Primo Victoria: Green Hill Zone

Sonic was talking to Tails at the end of the day over the comlink. The fox sounded exhausted.

"Are you feeling okay, Tails?" Sonic asked.

"I should be feeling alright for the time being. It's not like I'm dead." Tails answered

"At least, you did your part." Sonic said. "The landing is complete. Now, we need to clear out all remaining Gorgonites from the zone. Hopefully we'll be able to unite all the forces again tomorrow."

"Yeah." Tails replied. "We were able to establish a makeshift fort on one of the hills, but however we are starting to deplete our ammuniation."

"We'll come as quickly as possible." The blue blur commented. "Which hill is the fort?"

"I'm trying to remember." Tails explained. "I believe that we're by the totem poles."

"There are plenty of totem poles in that zone." Sonic replied. "That doesn't help much."

"I'm saying the very large ones." The fox corrected. "We needed to build some of them to replace those that were busted up."

"Alright." Sonic replied. "We'll get to your location swiftly and we'll make plans from there."

"Just be careful of the scraps of metal scattered around the area." Tails mentioned. "They could make travel somewhat hazardous."

The following morning, the sun rose up. Sonic had moved out with his troops in tow. They headed along the green meadows with the occasional sunflower that were still standing. However, most of the totem poles suffered varied amounts of damage from the fighting. And some of the rope bridges had collapsed and some of the cliffs unstable. The comlink had rung for Sonic.

"Hello?" Sonic answered.

"Sonic, we are under attack." Tails stated. "We need you over here quickly."

"Don't worry, buddy. I'm on my way." the blue blur stated. After shutting of the comlink, he turned to his soldiers. "Our friends need help; try to keep up."

The blue blur raced across the plains with toppled wooden debris and the waterfalls. When Sonic reached one of the cliffs, the ground beneath him crumbled.

"Whoa." He stated, before jumping across the gap and the cliff side behind him collapsed. "That was close." He turned around. "You guys, alright?"

"We're good." One of them stated.

Part way to the rendezvous point, he encountered a squadron of gorgonite mobians. They were in a fire fight with soldiers of the Sonic Forces; it seemed to be in a stalemate until the red echidna showed up. He picked up one of the soldiers and spun him around, throwing him and knocking down some of the enemies. The bad guys began to open fire upon the echidna and he was able to dodge them; Knuckles managed to dig down, burrow under another one and sprang from underground giving said mobian an uppercut to the chin.

Sonic decided to join the fray; he rolled up and gave two a spin dash. Then, he leapt into the air and did a homing attack on a third. The echidna noticed the hedgehog's arrival.

"Hey, you're here." Knuckles replied, punching another enemy. "Thanks for helping out. Although, I didn't need much."

"It's too much." One of the gorgonites stated. "Retreat!" The still conscious gorgonites fled.

"Yeah, you guys better run." Knuckles shouted to the fleeing enemy.

"Enough chit-chat, Knucklehead." The blue blur commented, spin dashing a fourth enemy. "We need to reach Tails' position and fast."

"I understand that." The echidna commented. "He also said that he needed extra supplies. But don't worry about that, I already got that covered."

After the two armies merged, they continued on their way to the position of Tails' makeshift fortress. It was made of palm wood logs from the trees that were knocked over by the artillery fire. When Sonic and Knuckles had arrived, the attackers had fallen back to regroup. The two-tailed fox came out to see them.

"Tails, we're here." Sonic stated.

"Thank goodness, you two showed up." Tails answered. "I wasn't sure if you guys were going to make it."

"Relax, you're forgetting who you are talking about." The blue blur reassured his friend in confidence.

"What's the status report?" Knuckles asked.

"Come inside." Tails answered. Then, the echidna turned around.

"At ease, gentlemen." He stated. "You guys can relax." When the three boys went inside, Sonic and Knuckles looked about at the fortress and seeing Marine bandaging up some of the wounded soldiers.

"Huh, not bad for something that had to be built in a short time." Knuckles stated.

"Yeah." Tails replied, clearing off the table. He pulled out a holograph projector of the region. "Here is our current position." He pointed out the hill. "And here is the enemy camp from what our scouts were able to get." He moved his finger over to that area. "It is on the other side of the big river. We were able to keep up the defensive for now, but don't have enough manpower to make the push to drive out the remaining enemy.

"I'll go find Ames and Mighty. I'm sure that combined we can complete our objective." Sonic stated. "I heard that Ray will be joining up with us later tonight; his wounds weren't that serious."

"It's must be hard on him having a relative die at Site 427." Tails sighed. "But I hope that there aren't any more of those places."

"Shouldn't we be getting the others?" Knuckles asked.

"Oh yeah, be right back." Sonic replied, zooming out the door.

When he returned with Amy and Mighty and all the units combined into a single army, everyone made a push to the enemy camp. Making their way across the river, the machine guns opened fire upon them. Knuckles and Mighty picked up boulders; using them as large shields to protect their men as their infantry fired back.

Tails flew around the skied above with his rifle, sniping the ones in the back trying to load the artillery to hail shells upon the approaching forces. Sonic zipped back and forth along the ground as he started knocking out defenders.

A shell was managed to be fired. Amy pulled out her hammer and deflected the mortar safely away from their friends. Some gorgonites threw grenades at them; the pink hedgehog knocked them back at the ones throwing them.

"This is for what you are doing to South Island." She shouted at them as she done this.

When the heavy-weights made it over the walls, Knuckles and Mighty threw their boulders as projectiles and smashed through the enemies. The Sonic Forces saw that the gorgonites began to rout with no intention of trying to fight back.

"THIS IS A GREAT DAY!" Sonic proclaimed, knocking down the Gorgonite banner with a homing attack. "FOR THIS IS OUR VICTORY!" And the forces had cheered, raising their weapons and hands into the air.

"Long live Lord Sonic." they shouted. "Long live Queen Amy. And may good health be with whom they call friends."

As evening came, everyone returned to Green Hill Fortress. Upon arrival, they saw Ray was waiting for them.

"Welcome back." The flying squirrel stated to them. "You guys are definately in a good mood."

"Yep, Green Hill Zone is finally liberated." Sonic replied. "Everyone did a great job." Marine came out and saw the two-tailed fox return.

"Tails, you're back." The raccoon stated, running up and hugging him. He returned with a warm embrace.

"I'm glad to be back, Marine." Tails replied and the two kissed each other.

"For some reason, those two are behaving like us." Sonic said to Amy.

"Well, they are in a relationship after all." She answered.

"Before we get settled for the night, our agents wish to speak to us." Ray added.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Sonic asked the others. "Let's find out what's going on."

"You're eager for a meeting?" The armadillo asked. "That's a first."

"This is a war, Mighty." Knuckles replied. "It can make people act way out of character."

"Like what happens on the annual Boom Day celebrations?" Mighty asked.

"Yeah, you can say that." The echidna replied. "Usually I decide to act like a complete idiot on those days."

"And Ratsputin had outlawed it in his regime." Amy replied. "Talk about someone trying to be 'tolerant' of different ideas within his 'perfect' nation."

When they had gathered in the meeting room, they turned on the comlink to converse with Shadow and Rouge and the two agents answered.

"Shadow, Rouge, we were victorious." Sonic stated. "Not bad, huh?"

"We already heard." Shadow answered. "And Greger is loosing his temper. He is sending out an large army in an attempt to reclaim Green Hill Zone. But we were able to find out they are going to travel through the Marble Zone."

"Very good." Sonic replied. "I'll lead some troops to intercept them and drive them back."

"Not alone, you won't." Amy stated. "I'll go with you."

"Okay, okay." The blue blur answered her, with his hands in the air. "You can come."

"But that isn't the only thing we discovered." Rouge added. "We heard of a cloning facility in the Spring Yard Zone. This is the only one that is operational and pumping out clones. Since Greger has been pouring all the money into military power, not a lot of maintenance has been done on the infrastructure. If we are able to take out that facility, it'll eliminate the clones and make the war end quicker."

"Excellent." Sonic stated. He turned to his buddy. "Hey Tails, are you up for a sabotage mission?"

"Sure." Tails replied. "I can take Marine with me."

"Krickey, I'll be happy to accompany you." The raccoon girl had stated. "Plus I can make sure that no bloody wanker takes you down."

"I think that is all the..." Rouge replied, but was interrupted by Shadow. "Wait, what?" She paused. "Oh no, you got to be kidding me. You need to tell them that."

"What is it?" Ray asked. "What's going on?"

"Sonic isn't the only one that has taken territory on South Island." Shadow explained. "Eggman has captured the old Scrap Brain Zone for the Khannate. The gorgonite troops were throughly crushed. With an army of tougher badniks, more durable egg-pawns, and new machines; it'll be the fight of our lives."

"Is there any information about what the doctor has?" Sonic asked.

"The only thing that were able to get was the name of one of the machines. Something called a hard-boiled heavy." Shadow explained. "Other than that, nothing."

"Then, we will need to be very careful when it comes to Eggman." Sonic replied. "Keep that information coming."

"Understood." Rouge replied.

Meanwhile at the Scrap Brain Zone, Dr. Robotnik was standing among the steel citadel that had some rust covering various parts of the walls. There were some robots scraping off the rust.

"Make sure that all of the rust is removed." The Mechakhan ordered. "We need to make sure that the citadel is restored. I would like this to be the new capital of the future proveince of South Island."

At that moment, Or-bot and Cu-bot came up to him and pulled on his coat. The doctor then turned to face them.

"Mechakhan," The sphere stated. "We do have some news to share."

"What is the news?" Robotnik asked them.

"We had recieved word from the Penta-S squad that the gorgonites had been pushed out of the zone." Cu-bot replied.

"Good." Robotnik answered. "Let us finish this up quickly. The sooner we crush that rat, the better."

"But that isn't the only thing." Or-bot explained. "Remember the spy we had entered into the Ratsputin administration?"

"Yeah, what about her?" He asked.

"She has given word to us that Sonic is trying to reclaim South Island; and that he has taken the Green Hill Zone." The sphere explained. Then, a wide grin appeared on the doctor's face which threw the two robots off.

"That is a very pleasant surprise indeed." Eggman stated. "Not only in this campaign we can remove Greger, but we can also eliminate the blue rodent as well." He made a short pause before pointing towards the horizon. "Now, let the games of war begin."