Here I'm gonna list the events that would have happened in my stories before and during the war against the original Robotnik.
My personal notes are in italics and in brackets.
[My fanfics' universe was a sort of extension of Sonic SatAm. Unlike what happened in the Archie-Sonic comic, almost all the events of the TV series also happened here, and the comics' elements were introduced to fill gaps and enrich the story, rather than to replace things that happened in the TV series.]
Sonic, Sally, Antoine, Bunnie and Rotor are born in the year 3220. Whisper, Leonidas Procion (an OC of mine), Tekno the Canary (who has been assigned the female sex at birth and is actually non-binary here, but would only realize this much later, as a teenager) and Shorty the Squirrel (later known as "Shortfuse the Cybernik") had been born a few years before.
[Whisper is from the IDW-Sonic comic, and both Tekno and Shorty are from the British comic published by Fleetway]
Fiona Fox is born at the beginning of the year 3224, in New Persepolis, a district of Shamar [my plans were to reveal about her true age in the finale of an adaptation of Tails's Adventure and Tails's Sky Patrol, the second arc of AFFs: Season Two]. Her parents were Francesca Fuchs and Ali Farzan.
Francesca was a biologist and geneticist from Spagonia, her mother was a surgeon, and his father was a humble carpenter from Mercia; she was flirtatious and scandalous, but also very smart, astute, brave and with a strong sense of duty with her work, and had graduated at the university with the highest grades. Ali was a rather young but important member of the clergy of New Persepolis; he advocated for gender equality and other modernizing reforms in the city's religion, which earned him the favour of the people but also the hatred of his peers and the contempt of his parents, who had also dedicated their lives to religion; in discussions with other high-ranking members of his city's clergy, he usually responded to their conservative opinions by reciting homoerotic scenes from the Arabian Nights, which implied he also had a hidden sassy side just like Francesca.
Tails is born at the beginning of the year 3227, just a couple of months before Robotnik's coup d'état. He's assigned the female sex at birth and is called "Militia Prower".
[My recent decision to make Tails a trans boy was inspired by DeltaStarfire, who had already done almost the same (although she made Tails a trans girl instead) and had made Tekno a non-binary character too]
During Robotnik's coup, Leonidas's childhood boyfriend, Ajax, is killed. This leaves an eight-year-old Leonidas marked for the rest of his life.
[As for Leonidas Procion: here's an OC Interview Meme I did about him on DeviantArt: coyam99/journal/OC-Interview-Meme-Leonidas-Procion-800343699]
Fiona's parents (Francesca Fuchs and Ali Farzan) are forced into exile from New Persepolis shortly after the Robotnik Regime's rise, when she's 3 years old (if Fiona had really been born almost at the same time as the vast majority of the Freedom Fighters, she'd have been 6 years old back then, so she'd remember what happened).
[Problems with Fiona's age were already present in the comics, and ToaArcan already spoke extensively about it (on his DeviantArt and Tumblr accounts); I just tried to find a way to make sense of it. To be honest, we'd have saved that problem if all Sonic continuities (video games, Archie comics, etcetera) had done what the British comic did: not revealing the characters' ages explicitly, defining them rather vaguely, and letting the readers draw their own conclusions; that wouldn't only have prevented many headaches but would also allow more stories to be told with the same characters; besides, it was proved that asking SEGA to define the cast's ages ain't a very wise decision: they'll tell you Rouge is 18, even though she'd be 25 for anyone who saw her and heard about her for the first time ever, or they'll tell you Tails is 8 when it makes more sense he's 11 or 12, and if it hadn't been for the tone of his voice, we'd most likely have thought he's 14 or 15. Well, let's come back to this summary's topic...]
In Knothole, Antoine tries to continue his military preparation so he can help in the war when the time comes. Meanwhile, Procion realizes the relatively obsolete training he had received as a cadet would probably not work, so he only stays in the village, is taken care of by Rosie for little more than a year, and then builds for himself a normal life within what the ongoing war allows.
Tails expresses his true gender and starts introducing himself as "Miles" when he's about to turn five. His friends -and also all the villagers when they're told about this- not only respect this but also allocate all available resources and knowledge to allow him to start hormonal treatments as soon as possible.
At about the same time, Tekno the Canary is forced by Robotnik to create the Megatal, which he then uses to build the Cybernik armour and test it on Shorty the Squirrel. The experiment fails, Tekno and Shorty escape and become friends, and while the canary joins the Resistance, the rogue Badnik fights on his own against Robotnik under the pseudonym "Shortfuse", and the whole program of creation of Badniks is abandoned in favour of roboticization.
Fiona, orphaned, is captured by Robotnik in 3234, at 10 years old. A few months later, Sonic appears in a prison camp where Fiona and Mighty were (Mighty hadn't yet developed the physical strength he'd later have). Sonic manages to free the armadillo but fails to rescue Fiona.
She leaves Robotnik's prison in 3235, when she's about 11 and a half years old. In the middle of that same year, the events of Sonic SatAM begin. Over time, Fiona learns about Sonic's and his friends' feats, forgives him and sometimes even thinks of joining the Resistance, but she never forgets what happened in that prison camp...
After trying to survive for about two months, Fiona learns about a treasure in the Mystic Ruins. When taking that valued object, something triggers an enchantment. Fiona loses the treasure, tries to get outta the ruins and leave the treasure behind but activates some traps and is about to stay locked or even die; she's finally rescued by Nicolette "Nic" Weasel, and then Fiona finds out her body looks 3 years older, so they both think she has lost 3 years of memories and her true age in 3235 is 14 years.
After working together for almost 2 years, Fiona and Nic went their separate ways in 3237.
[In my work's original version, Fiona and Nic had had a quasi-romantic relationship in the second half of that period when they were partners in treasure hunting, without them being aware the age difference between them was actually greater; besides, the difficult situation in which Fiona used to live had forced her to prostitute herself to survive, and Nic's presence was the only thing that prevented her from ending up as someone's slave; in a hypothetical improved version of my work, I'd have removed all this and made the relationship between Nic and Fiona sisterly, not romantic at all]
[By the way, I recommend all of you to read the work of KivaTheDCWizard and ToaArcan: unlike me, they approached the sisterly relationship between Fiona and Nic very well, not turning that relationship into a romance]
[The war against the original Robotnik ends with the Doomsday Machine and Sonic and Sally using the Deep Power Stones to destroy it, just like it happened in the TV series; its "equivalent" in the comics, the "Endgame" story arc, had some inconsistencies and was quite disappointing (just like everything else written by Ken Penders) due to -among other things- the fact that Robotnik died just because Snively betrayed him and sabotaged his brand new super-weapon (the Ultimate Annihilator), not thanks to the effort of the Freedom Fighters. However, there are still some key events that happen in the weeks leading up to the end of the war.]
In the middle of the same year, not long before the events of "Doomsday" (the final chapter of Sonic SatAm), Fiona is captured by Robotnik again and is used to create the robot "Auto-Fiona", which in turn is made from recycled parts of a robot replica of Sally that had been used in the events of "Sonic and Sally", an episode of the first season of Sonic SatAM. Two weeks before "Doomsday", the events of Archie-Sonic's two-part story "Growing Pains" happen: Tails meets Auto-Fiona in an island and dates her, Robotnik tries to capture and roboticize or kill Tails by using Auto-Fiona but fails, etcetera.
Just after that, but still before "Doomsday", Tails has his first encounter with the BBA (Battle Bird Armada), as he discovers a base of them in the Coral Islands, northeast of Downunda. He has already had a few bad days: the war against Robotnik had escalated, he already had serious traumas caused by some previous experiences during the war, and after what had happened with Auto-Fiona, that child feels as if he had just killed someone he cared about. After seeing the BBA subjugating the islands' civilians and planning to help Robotnik, the little fox throws sanity out the window. At the end of the day, almost all the soldiers are dead and their leader, who casually was also present there, also have suffered the same fate; besides, a mysterious sorcerer tries to absorb Tails's still latent Chaos power, but they fail and he briefly becomes a berserk killing machine. Only one member of the BBA manages to survive: Lily, a mobian bluebird engineer who wasn't in that army of her own free will; when Tails finds her, his rational side is already slowly taking control of him again. and that allows him to think about Lily and have mercy on her; later she'd take that second chance of sorts, and join the Resistance.
[This would have been the base for the second arc of AFFs: Season Two: here the BBA would have returned looking for revenge and that unknown sorcerer would have tried to take Tails's Chaos power again. As for Tails going crazy AND Super in a moment of extreme stress and killing everyone just like the British comic's Sonic used to do, I thought it'd be most suitable for a version of Tails with such emotional issues and bad experiences that eventually explode, and that particular element of the British comic is interesting to me; there's a story I recommend to read, a four-part adaptation of Tails's Sky Patrol written by KivaTheDCWizard, where he also did something similar. And about Tails killing the BBA's soldiers even before he became that berserk Super form... We have to remember Tails threw bombs at them in Tails's Adventure too, while Sonic only destroyed robots and freed the animals inside them (or destroyed robots with no living being) in his games and TV series.]
[Oh, and the character of Lily Bluebird (whom I'll talk about in a later summary) belongs to KivaTheDCWizard too]
While preparing the mission to destroy the super-weapon Doomsday and defeat Robotnik once and for all, the Freedom Fighters first meet many other Resistance groups, such as the Rebel Underground, led by Geoffrey St. John. They also meet Amy Rose, who was sent from Mercia to Knothole by Rob O'Hedge.
[By the way, there's no f***ing GeoffreyXSally here, and Geoff disagreed with Sonic only because the skunk's team and the Freedom Fighters had different methods and the blue hedgehog and his teammates didn't have military training or ruled themselves by the kind of discipline present in an army; besides, this version of Geoff is based upon how Karl Bollers wrote him. As for Amy, there's no adaptation of Sonic CD here... yet.]
To be continued...