Sonic Mobius 17: Part 2

SONIC MOBIUS 17: TAKE TWO
PART 2

7) THE ROBOTNIK REGIME

• This version of Robotnik starts out like in the Archie continuity. Julian Kintobor was banished from the Overland for his immoral experiments. He sneaks his way in the favor of King Max, eventually becomes Minister of War, and then steals Sir Charles’ Roboticizer to use as a tool for conquest.

• Aiding him throughout it all is Ignatius Snively, a fellow exiled Overlander. Despite being Robotnik’s right hand man, he is treacherous and self-serving.

• Robotnik’s forces consists of roboticized Mobians and Overlanders as slave class, the mass produced Swatbots as the main enforcers, Badnik robots for specialized tasks, and Master Robots whom are more powerful robots acting as commanders in his army. Those whom willingly submit are not roboticized, but turned into cyborgs through Legionizing. An organic commander is called a Grandmaster.

• Originally, Robotnik’s main enforcers and loyal henchmen, and highest ranked Master Robots, were Heavy and Bomb. Heavy is a huge, tall and blocky robot with sheer brute force but a cunning to balance. Bomb, his ‘brother robot’ is a humanoid robot with a bomb for a head, a pyro with a dangerous sense of humor.

• More menacing versions Scratch, Grounder and Coconuts are also a trio of dangerous Master Robots that Robotnik calls upon on occasion. At various points they got scrapped by the Freedom Fighters, though always after some difficult fights.

• After the destruction of his Death Egg during events corresponding those to Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Robotnik dies as he remains on his exploding space station. It also marks the demise of Heavy and Bomb, and results in Snively fleeing.

• However, Robotnik cheats death. He had used the Digitizer he stole of Thomas Ellidy to create a backup of his mind in the digital world, and the new Robotnik, a living program whom can hop robotic bodies, would become the second Robotnik.

• The new Robotnik would, through the slightly faulty process that comes with digitizing one’s mind, slowly grow more insane and violent over time. Unpredictable and dangerous, he takes on the moniker ‘Eggman’, after an insult Sonic always threw at him. The Robotnik Regime would be renamed the Eggman Empire. When roboticizing becomes impossible due to virus created by Nicole, Eggman puts more emphasis on Legionizing.

• This new Robotnik forces Snively to fall back in line again. This time he joined by two new henchmen, Sylvester ‘Sleet’ the Hyena and Deadalus the Dingo (just ‘Dingo’) for short.

• This version of Dingo has nanotech embedded in his very skin which allows his shapeshifting abilities. While not the biggest thinker in the world, Dingo is a lot smarter then his Underground counterpart.

• The more Eggman’s Robotic bodies are destroyed and the more he body-hops, the more fractured his data becomes and the more insane as well. To prevent himself from degrading too far, he is forced to recreate his organic body through cloning, transfer his mind into it, and use a stabilizer from his mind. In his new form (resembling Boom!Eggman, with more cybernetics) he takes on the name Robotnik again. The Empire becomes the New Robotnik Regime.

• Shortly after Eggman becoming Robotnik again, in events similar events to Eggman’s Sonic universe arc in the Pre-Genesis wave timeline (without the involvement of Mecha Sally), Snively plans a final act of treachery with Dingo and Sleet. After a difficult fight that nearly killed him (though Robotnik would not admit that), he puts the traitors down for good. He snaps Snively’s neck, impales Sleet with the Iron Queen’s staff and activates a program in Dingo’s nanites that permanently turn him into stone, before shattering him.

• Now joining him in his tenure as the new Robotnik are Orbot and Cubot. They don’t seem like much, comical even, but looks aren’t everything. Despite their quirks they are malevolent and murderous. They can fold up in a sphere and a cube respectively, and then connect to various mechs or bodies for combat.

• Growing frustrated that he is unable to conquer the world despite his efforts, he eventually grows nihilistic and aids Finitevus in his latest scheme. If he can’t have Mobius, no one else can either. He would leave his Mobius to die and move to another Zone to conquer. It ends up with a final fight with Sonic. No longer having a backup or escape, Robotnik dies for good, after Sonic beheads him with a super powered Spin Dash. Orbot and Cubot end up destroyed by the rest of the Knothole Freedom Fighters.

• Artika’s Grandmaster is Akhlut, the leader of a violent tribe of orcas whom are enemies of the Walrus herd. Akhlut and Sherman have real bad blood with one another and often go for each other immediately during fights.

• Grandmaster Nephthys was originally a military commander responsible for ending a civil war in her home country Shamar. After that she took a break and took in several kids orphaned by the war and raise them as her own. When Robotnik invaded Shamar, she knew they were in for a fight they couldn’t win. She feigned surrender, but allowed some of her children, the Shamar Freedom fighters, to set up an act. It keeps Shamar in a stalemate until Nephthys could find the right moment to make a move and take out the Robotnik Regime from the inside. To do this she gathers allies, and forms a secret splinter cell called ‘the Fold’.

• Beauregard Rabbot is Bunnie’s Uncle. Along those roboticized and cured afterwards, they were treated as second class citizens by the Sandblasters. They were left out in the desert, without food, water and without a means to communicate to anyone, and did nothing as Eggman found them and made them part of his Empire. Later on Nephthys brings him into ‘the Fold’.

• Beauregard, after Eggman becomes Robotnik again, would be demoted and the sickly Overlander Grimer is put in charge. Grimer, unlike Beauregard is completely loyal to Robotnik.

• Clove and Cassia are a pair of Pronghorn siblings. Cassia had contracted an illness that would eventually destroy her senses. Clove, having a military background, had meant to protect her village, but Robotnik was too strong. Cassia wouldn’t survive the trip if they tried to escape so she stayed behind with her sister and a few others loyal to her, and they were forced to submit to Robotnik. Cassia’s cybernetics allowed her senses to function again but she and Clove were completely dependent upon Robotnik. Both of them were brought into ‘the Fold’.

• Razorklaw was an exile from the Felidae, whom was disgraced after losing trial by combat against Locke. After that he was brought in as one of the Grandmasters of Soumerca.

• Drago was a candidate for the Substitute Freedom Fighters, but betrayed his teammates. The rest of the Substitutes managed to escape though. Drago ran with the Destructix for a while before joining Eggman as one of Soumerca’s Grandmasters. Drago’s incompetence and insolence got on Eggman’s nerves, whom blew his brains out. Clove and Cassia then replaced him as the co-Grandmasters of Soumerca, alongside Razorklaw.  

• The Fold would work behind the scenes and would play a part in bringing down the Empire from the inside. Once the cherry bombs were disabled and the Legionnaires were free, those aligned with the Fold or were unwilling were pardoned. The rest would either end up dead or arrested.

• Downunda and the Big Blue Realms (Mobius’ Oceans) were originally controlled by Master Robots, Crocbot and Octobot, but both met their demise at Tails’ hands during his solo adventures (events similar to the Tails miniseries). Their remains would be gathered and combined with those of Scratch, Grounder and Coconuts into the monstrous Egg Chimera. Egg Chimera needed the combined efforts of all Knothole Freedom Fighters and Team Dark to take down, effectively putting an end to the Egg Chimera and all its components.

• Maw the Tasmanian Tiger would become the replacement Grandmaster of Downunda. He is one of the few genuinely loyal to Robotnik/Eggman, sharing his beliefs of order through power and robotics. He has a cybernetic maw that can create a warphole that can trap enemies in a pocket dimension.

• The Bride of Conquering Storm, leader of the Raiju Clan. The Raiju Clan believes in only one thing: power. Doing anything to seek it, even aligning her and her clan with Eggman after formally aiding the Iron Dominion. Though her goals are her own, and her deadly cunning and nearly unmatched combat prowess make her one of, if not the top martial artist in the world.

• As for the Oceans, a greedy pirate woman called Abyss the Squid united several pirate tribes under her banner and Eggman’s, getting to freely raid the oceans in exchange for her services, something she happily obliged to.

• Originally Armand D’Coolette was roboticized and brainwashed into the High Sherriff and control Robotnik’s territory in Mercia. He would be released of his programming and later deroboticized, able to reunite with his son. Sadly he met his demise, being assassinated by Nack the Weasel.

• Robotnik’s new Grandmaster in Mercia afterwards is Lord Mordred Hood. This slick cobra was once advisor to the King, Rob’s father. Though he supported the King’s tyrannical rule, he was often ignored and not given credit for the ideas he was given. Doing nothing as Mercia was conquered, and hiding in a hole for a while, after the High Sherriff’s rule ended he saw it as a chance to come out on top and become Mercia’s new Grandmaster.

• Originally the Iron Kingdom were Robotnik’s allies and Grandmasters. The Iron King, a Mobian Ox called Jun Kun whom wields the mystical Earth Armor and Tremor Mace, giving him great physical prowess and endurance. At his side is the Iron Queen, an Overmeta called Regina Ferrum, whom has the power of technomancy.

• After the Iron Dominion’s invasion of New Robotropolis, the Iron King was blown all the way out on an abandoned island by the Fan of Jeng Xing, while Regina was imprisoned. She would be busted out by her lover Snively, but Snively met his end at the hands of Eggman. Regina was only knocked out as the mad doctor still had use for her…

• Originally Hugo Brass, formerly associated with the Corrupt GUN, aligned with Eggman as the Grandmaster of the United Nations. Eggman grew bored with him and he was demoted. Regina Ferrum, after the mad doctor had turned her into a loyal cyborg puppet, put her in charge.

• Efrika’s original grandmaster was Taka, an evil lion, uncle of the Efrikan Freedom Fighter Prince Griffith. However, his rule didn’t last long as the Efrikan Freedom Fighters destroyed his power base. As he tries to flee for his life, he is ambushed in the wastelands by a biker gang called the Nasty Hyena’s and killed.

• After Taka, Axel the Water Buffalo came in charge. Leader of the biker gang the Stampede, he united all biker gangs under his rule in Efrika, including the Nasty Hyena’s whom had killed Taka.

• The Battle Bird Armada are descendants of Babylonians, an alien race similar to Mobians aside from the fact they are all Avian species. They brought their Babylon Garden to Mobius with the surviving population of a dead world (their home being the first to be destroyed by the Black Arms) and mingled with the Mobian populace. They Babylon Garden was hidden away, as the damaged warp drive would create a black hole that would destroy Mobius, which the Babylonians didn’t want.

• The Battle Bird Armada are descendants from the military branch, and their pride in their heritage and hatred of non-avians has caused inbreeding over the years, turning many members insane, or losing the ability to fly. Their leader the Battle Lord refuses to accept it and believes by uncovering their homeland the Babylon Garden would bring them back to glory and heal them.

• The Battle Bird Armada would be encountered by Tails in his early days and would wipe the floor with them. These birds were forced to align with Eggman to restore their fleet. Though once they found the Babylon Garden they would act on their own again. The Babylon Garden would end up destroyed by the Freedom Fighters.

• Eggman was not happy the Battle Birds acted out of line, and nearly caused the creation of a black hole (“Seriously, how am I to conquer the world if you flying turkeys had destroyed it?”). He did a culling, gathering the few worthy members while blowing the unworthy members up through the cherry bombs in their cybernetics. Only three percent of the Battle Birds were considered worthy enough to live. Neither the Battle Lord, Speedy or Doctor Fukurukov were among them.

• The first Metal Sonic was created to gather the Time Stones on Little Planet. This version ended up busted for a while, until Robotnik rebooted him during events similar to Sonic 4. After that, events similar to Sonic Mania happened that restored Metal Sonic 1, but he ended up flung through time and space after this defeat…

• Metal Sonic then ended up in the future, in Blaze and Silver’s timeline. Tinkering with the remains, Captain Whisker thought of a new powerful crewmate. Instead Metal Sonic got a mind of his own, became Captain Metal and became his own villain, eventually becoming the future Trinity’s biggest enemy.

• Mecha Sonic was an improved model first used during the first raid on Angel Island. First defeated by Sonic, later recommissioned by Snively after Robotnik’s first ‘death’ to try and steal it again. Mecha Sonic, despite using some of the Master Emerald’s power was defeated by Knuckles and tossed of the Island.

• Mecha Sonic resurfaced and now acted of his own. His first solo act attracted the attention of those whom would become the Chaotix. He, experimenting with his new free will and power, and some Power Gems, turned into the giant Titan Mecha Sonic but ended up defeated. But not destroyed…

• Years later, after some time to get used to his new powers, he reformatted into Metallix (Neo Metal Sonic) with aspirations of godhood. This sets events similar to Sonic Heroes in motion.

• Metallix and Captain Metal would meet during time travel. Both worked on repairing and upgrading the Death Egg into the Egg O’ War which would allow the two ‘brother’s to become living gods. They merged with the station, and it took the Trinity of both present (Sonic, Tails and Knuckles) and future (Silver, Blaze and Marine) to finally destroy them forever, channeling their prowess to vaporize them so there was nothing left to rebuild any of them from.


8) MYSTICAL MONSTERS AND DEITIES

• Chaos is still a water deity with most of his backstory intact, and the patron of the Chao. He and Tikal’s spirit, after his first defeat, move into the Chaos Force, only appearing if something of divine power or spiritual nature would threaten Mobius.

• Light Gaia, after able to befriend the heroes, and be moved about the beauty of Mobius, doesn’t just seal Dark Gaia away after defeat. He and his brother, both sides of the same coin, join together into the normal Gaia again. This Gaia was no longer about destruction and rebirth. Instead it became a neutral force, interfering when final judgement was reserved.

• Aurora is a genuine deity in this universe, and when speaking to a mortal, she appears to them in a form of how that person sees her. Her true form cannot be comprehended so that’s why she does this. She has no ties to echidna’s or Enerjak. She makes sure the people whom are close to death can pass on peacefully or get judged for their crimes, or gives second chances at life to those she feels deserve it, like with Knuckles.

• Enerjak is the leader of the Nocturnus here, a warrior whom is a perfect blend of Dark Chaos Energy control and Cybernetics, close to a god. Even when physically destroyed, the spirit of Enerjak still remains in the Chaos force until he summoned or is able to possess a worthy host again. Knuckles, after being possessed by him once, looks for a way to destroy him. Hyper Knuckles would drag the spiritual manifestation of Enerjak onto the spiritual plane and would destroy him there, dispersing him to a point he could never recover from it again.

• Argus is a deity whom is the center and manifestation of the Twilight Cage. His abduction of the Nocturnus and other tribes across the galaxy were the results of attempts to escape into the normal universe and take it for its own. Finitevus tricked the Freedom Fighters into destroying Argus, ending the Twilight Cage and make sure the Nocturnus could return to Mobius permanently.

• Mephiles and Iblis are part of Solaris, a deity that is the equivalent of the devil in many Mobian cultures. Mephiles is the mind and cunning, Iblis the raw power and bestial rage. Its components had to be split apart and separated through time and space. However, both halves would reach out to the minds of the twisted, and a cult would gather in their name to release them from across two timelines.

• Mephiles was sealed in the Dark Scepter, in Soleanna. Iblis was sealed into the Hellfire Stone in Onyx City, in the future from which Blaze and Silver hail. From two fronts the heroes worked hard but Mephiles and Iblis would reunite and Solaris would be reborn, only to be destroyed by Super Sonic, Super Silver and Super Shadow.

• These events did not evolve a reset button or princesses kissing dead hedgehogs!

• Though Solaris was destroyed, it would not be the end of the trouble he caused. Despite his death, from his remains minor deities were born. Less powerful then Solaris and unable to have the deity be reborn from any of them sure, but still dangerous and lethal. These included the Ifrit, the Time Eater and most dangerously the Phantom Ruby. One by one they were sought out and destroyed systematically.

• Infinite was originally one of the cultists worshipping Solaris and was delighted to find the Phantom Ruby and continue his master’s glorious work through the power of the mysterious gemstone. Infinite would be destroyed by the Sonics of two timelines.

• Lyric is a cyborg snake from ancient times. Originally part of a group of Guardians he studied the Chaos Emeralds. His research was cut off due to the instability of the Emeralds, but went behind the back of his fellow Guardians to continue, getting himself injured and forced to wear a mech suit to remain alive for thousand of years.

• Lyric blamed his fellow Guardians for properly warn him of the consequences of his research. He also came to think of nature as inferior and technology as superior and had started a campaign for mechanizing the worlds, eons before Robotnik even did. He ended up sealed by the other Guardians in a temple on Bygone Island.

• He was released from his prison eons later by Robotnik, but turned on Robotnik and drove his forces from Bygone island and started his own campaign of conquest. He would be opposed at every turn by the Bygone Freedom Fighters Dulcy, Perci, Sticks and Tangle, making him the only arch-enemy of a Freedom Fighter group not associated with Robotnik’s Empire.


9) OTHER VILLAINS

• Doctor Finitevus is a Nocturnus Scientist whom one day turned insane due to experimentation with dark chaos energy, and developed a nihilism, seeking the end and destruction of everything. Serving Enerjak in hopes to steer his master into said destruction, after the mad deity’s initial defeat, Finitevus sought out ways to bring him back, under his control.

• Finitevus was in charge of the Nocturnus in absence of Enerjak. His henchmen are a pair of mindless but powerful Nocturnus warriors, per Finitevus’ modifications. Scylla controls fire and the female sibling, while Charyb is male and controls water.

• Finitevus nearly brought about the end of Mobius, and tricked a disenchanted Robotnik in aiding him. Finitevus would turn himself into the newest Enerjak during this scheme. It ended when Enerjak was ripped from Finitevus and destroyed by Knuckles on the spiritual plane.

• After that, Finitevus was vulnerable. All his Warp rings were gone besides the one in his glasses. Knuckles shattered the ring as Finitevus went through it, and Finitevus ended up in a zone in between zones. A white space where is no time, only a white void. Unable to escape, Finitevus doesn’t need to eat or sleep, just exist and won’t age. But if he is unable to escape, it is eternal torture. To his nihilistic mind it would be extra torture that he won’t even see his own end as there is no time…

• Ixis Naugus is the last troll on Mobius. He seeks to gather various means to enhance his magic and return the troll race to life, rule the world that is conquered by the trolls. Serving as a court Wizard for King Max, he plotted to overthrow King Max with the help of Robotnik. Robotnik backstabbed him and sent him and King Max to the Void. Naugus would escape and be imprisoned in the void several times through the years, always making enemies of the Freedom Fighters.

• Mammoth Mogul was an ancient Mobian, whom had a meteor impact and embed itself in his chest. That Meteor is the black Emerald, giving him great control over chaos energy, keeping him ageless and immortal. Having made enemies with the Chaotix and Freedom Fighters of Knothole, he would see Tails as a personal enemy, after being humiliated in a fight against Hyper Tails, whom mopped the floor with his previously thought invincible super form, Master Mogul.

• Mogul could survive for a while when separated from his Emerald, giving him enough time to always recover it should the need arise. But once his Black Emerald ended up destroyed forever, severing any connection with the chaos force, Mogul would rapidly age into dust, marking the end of the so called immortal.

• When not doing villainy, Mogul poses as a philanthropist and casino owner. He has his own henchwoman, Breezie the Hedgehog, whom is his personal ‘Mercy Graves’. After Mogul’s demise, Breezie takes over his empire and becomes a high ranking crime boss. She has a nasty habit of lusting after Sonic. This would come to bit her in the ass when Sally one day ended her by planting one of her ring blades in her gut.

• The Fearsome Foursome consisted of the disgraced ninja Lightning Lynx, military turned merciless mercenary Sergeant Simon Simeon, Mercian serial killer Flying Frog and ex-Battle Bird Predator Hawk (whom Mogul had his flight restored). They initially served Mogul but they would at times be hired by other villains for the right price.

• Later on, Drago Wolf, Nack the Weasel, Bean the Dynamite and Bark Polar Bear would join the Foursome and rename themselves the Destructix. Drago would go on to join the Eggman Empire and die shortly after, Lightining, Bean and Bark would leave due to a conflict over morality, leaving the Destructix a Foursome once more (but they kept the Destructix name because it sounds cool).  

• The Black Arms is an alien race to whom Shadow is related. Since Shadow didn’t suffer amnesia in this timeline or isn’t stupid Black Doom is forced to take control of him from the start of their meeting. Until Maria/Emerl and Rouge snapped him out of it.

• There is no Black Death, as Eclipse the Darkling is the secondary Black Arms Hivemind in this universe. He has more of a free will and tries bestowing this onto his fellow Black Arms. They don’t know what to do with it and they couldn’t cope, ending up easy targets for their deaths at the hands of GUN, leaving Eclipse and his Dark Arms as the sole surviving members. Until Team Dark caught up eventually and ended them of course.

• The Metarex were originally the people of Seedria. The world’s inhabitants lived in harmony with nature and developed a symbiotic bond with plants. When the Black Arms tried to invade, the people of Seedria had no good defense. So scientist Lucas of the Seedrians did something similar to roboticizing and legionizing to robotify most of his people. It worked as they drove the Black Arms off but they would lose themselves, becoming all part of the bigger being that is Metarex. Metarex had now one goal in mind: assimilate everything in the universe into the Metarex.

• The Deadly Six are the last of the Zeti race. After their actions had ravaged their homeworld Hex, leaving not much left of it then a few patches stringed together in an oversized flying continent, they would set out and drain the life from other worlds to restore their own.

• GUN, the corrupt Overlander defense agency is led by Commander Lloyd Bishop. He is an Overmeta with an enhanced healing factor, allowing him to appear in his twenties even after fifty years ago, when he personally shot Maria. He shares Robotnik’s views of power and survival of the fittest, but has different methods, seeking to create biological weapons, hence his funding of Project Shadow and the Biolizard.

• Bishop not only seeks to bring Shadow back under his control, but also to discredit Sonic and the Freedom Fighters as they were close to uncovering his hidden agenda, hence blaming Sonic for Shadow’s thefts in the media. It failed in the end.

• Bishop, in his final stand, is confronted by Shadow. Due to his healing factor he can recover from anything Shadow can throw at him. Shadow got around that by locking the corrupt commander in a pod, and shooting him off into the sun, from which the evil man cannot regenerate.

• Before Captain Metal, Captain Whisker was the arch-nemesis of Blaze, Silver and Marine. A scientist from the future whom admired two things; pirates and Robotnik. Modeling himself after both, and replacing most of his body with robotics he became a dangerous enemy in the future. He is assisted by his right hand man and life partner Johnny. (note there is no Eggman Nega as a result)

• Phage is a virus born when Nicole purged herself of her dark aspects, and they took life on their own. Phage seeks out to absorb data and become more powerful, and have everything become her. She seeks to add Nicole’s data to hers so she can become complete again, and as a result they fought each other very often. Nicole could not defeat Phage as she was part of herself. However, Nicole finally accepted her darkness, absorbed Phage back into her and locked her in the back of her mind permanently, in a cage created by her happy memories where Phage could never escape from.


10) OTHER CHARACTERS

• Feist was once a powerful sorcerer with ambitious dreams. However he was punished by the gods for trying to usurp them and was tasked with guarding the gateways to the Special Zone, the pocket dimension where six of the Chaos Emeralds were originally hidden, only giving them to those whom are worthy, whom he tests through various trials. Mogul would destroy the Special Zone to prevent the Emeralds from being hidden again, and Feist with it.

• Big and Froggy (whom is a Mobian Frog here) own a fish restaurant where the heroes love to eat in their spare time. They are merely background characters, not actively involved in any plot. Mighty and Ray take their place in the Adventure story, and Team Rose in the Heroes storyline consists of Amy, Silver and Blaze.

• Vanilla and Cream also exist, but they are also not involved in any story. Vanilla runs a Chao adoption center, with Cream helping out. Cream is also a member of the Freedom Fighter Fan Club.

• Cosmo is the only remaining Seedrian not assimilated in the Metarex and came to Mobius to warn our heroes. Super Sonic and Super Shadow destroy the Metarex. Cosmo had a crush on Tails, but it was not returned due to Tails already loving Fiona. Coupled with the fact that Mobius’ atmosphere, due to heavy pollution from all of Robotnik’s factories, means that her lifespan would be cut short, and Cosmo leaves for space. She remains on friendly terms with our heroes and keeps in contact with them.

• The next time they meet Cosmo, she has joined the galactic police force. She has now has been trained in combat and firearms. Her partner is the Wisp Yacker, whom has also joined the Galactic Police, and now inhabits a Mobian-sized robot suit to better interact with people and help him on the job. They met up with the heroes in their function chasing intergalactic bounty hunter Katella.

• Mina Mongoose was a young girl whom Sonic saved from Robotnik’s forces one day and since then she had been heads over heels for him. She tried to join the Freedom Fighters to be with him…though she proved to be inept at fighting and stealth and had no powers, so that fell flat. Though Sonic only saw her as a friend, and she was forced to admit his heart was with Sally. They didn’t hold it against her, and advised her to chase her dreams and do something she is good at.

• Mina Mongoose then became a singer, and founded a band. Together with Mach the Rabbit, Maximus ‘Max’ the Monkey and Sharps the Chicken, they are the Forget-me-Knots. Through their music they keep the spirits of the people up, inspiring hope. That way Mina learned that there are other ways to help people, and in a way, with her songs about courage and hope she supports the Freedom Fighters in her own way.

• Nicolette ‘Nic’ the Weasel is the sister of Nack the Weasel, and like him a bounty hunter. The two hail from a rich family but ran away when they were young, unable to cope with their parents’ snooty and snobbish attitudes. Despite similar interests, Nic and Nack don’t like each other. While Nack is self-serving and back-stabbing, Nic has a sense of honor and pride. Due to these conflicting attitudes they are at odds, to the point Nack tried to kill Nic at times.

• Nic, as the more benevolent Weasel, is the one to take in Fiona and train her. They have a sisterly relationship, and even when they went separate ways they remained close.

• Later on, Nic formed her own group with Lightning Lynx, Bean the Dynamite and Bark the Polar bear, all whom left the Destructix as they couldn’t stand their teammates’ immoral nature. This group would call themselves the Mavericks.

• Nic would finally kill Nack after a final shootout, shooting him through the eye, the bullet going right through his brain.

• The Babylon Rogues, consisting of Jet the Hawk, Storm the Albatross and Wave the Swallow were a trio of turncoat Battle Birds and treasure hunters whom made an annoyance (but not really a challenge) to our heroes on several occasions. The trio were a lot more selfish at first, but after the Babylon Garden activated and would almost destroyed the world they came to the aid of the heroes to stop it, and do so successfully. After that, they promise never to mess with the Freedom Fighters again and leave.

• The Mobian Council was created as an initiative by Elias so not only the Royal family holds all the power and so the people would also have a say in the running of the Kingdom. The members include Elias himself, Harvey Who, Verita the Aquihotl, Stretch the Giraffa Beetle, Cupcake the Sardine and Gruff the Gecko.

• Verita is a bluntly honest girl coming from a family of nobles whom still live in the past and think they should be treated as royalty due to their bloodline. Verita thought that was stupid and tried making a name for herself.

• Stretch was an unconventional lawyer, specializing in bending rules and loopholes. His oddly laid back attitude was refreshing and he got voted on the council as a result.

• Gruff the Gecko is the most by the book member of the council. He has a mother, Gilda, whom is in a state of dementia. Naugus once offered Gruff that he could restore Gilda’s mind in exchange for him helping gain power in the new Republic, but Gruff refused, as he knew his mother would never forgive him.

• Cupcake was part of a gang called the school, a bunch of marine based Mobian youths whom got into mischief and minor vandalism due to their hard childhoods brought up to the war. Cupcake decided to turn her gang around and made sure they got to find their place in the world and the less privileged would thrive. She is the least formal of the Council.