I would like to first start by issuing a MAJOR THANKS TO Anonymous1O1 for being a major help Beta Reading.
In Context: This is an AU of Sonic Forces written in a realistic, dramatic way. It does begin like the game but there's alot of major changes. It's mostly centered around the Resistance Base from the POV of 4 OC's.
The cast consist of 14 Characters.
5 Sonic Main Cast: Main: Sonic and Tails. Side: Knuckles, Amy and Silver.
Sonic And Tails are a lot OLDER in this STORY. Sonic is 23yrs old while Tails is 16yrs old.
9 OC Main Cast: Chris Beckers(Hedgehog), Zeke Tailor(Wolf), Barnett(Brown Rabbit) and Trish Reviera(Dalmatian) Side: Zander Reviera(Dalmatian) Barnett 4 Recruits: Philip Osiris Schneider, aka: POS(Labrador) Eddie and Edward Morrison(Twin Feline Cat) Lance Cage(Kodiak Bear)
Am in no way the best writer in the world. I'm just an idiot trying to get a story out of my head and put it into to words the best that I can. I would really appreciate some feed back on how everything is. Please.
I am Looking For Beta-Readers to help me out as I UpLoad the next coming chapters.
I Uploaded the 1st set of chapters in one go but the 2nd set of Chapters is going to be chapter by chapter at a weekly basis on Friday at around 5pm PST
This story is written for Teens and for Adults in mind. It has Bad Language(Some will be Censored) and Violence. Violence contains: Physical Hand to Hand, Shooting and Bloody Descriptions.
This is also the First Set of Chapters of Four. I'll upload the rest as the weeks go by. All four set of chapters add up to 150k words.
First set of Chapters contain 39,923 words spanning 9 Chapters.
Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Silver, Vector, Espio and Charmie are owned by SEGA
Most of the OC cast have been drawn and can be seen on DeviantArt.
Forces
Chapter 1: The Fall of A Hero and the Rise of A New Hope
Part 1 The Day the Sky Turned Red
Sonic answers a broken distress transmission call from Tails as he rushes to Metropolis City. He can barely understand what he says; but the only words that he can make out are "City", "Attack" and "Help".
"I'm on my way. Just hang in there." Sonic answers back as he zooms by parts of the destroyed city.
After destroying a couple of robots, he soon comes to a stop not knowing where Tails is. What kind of robots are these? He wonders then begins to shout for Tails in concern. "Tails! Where are you?!" C'mon, give me a signal any-
An explosion is heard from the center of town. "Was that from Town Square?" He rushes towards Town Square and sees that its Knuckles causing the destruction by smashing and destroying the weird looking robots.
Sonic rushes into action. He performs a homing attack on three robots, destroying them. Once hitting and bouncing off the last robot, he lands close to Knuckles. "Are you okay?"
"I'll be better once I know what the heck is going on. What are these things?"
"I don't know, they're part robot and part something else." He leaps into the air and does another Homing Attack on another robot. "Do you have any idea where everyone-"
"No! What we have to do is evacuate the city," Knuckles interrupts Sonic.
"'I'm not leaving till I know where Tails is."
Knuckles stops pounding on a robot and looks at Sonic, "What, he's still here?!" Surprised hearing that Tails still here. "I thought he left with some of the civilians. He probably got stuck somewhere."
"Which way did they go?" Sonic anxiously asks.
Knuckles looks in different directions, "Ummm… he went Umm-"
"KNUCKLES!" Sonic shouts to him.
He points, being unsure. "That way, I hope. Everything looks the same now. I can't leave here till these people are safe."
Sonic doesn't say anything and just speeds off in the direction he pointed to in search of Tails, hoping that he's not too late.
Looking upward, he notices that the sky was beginning to turn red. "This is bad," he mutters as he begins to shout out for Tails over and over. "Tails! Tails!" Sonic frantically looks for Tails from place to place.
"OVER HERE, SONIC!" Tails yells from a distance.
"I'm coming little buddy!" Sonic heads in the direction of Tails voice. He finally arrives, only to see Tails pinned down by gun fire keeping whatever civilians are left safe. He quickly rushes in, destroying every robot close to Tails. As he does, he shouts, "I'm here tails! Get everyone out of here-" Looking at Tails getting distracted, he gets hit on the side.
"SONIC!" Tails yells out, worried.
"Don't worry, just go," Sonic says; but Tails doesn't move.
The Unknown Attacker's voice can be heard, echoing somewhere around Sonic. "It's about time you showed up. Always being the hero."
"Where are you?... Why are you-" An energy ball comes flying towards Sonic, but he quickly dodges away from it.
Tails trying to find whoever it is, he turns back to Sonic... seeing The Masked Assailant was standing right behind him. "SONIC BEHIND YOU!" Tails yells out, but It's was too late.
The Masked Assailant then kicks Sonic into the air. He then follows up with another kick, sending him towards the nearby building.
"AGHhAHHGAHh!" Sonic's screams can be heard as the beating goes on and on. As Tails hides, watching Sonic's body being rag dolled in the air. He couldn't see The Masked Assailant hitting Sonic. It was all a blur to him.
The civilians who are also hiding with him couldn't believe it.
Tails wanted to do something, but was too afraid to do anything. He just sat and forced to watch it all happen. "I have…to do something." He tries to get up but then falls right back down.
Finally, silence. He gets up and watches as they haul Sonic's battered, unconscious body away. "Sonic, Sonic, Sonic." Tails mutters to himself over and over. He quietly cries as he watches them take him away.
On that day…the sky turned red.
Part 2: 6 Months Later
Survivors scattered and fled to a secured, hidden base located far away outside of Metropolis City. The city was completely destroyed left in ruins. As months go by, a group was then formed and called "The Resistance". Later on, Knuckles was chosen to be the Lead Commander of the Resistance. Day by day survivors came seeking safety, as they have to lose and leave everything they knew behind. People hang on to whatever hope is left as hope slowly fades away.
At the H.Q Building, Team Chaotix's chit chat among themselves.
"The whole world is overrun by those weird robots." Vector paces back and forth.
Espio responds back, "We've been slowly finding other survivors but it's not even close to the amount Robotnik even has on his side-"
"Well, I'm not giving up hope," Charmy butts in boldly.
Vector stops pacing, "I'm glad that you're the only one that still feels like that around here Charmy."
Charmy looked out the window and asked in concern, "Is Knuckles still out there searching for, umm you know…-"
"No, not this time. I think he's given up. He still blames himself for not going with him to find Tails. And plus, don't be afraid to say Sonic's name," Espio answers him.
Charmy still continue to look out the window being worried, "Not to mention Tails is still missing, too."
A chair moves, catching the attention of all three of them. Amy, being in the same room over-hearing them, she gets up and starts heading to the exit. She tries to say happily without sounding depressed, "I'll go check on inventory. It's that time again." She opens the door and leaves, leaving all three of them together staying quiet.
Charmy looks over to Espio, being unsure. "Are you still sure that it's okay to say his name again?"
Amy walks slowly towards the inventory building miserably, thinking about Sonic. On her way to it, she comes across a recruit that's been around for a couple of months as he walks right by her. She turns to him, seeing him in his new flight uniform as he walks to the Mess Hall. "Hi! You're Zeke right? Congrats on that promotion," she greeted him cheerfully.
He stops and turns around to smile. Zeke was a 6'1, 27-year-old, Dark Grey Wolf. "Oh you've heard? Thanks. Been wanting to fly for a long ass- um, I mean for a long time. Sorry for the language I'm just really excited."
She looks up to the sky. "I hope being up there is a lot safer than being on the ground. I'm off to go check inventory. See you around." She walks away.
Zeke remained where he was as he watched her leave before looking up at the sky muttering, "Well, I hope it is. So far all they do is keep me on the damn ground." He then heads off towards the mess hall for lunch.
Off in the distance, Ex-General Barnett was waiting patiently for the new recruits that he'll be in charge of and training. He mutters to himself while pacing around, "Four of them …only four." A 4'5, 52-year-old, Brown Fur Rabbit, he only trains a couple of recruits at a time. Then, they're given away to actual squads to do real missions in the field. Bonding was something he never does anymore. He stops pacing around as he notices a recruiter walking his way with the four recruits.
She hands over info about them. "Here you go."
"Thank you," He says back to her as he watched her walk away and sits down. Great… she's going to stick around and watch, he sighs. Alright, what do I have here? He thinks to himself as he looks at the single paper given to him about the recruits. What the-? Confused about one of the names, he asks, "Who is POS?"
"That's…me…" Drooping his shoulders shamefully as one of them answers.
Knowing exactly what it means, Barnett had to ask, "POS? What does that mean?"
"It's… my initials, Sir," he answers shamefully.
He looks over to the next two knowing that they're brothers. "I can see that you're twins, which means that you're also related."
"Yes Sir. I'm Eddie and he's Edward."
His brother glares at him, while growling, "I can introduce myself."
"Yeah, but that involves you saying words and I know how bad you are at doing that," he mocks back.
They stare at each other in anger, about to fight but try not wanting to with their Drill Sergeant watching. They step away from each other and look right back to Barnett.
He looks at them over and over to tell them apart before slightly getting annoyed himself, shaking his head to them. "Well I hope you two stay together by the end of this."
He looks at his last recruit, "Which means you're Lance."
He nods in agreement, not saying anything.
While still looking at Lance, he then instructs, "I'm not here to be your best friend. I'm only here to train you and then to send you off to where you need to really be. Do what you're told, and there won't be any issues. Got it?"
"Yes Sir!" everyone says but Lance, who just nods instead."
He stood there while looking at them before he slowly shaking his head at them. He mutters to himself, "Why does it have to be a weird group."
Zeke arrives at the Mess Hall; he notices that the place is a little more fuller then before. Day by day more survivors are being found by squads being sent to check areas around Metropolis City or any other small town affected by the attack. It's their #1 top priority to do when deployed. Find survivors.
"Flown yet?" He hears a familiar voice to his right. It's Zander, his best friend. "Not yet, huh?" he adds, again walking towards him with his tray of food. Zander is a 5'1, 23-year-old, Dalmatian, wearing his white shirt and also dark, grey pants that have way too many pockets.
"They always give me a dumb excuse. So far, it's always that I don't have a Co-Pilot." Zeke answers, as giving him a hard look.
Zander takes a step back and glares at him, knowing exactly what's on his mind, "DON'T you even think about it." He shakes his head in concern. "No WAY will you ever catch me up there. Plus, I'm just a Navigational Expert. I just point people in the right way to go to get things done safely. And also plus… once we land, my sister will most likely kill you, making her the worst threat on the ground for you."
Zeke starts looking around, worried. "Where is she, anyways? She probably already knows that we're talking about this cuz she's f&%$ing psychic."
He shrugs. "The heck should I know. I think she's with one of the Drill Sargent's that has new recruits."
He laughs jokingly while asking, "Annoying people as always?"
Zander laughs back, "Yup, as always."
Back at Barnette's and his recruits, Zander's sister sat there.
"You don't have to sit there and watch over me," Barnette states looking at her, hoping that the question annoys her enough to get her to leave.
Trish, being Zander's sister, She was older than him being 29-year-old. She was also being a Dalmatian. She sat there in her field secretary uniform with her clip board in hand. She answers him, exhausted, while not looking. "Am not. I've just been on my feet all day." She looks at him with a curious question in her mind. "So what's your story? Why don't you have more than six people or heck… even a squad?"
"I'm semi-retired," he answers slightly hesitant.
Knowing that there's more to that answer, she then probes again with, "Then why do you look like you just got shot in the gut when one of them gets taken away?"
He looked at her and answers bitterly, "Because I know how it really feels to lose someone out in the field. It's a way more different look I give when I lose someone this way."
She gets up and extends her arm, "I'm Trish."
He shakes her hand. "Nice to meet you, Trish." He looks over to his new recruits. Each one of them, were wearing a plain white t-shirt and green army pants with brown boots. He then asks, "What's the deal with POS?"
She looks at her clip board. "Labrador. Age 22. Name is Philip Osiris Schneider, but people found out his initials so now, he's always referred to as POS… which everyone make fun of it as-"
"As in Piece of shit?" he interrupts her.
"That's right," she answers.
He looks at the brothers next and asks, "The Twins?"
"Twin Feline cats known as the Morrison's. Age 22. Un-separable, and don't you even try because it's not going to happen. You might have them around for a very long time," she informs.
"Mr. Nods?" he asks next.
She puts her clipboard away. "Kodiak Bear. Age 23. Name is Lance Cage. He doesn't speak. I've never heard him talk. Another person you might have around for a long time. No one wants someone who doesn't talk."
"Thank you very much. That's way more info than this lousy piece of paper," he says, waving it at her.
"I knew you would be annoyed by that. Sorry." She looks past him and sees another recruit wandering around. "I… have to go. Goodbye and don't be too rough on them… and on yourself." She says walking away.
"Goodbye, Trish," he says back, feeling slightly more at ease with himself as he walks back to his recruits.
Trish manages to catch up to the recruit. "Are you lost?" she asks with authority.
He stops and looks at her, "Yeah, no idea where the HQ Station is," he answers back.
Looking at her clip board, she glances back at him, making sure to get a matching description, but nothing. He was 5'3, 25-year-old, Green Hedgehog. "Name?"
"Chris Beckers," he answers.
She looks and looks… nothing. She gives him a stern look. "You're not on the list."
He smiles, knowing that it wasn't. "I just got through the paper work and dropped off here so I doubt I'll be on it."
Sensing a lie she says, "Really? Well I have no choice but to-"
"Stop right there, Mrs. Reviera!" A voice behind interrupts her. She turns and sees an Intel Officer heading her way. "I'm in charge of him!"
Trying to correct him with procedure, she says, "But he's not even on-"
"Doesn't matter. He's with me." Completely ignoring her, he walks right by her, taking Chris along the way.
"Umm… Bye," Chris says as an apology.
Surprised by what just happened, she mumbles to herself, "Well that never happen before."
The Intel Officer finally stops as he pokes Chris in the shoulder. "You were not supposed to talk to anyone when you got here," scolding him.
"I was looking for the higher ups around here," he answers back with attitude.
He gets angry and shoves him to a wall, "I AM THE HIGHER UP'S!" He pokes him in the chest, "You just stay out of sight and wait till orders are issued. Soon things are going to happen. When it does… you're going to be a part of it all. Got it?!" He orders.
"Got i-it," Chris stutters back. "I'll be out of sight!"
The Officer then walks away while saying, "In a couple of hours."
"Geez, 'sign the dotted line' they said. 'It's going to be an exciting experience' they said. Where is it?" He begins to look around the area to see where everything is located. "Inventory stock… Training Fields… that must be the Barracks… Woah! He's got to be pissed. He just destroyed that dummy in one damn punch." Looking around he sighs. "This is going to be a boring couple of hours standing here."
Over at the destroyed dummy, Knuckles sighs and says to himself looking down at the broken dummy. "They don't even last anymore."
"Maybe you should hold back a little bit from now on." He hears a voice standing near the rest of the destroyed dummies as he inspects them.
"It's a good stress reliever, Silver." He picks up the destroyed dummy and walks to where the rest are with Silver and tosses it with the rest of the busted dummies. He looks at his watch and sees that it's almost about time. He lets out a sigh and sits down on a bench, "Are all the recruits ready?"
Silver sits right next to him. "Everyone almost is. We don't really have enough people to attack a major prison, but if we can save enough of them then it'll be a major victory for us."
Knuckles, feeling concerned, he then adds, "But if we lose anyone and gain nothing…-" He sighs. "We're back to square one …again." They both stay silent for a bit. Knuckles looks into the distance. "I know he's still out there. It's been six months and he's waiting for us."
Silver looked at him. He had to thinks of something to make him feel better. He pokes him on the shoulder. "You're in command now and doing just as good as him. You just have to stop blaming yourself about what happened to him." He pokes him on the shoulder again. "You needed to help the people that you were with and you wouldn't have if you gone with him." He pokes him again, "You saved so many people on that day and you did by not going with him." Pokes him once again, "You did the right thing on that day doing what you had to do."
Knuckles looks at him and smiles at him with confidence, "You're alright Silver. Thanks."
Silver smiles back.
They both get up as Knuckles says, "You were one poke away from being turned into one of those dummies." He smirks and pokes him back, "Get ready for a prison break." He orders him and heads towards the Announcement Area.
Part 3: Preparation for Operation Smash and Grab
At the Announcement Area, Knuckles, Silver, Vector, Espio and Amy are all standing on stage ready to announce the plan to storm one of Robotnik's Flying Prisons that have captured civilians.
Knuckles approaches the mic and taps on it, trying to get rid of some of the nervousness building up inside him. He takes a deep breath and begins his speech, "Testing? Alright. So here are the plans for Operation Smash and Grab."
Espio face-palms himself in embarrassment. "He just had to use the name."
"We're going to attack one of the flying prisons located in the southernmost side of Metropolis. "We're going to separate into six different groups to attack three different spots. The plan is to extract and to save as many civilians as possible in a short amount of time. No one and I DO MEAN 'NO ONE' is to stray from the plan because as soon as things go bad we make a mass retreat. Once we've retreated, at mid-way we have to deal with whoever is tailing us and destroy them. Can't have anyone tailing us right back to base. GOT IT?!"
"YES SIR!" everyone answers out loud.
"Great. Now split up and decide the groups. Group one, is led by Silver. Group two is led by Espio. Group…"
Zander runs up to Zeke, excited, "Dude, are you freaking ready? You just might be flying today." He looks over to the announcer, then back to Zeke. "I don't know who I'm going with yet. I'm probably…-" His ears perk up turning to the announcer. "I think I just heard my name." He then runs off, yelling, "DON'T CRASH!"
"Thanks a lot a-hole," Zeke mumbles and just focuses on the announcer.
While Zeke just stood there waiting patiently for his position to be said, Zander heads to his group stationed as Navigation for it. He shakes hands with the other group members that he's with and signs his name, confirming his position and that he's with them.
The announcers voice is heard again, "And Zeke Tailor with ground sup-" "F&$%!" someone yells off at a distance.
Zander quickly faces to where it came from; knowing who it was that said it. "Dammit," he says quietly as he shakes his head in disappointment. He sees Zeke approaches the group, signs his name and proceeded to leave. He watches him leave the Announcement Area. He follows him and saw him enter the nearby bathroom. About to enter, he hears a loud smashing sound coming from inside, startling him. He looks around and then enters the bathroom as well.
In the bathroom, the first thing he sees is a hole in the wall. The second thing he sees is his flight jacket hanging out of the trashcan. Zeke was nowhere to be seen. Zander starts walking further into it. "I know you're in here. It-" He sighs. "It sucks but …sooner or later you'll be up there in the sky-"
"Shut… up" Zeke interrupts from somewhere in the bathroom. "Forever on the ground. Months of work… just to end up nowhere." Zeke says sitting in one of the stalls.
Zander walks further in, looking at the stalls. "You just got promoted. It's just going to take a little time-"
The stall flies open startling him, causing him stop talking, seeing Zeke with his fur flared in anger. He backs up against the wall as Zeke approaches him snarling, "Last mission. LAST ONE! After this am f&%$ing out of here." He says exiting out of the bathroom.
Being alone, he walks to the trashcan and grabs his flight jacket, pulling it out. He folds it up neatly and just stands there, thinking to himself while looking at the exit. Well, I won't let you leave alone. You're going to need a little bit of Navigation on your side. …I just hope my sister doesn't kill me doing it.
Meanwhile Chris stands around at the Announcement Area knowing his name is never going to be called. He looks around for that Intel Officer knowing for sure that he has all the answers. Finally, he shows up walking his way with a duffel bag and notes.
"This is for you." He puts down the duffel bag. "Here is the group list number. Here are the soldiers you're going to be with, and which you are 'NEVER' going leave their side. You're main mission is to keep them safe. Got it?!" The Officer orders.
"Got it," Chris replies.
He turns and walks away from him. Chris starts to get annoyed, "Can I at least ask you a damn question before you go? What's this all about? What's with the secrets?"
The Officer looks at him and says, "It's a need-to-know basis. Everything will come full circle when the time is right," he answers and walks away.
He kneels down un-zipping his duffel bag and goes through it. In it is a rifle, a handgun, infiltration and combat gear and his… identification card? …which it has the name Rookie on it… He scoffs at it. "That's nice," He says shaking his head.
"You're always just standing around." Chris hears a familiar voice right next to him. He looks and it's that one bossy chick that was outside.
"Hi again and yup. It's pretty much my thing at the moment," he says as he zips up the duffle bag and stands up.
"Don't worry. I'm not going to question your motives anymore," she informs him as she raises her clip board of names to him. "I added your name to it. Chris Beckers, was it?"
He looks at her and smiles, "Uh, heh, not anymore." He shows her his identification card.
She looks at it. "Rookie." Looks at him. "Rookie?"
"That's right. Rookie," he says as he puts it away in one of his pockets.
She looks at her list, "I'll keep it as Chris."
He grabs his bag and starts getting ready to go to his group. "I got to start heading off. See you around Mrs. Reviera," he says, leaving.
Her eye widens in embarrassment and she shouts in protest. "NO! That's sounds weird. IT'S TRISH!"
He gives her the thumbs up as he continues to walk away to a find a spot where he can change into his gear. Un-zipping the duffle bag, he takes out the black vest and just looks at it. "This f&%$ing color," he quietly mutters. Once he was done putting on his black combat vest, dark grey shirt, black pants and combat boots, he meets up with group six. Not a single word was said. They all looked at each other then back to him. Nothing… not a single word was said.
In the H.Q Building: Knuckles and Silver watch as everything gets prepared. Silver then informs, "Preparations are nearly ready. All aircrafts are set to be boarded. They just need your final say Knuckles." Once he was done speaking… Knuckles just stood there not answering back.
Knuckles was in deep thought brooding to himself in concern. "Why is this so hard? Why? Why am I so worried? What if something goes wrong? NO! Everything's going to be… fine. We're going to save people. Dammit Sonic. How do you do it? You should be full of white hair due to all this stress. Everything will turn out better than fine. We can do this. I can do this… They look at me because they believe in… me. Everything will turn out ok. Everything-"
"Knuckles, I need an answer." Silver asks snapping him out of it.
"Um… yeah, Alright." He takes a deep breath. "We leave once the sun goes down. Then it's time to go save some people!"
Outside at the Training Fields: "Sooooo…we're not going to be a part of any of that?" POS asks.
"Nope. You're too green at the moment," Barnette answers not looking at any of the aircrafts that everyone is boarding. "Until you've learned the basics on how and where to shoot at a robot to destroy them, you're not doing squat." He then looks at the others, seeing them stare at the aircrafts. "Same goes for all of you too, so stop looking!" Barnett orders
"Yes Sir," everyone says, but Lance just nods away.
The sun sets, and it's time for lift off. Everyone gets on board on different aircrafts and off they go. The daring rescue that will set everything in motion.
Chapter 2 The Sky Prison Rescue
Part 4: A Bad Idea can be so Right.
Chapter 2 The Sky Prison Rescue Part 4: A Bad Idea can be so Right.
Three massive Resistance Aircrafts carrying two groups each, flying towards one of the Flying Prison near the Ruined Metropolis City at high speed.
The first Aircraft is loaded with group One and Two. The second Aircraft has Three and Four. The last had group Five and Six. Zeke was with Group Five while Chris was with Group Six. Both groups were known as Ground Support.
Zeke just sat there still being bitter and angry with himself. Sitting there remembering how Zander was trying to cheer him up in the bathroom. Thinking about him causes him to pat his pockets, making sure he has everything ready to go. That's what Zander does every day, making sure every pocket of his has something important that he needs for the day.
Flashlight, Handgun, C4, Handgun ammo Clips, Rifle Magazine and… he then bends over, grabbing his Assault Rifle. He puts it on his lap and gets mentally prepared for what's to come next. Resting the back of his head against the wall… he feels and hears the Aircraft engines roar causing vibrations on the back of his head. In return, it just causes him to get even more upset. He moves his head away and sighs while tilting his head downward to look at the floor instead. He mutters, "Last time."
Glancing back upward and across from him, sits Group Six. All five of them were just sitting there quietly doing nothing. He looks over to his group that he's a part of, which they were talking to each other. Compared to them…- He looks back to Group Six. They were stoic and serious. Heck… even there clothing gear was different than mine. They wearing mostly all black while I was wearing grey and brown. …Why? The 5th member of theirs, The Green Hedgehog on the far right was at least doing something. I've never seen him before. He must be a new recruit. He was meddling with his rifle. Looking down the sights, checking if it was in… good… condition? I look at mine… and… did the same thing. …Yup, looks good to me.
Group Leader of Five then informs all of them. "We're almost there. Just a couple minutes left. Here's the plan: Group Five & Six will land first providing ground support and distraction while One & Two will provide securing and finding captives. Three & Four will be pushing in further into other areas to find other resources and survivors. We all leave soon as things-"
"WE'RE HERE, READY?!" The Pilot shouts.
Everyone shouts, "READY!"
First aircraft comes in flying at high speed and hovers without ever landing. Both group Five & Six jump out guns a blazing destroying everything in sight causing as much of a distraction for the whole prison to focus on them.
Zeke without missing a beat, already knows exactly where to shoot and what parts to hit on the robots taking out sensors.
Chris being also around does the exact same but needs to be at the pace with one of his specific group member.
Reaching the Perimeter wall someone from Group Six shouts ordering, "THERE! THAT WALL! BLOW IT OPEN!"
Both groups split placing C4 in the middle wall. Once done, they trigger the C4 causing a massive explosion to go further into the prison.
With the distraction going on, the other Two Air crafts hit the areas where the captives are located.
Getting passed the destroyed wall, both group Five & Six know very well that they can't go too deep into the prison. If they do then getting out isn't going to happen…but for some unknown reason Group Six insist to go in deeper. Group Five begin to slowly stop as Group Six just keeps on going.
"Stop, we can't go much more! We have to hold this spot. …STOP!" A member of Group Five warns.
Zeke stops and looks to Group 6 while Chris looks right back to him, but group 6 just kept on going forcing him to keep going. "What the heck are they doing?" One of the members asks.
Zeke caught in between both of them he says, "I'll go with them. Don't do anything stupid …like what I'm doing right now. Leave when things get really bad." He starts running off to catch up with them as he hears someone shout behind him, "YOU'ER INSANE!"
Chris thinking to himself still rushing forward with the group, What the f&%$ is going on? We just left them back there. If we're not here to save anyone, then why are we here?
Zeke trying to catch up with them, but quickly loses them. He stops trying to figure out where they went, "Shit… where did they go?" Zeke mumbles.
He ducks out of sight from a robot as his communicator activates. "Air craft one almost full; ready for lift off?"
Crap. I got to head back. I f&%$ing lost them going into deep. About to get out cover but another robot walks by scaring him. Alright, alright… got to… go… back? "That's a giant ass door." Zeke mutters looking at a vault like door. He looks around to see if the area is clear, he gets up and heads to it to get a closer look.
Group Six slowly comes to a stop. Chris standing next to one of them, he brings up his fist signaling everyone to stop. "It's here," He whispers. He points to Chris to stay out here and orders, "Shoot anyone or anything that shows up."
One of them opens the door slowly and one by one they enter. The door then closes.
Shoot Anyone? Sure robots but anyone? He thinks to himself as he stays outside and keeps watch. It's silent enough but he can hardly hear what's going on in the room. While aiming down the corridor, he notices something move in the darkness. Thinking about wanting to say something, but he was worried that he'd get the attention of nearby robots. He looks to the door again but then hears something fly right over him causing him to look up. Hmm? That didn't sound like a robot.
The door then opens and all of them come out each carrying some kind of weird device.
One of them says, "Time to go, we're exiting a different way."
What, different way? Chris wonders then asks, "What about Group Five? There-"
"What about them?" One of them says right back maliciously.
Meanwhile, Zeke was getting mad vault like door, till he finally gets it open. "Son of a… I was about to C4 the f$&% out of this door."
The door slides upward, and behind it is a long hallway, leading to… another big vault like door. Getting angry, he grabs his C4 and starts walking down the hallway. Splat, place igniter, press trigger while branding the finger; he causes a small contained explosion to not alert robots close by.
What the heck are they hiding? It's just a dark room. He wonders as he takes out his flash light and shines into it. Left side nothing and to…the…
A hand raises up to block the light.
"Oh Shit," He says in disbelief.
"It's about time… someone showed up." Sonic says looking right at him.
Zeke anxious, "You've got to be kidding me; you've been here the whole time? Can you get up… walk?"
"A little," Sonic says slowly trying to get up.
He grabs his communicator and starts shouting into it, "ANYONE OUT THERE, OVER?!" He looks at his communicator as sounds of static come out of it. Getting worried, he asks again, "Hello… anyone?"
"Bad provider? Never reliable when you need them the most," Sonic Jokes.
Zeke slowly turns his gaze to Sonic in disbelief. Are you kidding me with this?
Seeing his reaction towards him, "I have a lot of pent-up sarcasm that I need to get out, been months that I haven't talked to anyone."
He looks up at the ceiling and examines the room, "It has to be this room. C'mon, we got to go." He gets him up to his feet, and slowly heads to the exit.
Zeke exits out first with assault rifle drawn. He slowly heads down the hallway.
Sonic follows, using the wall as support to keep up with him.
They manage to get down the hallway as Zeke looks up and sees one of the Air Crafts fly right over him while his communicator goes crazy with static.
Zeke begins to panic, "No! No! Shit!" He goes back shouting into his communicator. "GUYS, I'M STILL HERE! I HAVE SONIC WITH ME! GUYS?… ANYONE?!" He gets nothing but static in return.
"You have a Plan-B?" Sonic asks.
Zeke just stood there looking up at the sky in disbelief. He couldn't believe that he was just left behind. Zander… Call Zander. He starts adjusting his communicator settings. "I have an idea."
Zander sitting on the Air Craft with dozens of saved captives feeling happy with himself as they escape away quickly leaving the prison miles away already. He raises both his arms over his head to stretch and starts hearing a weird buzzing sound from his communicator.
"Hmm?" He puts his ear next to it. staticstaticZstaHelstatic! "Help?" He checks the transmission code …Z4132?… His eyes widen realizing who it is. "No! No, No!" He looks out the window. "NO! WE HAVE TO GO BACK!" He shouts.
"What, why?" Knuckles asks being leader of group 4
"There's someone still back there!"
"We can't… its, its already high alert and dangerous. We have to go."
"Zeke is still back there!" He pleads.
"WE… It's… We can't. We have to go." He looks at all the saved captives and sadly says. "We can't risk all these captives for… just to go back for one person. I'm sorry. We have to go now."
Zanders just standing there knowing that it's true. He turns and slowly returns back to his seat. He then sits right back down. He puts his hands over his head. (sniff) You were (sniff) right. This really was (sniff) your last mission.
Zeke standing there hoping for an answer but nothing. "Plan-B? I never go pass Plan-A." He looks at Sonic, "Do you know where the hangar area is?"
"They move me from place to place. If I'm right… it should be that… ugh!… that way." Sonic says, raising his arm to point.
"It'll be faster if you piggy back on me." Zeke picks him up. "Are you ready? Let's do this." He starts running off and stops from time to time to make sure not to get caught. "Am I going the right way?" Zeke whispers.
"Almost there. It's in that direction." Sonic points.
Zeke makes a mad dash in that direction and while running he starts seeing enemy air craft. "I know the way now. Just down-" A loud gunshot roars out as Zeke gets hit in the arm falling back and hitting the floor hard loosing Sonic and his assault rifle. He slides back and around the corner pulling Sonic to safety.
"AhhGah… SHIT!" Zeke says grabbing his right arm in pain.
"Hit in the arm?" Sonic asks looking at Zeke.
"Yeah, got me good too. GRrrrArg!" Zeke answers putting pressure on the wound.
"You should be used to it by now." Sonic quips.
Slightly mad he says "Oh really? Sorry but I didn't sign up for this line of work. HECK, I should be in the DAMN AIR FLYING! …but nope. Anyways, did you see where-"
"Sonic!" A loud robotic voice yells out.
Zeke turns to see where the voice is coming from but Sonic… is in a state of shock. He begins to start breathing heavily.
"Where do you think you're going?! Time to put you back into you're cage!"
Holding his arm while trying to sneak a peek around the corner, "Great, sounds like someone knows-"
"I'm not leaving." Sonic interrupts him.
"What?" He asks looking at Sonic confused.
"I'm not leaving," he says again.
"What do you mean not leaving?"
"I'M NOT LEAVING UNTIL HE'S IN PIECES!" Sonic yells out in anger.
"Are you kidding me?" He looks all over Sonic seeing how terrible he looks. "If you didn't notice, you're not in the best shape to fight at the-"
"I'M NOt…" Sonic interrupts again but then calms down. He then explains, "Months, months being tortured by him. I'm not leaving-"
Zeke interrupts him back, "I know, I know …I get it. Until he's in pieces," he finish while looking around the corner, trying to see where the shot came from.
Part 5: Make every Shot Count
Zeke keeps on looking around the corner hoping he gives his spot away as another shot takes a chunk of the wooden crates corner clear off. "Son of a… A-hole playing sniper. We can't stay here for long," Zeke says desperate.
Sonic begins to say as he gets up, "He wants me. I can-"
"NO! You stay RIGHT there," Zeke demands pulling him back down.
"I can cause a distraction. He won't kill me. He'll probably hurt me but not kill me," Sonic insist.
"And you think you haven't been hurt enough?" Zeke asks getting up holding his arm.
"No, but I'm not going to give up just yet. There's plenty of room left on my body to get bruises still," Sonic Answers as he gets up also.
They stare at each other for a bit then Zeke hands him his gun and request, "Make… every… shot count."
Back at Group 6: Shooting and blasting every robot in sight trying to get to their extraction point. Again, one of them stops as he raises up a fist in command. Everyone stops and just watch him. He holds it up for a few seconds then quickly brings it down warning, "He's here. Hide."
Everyone hides in dark patch areas in the corridor.
Chris stays perfectly still and silent as he reveals himself. He hovers right over them stopping every few feet. His eyes were glowing violet in the darkness. Purple particles spewing from his body that you can actually… hear …it? Chris can't even take his eyes off of him. His was vision getting distorted. Odd blurry Images randomly popping into his mind until a voice whispers to him. "Do it."
He grabs his head as the pressure builds still looking at the Masked Figure floating, "Gah! Wha?"
"Do it."
"Do what? Gah! Wh-Who's whispering to-" He gets punched.
"Stop looking at him idiot." Person next to him says.
"Go, go, go. It's safe." Another one says.
Chris couldn't believe what just happen and had a hard time even running straight. Once they finally reach an open area. One of them fires off a flare. Couple of minutes later the Air craft shows up but it isn't the Resistance Air Craft. Once it lands, all of them get into the Aircraft but as it takes flight… the bay door gets ripped right off. "OH SHIT… ITS HIM!" "FIRE! F&%$ING FIRE!" One of them shouts ordering. Everyone fires at the Mask Figure but nothing. The bullets don't make contact on him.
Chris just stands there not firing a single shot. All he does is just stare at him instead. His vision gets distorted once again, making him dizzy. He drops his rifle. He closes his eyes and turns around to grab onto anything.
"NO, DON'T! AAhhh!" One of the men shouts as he gets grabbed and thrown out of the Aircraft yelling as he falls into darkness. Another gets grabbed and thrown out also. One gets grabbed and then repeatedly gets slammed against the Aircraft like a ragdoll then finally thrown out.
One of the soldiers begins to fire again but the Mask Figure raises up the palm of his hand to him and launches an energy ball at him. It connects to the Soldier causing him to go flying back and through the cockpit door creating explosion inside of it causing the Aircraft to lose control.
Chris holding on, he feels himself almost about to get grabbed but then the Aircraft quickly begins to spin around and around losing altitude and completely flies off the air prison… and falls straight back down towards earth.
Back to Zeke and Sonic: "You do know how to use one… right?" Zeke asks.
Looking at him annoyed. "I know how to fire a gun."
"You slowly…-" He sighs. "Can't believe am actually f&%$ing saying this. You go out in view and slowly walk down the walk way. Once you get his attention I'll go over the side of the bridge and shimmy my way to where-" Sound of robots approaching. "Shit, robots are coming. Ready?" Zeke asks eagerly.
"Ready." Sonic says as he goes out into view. Sonic thinking to himself, He's not going to shoot me. He's not going to- A gun shot sounds off as a bullet hole is created right in front of his feet making him flinch. Looking down at it he then looks up spotting him.
Zeke out on the side of the bridge, hanging out of view, making sure not to fall off. Feet by feet he gets closer to the other side.
"Never took you for a quitter." The Warden mocks as he looks through his scope. "Where's your friend? Did he run from you? That just shows that no one cares about you! Ha, ha, ha!-" Zeke then rushes him from the side tackling and slamming him to the wall making him lose his rifle. Up against the wall he begins to punch him only with his left arm followed by kicks.
The Warden then throws an elbow hitting him in the side then proceeds to grab his bullet wound right arm. Zeke shouts out in pain as it gets cut off when the Warden then grabs him by the throat and slams him to a nearby wall.
"Hi new play thing. I'm going to make you my new b%$##!" Warden gloats.
"That's a bad idea." Zeke says.
"OH, WHY IS THAT?" He asks .
"Uhh..well it's because of one reason… NO, no, two reasons." Zeke says holding up the two fingers to get his attention. "One is because-" Putting up one finger. "uhh, well it's because I'm just not you're type AND two-" Raising his two fingers again. "It's uhhh well- " Warden tightens his grip applying pressure to his arm. He yells out in pain again. Zeke thinking to himself, Gawd damn sonic, can you limp any f&%$ing slower? I'm running out of shit to say" He looks at him to get his attention.
The Warden releases his arm still grabbing his neck, "You talk too much. That's something that needs to change!" He pulls out a knife and slaps it onto his face causing Zeke eyes to widen in shock. "OPEN WIDE! It's only going to hurt-"
Zeke shakes his head and quickly says, "No, NO, no, just listen. It's really important that you should really know that…-" Zeke changes his tone and points. "He wants you more than I do." Warden eyes widen and turns as Sonic fire a shot point blank into his head. Zeke collapses onto the floor.
Sonic just kept on pulling the trigger over and over until the clip was empty but even then… he just kept pulling it.
Zeke walks right beside him and just stands there, holding onto his arm.
Sonic finally stops pulling the trigger on the gun and then hands it back over and says, "Sorry, you did say to make every shot count."
Zeke grabs the gun and holsters it back. He looks at the floor seeing the knife and then back to Sonic's legs seeing the scars on them. "It's ok. The bullets were weighing me down anyways," he says back.
Sonic turns and raises his arms and with a smile says, "Piggy back?"
"No, we walk." Zeke says as he starts walking away holding his arm. Sonic… slowly …limps away…
Sound of footsteps coming back. "Son of a… get on." Zeke says coming back to pick him up. "Gah, ow geez…"
They finally reach one of the enemy Aircraft and get into one. "Alright, alright… where are you? One of them is here?… no… here?" Zeke says looking around.
"What are you looking for?" Sonic asks watching him go back and forth.
"Tracking devices, there should be three of them. …YES. Out you go." He throws it out. "We can't fly back to base knowing this will track them right back to it. Should be here… Bingo." He walks to the door to throw it out only to then get shot at. "Oh crap." Zeke shouts getting startled. He pulls out his gun and reloads it and begins to fire right back. While firing he shouts to Sonic "The other device should-" A bullet flies right over his head. "GAWD DAM!... UNDER THE DASH!"
Sonic begins to look under the dashboard, Lights… so many blinking lights. Not sure what to pull out, he asks back, "Uhhh, what's the color is the light?"
Zeke shouts back in a panic, "PURPLE!" Another bullet flies over his head again. "SHIT!"
"Found it." He hears Sonic.
"Break it!" This is bad. So many… so many of them. Can't leave with so many shooting at us- In an instant the turrets from the Aircraft come to life and start firing at the crowd of robots obliterating them. "Oh shit" Zeke says with a smile. He then starts shooting at the ones that survive the chaos. Once the last one was destroyed Zeke goes right into the Air Craft to see Sonic on the controls of the turrets.
Sonic nodding in approval he says, "That's way better than a spin dash."
"Let's get the heck out of here." Zeke says as they both sit down with pain as Zeke starts pressing buttons.
"Is this something you could fly?" Sonic asks watching him press random buttons.
Trying to sound confident, "Our planes I can fly… This? Don't be surprised if we crash."
Sonic quickly puts his seat belt on. The Air Craft takes flight and off they go.
"Might as well relax cuz It's going to take a couple of hours to get back-"
"ZZZzzzzz…!" Zeke looks at Sonic Asleep.
He smirks, "That was fast." Forgetting that he should've checked first if they were really alone, he quickly looks over his shoulder to see if they are… but at the corner of his eye he sees a hand rise up giving him the thumbs-up.
Sonic then puts it down and mumbles, "So glad… you… we're on the ground."
He sighs feeling bad about flying he says right back, "Yeah… me too."
Radar station near the Resistance Base: The Radar Operator getting confused on what he's looking at, "What the? ...Sir, you have to see this."
"What is it?" The Chief asks.
"It's an enemy Air Craft." He responds confused.
"You know what to do. Shoot it down." The Chief orders.
He backs away from the terminal and explains, "But Sir, you really need to see this. What's so weird about it is that it has its hazard lights on. Weapons are cold too."
"Wha, Really?" He looks at the image and also becomes unsure about it and says, "Let it land… but be armed and ready. If it's hostile it will instantly become a crater where it lands."
Inside the Air Craft: "Please don't shoot me… Please don't shoot me." Zeke chants inside. "I flicked every light on like its Christmas. I hope they get a clue. …Please don't shoot me… Please don't shoot me."
Outside at the Resistance Base the Air Craft lands and the door opens up. Every gun pointed in their direction. Everyone standing by seeing and watching.
"DON'T FIRE! Don't Fire!" Zeke shouts as he steps out holding his arm.
Knuckles knowing who it is starts shouting, "You have to be… ARE YOU OUT OF YOU'RE DAMN MIND-" He sees Zeke look back as Sonic slowly limps out. …"Sonic?" Knuckles says in disbelief.
"Hey guys. Long time no see. I'm back." Sonic saying raising a hand.
"Someone get a medic down here. ASAP!" Everyone rushes towards the Air Craft to help.
30min later in Zeke's medical room, he sits there poking his arm bandages. "Ow! Yup hurts." He hears someone footsteps enter the room. He looks up and sees Zander standing there. He gets up and stands there staying quite for a bit. Not looking at him directly he says ashamed. "I'm sorry."
Zander looks all over him then stops at his bandages on his arm. "Does it hurt?"
He turns to look at his bandages, "Just a little-" A fist comes flying into view, as Zander punches his arm in anger. He shouts in pain as grabs onto it.
"THAT'S WHAT YOU GET! IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN WHEN YOU SAY THAT IT'S YOU'ER 'LAST' MISSION? SCARE THE F$%# OUT OF YOU'ER FRIENDS? YOU ASSHOLE!" Zander yells at him trying not to cry.
Zeke just stands there silently with his head down holding his arm. He closes the gap and hugs him. Staying silent Zander begins to cry. "Let go of (sniff) me. I want (sniff) punch you again. Can't punch you (sniff) if you're hugging me."
He hugs him tighter, "Thanks for caring."
Zander… hugs back.
Hours later: Announcement Area, crowds of people stand around from rescued captives to Resistance members.
Knuckles approaches the mic to send his congrats for a well-done mission. "We did great last night. In a span of a few moments we've accomplished and saved so many lives last night than we have ever done in months. I want to thank each and every single person that was a part of the mission… even though we lost some people like group 6 that went missing." Everyone looks at each other sad about it… but not as sad as Trish as she looks at her list looking at Chris's name.
"Thank you again, but no matter what we will rise again and take back what was taken from us." The crowd cheers.
"So again and this time differently I want to really thank you from the bottom of my heart-" His face is still pointing straight but his eyes are locked onto Zeke. "Thank you… very, …very much."
Zeke stands there and nods right back.
Chapter 3: The Soul Survivor of Group Six
Part 6: How am I still alive?
The morning sun slowly makes its way to the sky as Chris lays on the ground unconscious. Snapping out of it and rubbing his head, he slowly rises up to his feet he mutters, "Wha… happen?" Looking forwards he sees nothing but an empty field but once he turns around he sees the wreckage of the Air Craft still on fire. "Oh shit." He looks at the ground and distance to it. "60ish feet? How did I get here?... No. How the f&%$ am I still alive?" He looks at his communicator seeing that it's busted. "Dammit, I can't call for help… but at least the compass still works." He faces to the east, "Base is… that way. Which by air is a couple of hours… by feet?" He sighs, "This is going to be a long ass walk."
Hours later of walking he takes off his black pants and cuts them into shorts. "Damn it's getting hot." Once done he looks up and sees a town at a distance. "I could find something to drink. …Or a place to relax for a bit." He nods and heads towards that direction.
Every building he walks by is either destroyed or ransacked. Not giving up just yet he keeps walking deeper into town till he notices something weird. "What the heck? Weird purplish particles? Is that-" He picks up a metal bar and walks slowly towards it. Standing 6 feet away… "-Yeah… it's the same stuff from that weird monster up at the prison." About to poke at it with the bar looking directly at it he started getting voices and images into his head again. "NO! gah!" Dropping the bar remembering what almost happen last time he stops. Looking away from it he slightly looks up and sees someone in one of the stores, "Hey, Stop right there!" Whoever it is leaves and heads into the next room. He gives chase.
Inside the figure closes the door and locks it. Moments later Chris smashes through the window and prepares himself. Looking around in the dark storage room he calls out, "Who's in here? Am not going to hurt you and If I was… I wouldn't have been saying anything… right?" He hears footsteps to his right and before getting a chance to see what it is, he gets punched in the face. He Staggers back bumping into a wall. "Geez."… He rubs the side of his face. He then looks at the person right in the eyes making him stop his attacks. "Nice punch." Chris says putting down his guard and just stands there looking at an orange teen fox. "Why are you sneaking around kid?" Chris asks.
Insulted by the question, "Am not a kid and am not sneaking around."
"Looks to me like you were." Accusing him again he takes a step forward.
"I'm not sneaking around, am here for that." He points at the Purple Particles as they both look at it… which is now surrounded by ROBOTS AIMING AT THEM.
"Shit." Chris looks at the kid just standing there. He then yells at him to snap him out of it. "RUN!"
Chris busting out the back door almost breaking it down as gun fire can be heard from inside the store. He runs away as fast as he could. Not a single weapon on him to even think about fighting back. Suddenly something orange zips right by him. …It then stops and slowly goes into a slow brisk jog to keep up with him while Chris Is running with everything he has.
"You have got to be joking?" He says looking at him.
"Oh Shut up." Chris says back stopping to catch his breath.
"I've thought all Hedgehogs were fast. I've never seen one run so slow." He mocks him.
He looks at him. "Ha ha. Well I've never seen a fox with two-tails. What's up with that? Were you raised by a nuclear dump site?" Chris quips back.
He looks at Chris with annoyance while Chris looks back with a smile. Chris holds out his fist and then says, "My name is-" "Rookie" He interrupts him.
Chris just stares at him losing his smile and asks, "How do you know that?"
He checks his bag and hands over his identification card. He grabs it and without even looking at it he already knew. Knew how he survived the crash. Chris then puts the I.D in the same pocket as before.
He looks at Chris and says, "My name is… is Miles."
Rewind Back to Last Night to Operation Smash and Grab.
Miles arrives onto the flying prison with the Tornado. Keeping his distance and also keeping an eye on the rescue mission. The first Air Craft arrives and the two attack group exit out causing distraction for the whole air prison to focus on them. It gave Miles time for him to enter and search for any supplies for himself.
He made a custom communicator to keep tabs on the Resistance to know where they are and how they are doing. The further he enters the harder it is to maintain communication with any of them hearing what they're saying. "That's odd… what's causing such a massive interference around here?" Feeling anxious, he knew that he had to move fast and find anything he could get his hands on and hope he doesn't bump into anyone. The alarms sounds all throughout the prison till Miles finds the final component he was searching for. "Finally. Thought I wasn't going to get my hands on you… now to get out of here."
Exiting the same way he sees someone standing in the hallway looking down it aiming his rifle. "Why is he just standing there? Guess I'm not going that way." He looks up and sees a clear opening. "If I can't walk by, then I'll fly right over you." He takes flight and flies right over him.
Landing back down he heads straight to the Tornado not looking back. Reaching the plane he shoves everything he found and quickly jumps in. He starts the engine and gets ready to escape till he hears a loud metallic sound slamming onto the floor, startling him. "What was that?" He turns to the direction from where it came from as an Aircraft comes flying right over him. "Woah!"
Staring at it suddenly he hears somebody yelling as a body comes falling from the sky, slamming onto the floor close to the plane startling him. "What the… what?" Then another one lands farther away from where the first landed. He quickly looks up at the Aircraft again as the cockpit explodes causing it to spin out. It falls right off the flying prison in a ball of fire and heads right back down to Earth. "Oh NO! I have to-" Something then flies up to the air. Miles looks up and sees that it's the Mask Figure shooting right into the night sky and disappears into the darkness. "It's him… It's…" He shakes his head trying not to freak out and to focus he turns his gaze back to where the Aircraft fell from. Quickly flying off the prison, "I have to get to them and hope that they're okay."
Landing and quickly exiting out he rushes to the downed Aircraft and hope anyone is alive. With the Aircraft in flames he looks down and sees gasoline spilled everywhere. Looking back up he sees the bay door ripped right off. Without hesitation he runs right in and hope he sees anyone. "HELLO? ANYONE HERE… ANYONE?!" No one answers. Franticly looking everywhere inside he finds only one person unconscious. Grabbing and dragging him out, he manages to get him to a safe enough distance until the Aircraft explodes knocking him down.
Rising up he checks on himself to see if he's okay and then just sits there right next to the soldier catching his breath. He looks up and watches the Aircraft engulfed in flames. Once done he gets back up and checks on the soldier if he's ok. "He's breathing. Good." He says relieved. He then goes through his pockets for anything on him. In one of the pockets he finds his I.D Card. He looks at it and laughs while looking at the soldier, "Rookie? They must've really hated you to call you that." He puts the I.D Card in his pouch and walks back to the Tornado.
Fast Forward
Part 7: He Looks Almost Like Him
At the Resistance Base Training Field: "Alright, that's enough for now. Relax for a couple of minutes. I'll be right back." Barnett orders as he heads into his barracks. Everyone just stands around under the hot sun and as soon as he enters they quickly head to the nearest shade and collapse from exhaustion.
"AAHhhh…ugh, I think am going to die." Eddie complains.
"Not before me you're not. I need someone to give my stuff to Lance." Edward says to him.
"Wait, WHAT?! Oh Screw you. It's suppose to be for me." Eddie argues.
While both of them complain to each other POS gets up and walks off towards the Hospital Building picking up trash along the way.
Dumping it all into a trash can almost close to the entrance of the building he hears two Nurses talking. "Can't believe they actually found him… they found him. …Sonic." Sounding relieved.
"Tell me about it. Everyone's also in a better mood especially the Commander, even though he still gets angry from time to time but I actually saw him smile." She says jokingly.
The Nurse looks over to the Hospital doors, "Is Sonic even ok? He was really banged up when I last saw him. Did you see what they did to his legs?"
"Yeah, it was pretty bad but I think he's going to be ok. …It's just going to take a while for him to get better. They really tortured him where it matters the most." She answers back concerned.
POS standing there overhearing the two of the nurses talking he wanted to go see how Sonic was doing but he knew he couldn't. He turns around about to head back as he notices a Drill Sargent walking directly towards him. "Uh-oh." He says to himself noticing how far he is to the rest of the other guys.
"Who's in charge of you?" He orders.
"Uh… am.. with um.. with Drill Sargent Barnett." POS struggling to talk.
"WHY ARE YOU WONDERING AROUND!"
"We're on break. I just wanted to walk around for-"WHAT'S YOUR NAME!" He interrupts him ordering.
"It's-Its Phillip. I didn't mean any harm-"GET BACK TO YOUR GROUP AND STAY THERE!" He shouts.
"o-ok." He says as he quickly starts heading back.
"STOP!" He orders. POS turns around. "Barnett was it? Your name isn't with him." looking at a list.
Thinking why until he realizes what name is really on it and answers, "It-It's POS. The name is POS."
The instructor looks at him and smiles and before he laughs… POS turns and walks away.
"HEY, COME BACK!" He orders.
POS refuses. He just keeps on walking with a disappointed look on his face.
He gets back to the group as Eddie and Edward barely staying awake. POS just stands there bitter about what just happen as Lance stands next to him and pats him on the shoulder somehow knowing. "My name is Philip. I just… want people to depend on me and look past my name as POS." He looks at Lance. "Can't wait for that day to come."
"C'MON! How long is he going to stay in there this time? It's been a couple of hours." Edward whines.
"No idea but the last time you're dumbass took a cat nap we all got in trouble for it so stay awake." Eddie mocking him.
"Oh shut up." "No you shut-" "MAKE ME!"
"I WILL!" Both Eddie and Edward start fighting and arguing with each other as both POS and Lance watch it all happen.
Meanwhile as Trish is walking around she sees them both fighting. Giving them both a glare she looks around for Barnett and notices that he's not even around. She then looks over to his barrack and knows that he's in there. She walks towards it and enters it to talk to him.
Rewind a couple of hours.
Back with Chris and Miles: Miles thinking to himself staring at Chris realizing something, "I can't take my eyes off of him. He looks almost like him. Same body type and stance. Only difference he's green and probably older too and heck… he can't even run. I have to get away from him. He makes me think about him too much. He looks away and begins to walk away. "I… I have to get going."
Chris quickly asks to stop him. "Wait, you said something about those particles back there. You know something about it?"
"What if I do?" He stops asking back.
"Well the fact that I was about to poke at it and you didn't even stop me." Chris accusing him.
Miles answers slightly looking at him. "You were and I was curious to see what would happen if you did."
"That's great. Do you… see weird images or hear voices too when you look at it?" Chris wondering.
Miles looks at him oddly. "No… do you?"
"Yeah, like it wants me to do something." Chris answers scratching his head.
Miles looks at him and looks at the Tornado really wanting to leave him… but he really wanted to know what those voices in his head are saying to him. He sighs "Come with me. You have me curious about those voices." Miles says walking away.
He starts chuckling, You really think you're that smart? Cute." Chris teasing him.
Miles stops again, looks at him and thinks to himself. "He really doesn't know who I am." He smiles and says, "Yeah. I really am and I'll make you eat those words. I'll give you a lift back." He starts walking off.
"A lift?" Chris asks happily quickly catching up to him.
"Yup, my plane is this way."
Reaching the BI-Plane Chris looks at it, "Wow… what a classic. You don't see them anymore."
"It's called the Tornado." Miles responds as he puts things into it.
He stands there admiring it. "You built'er?"
Miles stops putting things and hesitates to answer. "It… used to… belong to someone I knew."
Realizing his error, "Oooh, uhh sorry. How long ago did it happen?"
Miles doesn't answer. He gets into the Tornado he finally does. "It was about half a year. Let's go."
Chris gets on. They fly off towards where Miles lives.
The plane ride back: Chris figures out where they are, "Um… We're getting really close to the Resistance Base. They're going to pick us up on there're radar."
He shakes his head, "No, they won't. The Tornado is highly cloaked. They're never going to catch this plane on radar." Miles explains back.
Time after time he gets impressed regretting what he said about him. …"My words are starting to taste weird." Chris says back as an apology.
Landing at a hidden base located close to the Resistance Base. Miles and Chris get off as Chris looks at the Resistance Base not being too far away, "How long have you've been here?"
"Months." Miles answers grabbing some of the gear out of the Tornado.
"And they don't know?" Chris asks still looking at the Base.
"Nope." He answers walking away.
He starts heading towards the Resistance Base, "They're probably worried about me. I should go head back-" "NO" Miles shouts back dropping most of the gear.
"Why?" He asks as he stops.
Quickly coming up with an excuse. "Uh…you…uhh… might be contaminated." Miles warns him.
"Contaminated?" Chris asks worried looking at himself.
"The particles, the voices and hallucinations might be contagious. If it is do you really want to have it spread in the Resistance Base?" Miles answers.
He sighs, "Crap… your right." He checks himself out and asks wondering, "What's the plan then?"
"We have to find more particles. That town might have some." Miles answers pointing at the it.
At the Resistance Base Hospital: Sonic being on the hospital bed for nearly a day now the Nurse taking care of him leaves the room. Amy was now the only one there. He looks at her rubbing his legs and asks, "Have you heard anything about Tails… is he here?"
She looks at him sadly and says, "No, he's been missing ever since on the day what happen to you. Some people think they've seen him but nothing. He's out there somewhere… I hope."
He lowers his head in sadness and before he blames himself Amy gets up and says, "I have to go check something. I'll be right back." Once she leaves he slowly looks around. With Amy gone from his side he slowly gets out of bed and- "What are you doing?" He looks at the doorway seeing Amy standing there blocking the way.
"Uhhh… hehe I wasn't thinking about going for a run or-" "Lie." She says glaring at him.
He confesses. "Alright, I was going to try to run around for a bit"
She gives an uncompromising look, "It's too early for you to be doing that and everyone would lose their minds if you did. Heck, am already losing it just seeing you standing." Being worried still being at the doorway.
"It's only going to be for a little while. Stretch the legs finally get some ex… er… cise…-" He falls to his knees- "Ow!" rubbing his legs for the pain to stop he begins to beg. "PLEASE AMY! It's been so long. I promise I won't do anything stupid, crazy or…or…get into danger. I PROMISE."
She sighs and gives in. "Fine. I know how far and fast you get around. So you have… 20min to get back."
"Thankyouthankyou"…. He says getting up and quietly walks off happily. "You won't regret it."
"I already am." She whispers back concerned grabbing her keys she came back for.
He sneaks out the back and quietly closes the door behind him. Taking a couple of steps getting out of the shade he feels the sun on himself. Not feeling it for such a long time, he then stops and looks up to it making him smiles only to then frown looking at the red sky causing him to remember on what happened to him on that day. He closes his eyes and relaxes taking in the rays of the sun and then looks out into the field seeing a town nearby. Knowing what he wants to do now he looks down to his 'worst for wear' legs being bandaged up. Being a little depressed looking at them, "Baby steps. Before you know it I'll be back… good as new. Can't get better if I don't at least try." He begins to stretch and then starts to walk, jog and then slightly limps and stops. Rubbing his legs for the pain to stop he looks back at the town. "I could do this." He starts to jog then slowly picks up speed struggling to run till finally speeds off.
At the Town Chris and Miles are checking different spots to see if they spot anything. So far nothing as they look everywhere. "Geez… would've been nice if he handed me one of those scanners of his."
Walking back and fourth down roads trying to spot anything as something blue quickly runs right by him.
Chris with his eyes widen in surprise he realizes what it was. "No way… was that …Sonic?"
Sonic Zips right back and says, "Knew I saw someone."
"How… when… you're back?" Chris says surprised.
"That's right-" He points at him. "but don't tell anyone that you saw me, alright?"
"Yeah, sure. I promise." He says with a smile.
"Sweet." He says as he looks at his watch as it closes in on 20min. "I gotta run, laters." He quickly runs off only to then run right back to Chris startling him. "Sorry, didn't get your name."
"I'm Chris but most calls me Rookie." He answers happily.
"Alright, catch ya later Chris but most calls me Rookie." Sonic says as he runs off again.
"Sure. See you later." He shakes his head. "…Yeah, right. …Like that's going to happen again. What are the chances of me ever seeing him again?" He whispers still surprised to even see him. After searching every inch of the town and not being able to find anything, he finally meets up with Miles.
Miles looking at his scanners trying to find anything, he looks up and notices someone walking to him. He glances and sees Sonic walking towards him then he looks back to his scanners. Surprised by it he looks back and it's Chris approaching him instead. Breathing heavily he rubs the back of his head trying not to lose it or get depressed by it.
Chris reaches to him seeing how he is rubbing his head, "You doing alright?"
Miles doesn't look at him, "I'm okay." He slightly looks at him. "Did you find anything?"
Thinking about Sonic and the promise that he made to him he decides not to tell him that he met him. "Nah, not a damn thing. What about you?"
Miles shakes his head. "My scanners would have found anything but nothing." He looks at Chris. "There's still a couple of towns to check. Might take a couple of days to check all of them."
Chris looks towards the Resistance Base. "I have nothing better to do. Looks like we're in this together."
Miles slightly smiles at him. He hasn't been around anyone for a long time. Hearing that come from someone he slowly finally getting a feeling he hasn't felt in a long time. …Hope.
Sonic heads right back to base and goes back to the door he exited out from. He slowly and quietly opens the door…"Uh-oh… Please don't tell anyone." He says as he looks directly at Trish.
Rewind 30min
Out in the training field Barnett was inside his Barracks while his recruits are outside. Trish knocks and opens his door. She looks at Barnett with a glare.
"What is it?" He asks as he gets up from his seat.
"Two of your men are being foolish." She says annoyed.
With a smile he asks. "Foolish? What considered foolish to you?"
She crosses her arms. "Two of them… well to put it literally; they're having a cat fight."
He sighs and grabs something out of a drawer. "It's the twins." He says and walks right by her heading out.
She watches him go out the door leaving her alone in his sleeping quarters. She looks at the table he was sitting at noticing a picture frame on it. It was facing away not letting her see who is on it. She looks back at the door and then slowly walks to it to see it. She notices a bottle of whiskey right next to the picture frame. Almost about to see who's on it the door opens causing her to back away from it.
He walks right back in, "Problem solved. Can't be separated, right?" He says as he walks to the desk and takes a drink.
She exits out and then walks towards and stands next to POS and Lance which Lance is giving a look of disapproval. Eddie hand cuffed to one pole while 30feet away is Edward handcuffed to another pole.
"Don't look at me, DON'T LOOK AT ME!" Eddie shouts to his brother.
"Pfft, I'LL LOOK AT YOU ALL I WANT! AM NOT TAKING ALL THIS BLAME!" He shouts back.
Trish looking she says, "Whose fault is it?"
"I know exactly whose fault it is…I just can't say since I can't tell them apart." POS answers.
Trish walks away shaking her head. Lance is still staring with disapproval. "Yeah, I agree." POS says to Lance.
Trish walking away and in the distance something catches her eye in the field. "Huh? No…can't be." That something turns into a streak of blue blur. As she stands there watching as it finally disappears heading to the nearest town. She then smiles and walks away knowing where to meet him when he comes back.
Fast Forward
Sonic worried. "Please don't tell anyone."
She stays silent then sticks out one finger and says, "One request."
"What is it?"
"Do… this… often." She pleads.
Sonic caught off guard. "Really?"
"Yes." She says being sincere. "When I saw you run off… it made me feel hopeful once again. It's been a long time since I've had that feeling. I want everyone else to have that feeling too. You're that hope Sonic. So Run… often." She turns around and walks away finishing with. "I won't tell anyone about this."
"Thanks." He says right back smiling.
Chapter 4: Sonic's Request.
Part 8: You want us to what?
At night in the Resistance Hospital Sonic can hear the sound of beeps from hospital equipment until they become silent and quite. He suddenly jolts awake finding himself strapped onto his bed with metal handcuffs as they clang to the metal bars. He looks up at a single light beaming over him as everything around him is shrouded in darkness. "Huh? ...Wha?" Pulling, trying and struggling to take them off. Confused what's going on. "DID YA THINK YOU COULD ESCAPE FROM ME?!" A familiar menacing voice is heard in the darkness.
Sonic realizing it was the Wardens voice from the prison he begins to panic breathing heavily. "Wha?... No?... It-it can't be. I-I destroyed you."
He laughs menacingly, "WERE YOU ASLEEP AGAIN? YOU KNOW WHAT THE PUNISHMENT IS FOR SLEEPING!" From the darkness he comes into view taking out a knife and slowly touches his legs.
Eyes widen in fear he looks at his legs being touched by the knife, "No…No… I-" He raises the Knife and brings it down onto them. "NNOOOOO!-" He suddenly wakes up finding himself in the dark in his room forgetting where he is. Panicking he franticly looks everywhere in the darkness rubbing his legs he slowly remembers where he is saying over and over, "I'm safe now… I'm safe now… safe… safe… I'm safe… I'm safe …now." Calming down he lies back down and tries to go back to sleep. …"I'm safe." He whispers out.
Couple of days go by and Sonic still sitting on his hospital bed. He was realizing something but wasn't sure about it till a couple of days go by but now he wants to talk about it. He looks at Amy and the nurse and asks, "I want to talk to Knuckles and to any one else in charge."
Later on the Nurse comes back with Knuckles, Silver and Trish who happens to be around. Amy gets up and walks to Knuckles side and says, "You're not going to believe what's he's about to say." She turns and faces Sonic.
Knuckles still looking at her he turns his gaze to Sonic and asks, "What is it?"
"I Uhh… want you to go find Robotnik annnnnd if he's in trouble… rescue him and bring him back here."
All 3 of them were silent and in disbelief for seconds but Amy. "Told you." Amy says.
"WHAT?! You want us to WHAT?! …WHAT?! After everything he's done… you want 'US' to find him and RESCUE HIM?! …WHAT?!" Knuckles trying so hard not to hurt Sonic.
He nods, "Yup, that's exactly what I said. Think about it Knucks. It's been days after I got here… right? Don't you find it odd that there hasn't been a peep from him? That Ego Maniac has too big of an ego to ever be kept quiet. My hunch is that he's in trouble out there somewhere. Can you look for him?"
Knuckles glaring at him clenching his fist. He turns around and talks to Amy and Silver. He takes a deep breath and tries to calm down. "Someone say something… 'now'… before I go and punch him in the face." Knuckles warns them.
"He has a point. What if Robotnik is in trouble?" Amy agrees trying to calm him down.
Silver also agreeing. "Yeah, he is the problem of all this. That's true 'but' if we find and save him he can tell us how to take that monster down that put Sonic on that bed. Robotnik can help us."
Knuckles anger slowly subsides and whispers, "Ok." He turns to Sonic. "We'll send a search and rescue 'BUT' if we do find him-" He looks at Silver and then back to Sonic with his fist out waving it at them. "YOU KEEP HIM AWAY FROM ME! GOT IT?!"
"Alright/Ok." Silver and Sonic answer worried.
He calms down and asks to Sonic, "Where do we start looking? You have any ideas?"
"Where it all started between both of us, Green Hills. Check there first." Sonic answers.
Knuckles nods and turns to Amy and Silver taking any suggestions or ideas. "All of our squads are doing important things at the moment and I know for sure-" He looks and points at Amy. "That Amy isn't going to want to leave Sonic's side." Amy smiles appreciating his thoughtfulness. "Silver I need you here. Sooooo…how are we doing this? Just need a small group to search areas. Can't send major squads to check pointless-" "I know who you can send." Trish interrupting him with an idea. "I know the perfect small group for you to send. I'll go talk to them and get things ready so you don't have to."
He nods, "Sounds good but since it's 'your' idea, then you're going to go along with them." Knuckles orders her.
"Uh…What?" Trish asks getting disappointed.
"Great that's done. Now dismiss." Everyone goes their separate ways, but Knuckles stares right at Sonic for a couple of seconds before finally leaving the room.
"Yeesh…he was going to punch my lights out wasn't he?" Sonic asks looking at the door still.
"He definitely was." She answers.
Trish walking across the training field surprised that she needs to go along with them. "Me…go? Dammit." She mutters to herself. She has never left the Resistance Base ever since she arrived six months ago. She always felt safe being behind the protective walls of the base and always tried to make sure Zander was also behind the walls as well. Now she has no choice but to go along with this recon mission. She arrives to who she's going to talk to and taps him on the shoulder.
He turns around and says, "Good day Trish, what is it now?" Barnett greets her with a smile.
"I…Have an assignment for you and your squad." She says back with a smile.
Once he heard the word squad he loses his smile and shakes his head, "They're not a squad, so whatever you have planned It's-" "Fine, recruits." She interrupts him and corrects herself. "It's a recon assignment to check a couple of areas. Nothing too dangerous. Think of it as a personal field trip away from this place." She says as she hands him a single piece of paper again.
He takes it and looks at it. After looking at the small amount of information on it he gives her an annoyed look, "You're going to explain all of it to me again, aren't you?"
She smiles, "Even better, I'll explain all of it along the way with you as we all go from place to place."
"Alright, I'll go get them ready, pack things up and we'll be good to go." He agrees and turns walks away towards his recruits.
Trish starts walking towards her own barracks to change to something better and to get ready as well.
An hour later The Air Craft was ready to take them to Green Hills. Everyone approaches the Air Craft.
Eddie cautiously enters "Umm…Shouldn't we have weapons in case some-" Edward shoves him into it. "It's a stupid Recon missions chicken shit." Edward mocking him. "YOU'RE THE CHICKEN SHIT!" Eddie shouts back jumping on him as they fight again. Lance goes in next with handcuffs ready. "OK-OK, SORRY!" One of the twins says. Then enters POS. Trish enters next ending with Barnett… he stops before entering looking around with a worried look on his face. He takes a deep breath and enters.
The Air Craft flies off and heads towards Green Hills.
Part 9 Under My Watch…
The Air Craft lands on a flat piece of land in Green Hills. Everyone exits out as POS asks looking around, "So what exactly are we looking for?"
Trish answers, "We're…looking for weird anomalies in the area." She looks at her tracking device. "This should point right to it."
"Oh, alright. Then mission success." Edward says.
"What? Really?" Trish asks confused.
Edward nods, "Yeah, Just point it that way and you'll find that weird anomaly."
Trish aims it to where he's pointing and points it at Eddie who is giving an angry look to his brother giving him the finger. Lance standing right behind him also looking at Edward shaking his head.
Barnett sighs. "So which way are we going?"
She points it in the right direction, "It's pointing that way… by a lot."
Everyone leaves and starts following Trish around Green Hills. Down a hill, up a hill, back down a hill and through a cave and right back up a hill… "What the heck?" Edward says as everyone looks up.
"A loop? How the …just …how?" Eddie trying to figure out how.
POS remembering about Sonic and what he does in Green Hills he smiles being impressed, "I know he's freaking fast but… damn."
Barnett refusing to do it he orders, "The heck with that, we're going around it." After going around the loop and back up the hill everyone stops as POS says concerned. "Woah… that's a lot of robots." They look at hundreds of robots roaming around.
She shakes her head. "There's no way that we're not going that way but tracker is pointing that way."
"Then we're going to have to go around." Barnett suggests pointing at a clearing.
Slowly but surely and most definitely carefully sneaking around not to get spotted they finally get close to the area on the tracker.
Getting closer a couple of bushes shake to scare them. "Who goes there?" A voice coming out of the bushes scaring Edward. "AM ARMED AND READY TO KILL!" Edward yells back.
"Please don't." Another voice is heard. Hands coming out of the bushes waving a white flag.
Trish hiding behind Barnett as he says, "Come out, we're not going to hurt you."
"Promise?" The voice speaks out again.
"YES! GET OUT HERE!" Barnett orders.
Out of the bushes come two robots. "Hi… no hurting… remember?" The Red Orb Robot says.
Barnett looks at Trish and sighs, "Names?" Barnett asks knowing he's going to regret it.
"Am Orb Bot and He's Cube Bot."
"Yeahyeah, come this way quick." Cube bot says. Leading the way to a cave.
Looking at the caves entrance Barnett turns and looks at POS and tells him, "Me and Trish are going into the cave so am depending on you to be in charge out here for a bit. Got it?"
POS with his mouth slightly open in shock and happy at what he just heard him say he mumbles, "Yes… Sir." While behind him Eddie and Edward are fighting again and Lance is just staring at them. Barnett and Trish enter the cave but is POS still stands there happy. "He… he…depends on me." POS mumbles.
Inside of the cave after passing two doors along the way, Orb Bot opens the final door. Both robots enter the room and so does Trish she then quickly stops looking up. Once Barnett enters he looks around seeing electrical equipment scattered around. He looks to Trish and sees her with a concerned expression on her face. He turns to see what she's looking at and in disbelief… he sees Robotnik is in a tube on stasis. Barnett staring with his fist now clenched. Orb Bot begins to speak looking at Robotnik, "Infinite hurt him. He was going to put a failsafe onto him to keep him from becoming too powerful and get out of hand but Infinite retaliated and hurt him. We got him here and put him in this stasis tube to kee…ke…keep him alive. Power breakers have been going out recently but anymore and the power will be out for good." As Orb Bot saying this he gets closer and closer to Barnett. "There won't be any way to power the tube anymore. He'll die in a matter of hours."
Barnett staring with pure hatred in his eyes then Orb Bot touches his hand and says, "Please save him."
Barnett looks down at him. He pulls his hand then turns and storms out. Trish seeing him barge out she chases right after him.
"Barnett… BARNETT!" She yells out.
He turns and points at her angry, "YOU KNEW ABOUT THIS!"
"Yes I did. I couldn't say why because I knew this was going to happen but we need him alive-" "SHUT UP!" He interrupts her. "YOU want ME… to save the person who is the cause of ALL THIS? It's all his DAMN fault why things are the way they are. Why the world been turned to shit. YOU want ME to save the person who is the reason why my only son died !UNDER MY WATCH!"
He yells so loud that everyone outside herd him. Eddie and Edward quickly stop fighting getting startled. All of them look at the entrance of the cave.
POS surprised by it, "Damn… What the heck going on in there?"
He stands quietly depressed about what he confessed about. "You… want me… to save him? The man who caused all of this torment to me?"
Trish walks up to him as a tear goes down her face understanding why the way he is and not wanting a squad. She now knows who was on that picture frame in his sleeping quarters. Trying not to get overly emotional she request, "Yes… we need him to set things right again. We need the information that he knows about that monster that's called Infinite. Please, Barnett. Please."
He looks at her and as seconds go by trying to not break down he says, "Alright, but you keep him far away from me or you're going to need the entire Resistance to pry my hands off his damn neck."
Outside everyone gets ready for prep to have the Air Craft come for Pick-Up. They haul the stasis tube out.
"Oh shit… it really is him. It's Robotnik" POS says staring at the tube coming out of the cave.
Everyone gets into position and as Barnett holds the flare gun in his hand then it dawns on him what will happen if he fires it. Hundreds of Robots would swarm the place. He just stood there looking at the flare as everyone looks at him wondering why…but Trish…she knew. 'The Look' she knows why.
"I have to snap him out of it… call out to him. Barnett? Barnett… please look at me." She request.
Barnett looks at her scared.
"It's going to be alright. You're not going to be shot in the gut. Everything is going to be alright." She says trying to calm him down.
He looks at her and blinks. Takes a deep breath and then points the flare gun to the air and fires.
Air Craft in bound and moving fast as they have 5 or 10min. Orb Bot and Cube Bot come out of the cave with Laser rifles and Pistols for everyone to arm themselves with. They brace and wait…as the silence was being taken over by the sound of incoming robots. As it gets louder Barnett begins to announce when to fire. Ready… Aim… FIRE! Barnet yells out as an all-out miniature war begins of non-stop laser fire.
Eddie firing his laser while Edward firing his and slowly inch by inch they get closer to each other to keep each other safe shooting ahead of the field.
POS next to Stasis Tube and Cube Bot trying to keep them safe firing at whatever comes from the right.
Lance is Glaring and firing staying close to Trish who is also firing a pistol staying low to the ground. She slightly gets up only for Lance to place his hand on her head to keep her down.
He looks at her, "Stay… down." In a deep raspy voice. She looks at him and nods agreeing.
Barnett notices that the Robots are O-series and that there weak point is there waist. He quickly shouts, "AIM FOR THERE WAIST! AIM FOR THERE WAIST!" A giant robot comes from his left side as it knocks him down losing his rifle. "GAH!" Trying to reach the rifle as its about to shoot him, Orb Bot picks it up and fires stunning it informing him the model type, "G-series aim for top right chest plate."
"Thanks" He says quickly taking the rifle away and keeps on firing to finish it off.
More and more robots approach over the hill as Eddie and Edward are getting overwhelmed by them as they start shooting franticly till, "GAAahh!" Eddie shouts as he gets slightly hit in the arm. "Shitshitshit." He says as he goes into cover holding his arm that's burning from the laser shot.
"NO! F&%$ing too many… of them." Edward starts to warn.
"We're running out of AMMO SIR! Can't… too many." POS warns as a robot shows up by his side about to shoot him but quickly gets taken out making him flinch. POS looks and it was Lance that did it.
"PROTECT THE TUBE AT ALL COST!" Shouts Barnett.
From the sky the Aircraft Comes in quickly firing off the turrets destroying every robot it could getting close to the ground for them to get into it. The Pilot warns them from the speakers, "HURRY! GET ON! THERE'S A SHIT LOAD OF THEM COMING!
Everyone gets into position and get the Stasis Tube into the Air Craft as fast as they can. "GO, GO, GO!" Barnett orders.
Trish runs in as so does Orb Bot and Cube Bot.
Eddie, Edward jump in and also Lance start to board as the Air Craft shift to fire at robots coming from the left leaving POS and Barnett on the ground. "NOOoo TURN BACK!... TURN BACK!" Edward Shouts reaching out to grab one of them, "MY HAND! GRAB IT!" With his arm out to grab one of them.
Barnett gives POS the sign to go reach out to Edward to get grabbed.
POS nods agreement but and instead shoves Barnett to be grabbed by Edward to be pulled into the Aircraft to be safe. POS then goes into hiding waiting for the right moment to make his escape. More and more robots get closer; the Air Craft sways back to the right to fire at more incoming robots.
Just as the robots are about to be on top of him. He makes a quick dash to the open bay door. "GO! GO!" Shouts POS jumping into it.
Everyone then fires towards the exit keeping the robots out who are trying to climb in. POS hits the button to shut the bay door. While it closes, one of the robots gets crushed by it.
"GO, GO, GO!" Barnett shouts. They quickly lift off and watch as hundreds of robots approach the very same spot they were at seconds ago.
"Damn… That was nuts. Is everyone alright?" POS breathing heavily.
Everyone answers in their own way saying ok. The rest of the flight they remained silent the whole way.
Back at The Resistance Base H.Q: Knuckles is talking to Vector and Silver as the Nurse caring for Sonic interrupts him.
"Is something wrong nurse?" Knuckles asks.
"Yes. It's Sonic…again." Nurse says as Vector and Silver laugh.
"What it is now with him?" Knuckles ask annoyed.
"He didn't say. He just kept saying"…
Sonic saying over and over on his bed, "No, no, no, no …uhh…oh yeah" Takes a deep breath and shouts, "NO!"
Knuckles just stands there hearing it all.
"Look, I told you to go find him. Good job. You did it." He Gives Knuckles a thumbs up. "What I didn't say IS TO STICK HIM IN THE SAME ROOM AS ME!" Sonic shouts as he points at Robotnik unconscious body at the other side of the room.
"There's no other bed big enough for him that's available but this one in your room." The Nurse explains.
He points at the window and complains. "You could've just moved the bed outside… I won't miss it."
"He's in a coma. What's the worst that can happen?" Knuckles explains rubbing his head for the headache to go away.
"Uhh… Wake up? Which I'm looking forward to SO I CAN PUT HIM BACK INTO IT!" Sonic glaring at Robotnik as he waves his fist in the air.
Knuckles trying so hard not to hurt Sonic, "Just deal with it for now cuz it is YOUR FAULT THAT HE'S HERE NOW!" He argues making sure to have the last word as he turns around and storms out of the room.
"GRUMblemumble!" Coming from Sonic.
The Nurse wanted to calm him down, "Do…you need any-" "No. Anything you give me I'm just going to throw it at him. So maybe later." Sonic answers angrily with his arms crossed staring at Robotnik.
Meanwhile outside Barnett is with his recruits. He paces back and forth eyeing all four of them as they stand there quietly in formation. He looks away and stops. He crosses his arms and addresses them about what happened today in an angry yet calm voice. "Alright… all four of you have shown great team work and bravery under fire… even though the task was never supposed to be dangerous in the first place. We all returned in one piece and also…-" He clenches his fist thinking about him. He sighs shaking his head, "And also with… what the Recon Assignment wanted us to find."
"You mean Dr. Robotnik… Sir?" Answers Edward.
Barnett shoots him a glare causing him to regret even saying his name. He looks away and to the hospital building. "Yes… him. Bringing him… here." He looks back to his recruits. "So… with a job well done, you have the rest of the day to relax. So go… get out of here."
"Heck yeah." Edward says.
"To the Mess Hall?" Eddie asks
"I'm already there." Edward answers back already heading to it.
As everyone begins to walk away Barnett quickly says, "POS, one second?"
POS stops and answers, "Umm, yes sir?"
He looks at Eddie, Edward and Lance walking away then back to POS and in a stoic tone he says, "Out of all of them, you're the one that I hold in high regards."
POS smiles and becomes happy. "Re-really?"
"Yes… but…-" He gives him a stern look. "If you… EVER… push me again… I will make you run… so many laps that you will either become as fast as Sonic… or your legs will fall off. …Got it?"
POS loses his smile, "Yes-yes… sir… got it."
"Good. Now get going."
POS turns and heads to the Mess Hall with the others.
Barnett stands there with a stern stare looking at POS. It quickly goes away as he turns and smiles heading to his barracks being proud of them.
Chapter 5: Tragedy Within the Force
Part 10 Stealth? What's Stealth?
Early in the morning Miles wakes up in his room, he looks at his watch. …"4hrs of sleep? That's a record." Still feeling groggy, he gets out of his room and heads to the bathroom. Passing by the kitchen he glances into it seeing Sonic standing there. Almost reaching the bathroom, "Hm?" He stops and looks back to the kitchen realizing who he saw. Over coming with guilt, a tear runs down his face. "…What?" He rushes back to make sure. Reaching the kitchen he looks into it again.
Chris just stands there looking at whatever there is to eat. "Geez… most of the stuff is close to expiring… never mind. Most of it is pass the expiration-" Hearing a sound by the door he turns to look at it, "Huh? Miles?" No one was there but Miles is now back in his room in the corner sitting and shaking not knowing what to do with Chris. "Why?... Why?... Why does he have to look like him? …Why?" Saying to himself crying. He crawls back onto bed and tries to go back to sleep whispering, "I'm sorry Sonic. Am so sorry."
At noon Chris was wandering around finding anything to do before he loses his mind of boredom. He then hears Miles call's out to him. Walking up to him and sees him holding a pair of weird looking shoes.
"Here… put these on." Miles says handing them to Chris.
Removing his heavy combat boots he puts them on, "Not bad. A little loose but they feel good." He ties them tighter.
"It's not about feeling good; it's about what they can do. Let's go outside." He grabs a clipboard leading the way.
Chris notices that they're walking far away from the building.
Miles then stops. "Stand right there."
Chris walks to where he pointed and stops. He then looks at Miles waiting for whatever is next.
Miles then begins to walk far away from him getting a good distance away. "Okay… Now press the orange button."
Chris stands there looking at Miles and then down to the shoes staring at the orange button. He looks at the building and back to Miles. "Umm you got me to come outside and away from the building just to press a button?"
"Yup… need to make sure that the thing that will happen… uhh…well… will happen and… umm… well… not the complete opposite instead." He explains back.
Chris giving Miles a concerned look, "Which is… what? …Blow up?"
Miles stays quiet for a bit and asks. "Have you been reading my notes?"
Surprised from what he just heard him say, "ARE YOU F&^ KIDDING ME?!" He shouts back at him scared. He quickly sits down desperately untying his laces to take them off. "Son of a… why the f&%$ did I double knot for?"
"Just press the button… you're not going to blow up." Miles says to calm him down.
He stops trying to untie his shoes and looks at the button. He cautiously presses it and braces himself. Seeing the side of the shoes light up and pulsate but nothing happens. "Ok…Now what?"
Miles voice drones out, "Nothi…n..gs dif…fer…e…nt?"
He stands up looking around confused why he sounded so weird answering back. "I don't think…so" He answers seeing a fly slowly fly pass him. "What the?" Taking a closer look at the fly he was able to see its wings flap in the air. He looks down at the shoes then looks at Miles. "No way…" He walks to Miles and then around him chuckling, "Oh Shit." He looks around some more. "Everything is…moving in slow motion." He bends down and presses the button again. Everything quickly goes back to normal almost leaving him light headed.
Miles starts looking around searching for Chris. He turns around and sees him knowing that it worked. He smiles and asks, "Still feeling good?"
"Better than good. That was… that was really something else." Chris answers back with a smile.
Miles happy how everything turned out he remembers that Chris is from the Resistance. He looks at the Base and then back to Chris making a request, "I need you to go do something. The place is running out of supplies for repairs. Without them I can't properly repair the Tornado." He looks at the Resistance Base crossing his arms. "I would sneak into their base but I don't know where the Inventory store building is. They've moved it."
Chris looking at the Resistance base and smirks, "I know exactly where it is." He puts out his fist… Miles just stares at it. …He sighs opening his fist and says, "Hand me the list of what you need and I'll go get it." Chris says disappointed.
At the Resistance Base Inventory: Chris opens a window and checks if anyone's around. "No one?" He jumps right in putting his weight on a box as it caves in making him loose his footing. Slipping, tumbling, falling and ends it with a face plant. "Owww! Damn that hurt. Nice entrance, idiot. Hope no one heard that." He says to himself as he gets back up. "I was never the sneaking type. Am more of the Gunz-a-Blazing type instead."
He begins to look around for the parts on the list but box after box unfortunately everything is mostly just food. "Nothing… nothing… Damn, there has to be something on this list…-" Opening one of the containers he just stands there staring into it. "Oh heck yeah." Puts his hand into it and pulls out a bag of chips. "Ranch flavored… and not expired too." Pops it open and grabs a chip. About to put it into his mouth- "What happen to group 6?" A female's voice was heard. He looks over his shoulder and sees someone standing by the doorway glaring at him ready to attack him.
Rewind
Amy sitting next to Sonic's bed while he's lying on it, they both watch the nurse leave the room. He turns and begs smiles at her. She stares at him knowing exactly what he wants to do. "Fine." She gets up. "You can go run around again. I need to go check inventory."
"20min again?" He asks getting out of bed.
"That's right. It doesn't take long for me to check and no one knows that you're doing this still."
They both go to the hallway and go different ways. Sonic reaches the exit and gives her one last look. He opens the door and leaves.
Leaving the hospital and making her way to the storage building, one of the Resistance Guards walking around waves at her to come to him. She approaches him. "Is something wrong?"
"You're not going to like this but something sounded like it fell over in the store room. Pretty loud too so get ready to see a mess. I was going to check but you're the only one with the keys."
She looks at the building. "Thanks for the warning." Approaching the door and unlocking it she goes in and takes a look ready to see a mess but instead sees Chris standing there. Not closing the door yet she gets into a fighting stance and gets ready to attack. "What happen to Group 6?"
Chris surprised to see her. "It's a long story just please don't ask for help."
She turns and closes the door and stands there. "I have 20 minutes so it better be a good story."
Part 11 Innocent Till Proven Guilty
Back at Miles place he's trying to find more possible spots to find Purple Particles for Chris to come in contact with. Finally he finds a file about possible information about The Monster that attacked Sonic. "Bingo… his name is Infinite, but that's it…nothing else. Yes, right here. This lab area location. I have …to …no." He shakes his head correcting himself. "'We' have to go to this lab area to get the rest of the information. I just have to wait for him to come back." Thinking to himself as he looks to the Resistance Base.
Back at the Resistance Base Chris does 15min or so of explaining: "The Monster? You know what it looks like?" Amy asks bringing down her guard.
"Yeah, I got a good look at it. Way more than I should've." Chris answers making him loosen up and eats a chip.
"We got a name for him now. He's called Infinite." She informs him.
Chris then quips and eats another chip,"Pfft hehe, Infinite of what? Messing with your head?" He shoves another chip into his mouth. "Cuz that's what happened when I was just looking at him. He was also the one that wrecked the Aircraft I was on at the prison… Which then I was saved by someone-" "And now you're here stealing our stuff." She accuses crossing her arms.
Being ashamed looking at the bag of chips in his hand, "No…well… can I say borrow?" He then seals the bag up and tosses it back into the container. "A kid needs it who rescued me from the wreck. Just a couple things he needs."
"Kid?" She becomes interested uncrossing her arms.
"Yeah, the dude smart. Needs it for his plane."
"Kid…smart…plane?"...Getting surprised her eyes widen realizing who it is. "Are you talking about-" A gun shot sounds off startling them both as the bullet whizzes right by Chris. He quickly looks over his shoulder checking where it came from. He turns back to look at Amy and sees her Pink Uniform mid-section slowly turns red.
"No!"… He rushes over and catches her before hitting the floor. Hearing a door open he glances at the door seeing a person walk out. He looks back down and Amy slightly struggling to talk. "This can't be happening."
"Run…Go…there going to blame you." She request.
He refuses. "I can't, not like this."
Amy goes unconscious. He slowly puts her down and starts hearing voices outside. Door gets kicked open. They enter with guns drawn but only see Amy's body on the floor. Chris was gone.
He rushes back to Miles base almost breaking down the door scaring him. "What happen?" Miles asks.
"Whatever you have planned…we got to go. NOW!" Chris saying in a panic
"What happen?" He asks again concerned.
"Someone spotted me in the place." Chris answers trying to stay calm.
"Who was-"Staring at his clothes having blood on it. "Whose blood is that?" Miles pointing at his clothes.
Pacing back and forth he stops after Miles saying the word blood. He looks down on himself seeing that it's on his shirt and vest. "It's hers. It's from her. The chick that found me." Chris answers
"What chick?"
He takes the vest off and answers, "Uhh…Hedgehog, pink quills…-" Miles eyes widen realizing who it is and yells out. "AMY!"
"Wha? Is that her-" Chris begins asking looking to him and sees Miles running and already grabbing him, "WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER!"
Chris getting surprised by it, he grabs his arms twisting them to break the grab. He shouts back and pushes him away. "I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING! We were talking about what I was doing since I've gone missing. Then she got shot. WE WERENT THE ONLY ONES IN THAT F&%$ING ROOM!" Chris calms himself down he asks, "Who is she?"
Miles with one hand on his head pacing around, "She…and… and Sonic…are kind of a couple. He never admits to it but… he loves… OH, NO…nononono.."…Miles says over and over walking away.
Chris just stands there in the middle of the room in complete shock and in disbelief. "Shit, Oh Shit…he's going to come after me." He mutters to himself.
Rewind
Sonic barely making it back in time to the Base door. He quietly opens the door…and its Trish again. Being relieved to see her, "Glad it's you." He looks at her sad face. "What's wrong?" He asks concerned.
She doesn't answer and has him follow her. She leads him to another room not entering it. He looks at her but still she doesn't say anything or make eye contact with him letting him enter the room first.
Entering the room the first person he sees is Knuckles and then Silver right next to him. Knuckles turns and looks at him and backs away from the bed letting him see who is on it. In disbelief seeing Amy hurt. "No." Turning to Knuckles approaches him in anger. "WHO, HOW? TELL ME KNUKS! WHO DID IT?!"
Silver gets in the way trying not to use his powers to restrain him. "Calm down, ok? Just calm down. She's going to be fine. Just please calm down."
Knuckles informs him, "We have an idea who it was. It was someone trying to steal from our inventory. He looks like a hedgehog, Green quills. Goes by the name Rookie-" Sonic eyes widen knowing who it is as everything else that Knuckles says just drones out. "Chris." He says easing up.
Knuckles looks at him, "You know who it is?"
Sonic clenches his fist in anger, "Yeah…yeah I do."
Part 12 Sneaking around at the Labs
Flying on the way to the Labs in the Tornado it was very silent between Chris and Miles until Chris finally says something to break the silence and tension between them. "You sure know a lot about the Resistance…especially Amy. How? You've been with them before?"
Miles hesitating to answer he finally does, "No, I've never been with them. It's just…I know most them that are currently there, Like Amy."
Chris probes some more, "If you know so much about her and Sonic, then does that means you know a lot about him also?"
Miles stays silent… "I'd rather not talk about it. It's best for both of us."
They land close to the Labs located near Metropolis. They both exit out and walk the rest of the way.
Reaching the Labs main entrance Miles says looking at a map, "I didn't expect for this place to be big." He then hands Chris an Earpiece, "Put this on so we can keep in touch."
"So we're separating?" Chris asks putting on the earpiece.
"That's right. You're going to check the opposite side while I check this side. We have 8 areas to check." He says as he marks 4 spots for him to check on a map and hands it to him.
"Alright, so what exactly am I looking for?" Chris asks looking at the map.
"Computer room for its Hard drives. You'll know once you see it. That ear piece will start to hum once you're close to the right computer."
"Got it." Chris says as he holds out his fist to say goodbye… but Miles just walks away. He sighs, "Good luck on this side." He says as he runs off.
Miles enters the first building to check the first spot. Going straight to the room it turns out to be a normal office lounge area. "A dud." Marks an X on it an off to the second area. He flies out of the window. He touches upon the roof top of the next building over. He pulls out the map figuring out where the next spot is. He turns facing directly to where he needed to go and faces to it. "That way." He looks up and notices lights flashing. "Huh? Power still works around here?" As he gets closer he realizes what it is. "Uh oh… Here?" He ducks down out of sight and contacts Chris, "Chris, can you hear me?" He says still looking at the lights move.
"Yeah. I can hear you. Over?"
"Be careful over there." Miles warns.
"Why?"
"We have a Resistance Squad looking around."
"Wha? Here? That's great. You think they're looking for what we're looking for?"
"Most likely. There's probably more somewhere around. We have to hurry and find it before they-" A loudsound of a broken window which makes Miles take out his earpiece out of his ear and looks at it. "Geez…" He puts his ear piece back into his ear. "What's with you and going through windows?"
"They're in my way." Chris answers.
"Just… be cautious over there."
"Yeah, yeah. I'll try not to rough them up too much."
Miles focuses on the building looking at the flashing lights but he hears weird noises and movement coming from his earpiece and then…"Maybe just a little… it has been awhile since I kicked someone's ass." He still hears Chris talking to himself. "I can still hear you." He informs him.
"Uhh… Whoops." He says and all Miles hears is him messing with his earpiece. "How do you mute this sh-" finally silence.
He smiles and laughs at him shaking his head but then remembers about Sonic and how bad he is with gadgets. He sighs trying not to get sad and focuses on why he's here. He looks at the building where the lights are coming from. He looks at the map and back to the building. "Great."
The building was only one floor and just a couple of rooms. He knew he could easily be spotted if he's not careful. Entering and slowly heading down the hallway he notices that they're in the largest room. He checks the map and becomes relieved that they're checking the wrong room but he needs to get pass them to get to the right room before they do. In the large room are desks with PC's and filing cabinets that there going through. Looking at the floor he sees a stapler. He grabs it and looks at one of the Soldiers. "Time for a little diversion." He aims close to where one of the Soldiers is and throws it.
The Soldier then moves and gets hit right on the side of the head by it.
"Eeep!" Miles quickly ducks down and hides behind a desk slightly looking over it.
"Gah…Damn!" He rubs his head and looks at the other Soldier that's with him. "Are you kidding me?" He grabs the stapler and throws it at the other soldier hitting him on the back. "Wha the…What the f&%$ was that for?" "You know why." "I didn't' do shit." "OH BULL-" They begin to throw anything and everything at each other that's in arms reach.
Miles feeling sorry for himself for hitting him in the first place, he just hides looking at them get angry and calling each other names. He sneaks right by them still looking at them fight and enters the room. Seeing that nothing is of importance he sneaks right by them again and back to the hallway then out the main entrance. Once outside he can still hear muffled arguing with random loud sounds of things getting smashed. He looks at the map and then to the right knowing where to go next. He takes flight whispering. "Sorry about that."
Rewind
Chris lands onto the next building over after jumping through the window landing on the roof of it. He enters the building to search the third area.
Still fighting with his earpiece, he manages to mute himself walking down the hall way. "Can you hear me now? No? Good; You smart ass, high IQ, Mr. I'm not a kid… and…umm double tailed… wait…two tails? How the f&^% do you even walk straight?" He stops to think of any other insults, "What else?" He looks down at his shoes. "Right...Who tried to kill me with these damn shoes as a test subject." He angrily pulls out the map and looks at it. He stops and looks back down the hallway that he came from. "-Of course I passed the damn door." He goes back and stands in front of the correct door. "Right here."... He opens the door and it's a broom closet. "Wow… not cliché at all. Major X on you." He slams the door and pulls out the map again. "Bet he did that on purpose. Last spot is 5 buildings across." Looking at the steps heading back to the roof. "Alright, let's do this."He goes back up the steps to the roof top and prepares to jump from roof to roof to finally reach the last spot.
Once getting there he enters the building and contacts Miles again, "Hey Miles, you there, over?"
Miles heading to the next spot he answers. "I'm here. I'm almost at the third area. I have to keep going the long way to avoid them. Have you seen anyone over there?"
"Nope, nobody and not only that… am about to hit the last spot." Chris gloats.
"Lucky you. Guess those shoes are really helping you out."
"They sure are and am almost there too just… ha…ve… uh.. crap… uh… Muh, Miles… I need some advice down here." Chris begins to panic.
Miles alerted he stops and asks "Advice? On what?" "You're going to pay for what you did to her." A familiar voice coming out of his earpiece which makes Miles pulls it out and blankly stares at it in shock.
"Wha?...it-it-it can't be." Miles trying not to lose it.
The last thing he hears from Chris is. "How do you take down Sonic?"
Chapter 6: A Fight Against A Broken Hero
Part 13 An Unlikely Source of Information
Once Chris made that turn around the corner of the hallway and what he sees down the next made his heart shoot right into his throat. He just stands there looking directly at Sonic who is also standing at the end of the hallway looking right back at him. He calls out to Miles, "Miles? Miles? You there?" Looking at Sonic trying to maintain calm. ..."Oh crap… I am so f&%$ing screwed." Chris says to himself as Sonic starts running right at him…
Rewind Back to the Resistance Hospital
At the Resistance Base Sonic still standing next to Amy.
Silver also being there he asks, "Are you going to be ok?"
"She stood by my bed to make sure I get better…now am the one doing it. When I find'em…am going to make him pay for this." Sonic answers saddened.
"C'mon. Let's go for a walk around seeing that you're on 'your feet' now." Silver request.
Out in the hallway Silver asks, "So…how long have you been sneaking out of this place Hhhhmmmm?" Silver giving him a smug look.
Realizing he's in trouble, "Uuuummmmm just today? Hehehe! Yeah, today, that's right."
He narrows his eyes at him, "Are you really trying to lie to me?" Silver Asks as his eyes begin to glow.
Putting his hands up to stop him he confesses, "Okokok, about a day ever since I just got back, geez."
Silver warns him, "Knuckles is going to hurt you when he finds-" "Too late." They turn seeing Knuckles glaring at Sonic.
"Thanks Silver, you're the best." He sarcastically says.
"Sorry" Silver apologizing.
"A Nurse just told me something that you're not going to believe or want to hear. A certain someone just woke up." Knuckle says.
"You've got to be kidding me." Sonic says as he speeds off back to his hospital room.
Silver gives Knuckles a concerned look. "You should've told him when we were close to his room."
"Oh-No!" Knuckles quickly chases after him.
Sonic arrives to the room seeing Robotnik sitting up on his bed looking right back at him. Sonic glares right back with his hands clenched "Are you going to tell me what I need to know or am I going to beat some sense into you to get it out of you?"
Knuckles and Silver quickly enters making sure Sonic isn't hurting him.
Robotnik answers Sonic. "For saving me? I guess I'll just have to do this just once."
"Well you'd better cuz we're not the ones that put you on that bed." Knuckles said.
Silver then mentions. "If you have no Idea, it was that monster that you created who's called Infinite that did."
Robotnik begins to confess, "I didn't create him. I managed to find him in a lab. He said that he was from a different dimension and that he was trapped in it until he finally managed to escape. He was then teleported here at a weakened state. Scientist soon found him and kept him hidden in a lab until I found him and freed him. As promise Infinite was going to help me take over the world and to start that is to take you out first Sonic." Robotnik laughs pointing at him. "He did exactly that."
Sonic than glared right at him really wanting to hurt him. Silver used his telekinetic powers to hold him back the entire time. "Let...me...go. Months... Months." He says in anger.
Robotnik puts his arm back down and his tone changes, "After he succeeded I was going to put a dampening fail safe on him to keep his powers in check so he wouldn't get out of hand. …Well we all know how that ended up do we?"
Silver begins to interrogate. "Do you know what happen to the scientist from the lab?"
"No. it was completely evacuated when I arrived."
"You said lab. Where is it?" Knuckles orders.
"Far south of Metropolis City. Easy to find since it's the only place Infinite stays away from. You want information on Infinite then you'll find it all there."
"Finally we have a source to get information. Follow me." Knuckles says leaving the room.
Silver follows as he pulls Sonic along the way as he still glaring at Robotnik.
Sonic mutters angrily, "Let…me go… must… hurt."
Out in the Hallway Knuckles stops and gives his orders, "Alright. We'll send one group to go find the info and bring it back here and to make sure they're safe." He points to Sonic, "'YOU' Sonic are going along with them since you're so eager to go outside and run around now."
"Yes…finally." Sonic says excitedly still being held by Silvers powers. He looks at him, "You can put me down now."
"Alright, just don't overdo it since you still haven't fully recovered yet." Silver request.
Sonic quips back, "I get it. I'll be careful. What can possibly go wrong?"
Sonic and the Resistance Squad arrive at the Labs: Sonic stretches as he says, "You guys split off here I'll go check out the opposite end and see what I can find."
Everyone agrees and before anyone can warn Sonic to be careful he already rushes off.
Sonic runs around from place to place going in and out of buildings with no luck. He stops to rub his legs. "Geez this is going to be hard not knowing exactly what am looking-"He hears a window being shattered as the glass sprinkles the ground. He looks up to figure out where it came from. He points seeing where the broken window is. "Right there… someone's in that building." Stalking the building from the ground he hears a door slam from the building across the way. "Nope, he's in this building… whoever they hired can't sneak around if his life depended on it." A minute later he sees someone jump off the roof onto the next building over. He follows from the ground until he sees him stop at a building. "Here. This is where he stopped." He looks at the main entrance wide open and heads to it.
Inside he faintly hears footsteps coming from inside. The further he goes in, he can hear footsteps coming from around the corner. He stops and waits to see who it is. Louder and louder the figure comes around the corner and stops to look right back at him. His eyes widen in disbelief, "It's Him." He clenches his fists …"IT'S HIM!" Anger then takes over. "You're going to pay for what you did to her."
Part 14: The Most Painful Conversation
Sonic rushes forward and jumps in the air doing a spin dash and heads directly at Chris. He ducks and jumps to the side as Sonic slams into the concrete wall quickly getting out of his ball form in pain.
"OOOOoooo! …That hurt…that hurt a lot." Holding onto his side in pain as he looks at Chris, "Since I'm not used to doing that yet, guess it's the old fashioned way."
Chris tries to reason with him. "Look, I didn't-" "You're not tricking me." Sonic says shaking his head. "Just…stay quiet… It'll be a lot easier on me…when I do it." Sonic threatens back.
Hearing what he just said made his stomach turn with dread. There was no talking out of this. He quickly uses his other foot to push the button on his shoe to activate them but Sonic rushes right at him with a punch hitting him in the face before he can even react to it.
Another punch quickly comes at him and before even raising an arm to block it he gets hit in the face again knocking him back. Punch after punch, hit after hit Sonic gets slower and slower till Chris was finally able to see his attacks coming. He brings his arms up to block his punches as they come from all different angles but once Sonic gets slow enough he grabs one of his punches by the wrist and bends it causing him to flip around landing low onto the floor.
Landing awkwardly straining his legs, he fights through the pain and does a leg sweep trying to knock Chris down.
Chris seeing the sweep, he jumps over it and backs away. "Am keeping pace with him? Am not as fast as him but with these shoes on I can actually see what he's going to do." Chris thinks to himself. He backs off into a defensive boxing stance and gets ready.
Sonic throws yet another punch as Chris blocks it and jabs him in the ribs. Sonic staggers back and then comes with right hook which then Chris blocks again and jabs him in the ribs again. Every time Sonic punches Chris winds up countering and jabbing him in the same spot.
Sonic getting frustrated as he jumps back grabbing his side. "How are you keeping up with me?"
He slightly brings his guard down staring at him with a busted lip bleeding. "Yeah, right. Like am actually going to answer that." Chris quips back with a response that makes Sonic even angrier.
Sonic quickly does a spin dash clipping Chris on the side sending him towards the side wall. "Gahh…Crap, don't get him mad. It makes him faster." He thinks to himself. Sonic quickly gets out of ball form and does a quick punch almost grazing his face. Sonic then throws another punch as Chris ducks it and then throws a punch into Sonic's ribs and then does a thrust kick to push him away but connects with his leg instead.
"AAAHhhhh! GAHhhGGRRRRrrrr! Sonic shouts in pain and goes down on one knee rubbing his leg for the pain to stop. He looks up at him with anger.
Chris finally getting mad he shouts, "I'M TELLING YOU I DID'INT-" "SHUT UP!" Sonic shouts back and speed boost right at him picking him up and throws him 8ft down the hall slamming into the wall knocking the wind out of him. With no time to even breathe Sonic was right at him throwing a right hook connecting to his face along with many other punches at blinding speed even faster. Chris couldn't block all of them as all of them connected to his body and face.
Chris trying to focus he sees a direct punch coming to his face, he ducks it causing Sonic to punch the wall making his knuckles make a loud crack connecting it. While Sonic shakes his hand, Chris rises up and punches him directly back to the face. Sonic staggers back from the hit. Chris then runs at him tackling, lifting him up and then slams him against the opposite concrete wall. In pain Sonic tries to swing again but Chris blocks it and punches him back again in the face. After the punch he shoulder tackles him again and slams him against the wall. Chris backs off and then grabs him by the neck. He brings his arm back in anger to punch Sonic in the face again but he stops and realizes what he's doing. "This isn't me… not anymore." He says to himself but Sonic grabs a piece of broken glass and smashes it over his head letting him go.
In a daze Sonic punches him in the face once again and on instinct knowing another punch is coming he ducks it and punches him back in the gut. Chris then does another thrust kick to push him away only for it to get grabbed. With his leg grabbed, Sonic then delivers a kick right back hitting him in the gut knocking him down to one knee. He looks down and sees that his shoes are now powered off.
"Oh shit." He says and realizes …"When he grabbed my foot." At that moment he knew…It was over.
He stood in the hallway which what seems to be alone…but he wasn't. Sonic really was the blue blur. Punch to the face…then to the body and another…then a punch to the face hard enough to whip his head around along with his body causing him to collap to the floor onto his back. He feels someone gets on top of him. He looks and sees someone blue and too blurry to see. Three more punches later to the face… he then feels two hands wrapped around his neck.
Chris tries to struggle and fight him off but couldn't as the world around him goes dark, "Can't breathe…can't…can't…breathe…can't…-"
"Stop!" A voice is heard from down the hall.
Sonic eyes widen from the familiar voice and stops squeezing. He turns to look over his shoulder and franticly searches every corner of the hallway, "Huh?... wha…? wha…? That was…that was…Tails?" ...Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! The sound of something charging.
Sonic quickly turns back around and sees a blaster pointing right at him. With a fully maxed electrical shot, Sonic then sent flying several feet backwards making contact to the nearest wall. He then slides down and lands on his butt staying in that position with his hands flat on the floor with his eyes and mouth slightly open and motionless.
Chris dropping the blaster he starts coughing gasping for air remaining on his back. He raises his head to look around only to see Sonic's body there. "NO… oh no." He coughs more. "Are you-" He sits up in pain. "Blink if you're ok."
…Sonic blinks. He's paralyzed.
Chris sits with his legs crossed trying to get his breath back and stop coughing. He looks at Sonic with his right eye slightly swollen and closed, bloody nose, and busted lip. He's had enough and was ready to let him know about it. "I DIDN'T F&%$ing DO IT" He Coughs again. "OK? I DIDN'T! YES! I was there. I was… there to steal some gear… until she showed up. We talked. I told her why. We… I… I knew she was going to let me get away with it. She was nice to even do that… but then… Someone else was… HE SHOT HER! I grabbed her before she even hit the floor. She told me to run that I was going to get blamed for it. I didn't till her body went limp. I… I… that's when I ran." He looks right at him. "I know how much you loved her and am so …sorry for what happen to her."
A tear runs down Sonic's cheek …"She's… ok."
"Wha?... she is?"
"Sur…vive." He mutters.
He smiles and laughs. "Good to hear." He says relieved.
He grabs his blaster and gets up holding his side. He then slowly starts walking towards Sonic and then crouches in front of him and stares him in the eyes. "I know what he looks like. Got a good glimpse of him. 'You' need to be careful over there. Someone on the Resistance isn't on your side. When the time is right…I'll point him out to you. Then it's up to you to decide what you want to do to him. After seeing firsthand what you just tried to do to me… I don't blame you."
He then grabs Sonics wrist and presses the send button on his communicator. "This is HQ to Sonic, are you there? Over?"
Chris speaks into it. "Sonic is here and ok but he's incapacitated. Come pick him up."
Out of the communicator Resistance squad members shout,
"WHAT? YOU ASSHOLE, HE'D BETTER BE OK!"
"WE'RE COMING TO KICK YOUR… GAH! STOP THROWING SHIT AT ME! SONIC'S HURT!"
"SONIC IF YOU CAN HEAR US, WE'LL BE RIGHT THERE!"
He stands back up grabbing his side and says, "You tell them when they get here that I kicked your ass and that you need an army to take me down."
Sonic annoyingly looks right at him.
"I know that you're also here for the information. Once I go through it I'll send copies of everything back to you guys." He walks down the hall way and blasts the door. He then hits the door with his shoulder to open it "Ooo Ow, shit!" He grabs his side. "Didn't hurt."
He enters the room as the security system alerts. "Access Denied!"
"Oh SCREW-YOU!" Chris argues back "I'll take every damn hard drive." He leaves the room and exits down the hallway.
Sonic just lays there watching it all as he's left there thinking to himself. "Tails, …did I really hear you? …did I? Or…am I really...no. I can't be going crazy. I know I did. He stopped me from doing something stupid …that I was going to regret."
Rewind: leaving out the Hallway window across the Lab Area where Miles is standing being in shock.
Miles stands there looking at his ear piece trying to remain calm, "It Can't be him …it can't-" "Miles? Miles?" He still hears Chris calling out to him from it.
He slowly puts it back into his earhe gets startled hearing a loud smashing sound and also both of them arguing at each other, "Look I didn't-" "You're not- " He quickly pulls it back out of his ear and throws it away. "No, no, no." He starts to cry. He then looks towards the direction where Chris is at. "I… I have to get over there quick… before it's too late."
He starts running picking up speed to fly to the top of the building then quickly jumping to the next while going back to flying. "He's alive… but… sniff I can't. I can't" He reaches the back of the building and heads towards the back door hesitating to open it. "I can't… sniff It's my fault… but Chris…I…I.." Finally he opens the door hearing the fight going on.
He slowly makes his way down the hallway he hears the fight get louder and louder. He stops at the corner and slightly looks and what he sees is Sonic on top of Chris punching him over and over. "He's alive." Then he begins to strangle Chris. "Noo.. sniff no..I have ..I..no….I sniff I have" He puts his hand over his head trying to stay calm as he looks, stuttering and trying to say stop while crying. Finally he shouts, "STOP!" He quickly yells it out and then turns around to runs back down the hallway to the exit. Tears running down his face, "It's my fault. It's all my fault. I can't… I just can't." He says over and over running towards the field.
Fast Forward To the back of the building, the back door opens again.
Chris pokes his head out and checks to see if anyone's around but it's only an empty field he sees. He turns and silently closes the door and once he turns back around he sees Miles standing there at a distance. He slowly staggers to him and looks right into his eyes seeing that there red. He stares at him for a bit having a hunch between him and Sonic. He also notices that he doesn't have his earpiece anymore. He then hands over the Hard Drives and keeps on walking holding his side.
Miles just stands there holding onto the Hard Drives looking at the building and then back to Chris. …"What happened?" Miles asks.
Chris answers still walking away not stopping, "We had a long hard talk. He's not going to come after me anymore."
Miles just stands there looking back and forth from the building to Chris. After a while…he goes and catches up with Chris.
Sonic was then found and taken back to the Resistance Base. Arriving they quickly transferred him to one of the Hospital Big Examining rooms to be checked on by a nurse. While his legs were being bandaged from the fight he was being questioned about Chris. "So he didn't say anything to you?" The Informant asks.
"Nothing. He just showed up and shot me, paralyzing me. He was also there for the same info we we're looking for." Sonic answers rubbing his legs not looking at him.
"Now he has it. That's just great." The Informant says as he turns and leaves.
Once The Nurse finished with his bandages she stands up looking at him. Sonic doesn't even look at her back or says thank you. He just kept looking forward thinking to himself and having a worried look on his face. Feeling concerned about him she turns and walks away to go tend another patient. She still looks back to him from time to time to see if he's ok but nothing… he just kept looking forward to nothing.
Sonic just sits there still feeling the effects of the paralyses all over his body. Sitting there he starts looking at everyone in the room as what Chris said in the Hallway comes to mind.
Looking at the guards at the door looking right back to him. "You need to be careful over there."
He looks at the patient on a bed looking right at him. "Someone on the Resistance isn't on your side."
Looks at the Informant leaving the room. "When the time is right, I'll point him out to you. Then it's up to you to decide what you want to do to him."
He rubs and touches the bandages on his legs. He was slowly feeling hopeless and scared not being able to do anything.
Chapter 7: PSA…Don't touch Purple Particles.
Part 15: Returning Back to the Start
Miles spends hours going through every Hard Drive trying to find any answer on Infinite but so far nothing that will be of any help while Chris is on the sofa with multiple Ice packs on his body asleep letting out a random groan and moan of pain.
"Again with the Generators. Why does it keep talking about the Generators?" He looks out the window staring at one of them that's miles away. "It keeps referencing them but nothing on these files. It's our main source of power… Hmm?... Wait… I knew it. MY hunch was right all along." He looks over at Chris as an ice pack slides off his face hitting the floor. "He does have to come in contact with it. Those floating purple particles have the answer. Unfortunately we can't find any." He sighs. "Unless… we fly back to where we first met. I bet it's still there. Should I wake him up after what he's been through this night? …No. Ever since he's met me, all its's caused is him getting hurt. Guess I'll go take a nap too." He gets up and heads to his room turning off the lights. "Goodnight Chris." Miles whispers.
In the morning Miles Explains what needs to be done.
"So we're heading back to that town again?" Chris asks looking over to the gun rack.
"That's right. Hopefully those particles are still there." Miles answers getting the Tornado ready.
"Got it…" He heads to the gun rack. "Just let me grab this-" He grabs a rifle "and this one too and… yup, you too. Ok, I'm ready. Those robots are going to be the ones running away this time." He gives a vengeful giggle.
Miles just looks at him awkwardly. "How long have you been with the Resistance?"
He looks to the Resistance Base, "I… actually wasn't with them per say. I just showed up and got tossed into a search-and-rescue mission that didn't involve rescuing at all."
"Really? What were you looking for anyways?"
"Not sure. The group I was with never even talked to me. We just got dropped off. They found some things and once we we're about to leave, Infinite attacked us and we crashed."
"Who got you involved in it?"
"It was this uhh… Informant… Officer…-" Chris realizes something then mutters to himself. "It was him."
"Wha… it was who?" Miles asks again stopping what he was doing.
"The guy that shot Amy. Now I really know what he looks like." Chris says with a vengeful look gripping the rifle.
They leave and head to the town we're they first met. Once getting there Chris basically destroys every single robot in sight as gun fire echoes throughout the town. Chris laughs like a maniac running around chasing robots, "RUN B%&$h RUN!" He shouts aiming down the scope at a robot running away only to fire taking it out. "NOT FAST ENOUGH! Didn't think that I would come BACK, HUH!?"
Miles looking at the purple particles glad that it's still here. "Are you ready?" Miles asks tapping his foot.
"One…sec…-" He fires off another shot taking out another robot running away. "Ready."
Miles being impressed by it seeing how far the robot was he then asks, "You're really good and you weren't with the Resistance?"
"I…was with a group…who just so happens to be really good at shooting stuff. When it was time for me to leave is when the whole world decided to flip upside down." He looks at the rifle. "Guess it was just fate telling me that I wasn't done shooting yet." He puts the rifle away and then walks next to Miles looking at the Particles. "So are you sure about this?" Chris asks back being concerned.
"Hopefully things will be okay; all you have to do is touch it." Miles examines it looking at a computer.
Chris quickly reminds him, "After the panic attack you made me go through with the shoes?"
"Did you blow up?" Miles asks.
Chris gives him an angry stare. "That wasn't funny and you know it."
The remark makes him him crack a smile, "The readings show that you should be safe." He informs him.
"Am really not a fan of 50/50 answers." He puts out his fist to him. Miles looks at it and does nothing. He sighs, "Alright, here…goes." Chris looks at his hand and slowly reaches out to it. "Umm… head starting to hurt but I think I can… I can? OH SHIT!" His eyes widen realizing what about to happen and tries to pull away but then quickly gets pulled into it instead. "WOAH!" He yells out and in a flash of light Chris disappears along with the particles.
"What?" Miles gets worried he quickly gets up looking everywhere. "Chris?... CHRIS!" He yells out for him. Trying to figure out what just happen he keeps yelling out for Chris but nothing. Chris was gone. Luckily enough he put a tracker on him in case they ever got separated. He looks at the tracker and notices that he's still around. Relieved that he didn't completely vanish he figures out where he is.
"Wow!... It sent him hundreds of miles… that way. East. East towards… Oh No… It dropped him at-"…
Chris blinks into existence and falls face first to the ground. "Ow! …geez." Rolls onto his back, He slowly gets up holding his head and says, "Damn Ugh! Miles you're not going to believe it but the voice-" He feels something prick his side. He looks at it and sees a wire attached to it, "Huh?" With and electrical shock Chris falls over being tased.
"YOU'ER A DUMBASS TO COME BACK HERE!" A guard angrily yells.
"Where the heck did he popped up from?" A second guard asks looking up at the sky.
"I don't give a f&%$ how or where." He pulls the trigger electrifying him again "This ASSHOLE here is in for it big time for what he did to Ms. Rose." The first guard keeps pulling the trigger.
"Yeah, Can't wait for the Commander to kick his ass." Getting ready to pick him up.
They pick him up and haul him away into the Resistance Base.
Part 16 Not the Best Welcome back Greeting.
Outside on the training fields was another day of training at the Resistance Base on yet another hot day. Barnett wipes his sweat away from his forehead. "Time for a slight brake." He sits down to relax. He looks up and sees all four of them standing in formation. "At ease." He says making them head to the nearest shade to relax.
Barnett gets up and heads to POS and to one of the Twins. "POS, I need you to head over to the Mess Hall and retrieve a couple of things for me. Just tell the cook my name and she'll know what to prepare." He looks at one of the Twins and says, "Eddie, go with him if it turns out to be too much."
"Yes Sir." They both answer.
Barnett heads to his Barracks.
POS gets ready to leave but Eddie just stands there still looking at Barnett walking away. Once he was ready to leave he looks at Eddie still standing there looking at Barnett. "What's wrong?"
He looks at POS and then back to Barnett. "He… said my name. He didn't say 'you' or anything else. He said my name."
"You make it sound like it's a big deal."
"It… kind of is. People won't even bother calling us by our name… or even try to tell us apart. So it's always either 'you' or Morrison. It's what I'm always being called by."
They both look at Barnett again as he enters his Barracks. POS looks at him. "Let's get going 'You.' …We don't want to make'em wait."
"Ha, ha, funny." He says back.
Entering the Mess Hall they both stand in line. Almost getting close to the end of the line they get approached by a couple of Resistance Soldiers. "It's you isn't it?" He asks.
Eddie looks at him. "Wha? What about-" "Not you…" He interrupts and points to POS. "Him. What's your name?"
POS stares back, "Me? It's Phil-" "Nope, wrong." They laugh at him.
POS begins to clench his fist.
"What's the 'actual' name that you go by?" He mocks.
POS refuses to answer and just stares at him.
The Soldier shoves him. "HEY! I'M TALKING TO-" Another Soldier stops him. "We don't have time for this. We got to eat and go."
The Soldier looks at POS and ridicules. "Whatever. Go back to your 'has been' poor of an excuse General." The Soldier walks away to join his squad.
POS just stands there tense and angry staring at him walk away.
Eddie looks at him and notices the back of his neck hairs rise up. He puts his hand on his shoulder to calm him down and says, "Dude… Don't. All you have to do is say the word… and I'll take care of it."
POS doesn't calm down and whispers trying to contain his anger, "Do it… just F&%$ing do it."
30min later Barnett exits out of the Barracks wondering where his lunch is only to see Trish at the exit waiting for him with an angry look and disappointed. He looks at her with a smile, "What seems to… be-" He looks away from her and right to his recruits knowing why she's angry now. She hands him a single piece of paper. He grabs it still looking at them angry and crumples it up tossing it away. "What happen?"
She points to Eddie. "He was accused of adding ex-lax to an entire High Ranking Squad of Soldiers making them sick and causing them to delay a mission that they were going to be a part of."
She points to Edward. "He received full blame of it and was attacked by them thinking he was Eddie."
She points to Lance, "He intervened trying to help Edward but he was too late to stop them but he made damn sure to send most of them to the Resistance Urgent Care."
She points to POS, "He wasn't involved in any of it but somehow my gut tells me he was. I just can't put my finger on what it is but I'm sure of it that he is."
She looks back to Barnett. "So now not only was the Squad Un-Fit to do their mission, but now they're hurt in the process and can't do it." She points at him now. "Now it's up to 'you' to decide what there punishment is." She walks away heading back to the H.Q Station.
Barnett paces back and forth looking at them. He looks at Lance having a couple of scratches on him but his white shirt has blood stains on it from what he did to the Squad Soldiers.
He looks at Edward who has a black eye, shirt is torn and dirty and with a look of murder on his face.
POS standing right between Edward and Eddie making sure that there out of reach from each other.
Eddie is constantly looking at Edward concerned about his wellbeing seeing the look on Edward's eyes.
Barnett approaches Lance and looks up at him with a stern look and asks, "How many of them were there? Two… or three of them?"
Lance not looking at him he shakes his head. He raises one hand with five fingers and his other with two.
Trying not to be impressed by it, "Seven? How many to the hospital?"
Lance looking forward he turns his gaze down to him not putting down any fingers.
Barnett nods and walks away from them already knowing who the culprit is. He looks at the other three and then just stares at POS and calls him to step towards him with his finger. POS approaches him.
Barnett just stares at him till he finally confesses. "Yes… It was my fault. I got Eddie to do what he did. After that it just escalated to Edward and Lance. Didn't mean for that to happen. It was all my fault, Sir."
Barnett nods. "Alright, a punishment will come… maybe not now but it will come… Got it?"
POS nods, "Yes Sir."
Barnett looks at him some more judging him till he says. "Was it worth it?"
POS answer "They disrespected you, Sir… So yes… It was worth it."
Hearing a sad demoralizing tone come out of POS he knew it wasn't true. "Really?" He gets closer to him and whispers, "Are you sure? Was it really about me…or was it about you?"
POS staring straight ahead he slightly looks down as his eyes about to tear up he whispers back, "Can I… go back in line?"
Barnett nods. "Get back in line."
POS walks back as he quickly wipes a tear from his eye. Remembering about his past and all the insults and bullying he gets from his cursed initials. No matter what or how much he tries to get away, it will always come back to haunt him.
He stands back in line between Eddie and Edward again. He looks at Eddie and then to Edward having a black eye and whispers as an apology. "At least I can tell you both a part now."
Edward slightly shakes his head in anger plotting his revenge.
Before Barnett gets a chance to say anything he hears a commotion coming from the main gate making everyone look towards that direction.
Everyone watches as the 2 guards drag Chris's incapacitated body across the base.
Barnett watching with his recruits. "That's what you call scum. Are any of you scum?" He asks them.
"No sir." They all say as Lance shakes his head.
Zeke also around with Trish he realizes who it is, "I remember him. He was with group 6 at the prison raid. There whole group went missing."
Trish seeing that he's right she was relieved to see him again, "And somehow he's here? Why would they think he's the one that Shot her? …Why would he come back if he did? That doesn't make sense." Trish says as she heads to the H.Q Building.
In the H.Q office: They barge through the doors and push him to the center of the room.
"Pfft, heh! They actually got him." Someone says in the room.
"It doesn't take an army to get him." Another one responds.
"Stand there and don't f&%$ing move or I'll taze you again." The Guard threatens.
"The Commander is on his way." Someone informs.
Chris stands there trying to think of anything to get him out of this mess but nothing. No matter what he does he's going to get stopped. No shoes, No weapons… Nothing was on him. There's no way out of this. He looks up and sees Trish standing there looking right back at him. He stares right back as she quickly looks away as something grabs her attention. The main double doors fly open and slam against the wall. Chris gets startled and looks seeing Knuckles standing at the door way glaring right at him with his fist clenched.
"You have a lot of nerve to come back here. Give me one good damn reason not to smash your head in?" He says walking towards him cracking his knuckles.
"I have a lot of important info about Infinite in my head. Smashing in my head wouldn't be a very good idea." Chris says back trying not to show fear.
Knuckles looks at him and smiles getting close to him, "Oh 'really? Then I guess I'll have to-" He punches him in the gut hard enough to raise him up a foot off the floor bringing him to his knees.
"Hack…Cough!" Chris wheezes in pain since he's still hurt from the beating from Sonic.
"Be lucky I held back a little. Going to make you into my personal practice dummy. Can't risk of breaking you…Right? Going to lock you up till you feel like talking and you WILL TALK!" Knuckles threatens him.
Chris looks up at Knuckles then a monitor catches his eye and sees Sonic on it. His face gets grabbed by Knuckles. "ARE YOU LISTENING TOO ME?!" Knuckles shouts at him but Chris eyes are still locked at the monitor as a second figure shows up on it. "No way? It's him." He mutters to himself.
Knuckles lets him go and looks at the monitor that he's looking at. He smiles, "You're lucky he's not here. I bet he would love to kick-" "I-I…nee…d…need to talk to him." Chris request Interrupting Knuckles.
Knuckles shouts at him. "WHAT MAKES YOU THINK HE WANTS TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY?!"
"Because…he's…in danger." Chris wheezing his words.
Knuckles looks at the Monitor again and orders, "You'd better not be lying. Get him over there."
They drag him over to the microphone. Responder asks, "This is H.Q to Sonic, over?"
On the monitor Sonic stops and puts his finger on his communicator, "I'm here, what is it?"
"Someone has something to say to you." Responder answers back.
"Alright, who is it?" Sonic asks still standing there.
Barely grabbing the microphone in pain not looking at the monitor anymore, he speaks into it. "It's me Chris. Re…remember what I said? It's him…He did it."
On the Monitor Sonic looks at the Officer that's with him. Sonic cuts off the incoming call and seconds go by as he stands there talking to him. Soon after the Officer points a gun and fires as Sonic begins his attack.
"What?" "He just shot at him." "Why are they fighting?" People are saying in the H.Q office.
"What's the heck is going on? WHY ARE THEY FIGHTING?" Knuckles shouts at Chris.
Chris doesn't say anything he hunches over in pain.
"Get him out of here and put him in one of the holding rooms." Knuckles orders as he looks at the monitor.
"He's shooting at him?" someone else says in the room watching the fight on the monitor as Chris was then dragged out of the H.Q Building and locked away in one of the prison holding cells.
Hours later the Holding Room Door opens. Chris raises his head and sees Trish standing there. "Get up and let's go." She orders him. Hand cuffed and without his shoes on he follows her to the Hospital building. Inside after passing by a couple of doors she stops. "What really happened?" she asks turning around to look at him.
Barely raising his head to even look at her face or make eye contact he pleads, "Just take me where I need to go, please."
"I trust you. I just want to know what happen." She request.
Still not looking at her he whispers, "I can't tell you. It's a story that just keeps getting to f&$ long to tell. I don't want to get you into trouble or …hurt. Last time I told my story that's exactly what happened" He looks up at her. "Someone got hurt. So please just take me to where I need to be and just stay away from me." He looks away again. "I don't want to see you get hurt also." He pleads.
She stands there for a bit looking at him and then opens the door saying, "Go in. It's ok."
He walks into the room with his head tilted down looking at the floor and hears, "Hi again."
Remembering the female's voice he looks up seeing her again. "We need to finish what we we're talking about." Amy says sitting up in her bed.
Chapter 8: These Bandaged Legs of Mine
Part 17 The one that Watches and Protects.
Chris takes a seat and says. "Glad to see that you're ok."
"Don't worry about me. What you've said back at the building made me so happy that Tails is ok." Amy says with a smile.
"Tails?"
"Yeah, Tails. Sonics best friend. If he was here right now he'll be really happy to hear what you're about to say." Amy says trying not to get too emotional.
"Sonic? Chris begins to chuckle. "Am pretty sure he'd be ok. He was pre-occupied with something when I last saw him." He says with a smirk.
Rewind 10hrs back to last night leaving Amy's room and then down the hallway and back into the large examining room where Sonic is sitting still.
Sonic gets up rubbing his left leg still feeling the effects of the paralyses, he limps and slowly leaves the room still looking at everyone. "You should get some sleep and a well-deserved rest." A Nurse tells him.
"That's on my to-do list." He responds back leaving.
"Wait." The Nurse says tapping his shoulder.
Sonic stops but he eagerly wanted to leave and go to his hospital bed.
She hands him a key. "You've been relieved and are okay to sleep in the Barracks in your very own room. Everyone here knows that you don't want to be anywhere near Dr. Robotnik."
He looks at the key, "Thanks. Appreciate it." He says and heads to the exit.
Leaving the building he slowly makes his way back to his sleeping quarters thinking to himself, "I need to find out who the traitor is that hurt Amy. If Chris really did it then he wouldn't have left me alive and then tell me all of that. My gut tells me that he was telling me the truth. I can't just go around accusing people and get everyone against each other. I just have to be patient and wait till he tells me who it is."
He finally gets to his bed. "I just…have…to…wait." Sonic mumbles as he gets into bed and falls asleep.
In the morning he's woken up by a knock on the door. The door opens as Sonic only pokes his head out from the doorway being annoyed to see who it is. Seeing who it is makes him even more annoyed, "I'm not a morning person, Charmy. Go away." Sonic says slamming the door.
"You have a request to head back to the labs." Charmy says to his now closed door.
"WHAT, WHY? CHRIS TOOK ALL THE INFO!" Sonic shouts from the other side.
"All that info showed up. I found it in Amy's data base this morning."
"What? He really did say what he was going to do." Sonic thinking to himself. The door quickly opens. "Then why go back?" Sonic asks confused.
"Infinite chamber was found in the info. You need to head back. One of the Officers, 5 Highly Trained soldiers and a Navigator is going with you to make sure everything goes okay."
"Really?" Sonic looks around and whispers, "Not sure that I want to go with people that I don't know tagging along. Can you come?" He hopes that he says yes.
"I can't. Everyone's busy and I'm doing Amy's job… now… uh… sorry." Charmy feeling bad what he said.
"It's ok. I'll be ready in a couple of seconds." Sonic says as he closes the door.
Charmy becomes happy, "Ok, I'll go and-" The door quickly opens. "Ready." Sonic says walking by him.
Flying back to the labs in the Aircraft, Sonic sits comfortably alone on one of the seats with his eyes closed. With them closed he hears some of the Resistance Soldiers laugh and snicker. He hears one of them say "What a fanboy." Then laughter again. He hears footsteps making him open his eyes seeing a Soldier in front of him. Slightly getting startled he quickly calms down and says, "Hi."
"Umm, Sorry for umm bothering you… but… can I have your autograph?" The Soldier asks not trying to be too nervous.
He looks at the other Soldiers laughing at him knowing that he can't turn him down embarrassing him even more. He looks back at the Soldier, "Yeah, sure. What do you want me to autograph?"
He pulls out a small pink plush teddy bear and a black marker. "This belongs to my daughter. She makes me take it every time to any kind of mission. With your name on it, it will make it even more special."
He looks at it and smiles. "Sure. No harm doing that." He takes it, signs it and hands it back.
"Thanks." He looks down to Sonic's legs bandaged. "Good to see you back and running around. Hope you get back to feeling 100% again." He walks away going back to the other soldiers to show it off.
Watching him show it off it made him feel happy and it also calmed his nerves. He then glances over to the Officer who is leading them having a strict and uncaring look on his face. Watching the Officer it made him feel alerted, cautious and back to not trusting anyone again.
Air Craft arrives back to the Lab Area and flies directly over the spot where Infinite was being held. Sonic hops out and so does the Officer and the Resistance Soldiers as well. The Navigator stays behind to keep an eye on them. They enter the building and make their way to the hidden chamber that Infinite was being held. The Officer and the soldiers begin searching around until Sonic gets a transmission call; "This is H.Q to Sonic over?"
Sonic answers the transmission, "I'm here, what is it?"
"Someone has something to say to you." The Responder says.
"Alright, who is it?" Sonic asks examining the tube Infinite was held in.
"It's me Chris." Sonic quickly stops what he's doing and completely focuses on his voice. "Re… remember what I said? …It's him. He did it." Chris's voice is loud enough for everyone to hear in the room.
Sonic looks up directly at the Officer and glares at him.
The Officer stops doing what he's doing and looks right back at him.
Sonic completely turns off his communicator cutting off the transmission not taking his eyes off of him.
The Officer stands there looking at Sonic with his hand on his gun.
The 5 other soldiers stand around trying to figure out what's going on.
Sonic still staring right at him trying to remain calm he demands, "You better give me a damn good reason why'd you shot her."
The Officer grabs his gun and fires at sonic as the bullet phases through Sonic's body. He reappears and punches him in the face and disappears again. The Officer begins firing in all different directions as Sonic runs by again punching him again in the face. He fires and hides again behind equipment.
The Officer shoots again but once he reappears but the Officer ducks his punch and right hooks him back in the leg. Sonic loses his footing and slams onto the floor in pain. "Ahh gah!" He tries to get up to run but the Officer kicks him in the leg causing him to fall right back down. He aims the gun and pulls the trigger. Sonic rolls to his side then onto his back almost getting shot and then kicks him in the knee cap making him lose his balance causing him to land on one knee. The Officer quickly tries to aim again but Sonic kicks again hitting him across the jaw. Sonic then tries to get up to run but then the Officer tackles him from behind to make sure he doesn't run off. The Officer begins to struggle to point the gun at him.
Sonic struggling to push it back he swings his head backwards, "Grrr rah." Slamming into his jaw with his quills releasing him.
"AAHHhh!" The Officer yells out in pain. In anger he aims again and fires.
Sonic staggers to run and hide behind anything he almost gets shot in the back of the head as the bullet whizzes past his head. Getting away he then collapses behind anything to hide to rub his leg to make the pain stop. He takes a deep breath and tries not to lose control again.
The Soldiers just stand there not knowing what to do.
The Officer pulls one of the quills out of the side of his cheek. He spits out blood and yells ordering them to fire at Sonic as he reloads his gun, "FIND HIM AND SHOOT HIM!"
The soldiers look at him and start looking and talking to each other.
"WHAT ARE YOU STANDING AROUND FOR?! I SAID F&%$ING SHOOT HIM!" He orders them again.
One of the soldiers slightly steps forward and says, "We've been ordered not to Sir." He then steps back as the rest do the same.
"What, WHO MADE THAT ORDER?!" He shouts at them.
Rewind 3hrs Back at the Resistance Base Training Fields
Making his way forward happy and still can't believe that he was picked to be the Navigator for the Recon Mission. He makes his way to his friend to gloat about it. Walking across the Training Field he finally finds him relaxing on a seat outside in the sun. "Enjoying your time off? How long are you going to milk that gunshot wound?" Making fun of him.
"As long as it last. OooAhhh I'm in so much pain." He answers not getting up. He looks at The Navigator and notices a big smile on his face. "Why are you so happy?" He wonders.
"I'm here with some awesome news…well awesome for me. The kind of news that will make you jealous of me." He gloats.
"Haha, yeah right. Fat chance that's ever going to happen." He mocks back.
Navigator smiles and says "I was just picked for a Recon Mission."
"Wha, naw really? I can't believe it. Oh'muh'gawd. I'm sooo jealous. What ever shall I do? Makes me rethink of my life choices. Why did I pick to be a pilot instead of a Navigator? Dammit-" He begins his onslaught of sarcasm as The Navigator just stands there hearing it all not being annoyed by any of it when he knows that only '2 words' will shut him up. 3…2…1 "With Sonic." He says with a big smile.
He stops joking and slowly rises up from his seat and looks at him laughing, "Are you kidding me?"
The Navigator explains happily. "I got picked this morning. It just came out of nowhere. Saw the names on the mission statement and Sonic's name was on it. I literally lost my shit thinking it was a joke."
Still laughing, "I knew there was no way he was ever going to stay put for long. Last time I saw him is when we got back that one night." He says and leans right back into his seat finishing with, "Either way-" He stretches. "It's your turn now." Saying with a serious tone and look on his face.
Navigator looks at him knowing exactly what he means, "My turn?"
"Yup. Your turn. Take care of him. Make sure he comes back in one piece." Zeke warns him.
He nods accepting the warning. He looks towards the Air Craft as Zander says, "Don't worry. I'll keep a good eye on him and make sure everything turns out ok."
Hours later arriving at the Labs Zander stays behind as everyone gets off the Air Craft to search were Infinite was held. While staying on the Air Craft he watches everything going on through the computer monitors. Everything was going smoothly till Sonic gets a transmission from H.Q.
Hearing Chris's voice and not making any sense what was just said it became clear that something bad was about to happen. The Officer pulls out his gun and fires at Sonic.
Zander watching all of it happening on the monitors trying to talk to anyone to get answers, "Wha? What's going on? Why are they fighting? C..can anyone hear me?"
"I can." One of the soldiers answers. "We don't know why they're fighting." Another one answers. "What do we do?" One of the soldiers asks and then one by one each of them start talking. "Should we help Officer Colbort?" "I don't know." "We're trying to…Is Officer Colbort really ordering us to shoot at Sonic?" One of the soldiers asks. "I'm not f&%$ing shooting Sonic." Another one argues back. "We can't just disobey an order." After that response multiple Soldiers start talking all at once.
Zander stands up from his seat. "NO! D-Don't. Don't shoot. You'll damage whatever is there. Just Um…just let them fight it out." Zander says thinking of the right choice to say. "You want an order to follow? FINE! I'LL GIVE YOU AN ORDER! DO NOT FIRE! I REPEAT! DO NOT FIRE! DOES EVERYONE HEAR ME?! DO NOT FIRE!" Zander says again as an order.
"I SAID F&%$ING SHOOT HIM!" The Officer orders them again.
"We've been ordered not to Sir." One of the soldiers says as he and the rest back off.
"What, WHO MADE THAT ORDER?!" He shouts at them. The Officer then looks around trying to find Sonic but he moves around so fast that he can barely see him.
"No one's going to help you. I'll ask you one more time. Why did you shoot her?" Sonic threatens him.
"Rookie, THAT'S WHY! He wasn't supposed to survive the prison raid but he did. Ms. Rose was the right catalyst to get you to do the job and it almost-"Sonic rushes in and punches him so hard in the face that it knocks him off his feet. Landing on the floor he raises the gun only to be kicked away.
Sonic just stands over him trying not to lose control over himself in wanting so much to beat him into a bloody pulp on the floor after confessing about Amy.
The Soldiers, Everyone at H.Q and also Zander watching as he quietly says, "Don't…don't….just don't."
Finally calming down. "Next question. What are you hiding here that you needed to come for?" Sonic says cracking his knuckles.
"A device that will stop Infinite." He answers.
Zander hearing the conversation he begins to tell the other Soldiers to look for the device while Sonic interrogates him.
"So you KNEW how to stop him?" Sonic grabbing him by the collar and bringing his fist back. "HOW?!"
The Officer brings his hands up not to get hit. "It's a device that constrict and stop his powers and make him fade away."
He lets him go, "Chris knew about this device and you wanted to kill him?"
"No, he came too close to Infinite. Knowing him he heard the voices on how to stop Infinite."
"How do you know all of this?"
He looks at Sonic and answers, "Am one of the Scientist here."
"One of the Scientist? Then what happen to the rest of the Scientist from here?"
"They've perished at the prison raid. Most of them were group 6 trying to get the device that was located there." He confesses.
Putting it all together Sonic realizes, "So you were worried that with Chris coming here he would find it and end Infinite with it." A Soldier approaches Sonic and hands him the device. With the device in his hand, Sonic knew he needed to find Chris and hand it over to him.
Part 18: The Beginning of the End
Arriving back at the Resistance base Sonic exits out of the Air Craft and sees Knuckles waiting for him.
Sonic approaches him, "Where is he?"
Knuckles points, "He's in one of the holding cells for questioning."
"Get everyone to H.Q. I'll be there in a bit with Chris. I have to go talk to him." He says walking away.
"Alright but no fighting or I'll be the one to break it up myself." Knuckles says back with a smile.
He walks into the prison area and opens up his cell. Looking in it he wasn't there. "Where is he?" He looks around for someone to get any answers and starts heading back towards the exit but before hitting the sensor to open the door it already opens up by itself.
Rewind Back to Resistance Hospital Amy's Room
Thinking about the name Tails he starts to put 1&1 together. He takes a seat and asks, "You said Tails. Who's that?"
Amy leans back in her bed and begins to answer. "That's his name. You're smart friend. He's Sonic's best friend… No, them together they're known as Sonic and Tails. They're basically like brothers. They've been friends since they were young. He's also a friend to all of us."
"That explains why he acts so weird when I talk to him about things about the past. I knew something was wrong but he just never wants to talk about it and just walks away. What Happen?"
She goes on to explain. "He went missing ever since what happen to Sonic months ago. Ever since, he's gone into hiding always blaming himself for what happen. Everyone here misses him especially Sonic. My request is for you to bring him back. Please make that happen."
He nods. "Alright. I'll tell him when I see him. Try to convince him to come back." He gets up to leave. "You take care and thanks for letting me know about him."
"Be careful out there." She warns him as she goes back to rest.
Exiting out, Trish was still in the hallway waiting for him. He looks at her being ashamed at what he said to her, "Thanks for doing this…and am sorry about what I said Mrs.-" "DON'T…call me that and It's alright. You've just been through a lot. We all have. I always knew that you didn't do it and am glad to see that you're ok." She smiles at him.
She leads him back to his holding cell and as the door opens to the prison building Sonic was on the other side of it. He crosses his arms. "Long time no see. We need to talk."
"Does it involve punching in my face? Cuz I've had enough of that." Chris quips back.
Sonic being ashamed. "Sorry, alright? I just wasn't thinking and getting angry…I'm not the most reasonable person to deal with and heck…you were hitting me back just as hard."
Still being hand-cuffed he manages to cross his arms. "All defensive shots. No intent to kill…unlike you."
Once Chris responds back as they both glare at each other.
Sonic quickly says, "You want to go another round?"-"Soon as I get my shoes back then you're on."-"Fine wit-" Boys, pleeease focus." Trish intervenes getting annoyed watching them go on and on back and forth.
"Here." Sonic says as he hands over the device to Chris. "You remember what this is?"
"This is what Group 6 was looking for in the prison raid. What does-" The device lights up and activates in his hands. Chris looks at it…"uhh, I think it likes me?"
Sonic points at it. "This has something to do with you. C'mon, we need to talk about this in H.Q."
"Can you take these cuffs off? Jewelry isn't my thing." Chris request walking with Sonic to H.Q.
"They look good on you. Oh, and one thing… here's a tip about sneaking around. Smashing through windows and slamming doors is a bad idea."
"Yeah, yeah. Duly noted."
Meanwhile Miles flight back to his place he notices all the robots acting weird and all heading in one direction. "That's new. Thousands of them…no even more than that. There headed towards…the Resistance Base? Where Chris is? Why? Was it because of the purple particles?" He looks around some more and notices every power generators going into over drive. "Why? That file that mentioned about them…This is bad. Need to get back to my place fast."
At the Resistance Base H.Q: "Got him here." As Sonic and Chris walk into the main room. Everyone looks at Chris holding onto the now glowing device.
"What do you know about Infinite and how to destroy him?" Knuckles asks looking at Chris.
"It has to do with those Purple Particles floating around. I hear voices coming out of them. I finally touched one but it wasn't enough to keep me inside for long…-" He sees his shoes on a desk. "…but it was enough to tell me something." As he's saying this he grabs his shoes and put them on. "I have to go into it and destroy it from the inside. Doing that will make Infinite go away." Chris informs them all.
"A voice? Why would the voice say that?" Silver asks confused by it.
"Because Infinite doesn't belong here. Him being here ruins our world throwing it off balance. That's why." Chris answers looking at the device.
"That device should do it?" Silver asks pointing at it.
"Pretty much. That's as much as I know." Chris answers looking at everyone.
While everyone talks to each other trying to figure something out, Sonic gets closer to Chris and stands next him to quietly ask, "Question?"
"Possible answer." He whispers back.
He nervously asks, "Back at the labs…when you said about me…loving…Amy. How? …How did you know about that?"
Thinking about it for a bit he remembers. He smiles and looks at him and says, "I found out by your"- An alarm sounds off muffling his answer saying "best friend."
"Wha?...didn't hear you." Sonic says back looking at him.
Alarm echoes loudly everywhere with red flashing lights. "What's going on?" Knuckles asks.
"One of the security outposts has been taken out…ANOTHER ONE!" One of the Resistances alerts.
"Pull up the last image." Silver asks looking at the big screen.
An image shows up and its thousands of robots heading in their direction towards the base.
Everyone stands there in silence as the alarms blare as they look at the image on the screen. Some people get up and leave the building in panic.
As the Alerts Sounds echoes around the H.Q building and everyone is getting distracted by it and the image, Chris looks over to Trish.
Looking at the image, Trish glances over to him as he waves goodbye to her and blurs out of sight. Surprised by it she starts looking around she then notices a door open by it self. "Good luck." She whispers.
"EVERYONE CALM DOWN! WE NEED TO GET READY! WE'ER BEING ATTACKED!" Knuckles shouts.
"Umm…Guys?" Sonic says.
"WHAT?!" Knuckles asks."
"He's gone." He answers looking at the spot where Chris was once standing now replaced by Hand-cuffs.
Outside Training field: Red lights and alerts sounds off outside. Zeke and Zander standing around as people run off to hide.
"Zander, what the f&%$ going on? You know more about alerts."
"If am right… and I hope am wrong… I think we're being under attack." Zander answers as he looks around for Trish. Zander turns to look at Zeke, "What are you-" It was too late to ask as Zeke was already running off towards the hanger area. Zander just stands there thinking about what to do… He looks around for Trish again then stops. He nods then looks back over to the Hanger area.
Eddie and Edward looking around as everyone running around. "Sir, what's going on?" POS asks worried.
Barnett knew exactly what the alert sound was. He stood there remembering the first time he heard it half a year ago. The moment it happen. "We're under attack." He answers. He turns to looks at his recruits. "War is at our doorsteps. Go get everything ready and prepare to head out."
Chris runs back to Miles base hoping he's ok. Once getting there it was swarmed by robots. Looking around he doesn't see his plane around. "Damn…where are you Miles?" Chris mutters.
"Right behind you." Miles responds. "Robots are attacking. Hundreds of thousands of them."
"It might be because of this device. You need to test some things on it"
Miles looks at his place. "But the place overrun by-" "Don't worry. I'll deal with them." Chris interrupts him tossing him the device. "You do what you have to do. Sounds like a plan?" Chris says with his fist out.
"Sounds good. Let's do this." Miles says just walking away.
Chris rushes into action blasting and destroying every robot in sight as Miles run into the building and quickly does tests on the device.
"HOW LONG!" Chris shouts firing his rifle.
"Couple of hours."
"WHAT?! ARE YOU-" The sound of the gun shots drown out his complaints.
"Done." Miles says.
Chris slightly gets annoyed forgetting who he was dealing with; he heads into the building "Let's get out of here now. They're going to be on us in minute-." Chris stops talking as Miles just looks at him. "What?" Chris asks knowing there's bad news.
"It's hard to say." Miles says holding onto the device looking at it.
He waves at him to get his attention. "What…Is…IT!" He says concerned.
"I had to read the files again about the Generators and I figured out why it kept getting referenced over and over again. Those Generators is what's scattering the particles all over the place. They need to be stopped or destroyed so it can stop pulling the particles apart. The particles would then go to another generator and so forth. Once enough generators are destroyed it will gather all the particles to one spot making one big portal where Infinite came from." Miles explains as he still looking at the device.
Chris points, "And with the device, go inside of it and destroy it from inside destroying Infinite out here?
Miles still holding onto the device and just looking at it. "That should happen… You'll basically be cutting his connection to this place making him fade away…but…doing that will destroy 'me' too. Once you go in you'll become just what Infinite is also. A part of whatever is on the other side of that sphere."
Chris standing there watching Miles and then looks out the window seeing the Resistance base thinking about what Amy said. "Umm…you should put that down and think of a different plan. There has to be another way." Chris says trying to convince him.
"Right…right. There has to be." Miles puts it down. "May…be if I wear a suit or…reconfigure the…" He looks back at the table where he put the device, "Huh? It's gone…? what?" He looks up. "Chris?" He wasn't in the room. "CHRIS!" Miles runs outside, "CHRIS!" Miles shouts out for him but Chris was long gone.
Chapter 5: Part 19 The Battle to Save the World.
19-1 A Call for Help
Exiting out of the Resistance H.Q Building: "We need to rally up as many people we can possibly get." Silver says to Knuckles as they walk outside. Knuckles stops and points to Silver, "Get your self-ready to head out. Sonic and Trish you come with me to the announcement stage." Knuckles heads towards the announcement stage as he steps onto it. He grabs the mic and prepares to talk giving Sonic one last look and closes his eyes. He takes a deep breath and begins his speech, "Testing, Testing? Can everyone hear me? I have important news and…a request that I have to make. We're being attacked. We're not safe here anymore. Anyone that can hear me and answer this call of need. This is Knuckles speaking Lead Commanding Officer of the Resistance. I don't have enough time to say what I have to say so I'll get to the point. We need your help. I don't care if you don't have any fighting experience or not. If you have the fighting spirit or will power to fight, WE NEED YOUR HELP. Please help us. Please help save what we have left and help take back this world." Knuckles finishes speaking with his eyes closed he finally opens them and not only does he see Sonic standing right in front of him but also every recruit and civilian rescued from the prison as well. He looks around…watching as they all cheer with acceptance to the call and ready to lay down there life to save the world.
"We're ready. So what's the plan?" Sonic says whit a smirk on his face.
He approaches Trish, "We need to get as many squads and people up into the air ASAP. We have to send out everything we got and make a wall to protect the base. How many squads do we have so far?"
"15 so far and still rising." Trish answers.
"Good, send them out now." Knuckles orders. He points over to Sonic, "Sonic, I still need you to still come with me. So let's go" As they both walk off towards the side of the H.Q Building.
19-2 A Wolf gets his Wings
Zeke over by the battle planes waiting for his instructions. One of the Captains approaches him, "What are you doing shouldn't you be in a squad right now?"
"Am waiting to be deployed to fly Sir." Zeke he asks.
"You're not flying." Captain says.
"WHY NOT? LET ME F&%$ING GUESS, NO CO-PILOT?"
"THAT'S RIGHT!" Captain shouts back.
"Then assign me one." He takes a step to him in anger, "You know damn well there aren't enough people flying to provide air support for the squads."
"All the Co-pilots are taken. You expect me to send you up there alone? I can't have you flying without-" A jacket gets thrown to Zeke catching him off guard as it interrupts the Captain. A voice says, "I'll be his damn co-pilot!" The Captain and Zeke look over at him.
"Now you don't have any more excuses. Let him fly." Zander request as he walks right by the Captain and stands next to Zeke.
Zeke looks at the jacket being his Flight Uniform. He smiles looking at Zander and puts it on.
Captain eyes them both and caves, "Fine, take any plane and you be careful up there." He warns them.
Zeke looks at Zander, "You know exactly what your sister is going to do when she finds out …right?"
"I know, I know. That's why 'WE' have to get out of here fast before she does."
On the ground Barnett and everyone else watch as the planes take off and everyone leaving in squads out of the Resistance Base. One of the instructors approaches and gives him his orders. Barnett looks over to his group and says. "Everyone ready? We're leaving to section 4-G. we need to stop all robots from getting to the base. GO! MOVE IT!" Barnett orders but this time he's not worried.
19-3 The Generators are the Answer
Outside on top of one of the Radio towers getting a good view as to what's going on Chris is sniping down robots. He notices the squads are being deployed and stopping near generators. Chris starts to realize, "Does the Resistance even know? …No, how could they."
Chris starts tampering with his earpiece hoping to get the right signal for the H.Q. static "Nothing." He tries again, "Hello?" Nothing but static till "Who is this? Hello?" One of the responders answers.
"I need to talk to whoever is in charge." Chris says. "Everyone busy-" "Shut-up and patch me through to SOMEONE!" Chris yells back. The transmission goes silent till …"Knuckles here, who is it?"
Chris eyes widen getting scared by the voice. Still a bit traumatized from the gut punch. Finally calming down, "You need to direct your squads to take down those generators." Chris request.
"WHAT?! WHY?!" He yells so loud that it almost makes him pull his ear piece out. "THOSE GENERATORS IS WHATS POWERING THE RESISTANCE BASE. WHY SHOULD WE DO THAT FOR?!"
"Those generators is what's keeping Infinite Particles scattered. As long there on and running it's always going to keep them apart. Take them out one by one so they can be directed to one spot to end Infinite."
Knuckles then Shouts back, "I'M NOT GOING TO-" "AND I'M NOT GOING TO ARGUE WITH YOU, SO TAKE DOWN THOSE DAMN GENERATORS!" Chris shouts right back and turns off his earpiece cutting the connection. "Wow…did I just do that? geez…he's gotta be so pissed right now." He goes to the ledge and watches. See if anything changes and waits. …"IT WORKED!" Chris shouts as the squads change direction and begin to head towards the generators. Chris hops off and starts running towards the fight. "I have to be careful not to run into Miles. Can't let him get his hands on this device."
19-4 Fancy Flying
Zeke in the air finally he flies off towards the fight providing air support. Zander holding to whatever he can for dear life and trying not to panic. "Just c-calm d-down ev-everything will be f-fine." Zander thinking to himself.
Zeke flying around shooting and dodging laser fire in his direction. Whatever he flies over becomes destroyed by a barrage of gun fire and somehow…everything turns out ok with every turn and sway that he does. Slowly Zander eyes remain open…and he watches what unfold in front of his eyes…he begins to calm down. …"Zeke. You're dodging laser fire. Laser fire that looks like rain? Yeah…rain… Zeke, your dodging rain. How the heck are you doing this?" At that moment Zander wasn't afraid anymore. He felt…safe.
"Pilot on plane 22 respond, over?" From H.Q.
"Zeke here. What's your orders?"
"We need you to head on over to generator 6 & 7 to provide air support." H.Q responds.
"Got it, on my way. Which way are those generators?" Zeke asks to Zander.
Staring at his terminal trying to figure it out. "You're heading towards…Uh…Generator 7 right now."
"Alright, are the missiles ready? Am going to launch it towards one of the Generators."
"Loaded and primed for launch." He responds back.
They blast off towards that direction and see squads firing everything they got to destroy the thousands of robots that are everywhere. The constant G-force of Zeke going back and forth destroying as many robots as possible until…"Missile ready?" Zeke asks.
"Ready." Zander responds.
Zeke countdown. "3…2…1…FIRE!"
Zander pushes the button firing nothing but instead opens a hatch from the bottom of the plane.
"What the f&%$ did you just do?"
"I pressed the button for the missile… right?" Zander looking confused pointing at the screen.
Zeke looks at it. "No… that's not for the missile. That's for-" "Pilot on Plane 22 are there, over?" HQ Responder asks.
"Umm... Am here. Over?"
"You've just carpet bombed close to 40 robots about to overtake two squads. You saved them. Good Job out there."
"Don't thank us just yet cuz we're not done yet." He tries to look over his seat to point at the button. "That one… right there."
"That's a missile?" He presses it firing the missile.
"NOT F&%$ING NOW!"
They both watch the missile fires off and heads into a group of robots destroying them all.
"Pilot on 22? I don't know how you do it but you really know how to get people out of a bad situation. Good job again."
"No Problem." He responds then looks over to Zander. "Ready now?"
Zander gives him a smug look with a thumbs up.
He swerves around back to the Generator and locks onto it again. "READY!?"
"Ready."
"3…2…1…FIRE!"
Missile fires out and goes into generator 7 completely destroying it.
"WOOhoo!/HECK YEAH!" They both shout.
"Pilot on plane 22 respond, over?" From H.Q.
"Zeke here, am ready for orders."
"Wha,...Zeke? Is that really you?" A familiar voice is heard.
Zeke surprised by who it is. "Uhh…err…y-yeah. Trish, is that you?"
"Yes it's me. We need you to head on over to generator 5 and 6 to provide air support."
"A-alright copy that." Zeke responds back hoping that…-Zander taps his shoulder. "Was that really her, can she hear me?" Zander asks quietly.
Zeke's eyes widen and prepares his ears for what's about to happen.
"Huh? No? NO! OH MY GAWD! ZANDER?! IS THAT REALLY YOU?!" Trish yells out.
"YES DUMBASS, SHE CAN HEAR YOU!" Zeke shouts at him.
"I'M GOING TO STRANGLE YOU TILL YOUR DOTS TURN BLUE WHEN YOU GET-" He cuts the connection.
"WHAT?! ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR DAMN MIND?! YOU JUST CUT HER OFF!" Zeke starts panicking.
"Zeke…Zeke…we are never 'EVER' going to land. OK?! We're going to stay up here for-e-ver. Got it?" Zander says panicking putting hands over his face. "I can't believe that just happened."
Zeke couldn't believe it either till he notices something flying right next to him. He looks at it and then begins to smile. "Hey, Zander… look to the right. That will cheer you up."
Zander puts his hands down and then looks to the right. "What the…Is that…It is…It's Sonic… flying."
Rewind: Back to the Resistance Base.
19-5 A Show of Respect
Knuckles and Sonic walk past the H.Q building and into a hidden bunker. After a pretty lengthy hallway Knuckles gets interrupted by transmission call from H.Q. "Commander? Someone in a Un-confirmed transmitted frequency needs to talk to you." H.Q responder says.
"Alright, patch'em through to me. Knuckles here who is it?"
"You need to direct-(Fast Forward)-SO TAKE DOWN THOSE DAMN GENERATORS!" Chris shouts at him.
Knuckles shouts right back, "LISTEN HERE-(Several minutes later of insults)AND WHEN I FIND YOU-" "Knucks, I don't think he's there listening to you anymore." Sonic says making him realize it. Knuckles glares at him.
"You think…nah. He has to be right. He hasn't let me down yet. I trust him and you should to." Sonic says trying to convince him.
Knuckles looks at his communicator and issues the order. "This is Lead Commanding Officer. I'm ordering every squad to take down every single Generator. No questions asked, just do it." He looks back to Sonic. "C'mon, we better go fast cuz we're about to lose power." They reach a heavily lock door.
Knuckles opens it and in it Sonic is surprised to see what's inside, "No way. They're all here? All of them? Even the Master Emerald. Why didn't you tell me?"
With his arms crossed Knuckles answers, "After what happen to you especially to what happen to Amy. Who knows what you would've done."
Sonic looking ashamed and says, "Good point." He grabs all the Chaos Emeralds and heads outside.
Outside a few more squads are still around as Trish is around figuring out where to send them. Knuckles walk up to her, "Trish I need you to go up to H.Q and help direct people what to do. Amy still hurt so am picking you to take her spot."
She nods and says, "Yes Commander." She heads off to H.Q.
Sonic watches her walk away after hearing what she said. He then turns and look at Knuckles.
Knuckles then looks to Sonic and points to him, "Sonic I need you to keep Infinite distracted and buy everyone enough time to take down those generators. Do whatever you can to keep him in the air away from everyone." Knuckles orders him.
Sonic smiles and becomes Super Sonic. He floats up into the air and looks down at him, "You got it Commander." Sonic says as he flies off.
Knuckles Just stands there watching till he couldn't see Sonic anymore. "That never gets old seeing him do that." He turns around and walks towards the squads set up in front of the base ready to protect it. After taking a few steps… "Wait." He stops. "What?" He looks back and realizes. "Did he just call me Commander?"
19-6 Super Sonic Time
Sonic flies sky high to get a clear view of the battle and to hope he spots Infinite. He dive bombs into a crowd of robots destroying as many as he could shooting right back into the air. He looks again… "Nothing." He repeats the process another 4 times hoping Infinite would show up sooner or later to stop him but nothing. Flying back up into the air. "Where is he? Can't wait to-" He notices a plane pull up by his left side. …"Hmm?" He starts chuckling. "Wow, Zeke. Long time no see and he's finally flying too." Sonic thinking to himself and waving at him. He notices Zeke seeing him and he smiles back. Suddenly Sonic gets tackled and forced back down close to the ground and thrown into a nearby building smashing into it.
The building crumbles on top of him. He lays there for a bit scolding himself. He sighs being disappointed. "Ok…I got his attention. Lost focus…and now am in rubble on the ground. Good one Sonic."
Busting out of the rubble and back into the air he stares right at Infinite. "It's about time you showed up. How about a 2nd round? It's a bit overdue."
(Line from Game) "Pathetic Hedgehog. You have no idea who you're dealing with. I'll smash you into jelly. I'll show you just how out classed you are."
"Am a class all my own. Time to put up or shut-up." Sonic responds back.
Infinite gets infuriated clenching his fist and then yells out in anger. Once opening them he creates purple energy orbs and looks at them… then he looks at Sonic and throws them at Sonic.
"UH-OH, WHOA!" Sonic propels himself forward dodging each one getting closer and closer to close the gap till he throws a punch. Infinite catches his fist then Sonic throws another punch as Infinite grabs it with his other hand. "You are indeed more powerful. This should be interesting but it doesn't matter the outcome will still be the same."
"NO! Not this time. This time am not alone. My friends are doing everything they got to stop you."
HAHAHA! Those ants down there? What makes you think that?" Sonic trying to break his grasp. "Sadly the Dr. isn't here to hold me back anymore. So who is going to save you now from me? NO ONE! I can finish you off if I wanted to …then finally the whole world. I grow tired of it." Infinite says getting closer to his face. Sonic gets angry and heads bunts him to let him go. Cracking his mask making Infinite barely flinches from it but it was enough to slip out of his grasp. He then throws another punch but Infinite ducks it and punches right back in the gut and then kicks him away.
"Nice try…but not fast enough.(Line from game)How would you like you're epitaph to read? Here lies the blue buffoon?" Infinite insulting him.
"How about; Here lies the mask clown? Gotta make one for the one that needs it, right?" He quips back.
"Grrr! YOU WILL REGRET THAT!" Infinite lunges at Sonic as a plane flies right by him. Sonic gets ready and goes into a defensive boxing stance. Punches and kicks thrown with ceaseless abandon as Sonic desperately avoiding it all till finally an opening as he throws a punch hitting him in the face and follows up with a jab to the ribs. Infinite rubbing his face he throws another punch which then Sonic blocks and jabs him in the ribs again. Another punch followed by another punch to the ribs and then kicking him away.
Infinite backs off holding his side. "Good to know that you can fight."
"It's a little something I learned from someone." Sonic quips back.
"HAHAHA! WHEN THIS IS OVER AM GOING TO ENJOY DESTROYING-" Infinite gets hit by an oncoming plane roaring by taking him out and sending him back towards earth.
Sonic looking around, "Umm…that was random." Sonic says as he watches Infinites body fall towards the clouds down to Earth.
Rewind.
19-7 It Was a Good Idea Until….
"Damn showoff. Let's see you fly a plane." Zeke says laughing. He waves back to Sonic and he sees him waving back at him suddenly Sonic gets tackled by Infinite.
"NOoo…Shit! It's Infinite and they're fighting. What are we go… .-" Zander was concerned till he feels the G-force of the plane turning. "Ohhh…hehehe. I know exactly what you're thinking. LETS GO!" Zander shouts patting his shoulder.
Zeke turns the plane and heads right to him.
"What do you want to get ready to shoot him with? We only have one missile and a couple-" "Nothing." Zeke interrupts him.
Zander look away from the monitor. "Nothing?"
"Nothing." He answers being focused.
"Oh… Heck yeah. Let's do it."
As Zeke was focused on hitting Infinite with the plane; throughout the whole time Zander telling him angles on how to hit Infinite. "UP, UP, LEFT, YEAH! …DOWN …PERFECT. NOW GUN IT!"
"AHHHHH!" Zeke yells out but then Infinite lunges forward getting missed. "DAMMIT!" Zeke yells slams on the panels.
"We'll get him for sure on the next turn." Zander calming him down and again Zander gives him instructions, "HIGHER, HIGHER… LEFT! A little more… YEAH HOLD IT RIGHT THERE! GUN IT!"
Both of them yell, "AAAAHHHHHHhhhhhh!"…The muffled sound of a body hitting right off the left wing. "WOOO Hooo YEAH!" Bet the f&%$er felt that." Zeke cheering on hitting him.
"Uuhhhh Zeke. What are these red flashes popping up on the screen?" Zander looking at a monitor. "Never mind…wing damaged… wait…and now it's saying electrical damage…never mind, everything going red now." Zander says concerned.
He sighs, "It means we're going to crash." He starts pressing the same button over and over. "SHIT!" He starts to panic still pressing it. "Prepare for a rough landing. I CAN'T BRING THE LANDING GEAR OUT! HOLD ON!" Zeke shouts as he tries to up right the plane for a smooth landing but they slam onto the ground with no landing gear sliding finally coming to a halt.
"Ouch!…" He looks at the plane. "Dammit! My first flight and it ends up in a crash. You alright?" He says turning to him.
Zander picks up his hand and shows blood on it. "I'm alright. It's just my leg."
Zeke pulls him out and then they both limp to a hill getting away from the plane and sit.
"Now what do we do?" Zander asks looking towards the field as the fight goes on.
"We wait…and come up with an excuse why we crashed the plane. My vote is to blame you." Zeke answers looking out to the field.
Zander turns to him. "Oh, Really? Was it my idea to ram Infinite with the plane?"
…"Good counter argument." Zeke answers back.
Rewind
19-8 We Move as One
Dozens of squads get deployed and form a line to protect the base, Barnett and his squad are also there. "Stay together, keep your heads down and wait for orders." Barnett orders. Everyone aims there weapons down the fields as every communicator sends and urgent order to destroy all Generators.
"What, every Generator?" One of the commanders says. "Yes all 9 of them. We have to destroy them." Another Commander answers. Soon Aircrafts come flying in and takes as many squads to the other side of the area to destroy the generators on that side. With half the squads gone they start splitting up the squads even more to head to the remaining generators.
Barnett squad gets paired up with squad 7 to take down Generator 4. Squad 7 had 8 trained soldiers while Barnett was him, his 4 recruits and 2 other civilians.
"GET READY!" squad 7 Commander announces. "Move out." He says again.
Barnett looks over to POS and everyone else. "We're probably going against O-series robots again."
"Aim for the waist?" Eddie asks.
"Correct. Fire if you really have to and keep your head down. Now move out." He looks at the 2 civilians and instructs them to stay close to POS. "Stay close to him and never lose sight of him. Got it?" They nod in agreement. Closer and closer they get to Generator 4 but the closer they get the more robots there is. "PULL BACK!" The Commander of squad 7 yells out.
"FIRE!" Barnett shouts. Pinned down and nowhere to go they had no choice but to stay put and hold their ground.
A never ending swarm of robots with never ending barrage of laser fire. As everything was about to get grim a robot appears over Barnett aims at him… a figure appears kicks and blasted the robot away in one quick motion. He then quickly lands prone and rolls towards Barnett to hide.
"YOU!" Barnett says angrily.
"Yeahyeahyeah. I know. You can't stay here." Chris warns him.
"We can't move or we'll get picked off one by one." Barnett informs him looking at all the robots.
"We can't keep this up sir. We're going to run out of ammo if we keep doing this." Edward shouts.
Chris pulls out the device. "I have a plan. Seems with this McGuffin it attracts them."
"What?" Barnett asks looking at it.
"Basically am on their shoot to kill list. I'll get their attention and you guys head to wherever you're going to."
Barnett knowing he has no choice he accepts, "Fine. EVERYONE! GET READY TO MOVE!"
"Alright. Give the word." Someone shouts back.
Barnett looks at Chris. "Don't do anything stupid."
Chris shakes his head, "You have no idea what I have planned by the end of all this. 3… 2… 1…" Chris turns on his shoes runs off with the device at hand blasting robots. "OVER HERE!"
Barnett watching him, Chris looks back as he blurs out and vanishes. One by one the robots start getting destroyed and soon all the robots get distracted and follow him.
"EVERYONE MOVE! HEAD TO THE GENERATOR!" Everyone makes a run for it and makes it in one piece.
"How do we take this thing out?" POS asks.
The Commander points. "Its weak points are located right under the vents."
"It's a lot bigger being this close." Eddie looking up at the Generator estimating 100ft tall.
"Just be careful when it blows. You don't want to get taken by the blast." The Commander warns.
"Generator 1, 2, 7, and 9 are down." An announcement gets said over the communicators. "READY! AIM…FIRE!" Everyone fires everything they got at the Generator vents. A massive explosion of heat and broken pieces fly in every direction. Mission accomplished. Everyone cheers with excitement. Everyone then sits tight and waits for any instructions. Then a distress message comes from there communicator, "ALL GENRATORS BUT ONE REMAINS! GENERATOR 3 IS STILL UP!"
"3? Were at 4 so-"….Everyone turns and looks. "That's it. It's right there." Edward says. Everyone keeps listening to their communicators.
"No one can reach it…but we can." Eddie says looking at it.
"That's nuts. There's a good chance we'll get picked off if we go." The Commander says.
More shouting and cries for help come out of the communicators.
POS listening to the voices and cries coming from the communicators. "Everyone is trying to get to it. Either they can't or they're dyeing trying to get to it. We have to do something."
Barnett standing looking right at it. He turns and says, "Who wants to go take it out? Raise their hand. If not then stay here." One by one everyone begin to raise their hand till everyone does. "READY EVERYONE? WE MOVE AS ONE! CHARGE!"
Everyone charges in a group making their way towards the Generator. Even with a clear way in front of them some robots take notice and fire on them. One of the Resistance soldier gets hits. POS stops and gets him up and continues running. Lance and Eddie do cover fire to at least make things go safely.
"KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN! ROBOTS TO THE RIGHT…FIRE!" Barnett shouts. Everyone fires to take them out…but couple of robots fire off a couple of rounds before they were taken out. "Is everyone ok?"
"Is it safe?" Someone asks. "It Looks ok." Another answers. "Move? Go, everyone go." Another says.
As everyone gets up… one of the surviving robots fires. Making their way Edward realizes that Eddie wasn't next to him anymore. He looks back and sees him face down on the ground. He rushes back in panic shouting, "NOO! NOnono. Get up, Please get up. GET UP! NO! NO! no." Edward trying to get him up but nothing. He was limp and lifeless in his hands. Dragging him along the way he suddenly gets pushed off of him to let him go. Lance then picks up Eddie's body and runs off while Edward panics to keep up.
They manage to reach the Generator with half of the group hurt and very low on ammo. Barnett realizes that if they shoot at the Generator It will use up the rest of their ammo to make it back safely. He looks around to everyone as everyone looks right back to him. He then looks over to Edward mourning over Eddie as POS and Lance stand over him. He had to say it. The consequence of what they're about to do.
"Either we use the ammo to take out the Generator or make it back safely." Barnett informs everyone.
"We have to take it out." POS says looking at Barnett.
Everyone looks at the generator.
Barnett looks at it also and also Eddie's body on the ground. He then says, "I have no choice but to say-" "Fire!" Barnett looks to see who said that and its Edward who said it holding his and also his brother's rifle standing next to his body.
"Fire!" POS says also standing next to Edward.
"Fire!" Lance then says as well standing next to POS.
POS and Edward both look at Lance and smile at him hearing him for the first time and then turn back to look at Barnett.
Everyone then joins in saying it as well.
Barnett smiles back and nods in agreement. "Alright, ON MY MARK!" Barnett shouts as he aims.
Robots were slowly starting to head in their direction.
"You've… been the best squad…I've taught and fought with. I'm proud of all of you. Lance… Eddie… Edward and you too Phillip."
Robots getting closer and closer about to surround them.
Barnett shouts, "READY!"
Everyone then shouts, …"AIM!"
Back at the H.Q everyone is trying to figure out how to get to the third Generator. No squad can get to it. "Who's the closest one to-" "MAM! Generator 3 is taking damage." Someone informs.
"It is?" Trish asks back looking at the display monitor.
"Yes, It's from-"A massive explosion can be seen from there windows. Everyone cheers in the H.Q office.
Trish smiles. "Who was it, what squad?"
"It was…Squad 7 and 18… Commander Micha and Barnett."
She smiles even more. "Tell them great job and to retreat ASAP." Trish orders.
…"I cant." He says back slumped on his chair with a hand on his head.
"Why?" Trish Asks looking over to him.
He turns to her and sadly says, "They're gone. They've been wiped out. Everyone. Gone."
Trish just stood there looking forward not saying anything as the building slowly starts losing power.
"Mam, what do we do next?" One of them asks.
Trish doesn't answer. She just stood there quietly not saying anything… finally she breaks into to tears and sits down crying not saying anything as the power goes out in the building.
19-9 It's Not Going to be You
Chris sprinting across the battle field needing to stop to catch his breath. Looking forward across the battle field he can see where all the particles are gathering. Right when he's about to run again he gets tackled to the ground. Tumbling around Chris manages to get to his back and positions his legs to flip whoever is on him right off. "GGrrr RAhh!" He quickly gets up to see who it is. It was Miles.
Chris looking at him and making sure not to take his eyes off of him. "I know what you're planning and I'm not going to let you do it."
Miles looks back at him sadly shaking his head, "Am not going to fail another friend ever again." He says as he reveals the device in his hand letting him know that he now has it.
He checks his side vest pocket and seeing that he really does have it. "Hand it over. I'm not letting you do it."
"I am… I am going to do it." He says back.
"And how? How are you going to do it? LOOK AT IT! It's not even lit up in your hands."
Miles looks at it seeing that it's true. He looks at Chris, "I'll get it to work… I'll figure-" "AND WHAT IF YOU DON'T!" Chris yells back.
"I WILL! I'LL FIGURE IT OUT! I ALWAYS DO… and if I don't… at least… I'll know that Infinite is no more."
Hearing those last words he now knew that talking sense into him wasn't going to work. He already made his mind up. He extends his arm out with his hand open making one last chance to reason with him. "Miles… Hand it over. I'm not letting you do it."
He shakes his head. "No… I won't."
"Last time… Hand it over." He quickly turns his shoes on but Miles pulls out a remote to deactivate them. "Sorry Chris. This is goodbye." He puts the remote away in his pouch and gets ready to fly.
Out of desperation he grabs his rifle and points it at him. "YOU F&%^ING FLY AND I'LL SHOOT YOU OUT OF THE DAMN AIR AND YOU KNOW I CAN!" He threatens him and starts walking towards him. "I'm taking that device one way or another. You are NOT GOING TO DO THIS!"
Miles gets scared from what he just said and stops. He stands and gets ready to fight clipping the device on his waist. "And I'm not going to let you do it. So try to get it off of me." Miles quickly runs at him taking flight and comes at him with a kick. Chris getting surprised seeing how fast he is he lunges forward dropping his rifle dodging under the kick. Once he gets up another kick already comes his way kicking him in the face. He staggers back and before he can react he gets punched in the face. He then ducks the second punch as Chris than lunges forward tackling him with his shoulder picking him up and slamming him onto the ground.
Trying to get the device off of him Miles grabs him by his vest pulling him towards him head butting him in the nose to get off.
Grabbing his nose. "Gahdamn. I don't want to hurt you Miles. HAND IT OVER!"
"NO! Either you come and get it or-" Chris pulls out the remote that controls his shoes. "No…" He looks at his pouch that's now open. "No." He looks right back to Chris and pleads. "Please."
"Sorry Miles. It's not going to be you." He says as he fades away.
Miles tries to gets a firm grip on the device as it quickly gets taken away. "No…NOOOOO!. NOOOO!" He shouts over and over. He sits down and starts to cry punching the ground. "No…No." sniff "no."
Chris finally gets to the spot where all the particles are merging together. He stands around looking as it creates a perfect sphere. Slowly the particles come to finish creating it then suddenly something comes falling from the sky crashing to the ground.
Chris looks up, "What the f&%$, was that a body?" He slowly walks up to whatever it was to check. Once the dust settles it reveals Infinite. "OH, Shit!" Chris whispers backing off quickly but was too late. Infinite eyes open seeing him.
Infinite rises up holding his side. "I… felt that. That actually…-" He looks up and sees the sphere and begins to laugh. He looks at Chris. "Are you the one gathering them all for me? Am going to have to reward you…am I?" He gets up and hovers close to the sphere and puts his hand on it making it pulsate. "I hope you aren't too close to this planet… because it's about to get destroyed." Infinite says as he making it pulsate even worst sending shockwaves across the area.
"NO, STOP!" Chris shouts as he pulls out his pistol and fires at Infinite. Bullets evaporating before hitting him. Infinite turns and looks at him. "Now am disappointed." He holds up his hand and as a shockwave comes out of the sphere knocking Chris down, Infinite Fires a ball of energy at him. The ball of energy enters his body and right back out. "WHAT, HOW?" Infinite surprised he realizes the device flashing on him. "ANOTHER ONE?! I THOUGHT THEY WERE ALL DESTROYED!" Infinite flies right at him.
Chris picks up a metal bar and swings it only to be blocked. "Oh, Crap." Even with his shoes powered on Infinite is still insanely fast. Once blocked, he then kicks him in the side launching him closer to the sphere. From the ground he looks right at Infinite hoping his arm isn't broken from the kick.
Infinite walks towards him and begins to mock him. "Pathetic, not even worth the effort."
Chris looks at him slowly getting up. "Yeah? Well you ain't shit. I've been getting my ass kicked all week long. So you're nothing special asshole." Chris quips back looking at him. He stands there and watches as Infinite flies right at him again for another attack. Sonic quickly flies right in and kicking him away making smash into a nearby building. "HA! FOUND YOU! Check out the lingerie while you're in there. It's in aisle…three?" He looks over to Chris surprised to see him. "Wha, Chris? Why are-" A shockwave blast from the sphere sends him flying away. "WHHhoaaa!" Sonic shouts in pain but Chris is hardly affected by it because of the device.
Chris stands there holding his arm looking at the sphere knowing what he has to do. He looks at Sonic grabbing has head from the pain of the shockwave but from the right to him in the distance he sees Miles looking at him shaking his head as to say No. Looking at the lit up device he then looks up at the sphere. Staring at it he hears the voice again. "Do it. Do it. Sever the connection. Save your world… when we couldn't save ours. Do it."
Looking at the device again he remembers what Traitor Officer said. "Everything will come full circle, right? At least you were right on one thing." He grabs the Device and jumps into the sphere.
19-10 To The One That Never Quits
Sonic holds his head in pain trying not to black out. "Gah..Ahh!" He breathes heavily. "So-so loud… SO many voices… screaming. Gah!" Once getting his senses back he looks and sees Infinite hovering there.
"What you heard were the many voices of people screaming out in pain at perfect unison. The sound of worlds dyeing." He looks at the sphere. "That right there is a ticking time bomb ready to pull this whole world out of existence and everyone who screams will join what you…just…heard." He begins to laugh. "Better end me quick before that happens."
"NOOO!" Sonic shouts in desperation flying towards Infinite as he does the same back.
Knuckles not being able to get close because of the sphere and watching Sonic and Infinite as they clash sending shockwaves of their own.
"Commander, what do we do?" A soldier asks.
"What do we do? There's nothing we can do. Just get out of the way when they get close…and…and hope that the right side wins."
As Sonic rushes at Infinite every time it gets harder and harder for him to maintain his super form making him slower. Infinite comes in with a right hook only for Sonic to duck it to punch him in the gut then follow up with a somersault kick sending him downward slamming into the ground. Sonic quickly follows ready to punch Infinite again only to get stopped by another shockwave by the sphere.
Infinite gets up and sees Sonic is holding his head in pain. He quickly flies right at him and delivers a devastating punch dead in the face knocking him out of his Super form. Sonics head whips back from the blow then goes right back into position with a look on his face staring off into nothing. His eyes begin to glaze over and right when he's about to collapse, Infinite then grabs him by the throat and slams him to a nearby wall. After that he punches him two more times in the face snapping him out of it.
Sonic trying to stay conscious he struggles to look at him.
"You know why they call me Infinite? I'm never ending. You never had a chance. Now you're going to watch as everything dies."
Sonic struggling and striking his arms to let him go.
"PERSISTENT AREN'T YOU?!" Infinite strikes him in the ribs.
Sonic gasps for air.
"OH! DOES IT HURT WHEN I HIT YOU THERE?!"
Sonic looks at him only to then deliver a kick to the balls making Infinite flinch. "Oh, heh! Does it hurt when I kick you there?" Sonic quips back looking right at him with a smirk.
Infinite in frustration pulls his right arm back and gets ready to do his final punch. "Your painful scream will not be heard coming out from the sphere. I will be the one and ONLY ONE to ever hear it." He proceeds to do his punch.
As Sonic seeing what he can't stop as everything seems to go in slow motion. He starts apologizing to himself in his head. "Sorry if I didn't buy enough time for everyone to escape. Sorry Chris, for hurting you. Sorry Knuckles, for not making fun of you as much. Sorry Tails…for not seeing you one last time. Sorry Amy, for never telling you that I-" In a Flash of blinding light the sphere disappears.
Sonic seeing the sphere vanishing he notices Infinite in disbelief. "NNOOOOOOooooo!" Infinite shouts.
"It's over Infinite." Sonic whispers.
"NOOO IT ISIN'T." Infinite yells as he swings at Sonic only for his fist to phase through is skull.
Sonic flinches feeling nothing. He looks at him. "Stop, it's over." Sonic says again.
His other hand phases through his neck now grabbing onto nothing. He looks at both his hands. "NO! IT'S…NOT…OVER!" He yells out again throwing even more punches at Sonic as it goes through him.
Sonic finally gets mad and shouts, "IT'S OVER!" He then throws a punch at Infinite face making him vanish from it. Sonic then grabs his side after the punch in pain. "Gah…oof… that hurt. Yeah… So… yeah… Inf… it does hurt when you hit me there." Sonic says.
He slowly staggers down rubble only to slip and fall down it landing on his back holding onto his side. "Oww!" He looks up to the sky and presses the send button on his communicator.
"Sonic? Sonic? Is that you? This is H.Q to Sonic. Are you ok, over?" The Responder quickly asks worried.
"I'm here and by ok, do you mean lying on the ground in pain? Then yeah… am ok." He answers back.
"It is him and he's ok. Just stay right there. We'll find you and pick you up… again." H.Q says.
He chuckles holding his side, "Don't worry. I'm not going anywhere."
19-11 Honesty between 2 BFF's (BFF= Best Friends Forever)
Watching everything that just happen from a far distance Zeke and Zander celebrating that it was over. "It's over, they did it." Zander says.
Zeke looks at Zander's leg and asks. "How you doing?"
"It hurts a lot but I'm fine." Zander answers looking at it.
"Don't worry. Like someone told me, in this line of work you'll get used to it." Zeke says smiling.
"No Zeke, getting hurt was something I didn't put on my resume." He says back.
Staying silent for a while till Zeke says, "Why do you put up with me? You always wind up getting into trouble and the last thing I want is for you to get hurt…and now you are."
Zander feeling disappointed, "I live a boring life Zeke. Nothing ever happens to me so watching you do things and whatever it takes to achieve your goals… It makes me happy. Am too much of a chicken shit to ever do what you do. So when I see you have a hard time, get screwed over or even get mad… it feels like it's my duty to cheer you up and for you to keep trying."
"Is that why you became my Co-Pilot?" Zeke asks as he looks at him.
"Yeah." He answers still looking towards the fields.
"Why? What have I ever done for you...except making you worry and yell at me?"
Zander still looking forward. "At that moment when they weren't going to let you fly…I had …that brief moment I had to stop being a chicken shit and help you out. I don't regret it. Being up in the sky was scary….but it was the best decision I've ever made. You don't EVER have to do anything for me Zeke. Getting involved in so many stupid things with you especially behind my sisters back is all I needed from you. You make my boring life fun and interesting."
"Thanks. Thanks for being there for me." Zeke says looking at him.
"Anytime." Zander says right back suddenly an Air Craft shows up, "We found them. I Repeat. We Have found Pilot Tailor and Zander." Zeke with his mouth slightly open from what he just heard.
"Did you just hear that? Pilot Tailor?" Zander says looking at Zeke with a smile.
"Yeah, I like the sound of that." He looks at Zander, "That was some great Navigating you did Zander's." Zeke says patting him on the shoulder.
"Well, that was some fantastic flying you did, Pilot Tailor." Zander says right back with a smile.
Zeke laughs as he grabs Zander's side.
"OOOWowow!"
"Oh' you'll get used to it." Zeke says.
"Shut up." Zander responds back laughing.
19-12 One last Fist Bump
With a little bit of particles floating around in a flash Chris thrown out of it as it disappears. Chris landing he quickly gets up checking himself only to realizing that slowly he's fading away. Miles flying in finding him with supplies he lands almost close to him. He gets close to Chris seeing what happening to him making sure not to touch him. "OK-ok, JUST-just calm down… I-I Just… I can do something. I can. We can…-" Chris watching him panic trying coming up with any solutions but he knows there isn't one. He just looks at him and says…"It's ok… Tails."
Tails surprised to what he just heard and he looks up and sees Sonic. He shakes his head knowing it's not Sonic, "No… NO… I can do something. I can… I just… something… I-I…just… I… why? wh-wh-WHY?! WHY DIDIN'T YOU LET ME DO IT? WHY?!" Tails shouts.
"Why? Why? Because we both knew there was no coming back from this and also I knew "why" you wanted to do it. You wanted to do it to get away from what happen to Sonic. Miles… what happen to Sonic on that day… it wasn't your fault."
Surprised finding out that he knows he snaps and yells back, "YES IT WAS! It was my fault. I could've... could've done something. I… I something to stop it… I... I… could have done !ANYTHING!"" Tails shouts as he collapses crying …"But I didn't. I just stayed there and watched as they took him away."
"No Miles. There was nothing you could have done. Nothing and even if you did you would've been taken away just like him and the worst thing about it. Sonic? They were playing for keeps. You, Miles? They wouldn't have cared. You would have been dead on that very spot. If you would've done something you wouldn't be standing here right now in front of me." Chris scolding him as Tails still cries.
Chris looks up and smiles at the red sky as it begins to turn blue.
"It's not your fault. It never was. You have to tell yourself that. Stop blaming yourself and believe in it. And also… you have to go back to your friends. They all miss you… even Sonic misses you a lot. Go back to them." Chris says as a request.
Tails slowly gets up and looks at him wiping his tears. "O….k. ok." He says as he nods.
Chris extends his arm out and balls his hand into a fist, "Here Kid… last one for the road?"
Tails raises his hand and clenches his fist and look at him. "Am not a Kid."
"I know. You're the greatest friend anyone can have. Sonic is very lucky to have you as one." Chris says.
Tails looks right at him and says, "Thanks for giving me back my hope…" sniff "and for everything." He finally connects his fist with his. Chris then slowly fades away as he gives him one last smile.
Tails stands there watching the particles fly off out of view. He turns around and walks away leaving everything he brought with him behind.
Hours later back at the Resistance Base everyone gathers around paying respects to a wall with pictures and names on it.
Trish stands there mourning looking at Barnett, Phillip, Eddie, Edwards and Lance's names. Zander hugging her with Zeke also there next to her as well as other Resistance soldiers paying their respects.
Amy and Sonic stands there looking at the wall with Knuckles. Amy looks over past Sonic and sees Tails standing there. "Oh' look. Sonic look." She says happily.
Sonic turns and smiles as he sees Tails standing there. Tails walks up to him as they hug each other.
"I missed you buddie…we all did. I knew you were still out there somewhere." Sonic says relieved.
"I had a lot going on keeping me from coming back." Tails said.
"What made you decide to come back?"
Tails looks at the wall and walks up to it placing Chris's Identification Card on it.
"Oh' no, not him too…" Amy says sadly.
Tails taking a step back looking at the picture. "He gave me a long hard talk to convince me to come back."
Sonic, Amy and Knuckles as well as others gather around Tails looking at Chris's I.D.
Chris's I.D placed on the wall with the name Rookie scratched off and replaced with the name Chris Beckers.
Sonic looking at it. "He was right there near the sphere with me when I last saw him."
"Yeah… He jumped into it. He's the one that made it go away making Infinite vanish." Tails says.
Sonic looks at Tails. "You met him too?"
He nods as a tear goes down his face and says, "Yeah" He turns and looks at everyone around. "…In some way we all did."
From here on out everything will turn out for the better thanks to everyone. Everyone gives a final farewell and cheers for the victory for the better future knowing that the world has been taken back.
The End…?
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