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Sonic X Publication Details Issue  4 Date Published  December 2005 Publisher  Archie Comics Production Staff Cover Artist Pat "Spaz" Spaziante Cover Colorist Ben Hunzeker Writer Joe Edkin Pencils Tim Smith III Inks Andrew Pepoy Letters Jeff Powell Colors Josh Ray Editor Mike Pellerito Managing Editor Victor Gorelick Editor in Chief Richard Goldwater First Appearances

Archie Sonic X Issue 4 was the fourth issue of the spin-off Sonic X comic series.

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"Boisterous Bot Battle!"

Sonic and others are continuing the battle in Station Square Space Museum with Eggman, along with his new robots which contain most of Sonic's friends inside them. Sonic is unaware of this, and continues to resist Eggman and his attacks. Meanwhile, missiles from the battle at the Space Museum fly toward Angel Island, where Knuckles, who is peering out at Station Square, sees them and almost gets hit by them. Knuckles then concludes that Eggman was launching another scheme somewhere in Sation Squarem and flies over to the city to investigate.

Meanwhile, Eggman orders his robots to destroy Sonic, Tails and Amy, while Chris Thorndyke tries to resist Eggman's commands only to discover that he can't stop his own actions, and ends up electrifying Sonic and co. Chris then tries to think of a way to warn Sonic about who the people are inside Eggman's robots, before he destroys them and injures him and the others trapped inside the robots. As Sonic prepares to attack one of the robots, Rouge flies in front of him and tells him that he can't destroy the robots, because their friends are trapped inside them. Rouge shows Sonic more evidence by pointing down to the ground, where Sonic sees "Chris" being written in the ground via laser by the robot that Chris himself is trapped inside. Eggman then proceeds tell Sonic that his friends are indeed inside the robots, and that if Sonic and the others don't surrender the Earth to him, then they would be sorry. Sonic refuses to give in to Eggman's demands, which prompts Eggman to order his robots to engage his "Endgame scenario".

After Eggman finishes giving out the command to his robots, Sonic tells everyone a new strategy, which is to incapacitate Eggmans robots, but not to harm them. Although Sonic and co. try to do this, the robots quickly get the upper hand on them and starts mercilessly beat them. During the chaos, Eggman takes joy in seeing that his plan is going exactly like he hoped it would, in which Decoe comments that its unusual for his plans to ever succeed. Bocoe then asks Eggman where he got all the "green pieces of paper" to buy the parts he needed to build the robots. Eggman answers by saying that he went to the "local purveyor of hardware", where he was convinced that, since humans appeared to think that green slips of paper had some value, that anything could be traded for goods and services. When Eggman realized that using rotten cabbage as payment for the parts wouldn't work, he threatened the store clerk with one of his robots, which convinces the clerk to give Eggman all the parts he needed to build his new robots.

Meanwhile, Sonic and co. continue to receive a beating from Eggman's robots. When Sonic sees a ring rolling in his direction, he reaches out to it and absorbs it's powers, which allows him to escape the net trap he was caught in before being crushed by one of the robots, and saves his allies from the other robots. Chuck Thorndike, Cream the Rabbit, and Knuckles then fly into the Space Museum in the X Tornado, and Knuckles jumps from the jet and offers his aid to Sonic and co. Sonic and co. then decide which of the robots they would handle in order to save the people trapped inside them, while Sonic tells Tails to steal the device that Eggman is using to control the robots from Eggman himself. While Sonic and co. try to incapacitate the robots again, they are once more restrained by the robots, which are about to destroy Sonic and co. under Eggman's orders, while Eggman himself and Tails struggle over the device that controls the robots. Sonic urges Chris to not follow Eggman's orders and, putting all his effort into resisting, Chris succeeds in making the robot he was trapped in hesitate to destroy Sonic, which angers Eggman. Meanwhile, Chuck and Cream save Tails, who is being held captive by one of the robots, by sending Cheese inside the robot himself, and freeing the President of Eggman's control. Chris then has the robot he's trapped in attack the other robots in order to weaken them, which helps give Sonic and co. an advantage. Seeing his plan failing right before him, Eggman attempts to use one last gambit, which is to order the robots to self-destruct and take Sonic and co. with them. Before Eggman could do this, Tails steals the device from Eggman and throws it to Sonic, who uses it to shut the robots down, before destroying the device itself. Eggman then flees the Space Museum, promising Sonic that he would return.

Sonic and co. then leave the Space Museum, to be greeted by Scarlet Garcia and a crowd of cheering citizens, with Garcia announcing on the news that Sonic has once more defeated Eggman, and no one got hurt from the conflict.

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Key EventsEdit

• Sonic frees his friends from Eggman's robots without harming them.

Background InformationEdit

• On the cover, Tails is seen piloting the Tornado 2, when it was actually the X Tornado that appeared in this issue.
• This was originally intended to be the last issue of the series, when the comic was originally planned as a four-issue miniseries. The comic was extended to ongoing status before issue #1 was even released due positive fan reception from the series announcement, starting from the next issue onward.
• This issue makes a reference to the musical Grease.