When Aaron discovered this, he deliberately set off the missile, ending its threat to the Floating Island and Menniker's life at the cost of his own. Menniker managed to grab a hold of Aaron before the missile took off ordering him not to try to meddle with the bomb or it would explode. One of the Overlanders launched the missile, but Aaron leaped on and began to disable it. Aaron, who was currently on the planet's surface, discovered Menniker and his plot. Teaming up with a group of Overlanders, Menniker procured a nuclear missile, hoping to strike down the Floating Island. Some generations later, after the birth of the Guardians Harlan, Rembrandt, Aaron and Jordan, Menniker and a few members of the Dark Legion managed to escape the Twilight Zone. However, they were repelled and forced back into their prison zone. Thanks to stolen Nocturnus technology, during Moonwatcher's tenure as Guardian, the Dark Legion managed to escape from the Twilight Zone and attack. ( KtE: #1, #2, #3)ДЄ Legionnaire with other Twilight Cage prisoners.Дuring their time in the Zone, the Dark Legion ran afoul of another clan of Echidnas from Mobius called the Nocturnus Clan, who controlled the Zone and the other races within, although the Nocturnus leader Imperator Ix chose to shun them due to their inferior technology. Before the other members of the Legion were able to act, Steppenwolf used his Chaos powers to banish Menniker and the Dark Legion to the Twilight Zone, a realm where time passed differently than on Mobius, resulting in four Mobian generations to every single Dark Legion one. After killing Edmund, Steppenwolf- the son of Edmund and second Guardian- engaged Menniker in mortal combat.

The Dark Legion began open warfare on Echidnaopolis, beginning a civil war which would not stop until one side emerged victorious.

1.12 Enerjak's Curse & Desperate AllianceДЇounded by Menniker, son of Dimitri, the Dark Legion was originally made up of a group of disgruntled Echidnas opposed to the Echidna Council's ban on excess technology.

Following Eggman's descent into insanity, they became soldiers under the Iron Dominion, but returned to their previous allegiance after their joint occupation with the Dominion of New Mobotropolis was defeated by the Freedom Fighters. Eggman, where they swore their loyalty to him in exchange for technological implants and power and were renamed as the Dark Egg Legion. Those who missed their technology remained loyal to Lien-Da and followed her to Dr. Enerjak used his powers to completely rid them of their technological enhancements, and many of the former members were transported to Albion with the few surviving Angel Island Echidnas. However, upon the return of Enerjak, the factions unified against their common foe. The Legion temporarily splintered into two factions, the Flame Legion and the Frost Legion as a result of a power struggle between Lien-Da and Remington. While originally the organization was continually hostile towards their other Echidna brethren, recently they had acted as the protectors of the surviving Echidnas on Angel Island from the Dr. The Dark Legion was a technocratic organization formed by Dimitri's son Menniker after the Echidna society on Angel Island renounced technology. Nearly 400 years ago, founded by Menniker (dissolved into Dark Egg Legion in 3237)

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