“Best of Enemies – Part Oneâ€
Writer: Nigel Kitching
Artist: Richard Elson
In the Drakkon Empire the Leader of the House of Magic, sister Haggra, has called together the Master Scholar from the House of Learning and Emperor Ko-Door from the House of War (Who put Sonic on trial) to show them a vision that the Vapours of Destiny have given her. The image is clearly of Sonic, though Emperor Ko-Door doesn’t seem to recognise him, and Haggra claims he knows the secrets of the Chaos Emeralds. Back in the Emerald Hill Zone Sonic and Tails are smashing badniks sent by Robotnik to remind Sonic of his continued existence. Robotnik is showing Grimer more Metallixes that are being constructed when Emperor Ko-Door turns up telling him to keep his end of the bargain. He tells Robotnik he had to pretend not to know about Sonic in the meeting and he needs the Chaos Emeralds if he wants to rule over the other two Houses. After defeating the badniks Sonic and Tails see the Floating Island and start to talk about how the Chaos Emeralds are keeping it afloat when Sonic gets a sudden cold chill indicating that something terrible is about to happen…
“Hunter and the Hunted – Part Oneâ€
Writer: Nigel Kitching
Artist: Nigel Dobbyn
At the Groovy Train coffee bar in Metropolis City Pyjamas is having a vision of a creature with incredible power heading this way. While Ebony tells her that this vision will probably be a dud the powerless Super Sonic walks in the door. Meanwhile Lord Sidewinder has managed to escape from prison and send Biohazard through a dimensional portal with a tracker to find Super Sonic so he can once again try to harness his powers. Super Sonic is explaining to Ebony and Pyjamas how he lost his memory and has been wandering around the city for weeks before deciding to come here and ask for a job. Pyjamas starts to protest about giving him job but before they can discuss the matter Biohazard arrives, wrecking the place in his search for Super Sonic.
“Spookedâ€
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Andy Pritchett
Amy and Tekno are in the Old Hill Zone when they hear rumours about a haunted house where people have heard wailing noises and seen a white figure at one of the windows, so they decide to go and investigate. On the inside the house is falling apart and one of the wails causes the head of a gargoyle to fall and nearly crush Tekno. When they find the “ghost†it turns out to be nothing more then Fabian Vane practising for his comeback, and his singing causes the house’s foundations to weaken to the point of collapsing around them – Putting an end to this comeback attempt.
Cover Art: Mick McMahon
“Robotnik Reigns Supreme – Part Oneâ€
Writer: Nigel Kitching
Artist: Richard Elson
While joking on about what to do with the crystallised Robotnik Sonic and Knuckles walk away leaving Tails to watch it. However it turns out that the crystal Robotnik isn’t as stationary as they first thought and tries to strangle Tails before throwing him aside to fight Sonic and Knuckles. Robotnik reveals that he now possesses the power of the Chaos Emeralds; it just took his body some time to adjust. Knuckles shouts to Sonic telling him to push the button on the control panel, but Sonic doesn’t know which button and ends up pushing all of them. This seems to work when the Master Emerald fires a beam at Robotnik causing him to smash. Then Knuckles explains that this was because it absorbed his powers. But it’s not over yet as a laughing sound reveals that Robotnik’s outside, now giant and no longer crystallised, holding the Floating Island in his hands!
“Fog Warningâ€
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Nigel Dobbyn
While fighting some badniks Tails gets some unexpected help from Johnny Lightfoot. Even though he’s happy to see his friend after so long Johnny brings bad news that something’s going wrong at Sun Valley Zone. The place got its name because it was always sunny but recently its been filled with unnatural fog. While flying there Tails accidentally crashes one of the bi-plane’s wings into a cliff as the fog is preventing his vision so badly and he tells Johnny to bail out in a parachute as he lands the plane himself. Upon getting out of the craft Tails is attacked by Agent X who turns out to be working alongside Windy Wallis. She’s created another one of her machines to control the weather but Tails finds Johnny’s battle staff lying around and uses it to smash the machine. After the fight’s over Windy and Agent X escape in a shuttlecraft and Johnny turns up having landed half a mile off and getting lost in the fog. They both speculate over who Agent X could be as they watch them go.
“Taking the Plungeâ€
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Mick McMahon
Sonic has been caught up in a fight against warrior sea citizens from Trituna and easily manages to beat them. As they leave one of them mentions something about a formula then they report back to their leader, Sharka Khan, who complains that they haven’t taken over a surface zone for him. The group protest that Robotnik’s serum wore off so they can’t breathe on dry land anymore making Sharka realise Robotnik was using them to get at Sonic, so he’ll need his own way to conquer the surface world. They believe they have the advantage that Sonic can’t swim but he turns up in full scuba diving clothes proving them wrong. Tekno designed the suit so that Sonic could still use all of his attacks underwater meaning the group are easy to fight. However Sharka abandons them causing the group to turn on him and side with Sonic.
“Amy’s Secret Pastâ€
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Nigel Dobbyn
This story concerns Amy’s life before she joined the Freedom Fighters. At a lab in the chemical Plant Zone Robotnik is busy trying to duplicate the fluke that turned Sonic from a regular brown hedgehog Mobian into the fast blue version we know today. Elsewhere Amy (Who currently is also a regular brown hedgehog Mobian) is protesting to a crowd that they should all help fight against Robotnik as he’s gaining more power. The villagers don’t agree with her, as they’re scared of Robotnik and leave saying ordinary folk shouldn’t get involved. A scientist returned to the lab to tell Robotnik “that female hedgehog has been stirring up trouble againâ€. But Robotnik says he has nothing to fear from her and she isn’t even worth his attention. That night she breaks into the lab and tries to sabotage the machine before Robotnik can use it by firing an arrow from her crossbow into it. Before the machine explodes Robotnik throws Amy into it so she’ll be destroyed as well but after the explosion she walks out looking like the pink Amy we’ve come to know. Robotnik shouts that the power should have been his and that it has increased her fighting ability. But before taking down the Troopers and escaping Amy tells him that pink wouldn’t look good on him and that she’s always been able to fight like this, he just didn’t take her seriously before. The next day the villagers are pleased with Amy’s successful mission and come to agree with her that Robotnik should be resisted against.
Cover Art: Nigel Kitching
“Robotnik Reigns Supreme – Part Twoâ€
Writer: Nigel Kitching
Even though Robotnik is now the most power creature in the universe Sonic is still willing to fight him, but Robotnik knows he know has abilities Sonic couldn’t understand and demonstrates by firing chaos energy out of one of his eyes which seemingly knocks Sonic unconscious. When Sonic come through he is no longer on the Floating Island with Tails and Knuckles but is in some kind of polluted city. He sees some Troopers bothering a couple of Mobians in capes and destroys them. The Mobians turn out to be Amy and Johnny so Sonic is surprised they couldn’t handle the Troopers without his help. But neither of them seems to recognise Sonic and Johnny wants to leave thinking it’s a trick Robotnik is playing on them. Sonic want to know where he is and Amy explains to him that they’re in the Emerald Hill Zone, which was turned into a dump for toxic chemicals after Robotnik took over. Not believing this Sonic says that they’re the Freedom Fighters but the two are still clueless and run away as “Oscar the Pig†(Porker Lewis’s previous identity from when he lived in the Special Stage) turns up with his death squad. Porker tells Sonic to identify himself and finds there’s no record of any Sonic the Hedgehog on his database so he tells the badniks to take Sonic down. After Sonic defeats them he turns on Porker to get answers but Robotnik shows up saying Porker can’t be blamed as he has no idea who Sonic is. History has been rewritten so Sonic was never included! Without him around Amy and Johnny never became Freedom Fighters and Porker never had a hero to look up to and give him courage. Sonic demands to know what happened to Tails and Robotnik replies asking if he remembered how he met Tails. Sonic says of course he does, he pulled Tails out of a swamp a long time ago. Only in this world Sonic wasn’t around to save Tails, so Sonic’s best friend is dead!
“First Flightâ€
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Robert Corona
This story concerns Tails’s life before he joined the Freedom Fighters. While taking a walk in his homeland, the Nameless Zone, a bully called Witless Chris decides to make fun of Tails about having more then one tail. Tails argues that he was born this way but when Witless and his friend Scratchy continue to bully him he runs away. Witless brags about how he fights six bears before breakfast every morning and is overheard by two bats, who are warriors from a rival group to the foxes. They think that Witless would be ideal to fight in their Arena of Doom and even if he isn’t as good as he claims it’ll be sport for the crowds to watch. So they kidnap him and as Scratchy tells him to fight them off Witless admits he made all his stories up. Hearing this Tails comes back and tries to save him but accidentally runs off a cliff falling to what would seem to be his doom. However this was the perfect moment for Tails to discover his natural talent and soon flies after the bats. He fights them off but doesn’t manage to catch Witless who falls in a muddy puddle (Though as he says to Scratchy we’ll never know for sure if he let Witless fall on purpose). After this Witless says he owes Tails an apology and the other two doubt they’ll be hearing anymore of his stories.
“Show of Strengthâ€
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Robert Corona
Continued on from the first story two Mobians are walking along the streets. One of them complains that life couldn’t get any worse so the other says at least it’s not raining. On queue it the rain begins to pore and Sonic turns up also saying he can stop Robotnik’s reign, but the two Mobians laugh at him causing some Troopers to show up to punish them for talking in the streets. Sonic beats the Troopers making the Mobians think they maybe he can defeat Robotnik. But Robotnik thinks otherwise causing an earthquake in the area. He then threatens to crush Mobius in the palm of his hand but Sonic reminds him if he does that he’ll have nothing to rule. Robotnik realises this and decides to let the planet live because he enjoys seeing the citizens in misery. As he goes a Mobian questions how they can defeat someone so mighty, to which Sonic replies that Robotnik let them live, and this is his first mistake.
“Yesterday’s Heroesâ€
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Robert Corona
A distress signal is sent out from the Sunshine Valley Zone as it is being attacked by badniks. The signal is picked up by Amy and Tekno then Shortfuse who all turn up to help out. But it seems a new hero called Ultra-Duck picks up the signal first and defeats the badniks before them. Amy reveals this isn’t the first time this has happened recently and Shortfuse says he too has had similar upstages from this guy. Ultra-Duck jokes that they should retire and the citizens agree with him! When the three get back to Tekno’s lab they discuss the possibility that Ultra-Duck could know where the badniks will attack before it happens and from examining the remains of a badnik Tekno finds it’s another case of outdated badniks being used, and they’ve been programmed to lose. At this point some real badniks turn up and the citizens turn to Ultra-Duck for help, but it turns out he’s running away. Amy and Shortfuse manage to takedown the badniks while Tekno stops Ultra-Duck to discover he’s really Big Bill Screwloose, an engineer who used to work for Robotnik. It turns out he was reprogramming the badniks so the citizens would lose faith in the Freedom Fighters and turn to him. However he’s soon put out of action and takes up a new job as a garbage sweep.
Cover Art: Mick McMahon and John M Burns
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