"Are.. Are you sure that's right Geoffrey?"

Geoffrey Saint John, AKA: The Pawn, nodded and smiled at Amy "Yes, I am. Once more, I will admit that saying something to the affect of 'I know who's controlling Eggman's Badniks' is a bit of misnomer, as I only know where this person is holding up."

Amy nodded as well, still quite confused by all of this "Alright... But.. Why is it you've only brought this up now?"

He shifted a little in his seat and chuckled dryly "Well... To put it quite honestly, I wasn't in any position to speak out against him. I... Stumbled across his operation back when I was a scavenger, which was a month or so ago... I ran across his base one day and... Well... I ran. Turns out he tracked me back home and... One thing lead to another and he held my girlfriend, Hershey, hostage... Only recently did he trust me enough to let tell me she's safe and that he has no intention to kill her... Or roboticize her.."

Her heart twinged with empathy. She felt bad for him "I'm so sorry you had to go through all of that Geoffrey! I- I'll get into contact with an operative and have them go to this... Bishop's base and stop this once and for all... Just.. As soon as-"

"As soon as I tell you where the base is, should've done that sonner, shouldn't I?"

He leaned back in his chair and ran a hand through the fur on the top of his head as he sighed and said "I'm going to need something to write it down on."

Amy reached over to a nearby tablet and handed it over to Geoffrey. He opened up a little app that'd let him write down the location of the Bishop's base. Upon finishing it and handing it back to Amy, she'd look at it and raise an eyebrow in slight surprise "It's all the way out there? No wonder we haven't found it..."

He nodded "Yeah, but it is rather obvious of a place to take control of the Badniks from. After all, it's an old factory for them."

Amy would then set the tablet down before looking back over to Geoffrey "Yes... Thank you for all of this Geoffrey.. I'll be giving you something as a reward for all of this."

Geoffrey smiled once more "There's no need for that... He's done so much to harm me and Hershey, I'm just glad he's going to get what he deserves."

The hedgehog began to stand and so did Geoffrey, and as they did Amy said "I'm sure you do, but still, thank you again. You've done a great deal in helping the Eggman Recovery Effort keep people safe."

He held out his hand "It's no problem. Who wouldn't want to keep the world safe when you live on it too?"

She took his hand and they shook on it as Amy simply smiled at him. After that he'd leave and she'd sit down to get into contact with any ERE operative that wasn't busy at that moment. She searched and searched but found nothing. Knuckles? He didn't count anymore. Gadget? No one's heard from him since he left the Resistance after the war. Sally? She's busy with The Green Hill City operation. Literally any of the Chaotix? Turns out post-war time has been the best business time for their organization.

Amy rubbed her eyes before returning to the search, but luck was on her side this time as she found someone who had next to nothing going on at that moment. She smiled a little and began to type up the message she needed to send him.

Meanwhile, Sonic was back at his camp sitting in his tent. He scratched the side of his head and thought to himself "Hate road bumps. Sure, this is more of a figurative brick wall, but still. The only thing I know is that someone's in control of Eggman's robots now, and maybe, just maybe, that same person will cause some sort of... Thing, that forced the Sol Emeralds to bring Blaze over here.."

But then, suddenly, his Miles-Mini Universal Communicator beeped. Sonic leaned back a little and picked up the device to see who's trying to message him. He just smiled and accepted the call. He was almost immediately met by the sound of a girl saying "Sup, idiot."

Sonic rolled his eyes and smirked a little "I'm starting to notice a pattern when it comes to getting contacted by my family on this thing."

Sonia the Hedgehog raised an eyebrow but didn't let her smile leave her face "How so?"

He just shrugged "They always seem to want to talk when I'm in the middle of something."

She chuckled "Isn't that the case for most things?"

Sonic nodded before asking "So, where are you talking to me from?"

"Uh, Spagonia. Specifically, I'm in Central Spagonia."

He whistled a little "Wow, you're going to that fancy fashion school."

She nodded "Oh yeah, and uh, don't take it the wrong way, but I might've used the fact I was related to you to get into the school just a little easier.."

Sonic shook his head a little "No need to worry, Manic already used that to get a girlfriend a few years back."

Then suddenly, Sonic could hear Manic the Hedgehog's voice come from above Sonia, obviously from the second floor "And a boyfriend!"

The blue hedgehog furrowed his brow "I don't remember that.."

He just shook his head a little and asked "So Manic's there too?"

Sonia shrugged "Kinda, he's mostly scoping out stuff. He's not sure what he wants to do yet."

Sonic cocked his head to the side "What do you mean by 'scoping out stuff'?"

"Manic's words, not mine. Basically, he's decided to crash at my place for a bit, listen to whatever I have to tell him about my school stuff, then do his own research online."

The blue hedgehog nodded a little "Uh-huh..."

Then, suddenly, Sonia waved her hand a little "Nevermind all that, what's on your mind dude."

Sonic raised an eyebrow in confusion "What do you mean?"

She just looked at him "Come on, I'm your sister, your triplet, I know when something's on your mind. Usually, whenever you're not talking to someone, you look away from their face and off to the side when that happens."

He wanted to protest, but he knew she was right. He sighed "Yeah, alright, you got me."

"Once again, what's on your mind?"

Sonic brought a hand up to the back of his head and scratched a little "I.. Well, recently, I've been trying to figure out what's going on with Eggman's robots."

"And it hasn't been going well?"

He shrugged "Kinda? I mean, I've saved some cities from Badnik attacks with some help from my friends, but the only way to make sure everyone's safe is to figure out who's organizing them and stop them."

"Have you tried asking your friends for help?"

Sonic rested his head on one of his palms while he held up the MMUC with the other "They can only do so much. They've got stuff they still need to do. Knux wants to wrap up his duties on the surface so he get back to Angel Island, Amy's taken the role of leading the ERE to heart, Tails wants to go solo for a little while longer, and everybody else is doing their own stuff too."

Sonia nodded "Alright... That's a bit of a problem."

Sonic chuckled and took his head off of his palm "You can say that again. Before you called I had been thinking about how I had reached a road bump in all of this."

After he finished, a strange glow shown through the back of his tent and onto the surface of the MMUC. Raising an eyebrow he asked "Do you see-"

"A weird glow from outside of your tent, yeah."

Sonic turned and looked over his shoulder and saw a glow that was slowly growing larger. No, the glow wasn't growing larger, it was getting closer. He knew exactly who it was, with a grin, Sonic turned to look at Sonia again "Gotta go, time for me to talk to an associate of mine."

With that, he turned off the device and stood up to leave the tent. Once he did, he saw that the source of the glow was now hovering over the ground in front of him "Did you seriously call me an associate?"

Silver the Hedgehog looked at Sonic with an obviously perplexed look on his face. Sonic just grinned a little wider "What else do I call you? Sonia doesn't quite know you're from the future."

The white hedgehog looked at Sonic a moment "...Who's Sonia?"

"Exactly."

Sonic crossed his arms over his chest "So, why'd you stop by?"

Silver set down on the ground and his glowing cyan aura disappeared "Well, Amy told me to find you as quick as I could. She has some intel on who's behind these Badnik attacks."

The blue hedgehog nodded "So this is an ERE meeting, alright, what does Amy have? What do you have to tell me?"

Using his telekinetic powers, Silver picked up random odds and ends that were lying on the ground to begin constructing a map of the land they were on as he said "Apparently someone that used to work for whoever's behind all of this told her where they're operating from."

He finished his all natural map and used his powers to circle a very specific area on it "She says she was told it'd be there. But that's about it."

Sonic inspected the map, turns out if was east of where they were. He then said "Huh, not that far from here. For me at least. And I think there's an old Eggman base there too.. Which makes sense now that I think about it."

Silver nodded "Yeah, she told me that I should try and convince you to come wit-"

It was only then did Silver realize Sonic had sped off towards the location of interest. Probably in the blink of an eye too. Quickly levitating himself into the air, Silver would yell out to nobody "H- Hey! Wait for me!"

Before flying off after Sonic. Elsewhere, the blue hedgehog broke the sound barrier and continued towards the place Silver had showed him. After roughly another fifteen seconds, he'd arrive on the top of a rocky hill that overlooked a large metal pyramid. It had the obvious markings of a wartime built Eggman Empire base. Red lights, a large fence that surrounded the entire place, and a large antenna on top of it. How was it the ERE hadn't already got to dismantling this place? Looking around, Sonic saw Badniks patrolling the perimeter of the pyramid "They haven't noticed me yet, heh, good."

He then sped forwards and leaped up and over the fence and land on the other side. Standing up right and dusting off some dirt he'd kicked up upon landing, Sonic glanced around and saw no one had noticed him yet. He then whistled for their attention and the Badniks in their area turned to look over to him, they aimed their blaster arms at him, and he grinned "Good luck boys, 'Priority One: Hedgehog', is prepared for this."

They fired at him, but he quickly sped forwards and those shots were all for nothing. Most of these Badniks all happened to be bunched up in front of him, or more accurately, in front of the pyramid's entrance. At high speeds, Sonic Spin Attacked into one of the robots and pinballed himself between several of the scrunched up robots. Once he came to the end of the chained attack, he leaped up into the air and saw an Egg Hammer stomping into battle "Jeez, what's with this dude and the Egg Hammers?"

He then Homing Attacked to the larger robot, but it seemed to be the smarter of the Hammers he's fought recently as it managed to block him and force him back to the ground. It raised its hammer into the air and was about to bring it down, but Sonic was quick to leap up and land on the robot's torso. After that, he sped all over its body and it was incapable of doing anything about it. The Egg Hammer tried to claw at Sonic but just couldn't stop him, after a moment of speeding around he'd run over to its left arm and use it as a base to leap back towards its chest and Spin Attack right through it. The robot collapsed behind him as Sonic drifted and realined himself with the entrance of the base.

When he did he saw that there was a large gas tank next to the path to the entrance. Sonic grinned and sped forwards, as he did he reached out and picked up one of the robots before jumping up and throwing it at the gas tank. With that, he got even faster and sped past the tank before the Egg Pawn hit the tank and caused an chain reaction explosion. As that fireball erupted behind him, Sonic lunged forwards, rolled, and slid underneath the closing metal door of the pyramid's entrance. On the other side, he jumped up and landed on his feet while saying "Way too slow! Next time,"

He turned around and put a hand next to his mouth "Be sure to step up the bots!"

Sure, whoever was in here probably didn't hear him, not over the siren he'd just realized was going off. But still. He walked forwards a little and was immediately met by the interior defenses. What were they? Very simple stuff like plasma turrets that came out of the floor and Spinas that flew out of circular holes in the walls. Sonic smirked before front flipping over one of the plasma bolts and beginning to run up one of the side of the walls. With the turrets now unable to fire at him, Sonic just had to deal with the Spinas. The hedgehog jumped up and kicked one of the robots into a wall and when he landed he boosted forwards and through the Spinas. Running underneath another sliding door, Sonic would skid to a stop as the door closed.

But then, he saw a large Spina fly up to him "Ooh! Wow! You're a big one!"

Its twin blades spun fast around its body as electricity crackled around it. He was about to attack it, when he heard a very familiar sound and ducked down right before a cyan colored Psychic Blade cut through the Spina and split it in half. When the bits of the robots fell to the ground, Sonic stood up and saw Silver standing not far from behind the once intact robot "Mind if I cut in?"

Sonic put his hands on his hips "Been waiting a long time to use that?"

Silver chuckled and rubbed the back of his head "Y- Yeah, just a little."

The blue hedgehog would then begin to approach the other as he asked "So how'd ya' get in here? The way I got in closed up behind me."

Silver pointed with his thumb to a pipe that looked like a large sphere had been forced through it. Sonic winced a little "Yikes."

The white hedgehog nodded "Yeah.."

With that, the two began to walk down the hallway they were both in. As they did Sonic put his hands behind his head and asked "So what are you doing back here in the past?"

Silver looked over to Sonic and looked like he was going to say something, but hesitated and didn't. He rubbed his arm with his hand and said "W- Well... I came back because defeating Eggman didn't save the future."

The blue hedgehog's eyes went wide a little "Oh.. Huh... That's a bit of a mood killer."

He took his hands away from the back of his head as he sighed "Okay, what happened this time?"

Silver was silent a moment to gather his thoughts before saying "When I left my time the Eggman Empire ruled over everything. Eggman had turned himself into a single centralized AI that made himself practically immortal. A clone of Infinite forced everyone into line, and so too did the Egg Generals. Everyone choked on polluted air... No one dared speak about you or the rest of the Resistance and Hedgehogs were forced to live in tightly controlled and monitored communities. But when I went back, the Eggman Empire was gone.. But so was everyone else. There was nothing left. No people, no animals, no machinery.. Only water and sparse metallic plant life."

Sonic winced a little "Well.. That's... Eerie."

Silver looked over to him "I know, right? So I came right back to find out what happened."

The blue hedgehog nodded "Which is why you joined up with the ERE, to keep an eye on things."

Silver nodded as well "Exactly."

Then, suddenly, they both heard the strange sound of someone scuffling around come from the end of the hallway up ahead of them. They both ran forwards and past a turn the corner of the hallway, once there, they both saw the tip of a cream colored tail disappear into a vent above them. Sonic was about to ask something, when he saw that Silver had a massive smile on his face. The blue hedgehog raised an eyebrow and said "Silver, dude? You okay?"

The white hedgehog looked over to him and said excitedly "That must've been the legendary Guardian Angel!"

Sonic blinked a few times "..The Legendary what now?"

Silver's glee never left his face, body, or soul "How do you not know about the Guardian Angel?!"

"I spent, what, a year in a small cell in space. I missed a few things."

The white hedgehog chuckled "Oh, right! You missed most of the war."

He began to approach the door that had blocked their way as he continued "Multiple units in the Resistance reported a mysterious person who would turn the tide of battle, but never joined the army."

He took a telekinetic grip on the door "Whoever it was saved my life more than once! They must be here to help us again!"

Sonic smiled a little as Silver forced the door open "Nice, would love to meet them. Maybe you'll even get an autograph too."

They began to walk through the doorway as Silver looked at him excitedly "Do you really think so?!"

Sonic just patted his shoulder "We can talk about this later, come on dude."

Once they walked through, they both saw that an elevator shaft was the only thing they were met with. Sonic motioned to it "You wanna go first mister 'I can fly with my mind'?"

Silver shrugged before surrounding himself with his aura and beginning to levitate down the elevator shaft. As he did that, Sonic took a look over to a nearby plaque that had "TO PRISON LEVEL" written on it. After that, Sonic jumped down the shaft and fell quite a few feet. He used a little lip the wall above the exit to the shaft to slingshot himself out of it and he landed next to the waiting white hedgehog. Sonic stood up and dusted himself off "We're quite a ways down now, wonder if Eggman had wanted to stuff some of the Resistance leaders in here at some point."

The white hedgehog just shrugged and they both walked down the grey and empty prison level of the base. That's when Silver remembered something "Oh! I just remembered, Amy's informant said that he was kept silent by the person behind all of this by keeping his girlfriend hostage. So, she asked us to keep an eye out for her."

Sonic nodded "You got it."

That's when they heard the sound of a laser Wispon being fired nearby. They both ran forwards, or in Silver's case, flew forwards, and turned another corner to see a cream colored wolf using a Wispon that looked exactly like the one Tails had used back when Sonic first ran into him again. What the wolf was firing at was a metal door that lead into a cell that looked to be empty. Upon seeing the wolf, Silver's eyes and smile went wide once again. He gasped a little began to fly towards the other Mobian "That must be her! Hey! Guardian Angel!"

But all he got in reaction was a shocked face that was hidden by the white mask she had on. Quickly, the wolf leaped up and used a green Wisp power to float up into the vent above her, despite the fact she had been using the cyan Wisp power before. As that happened Silver yelled out "No! Wait!"

He touched down on the ground again and his aura disappeared "I... I don't understand. We're all on the same side.. I'm a big fan..."

He was genuinely hurt by her reaction. He wrapped his arms around himself as he stared up at the vent she had gone to hide in, at the same time, Sonic approached his friend "Silver... You said she never joined the Resistance, that she never interacted with anyone, right?"

The blue hedgehog also looked up at the vent as Silver said "Well... Y- Yeah, I guess. So?"

Sonic looked back over to Silver "So she obviously prefers to work solo, for whatever reason. Not everyone likes being part of the crowd."

Silver nodded a little "I see... I guess I've been so starved for interaction for so long I never considered wanting to be left alone."

Unknowingly to them, the wolf peered out from inside of the vent as Sonic cupped his hands around his mouth "Yo! Sorry for coming on so strong. I'm Sonic and the guy that's got a huge celebrity crush on you is Silver. We appreciate your help. We'd like to help you too!"

Then suddenly, from inside of the vent, the wolf could feel the insides of her black jacket begin to move around and flutter before the various Wisps that had once been inside of small capsules bursted out and flew straight to Sonic. The blue hedgehog smiled wide as Silver leaped back in shock. Sonic held out his hands as he exclaimed "Whoa! Hahaha! Hey guys! I thought I saw some Wisp powers going off!"

The Wisps all flew around him babbling in their alien language happily as Sonic gave each of them pets and pats. Sonic glanced over to Silver and could tell he was a little confused by all of this "I saved their planet from Eggman a while back, he had this whole thing with an interstellar amusement park. Long story too, I guess that left an impression.. I think you were there."

Silver just shrugged before they both heard the sound of the Guardian Angel dropping from the vent and landing on the floor in front of them. They both turned their attention to her as she took off her white mask and said in a soft, strangely comforting, voice "Whisper."

True to what she said, the word was whispered out of her mouth. Sonic grinned "Cool."

Silver, meanwhile, leaned in close to Sonic and brought a hand up to his mouth as he whispered to the other "Okay.. But why?"

Sonic rolled his eyes "No genius. Whisper is her name."

Whisper nodded a little as Silver dropped his hand to his side "Oh.. Right.."

That's when they heard a tapping at the glass that acted as the only way to look into the cell Whisper had been trying to get into. Everyone turned their attention to the glass and the sight of a black furred cat wearing the to be expected orange prison jumpsuit standing behind the glass came into their view "Hey, still stuck in here!"

Silver and Sonic looked at each other before the white hedgehog said "That must be Hershey, which means we've gotta help her."

Sonic motioned to the metal door Whisper had once been blasting at "Care to get the door then?"

The white hedgehog raised his hands up and his cyan aura surrounded them. Meanwhile, Whisper watched on in slight surprise while Sonic just enjoyed seeing the wolf's reaction to what was about to come. Holding his hands out, Silver focused and took ahold of the door before forcing it open with a loud metallic screech. Hershey would then rush out of the cell and stop in front of the group "Thank you! Did-"

Silver was quick to intervene "Yes, Geoffrey Saint John did send us. I'm Silver and this is Sonic and Whisper, I'm here on behalf of the Eggman Recovery Effort while those two are here just.. Doing their thing."

Sonic smirked a little "Is that sort of speech apart of your ERE training?"

Hershey and Silver both ignored him. The cat herself asked "Is Geoffrey here?"

The white hedgehog shook his head "No, but we can take you back to him, and to someplace safe."

Sonic was quick to step in "But before that, we need to find whoever's behind Eggman's robots and your kidnapping."

Hershey grit her teeth "Bishop. That dirty bag of worms. He should be hiding deep in the bowles of this place like the rat he is."

That's when Whisper seemed to perk up. Sonic and Silver looked over to her as she stepped forwards a little, but the blue hedgehog was the one to ask "Do you know where that might be?"

She nodded and Sonic looked over to Hershey "Do you think you can shimmy up an elevator shaft by yourself?"

Silver looked over to Sonic "Shouldn't we help her outside?"

He nodded 'Yeah, probably, but we can't afford to possibly lose the chance to take in this Bishop guy."

Now it was Hershey's turn to quickly butt in "It's fine, before the war I was training to join G.U.N., I can get out of here just fine."

Silver nodded a little "Alright, just.. Stay safe."

Sonic nodded as well "And you might have to wait for us, the way I came in is closed and Silver's way in is... Less than ideal."

Hershey smiled "Thank you for the concern. Now then, go give Bishop what he deserves."

With that, she began to jog towards the elevator shaft the two hedgehogs had dropped down to get to the prison level. As she did that, Whisper approached the vent she had used to hide in and pointed to it "Here."

Sonic frowned a little as he looked at the vent "Speaking of less than ideal."

Silver nodded in agreement "Yeah, we're not so good with vent crawling like you."

That's when the blue hedgehog snapped his fingers "But, I think I know a way to make things easier."

He looked over to the cyan Wisp and asked "I'm gonna assume that these Wisps are your buddies Whisper, which means I should probably ask you if you'd be alright with me fusing with this guy before doing another."

Whisper just nodded and Sonic smiled "Sweet, come on dude."

Him and the Wisp approached the vent as the other Wisps returned to their capsules within Whisper's jacket. Sonic looked back over to the Wisp and nodded. He held out his hand and the alien touched it. With that, Sonic's body glowed a bright cyan before he blasted upwards and ricocheted all the way through the vent and deep into the base, hopefully in the right direction. After that, Whisper jumped up into the vent and Silver levitated after her. Turns out Sonic did go the right way, as they basically followed the trail of Hyper-Go-On Energy he left behind. By the time Whisper and Silver made it out of the vent, Sonic and the cyan Wisp had been standing around for a solid minute or so. Upon seeing his friends, Sonic smirked "Too you two long enough. What held you up? A quick pit stop for some smo-"

Silver raised up his hand "Stop!"

Sonic simply grinned, but then realized this was serious. He turned around and saw a large screen come out of a slit in the ceiling in front of them. It turned on and a Mobian bathed in dark blues and blacks appeared before them. He was sitting in a chair in some circular room, this had to be Bishop. The Mobian was silent a moment before saying "Sonic, Silver, and the Guardian Angel Whisper... A certain mad man in a red jacket would call this a blessing, I'm calling this a pain."

The blue hedgehog put his hands on his hips "Depending on what's up Egghead would call me that too."

The Bishop just rolled his eyes "Nonetheless. You've come here to stop me, all for various reasons, I assume. After all, Whisper here never worked with the Resistance or ERE. I'll let you try."

"Bold words for an Eggman wannabe."

Bishop chuckled a little "Wannabe? No... I cannot measure up to him. I only hope to make sure the world is right for when he comes back, I only wish for people to fear him once again."

Sonic took his hands off of his hips and punched his fist into his palm "Well you're gonna have to try a lot harder than that, right now, they're mostly scared by the robots and not Egghead himself. How's about you just turn yourself in and all of this can be over with?"

The Bishop shook his head "Oh no, we can't give up now. I've been preparing for this for ages. Long live the Remnants, hail the Eggman Empire."

With that, the screen shut off and returned to its hiding place before the door in front of them opened up to reveal a large empty space. But before they had anytime to generally react to any of this, the wall behind them began to close in forcing them out into the area, which now looked more like an arena. Then, suddenly, the center of the arena opened up and a platform began to rise up. The machine that stood on the platform had the legs of Omega, a large square body very reminiscent of Omega, a head design exactly like Gamma's but much larger, its arms were massive and looked like jackhammers with spikes on its ends, it had massive tank turrets strapped to the top of its square shoulders, slits all over its torso for, presumably, more weaponry, the robot itself was colored light blue and black while its "eyes" were a dark red, and on its chest was a massive white "E-107: THETA".

Sonic grit his teeth, Silver lifted up off of the ground, and Whisper brought her mask over her face before raising up her Wispon. The massive E-100 robot, which was roughly the size of the Death Egg Robot, stomped one of its massive feet as Badniks flowed into the arena through hatches in the ceiling and walls. Sonic's expresion grew a little more worried than it had been before "This.. Is not good."