IDW Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 22

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## "The Last Minute - part 2"

**IDW Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 22** is the twenty-second issue in the *Sonic the Hedgehog* comic series published by IDW Publishing.

## Official solicitation

*"The Last Minute, Part Two"! As the Metal Virus spreads faster and faster, it's getting harder for the Restoration to keep up... good thing they've got Amy Rose keeping relief efforts organized! Just as long as nothing happens to the Restoration base, everything will be... Oh... That might be a problem. The second of three simultaneous adventures! Can Amy keep the Restoration and refugees from the Metal Virus safe? Someone's trying to let Zombots in... but who?! Don't miss the Halloween variant cover by Nathalie Fourdraine!*
## Featured stories

### The Last Minute, Part 2

#### Synopsis

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#### Appearances

**Characters**:

* Big the Cat ***(voice)***
* Chaotix
	+ Charmy Bee
	+ Espio the Chameleon
	+ Vector the Crocodile
* Cheese ***(Mentioned)***
* Chocola ***(Mentioned)***
* Cream the Rabbit
* Deadly Six
	+ Master Zik
	+ Zavok
	+ Zazz
	+ Zeena
	+ Zomom
	+ Zor
* Dr. Eggman ***(Mentioned)***
* Froggy ***(Mentioned)***
* Gemerl
* Jewel the Beetle ***(Mentioned)***
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Restoration
	+ Amy Rose
* Silver the Hedgehog ***(Mentioned)***
* Sonic the Hedgehog ***(Mentioned)***
* Tangle the Lemur
* Team Dark
	+ E-123 Omega ***(Mentioned)***
	+ Rouge the Bat ***(Mentioned)***
* Vanilla the Rabbit
* Whisper the Wolf
* Glass Hill villager ***(First appearance)***
* Pine Grove Villager ***(First appearance)***

**Races and species**:

* Flicky
* Zeti
* Zombot

**Locations**:

* Sonic's dimension
	+ Lost Hex
	+ Sonic's world
		- Barricade Town ***(Mentioned)***
		- Central City
		- Glass Hill ***(Mentioned)***
		- Ice Paradise ***(Mentioned)***
		- Pine Grove Village ***(Mentioned)***
		- Restoration HQ

**Items**:

* Bio-scanner ***(Mentioned)***
* Containment Bubble ***(First appearance)***
* Metal Virus
* Piko Piko Hammer
* Wispon
	+ Variable Wispon

**Vehicles**:

* Battleship
* Cyclone

### Key Events

* The Chaotix transport the refugees to the Restoration HQ.
* The HQ becomes compromised after an infected citizen manages to come in and become a zombot. Charmy is able to free himself from his container.
* Vanilla and Vector the corocdile becomes infected.
* The lone survivors escape in one Restoration shuttle.

## Other features

* **Story so far...**: "Story so far..." is a summary of the current plotline for the comic. It features a landscape drawing by Cream of various locations that have been established in the series and some that have yet to be introduced. The people and locations on the map that have been marked with a red X indicate that they have been affected by the Metal Virus.
* **Roll Call**: Roll Call acts as a quick reference guide to new readers about the characters. This issue provides data files on Sonic, Amy, Cream, Vanilla, Vector, Espio and Gemerl.
* **Sonic Letters Squad**: Sonic Letters Squad is a section where the comic staff can post fan artwork and fan letters that have been sent in to them.
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## Trivia

* There was originally a continuity error, where one of the refugees was infected with the virus, that was accepted in, whilst Gemerl was supposed to scan each person before they are allowed into Resotration HQ. this oversight was explained in Big's Big Adventure, where the infected person slipped in while Gemerl was distracted by his argument with Big the Cat.

## References

*IDW Sonic Comics*