Prologue:

(sonic's P.O.V)

I'm running through the corridors of this twisting maze Eggman built, I have to escape, and I have little time to do it. Eggman had injected me with something, I don't know what it is, but it's bad. It's blurring my vision, slowing each step I take. It's making me tired, but I know it's not an drug to make you sleepy, I've been injected with that so many times I could recognize it on sight. I can not stop, i'll collapse if i do. I can hear him laughing at me, desperately trying to escape.

"Gotta keep running, don't stop" I tell myself over and over again. I need to pick up my speed, I can't slow down, I need to speed up. I forced myself to run faster, but not by much. A broken leg doesn't exactly help me. I can feel the pain increasing, but I continue to run. Then I thought of an idea. I used that pain to help propel myself, a technique that I've known for some time, but no one else knew about it. I continued to pick up speed, but then my OTHER leg broke. I fell to the floor, unable to get up. I saw Eggman walk over to where I was lying helplessly on the floor.

"I won." He said. I smiled, and that confused him

"No you haven't. You may have one the battle but the war rages on, and no matter what happens to me, Every freedom fighter will continue to fight. You will never win. It's one against many, and we have one thing that you don't posses, and that you never will." I said

"Hm? And what is that?

"the power you get from having friends at your side. We have full hearts, courageous hearts, ready to tackle whatever comes, no matter how many blows they take, because we have friends. All you have is cold…..Lifeless….Robots." I said, then everything faded to black.

(Eggmans P.O.V)

Foolish hedgehog….Because when you awake….I will have the best ally of them all. I'll have you.

End of prologue.