Wayne Bay

Wayne Bay is a guy who makes bad jokes and tries very hard to get people to like him. He also happens to get kidnapped and given total control over reality in exchange for his free will.

He was pretty close friends with Double up until Copy's arrival. Despite his best efforts, Wayne found that he was slowly becoming less relevant in Double's life. That's fine, though. He's just some guy who's kind of a coward and doesn't really do anything that other people haven't done before.

A few months before Eggman's takeover, Wayne vanished. Despite his best attempts, Double couldn't find him. Unknown to him, Wayne'd been captured to be modified into a host for the Phantom Ruby; the next time the two of them crossed paths, Double was face to face with Infinite. The Ruby was too volatile for Infinite to use continuously without it eroding away at him further, but as it became clear that the artificial prototype wouldn't be enough to stop the Resistance he didn't have much choice. Now with literally infinite power, he was almost unstoppable-- at least, until Sik was able to neutralize the Ruby's realitywarping by countering it with the prototype. Double and Sonic's final showdown with him was enough to break through Eggman's control and bring Wayne back to his senses, but the overclocked Ruby was too much for him to handle and he appeared to glitch out of existence like the rest of the Ruby's creations.

Turns out he didn't die! Although the experience of being Infinite messed him up pretty badly. Double is doing his best to help, and Sik helps out as well (despite Wayne being very sure that he should have at least some hard feelings considering he tried to kill him several times and is the reason why Sik's down a leg). Being host to the Ruby, especially with it being overclocked while basically embedded in him, has some lasting side-effects of lingering powers that he's not sure how to use or if it's safe to even try.