and were allowed to ascend into the Chaos Force to gain greater knowledge. However, Enerjak became corrupted during his transcendence and turned against Aurora and the Walkers. He was too powerful to be destroyed, so they scattered him throughout the Chaos Force. His dark spirit lingered on though, destined to eternally manifest through future echidnas.

### Albion

For many years, the Echidnas lived there in contentment, choosing a policy of isolationism due to their obvious superiority. However, there were those among them who were adventurous, and two groups departed, the one founding what is currently Echidnaopolis, the other forming a tribal colony in the Mysterious Cat Country.

### Return of Mammoth Mogul

After roughly 200 years had passed since his dethroning, Mogul was able to learn the fundamentals of the powers provided by the Chaos Emerald within him, such as Crystalline Magic. His magical abilities inspired others to join him, who eventually learned the Ixis Magicks from Mogul himself. With a new group of followers, Mogul formed his Order of Ixis, and would attempt to retake his place as ruler of Mobius.

### Order of Ixis

Founded by Ixis Mogul, who developed much of the Order's knowledge as he gained increased understanding of his Chaos abilities, the Order soon drew other beings who were interested in obtaining power through the natural forces on Mobius. Eventually, this group became involved in a war with the Albion Knights of Aurora known as the Forgotten War, which ended with the Order's defeat and destruction.

### Albion's Development

Unlike the other Mobian species on the planet, the Echidnas were developing at an exponential rate. Having settled into their colony of Albion, the Echidnas quickly developed new sciences, technologies and weapons. By the time of the Forgotten War, the Echidnas had developed firearms.

### Templar Knights of Aurora

They existed approximately 9,700 years ago. They were the only force on Mobius that was technologically advanced enough to counter the early rise of Mammoth Mogul and his Order of Ixis during the Order's bid for world domination. The Albion Knights successfully destroyed all but four members of the Order of Ixis in the Forgotten War: the sorcerers Nusgau, Agunus, and Suguna.

### The Forgotten War

As the Order of Ixis attempted to dominate the planet, the far-more technologically advanced Echidnas of Albion opposed the their rule, beginning the Forgotten War. By the end of the conflict, the Albion Knights of Aurora came out triumphant, obliterating all but a few members of the Order of Ixis and its leader. This set back Mogul's plans for domination for several millenniums, and allowed the other societies on Mobius to flourish and develop freely.

### The Forgotten Enerjak

The second incarnation of Enerjak arose during the Forgotten War between the Order of Ixis and the Albion Knights of Aurora. Apparently a researcher like his predecessor, he sought a means for his people to defeat the Order, but in the course of his experiments he was corrupted by power and possessed by the spirit of the first Enerjak. So great was the threat posed by this Enerjak that the two warring factions temporarily put aside their hostilities in order to engage and destroy their common foe. Exactly how this Enerjak was overcome is unknown.

### Tasmanian Devil

During ancient times, a rogue group of Echidnas from Albion arrived in Downunda and used genetic engineering to transform a tribe of Tasmanian Devil Mobians into less intelligent vicious dogs, which they used as beasts of burden and for guards. The Echidnas were subsequently punished for their crimes, but the damage had been done, and the race ever after recited the story of the Echidnas' crimes to their children. The so-called "Devil Dog" version of the species became more and more prevalent as the generations passed, whilst the former Mobian version all but disappeared. Thrash is one of the only known examples of a sentient Tasmanian Devil left on Mobius, and most outsiders believe that the Devil Dogs are the natural form of the species. Ruins of the Tasmanian society remained in Downunda as a testament to the failing race.

As the various species on Mobius began to develop following the devastation of the planet caused by both the Xorda's destructive attack and the natural disasters around the planet that followed, Alexander noticed that the various species had particular skills and unique abilities. He decided that if the various mobian species were to work together, substantial progress could be made. Alexander had hoped to include the Echidnas in his community, but they chose to isolate themselves and form their own colonies, as they had not only developed at a far greater rate, but felt the knowledge they could provide might be more harmful to Alexander's community than good. Additionally, Alexander attempted to appeal to the Overlanders, but their aggressive tendencies proved them incompatible with the mobians. However, the various other mobian species which did ally under his banner formed the first multicultural city on Mobius—Mobotropolis. Due to his insights and his leadership, the mobians made him king following the creation of Mobotropolis. He was succeeded in rule by his son Theodore Acorn.

### Becoming Ixis Naugus

Agunus, Nusgau and Suguna were three of the last members of the Order of Ixis to exist after the Forgotten War. They worked together in an attempt to learn about the Days of Fury and what preceded them, but were unable to determine anything. The three, desperate for this knowledge and the mastery of fire, the one elemental power that eluded them all, used their abilities to race to the sun only to find themselves evenly matched.

Despite treachery from each of them, they fell into the sun together at the same time and then back to Mobius. This resulted in the birth of Ixis Naugus, a being with the merged body and talents of all three and mastery of fire to boot, but with no memory of his origins. The three wizards did not perish though; instead, Naugus became an entirely separate personality and their spirits were locked in the back of his mind.

### Dave the Echidna explores the local Solar System

Roughly a thousands years ago, the Monolith was launched from Mobius to explore the local solar system. The only mentioned crew member of the Monolith was an echidna named Dave.

### Echindas arrive at Soumerca

The continent of Soumerca is the ancient home of the Felidae and the Wolf Pack, as well as the site of Ixis Vale's tomb. Some time after the Forgotten War and 4,000 years before the First Robotnik War, it was visited by a group of Echidnas from Albion seeking a new home. This group ended up fighting with the Felidae, and split into three factions: the Knuckles Clan, Nocturnus Clan, and a group of intellectuals who left to escape the conflict, eventually traveling to Downunda and building Echidnaopolis. The Knuckles Clan were eventually wiped out by the vengeful Chaos, while the Nocturnus Clan disappeared as a result of the Argus Event.  At some point, a mystical stone known as the Ancient Onyx became a sacred artifact to both the Felidae and Wolves, and was also used by Tikal of the Knuckles Clan to imprison Chaos. The Wolves eventually departed their homeland for lands in Northamer, and the Felidae laid claim to the entire region.

### Echidnaopolis

They remained there for many years, until the city was threatened by the White Comet. Knuckles' scientist ancestors Jordann and his wife Kayla-La (Dimitri and Edmund's great-great-grandparents) used the energies of twelve Chaos Emeralds to lift the city and part of the surrounding landscape into the sky, leading to the creation of Floating Island, which was later renamed after Dimitri and Edmund's mother, Angel-La. Part of the population left before the city was raised, wanting to go back to Albion.

### The White Comet

The White Comet was discovered by Jordann and Kayla-La, the great-grandparents of Dimitri and his brother Edmund. The White Comet was on a direct course to impact and destroy Echidnaopolis. Because the two had managed to discover it in time, the Echidnas were able to conceive a way to save their city. By harnessing the power of twelve Chaos Emeralds, Echidnaopolis and a large part of the planet around it was lifted from Mobius' surface into the sky. The comet struck the continent of Downunda where the city had formerly been. When Knuckles became Chaos Knuckles he went back in time to prevent the Floating Island from coming to be, the White Comet didn't destroy Echidnaopolis but the earthquake caused by the comet leveled the entire city, luckily Chaos Knuckles reversed what he did.

### Jordann

Roughly 600 years ago, Jordann discovered the White Comet hurling towards Echidnaopolis on Mobius while charting the Alpha Quadrant with his wife, Kayla-La. His wife then created the idea to use the Chaos Emeralds to lift Echidnaopolis into the sky and avoid destruction. The plan ultimately work, and Jordann would congratulate his wife for her plan after the newly-formed Floating Island escaped the impact.

### Kayla-La

Roughly 600 years ago, Kayla-La's husband Jordann discovered the White Comet hurling towards Echidnaopolis. Kayla-La thus came up with a daring and brilliant strategy to save the city, which would use the power of Chaos Emeralds to lift their city into the sky. She personally took part in the excavation of twelve Chaos Emeralds, and this strategy was used. Although her plan ended up being a success, which led to the creation of the Floating Island, Kayla-La felt that her people were leaving their home behind.

### The Fire Ants

the Fire Ants assisted in the formation of Angel Island. They readily agreed to help the two scientists Kayla-La and Jordann with their plan to save the city from the White Comet that was headed on a collision course. While the Echidnas gathered twelve Chaos Emeralds, the Fire ants used their tunneling ability to loosen the dirt under the area. Just before the comet struck, the new island rose to the sky via the power of the Chaos Force, bringing the Echidnas, Dingoes, and Fire Ants with it.

### Angel Island Origin

Hundreds of years ago a group of echidnas known as the Knuckles Clan, having set out from their homeland of Albion, eventually settled in a region of Downunda and built the city of Echidnaopolis.

The technologically-advanced city thrived on the mainland until roughly six hundred years ago when the two scientists Jordann and Kayla-La discovered the White Comet that would soon impact directly on the city. Desperate to save their home, Kayla-La developed and proposed a plan to physically move the city out of harm's way using the power of Chaos Emeralds. After excavating twelve of the rare and powerful gems, the Chaos Chamber was established to harness the energy of the emeralds. After the Fire Ants dug under the foundations of the city, separating it from the planet's surface, Echidnaopolis lifted into the sky, becoming the Floating Island. A large crater marks its former place in Downunda.

### Dimitri

The great-grandson of Jordann and Kayla-La, the two Echidnas who originally came up with the plan to lift Echidnaopolis off the surface of Mobius to avoid the oncoming White Comet - Dimitri and his brother Edmund were leading scientific minds in their time. The brothers devised a means to restore the Floating Island to Mobius' surface using Dimitri's creation, the Chaos Syphon, to slowly drain the power of the 12 Chaos Emeralds which held the island afloat.

Until it landed back in its original site on the planet surface. Before they would deliver their plan to the Echidna Council, Dimitri and Edmund confronted Menthor, the High Councilor in an attempt to gain his support. However, Menthor realized that if the plan went through, Dimitri would be considered a hero, and this could upset his own plans and ambitions, thus he denounced the plan as "heresy" and denied the brothers' petition. Enraged by this, Dimitri decided to take actions into his own hands. Using the Chaos Syphon, the powers of 11 out of the 12 Chaos Emeralds were slowly drained, but an unforeseen effect occurred; the power of the Emeralds was sent into Dimitri.

### Edmund

Edmund and his brother Dimitri were two of the greatest scientific minds of their time, following in the footsteps of their ancestors Jordann and Kayla-La in their studies of Chaos energies. Edmund and his brother came up with the concept of returning Angel Island to the surface of Mobius and the two created the original Chaos Syphon. Though both were passionate about their plan to return the Floating Island to Mobius' surface, Edmund lacked his brother's stubborn pride and arrogance. When the High Council denied the brothers' petition, Edmund simply accepted the verdict while his brother decided to take matters into his own hands. After Dimitri was buried in the rubble of Mount Fate due to the Fire Ants eating away its foundations, Edmund offered his services to the High Council as penance for his brother's arrogance and violent actions.

### Chaos Syphon

It was designed to slowly drain energy from the twelve Chaos Emeralds that held the island aloft, allowing it to safely descend. However, the proposal was rejected, and Dimitri stole the device in rage. Using it, he destroyed eleven of the Emeralds, draining their powers into his body. He was driven insane, and became Enerjak.

### Dimitri becomes Enerjak

Becoming Enerjak's third known incarnation was Dimitri, a scientist from Angel Island who worked with his brother Edmund to return Angel Island to the surface via their Chaos Syphon by draining energy from the island's twelve Chaos Emeralds so the landmass would descend safely. However, the High Councilor, Menthor, rejected the plan as it interfered with his own ambitions, and the Theocracy denounced it out of resentment towards the Technocracy. Enraged by this, Dimitri used the Chaos Syphon without authorization, but the device overloaded, destroying eleven of the Emeralds, and transferred their energies into Dimitri, making him into a nearly omnipotent being. Maddened by the power flowing through his body, Dimitri planned to conquer Mobius, and briefly conquered Echidnaopolis using his powers to reprogram the Mechanauts and enslave the echidnas. He was only stopped when Fire Ants ate through the foundations of his Dark Tower, causing it to collapse and bury him. The burial site became known as Mount Fate.

Despite being buried, Enerjak was still alive, and used a form of telepathy to communicate with his son, who visited the burial site frequently. Enerjak convinced him to follow in his footsteps and finish what he had started. Menniker went on to create the Dark Legion with the aims of restoring technology into Echidna society and returning their city to the surface of Mobius. While two Dark Legionnaires did kill Edmund, the first ever Guardian, his son Steppenwolf replaced him. After being trained by the fire ant Christopheles, Steppenwolf used his Chaos powers to transport the entire Dark Legion to the Twilight Zone.

### From Scientist to Guardian

To ensure that the single remaining Chaos Emerald holding the island afloat was protected, Edmund became the first Guardian to defend it and the citizens of Echidnaopolis. When the High Council voted to renounce the technology, Edmund took on the role of ensuring the citizens gave up their technology and it was safely cataloged and stored in the Grand Conservatory.

### Frederick Acorn

Like the former monarchs before him, Frederick immersed himself in the Source of All before becoming ruler. His son Maximillian was only a young boy when Frederick granted the wizard Ixis Naugus the title of Royal Wizard. This act was part of Frederick's efforts of opening the kingdom both to its neighbors and to incoming individuals like Naugus, the first real efforts to be made in generations.

### The writings of Kirby

Kirby was a writer and artist whose stories, such as *The D-Man*, became the greatest legends of the Mobian people. Kirby intended for his stories to be read by everyone. He was the grandfather of Jeremiah. Kirby's stories were also an inspiration to both Charles and Jules Hedgehog. Later, Tails was a big fan of Kirby's stories when he was younger. Kirby mysteriously vanished during the Great War between the Mobians and the Overlanders. King Acorn feared that he had been captured by the Overlanders, and assigned a team to find out what had happened to him. The team was formed of Jules Hedgehog, Bernadette Hedgehog, Sir Charles Hedgehog, Amadeus Prower and Sherman Walrus. After receiving a lead that Kirby had been taken to the Overlander city, the team intercepted an Overlander, but Jules was mortally wounded during the pursuit and the mission was aborted.

A complete collection of Kirby's work was donated to the Mobotropolis Library, and a biography of his life was written by Marcus the Owl. Kirby's works were protected throughout Robotnik's tyrannical rule by his grandson Jeremiah. They were discovered by Amy Rose and Dulcy, and subsequently it was agreed that the books had to be preserved.

### Jules The Hedgehog (Early Life)

Jules Hedgehog was born several years prior to the Great War, and together with his brother Charles was a student of Nate Morgan, the Overlander who created the Power Rings. He and his brother were inspired by the historical stories written by Kirby. While still at school, Jules frequently debated against another hedgehog called Bernie as the two would often spar in class debates, and lost to her all the time. Although Jules remembered her, the two did not meet again until during the Great War.

### Bernadette The Hedgehog (Early Life)

Prior to the outbreak of the Great War, Bernie was a student of Nate Morgan. She would often debate with Jules in class discussions, resulting in Jules having a crush on her. While Jules was a hard-headed risk-taker, his nobler qualities of bravery and concern for others endeared him to Bernie.

### Sir Charles Hedgehog (Early Life)

Charles Hedgehog was born some time prior to the Great War, and together with his brother Jules Hedgehog. The two were students of Nate Morgan, the Overlander who created the Power Rings. Charles was Nate's finest student, and excelled in the fields of robotics and bio-technology. As they got older and the Great War began, Charles and his brother became soldiers for the Kingdom of Acorn. At some point, they encountered the young Regina Ferrum when she came too close to the kingdom's territory and ran her off. When the two brothers stumbled across the exhausted and beaten Julian Kintobor during a scouting mission in the Badlands, Charles opted against rescuing him as he felt something was suspicious about the Overlander. However, Jules insisted, saying they were better than their enemies.

During the Overlanders' shelling raids on Mobotropolis, Charles was part of a task force which went underground to hide civilians. The group was successfully lead behind enemy lines by Cocoa and Bernadette where they managed to defeat the attacking Overlanders. For his services during the Great War, Sir Charles was knighted personally by King Maximillian Acorn, becoming one of the Knights of Acorn.

### Frederick Acorn taking in Nate Morgan

After the Overlander scientist Nate Morgan arrived on the edges of the Kingdom of Acorn, expecting to die either from the strain of his travels or by the hands of the Mobians, he ran into Frederick, who took pity on him despite the fears of his royal guard. Invited to stay at Castle Acorn, Nate and Frederick became close personal friends and Nate became the adopted uncle of Frederick's son Maximillian.

### Nate Morgan

Nate had a big role in the past of the House of Acorn, as he became the Minister of Science following his exile from the Overlanders, which was due to an explosion that his research in the field of renewable energy caused - though it might never have happened if not for his treacherous assistant, Julian Kintobor, who would one day become Dr. Robotnik. Making his way to the realm controlled by Sally Acorn's grandfather, the Overlander was surprisingly received warmly. He became a member of the royal court, and a second father figure to King Acorn. Nate discovered the method of successfully forging Power Rings by using the energy of a Chaos Emerald. This led to the founding of Mobotropolis and the ascension of the Kingdom of Acorn to the level of a technological power, as well as Power Rings becoming Mobius' fifth element. Nate enjoyed many years of peace in Mobotropolis, which included teaching not only Sir Charles Hedgehog but his brother Jules. Unfortunately, Nate's presence didn't sit well with some of King Acorn's advisers, namely Ixis Naugus, who feared that Nate's science would replace his magic, and Warlord Kodos. After their efforts raised anti-Overlander sentiment thanks to an arranged battle between Mobians and Overlanders, Nate departed.

### Royal Wizard

Naugus' career as the royal wizard started when he approached King Frederick Acorn. He was content with his position until Nate Morgan became an ally to the king, and felt the scientist's creations threatened to make Naugus' magicks obsolete. To deal with this, he enlisted Warlord Kodos Lion's help to frame Nate for treason. The plan worked once Naugus magically enhanced a hostile situation involving Overlanders, and the conspirators set events into motion that would soon start the Great War. Kodos then tried to kill the twisted wizard so no blame could rest on him, only to target an illusion while the real Naugus retreated into a pocket dimension he discovered called the Zone of Silence, so he could avoid the war and rule what was left. However, Kodos sealed the Zone and stranded Naugus inside.

### Maximillian Acorn (Early Life)

Maximillian was just a young boy when his father Frederick Acorn granted the wizard Ixis Naugus the title of Royal Wizard. Some time after this, the Overlander scientist Nate Morgan was taken in by his father and provided major scientific knowledge which brought the Kingdom of Acorn out of the pre-industrial age. Because of his contributions to the kingdom, Nate Morgan was very close with the royal family and acted somewhat like an uncle for young Maximillian.

At the age of ten, Frederick revealed the mysterious Source of All to Max, and soon he bonded with the Source as per royal tradition. The Crown and Sword of Acorns were forged from the remaining Source of All that did not merge with him. Because of their bonding with the Source of All, the Acorns were granted guidance from the Source. The Source guided Max's father Frederick to select the young Alicia to act as his future wife. At age eleven, Max and Alicia were betrothed, and upon their eighteen commemoration, the two formally married. As his father aged and Max became old enough, he assumed the mantle as king, with Nate Morgan present at the ceremony.

During his early years as a king, Max found himself as odds with what to do during the allegations by Ixis Naugus and Warlord Kodos Lion regarding Nate Morgan. Unable to see Nate perform treason and feeling sympathy for him because Nate had been there during his upbringing, Maximillian was deeply troubled when Kodos and Naugus accused Nate of providing their location to a group of Overlander scouts. To spare Max of the trouble, Nate imposed self-exile and left the kingdom, much to Max's dismay.

### Julian Kintobor (Early Life)

Dr. Robotnik began his existence as Julian Kintobor from the House of Ivo, born in the city of Megapolis. Growing up Julian considered his older brother Colin "annoying", due to his teasing attitude and having him received more attention from their parents. He studied under the genius scientist, Dr. Nate Morgan for an extended period of time. Once his mentor passed unto him everything he knew, Julian conspired against Morgan and had him banished, allowing Julian full control of his laboratory.

During the breakout of the Great War between the Mobians and Overlanders, Julian worked as a high-profile weapons engineer for the Overlander armies at the request of the Ministry of Conflict, brainstorming the most sophisticated military hardware in history, including his first robot programmed with artificial intelligence, King Gong, and the creation of the first prototype of the Ultimate Annihilator, which would result in his death many years later. However, Julian's methods were put into question when it was revealed that he utilized live Overlander test subjects to perfect his weaponry. He was tried in court by the Minister of Justice, his own brother, and sentenced to ten years of imprisonment. This experience also weakened Colin and Julian's already strained relationship.

### Warlord of the Kingdom of Acorn

Sometime after his arrest, Julian somehow escaped confinement. After barely evading a death squad sent after him, Julian made it to the Badlands and found himself rescued by Jules and Sir Charles. The brothers brought him to the Kingdom of Acorn, where he was welcomed. In gratitude, Julian swore allegiance to King Maximillian Acorn and pledged to impart inside knowledge on the Overlanders to turn the tide of the war. In addition to the Royal Family, a titled "Warlord" was charged with overseeing military matters. The Warlord at the time of Julian's arrival was a scheming Kodos Lion, who, despite his hatred for Overlanders, taught Julian everything about battlefield tactics. During a look over Ixis Naugus' former residence, Kodos tried to take Julian under his wing in a plot to overthrow King Maximillian, the Overlander Overlord and rule Mobius. Kodos planned to stage a coup and send his enemies to the Zone of Silence.

Julian was enamored by the idea of conquering the world, but decided he did not want to share power. Instead, he used the Atomic Mace, a weapon Naugus created, to knock out Kodos and banished him to the Zone of Silence. Following Kodos' "disappearance," Julian assumed the mantle of Warlord. He would later be aided by his wayward nephew, Colin Kintobor Jr. A.K.A. Snively Robotnik.

### The Power Rings

Years before the Great War, Nate Morgan was the head of a team of underground scientists in the city of Megapolis which were studying to create a clean alternative for the fossil fuels that had been polluting the Overlander cities for years. One of the science team members, Julian Kintobor, sabotaged the calibrations of one of the early prototypes and encouraged the unsuspecting Nate to go ahead with the test. Due to Julian's tampering, the test resulted in a massive explosion, which would later cause Nate to be banished from Overlander territory forever.

While wandering in exile, Nate Morgan was located by the current monarch of the Kingdom of Acorn—Frederick Acorn. The king offered his hand of friendship and brought Nate back to the kingdom where he became very close with the royal family. Finally, using the energies within a Chaos Emerald, Nate was able to properly test and perfect the Power Ring and create it as a new energy source. Following this, the Kingdom of Acorn, which had remained as a pre-industrial state for centuries due to the Mobians wishing to preserve nature, rebuilt Mobotropolis as a post-industrial city booming with technology run on the energy of the Power Rings.

After a plot by Kodos and Ixis Naugus to have Nate banished from the kingdom, Nate imposed self-exile, feeling he had brought too much trouble to both the Overlanders and Mobians. Realizing the technology of the Power Rings could be used for evil if Kodos or Naugus got their hands on it, Nate brought the sole Ring Forge with him when he left. While wandering through the Great Forest, Nate stumbled upon a hollow stump and decided to bury the Ring Forge beneath a nearby lake. This was what produced the Power Rings used by Sonic and the Knothole Freedom Fighters in Knothole years later during their war against Dr. Ivo Robotnik.

### The Great War (Early Conflicts)

Roughly 1,000 years ago, prior to the formation of Mobotropolis, the Mobian Alexander realized that every species on the planet offered something unique that they could contribute to a single, large society. While trying to gather the various groups to form a single civilization, Alexander found that the Overlanders' aggressive tendencies would prove too great a risk to incorporate them into his community, and so they were excluded.

### The Paladin incident

Since the creation of the Kingdom of Acorn, the Mobians had lived in peace and tranquility. Just outside the boundaries of the kingdom existed the mysterious Overlanders. Contact between the two species had been more or less benign since the creation of Mobotropolis. During the next king's rule, Theodore Acorn, a tragic accident befell his son, Emerson. While Emerson was making his way back to Mobotropolis with a group of other Mobians, he decided to take a detour and explore around the areas of Roundabout Creek. There, he met the Overlander Paladin, whose city was nearby just beyond the Badlands and had gone to do some target practice.

The two were enjoying each other's company, and Paladin decided to teach Emerson how to shoot a gun. Things took a turn for the worst when Paladin decided to target a bird, and Emerson jumped in the way hoping to prevent the bird's death. The shot killed Emerson, and as King Theodore came looking for his son, he saw Paladin running away into the forest. Instead of calling for vengeance, Alexander simply forbade contact between Mobians and Overlanders, as well as establishing a no-gun policy. Little did he know, his no-gun policy would gradually lead to a much larger misunderstanding.

### King George's Folly and further escalation

The death of prince Emerson and Alexander's no-gun policy resulted in tensions between the two people. However, for centuries, conflicts remained as small skirmishes along to border and never escalated. The one exception was during the rule of George Acorn, who launched a brutal war against the Overland that later came to be known as "King George's Folly". However, the losses suffered by the Kingdom of Acorn were so great that George was stripped of power, and peace remained between the two nations until the time of Frederick Acorn. His eventual successor Sebastian Acorn managed to establish a peaceful relationship with the Overland, but as the Overland began squandering its resources the Kingdom became more desirable for conquest.

The Overlander scientist, Nate Morgan, had recently been exiled from his home in Megapolis, when his assistant Julian Kintobor caused one of Nate's studies to fail and endanger the society. When Nate was found in the wilderness by King Frederick and his entourage, the monarch accepted him into the Mobian society with open arms. Nate resumed the work on his previous failed study, which was to create a clean power source to replace fossil fuels. Eventually, Nate created the Power Rings, that acted as conduits for the mysterious Chaos Emerald King Frederick provided him with. Since the death of Emerson, the kingdom had remained in a pre-industrial state due to the Mobian belief in the preservation of nature. With this new power supply, Mobotropolis broke out of its pre-industrial state and echoed in a new golden age.

Some time later, Frederick's son, Maximillian Acorn, assumed the mantle of king. Unfortunately, not all were pleased with the onset of technology; namely the court wizard, Ixis Naugus. Aware that machines and science were replacing the need for his magical skills, the sorceror conspired to have Nate Morgan exiled from Mobotropolis. Although Naugus was unable to convince King Max of Nate's *"treacherous nature,"* he formed an alliance with General Kodos Lion to vilify the Overlander.

A group of Mobian soldiers, led by Kodos, accompanied Nate on an environmental survey of the Great Forest. While they were doing so, Naugus used his magic to amplify the hatred and aggression of a nearby Overlander patrol, causing a fight to break out between the two groups. With Kodos and Nate the only two survivors, Kodos informed the king that Nate had provided the Overlanders with the location of the kingdom. Maximillian was stunned and reluctant to believe the tale-even when Naugus corroborated it-but the decision was taken out of his hands by Nate himself. Feeling he had caused enough trouble to both the Overlanders and Mobians, the scientist imposed self-exile on himself, and left the Kingdom.

With the conflict between Overlanders and Mobians growing ever stronger, Kodos intended to remove Naugus from the picture. Unfortunately for him, Naugus had already fled to the Zone of Silence, where he intended to hone his powers until the war ended. The best Kodos could do was seal off the Zone, preventing Naugus from returning to Mobius.

### The War begins

As Mobians and Overlanders grew more suspicious of each other, they began sending scouts to determine the nature of their "enemies". When a scout from each side met each other, however, neither one wanted to engage in combat. After talking for a while, the pair decided they would return to their respective lands and inform their people that war would be futile. Alas, the pair was discovered by Kodos and his soldiers. Refusing to accept the likely coexistence of Mobian and Overlander, Kodos executed both scouts, and had their bodies delivered to their respective side with the message, *"This is what happens to all who oppose us"*. Convinced that they were dealing with savages, both sides prepared for battle, resulting in the start of the Great War.

Due to their superior technology and violent tendencies, the Overlander forces managed to capture the capital city of Mobotropolis by the year 3220.

### The Queen Alicia incident

At some point the Mobians managed to push the Overlanders out of their capital city. However, by 3221, Overlander troops were still within mortar and shelling range of Mobotropolis. As the city came under siege, King Max decided to send his infant son Elias and wife Alicia to the safety of Angel Island where they would remain safe from the clutches of the Overlanders should the city fall. The two members of the royal family were placed under the care of Ian St. John, Colonel Sommersby, and a few other soldiers, and were dispatched via airship to Angel Island.

As their craft flew over the Floating Island, it was shot down by Overlander scout ships. The Brotherhood of Guardians arrived on the scene first, finding a seriously wounded Queen Alicia and her infant son amongst the wreckage as the sole survivors of the crash. The Brotherhood's team leader, Sabre, informed the Overlanders that everyone had died in the crash. Due to the Echidnas' non-involvement in the war and overall neutrality, the Overlanders took Sabre's word and departed. Shortly afterwards, the dying Queen was taken back to Haven and put in cryo-sleep until a cure could be found for her wounds, while Elias was looked after and raised by the Echidnas.

### Arrival of Julian Kintobor

After being sentenced to imprisonment for testing new weapons on his own people, Overlander scientist (and Nate Morgan's former apprentice) Julian Kintobor was rescued in the Badlands by the hedgehog brothers Charles and Jules during his attempted escape. Julian was able to win the trust of King Max, particularly since Max felt responsible for Nate Morgan's self-exile and wanted to rectify this by trusting the newly arrived Overlander. Additionally, the Overlanders were directly attacking Mobotropolis, making the king all the more desperate for a solution to the war. Julian managed to gain status in the kingdom when he knocked Kodos unconscious and threw him into the Zone of Silence, and convinced them Kodos had died when meddling with one of Naugus' left behind tools. Julian convinced the Mobians that unless they defeated the Overlanders, their enemies would not rest until they wiped them out. With his knowledge of the Overlander tactics, Julian was appointed the new Warlord to replace the presumed-dead Kodos.

### Battles and skirmishes

As the Overlanders continued their shelling of Mobotropolis, many of its citizens and troops, suffering from wounds and shell-shock and weary from constant battle, were sent into the bunkers beneath the city where the women and children were waiting in sanctuary. Two of the female soldiers, Bernadette and Cocoa, were chosen as guides due to their superior eyesight, and led a group of soldiers through the massive sewer network, including Jules and Charles. Eventually, the group found themselves behind enemy lines. Using the element of surprise, the Mobian troops emerged and began attacked the startled Overlanders. It was at this point that Amadeus Prower received a wound to his left eye. The Overlander's leader, Colin Kintobor, realized defeat was imminent and retreated into the same sewer systems the Mobians emerged from, managing to escape capture, while the rest of the Overlanders' attacking forces were defeated.

Prior to the discovery of Sir Charles' Roboticizer, Warlord Julian's schemes to take over the kingdom involved using an army of cyborgs. After capturing and experimenting on the citizens of the neutral village of Leung West, Julian managed to create one successful cyborg - Monkey Khan. Although he was disappointed only one test subject had survived receiving cybernetic implants, Julian decided to test his sole warrior on a group of attacking Overlanders. After Monkey Khan attacked them and single-handedly destroying their tank, the Overlander troops retreated. Julian was impressed by Monkey Khan's success, but was forced to permanently confine him after Khan attempted to mutiny.

When the infamous Mobian historian Kirby disappeared and was presumed to have been captured by the Overlanders, a team – composed of the now-married Jules and Bernadette Hedgehog, Charles, Sherman Walrus and Amadeus Prower – was dispatched to discover what his fate was. Following a lead about Kirby's whereabouts, the team soon found themselves chasing an Overlander. In their chase, however, Jules got careless and was received a mortal wound to the head by the Overlander. The Overlander was soon taken out by an enraged Bernadette and Jules was brought back through the Badlands to Mobotropolis. Jules' wound proved too severe to be healed, though his life was saved by his brother Charles' recently developed means of roboticization.

### Conclusion

With Julian's knowledge of Overlander tactics, and his development of new technologies and machines, the Mobians were finally able to go on the offensive. Eventually they pushed the Overlanders away from Mobotropolis.

The Great War came to an abrupt end after Julian arranged for Charlemagne, the Overlord of the Overlander people to face off against King Max in a sword duel. Both sides agreed to this, as the war brought heavy costs upon the Overland, and made the mobians in Mobotropolis weary. Julian's ulterior motive for suggesting this was to essentially have one of his primary enemies removed and place him in a better position to peruse his plans of global domination after the war's end. In the event the Overlord won, Julian planned to take command and lead the Mobians to constant war with the Overlanders, wearing both sides down. If King Max won, the Overlanders would be forced to surrender, as agreed by both combatants. King Max won the duel, but instead of killing the Overlord, he spared his life and allowed Charlemagne to leave, telling him to honor his word. As per the agreement, the Overlord surrendered, and the Great War came to an end.

### The Great War years (Maximillian)

During the Great War, the Overlander's superior technology allowed them to push back the Royal Army at almost every turn. As the city began being bombarded by mortars, Max had his wife and infant son Elias sent away to a safe haven on Angel Island. However, their craft was intercepted by Overlander ships, and everyone on board the craft was presumed to have been killed.> Unbeknownst to Max, the Brotherhood of Guardians had arrived on the crash scene first and lied to the Overlanders about there being survivors, taking in the wounded Queen Alicia and Elias.

Not long after this, the Hedgehog brothers Jules and Sir Charles brought before Max the wounded Overlander Julian Kintobor, whom they had found being chased in the Badlands by other Overlander troops. Feeling guilty over what had happened with Nate Morgan, Max easily accepted Julian into the Kingdom, hoping to not make the same mistake twice of chasing away an Overlander seeking refuge in the kingdom.

After Kodos mysteriously "disappeared" (Julian was actually responsible, having sent him to the Zone of Silence), King Max along with everyone else believed Julian's story that Kodos had tampered with leftover weapons from Ixis Naugus which resulted in his death. With Julian's knowledge of Overlander tactics, King Max appointed him as the new Warlord. Eventually, with Julian's new battle tactics and development of new weaponry, the Kingdom of Acorn finally won the Great War and brought peace to their lands. King Max himself struck the final blow, defeating the Overlord Charlemagne in a duel and then sparing his life.

### The Special Zone

During the Great War, the Kingdom of Acorn's chief magician Ixis Naugus decided to create a safe haven for himself in order to avoid the ensuing carnage from the war. He also desired a place where he could hone his skills of the elements. Stumbling across the Zone of Silence, he reshaped the tiny realm to suit his needs, creating a twilight dimension filled with rocks and his hideous Minions. After successfully disposing of the Overlander Nate Morgan with his partner Kodos, Naugus withdrew to the Zone of Silence where he would wait until the Great War's end before re-emerging, as well as hide from Kodos once the Warlord turned on him. However, Kodos had the portal locked so Naugus could not escape, leaving him trapped in the realm of his own creation

### Formation of the Rebel Underground

During the Great War, it was brought to the attention of King Max by General Armand D'Coolette that an underground rebel movement might be needed if the kingdom was ever taken over by an enemy within. Because of his foresight, Armand began to train his son Antoine as a soldier in preparation for a day such as that. Sadly, Armand was Roboticized and became Robotnik's Sub-Boss, the *High Sheriff*, before the Underground was ever established, leading to Geoffrey's claim at having formed it followed by Antoine's outrage at having his family's honor stolen and his father's memory insulted.

### Space Colony ARK

Space Colony ARK was a massive orbital research center created by the Overlanders as part of their Hundred Moons of Mobius project, though at some point control of the station was transferred to G.U.N. and the United Federation.

### Megapolis

Megapolis was home of two of the greatest scientific minds of Mobius' recent history: Julian Kintobor and Nate Morgan. The city had long been plagued with the problem of mass pollution by fossil fuels, something Nate Morgan had hoped to rectify. During his experiments to produce Power Rings as a clean, alternative fuel source, Julian sabotaged the project causing an explosion in the city, which resulted in Nate's exile.

Years later during the Great War, Julian was sentenced to ten years in prison due to his plans to test live Overlanders, on his weapon called the "Ultimate Annihilator". However, Julian escaped and fled to the Kingdom of Acorn where he would later use his scientific genius to provide technology and tactics which allowed the Mobians to win. Following the Overlander's defeat, the majority of the citizens of Megapolis took off into outer space to find a new world to call their own, leaving the city uninhabited. Following his successful military takeover of Mobotropolis Julian, having renamed himself Dr. Ivo Robotnik, sent his legions of SWATbots to take over the city and capture its citizens. The city had already been vacant due to the citizens taking off into space, preventing their capture.

### Disappearance and Coma

When the Great War was at its worst for the kingdom, the Overlander forces had invaded Mobotropolis and were about to penetrate Castle Acorn. Since the route to Knothole Village had been cut off in the fighting, Max sent both Alicia and Elias to the relative safety of the Royal Compound on the Floating Island, but they disappeared en-route and Alicia was thought dead for several years. Traveling in a convoy to the Floating Island, they came under attack by Overlander aircraft and Alicia was grievously wounded. The convoy, badly damaged and with most of its crew dead, crash-landed on the island only to be found and then hidden by the Brotherhood of Guardians.

Placed in stasis by the Brotherhood, Alicia remained in a coma for fifteen years before she and Elias were found by her husband's Royal Secret Service and returned home. She remained in a coma for some time afterwards, a result of the inability of either the Brotherhood or Dr. Quack to treat her for an illness which she had contracted. As a result, she was kept in low temperature stasis in Mobotropolis for some time, until the rise of Dr. Eggman necessitated her transport to Knothole. Dr. Quack soon developed a theory regarding her condition, much to the relief of a heartsick Sally.

For a time, the Ring of Acorns was considered for use in healing her, but after Amy Rose used the last of its power to change her physical age that route was blocked. Eventually, her son Elias managed to steal a vial that Dr. Quack believed would alleviate her condition from Robotropolis, only to be captured. Removed from stasis, injected with the substance, and operated on by Quack, Alicia remained comatose for some time afterwards.

### The Creation of Mobotropolis

Mobotropolis was first created hundreds of years ago, after the mobian Alexander decided that people could benefit from the combined efforts of a variety of different species. After its completion, the citizens made Alexander their king, as he was ultimately responsible for their communion and the city's construction.

### The Golden Age of Mobotroplis

Due to the mobian's philosophy to preserve nature, the Kingdom of Acorn and the city of Mobotropolis' technological development quickly stagnated and remained in an pre-industrial and medieval state. This changed dramatically when King Frederick Acorn took in the exiled Overlander scientist Nate Morgan. Before being taken in, Nate had been working on the development of the Power Rings a clean, alternative fuel supply that would have replaced the toxic fossil fuels heavily used by his people. During Nate's tenure in Mobotropolis, he successfully made stable Power Rings, and the mobians applied the technology to make Mobotropolis a modern city. Following Frederick stepping down and his son, Maximillian Acorn, assuming the mantle as king, Mobotrpopolis suffered a major setback. The current Warlord Kodos and the Royal Wizard Ixis Naugus felt threatened by the potential of Nate Morgan, and thus staged a conflict between the Overlanders and Kingdom of Acorn, letting the blame fall to Nate who subsequently left of his own free will.

### 50 Years Ago (United Federation)

Prior to becoming part of the United Federation, the city of Station Square and several other hidden cities remained isolated for thousands of years, having been formed by different groups of humans who survived the Xorda's destructive attack on the planet, eventually communicating with one another and forming the United Federation.

Over time, a formal structure came to the organization. Each city was designed to act as its' own country and have a unique form of self-government complete with unique types of rulers. Each ruler represented their city-state and served as a council to the President of the republic, who presided over Central City. To protect the other city-states, if one was discovered, it would act as if they were the only group left of the old world. All city-states were designed to turn to its' united task force: G.U.N. in times of defense. The leader of G.U.N. could only answer to the President.

Station Square and the United Federation did eventually make contact with their genetic cousins: the Overlanders. The Heritage Project was implemented which allowed both humans and Overlanders a chance to come into the others' worlds and expose their cultures to each other. At the end of the Great War, one-third of the Overlanders were allowed to immigrate to the Republic of Station Square, one of them being the future Commander Abraham Tower.

Following the incident involving the water beast Chaos and the visit from the Knothole Freedom Fighters, Station Square abandoned its isolationist policy and over time the rest of the United Federation became known as well. After a large group of Overlander families immigrated to the city of Station Square, the government increased its spheres of influence, developing colonies in the surrounding areas and getting all the overlander cities to join it mostly by peaceful means, thus uniting all humans and overlander under one rule.

### Gerald Robotnik's Early life

A scientist for the Republic of Station Square, Gerald Robotnik married Jennifer Vasquez and had two children, Geraldo Robotnik and Bertha Robotnik. The former produced a daughter, Maria Robotnik, of which Gerald was extremely fond of. Later in his life, Professor Gerald relocated to the Overlander space colony known as ARK to advance his research on creating the Ultimate Life form. His sponsor was G.U.N., who became increasingly wary of Gerald's intentions as time went on.

### Maria's Past

Maria spent most of her life on board the Space Colony ARK space station with her grandfather Gerald Robotnik, who was working to find a cure for her illness. During her time on the ARK she developed a close friendship with her grandfathers creation Shadow the Hedgehog. Maria's life was cut tragically short when G.U.N. raided the ARK, in which she was shot while helping Shadow escape. With her dying breath, she begged Shadow protect the people of the world, seconds before Shadow was shot from the ARK down to the planet below.

### Shadow the Hedgehog (50 Years Ago)

Shadow was created on the Space Colony ARK by Professor Gerald as part of Project Shadow. The project had been commissioned by the president of the time as a means of creating immortality via an "Ultimate Lifeform"; Gerald, however, saw the research as a potential means of curing Neuro-Immuno Deficiency Syndrome, a disease from which his granddaughter Maria suffered. Failing to develop a successful Ultimate Lifeform on his own, he turned to the alien Black Doom, leader of the species known as the Black Arms The contribution of Black Doom's own DNA helped in the process of creating the being known as Shadow, who was immortal, immune to disease and, thanks to Doom, highly attune to Chaos powers. However, Gerald learned of Black Doom's malicious intentions for Mobius - the alien planned to use Shadow as an agent in ushering in his eventual conquest of the planet. Gerald instead planned to make Shadow the planet's greatest protector should the Black Arms ever return.

However, tragedy struck soon afterwards, as G.U.N. soldiers raided the ARK, seeking to apprehend the Ultimate Lifeform and destroy all knowledge of the project. Sadly, like Black Doom, GUN saw the project as a potential weapon, but hoped to turn it to their own ends. While they were attempting to escape the space colony, Maria was fatally shot by a soldier before Shadow's eyes. The pod in which Shadow was ejected was recovered by the military and he was placed into stasis. Gerald was arrested, but when he learned of Maria's death, he was driven insane, desiring the destruction of the planet in revenge. As he was uncooperative, he was eventually executed, but not before planting the seeds to enable his vengeance in the future. When Shadow awoke decades later, he did not remember any of his original purpose, only a desire to avenge Maria, due to Gerald altering his memories.

### Working on Project Shadow

Professor Gerald was designing Project: Shadow with hopes to find a cure for his granddaughter Maria's Neuro-Immuno Deficiency Syndrome through the life form Shadow. Gerald found that there were barriers to his research that he could not go around—his first prototype, the Biolizard, was unstable and could not live without a built-in life support system. Gerald thus contacted Black Doom for assistance. Black Doom hoped to make Shadow his ultimate weapon, and thus provided him with the Chaos Control abilities. However, Gerald secretly changed Shadow to be the protector of all life on Mobius due to his love of its inhabitants, as well as to protect it from the Black Arms should they return to Mobius in the future.

Shortly after Shadow showed signs that he was alive, G.U.N. had decided to use Shadow as a weapon themselves, and while Gerald was working on the project on board Space Colony ARK, a group of military officials went to the ARK to retrieve Shadow and Professor Gerald. Maria had informed her grandfather of the arriving military ship, and thus Gerald ordered Maria to get to an escape pod with Shadow. Although Shadow managed to get aboard the escape pod, Maria was shot in the back and killed. Gerald was apprehended by the military and brought down to the planet surface to complete the project for the military.

Shortly after Shadow showed signs that he was alive, G.U.N. had decided to use Shadow as a weapon themselves, and while Gerald was working on the project on board Space Colony ARK, a group of military officials went to the ARK to retrieve Shadow and Professor Gerald. Maria had informed her grandfather of the arriving military ship, and thus Gerald ordered Maria to get to an escape pod with Shadow. Although Shadow managed to get aboard the escape pod, Maria was shot in the back and killed. Gerald was apprehended by the military and brought down to the planet surface to complete the project for the military.

### Quest for Vengeance and Death

Upon arriving back on Mobius's surface and brought to Prison Island, Gerald was informed of Maria's death by G.U.N.'s colonel. Consumed by feelings of hatred now and feeling his life had no meaning, Gerald planned to exact revenge against those that had murdered his granddaughter by firing the Eclipse Cannon from the ARK. In case the military shut down the project before he could go through with his plans, Gerald left a micro chip hidden on a machine containing a history of everything should someone wish to follow in his footsteps. The military, unable to keep up with Gerald's designs and therefore unable to be sure he was not trying to "*pull a fast one*" on them, decided to discontinue Project: Shadow. Gerald was subsequently executed following the project's shut down, but not before he managed to alter Shadow's memories, driving him to avenge Maria.

### Black Doom creating Shadow

When Professor Gerald Robotnik was trying to complete Project Shadow to cure his granddaughter's Neuro-Immuno Deficiency Syndrome, he found barriers to his research he could not overcome without outside help. Making a deal with Black Doom, he extracted some of the alien's blood to help him finish the process. The result was Shadow the Hedgehog, with the abilities granted by Gerald's process and also with a measure of Doom's own power, granting Shadow his Chaos Control abilities. Black Doom afterwards departed, vowing that he would make his return fifty years later, prompting Gerald to modify Shadow so that when the time came Mobius would have him for a protector.

### G.U.N's Invasion of the ARK

Fifty years ago, the colonel of G.U.N. had received word that Project: Shadow, a project made to make immortality possible, had been a success due to Gerald Robotnik having received assistance from Black Doom. The colonel had his troops invade the ARK so they could use Project: Shadow as a weapon for themselves. But Shadow escaped via an escape pod thanks to Gerald's granddaughter, Maria, who was shot in the back by a soldier while trying to flee herself. The colonel then met with Gerald back on Mobius and ordered him to make a new Shadow on Prison Island, but G.U.N. could not tell if Gerald was trying to "pull a fast one" due to Shadow being so advanced and had Gerald executed.

### Bunnie D'Coolette is Born (Day 150)

Bunnie was born in the Southern Baronies just before the Great War. Her parents died in the war, leaving her to be cared for by her Uncle Beauregard and Aunt Lulumae. Bunnie lived with them happily for many years, however she ran away from home after her uncle claimed her parents had died serving the Overland due to tensions between the Baronies and the Kingdom of Acorn. Unwilling to accept that her parents were traitors, Bunnie then worked to start her own farm near the kingdom's borders.

### Sonic The Hedgehog is born (Day 162)

Sonic was born on day 162 of year 3220 during the early days of the Great War to the loving couple Jules and Bernadette Hedgehog in Mobotropolis. While his parents originally named him after his grandfathers, Sonic quickly picked up his nickname due to his incredible speed which he would use to run everywhere. Sonic eventually had his name legally changed, with no disrespect meant to his forebears.

Sonic first met Sally Acorn during one of his uncle's many visits to King Maximillian Acorn. When the King realized the Great War was going badly for the Mobians, he ordered a large number of the children in the city, including his daughter and Sonic, to the sanctuary of Knothole Village under the protection of Rosie and Julayla.

Sonic and his friends returned to Mobotropolis at the end of the Great War. Both of Sonic's parents had fallen victim to the Roboticizer, his father during the Great War and his mother after its end, forcing his Uncle Chuck to raise him alone. Sonic and his friends were present on the day Miles "Tails" Prower was born, and Sonic was sure they would grow up to be great friends. Later that same day, Warlord Julian launched a full scale coup d'état and took over the city, renaming it Robotropolis. During his takeover, Sonic's uncle Chuck and pet dog Muttski were captured and roboticized as well, effectively making Sonic an orphan. Sonic himself was tasked with locating as many children as he could find and bring them to the haven of Knothole by Colonel Tig Stripe, which he successfully did. While in Knothole, Sonic and Sally became inspired by Tig Stripe's band of Freedom Fighters, eventually forming their own group called the Knothole Freedom Fighters with their friends Rotor Walrus, Antoine D'Coolette and young Tails. Together they promised to overthrow Robotnik and take back their city.

### Elias Acorn (Early Life)

Still a toddler when his younger sister Sally was born, Elias accompanied his mother Queen Alicia on a voyage intended to see them to safety from the threat of the Overlanders during the Great War, escaping just ahead of the invasion of Mobotropolis . During the trip, their aircraft was attacked, and upon losing communication with them King Max thought his wife and son dead, and thus began grooming the infant Sally to take over the throne one day instead. In truth, Elias and his mother-along with two of their attendants, Colonel George Sommersby and his wife-survived, crash landing on Angel Island. Found by the Brotherhood of Guardians, they were taken to the safety of Haven, the Brotherhood's secret facility. For most of his early years, Elias was raised by the Brotherhood, and continued to call Haven home as he journeyed around Angel Island. He would later meet the Colonel and his wife Martha Sommersby in residence at the Kingdom of Acorn's royal compound on the island. They continued to raise the young prince, who developed a sense of adventure as he explored the island.

### Princess Sally Acorn is born (Day 186)

Sally was born to King Maximillian Acorn and Queen Alicia Acorn during the Great War, the first female heir ever born to the House of Acorn. In the first few years of her life, Sally lived carefree, unaware of the conflicts surrounding her. She would often accompany her father to the Floating Island, where she first met Knuckles the Echidna. While King Max and Knuckles' father Locke would go off to discuss matters, Sally and Knuckles would keep each other company, forging a close friendship. However, after Sally's final visit the two would not see one another again for many years.

Back in Mobotropolis, Sally befriended a fast blue hedgehog called Sonic. The two would often play together in the royal palace and cause mischief. As the Great War escalated and Mobotropolis came under siege, Sally, Sonic and most of the other children in the city were evacuated to the safe haven of Knothole Village. During her stay there, Sally's mother and brother Elias, whom Sally had no memory of, were sent to Angel Island to hide during the remainder of the war. Their air craft was shot down, however, and the two were presumed dead for over a decade.

Following the end of the Great War, Sally and the other evacuated families returned to Mobotropolis. However, not long after this, Warlord Julian unleashed a long-planned scheme of betrayal. Changing his name to Dr. Ivo Robotnik, he launched a full scale coup d'état, capturing Sally's father and rounding up millions of Mobians to be roboticized. Present in the castle at the time of the coup, the five-year-old Sally was quickly taken to Knothole along with many other children by Rosie and Julayla. There, she would meet up again with Sonic and other childhood friends, including Antoine D'Coolette and Rotor Walrus. There they would remain in safe hiding and live free from Robotnik's tyranny.

### Locke (Raising Knuckles)

Knuckles' father and Sabre's son, Locke is the most unpredictable Guardian after Spectre and the most powerful after his son. Locke and Knuckles didn't exactly have a good relationship, as Locke lied to Knuckles about his mother and family. Locke was granted a dream by the Ancient Walkers, which showed him Knuckles in the future facing a terrible evil. Utilizing his technological genius, he subjected himself to genetic manipulation, enhancing his abilities and likely activating the genes that would reveal themselves in Knuckles. He later subjected Knuckles' egg to Chaos energy, making him into a living chaos energy battery. Locke's decisions ruined his relationship with his wife, Lara-Le, who divorced him and then married another Echidna named Wynmacher (Lara-Le and Wynmacher eventually had a son named Knecapeon Mace).

Over the years, Locke raised Knuckles, instructing him in such subjects as self-defense, advanced mathematics, and other Guardian requirements. When Knuckles was ten years of age, Locke left him behind, seemingly dying when he walked through a wall of fire. Unbeknownst to Knuckles, the wall was in fact the concealed entrance to Haven, and Locke joined the Brotherhood in observing Mobius in secret.

### Knuckles the Echidna is born (Day 251)

Prior to Knuckles' birth, his father Locke received a vision from the Ancient Walkers that warned him of a threat that would one day come upon Mobius and that his son would have to stand against. As a result, Locke performed experiments on himself and later on Knuckles' unhatched egg, all for the purpose of creating the ultimate Guardian. His work appeared rewarded when Knuckles began displaying intelligence beyond his years, as well as physical signs of mutation-such as his trademark fist spikes-and Locke was soon teaching Knuckles at a college level. Locke wanted to begin Knuckles' training as guardian at age three, but Lara-Le didn't want Knuckles to be raised this way. When she realized that she would have little or no say in Knuckles' life, the dispute ended their marriage. Locke won custody of Knuckles when he was five, taking him to Angel Island for training to become a Guardian.

Locke instructed Knuckles in various fields he would need to survive, and as such he would be, to an extent, secluded as a child, learning history, mathematics, geography, sciences, and other issues a guardian would need to know in order to perform his job effectively. During this time, Knuckles met Princess Sally Acorn, who became his first friend, though their time together was brief. Eventually, when Knuckles was ten, Locke journeyed to the Forbidden Zone with the confidence that Knuckles could be the next guardian, he performed one of the Brotherhood of Guardians' most grueling rights of passage, walking through the wall of fire that marked the entrance to Haven, leaving Knuckles to train on his own.

Distraught at first, years later, Knuckles became the Guardian his father hoped for. With Princess Sally no longer able to see Knuckles now that Robotnik took over her father's city, his only friend would be the Mobian Catweazle. Knuckles eventually overcame his loneliness with the help of friendships formed with Vector, Mighty, Espio, and Charmy, all of whom eventually became members of Knuckles' support group, the Chaotix.

### Kodos Lion's disappearance

Warlord Kodos' hatred of Overlanders caused him to greatly resent the presence of Nate Morgan in the Kingdom. In an attempt to frame Nate, he allied with Ixis Naugus. This led to an attack by Overlander troops, which resulted in the deaths of many of Kodos' own ground troops as well as Nate's eventual exile from the kingdom.

Some time later, a young Overlander named Julian Kintobor (who would later take on the name Doctor Robotnik) arrived in the Kingdom, willing to share his knowledge of the Overlanders and help to defeat them once and for all. Kodos sensed Julian's great ambition, and attempted to recruit him. Kodos showed Julian the entrance to the Zone of Silence, only for Julian to betray him, trapping him in the Zone and taking his position as Warlord.

### Miles 'Tails' Prower (Day 297)

Miles, son of Amadeus and Rosemary Prower, was born the same day as Dr. Robotnik's takeover of Mobotropolis. Just prior to the coup, Amadeus had discovered the mad scientist's nefarious scheme, but was thrown into the Roboticizer before he was able to warn the kingdom. After giving birth, Rosemary was subsequently brought in by SWATbots to also be roboticized, but just before the process occurred, the alien race known as the Bem transported the two foxes off world. Their fate was unknown to everyone on Mobius until Sonic uncovered the truth during his time in space, so for years, Miles assumed his parents died during Robotnik's takeover.

Miles was sent to the sanctuary of Knothole along with the majority of Mobotropolis' orphaned children, and was raised by Rosie. This responsibility was later passed onto Sally Acorn as she got older, leading the young fox to call her "Aunt Sally" on occasion. By the age of 4, Miles had received his nickname "Tails" due to the fox's mysterious double tails. He also discovered his ability to fly with them from an idea Sonic had gotten to make them spin around like helicopter blades. This in turn also lead to him and the others finding a limestone cavern in the Great Forest that would eventually be used by the group they found that day- the Knothole Freedom Fighters. On a winter day some time after this, Tails and the other children got caught up in a strange event that sent them into a pocket zone caused by a Power Ring they found. While Sonic and Sally each had their own adventure, Tails had a shared experience with Boomer and Antoine. As he pointed out it seemed like they were meant to stick together like a team, this indicated to the Ancient Walkers who watched them from a higher plane that Tails was a potential individual of great destiny.

### Planning and deceit (Robotnik's coup d'état)

The planning for the coup took place years before it actually occurred. The Overlander Julian Kintobor had been taken in by the Kingdom of Acorn after fleeing from his own kind, who was planning to imprison him for conspiracy to commit murder on his own people. Once taken in, Julian became the assistant to the Acorn Kingdom's Warlord, Kodos Lion, to assist him in defeating the Overlanders and help win the Great War. Kodos, who was originally planning on launching the coup and taking control, offered Julian to join him. Inspired by the idea of conquest, Julian instead knocked Kodos unconscious with the Atomic Mace and threw him into the Zone of Silence. Following the "disappearance" of Kodos, Julian assumed the mantle of Warlord. From there, he began the construction of various machines and devices which ultimately allowed the Mobians to defeat the Overlanders in the Great War.

During the war, Julian's wayward nephew Colin "Snively" Kintobor Jr. defected to his side and aided him in both his war tactics and his plans for the coup. Julian, needing an army to overthrow both King Maximillian Acorn, and the Overlord Charlemagne, raided the neutral village of Kar Leung and captured its residents. He turned them all into cyborgs, but only Ken Khan survived the process and rebelled against Julian for killing his people, forcing Julian to lock him up in stasis. Julian would later arrange a sword duel between King Max and the Overlord, and the loser's faction would have to surrender. However unknown to the two, Julian planned for this duel to make his takeover easy. He saw that if Max won, Charlemagne's regime would not be a threat to Julian's new order, and if Charlemagne won, Julian would lead the Mobians into endless war. King Max was able to defeat the Overlord and spared his life, however. The Overlanders then surrendered and left Mobius much to Julian's dismay who wanted to enslave his species, and neither one of his political rivals were killed.

Prior to the Great War's end, Julian had discovered the Roboticizer, a device created by Sir Charles Hedgehog in order to prolong the life of the sick and elderly. Believing it could come very useful in his rule, Julian sabotaged the Roboticizer. When Charles roboticized his brother due to an injury the latter received during a battle in the Great War, he discovered Jules lost his free will and that roboticization caused more problems than it solved. Thus, he decided to give away the device to Julian believing he could perfect it more better and end his career as a scientist. Eventually, this would become a fundamental part of Julian's coup.

### The Coup

Shortly after the end of the Great War, King Maximillian Acorn informed Warlord Julian that he was to dismantle the War Ministry immediately, as the king had made him the Minister of Science and there was no need for the army now. Unbeknownst to King Max, Julian had other plans. By this point, Julian had developed the SWATbot model and had it in full production. That night, Julian gave Snively Robotnik permission to deploy the SWATbots and begin the coup.The Kingdom came under siege in several various locations simultaneously in order to prevent retaliation. King Max was soon brought before Julian, where Julian's schemes were finally revealed. Having renamed himself Dr. Ivo Robotnik, Julian demonstrated to King Max the roboticization process on several captured Mobians. Following this he proceeded to banish King Max into the Zone of Silence as he had with Kodos during the Great War. With the king now disposed of, Robotnik had his SWATbot army round up the remaining citizens of Mobotropolis and the Kingdom then roboticized them. Approximatly ninety percent of the city's population was roboticized, while the rest managed to escape to the Great Forest.

### Aftermath

Robotnik's military coup had lasting global impacts and marked the beginning of Robotnik's ten year rule over the entire planet. Following his takeover of Mobotropolis, which he renamed Robotropolis - the main city of Robotnik's empire, the despot sent out his hordes of robotic armies to capture and roboticize other Mobians. Not long after taking Mobotropolis, Robotnik had even sent an army of SWATbots to his home city of Megapolis, only to discover it was completely abandoned. From the far off Kingdom of Mercia and Sand Blast City, to the wandering Lost Tribe of Echidnas, to the distant continent of Downunda, Robotnik managed to capture and roboticize Mobians all over the globe. From there, he placed various Lieutenants and regional dictators, such as the infamous High Sherif and Crocbot, to ensure that any rebellious acts would be quelled.

### The Grand Master (Sub Bosses)

Formerly, Sub-Bosses were known to have been located in various prominent regions across Mobius. All of these Sub-Bosses were subsequently defeated or destroyed by the local resistance, sometimes with help from the Knothole Freedom Fighters.

### Arctic Freedom Fighters forced to flee

The group that would become the Arctic Freedom Fighters started out as a group of activists who were trying to bring some stability to the Northern Tundra. Shortly before Robotnik's Takeover, the group had traveled south in order to visit friends and family; however, once Robotnik's tyranny had begun, they found themselves unable to return home and so took to hiding within a cave system. Using technology stolen from Robotnik, they were able to adjust the climate within the caves, making it a suitable home.

### Original Freedom Fighters

During Robotnik's takeover of Mobotropolis, Tig Stripe - a retired colonel from the Great War - had many of the non-captured Mobians escape to the shelter of Knothole where they would be safe from Robotnik's SWATbot army, realizing there was no way to succeed in defending the city. After arriving in Knothole, Tig Stripe was joined by Sir Peckers, Spot Long, Trey Scales and MP Bull Bones who would act as the village's leadership.

After establishing housing and a village for those who managed to escape Mobotropolis, the five convened over how to go about dealing with the looming threat of Robotnik's empire. MP Bull Bones demanded they attempt to strike back as soon as possible, but Tig Stripe and Sir Peckers disagreed, stating there was no way to fight a full-scale war, as they lacked the resources and man power. However, Tig Stripe responded, saying, *"If there is one thing that rings true to my heart, it's that doing nothing while evil exists is the worst crime of all"*, and proposed the five of them form a unit using guerrilla warfare. The four others agreed, forming the original Freedom Fighter group.

From that point on, the Original Freedom Fighters began raiding and sabotaging various factories in Robotropolis, stealing various resources from the city, and luring SWATbots into the forest where they would trap and destroy them. At one point the group even rescued Sonic from the border of Robotropolis when he was seven years of age. As time went on, the Original Freedom Fighters posed a larger and larger problem for Robotnik.

### Demise and Legacy

When Sir Peckers received word of what had become of King Max, the group decided it was necessary to attempt to rescue him. While in Robotropolis, the group's location was given to Robotnik by Trey Scales, who had been bribed by Robotnik to betray the group. However, Robotnik ended up sending Trey into the same trap as the rest of his group and proceed to roboticize them all. Following their roboticization, Robotnik sent them into the Zone of Silence.

Despite their deaths, the Original Freedom Fighters inspired Sonic, Sally and their friends to go on and forge the Knothole Freedom Fighters when they were young children, and continue to fight for freedom from Robotnik's tyranny.

### Formation of the Downnunda Freedom Fighters

The Downunda Freedom Fighters became an organization in the latter years of Dr. Ivo Robotnik's reign over Mobius, meeting in their teenage years instead of in childhood like the Knothole Freedom Fighters. The organization began when Walt Wallabee, having set out on a "hopabout" to find his destiny, ran into a meditating Guru Emu, who joined Walt in the belief that Walt was a sign from the universe of what he was supposed to do. After several days traveling together and becoming friends, they came across a watering hole where they met Duck "Bill" Platypus, who soon enlisted the two in his mission to scout out possible illegal activities in the area.

Soon enough they discovered that the rumors Bill had heard were referring to Crocbot, who had recently arrived in the area and had captured many of Downunda's inhabitants for experimentation. Freeing most of the prisoners, the trio were then joined by Wombat Stu, who himself had been investigating Crocbot's activities. The mercenary Barby Koala joined the group when they arrived at the location of one of Crocbot's bases to fight for the good of Downunda. Together, the group destroyed Crocbot's facility and sent him running, only for him to return later to continue their long antagonism.

### Formation of the Knothole Freedom Fighters

The original members of the Knothole Freedom Fighters, Sonic, Tails, Princess Sally, Rotor, and Antoine, were children evacuated to the hidden village of Knothole in the Great Forest following the fall of Mobotropolis to Dr. Ivo Robotnik, and the first resistance operations began when the Original Freedom Fighters formed, serving in this capacity until Robotnik trapped, roboticized and banished the group to the Zone of Silence. Inspired by their sacrifice, and many of their number looking up to them as inspirations and guides, the Knothole Freedom Fighters, the kids being the main core of the team, formed to carry on in their stead.

### Campaigns against Robotnik

Despite being only a small band of Mobians, with time, the group quickly stood out among the rest as a major force to be reckoned with. Their members, led by Sally and their primary agent Sonic, quickly gained experience and intelligence with time, performing many operations against Robotnik; launching several guerrilla tactic strikes, sabotaging supply lines, destroying factories, interfering with his projects, etc., effectively doing anything to hamper and/or ruin Robotnik's plans, all in the name of their primary objective: to defeat Robotnik forever, reclaim Mobotropolis and restore the Kingdom of Acorn. Other missions included helping Mobians across the planet in need.

On a personal level, the group's members began friendships and relationships with other members, and the group joined several other Freedom Fighters groups, mostly getting along well (the only exception being the Rebel Underground, the "official" underground resistance movement against Robotnik started by the last members of the Royal Secret Service under the pompous and imperious.

### Becoming a Rab-"Bot"

During the early days of the war with Dr. Ivo Robotnik, a young Bunnie was about to be captured by a SWATbot. However, Antoine D'Coolette witnessed this, and pushed a rock down a hill, destroying the SWATbot and saving Bunnie.

As Robotnik began to expand his influence into the southern regions of Mobius, a group of SWATbots located and captured Bunnie, who was tending to a crop of carrots. After she was thrown into one of Robotnik's mobile roboticizers, Sonic the Hedgehog and Rotor rescued Bunnie by shutting it down mid-way through the process. As a result, Bunnie's left arm and everything from the hips down were roboticized. In gratitude for them saving her life, along with wanting to serve her idol Sally Acorn, Bunnie put her new super-strength to work by joining the Knothole Freedom Fighters. Quickly becoming comfortable with her new form, she even made a pun of her maiden name to describe her new identity.

### Universalamader

Universalamander was originally an ordinary, unintelligent salamander captured by Dr. Robotnik during a raid of capturing random animals. It was placed into a Roboticizer in the hopes that it could be made into a robot capable of defeating Sonic the Hedgehog. However, an inept Buzzbomber working the controls accidentally activated the "enlarge" command (believing that the button actually activated the air conditioning), causing the creature to grow as it was trans-mutated into a robot. The result was Universalamander, a massive creature of immense power.

Universalamander traveled to Knothole Village, where it engaged Sonic in battle. Unable to defeat it, Sonic scrounged up seven Chaos Emeralds and fifty Power Rings to trigger his form of Super Sonic. Super Sonic quickly returned to Knothole Village, and recovered a reduce/enlarge component from the Roboticizer that had been used on Bunnie Rabbot. With it, he was able to shrink Universalamander back down to normal size, then threatened to squash it under his foot, making it flee

### Sonic becoming Super Sonic for the first time

Sonic the Hedgehog first transformed into Super Sonic when a rampaging robot known as the Universalamander ran havoc across Robotropolis and into the Great Forest. Realizing he was outmatched, Sonic quickly gathered the seven Chaos Emeralds and fifty Power Rings needed to transform into Super Sonic. He quickly made short work of the roboticized beast, having quickly taken a shrinking device Rotor Walrus devised and shrank him to the point where he was not a threat anymore.

### The First Metal Sonic Series

Robotnik constructs several versions of Sonic The Hedgehog, starting with Pseudo-Sonic and then Metal Sonic v1.0. Pseudo-Sonic had some bugs in his systems, but was itching to test his abilities. He was defeated, when Tails electrocuted him with static electricity created from dragging his twin-tails around. Rotor recircuited his wires, and threw him out. Pseudo-Sonic would later appear on an island with some badniks. Sonic went to the island to investigate. Eventually, the two Sonics fought, but both were two evenly matched. So, the badniks decided they have a bighorn challenge with the survivor being the winner, which both Sonics accepted. Pseudo-Sonic and Sonic rammed each other at full speed, creating such vibrations from the impact that the entire island sank, which the Badniks used to fake their demise. Though Sonic survived, Pseudo-Sonic suffered severe damage, but the Badniks retrieved it and got ready to repair him and get revenge on Sonic.

While repairing Pseudo-Sonic, a Burrobot discovered it had a Ratio-Redoubler. Using this device, the Badniks enlarged Pseudo-Sonic to colossal heights while repairing it, planning to use this giant to take over Mobius. When the Forty Fathom Freedom Fighters attacked them however, the majority of the badniks held the heroes back while the Burrobot finished repairing Pseudo-Sonic. Once it came back online, Pseudo-Sonic quickly knocked out both the Freedom Fighters and the Badniks before declaring war on Mobius. However, he was destroyed when Big Fluke sat on it and crushed it into a cube with the other Badniks and their island.

Metal Sonic was first built by Dr. Robotnik so he could have his own Sonic the Hedgehog and the second version of Sonic. Metal Sonic was first put to use by Robotnik to kidnap Sonic's self-proclaimed "biggest fan," Amy Rose, and bring her to the Collision Chaos Zone to be used as bait for Sonic. The mechanical copy did so, and Sonic did end up coming to the zone. The two hedgehogs then had a race around the zone's resident speed track, Stardust Speedway, with Snively disguised as Dr. Robotnik, following them and Metal Sonic pulling tricks such as using hologram. Eventually, as they approached the finish line, Sonic began to increase his speed, and Metal Sonic, despite not being programmed with records of Sonic reaching such speeds, pushed his engine beyond its limits to catch up to him. Unfortunately, the heat created from the friction of Metal Sonic's speed, caused his legs to melt and he crashed just before the finish line.

### Sonic's First Journey to Anti-Mobius

Sonic first named the Cosmic Interstate when he attempted to use it to shut down a factory that Dr. Robotnik was using to pollute a river. By accident, he wound up on Anti-Mobius instead, and met his counterpart Evil Sonic for the first time, sparking a rivalry that would continue for years. After his first defeat of Evil Sonic, Sonic made his way back home through the interstate.

### Knuckles meets Sonic & Tails

Knuckles first met Sonic the Hedgehog when the Freedom Fighter and his sidekick Tails stumbled across Angel Island and flew up to investigate. Having met-and been fooled by-Dr. Ivo Robotnik, Knuckles thought that the pair were after the Chaos Emerald he and the other Guardians had protected for generations. He thus employed all his knowledge of the island and its booby-traps against the two, eventually taking them captive. Releasing them later, he followed them on the suspicion that they would go after the Emerald, only to have Robotnik take it instead. Acknowledging his mistake, Knuckles formed an alliance with Sonic to recapture the jewel before Angel Island fell into the ocean. They parted ways afterwards, not entirely sure what to think of each other

### Nicole is discovered by Sally Acorn

Nicole was sent to the past in a sphere made out of what the present-time Rotor theorized was some sort of force field. Nicole landed at night not too far off from Knothole and where Sally sat pondering over love and her early life growing up to be a ruler. Nicole landed in the sphere with an echoing crash that caught the attention of the Knothole Freedom Fighters and went over to investigate where they found the sphere Nicole was in and were amazed at how the sphere had managed to keep cool when it came down from space covered in fire. Sally picked up the sphere and gave it to Rotor, who tried everything to open it but was unsuccessful.

Later, however, when Sally was asleep, the sphere began to glow and Sally awoke and went to it to discover Nicole. Nicole offered her greetings and friendship to Sally, and she thought that Nicole reminded her of someone else who encouraged her to make her own decisions. The rest of the Freedom Fighters then came after they heard Sally talking to Nicole. Sonic, curious to discover the mystery behind Nicole, gave her a shake and received a shock for his trouble from Nicole. Sonic suggested they get rid of Nicole after this, but Sally refused and said she was staying, like it or not. The next evening at sunset, Sally decided to take Nicole with her on a mission given to her by her late mentor Julayla into the Forbidden Zone. Sally intended to go it alone except for Nicole, as it was too dangerous a mission for her to include her friends, but they rounded on her and insisted on accompanying Sally on her mission. They then took a plane to the Forbidden Zone and everyone jumped out of it once over the drop-zone right outside Dr. Ivo Robotnik's border patrol. After blinding the patrolling SWATbots with paint, Sally and the others entered the Forbidden Zone and made their way past the Cyclops, Griffon, and Polysaurus Rex within it thanks mainly to some assistance from Nicole and eventually found their "quest's end". At it was a box with a scroll inside that had the words "*To thine own self be true*" inscribed upon it. These words served the possible future Sally (who had Rotor make Nicole) for two decades and led to her rule and peace on Mobius.

### Nicole's Request

The Knothole Freedom Fighters visited the Forbidden Zone to test out Rotor's land rover. They were spotted by Doctor Robotnik and Snively and attacked in their Beetle 'Bot. Thanks to some magical stones Sonic had with him, he defeated the Beetle 'Bot and saved his friends.

The Knothole Freedom Fighters again ventured into the Forbidden Zone with the recently discovered NICOLE on a mission given by the late Julayla Chipmunk. After getting past a number of monstrous creatures and obstacles, such as the Cyclops, the Griffon and the Polysaurus Rex. Sally discovered a treasure chest with a piece of paper saying *"To thine own self be true"* inscribed on it, which was presumably left by a version of herself from NICOLE's home reality.

One of Dr. Robotnik's factories was located in the Forbidden Zone. The Destructix took control of the factory in 3236 and attempted to sell it to Dr. Eggman. In 3237, Sonic the Hedgehog went to the derelict town of Gravestone in the Forbidden Zone when he received word that Tommy Turtle could be found there. He ended up rescuing a fake version of Tommy after fighting a group of robot duplicates of the Destructix.

### A Tragic End to a Microverse

Dr. Robotnik decided to destroy the Knothole Freedom Fighters once and for all by turning them into cyborgs. The plan backfires, as the Freedom Fighters are now stronger than ever. The Cyborg Freedom Fighters march into Robotropolis to defeat Robotnik, for what they hope is the last time. Robotnik then roboticizes himself, becoming Robo-Robotnik. He destroys the Freedom Fighters, with Cyborg Sonic fleeing to the Cosmic Interstate to find new allies.

### The Night of One Thousands Sonics

Robo-Robotnik soon dispatched a small army of his Shadow SWATbots to Mobius Prime to destroy all the various Sonics, who had gathered there to discuss how to deal with Robo-Robotnik. However, Robotnik Prime simply dispatched his own SWATbots and destroyed the Shadowbot army, which forced Robo-Robotnik to make a strategic withdrawal.

As Robotnik Prime speculated, Robo-Robotnik then went after the alien Giant Hand, which was hidden in the Neutral Zone. Robo-Robotnik hired the only Sonic from the multiverse not working with Sonic Prime, Evil Sonic, to retrieve the Giant Hand so could activate the Giant Borg. Evil Sonic managed to retrieve the hand before the other Sonics could, and Robo-Robotnik teleported it to his base. He activated the Giant Hand and it transformed into the Giant Borg around Robo-Robotnik. He then set out attacking all the various Sonics, but ultimately the Giant Borg was destroyed when every Sonic in the multiverse joined forces and shred it to pieces. Robo-Robotnik was left dismembered from this, his robotic head malfunctioning. His head was then hastily brought back to his home zone by Cyborg Sonic.

### 3 Phases of E.V.E.

In addition to being composed of nanomachines that were able to morph and adapt after each defeat, Dr. Robotnik outfitted E.V.E. with a DNA sample taken from Sonic himself (a quill taken from the hedgehog's hide), as well as organic material from Robotnik's own brain. These separate DNA patterns were meant to give E.V.E. Robotnik's genius in combination with Sonic's resourcefulness. E.V.E.'s original form was a state-of-the-art, jet-pack-wearing SWATbot, but upon being scrapped by Sonic, she transformed into something suitable to counter Sonic's speed: a giant hornet. Thinking he is being attacked by separate robots, Sonic destroys E.V.E. twice, only for her to revert to a metallic ooze and reshape into a more lethal form.

After wrecking E.V.E.'s second (hornet) form, Sonic goes to confront Robotnik, who gloats that E.V.E. can never be defeated and will only learn from each victory. E.V.E. then bursts into Robotnik's headquarters and attacks Sonic in the form of a giant cobra, which he defeats. Her response is to take the form of a tentacled entity with two large eyes, an enormous mouth, and a crystal-like brain, after which she turns the tables by turning on her creator. Although Robotnik tries to re-assert control, E.V.E. reveals that by adding Sonic's DNA to her systems, Robotnik mistakenly implanted a streak of independence instead of the resourcefulness that he'd intended her to receive. Instead of developing his intelligence, all she got from Robotnik was his evil, which was negated by the inherent good she inherited from Sonic. E.V.E. seemingly vaporizes her master-but in reality only sent him to a parallel future-and turns her attention to Sonic, intending to fulfill her programming by defeating him. Thinking quick, Sonic reasons to E.V.E. that she will never be free if she continues following orders. Upon realizing her own free will, E.V.E. thanks Sonic and soars into outer space, her brain-like form growing larger so that the tentacles are replaced by butterfly wings made of pure energy.

### Years later in a different Microverse

Years later, King Sonic and Queen Sally had a chance-encounter with Robotnik Prime when he was inadvertently transported to that zone by his renegade creation E.V.E.. Robotnik Prime was quickly transported to Robo-Robotnik's space station, leaving King Sonic to assume what they had witnessed was just a freak of nature. With Robotnik Prime brought aboard his space station, Robo-Robotnik informed his prime-zone counterpart of his history and explained he would inevitably shut down once the space station ran out of power. Robotnik Prime managed to convince him to not give up and transport him back to Mobius Prime. This chance encounter between the two Robotniks proved to be a critical turning point for the universe.

### Arctic Freedom Frighters' cooperation with Knothole Freedom Fighters

When Robotnik created his Weather Annihilator and caused the climate to change, the Knothole Freedom Fighters were unable to locate Knothole and return home. Seeking shelter in a cave, Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends were nearly captured by SWATbots; however, a penguin named Flip found them first and led them deeper into the caves. Hidden within the cavern system, the Freedom Fighters were introduced to Flip's friends Guntiver, Erma, Sealia and Augustus. Guntiver explained that they'd been living in hiding and had used stolen technology to recreate some of their preferred climate within the caves; he assumed that the Knothole group would join them in hiding from Robotnik, but they insisted on fighting back. While not fighters themselves, Guntiver's group offered to help the Freedom Fighters train and adjust to the new weather conditions beforehand. A week later, the Freedom Fighters launched their attack on Robotnik; however, they were soon captured by Snively.

Some time later, two of the Arctic Freedom Fighters, Sealia and Augustus (the rest of the team unavailable as they were resettling elsewhere in the region), tried to help Rotor save his family from Robotnik's mind control. The three managed to sneak into the Walrus' main location, hiding in a trojan horse. When they emerged, the three began attacking the Icebots (models similar to SWATbots). However, before Sealia could rewire Robotnik's base to explode, the mind-controlled Walrus horde closed in on them. Outnumbered and not wishing to hurt Rotor's family, Augustus broke the ice between Rotor and the other Walruses, preventing them from getting to the Freedom Fighter and preventing them from carrying out Robotnik's orders. Rotor realized he would have to return another time to break Robotnik's hold over them, and departed. Sealia and Augustus promised to contact him should they have any news about the herd.

For a time, the group disbanded due to a conflict of approaches-while Guntiver, who had brought the group together, and Sealia wished to retain their peaceful efforts, Erma wished for the group to take a more aggressive approach. Weeks after Robotnik's death, though, they informed Rotor that the hypnosis appeared to have worn off. Rotor had to see for himself, and was at peace with his family and the Herd until the hypnosis mysteriously started up again. The Arctic Freedom Fighters saved Rotor from his totaled submarine, as well as broke the bad news that Rotor had already figured out; Robotnik had returned, this time in the form of his alternate universe counterpart Robo Robotnik. As a result of this development, the group decided to reunite as a band of Freedom Fighters. They later participated in the battle against the Xorda, along with virtually every other Freedom Fighter group on Mobius.

### Robotropolis Spy Network

The Robotropolis Spy Network provided information to the Knothole Freedom Fighters via coded messages that were spray-painted on the walls of buildings in Robotropolis. The group later helped to locate the captured Knothole Freedom Fighters for Sonic and the Substitute Freedom Fighters to stage a rescue mission. Weeks later, the group was destroyed when Sleuth Dawg betrayed them in order to gain a better life working for Robotnik, with most or all of its members being roboticized.

### Chaotix's formation and early activities

The Chaotix were formed when Dr. Ivo Robotnik's lackey, Renfield the Rodent, had successfully captured the Knothole Freedom Fighters in the House of Mirrors section of Happy Land theme park. Knuckles, requiring assistance to defeat Metal Sonic, joined up with Mighty the Armadillo, Espio the Chameleon, Vector the Crocodile and Charmy Bee. The group was also briefly joined by Heavy and Bomb, robots created by Robotnik, who provided the team with Power Gems and weaponry based on them in order to combat Robotnik's forces. After their success of capturing Renfield and forcing Robotnik to flee the island, the Chaotix remained a team, though Heavy and Bomb would end up leaving and joining the Secret Service under Geoffrey St. John.

Their early missions included battling the evil Enerjak, who at the time was also Knuckles' great-uncle Dimitri. Enerjak managed to place the Chaotix under mind control, but they were freed from this following Enerjak's defeat. The group also tangled with a band of cyborg Echidnas known as the Dark Legion. A defector from that group eventually joined them, Julie-Su, who would later become Knuckles' girlfriend. Charmy Bee temporarily left the group to return home to the Golden Hive Colony.

### The Rebel Underground meets the Knothole Freedom Fighters

In their first encounter, Geoffrey was carrying out a solo mission until he ran into Sally Acorn at one of the energy substations for Robotropolis' defense grid. They both thought each other was involved with Dr. Robotnik's forces until they came under attack by SWATbots. After escaping, Geoffrey decided to let Sally in on Robotnik's Auto Automaton scheme and went to Sally's campsite with her own robot duplicate, where her trainees were waiting. Meanwhile, the real Sally placed herself in the duplicate's stasis pod to avoid suspicion. Geoffrey then joined Sally and her trainees on their mission to destroy another energy substation and were attacked by Orb Bots, though both were scrapped.

Their next mission was to destroy another substation which could only be reached with hang-gliders. Arlo was shot down in the approach and broke his leg, so Penelope stayed to help him. Shortly after the others left, the rest of the Rebel Underground appeared and rescued them both, putting a cast on Arlo's leg, and disappeared with them before the others came back from dealing with the substation and its Octo-Pod guard. Before dawn the next morning, Geoffrey woke up the real Sally, who led Hamlin and Dylan to infiltrate another one of Robotnik's bases.

After reaching the facility's core, they found Geoffrey and Robotnik side by side. Hamlin accused him of being a traitor and attacked him until Sally threatened to hit him with red paint. Robotnik revealed that the substations were a ruse to test the robot duplicates created in the factory in which they were standing. This was supposed to assess how well they could impersonate real key figures in the Freedom Fighters. Believing the operation to be a complete success, Robotnik decided to roboticize what he thought was the real Sally. However, it was actually the fake which was placed in the Roboticizer and the subsequent Roboticization process caused the unit to explode. Robotnik realized he been betrayed by none other than Geoffrey and set his Stealth 'Bots on all of them.

At the last moment, Geoffrey called in the rest of the Rebel Underground, and Lt. Smiley and Commander Fleming emerged from underground with Arlo and Penelope, beginning to attack. After that, Robotnik activated a built-in bomb which obliterated the factory, though everyone escaped safely before it detonated. In the aftermath, Sally explained everything and made her trainees official Freedom Fighters. She then asked St. John to join the Freedom Fighters, but he denied, saying that he was the leader of his team and could not abandon them. The two kissed and Sally left for Knothole, while St. John went off on his next mission.

### Southern Crossover

Tails discovered the Downunda Freedom Fighters after going head to head with Crocbot's Wing Dingo squadron. Taking him to Athair to be nursed back to health, the Downunda FF's show that they are just as caring as they are together as a team. When Tails' wounds were healed by the Ancient Walkers, he joined the Downunda Freedom Fighter's in their attack on Crocbot's base and his C.D. ROM Ram. With his help, the blimp carrying troops, weapons and supplies from Dr. Robotnik was destroyed. Following this, Crocbot attempted to escape in his Mega-Mecha Tank, but a well placed Bomberang from Tails and Guru sent the vehicle crashing into the Great Crater where he was believed to have been destroyed.

### Robotropolis near devastation

Over the next decade there had been many attempts to retake the city, usually as the Freedom Fighters attempted to sabotage various facilities. However, when an earthquake threatened to level the entire city, Robotnik temporarily retreated to an evacuation craft with his nephew Snively and as many SWATbots as the ship could carry. Sally, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Sonic's Uncle Chuck used the time to deroboticize as many of the city's Robians as possible, and barely escaped the city themselves. When Robotnik returned, he planned on using a force-field to keep any intruders out while the city was being rebuilt, but Snively activated it too early, causing them to crash against it.

Eventually, Robotnik managed to rebuild the city, before a grievous blunder was committed on his part. He had not properly safeguarded a supply of nuclear warheads, and had to retreat to a bomb shelter when he saw Mecha Sonic and Mecha Knuckles about to crash into the stockpile. Upon their detonation the damage was even more severe than before, and reconstruction was further delayed when Sonic sent Nack the Weasel's ion-powered sky-sled on auto-pilot and set it to self destruct within the city, leading to yet another major explosion in Robotropolis that could be felt from Knothole Village.

Later, as Robotnik had plans elsewhere, he left Snively in charge of his city. As soon as Robotnik took off for the Death Egg, however, Snively ordered all of the SWATbots to stop reconstruction and instead used them to pamper himself and dubbed the city Snivopolis. Once the Death Egg was destroyed, Robotnik returned and was quick to put an end to his nephew's actions.

### Enerjak breaks free

Meanwhile, in the depths of the ruins, which came to be called Mount Fate, Enerjak's knowledge and insanity grew. It was during this period that he actually took his name, that of a legendary evil. All the while, he remained unaware that Edmund's bloodline, which lived in the Brotherhood of Guardians over the generations following his late brother, was continuing. Years later, he returned and confronted the Chaotix, and only with assistance from Knuckles' father Locke, were they able to overcome him, sending him into outer space.

### Mecha Madness

After beating Bunnie Rabbot and Knuckles the Echidna, Mecha Sonic proceeds in destroying Knothole Village. Believing Sonic to be a traitor, Sally orders Rotor to bring in the Roboticizer that was used to roboticize part of Bunnie's body. Knuckles awakes in a daze and attacks his friends, thinking that they are enemies. Sally snaps Knuckles out of his dizzy state by kicking him from behind. Sally explains their need for drastic measures and hands him a Neuro-Overrider to let him keep his free will. Now in a stable mind, Knuckles agrees to be roboticized and jumps in the roboticizer.

Meanwhile, Mecha Sonic finds Tails and targets him with the intention of vaporizing him. Inside though, Mecha Sonic begins struggling with himself, knowing that even as a robot slave he can't kill his sidekick. Before an ultimatum is reached, Dr. Robotnik contacts Mecha Sonic, demanding the coordinates needed to find Knothole so he can nuke it. Mecha Sonic still has second thoughts, but he is unable to disobey his master. Right before Mecha Sonic can give Robotnik the numbers to locate Knothole, Mecha Knuckles arrives and attacks Mecha Sonic, destroying the communicator linking him to Robotnik.

The battle between Mecha Sonic and Mecha Knuckles is brutal and seems endless. Eventually Mecha Sonic decides to put a stop to it and brings all his strength into one powerful hit, sending Mecha Knuckles straight towards Robotropolis, where a stockpile of nuclear warheads are waiting to go off. Mecha Knuckles realizes there is no way he can stop himself before the impact, but is not about to go alone. By reversing the polarities of the magnets built into his knuckles, he manages to pull Mecha Sonic in with him. The two are caught in the explosion, and the Freedom Fighters fear the worst.

In the rubble that was Robotropolis, Robotnik emerges from his secret shelter and finds Mecha Sonic among the ruins, barely alive. Amazed at his creation's survival, Robotnik gloats about his success. Out of the blue, he is head-butted by Mecha Knuckles, who then explains his survival through the use of an older roboticizer unit that did not use cheap foreign parts and how Mecha Sonic pushed himself in front to shield Knuckles and took the brunt of the blast. Robotnik passes out and Mecha Knuckles flies back to the Great Forest with Mecha Sonic.

Knuckles arrives and delivers Mecha Sonic to Sally and the Freedom Fighters, barely making it and in danger of burnout. While Knuckles is changed back into flesh and blood, Rotor tells Sally that Sonic may not be easy to restore, due to the lethal damage done to his body by the explosion. Sally stands near Sonic with tears coming down her eyes, wishing that their was a way she could save him. Suddenly, Nicole volunteers to restore Sonic herself by synchronizing with the aura protecting his psyche created by his One Billionth Power Ring. Dubious at first, Sally eventually allows Nicole to try and she succeeds in restoring Sonic back to normal. Sonic gathers his senses and stands up in front of his fellow teammates, but then Knuckles comes in front of Sonic to gloat about saving Knothole from Sonic. Angered, Sonic tells Knuckles to take a hike, Knuckles does so, leaving Knothole in the care of the Freedom Fighters.

Immediately after, Antoine snaps handcuffs on Sonic and uses Nicole's wartime protocols to charge Sonic for treason by allowing himself to be roboticized. Before Sonic can explain himself, the other Freedom Fighters realize what Antoine is saying makes sense and Sally orders Sonic to be taken to the Knothole jailhouse for holding until his trial.

### The return of the King

The Freedom Fighters managed to free King Acorn from the Zone and brought him back to Knothole VIllage. Unfortunately, the King's body began to crystallize due to exposure to the Zone's harsh environment. Initially there were hopes of healing him using a Chaos Emerald, but these proved fruitless. It was discovered afterwards that the Sword of Acorns, when brought together with the Crown of Acorns and the King himself, possessed powerful healing properties and was able to restore King Acorn to his former self. It later became known that the wizard Ixis Naugus had been responsible for the King's condition, forcing Sonic to confront him and his minions-Warlord Kodos, Uma Arachnis, and Feist-in Max's dreams forcing them all out.

At one point, King Max was secretly replaced by one of Robotnik's Auto-Automatons, whom the Freedom Fighters mistook for a fully healed king following their battle with Mammoth Mogul over the Sword of Acorns. While impersonating the King, the robot sentenced Sonic to life in the Devil's Gulag prison when Sonic was mistakenly charged with the murder of Princess Sally. He also later brought Robotnik himself to Knothole, where Robotnik revealed that the King was a fake. The real king was revealed to have been in the care of Dr. Quack, who helped Robotnik in order to protect his captured family.

### The Death Egg Saga

The Death Egg's development began some time in mid 3235. Production of the super weapon fell behind schedule when Robotropolis was struck by a massive earth quake. Shortly afterwards however Robotnik ensured that his SWATbot work force picked up the pace and completed the Death Egg on schedule. Following the Mecha Sonic fiasco, the Death Egg was ready to ascend into the sky. Dr. Robotnik left his nephew Snively in charge of the city's reconstruction efforts while he personally oversaw the Death Egg's launch.

While Sonic and Tails were searching for Power Rings to reverse the crystallization effect Maximillian Acorn was suffering from, Tails was pulled on board the Death Egg when it sucked up the remaining Power Rings from the Ring Grotto. Sonic on the other hand was searching out Carl Condor for help, only to be attacked by the roboticized Carl and brought to the Death Egg as a prisoner. Sonic managed to escape Carl Condor's grip and grab onto the Death Egg through the garbage bay doors, whilst Tails disguised himself as a SWATbot that had ironically been sent to the trash for causing Tails to get suctioned onboard along with several tons of debris, which the disguised Tails dumped on Condorbot.

Because the SWATbot who had the Ring Grotto sucked up also brought up a large amount of debris, the Death Egg's ascension into the sky was slower than expected. Additionally, Robotnik needed the power of a Chaos Emerald to power the Death Egg's massive roboticizer. Thus, Dr. Robotnik sent a contingent of Burrobots to the Floating Island to obtain a Chaos Emerald while the excess debris was jettisoned. The Burrowbots were destroyed by the Chaotix, much to Robotnik's disappointment. However, by this point the debris was jettisoned, and thus Robotnik decided to sink the Floating Island by pressing it under water with the Death Egg.

Just before the Floating Island was submerged, Sonic and Tails, neither knowing that the other was aboard, independently planned to challenge Robotnik. This caused the two to temporarily duke it out before they realized their error. Sonic then charged towards Robotnik, and was caught between two plexiglas walls and nearly choked to death. Luckily, Tails used the SWATbot's still-working jet boots to smash through the glass "eyes" of the Death Egg and used the SWATbot's also-still-working weapons to destroy the control panels. This enabled Sonic to escape from a Plexiglas confinement and saved him from suffocating, and also caused the Death Egg to automatically ascend upwards towards the upper atmosphere. Robotnik still had some backup plans, unleashing the massive Silver Sonic v1.0 to safeguard the Death Egg. Sonic decided to fight the robo-replica himself while he sent Tails to find a way to destroy the Death Egg. Although Sonic was no match for Silver Sonic physically, he used active electrical cables to short circuit the massive doppelganger after Silver Sonic had punched Sonic through the floor, making the cables accessible. Robotnik then used his Eggs-O-Skeleton battle suit to fight Sonic, but was evenly matched when Sonic went inside the body of Silver Sonic and personally controlled it. The fight came to an abrupt end when Tails informed Sonic the Death Egg was rigged to explode and Sonic sent Robotnik flying out of the massive super weapon. Sonic managed to grab a large number of Power Rings from a storage box and escape just before the Death Egg exploded. Sonic wondered if Robotnik perished in the blast, but even at that moment, Robotnik had safely returned to the renamed Snivopolis.

### Knuckles' quest for the Sword of Acorns

Knuckles struggled to protect Angel Island from the giant battleship, and then helped Sonic to bring the fortress down. Despite this alliance, the pair were soon squabbling again as Sonic demanded that Knuckles return the Emerald he had taken from the Lake of Rings so it could be used to help the ailing King Maximillian Acorn. When Knuckles refused, the Freedom Fighters sought the Crown of Acorns instead, only to be betrayed by one of their intelligence agents. After helping them in the ensuing battle, Knuckles agreed to search for the one thing that could find the Crown: the Sword of Acorns. His quest led him first to a meeting with his great-grandfather Athair and the Ancient Walkers, who directed him to seek a number of magic users. This led him to an encounter with Tails' uncle Merlin Prower, though Knuckles did not know of the relationship at the time.

At this point, Knuckles was side-tracked when he had to help the Freedom Fighters in dealing with Evil Sonic, the Anti-Mobius version of Sonic. In the process, Knuckles met his own counterpart, the pacifistic Anti-Knuckles. Despite their differences, the two Echidnas were able to work together to save Anti Knuckles' Sunken Island, and in the process thwarted Evil Sonic's plans. Following this, Knuckles continued his search.

Resuming his quest, he encounters with the sorcerer Black Death, the Enchantress, and the wizard Mathias Poe, as well as a meeting with Sir Connery. His quest ended with success, as he was able to locate the missing sword and obtain it from Mathias Poe. Before he had the chance to turn it over to Princess Sally however, Mammoth Mogul used his magic to pit the Knothole Freedom Fighters against the Chaotix. When this failed, Mogul used the Fearsome Foursome to distract both teams while he secretly swapped the real Sword of Acorns for a fake. Not recognizing the switch, Sally then dubbed Knuckles a Knight of the Kingdom of Acorn.

### Opperation: End Game

#### Prelude

When Sonic used Dr. Quack's invention, the Dream Watcher, in order to enter King Max's psyche to contact him during his coma, Robotnik managed to track the location of Knothole when he detected the Neutron Chip in Quack's device. While Sonic and the Freedom Fighters were absent from Knothole retrieving the Sword of Acorns, Robotnik sent Snively and a group of SWATbots to apprehend Dr. Quack and King Max, with the latter being replaced by a robotic duplicate. Fearing Sonic would interfere with his plans, Robotnik appealed to former Wolf Pack member Drago Wolf to set up Sonic as a criminal for Sally Acorn's death. Dr. Quack originally refused to work for Robotnik in helping assemble the Ultimate Annihilator, but when Snively brought Dr. Quack's wife and kids and threatened to roboticize them, he complied.

#### Phase One

The first phase of Operation: EndGame was to have Princess Sally Acorn killed while framing Sonic for her murder. Drago managed to convince Hershey Cat to wear a suit that made her look like Sonic, while the suit's eyes made it so anyone Hershey saw while wearing the suit looked like Snively. During one of their missions in Robotropolis, Sally ended up hanging on to a rope high above the ground. Hershey, believing it to be Snively, cut the rope, causing Sally to fall to what appeared to be her death. With everyone witnessing what they believed was Sonic killing Sally, the Freedom Fighters targeted Sonic as a fugitive.

#### Phase Two

Robotnik used the robotic duplicate of King Max to order the Royal Secret Service to track down and apprehend Sonic. While Knothole's main defense was absent, Robotnik's army of SWATbots invaded the village, holding its citizens prisoners.

### Phase Three

Originally, Robotnik planned to fire the Ultimate Annihilator and wipe out the hostages in Knothole. He first tested the weapon on an Overlander who had been captured from Mega Central, which proved the device worked. However, when Dulcy informed the Secret Service and Knuckles the Echidna of Sonic's innocence with regards to Sally's murder, the group returned and liberated Knothole before Robotnik could fire the weapon. Despite this, Robotnik planned to erase Knothole while Sonic went to Robotropolis to avenge Sally's death. Although Robotnik managed to activate his weapon, he was unaware Snively had reprogrammed the weapon to target only Robotnik. After a brief fist fight with Sonic, the Ultimate Annihilator fired, erasing Robotnik from existence.

#### Aftermath

Upon returning to Knothole, Sonic learned that Sally had in fact survived the fall, but was in a coma and in a stasis chamber. No longer a wanted fugitive as Dulcy had cleared his name, Sonic went to visit Sally and woke her from her coma with a kiss.

### The Dark Legion escapes the Twilight Cage

After Dr. Ivo Robotnik's Ultimate Annihilator was fired, the dimensional barriers between the Twilight Zone, Mobius and the Pocket Zone which Echidnaopolis had existed in for over 200 years ceased to exist. This enabled the Dark Legion's freedom and their current leader and Grandmaster, Kragok, began an all-out invasion of the Floating Island. The current Guardian, Knuckles, with the help of the Chaotix, managed to blunt their attack. They then proceeded to attack the Dark Legion's base of operations, the Grand Conservatory. With their main hideout discovered and their forces spread out, Kragok's plans were put on hold.

### Brave New World

With Dr. Robotnik defeated, the Freedom Fighters, Substitute Freedom Fighters, Geoffrey St. John and a few other citizens from Knothole explore the ruins of Robotropolis. As they enter the city, Rotor notices that they never really thought about the fact that the city used to be Mobotropolis, but Geoffrey and Sally remind him that they always need to put their objectives before their feelings. The group heads into the center of what used to be Castle Acorn and into Dr. Robotnik's control room. Sally asks Geoffrey to help secure the area, sparking an argument between him and Sonic. Tails and Hershey shout over them, hearing a strange noise nearby, when a DYNAMAC appears and attacks the group.

Sonic and Geoffrey's attacks are deflected with ease and the DYNAMAC grabs Antoine, Bunnie, Hershey and Tails. Sally tells the team to confuse the robot, and Sonic spins around it. The DYNAMAC throws its victims at what appears to be Sonic, but it's revealed to be an afterimage left by Sonic's quick movements. While Sonic keeps the DYNAMAC preoccupied, Rotor finds Snively hiding nearby. Geoffrey launches a net on a bolts and captures him. Sonic then runs under the DYNAMAC's legs and Bunnie hits it with a live wire, shutting it down. Geoffrey takes Snively away while the others continue exploring. Eventually, the reality of Castle Acorn's disrepair sinks in and Sally begins to cry. Sonic suggests to Tails that they give her a bit of space.

The following morning, Sally runs her plans by NICOLE before announcing to the group that they'll be split into teams to accomplish tasks needed to get the city up and running. She assigns everyone a task, such as finding clean water sources and establishing a source of power, and charges Sonic and Tails with exploring the ruins of the city. Sally turns to assign Geoffrey a task but finds that he has disappeared. At the armory, Geoffrey has a private video chat with King Acorn. The king tells Geoffrey that he needs to monitor Sir Charles Hedgehog, fearing that he could threaten the kingdom. Geoffrey doesn't believe it at first, but King Acorn reminds him that Charles created the Roboticizer and founded the Robotropolis Spy Network, which produced a traitor in Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg.

Meanwhile, Sir Charles packs up his spying equipment and heads into the lower levels of the city, informing the Robians that Robotnik has been defeated. The Robians ask about being restored to their original bodies, but Charles explains that the Ultimate Annihilator only restored their free will and, with the Roboticizer that originally roboticized them destroyed, it would be impossible to revert them without risking their lives in the process. The Robians comfort Charles, who in turn encourages Jules and Bernie to come to grips with their situation. Meanwhile, Sonic and Tails happen upon a group of SWATbots keeping a factory running. They're a bit confused when the robot ignore them, but any chance to contemplate the situation is interrupted by a cry for help nearby.

Sonic and Tails find Penelope Platypus crying for someone to help Arlo, who is trapped under rubble from the collapsing building. Sonic tries to use his speed to smash the boulders, but they're too resilient. Just then, a Robian named Rudyard appears and lifts a giant boulder, freeing Arlo. Charles and the other Robians appear from an underground tunnel and introduce Sonic to his mother and father. Sonic is outraged that Charles didn't tell him his parents were alive and runs away, Tails chasing after him. Sally, Dylan and Hamlin manage to get communication lines working when Charles and the Robians greet them. Sally is enthusiastic to have their cooperation, but Rudyard argues that life will never be the same for Robians. Charles reassures Sally, explaining that some people will need time to adjust.

On the outskirts of Robotropolis, Sonic throws a fit over the fact that his Uncle Chuck never told him his parents were dead when they had been hiding in Robotropolis all along. Tails defends Charles, saying that his parents were a kind of casualty and that Chuck probably didn't want Sonic to feel the same pain Sally felt when she knew her father was trapped in the Zone of Silence. Sonic finds himself in better spirits and they head back to the city. Later that evening, Sally tells NICOLE that it would be better rebuilding somewhere else than trying to fix Robotropolis. Geoffrey arrives and tries to comfort Sally, but Sally tells him that her heart belongs to Sonic. Just then, Sonic arrives and punches Geoffrey. They get into a fight and have to be sprayed with a fire hose to stop. Sally demands that they apologize to each other, but they quietly agree that their fight isn't over.

Sally calls her father, who demands that she continue to pretend to lead while he makes the decisions for the kingdom. Sally questions her duty, but her father demands that she follow his instructions. Sally tells NICOLE that keeping this a secret isn't right, but NICOLE reminds her that she's kept secrets from her friends before and that she has to fulfill her duties. The next morning, Sally stumbles upon the Robians making the decision to start their own colony in Robotropolis. Rudyard explains that he's already heard Mobians making disparaging remarks about Robians. Meanwhile, Rotor sends Snively on a transport to the Devil's Gulag. Trapped in his cell, Snively thinks to himself that the Mobians underestimate him and that, eventually, he'll make his escape.

### Ixis's attempted takeover

When Naugus escaped from the Zone of Silence, he made his claim as king in place of Max, only for Sonic and the Freedom Fighters to denounce it. Naugus then had Kodos and Uma Arachnis attack, who proved no match in their organic state until they were turned into invincible crystal warriors by Naugus' scepter. By then, Sonic discovered Ixis could only crystallize inanimate objects or those in his service and turned the tides be destroying the scepter to make his vanguard immobile. As such, Ixis fled. However, he soon returned with a plan to rule the kingdom and Mobius by possessing King Max and inciting a civil war between the Mobian and Robian populations without being detected. However, the Sword of Acorns dispelled the deception, returning the people back to normal, and a near-death confrontation with Sonic wielding the Sword to nullify his abilities caused Naugus to retreat.

### Enerjak's attack on Echidnaopolis

Due to unknown assistance from Mammoth Mogul, the rocket carrying the super being Enerjak returned to Mobius. As Kragok was giving a speech to the Dark Legion Enerjak appeared and revealed himself to be none other than Dimitri. Kragok then turned control of the Legion over to him, and prepared his troops for the coming invasion of Echidnaopolis. In a short time Enerjak removed any resistance from his old enemies the Fire Ants. Capturing the Chaotix and Knuckles, Enerjak tormented the guardian for awhile before disposing of him in a seemingly fatal manner. Afterwards Enerjak conjured a bridge directly into the city, allowing the legion to invade en masse.

Due to Enerjak's vast powers, the Dark Legion was able to plow directly into Echidnaopolis. The combined might of the Echidna Security Team and the Dingoes nearly forced them out, but Enerjak used his powered to disable his enemies' weapons. While Enerjak announced the Dark Legion's victory, Mammoth Mogul teleported him mid-sentence to somewhere high above the city. Before Enerjak knew what had happened, Mogul drained his powers using the Sword of Acorns. Without the Chaos Emeralds' powers to sustain him, Enerjak was reduced to the 400-year old Echidna scientist. He was saved by Knuckles before he fell to his death, and while Knuckles was distracted, a group of Dark Legionnaires rescued the now-dieing Dimitri. While Dimitri and a large amount of the Dark Legion managed to escape, Kragok and other Legionnaires were not as fortunate, and were imprisoned by the E.S.T.

### Master Mogul nearly enslaves all of Mobius

Mammoth Mogul achieved his Super Form was after his attack on the Floating Island, when he managed to absorb the Chaos energy within Enerjak through the Sword of Acorns. Despite his incredible power, Master Mogul was subsequently defeated by the combined might of Super Sonic, Hyper Knuckles and Turbo Tails, with side-line assistance from Athair and the Brotherhood of Guardians. Mogul was subsequently trapped inside the newly-formed Master Emerald after his defeat.

### Latest Days of Fury

Another Day of Fury occurred roughly 1,200 years ago according to the Echidna Tomes. The most recent Day of Fury occurred in 3236, causing severe weather changes all of Mobius. Sonic the Hedgehog and Miles "Tails" Prower were forced to land their plane the Winged Victory because the stormy weather was so bad. Even parts of Angel Island, such as Sandopolis Desert and Echidnaopolis, were affected by the Day of Fury. The weather patterns there adjusted from blizzard snow storms to torrential rain fall.

### World Tour Saga

Naugus then traversed the globe to seek out the means to gain enough power and rule all of Mobius, all the while pursued by Sonic and Miles "Tails" Prower. At one point, the two did catch up to Naugus without realizing it as they flew through a storm front that he had assumed the form of, where Naugus managed to force their plane the Tornado to crash land outside of Sand Blast City and delay their search. Eventually, the heroes finally tracked Naugus down to the Southern Tundra. At first Naugus had an edge in the fight, but the arrival of Eddy the Yeti and an avalanche caused by a mysterious satellite in orbit above them lead to a temporary reprieve. Using his magick, Naugus hid himself inside the flamethrower built into Eddy's cybernetic arm and waited until they passed into the castle of Nate Morgan to reveal himself. The advantage was short lived however, as Morgan exploited his greed and thirst for power to trick Naugus into returning outside the castle walls by going after a holographic Power Rings, forcing him to confront the stronghold's magical wards.

After a prolonged period, Naugus finally managed to get in again by using the elemental form of earth to pass through the walls. This allowed him to appear right in Morgan's immense Power Ring storehouse, and Naugus absorbed a massive amount of the Power Rings there to transform into Ugly Naugus. Sonic and Tails were there at that exact moment and also used an untold number of rings to confront Naugus as Ultra Sonic and Hyper Tails while he attempted to merge the Void with the Zone of Silence in order to grant him unlimited power. The three fought, but the energy Ultra Sonic and Hyper Tails used burned up too fast, forcing them back to their normal states, and it seemed as though Naugus had won. Not wanting to leave any loose ends, Naugus then tried to kill Nate so that he could not interfere, but was blasted back into the Zone of Silence when Morgan used the energy of a Power Ring housed inside his eyepiece, putting an end to the crazed wizard's ambitions for the time being.

Naugus once again managed to briefly escape from the Zone of Silence. Sonic, who was visiting the grave site of Eddy the Yeti who had saved them during their previous battle with Naugus in the Southern Tundra, found Naugus trying to use the power of the Magic Rings remaining at the battle scene. Sonic was able to defeat Naugus once again using these same rings and trap him in the Zone of Silence.

### Rediscovered and Return Home

With Robotnik Prime defeated, King Max became determined to learn the truth of what had happened to his wife and son. To that end, he dispatched Geoffrey St. John-son of Ian St. John who had died protecting Elias and his mother on their voyage-and his newly reformed Royal Secret Service to Angel Island. Elias soon encountered the group after they arrived at the Royal Compound during a blizzard caused the most recent Days of Fury, though Geoffrey was dubious to his claims even with support from Colonel Sommersby and the homing rod's royal seal. Elias decided then to have them meet with the Brotherhood to get all the answers they needed. En route they were caught up in a flash flood, but were rescued by the timely arrival of Locke and Lara-Le who tracked the homing rod's signal. Arriving in Haven, Elias was left as their guide while the echidnas went to deal with an emergency and they soon encountered Knuckles after his fight with Moritori Rex (who had posed as the Guardian Tobor for years). Upon locating the Queen who was still suspended in stasis, Elias accompanied them home with his mother and made his triumphant return on the same day as Sonic's birthday after secretly arriving in Mobotropolis two days earlier.

Getting to know his sister Sally for the first time, Elias quickly formed a deep bond with her, often turning to her for advice. This was especially true after Max decided that his son would be trained to assume the throne as was tradition, which seemed inevitable after Sally refused to merge with the Source of All in the time-honored royal rite of passage. Inexperienced and desperate for help, Elias turned to Geoffrey St. John for advice. Unfortunately, Geoffrey's rather biased decisions against the Freedom Fighters-coupled with a number of near catastrophes brought on by Elias' hesitant rule during a coma of Max's own and only averted by Sonic the Hedgehog and the Freedom Fighters-left Elias feeling unworthy, and in shame he fled Knothole to start a new life elsewhere.

### Robo-Robotnik takes back Mobotropolis & the Beginning of The second Robotnik War

Robo-Robotnik discovered that Robotnik Prime had been killed, and with his arch enemy now dead, he decided to travel to Mobius Prime to fill the void in both his life and Sonic Prime's. He briefly attempted to recreate the Giant Borg by using Evil Sonic to gather its pieces, but when it ended up in the hands of another Dr. Robotnik he simply transported himself to Mobius Prime.

Robo-Robotnik proceeded to conspire from the shadows for several months onboard a group of satellites he brought with him from his own zone. He used each satellite to cause a series of events on the planet surface, first to open the jail cells in the Devil's Gulag prison to release the Snively, the Fearsome Foursome, Drago Wolf and Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg, then to cause an avalanche in the Southern Tundra, which nearly buried Sonic and Tails. Following this he activated a series of traps and robots by the Lost Temple of Shazamazon, restored Kodos and Uma Arachnis to their organic selves, hurled a series of meteorites at Mobotropolis, activated a giant Mutate which attacked and captured Snively, fired a time beam at Knothole which could have destroyed all time, and presented a autobiography on the life of Dr. Robotnik over King Max's speech. Last of all, he captured the Robians from Knothole to use as his personal slave force, and finally encountered the Knothole Freedom Fighters again when they came to stop him. He briefly masqueraded as the original Robotnik, who had perished recently, before being exposed for his true self.

### The Founding of the Kingdom of Knothole

The Kingdom of Knothole was the reformed kingdom created after Robo Robotnik came to Mobius Prime and captured the rechristened Mobotropolis. Having had Mobotropolis' citizens all flee to the safety of Knothole Village and realizing it would be near impossible to retake Mobotropolis from Robo Robotnik, King Maximillian Acorn announced the formation of the Kingdom of Knothole to act as a safe haven for those opposed to the tyranny of Robo Robotnik.

### Cold War from the Satellites

Robo-Robotnik proceeded to conspire from the shadows for several months onboard a group of satellites he brought with him from his own zone. He used each satellite to cause a series of events on the planet surface, first to open the jail cells in the Devil's Gulag prison to release Snively, the Fearsome Foursome, Drago Wolf and Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg, then to cause an avalanche in the Southern Tundra, which nearly buried Sonic and Tails. Following this he activated a series of traps and robots by the Lost Temple of Shazamazon, restored Kodos and Uma Arachnis to their organic selves, hurled a series of meteorites at Mobotropolis, activated a giant Mutate which attacked and captured Snively, fired a time beam at Knothole which could have destroyed all time, and presented a autobiography on the life of Dr. Robotnik over King Max's speech. Last of all, he captured the Robians from Knothole to use as his personal slave force, and finally encountered the Knothole Freedom Fighters again when they came to stop him. He briefly masqueraded as the original Robotnik, who had perished recently, before being exposed for his true self.

After his skin disguise was removed by acid, Robo-Robotnik captured the heroes in a force field, and explained he deliberately lured Sonic and the Freedom Fighters to his space station, as it allowed his Shadowbots to re-capture Mobotropolis. Freed from the force field by Snively, the Freedom Fighters enlisted his help to blow up the orbital platform with Robo-Robotnik on board. Although Robo-Robotnik managed to deport the Robians to the recaptured and rechristened city of Robotropolis, he was prevented from leaving the space station himself when Sonic attacked him. Sonic's attacks proved futile against his robotic body, but soon Sonic's parents revealed they managed to maintain their free will, and were quickly taken by Sonic to the last escape ship. Stranded on board the space station, Robo-Robotnik's body was destroyed along with the station when it exploded.

### Birth of Doctor Eggman

Despite his robotic body being destroyed in the explosion along with the space stations, Robo-Robotnik simply transported his consciousness into a new, more-advanced body, which was hidden half a mile below Robotropolis. With his new form, he also took on a new name: **Dr. Eggman**. With the city of Robotropolis recaptured, Eggman attempted to download the location of Knothole and launch an immediate attack. However, Sally, NICOLE and Snively successfully planted a virus in the city's computer systems, preventing him from downloading its location.

### Chaos's Release and Evolution

Chaos' legend fell into obscurity, and it was only as Dr. Eggman looked over the file network of his deceased counterpart Dr. Ivo Robotnik that he discovered Chaos' existence and began scheming to claim the creature's power for himself. Using an army of Robians, he excavated the Black Emerald from the midst of the Mysterious Cat Country, cracking it with a hammer blow only to discover that Chaos' imprisonment had weakened him. However, Chaos remained strong enough to lead Eggman to an ancient inscription that revealed to him that Chaos could be restored using the seven Super Emeralds created when the Chao imprisoned him and drained his powers, or by using seven Emeralds equally powerful. When Eggman shattered the Master Emerald into pieces to see his goal fulfilled, a part of Chaos' substance landed in the Mysterious Cat Country and was swallowed by Froggy. Eggman was able to help Chaos on his first step towards recovery by using shards from the Master Emerald as well as Froggy's now-altered DNA to restore some of Chaos' strength.

Thus fortified, Chaos infiltrated the Hidden City of the Ancients and soon became involved in a battle with the local police. He was then challenged by Sonic the Hedgehog, who defeated him as he was in a weakened state. Later, Chaos attacked Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles, stealing from them the Master Emerald shards and two Super Emeralds in order to evolve into his next form. However, Chaos still proved no match for the three, and was once against defeated and forced to retreat with Dr. Eggman.

Chaos was once again able to evolve while on board the Egg Carrier, after Eggman stole two Super Emeralds from Big the Cat. With this new form, Chaos nearly drowned Knuckles within himself, but Sonic managed to freeze Chaos by throwing two of Eggman's Ice-bots into him. Sonic and Knuckles both shattered the frozen Chaos, which caused a chain reaction and resulted in the Egg Carrier's destruction. Sonic and Knuckles collected the Master Emerald shards and Super Emeralds and fled, while Chaos managed to escape by sticking to Eggman's flying pod.

At this point Chaos began working on his own without Eggman. Knocking both Eggman and Knuckles out, Chaos proceeded to absorb the Super Emerald in Tails' bi-plane, which Big the Cat had crashed while escaping from the Egg Carrier. Chaos then broke into Station Square's power plant and absorbed the other six Super Emeralds which had been collected, thus transforming into Perfect Chaos, upon which he launched a devastating assault on Station Square.

### Perfect Chaos vs. Super Sonic

Perfect Chaos flooded the streets of Station Square, forcing the Knothole Freedom Fighters and their ally Nate Morgan to work quickly in order to save many citizens. For all their valiant efforts, they could not deal with the creature themselves, and even Sonic and Knuckles were at a loss. Dr. Eggman returned with a second Egg Carrier, intent on reclaiming Chaos for himself, only for Perfect Chaos to betray him once again and blast his ship out of existence. Tikal then arrived and shared with Sonic a vision of Chaos's past, helping him to understand the threat posed by the creature. Using her powers, Tikal removed the Super Emeralds from Perfect Chaos, delivering them to Sonic so that he could use them to seal Chaos within a restored Master Emerald. Drawing on the untouched positive energy of the Emeralds to combat Chaos' negative power, Sonic transformed into Super Sonic and engaged the massive creature.

For all of Super Sonic's power, though, he found himself in a deadlock with Perfect Chaos, unable to weaken him enough to bring him down. While the two titans clashed, Knuckles set about finding a way to short-circuit Perfect Chaos so as to defeat him once and for all. Using his immense strength to lift an entire power plant, Knuckles restored its connections and set electricity flowing just as Super Sonic led Perfect Chaos into the midst of the electric wires. Chaos reverted back to his original state, seemingly also made peaceable again as the Super Emeralds transformed back into the Seven Server Chao. Tikal then used her magic to teleport herself, Chaos and the Seven Servers back to their zone within the Black Emerald, where they resumed a life of peace.

### Shadow is awakened

When Shadow was awakened from stasis fifty years later, it was thanks to Gerald's grandson's alternate counterpart, Dr. Eggman. Coveting Shadow's power so that he could take over the world, Eggman enlisted Shadow's aid in acquiring the Chaos Emeralds. Shadow proceeded to steal Station Square's Chaos Emerald, after facing off against the city's protector, Silver Sonic v2.0. Due to his similar appearance to Sonic, Station Square's army believed the theft to have been Sonic the Hedgehog, and thus sent their military after him instead.

Shadow was later confronted by Sonic on Prison Island during his mission to steal six Chaos Emeralds with the assistance of Rouge the Bat. While he and Sonic fought in the forest, Eggman informed Shadow that he had set charges on the island and it was about to explode. Rouge then called in saying that she was trapped in the vault where the Chaos Emeralds where being held. Eggman merely told Shadow to meet him at the rendezvous point after the explosion, saying that they would dig the emeralds out of the ashes later. Sonic, overhearing this, proposed a temporary truce with Shadow in order to save Rouge. The two were successful in finding Rouge with the emeralds and Shadow teleported them all off of the island to Eggman's pyramid base using Chaos Control. Shadow then teleported away with the emeralds, leaving the two in the desert. Sonic and Rouge, realizing the danger of Eggman taking the emeralds aboard the ARK, broke into the base and stole a shuttle. Sonic eventually confronted Shadow, who planned to use the emeralds to activate the Eclipse Cannon as per Gerald's revenge.

Just after Shadow landed a Chaos Spear attack on Sonic, Rouge informed him via intercom that she'd found a video she believed Shadow needed to see. Thanks to the video, Shadow realized that he had been misled by false memories, and that Maria would have not wanted the planet destroyed. Shadow and Sonic went to recover the emeralds and found them in a shrine within the ARK; however, they were guarded by the failed Ultimate Lifeform Prototype, which would not allow Gerald's plans to go astray. The monster merged itself with the ARK's Eclipse Cannon using Chaos Control in order to crash the entire structure into the planet itself; in response, the two hedgehogs used the emeralds to transform into Super Sonic and Super Shadow. After they defeated the beast, they used Chaos Control to send the ARK back into orbit; Shadow, however, was so exhausted that he began to fall into space, seemingly lost.

### Overlanders returning to Mobius

Upon returning to Mobius, the returned Overlanders found themselves welcomed to the city of Robotropolis by Dr. Eggman. Unbeknownst to them, Robotropolis was full of toxic radiation, to which Eggman was immune due to his robotic body. Eggman planned to keep the Overlanders ignorant of this until they were forced to undergo roboticization in order to be saved from radiation poisoning. However, the citizens of Knothole became aware of the deadly radiation, and warned the Overlanders, who, despite some misgivings about trusting Mobians, decided to leave the city before it was too late.

Shortly after this, the Mobians relocated the surviving Overlanders to the human city of Station Square, as the physical and cultural differences made it difficult to share Knothole with them. The Overlanders subsequently recovered from their mild radiation poisoning.

### Station Square Attacks!

Designed to protect the city from the encroachment of threats such as the Eggman Empire, the Outer Threat Immobilization System took its duties to the extreme after being programmed with data on Dr. Eggman provided by the Knothole Freedom Fighters. It immediately targeted the city of Robotropolis with nuclear missiles, which would have been blocked by the city's defensive shield and wiped out Knothole in any case. Fortunately, Sonic the Hedgehog and Tails were able to delay the city's shield dome from erectin,g until after the missiles were within it, thus trapping the explosion within the force field and containing the radioactive fallout.

### The Deroboticize of the majority of Mobius' Robian population

Ceneca-9009 returned to Mobius during the Second Robotnik War, and at the orders of the Bem High Council conducted an experiment evaluating the performance of Robians against purely organic beings using Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, Dr. Eggman, and Snively Robotnik. Based on Sonic and Tails' victory, the Bem decided to Deroboticize all of Mobius' inhabitants, a decision which Ceneca-9009 defied, choosing instead to return all Robians to normal and make all Mobians immune to the effects of Roboticization.

### Xorda's Attack on Mobius

The Xorda attack ship managed to cause significant damage to Dr. Eggman's city. However, the ship was repulsed by Giga-Bot Prime, a giant robot created by Dr. Eggman that only Sonic's speed could power. However, the Xorda had yet to play their trump card.

In the planet's polar region, the Xorda revealed their final plan to eradicate the planet. A pyramidal device, known as the Quantum Dial, was set up. Its purpose was to tear open a hole in reality, creating a black hole powerful enough to consume the planet and the entire solar system. It was assumed that such a large target would be easy to deal with; given that, Station Square launched an immediate missile strike. However, the Quantum Dial possessed some kind of field that caused any construct within fifty feet to fall apart. Unwilling to give up without a fight, the various fighters of Mobius banded together, putting aside their differences to battle a common enemy. However, even with the amazing number of warriors aligned against them, the Xorda weapon was only vanquished after the timely resurrection of Knuckles the Echidna and the seeming suicide attack of Sonic the Hedgehog upon the Quantum Dial, which caused the destruction of the device and the disappearance of Sonic. The Xorda were unaware, having departed Mobius soon after they launched the Quantum Dial, leaving the entire planet for dead.

#### Aftermath

As a result of Sonic's disappearance, Dr. Eggman formed the Eggman Empire, a massive political body with hordes of machines as its military. He then proceeded to take over Angel Island with the assistance of the Dingoes, under the new leadership of Kage Von Stryker. Additionally, he managed to completely destroy the Golden Hive Colony.

### Patch's Plot (Part 1)

Following Scourge the Hedgehog's last escape from the No Zone, Patch attempted to use one of Anti-Rotor's inventions; the Zone-Link Generator, to banish his rival to Non-Mobius Prime, allowing Patch to take over. Evil Sonic was too quick for him, however, and instead knocked him out, and sent Patch himself to Mobius-2, replacing his counterpart's position. Patch, upon realizing where he was, plotted that if he couldn't be leader on his world, he would be leader on this world. Patch used his Mobius-2 counterpart's position in the Acorn Kingdom Army to gradually scheme and worm his way into King Maximillian Acorn's confidence, given his counterpart a new cold and ruthless-soldier look to it, impressing the King, while making his "friends" nervous of his new persona.

### Evil Sonic's time to strike

Handily defeating his nemesis, Evil Sonic hatched a scheme for revenge, knocking out Antoine Prime and bringing him back to Anti-Mobius while leaving Patch in his place to torment them both. Patch's quick adaptation and moves to seize power inspired Evil Sonic, who performed a similar switch with his own counterpart. While impersonating Sonic, Evil Sonic made advances on Bunnie Rabbot, Amy Rose, and a number of other girls in Knothole. However, he soon focused his energy on the most attractive looking, in his superficial opinion, girl he had yet met on Mobius-2's Rouge the Bat.

### Dingo Takeover of Angel Island

Almost two years after the echidnas and Dingoes had been returned to Angel Island from their Pocket Zones, the dissatisfied Dingoes under the new leadership of Kage Von Stryker turned to Dr. Eggman for support. In exchange for becoming Eggman's enforcers and servants to the Eggman Empire, the Dingoes received technology, supplies and assistance from the Eggman Empire to enslave the Echidna population and completely take over the island. With Sonic the Hedgehog believed dead and far off in space, and Knuckles the Echidna on the surface of Mobius, the overwhelming Dingo forces successfully took control of Angel Island.

### The destruction of Albion

The Eggman Empire tragests Albion, which is completely destroyed, after Dr. Finitevus sabotages its defenses.

### Sonic's journey through space

Realizing he was trapped on the other side of the universe, Sonic spent the next few months jumping across worlds while searching for a way home. He first found himself on the planet Thoraxia, whose population consisted of two insectoid-like races, the Blodex and the Bzzz. Before Sonic could find a way off the planet, he found himself having to use the Red Chaos Emeralds on the planet to defend the Blodex from the invading Bzzz. However, rather then turning Sonic into Super Sonic, the Red Emeralds manifested the power Sonic absorbed into a separate being which became Super Sonic. The new being defeated the Bzzz, but didn't stop there. Instead, it went on a total rampage and began destroying the Blodex as well. Realizing he was responsible for the creation of this new menace, Sonic went to fight Super Sonic and stop him from causing any more harm. After stopping Super Sonic from destroying Thoraxia's two moons, Super Sonic went on to pummel Sonic. Like the Chaos Emeralds on Mobius however, the power was only temporary, causing Super Sonic to dissipate before he could finish Sonic off.

After saving the Blodex, the insect-like race contacted a neighboring species called the D'novulands to assist Sonic's trip home. The D'novulands placed a device in Sonic's ear, the "Babble Node" as Sonic referred to it, allowing him to understand almost all alien languages. On their way to Mezzo Jillion, the sector's largest trading hub, their ship was caught in an asteroid field, the remains of the planet Cemerant-16, which had just been destroyed. Forced to abandon ship, Sonic was sent into the last escape pod by the ship's captain, Oe, which descended into an uninhabited planet's atmosphere.

The planet's evolution and time was hundreds of times faster than that on Mobius, allowing Sonic to watch the planet go from uninhabitable to supporting a technologically advanced race called the Azurites. The Azurites had watched Sonic for what had been millions of years for them, believing him to be a god. When they were technologically advanced enough, they created a device known as the Temporal Decelerator, which allowed them to slow down their time so that they could communicate with Sonic. With communication now possible, the Azurites offered to make Sonic a ship which would allow him to get off the Azurites world and find his way home. Once they disabled the Temporal Decelerator, they were able to create a ship within a matter of seconds by Sonic's time. Sonic then used the ship to begin his journey home.

Sonic's journey lead him to meet up with one of the late Dr. Robotnik's earliest creations, E.V.E. Having convinced E.V.E. to go beyond her programming, Sonic managed to persuade the machine to ascend to the stars. Little did he know this would cause a chain of events leading to the destruction of numerous worlds. Now, almost two years after E.V.E. had left Mobius, her size was nearly that of a planet's, with the power to drain entire worlds of all their metallic substances within fifteen minutes. After a confrontation with Captain Bagbar Breeblebrox and the crew of the Sentelle, Sonic, realizing it was his duty to make amends to stop E.V.E., flew his ship into her hull. Fighting his way through E.V.E.'s defense units, Sonic finally came face to face with her. Sonic managed to convince E.V.E. that her actions made her no better than she was when she first left Mobius, which caused her to decide to collide with the nearest sun and destroy herself.

During his time in space, Sonic located Tails' parents on the Bem homeworld of Argentium. Amadeus and Rosemary Prower, both had been taken by the Bem Ceneca-9009 during Robotnik's original takeover, and Amadeus was de-roboticized. Both had been taken back to the Bem homeworld where they had been living ever since. After breaking Ceneca-9009 out of prison, Sonic was provided with a ship to take him through the Bem's artificial wormhole back to Mobius. The ship however was too small to bring Ceneca-9009 or Tails' parents along, forcing Sonic to return alone.

### The Destruction of the Godlen Hive Colony

Some time later, during the expansion of the Eggman Empire, Golden Hive Colony was located. Doctor Eggman had his forces destroy the colony, either killing its citizens or imprisoning them in the Egg Grape Chamber. All of the kingdom's holdings and structures were converted for Eggman's use. Charmy Bee, the heir to the colony's throne and his fiancée, Lady Saffron, were the only confirmed citizens to have escaped, and brought news of the colony's invasion to Knothole.

Wanting to know what happened to Charmy's parents and people, Chaotix members Vector the Crocodile, Mighty the Armadillo, Ray the Flying Squirrel and Espio the Chameleon went to the colony, and Espio broke into the Castle, now serving as one of Eggman's primary command facilities and robot factories. Espio uploaded Nicole into the main computer's system and downloaded all information related to the invasion. Nicole was unable to locate any specific survivors due to the fact that Eggman never kept records or images of specific individuals he captured. However, due to the fact that its population was scattered, its territories occupied and its beautiful landscapes ruined and polluted beyond repair, Nicole concluded that the original Golden Hive Colony was effectively gone. As such, Espio, thirsting for vengeance for his friend Charmy, ordered Nicole to seal the complex and have the Castle's Power Matrix overload, saying that, while Charmy had lost his home, Eggman wouldn't have it either. While Espio and the others escaped, the remains of Golden Hive were completely destroyed by the explosion.

### Patch's Plot (Part 2)

When the royal couple, King Max and his wife Queen Alicia Acorn, went on a tour to create a coalition against Dr. Eggman with other free nation-states, Patch was given the rank of Commander and lead the bodyguard detachment. Patch saw his time to strike was at hand, and began slowly poisoning the King with a poisonous substance native to his microverse, and also arranged to poison his counterpart's father; General Armand D'Coolette, with a much heavier dose via laced food.

Eventually, when negotiations with other nation-states failed, Patch made his move and dosed the King with a much heavier dose that left him bed-ridden and forced to return to Knothole. Patch also stopped the King's medication, which served to put him into a coma, but not before the King announced he would step down and allow Sally to take over, and wanted Patch to be her husband and King.

With the King indisposed, Patch manipulated Sally's fragile emotional state to go through with the marriage. At the celebratory feast, Patch had Sonic arrested when he broke into the banquet hall, and later excused himself to finish King Max off with a final dose of the poison. Unfortunately, as he was mere steps away from the comatose Max, Sonic and Prince Elias Acorn arrived, where Elias announced that, as first-born, he would take the throne. Patch was internally furious, and put aside his plans to kill Max so he could kill Elias, and later Elias's wife and daughter, instead. Just after Elias's crowning, Patch tried to give Elias a dose of the poison via a hypodermic needle hidden in his uniform, which would serve to kill him later so Patch wouldn't be suspected. Sonic, however, noticed the needle and, after pushing Elias to safety, knocked Patch to the floor. Sonic and Patch fought, with Patch yelling at Sonic was the one with the needle and he tried to kill him with it. Sonic, however, had by this time figured out Patch's real nature, and, with colossal strength, punched Patch across the hall and into unconsciousness. Sonic then used his own Zone-Link Generator to send Patch away to his home, while Antoine was rescued and brought back to Mobius-2.

Unfortunately, Patch would leave his mark on Mobius-2, as, while former-King Max was eventually brought out of his coma, he remained in a wheelchair once again, and Armand D'Coolette succumbed to the poison soon after his departure.

### The Death of the Ancient Walkers

Due to the actions of Mammoth Mogul, who crippled them with his power after escaping the Master Emerald, the Ancient Walkers began to slowly deteriorate as time went on. Before Elias Acorn could use the power of the Crown of Acorns to help them, the Walkers were destroyed by an inter-dimensional breach opened by the Arachne Clan wielding the Sword of Acorns, which also allowed Ixis Naugus to escape the Zone of Silence. Before their destruction, they chose Aurora, Athair, and Tails' uncle Merlin Prower as their successors, known as the Neo Walkers.

### The Order of Ixis revived

Mammoth Mogul made his return when the children of Uma Arachnis, the Arachne Clan, used the Sword of Acorns to cause a dimensional rift leading to the Zone of Silence in the Egg Grape Chamber, killing the Ancient Walkers and breaking their curse on Mogul's Emerald, while at the same time sending all previous prisoners of the chamber to the Zone. At the time, the gem was in Knothole, having been brought there as part of a plan to restore the Walkers' health and keep the villain imprisoned using the Artifacts of Acorn. With the curse gone, Mogul was able to free himself while Tails' uncle, the powerful wizard Merlin Prower was holding his emerald. Despite not being at the peak of his power, Mogul quickly struck Merlin and the Freedom Fighters down, absorbed his emerald once more, stole the Crown of Acorns from Elias, and liberated the Destructix from the New Mobotropolis Detention Center to serve as his minions.

To everyone's surprise, Mogul was temporarily halted by none other than Ixis Naugus, who hoped to usurp Mogul's powers. Fighting each other to a standstill, Mogul revealed to Naugus his foundation of the Order of Ixis. Dumbfounded, Naugus acknowledged Mammoth Mogul's superiority and pledged himself and his minions, the Arachne Clan, to Mogul's teachings, willingly handing over the Sword of Acorns to him.

Restarting the battle, Mogul became locked in a contest of swordplay with Sir Connery, Paladin of the Ancient Walkers, who channeled his spiritual energy and life force through his Sword of Light to destroy the artifacts of Acorn, vanquishing the corrupted Source of All and diminishing Mogul's power at the cost of his own life. Despite this setback, Mogul prepared himself for a fight with Sonic, only to come under attack from Dr. Eggman's Egg Fleet. Using weapons specially tailored to affect Chaos energy, Robotnik managed to imprison Mogul, Naugus and their minions in another Egg Grape Chamber.

### The Dark Legion Civil War

A few months after Locke's rescue, conflict arose within the Dark Legion. Having been secretly healed back to health by Dr. Finitevus and informed of his heritage, Remington contested Lien-Da's leadership for the Dark Legion, as he is former Grandmaster Kragok's son. As a result, the Dark Legion skirmished into two factions, the Flame Legion, which remained loyal to Lien-Da, and the Frost Legion, which supported Remington. The two factions became engaged in civil war, leaving the free Echidnas easy pray for the Dingoes and defended only by Locke. Locke was forced to accept the help of Dr. Finitevus and his new minions, the Destructix, to protect the Master Emerald and the Echidnas whilst he searched for the Brotherhood of Guardians, who had gone missing since Eggman's takeover of Angel Island.

Hostilities between the two factions ceased when Dr. Finitevus convinced the two Grandmasters they could use the power of the Master Emerald to crush the Dingo Regime. Once Finitevus had used the Dark Legion's forces to bring him to Knuckles, he allowed the current Guardian to absorb all of the Master Emerald's energy for himself to become the new Enerjak. Realizing that Dr. Finitevus was using Knuckles to become the new Enerjak and excluding both of them from his plans, Remington and Lien-Da put aside their differences, united the Flame and Frost Legions and mounted an assult on Finitevus and the new Enerjak.

### The Death of Armand D'Coolette

Armand D'Coolette returned to duty in the army, but was forced to give up fighting due to poor health after being poisoned by Patch. He eventually passed away, but not before saying goodbye to Antoine and his girlfriend Bunnie Rabbot, voicing his approval of their relationship and imploring them to cherish it.

### The Great Harmony

When Miles "Tails" Prower traveled to Downunda and met Athair, the Ancient Walkers and Athair revealed to the young fox that he turned out to be the Chosen One. At first Tails believed he had fulfilled the prophecy when he merged with all of his microverse counterparts to become Titan Tails and defeated Master Mogul. However, after A.D.A.M. used Turbo Tails and Super Shadow to draw all of the Chaos Emeralds in the universe to Mobius, he realized he'd not yet fulfilled the prophecy. The two then used their combined powers to transport all of the Chaos Emeralds into the Zone of Silence, thus fulfilling the Great Harmony.

### Antoine's marriage proposal

Antoine D'Coolette proposes to Bunnie Rabbot, while Sonic and Amy Rose look from afar giving him support. Bunnie accepts and Sonic and Amy go over to congratulate the happy couple. Sonic is impressed Antoine had the courage to propose. Bunnie wonders where Sally is so she can tell her the news.

### The Eggman Empire bombards Knothole

While the Knothole Freedom Fighters and Chaotix spent their time relaxing at Freedom HQ, the Egg Fleet began its aerial bombardment of the Knothole Kingdom. Snively arrived at Freedom HQ and attacked both teams, acting as a diversion while the Egg Fleet attacked and captured the kingdom's citizens. After capturing all but Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, Amy Rose, and Nicole, Snively's attack mech was defeated and Snively retreated. Sonic, the only one of the refugees who was not buried under the rubble of the former Freedom HQ, ran to Castle Acorn to warn the king of the attack. As he ran through Knothole he witnessed the large-scale destruction. Just as he arrived at the castle, the large structure exploded. Emerging from the flames was Dr. Eggman in his Egg Beater battle suit. Sonic fought bravely against Eggman, but was ultimately no match for the Egg Beater suit and was left beaten and demoralized. Eggman, wanting Sonic to remember the tragic defeat, left Sonic alive and alone while the Egg Fleet returned to New Megaopolis

#### The Aftermath

Due to Snively failing to capture Knuckles, Tails, Amy, and Nicole, the five regrouped and managed to launch a successful rescue mission in New Megaopolis, preventing the captured citizens from death while being held in Egg Grape Chambers. Due to Eggman's overconfidence and refusal to listen to Snively, Nicole managed to re-calibrate the transported beams on the Egg Fleet and Egg Beater to transport the targets to the nanite city which Nicole had remade into New Mobotropolis. There were no casualties, but some were injured, including Rotor's injured back and neck, and Charmy Bee's slight memory loss due to the Egg Grape Chambers.

### Enerjak's Cleansing

After nearly two years of Dingo oppression, their regime and Dr. Eggman's hold on Angel Island would come to an abrupt end. Knuckles, under the influence of Dr. Finitevus, became the Chaos demigod Enerjak and used his near-omnipotent powers to rid the Dingoes of their technology and banish them to the Sandopolis Desert. The echidnas who were still alive were then transported to the ruins of Albion where they would be hidden and safe from future harm.

### New Megaopolis is destroyed by Enerjak

After being captured by Eggman, Knuckles, who had recently become Enerjak, destroyed the city when he escaped from the Egg Grape Chambers. He proceeded to lay waste to Eggman's robotic army, destroying ninety percent of Eggman's ground forces and decimating the entire Egg Fleet.

### The formation of the Dark Egg Legion

The Dark Egg Legion started out as merely a recruitment of soldiers willing to serve the Eggman Empire who were then given cybernetic upgrades. The organization was broken up into a number of chapters, typically named for their resident location. The Downunda Dark Egg Legion consisted of platypuses under the command of Duck "Bill" Platypus, who joined the Eggman Empire in order to gain power over Downunda. The Soumerca Dark Egg Legion, made up of exiled, disgraced, or displaced Felidae and Wolves under Razorklaw and Drago Wolf, targeted their former peoples and homelands: País Misterioso and the Wolf Pack Nation. The Northern Tundra Dark Egg Legion consisted of Orcas under Akhlut, the group seeking to dominate the Northern Tundra and end their long-standing feud with the local Walrus Herd.

The Great Desert Dark Egg Legion was composed of various species and controlled by Beauregard Rabbot after being exiled from Sand Blast City. Other chapters included the Dragon Kingdom Dark Egg Legion under the Bride of the Conquering Storm, who sought Eggman's support following the collapse of the Iron Dominion. The Efrika Dark Egg Legion was commanded by Diesel, who united the Bear Pack and Nasty Hyena Gangs biker gangs in order to rule the continent. The Mercia Dark Egg Legion formed under Mordred Hood, who sought to rule the Kingdom of Mercia in place of the royal family he had once served. The Eurish Dark Egg Legion was placed under the command of the brainwashed Hugo Brass, and up until Regina Ferrum became Grandmaster was not known to have any members who had joined without being similarly brainwashed. The Nerb Dark Egg Legion served The Foreman after their race submitted to the Empire, giving in to the oppression due to their conformist tendencies.

The name of the Dark Egg Legion came when the Echidnas of the Dark Legion joined forces with Dr. Eggman to undergo the legionization process after being reverted to completely organic Mobians again. They were then made the New Megaopolis Dark Egg Legion, led by Dimitri initially and then by Lien-Da. Eggman also had his forces adopt, where possible, the black cloaks of the Echidna Legion, and renamed his Sub-Bosses "Grandmasters" after the leaders of the Legion.

### Moebius is conquered by Scourge

Following a considerable amount of time spent on Non-Mobius Prime and his transformation into Scourge the Hedgehog, Sonic's evil counterpart eventually made his way back to Anti-Mobius using a Warp Ring taken from Doctor Finitevus and charged with energy from the Master Emerald. Having been inspired by a number of confrontations with Sonic, Scourge decided to explore his full potential. After returning to Anti-Mobius with Fiona Fox, Scourge proceeded to conquer all of Anti-Mobius within a matter of days, renaming the planet "Moebius", crown himself "king" and reform the Anti-Freedom Fighters into the Suppression Squad.

### Invasion of Mobius-2

Following his takeover of "Moebius", King Scourge then led the Suppression Squad to an invasion of Non-Mobius Prime, determined to claim that world as well. The group soon captured Freedom HQ, forcing the Freedom Fighters to flee, but not long afterwards they were attacked by Metal Sonic, Sonic and Metal Scourge. Realizing that the battle with their "metal" counterparts was a stalemate, Scourge eventually broke down and called in assistance from the Suppression Squad, resulting in the destruction of Metal Sonic and Metal Scourge.

### Defeat of the Suppression Squad

Not long after, Scourge sent Anti-Miles to bomb New Mobotropolis. When Anti-Miles returned, having been apparently chased by the Freedom Fighters, he and the rest of the squad, except Fiona, revealed their planned betrayal. Angry at Scourge for constantly abusing them, they attacked him alongside the Freedom Fighters. At first, Scourge and Fiona were getting the upper hand against both teams, but Sonic returned from his trip to Moebius and attacked Scourge. However, Boomer then blasted both hedgehogs and Anti-Miles threw them into the portal leading back to Moebius before it closed. Scourge, now trapped on Moebius with Sonic and Amy, promised to get revenge on his team, but then looked in fear at his old stalker, Rosy the Rascal, who told Scourge how she had an "extra-special smash" for him. Sonic and the freedom fighters then took the fight to Moebius.

The fight was interrupted when Shadow arrived using Chaos Control. Though he was actually looking for the Special Zone, Sonic asked if he wanted to destroy Scourge, to which Shadow agreed. Metal Sonic arrived later, followed by Silver and Rob, as well as Amy and Rosy. A confused Silver was unable to determine which one was Sonic, and attempted to ask the others as they fought. Because they ignored him, he got angry and impatient and captured them all with his psychic powers. Silver stated that he had come from the future to destroy Sonic, and then proceeded to attack the hedgehog. Rob threatened Silver for an explanation, and Silver stated that during this point in time one of the legendary Freedom Fighters betrays and destroys them, dooming the future. He then stated that only Sonic was remembered to have had that kind of power. However, Scourge jumped in and attacked both of them, claiming that Silver should use his powers to give himself "a less-stupid haircut." Shortly afterwards, Sonic made a proposal to everyone to stop attacking each other and strictly finish off Scourge. But Scourge didn't give up. He rushed to the throne room, followed by Sonic and Shadow. Scourge turned the tables on everyone, claiming he placed an Anarchy Beryl in his throne. This managed to turn Scourge into a stronger, even more evil form: Super Scourge.

Despite their efforts, the numerous hedgehogs were no match for Super Scourge, who defeated all of them. Super Scourge then proceeded to defeat the combined might of the Knothole Freedom Fighters and Suppression Squad, who had returned to Moebius expecting Scourge to be defeated. While he seemed to be unbeatable, Sonic eventually realized the Anarchy Beryl would have a different effect on Scourge to contrast the positive effect the Chaos Emeralds had on him once the transformation ended. Luring Super Scourge away from the others, Sonic managed to trick Scourge into de-transforming. As Sonic speculated, the Anarchy Beryl drained him of what energy he had left in his normal form, leaving him vulnerable. Sonic subsequently defeated Scourge and easily captured him.

### The Invasion of the Eggdome

After they had set up a link to New Mobotropolis, the Chaotix and Freedom Fighters started their assault. At the same time, Lien-Da ordered the Legion to begin their defense and work on the barricade. Mighty and Bunnie then broke open the front door and the Freedom Fighters took to the West hall while the Chaotix took to the East hall. After both teams defeated the Legion, they met up at the barricade. After a brief conversation, Sonic Spin Dashed to meet Dr. Eggman in his Egg Tarantula. After a brutal fight against his nemesis Sonic once more defeated him and destroyed his machine, declaring victory, at that point Eggman lost his last hold on sanity and the heroes went home happy that the tyrant was defeated, though Sonic felt shaken by what had happened to the Doctor.

### The Iron Dominion

While the Iron King and Queen served as Sub-Bosses to the Eggman Empire over in the Dragon Dragon Kingdom fighting the local resistance there, who were beginning to keep them at bay, the Iron Queen made romantic connections with Snively Robotnik over in New Megaopolis via the Egg Network. After the Iron King and Queen had finally managed to rid most of their oppressors, the leaders of the Iron Dominion, accompanied by the Yagyu Clan and Conquering Storm, arrived at the landing bay of the Eggdome via the Iron Queen's dirigible to usurp control of the Eggman Empire following Dr. Eggman's recent descent into insanity, and quickly began a search of the city to see if their were any other functioning buildings other than the Eggdome. They were then briefly challenged by Sonic the Hedgehog and Monkey Khan, but the addition of the Dark Egg Legion, Espio the Chameleon, and Lightning Lynx to their ranks proved too formidable for the pair.

The Iron Queen and Snively, acting alone, launched an exploratory assault against New Mobotropolis, the Queen using her powers to control first Bunnie Rabbot and then Monkey Khan to attack the city before leaving when Khan regained his free will. At the same time, the Shinobi Clan sent Espio to capture the Master Emerald, but he failed to do so because of "conflicting orders" and Knuckles the Echidna's interference and was called back to the Dragon Kingdom. Infuriated, the Iron Queen promptly sent the Bride of Conquering Storm to get the other clans in line. Dr. Eggman's escape soon had the Iron Dominion's forces massing for a battle with Sonic after failing to subdue the doctor. Their attempts were in vain, however as the Freedom Fighters were able take Eggman back to their city and then raised its shields to keep out the dominion. Refusing defeat, Jun Kun attacked Robotropolis, which was the source of New Mobotropolis's power, and would thus deactivate the shield. Due to Sonic's quick thinking Jun Kun was tricked to destroy the old power siphon. Remembering NICOLE and New Mobotropolis's technological origin, Snively told Regina, who was then able to take nearly-complete control of NICOLE and the nanite city along with her. Some time previously, the Iron Queen apparently contacted the Dark Egg Legion chapter in Downunda with orders to seize Angel Island, an effort in which they were assisted by the scientist Dr. Finitevus.

### Eggman Wars

Their conflict with the Felidae was renewed to a degree and after a number of clashes, a local chapter of the Dark Egg Legion made up of traitors and deserters from both cultures capitalized on it by stealing the Ancient Onyx. Sonic the Hedgehog, Sally Acorn, and Big the Cat were eventually able to convince the wolves and Felidae to cooperate, bringing an uneasy peace between the two groups. It was also learned during the conflict that Wolves unaccounted for during the Nation's forming had become members of the new Legion chapter. Their peace was threatened again when the Death Egg Mark 2 arrived in the region and Chief Lupe was abducted by Mecha Sally. The wolves blamed her disappearance on the Felidae, but fortunately the matter was resolved after Team Fighters arrived. In a surprising move, the Wolf Pack and the Felidae joined forces willingly to attack the Legion.

### Trouble in Paradise with the Armada

During the Second Robotnik War the Armada leased itself to Dr. Eggman in hopes of reuniting their scattered race. This arrangement left them rather behind on current events despite having access to the Eggnet, and prompted them to focus on achieving their own objectives. Establishing a training area on Cocoa Island with their headquarters disguised as a sister island to the main one, the Battle Bird Armada were surprised when Tails, Bunnie D'Coolette, and Antoine D'Coolette landed on the beach. Believing they had been found out by special operatives, and apparently unaware that Tails had previously set up a workshop on the main island, they observed the trio for some time.

On Speedy's orders with the Battle Lord's clearance, armed troops landed on the island at night for an ambush, eventually subduing the D'Coolette's as Speedy went after Tails. Tails escaped while Bunnie was taken before the Battle Lord, who mistook her for a member of the Dark Egg Legion. Going along with the mistake, Bunnie learned of the Armada's affiliation with the Eggman Empire, gathering details on their operations. She also found out the Rogues' status as former Armada members before being alerted that Antoine escaped his cell.

Elsewhere, Armada troopers guarding the Sea Fox were neutralized by Tails with knockout gas, allowing the Fox to investigate their base which he deduced was the third "sister island". He then engaged Armada submersibles in battle, briefly complimenting their technology before defeating them, but not before the Sea Fox was damaged, forcing it to surface. Meanwhile, Speedy and Bunnie both went after Antoine and clashed over who had greater authority, only for the coyote to leap to his believed demise from an escape hatch at the top of the headquarters after being supposedly convinced that Bunnie was a traitor.

Tails and Antoine later infiltrated the base through a tunnel beneath the sea bed and while dispatching the guards, were saved when Bunnie showed up to assist them. In the storage bay, the heroes then confronted Dr. Fukurokov who set his Mole Mech against them. However, the mech was destroyed by Tails while the D'Coolette's inflicted significant structural damage to the whole base by attacking key areas of the bay. After rescuing Speedy from Mole Mech's wreckage, the three of them escaped from the damaged fortress as it rose from the ocean and headed away from the island.

After their retreat, Battlekukku XV accosted Speedy for not informing him Bunnie was a Freedom Fighter and told Dr. Fukurokov that he would have to repair the fortress by himself. XV then decided to renew their efforts to find those who left the Armada namely the Babylon Rogues, so they could return to their full strength and defeat the Eggman Empire in order to conquer Mobius and get their revenge on Tails.

### Iceborugh occupation Ending

The Dark Egg Legion took control of the Walrus Herd again through the use of mind controling technology. Using the herd as slave labor, the Legion chapter under Grandmaster Akhlut built a massive refueling station for purposes unknown at the time. The Arctic Freedom Fighters issued a distress signal for Sonic's help, however, and got additional reinforcements in the form of Rotor Walrus in a mechanical suit and Silver the Hedgehog, who managed to put an end to the Eggman Empire's attempts at controlling the walruses once and for all and also severely damaged the Northern Tundra Dark Egg Legion.Iceborough is permanently liberated from mind-control of the local Dark Egg Legion chapter by Rotor Walrus and Silver the Hedgehog.

### Damaged Oil Ocean Refinery

The Oil Ocean has been maintained by Grandmaster Beauregard Rabbot's Great Desert Dark Egg Legion; they would also protect it from the Sand-Blasters, the Freedom Fighters from nearby Sand Blast City who sought the refinery for themselves. Because of Sonic and Bunnie's actions however, the refinery received heavy damage, making the location useless for some time.

Although badly damaged, the Oil Ocean Refinery was later fueled with energy from the Death Egg, along with the Northern Tundra's refueling station. The local Dark Egg Legion chapter and the Sand Blasters would also continue to wage war over it, with one such confrontation ending when the undercover Mighty the Armadillo destroyed an attacking Legion tank.

### Geoffrey St. John's betrayal

After Mogul established himself as a casino owner, Naugus was kept out of sight so that he would not upset the clientele, spending his days hissing and drooling in a completely unaware state of being. He was present and chained in Mogul's office when his secret apprentice: Geoffrey St. John arrived, carrying a Chaos Emerald, which he intended to use to restore Naugus' sanity, which, in a roundabout way, could potentially benefit Mogul's business and most importantly, make Sonic miserable.

With Mogul's permission, Geoffrey gave the Chaos Emerald to Naugus, and the resulting surge of power restored his sanity. After crafting himself a staff topped with his new Emerald, he violently reprimanded St. John, enraged that his secret apprentice had failed to eliminate the Acorn family or preserve the kingdom. Geoffrey replied that the Acorns were needed to maintain the new kingdom, and insisted that his skills would help the evil wizard claim the throne. Naugus reluctantly followed the skunk, promising to take care of some unfinished business with Mogul, but immediately praised his apprentice after hearing how he back-stabbed Sonic and left him stranded in the Special Zone. Amidst pouring rain, Naugus arrived on the outskirts of New Mobotropolis, and while his apprentice updated him on current events, he once more plotted to take the crown.

Within New Mobotropolis, he and his apprentice traveled to the Coliseum via Naugus' shadow-melding, where they watched Mina's concert from afar. Sensing a "poison fog" of fear, Naugus used his magic to amplify the citizens' emotions, causing them to react strongly to Mina's musical message of suspicion against NICOLE. Referring to similar trickery that ignited the Great War, Naugus told his apprentice that Mobotropolis' citizens would soon be "baying for blood", and when the time came, they would call out for him to "save them".

### Ixis Naugus claims leadership

For a time, Naugus and Geoffrey continued to lay low, allowing the citizen's paranoia and fear to escalate. Finally, when they felt the time right, they made a grand public entrance, with Geoffrey announcing Naugus as the rightful king. Naugus boasted to the people that with him as their ruler, they would not need to fear Nicole; when the AI attempted to capture him in a nanite construct, the wizard used his magic to turn the nanites to crystal and shatter them. He then told the amazed crowd that NICOLE had no sway over him, and that he simply planned to go meet with the Council of Acorn. Sonic, of course, protested and attempted to stop Naugus from approaching Castle Acorn, but he was thwarted by the wizard's elemental skills and kept out of the castle by a wall of crystal. Striding into a meeting, Naugus boldly announced his intentions to the council, only for Sonic to suddenly strike him. Despite some hesitation, Elias handed his sword to Sonic at the latter's request, saying that the crown would defer to him when it came to dealing with Naugus. Naugus, angered, told Sonic that his claim had nothing to do with him, but the hedgehog refused to back down.

During the fight, Naugus used his magic to raise the emotions of the council as they argued between helping the hedgehog as former freedom fighters and relying on political matters as a government. In order to end the fight peacefully, Elias was willing to surrender the crown as long as Naugus honored the council. However, Sonic was insistent on ending it before it could happen, once more risking treason by disobeying the group's authority. Their scuffle was soon put on hold as they felt a shock wave from outside, only to discover the return of Eggman and, to a more catastrophic extent, the Death Egg Mark 2.

### Operation: Clean Sweep

#### Formation

While imprisoned in the detention facility of New Mobotropolis, Dr. Eggman overcame his madness and theorized that due to Sonic the Hedgehog's extensive exposure to Chaos energy, the hedgehog had become the embodiment of Chaos, a living unknown factor. No matter how ingenious Robotnik's plans were, or how far he calculated and planned, Sonic would stop him at the last minute in every single scenario. Essentially, as long as Robotnik was in Mobius Prime, Sonic would always win. Once Snively broke Eggman out of the detention facility as the Iron Dominion's occupation of the city fell apart, they retreated to the EggDome with the Dark Egg Legion, and he began to formulate Operation: Clean Sweep.

#### Modifying the Eggdome

After escaping, Eggman had several chapters of his Dark Egg Legion across Mobius mobilize with projects of their own. In the Northern Tundra, the local Dark Egg Legion of whales supported and ran a Psionic Emitter atop the Egg Totem that Dr. Eggman used to hypnotize the walrus population to work for him. Though the totem was destroyed by the combined effort of Sonic, the Arctic Freedom Fighters, Rotor Walrus, and Silver the Hedgehog, it remained a mystery to the heroes for what the totem's purpose was for. In Sand Blast City, the local Dark Egg Legion of former Robians ran a refinery for oil to fuel something. When Sonic and Bunnie went to investigate, it was revealed that the refinery would serve as a refueling station for something "bigger than he (Eggman)'s ever flown before".

Dr. Eggman's dome-shaped base in New Megaopolis was modified to become part of Operation: Clean Sweep. He and Snively obtained a Chaos Emerald from the Special Zone to provide power for his new weapon, the Death Egg Mark 2, which was, essentially, an airborne EggDome. The Death Egg Mark 2 was manned by the doctor himself, Snively, and the New Megaopolis chapter of the Dark Egg Legion. It was launched the day of Ixis Naugus and Geoffrey St. John's arrival in New Mobotropolis. While Sonic and Ixis Naugus were engaged in combat at Castle Acorn, the Death Egg Mark II appeared over the city.

#### The Death Egg Mark II

The Freedom Fighters, Geoffrey St. John, and Ixis Naugus traveled into the sky to waylay Dr. Eggman and stop what he intended to do with the Death Egg. Sonic and Sally Acorn entered the Death Egg through the hole Sonic used to enter the EggDome during the Freedom Fighters' and Chaotix's invasion of New Megaopolis. In the Death Egg, Sonic and Sally tried to locate Dr. Eggman before he could utilize the Death Egg, but they were stopped by a new and improved Silver Sonic. Instead of ignoring Silver Sonic, Sonic tried to have fun by defeating it, completely disregarding the mission at hand. Sally decided to go ahead and find Eggman alone while Sonic fought Silver Sonic as Eggman announced on the PA system of the Death Egg that he would momentarily fire the Genesis Wave. However, Sally was abruptly stopped by a two-barreled gun, and shot at, supposedly killing her as Sonic watched in disbelief. As Eggman pressed the button at the Death Egg's bridge to fire the Genesis Wave, a flash of white light emanated from the Death Egg, washing the entire planet in white. As everything faded away, a horrified Sonic noticed that Sally had fallen.

### Phase 1

Using the Genesis Wave, Dr. Eggman managed to alter reality, erasing all of the Freedom Fighter's progress for more than the past decade, even before Sonic and Sally met. This resulted in a changed and defenseless Mobius that was easy to exploit. In this new reality, Eggman and Snively quickly took control of various untamed regions and territories by establishing bases and factories in them. They also started capturing large numbers of the different Mobian species everywhere they went, and placed them inside Eggman's Badnik robots as power sources.

However, Eggman and Snively had both been affected by the Genesis Wave as well and lost their memories, unsure of what their plan had been or even the purpose behind the Death Egg. All they could remember was that whatever they did before had severely drained the battle station of its power reserves, and it would take time for it to be recharged, even with the Chaos Emeralds they somehow gathered. Eventually they began to remember the old reality they changed, which was the cause for the numerous dimensional disturbances they were experiencing, but Eggman remained confident his "robotizing" weapon would secure both space-time and his victory once fired.

Besides these setbacks, there was one other problem that would prove fatal to Robotnik's plans. Sonic, who had been brought into this new world as well, along with a few of the other Freedom Fighters, though suffering the same amnesia effect like the doctor and Snively. As Sonic was running in the Green Hill Zone, he felt as though he had blanked out for a second, which was the sudden disruption in reality. He saved the captured animals of the zone from an enraged Snively, freeing Sally, Boomer, and Antoine, whom he had not met before. The four heroes joined forces and began to find the source of the animal kidnappings, as well as the weird tremors that were occurring. After encountering Robotnik in the Marble Zone, and the Scrap Brain Zone, the Freedom Fighters supposedly defeated Robotnik. Robotnik survived however, and began to recall his past with Sonic as part of some great "logic puzzle", for which he attempted to work out an answer.

Afterwards, Sonic introduced the Freedom Fighters to his sidekick Miles Prower, who joined the group in taking down all of Robotnik's support, leaving him powerless. However, as the group slowly made progress in the Oil Ocean Zone, Sonic realized that their plan would take forever. He and Tails decided to leave the group to take on Robotnik head on while Sally, Boomer, and Antoine stayed to take down Robotnik's support. After encountering Robotnik in the Metropolis Zone, Sonic began to remember memories from another past (Meaning Mobius-2). Robotnik stated that Sonic was beginning to remember the "other reality" (Mobius-2). With that, Robotnik escaped to his shuttle, which would take him to the Death Egg Mark 2. Sonic escaped the Metropolis Zone as well, and Tails flew Sonic up to Robotnik's escape shuttle in his Tornado just in time for Sonic to travel to the Death Egg to defeat Robotnik.

Onboard the Death Egg, Sonic noted the condition of Mobius, as it appeared to be very stormy and disastrous, nearly on the brink of breaking apart. Robotnik appeared and explained that Mobius's true reality was fighting back to restore itself, and to get rid of the reality that Robotnik created, but by roboticizing Mobius, the doctor could solidify the altered reality forever.

Sonic, now regaining the memories of the true Mobius, attempted to fight back, but Eggman entered his Egg Destroyer Battlesuit and began fighting Sonic. During the fight, Dr. Eggman explained that on the true Non-Mobius Prime, he realized that in that reality, Sonic would always stop him due to his Chaos factor. If he changed reality, then the Chaos factor would be eliminated, and Sonic would not be able to stop him. However, Sonic did manage to confront Robotnik, even after the dimensional change, proving Robotnik's plan worthless. Sonic tried his best to fight back, but was overpowered by the mech and about to be crushed. During Eggman's rant, he mentioned that the Death Egg was powered by the seven Chaos Emeralds. Sonic grabbed a power wire, absorbed its power, and turned into Super Sonic. Super Sonic then easily defeated Dr. Robotnik in his battle armor, absorbed as much chaos energy as possible from the wire, and performed a Chaos Control to restore reality. The Genesis Wave occurred once again as the alternate Mobius vanished away into nothingness.

### World Roboticizer

After Super Sonic set the universe back to normal (In a pocket reality), 50% of the planet regained their Roboticization immunity. Even though the universe was reset, Eggman could still Roboticize the whole planet and half of the population. Eggman also explained to Sonic the Hedgehog and Sally Acorn that regardless of the immunity, his World Roboticizer would destroy anything mechanical on the planet, meaning civilization would be blown back to the stone age and every cyborg or mechanical being on the planet would perish. Luckily though, Sonic provided a distraction while Sally destroyed the World Roboticizer, and became Mecha Sally.

### Phase 2

With reality restored, the temporal transition Sonic created allowed time on the Mobius-2 to go back 10 seconds, allowing Sonic to rescue Sally before the turret could kill her. Silver Sonic was defeated by the turret in an attempt to follow and rushed to confront Dr. Eggman before he could fire the roboticizer. When Sonic and Sally found Eggman, he explained that the Death Egg Mark 2's weapon was a World Roboticizer that would roboticize all life. Sonic pointed out that because the alien race, the Bem, deroboticized everyone and made sure no one would get roboticized ever again, the roboticization of the world would not succeed. However, Eggman explained that because he reset reality, the spell the Bem placed on all Mobians was gone, and now Eggman would successfully roboticize everything. Also, even if that part of his plan would fail, Eggman still had a secondary purpose for using the world roboticizer. Due to how the machine operated, everything already mechanical would explode, allowing Eggman to destroy all of the United Federation, G.U.N., and New Mobotropolis, even if it meant killing his entire Dark Egg Legion.

As Sonic tried to strike down Robotnik, he was stopped by the arrival of a new Metal Sonic and the return of the damaged-but-still-deadly Silver Sonic, and a very lopsided battle ensued as Sonic bought Sally time for her to disable the roboticizer. When Sally reached the weapon's chamber beneath, Nicole revealed to Sally that due to the security programs, the only option available in the time left would be to invert the beam to Sally's exact spot, causing only Sally to be roboticized, in turn destroying the weapon. Sally agreed to this, allowing Nicole to reprogram the weapon after securing her core files in the city, and as Eggman commanded it to fire, the roboticizer blew up, destroying itself and severely damaging the Death Egg.

After emerging from the wreckage, Sonic began to laugh at Eggman at how he failed to roboticize the world, even after he changed reality. He planned to find Sally and go back to New Mobotropolis. However, a metal hand arose from the wreckage, which was revealed to be a roboticized Sally. Mecha Sally emerged and grabbed the distraught hedgehog by his throat. Wanting to enjoy this turn of events, Eggman then had Mecha Sally release Sonic through a garbage chute, and relayed orders to the bridge to destroy New Mobotropolis while his nemesis was still in free-fall.

Upon hearing from Snively that the Chaos Emerald had vanished, the doctor realized they had no choice and called a full retreat. Eggman sent to Mobotropolis a gigantic Titan Metal Sonic, along with an unknown weapon he codenamed "Deadly Cuddles". After releasing the two distractions, Eggman returned to the command deck. As they fell back, the doctor put their remaining power into the Egg Annihilator Beam, and with some coaxing through Mecha Sally, had Snively fire onto New Mobotropolis. While the parting shot did succeed in shooting down the Tornado and Freedom Fighter Special, the city was spared as Ixis Naugus took control of Titan with his Ixis Magicks and had his new crystal golem block the shot at the cost of its own destruction. Though he had not eliminated his foes, Eggman felt he had struck a critical blow to them with his plan, and the Death Egg Mark 2 retreated in a somewhat victorious defeat as it was in no condition to continue the fight.

### The First Genesis Wave Aftermath

With Dr. Eggman on the offensive and his kingdom threatened Naugus agreed to a truce with his enemies to combat the airborne fortress, reaching the Death Egg first the dreaded wizard unleashed his crystalline magic upon the vessel secure in its vulnerability to it. Stunned, Naugus found the structure to be resisting his magic somehow, as the fortress unleashed its weaponry on the attackers they fought back, Sonic and Sally even managed to penetrate the Death Egg's defenses and get inside, but soon afterwards the sorcerer, along with everyone else, was washed away as the world turned white.

Titan Metal Sonic was unleashed by Dr. Eggman from the Death Egg Mark 2 as a distraction along with Project "Deadly Cuddles". Known as Project "Titan", it almost destroyed New Mobotropolis, but was defeated by Ixis Naugus when he used his Crystalline Magic to turn the robot into the Crystal Golem. Naugus then used the Crystal Golem to block a blast from the Death Egg Mark 2's Egg Annihilator Beam, destroying the robot in the process. This was enough for the citizens of New Mobotropolis to choose him as the new king, and he basked in their cheers and admiration.

### King Naugus

While his enemies watched on in horror, Naugus approached Elias and requested the boy to relinquish the crown to him, but was interrupted by Sonic who desperately tried to tell the people that the wizard was a villain. After learning of the princess' transmutation into a minion of Eggman's minions and that the white light from before was the doctor's doing, the spirits of Nusgau and Agunus assailed the sorcerer's mind with the intent of taking his body. However Suguna silenced the others, and advised Naugus to further prove himself as a better suited leader to New Mobotropolis by making Elias look even weaker. Boasting of his "*selfless*" servitude to not only one, but two of their previous kings and blatantly pointing out Elias' emotional turmoil, he deftly convinced what few citizens who were still uncertain. As his apprentice snatched the crown from Elias' head, Naugus allowed Geoffrey to crown him and was accepted by the people as their new king.

Unwilling to accept it, his enemies tried again by revealing a hospitalized and half-crystallized Bunnie who was getting weaker by the minute. Spinning this to his advantage as well, the villainous wizard led the masses to the hospital where he intended to rectify his mistake made during the battle. Though Naugus had meant to undo the crystallization he was stunned to see that his sorcery had also restored the rabbit's organic limbs. The wizard-king swiftly dismissed it, claiming he had done so on purpose to reward the valiant heroine for her efforts in protecting his kingdom, and was once more met with cheers from the citizens. Later that day, Geoffrey was arrested for treason.

### Secret Freedom Fighters

After Ixis Naugus usurped the crown from Elias Acorn, the ex-king had ask help from his dad's advisor, Harvey Who. Harvey, at first, refused to help Elias, but then accepted his offer for help. Harvey then mentioned that a group must be made to stop Naugus, the present king of New Mobotropolis. Harvey had found Silver, who just told Sonic about his thoughts of Antoine being the traitor, sitting in a bench the Julayla Memorial Park. Harvey told Silver that although he has heard of Silver's mistakes, he could join the Secret Freedom Fighters. Silver then accepted.

After Lupe was rescued by Team Fighters, Lupe told Leeta and Lyco to help join the Secret Freedom Fighters. Leeta and Lyco were to go to the Council of Acorn by Lupe. Naugus, seeing as a fake message, then kicks them out, but Uncle Chuck had lead them to Harvey somewhere secret. Harvey had asked them to join the group. At first, Leeta and Lyco declined but then accepted the offer. After being rebuilted by Uncle Chuck, Shard had agreed to be a part of Harvey's group. At the time, as well, Harvey had needed one more member to make his plan. At the same time, Larry Lynx had fell from a stump and then went inside the old Freedom HQ. Harvey then made Larry a member of Harvey's group.

### The Fall of the Knothole Freedom Fighters

Following the events of the arrival of the new Death Egg Mark 2 in 3237, everything slowly fell apart for the team. Sally sacrificed herself to save Mobius from being roboticized during Eggman's Operation: Clean Sweep. The end result had her roboticized and becoming one of Eggman's most dangerous soldiers. Some time later, after Ixis Naugus became the new king of New Mobotropolis, the Freedom Fighters were planning on escorting Elias Acorn, the true king, to Feral Forest. An ambush by Mecha Sally and the Death Egg resulted in Antoine being critically injured while fending off a self-destructing Metal Sonic.
With the departure of Bunnie, Nicole's exile, Sally's roboticization, and Antoine's hospitalization, the Knothole Freedom Fighters had suffered too many loses to be capable of combating the threats posed by the Eggman Empire and Naugus effectively. The remaining members split into two teams with Team Freedom protecting New Mobotropolis, while Team Fighters would combat Eggman. The two groups continued in this capacity for some time.

### The Formation of Team Fighters

Following the various losses of Sally Acorn, Antoine D'Coolette, and Bunnie D'Coolette, the Knothole Freedom Fighters had fallen apart. Sonic and Rotor felt that their best option was to reform into two new teams, and brought the idea before the Council of Acorn. Although King Naugus attempted to deny the motion on the premise that he alone could protect New Mobotropolis, the Council voted their approval. Sonic appointed himself the leader of Team Fighters, made up of himself, Amy Rose, Tails, and T-Pup, with their mission being to pursue Dr. Eggman's Death Egg Mark 2 in the Tornado and eventually rescue Mecha Sally.

### The Formation of Team Freedom

Following the loss of several members, the Knothole Freedom Fighters were officially dissolved, leading Rotor and Sonic to believe they needed to change strategies. While Sonic opted to head Team Fighters in pursuit of the Death Egg Mark 2, Rotor Walrus decided to be the leader of a new team of heroes specifically meant to respond to threats against the city from the homefront. Even though King Naugus opposed the idea, the majority of the Council agreed to the proposal and voted in support of it. As the new leader, Rotor then rebuilt the former Badniks Heavy and Bomb with Tails help, while also holding auditions for anyone interested in joining his team. By the end, there were only three applicants: Big the Cat, and Cream the Rabbit, accompanied by Cheese. Rotor accepted all of them, bringing Team Freedom to a total of six members.

With the roster filled up, Rotor then held a public reveal of Team Freedom in front of New Mobotropolis's community center in order to gain support from the citizens. King Naugus attended the event as well, remaining doubtful of the group's reliability in dealing with potential threats from Dr. Eggman, and tried to dissuade the people from trusting in them. At that exact moment though, a corner of the community center vanished under mysterious circumstances, and the crowd panicked as the building started to topple. Team Freedom quickly sprang into action under Rotor's guidance as he, Cheese & Bomb caused an explosion to blast back falling debris, while Heavy & Big caught the building, and Cream began to airlift out people trapped on the upper floors. With the disaster averted, the people cheered their approval of Team Freedom's heroics, which worked against Naugus who had been unable to do anything due to inner personal matters, forcing him to think up new tactics to keep the city under his control.

### Saving Furville

Over a year later, on the way to the Temple of Shazamazon in the Death Egg Mark 2, Eggman took a detour to Furville, wanting revenge on its citizens for escaping him once already. Sending Mecha Sally and his Egg SWATs to invade the city, he gloated that with the Knothole Freedom Fighters falling apart, no one would be able to save the citizens from being Roboticized. However, his invasion was interrupted by the arrival of the newly formed Team Fighters, comprised of Sonic, Tails, and Amy, who liberated the citizens from their Prison Eggs, and destroyed the majority of the Egg SWAT opposition. With the Death Egg Mark 2 rapidly draining power, Eggman ordered for the remaining ones to cover him and Mecha Sally while they made a full retreat to the Shazamazon base.

### Battle at Feral Forest

Dr. Eggman later led a second invasion of Feral Forest, deploying Mecha Sally, Silver Sonic v3.0, and several Egg SWATs out of the Death Egg Mark 2 in an attempt to destroy Elias. Elias, however, managed to escape, and Eggman's efforts were thwarted by Team Fighters, George Sommersby, and the villagers, although not without collateral damage to several of the houses. Leeta and Larry Lynx were sent to find Elias during the invasion. As Elias' wife, Megan Acorn and others, Elias, Leeta, and Larry had escaped the house but Tails had caught them. Tails noticed the uniforms Larry and Leeta were wearing and Elias had told him that he might never get to explain what he is doing. Tails then pretended to forget what he saw and covered for Elias, Leeta, and Larry.

### Catching Geoffrey, Spying on King Naugus' plan

In the Freedom HQ, Harvey had told Silver, Shard and Larry to capture Geoffrey, while Elias, Leeta and Lyco would spy on Naugus' plans. Harvey would check on their status while on the mission.

Silver, Shard and Larry try to find Geoffrey in Soumerca. Instead, they find his Extreme Gear and place a tracker on it. As Silver and Shard argue throughout the whole mission, Geoffrey hears the commotion and realizes he is being followed. The three agents avoid Geoffrey's traps and find a crypt inside the chamber he was in. Silver is shocked that his master is mentioned: "*the crypt of Ixis Vale, one of Ixis Mogul's four elite...*" However, Silver figures out that Geoffrey was here. They follow their footprints and notice Geoffrey fleeing with his Extreme Gear. Geoffrey fires an explosive arrow and causes a cave-in, trapping the three Secret Freedom Fighters inside the pit.

Meanwhile, Elias, Leeta and Lyco spy on Naugus entering the hole that the Battle Bird Armada made in New Mobotropolis. The three follow him and Naugus opens a cave. Naugus, almost noticing the Secret Freedom Fighters, seals up the entrance and proceeds further into the cave. Elias plants a bomb at the entrance while Leeta and Lyco seek out Naugus, who is talking to the three Ixis wizards inside a chamber. They are telling him that he is weak and that people are following him. Naugus then hears Leeta scream and chases after the twins. Elias feels bad for saying harsh things to the twins when he hears them scream and follows them, only to be nearly caught by Naugus. While Naugus blocks most of the paths in the cave, Elias finds the twins and they try to escape. He then blasts open the entrance and the Secret Freedom Fighters make it out, but Naugus summons a whirlwind to blow the agents back into the cave. Naugus re-enters the cave and seals up the entrance, so no one can come in or out.

Shortly after being buried, Shard, Silver and Larry exit the underground chamber they were in. With a tracker being placed on Geoffrey's board, they take a break. After doing so, Harvey yells at Silver's team for their failure to capture Geoffrey. Silver stands up for the team, saying that although they lost him, there is a tracker on his board, so they have not totally lost him. Harvey, noticing that Elias' squad have not returned, tells Silver's team to search for them. Upon finding them, Geoffrey comes in and mentions a possible "double agent" working with the Secret Freedom Fighters. He also tells the team about Shard's past. His Power Core holds all of his programming and was all that remained of Shard when Geoffrey's team visited the dormant Mt. Mobius. The Power Core was placed in Robotropolis and was later stolen. The stolen Power Core ended up with Uncle Chuck, and he used it to create the Metal Sonic Troopers. The next day, at the Lake of Rings, Geoffrey reveals to Silver that Naugus is planning to "hypnotize" the city into the new Order of Ixis. Geoffrey begs for Silver and his team to stop Naugus from doing so. After telling Harvey Who and the other Secret Freedom Fighters, they all locate Naugus before it is too late.

### Naugus Ambush

With Naugus preparing the spell to mind control the entire Council of Acorn, a telekinetic force hits Naugus. As he gets back up, the Secret Freedom Fighters enter the Ritual Chamber and start attacking Naugus and Geoffrey, while Elias plants bombs on the chamber's walls. Naugus is weak as his Chaos Emerald wand is stuck in the ceiling, and his attacks are easily avoided by Shard and Silver. Shard then turns the bones of Ixis Vale into dust, thus destroying Naugus' plan to mind control the citizens of New Mobotropolis. The Wolf Pack twins face Geoffrey, but he manages to escape and attack Elias. With Elias' goggles raised to the point where Geoffrey knows that he is the former king, Geoffrey admits the deposed king has "matured" since their former days. They both battle until Naugus spreads fire around the cave, nearly killing the team, although most of them escape. Geoffrey, however, does not escape, as Naugus uses his mind control to keep him inside the chamber as it crumbles. The mission of the Secret Freedom Fighters is finished.

However, the battle was not over, as they must never become known throughout the history books. They were also unable to relax, as Eggman and Mecha Sally were still out there, and Elias, Silver and the rest of the crew must keep their eyes on any danger ahead. Elias decided to check on his family, unnoticed, while Larry watched the Council from a treetop. Meanwhile, Uncle Chuck was spending time with his family, as Shard looks out of the window in sadness. Harvey decided to help Silver out by telling him the traitor he had been looking for the entire time. He gave Silver a large piece of paper with pictures of Antoine, Sonic, Rotor and Sally on it. Three of the Freedom Fighters' pictures have been crossed out, leaving only one picture unmarked. Silver asks Harvey if this is the truth, and Harvey tells Silver that the one Freedom Fighter not marked off is the true traitor and that he can explain how.

### Nicole's returns back

Shortly thereafter, Isabella Mongoose joined the Council of Acorn, and her first motion would be to overturn Nicole's exile. Naugus refused and stated that he protected the city, when Isabella argued that Nicole could have given them warning. They discussed overturning her exile, which was backed up by Tails Doll's secret attack on Mina and the Forget me Knots during their benefit concert for her. Mina managed to win the public's support for Nicole to return and the Council of Acorn, under an unanimous vote, welcomed her back under 'monitored conditions' and apologized. She was happy to accept but wondered if the vote was truly unanimous when Geoffrey reassumed her and told her that Naugus sent his full support for her return. He also asked her if she could help him to help Naugus.

### The Search for Mighty and Ray

Following Mighty and Ray's departure for some time, the duo stopped sending letters and the Warp Ring they had taken with them returned to the island on its own, the group split up yet again. Vector, Charmy, and Espio traveled to Mercia to pick up the trail of their missing friends, while the other three remained on Angel Island. The traveling trio briefly teamed up with the Mercian Freedom Fighters against the Mercia Dark Egg Legion, before making their way to Sand Blast City. While there, they ran afoul of the local Sand-Blasters, in whose ranks they found Mighty and Ray. At roughly the same time, the Angel Island team suffered losses: Julie-Su and Saffron were attacked by Thrash the Tasmanian Devil while protecting the Master Emerald, and were subsequently dispatched through a super-charged Warp Ring. They were soon followed by all of the Echidnas in Albion except for Knuckles, who had gone in answer to a distress call sent by Remington informing him of an attack by the former New Megaopolis Dark Egg Legion. Knuckles arrived shortly before Thrash completed his banishment of the Echidnas, and joined up with Team Fighters to battle the Tasmanian Devil. Knuckles defeated Thrash and returned home just in time to meet the others, who had joined forces with the Great Desert Dark Egg Legion, whose ranks included Matilda the Armadillo, to defeat the Sand-Blasters. Unfortunately, their female teammates remained lost to them, as Thrash's Warp Ring would not respond to Knuckles' efforts.

### The Brief attack of the New Dark Egg Legion

The Legion eventually made its decision, and were dropped in Albion by the Death Egg. Retaining only Metal Knuckles in addition to their preferred arsenal, the Legion quickly gained the advantage over the Albion defenders, capturing Matriarch Lara-Le and her advisers along with much of the populace. Their victory was checked by the arrival of Team Fighters, who joined the resistance forces in attacking the Legion command post. The Legion countered with reactivated defense systems, to which they possessed an immunity. However, the efforts of Tails to deactivate the systems resulted in a massive electrical shock that knocked out the Legion and their enemies. They then fell easy prey to Thrash the Tasmanian Devil, who used a super-charged Warp Ring to transport them to another Zone.

### An Unexpected reunion

During this period, the Chaos Emerald that went missing upon the failure of Operation: Clean Sweep was found by another mad scientist, Dr. Wily, the arch-nemesis of Mega Man, in his world. In attempting to examine the gem, Wily accidentally interrupted Eggman as he was berating his Grandmasters for their failure to find the Emerald. The two doctors briefly argued before Eggman realized that something beneficial could come from their meeting. After explaining about alternate realities to Wily, Eggman came up with an idea on how to eliminate both Sonic and Mega Man. Meeting up in the Skull Egg Zone, a pocket zone constructed by the Doctors, the two got to work on constructing their collaborative air fortress, the Wily Egg.

### Shard's Death

A few days after Team Metal's defeat at New Mobotropolis, Metal Sonic had been rebuilt yet again but this time Dr. Eggman decided to give Metal Sonic back its free-will algorithm, seeing that it was needed to give it the edge over its foes, as well as its own power gem core. The rebuilt Metal Sonic immediately stated its intentions of destroying Sonic but Eggman stopped it, stating its mission was now to destroy Shard to which it initially refused before Eggman triggered a soft-reboot defiance kill-switch, keeping Metal Sonic obedient.

Meanwhile Shard was enjoying a game of digital-world chess with Nicole, blasting the virtual pieces much to Nicole's amusement when she won the game. Before they could start another game, however, Metal Sonic attacked a resting Antoine D'Coolette at the hospital, with both the intent of finishing off Antoine and luring out Shard, who was on scene in no time. He convinced Metal Sonic to fight him first, one on one, which Metal Sonic accepted once they made their way out to the Great Wastes.

The two immediately began a heated battle, exchanging countless blows on the other. Metal Sonic began using its stored memory of past defeats to counter Shard's cannon-fire, by plugging it with a rock, and spin attack, using a shield. Shard tried to shoot the rock out at Metal Sonic, who countered with its chest cannon. Metal Sonic then proceeded to finish off Shard, who tried to convince it to do as he had done and become good. For a second Metal Sonic seemed to ponder the idea, his memory recalling that Shadow the Hedgehog, another freed weapon for destruction, had said something very similar. However Doctor Eggman's new 'soft reboot' function kicked in, preventing the idea from taking hold. Shard realized that Eggman had finally found a way to take away Metal Sonic's free will, and since his cannon had repaired itself, he blasted himself free and tried to drill out Metal Sonic's power gem core which it defended by raising its shield, severing Shard's cannon arm in half.

At this point, Shard clearly saw he was losing and if he was going down, he was taking Metal Sonic with him. Metal Sonic warned Shard that he was only going to destroy himself, to which Shard stated it was never about him and continued by telling Metal Sonic if it couldn't understand why, it needed to be destroyed. He then tried to pry out Metal Sonic's power gem core and the robot saw its chance, having analyzed Shard's data and stored it in the power gem, and self-destructed, catching Shard in the blast much the same way it had done to Antoine, leaving Shard laying on the ground, a wrecked and broken mess. His energy signal weakening, Shard called Nicole for an emergency pick-up and as he tried to tell her something, most likely personal in nature, his signal faded out.

### The New Plan

Eggman quickly rebuilt a new model, which retained it's predecessor's memories and free will, and sent it to the Skull Egg Zone. Shortly thereafter, Team Fighters arrived in the Northern Tundra and invaded the Death Egg with the Arctic Freedom Fighters and Silver the Hedgehog. Eggman, completely at his wits' end with Team Fighters by this point, furiously ordered Mecha Sally and several Egg Swats to destroy the invaders, but Mecha Sally was defeated and subdued by Silver. Facing almost certain defeat, Eggman retreated to the Skull Egg Zone, where Wily was waiting for him.

### Saving Sally at All costs

Arriving at the Northern Tundra, Team Fighters joined forces with the Arctic Freedom Fighters for an assault on the Death Egg, and were also joined by another unexpected arrival: Silver the Hedgehog who explained that Sally Acorn was the traitor and he was there to help rescue her. After engaging in battle with Akhlut's pod Mecha Sally was sent to engage Team Fighters and the Arctic Freedom Fighters. They were quickly overpowered and just when she was about to kill Sonic and Amy she was switched off when Silver used his psychokinesis. The celebration was short lived however as just then the world faded to white as a result of the Second Super Genesis Wave.

### World's Collide

Following Super Sonic's use of Chaos Control to reverse the effects of the first Genesis Wave on Non-Mobius Prime, the blue Chaos Emerald used by Dr. Eggman to power the wave was transported to an pocket dimension, specifically that of Earth 20XX. Appearing in the rainforest outside the Lanfront Ruins, it was discovered by several of the Robot Masters created by Dr. Wily using the supercomputer Ra Moon. Wily's attempts to analyze the gemstone resulted in opening an unexpected communications link between the two pocket universes, allowing Wily and Eggman to communicate with each other. Discovering their shared goals for their worlds-and frustration with certain blue foes-the two doctors agreed upon an alliance. With Eggman's guidance, Wily used the power of the Chaos Emerald to create the Skull Egg Zone, a pocket dimension linking both their worlds together. By combining resources, the two doctors shaped the realm to their liking and created a flying battle fortress from which to enact their schemes for all reality: the Wily Egg. After using the Emerald to launch a second Genesis Wave, the pair set out to acquire the remaining Emeralds. In order to accomplish this, they captured a number of Sonic the Hedgehog's allies and transformed them into the evil Roboticized Masters.

Quickly securing most of the Emeralds, the doctors then arranged for their foes-Sonic and Mega Man-to be tricked into battling each other in the hopes that one or both would be destroyed. The battle began on Mobius, but soon moved to Earth as Mega Man's creator and Wily's rival, Dr. Light, created a Warp Ring to bring his robotic son back home. Fearing further interference, the doctors dispatched Metal Sonic v3.0 and Bass to capture Light as Sonic and Mega Man continued to battle. However, the heroes eventually learned that they had been deceived, forcing the doctors to attack with Tails Man, the first of the Roboticized Masters. By combining their abilities, the two heroes unexpectedly returned Tails to normal, and learned of the doctors' alliance. Transporting to Light Labs, they would arrive too late to prevent Dr. Light's capture, but were able to pursue him into the Skull Egg Zone accompanied by Proto Man and Rush. After a brief battle with Mega Man's old enemies Copy Robot and the Genesis Unit, the heroes ran into the full force of Roboticized Masters.

Proto Man left his allies in order to locate the missing Dr. Light, dividing the Roboticized Masters as several were called off to pursue him. By modifying Mega Man's Mega Buster weapon to mimic Sonic's Spin Dash attack, the heroes succeeded in restoring all three members of the Chaotix to their normal forms. The detectives left to join Proto Man, while the doctors dispatched Robot Master Shadow Man and Roboticized Master Shadow Man to engage the heroes. Despite the formidable team, the heroes were victorious, restoring Shadow the Hedgehog and destroying Wily's Shadow Man. Thanks to Shadow's Chaos Control abilities, the heroes also became aware that reality had been altered, and became even more determined to set things right. Silver Man and Blaze Woman were likewise turned back into Silver the Hedgehog and Blaze the Cat by the heroes, while the doctors began work on a deadly battle vehicle, the Egg-Wily Machine X. Unbeknownst to them, the Wily Egg had been boarded by Rouge the Bat, who made contact with Dr. Light for his help in sabotaging the flying fortress.

Sonic's team soon battled the last remaining Roboticized Masters, Knuckles Man and Rose Woman, who had been ordered to self-destruct in order to eliminate the heroes. Fortunately, after a heated battle, they were able to return them to their normal forms of Knuckles the Echidna and Amy Rose. Having succeeded in rescuing all of Sonic's allies, that they were aware of the heroes set out to assemble them and regroup at the Wily Egg, which had stopped thanks to Rouge's sabotage. Unfortunately, Rouge was captured by the doctors and subjected to roboticization, becoming Rouge Woman. She was then deployed alongside an army of Robot Masters the doctors had time cloned from Earth's past against Sonic and Mega Man's force. Joined by E-123 Omega, the heroes put up a valiant fight despite being outnumbered, even succeeding in rescuing Rouge. Realizing that they were fighting a losing battle, however, Sonic and Mega Man departed for the Wily Egg with Tails and Rush, just in time to see Dr. Light jettisoned from the craft.

After Light was rescued by Shadow and joined the allied heroes, Sonic and Mega Man boarded the Wily Egg to confront Eggman and Wily. The evil doctors, their friendship shattered by Eggman's attempt to murder Dr. Light, dispatched the Mega Man Killers to impede their progress. Following a swift battle, the Killers were destroyed, but Tails was injured and forced to retreat with Rush. Fighting their way up through various obstacles, the heroes encountered the Chaos Devil, a monstrous creation of the villainous doctors. Their battle with the creature came to a halt with the arrival of Duo, a powerful ally from Mega Man's universe, who sent the heroes ahead while staying behind to handle the creature. Mega Man and Sonic continued, but faced a final obstacle: Metal Sonic, Bass, and Treble, who tag-teamed the two heroes viciously. After a grueling battle, the two succeeded in defeating them, only to be captured by the Egg-Wily Machine X. Held captive by Eggman and Wily, the heroes then learned the full scope of the doctors' plan: to completely rewrite all of reality using the Genesis Reactor, a device powered by all seven Chaos Emeralds.

Outside the Wily Egg, the battle with the Robot Masters continued, and Sonic's allies were soon joined by an unexpected force of arrivals: the original Robot Masters created by Dr. Light. Taking advantage of the reprieve, Knuckles and Proto Man-joined by Rush and Dr. Light-boarded the Wily Egg to aid Mega Man and Sonic. The red heroes took on the doctors while Light and Rush freed Mega Man and Sonic, who then used the power of the Chaos Emeralds to transform into Super Armor Mega Man and Super Sonic. The doctors also super-charged the Egg-Wily Machine X, leading to a titanic struggle between the blue heroes and their enemies. During the fighting, the Super Genesis Wave was unleashed, consuming all of realty in its blinding light as the heroes managed to defeat the doctors. Harnessing the power of the Emeralds for one final act, Sonic and Mega Man prepared to restore their worlds to normal. Mega Man succeeded without incident, but Dr. Eggman launched a final attack against Sonic, greatly disrupting his efforts.

### Aftermath of the Second Suoer Genesis Wave

The Non-Prime Zone was catastrophically altered by Eggman's interference. The entire history of the Non-Prime Zone had been greatly changed, and many other elements along with it: the planets geography had been shifted, with previously existing locations being moved or outright erased, with new locations appearing in their place. Several characters histories had been changed, some on a minor scale while others were more drastic. Meanwhile several characters from the old timeline had vanished altogether, their fate unknown. Events from the majority of the Sonic video games had also taken place. Additionally, it was revealed the entire Mobius Strip was effected: the reality warping caused the microverses to collapse in on itself like a pimple on a face. It also rebooted, creating new Micro Universes. The reality warp itself would end up causing the Shattered World Crisis: once the Super Genesis Wave reset the Mobius strip, the excess energy piled itself onto the Non-Prime Zone, causing Mobius-2 to split apart from the strain.

As predicted by Payne, it was discovered in Silver's future by Professor Von Schlemmer that the "shards" that formed when the mircoverse was altered tore holes in the space-time continuum, creating mysterious portals called Genesis Portals. These portals caused travel though many worlds, including the Non0Prime Zone, the present and future of Mega Man's world. One of these portals brought Sigma, the arch-enemy of Mega Man's descendent, Mega Man X, to the Lost Hex, where he abducted and enslaved Dr. Eggman, Dr. Wily and the Deadly Six, thus beginning Sonic and Mega Man's next adventure together. It would also be revealed that the events of their previous encounter still occurred in this alternate reality.

### Ixis' defeat (Ancient)

Information about Ixis is scarce: according to Walter Naugus, Ixis was *"a primordial force from the beginning of time,"* and *"it was sealed by lesser chaotic forces that had shaped the universe into what it is."*

### Dark-Gaia & Light-Gaia (Ancient)

According to Professor Pickle, Dark Gaia has throughout history caused Sonic's World to break up into fragments every ten thousand years. Every time it awakens though, Light Gaia engages Dark Gaia in a fight that lasts centuries, until he seals himself and Dark Gaia in the planet's core again where they will rest until their next battle.

### Trolls (Ancient)

In ancient times, the trolls founded the Second Great Civilization on a land called Pancardina, though their culture was felt worldwide. Walter Naugus claims they brought about a new age of prosperity and order with their cystalline magic, when in fact, they used their mind control to enslave other species, which they would earn infamy for through history. The trolls worshipped a being named Ixis and harnessed the pure power that it possessed. They increased their power through the use of the crystals, which they mined in many different locations, such as Hidden Palace Zone. The Trolls' era was ended by a catastrophic event that blasted Pancardina into a series of islands, with the trolls being all but wiped out overnight. They lived on Pancardina. Their reputation and crystalline technology on this land influenced people all around the world. The Second Great Civilization used to control other Mobians and made them work as their slaves. Pancardina was eventually destroyed by an unknown being, wiping out the civilization. The remains live on as a series of islands.

### Acorn Archipelago (Ancient)

In ancient times, the Acorn Archipelago was a single island called Pancardina. The Trolls of the Second Great Civilization would live here in harmony, harvesting crystals from the Hidden Palace Zone to increase their power. However, they were wiped out overnight by an unknown powerful being, with Pancardina scattering into a series of islands.

### The Babylon Garden (Ancient)

The Babylon Garden was an ancient city buried in the sand by the gods to punish the Babylonians for their crimes. The city raised out of the desert by Jet to find the ancient treasure his ancestors that was buried with the city. Raising the garden had awakened its Guardian God who battled the Babylon Rogues and Team Sonic, who defeated the guardian and gave the heroes the treasure. Sonic and the Rogues found out the treasure an ancient Extreme Gear. Dr. Eggman showed up to steal the treasure but was disappointed that it was not what he was hoping for. Eventually the Babylon Rogues and Sonic's friends learned that the garden was ancient spaceship that experienced a malfunction and crushed into the planet.

### Westside Island (Ancient)

It is said that a long time ago, Westside Island was the place of an ancient civilization that would use the power of the seven Chaos Emeralds to achieve peace and prosperity. However, when some individuals corrupt with power attempted to use the Emeralds with bad intentions, this civilization was instantaneously wiped up by the gods. Following this tragedy, their only remains would only be found at the Aquatic Ruins Zone.

### The creation of Emerl (Ancient)

Generations ago, Emerl was created by an ancient civilization, which he would wipe out after going rogue. Fifty years ago, he was discovered and modified by Gerald Robotnik, and later found again by his grandson, Dr. Eggman. The doctor mass-produced robot models based on Emerl, but later found a way to bend Emerl to his will. Before this, Emerl befriended Sonic and several of his allies, even becoming involved in a clash between Sonic and his friendly rival Knuckles. Emerl later went out of control and threatened to destroy Sonic's World, but was halted by Sonic, regaining his senses shortly before meeting his demise.

### The Perfect Chaos Incident (Ancient)

Millenia ago, a race of echidnas known as the Knuckles Clan existed. They inhabited what is now the Mystic Ruins. in an attempt to more power for themselves during wartime, the chief of the Knuckles Clan sought to steal the Chaos Emeralds from their shrine. Unfortunately, the chief and his warriors harmed the Chao who inhabited the area, thus invoking the fury of the guardian deity known as Chaos. The raging deity promptly annihilated most of the Knuckles Clan as Perfect Chaos, and was only stopped when the chief's daughter, Tikal, and a cyan hedgehog fought Perfect Chaos, who later sealed herself and Chaos within the Master Emerald.

### The Black Arms (Ancient)

For at least 2,000 years, an alien species known as the Black Arms would observe Sonic's World, passing by the planet every fifty years. These creatures' leader, Black Doom, sought to harvest the world's human population as food for his servants.

### Fifty Years Ago

The greatest scientific mind of his time, Gerald dedicated his life's work to the people of the world. During his career, he accomplished many things, such as creating the Space Colony ARK, where he would live, discovering and researching an interdimensional beast called the Ifrit and his home dimension, and studying the existence of the Fourth Great Civilization. He eventually had a granddaughter named Maria Robotnik, who he became extremely close to and cared for while aboard the ARK due to her needing constant attention because she suffered from an incurable and inevitably fatal disease.

Over fifty years ago, Gerald was asked by the President of the United Federation to lead a medical project named "Project Shadow" to research immortality, which Gerald accepted in hopes of developing a cure for Maria's illness. When trying to create an immortal creature dubbed the "ultimate life form," there were barriers Gerald's research could not go around: his first prototype, the Biolizard, was unstable and could not live without a built-in life support system.

Desperate, Gerald contacted Black Doom, the ruler of the Black Arms, from the Black Comet for assistance, and they made a deal: the professor would have his creation deliver the seven Chaos Emeralds to Black Doom in fifty years and Black Doom gave him his blood, which Gerald used to create Shadow the Hedgehog. However, Gerald learned of Black Doom's plans to use the Chaos Emeralds to enslave the population, so he secretly developed the Eclipse Cannon to destroy the Black Comet and changed Shadow to being the savior of the world by protecting from the Black Arms when they returned. In the meantime, Gerald studied the ancient robot Gizoid. Despite discovering that it was a terrible weapon, he offered the machine as a bribe to the government to keep Project Shadow going when they considered cutting funding, but with disastrous results, so he reprogrammed it with a free will to keep it out of conflict.

Shortly after Shadow was born, the military deemed the creature as a threat to humanity and raided the ARK, where they apprehended Gerald and brought him to the planet surface to complete the project under military control. Once the professor learned Maria had been killed during the raid, he went mad with grief and created a program that would cause the ARK to destroy the world and brainwashed Shadow to carry out the plan. The military, fearing how he would retaliate, soon after shut down the project and Gerald was executed.

### The Black Arms' secret

Unbeknownst to the population of the world, a second force of Black Arms were stationed on an unknown planet in order to complete an earlier conquest. Their leader, Black Death, learned of Gerald Robotnik's betrayal and of Black Doom's death due to his connection with their hive-mind. Becoming the Arms' new leader, Black Death began making preparations for a second invasion of the planet with a new Black Arm soldier named Eclipse the Darkling, who was created to give the aliens an answer to Shadow. Their invasion was delayed for some time due to Eclipse's Dark Arms experiment, in which Wisps cultivated from their home planet Planet Wisp were converted into bioweapons to enhance the Black Arms.

### Origin of Solaris

Solaris was originally a sentient flame which was worshiped by the inhabitants of Soleanna. Ten years ago, a project was initiated in hopes of harnessing Solaris' power and undo humanity's past mistakes. However, when the project backfired, the flame became unstable and exploded into two halves, which were sealed for the next couple of years.

### Kingdom of Acorn

At some point in history, the kingdom was established on Westside Island, and clashed with the United Federation at some point. Eventually, it came to be ruled by King Nigel Acorn. While he ruled justly, the king made the mistake of trusting Dr. Eggman, who repaid his kindness by banishing him to the Special Zone. Eggman reigned in tyranny over the conquered kingdom for a unknown amount of time before being overthrown by the Freedom Fighters under Princess Sally Acorn and Sonic the Hedgehog. The king was subsequently rescued and restored, and pledged his kingdom towards opposing the Eggman Empire. Most of the kingdom's holdings were apparently reclaimed following Eggman's defeat, but a unit of his Egg Army retained a foothold in the Metropolis Zone.

### Nikiki

Nikki was once the daughter of Dr. Ellidy. Together, she and her father shared many experiences, including Emerald Coast for their vacation, and visited a Chao Garden. She also won first prize at the Empire City Science Fair. After learning of her father's work on the Mobotropolis Grand Archive, which was designed as a government program, Nikki suggested making it available to the public. However, she subsequently fell victim to a debilitating condition and eventually passed away.

In an attempt to save his daughter's life, Ellidy tried using the Digitizer when Professor Charles the Hedgehog failed to complete his Roboticizer in time. He did so by mapping Nikki's neural pathways into the computer, to later attempt more complex copying. However, this attempt failed and instead contributed to Nicole's development, leaving Ellidy bitter and harboring negative feelings towards his creation. After her death, Dr. Ellidy created a memorial in honor of her at Isolated Island.

### Doctor Ellidy leaves Mobotoplis

After years of service to the king, Ellidy decided that it was time to leave Mobotropolis, saying that there were "too many old memories" in the kingdom, and it was time for a fresh start. He was greeted by a young Princess Sally, to whom he gave the computer as a present, confessing that she would make better use of it than he would. Recognizing the A.I. as a "female", Sally asked Ellidy of "her" name. Surprised at this question, he tried to come up with a name, only to be emotionally affected upon trying to utter one. King Acorn stepped in to suggest one based on "a long-past queen of their line": Nicole. Dubbing the A.I. with the name, Sally thanked Ellidy for the present and promised to take care of Nicole. Ellidy then bid farewell to the king and princess before leaving the kingdom.

### King Acorn gained a new advisor

With help from the Royal Wizard Walter Naugus, Drs. Robotnik and Snively became the royal advisers of King Nigel Acorn, the ruler of the Kingdom of Acorn. They falsely claimed that the United Federation was launching an invasion against the kingdom. Thanks to his and Snively's "contributions", Robotnik was granted full access to the kingdom's resources. Around this time, he learned of Sir Charles' roboticizer, which could be used to turn mobians into cyborgs known as robians. He thus sabotaged the machine and modified it to enslave mobians. With this, he was able to build a personal robot army which assisted in his plans.

### Raising the Young

Rosie spent a number of years as Princess Sally's nanny and tutor, doing her best to help prepare the young princess for her future role as queen. Some time after Dr. Ellidy departed the kingdom, Rosie came to collect her pupil for lessons only to find her using her new handheld computer Nicole. Sally attempted to convince Rosie that Nicole would make it so that she did not need to take lessons anymore, but the pragmatic Rosie recognized that-at the time-Nicole could only provide logical solutions to problems, and not any that took into account emotion. After confronting Sally with such a problem, she apologized for putting so much pressure on her, and listened with good humor as Sally noted that she did have a lot to learn, but that she hoped Nicole could serve as her adviser.

Antoine was born into a subsidiary noble family in Eurish. As a young boy, he was an apprentice that was sent by his father to the city of Mobotropolis for the apprentice exchange program, feeling honored to be at the grand city of Mobotropolis. As a child, Bunny was found in the Royal Hills Zone by Rosie Woodchuck and Uncle Chuck, with no indication of where the young rabbit had come from. She was taken to the city of Mobotropolis where she was raised under Rosie's care. Miles Prower was an inhabitant of the city of Mobotropolis under the care of Rosie Woodchuck as well.

### Rotor running away from home

Rotor was born in an icy region of the planet. An inventive child, he would often tinker and make new gadgets out of whatever he could find, much to the anger of his father, who had a strong dislike of anything new or different, not to mention a general dislike of Rotor himself. Tired of his life, and the death of his beloved mother, Rotor decided to leave his home and make his way south to the "greatest city in the world": Mobotropolis.

### The Slow Take over

Dr. Ivo Robotnik, with help from Julian Snively and Royal Wizard Walter Naugus, was able to send Nigel and Walter to the Special Zone. After this, Robotnik took over the Kingdom of Acorn, and South Island by extension. During this period, the doctor would exploit the natural resources of the island to build Chemical Plant Zone on Westside Island and begin construction of the Death Egg.

Dr. Eggman launched his coup following the a stand-off between the Kingdom of Acorn and the United Federation, which he instigated with help from Walter Naugus and Dr. Snively. The trio convinced King Acorn that the United Federation intended to invade the kingdom, forcing the king to act. Unfortunately, this left the kingdom vulnerable to Eggman's conquest, and he soon took over the kingdom and sent both the king and Naugus to the Special Zone. Westside Island then became the foothold from which he launched his efforts to unite all of Mobius under his banner as the Eggman Empire. Charles used the Roboticizer to save the life of Bunnie Rabbot after she was gravely injured during the Eggman Invasion.

### Sonic stopping Robotnik's advances

When Dr. Ivo Robotnik began his attempts at world domination as Dr. Eggman, Sonic would quickly make his presence known to the rotund dictator, thwarting his plans at every turn. When Eggman and his assistant, Dr. Julian Snively, began their strip-mining and processing of South Island as well as major construction and refinements on Westside Island, Sonic made his first appearance to the two doctors and followed them all the way to their base on the island, battling and defeating the duo within the Final Zone, while also rescuing Walter Naugus from the Special Zone, who was disguised as King Nigel Acorn.

The two doctors fled to Westside Island where they continued with their original plans, and Sonic would chase them down; however, his victory over the villains inspired the creation of the Freedom Fighters, who resided in Westside Island's Knothole, a hideaway from Dr. Eggman, who conquered their original home, Mobotropolis. With new friends in tow, Sonic and the Freedom Fighters chased down the two doctors, with Miles "Tails" Prower close to Sonic's side as his sidekick and best buddy. While on Westside Island, Sonic, Tails and Sally Acorn met Dulcy the Dragon who ran away from her home. Tails was slightly frightened by her, but Sonic assured him that there was nothing to fear. Dulcy was in disbelief at how Sonic had nobody to tell him what to do and all he had achieved from that. Soon after, he and the other Freedom Fighters taught Dulcy to be herself and to choose her own fate.

Eventually, Sonic would reach the original version of Eggman's flying fortress, the Death Egg, where he fought a Silver Sonic model and Eggman in his battlesuit. Ultimately, Sonic put a stop to the doctors' plans and defeated them, causing the Death Egg to fall back to the planet while Sonic reunited with Tails. Soon, he would come to discover that Walter Naugus was impersonating King Acorn after he and the Freedom Fighters had saved the real king from the Special Zone. Sonic and his team defeated Naugus, bringing peace to the Kingdom of Acorn.

### The Angel Island Iccident

After his defeat at the hands of Sonic and Tails, Dr. Eggman Death Egg crash landed on Angel Island, resulting in the floating island sinking down to the water's surface. Dr. Eggman used the Launch Base Zone as his base for repairs and apparently messed with the systems. He eventually repaired his flying fortress and took off into the sky with Sonic and Tails pursuing him, resulting in another crash landing on Angel Island's volcano. Dr. Eggman eventually obtained the Master Emerald from the Hidden Palace Zone during a battle between Sonic and Knuckles, who he tricked into thinking Sonic and Tails were thieves, and used it as an energy source to fuel his Death Egg. His repaired flying fortress one again took off into the sky with Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles in pursuit. Eventually, the Master Emerald was recovered, and the island once again rose into the sky.

Dr. Eggman later had his assistant, Dr. Julian Snively, capture the Master Emerald for him, in which he did so with an Eggbot. Knuckles raced after the thief all over the island, and, after multiple encounters, successfully recovered the Master Emerald once again.

### The Time Eater Incident

Dr. Eggman discovered the Time Eater following one of his defeats at the hands of Sonic the Hedgehog, and set out to use it to alter history in his favor. However, in order to upgrade it with technology, he required the aid of another genius, and used the Time Eater's powers to recruit a past version of himself. Together, the pair employed the Time Eater to scatter Sonic and his various allies across time and space, but the Time Eater was defeated when Sonic joined forces with his own past self. Regardless, the failure with the Time Eater indirectly led to Eggman's meeting with Dr. Wily.

### The Miracle Planet Incident

In a possible event of an incident involving the Time Eater, Sonic visited the miracle planet's Stardust Speedway. This would be the place where he had his first known battle against Metal Sonic. In the end, he defeated the robot and got a Chaos Emerald. However, he would slowly forget the events of this incident. Not long afterwards, The Miracle Planet made its annual appearance over Never Lake. Seeking the mystical Time Stones laying on the planet, Dr. Eggman plotted to take over the Miracle Planet, and chained it to a nearby mountain so that it would not leave. There, he sought out the Time Stones by using his UFOs to collect them and his Badnik Horde to take over the local Zones. Along the way, he also installed various Badnik Factories and at least one Metal Sonic hologram to change the Miracle Planet's future to his own image, leading to its Zones becoming ruined wastelands.

Soon after, Sonic went to Never Lake to see the Miracle Planet, only to find it in its miserable state following Eggman's takeover. Instantly suspecting that the doctor was behind this, Sonic went to the planet by running along the chain connecting it to Mobius. There, however, the evil scientist had his latest Super Badnik, Metal Sonic, kidnap Amy Rose and force Sonic to race the robot for her sake. Fortunately, Sonic managed to win and defeat Metal Sonic, and with Amy, he collected all the Time Stones and put an end to Eggman's plans. Sometime later, Eggman encapsulated the Miracle Planet inside his new space station, which was eventually brought offline by Sonic and Miles "Tails" Prower.

### Eastwatch Islands Incident

Dr. Eggman learned of the Ancient Gears and attempted to collect them to use them a power source for his Mega Drive. Searching the Eastwatch Islands, Eggman found six Ancient Gears, only to lose them to Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, Amy Rose, and Knuckles the Echidna after a series of battles. Luckily for Eggman, Metal Sonic arrived on the scene and took back five Ancient Gears, kidnapping Amy in the process. Eventually, Eggman found the final gear and used it as a power source for Metal Sonic, giving him the boost he needed to defeat Sonic. However, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles fought back and forced Metal Sonic to retreat. Seeing as Eggman had all of the Ancient Gears, the four heroes decided to find the Chaos Emeralds as a countermeasure.

### Invasion of The Wolf Pack

The Eggman Empire launched the invasion of Wolf Pack village and Lupe was caught in the crossfire. Thankfully, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sally Acorn and Antoine D'Coolette of the Freedom Fighters came to her aid, and their heroism, along with the pain of losing her father during the invasion, gave her the drive to fight back.

### Meeting new challengers

The Freedom Fighters run afoul of various rogues during their efforts, including, but not limited to, Nack the Weasel, Bark the Polar Bear, Bean the Dynamite and the Battle Bird Armada.

### Sonic meets Breezie

Breezie first met Sonic the Hedgehog some years back when Sonic "rescued" her from the Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad, after which he temporarily became her traveling companion. However, it would prove to be a trap laid by Dr. Eggman, with Breezie eventually revealing that she had been informing him of Sonic's whereabouts throughout his adventures during his confrontation with the prototype Silver Sonic. When confronted about her choice and how it endangered Sonic's friend Tails, Breezie responded that her own future would be secured by Eggman, from whom she later severed ties.

### Kidnapping Sonic and Dr. Eggman

Wendy assisted her twin brother Walter Naugus in kidnapping Dr. Eggman and Sonic the Hedgehog in the Egg Storm Chamber and hauled them back to the island. However, Miles "Tails" Prower came to the island and began liberating the inhabitants from Wendy while searching for Sonic. One by one, Tails defeated Wendy's minions before encountering Wendy, who, despite having the aid of Walter, was thwarted by Tails, freeing the island's inhabitants from her tyranny. Later, Wendy would go to Eggman and trade him a few magical relics in exchange for some of his advanced technology.

### Fighting Metal Sonic Kai

At some point, Knuckles found himself up against Titan Metal Sonic in an adventure alongside the Chaotix on Isolated Island. Before, Dr. Eggman arrived at the island for one of his operations. After that failed, he left it and some broken badniks behind.

### Taking a form of Mobian (NICOLE)

Nicole would retain memories of these events, it would be with a different perspective than after she gained sentience, which took place sometime after Sally fled to Knothole, taking Nicole with her. Eventually she manifested her holographic form to Sally, and demonstrated her first signs of real emotion by expressing a desire to see the stars. For the early part of her existence Nicole spent time with the Freedom Fighters without being able to see the world as they saw it. However, after discovering how to manifest her holographic form and developing sentience, she made the most of her newfound lease on life. She shared in many of their experiences, from helping Tails build T-Pup to informing Antoine D'Coolette of the death of his parents.

### Relic meets Knuckles

When Angel Island had plummeted from the sky and landed near the Mystic Ruins, Relic was able to visit the island via a boat, where she made the acquaintance of Knuckles the Echidna, who she convinced to let her stay. At some point, she also discovered Fixit, whose origins she was determined to discover.

### Taking Down Perfect Chaos

Thought to have been destroyed once and for all aboard the Egg Carrier, Chaos was able to retrieve six of the seven Chaos Emeralds, before recovering the seventh gem from the crashed Tornado 2. The beast used the Emeralds' power to become Perfect Chaos, before dowsing the city in a fierce flood, all before Sonic arrived on the scene. After Dr. Eggman's failed attempt to bring down the monster in a second Egg Carrier, Tikal appeared, explaining that Chaos was still enraged because of the actions of her people all of those years ago. Just after, Perfect Chaos released the seemingly drained Chaos Emeralds. Learning that Chaos only used the Emeralds' negative power, Sonic harnessed their positive power to transform into Super Sonic. After a fierce battle, Super Sonic was able to neutralize Chaos, returning it to its base form. Now happy again, Chaos returned with Tikal and the Chao it protected long ago to the Master Emerald.

### Sonic Adventure 2

Dr. Eggman first came to Prison Island to find G.U.N.'s secret weapon, which turned out to be Shadow the Hedgehog. Some time later, Sonic the Hedgehog was captured by G.U.N. due to a misunderstanding and imprisoned on the island, but was rescued by Tails and Amy. At the same time, Shadow, Eggman, and Rouge the Bat attacked the island to take G.U.N.'s Chaos Emeralds. They succeeded and planted several explosives on the island, blowing it up as everyone escaped. After collecting six Chaos Emeralds, Eggman displayed the Eclipse Cannon by blowing up half of the moon with it. However, after Eggman placed the final Chaos Emerald into the ARK, Gerald's doomsday program was activated, which would make the ARK collide with Mobius and destroy it, forcing the doctor to team up with Sonic and his allies to stop this threat. A while later, Shadow used the Eclipse Cannon to destroy the Black Comet, fulfilling its purpose.

### Sonic Heroes

After copying data from the members of Team Sonic, Team Rose, Team Dark, the Chaotix, and Chaos through Froggy and Chocola, Neo Metal Sonic eventually evolved into Metal Overlord in his bid to finally defeat Sonic the Hedgehog and take over the world. Despite his power, he was defeated by Super Sonic and his Chaos Emerald-empowered teammates Knuckles the Echidna and Tails. Sonic remembered this form as simply "that stupid dragon thing" when he later battled Metal Sonic aboard the Wily Egg in the Skull Egg Zone.

### Gemerl's creation

Gemerl was created by Dr. Eggman using leftover data from the destroyed Emerl. He clashed with Sonic several times in service to Eggman, before betraying the doctor and taking on a powerful new form, which forced Eggman and Sonic to join forces against him. After being defeated, Gemerl was found and reprogrammed by Tails in the image of Emerl. Gemerl subsequently took up residence in Mobotropolis with Cream and her mother.

### Shadow The Hedgehog

With Shadow at their side, the Black Arms attacked numerous locations around the globe, among them being Prison Island. They were opposed by G.U.N., Dr. Eggman, and Sonic the Hedgehog, the latter two of which invaded the Black Comet along with several other allies only to be paralyzed with toxic gas. Eventually, Shadow turned on Black Doom, and despite the latter going into his Devil Doom form, Shadow became Super Shadow and killed Devil Doom before using the Eclipse Cannon to blow up the Black Comet, putting an end to the Black Arms' invasion and leaving the species on the brink of extinction.

### MeteorTech Incident

MeteorTech was established by Dr. Eggman as one of his many bids to try and take over Mobius. In the course of this, its technology was involved in the Babylon Rogues' quest for Babylon Garden and the efforts of Team Sonic to stop them. Some time later, MeteorTech would join HEXAeco and the Meropis Tourism Board as a sponsor of the Chaos Emerald Championship, claiming to have "new, non-evil management".

### Sonic and Tails saves the Wisps

During a previous adventure, Sonic the Hedgehog and Miles "Tails" Prower, once rescued the Wisps from being enslaved by Dr. Eggman who wanted to harness their power.

### Creation of Sky Patrol

Rotor explained that Sky Patrol was created to serve as an answer to the Death Egg and any other aircraft that Dr. Eggman built. The Freedom Fighters constructed the Sky Patrol in utmost secrecy near the Mystic Ruins in order to prevent Eggman and his minions from locating it, with Amy Rose and Big the Cat standing guard. Its development continued as Sonic the Hedgehog and Tails searched for the scattered Freedom Fighters, and was constructed to accommodate a complement of twenty-four. Later, once the Freedom Fighters had been reunited, the Sky Patrol was launched on its maiden voyage in a rush to escape the effects of the Shattered World Crisis.

### Bunnie on a mission to Metropolis Zone

At some point, Dr. Eggman stationed a faction of his Egg Army in Metropolis Zone, the Metropolis Egg Army. Bunnie D'Coolette infiltrated the Metropolis Egg Army, which was working on a flying fortress to replace the Death Egg. After Sonic the Hedgehog and Tails arrived to retrieve her, they worked together to steal a Shield Generator for their new Sky Patrol base. They were opposed in these efforts by the Egg Army and Badnik Horde, but were aided by an earthquake that served as one of the forewarnings of the the Shattered World Crisis.

### Tails goes on the attack

Fresh from the events of Worlds Collide, Sonic awoke in the middle of the city to discover the place was being attacked by the Tails Doll-which had arrived in pursuit of Naugus-and that he and Tails were already in the process of fighting it. After shaking off his confusion at why everything was different, Sonic successfully disabled the demented doll and kicked it over the horizon.

Later on, the city was on attack again when Metal Sonic was on a mission to kill Sally Acorn. She was also accompanied by Cream, Amy, Bean and Bark, who have just returned from their adventures in the Sol Zone. Sonic later came to the rescue to direct Metal Sonic away from the city, and because he had other urgent matters at hand, Tails, on the Tornado, fired a missile at Metal, though he survived the attack enough to fly back to the Death Egg.

### The Sol Dimension calls

Amy, Cream, Cheese, Bean the Dynamite and Bark the Polar Bear are summoned to the Sol Zone by the power of the Sol Emeralds.

***The Super Genesis wave fully affects Mobius-2 a whole. Super Sonic's attempt to restore Mobius-2 is disrupted by Dr. Eggman, resulting in reality being shattered, creating the Genesis Portals.***

### Zone Shifting

Sonic awakens back in Mobotropolis feeling disoriented, suddenly experiencing memories of an alternate timeline (the Pre-SGW continuity) and is completely clueless as to his current situation. Inside Castle Acorn, Nicole develops an odd glitch, which makes it so whoever comes into contact with her handheld body gains memories of the same alternate timeline. Naugus is the first to get this jolt of new memories, and flees the castle in terror. As the heroes continued to deal with the monstrous Tails Doll, Tails finds Nicole and becomes the second to revive memories from the other reality.

After the Tails Doll was defeated, Sonic and Tails discussed this confusion with their memories, at which point Sonic's own memories of the current timeline begin coming back, before freeing King Acorn from his imprisonment, and setting out on a new adventure to round up the separated Freedom Fighters, and to defragment Nicole by using her to give the Freedom Fighters their alternate reality memories. Elsewhere, Eggman, Orbot and Cubot, also having just returned from the events of Worlds Collide and similarly disoriented from memories of the other timeline, crash-land somewhere in the Efrika Plains. The group begin their effort to get back to the Death Egg in order to find out what's happening to their world.

### Meeting with the other Freedom Fighters

Sonic and Tails soon found themselves the Mystic Ruins, searching for Rotor and finding Big the Cat instead. Fortunately, Big knew where their missing friend was located, and led them to the general area, which Sonic recognized as the Final Egg. Realizing that he recognized the area from his memories of the new timeline, Sonic noted that it was becoming harder to distinguish between the two. The heroes' pondering was put on hold as they realized that the Sky Patrol, Rotor's location and the Freedom Fighters' new base, was under attack by Spinners. Sonic and his two companions engaged the enemy alongside Rotor, defeating the lesser robots and a new Silver Sonic who appeared to join them. Afterwards, Sonic and Tails reunited with Rotor, both of them nothing with surprise the Walrus' vitality given his previous injuries and girth in the original timeline. Knowing that it was the only real way to help their friend realize what had taken place, Sonic and Tails handed him Nicole, granted Rotor his own memories of the other reality. Rotor reacted poorly, but managed to inform the pair that Sally and Bunnie were on deep cover missions, Antoine D'Coolette was with Uncle Chuck in Knothole, and Amy had disappeared mysteriously.

Making their way to Knothole in the Wood Zone, Sonic and Tails found Antoine and Chuck, whom they were both happy to see given all the changes to reality and Antoine's previous condition. They were also stunned to encounter a new, and yet familiar face: Ben Muttski, Sonic's Mobini dog of the old reality turned Mobian. At Tails' urging, they refrained from restoring Chuck's memories, choosing instead to restore Antoine's. After telling him what little they could of Bunnie's whereabouts, the pair were suddenly shaken-quite literally-as a powerful tremor rocked the area. A massive fissure appeared, and both Chuck and Muttski fell in. The Freedom Fighters managed to save them, but in the process, Sonic inhaled some Dark Gaia energy that the pair had extracted from below the surface for study. After displaying a brief, feral reaction, Sonic claimed to be fine, refuting Chuck's insistence that he see a doctor. Antoine reluctantly decided to escort the scientists to Spagonia, entrusting Sonic and Tails with the task of finding Bunnie and restoring her memories.

The pair made their way to the Metropolis Zone, where they found Bunnie disguised as a member of the Egg Army. After being reminded that she was still partially roboticized, they decided to wait until they could reunite with the others before giving her alternate memories. Working together, they helped her complete her mission: acquiring a shield generator for the Sky Patrol from Eggman's Death Egg project. Returning to the Sky Patrol, they found Antoine waiting, and after restoring Bunnie's memories left the distraught Rabbot to be comforted by her husband. Still concerned over Amy's absence, Sonic decided to focus on locating Sally next. The heroes also had to deal with another dilemma: Nicole's diminishing reserves of Genesis Wave energy meant that she might only be able to restore one more set of memories.

A return trip to Mobotropolis found Sonic arriving just in time to save Sally, Amy, Cream, and the Royal Guard from the attacking Metal Sonic. After working with Tails to deal with his metal doppelganger, Sonic happily reunited with his friends, though his comments about the alternate timeline and the Genesis Wave left the pair confused. Following a brief reunion with her father, Sonic took Sally and the girls back to the Sky Patrol, where they prepared to restore Sally and Amy's memories. Like the other Freedom Fighters before them, the two-particularly Sally-were deeply shaken by their newly regained memories. Unfortunately, they would have little time to mull the experience over, as Nicole finally computed the horrific consequences of the Super Genesis Wave's improper reversal. Not only had the entire multiverse imploded, but the damage caused the entire planet to break into large fragments. The Shattered World Crisis had begun.

### The Future Freedom Fighters origin

At some unknown point prior to 3437 P.X.E., the Future Freedom Fighters were apparently formed. The details about their activities during the group's time are unknown though.

### Space Colony ART Crash Landing

Years before 3437 P.X.E., the ARK crashed on Mobius in the waters near Onyx Island, where it has been burning up until the present. The ARK seems to have a large hole on the side of it, which might be the cause of its crash landing.

### Great Krudzu Spore

This robot ravaged across Mobius until Silver the Hedgehog destroyed it. Unfortunately, Silver has no memories of this experience due to him changing the timeline, although Edmund remembers this and has a piece of a vine with him that he showed Silver. It is unknown how badly the robot was destroyed seeing that only a single vine was shown on Onyx Island.

### Silver the hedgehog (Early Life)

Silver grew up in a future version of Non-Mobius Prime plagued by a variety of issues, where he was raised by Mammoth Mogul. Mogul treated Silver as his ward, training him for future duties as a Knight of Kronos which included mastery of his powers, and taught him all about time-travel and its risks, and about Metal Sonics. He even told Silver the origin of Knight of Kronos, where he approached the descendant of a Cyan Hedgehog. Silver practiced his telekinetic abilities by slowly rebuilding his world, but since his powers were not strong enough to be of major help, he stuck to minor things. During this period, Silver never came to know many people except his master and Edmund, the last Guardian of Onyx Island. Eventually, Mogul told Silver of a "traitor" who had emerged from the ranks of the original Knothole Freedom Fighters, whose actions were a primary cause of their future's condition. Silver thus set out to identify the traitor and find a way to bring peace to his troubled future. At the same time, Silver also was tutored by Edmund.

### Silver Sega

While training with Mogul one day, they detected a strange visitor arriving from across time and space. Silver went to investigate the occurrence, warned by Mogul against acting hastily, only to be attacked by a mysterious being on Onyx Island which he subdued with Edmund's help. While they tried to examine the thing, it retaliated and Silver gave chase through a strange portal to find out what was going on. Silver travelled and returned within a minute from MMWMS-3. Silver and Edmund would have a conversion about how Silver could learn to be better.

### Returning to the past

On yet another trip to Onyx Island's library, Silver found a secret study with the diary of Antoine D'Coolette. Believing its incomplete information identified Antoine as the traitor, Silver brought the book back to Mogul. Mogul was concerned that Silver's lead might be false as past memories were becoming more distorted, and warned his apprentice of potentially serious consequences for continued time travel. Silver then accepted the condition that he would have to remain in the past until he succeeded in his mission.

### The Onyx City Council rise to power

The Onyx City Council imposed a system upon the citizens of Onyx City in which everyone was assigned a particular work duty and shift. While they claimed this was to insure "a future of continued prosperity and joy," they used the Civil Protection Robots to enforce these labor demands, and anyone found "shirking" their duties was taken into custody. There was no love lost between the Council and the people they ruled over.

The Council found a young Gold the Tenrec and decided to let her join them. However, this was only to keep a close eye on her as she had the ability to open Genesis Portals. With Gold's power, the Council planned to open a gateway through space and time that they had built in secret. Gold would try to warn them of an incoming threat but the Council would not be phased by this. Due to this, the Council would run several tests in order to be ready to open the gate. The Council had also employed a man at the Science Center named Professor Von Schlemmer for his insight into technology and phenomenons. However, many of his theories would be dismissed by the Council.

#### Silver The Hedgehog (Early Life)

Silver hails from two hundred years into the future of Mobius-2, and on several occasions has traveled back in time in an effort to better his world. The first of these took place during an aborted timeline in which he and Blaze the Cat fought against an evil force known as Iblis. On the advice of Mephiles, who was secretly manipulating the pair, they traveled back in time in an effort to prevent Iblis from ever being released by destroying Sonic the Hedgehog. However, Silver would later learn of Mephiles' deception, and Blaze would sacrifice herself to stop Iblis in the future by sealing it within her and then teleporting them both to another dimension. Silver would then become Super Silver to aid Super Sonic and Super Shadow in defeating Solaris, the reunited form of Iblis and Mephiles. The actions of Sonic and Princess Elise later erased this timeline, so that Silver's future ended up different and his version of Blaze apparently never existed.

Silver later returned to Sonic's time, this time to fix the future, which was destroyed due to the efforts of his nemesis Eggman Nega. This led to a second—or rather new first—meeting between the heroic hedgehogs, who worked together to defeat Nega and return him to Silver's time where he belonged. Unfortunately, Nega returned to the past and became a threat again by summoning a fire monster named Ifrit. Silver teamed up with Espio the Chameleon, and attempted to hide the Chao so that Eggman Nega could not sacrifice them to the Ifrit. Nega's plans were once again foiled, and he was seemingly left trapped in the Chaotic Inferno Zone. Some time afterwards, he would become involved in Dr. Eggman's schemes involving the Wisps.

Silver later found himself in the White Space created by the Time Eater. During this time he once again crossed paths with Sonic, the latter of whom was on a journey with his younger self to restore this world. Silver challenged the hero to a fight and ultimately lost. Afterward, Silver reappeared along with the rest of the heroes to cheer on the two Sonics in defeating the Time Eater. Upon the monsters defeat, Silver ended up back in the present with everybody else, where he stuck around for the remainder of Sonic's birthday party.

### The Silver Age

Back home, Silver's future or at least Onyx City had become a dystopian society ruled over by the Onyx City Council. Silver opposed this council and their Civil Protection Robots, but out of fear for being captured had to act covertly, such as causing a robot to slip so that a citizen who had been apprehended could escape. He then made his way back to his hideaway, only to be discovered by Professor Von Schlemmer, who was curious about his psychic abilities. A Genesis Portal then opened nearby, and a mysterious entity or entities attempted to emerge from it. Reacting quickly, Silver forced it back and closed the portal, much to his surprise and Von Schlemmer's delight. The professor insisted that Silver return with him to the Science Center, something Silver was reluctant to do on account of rumors he had heard regarding the center and other Mobians with special powers. However, Von Schlemmer refused to take no for an answer, and forced Silver to accompany him.

After Von Schlemmer failed to get the City Council's appeal, the professor briefed Silver on the Genesis Portals more thoroughly, explaining that they had been created due to the shattering of the multiverse that followed the Super Genesis Wave. Eventually Silver found himself confronting a monstrous force from beyond the Genesis Portals, but managed to reseal it within the Genesis Portals before it could destroy his world. At some point afterwards, Silver set out on a mission to close as many Genesis Portals as he could.

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## Sources

* Mobius (Archie) Pre-SGW SNW
* Mobius (Archie) Post-SGW SNW