Lyric the Last Ancient is the main antagonist of both Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric and Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal. He is the last of a benevolent race called the Ancients, but turned on his peers and sought to create and strengthen a robot army using power crystals to destroy all organic life and built a world of twisted metal and robots. Before he could carry out his nefarious deed, however, he was imprisoned. A millennium later, Lyric was freed and resumed his plans, but met opposition from Sonic the Hedgehog and his crew.
History[]
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric[]
Lyric was a member of the race of Ancients, a scientific genius. However, in his work to study the Chaos Crystals he became incredibly ill, as the medicine of the Ancients was helpless, Lyric made himself robot armor to survive and was driven mad, thinking that only machines are what he can depend on. With the help of Chaos Crystals he nearly completed his plan, until he was struck by mysterious hedgehog (actually, Sonic), who said that they had unfinished business. Confused Lyric was attacked by Sonic's spin dash and then trapped by rebellious MAYA unit, which allowed the Ancients to imprison Lyric in his tomb for next millenia, as he turned to statue.
One thousand years later, Lyric was accidentally released from his stone prison by Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends, who were fleeing from Dr. Eggman. Recognizing Sonic as the one who ruined his plans, Lyric said they had unfinished business. However, this time Sonic was the one confused, as his intervention in Lyric's plan was a result of him time-travelling. Lyric was able to counter Sonic's spin dash and trap the team, and to escape from his prison and return to his original plan.
Lyric was encountered by Dr. Eggman with Lyric's reprogrammed robots, as Eggman started to threaten him, only for Lyric to use his belt-device to take control of the robots and nearly killing Eggman, as he stated that he could be helpful when it comes to disposing of Sonic. Lyric then made doctor his henchman, ordering him to dispose of Sonic and retrieve the Chaos Crystals' Map. As Sonic presumably fell from the waterfall alongside with the map, Eggman told about it to Lyric, who was still satisfied as his worm robots were searching for the crystals anyway.
However, it appeared that Sonic survived the waterfall and both Lyric and Eggman started to chase him and his friends, only to end up losing them, as Lyric prepared to dispose of his companion, whom he stated to be even more annoying than the hedgehog. However, Eggman was planning to betray too, so he charged Metal Sonic against Lyric, thinking that more powerful AI will make him invulnerable to Lyric's machine control. However, Lyric was still able to manipulate Metal Sonic with his belt-device and blasting Eggman away.
Sometime later, Lyric was encountered by Eggman again, this time in his heavy weapon robot. As Lyric tried to control it too, he was shocked to learn that this robot cannot be controlled by him, as Dr. Eggman controlled it manually. However, Lyric was lucky to survive the attack, as Eggman had a problem with rocket navigating system.
As Sonic and the others collected all the Chaos Crystals, Lyric ambushed them and trapped Sonic in the circle of his overpowered robots, threatening his friends to kill him if they won't hand the crystals over to him. Still, as they did it, Lyric ordered to shoot Sonic down, burning him under the rubbish. He still managed to survive, however, as Lyric thought Sonic to be dead, he started to accomplish his plan by reviving his giant Sentinel-robots army to eradicate all the organic life on the planet. Lyric then was encountered by Team Sonic in final showdown, only for the heroes to shred Sentinels off the Chaos Crystals and Lyric was depowered, but still not defeated, as he was able to trap Team Sonic with their own Enerbeams, as they were made out of the trap he used when was only released. When Lyric prepared to strike and finish them, however, Dr. Eggman unleashed his final rocket to Lyric, distracting him long enough for heroes to escape and tie Lyric. As Sonic disposed of his machine-control device, Lyric lost the last of his power only for Dr. Eggman to find this device and install it for himself.
Lyric's fate after this was unknown.
Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystals[]
Similar to Rise of Lyric, he was imprisoned by the Ancients, but this time for trying to seize the power of the crystal. He had awoken a thousand years later. He meets Shadow and puts a mind control helmet on him.
In the game's intro, he is seen battling Amy and had managed to captured her by placing a mind control helmet on her head, hoping to use her archaeological knowledge to help him locate the crystal fragment. In Shadow Canyon, Lyric appears as a hologram telling Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Sticks, and Shadow that he is close to achieving his goal before the hologram disappears. In Cloud Sanctuary, the heroes catches up to Lyric and he imprison everyone but Sonic in a capture sphere, he fought and was defeated by the latter.
Lyric is seen crawling away and reveals his robot trump card, but was thwarted by Shadow, who kicks him and Sonic opens the hatch, causing the evil snake to fall out the airship to his death.
Trivia[]
- Lyric will return in Sonic Storm Adventures: Next Generations series as the main antagonist in the hedgehog form.
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