( SU: #60)Īs Shadow battled Rouge and Omega, Black Death sent Eclipse to capture the Spider Troupe and have them be fed as nourishment for the Dark Arms. He then sent Shadow, Eclipse, and some Black Arms soldiers to stop Rouge, Omega, and the Spider Troupe from reaching the New Black Comet's core and blowing it up with a nuclear bomb. Black Death berated Eclipse for not destroying Shadow as he was ordered, but Eclipse assured him that Shadow and the Dark Arms would benefit them. ( SU: #59) When Eclipse battled Shadow, Black Death helped him brainwash Shadow into joining their side. He then ordered Eclipse to fulfill his purpose and face Shadow. His arrival on the planet was delayed due to Eclipse's experiment, and when Team Dark and Spider Troupe attacked his comet, he watched the battle from afar, lamenting that his inevitable confrontation with Shadow was not on his terms.
He planned to use the inhabitants of the planet as a food source for the last remaining Black Arms under his control.
( SU: #60, #69 SSSM: #9)īlack Death led the New Black Comet to Mobius after Shadow the Hedgehog killed Black Doom. While Black Death was loath to leave a planet teeming with life, Eclipse convinced him to do so, particularly since the prize of Mobius-and vengeance upon its inhabitants-were within reach. These creatures were derived from the Wisps, whose home planet the New Black Comet traveled to in order to collect a small sample of the race. Almost immediately, Eclipse proposed the creation of a new sub-breed of Black Arms to strengthen their diminished numbers: the Dark Arms. Death became the Black Arms' new hive-mind, and to exact revenge on Shadow he created a new creature called Eclipse the Darkling. During the Black Arms' first invasion of Mobius, Black Death was stationed on an unknown planet to finish an earlier invasion when he was informed of Gerald Robotnik's betrayal as well as Black Doom's defeat. Black Death learns of Black Doom's demise.īlack Death was created by Black Doom to serve as a secondary hive-mind.