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The Egg Grape Chamber, also known as the Egg Vineyard, is a location that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics. It was one of Dr. Eggman's inventions. Contained in the Egg Fleet, the Egg Vineyard was a large room containing the Egg Grapes, large spherical pods resembling grapes on stalks, which are used as prison containers for the captured people of Knothole. The Chamber is able to convert the life force of living beings trapped in the Egg Grapes into power for Eggman's operations.

Description[]

Essentially, the Egg Grapes are intended to draw energy from those contained within them to power Robotnik's operations. The Egg Grapes had three separate phases of torture: mind eraser, toxic infusion, and energy drain, besides that, they are said to erase very souls and "biofields" of beings and side effects of slight exposure to them drove Ixis Naugus to insanity and Charmy Bee to mental degradation.

History[]

The Egg Grapes have at one time held: Constable Remington, Dark Legion warrior Xenin, the Fire Ant Council, numerous other citizens of Angel Island and member of the Dark Legion, Mammoth Mogul, Ixis Naugus, the Destructix, and the Arachne Clan.

In order to supply him, he equipped his Overlander minion Hunter with a Chaos Spear weapon that teleported victims to the Egg Vineyard. The original Egg Vineyard was badly damaged when Ixis Naugus was freed from the Zone of Silence with the power of the Sword of Acorns. As a result, all of the prisoners taken by Hunter were seemingly vaporized. After overcoming them with the Egg Fleet, Robotnik transported Mogul, Naugus, and their minions to a new chamber. A.D.A.M. later released Mogul and Naugus, while the Destructix were freed by Dr. Finitevus, Scourge the Hedgehog, and Rouge the Bat. The Arachne Clan, apparently either drained of life force or subjected to some flaw in the Egg Grapes, died.

Sonic and friends saved the people of Knothole from the Egg Grapes in Issue 176. When a brain-washed Knuckles the Echidna (as Enerjak) was attacked by Dr. Eggman, the scientist trapped Enerjak in a special Egg Vineyard to take his power. Enerjak, however, over-powered the Egg Vineyard, destroying the Egg Fleet and severely damaging New Megaopolis.

Trivia[]

• In his Q&A, writer Ian Flynn stated that the contents of the Egg Grapes—along with other contents/residents of the Zone of Silence and the Void—were reduced to nothing and used by Feist as building material for the Special Zone.^[1]

References[]

External links[]

• Egg Grape Chamber at Mobius Encyclopaedia, the Archie Sonic wiki.