Sonic Boom Issue 10


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Sonic Boom #10 is the tenth issue in the Sonic Boom comic series by Archie Comics, to be released in July 2015. It is part ten of the Worlds Unite crossover.

Publisher's Summary
SONIC BOOM #10 The SONIC/MEGA MAN Crossover event explodes beyond the worlds of just our two blue heroes! "Worlds Unite" Part Ten: Sonic, Mega Man, X and Sticks continue to rally heroes from across the wide expanse of the SEGA and Capcom universes! Who will be brave and join the unified assaulted against Sigma? PLUS with all of the heroes busy, who’s keeping an eye on the malicious Xander Payne and Evil BFFs Drs. Eggman and Wily? The villains MUST be plotting something now—but what? Featuring the worlds of VIEWTIFUL JOE, GOLDEN AXE, BREATH OF FIRE, PANZER DRAGOON, BILLY HATCHER, MONSTER HUNTER and more! Plus cover art from the legendary Patrick "SPAZ" Spaziante, and variant cover art from Reilly Brown and part 10 of the epic 12-part connecting variant cover series by artist Ben Bates!

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Sticks the Badger and Mega Man X have arrived at the Ancestral Steppe at the world of Monster Hunter from the Genesis Portal on their air transport, with Sticks riding on top of X's shoulders, ready to track down the Mavericks with the Unity Engine. The Mavericks end up being the X-Hunters who recruited helpers in the cat-like hunters Felyne and Palico (who were dressed up as both Sonic and Mega Man). Agile casts the cat hunters aside, but before the battle progresses too far, a might Gore Magala arrives and devours the X-Hunters. Sticks quickly tames and recruits the beast to their cause.

Meanwhile, Amy Rose and Mega Man (the former riding on an Extreme Gear and the latter riding on Rush) arrived at Morning Land's Forest Village via a Genesis Portal in the world of Billy Hatcher. Meanwhile, Billy Hatcher and his friends Rolly Roll, Chick Poacher, and Bantam Scrambled are using their egg powers to overwhelm the Maverick Wind Crowrang. The crow-like Maverick expresses shock at being beaten by an egg and struggles to get up, with Billy Hatcher stating they've had experience dealing with crows before finishing him off, though he expresses disappointment when seeing that he didn't get fruit as a result, due to beating crow-like monsters usually yielding fruit. Mega Man and Amy meet up with them as Dark Dizzy arrives to fight. Billy uses the new egg to summon a dragon to beat down the Maverick. Menie-Funie, god of Morning Land, convinces Billy and friends to go and fight Sigma.

Meanwhile, Rotor and Bubble Man are fighting against Burn Dinorex at the Drowned Ruins on the world of Panzer Dragoon. Bubble Man acts as a distract while Rotor uses his Drill Rush move on Burn Dinorex. Burn Dinorex then notices that Gigavolt left him behind and denounced him as a coward at labored breaths, but nonetheless manages to activate the Unity Engine, to Rotor's horror. Thankfully, dragon rider Kiel Fluge and his dragon finish off both the Mavericks and the Unity Engine, agreeing to join the party.

Meanwhile, at the Lost Shore of the Steel Grave at the world of Breath of Fire III, Hard Man and Big the Cat are traversing the area. While this is going on, the last of the Dragon Brood Ryu and the holy warrior Guardian Garr are fighting against Toxic Seahorse and Spiral Pegasus, and the Princess of Wyndia Nina, the engineer Momo, and the chrism-powered robot Honey are close to the Unity Engine. Momo is distracted with analyzing the Unity Engine, but soon joins the battle and the two Mavericks are finished by the time Big and Hard Man arrive. Nina, having deduced the purpose of the engine, explains it to the others and they agree to help fight.

Meanwhile, at Yurian Forest at the world of Golden Axe, Shadow Man and Antoine D'Coolette are at the location and run into the dwarven warrior Gilius Thunderhead fending off Gareth's Lion, eventually simultaneously decapitating it and cleaving its head in two in a single blow after flipping it onto its back. Gilius then sees Shadow Man and Antoine and believes them to be Death Adder's minions. Antoine then tells him in a panicked manner that they aren't minions and in fact they came to help him. Gilius then puts away his axe and tells them that if that's the case they should hurry up as they're about done here. True to his word, his allies - muscular Ax Battler and magic user Tyris Flare - have pummeled Gareth and Berkana to bits and join the party.

Meanwhile, in Movie Land, Axl and Sticks (who apparently fell through another Genesis Portal) are dealing with Sting Chameleon and Squid Adler when help arrives in the form of Viewtiful Joe and Sexy Sylvia. Their VFX powers quickly clobber the Mavericks and they agree to help, mostly because Joe is still waiting for the next sequel to his own game.

Back in the unified world, the remaining good guys have escaped the Sky Patrol with an escape pod just before Sigma crushes it, aiding by the returning Metal Sonic with the last Chaos Emerald. All parties start returning from the various worlds, preparing to board the Delphinus and take the fight to Sigma.

Off-Panel
The Sonic Boom cast wonders about the crossover and their representation.

Trivia

 * Sticks's comment to X looking good in a scarf is a reference to his design in Mega Man X: Command Mission, where he possessed an energy scarf whenever he moves.
 * Felynes and Palico are wearing the DLC costumes pertaining to the Mega Man and Sonic franchises from Monster Hunter 4 in this issue.
 * Wind Crowrang's battle with the team from Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg is an obvious nod to the plot of the game, in which Billy and his chicken-suit wearing friends engage the villainous Crows.