A/N: Here it is. I don't own Sonic. I do own a few OC's. I'm sure we all played Sonic Forces by now. The game was... I don't know. Mediocre. I wasn't awful, but not as good as I wanted it to be. I tried not to hype myself for the game so I guess it worked.
Now... this story, I'm going to add more and change a few things. Such not get back Sonic as quickly as possible. I mean he's not going to be appear in the next chapter. A few missions struggling to claim a territory or two then maybe Sonic comes back. Where was Shadow? How was Omega fixed quickly, who made the Wispon? G.U.N. The Master Emerald. Why just Metal, Chaos, Zavok, and Shadow? So expect characters from past games to appear such as Nack/Fang the Sniper as enforcers and some villains from other Sonic media
The world as you know is not as it used to be. The evil Doctor Eggman has waged war across the entire planet. He had succeeded in doing the one thing he had been trying to do for years. In eight long years after countless failure, countless experiments, and unleashing ancient legends. He had did what everyone thought was impossible.
Defeated Sonic the Hedgehog.
The world's greatest hero. The one whom always stood in the way of the doctor since he was young had fallen. Wherever Doctor Eggman went Sonic wasn't close behind. The two were almost in a constant fight for dominance with Sonic always coming out on top, even if it was bleak he always came out on top.
He didn't win this time.
With Sonic lost, Tails had ran away, no one has seen him since the war started. Losing Sonic must've made him snapped. Now the resistance formed by Knuckles stood up to the Eggman Empire and they were losing day by day… but they never gave up.
However, it wasn't just robots nor his creation that was causing Knuckles resistance to lose land.
Shadow for reason joined the Empire. No one knew why. Rumors went from 'dormant alien gene activated' to 'Under mind control' Whatever it was he was strong enforcer in Eggman's hands. There were others forces that joined the Empire, Metal Sonic, Chaos, and the Deadly Six. Rumors of other villains working under Eggman emerged. It seemed all the villains and rouges alike had emerged as soon as the heavy hitters were gone. Hope seemed to have been lost.
Or is it lost?
There is always hope. They just need to search for it.
It came without warning to the villagers. A normal day became a nightmare to the survivors. A battleship appeared in the sky and then… they came. The forces of the Eggman Empire dropped from the airship and attacked. The defense force struck back with all their might.
In the middle of the road stood brown furred bipedal dog. The floppy-eared dog had three strands of brown hair sticking out from above his forehead. He wore black and green gloves, a strap on vest, and black boots with red soles. On his right wrist was a gadget. His green eyes stared in horror as he looked around him. Explosions erupted around him and the cries of the civilians echoed through the air. He knew they would come here, but this soon? Another thought came to mind amidst the carnage.
"Grace." He gasped and turned to the direction of his friend's house.
He raced down the street while avoiding debris along the way. A robot dropped down and attacked him with a claw. He dodged it only for it start firing it lasers. The dog frantically evaded it before raising his hand and launching a steel wire from the device on his wrist. It hit the brick wall and quickly took him away from the robot. Once he landed he raced across the wall and used the device to have the wire unhook itself from the wall and retract in his launcher. He launched it again to the roof where it dragged him to the top. He landed and raced across the rooftop. As soon as he got the edge, a flying robot stood in his way and shot at him.
He yelled as he jumped away and launched his wrist mount wire launcher which had it pull him away from the robot. As he landed on the wall it started to collapse and caused him fall down. Fortunately he landed on an abandoned pile of hay. live He got out quickly and continued running. He made it to the house where his friend lived, but he was too late. Where the house used to be was a smoldering pile of debris and the body of a cheetah.
"No.." He whimpered
He slowly walked forward, dreading it was someone he knew. The explosions and scream around him were drawn out by the sound of his heartbeat.
When he got close he felt a little relieved, yet he still felt remorse for the person lying on the ground. It was his friend's mother and it looked like she was dying from a piece of metal had piercing her stomach. She started stirring and the dog knelt down beside her.
"B..litz?"
"Ma'am… where is Grace?"
"Grace…told… escaped.
He nodded. His friend ran away while her mother must've distracted them. He hated that, he hated this. This is unjust and terrible. This should not have happened and... he needed to find her.
"I'll find her."
The woman gave one last smile to him and muttered 'thank you'. The light in her eyes faded, her breathing stopped, and the dog knew he was holding a corpse. He cried and then looked away. He saw more robots, but something caught his eye. A red flash flew above the city and to the center of town.
He didn't know what it was, but he had to help. He jumped up and raced toward the center of town. He used his wire launcher a few times to gain speed, but the rest of the time he ran. Faster than he ever could.
Once he made it to the center of the city, he watched as the Defense Force was shooting at that thing. He saw Grace's father and brother among them fighting the robots.
Grace's brother jumped away and shot more beams at it and then turned around. He growled as he spotted Blitz. He walked up and grabbed the dog by the collar.
"Where is she?"
"She... ran."
"Ran? You let her go out alone?"
"I... wasn't there."
He scoffed. "Stupid mutt, figured the one time you were with her you weren't and now she disappeared while you remained here like a coward. Where is mom."
Blitz looked away and that angered the man furthered.
"You should've died in her place. Once this is over I'm searching for her and you're not going to get in my way." He pushed the dog aside and shot at the bot. "Stupid human, stupid hedgehog. Fine time for him to get killed. It's his fault."
Suddenly a chuckled echoed through the air. Everyone spot a glowing figure floating before them.
"Chet!" shouted his father. "Get over here and help!" The father stared at Blitz. "Blitz leave and find Grace!"
"Grace ran dad, we'll find her later. Let's kill that thing!"
The father and son ran over and aided the guard. He needed to help… but a part of him told him not to go out to fight. He listened to the negative and stayed out of sight by hiding behind some debris
He regretted not running. He watched the fiend shrugged off and fired lasers at them effortlessly. Some of the troops got hit while others dodged. Blitz saw Grace's father get hit while her brother evaded the attack. A lone warrior attacked him with a sword only for the white helmet foe to do something weird with his powers to freeze him in place and then launched him in the buildings. He grabbed another solider and launched him at the other soldiers.
"This is beginning to bore me."
"Bore you?" spoke Grace's brother. "You monster. If it weren't for you or that human..then we wouldn't have this garbage." He aimed his blaster at him. "You're going down."
The creature raised his hands and small cubes manifested around him. He then launched them at the defense force annihilating them, their bodies flew like rag dolls all over the place. He watched as the brother got sent flying through a building. One of them landed away from Blltz and his gun landed at his feet. Blitz gulped and made a grab for the gun.. only for a foot to land on it.
"Resistance is futile child."
It appeared in front of his face. The silver helmet abomination started at the dog, analyzing him, mocking him.
"I can taste your fear child. Your anxiety, terror, all those emotions that make you smoldering pile trash." His walked around the dog. "Tell me boy.. why are you here?"
"M-my home…."
The being chuckled. "Your home is no more, your people fled or dead. I… no we are along in this graveyard." He spread his arms, showing him the destruction and debris around them as if the dog didn't know it was there.
"Stop…. This." He said quietly
"Hmm?" He stopped pacing and remained behind the dog. The dog felt a chill down his spine and pressure building up inside. He felt cornered and overwhelm by the beast with enough power to kill him. The furred animal turned around and took deep breaths.
"Wh-why do this?" He spoke loudly, but felt himself wanting to run, he wanted to not be here in front
"Why not? You're all weak and the weak should be ruled under the strong or eliminated from existence."
He then appeared in front of Blitz with his arm stretch out, causing the boy to gasp and back away.
"Should I kill you?" He chuckled humorously and lowered his arm. "But then again." He then began to levitate up in the air. "Run along child, you have no use for me. I will give you mercy today. Enjoy what limited time you have on Mobius… for soon the Eggman Empire will reign."
He vanished, leaving the dog along and scared. Blitz collapsed on the ground and slammed his fist in the pavement.
"DAMN IT!" He shouted. "YOU…" He covered his snout, hoping the being didn't hear him. After a while he dropped his arms on the ground and groaned.
"He can't get away with this..." He clenched his fist as he shed a few tears. "He can't."
He sat there with what seemed like hours until he heard footsteps. He picked up the gun and aimed it at whoever was coming.
"Easy there kid." Said an armadillo walking toward him. To his left was a purple avian girl who seemed familiar. There were others with them who busy checking for survivors. Were they...?
"What's your name kid?" asked the female bird
"Yo… you're part of the Resistance?"
"Yep…" The armadillo poked his chest. "I'm Mighty the Armadillo, this is Wave the Swallow."
"B..Blitz the Bloodhound." He growled. "… I…. I…"
"What?"
"I… I want to join you guys."
"Okay." Wave shrugged.
Blitz blinked. "Just like that?"
"Kid," Mighty grabbed the boy by the shoulder. "We can't afford to let anyone go that can fight. That's kind of our motto. Glory or not we need to win this war."
"I know." Blitz looked at them. "I feel like I just been insulted, but I also don't like this." Blitz gulped. "If you need help, I lend you my strength."
Wave smiled. "Well.. welcome aboard kid."
An hour later Blitz stepped out of the shower room after cleaning himself up. He looked around and spotted resistance members walking about. Some were old, some young. Mighty was right there various people of various ages running about. He was told the place was in an old G.U.N. bunker that was untraceable to Eggman at the moment, but it was large and filled with tools needed for the Resistance to move and sleep.
"Hey!"
He looked up and saw two people walking toward him. A male red bird with yellow glasses, a yellow tracksuit, and yellow shoes and a female polar bear with spiked out blue hair, pink snow coat, black pants, and pink boots. The male looked nerdy and clumsy while the polar bear looked withdrawn and stoic.
"You're the survivor of the city that was overrun." The red bird looked up and down.
Blitz nodded. "Yeah, I'm Blitz the Bloodhound."
"I'm Sora the Cardinal." He said and then gestured to the bored looking Polar bear. "This is Winter the Polar Bear."
"Hi." She said without excitement. "So you lived… we heard you saw that thing."
He scowled and nodded. "Yeah."
"So what was he like? Huh? Was he scary? Many say he's death incarnate."
"Don't scare the newbie." Winter spoke. "Go on, the top commanders want to see you."
"They do?" Blitz gaped. Why would they want to see him?
"Yeah, you lived. That creature let you go." Sora adjusted his glasses. "I mean hardly any one was let go and some missions we don't see him."
"Be thankful we didn't." The girl brushed her hair back. "But if we want to win this war we're going to bump into him sooner than later.
Blitz nodded and gulped. "Y-yeah."
"Lighten up." Sora spoke. "We'll take him down."
"Blitz."
The group spotted Mighty standing before them. "Come on."
"Me?"
He chuckled. "Yeah, you. They sent me to get you. They want to talk."
"Alright."
He said goodbye to the duo and walked along the corridor to meet with the leaders. Who only heard that it was Knuckles the Enchidna leading them. He heard that Sonic and Knuckles didn't get along at first, but later became friends or at least rivals. With Sonic dead and Tails missing it was the Island Guardian taking up the reigns to lead the group. He also had others to help lead. Mighty and Wave were one of the few he met. Also there was Mighty…
"Sir… "
"Call me Mighty."
"I heard you were once part of the Chaotix."
"Yep, but I didn't want to be a detective so I went my own way and kept in contact.
"Ah, okay."
"… This took us by surprise too."
"Huh?"
Mighty stopped and turned to him with a serious look. "This war, when it came to dealing with Eggman, Sonic was the one who dealt him. Remember when the world broke apart and those shadow things appeared?"
"Yeah."
"Eggman caused the world to break apart, but Sonic fixed it."
"And those aliens?"
Mighty chuckled. "Well… Sonic was there, Eggman didn't have hand with… not directly, but that was Shadow's overdue task, we were just along with his story."
"But what happened to G.U.N?"
Mighty frowned and turned around. "G.U.N. has been destroyed. G.U.N.'s hierarchy has been captured or dead, the president has been captured. Leaders are missing. Everyone important is missing, Commander Tower included. We're all that's left and we…" He stopped and rubbed his face. "We do have G.U.N. operatives who survived the onslaught and helping out, but it's small and scattered. People are losing hope and living in fear… or joined him in fear or some other twistedmeaning." He shook his head. "No matter, I'll take you to them."
They stopped at the door and Mighty knocked. After a few seconds the door opened and Knuckles answered. He grinned at Mighty.
"Mighty, glad you're here and alive."
"Commander." He grinned. "Can't get over that."
"Well get used to it." They fist bumped. Knuckles then saw Blitz. "Is this the kid who survived the encounter?"
"Yep," Mighty patted the survivor on the back. "Everyone either ran, captured… or… dead."
"I see," Knuckles held the door open. "Kid, I hope you have enough drive to fight, we need all the help we can get."
Blitz nodded and stepped. He looked around and saw various people in the room. Some he recognized, others no so much.
Knuckles waved at others. "You know Mighty and Wave. There is Amy Rose, Vector the Crocodile, Charmy the Bee, Espio the Chamelion, and Silver the Hedgehog.
"Hi."
"This guy lived?" The bee flew in front of him and gave him a look over. "He doesn't look much."
Blitz scowled at the kid. He got insulted by a child… but this kid helped take down Metal Overlord and participated in the Black Arms invasion so he has his respect. He noticed Amy Rose, the girl who always chased down Sonic. Her dress worse than wear and she had bags under her eyes. Everyone else looked weary, yet still ready for combat.
"Heh, I could say the same thing about you Charmy, but I found a use to you." Knuckles patted Blitz on the back, causing him to stumble. "Everyone, this is Blitz the Bloodhound, our newest recruit and survivor of that creature Eggman has unleashed."
The pink hedgehog smiled at him, but Blitz noticed it was a sad smile. "Glad you're here."
Silver nodded. "Do you know anything about him? Anything."
Blitz eyes widen and shook his head. "A…All I know is that he's cruel, merciless and strong. He only allowed me to live just so he and crush me later."
"Hmm…" The Chameleon was thinking. "He's playing a game or he wants a stronger opponent. One is gone and the other joined his side.." Espio looked down and up at Blitz. "You seem more athletic."
Blitz scratched his head. "I do like Parkour, plus." He held out his wrist and fired a wire. "I have this."
Wave eyes widen and shot over to him. "You have wrist mounted wire launcher. Where did you get it?"
Blitz frowned and looked down. "It… was gift from friend of mine. She gave it to me last year for a birthday…. I haven't seen her since I was told she ran away during the chaos."
Mighty frowned. "Sorry kid, what does she look like."
"She's a cheetah, she's my… best friend."
"Like a girlfriend." Vector grinned.
Blitz chuckled. "Nah, she doesn't see me as that. Plus someone was already pining for her and I didn't want to get involve."
"You're an idiot." Vector walked forward. "You let her get away, but when we find her I'll give you the best advice in dating that the books don't reveal.
Wave rolled her eyes. "Don't listen to him, he doesn't know any better."
"Regardless, she might be captured and we'll have to find a way to get to her." Knuckles replied. He didn't want to think of the other alternative. "So you have some skill." He looked at Wave, who nodded and walked toward a table to pick up a weapon. She then went to him and handed him the red colored weapon.
"Congrats kid, you have a Wispon. Fire model. One of our recent weapons developed by Wave."
Wave looked away sadly. "No, it was… that kid who had the plans. I'm glad we managed to snag them from his workshop."
Amy smiled. "But you and Rasp have been working on that for 2 months."
Wave nodded. "All so I can find my team… if they are still alive."
Blitz looked at the weapon in his hand. He remembered poorly trying to reach for one when that evil creature was taunting him. Could he? He had to try. "This shoots fire?"
"There are creatures called wisp. These weapons harness their powers and put in form based on their These things can work without, but that's for the offensive ability. Their second ability requires you to find one to activate it." Wave replied. "There are more, but I need more data, but I should keep on building more and improving the more I receive data. I'm currently working on two right now. Lightning and Cube. They're almost done."
Knuckles looked at the kid, knowing the atmosphere might sour. "Go to the obstacle course to test it out. Amy take him to it."
"You got it Commander." Amy saluted humorously and started leading the teen away.
"Wait." Wave walked toward Blitz. "Can I see your Wire launcher?"
Blitz blinked and narrowed his eyes. "Why?"
"I think I can make it useful to you. Something that will make useful to you in the long run."
The dog thought it over, but taking the device off his wrist and handing it to her. After that he followed Amy out the door and closed it.
"He's a green, but can he pull his weight?" Vector said.
"I want to see how he'll use his toy… both of them." Wave scratched her head as she looked at the tool "I think if I can make some adjustments..."
Knuckles stared at the door. "I have feeling that kid is what we're looking for. Right now we need to pull out all the stops."
Amy held open the door. "Okay Blitz, this help you get use to your Wispon."
Blitz noticed it was small room used for target practice. He noticed someone else there, it was a black bear firing his weapon. He noticed a familiar looking jacket and that made him growl. The bear stopped firing and looked back. The black bear grinned. "Blitz."
"Barry."
"You two know each other?"
"School, but you disappeared 2 months ago."
"I enlisted dork." Barry walked on over, wielding a wispon. He looked down at Blitz with a grin, he noticed Amy and saluted. "Hello Miss Rose."
"Good day Barry." She smiled. "Training?"
"Yes, want to be ready for the day I meet that creature." He looked around. "Where is Grace, you two always seem to be around each other."
Blitz frowned. "She's… not here."
Barry's eyes narrowed. "Not here? What happened?"
"She ran away. Her mom told her too."
"What good that will do because she might be captured or dead." He grabbed the dog. "It will be your fault."
"How would that be my fault?" Blitz growled at the black bear."
"BOYS!" The duo froze as if the presence of death entered the room. The slowly turned to the pink furred warrior and felt their heart stopped. Her eyes were closed and she was smiling widely, but they felt there was this sense of foreboding harm coming from her if they didn't stop berating each other. "Get along please."
"Yes ma'am." They let go and saluted. Barry sighed. "Got go and rest up. I'll show you how to man up and not look like a wimp." He walked away, closing the door on the way out."
Amy looked at the door and sighed. "Barry is hotheaded and kind of rude. Kisses our buts more than he should. Thinks he'll be the next Sonic." She stuck her tongue at the door and then turned to him. "So Grace is her name?"
"Yep."
"She wont go for that," The pink hedgehog winked. "Trust me."
"Okay, not like it matters."
"You sound like a party pooper." She held her hammer. "I want to see how good you are."
Blitz gulped and readied himself. He had to prove he wasn't some worthless mutt and find Grace.
She had no idea how long she was running. She had been running since the attack started, since he told her to leave. She made it into the forest and kept at it. She ran like a coward, with the regret of leaving him and her mother behind, but she did as was told. So now she kept running for what seemed like hours.
"Be okay, Blitz… please."
She didn't look where she was going until she ran into something.
"AUGH!"
She fell down with a thud, her eyes widen and she got up quickly. She held up her hands in defense.
"Get back, I… I will claw you and bite you."
"Sorry."
She heard a voice that was high pitched, yet maturing. She lowered her hands and got a good look at the person she ran into. It was a fox. Standing beside him with a large robot in a wheelbarrel.
"Sorry." The fox said again. "I… " He sighed.
"No…" The cheetah girl said again. "I'm sorry…" She notice his two tails and gasped upon recognizing him. "You're Tails."
"Yeah and?" The fox gave a rude answer."
"And? You're famous."
Tails rolled his eyes. "You wouldn't say that if you know what I did."
"Um… so?"
"I abandoned everyone." Tails spoke as he took the cart and walked away.
"Wait… where are you going?"
"I need to find some material for this guy?" He knocked on the robot
"But… that's an Eggman robot."
Tails shook his head. "True, but he rebelled 3 years ago and was working for G.U.N. along with… Shadow."
Grace frowned. "I don't understand about Shadow."
"Neither do." He then started leaving.
"Wait!" Grace ran up. "Can… can I come with you?"
"Are you sure you want to come with me?"
"I don't want to be alone."
Tails looked over at the girl. She was a cheetah, with short hair three bangs flowing down her forehead. She had a red tank top and blue shorts. Along with them she had on red gloves and red boots. Her fur was also singed. The two-tailed genius wanted to be quiet as possible… but if he had an extra set of eyes then..
"Okay."
"Great…"
The two started walking.
"Um… where did you find him?"
"In a dump, he was placed there for some reason, so I dug him out and I have been finding right the tools needed to restore him ever since. With him, I can give my friends more firepower."
"Great.." She spoke with enthusiasm, but she stopped smiling. "Do… do you want to talk about it?"
"No… not right now. I'm not ready"
"Okay." She looked up at the sky and noticed it was getting dark. "It's about time for bed."
"Another mile and we can rest."
She nodded and continued follow the boy. Her mind was still on whether Blitz was safe or not.
Blitz felt as if 1000, hammers collided with his body in a matter of minutes. He knew she was strong, but not that strong. He had underestimated her based on popular opinion alone, never again. He was laying down in one of the beds in a room he was sharing with 5 other people.
He heard a knock on the door and looked up to see Sora and Winter enter the room and looking down on him. Sora looked on with humor, while Winter showed a small smile, indicating she had emotion.
"So… Captain Rose gave you a work over?" said Sora
"Ye-ah." He said while groaning.
Winter smirked. "You impressed her."
"Good," He chuckled weakly "That was the plan…"
"That was good, plus we have great news." Sora grinned and adjusted his glasses. "Commander assigned us to you."
"Huh?" He sounded surprised. "Whu?
"Yeah, we're also new by 3 days." Winter shrugged. "So… I guess we're Team Rookie."
"Team Rookie." Blitz scoffed. "We need to think of a new name later." He stood up and stretched himself.
"Regardless, we're going to train tomorrow to get ready."
"Train? That's good." Blitz sighed. "I need to be ready to help."
Sora walked around with his arms crossed. "You know unlike rumors, we still have an estimated 5% of territory, but we're stretched thin."
"So what do we do?"
"Emerald Town is occupied, next to it. Maple Village. We get those we get a supply route."
"Won't they try to take it back?"
Winter and Sora looked at the other. Sora gave the dog a sad smile. "Yeah, but we're out of options so in a week or two we're going to strike."
Blitz truly felt this was just kind of sick game made by the villain. Deep down he was scared, but he couldn't just run. Where could he go? Nowhere and now is the time to take matters into their own hands. If Sonic was here the surely they could have an edge… but it was just them.
"Alright, tomorrow we're going to free those cities."
Winter nodded. "Yes." She held a look of contempt, but her eyes held a bit of worry. "Let's make it back alive."
Blitz nodded and held up his hand. The three of them bumped fist signaling their team up. After conversing a bit, Sora and Winter left the room, leaving Blitz alone in his thoughts. He looked down at his left hand where the wire launcher used to be. A memory came to me.
-Flashback—
Blitz ran down the field, picking up momentum. He raised his fist and launched his wire from it, pierced the wall, then him rocketing toward it. He hit the wall with grunt and yelped in pain.
"Oh no! Are you okay?" Blitz looked down at the cheetah he called friend and nodded.
"Fine."
"Good, I was hoping it would help with parkour and not hurt you."
"No pain no gain."
"No broken bones either."
"But…"
"Blitz." She placed her hands on her hips and glared at him. He felt a shiver in his spine and sighed. "Don't hurt yourself too much."
"I won't." He then dropped to the ground and walked toward her. "But this is the best present you got me. Thanks."
She formed a wide smile and jumped up and down with excitement. "That's great to hear. I'm glad you like it. I didn't know what to give you, but that made me think it was perfect for you. Who knows you might give Sonic a run for his money."
"Nah." Blitz waved.
"But you're just as fast as me,"
He poked her in nose. "You're faster and more agile."
"You don't give yourself enough credit Blitz." She smiled warmly and giggled. "That tickles."
Blitz chuckled. "So how about I tickle you some more."
Before she said anything, she heard someone call out to her. She looked back to find her brother waving toward her. She frowned and looked at him with a sorry look. "Sorry Blitz, but I got to go. Family gathering."
"Oh." He frowned. "That's nice."
"Don't be that, so what if big bro doesn't like you. You're still a great best friend."
He smiled, but for reason he didn't like it, he didn't know why.
"See ya."
...
The memory went and he gave an exasperated sigh. He hoped she got away safely, but if what they say is true, then there hardly anywhere left for them to hide in. Well… he to keep trying. He laid back down and closed his eyes to sleep.
Miles away Grace was lying on her back looking at the moon. She looked over at the fox laying next to the robot. After spending time with him the girl was under the impression the fox had lost his drive, perhaps when Sonic was killed. She wondered when and how to relieve that spark again. That will be for another day, as of now she will go to sleep and begin her journey.
A/N
There you have it. Mighty and Wave are added to the Resistance. Wave found Tails's ideas and built them. Where are Jet and Storm? Ray?
Next time Blitz's first mission.