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November 4th, 11:25 P.M. Green Hill City, Resistance Base, sleeping quarters.

Rookie opened his eyes groggily and stared up at the bottom frame of the top bunk. He could hear the sound of Sonic's snoring above him, and when Rookie rolled over onto his right side he saw that Matty had gotten off of the top bunk and snuggled up to Newt on the bottom bunk, Rookie groaned slightly and quietly, as he sat up in bed, he then got out of it and slipped into his gear, and as he put on his glasses he heard the sound of feet shuffling by the quarters' door. Rookie walked out into the base's hallway and he suddenly felt like something was off, that something was wrong, but he shook that feeling off and walked into the Briefing Room to try and figure out how long he'd been asleep for, but once the automatic door slid open he saw that the room was in shambles, almost everything in there was broken, the table had been split in half, the wall of monitors had been destroyed, and all of the various crates in the room had either been knocked over, thrown across the room, or broken into pieces. Rookie crept into the room not sure what had happened, why no one woke him up to stop whatever happened, or who did it, that's when he saw the tip of Amy's boot poking out from behind a crate, he ran over to the crate and saw Amy laying motionless on the ground, he quickly scrambled over to her and knelt down next to her.

He then put his hand on her chest to try and feel for a heartbeat but there wasn't anything, she wasn't breathing either. He then quickly looked over her body and saw that she wasn't bleeding from anywhere, she didn't seem to have any broken bones, it just looked like she had dropped dead suddenly, Rookie then stood back up and turned around only to see Silver lying in a pile of broken crates, he was also motionless, what happened here? what was going on? Rookie quickly looked around the room and saw that Knuckles, Vector, Espio, and Charmy all were lying in or on something in the room, motionless and dead. Rookie quickly ran for the door "Someone! Help!"

But he heard something that made him skid to a halt in freeze there in fear, he heard the sound of Infinite cackling, Rookie slowly turned around and saw standing at the far end of the room in front of him was Infinite himself "So, the child show's his face yet again. Tell me, will you accept your fate and die at my hands? Or will you go running with no direction?"

Rookie couldn't breath, his heart was beating a thousand times per second, his legs were shacking, his mouth went dry and the only thing he could squeak out was "H- How?"

Infinite then began to walk forwards as the two halves of the table moved out of his way "What? You don't think Eggman knows where this base is? How naive can one get? I simply walked in and.. Well.. Did all of THIS."

He glanced around the room making sure to highlight the dead bodies. Rookie tried to back away from Infinite but he quickly felt himself pinned against the wall behind him. Infinite chuckled as he loomed over Rookie "You look different.. But you still haven't changed, you're still that scared child I found in the city, only, I had made a mistake then. And I plan on correcting it now."

Infinite then slowly raised one of his hands up to his mask and he carefully began to take it off "Tell me. What do you expect to see under this? The face of someone you once knew? The face of a machine? The face of someone just like you, an ordinary person turned something they shouldn't be? Or, do you expect to see a monster?"

Infinite then finally took of his metal mask and chunked it away. Rookie's eyes widened in shock as he stared at a face he could only imagine in his nightmares, Infinite's unblinking eyes were a deep blood red, his mouth was wide and filled with jagged teeth, his ears were pointed like horns, and his face looked as if it was made out of some kind of black smoke or fog, Infinite slammed his left hand against the area of the wall next to Rookie's face "It's truly a gift, isn't it? This face. I only show it to those who I've deemed worthy of actually staring into death's eyes."

Rookie wanted desperately to look away, but he couldn't, he was practically pressing himself against the wall at this point as Infinite continued to loom over him. Tears began to form in his eyes which caused Infinite to say "Don't cry. This should be painless, although, I haven't tested this myself so I wouldn't know."

He inched his face closer and closer to Rookie's as he did, which only caused the Wolf to shake his head as if he could actually say no to any of this.

Infinite chuckled, his face now inches away from Rookie's "I knew you were a cowered. But even some of the other cowereds I've dealt with have put up a fight."

Rookie's eyes began to water even more as Infinite's sour breath filled the Wolf's nose. Rookie tried to crouch down and hide but Infinite suddenly grabbed onto his shoulder and physically pinned him against the wall "While I enjoy watching you suffer. It's time for this to end."

Infinite then began to open his mouth, and it only got wider, and wider, and wider. More and more teeth appeared in the Jackal's maw as it got wider, Rookie then began to try and flail around to get away from Infinite but he could barely even more at this point, and in an instant Infinite lunged forwards and bit Rookie's head off.

5:45 P.M.

Rookie bolted up right in his bed and let out an almost blood curdling scream which caused Matty to be startled awake and to also fall off of the top bed of her bunk, all while Newt herself also bolted up right a black sleeping mask placed over her eyes. Matty jumped up onto her feet "AAH! WHO GOES THERE!?"

She had her fists clenched and brought them up in a defensive stance, Newt was still very delirious from her suddenly being woken up "Matty? What's going on?"

Rookie scrambled out of bed "G- Guys! I- I just had nightmare! There's nothing bad going on right now!"

Matty put a hand on her chest trying to calm herself down "Rookie! You scared us!.. Are you alright?"

Rookie nodded "Yeah, I'm fine."

Newt took off her sleeping mask and saw that Sonic was still asleep "How could he sleep through all of that?"

Rookie turned around and looked at the top bunk behind him right as Sonic let out a slight snore "Well.. He hadn't slept in a year so I doubt he'd stop now because of some yelling."

Matty nodded as she yawned "What time is it?"

Rookie shrugged as he picked up one of his boots "I don't know. But, I need to take a walk around the base."

Matty nodded again as she sat down next to Newt on her bed "You do that.. I'm gonna get some more sleep."

She then yawned and leaned against Newt's shoulder which prompted the Bear to begin rubbing the side of Matty's body lovingly. Rookie walked out of the sleeping quarters while readjusting his glasses so they'd sit right on his face. Rookie looked around the hallway and felt a shiver run down his spine as he remembered the piercing, glowing, red eyes of Infinite and at the same time he heard the slightly muffled voice of Amy say "Eggman's army has broken through! They're in the city! We need to get these people out of there and push them back!"

Through the Briefing Room's door. As he did Knuckles said to Amy "Who can we send? Silver and Bunnie still needs time to heal, and Sonic as well as the rest of the Special Forces still needs to get more rest before we can put them back on the front lines."

Suddenly the voice of Espio came over Amy's computer "We've engaged enemy forces at Seaside Hill. We can't spare anymore!"

Then a different unknown voice to Rookie came over the computer "This is the 8th Unit! We're pinned down under heavy enemy fire!"

Rookie spoke up suddenly "I can go! I can help the people in the city!"

Knuckles hadn't noticed Rookie yet so when the red Wolf suddenly spoke up Knuckles was shocked, before he let out a sigh and said "Man, looks like I've got no choice. Okay, Rookie, this is a tough one for you. Head into the city and save those civilians!"

Rookie nodded before Amy walked over to him and handed Rookie a small device that had a screen that showed a map of the city, and his Wispon, on that device/map there were red dots placed around that showed areas where civilians were in danger. Rookie then turned around and ran out of the room while Amy returned to her computer and Knuckles returned to staring at the multi-monitor wall. Rookie stepped out of the freight elevator and into the empty office building before using his grappling hook to pull himself out of the building and into the city, Rookie made his hook let go of a building he had used as leverage to jump out of the Resistance Base and then quickly grappled onto a street light before swinging off of it and landing on the ground and running forwards. He could hear the sounds of various kinds of gun fire ranging from energy lasers, to bullets, being fired off in the distance and as he ran he brought his hand up to his earpiece and tuned it to the Resistance Secured Network, right as he did the voice of Amy came through his earpiece "I need a status update on the people who couldn't evacuate in time!"

Rookie then quickly used his grappling hook to turn down a sharp turn in the road, but once he turned he almost smashed face first into the side of a building so he quickly detached his hook, jumped up onto the wall, kicked off of it, and grappled up to the roof. As Rookie grabbed onto the side of the roof he heard the sound of Espio's voice come over the Secured Network "Espio here. We're engaging enemy forces, and can't search for civilians right now!"

Rookie looked around the area of the roof and saw that he couldn't jumped to any other roof around him, but, he could jump to a large balcony that was over to his left. As Rookie backed up to get a good running start the sound of a Resistance soldier came over the Network "The fighting is too fierce for us to help out as well!"

Rookie then ran forwards and jumped off of the roof. He landed on the balcony and staggered slightly before regaining his balance, right at the same time he heard the sound of robotic footsteps coming towards him, he turned around and saw Egg Pawns stomping towards him from inside of the luxury apartment that the balcony was connected to. Rookie quickly held up his Wispon and pulled the trigger destroying the Egg Pawns, he then ran through the slightly scorched apartment and jumped through a broken window and to the park grounds below, once he landed the voice of Knuckles came over his earpiece "Sounds like you're our only hope Rookie. The rescue is in your hands!"

Rookie nodded before running through the park and towards a set of stairs, standing on those stairs were a few Egg Pawns who Rookie quickly destroyed with his Wispon, he then ran up those stairs and towards a bridge that had been broken in half, Rookie jumped off of his end of the broken bridge and as he soared through the sky he looked over to his left and saw a massive Egg Titan being hit by artillery shells "Those are Death Egg Robots! They're being mass-produced now?!"

Rookie then quickly looked forwards and saw that he wouldn't make it to the other side of the bridge so he used his grappling hook to pull himself to the other side. As he climbed up onto the bridge he saw several Egg Walkers staring down at him. Rookie quickly held up his Wispon and the long legged robots then suddenly turned around and ran, while Rookie himself began to run forwards the voice of Vector came over the Network "Uh oh. This ain't good. Might be too much for Rookie to handle."

Then the voice of Knuckles responded with "Still, we can't just ignore them. You got this, right Rookie?"

The red Wolf nodded and said "Yes sir, Knuckles sir-AAAAAAH!"

While Rookie answered Knuckles' question he failed to pay attention to where he was going so Rookie tripped over himself and fell down a long set of stairs. As Rookie picked himself off of the ground, groaning as he did, the voice of Knuckles came back over his earpiece "Rookie? Are you alright?"

Rookie nodded "Y- Yeah, I just tripped."

But in an instant Egg Pawns began to form a ring around him, Rookie quickly scrambled up to his feet, he just as quickly scooped up his Wispon and quickly spun around in a circle, pulling the trigger as he did, he had closed his eyes while he spun around so when he opened them again after stopping he saw that the only thing that remained of the Pawns were piles of scrap metal. Rookie grinned before running forwards and into what looked to be an apartment district of the city, once he entered the district that small device began to beep rapidly, he skid to a halt and at the same time screams from civilians in danger ran out from behind on of the buildings next to him, Rookie quickly ran over to the backside of the building and saw that a family of two parents, and four kids, were being cornered by around fifteen Egg Pawns. Rookie quickly jumped up into the air and used his grappling hook to fling himself to the front of the hoard of robots. Once he landed he spun around and faced the hoard "Stay away from them!"

He then quickly pulled his Wispon's trigger and began to mow down the hoard, as soon as the last Pawn exploded he turned back around and ran over to the family "Are you alright? Do any of you need help?"

The father of the family shook his head "No we're fine. Thanks to you!"

Rookie smiled "It- It's no problem, but you need to get out of here now, never know when more robots are gonna show up."

The mother nodded before she began to lead the rest of the family out of the alley they were in. But at the same time, Rookie could hear the sound of what sounded like rushing water come from underneath him, the sound ran past his feet, and up into the two apartments on either side of him, that's when suddenly two jets of water blasted out of a window from the right apartment, and the left apartment, the jets of water hit each other and formed into a ball of water that then fell to the ground in between Rookie and the family, once the ball of water hit the ground it began to change shape, it eventually changed into Chaos. Rookie looked past Chaos and to the family "Keep going!"

The family then bolted away from him as Chaos began to stomp towards the Wolf, Rookie clench on the Wispon grew tighter out of fear and anger "Y- You don't s- scare me!"

The water god didn't respond, instead it lunged at Rookie who panicked and quickly fired off his grappling hook, which dragged him away from Chaos and up into the air, as the water god turned around Rookie fired his Wispon at Chaos. The water god's entire body began to steam as it let out a high pitched screech. Rookie dropped back down onto the ground and continued to fire his Wispon at Chaos's body which only angered the creature more, it threw one of its arms out at Rookie but, due to the fire, the arm fell apart before it could reach Rookie so he just continued to fire and to also walk closer and closer to Chaos, once he was within punching distance of the god Rookie stopped firing his Wispon and Chaos attempted to use that moment to attack but it was too weak, so instead Rookie quickly headbutted the brain floating around in Chaos's head and the creature collapsed down into a motionless puddle of water. Rookie stared down at the puddle and slowly he was filled with a sense of giddy pride "He. Ha, hahahahah. I did it! I- I can't believe I actually did that!"

Suddenly the voice of Espio came over his earpiece "Nice work! A fine display of skill."

Charmy then added "Wow, you really showed them who's boss."

Vector also said "Come on, how am I gonna top that?"

Rookie's smile only grew bigger as he heard the Chaotix give him praise. He quickly spun back around and began to run towards the next area of civilians that had been cornered by enemy forces, he grappled over the top of a building and landed on the ground behind another hoard of Egg Pawns that had cornered a small group of teenagers, Rookie made quick work of the robots and, after pointing the teens towards the right direction, moved on to the next group of civilians. While Rookie ran the voice of a Resistance soldier came over the Network "We've broken through enemy lines! The rescue is underway."

Then Espio's voice also came over the Network "We secured an escape route so there is a safe way out."

Then Knuckles said something that made Rookie's already big smile, grow even bigger "Thanks to Rookie, things are turning around! Let's keep this momentum going!"

Rookie then grappled up to the top of a building and quickly ran across the roof before jumping off of it and grappling over a large pit that lead into the city's sewers. As he continued to run Knuckles' voice came back over the Network "Update from HQ! The enemy's on the run!"

Espio then added "Mission complete! Well done everyone!"

Rookie glanced over his shoulder and saw that he had indeed completed his mission, the civilians were escaping the city, and he had lured a large hoard of robots away from the base, once he looked forwards again he saw a large hoard of Egg Pawns and Buzz Bombers in his way, he quickly held up his Wispon and took them out before stepping onto the Red Gate Bridge. He glanced over his shoulder again and saw that the large hoard of robots were still following him, so, he jumped over the side of the bridge and used his grappling hook to swing himself back up onto the bridge behind them, sadly the robots didn't have enough time to react before they were reduced to scrap metal. Rookie then said into his earpiece "Mission accomplished."

Knuckles responded with "That was impressive, but we still have a lot of work to do!"

Then suddenly the voice of Sonic came over his earpiece "Great job! I knew you could do it if you believed in yourself!"

It kind of surprised Rookie to hear Sonic's voice, but what didn't surprise him was the voice of Vector saying "Nice moves, but if you hog all the glory, how am I going to look good?"

Rookie chuckled slightly as he turned around and began to walk back into the city "Don't worry Vector, I'm not that cool."

Sonic scoffed "Nonsense! You're way past cool!"

Rookie chuckled again while also shacking his head "What ever you say."

He then grappled onto a building and used it to launch himself forwards.