Archie Sonic Universe Issue 6


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Archie Sonic Universe Issue 6 was the sixth issue of the spin off Sonic Universe comic series.

Story One
"Dark Siege"

From where it was left off last issue, Silver the Hedgehog returns, and is in King Sonic's living room, looking at a picture of Lara-Su and Sonic's children. It is night, and Sonic and Queen Sally have just tucked in the children, for bed, and they talk to Silver about the happenings within the past five years, as well as the current timeline, consisting of Lien-Da and the Dark Presence. Silver is completely out-of-date, with the current timeline, and gets most of the conversation mixed up. Sonic acts coolheaded about the conversation, and stops Sally and Silver from getting into an argument.

While the trio continue their conversation, Lara-Su confronts Rutan about his mother's whereabouts, at his house. Fortunately, Dimitri prevents Lara-Su and Rutan from getting into a fight. Dimitri tries to comfort Lara-Su about Lien-Da, and how she stopped King Shadow, during his reign of terror.

Back at Castle Mobius, Silver considers rounding up the Knothole Freedom Fighters, only to discover that they have been dismantled for years. Sally considers rounding up the Chaotix, but also considers calling up Tails and his family.

Speaking of the Prower family, Tails opens his door, thinking it's room service, only to be gassed by the Dark Presence. Mina Mongoose notices, and quickly runs out of the door, with her children in her arms. She puts Melody and Skye by a curb, and orders them to find an E.S.T. officer or a Guardian, while she goes to help her husband. Mina boldly confronts the Dark Presence, but is quickly gassed by one of the team members.

While Lara-Su heads back to Castle Mobius, she thinks to herself about Dimitri's words and how she only went to Rutan to blow off some steam at how King Sonic almost got killed. She then spots the Dark Presence heading toward Castle Mobius and immediately goes on the attack, but quickly recovers as realization hits her that this is not the way things should be done and instead uses the ninja skills taught her by her Uncle Espio.

Back at Castle Mobius, one of the maids offers them refreshments and flirts with Silver saying he was the brave one who saved their king. Silver admits he saved Sonic, but the maid pulls out a gun from under the napkin, and gasses Silver. Sonic gasses the maid (who turns out to be a Dark Presence member), and tells Sally to take herself and the kids to the panic room. After argument over what to do, Sally and Sonic quickly give each other a goodbye-kiss, and Sonic runs off.

He discovers Lara-Su in his castle. Unfortunately, the security system has turned against them, but Sonic and Lara-Su jump out of a castle window, before being tagged by the lasers. They find Skye and Melody on the street, and try their best to calm them down. Sonic promises to help out the children the best he can, but doesn't know where to hide. Lara-Su tells Sonic that Argyle (Vector's son) has a safe place to hide, and so the four of them head to Argyle's.

Back at Castle Mobius, Lien-Da gets report on the Dark Presence's work. They have secured Tails and Mina in their room, they have confined the castle staff to their rooms and they have hacked the security service. Afterwards, Lien-Da heads to the pod, where King Shadow is kept holding. She brings along the Chaos Syphon to bring back Shadow's power.

They charge the pod up, releasing Shadow from his chamber, and back to power. King Shadow has risen again!

Quotes

 * Silver: "Are rocket attacks against you common these days?"
 * Queen Sally: "No. The whole point of the celebration was to mark Five Years of Peace."


 * "Maid": "Aren't you that brave and mysterious stranger? The one who saved our king with his amazing powers?"
 * Silver: Aw, well, I don't know about "amazing" or "brave". I mean I did, sure, but...
 * "Maid": (stuns Silver with knockout gas) ''"Well, we can't have a repeat of that, hero."


 * Lara-Su: "What about the queen...?"
 * King Sonic: "Sally has everything under control. They'll be safe. Now--" (Jumps through window with Lara-Su) "--let's do it to it!"
 * Lara-Su: "Did you seriously use that line back in the day?"
 * King Sonic: "It's a classic! Or would you prefer 'hasta la vista, mistah'?"
 * Lara-Su: "Pffft! Ha ha ha!"


 * Lien-Da: "By the time they stage a counter-offensive, our mission will be complete. A fitting end to this pitiful regime. I don't care what 'stability' she brought, I never liked the Queen. Things got done under King Shadow. He appreciated what we did. The rest of the world might think things are better now, but they don't see the chaos on the horizon. We need strong, decisive leadership. Spare the rod and you spoil the world. It's taken five years of R&D...but it'll be worth it. A world saved, and my family returned to me."


 * Lien-Da: "Let the reign of King Shadow begin anew!"

Key Events

 * Tails and Mina are kidnapped.
 * The Dark Presence invade Castle Mobius.
 * King Shadow is revived.