Sonic x Shadow Generations isn’t the only place Black Doom is coming back this week! Here’s the preview for long-awaited final piece to the finale of Season 3!
The Black Asteroid — Core
Shadow the Hedgehog stands at the center of the Asteroid’s command room, arms crossed as he observes an array of floating screens depicting many angles of the battle waging outside. Latched around his face and acting in place of the host body’s eyes, Doom’s Eye turns slowly from one screen to the next. On one, Eggman’s army of Sentinel robots intercept the Black Arms bioweapon capsules launched towards the Earth one after another. On the next, Mighty’s Piscean Saucer flies through the wreckage and debris left behind by Seraph’s SG-1000 II. Another shows Sage, the three color-coded Titans, and The End. The fourth screen shows that with Titans occupied, Black Arms forces converge towards the White Dreamnet with little hindrance. The weapons of the mothership appear to have stopped firing, leaving it nearly defenseless. Only the personal ship of White Genesis attempts to fight them off, making little difference on its own.
Shadow-Doom laughs at this. “Such chaos on the battlefield as I’ve never seen before. The White Arms will soon fall. Tonight, our children shall feast upon their bones. Tomorrow, upon the humans of Earth. Soon, the entire galaxy shall come to fear us.”
The Eye of Saturn-Gladius is closed as he gives psychic orders to the Black Arms hivemind. Past him, alien soldiers march through in perfect double file, arming themselves to be deployed. “Your Herald has developed a strong will, Morbus. This added conviction, this strength of presence, will make our soldiers all the more deadly. Consider me impressed.”
Luna-Morbus kneels by a pool of red slime, submerging her hands to draw out the material she uses to craft weapons, some familiar in shape, others far too strange and elaborate to imagine what use they might have. Each one is levitated into the hands of a marching soldier. “Your own child has learned a great deal about the art of killing from you, Gladius. I would never have thought to engineer weapons such as these.”
Shadow-Doom’s face grows stern. “Your little pets are paltry improvements, compared to my own creation.” He looks down at his open hand. “The Ultimate Life Form…the perfect being. At last, that is what I have become.”
“Do not forget, Famis,” Saturn-Gladius growls, “that it is only by our benevolent will that you stand here before us. You, who were the first to fall.”
Luna-Morbus adds, “We could have just as easily eliminated your Herald, and stripped your rule from you, if it so pleased us.”
Shadow-Doom turns on them with a frightening rumble. “Do not forget, lesser monarchs, that it is only by the execution of my perfect plan that the two of you stand at all. As we speak, the greatest of all Black Beasts grows in the depths of this Asteroid. Without me, you could not hope to control it. Without me, you could not hope to defeat the enemies that surround us. We formed this alliance because I am the only one powerful enough to hold it together. Do not forget. Or you will suffer as surely as our foes. None will stand in our way.”
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Never Lake
Sergeant Ayanna Brown pulls the lever on the strange machine in front of her, then dives to the ground before Omega’s first shot can be fired in retaliation. Zed’s weapon arm rotates into a flamethrower that he fires off immediately in a wide arc that forces the group of rebels—Omega, Rouge, Vector, and Espio—to scatter.
The machine generates a thin beam of light that shoots straight up into the sky. It strikes an empty point in space, where the sky begins to ripple, then crack.
In a sparkling flash, the Little Planet reappears. Its landmasses are filled from end to end with bright neon city lights, and skyscrapers so high that they stand out against the curvature of the planet.
“Just what we needed,” Rouge mutters. “Another planet full of people to drag into this mess.”
“What people?” Espio questions. “Where could they have all come from? The planet was unpopulated when it disappeared.”
“Those would be the Postcursors.”
Everyone turns with a start towards the source of the voice behind them. Ayanna straightens into a salute. “Master Sergeant, sir.”
“At ease, Sergeant Brown.” The Master Sergeant looks up at the sky, where the false purple moon hovers above the Little Planet. “This is how The End comes for all of us. I see, and I have seen.”
What is Black Doom’s so-called perfect plan? How has the Master Sergeant returned? Can The End be stopped? Find out all this and more, next time on The Chaos Project, coming soon!
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