Sonic Underground Zone

This location exists primarily or exclusively within the Sonic Underground continuity. Information in this article may not be canonical to the storyline of the games or any other Sonic continuity.

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Sonic Underground Zone
A view of Mobius, a planet in the Sonic Underground Zone.
Background information
First appearance	"Beginnings"
Overview
Location	Sonic's multiverse
Inhabitants	Abdul Agent N Allegra Aman-Rapi Amir Argus ART Athair Bartleby MontClair Bellok Bog Beasty Captain Squeegee Chief Chomps Chuck Clifton Countess Katrina Cyrus Dingo Dr. Robotnik Duke of Velcronia Farrell Gandar Granny Hooter Hothep Ifyoucan Jake Jamal Jack Jerod Kar-lek Knuckles the Echidna Lady Agitha Lady Dagney Lady Windermere Lionel Lord Ambrey Lord Harrigan Luke Periwinkle Maeve Manic the Hedgehog Mantu Marty Max Mayor Whinnyham Miffy Squinkington Mindy LaTour Moby Deep Moe Mr. LaTour Oracle of Delphius Professor Queen Aleena Hedgehog Queen Sauna Raphi Hajani Reeno Renée Rudy Serro Sheila Sleet Sonia the Hedgehog Sonic's adopted parents Sonic the Hedgehog Stripes Thelonious Titus Tod Trevor Vince Yeti Zeb
Visitors	Scourge the Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog Zonic the Zone Cop
Final state	Intact

The Sonic Underground Zone is a location that appears in the Sonic Underground television series and the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics. It is an alternate dimension with similarities to Mobius Prime and part of the multiverse. In this reality, Sonic the Hedgehog fights to topple the Robotnik Empire with the aid of his siblings Sonia and Manic, with all three of them being of royal descent and leading the Resistance against Dr. Robotnik's tyranny as the band, "Sonic Underground".

History

TV series

Season one

Shortly after her children's birth, Queen Aleena, the former ruler of Mobius, was overthrown by Dr. Robotnik. Robotnik seized control of the planet and forced Queen Aleena into hiding. To preserve the dynasty, Queen Aleena separated her children Sonic, Manic, and Sonia after the Oracle of Delphius told her of a prophecy, proclaiming that one day, Queen Aleena would reunite with her children to form the "Council of Four", and overthrow Robotnik. Meanwhile, Dr. Robotnik did his best to set up an autocratic government, and legally turned anyone who stood against him into robots devoid of free will with roboticization, and forced the nobles into paying large amounts of money to him as tribute.

When Sonic, Manic and Sonia grew up, the Oracle of Delphius revealed the prophecy to them. After that, Sonic, Manic, and Sonia decided to go on a quest, searching across Mobius for Queen Aleena. Dr. Robotnik, with the assistance of the Swatbots and his bounty hunters Sleet and Dingo, tries constantly to capture the royal hedgehogs and prevent the prophecy from being fulfilled.

Archie Comics

Past

The Sonic Underground Zone has a somewhat similar past to the Prime Zone, in that its version of Dr. Robotnik seized the city of Mobotropolis shortly after Sonic and his siblings were born and converted it into Robotropolis. He would then keep the wealthy around to fund his factories while he roboticized everyone else. He also planned to force Queen Aleena, the current ruler, to marry him in order to legitimize his takeover of the planet.

Aleena also happened to be the mother of three children: Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonia the Hedgehog and Manic the Hedgehog. She took her children into hiding after a bounty was placed on them, but after being told a prophesy from the Oracle of Delphius that would claim the lives of her children would depend on her giving them up, she was forced to part ways with her offspring. She left them to various caretakers: Sonic to a country family who would later pass him to this Zone's version of Uncle Chuck, Sonia to a kindly aristocrat named Lady Windermere, and Manic to a good-hearted thief named Farrell. All three became accustomed to playing musical instruments and would eventually meet with each other and form a band. The Oracle of Delphius would return, revealing the children’s history to them. After this, Robotnik would capture Chuck, Windermere, and Farrell and roboticize each one of them. The trio would then form a resistance group together and vow to find their mother no matter how long it would take. They would be plagued not only by Robotnik, but also by his top bounty hunters, Sleet and Dingo.

Giant Borg's attack

Dr. Robotnik attacking with the Giant Borg, from Sonic Super Special #10.

During Robo-Robotnik v1.0's attack in the Giant Borg, Zonic the Zone Cop would go and seek assistance from every version of Sonic across the multiverse. Because of the vast amount of Sonics across the numerous Zones, Zonic forgot about the Sonic Underground Zone and its local Sonic. For this reason, Underground Sonic never received a piece of the Giant Borg when they were distributed to all the Sonics in the multiverse.

Evil Sonic would come to invade the Sonic Underground Zone during a mission from Robo-Robotnik to obtain all the pieces of the Giant Borg. He then proceeded to interrogate Sonic, Sonia, and Manic about the location of their Giant Borg piece, which left the siblings puzzled. After giving up, he would be captured by Sleet and Dingo. Evil Sonic mistook the Underground Robotnik for Robo-Robotnik and hand over all the pieces of the Giant Borg from the other Zones to him. Underground Robotnik likewise mistook Evil Sonic for the Underground Sonic and had him sent away for roboticization. Robo-Robotnik secretly arrived on the scene to witness these events, abandoned his hopes of recovering the Giant Borg, and departed.

Meanwhile, during a concert preformed by Sonic, Sonia, and Manic, Sonic Prime and Zonic showed up searching for Evil Sonic. Underground Sonic and his siblings mistook his Prime-self for Evil Sonic they encountered earlier until Sonic Prime and Zonic explained themselves and their mission. Zonic was surprised about his lack of data on the Sonic Underground Zone and its variant of Sonic there and would ask for an explanation of the Zone’s history.

It wasn't long until Underground Robotnik stormed the scene in the rebuilt Giant Borg, believing he robotized his version of Sonic and now looking for Sonia and Manik. The two Sonics, Manic, Sonia, and Zonic formulated a plan that required Underground Sonic to lead the Giant Borg away from Robotropolis. The Giant Borg took the opportunity to fire a heat-seeking missile at Underground Sonic. While Underground Robotnik was distracted, Prime Sonic and Zonic would sneak onto the Giant Borg and corner him. Underground Sonic then turned the missile back at the Giant Borg by running towards it, destroying the weapon for good.

Afterwards, Sonia and Manic, followed by the Sonics and Zonic, would sneak past Dingo and Sleet and free Evil Sonic from his cell in Robotnik's prison. Evil Sonic then pointed out that they are just freeing him from one jail to put him in another but then Prime Sonic would also point out that this way he would not be roboticized. Prime Sonic and Zonic would thank the Underground Sonic, Sonia, and Manic before taking Evil Sonic and departing from the Sonic Underground Zone. Sonic, his sister and brother were left pondering if they will ever meet Prime Sonic or Zonic ever again.

On tour

Sometime following the events of Sonic Prime's sacrifice during the Xorda Attack on Mobius, the Sonic Underground band payed a visit to Mobius Prime as part of an interdimensional concert tour.

Locations

• Mobius

Trivia

• This universe is the setting of the entire Sonic Underground television series.
• The characters of Sonia and Manic on the TV show were payed homage to later in the comic book in the form of Sonic and Sally's future children, Sonia and Manik, from various future timelines.

The preview of the epilogue cover. Art by Patrick Spaziante.

• Ian Flynn had thought that perhaps making a new Sonic Underground story that would wrap up where the original series left off was an interesting idea, he also felt he would be "stepping on the original creatives' toes" and that the story probably wouldn't see publication for at least two years if he was allowed to do it anyway.
  • It was revealed at New York Comic Con 2012 that Sonic Universe #50 was intended to be the official epilogue of the Sonic Underground series. However, the issue instead featured a plotline focused on Shard the Metal Sonic. The epilogue was later revealed to have been cancelled. According to Ian Flynn, the epilogue was still planned, but the story had not yet been finalized.
  • Ian Flynn stated in early 2013 that material from Sonic Underground is "off-limits:. During the Sonic Lost World "First Play" Marathon, Ian Flynn explained that this was the reason the epilogue had been put on hold. He later stated the epilogue's story would be featured in Lost Hedgehog Tales, a written document compiling Sonic comic material that will no longer be used, thus seemingly confirming that the epilogue is no longer a possibility.

External links

• Sonic Underground Zone at Mobius Encyclopaedia, the Archie Sonic wiki.