After Tails left Angel Island with Classic Sonic, Spike and the others were in the briefing room with Shadow. He was telling them their gameplan. "In Eggman's new empire, there's only one rule; bow down to him or be arrested. There's a famous rule out there in more hostile environments, and it's called survival of the fittest. It describes a predator hunting its prey as a saying of "Only the strong will survive." Eggman thinks this means him and his followers. It's primarily a mission of ours to prove him, his followers, and the people who fear them wrong. A resistance victory causes some people's fear to wane and fight back against him. That's what we need to do. If we can get enough people to rally, then victory will surely be in our grasp, and the world will be free." Shadow told the recruits. "Shadow!" "What is it, Nicole?" "Knuckles and Sally want to see you and everyone else in the main room!" "Meeting adjourned." Everyone went off to the command center. "What is it, Commanders?" "We've just gotten some incredible news! Sonic is alive!" Sally said. Almost everyone showed surprise, joy or relief at those news. "No way. That's excellent!" Silver said. "What?! Oh, thank goodness! I knew it! I knew it!" You could tell Amy was the most happy to hear that. "Sonic's currently being held in the orbiting prison. Our spies there say he's in a solitary confinement cell, and they've been torturing him for months." "See? What did I tell you?!" Sticks asked. "This is no time to brag, Sticks." Storm sternly said.

"That's horrible! We have to rescue him!" "Plan's already happening, Vanilla. Knuckles is putting a squad together to go to the Spaceport in the Chemical Plant to "borrow" a shuttle." Shadow said. "Alright, I'll take….Amy, Blaze, Cream, Marine, Espio, Tikal, Silver, Antoine, Honey, Mighty, Razor, Coral, Mina, Sticks, Cosmo, Wave, NiGHTS, Lumina, Luke, Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo, Lilac, Milla, Hotaru and Spike. C'mon guys, who's up for an old-school style jailbreak?" Knuckles asked. "Let's get going, there's no time to lose!" Hotaru was ready already. "Wow, he's pretty impulsive." Mina said. "Cream, promise me you'll be ok up there." "I'll be fine, Mom. Besides, I have Amy and Blaze to keep me safe." "I hope so."

And so with that, the squad went to the Spaceport. Espio's job was to scout for enemies in the orbiting tunnels, and report all clears to the resistance fighters, so he had some other resistance soldiers form a team within. "Espio here. My team's engaging the enemy in the orbiting tunnel. I think we can hold them off for now." Then he took notice of the Witchcarters and Hooligans. "Wait a second. The Witchcarters and Hooligans are here. Keep silent or they may attack." Then he saw Infinite with them. "Watch out!" "The masked one's here. The one who took down Sonic." Honey reported. "Stay focused, guys. Head for the left wing. There's a shuttle there." Shadow ordered the team. Despite the odds, the team pushed forward. Silently they headed for the left wing where the unmanned shuttle was waiting for them. They found the area where the shuttle was. But there were several robots near it. "We need to do something about the bots. Spike looked at Hotaru and then pulled out his phone. "What are you doing with my phone?" "Looking for something." He then found an app on it and aimed it toward the bots. After a few seconds, they walked in, but the bots spotted them, yet before they could attack, Spike pressed a button on Hotaru's phone, which caused the bots to shut down and fall to the floor. "Spike, this is no time for-" "It's okay, Commander. His phone's a hacking device. See?" He then showed the app he was looking for; one that can hack anything electronic. Think Watch Dogs. "Oh. Never mind then."

With that, the resistance soldiers boarded the shuttle. "Perfect. They won't mind if we borrow this for a while. As soon as everyone was seated, the shuttle was bearing ready to liftoff. "Go flight." Knuckles said. "Knuckles, can you hear us?" Rouge said. She and her friends Breezie and Omega acted as moles in the Empire. "Rouge! Omega! Breezie! It's about time. How's Sonic doing?" "He's been better. They're getting ready to banish him into space." Breezie said. "What? You can't be serious!" "Eggman has been keeping Sonic active for all of timespan of 6 months. He has been waiting to show Sonic his empire has reached completion before he proceeded with termination." "And torturing him just to pass the time." "Again, what did I tell you?" Sticks said. "Eggman has gotten information about your rescue plan and has proceeded to move ahead of scheduling." "He's being held on the Death Egg. The clock is ticking, boss. Rouge out." "Omega out." "Breezie out." "Thanks for that. Knuckles out. Listen up. Eggman's unaware we have one of his shuttles, but he knows we're coming for Sonic. We're going to the Death Egg. You all know what to do. Let's go get Sonic." Knuckles said, as Amy entered the coordinates of the Death Egg. "Coordinates locked." A wormhole opened up. "3, 2, 1." The shuttle entered the wormhole and sped off to its location.

After it made it to where it was going, they flew to where the prison was. "Ok, find the cell area where Sonic is being held, and quick!" With that, the resistance soldiers sped off to find Sonic, but were ambushed by Erazor, the Egg Bosses and the Hard-Boiled Heavies, who summoned many Egg Pawns to take them out. "Listen up, Spike. Our other forces are busy dealing with enemies. And it looks like you took the best route. It's up to you to save Sonic now. Find him!" "Don't worry, Commander Shadow. I'll take care of this." Spike said. With that, he ran off to find Sonic. "This place looks like some kind of internment facility. Sonic is probably here too. Security looks tight, so I'd better stay on my toes." Spike went around searching several rooms in Wings A-D. "Nothing in this one, either. It looks like many people were held here, one more thing Eggman will answer for." Spike went on further, accidentally tripping the alarm along the way. The alarm went off. "Great. They're on high alert now, but I feel the wind's presence grow. Sonic must be close! Don't fret, Sonic! I'm coming!" Spike ran onto Sonic's apparent cell. There he saw three of the fabled Deadly Six; Zavok, Zazz and Zik; all three of them were guarding Sonic's cell. Sonic was there, but not just him, but his two roommates, a pika named Relic, and Gemerl, Cream's robot butler. They were all chained up, with the chains being made from the Phantom Ruby. "This is the end." Zavok said. "End of the line, arrogant little one." Zik said. "It's R.I.P. time for you!" Zazz exclaimed. "Hey, there. They're finally gonna let us out." Relic said. "Not you. Him." Zavok said as he pointed at Sonic. "Sounds like the party's started. Wanna let us go and join in? No? Of course not. You hate fun." Sonic said. The alarm went off in there as well. "System failure. All systems emergency shutdown." That released Sonic, Relic and Gemerl from their Phantom Ruby-produced bonds. "Wha-THAT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN!" Zazz cried out. "The end, huh?" Relic asked. "Now, let's you try something now that we're free." Gemerl said. "Foolish ones. Getting out of your chains does not make you free." Zik said. "Yes, it does!" Spike said as he dropped down from below. "Oh, man! It's Sonic, and two other captured heroes! Now's my chance to rescue them, but look who I'm up against; three of the Deadly Six's Zeti; the big one, the crazy one and the old one! Luckily the fat one, the emo one and the female one aren't with them, but they're still pretty formidable! But if it's to save Sonic, I have to fight them off! You know what-suck it up, Spike! If I have to beat these tools to save Sonic, so be it!" "You're going down!" "Fine, then, you mewling child. Come and face the inevitable." Zavok said. "You will understand the error of your ways!" "It's beatdown time!" Spike prepared to fight the first half of the Deadly….3 ½.