Lap 5: The Lightless Black of Destruction

Mother Computer

Inside the circular room that holds the mother computer that controls all the robots in the world, Eggman holds out the two Arks of the Cosmos he stole from the Babylon Rogues to the air. A container for the stones comes out of the ceiling, but just as Eggman starts putting the Arks in it, the door behind him opens and out comes Sonic, Spider-Man, Jet, Venom, and Cinder, followed by everyone else.

BGM-Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity OST-Babylon Garden

"Out of the way!" Spider-Man shouted. Sonic and Jet uses the wind from their Extreme Gears to send Eggman backwards as Spidey and Cinder grab the Arks he was holding, with Venom using his bike to slam into Eggman, causing him to fall onto the computer and gets an electric shock, with the master unit for the Arks is rejected from the machine and falls onto Wave's hand.

"So this is the master unit." Wave said while looking at the unit in her hand.

"SYSTEM ERROR DETECTED. ALL COMMANDS CANCELLED." With the Arks of the Cosmos powering up his mother computer, Eggman's plan to take over the world with his global robot army has failed.

"My Eggman Land plans are in ruins, after all these years!" Eggman said, now that his plans for world domination have been thwarted yet again by Sonic and friends.

"Deal with it, Eggman! You're through!" Sonic told him.

"You probably would've made it another crimson carnival from hell like last time." Spidey said, recalling what Sonic told him about Eggmanland when the planet was severed into seven pieces.

As the Spider deactivates his Gear fusion mode and holds onto his hoverboard like normal, the ground starts shaking. "What's happening?!" He asked, trying his best not to fall thanks to his spider-adhesive powers.

"A trap?! What have you done, Eggman?!" Knuckles threatened the doctor.

"Look!" Tails points outside to an island floating outside the tower.

"What is that?!" Venom asked in surprise.

"Babylon Garden…" Sonic said as he turns to see the fabled garden of the Babylons.

"That's Babylon Garden?!" Spidey asked as if he's shouting, almost in disbelief that's the floating island of lore.

"But why show up now of all times?!" Cinder asked.

"The resonance from all 5 power units must have called it down." Wave said while all those that have an Ark look at theirs.

"Then the legends were right…" Jet said while looking at his stone.

Sonic and Spidey turn to each other, understanding what they have to do. "Here…" Both the hedgehog and the Spider throw their stones to Jet and Cinder, who are both greatly confused on why they decided to give them the stones.

"H-Hey! We haven't settled anything yet!" Jet said, wanting to know why the heroes gave them the stones so suddenly and start walking away.

"Turning tail and running away, Spider-Man?" Cinder asked the bug with her arms crossed. Spidey turns his head to her, only to give her a wink and a two-fingered salute, confusing her and upsetting Jet even more on what he meant by doing that.

BGM End

"Jet, we have other things to take care of. Let's hurry to Babylon Garden." Wave said to Jet, to remind them on their true mission.

Emerald walks up to the confused Cinder. "Don't worry. We'll get him next time." She said to her boss, in an effort to comfort her.

"R-Right." Cinder replied, still in great confusion on the mystery behind Spider-Man's actions just now. She and Jet gives the remaining Arks to Wave so she could put them in a suitcase. Both anti-hero teams then look at the heroes as they continue walking out of the room.

"I suppose we should head home, too." Sonic said to the team.

"Same here. Hopefully New York didn't get blown up while I was gone, or at the very worst get graffitied with glue by the Trapster again." Spidey said, not wanting to remember that battle with Pasty Pote Pete.

"Graffitied with glue?" Amy asked on the story of that adventure.

"I'll tell you later." Spidey replied.

"Hey, Sonic. Why do you think the ancient Babylonians sealed away that power unit in the Gigan Rocks?" Tails asked his blue pal, still wanting to learn the secrets of the Arks and why one of them was kept hidden at the ruins.

"Beats me." Sonic replied, having no clue as expected.

"Something's not right…What do you think, Spidey?" Tails asked the genius web-headed hero.

"Hmm. I've been thinking the same thing ever since Babylon Garden showed up." Spidey said before he and Tails start thinking to themselves for the answer. "The lightless black that assaulted the divine wings…"

"And how that robot chasing Amy just exploded…" Tails continued where Spidey left off.

Both Spidey and Tails open their eyes and look at each other. "Wait, you don't think…" Peter asked the fox before they both gasped at the same time.

"We can't let those meteorites get near Babylon Garden!" The two scientists shouted at the same time, finally figuring out the mystery behind the Arks.

Everybody in the room looks at Tails and Spidey, wanting to know what they heck they are talking about until a small earthquake occurs, and the SCR-HD robot that was thought to be broken and destroyed back at Aquatic Capital breaks through a window into the room.

"Hey, it's robot jojo!" Venom remembers the master of the rogue robots standing in front of them.

"But I thought that thing blew itself up! Why is it here?" Mercury asked, clearly remembering how the robot just blew itself up the last time they met.

The plain, white robot uses its functioning scanners to look for the Arks of the Cosmos in Wave's suitcase, knocking her away and takes the case for himself, using whatever remaining power it has to take off and steadily fly towards Babylon Garden just as Sonic and Spidey look out the broken window.

"How is that thing still flying?!" Sonic asked before turning to the doctor behind him. "Eggman!" He said, thinking he might be responsible.

"I don't know!" Eggman replied.

"Whaaat!?" Sonic and Spidey replied with great confusion.

"All I can say is that something nearby is generating a massive electromagnetic pulse. That may have forcibly engaged the program in the robot's buffer!" Eggman explained.

Tails and Jet help Wave sit up while everyone on both teams stand behind her. "Sonic, the Babylonians weren't able to control the power of those meteorites!" Tails said, greatly shocking everyone else.

"What do you mean?" Sonic asked Tails.

"We figured out how they can change gravitational polarity!" Spidey answered as all eyes are on him. "It's a black hole!" He said.

"A black hole?!" Cinder repeated as light starts to merge and warp from Babylon Garden outside.

"Those meteorites have the ability to amplify gravity to uncontrollable levels that can form black holes! That's the lightless black that attacked the divine wings!" Spidey informed everyone on his and Tails' deduction.

"And if a black hole that powerful forms right here on the planet…" The entire part of the Crimson Tower starts to shake furiously, interrupting Venom before he could finish what he was about to say.

"The power units are resonating together, forming a giant black hole!" Eggman told everyone.

Everyone in the room looks surprised and worried, with Jet and Cinder run up to Sonic and Spidey and they all look outside. "This is bad!" Cinder said looking worried.

"Thanks for pointing out the obvious! Do you want to have your 'All-seeing' merit badge?" Spidey replied, angering Cinder as this is not the time to be making jokes when a black hole is about to form in front of them.

BGM-Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity OST-Stop the Black Hole

Blue rays of light come out of the Babylon Garden and envelopes the island in a blue light sphere while its stone structure falls apart. "EDDIIIIE!" Peter shouts to his nemesis for help, as his spider-sense is blaring like crazy.

"We know that, webhead!" Venom replied as the two of them work together to web up the windows in an effort to protect themselves from whatever force that's about to be unleashed. It didn't work, as Babylon Garden's light explodes and creates a colossal shockwave so large and powerful it sweeps over the landscape, instantly breaking through their sticky defenses and a lot of dust comes in as everyone in the room brace themselves, only to find the shards of the windows and webbing to start floating in mid-air.

"Wh-what the…?" Sonic is in awe as he and everyone else sees Babylon Garden has changed into a completely new form, sucking everything in as a black hole. The Babylon Rogues and Cinder's team are surprised at the size of the black hole, with the Crimson Tower gradually being pulled apart.

Team Sonic are being pulled in towards the black hole, but they grab a hold of their surroundings, as they observe dozens of heavy tornadoes form outside, which one of them hitting a part of the Crimson Tower, causing the Babylon Rogues to also grab a hold of something.

"Amy, hold on tight!" Spider-Man shouted to the pink hedgehog to hold onto him, using his adhesive abilities to stick the ground so he won't get sucked in.

The same thing could be said for Venom and his Remnant friends. "Everyone! Get behind us and hold on as tight as you can! We're not going to let some black hole get the better of us!" He said as they hold their grip onto the symbiote as much as they could, but unfortunately Cinder starts to lose her grip and is also almost sucked into the black hole. "CINDER!" Venom shouted, firing a tendril for her to catch and pull her back in. "What did we just say?!" He shouted at her.

"Sorry!" She apologized before holding onto Venom's chest as tightly as she could.

"Spider-Man! Do something amazing for once in your pathetic life!" Brock asked his nemesis to find a way to stop the black hole.

"Working on it!" Peter replied while trying his best to hold onto the ground while protecting Amy.

"Work faster!" Mercury retorted.

"Don't rush me!" Spidey retorted back.

"Guys, would you quit it?!" Emerald shouted at the two as this is definitely not the time for an argument.

"At this rate, the whole planet will be sucked into the black hole!" Tails said before he too loses his grip and is pulled toward the black hole. Luckily Sonic catches him just before he's out of his reach. "Thanks, Sonic!"

"The world is doomed!" Eggman said. Thinking that there's no hope left, he presses a button and his chair retracts into the floor with him on it.

"Wave! How can we stop this storm?" Jet asked his resident genius.

"The core unit in the engine room powers the Babylon Garden. If we can disconnect it, that should do the trick." Wave answered him.

Jet and Cinder turns to the heroes who are on their Extreme Gears. "We'll go on ahead!" Sonic said to his racing rivals.

"You kiddies stick tight while we save the day!" Spidey said before he and his friends fly out the window and toward Babylon Garden.

"Oh no! You are NOT stealing the spotlight from us this time, Wall-Crawler!" Venom said before he and his allies hop onto their Extreme Gears and follow the heroes into the black hole.

BGM End

Astral Babylon, Mobius Strip

BGM-Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity OST-The Core

The united racers make their final stand as they have arrived at the core of the this 'Astral Babylon', and the center of the black hole. "We're here, so what do we have to destroy?!" Mercury asked his allies.

Then, Spidey's spider-sense triggers him to his answer. "That!" The webhead points everyone to the giant, mutated robot from before and now has fused with the core of Astral Babylon, letting out a monstrous roar at the intruders.

"How did that thing get so big?!" Amy asked while looking at the huge robot monster.

"That robot must have taken the energies from the Arks of the Cosmos and merged with Babylon Garden's core unit! It's the one controlling the black hole!" Spider-Man answered the girl's question.

"If we destroy that robot and its core, then that should cause the black hole to collapse and disappear before it could destroy the planet!" Tails informed everyone on their objective.

"We have to hurry! We only have a few minutes left before the planet has been completely consumed!" Wave told everyone on how much time they have.

"Alright! A race against time! I like that! Bring it on!" Sonic said with a smirk, looking forward to the battle against the Master Core of Babylon Garden.

All racers gear change, or in Spidey's case: Gear Fusion, their boards to their max potential and start racing towards the Master Core, dodging the multiple large yellow energy bolts that it keeps shooting at them. "Disgusting machine! Your mind is awashed in complete and total chaos!" Venom said while dodging the laser bolts.

"Kind of like you?" Spidey asked Brock, since his mind isn't exactly stable as well.

"Not entirely. Our minds have finesse." Venom replied with a smile.

"Finesse?! Are you kid…You know what, never mind!" Spidey drops the conversation before turning back to the battle. "If you can shoot a projectile weapon, now would be a good time to use it!" He advised his allies that has a gun of some sort.

"Finally! Something we can agree on!" Venom said, with him and Spidey shooting out powerful web bullets at the mutated machine while Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury join them in the barrage of bullet fire.

With the robot distracted, Spidey and Venom speed ahead and start to circle around the robot, webbing it up in an effort to slow it down. "Let's see you break out of this one!" Spidey said to the robot. Not wanting to be tied down any longer, the mutated, fused robot breaks free manipulating the gravity of the entire track to the point of tearing apart the environment with its gravity shifts while also causing the heroes to float up in the air.

"Stupid machine! It's messing with the gravity of this place!" Jet said while holding onto his Gear.

"But this could also work to our favor!" Sonic told him.

"He's right!" Spidey shoots out two web lines at both Amy's and Emerald's Gear. "You two ready?" He asked them.

"Ready!" They replied to the bug. With his amazing strength, the Avenger pulls the two girls towards the core while flying at extraordinary speeds thanks to the gravity being all messed up. With their combined attacks, Amy and Emerald were able to damage the monstrous droid, causing it to roar in pain and put gravity back to normal for a short while.

"If we keep doing that, we're sure to win!" Knuckles said.

"Let's keep pushing forward" Cinder advised everyone as they increase their speed to catch up with the Master Core.

The giant robot starts to get a little more serious in the fight, summoning giant rocks of molten rock out of nowhere and throws them like meteors at its opponents. "Not today!" Knuckles said, teaming up with Storm to destroy the giant meteors with their fists before getting stuck in another gravity dive. "Hey kid, you're up!" The echidna turns to the skating Mercury besides him.

Mercury puts himself in position, standing on the front of both Knuckles' and Storm's Gear bikes. "Let it rip, kid!" Storm said as Merc jumps from their bikes at top speed towards the robot, launching a devastating drop kick at its core, damaging it again.

"Not done yet! Here comes the dessert!" Spidey quipped, attaching his webbing at the two powerhouses' gear and throws them as hard as he could at the robot, with Knuckles and Storm attacking it with a combined fist attack, damaging it even further. And before it could drop the gravity back to the track, Wave and Tails create a wind turbulence from their Gear to ride on and attack the Master Core one more time before he falls back and returns gravity back to normal.

"He's getting weaker! Couple more attacks should do him in!" Wave said as they continue chasing the robot on the Mobius strip track.

"Let's not waste any more time, then!" Venom said before boosting ahead of the team.

"Eddie, no!" Spidey tries to warn him not do anything reckless, but Venom ignores him and jumps from his bike and attaches himself to the big, purple core at the bottom of the robot.

Venom starts repeatedly pounding the core with his own fists. "Worthless machine! We are the true lightless black of destruction! A hollow shell like yourself is no match for our power!" He said before laughing.

Seemingly having enough of his taunts, the atrocious mutant machine manipulates gravity around Venom, trying to strip the symbiote from Brock, causing both him and the symbiote to cry out in pain. "EDDIE!" Both Peter and Cinder shouted as they see him getting torn apart.

Spidey thinks on his feet and blinds the robot's face with his webbing, followed by Jet jumping up to the air and uses his board to smack the robot in the face, allowing Cinder to unleash a powerful fire blast at its core, forcing him to let go of Brock as he reunites with his symbiote and hop back onto his Extreme Gear. Cinder speeds on ahead to catch up with Eddie. "There! Now we're even!" She told him with a smile, with Venom replying with a chuckle while facing her.

"Ugh. Get a room you two." Spidey decided to break the moment between them, receiving a back-fist to the face, sending him far but not far enough as the fused robot, now on tis last legs, turns off the gravity completely for the remainder of the battle.

"He's almost done! One more hit should do it!" Tails said while pointing at the robot as it's about to unleash its final attack.

Spider-Man and Sonic turn to each other while floating in mid-air. "You ready to end this?!" Spidey asked the blue hedgehog.

"Let's finish this race!" Sonic responded as the two give each other a fist bump before they face the mechanical menace.

Spider-Man powers up his Other aura, surrounding himself in his cobalt aura while Sonic charges up his Extreme Gear's speed to its max level, surrounding himself in wind energy. "It's all or nothing!" They both said at the same time, unleashing the full force of their Gears, sending them flying straight through the core of the robot, causing the robot to blow up and cry out in pain before it was consumed by the black hole it had created, thus disappearing into nothingness.

BGM End

With the robot destroyed and the black hole stopped, Astral Babylon is becoming stable again. Sonic and Spider-Man land back onto the race track as the latter defuses from his Gear. "And once again the day's been saved thanks to Spider-Man, Sonic, and their Amazing and not so Amazing friends!" The Web-Slinger said as their allies catch up with the two of them.

"Nuh-uh. You did not just say that." Emerald said to the Spider, with him and Sonic responding with a short chuckle.

"Are we done here?" Knuckles asked the team.

"Yes. With the core unit disconnected, we shouldn't worry about Babylon Garden going out of control again." Tails told them.

"That's good to hear." Cinder responded.

Peter lets out a sigh before he sees Venom on his side while floating with his Extreme Gear. "Race ya home." He said with a laugh as he, the rest of his team, and the Babylon Rogues speed off ahead of them.

"Hey! That's no fair!" Spider-Man shouted at the symbiote tyrant as he, Team Sonic, and Amy hop back onto their Gears and chase after them and exit from Astral Babylon.

Later…

BGM-Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity OST-After the Storm

After departing with the heroes after saving the world, The Babylon Rogues and Cinder's team are standing on a rock, looking at Astral Babylon in the sky as the sun rises.

Wave turns to Jet next to her. "So, are you okay with all this?" She asked him if his decision on not taking the opportunity to explore space was the right idea.

"Well, much as I'll miss the vastness of space, this world has its charm, and even worlds similar to this one…" Jet answered her before tightening his glove. "Besides…" He turns to Cinder and Venom next to him, who both nod and agree with what he's thinking. And with nothing else for them to do, the united crew of troublemakers get on their Extreme Gear and fly away.

BGM End

Monopole

Back at the future city of Mobius, Team Sonic, Spidey, and Amy are seen in Tails' hover-car, driving down a tube through the city. "Hmm…I wonder what those meteors really were…" Amy starts talking, sparking a conversation between themselves.

"Those meteors weren't just ordinary rocks from space. They all had some programming that made them try to gather up the other units." Peter responded to Amy, who is sitting right next to him.

"Yeah?" Amy responded.

"It activated when Eggman found the first piece and put it in the mother computer. All the robots went berserk because they were all connected to the network. At least, we think that's what happened." Tails said, as not even he or Peter know the right answer.

"But who made that program?" Sonic asked them.

BGM-Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity OST-Wish and Hope

"Wish we knew. I doubt my Other, Ero, or Madame Web would give me a straight answer since they like to be all crypt and mysterious when it comes to ancient lore of the universe." Spider-Man replied, since Ero, his Other, is part of the Great Web of Life and Destiny, and knows each world's past, present, and future.

"They probably wants us to figure this stuff out for ourselves and not always rely on cosmic forces. Maybe it was the ancient Babylonians that created the program…Or maybe someone even more ancient…" Tails responded.

"Or maybe it was a warning, for people to stay away from power beyond control." Peter said, guessing maybe that's one of the reasons why someone like Ero or Madame Web might not tell him about the dangers of ancient relics of the world.

"But the people of Babylon…"

"I can't believe they were the descendants of aliens…" Amy interrupts Knuckles before he could say the same thing.

"So they're genies AND aliens. How weirder could your universe get?" Spidey asked.

"They crashed landed on this planet in ancient past…They disconnected the unit…" Tails start telling everyone in the car.

"And left it in orbit, hoping that someday, it would fall back down to the surface. Every time they saw a shooting star…" Amy finished for the fox genius.

Sonic then starts pointing to the sky above them. "I bet they'd wished they could get back to their home planet."

"As long as you never give up on your wishes, then it's only a matter of time until it comes true." Spidey said, with everyone on the car agreeing with him.

BGM End

BGM-Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity OST- Un-Gravitify (Instrumental)

Unaware to the heroes, someone is chasing their car from behind them. "Maybe that's why people started wishing on shooting stars."

The pursuer, or pursuers, is getting closer to the heroes', triggering Spider-Man's spider-sense.

"Sonic!"

"Yo, Spider!"

"Hm?" Both Sonic and Spidey look behind themselves and sees Jet, Venom, and Cinder chasing them.

They come near the car and looks at their rivals as they pass them. Sonic and Spidey look at each other with a smile and gets on their Extreme Gear and starts racing their rivals through the road tube and among the cars. After a few seconds, Jet and the other two pass by a section while performing a cool pose on their Gears, with Sonic and Spider-Man coming right behind them, performing their own signature poses before continuing the race with their rivals through the city.

BGM End

Unknown location on Mobius

With his plan to take over the world with the Arks of the Cosmos in ruin, resulting in his Crimson Tower to be destroyed, Eggman returns back to one of his bases on his home world. "Well, as usual, another plan destroyed because of Sonic and his no-good friends, especially when he's friends with Spider-Man and other heroes from other dimensions." He said depressingly as he walks up to his main computer room and sits on his chair.

"Maybe I should contact Otto. See how he's doing and what we could do to destroy those miserable pests." He said to himself, all alone in his office.

"That could be arranged, Dr. Eggman." Suddenly, a deep and almost imposing voice spooks the heck out of Eggman when his holographic monitor screen pops up in front of him, acting up static and no view of the person from the other line.

"What the?! Who's there?! How did you gain access to this computer?!" He asked the disembodied voice from the screen.

"My name and information are un-important now. All I can tell you that I am from the same world as the one you know as Octavius."

"You mean you're from Earth?!" Eggman replied.

"Indeed, and I'm here to offer you the chance of a lifetime."

"Offer? What kind of offer?" Eggman asked, sounding a little more interested now.

"I'll inform you on the details later. I have already got in contact with Otto Octavius and he has already agreed to my terms. I hope you do the same."

"If Otto is joining on whatever this is, I might as well do the same. When do we plan on meeting?" Eggman said.

"Like I said, I'll inform you the details later, as I need to invite one more person to join us. I have been watching you three for a long time. You are all very special individuals, but together, by combining our might, no one in any universe could stop us from conquering them, not even Sonic and all of his wretched friends in each universe."

Eggman lets out a laugh, liking what he's hearing about the chance of destroying the blue pest and his inter-dimensional bug friend. "Well, if that's the case, I'm even MORE excited of what's to come! You've got yourself a deal! I look forward to working with you and Otto to take over our worlds!"

"I'm glad you agreed, doctor, and yes, with all of us working together as one, we will be unstoppable, and the multiverse will be ours." He and Eggman then start to manically laugh, hinting at a dark future for our heroes to hopefully counter when the time approaches.

Next time in the United Heroes Series:

Spider-Man and Cinder: Flaming Web of Light and Shadow

A sequel to Un-Gravitified Web and an adaptation of the video game, "Spider-Man: Web of Shadows", where Spider-Man must team up with his Remnant rival, Cinder Fall, to stop an out-of-control Venom from taking over New York with his symbiote Army. Look for this story under the "Spider-Man/RWBY" crossover page.

KFX here: And that's it for this story, ladies and gentlemen. I suppose you're all wondering who that strange voice that was talking to Eggman at the end there? You'll find out soon, but you can keep on guessing his secret identity if you want. Anyways, yes, next story will be another Spider-Man/RWBY crossover, but again with no Team RWBY. This next story will actually be a little more focus on Cinder actually, giving her a little character arc she must go through. What's that all about? Find out when I begin that story sometime whenever I have the chance. See ya.

And to answer your question, "Great Saiyaman54", yes the Rogues knew about their reality collapsing but that was two months ago during this story's timeline so they don't care about past events, and only Earth and Remnant really saw Spider-Man and friends fighting Goblin.