Chapter 36: Infiltration
The Legion Base…
Things have been quiet for the Legion with the Alvarez Empire soldiers on duty and the place is heavily guarded. They keep a lookout for anything and for the Resistance. The soldiers kept a lookout and be sure to be ready for anything.
"It's very quiet."
"You're telling me, no one hasn't come to this place. I even contacted Scar and told him that everything is secure."
"I wish we could get some action here, I'm really bored and they're having all the fun out there kicking the Resistance's ass knowing they're in a losing spot."
"Tell me about it. After this, we should head to a strip club. Drinks on me."
"I'm down."
The soldiers continue on with their patrol and the place remain quiet. Soon all of that is about to come to an end. Just when they continue to keep a lookout, unaware someone is heading straight to the gate of the base in top speed. One of the soldiers sees something coming but couldn't picture what's going on and suddenly the gates begin to explode and break through from the intense force surprising the troops and sets out the alarms, alerting them there is an intruder infiltrated the base. The soldiers readied their weapons at the intruder to fight.
They got their answer seconds after when they discovered a blue hedgehog making his appearance and walking to the center surprising the Legion even the Alvarez troops.
"It can't be…"
"But he's supposed to be dead."
"Wrong. I was brought back and now I'm pissed. Time to create some Chaos." Sonic countered.
"Open fire, take down that hedgehog!"
*BGM: Devil's Never Cry (Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening)*
The troops opened fire at the true blue but unfortunately, Sonic dodges the bullets and magic bullets with his speed. He launches up in the air and transforms into his Fire Sonic form but decides to ascend it to a third level and creates a massive fireball from the palm of his hands. The troops look like they're going to shit in their pants with Sonic using one of his powerful abilities.
"Let's turn up the heat! Great Flame Commandment!" Sonic shouted.
Sonic tosses the massive fireball at the troop and explodes once it makes its impact. The fireball exploded like a nuke with a huge blast radius with flames spreading like wildfire. Sonic dives down and slam down his fist down to ground and creates a shockwave of flames bursting and blasting the troops around the area. Sonic begin to change and starts to ascend his fire form to a newer level and transforming to Fire Sonic 4. It was the same form like his Super form 4 but the color of his fur remained red with yellow streaks. His eyes begin flashing brightly. The fire hedgehog smirked and spins around, creating a tornado of flames pulling the troops in and trapping them inside. Sonic extends his hands and creates a pillar of fire erupting from underground and blasting the tornado like a bomb and destroying, defeating more troops. One of the troops try to go after Sonic from behind but Sonic back flip over and shots a shockwave of fire to blast away the alvarez guard. Sonic blasts streams of fire then a few multiple fireballs around creating some mayhem in his path against the legion and the alvarez empire. Sonic then transforms into Ice Sonic 4, a new form but a different form with marking on his body. He shot multiple ice spikes at the guards and creates a geyser of ice from underground sending them away or freezing them in advance.
Sonic creates an ice barrier around him to block off the weapons. The weapons could not penetrate the ice with made Sonic to smirk and blasts the ice barrier, creating the shockwave of ice to freeze the weapons. Sonic creates two swords made of ice and charges at the troops and begin slashing away, delivering strong and light slashes then add twice the damage when he spun around and slashing multiple and shoots ice spikes to add more damage to his enemies then afterwards, Sonic summoning ice balls and drops down on the guards causing them to drop down to the ground. Sonic charges through the door and creates a gauntlet made of ice and powers on through to destroy the door to make his way inside. Sonic dashes up ahead and sees more guards and weapons firing at him.
The true blue smirked enjoying the fun and again begin transforming and transforms into his Volt Sonic, ascends it to the fourth level with greater power. With his speed, Sonic using lightning to boost it up using Lightning Transportation. Sonic passes through the guards and troops and electrocuting them and causes the weapons to malfunction and explode at his command. Sonic blasts lighting out of his body, creating another shockwave and electrocuting the hero's enemies in the hallway. Sonic breaks through the door in the hallway to make his way through furthermore into the base.
Sonic changes into Rock Sonic 4 and slam down his fist and creates an earthquake. Sonic creates a hammer made of rocks and slam it down, knocking down the guards and swings his hammer again to swing them away knocking away the legion out of his way and the alvarez empire. Sonic sees the big brutes comes in and charges at the true blue but Sonic creates gauntlets made of rocks and fought the brutes showing them his immense strength. Sonic delivers a brutal punch sending the brute away and crash through a wall. Sonic even uppercuts another brute and slams him down in a powerbomb. The hedgehog hero bashes another brute away with his shoulder creates a rock boulder and tosses it away knocking multiple brutes that are caught in the blast once it makes it impact.
It even creates another passageway for Sonic and he continues on. The legion and the alvarez empire guards and soldiers try their very best to stop Sonic but he kept coming. Sonic switch it up by transforming into Wind Sonic and ascends it to a newer level making him Wind Sonic 4. Sonic launches himself in midair and spins around and creates s spiral wind and blasts them through like a missile, knocking away multiple troops out of his way from his path and lands on his feet. Sonic even shots waves of wind from his palm and creates of wind and spun around to create a tsunami and pulls in the troops in the tornado. Afterwards, it blasts them away blowing them away.
The wind hedgehog look around looking at the path of destruction he cause and continue his way. Unaware, someone is catching everything on camera in the security room.
The Security Room…
"Who the heck is causing all of the trouble out there?"
"Sir. We just got word that Sonic is back."
"Wait WHAT?! Sonic the Hedgehog is alive?"
"Yes, sir. He's destroying the base and none of our men or the alvarez empire is doing anything to stop him."
"Very well then, I guess I'll handle this myself. I'll kill Sonic again."
The Hallways…
Sonic defeated the last of the troops and revert back to his base form. Sonic brush himself off with a smile.
"Oh man it feels so good to get all of that out. I thought the Legion and Alvarez Empire would be a challenge but man was I wrong."
"Do you really think it would be that easy?"
Sonic look over to see another mobian, it appears to be a brown falcon with black streaks on his feathers and body. He wore a black and red t-shirt with a leather jacket, black jean pants and black boots with some red highlights onto it. He even brown fingerless gloves with spikes and wearing black goggles with red lenses. He even has red tribal markings on his arms.
"A falcon huh? You're working for Scar?" Sonic assumed.
"That's right and the names Talon, Talon the Falcon. I'm Scar's eyes and ears." Talon assured.
"Is that so? You don't look like it. More like a… chump to me."
"How dare you insult me! For your information Sonic, I am a lot stronger than I look and thanks to Scar giving me dark lacrima, I've become stronger and this is the good opportunity to kill you. I'm going to make sure you stay DEAD!"
Talon begin channeling dark lacrima within his body and begin transforming. His feather change colors as it change to grey with dark blue streaks. His eyes change the color to color crimson red and his talons became sharper. Talon begin powering himself up and ready for a showdown against the blue blur.
"Let's see if you can handle Dark Lacrima although you were too weak to defeat Scar." Talon said.
"Weak you say? I just gotten stronger from my training. I was just looking for my brother but you'll have to do to get this fingertip, chaotic ass beating." Sonic countered.
"And what are you going to do, your power isn't strong enough to beat me."
"*Chuckle* Sorry man but I'm going to have to disagree to that. One thing you should know."
"And what's that?"
"Is that don't ever challenge me into a fight?"
*BGM: SSJ3 Powerup (Dragonball Z)*
Sonic let out a loud roar as he channels his energy, his power for his transformation. The true blue himself begin turning into Super Sonic then starts to ascend up to a greater level of his super form. Sonic's quills begin to elongate, growing longer as he continues to power up. It took Sonic a good minute to complete this transformation and his body emitting, bursting yellow aura like a shockwave. The speedster now surrounded himself with yellow aura with electricity dancing around and his quills gotten longer. Sonic ascended up to his Super Sonic 3 form.
"What the… your power has increased." Talon sensed.
"That's because I've gotten stronger when I was away. Now let's get this party started." Sonic suggested.
*BGM: Engage (Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- OST)*
Sonic charges at Talon and collide as Talon blocked Sonic's punch and goes for the uppercut but Sonic teleported and reappears and delivers a powerful spinning heel kick behind Talon and sends him flying through a wall to a different. Talon hits the ground and appears to be at the weapons room, Sonic dashing to Talon but Talon blasts dark energy beams from his hands but Sonic dodges them and delivers a brutal kick causing Talon to scream in agony and spits blood from his mouth. Sonic started pummeling Talon down for a few seconds and after that, Talon again counters Sonic and slashes Sonic up in the air with his talons and air dashes up at Sonic and slashing the hedgehog down with terrifying blows and dive kicks Sonic back down to the ground.
Talon grabs Sonic and throws him towards the wall and dashes up ahead and bashes Sonic through the wall with his head and slashing Sonic with his talons. Sonic blasts a shockwave of energy from his body to push back Talon away. Talon stop himself using his wings and charges at Sonic for another aerial strike but Sonic counters Talon with a high kick sending him up in the air. Sonic charges up his energy to engulf himself with yellow aura and unleashes it afterwards to use his Light Speed Attack. Sonic beating down Talon a few times then delivers a powerful punch straight to the face and sends him down to the ground.
Sonic reappear behind Talon and flash kick Talon, sending up flying and crashing through the ceiling and the kick was so strong that sends Talon outside above the base. Sonic burst through the ceilings and the roof and bashes Talon but Talon counters Sonic off and try slashing him with his talons and deliver a few melee strikes such as punches and kicks. Sonic blocking them off altogether waiting for a perfect time to counter. Talon continue with his barrage of attacks on Sonic for a few short seconds then Sonic then uses Super Sonic Parry by bursting energy from his arms to push back Talon and uppercuts him in the chin then front flip and delivers Sonic Eagle to send Talon back down inside the base.
Inside the base, Talon crash down hard to the ground and Sonic comes in after him and drives to add more damage with a dive attack. Talon rolls out of the way forcing Sonic to stomp on the ground giving Talon a chance to return the favor. Talon creates dark magic from his hands, creating a ball and hits Sonic with it and the impact exploded sending Sonic flying through a wall and hits the ground. Sonic on the other hand back flip himself and lands on his feet. He eventually ducked down when Talon try to attack Sonic with his talons, Sonic simply smile and back flip himself, deliver a summersault kick hitting Talon in the chin of his beak and have him crashing towards a wall behind him leaving a dent during the crash. Talon roared and shot magic waves from his hands and creating traps on Sonic.
The hedgehog hero dodges the magic waves and the traps setup on him as they explode while he rush over to Talon. Talon smirked and blasts Sonic away with his wind then shoots magic daggers at Sonic to penetrate the hedgehog to kill him off. Sonic with his reflexes, dodges every dagger being thrown at him with the use of his Chaos Sense since he mastered it back at the Trials of Chaos. Sonic creates an orb from his palms and tosses it over at Talon. Talon sees this and kicks the orb away and it exploded up in the air but the orb suddenly shoots homing spears at Talon causing the falcon to dodge and get out of sight.
Talon dodges the last energy spear but gets struck in the face when Sonic appears out of nowhere and delivers a superman punch then rapidly began punching Talon multiple times and finishes off with a brute blow right to the face. It made Talon stumble backwards but Talon try hurting Sonic with his talons but Sonic dodges it, sees it coming and grabs Talon by the arm, twists it and struck it causing it to snap. Talon screamed in immense pain when Sonic broken Talon's arm. He tries to hurt Sonic with his left arm but Sonic evades the talons and struck Talon again with a spinning heel kick.
This even cause Talon to spun around in midair and crashes down to the ground.
"Fuck!" Talon cursed clutching his broken right arm.
"Ready to give up or do you want more?" Sonic asked.
"Over my dead body!"
Talon draws out his gun and points it at Sonic but Sonic kicks it away and kicks down Talon back down to the ground.
"Give up, you can't beat me." Sonic demanded.
"No!" Talon refused.
Talon pushes Sonic away and bashes him with his shoulder and sends Sonic over to a wall. Talon tries to finish Sonic off by creating a dark energy ball from his palm and sends it over at Sonic. Sonic kicks the magic ball away and it explode to a nearby wall once it made its impact. Sonic Chaos Control to Talon and kicks him up in the air then reappears above Talon and slam his fist down, striking Talon back down to the ground. Sonic then gets in formation with his hands to his right side and creates a light blue energy orb, charging his attack then Chaos Control behind Talon who slowly gets up to his feet then looks over his shoulder.
"No… you can't!" Talon pleaded.
"Too late. Should've given up when you had that chance. I'm coming after Scar and I'm coming for his goddamn Legion and bringing all of those sons of bitches down. Here's my message for your boss and the Alvarez Empire and Zeref. Super Sonic Beam!" Sonic shouted.
Sonic blasted the light blue energy beam and it phased through Talon and killing him as his body begin to vaporize into particles. He even can hear Talon's screams when he reached his demise. Sonic revert back to base form and look around knowing he had cause so much carnage in the base.
"That was fun. Now before I go, there's got to be some interesting Intel I could find." Sonic pondered.
The true blue heads to the computer room and find any Intel about the Legion and Alvarez Empire. The true blue hacked into the computers using one of the guard's password and got through. The true blue begin looking into every file he could find and found some interesting information that could help fill him in what has happened during his absence.
"Looks like Zeref has the Alvarez Empire and has created a war. Joined forces with Skid with the Legion. They taken over everything in Fiore and just captured Crocus. I bet it's heavily guarded there too. Let's see… there's a new member of the Legion named… Scythe the Echidna. Hmm… he must've have ties with Leviathan since Leviathan is here in Earthland too. Including Skid. Dang… the resistance are in the losing spot, they're losing the war all because of Scar and Zeref. It appears that they're after Lumen Histoire. Wait that mean…"
Sonic took a moment to think about this until it finally hit him.
"They're after Mavis! No wonder. What the heck do they want with Mavis anyway? Well only one way to find out for sure. Let's see are there any secrets I can take before I destroy this base."
Sonic look through the files once again to find some interesting data. Turns out, Sonic gotten his answer and found what he was searching for. With that, Sonic begin to download everything that he could use to defeat the Legion and Alvarez Empire and win the war. Gather the data he needed, Sonic then shutdown the computer and activate the self-destruct sequence. Sonic exits out the base and walk through the gates with a smile and the base exploded into flames as Sonic destroyed everything what was inside the base.
After he completed the objective. Sonic stop and look at the destruction. Liking what he sees, he nodded his head and cross his arms.
"Oh man, reminds me when I destroy Eggman's robots and his base just to make him ticked off about it. Those were the days. I better get out of here before reinforcements arrived." Sonic said.
The true blue takes off running and leave the destruction behind. He left minutes later before the reinforcements arrived and look at the carnage. Riven and Connor arrived and look around wondering who could destroy the base of operations to help with the supplies and weapons that they've been making.
"Who could've do this?" Connor asked.
"I don't know, that's what we're going to find out." Riven retorted.
"Could've been the resistance?"
"No. it has to be someone else. Salvage what we can find that can help us find out what happened here."
The legion look around for anything to find out what happen as they search for any clues. Connor soon had stumble upon a security camera. Riven notice it and walks over to Connor.
"Perhaps this camera can help us what we can here." Connor suggested.
"Is it functional?" Riven asked.
Connor check if the camera can work but to his surprise, it is but only a little.
"Just a little." Connor said.
"Let's see what we can find." Riven suggested.
Connor nodded and one of the troops brings out a computer to hook the camera with to look at the footage. It took some time to get a clear footage until they got it and look through the screen. They see the Legion troops and the Alvarez guards being pummeled by the hands of a yellow figure.
"Pause it! Zoom it." Riven ordered.
The screen zoom in to the yellow figure.
"It' blurry. Hold on, I can translate it to get a clear vision." Connor said.
Working his magic, Connor cleared the blurry vision in the screen and got the answer they're searching for. To their surprise and the surprised look on their faces. They see a picture of hedgehog taking down their army and the Alvarez Empire guards. Riven and Connor look at each other and look at the screen.
"No… it can't be…" Connor trailed off.
"I don't believe it too. But how… how did Sonic survive the beam. No one could've survived it."
"No but someone must've brought him back to life."
"We need to contact Scar right away and tell him what's going on. Bring the camera for evidence."
Connor hold onto the camera and the Legion then heads on back to the airship to tell their boss the shocking news.