Chapter 12, Gadget the wolf.

During the next two weeks Eggman launched attacks across the entire world, G,U,N was able to protect the larger cities such as Central city and Empire city, however despite the Resistance's best efforts many smaller towns and villages fell under Eggman's rule.

With every area that Eggman conquered more and more people joined his empire out of fear, however there was also some who joined the Resistance.

By now Eggman had completed his new city, New metropolis, and allowed those who swore loyalty to him to live there, the city had not only become home for those who joined Eggman but even the Doctor himself who now lived a life of luxury in the city's largest building.

Sunset hights, Park avenue.

Sunset hights was a large town that would always get a perfect view of the sunset, hence the name, the town had been lucky enough so far to avoid and any Eggman attacks, living in one of the apartments of this town was a wolf named Gadget.

Gadget was a fourteen year old red wolf with orange eyes, he wore thick glasses, his gloves and shoes was green and grey, and he had a matching green belt with several pouches.

Gadget had always been very shy and timid, he would usually try to avoid any conflict, despite this he had always looked up to people like Sonic, Tails and Shadow, people who would save the world without a second thought, people who was braver that Gadget knew he would ever be.

Gadget did enjoy tinkering with machinery, he would often find broken pieces of tech and ether fix them or turn them into something new, Gadget's friends would often tell him that he was a lot smarter than he gave himself credit for and that he should become an engineer, however Gadget was always too afraid that he would mess up if he ever tried it.

Gadget was currently in his apartment, putting the finishing touches on his latest project, Gadget had found a broken DVD player a couple of days ago, and by using some spare parts he had laying around he had not only fixed the DVD player but also converted it into a Blu-ray player.

Gadget pushed his glasses back up and smiled at the now finished Blu-ray player, however before he could enjoy his work he suddenly felt the entire building shake as he fell off of his chair.

"What's going on" thought Gadget in panic, Gadget got back to his feet and ran to the door, when he open it he found that everyone was running to the stairs, "Gadget over here" said a female voice, Gadget turned to see his two best friends, Beat and Gum, running towards him.

Beat was a turquoise bird with red eyes, he wore a black shirt, black goggles, black fingerless gloves and black and white shoes, Beat was always pretty laid back and liked to just go with the flow.

Gum was a bubble gum pink cat with blue eyes, she wore a black dress, black and yellow gloves and yellow shoes, Gum was always friendly and she could usually cheer people up with her bubbly personality alone.

"Guys what's going on" asked Gadget, "Dr Eggman's attacking, the whole town's being evacuated" explained Gum, at that moment the building gave another shake, "Man, it sounds like things are going insane out there" said Beat.

"Come on you two we have to get out of here now" said Gum almost dragging Gadget and Beat with her, the three quickly made their way down the stairs, just as they reached the front door they heard what sounded like an explosion nearby.

The three made it outside and was shocked at what they saw, there was several of Eggman's battleships in the sky dropping bombs and robots into the town, there was also several giant crab robots as big as buildings called Death crabs stomping through the town.

"Oh my god, this is horrible, we're going to die" said a shaking Gadget on the verge of tears, "Gadget get a hold of yourself, we're not going to die" said Gum, "She's right buddy, we just have to get to a transport and get out of here" said Beat.

The three started to look for any transports or any other way out of the town, however they was having little luck, there was people running around and screaming in panic, and the battleships above was raining laser fire down on them.

The three continued to look for a way out until they was confronted by a group of EGG pawns, the EGG pawns raised their arms and prepared to fire on the three friends, Beat tried to push Gadget and Gum behind him in a attempted to protect them.

Just before the EGG pawns fired a horn was heard from nearby getting the robots attention, seconds later a large army truck came out of nowhere and ran the robots down.

One of the truck's doors opened and a brown bear dress in a military uniform stepped out, "You three get inside quickly" he said as he opened the back door of the truck.

"Who are you" asked Gadget, "I'm Sergeant Thomas, I'm with the Resistance, come with me and I'll take you to safety" said the bear, Gadget, Beat and Gum had all heard about the Resistance and how they had been helping people escape from Eggman's attacks.

The three climbed into the back of the truck, then Thomas got back into the driver's seat and set off towards the town's nearest exit, Gadget, Beat and Gum all sighed in relief now that they was finally getting out of town.

Along the way Thomas ran over any robots that got in their way, "Don't worry kids, we'll reach safety in a few minutes" he said looking back at the three, "Hey, who's that" asked Beat looking at the road.

Thomas returned his attention to driving and saw that there was a black figure standing in the middle of the road blocking their way, little did Thomas know that this figure was Infinite.

Thomas wasn't sure what the figure was but he didn't plan on endangering his passengers lives to find out, instead he hit the accelerator and sped up, the figure could ether move out of the way of be run over.

Infinite raised his hand and fired a laser that hit the truck's engine, with no power the truck slowly came to a halt, Thomas grabbed his rifle, "You three stay here" he said as he left the truck to face Infinite.

Before Thomas could even fire a single shot Infinite flew into the air like a bullet and above the Sergeant's head.

Gadget, Beat and Gum all watched as red cubes appeared around Thomas and lifted him into the air and out of sight, the three could hear what sounded like someone choking and struggling, then there was a loud crunching sound and everything went quiet.

Everything stayed silent for a few seconds, the only thing the three could hear was the sound of their own breathing, then suddenly Thomas's lifeless body fell out of the sky and landed on the bonnet of the truck.

Gum screamed and Gadget quickly covered her mouth afraid that the creature outside would hear them, almost a minute passed and nothing happened, finally Gum carefully opened her door "Come on guys, let's go" she whispered.

The three slid out of the truck careful not to make a sound, once they was all outside they was about to run away when they heard a slightly robotic voice, "There is no point in running, you would never escape this town" it said.

The three looked up and saw that Infinite was floating above the truck and had been watching them the entire time, "Surender now and join the empire, and you may be allowed to live" said Infinite.

The three began to back away terrified by Infinite, "Run for it" whispered Beat, the three all began to run away from Infinite as fast as their legs would carry them, "Foolish children" thought Infinite.

Infinite snapped his fingers and several walls of cubes appeared around the three boxing them in, the three turned around just in time to see Infinite charging a powerful ball of energy.

Infinite fired the energy ball, Beat tried to defend himself with his hands, while Gadget and Gum tried to escape through the wall of cubes, but with little success.

The energy ball hit the ground and created an explosion, Beat was the first to be hit with the blast, then Gum and finally Gadget, when the smoke cleared all three of them was laying motionless on the ground.

"What a waste" thought Infinite as he flew away to look for more survivors, failing to notice that Gadget was still breathing.