Apotos (Archie)


 * You may be looking for Apotos from the games.

Apotos is a large city that is home to the Gaia Gate and its protector Gregorios.

History
During the Shattered World Crisis, Metal Sonic traveled to Apotos and found Gregorios. He was about to interrogate him regarding information on Dark Gaia when Dr. Eggman contacted him with new instructions regarding the Chaos Emerald Championship. Left behind, Gregorios realized that he had to contact his associates regarding the matter, and later contacted the Freedom Fighters regarding their efforts to restore the planet. However, their rendezvous was somewhat delayed, partly because Sonic had to deal with Eggman forces and the Ifrit when they invaded Apotos' Blue Coast Zone.

Eventually, after engaging yet another force of the Badnik Horde, Sonic and his associates Antoine D'Coolette and Chip found Gregorios, who showed them the Gaia Gate and explained how it could be used to access the Gaia Temples if they collected the Gaia Keys. He then provided them with a list of families who had been entrusted with the artifacts, and the heroes parted ways with him. Unfortunately, they were then forced to deal with a Dark Gaia Titan that had invaded, though help arrived in the form of Knuckles, Bunnie D'Coolette, and Amy Rose. They soon dispatched the Titan and recovered a shard of the Master Emerald, and the information provided by Gregorios opened the way for Knuckles and Amy to hunt down other fragments of the gem using the Mystic Melody.