Freedom Fighters (Kingdom of Acorn)


 * This article is about the Post-Super Genesis Wave timeline incarnation of the Freedom Fighters. For the Pre-Super Genesis Wave timeline incarnation, see Knothole Freedom Fighters.

The New Freedom Fighters are the main protagonists of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics in the Post-Super Genesis Wave timeline. They are a Freedom Fighter group unit led by Sonic the Hedgehog and Sally Acorn.

The group contains all primary members of the Knothole Freedom Fighters–the former Freedom Fighter incarnation led by Sonic–and all members of Team Rose.

Formation
When Dr. Eggman had betrayed King Acorn and began his coup de'tat on the city of Mobotropolis, Sally Acorn and Antoine D'Coolette were taken to Knothole Village deep inside the Wood Zone. As badniks began to ambush the village, Sally had contemplated on giving up and letting Eggman win, but she realized that this would not bring the kingdom justice. Therefore, inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog's heroism, Sally had formed the New Freedom Fighters.

Gathering the Gang Back Together

 * For an in-depth summary of this event, see The Return of the Freedom Fighters.

Eventually, the New Freedom Fighters had split up to all collect information or miscellaneous items to complete the Sky Patrol. Due to effects of the Genesis Wave and with the history swapping, Sonic and Miles "Tails" Prower were transported to Mobotropolis after the events of When Worlds Collide, although, according to Tails, they retrieved a distress call from Nicole the Holo-Lynx involving Tails Doll. After defeating Tails Doll, along with finding Nicole, Sonic and Tails realized their dual memories and another timeline that no longer exists, and brainstorm a plan to retrieve all of the New Freedom Fighters to restore Nicole back to normal, as she was not in good condition. The two find King Acorn locked in a cell, as the king was locked in the duration of Walter Naugus' rule on the city. The king provides information on the whereabouts on Rotor the Walrus, and the two heroes immediately storm off to find Rotor and get a lead on gathering the New Freedom Fighters.

Sonic and Tails then head to the Mystic Ruins location, where they find Big the Cat and Froggy. The two Mystic Ruins-natives give directions to Sonic and Tails on where the Sky Patrol "project" was located. The four of them then head to the ruins of Final Egg, where they find Rotor ambushed by Silver Sonic v3.0 and a badnik horde. After destroying the robots, Sonic, Tails, Big, and Froggy head inside the Sky Patrol with a tour provided by Rotor, where T-Pup is confirmed to have stayed with Rotor. Sonic and Tails restore Rotor's memories of his "old world" incarnation, and, after the walrus has a moment to ponder all of these new visuals, are told of the rest of the New Freedom Fighters' locations.

Soon, Sonic and Tails would head to the Wood Zone to retrieve Antoine D'Coolette, who was with Charles the Hedgehog and Ben Muttski to collect samples of mysterious gas seeming from fault lines from recent earthquakes. After restoring Antoine's memory, along with a brief rescue mission when Uncle Chuck and Muttski fell in a fault line from an occurring earthquake, Antoine decided to stay and escort the professor and his assistant back to Spagonia, and he will then return to the Sky Patrol. Sonic and Tails then traveled to Metropolis Zone to find Bunnie D'Coolette, who was undercover at the local Egg Army unit to retrieve a shield generator for the Sky Patrol albeit it was originally designed for the Death Egg. As Bunnie and Sonic collected the shield generator, another earthquake occurred at the city, damaging it greatly. The three returned to the Sky Patrol, with Antoine reuniting with Bunnie with her memories restored, while Sonic and Tails rest at the Sky Patrol.

Meanwhile, in the duration of all of this, Sally was at the Death Egg stealing information from the Egg Network, and eventually escaped successfully. However, Eggman had sent Metal Sonic to track down and kill Sally. Because of this, she sent a distress call to the Freedom Fighters shortly before Metal Sonic caused her to crash land at Mobotropolis, where, conveniently, Amy Rose, Cream the Rabbit, and Cheese were transported after their adventures in the Sol Zone. Sally, Amy, Cream, and Cheese had attempted to defeat Metal Sonic, but where no match until the real hedgehog himself arrived to take Metal Sonic and finish the fight quickly. Metal Sonic was defeated, and the heroes went back to the Sky Patrol, where Sonic had restored Sally's and Amy's memories. However, with Nicole completely repaired, she alarms the team that the planet is about to collapse upon itself, thus the Shattered World Crisis had begun.