Hey everybody, this is a fic I've had going on in my head for a while and I thought it's about time I got it to paper, you might have guessed by the description but this is a Sonic Adventure 2 and a Sonic Forces AU! There's some certain events that have been changed which will be discussed this chapter! Let's get started!

Broken

Prologue

"Amy, take care of yourself…"

I still can't believe that was the last thing he said to me… I mean, I don't think any of us would have expected things to turn out this way…

I took a look across the skyline, resting my arms on the handle of my upside down hammer. Eggman's metropolis loomed on the skyline, as the sounds of explosions and smoke filled the air of the city. It had been six years now since Sonic had…

The rose colored hedgehog wiped a small tear out of her eye, remembering the capsule being launched from the ARK and exploding before her very eyes. Since then, she had made it her goal to take his last words to heart. Somebody needed to step up, and she decided it would have to be her.

The hedgehog jumped down from the position atop the roof and rolling as she landed to lessen the impact. She made her way down the series of alleyways left over from whatever city had once stood here, now completely turned to rubble.

She retrieved a small circular badge from among her bag and held it up to a specific brick in the wall, as she did, the wall slid aside, revealing large metal door, which folded up into the ceiling.

As she stepped inside, she was instantly met with a wave from Cream. "Hey Amy! How'd it go?"

"The patrol went fine, still seems like Eggman thinks this place is completely abandoned."

"That's good!" Cream responded, she hadn't changed much over the years, simply advancing into her teenage years, but she remained her happy energetic self. "Oh! Rouge said she wanted to see you!"

"Did she say what for?"

"She wanted to upgrade our communicators or something? I'm not quite sure." Cream responded, shrugging as she did.

"I've got nowhere better to be for now. I might as well head on over there!"

Cream nodded and Amy pushed past her and further into the base. She made her way to the workshop where Rouge seemed to be waiting for her.

"You needed me for something?" The hedgehog asked, causing the bat to look up from the project she was working on.

"You're back! But, yeah, I do need your communicator. Using some of the parts G.U.N. decided to leave from Eggman's destroyed robots, I've been trying to improve their range."

The hedgehog removed the headset and handed it to her, "I can't believe we've been at this for six years. I mean, I've just been thinking about it you know…"

"I think a lot of us still are," The bat responded. "Especially with this thing still around." She waved a small yellow handheld device, which Amy recognized as the Miles Electric. It was a bit dilapidated with age, but still seemed to function, much to everyone's dismay. It was kept in their headquarters as while Rogue had managed to figure out how to access it's files, she didn't dare try to fix it, even with her new found technological prowess.

It had been about four years since Tails had left that note for everyone, and while nobody wanted to talk about what happened, everybody knew that he wasn't coming back.

"I mean, it's crazy to think this thing's still working after this long. Especially with what it's been through..." Rogue noticed the solemn look on Amy's face, "You're thinking about what happened, huh?"

The hedgehog silently nodded.

"It's not your fault, you know that right? I mean, we all know how Tails was after Sonic died… I honestly think we lost both of them."

"I should have done something more..."

"Don't think like that! If you have to, I just know they're both happy together. It helps…"

Amy walked out of the room with her head somewhat hung, but she quickly straightened up. That wasn't any way to act, she would deal with it on her own time. As she walked out, she was instantly face to face with Knuckles, whom after the war had broken out, had resorted to keeping the Master Emerald broken and fragmented into pieces, so nobody could utilize or find it's power.

"Hey Amy!"

"Hey, how you been?"

"Good, at least, as good as I can at least."

Amy smiled and continued on her way. She headed back to her quarters and threw herself down on the bed. Fighting back the tears that arose, she reached into her satchel and produced a small white paper, one that, while damaged from it's folds and somewhat dirty, was still legible.

"To whoever finds this," It began. "I just want you to know that, I'm sorry. I can't take it any more, no matter what I do or where I go I just, I see Sonic everywhere. I've been getting less sleep and, I don't even like inventing any more. I just want you all to know that you've all been amazing friends, and I wouldn't have had it any other way. I'm really sorry to leave you guys like this, but I just don't know what to do… I'm really sorry…"

The hedgehog scanned down to the final line, "Love Tails."

Nobody had seen him after the letter, and with how depressed he had been afterward, it wasn't hard to figure out what had happened to the kit, he'd had suicidal thoughts more than once… Since then, Rouge with her G.U.N. experience, had turned to their technical genius. It wasn't the same, nothing had been the same…

-X-

Commander Tower rubbed his temples, deep in thought. Eggman had captured the world and established his own sanctuary, among his own city named Eggmanland. Obviously, there were some serious problems with a headlong assault, especially with how fortified the city itself was, there would be major causalities among their forces, and even then there was no guarantee that it would work…

As such, they relied on surgical strikes on certain areas and preventing Eggman from expanding his influence and territory as much as possible. Mercenaries and Vigilantes did give them some additional support, but they were caught in somewhat of a stalemate.

"Commander?" He heard, snapping himself out of his own trancelike state. "There's a incoming transmission from Eggmanland."

"Do we know from who?"

"It appears to be another transmission from Eggman himself."

The commander followed Lieutenant Pryce out of his office and into the mission room, where he asked for the transmission to be projected onto the main screen. Instantly he was met with the face of Eggman, still wearing his normal yellow and red getup, along with a thick black cape that had been added over the years. The tyrant's voice instantly filled the room.

"Hello my subjects!"

"We're not your subjects!" Commander Tower responded, "We'll never bow to you!"

"I wouldn't say never! In fact, I'm back to see if you've taken my offer?"

"Not with the terms you've given! Unconditional world surrender!? Are you insane!?"

"My victory is inevitable, you can't resist forever, I hope you'll change your mind! Until we meet again Commander!"

The transmission ended leaving the room in complete and total silence. Tower had only one question on his mind, "Where did it all go wrong?"

-X-

He took another leap of faith across the rooftop, panting as he ran. Adjusting his glasses as he landed in a effort not to lose them, he dropped down the side of a nearby building into one of the many alleyways, several of Eggman's robots on his tail. He had misjudged the drop however and more tumbled into the alley than descended, landing squarely on his chest, he swore he heard something crack and a sharp pain fired through his midriff, but he couldn't stop running.

He hid behind a small highway barrier, crumbled and broken from the original raid on the city, after a while, he heard the robots leave, maybe they hadn't heard him. He looked down at his chest, applying some pressure to it, he instantly regretted it as a sharp pain fired through him.

"Dang it Gadget…" He thought aloud, "You've got to stop hurting yourself like this…"

He painfully stood back up and check around both corners of the alleyway, it seemed to be all clear. He carefully stepped out and started to make his way back across the city to where his hideout was. After avoiding several groups of patrolling robots, he eventually arrived, and threw himself down on one of the two beds present, the other one had been long since empty.

He rummaged through his belonging until he found some painkillers, which he quickly took, then produced from his satchel a small seemingly intact motherboard he had salvaged from one of the many robots. He would need somewhere to reprogram it, but it was certainly a start.

He collapsed on his bed, and quickly allowed sleep to overtake him.

Alright everyone, that's it for the introduction! I hope you all liked this so far and we'll be getting more information next chapter! Until next time!