Chapter One

Egg Fortress, 7AM, the next morning.

D.R. exits from his private quarters and heads for the control room, upon reaching the room, he opens his wrist comm. and contacts Silver.

"Yo, Silver?" he asks while yawning. "Are you up yet?" SSSSSHHHT! All he hears is static. "Hm. I'll just contact Mercy then." He does so. "Hey Mercy, you up yet?"

"I've been up for a while investigating what I can from here. The sectors got screwed to hell, the machines are damaged beyond repair. We either replace them or cancel all operations in the city. Whoever did this, they did a damn good job, the place looks like HELL!"

"You should have informed us about this, weren't you supposed to check and make a report about each sector."

"I did, no response from you, Silver, or the boss."

"Boss Egg doesn't need to be bothered. In the meantime, send any available maintenance bots to help fix those sectors."

"No problem."

"You're still at the harbor base?"

"Yes, I'm almost always here since you like locking me out the security room."

"Make yourself useful and see if you can find Silver. We need to round up the rebels before the boss gets back. Tell him I'm going ahead to search the city for them. I doubt they got too far."

"Metal Sonic is searching the city through the skies already."

"So? Four eyes are better than one right? We'll cover more ground. Use your damn brain."

"Idiot." Merciless shrugs. "Alright. I'll do as you say."

"And remember: since the doctor is out, I am in charge."

"Ok, I get the point."

"Make sure you do, over and out." D.R. closes his wrist comm. and his stomach growls. "I should get something to eat first." He leaves the control room.

10 minutes later with Sonic and co.

"Morning everyone, why not kick it for a bit before we get down to business? First let's introduce ourselves. I'm sure everyone knows who I am already." said Sonic with a chuckle.

"I'm Sonia." says Sonia as she gets up from her seat. "I'm Sonic's sister."

"Sonic has a sister? I never would've guessed." N comments.

"Hey, and a brother too." said Manic as he stands. "I'm Manic."

"Mighty." said Mighty flatly, without getting up.

"You can call me N." says N.

"And what does it stand for?"

"My name, Nancy, it's to keep it simple and to hope Eggman doesn't find out."

"I'm Red, Dark Red's older brother." Sonic, Sonia, Manic and Mighty looked at him in astonishment. "I'm aware that my fur color is blue. I'm not very fond of my real name so Red will have to do."

"It's alright. A lot of aliases here, I should make me one too!" Sonic says as he turn to Flare. "And who are you, cutie? You got a nickname too?"

"I'm Flare." said Flare blushing a little. "No, that's really my name."

"And Shadow here!" exclaims Shadow as he stretches.

"Shadow, we all know who you are."

"How?"

"You really don't remember do you?"

"Of course he does, right bud, you helped me save the space co-" Flare cuts Sonic off and whispers to him.

"No, you see, if he starts to remember something, he'll be electrocuted. He's planted with a memory bug."

"Oh, I know exactly what you mean." Sonic turns to Shadow. "You'll find out soon."

"Ok, I guess." Shadow says with a shrug.

"Now that we've all introduced ourselves, I'll start with my story since everyone is so impressed by return."

"Ah, don't flatter yourself."

"It all started off when I decided to take a vacation at the Station Square hotel. I thought the event with the Chaos monster was just bad timing so I took another vacation there…"

10 years ago, Station Square.

Sonic is relaxing by the pool, basking in the afternoon sun with a glass of pink lemonade. He has on a pair of sunglasses on. A fierce rumble shakes the hotel with a mighty roar, shattering most of the windows.

"Huh? Never knew this city had earthquakes." said Sonic as he stands up. In the sky something blocks the sunlight as it rises, Sonic looks up to see the Death Egg. "No way! He built another one!" Then the Egg Carrier flies over Sonic and directly over the building, shaking the hotel again. "Wow, an Egg Carrier 3, this guy never learns his lesson. Fine, I'll knock them all down again." Using his abnormal speed, Sonic runs up the building only to gasp at the sight of the rest of the city. Robots are bombing buildings and capturing people in multitudes. The city is in an immediate state of chaos. Black jeeps speed to the scene and screech to a stop. FBI agents scurry about blasting robots and evacuating citizens. More robots drop in from the Egg Carrier. When Sonic observed the sky more closely he sees the Egg Utopia in the distance which he had never seen before, it's sending weird waves to the tallest building in the city: The Cyber Net co.. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a missile heads straight for Sonic. Thinking quickly, he leaps off the building. BOOOOOOM! With a terrifying explosion the hotel is decimated. Sonic notices he's being taken away from the explosion and looks down, Tails is flying him on the wing of the Tornado 2. "This time Eggman has gone too far! First things first, we gotta catch up to that Egg Carrier!"

"I'm on it!" shouts Tails. The tornado begins its ascent while suddenly, bird robots emerge from the enormous ship. "Look out!" Tails maneuvers the plane left and right to avoid them. Each time the robots near the plane they explode; each one trying to ram into them.

"Kamikazes!? They must really don't want us to board that ship! Maybe that's where Eggman is!"

"Don't worry, I'll show them what this baby can do!" Tails pulls a lever and the planes boosts fasts towards the Egg Carrier. The kamikaze robots appear in massive numbers and begin homing in on the plane. Tails fires the machine gun and destroys the ones coming at the head on but a few move to the side of the plane and crash head-first into its engine. BOOM! The engine burns wildly. "So much for that... it's no good! Sonic, I'll try to get you over the Egg Carrier before the Tornado 2 explodes!"

"I thought the Tornado can take on more damage than this!"

"Those explosions aren't normal!" BOOMBOOMBOOM! A few more kamikazes smash into the plane. Sonic, almost losing balance, leaps to the back of the plane. "Sonic, I don't think it can make much more, I'll fly you there myself!" Tails jumps out of the pilot seat and spins his two tails quickly. Sonic jumps and grabs his hands just in the nick of time to avoid the rest of the kamikaze birds hitting the burning plane, demolishing it. The rest of the kamikazes lands on the buildings below. Sonic looks below and whistles.

"Wow, you should get you some of those bombs too!" Tails lands Sonic on the Egg Carrier's runway. Air force fighter jets fly over Sonic's head and releases missiles on the bridge of the Egg Carrier. The smoke clears but no damage.

"Sonic! Tails!" shouts one of the pilots on Tails' radio. "We can't do this without your help. You have to stop that Eggman. We'll take care of everything out here." Sonic gives them a thumbs up and the duo rush towards the bridge.

"Come out and play Eggman!" yells Sonic while running around the ship at light speed. He then stops at the bridge door which opens automatically. "Heh, this guy must really hate people knocking." Sonic walks in and the door closes before Tails can get in.

"Welcome, Sonic." said Eggman in slight monotone. All Sonic could see is the back of his chair.

"Eggman, I don't like being a showstopper. But don't you think you went a wee bit overboard?" Sonic walks over to the chair only to get grabbed by his arm and thrown through the windshield. "Whoa, WAAAH!" THUD! Sonic lands on his back on the glass engine of the ship. Eggman jumps after him and lands a few feet away from him. "Wah?" Sonic quickly gets on his feet. "Hey, looks like you've finally got some exercise. Now, my turn!" Sonic works himself into an ultra fast spin dash and rushes at Eggman. Eggman catches Sonic, leaps high and spirals upside down to the ground and body slams Sonic hard into the glass; luckily it's bulletproof so it only leaves a small crack. "AH!" Eggman gets up and dusts himself off. Sonic stumbles back on his feet and rubs his head. "Yeah, you've really been working out. Nothing should be able to beat my spin dash!"

"Sorry to disappoint you Sonic, but Eggman is elsewhere."

"What are you talking about? You're right in front of me." Eggman liquefies into a purple-clear goop and reforms as Metal Sonic. "Hey HEEEY! If it isn't Metal Sonic. Long time no see, bud!"

"We have some unfinished business, Sonic!"

"Ah come on! You can't still be sore over losing the race on Little Planet."

"I am. Thanks to you, I lost all respect from my master. That is why he locked me away in his Mystic Ruins base, stored in my memory is that same day and it keeps rewinding and playing over and over." Metal Sonic shakes his fist at Sonic while speaking. "AND FOR SOME REASON I CANNOT DELETE IT!" He points at Sonic. "IT'S YOUR FAULT!" Sonic yawns.

"Aaand what's the point to your sad, sorry story, M?"

"Take a look around you." Sonic looks around to see every news helicopter in the city recording them. "I'll humiliate you in front of millions of people, I'll disappoint you in front all your fans…" Sonic glances at all the helicopters. "…I'll put you to shame and make you feel the hurt that I was programmed to feel."

"You're unique, unlike most if Egghead's robots, you have feelings. How else can you understand those emotions?"

"Save it. By defeating you I'll regain my former glory and my master will respect me."

"Bring it on, mouth-less!"

"Sonic, it's a trap!" yells Tails as he flies towards them.

"You're too late!" exclaims Metal Sonic as he throws a star-like device into the air. It stops directly over the center of the engine and forms a light blue dome-shaped barrier big enough to cover the engine.

"I'll dismantle it." Tails begins fiddling with the device

"Hey, M. You never said there were any tricks involved." said Sonic as he gets into his battle stance.

"This is not a trick. I am making sure no one interferes with our fight." Metal Sonic replies. "Requesting back up."

"Backup? This sure sounds like a trick to me." Shortly after, a robot version of Tails rams into the orange fox from behind. Tails flies up and turns around to face it. Its eyes are black with red pupils like Metal Sonic, it's stomach holds a red crystal and where the tails should be, there is a big fan instead.

"A Metal Tails!" shouts Sonic and Tails in unison.

"I will keep you from interfering!" said Metal Tails to Tails. The two engage in an aerial fight.

"You can do it, buddy, I'm counting on you." Sonic says then turns his attention back to Metal Sonic. Metal Sonic dives towards Sonic with electricity encircling him. Sonic rolls away. Metal Sonic then fixes himself upright and hovers his way towards Sonic again. Sonic curls into a ball and speeds around the arena until he reaches his desired momentum and rams Metal Sonic hard into the barrier. Metal turns around with his stomach glowing and attempts to blast him with a ball of energy. Sonic easily dodges and counters with a Sonic Wind. Metal crosses his arms over his chest and creates a black and purple diamond-like shield to protect him. Metal Sonic the disbands the shield and boosts toward He dodges and homing attacks Metal into the barrier. He follows up with another but Metal shields himself and Sonic gets caught in the electricity. "AAAARRRGH!" He lands on the ground, smoking. Metal Sonic lifts him up and spins him around by the legs and thrusts him towards the top of the barrier. Sonic curls into a ball and starts rolling around on the barrier. "Hey, this is fun! Awesome toy, Metal!"

"Stop playing and fight me."

"If you say so." Tiny specs of light enters the blue hedgehog until he's radiating with blue energy.

"Strange energy detected." Swishswishswish! Sonic rolls to the ground and dashes multiple times through Metal Sonic at blinding speeds finally landing behind the evil blue robot. Metal Sonic looks back at Sonic. "My armor is tough. No damage detected. Why would you bother using such a worthless technique against me?" Sonic smiles and chuckles.

"That's my Light Speed Attack." TINKTINKTINKTINKTINKTINK! Suddenly Metal is moving crazy as if he had been hit repeatedly; his armor now dents in several places.

"An attack speed like that is illogical, how did you do it?"

"That's just one of the advantages of being the real Sonic!" Metal Sonic shorts for a second and lands on his behind. "Now you be a good boy, sit down and think about what you've done. Huh?" He looks up to see Tails in a sky struggle with Metal Tails. "Tails!" Metal Sonic punches Sonic's jaw hard and follows up with and jabbing combo to Sonic's face which ends with an uppercut, sending Sonic soaring backwards and breaking his sunglasses. "Oof!" Sonic lands on his back.

"That's the advantage of being Metal Sonic. I can fake short-out to lure you into a false sense of victory." Sonic sits up and rubs the side of his face. His left eye is black and bruised.

"Grr..." Metal Sonic balls a fist, aims it at Sonic then launches his fist like a missile, knocking Sonic directly in the nose. "Kyu!" Sonic falls back down on his back. Metal Sonic retracts his hand.

"That's another advantage."

"You think you're funny, huh? The jokes on you buddy. I'm still raring to go!" Sonic wipes the blood from his nose and stand up, his face a bit numb from the attacks.

"What do you mean? You are losing; you are in denial of winning. You only have one good eye; any chance of you winning is now at 0%." The barrier around the two fades away. Metal Sonic looks up to see Tails with a screwdriver in his hand and the device in half.

"Come on, Sonic, let's go!" exclaims Tails.

"Well Metal Sonic, it was nice seeing you again but I have an egg to catch." Sonic gets into running posture but Metal Sonic speaks.

"It's a shame you lost the first round, isn't it? I wonder how many people are disappointed."

"Huh?"

"You forgot about the helicopters, didn't you?"

"Oh no!" Sonic looks at every helicopter; only 5 but that's more than enough people.

"How does it feel, Sonic? To have your pride taken away by a 'fake'? To disappoint those who are counting on you? To be put to shame by the guilt of your own failure. That's how I felt on Little Planet."

"Don't jump ahead of yourself, we'll settle this for good some other time but for now, I gotta go after Eggman."

"You won't have to look far, by now we're hovering over our destination. We'll be waiting inside." Metal Sonic teleports away to Sonic's surprise.

"I wonder when he learned how to do that?" Sonic shrugs then makes his way off the ship and lands on the massive building, Tails is waiting.

"What took you?" he asks.

"Just chatting with my metal buddy. C'mon, let's get Eggman!" Sonic zooms through the rooftop stairs and makes it to the first floor in no time. The first floor is a grand hall, the ceiling is about 40 feet high, the floor and walls made of marble while a giant chandelier hangs from the ceiling. Work desks are lined up neatly in rows with laptops on top, it's surprisingly empty and quiet. Sonic walks to the center of the room and looks around, Tails follows moments later.

"I wonder what he needs with a building like this." Tails ponders aloud.

"Yoo-hoo! Eggman! The butt-kicking Calvary just arrived!" Just then, Eggman flies in on his Eggmobile, annoyed.

"Bah! What do you want now, Sonic? I'm very busy, you see?" Metal Sonic lands from seemingly out of nowhere and lands next to Eggman. " Well then again... I do have time to watch Metal Sonic kick you around a bit."

"He won't hold me back this time! I'll give you a hand, Sonic!" offered Tails.

"No way, Tails. This is something I wanna do myself." Sonic replies. "This is for good, right M?" Metal Sonic nods. "Watch how fast I'll beat you!"

"Sonic, what about your eye?"

"No worries." Sonic smirked. "This might slow me down a bit but I'll manage!"

"Before we get started, allow me to have a little show-and-tell." said Eggman as he reveals a lustrous gray emerald. "Behold my invention: the E-Emerald. The E stands for emerald." Sonic chuckles. "Err-I meant energy. It's the Energy Emerald and it has the power to store almost any kind of energy and release it. Let me demonstrate. Metal Sonic, CATCH!" He tosses the emerald to Metal Sonic who catches it in on hand and suddenly he begins glowing brightly then a strong burst of wind leaps out of the robot flipping every desk in every direction. Sonic and Tails duck from one of the oncoming desk. That desk knocks open the entrance door and reporters storm into the room with their cameramen. When it all dies down, Metal Sonic's frame is shining yellow and brimming with energy.

"Everyone stand back, this is gonna get dangerous!" Tails and the reporters all back to the edge of the room. "Pretty impressive, M, must be nice to showoff!"

"And for everyone's safety…" Eggman throws the same device the Metal Sonic used earlier over Sonic's and Metal Sonic's head and a barrier forms around the two but this time it takes up the entire area except the areas along the wall. An audience begins to cheer Sonic on. No one knows when so many people entered.

"Sonic be careful, he's super charged now!" warns Tails. Sonic smiles and closes his eye. (Reminder: His left eye is closed and damaged)

"And so will I." he replies to Tails confidently.

"Huh?" Sonic's quills began moving wildly as if the wind is pushing them. His body slowly rises up a few inches and all 7 chaos emeralds extract from him. "Wow you had all the emeralds with you the entire time."

"No! When did he get them!? I can't believe this!" cried Eggman.

"I have this under control, master." said Metal Sonic. Sonic's body shines with a yellow light indicating his transformation. Sonic's fur is now golden, his eyes red and quills sticking out. His eye has also healed.

"Whoa!" gasped some people in the audience when the light fades.

"Are you ready yet?

"Let's do this!" replied Sonic as he goes into an aerial spin dash. Metal Sonic flies toward him with a blue energy shield engulfing him. Sonic dashes at the yellow robot and easily smashes through the barrier, knocking the robot back a few feet. Sonic uses his unique speed to flies towards Metal Sonic and deliver devastating blows of kicks, before he gets the last kick in, Metal Sonic grabs his legs and drives him into the ground, kicking up debris. He flies out and hovers above the dust cloud.

"Nothing but flesh." A hard fist hits Metal Sonic from behind and soars him into the barrier wall.

"Nothing but a tin can." Metal Sonic gets back up and his stomach builds up energy. Sonic cups his hands and forms a sphere of blue energy between them. Metal Sonic releases his blast on Sonic who lets it hit him. Barely scratched by the attack, he smiles and pours a terrifying amount of energy into the sphere he's holding until the sphere was completely surrounding him.

"S-Sonic, do you really need that much energy?" asks Tails.

"Trust me, Tails, I got this one in the bag!" He releases the ball of energy slowly towards his opponent. Metal Sonic dodges the slow-paced attack and rams Sonic towards the barrier. Sonic reverses it and thrusts Metal Sonic against the walls of the barrier and begins pummeling him with kicks, all of which are charged by his energy. Sonic then elbows Metal Sonic into the sphere creating a massive explosion powerful enough to decimate the ground under them. The wind of the attack is felt through the barrier so everyone shielded themselves. Metal Sonic emerges from the smoke and creates his black diamond shield around him. Sonic charges up and his barrier began to appear around him.

"Let's quit this horse-play…GO!" The two dash into each other at lightning speeds. KISH! KISH! KISH! All you can see is a black streak and gold streak colliding into each other at a rapid rate, and the sound of the two colliding.

"Go! Sonic!" shouts some people in the audience.

"Crush him, Metal Sonic!" Eggman cries out, almost in panic. "You can't let him be your equal! You're better than him!" Metal Sonic and Sonic stop to stare each other down for a moment and then float up and continue with their constant colliding. After a couple of more clashes, their shields and pushing against one another, creating yellow and black sparks between them. Metal Sonic seems to be pushing Sonic a bit more.

"It is futile, Sonic." Metal Sonic tells him in their struggle.

"Not really. SURPRISE!" Sonic blasts Metal Sonic in the face with a powerful beam that catches the robot off guard, completely demolishing his shield. The titanium warrior falls to his behind and flashes between yellow and blue; he's losing his supercharged power. Sonic fires another beam with all his might but Metal Sonic rolls out the way. The shock of the explosion was enough to push him towards the floating hero who only bashes Metal Sonic with both hands and with a lot of energy. Metal Sonic crashes into the ground with a loud thud, some screws and bolts come out of him.

"Nooooo WAY! I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS! METAL SONIC GET UP!" Eggman shouts while banging on the controls of his Eggmobile

"Sonic, you're over using your chaos energy!" shouts Tails.

"Tails, I said I got this!"

"SONIC! SONIC! SONIC!" chants the audience. Sonic points to Metal Sonic who is still on the ground and is now flashing quickly through blue and yellow.

"See, now all I gotta do is cut off whatever is left of his supercharged energy and he's finished! Cya around, Metal Sonic!" Sonic conjures up another energy ball and begins to severely overcharge it but suddenly it disappears. "Huh? Lemme try that again." He holds his hand out towards Metal Sonic, another energy ball forms for a few seconds but then shrinks. "Ugh…I'm…outta juice…" Sonic fades out of his super form and weakly collapses to his knees as all the chaos emerald drop from him. "Uh oh...I can barely move."

"HAHA! Metal Sonic, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE!" shouts Eggman as he presses a button. Metal Sonic turns yellow and stands up again. A rapid yellow glow is entering his stomach.

"I was afraid this would happen." Tails moans. "Sonic get out the way!" Sonic attempts to stand, he can't even lift his arms.

"I'm too…weak…this…sucks. Still, chaos emeralds should have unlimited energy. How did I suddenly get drained like that? I've more than enough rings."

"Good-bye, Sonic. You were a worthy opponent, but only one can stand. There's only one real Sonic!" His stomach forms a ready energy bubble. "And that's me!" With a mighty roar, the beam launched at the helpless hedgehog. Sonic stares wide-eyed into the beams before being hit hard. The explosion expands and is blindingly bright so everyone shields their eyes.

"SONIC!" Tails cries out. The explosion clears and all that is leaves is particles of ashes, no sight of the emeralds, no sight of Sonic. The citizens stare in awe, the cameramen stop looking through their lenses and stare in awe with their own eyes, Tails collapses to his knees as a tear rolls down his eyes.

"YES! GETTA LOAD OF THAT! HAHAHAHAAA!" shouts Eggman happily, breaking the silence.

"No…NOOOOOO!"

Present time.

"Interesting, but how did you know anything else that went on after you got hit?" asked Flare.

"I wanna know how the hell are you explaining the part where you died when YOU'RE STANDING RIGHT HERE!" shouts Shadow.

"I'm pretty sure he's getting to it." said Red.

"Well, honestly, Flare, I made that part up to sound cool, I just assumed that happened. But to where people thought I died, Shadow, I actually used Chaos Control with a little help from teh chaos emeralds! I was lucky they didn't disperse yet until after I warped."

A moment before the beam hit. Sonic's thoughts.

"This can't end just yet, CHAOS CONTROL!" he thinks to himself. With that, all the emeralds quickly shines and teleport him away the same instant the beam hits him.

Deep in the sewers of Station Square. Manic and Sonia are trudging through the sewers.

"Oh, great, just when we get our lead to where Sonic is, THIS happens!" Manic complains.

"We can't go above ground just yet, those robots will get us for sure!" Sonia warns. Suddenly a flash of light forms in front of them and Sonic drops from it. The two gasped.

"Sonic?" they asked in unison. Sonic's body falls limp, it's half burnt from the beam and he's unconscious.

"Oh my God! He needs help!" cries Sonia. Mighty walks by.

"Come with me, I have a safe house down here. He'll be able to recover there." He says. The brother and sister lifts up Sonic at the same time and follow the armadillo.

Present.

"He's been in a two-year coma. When he finally woke up, he found that his muscles were weak and his nerves were badly damaged. It's something of a miracle that he isn't dead especially after using chaos control when he was weak on top fo being hit a simultaneously." said Sonia sadly. Shadow, rubs his chin thinking.

"Yeah, ugh don't remind, not being able to run for all that time. That's a fate worst than death!" cried Sonic.

"Even though he woke up after two years, it took another three for him to get back into top shape. He's been here since, training himself to get stronger." said Mighty.

"Oh boy did that suck too, I was NOT happy camper, had to be fed, bathed and all, geez."

"All the while, Eggman slowly transformed the city."

"Yeah, we couldn't go after him until Sonic got better. Even those he insisted several times, we couldn't risk having anything happening to us or our brother." said Manic.

"I still wish you guys would've tried SOMETHING at least." said Sonic, annoyed. "Ah well." He chuckles. "Getting back on me feet was tough, by the time I did, it was far too late; the country got taken over. I failed..."

"Getting around was near impossible but we managed to find security weak spots over time and where food supply areas are located." said Sonia.

"We were almost set to try to take on Eggman...!"

"'Almost'? What happened?" Red asks.

"Eggman's henchmen. Those two hedgehogs." said Mighty.

"Dark Red and Silver?" Mighty, Sonia, and Manic nod.

"They never appeared much but we heard when they do, someone dies. They were thought to be an urban legend spread by Eggman himself."

"I'll never forget when I finally saw them. They killed dozens casually!" Sonia cried. "I...I..." Her eyes filled with tears.

"I told you, it's not your fault, sis!" shouts Sonic.

"What did she do?" Flare asks.

"She stoles some supplies from a storage at a bad time, that's all."

"The silver hedgehog was around! I had no idea!" cried Sonia. "After I returned here, I heard a ruckus up above. When I checked it out, the silver one had several prisoners lined up and wanted to know who stole from there. No one knew and he thought they were liars. H-he...he beheaded them all with his sword!" Sonic taps Sonia's shoulder. "It wasn't right!"

"Cheer up sis, I kicked that guys ass back at the fortress! Didn't even have to use chaos control."

"Chaos…Control?" he thinks aloud.

"Shadow, NO!" cries Flare but it's too late. ZZZT! Shadow gets shocked by electricity and collapses. Flare runs over to him.

"So, that's what you were talking about, Flare?" Sonic asks. Flare nods. "It doesn't look too bad. Trust me, he's a tough hedgehog so he'll be alright. Shadow will be useful once we get his memory back. He was an almost equal opponent when we fought on the ARK." Red gets off the floor and leans against the wall.

"Yeah, if Shadow helped you then he should prove useful." he comments. Red then looks at Mighty. "So what happened to you ten years ago?"

"Me?" Mighty asked as he sat down. "Nothing special. I was searching for some friends of mine, to tell them about a secret safe house I've established for them but now it's not much of a secret anymore, since you're all here. Unfortuantely, I came to Station Square at the exact moment of the take over so I was forced to retreat underground before any robots start grabbing me."

"It got more intense when Sonic was beaten." said Sonia.

"Oh, sis, didja hafta say it like that?" whined Sonic.

"Oops, sorry, Sonic." everyone in the room shared a laugh except Red (who never seems happy), Mighty, and Shadow.

Egg Fortress, Eggman's dining room.

The overly long table has nothing on it but a few chilidogs on it. D.R. quickly wolfs them down and sighs with satisfaction. Amy suddenly barges in, jumps on the table, lands in front of D.R. and has both arms behind her.

"Hey, red guy! Guess what I found?" she asks him.

"Your hairband?" D.R. replies. Amy takes out her left hand which is holding the head band and places it behind her back again.

"No!"

"Look, I-no, WE have a job to do. You're one of the Eggman Empire's elite fighters so you'll have to help us catch the rebels. If you don't comply, I'll have to kill you!"

"Yeah, yeah, now just guess what I got."

"I don't know, a hammer?"

"Wrong!" Amy pulls out a long silver laser rifle from behind her. The barrel has a cross-hair connected on the top. The sides of the gun has black wings similar to an airplane's, probably used to maintain balance.

"WHAT-THE…?" shouts D.R., wide-eyed.

"Think fast!" PUEW! A purple laser ball barely misses D.R.'s head and leaves a flame mark on the floor. "Nice reflex."

"Where the hell did you find THAT!?"

"I dunno, you tell me."

"Grr. Why don't you go bother Silver." an idea struck D.R.'s mind. "Speaking of him, if you can find the rebels, you can play with them as much as you want. You can do whatever to them, too!"

"Really? Good, I'll show them my true power!"

"Good, that's the spirit, now GO AWAY!" Amy hops off the table and darts out the room. "Geez, already starting to have regrets about her." D.R. opens him wrist comm. "Silver! Where the hell are ya?" All he receives is static. "Hmm, something is up." D.R. leaves and finds Amy waiting by the elevator. "What do you want now?"

"I forgot to ask you two things: Who are the rebels and why is the main floor nothing but a crater?"

"Say what?" The elevator doors open and D.R. and Amy hop in. The elevator goes to the first floor. When the door opens D.R. nearly falls to the big gap in the ground, the area has become a large crater. "What the hell could've done this?"

"Beats me." Silver laid unconscious in the middle of the crater, his clothing torn and fur bruised as if he had been in an explosion. D.R. slides down with Amy tagging along.

"Silver, get up." He shakes Silver. "This can't be believable! I'll bet he didn't recharge himself."

"Beats me." D.R. glares annoyed at Amy.

"You want something better to do? HUH!? Then take Silver to the recharge chamber."

"The what?"

"CHAMBER! You know, the one you came out of!"

"Oh, right, whatever." Amy lifts Silver up with one arm and re-enters the elevator.

"It must've been Sonic who did this. He'll soon pay with his life." D.R. takes out his wrist comm. "Merciless!"