The Egg Fortress was the formal HQ for the Eggman Empire during the war, it was suppose to be unbreakable and heavily-guarded with a huge fleet guarding it twenty-four/seven but those fortifications could never stop the Resistance from breaking it all down along with help from G.U.N.
Now the Egg Fortress was nothing more than a pile of ruins with remains of debris, from the fleet, scatter everwhere.
Whatever's left of the Eggman fleet is station at the Egg Fortress, it was position high above in the sky like it was waiting for something. That's when the ground suddenly started to shake, debris falling into the canyon below and the ground suddenly starting to open up, it open up very widen as a big greyish-blue triangle ship begins ascending into the sky to where the remnants of the Egg Fleet were with the ground closing shut tightly that way nothing was out of place.
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Inside the Battleship
Eggbots were hard at work in the command room, checking every vital systems within the Secret Weapon itself, they were giving commands on the communications systems to the rest of the fleet making sure everything ready to go.
The sound of the doors from the left side of the command room open as Metal Sonic enters with Infinite and Gadget behind him.
"Egg-134 what's the Status of the Ship?" Metal Sonic called out going over to the large observation window in the Bridge with the two mobians stopping halfway in the bridge
"It's all ready to go Metal sir," the Eggbot said at the observation window "All systems are green running one hundred percent, shields are fully online at one-hundred percent, Weapons are fully online and the cloaking field surrounding the fleet has been activated too to keep the enemy from detecting our presence"
Metal Sonic Let out some more air in a sigh of relief.
"Getting that Cloaking field and keeping it from being detected while also keeping it shielded too was the worst part of it all when building this secret weapon, glad to see it works"
"Thank you Egg-134," Metal Sonic dismiss the Eggbot back to its station before turning around, walking back to Infinite and Gadget but he mostly looks at Infinite "Well it's time Infinite, just say the word and we will proceed on course to the coordinates 'the wolf pup' provided for us"
The Jackal looks over at Gadget for a brief moment then back at Metal Sonic.
"Begin the Attack immediately"
Metal nods his head and orders the Eggbots to get in contact with the rest of the fleet to proceed to the coordinates.
"At last, the time has come to begin 'Our' Reign of Terror or Conquest to be more exact" Infinite though to himself while crossing his arms and looks over at Gadget who was gently patting his chest.
"Nervous?"
Gadget looks over at Infinite and nods his head at him "y-yeah, j-just trying to keep myself calm and ready..."
The Jackal reaches over and puts his sharp gloved hand on the red wolf shoulder to assure him to stay calm and focus, since he knew Gadget was going to be facing his former Allies once they got there.
Gadget nods his head at Infinite before taking a deep breath and letting it all out.
"Don't let your Personal feelings get in the way Gadget, do not hesitate show no mercy and burn them to death just like you did Sonic"
The red wolf nods his head at Infinite, not even slightly hesitating once. A smile forms behind his Mask impress that the Red Wolf was completely understanding what to do.
"Good, very Good Kid"
The red wolf looked over to see Metal walking over to him.
"So kid, you sure your ready to do this?"
He nods his head in response "y-yes I'm ready, um what's the Plan when we get there to start the Attack?" Gadget ask since he didn't even know what the Plan was.
"Simple, my ground forces will Attack the city directly while You head straight for the Resistance Base, they likely won't suspect you on our side for the time being"
"And what do you want me to do when I get there"
"Simple, Head for their command center and wait for us to get there"
Gadget tilts his head a little confused on what Metal Sonic meant.
"You...want me to sit out of the fight and wait for you guys?"
A USB drive was handed over to Gadget by Metal Sonic, the same one he given them the coordinates on.
"Put the drive into their Main Computer and it will do the rest, Pretty easy"
"Uhhhh Okay?" Gadget replied sounding even more confused taking the USB drive back and puts it in one of the pouch pockets "Mind telling me why you want me to do this?"
"You'll find out later kid," Infinite replied as Gadget look at him "right now, we need too prepare for battle"
Gadget looked at both Infinite and Metal before letting out a sigh.
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At the Resistance Base
It was dark outside in the early morning hours of the city but the orange sky could be see over the Horizon meaning the sun was rising.
The city itself was destroyed but not completely since some buildings were still left intact. The city district of Sunset Heights had suffer one of the worst battles in its whole history during the war against the Eggman Empire with Death Egg Robots digging into the ground as their were huge craters inside and outside of the city. It's like they were searching for something but whatever they were searching for never happen since broken mech debris laid in the craters.
"Sonic where are you?" A voice came from a two-tail mobian Fox with yellowish fur whose voice sounded a little worried and concern.
He lets out a sigh while overlooking the city from the roof of the Resistance Base as he was sitting on the edge.
"We've won the war and Sonic hasn't return yet, nor he hasn't been seen or heard from yesterday...I got a bad feeling something happen to him"
He rubs one of his eyes and lets out a yawn before stretching his arms "I should probably go get some sleep" Tails said to himself sounding very tired.
"It's way pass your bedtime sweetie" some feminist voice said that got Tails attention as a pair of arms wrapped around him from behind and pulled him backwards into a hug with something squishy pressing into the back of his head.
"Oh dear, what is 'she' doing here" Tails though too himself as he could feel his muzzle turning a little red and he slowly looked up to see an attractive female Mobian bat looking at him with a smile on her lips.
"H-Hi Rouge, or G-Good M-Morning Rouge" he stuttered Shyly since he was blushing.
A small chuckle came from Rouge throat as her gloved hand gently strokes his chin very soft.
"Good Morning Tails, have you been up here all night?" Rouge asked as she kept stroking the Fox boy chin.
"N-no just for the last hour, I couldn't sleep"
"Awww, you know you shouldn't be up this late, a little boy like you needs your sleep"
"I-I'm not a boy a-anymore R-Rouge?"
"Are you suuuuure?" Rouge asked soothingly as she kisses his nose still keeping him in the hug he was in.
The two-tail fox knew Rouge was teasing him but he didn't mind right now since his chin being stroke really got him very comfortable that he didn't want it to end.
"Y-Yes"
"Okay hun, I'm just checking?" She smiles softly and kisses his cheek.
Tails cheeks turn to embarrassment as they were red. He was okay with that since there was no one else on the roof to bother them.
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In the Resistance Base
Amy Rose was walking over to the laptop, rubbing one of her eyes as she was holding a cup of coffee in one hand and a donut in the other.
She reaches the table containing the laptop that was attach to a large main screen of the command room and sits down taking a bite of the doughnut while sipping some of the coffee before setting the mug down.
"Bleh, coffee doesn't taste too good, I gotta remember to tell Vector to get some more coffee from the Warehouse"
She begins pressing keys at the keyboard since she was all by herself in the room until she hear the door slide open and a red echidna came in rubbing both of his eyes.
"Morning Knuckles Sleep well?"
Knuckles grumbled something at Amy before looking at her with red eyes. Looks like he didn't get enough sleep at all.
"Barely Amy, just only four hours from that Victory party the whole base had last night, ugh never going to do that again"
"Well you should've went to bed on time like me instead of having that big card game with Silver, Espio and Vector" Amy reminded Knuckles, typing more keys in the laptop as she looks at the outline view of the city and lets out a sigh.
"Hey that game kept getting more difficult whenever one of us was so close to winning" Knuckles replied as he went over to the desk grabbing the mug and takes a sip of it.
She sighs, ignoring Knuckles drinking her coffee before looking back at her screen until her eyes widen suddenly. She saw one red dot appear on the screen followed by another one and another one.
"No this can't be maybe it's a glitch"
Two more red dots appear on the screen followed by three, ten, twenty, forty, eighty, a hundred.
"This better be a glitch please be a glitch"
She moves the mouse to run a scan but she saw another hundred red dots appear on the screen, her eyes widen and lets out a scream.
Knuckles, taken surprise by the scream, spits the coffee out of his mouth followed by another high-pitch scream coming Amy.
"Amy what's the deal?"
He receives his answer by a wack on the head by Amy's Piko Piko Hammer. He grunts and glares back at her growling, rubbing his head
"What was that for Amy?"
"FOR SPRAYING HOT COFFEE ONTO ME" she screamed sounding mad, he could hear her huffing from the coffee that was all over her hair.
"Oh, well uh why did you scream the first time?" Knuckles asked while starting to back away since he knew how angry Amy Rose gets.
Her eyes widen realizing her temper got the better of her again and quickly Regains her composer before looking at Knuckles.
"Were under attack Knuckles by Eggmans Fleet"
Before Knuckles could respond the building begins to shake causing both Amy and Knuckles to lose their balance and fall too the floor while on the screen, big red oval dots appear on the screen from out of nowhere.
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Up on the roof
"You like that Tailsy?" Rouge cooed closer to his left ear hearing him nod his head in response and she smirks slyfully while holding him closer to her in the hug as she keeps gently stroking his chin.
Tails blushes a little bit at being called 'Tailsy' wondering if that was a nickname she was going to give him. He smiles at that idea and slowly open his eyes to see some flying objects in the air.
"Huh, what are Resistance fighter ships doing here in the city aren't they suppose to be in the Ships that store them in the hangers?"
More flying objects were appearing in the sky above the city.
"Wait a minute"
He try's to lean forward but Rouge pulls him back.
"What is it Tailsy?"
Tails ignores that and saw some small white orbs fall from the flying objects and dirctly into the city.
The next thing that happen were explosions being seen and heard from throughout the city followed by Sirens being heard too.
"We're under Attack...Rouge were under attack" Tails said struggle to get free while looking up in the sky to see Capital ships seemingly appear out of nowhere and start bombarding the city with there cannons.
Rouge ears perked hearing the sounds of cannon fire being shot and looks up into the sky to see ships firing at the city and she also notice that they had the Eggman Empire symbols on the ships.
"Wasn't he defeated yesterday? I knew he was going to plan a comeback after losing the war yesterday"
Rouge grabbed a hold of Tails hand and starts dragging him back into the base heading to the command room.
"I knew Eggman was going to attack us, so much for the War ending" Rouge said to Tails as he was trying his best to run with her but was mostly getting dragged on the floor.
Too bad Rouge didn't know how way off she was with who was really attacking the city and who was in charge.
The war had just resume.