Battle Galaxy

Battle Galaxy is the name of a comic in which many characters including Run the Hedgehog and Theós the Godslayer compete in a tournament with the prize being one wish granted.

History
The tournament is held within the MegaGalaxy known as Battle Galaxy, presented by Katella. She explains that eight teams of 3 have entered to complete for the final prize: one wish granted. Each team is given one chaos emerald and the goal of the tournament is to obtain the chaos emeralds of the other 7 teams. Once a team obtains all 8 emeralds for themselves, they are the winners. Each individual fighter can be eliminated from the tournament. If a fighter is K.O.'d or downed for more than 10 seconds, they are eliminated and sent to a time-out, a waiting area where all disqualified fighters stay until they are requalified or the tournament ends. A fighter can also be eliminated for going out of bounds, which is a large ring of red galaxies around the circumference of the megagalaxy. A team must always have at least 2 active fighters on the field in order to remain qualified to compete. If at least two fighters on a team are sent to time-out at the same time, then the entire time is eliminated and the final member is also sent to the time out. When an emerald held by a rival team is stolen by a fellow team member, that requalifies a downed member back onto the field, and they are warped back. On the other hand, if all of the emeralds of a team are taken in possession of a rival team, the entire team is eliminated from the tournament at once, meaning all active teams must each have one chaos emerald at all times to remain on the field.

The competition begins as Run and his team including Fast the Speedhedge and Jump the Sonicbunny are immediately met with by Team SSL4, consisting of Super Sonic Level 4, Miss Dew, and The Tailsinator. Run recognizes SSL4, and Miss Dew reveals that The Clowns hired SSL4 to destroy Run and that she and The Tailsinator are there to assist in the assassination. SSL4 instantly attacks Run, causing Run to drop his team's only emerald. Jump catches the emerald and holds onto it as Run is flung back from SSL4's attack. He is stopped in his path by The Tailsinator while Jump attempts to challenge SSL4. He fires a Master Sword from his gun arm, but after it hits SSL4 it merely bounces away, dealing no damage. Jump then retreats for an unknown reason, leaving Fast and Run to deal with the current threat without him. Miss Dew declares that despite Jump's escape with Team Run's chaos emerald, they are here to assassinate Run instead of compete in the tournament. Fast, still determined to compete, attempts to steal Team SSL4's chaos emerald with hopes to eliminate the entire team at once. He revs up and runs as fast as he can, but before he can even realize his own speed, he found himself running out of bounds and despite his efforts to stop, he slides into the red ring around the megagalaxy and is warped to the time-out, becoming Team Run's first fighter eliminated. With Jump and Fast removed from the current fight, Run is left to deal with all of Team SSL4 by himself. The Tailsinator attempts to attack Run, but Run quickly catches the punch and freezes him in ice, shattering him to pieces with a punch afterwards. Run returns his attention to the Team SSL4's emerald with the motive of still competing for the grand prize. With The Tailsinator seemingly defeated, Miss Dew challenges Run one-on-one but her ability to control Mt Dew proves to be ineffective about Run. However, Miss Dew makes several soda related puns that are so bad, they end up harming Run physically.

Elsewhere, Theós the Godslayer is challenged by two members of Team Worst, Worst the Hedgehog and Zyro the Hedgefox. Theós seems unimpressed and insults him, implying he has an incestuous relationship with his own sister. Worst denies this, taking offense from the slander, and challenges Theós to a one on one fight, telling Zyro not to interfere. Zyro agrees and reveals he never cared about the tournament in the first place, so he retreats and backflips out of bounds, eliminating himself and his entire team from the tournament. Before Worst can disappear from the team elimination however, he manages to show off his power in front of Theós, lighting an entire galaxy on fire. Theós effortlessly displays the same power level by somehow transforming himself into a Chaos 0 like form and engulfing the burning galaxy in water. Zyro disappears from the battlefield due to the team elimination, leaving behind his team emerald for Theós to collect, bringing Team Theós' emerald count up to 2.

Back to Team Run vs SSL4, The Tailsinator reveals that he was not defeated by his body being shattered as he breaks free from the ice and reattaches his limbs and head back to his body. He then turns his arm into a liquid and wraps it around Run's body, trapping him in a tight grip of what The Tailsinator unveils is liquid metal. With Run trapped, SSL4 prepares to dash into him again at full power, causing Run to cry out in desperation. It can be assumed that Run knows one more attack from SSL4 would knock him out and thus cause his team's entire elimination from the tournament. Before SSL4 can hit Run though, he is stopped in his tracks by a mysterous force of pulsating black rings emanating from his position. It's then revealed that Queen Rouge is a fighter in the tournament halting SSL4 was her doing. Upon seeing her, Run becomes mesmerized, and The Tailsinator and Miss Dew are distracted by the surprise. Yanderamy arrives and attacks Miss Dew, K.O.ing her in one strike, and soon after, Duck the Duck also arrives showcasing his new ability of electrokinesis, attacking The Tailsinator from above with a large electric attack, K.O.ing him as well. Since two fighters of Team SSL4 become disqualified, the entire team becomes eliminated, causing SSL4 to also vanish to the time out. Team SSL4's emerald flies from SSL4's previous position, landing in Run's hand. This counts as the acquisition of a rival team's emerald, meaning Fast is requalified to fight on the field and thus he is teleported back. Team Run now holds two of the eight emeralds in Battle Galaxy.

Team Duck stares down Run as Duck declares his revenge on Run for destroying his galaxy. Yanderamy then speaks up and reminds Run of how he destroyed the Ninja Galaxy and caused the death of Sonikku. Queen Rouge remains silent, although Run becomes entranced by her in a loving daze. Fast notices Run in a hypnotic state and covers his eyes to prevent it continuing. Wasting no time, Yanderamy lunges at Run with her hammer, but is stopped in her path by Queen Rouge in much the same way SSL4 was stopped. Team Duck discusses who gets to be the first to fight Run as they all are there for personal revenge against him for destroying their galaxies. The group ultimately decides on rock, paper, scissors in order to determine who fights first, with the winner being Duck. As Duck readies himself to fight, he hands off the two team emeralds in his possession to Yanderamy; one of which was presumably his own team's original emerald and the other being an emerald from a team they already defeated before meeting with Team Run. Duck also reveals that the only reason he recruited Queen Rouge to his team was because he knew of Run's weakness to Rouges thanks to learning of it in Prison Galaxy. In the midst of all this, Fast the Speedhedge realizes that if he can quickly retrieve Team Duck's two emeralds, then the entire fight could be avoided as they would be entirely disqualified. Fast quickly dashes for Yanderamy and the emeralds at his top speed which ends up knocking the emeralds from her hands. Fast pushes Yanderamy out of bounds with himself as he once again runs out of the ring, eliminating himself and Yanderamy both. Queen Rouge manages to catch both emeralds dropped by Yanderamy and thus Team Duck remains on the field despite the loss of Yanderamy.

Duck attacks Run as the latter remains in his hypnotic-like state, and sends him down onto a planet. Duck then powers up an electrical attack and fires it down onto the planet, destroying it. Run is the only thing that remains in the dust of the destroyed planet. Duck powers up and transforms into a new Super Form called Static Duck, causing his feathery spikey hair to poof into an afro. Duck releases the built up electrical energy within him and destroys several planets around himself, revealing his power had multiplied several times. He reveals that he acquired electrokinesis abilities by being revived by the steam of Runo the Hedgehog that had mixed into a star nebula that was experiencing a highly electric storm. Run begins to come to his senses while Duck gathers all his latent energy to form a large ball of electricity equivalent in size and power to the sun itself. The ball collides with Run right as he notices it coming and after a large explosion, Run is seen unharmed and unimpressed by the attack. Queen Rouge interrupts the battle and insists she take over in Duck's place. Duck agrees and retreats to the sidelines as Queen Rouge emerges forward.

Queen Rouge reveals that it has been over a year since Run destroyed the Medieval Galaxy in Tails Knight Adventures! and that by killing King Sonic, Run effectively stripped her from her rank as a queen. She intends to marry Run in order to get back what he stole from her, a husband and king she may rule beside, and ultimately her queenship. Duck had no idea that this was the kind of revenge Queen Rouge sought to exact from Run and expresses dismay as he realizes Queen Rouge not only intends to keep Run alive, but to essentially use him as a weapon to elevate herself, and pursue a galactic conquest in establishing a new kingdom for herself. Duck pleads to Queen Rouge as he believes destroying Run will save the universe from him, but Rouge argues that by ruling the universe herself, she will ensure its safety. In the midst of their quarrel, a moon is hurled at the group. They all dodge it, but are surprised to see the return of Jump the Sonicbunny as he enters the fight again. Jump states that it is not only Rouge that requires Run's utilization and he initiates a one-on-one battle with her over him.

The moon that Jump fired before happened to have collided with an Earth like planet, causing its destruction. This changed Jump's ammunition into Earths as that is the rule of his ability - that the last thing his previous ammo destroys becomes his new ammo, as long as the new ammo is larger or more powerful than the previous item. Jump begins firing several planets at Queen Rouge, but she uses her powers to stop them in their tracks and gather them together. They all merge in a giant explosion and become one large gas giant planet. Queen Rouge reveals that her power is an ability called Black Wave, and with it she can control objects that have a gravitational field. As this extends to nearly everything in existence, it effectively means she has telekinetic powers over everything. She also states that the larger and more powerful the gravitational force of an object is, the more capable she is of manipulating it. She hurls the saturn-like planet at Jump, but he is able to destroy it by firing smaller earth-like planets at it. As the gas giant explodes, Queen Rouge flies through the destruction and punches Jump in the face, causing him to fly into a nearby sun-like star. The star explodes and out of the explosion emerges Jump, firing his gun-arm and shooting a star from it. Katella reveals that Jump managed to destroy the star before falling into it, so it can be assumed that Jump's ammunition was upgraded to gas giants and he fired enough of them at the star in order to destroy it, thus making stars his new ammo. Queen Rouge manages to catch the star, but as she throws it back at him, Jump fires another star right at it, causing the two stellar objects to explode and eventually merge into a black hole. Queen Rouge celebrates the fact that black holes cannot be destroyed by any other kind of celestial object, therefore it would be impossible for Jump to stop one. She uses Black Wave to throw the black hole at Jump and Jump begins firing many, many stars into it. As they each get sucked up by the black hole, Queen Rouge mocks Jump for not being able to destroy it, stating that he's only feeding the black hole, causing it to grow in size and power, giving her even more strength.

Jump has a flashback to events before the tournament. He originates from a galaxy called the Reject Galaxy and had childhood dreams of becoming an astronaut. One normal day, there was a galactic invasion and Jump's Father rushed outside to defend the galaxy from the invading force. It is eventually revealed that the alien invaders were in fact the Mafia, originating from the now destroyed Mafia Galaxy, consisting of Cole "Rush" Amulet and Theós, along with an entire army of made men. As Jump explores the now silent battlefield, he comes across the corpse of his deceased father and cries over his loss. Two years later, on the moon base of the Mafia, the two leaders look down at the planet as the fight between the citizens and the mafia goons continues, and Cole passionately admires their efforts to claim power over the galaxy. Theós on the other hand feels that this kind of power is no longer satisfying to him, so he quits the mafia and leaves the moon base at once, much to Cole's surprise. As Theós leaves, Run arrives and decides to visit the earth-like planet of this galaxy. As the moon is in his path between him and the planet, he decides to fly straight through it, causing it's total destruction. On the surface below, it's seen that Jump had joined the fight against the Mafia, but lost both of his hands in the battle. As he is hospitalized with fellow soldier Fast the Speedhedge, he nearly gives up hope for any victory until the moon mysteriously explodes, taking the mafia forces with it. In the dust cloud of the moon emerges Run the Hedgehog, who merely greets the resistance with "Hey."

As Jump reawakens from his memories, he states that the entire reason he joined the tournament at Battle Galaxy was to get revenge on Theós, who is the last remaining member of the Mafia still alive and he will stop at nothing until he is able to defeat him. Jump continues bloating the black hole with stellar matter as he shoots hundreds and thousands of more stars into it. Queen Rouge believes Jump is uneducated on the way gravity works and asserts that she can't be defeated now that she has a black hole under her control. Jump on the other hand reveals that he has always been a fan of outer space and astrophysics with dreams of one day being an astronaut and that he had every intention of stuffing the black hole with as much matter as possible. As Queen Rouge expresses intense frustration at this, Jump uses the team emerald to chaos control away. The black hole begins emitting a powerful gamma ray burst from each of its poles, one of which fires directly at Queen Rouge. She attempts to use Black Wave to stop the attack, but since GRBs are largely consisting of radiation and small dust particles, the gravitational field is nonexistent or too small to assert any control over, so she is ultimately struck and K.O.'d by the beam. With Team Duck having Yanderamy in time-out for going out of bounds, and Queen Rouge K.O.'d, they are eliminated from the tournament. As Duck realizes this, he quickly grabs Run by the collar and attempts to punch him in the face, but before his fist collides, he and Queen Rouge are warped to the time-out. Run awakens from his Rouge-induced trance, and Jump acquires the two emeralds from Queen Rouge, bringing the total of emeralds in possession by Team Run up to four. The acquisition of foreign emeralds from Team Duck to Team Run also returns Fast the Speedhedge to the battle field again. Elsewhere, Theós faces off against Castlight the Hedgehog in a Centi Form. Theós is unimpressed by Castlight's power level, and transforms into a Mephiles type form and engages in a one-on-one fight. Theós is the winner and ends up with four emeralds on his team as well, making Team Theós and Team Run the finalists with four emeralds per team.

Theós is seen meditating as he waits for Team Run to find him. When they do, he reveals that he had been awaiting to see Run again all along. Jump and Fast quickly stand between Theós and Run and declare their revenge on Theós for invading their galaxy and causing the deaths of their families, but Theós doesn't even recognize them. Jump fires a star at Theós but Theós stops it with one hand and mysteriously dissolves the star into dust, leaving behind a rose that he grabs and sniffs before tossing aside. Katella explains that Theós' power is atomic manipulation, giving him full control over atoms and allowing him to change and control what they form. Fast then steps ahead and readies himself to run at Theós. As he lunges forward for his opponent, Jump has a flashback to before the mafia invasion of the Reject Galaxy. After coming in 2nd place at a race, Fast was diagnosed with brittle bones and a heart condition, limiting what he can physically do and forcing him to walk around in crutches. Upon seeing a purse being stolen, he rushes in to help but feels the bones in his legs breaking while his heart rushes out of control, causing him to pass out before he could retrieve the purse. He's next running at 65 MPH on a treadmill as he trains himself to endure his condition. He lives out his normal life with his mother, as she expresses worry about his gotta-go-fast lifestyle. Fast works out his leg muscles as his personal physician and uncle, Uncle Chuck monitor him in shock of what he can do despite his condition. Then outside, an ambulance gets a flat tire, and the driver cries out that the patient will never make it to the hospital in time now. Fast takes the patient and runs at 300 MPH to the hospital, arriving and delivering the patient just before his legs and heart gave out again. When he awakes, he discovers that the patient ended up dying because he arrived too late and he blames himself for not being fast enough yet again. It's also revealed that his legs had to be removed from the constant injuries much to his dismay. A mysterious figure reveals himself to be Dr Robowserdorf and gives Fast a leg transplant, resulting with his new legs being that of a roadrunner. Fast trains with his new legs before arriving at Uncle Chuck's observatory where he learns of an invading force heading towards their galaxy. Uncle Chuck is unable to alert Queen Aleena, ruler of the galaxy, and Fast's mother about the invading force, so Fast volunteers to run across the entire planet in time to deliver the message so she can raise the galactic defenses. Fast runs all across the planet in barely under 10 seconds which is roughly 4.5 million MPH, and as he alerts the queen of the invasion, the castle is struck with a spaceship laser and is destroyed, sending Fast flying from the explosion. As Fast ends his flashback, he reveals that he blames himself for the mafia invasion, because he wasn't fast enough to alert the queen in time. His heart condition sends his heart into overdrive as he rushes towards Theós but as he's about to hit, Theós reaches out and stops Fast, claiming he's not fast enough. Theós then effortlessly shoves Fast backwards through Battle Galaxy until he's thrown into the outer ring, and out-of-bounds.

Jump backs down from Theós and leaves the fight to Run. Theós explains that years ago, he witnessed Run fight Dr Eggfreeze after he and Cole assisted him in his search as Run was exploring the Amino Galactic Cluster in Sonic Amino Roleplaying. It was when he saw Run transform into a Super Sonic God Super Sonic against Dr Eggfreeze that he witnessed Run's true capabilities. Run later destroyed the entire Mafia Galaxy in his fight with Super Shadow Rosé, further affirming that he was a true source of power in Theós' opinion. After that, Theós, Cole, and any remaining made men began galactic conquest elsewhere, eventually leading them to invade the Reject Galaxy. It was during this invasion that Theós finally decided enough was enough, and he disowned the Mafia in search of the kind of power once displayed by Run all those years ago. Theós reveals that he trained his mind and body in order to grow stronger and learn new techniques, eventually resulting in him gaining the abilities to manipulate matter. During his quest for power, he apparently committed many acts of good and many acts of evil, willing to do anything it took to achieve higher levels of strength. He also reveals that the entire tournament in Battle Galaxy was his invention, and he intended to use it to test himself against the universe's strongest fighters. Theós claims that Run was his inspiration and that he would not be where he was now if it were not for him, but as he continues to monologue, Run encases him in ice. Theós breaks free, and transforms into a Light Gaia inspired form, granting him immense super strength and physical might which he uses to punch Run down onto a planet. As Run slams into the surface, the planet explodes from the impact, leaving Run behind with a slightly pink cheek. Theós becomes confused as to why Run wouldn't even dodge the attack, but Run becomes annoyed by from the injury Theós gave him, so he unleashes an ice storm that freezes over the entire galaxy they were fighting in. As Theós is frozen over again, he becomes annoyed that Run's power only extended out to one galaxy, so he transforms into an Iblis themed state and blasts fire outwards, shooting through the ice and destroying 50,000 galaxies on each side of him including the one Run had iced over. The explosion appeared to have K.O.'d Run, causing Theós to become disappointed, but Run reveals himself to be okay and readies himself for more fighting much to Theós' surprise.

It is then that Theós reveals his actual goal, to achieve Enriched Power, which he believes Run may hold the key to unlocking.