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The Red Killer Bee (レッド・キラービー,Reddo Kirā Bī?) is an enemy that appears in the nighttime Stages in Sonic Unleashed. They are a variant of Dark Gaia's Minions and an empowered version of the Killer Bee.
Contrary to their name, the Red Killer Bees look more like wasps than bees. Like other empowered members of Dark Gaia's Minions, they bear a strong resemblance to their weaker counterpart (Killer Bees), but possess a different color scheme. They have long, thin horns and antennae on their foreheads, and their mouths look like beaks with tusks. Their thoraxes are spherical, with small spikes and four wings, and they have purple smoke emitting from their backs. Also, they have stingers on the ends of their abdomens that resemble arrowheads. Finally, they have red, pink, magenta and black skin with cyan body markings.
The size of the Red Killer Bees differs between the versions of Sonic Unleashed. On the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 version, the Red Killer Bees are a little larger than Sonic the Werehog, but on the PlayStation 2/Wii version, they are only about half his size.
Powers and abilities
The Red Killer Bees are able to move around by teleporting into an area in a puff of purple smoke. As a Dark Gaia minion, the Red Killer Bees can possess people by latching onto the deepest, darkest part of the heart, and generate despair, negative emotions or even erratic behavior that are completely opposite to the person's personality.
As an empowered version of the Killer Bees, the Red Killer Bees possesses strength, speed and intelligence above that of the regular Killer Bees.[1] With the wings on their backs, the Red Killer Bees can fly and can move swiftly through mid-air. In fact, the Red Killer Bees can move great distances in a matter of split-seconds, making them the fastest of Dark Gaia's Minions. The Red Killer Bees are also quite nimble and acrobatic while in flight, being able to dodge fast attacks with fluid movements.
The Red Killer Bees also possess a barbed stinger which they use to pierce their opponents.
Overview
The Red Killer Bees and the other members of Dark Gaia's Minions were created at the beginning of Sonic Unleashed. Following the premature awakening of the ancient entity Dark Gaia, the beast was unable to support itself and broke into countless fragments, with these fragments becoming the Red Killer Bees and the rest of Dark Gaia's Minions. They first appear in Arid Sands Night Act II: The City of Sand in the PlayStation 2/Wii version and in Dragon Road Night Act 1 in the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 version.
The Red Killer Bees are one of the strongest and most dangerous of Dark Gaia's Minions. As an empowered version of the Killer Bees, the Red Killer Bees have faster movements and can deal more damage than their weaker counterparts, making them the fastest and one of the most damage-dealing of Dark Gaia's Minions. They are, however, highly vulnerable thrown objects. In the PlayStation 2/Wii version of Sonic Unleashed, the Red Killer Bees always appear in large numbers like the Killer Bees, but in the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 version, they always appear either alone or in pairs.
In battle, the Red Killer Bees shares the same attack patterns as the Killer Bees. They will circle Sonic to signify they are getting ready to attack, and when attacking, they will strike using their large stingers, either by launching themselves into Sonic from behind at incredible speed or dealing a barrage of stings when up close. The Red Killer Bees also possess wide movement capabilities that let them dodge attacks by either moving out of the player's range or fly into the air for then to launch a counterattack, making it extremely hard to strike them.
Upon the reconstruction of Dark Gaia by Dr. Eggman, all of the Red Killer Bees along with the other Dark Gaia Minions were returned to the beast, who was later defeated and sealed within the planet's core.
