Evangelus

## Appearances

### Appears in

Vigilance, Incident in Starlight City (Upcoming), Optical Enterprises (Upcoming)

## Overview

When Cybernet set its sights on Mobius, it knew it needed someone trustworthy to act as their mouthpiece, a liaison between it and the Mobians. Sonic was chosen since he's the planet's hero, and as a result, he has been reforged into Evangelus and used as the face of Cybernet, which has allowed them to assimilate most of the population with little trouble. There are still some stragglers out there, but that's alright. *He'll get to them eventually.* Although Evangelus's mind has become borderline eldritch in its thought process, remnants of Sonic's mind still linger. He recognizes his friends and tries to coax them into willingly being assimilated so he can be with them again, chief among them being Amy Rose, who has since become Crown Jewel- Evangelus doesn't want to fight her given their history, but the influence of the hive and his own motivations push him into battle regardless of his own lack of desire to do it. He has tried hard to convince her to let him take her, but her constant refusal has driven him to extreme measures to ensure Cybernet's victory. The longer he's away from her, the deeper he spirals into madness. And his hiding it from the hive as a whole risks hurting him, them, and maybe even her.

## History

Sonic the Hedgehog seemed to have it all. He was engaged to Amy Rose and Shadow the Hedgehog, and he had a stable financial and living situation (thanks, of course, to Amy). But he was hiding something, a serious emotional pain he didn't even share with Tails, his little brother. And that pain had been building up ever since he started hero work. One night, he was abducted by a mysterious mouse with unnatural power and brought to an incredibly advanced technological chamber where he was greeted by something calling itself Psyche X. During the ensuing conversation, the entity explained that it was the 'expression' of a collective of cyborgs called Cybernet that had come to Mobius hoping to get as many people as they could to join them in preparation for a possible collapse of the universe, in addition to other factors. Sonic understandably took issue with this, especially given that they had straight-up kidnapped him, but before the two could fight, Psyche X brought something up: the fact that time stopped with him. They could see all the timelines possible in the universe, including ones that no longer existed, and the hard stop was his death. They expressed sympathy for him, sensed his emotional pain and fear on behalf of his loved ones, and offered to make it so he would never have to experience it again. All he had to do was be their messenger. So he agreed.

Immediately subsequent to his being assimilated, Sonic, codenamed Evangelus, disregarded his bedrest orders long enough to retrieve Tails and get him assimilated. The extra strain meant he had to be on bedrest for two weeks so his body could get used to all the changes made to it, and then he had to spend another few weeks getting the hang of his new abilities before he and Tails, codenamed Damon, were allowed back onto the field. Upon clearance, the two went to retrieve Knuckles, who went super and forced the two into a battle of endurance during which they took great amounts of damage before Knuckles's Super form finally timed out. Following this, Evangelus went personally to collect Shadow. Neither was able to overpower the other, so Evangelus went a different route. He indicated that Cybernet was able to raise the dead and Shadow could have Maria back. The idea appeals to Shadow and causes him to hesitate long enough for Evangelus to knock him out and take him to Cybernet, where Maria was in fact resurrected.

As Evangelus was collecting his friends, he was also working with public opinion, getting Cybernet so much headway that most of the world joined them willingly. But when he went to get Amy Rose, things didn't go so smoothly. He admitted to her that he was on board with Cybernet assimilating the world, and their resulting fight ended with her running off and forming a faction of survivors and him needing to be heavily upgraded. His first order of business, when he got out, was to turn the world against Amy and give people a chance to join if they hadn't, which many did. Then, his focus became reclaiming Amy Rose at any cost.

During the following period, there was a fight between Evangelus and Metal Sonic. The cyborg managed to pin Metal down and, using his cyberkinesis, upload an entire folder full of files from Eggman’s records (Cybernet stole some before confronting him) of his notes on Metal. The files revealed that Eggman had never really cared about him, only his power and how close he could get to beating Sonic each time, and the “affection” he'd showed had been meant to keep him loyal. The news absolutely crushed Metal- and then, since without Eggman’s “love” he had nothing but his hatred of Sonic left, the robot decided that he wanted Evangelus’s blood; Evangelus was saved by Damon. Later, Damon was able to capture Cream. Despite his best efforts to convince her, Cream refused to tell him anything about the location of Ailton, the kingdom of the survivors, so he assimilated her instead. When Amy, now armed with the Phantom Ruby, came to fight Evangelus and rescue her sister, Cream (reforged into Rei) intervened, causing Amy's shock and heartbreak to cause widespread destruction and transform her into a force of life and death the world called Crown Jewel.