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Sonic the Hedgehog Publication Details Issue  128 Date Published  October 2003 Publisher  Archie Comics Production Staff Cover Artist Patrick Spaziante Nelson Ribeiro Writer Benny Lee Pencils Jay Axer (front page and first part of the story) Dawn Best (second part of the story) Inks Michael Higgins (first part of the story) Jim Amash (second part of the story) Letters Michael Higgins (first part of the story) Jeff Powell (second part of the story) Colors Jason Jensen Editor Justin Gabrie Managing Editor Victor Gorelick Editor in Chief Richard Goldwater First Appearances Characters Bagbar Breeblebrox Groups Xenocanarites Locations Xenocanaris Vehicles Sentelle

Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 128 was the one hundred and twenty-eighth issue of the main Sonic the Hedgehog comic series.

SummaryEdit

Story OneEdit

"Tossed in Space" - Part 4: "Starmada"

In space, Sonic heads for Teragosa 6, a technologically advanced world should be at the coordinates, but there's nothing but asteroids. Sonic makes it out, using his knowledge from his Sega system, and makes it out. Commander Bagbar Breeblebrox's fleet order Sonic to dock his ship. Breeblebrox introduces himself and his crew and welcomes Sonic on the warship 'Sentelle'. He asks why he has soared to this hopeless sector of space. Sonic says that he was heading to Teragosa 6, but the commander reports that the asteroids are the remains of that planet, because of E.V.E. Sonic knowing E.V.E. explains the events of STH: 21, and states that he convinced her to surpass her programming and choose her own destiny. The commander blaming Sonic for unleashing E.V.E. commands his crew to fire, but Sonic runs away and makes it back on his ship. Sonic makes it his new mission to stop E.V.E. before she strikes again.

Story TwoEdit

"Tossed in Space" - Part 5: "E.V.E. ILL"

Sonic in his spaceship is being followed by Commander Bagbar Breedlebox's fleet, as Sonic is heading towards Xenocanaris Prime. The Xenocanarites are soon assaulted by E.V.E.'s battleship and in fifteen minutes, E.V.E. strips the world of its metals and destroys its inhabitants. Soon, Sonic arrives and realises that he was too late. The fleet about to destroy Sonic's ship, Sonic flees in his ship, but is soon discovered by E.V.E.'s battleship. E.V.E. uses her tractor beam to tear apart the entire fleet of warships. Sonic in anger targets E.V.E. and uses his own vessel against her.

Then, Sonic's ship passes through the battleship. Sonic suits on in a blue and green spacesuit and explores E.V.E. She announces her presense to Sonic, and Sonic announces that he's there to shut her down. E.V.E. tells him its useless to stop her, but Sonic tries to get an answer about what happened to her mission to exceed her programming. Suddenly, Sally in a red and yellow spacesuit find Sonic and they both embrace. Sally says they need to get to the wormhole that brought her here, so that they can get home before it closes. Sonic declines her offer that he needs to stop E.V.E. first, but Sally says that he'll lose his chances of getting home and her along with it. Sonic says that the Sally he knows would want to stay behind as long as they had each other. Sally disappears and E.V.E. announces that Sonic saw through her programming, but sends her sentries to attack him. Sonic fights off the sentries and enters the central processing unit. E.V.E. appears to Sonic in her new form. E.V.E. explains to him that she was met with fear and violence and was almost destroyed. She survived and evolved into something greater and felt she had a duty to save sentient computers from their fleshy masters. Sonic yells that she has no right to destroy planets because they have artifical intelligence. E.V.E. doesn't believe him and sees it that the tech has made her into a higher organism. Sonic yells back that instead of serving everyone else, the tech now listens to her. E.V.E. sees that her mission is flawed and she needs to be terminated. She tells him the key to return to Mobius lies on the Bem homeworld, Argentium. E.V.E. says her goodbyes and targets herself for the nearest star. Sonic quickly makes it back to his ship and watches E.V.E. being destroyed.

QuotesEdit

• Sonic: The Sally I know would want to stay behind...as long as we had each other.

Key EventsEdit

• Sonic discovers what E.V.E. has done since leaving Mobius.
• E.V.E. destroys Bagbar Beeblebox and his fleet.
• E.V.E. self-destructs after giving Sonic instructions on where to go to get back to Mobius.

Background InformationEdit

• This is the first appearence of E.V.E since StH: #21 and her last appearance.
• Sonic is shown in a red and yellow spacesuit on the cover, but wears a blue and green spacesuit when inside E.V.E.
• Sonic mentions when fighting through the asteroids, says that he hopes the sleepless nights on his Sega system paid off, refering to Sega who make the Sonic games.