I would like to first issue a MAJOR thanks to Ivyshade24 for Beta reading and helping me out.

I've been fixing and adjusting it along the way with the help of some Beta Readers. If you want to help out, then that's great. Would really appreciate it. Currently I'm on Chapter 9 at the moment, but I have one Beta reader going through chapter 9 at the moment. This whole set of chapters is almost done.

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 43,542 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. Look up Zylo82 Say hi to me on there.


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. He then begins to shout for Tails in concern. "Tails! Where are you?!" C'mon, give me a signal any-

Suddenly, he hears an explosion from the center of town. Was that from Town Square? He rushes towards Town Square and sees that it's Knuckles causing the destruction by smashing and destroying the weird-looking robots.

Sonic rushes into action, doing a homing attack on three robots and 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 for sure, but 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 several different directions, "Ummm… they went umm-"

"KNUCKLES!" Sonic shouts to him.

He points, being unsure. "That way, I think. Everything looks the same now. I can't leave here 'till these people are safe."

Sonic doesn't say anything. He just speeds off in the direction he pointed to in search of Tails, hoping that he's not too late.


Sonic looks upward, as an aircraft on fire flies over him getting his attention, but not only that… he also 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 gunfire keeping whatever civilians are left safe. He quickly rushes in, destroying every robot close to Tails, he shouts, "I'm here tails! Get everyone out of here-" With his eye on Tails, Sonic's focus on the robots slips, and one of them makes him pay with a blow to his 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 from somewhere Sonic didn't see. "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... and sees The Masked Assailant hovering right behind him. In that moment… nothing but fear entered his body, as he stared at what seemed to be a demonic puppet held up with no strings. "SONIC! BEHIND YOU!" Tails yells out, but was too late.

The Masked Assailant then kicks Sonic into the air, immediately following up with another kick that sends him towards the nearby building colliding into it.

"AGHhAHHGAHh!" Sonic's screams can be heard as the beating goes on and on as Tails hides, seeing Sonic's body being hurtling through the air. He couldn't see The Masked Assailant hitting Sonic. It was all a blur to him.

The civilians hiding alongside with him couldn't believe what they were also witnessing.

Tails wanted to do something but was too afraid to do anything. No matter what he tried, his nerves tied him to the spot. He just sits, 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 from Metropolis City. A city completely destroyed and 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 chitchat amongst 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 Sonic to find Tails, and plus, don't be afraid to say Sonic's name," Espio answers him.

Charmy still continues to look out the window being worried, "Not to mention Tails 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 from her seat and starts heading to the exit. She tries to say happily without sounding too 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 still being unsure, he looks over to Espio and asks, "Are you still sure that it's okay to say his name again?"


Amy slowly walks towards the inventory building miserably and depressed thinking about Sonic. She tries to remains hopeful that Sonic is still out there somewhere. On her way, she comes across a recruit that's been around for a couple of months as he walks right by her. She had to look up to him, as he basically towers over her standing over 6 feet tall. She sees him in his new pilot uniform as he heads to the Mess Hall for lunch. "Hi! You're Zeke right? Congrats on that promotion," she greeted him cheerfully. Seeing him turn to face her, Zeke was average build, Middle aged dark grey wolf. But even though his long bushy fur was mainly dark grey, his snout was pure white as snow spanning to his cheeks that claw out.

He stops and turns around to smile back at her. "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 and muttered, "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, a small statured, short haired brown old rabbit was waiting patiently for the new recruits that he'd be in charge of training. He mutters to himself while pacing around, "Four of them …only four." He only trained 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 did 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 watches her walk away and sits down on a bench. He mutters annoyed, "Great… she's going to stick around and watch." He sighs. He approaches them as they're lined up side by side. Thinking to himself, Alright, what do I have here? he looks at the single paper given to him about the recruits. What the-? Confused about one of the names, he asks while looking at them, "Who is POS?"

"That's…me…" Drooping his shoulders shamefully as one of them answers.

Knowing exactly what it means, as he looks at the Labrador, he had to ask, "POS? What does that mean?"

"It's… my initials, Sir," he answers shamefully.

He looks over to the next two dirty blond furred felines. Knowing that they're brothers due to how identical they look alike. "I can see that you're twins, which means that you're also related."

"Yes Sir. I'm Eddie and he's Edward." One of them answers.

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 training." And lastly he looks at his last recruit, as he slowly tilts his head way up just to lock eyes with the bear, "Which means you're Lance."

He nods in agreement, not uttering a word back to him.

Taking a step back while still looking at Lance, he then instructs to all of them, "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 belonged to Zander, a Dalmatian on the shorter side who also happens to be his best friend. Zeke had to look downward to him as if he was a Pre-Teen but he was 23 years old. Having a smile on his face, he slowly loses it seeing Zeke trying to hide his frustration. "Not yet, huh?" he adds, walking towards Zeke with his tray that has vast amount of food on it that will have no effect on his scrawny body of his. He wore his small white shirt and his dark grey pants that have way too many pockets on it.

"They always give me a dumb excuse. So far, it's always that I don't have a Co-Pilot." Zeke answers, as he gives him a hard look, examining him from head to toe.

Zander takes a step back and glaring right back at him, knowing exactly what's on his mind, "DON'T 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 direction to go to get things done safely. And also, a secondary plus… If I did fly with you, once we land, my sister will most likely kill you. That will make 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, "Getting into other peoples' business as always?"

Zander laughs back. "Yup, as always."


Back at Barnett's and his recruits, Zander's sister sat there.

"Do you really have to sit there and watch over me? I am capable of functioning on my own." Barnett states looking at her, hoping that the question annoys her enough to get her to leave.

Trish, being Zander's sister, she was much more older than him by ten years. Also being a Dalmatian, she sat there with her clipboard in hand that she is never seen without. She wore her field secretary uniform that covered nearly all of her spots.

She answers him, exhausted, while not looking. "I'm 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 probes again with, "Then why do you look like you just got shot in the gut when one of them gets taken away?"

He looks 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 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 clipboard. "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?"

"The Twin Felines, known as 'The Morrisons' Age 22. Inseparable, and don't you even try because it's not going to happen. It's been attempted many times, but they always find a way to remain together. You might have them around for a very long time," she answers.

"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 clipboard, she glances back at him, making sure to get a matching description. Average height, …mid-twenties…, Green Hedgehog. …But nothing. "Name?" She orders.

"Chris Beckers," he answers.

She looks and looks… nothing. She gives him a stern look. "You're not on the list."

He smirks, knowing that it wasn't. "I just got through the paperwork and dropped off here so I doubt I'll be on it."

Becoming annoyed by his laid back attitude towards her, she puts her clipboard away and informs, "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!"

She tries to correct him with procedure, "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 happened 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-UPS!" 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 stay out of sight!"

The Officer then walks away while saying, "In a couple of hours."

Chris just stood there, as he tries to keep his temper in check. "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 building… Training Fields… that must be the Barracks… Woah! He's gotta be pissed. He just destroyed that dummy in one damn punch." Looking around again he then sighs. "This is going to be a boring couple of hours standing here."


Over by the destroyed dummy, Knuckles sighs 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, tossing 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. …Waiting for us to find him."

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've 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." Then proceeds to poke with every last word, "Not… going… with… him.

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 all stand 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 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 City. 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, soon as we reach mid-way back to base we have to deal with whoever is tailing us, and destroy them. Can't have anyone tailing us right back to base and risk it being found… 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 the voice came from; knowing who it was. "Dammit," he says quietly as he shakes his head in disappointment. He sees Zeke approaching the group, signed his name and proceeded to leave being upset about it. He continued to watch him leave the Announcement Area. He follows Zeke until he sees him enter the nearby bathroom. Reaching the bathroom entrance and just when he's about to enter, he hears a loud smashing sound coming from inside, startling him. He quickly 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 Zeke's 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 F&%$ING ONE! After this am f&%$ing out of here." He demands. He then storms out of the bathroom not saying another word.

Being alone taking deep breaths, trying to get his composure back, he then looks to the trash can. He walks up to it, grabbing his flight jacket and 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 to leave their side. You're main mission is to keep them safe." He pokes Chris in the chest. "You go…" Then points to the other soldiers, finishing with, "wherever they go. Got it?!" The Officer orders.

"Got it." Chris replies.

He turns and walks away from Chris before he even has a chance to ask a question. Becoming upset, he asks with attitude, "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 on a need-to-know basis. Everything will come full circle when the time is right," he continues to walk away not revealing anything else.

Grumbling to himself, "Yeah… what the f&%$ ever. This shit better pay good." He kneels down to un-zip 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 zips up the duffle bag and stands up.

"Don't worry. I'm not going to question your motives anymore," she raises her clipboard of names to him. "I added your name to it. Chris Beckers, was it?"

He looks at her and smiles, "Uhh, not anymore." He shows her his identification card.

She looks at it, then at him, then the card again. "Rookie." Looks at him again. "Rookie?"

"That's right. …Rookie," he says shamefully 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 gets ready to go to his group. "I got to start heading off. See you around Mrs. Reviera," he says, leaving.

Her eyes widens in embarrassment and she shouts in protest. "NO! That's sounds weird. IT'S TRISH!"

He gives her the thumbs up, continuing to walk away to a find a spot where he can change into his gear. Unzipping the duffle bag, he takes out the black vest and just looks at it. "This f&%$ing color," he quietly complains. Once he was done putting on his black combat vest, dark grey shirt, black pants and combat boots, he meets up with group six. They all look at him, not uttering a single word to him. They then 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 get 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 quills 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 okay. 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," Barnett 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. "The 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.

Three massive Resistance Aircrafts carrying two groups each, fly towards one of the Flying Prison near the Ruined Metropolis City at high speed.

The first Aircraft is loaded with groups One and Two. The second Aircraft has Three and Four. The last has groups Five and Six. Zeke was with Group Five while Chris was with Group Six. Both groups are 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 their type of clothing gear was even different than mine. They were wearing mostly all black while I'm wearing mostly 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? He looks at his rifle… and… does the same thing. …Yup, looks good to me.

Group Leader of Five, gives everyone a mission recap on what to do when they land. "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 back, "READY!"


First aircraft comes in flying at high speed and hovers without ever landing. Both group Five and Six jump out guns 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 also being around does the exact same, but needs to be at the same pace with one of his specific group member and to make sure to keep all of them safe.

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 past the destroyed wall, both group Five and 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 insists to go in deeper. Group Five begins 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 Six while Chris looks right back to him, but Group Six 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 the groups, he sees Group Six head down a corridor not stopping. Quickly turns back his group and 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'RE INSANE!"

Zeke tries to catch up with them, running down the same corridor that they went into, as he sees nothing but destroyed robots along the way. He knew it was that Green Hedgehog that was doing mostly all of the shooting for them. Stopping at the exit of the corridor and entering a large open area, he looks up able to see the night sky. He stops trying to figure out where they went, "Shit… where did they go?" He mumbles.

Hearing the sound of robots footsteps, he ducks out of sight as dozens of robots marched right pass him and go down the same corridor that he exited out of. 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. Slowly about to get out of cover but another robot walks by scaring him to hide again. He watches the robot head down the same corridor. Shit, forget about going that way. Who knows how many of them went down that way.

"Aircraft good to go. Good to go yet?" his communicator warns again.

He looks back at the corridor regaining any semblance of courage, Alright, alright… got to… go… back? Looking to the right of his exit he notices something. "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.


Chris thinks 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?

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 at the 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 flashlight 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 anxiously approaches him, "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 sits 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 four.

"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."

Zander just stood 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 stands 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." He answers while pointing.

Zeke makes a mad dash in that direction and while running across a bridge extended three stories high, he looks down to the ground floor able to see the enemy aircrafts. "I know the way now. Just down-" A loud gunshot roars out as Zeke gets hit in the arm. The force of the hit whips his body around making Sonic fly off his back. Zeke slams onto the floor hard, losing his rifle in the process. In pain, he looks at his rifle seeing how far it is from him but then turns his gaze to Sonic seeing him struggling to get back to his feet. He grabs Sonic instead and slides back and hides behind containers and wooden crates 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 your 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 insists.

"And you think you haven't been hurt enough?" Zeke asks, getting up while 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."


Meanwhile back with Group Six, Chris was shooting and blasting every robot in sight trying to get to their extraction point and making sure everyone is safe. Slightly slowing down, he keeps his rifle drawn making his way down the corridor to the exit. He looks to the left side as one of the Soldiers walks passed him taking the lead. Noticing him, a robot appears taking a shot, as the Soldier gets hit. Chris fires back hitting the robots sensors destroying it instantly.

One of the other Soldier's picks up the injured Soldier and argues. "You're supposed to keep us safe!"

"Then stay the f&%$ behind me." Chris argues back.

Before any of the other Soldiers can complain back, one of them raises up a fist in command. "Shut-up!" Everyone stops and just watches him. He holds it up for a few seconds then quickly brings it down as he warns, "He's here. Hide."

Everyone hides in dark patch areas in the corridor.

Chris hides perfectly still and silent. Whatever the Soldier warned about… it revealed itself, as it hovers slowly directly over them stopping every few feet. His eyes were glowing violet in the darkness through his metallic grey pointed mask. Purple particles spewing from his body that you can actually… hear it? Chris can't even take his eyes off of him. His vision was getting distorted. Odd blurry images randomly popping into his mind until a voice whispers out to him. "Do it."

He grabs his head as the pressure builds still looking at the Masked Figure floating, "Gah! Wha?"

"Do it." The voice whispers out again.

"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 happened 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 Masked Figure but nothing. The bullets don't make contact with 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 with the Soldier, causing him to go flying back and through the cockpit door creating an 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.


Meanwhile back with Zeke, he awkwardly looks at Sonic examining the handgun he handed over to him, like he doesn't know what to do with it. Being concerned, he asks, "You do know how to use one… right?"

Sonic looks back 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 the bullet hole, he then looks up spotting the Warden aiming right at him.

Zeke was out on the side of the bridge, hanging out of view, making sure not to fall off. Inch by inch 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 injured right arm. Zeke shouts out in pain as he 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 your 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 the Warden 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 places it onto Zeke's face, causing his 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…-" He notices the main sensors attached to the side of the Wardens head that keeps him functional. Zeke snarls and changes his tone while pointing to the Wardens sensor on his head. "Aim right here!" Warden eyes widen and turn as Sonic fires a shot point blank into his head. Zeke collapses onto the floor.

Sonic just kept on pulling the trigger over and over, firing it at the Wardens head 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 of Zeke coming back. "Son of a… get on." Zeke says coming back to pick him up. "Gah, ow geez…" He helps Sonic get into the elevator to reach the bottom floor.


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 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."


Hours later at one of Radar Stations near the Resistance Base. The Radar Operator gets 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."


Meanwhile inside the enemy aircraft, "Please don't shoot me… Please don't shoot me." Zeke chants inside. "I flicked every light on like it's Christmas. I hope they get a clue. …Please don't shoot me… Please don't shoot me."


Outside at the Resistance Base as the Air Craft lands and the bay door opens up, every Resistance Soldier point there weapons ready to fire. Everyone else just stands around 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. I'm back. Long time no see." 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." Hearing someone footsteps enter the room causing him to look at the door seeing Zander standing there. He gets up and stands there staying quiet 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'RE 'LAST' MISSION? SCARE THE F$%# OUT OF YOU'RE 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 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 Six that went missing." Everyone looks at each other unhappy… but not as much as Trish, as she looks at her clipboard seeing 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. Slowly coming to his senses snapping out of it, he rubs his head in pain. He slowly rises up to his feet muttering, "Wha… happen?" Looking forward, he sees nothing but an empty grassy field but once he turns around, he sees the wreckage of the Air Craft still on fire. "What the…" He looks at the ground and distance to it. "60ish feet? …How'd 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… but by feet? He sighs, "This is going to be a long ass walk," he complains to himself.


Hours later of walking with the sun beating down on him… he sits down to take his black pants off. "Damn it's getting hot. I thought I wasn't going to wear this again. I f&%$ing hate this color." Taking them off, he then cuts them into shorts. A sigh of relief, "That's better." 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 at the town, not even debating about it and heads towards it.

Venturing into town but every building he walks by is either destroyed or ransacked. Not giving up just yet, he kept walking deeper into town till he notices something weird. He mutters, "What the heck?" Getting closer, he sees a circular sphere hovering off of the ground made up of what looks like purple particles. Weird, this looks familiar… wait… Is this from- He picks up a metal bar and walks slowly towards it. Standing 6 feet away from it… -Yeah… it's the same shit 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. "Do it." The voice speaks out 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 looking right back. "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. He then runs off to hide anywhere in the dark storage room.

Moments later Chris smashes through the window and prepares himself. Looking around in the dark storage room he calls out, "Who's in here? I'm not going to hurt you… and if I was, I wouldn't be saying anything… right?" Hearing footsteps coming from his right and before getting a chance to react, he gets punched in the face. Staggering back he bumps 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 on whatever he was going to do next. "Nice punch." Chris says putting down his guard and just stands there looking at an orange teen fox. "Why are you sneaking around kid?" He asks.

Insulted by the question, "I'm not a kid and am not sneaking around."

"Looks to me like you were," accusing him again as he takes a step forward.

"I'm not sneaking around." He argues back again. He then points at the Purple Particles "I'm here for that." They both look at the purple particles… but what they see instead is ROBOTS AIMING AT THEM.

"Shit." Chris looks back at the kid just standing there frozen. He then yells at him to snap him out of it. "RUN!"

The kid gets startled and rushes to the broken open window as Chris runs away also.


Busting out the back door almost breaking it down as gun fire can be heard from inside the store. Not a single weapon on him to even think about fighting back. He runs away as fast as he could.

Suddenly something orange zips right by him. …It then stops and slowly goes into a slow brisk jog to maintain the same pace that Chris running with, having no issue to being able too. Chris on the other hand is running with everything he has. "You have got to be joking?" The Orange Fox says judging him.

"Oh Shut up." Chris says back, stopping to catch his breath. "Cardio isn't my thing."

"I've thought all Hedgehogs were fast. I've never seen one run so slow." He mocks him.

Chris 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?" He mocks back.

He looks at Chris with annoyance while Chris looks back with a smirk. Chris holds out his fist and then says, "My name is-"

"Rookie" He interrupts him.

Surprised hearing what he said, Chris just stares at him losing his smile and asks, "How do you know that?"

He checks one of his pouches and hands over his identification card.

He grabs it out of his hand without even looking at it. He already knew. Knew how he survived the crash. Chris then puts the I.D Card in the same pocket as before, still not taking his eyes off of the Two Tailed Fox. He informs, "It's not Rookie. The name is Chris. So what's yours, since you know what mine is?"

He looks at Chris and answers, "My name is… is Miles."


Rewind Back to Last Night to Operation Smash and Grab.

Miles arrives flying onto the flying prison with the Tornado. Exiting out, he can see the Resistance aircrafts also approaching and landing. The first Air Craft arrives and the two attack group exiting out causing distraction for the whole sky prison to focus on them. He kept his distance and also keeping tabs on the rescue mission. With them causing enough disruption, 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. Needing to stop, he looks at his communicator as nothing but static comes out of it. "That's odd… what's causing such a massive interference around here?" He mutters to himself 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.

He enters one of the maintenance work rooms and begins his search. The alarms sounds become more frantic, all throughout the prison till Miles finds the final component he was searching for. "Finally, I thought I wasn't going to get my hands on you" He shoves it into his pouch, "Now to get out of here."

Exiting out of the room, the lights to the hallways were now deactivated. "Geez… they're really messing up this place." He looks at his tracker as the interference disrupts his position on it. Becoming worried, "Yeah… I'm out of here." He heads down the same hallways.

Quickly turning a corner, he sees someone standing in the hallway looking down it, aiming his rifle. Getting startled, he quickly backs off and hides. Did he see me? He slightly looks back. 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 peeks out again to check what he's doing and sees him looking at the door. 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 smashing, metallic sound startling him. "What was that?" He asks. Turning to the direction the sound 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. "Gah! What the… what?" Then another body collides to the floor farther away from where the first landed. He quickly looks up at the aircraft again as the cockpit explodes causing it to spin out of control. He watches it falls, as it goes out of view falling right off the flying prison catching on fire and heads right back down to Earth. "Oh no, I have to-"

Something bright purple 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 panic; he turns his focus to where the aircraft fell from. I have to get to them and hope that they're okay. He quickly flies off the prison.


Landing and exiting out, he rushes to the downed Aircraft, hoping to find anyone 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. That was the loud metallic sound that I heard. Without hesitation he runs right in and hope he sees anyone. "Hello? Anyone here… anyone?!" He shouts entering but 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

All four of his recruits just stood 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 I'm 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 supposed 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 trashcan 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.

"I'm just as surprised as you are. 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 for once." 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 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 HERE FOR!"

"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-"

"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. He 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 kept 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. He speaks softly, "My name is Philip. I just… want people to depend on me and look past my name as POS." He looks up to 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 insults 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 argue about them.

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 is that 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, trying not to look directly 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 wonders.

Miles looks at him oddly. "No… do you?"

Chris answers scratching the back of his head, "yeah, like it wants me to do something."

Miles looks at him scratching the back of his head just like Sonic does but then 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." He 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 continues 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 mistake, "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." He turns on the engine. "Let's go."

Chris doesn't even hesitate and climbs on. They set off to 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 their radar."

He shakes his head and explains back, "No, they won't. The Tornado is highly cloaked. They're never going to catch this plane on radar."

Time after time he gets impressed regretting what he said about him. "You need to work on your in-flight meals."

Confused from what he heard, "Huh? But I never gave you anything."

"Yeah you have. You fed me back my words." He 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. He asks, "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 while balancing gear along the way.

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 says, pointing at 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. When you were captured …he just disappeared. No one's seen him since. 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.

Nervously he answers, "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, I'm already losing it just seeing you standing." Being worried still blocking 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.


Sonic 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 smile, 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, he motivates himself, Baby steps. Before you know it, I'll be back… good as new. I 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 says out loud. 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 find anything. So far nothing as Chris looks 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 call 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 mutters shaking 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 heads back to Miles.


Miles looking at his scanners trying to find anything, he looks up and notices someone walking to him. With a slight glance, he sees Sonic walking towards him, and then he looks back to his scanners. Surprised by it, he looks back to make sure but it's only 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 him, seeing how he's rubbing his head. Being a bit concerned, "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. It might take a couple of days to check all of them."

Chris looks at the Resistance Base. "I got 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 it come from someone, he slowly 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 gently grabs the door knob and quietly opens it. Taking one step inside, he looks and… "Uh-oh… Please don't tell anyone." He says worried, seeing someone standing there.


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 upset.

"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 exit out, 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's 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 of the barracks and heads to where POS and Lance are, she stands right next to them. They all look at 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! I'M NOT TAKING ALL OF THIS BLAME!" He shouts back.

Trish looking she asks, "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 just walks away while shaking her head.

Lance was staring with disapproval. "Yeah, I agree." POS said.

While Trish was heading to the H.Q, at a distance, something catches her eye in the field. "Hmm?" She notices someone running. "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 about getting caught, he pleads, "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.

Being caught off guard, he asks, "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 was asleep able to hear the sound of beeps from hospital equipment, until they become silent and quiet. 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 with it.

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 just happens to be around. Amy gets up and walks to Knuckles side and warns, "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 three of them were silent and in disbelief for seconds, except for Amy. "Told you," she says.

"WHAT?! You want us to… WHAT?! …WHAT?! After everything he's done… you want 'US' to find him and RESCUE HIM?! …WHAT?!" Knuckles was 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 while 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 mutters, "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?"

"Easy. 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.

He goes on to say, "Silver I need you here. Soooo…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 that 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.


Chapter 4: Sonic's Request.

Part 8: You want us to what?

Late at night in the Resistance Hospital, Sonic is asleep but able to hear the sound of beeps from hospital equipment, until they become muffled and quiet. Suddenly, he jolts awake, finding himself strapped onto his bed with metal handcuffs as they clang to the metal bars. His legs were also restrained in place barely able to move. 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 metallic voice is heard from within the darkness.

Sonic realizing it was the Warden's voice from the prison; he begins to panic breathing heavily. "Wha?... No? 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 revealing his disfigured bullet ridden face, as it twitches when sparks fly out of it. The Warden whips out a knife and slowly touches Sonic's legs with it. "Guess I have to remind you again."

Eyes widen in fear he looks at his legs being touched by the knife, "No…No… I-" The Warden raises the knife up and brings it down, plunging it into one of them.

"NNOOOOO!-" He suddenly jolts awake in a sweat, finding himself in the dark in his room forgetting where he is. Panicking he frantically looks everywhere in the darkness rubbing his legs as he slowly remembers where he is saying over and over, "I'm safe… 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 sits on his hospital bed. He was realizes something but isn'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, "Can you bring Knuckles here for a sec? Need to talk to him about something." The nurse accepts his request and leaves to find Knuckles. Amy then turns to look at Sonic wondering what it could possibly be.

Later on the Nurse comes back with Knuckle's, Silver, and Trish who just happen to be around them at the time.

Amy gets up and walks to Knuckles side and warns, "You're not going to believe what he's about to say." She turns and faces Sonic.

Knuckles still looking at her, he turns his gaze to Sonic in concern and asks, "What is it?"

Sonic cautiously hesitates as he answers, "I uhh… want you to go find Robotnik annnnd if he's in trouble… rescue him… and bring him back here."

All three of them were silent and in disbelief for seconds, except for Amy. She looks at Knuckle's expression in disbelief. "Told you," she says.

Knuckles explodes in rage trying so hard not to hurt Sonic as he shouts at him. "WHAT?! You want us to… WHAT?! …WHAT?! After everything he's done… you want 'US' to find him and RESCUE HIM?! …WHAT?!"

Sonic just nods, "Yup, that's exactly what I said. Think about it, Knucks. It's been days since 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 while 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." He warns them.

Amy agrees, trying to calm him down, "He has a point. What if Robotnik is in trouble?"

Silver also agrees, "Yeah, Robotnik 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."

Knuckle's anger slowly subsides and mutters, "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.

Knuckles then calms down after his outburst and asks Sonic, "Where do we start looking? You have any ideas?"

"That's easy. 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 then points to Amy. "That Amy isn't going to want to leave Sonic's side."

Amy smiles, appreciating his thoughtfulness.

He then continues on to say, "Silver I need you here. Soooo…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 interrupts 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 that 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.

Knuckles then claps his hands together, "Great, that's done. Now dismissed." 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 saunters 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, raising a finger up, "Even better, I'll explain all of it along the way with you as we all go from place to place."

Barnett sighs. "Alright, I'll go get them ready, pack things up and we'll be good to go." He agrees and walks away towards his recruits.

Trish heads 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 mocks 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 Resistance Air Craft lands on a flat piece of land in Green Hills. Everyone exits out as POS asks to Trish while looking around, "So what exactly are we looking for?"

She hesitates to answer, "Umm, We're…looking for a weird anomaly in the area." She looks at her tracking device. "This should point right to it."

"Oh, really? Then mission success." Edward says.

"What, really?" Trish asks, confused.

Edward nods with a shit eating grin on his face, "Yeah; just point it that way and you'll find that weird anomaly."

Trish aims it to where he's pointing at but ends up pointing it to Eddie instead.

"See? Isn't that the weirdest anomaly you've ever seen?" He asks again, trying not to laugh while looking at Eddie being angry.

All Eddie did was give him the finger as Lance stood behind him, shaking his head at Edward.

Barnett sighs. "Let's get this over with so we can leave. Which way are we going?"

She points the tracker in the right direction, "It's pointing that way… by a lot."

"Alright." He turns to his recruits and orders, "Line up! We're moving out!" All four of the line up in formation ready to go. He turns back to her. "You lead and we'll follow."

Everyone leaves and follows Trish around Green Hills. Down a hill, up a hill, back down a hill and through a cave. Exiting out of the cave they go right back up a hill to… to? All of them stop and look up.

"What the heck?" Edward asks, unsure how to deal with what they're looking at.

"A loop? How are we… just… how?" Eddie trying to figure out how.

POS remembering Sonic and what he does in Green Hills, he smiles being impressed, "Damn… I know he's fast but… wow…"

Barnett refusing to do it while shaking his head, he then orders, "The heck with that, we're going around it." After going around the loop, they continue going up the hill as everyone stops. They were surprised looking out to the large open field.

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 the 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 trying to scare them. "Who goes there?" A voice demands coming out of the bushes scaring Edward.

"I'm armed and ready to kill!" Edward warns back.

"Please don't." Another voice is heard. A pair of robotic hands spring out of the bushes waving a white flags.

Trish hides 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 still holding onto the white flags. "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.

The Red Orbed robot answers, "I'm Orb Bot and he's Cube Bot."

"Yeah-yeah, come this way quick." Cube bot says, leading the way to a cave.

Trish approaches the cave, then enters following Orb Bot. Barnett stops at the entrance and turns to POS advises, "Me and Trish are going into the cave, so I'm 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 while Lance is just staring at them. Barnett then enters the cave but POS still stands there happy at the entrance of the cave with his tail wagging. He mumbles again happily, "He… he…depends on me."


Barnett and Trish venture into 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 and just looks straight forward.

Once Barnett enters, he looks around seeing electrical equipment scattered everywhere and large electrical cables. He looks at 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 fail-safe 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 explains, 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 continues to stare 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.

Barnett turns to face her furious and points at her, "YOU KNEW ABOUT THIS!"

Shocked by his reaction, she explains, "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 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 hears him. Eddie and Edward quickly stop fighting, startled. All of them look at the entrance of the cave.

POS startled by it, "Damn… what the heck is going on in there?"

Barnett just stood there quietly depressed about what he just 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 he doesn't want a squad. She now knew who was on that picture frame in his sleeping quarters. Trying not to get overly emotional she requests, "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 aircraft 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 stands 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 asks.

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.

Everyone watches as the flare flies high into the sky… seconds later off in the distance miles away… another flare gets fired into the sky.

"They saw it." Edward says.

"It should take around ten minutes for them to get here… maybe more." Trish warns.

Orb Bot and Cube Bot exit out of the cave with Laser rifles and Pistols for everyone to arm themselves with.

Cube Bot hands a laser rifle to Edward and then heads to Eddie to do the same. Edward looks down to it in his hands slowly becoming worried. He turns to his brother, "Are… are we really doing this?"

"You're not s-scared… are you?" He says back trying to remain calm.

Barnett points at them, "Eddie, Edward… get behind those three crates and shoot at whatever comes over that hill top."

They both head to the crates and get ready as Edward pats his brother in the back, "We got this. Everything is going to be fine… We got this."

He then orders, "POS, you and the… this bot…-" He hesitates forgetting the yellow robot's name.

"That's Cube Bot, Sir." He salutes back.

He gets surprised by the salute; in all of his days in military service… he'd never thought that a robot would ever salute him. He nods and goes back to ordering, "Cube Bot… right. Both of you stay close to the Pod and keep it safe from whatever comes from the right side."

"Yes Sir." They both answer back and head to the pod.

Heading to the pod, Cube Bot then mentions, "POS? …isn't that an acronym for-"

"It's my initials," POS quickly corrects him.

"Lance, you stay right here with Trish and keep her safe." He then slightly narrows his eyes at her mad about the situation. "You… stay right next to him at all times." She nods right back, accepting the order.

He then turns to Orb Bot, "And you, you're coming with me."

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 at whatever comes over the hills.

POS remains next to the Stasis Tube and Cube Bot trying to keep them safe firing at whatever comes from the right side.

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." A deep raspy voice comes out of him. She looks at him and nods agreeing.

Barnett notices that the Robots are O-series and that their weak point is their waist. He quickly shouts, "AIM FOR THEIR WAIST! AIM FOR THEIR WAIST!" A giant robot comes from his left side as it knocks him down, losing his rifle.

"GAH!" Trying to reach the rifle as it's 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 frantically '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 energy 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 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 start to board and so does Lance. As POS and Barnet step onto the bay door, the Aircraft shifts to fire at robots coming from the left. POS loses his footing and slips off of the bay door and collides with Barnett. They both go flying right back out hitting the ground.

"NOOoo TURN BACK!... TURN BACK!" Edward Shouts at the pilot.

Lance and Eddie rush to the open bay door reaching out to grab one of them, "MY HAND! GRAB IT!" Eddie shouts 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 in agreement but instead shoves Barnett to be grabbed by Lance and 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 Aircraft 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 lies on his back as laser fire flies right over him; he kicks the button to shut the bay door. While it closes, one of the robots gets crushed by it.

"GO, GO, GO!" Barnett shouts to leave as everyone can hear the aircraft being shot at from the outside. The aircraft quickly lifts off, as they all watch hundreds of robots approach the very same spot they were at seconds ago.

"Damn… that was nuts. Is everyone alright?" POS breathes heavily as he sits looking at the laser rifle in his hands out of energy.

Everyone answers and gestures back in their own way, saying that they're 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 is it with him now?" Knuckles asks annoyed.

"He didn't say. He just kept saying-"…

Sonic says over and over on his bed, "No, no, no, no …uhh…oh yeah." He 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 WAS TO STICK HIM IN THE SAME ROOM AS ME!" Sonic shouts as he points at Robotnik's, 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!" Comes from Sonic.

The Nurse wanting 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

WARNING! A fan favorite character is going to get hurt. It's nothing to dire but it is going to happen. Please don't get mad about it.


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, he stops. "Hm?" He quickly looks back to the kitchen, realizing who he just saw. "…What?" Over coming with guilt, a tear runs down his face. He hurries back to make sure. Reaching the kitchen he looks into it again but…

Chris just stands there looking and going through whatever there is to eat. "Geez… most of the stuff is close to expiring… never mind. Most of it 'is' passed the expiration-" Hearing something by the door he turns to look at it, "Hmm? …Miles?"

No one was there but Miles was 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?" he says to himself crying. He crawls back onto bed and tries to go back to sleep whispering, "I'm sorry Sonic. I'm so sorry."


At noon, Chris just wanders around, wondering what to do before he loses his mind of boredom. "Chris!" He hears Miles calling out to him. Walking up to Miles, he sees him holding onto a pair of weird looking shoes. "Here… put these on." Miles says, handing them to Chris.

Removing his heavy combat boots, he slips them on. "Not bad. A little loose but they feel good," he says as he ties them tighter.

"It's not about feeling good; it's about what they can do," Miles mentions as he grabs a clipboard. "Let's go outside."

Outside, Chris notices that they were walking far away from the building.

Miles then stops and asks, pointing, "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. Once stopping, he then instructs, "Okay… now press the orange button."

Chris just stands there looking at Miles and then down to the shoes staring at the orange button on his right shoe. 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.

What the f&^% does that even mean? Chris thinks to himself, giving Miles a concerned look. "Which is… what? …Blow up?"

Miles stays quiet for a while and asks. "Have you been reading my notes?"

Surprised from what he just heard him say, he shouts back hysterically, "ARE YOU F&^ KIDDING ME?!" Quickly sitting down and desperately fights with the 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.

Chris 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, he then asks, "Ok… now what?"

Miles's voice drones out, "Nothi…n..gs dif…fer…e…nt?"

He stands up looking around confused why Miles sounds so weird answering back. "I don't think… so," he answers, seeing a bug 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 back to Miles. "No way; …is this really happening?" He walks to Miles and then around him chuckling while flicking and messing with his hair. "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 returns back to normal. While searching for Chris, he realizes that his hair is a mess. "What the… how did my-" He turns around and sees Chris standing somewhere different. He smiles knowing that it worked and asks, "Still feeling good?"

"Better than good; that was… that was really something else." Chris answers back with a smile.

Miles was glad how everything turned out, but then 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 looks at the Resistance base and smirks. "I know exactly where it is." He balls his hand into a fist and puts out… but Miles just stares at it doing nothing. He sighs disappointed then opens his fist and says, "Hand me the list of what you need and I'll go get it."


At the Resistance Base Inventory, Chris quietly 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 lose his footing. Slipping, tumbling, falling ending 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. He does finger guns. I'm more of the Gunz-a-Blazing type instead.

He begins to search around for the parts on the list but box after box 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." He pops it open and grabs a chip. About to put it into his mouth-

"What happened to group six?" A females voice is heard demanding. He looks over his shoulder and sees someone standing by the doorway glaring at him ready to attack him.

Rewind


Amy sits next to Sonic's bed while he's lying on it, they both watch the nurse leave the room. He turns and begging smile 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?" Sonic asks getting out of bed.

She grabs her keys. "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?"

"Sorry to give you some bad news Ms. Rose, but you're not going to like this." He points to the Storage Building. "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 it out myself 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 opens to enter getting ready to see a mess but the sound of a bag bursting open surprises her, causing her to stop. "Huh?" Peering into the room, she sees someone standing with a bag of chips over an open container. Oh… the nerve of him. She thinks upset of the intruder, catching him in the act. About to step inside to confront him, she stops as she notices something about him. Wait… his gear. Is he from…? He is. She walks in and demands, "What happened to Group Six?"

Getting startled by her, Chris pleads, "It's a long story, just please don't ask for help."

She closes the door and just stands there. "I have 20 minutes so it better be a good story."


Part 11 Innocent Till Proven Guilty

Back at Miles's place he's tries 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. No, 'we' have to go to this lab area to get the rest of the information. He thinks to himself, as he looks out of a window and to the Resistance Base. I just have to wait for him to come back.


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 as he also loosens up and eats a chip in front of her.

"We got a name for him now. He's called Infinite," she informs him.

Chris then quips and eats another chip."Pfft, 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 interrupts and accuses, crossing her arms.

Being ashamed looking at the bag of chips in his hand, unable to deny that he's stealing from them, "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 is smart. Needs it for his plane."

"Kid…smart…plane?"...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 turning red.

"No!" He rushes over and catches her before she hits the floor. Hearing a door open he glances a person heading out. He looks back down and Amy slightly struggling to talk. "This can't be happening."

"Run…Go…their going to blame you," she requests.

He refuses. "I can't, not like this."

Amy goes unconscious. He slowly puts her down and hears voices outside. He quickly gets up to his feet and rushes to the window that he used to enter. Hearing the door get kicked open. They enter with guns drawn but only see Amy's body on the floor. "Ms. Rose!" one of them shouts. One of The Resistance Soldiers sees Chris running to the window as he jumps, smashing right through it to escape.


Chris hurries back to Miles's base, almost breaking down the door, scaring him. "What happened?" Miles asks.

"Whatever you have planned…we got to go. Now!" Chris says in a panic.

"What happened?" He asks again, concerned.

"Someone spotted me in the place," Chris answers hysterically, trying to stay calm as he searches through cabinets for anything to drink.

Miles being concerned, he asks, "Who was-" But then stops mid-sentence noticing his clothes having blood on it. He then points at them. "Whose blood is that?"

Just as Chris was about to take a drink, 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 while looking at it, "Uhh…Hedgehog, pink quills… pretty sure that I heard her name was Mrs. Rose."

Miles eyes widen realizing who it is and yells out, "AMY!"

"Wha? Is that her-" As Chris asks he suddenly gets slammed up against the wall by Miles as he demands, "WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?!"

Chris being surprised, he grabs onto Miles's wrist and squeezes tight, then twist 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 WEREN'T THE ONLY ONES IN THAT F&%$ING ROOM!" Chris calms himself down he asks, "Who is she?"

Miles with one hand on his head paces around as he answers mumbling, "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 stood 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 makes it back in time to the Base door. He quietly opens the door…and it's Trish again. Being relieved to see her, he whispers, "Glad it's you." He looks at her sad face. "What's wrong?" he asks, concerned.

She doesn't answer but instead has him follow her. She leads him to another room but stops at the entrance, 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.

The first person he sees is Knuckles and then Silver right next to him. Knuckles turns and looks to Sonic 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?!"

Seeing how enraged Sonic is, Silver quickly 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 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

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 tense silence between them. "You sure know a lot about the Resistance… especially Amy. How? You've been with them before?"

Miles hesitates to answer 'till he finally says, "No, I've never been with them. It's just…I know most them that are currently there, Like Amy."

Knowing that theirs more, Chris continues to pry, "If you know so much about Amy and her relationship with Sonic, then does that mean you know a lot about him also?"

Miles stays silent but then says as a warning, "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 as shoves the earpiece into his ear.

"That's right. You're going to check the opposite side while I check this side. We have eight areas to check," he says as he marks four spots for Chris to check on a map, then 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 it once you see it. That ear piece will start to hum once you're close to the right computer."

"Got it," he says back, as he un-holsters something from his side.

Miles makes sure everything is ready and good to go, but notices something is missing. "Where did it go?" He looks over to Chris and sees what he's holding onto. "How did you… when did you?" He reaches out to grab it.

Chris raises it high into the air. "Don't get your tails in a knot. I'm not going to f&%$ing shoot anyone with it."

"Ugh!" Of course he's going to think that it's a gun. "That's not what it is," He quickly points out.

"Really? Then what is it?"

"It's an electro by-passer to force any lock open when I can't hack into it manually," Miles explains.

Confused and also disappointed from what Miles said, Chris looks at the 'Not a gun' in his hand and then asks, "So… what would happen if I nail somebody with it?"

Miles narrows his eyes at him. "Gee… I don't know… why don't you try it on yourself to find out," answering back with attitude.

Chris narrows his eyes back at him. "You know what; I don't appreciate this sass of yours… so may…be…" He slowly aims it at Miles, about to pull the trigger…

Miles's eyes widen in panic. "NO! Don't even… DON'T!" He quickly hops back avoiding it and flies away.

Chris was in utter disbelief watching him fly away. He mutters confused, "What the f&%$? He can fly with them?" He laughs and holsters the gadget back to his side and then shouts, "Have fun checking this side!" He walks off to where he needs to go.


Miles reaches the first building and enters to check the first spot. Going straight to the room it turns out to be a normal office lounge area. Nope. Not here. He 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 as he pulls out the map figure out where the next spot is. He turns, facing directly to where he needed to go. "That way," he mutters and as he looks up, he notices lights flashing and moving. Huh? Power still works around here? As he gets closer he realizes what it is. "No… they're 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?" Chris answers from the ear piece.

"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 of them searching around. We have to hurry and find it before they-"

A loud shattering sound of a broken window makes Miles takes his earpiece out of his ear and look at it.

"Geez…" Miles puts his earpiece back into his ear. "What's with you and going through windows?"

"They're in my way," Chris answers.

Trying not to be overly frustrated, he warns again, "Just… be cautious over there."

"Yeah, yeah. I'll try not to rough them up too much. Chris out."

Miles focuses on the building, looking at the flashing lights, but hears weird noises coming from his earpiece, "Maybe just a little… it has been awhile since I kicked someone's ass." He hears Chris talking to himself.

"I can still hear you." Miles informs him.

"Uhh… whoops," Chris says and all Miles hears is him messing with his earpiece while complaining, "How do you mute this sh-" finally silence.

Miles smiles and laughs, 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 examines the map again and back at the building. "Great."

The building is only one floor and just a couple of rooms. He knows he could easily be spotted if he's not careful. Entering and slowly heading down the single hallway, he notices that it was just two Resistance Soldiers 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 PCs 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 peeking over it, worried.

"Gah…Damn!" The Soldier 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 hitting him in the first place, he just hides and just stares as things are thrown from one side of the room to the next. He sneaks right by still looking at them fight 'till he reaches the correct room. Opening and entering, he gives one quick look then quickly exits out shaking his head no. 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 an apology, "Sorry about that."

Rewind


Chris lands onto the next building after jumping through the window, landing on the roof. He enters the building to search the third area.

Still fighting with his earpiece, he manages to mute himself walking down the hallway. "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."

Angrily pulling out the map to look at it still walking, he stops and looks back down the hallway that he came from. "Of course I passed the damn door." Going back, he stands in front of the correct door. "Right here." Opening the door but inside was just a broom closet.

"Wow… not cliché at all. Major X on you." He slams the door closed and pulls out the map again. "Bet he did that on purpose. Last spot is 5 buildings across." He looks 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 landing on the right building he contacts Miles again, "Hey Miles, you there, over?"


Miles heads to his next spot while flying, and lands while answering, "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."

"I'm not really using them but they sure are comfortable at least. Either way I'm almost there too, I just… ha…ve… uh… crap… uh… M-Miles… I-I need some advice down here," Chris begins to panic.

Miles getting a bit concerned, he stops and asks, "Advice, on what?"

"You're going to pay for what you did to her," A familiar voice comes 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 says trying not to lose it.

The last thing Miles hears coming out of the earpiece is Chris's voice panicking as he asks, "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 that he can literally feel it beating to the point of bursting. He just stood there looking directly at Sonic who's also stands at the end of the hallway looking right back at him. He calls out to Miles, "Miles? Miles? You there?" But nothing. Miles doesn't answer back. "Oh crap… I am so f&%$ing screwed," Chris says to himself as Sonic rushes right at him…


Rewind Back to the Resistance Hospital

At the Resistance Base, Sonic still stands next to Amy's bed.

Silver, who is also there, he asks, "Are you going to be ok?"

"She stood by my bed to make sure I got better…now I'm the one doing it. When I find'em…I'm 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 suggests.

Out in the hallway Silver asks, "So… how long have you been sneaking out of this place Hhmmm?" he gives him a smug look.

Realizing he's in trouble, "Uuumm, just today? Hehehe! Yeah, today, that's right."

Silver 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, he quickly confesses, "Okokok, for a couple of days now… 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.

Sonic slumps his shoulders at the sheer perfect timing. "Thanks Silver, you're the best." He says sarcastically.

"Sorry" Silver apologizes.

"Your 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 in 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 enter making sure Sonic isn't hurting him.

Robotnik answers Sonic. "For saving me? I guess I'll 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 until he finally managed to escape. He was then teleported here in a weakened state. Scientist soon found him and kept him hidden in a lab until I found him and freed him. As promised, 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. So… very… easily, too."

With Robotnik mockery fueling his anger, all Sonic thinks of is revenge. He wants to hurt him, but Silver held him back with his telekinetic powers. "Let... me... go. Months... months," he struggles to say 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, don't we?"

Silver begins to interrogate. "Do you know what happened to the scientist from the lab?"

"No, it was completely evacuated when I arrived."

"You said 'lab'. Where is it?" Knuckles was the next to speak.

"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 as he leaves the room.

Silver follows as he pulls Sonic along the way, still glaring at Robotnik as he waves goodbye to him.

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 Silver's 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 requests.

Sonic quips back, "I get it. I'll be careful. What can possibly go wrong?"

Knuckles and Silver look at each other from the corner of their eyes, then back to Sonic. "We'll be here all night going through every single possible reason," Silver says.


Sonic and the Resistance Squad arrive at the Labs. Everyone exits out as Sonic stretches as he says, "You guys split off here. I'll go check out the opposite end and see what I can find."

"Alright but-"

Before one of the Resistance Soldiers is able to warn him and to do a mission re-cap, Sonic speeds off.

Another Soldier watching Sonic run off then asks wondering, "Umm… does he even know what we're looking for?"

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 I'm looking for."

Right when he's about to run again, the sudden sound of a window being broken is heard, as glass sprinkles the ground. Looking upward to figure out where it came from, he then points at the broken window. "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 sure can't sneak around if his life depended on it." A minute later someone jump from the roof onto the next building over. Sonic follows from the ground, until he sees him stop on top of 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 echoing 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 as Sonic says, "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. "OOOOoooo! …That hurt…that hurt a lot." He struggles to say as he holds 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… just stay quiet. …It'll be a lot easier on me… when I do it," Sonic threatens.

Hearing what Sonic just said made Chris's stomach turn with dread. There was no talking out of this. He quickly uses his other foot to push the button on his shoe 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 he even raises 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 each of his punches as they come from all different angles.

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 and straining his legs, Sonic fights through the pain and does a leg sweep trying to knock Chris down.

Chris seeing the sweep, jumps over it and backs away. I'm keeping pace with him? I'm 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 a right hook which then again Chris blocks and jabs him in the ribs. Every time Sonic punches, Chris winds up countering and jabbing him in the exact same spot.

Sonic becoming frustrated, jumps back grabbing onto his side. "How are you keeping up with me?"

Chris slightly brings his guard down, staring at him with a bleeding busted lip. "Yeah, right. Like I'm actually going to answer that," Chris mocks back with a response that makes Sonic even angrier.

Sonic quickly goes into a spin dash, clipping Chris on the side that sends him slamming into the side wall. "Gahh…!" Crap, don't get him mad. It makes him faster, Chris 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, throws a punch into Sonic's ribs, and then does a thrust kick to push Sonic 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 Chris infuriated.

Chris getting angry, he shouts, "I'M TELLING YOU I DIDN'T-"

"SHUT UP!" Sonic shouts back and speed boosts right at Chris, picking him up and throwing him 8ft down the hall slams into the wall, knocking the wind out of him. With no time to even breathe Sonic was right at him throwing a right hook which connected to his face along with many other punches at blinding speed.

Chris couldn't block as all of them connected to his body and face. Trying to stay focused, he sees a direct punch coming to his face. He ducks, causing Sonic to punch the wall making his knuckles loudly crack. While Sonic shakes his hand, Chris rises up and punches him directly back to the face.

Sonic staggers back from the hit but Chris runs at him tackling, lifting him up and then slamming him against the opposite concrete wall. While in pain, Sonic tries to punch again but Chris easily slaps it away and punches him back directly in the face. After the punch he shoulder tackles Sonic again and slams him against the wall.

Chris backs off and 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.

While Chris being in a daze, Sonic punches him in the face again and on instinct knowing another punch is coming, he ducks and punches him back in the gut. Chris then does another thrust kick to push Sonic away only for it to get grabbed.

With his leg grabbed, Sonic then delivers a kick right back hitting Chris in the gut, knocking him down to one knee.

Chris looks down and sees that his shoes are now powered off. "Shit," Chris mutters and realizes …When he grabbed my foot. At that moment he knew…it was over. Chris gets back up to his feet and in the hallway, it seems like he was 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 collapse to the floor onto his back. He feels someone get 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 voice and stops squeezing. He turns to look over his shoulder and frantically searches every corner of the hallway, "Huh?... wha…? wha…? That was…that was…Tails?"

...Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! A low pitch sound of something charging coming from Chris. Sonic quickly turns back to Chris, only to see him pointing a type of gadget right at him instead. With a fully maxed electrical shot, Sonic was sent flying several feet backwards, making contact to the nearest wall. He slides down and lands on his butt staying in that position; his hands flat on the floor with his eyes and mouth slightly open and motionless.

Chris drops Miles's gadget as he coughs, wheezes, gasps for air as he remains 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-" Chris sits up in pain. "Blink… blink if you're ok."

Sonic slowly blinks, showing that he's paralyzed.

Chris just sits with his legs crossed trying to get his breath back and to stop coughing. He looks over to Sonic with a right eye slightly swollen and closed, bloody nose, and destroyed lip busted clean open as blood seeps out of it. He's had enough and was ready to let him know about it. Chris shouts in anger, spitting blood along with his words, "I DIDN'T F&%$ing DO IT! OK?!" He coughs again. "YES! I was there. I was… I was there to steal some gear… until she showed up. We talked. I told her why. We… I… Somehow 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 Sonic. "I know how much you loved her and am so sorry for what happened to her."

Sonic's eyes filled with sadness as he struggles to say, "She's… ok."

"What? She is?"

"Sur…vived," Sonics mutters.

He smiles and laughs as he says relieved, "Good to hear."

Chris grabs Miles's gadget and gets up holding onto his side. He slowly walks towards Sonic and crouches in front of him and stares him in the eyes. "I know what he looks like. I 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 grabs Sonic's 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 looks right at him with annoyance.

"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." Chris staggers down the hallway and once reaching the correct door; he aims and blasts the door. Being unsuccessful, he then hits the door with his shoulder to force it open, "Ooo Ow, shit!" He grabs his side. "Didn't hurt."

He enters the room as the security system alerts. "Access Denied! Please exit-"

"Oh F&%$ OFF!" Chris can be heard 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 thinks 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. Tails stopped me from doing something stupid …that I was going to regret. His body randomly twitches, as he lays there in the lightly lit hallway.

Moments later, he sees lights down the hallway as a voice is then heard. "Clear," One of the Resistance Soldiers announces, as they enter the building.


Rewind: Exiting out the hallway window, going across the Lab Area where Miles is standing being in shock after hearing Sonic's voice.

Miles stands there looking at his ear piece trying to remain calm. It can't be him …it can't-

"Miles? Miles?" He can still hear Chris's worried voice calling out to him from his earpiece.

He slowly puts it back into his ear, getting startled by a loud smashing sound and both of them arguing with each other. "Look I didn't-" "You're not- "

Miles 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. 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… 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… 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 hearing the fight get louder and louder. He stops at the corner and sees Sonic on top of Chris punching him over and over. He's alive. Then Sonic begins to strangle Chris. Noo.. no, I have ..I..no….I- I have… He puts his hand over his head trying to stay calm as he looks, stuttering and trying to speak while crying. Finally he shouts, "STOP!" and then turns around to run 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 The back of the building, the back door opens again.

Chris pokes his head out and checks to see if anyone's around, but only sees an empty field. 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 they're red. He also notices that he doesn't have his earpiece anymore. Never uttering a single word… knowing that theirs some connection between him and Sonic. All Chris does is hands over the hard drives, and just keeps on walking holding onto his side.

Miles just stands there holding onto the hard drives looking, at the building and then back to Chris. "What happened?" Miles asks, concerned.

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 is then found and taken back to the Resistance Base. Arriving, they quickly transferred him to one of the hospitals Big Examining rooms to be checked on by a nurse. While his legs are being bandaged from the fight he is 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 were looking for," Sonic answers while rubbing his legs, not looking at him.

"Now he has it. That's just great," The Informant says, disappointed as he turns and leaves.

Once The Nurse finishes with his bandages she stands up looking at him. Sonic doesn't even look at her or says thank you. He just keeps looking forward, thinking to himself and having a worried look on his face. Feeling concerned about him, she turns and walks away to tend another patient. She still looks back to him from time to time to see if he's okay but nothing. He just kept looking forward at nothing.

Sonic still feels 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.

He stares at the Informant Officer, looking at him back before leaving the room. You need to be careful over there.

He looks at the patient on a bed looking right at him as well. Someone on the Resistance isn't on your side.

He looks at the guards at the door, staring right back to him. 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, 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


All throughout the night, Miles goes through every hard drive trying to find any answer on Infinite, but so far nothing that will be of any help. Chris, on the other hand, is on the sofa with multiple ice packs on his body, asleep, letting out random groans and moans of pain.

Again with the Generators? Why does it keep talking about the Generators? Miles looks out the window staring at one of the massive power generators that's miles away. It keeps referencing them but nothing else on these files. It's our main source of power for the whole area… Hmm?... "Wait… I knew it. My hunch was right all along." He looks over at Chris as an ice pack slides off his face and plops on the floor. He does have to come in contact with it. Those floating purple particles have the answer. Unfortunately we can't find any around here. 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 tonight? …No. Ever since he's met me, all it'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 already explained to Chris what needs to be done. "Are you even listening?"

"Yeah, yeah. Ugh! …I heard every word." Chris answers back slumped on a chair sore. "So we're heading back to that town again?" he asks, looking over to the gun rack.

"That's right. Hopefully those particles are still there," Miles answers back, getting the Tornado ready.

"Got it." Chris gets stands up holding onto his side and staggers 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? Then 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 were 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 is doing.

"The asshole 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 where they first met. Once getting there, Chris destroys every single robot in sight, as gunfire echoes throughout the town. Chris laughs like a maniac running around chasing robots, "YEAH! RUN B%&$H! RUN!" he shouts, aiming down the scope at a robot as it runs away only to hit, taking it out. "NOT FAST ENOUGH! Didn't think that I would come BACK, HUH!?"

Miles looks 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 how far the robot was, he then asks, "You are really good and you weren't with the Resistance before?"

"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." Chris 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 concerned.

"Hopefully things will be okay; all you have to do is touch it," Miles says as he 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 jokingly.

Chris gives him an angry stare. "That wasn't funny and you know it."

The remark makes Miles crack a smile as he informs, "The readings show that you should be safe."

"Should? I'm really not a fan of 50/50 answers." Chris puts out his fist to him.

Miles just looks at Chris's fist and does nothing.

Chris sighs, "Alright, here…goes." he looks at his hand and slowly reaches out to the particles. "Umm… head starting to hurt but I think I can… I can… OH SHIT!" His eyes widen realizing, what's about to happen. He quickly tries to pull away but gets pulled into it instead. "WOAH!" He yells out and in a flash of light he disappears along with the particles.

"What?" Miles quickly gets up looking everywhere. "Chris?... CHRIS!" he yells out for him. Trying to figure out what just happened 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 Chris is still alive. 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." He rolls onto his back, 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 an electrical shock Chris falls over being tased.

"YOU'RE A DUMBASS TO COME BACK HERE!" A Resistance 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 Mrs. 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 Resistance Training fields, it was another day of training on yet another hot day. Barnett wipes his sweat away from his forehead. "Time for a slight brake," he says as he sits down to relax. He looks up and sees all four of his recruits still standing in formation. "At ease," he orders, allowing them to 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 slowly heads to his barracks exhausted.

POS gets ready to leave but Eddie just stands there looking at Barnett walking away. Once done, he looks at Eddie still standing there looking at Barnett. "What's wrong?"

Snapping out of it, Eddie looks at POS and then back to Barnett as he enters his barracks. "He… said my name. He didn't say 'you' or anything else. He said my name."

POS gives off a slight laugh not to offend him. "You make it sound like it's a big deal."

"It… kind of is. People won't even bother calling us by our names… 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 barracks again as POS says, "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. Getting close to the end of the line, they get approached by a couple of Resistance Soldiers. "It's you isn't it?" one of them 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," One of them quickly interrupts as the rest 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. "HEY! We don't have time for this. We got to eat and go."

Most of them leave as one of the Soldiers looks at POS and ridicules, "Whatever. Go back to your 'has been' poor excuse of a General." the Soldier then walks away to join his squad.

POS just stood there tense and angry glaring at the soldier walk away.

Eddie, taking his eyes off of the Soldier, his gaze turns to POS 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 back, 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, upset and disappointed. He looks at her with a smile. "What seems to… be…" He looks away and to his recruits knowing why.

She hands him a single piece of paper.

Barnett grabs it still looking at them angry, crumples it up and tosses it away. "What happened?"

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 and was attacked by them thinking he was Eddie."

She points to Lance. "He intervened trying to help Edward, but wound up being too late to stop them. One thing for sure is that he sent most of them to the Resistance Urgent Care."

She then 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 was."

She turns back to Barnett. "So now not only was the Squad unfit 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 their 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 and blood stains on his white shirt 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 stands right between Edward and Eddie making sure that they're out of reach from each other.

Eddie is constantly looks over to Edward, concerned about his well being, 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 down at him, shakes his head. He raises one hand with five fingers and his other with two.

Trying not to be impressed by it, Barnett looks at his hands. "Seven? How many to the hospital?"

Lance 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 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. I 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 with judgment till he says. "Was it worth it?"

POS answers, "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 begin 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's black eye and whispers as an apology. "At least I can tell you both apart 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 watches getting a good look at Chris, he then asks, "That's what you call scum. Are any of you scum?"

"No sir." They all say as Lance shakes his head.


Zeke also around with Trish as they watch, he realizes who it is, "I remember him. He was with Group Six at the prison raid. The whole group went missing."

Trish was relieved to see Chris again but concerned with how they're treating him. "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 then heads to the H.Q Building.


In the H.Q office, they barge through the doors and push Chris 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 back but she quickly looks away as something grabs her attention. The main double doors fly open and slam against the wall. Chris gets startled and sees Knuckles standing in the doorway 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 grins, getting close to him, "Oh really?' Then I guess I'll have to-" He punches Chris 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 after feeling his insides get completely rattled.

"Be lucky I held back a little. Going to make you into my personal practice dummy. Can't risk breaking you…Right? Going to lock you up till' you feel like talking and you WILL TALK!" Knuckles threatens him.

Chris looks up to Knuckles but then a Responder turns her seat to observe what's going on. Chris turns his gaze towards her, and pass her was a display monitor with Sonic on it.

His face gets grabbed by Knuckles. "ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME?!"

Knuckles shouts at him but Chris's 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. 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 requests 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 wheezes 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 say in the H.Q office.

"What 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 in one of the holding rooms, Chris just sits there as he thinks to himself, trying to figure out what the voice meant. Cut the connection. Connection? What connection… and by doing it with what? With a pair of scissors? It just kept saying that over and over. While trying to figure it out… the cell door opens. Chris raises his head and sees Trish standing there. He smiles while he says, "Didn't think I'll ever see-"

"Quiet," She interrupts him and demands, "Get up… and let's go."

Chris loses his smile. Even she hates me. He looks away ashamed but also worried about her safety. I can't be around her… what if that Informant Officer has spies? I need her to go away. He stands up with his hands cuffed together in front of him and without his shoes on, he follows her.

She leads him to the Hospital Building and inside, after passing by a couple of medical examining rooms, Trish stops. "What really happened?" she asks turning around to face 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."

She stood there for a bit looking at him and then opens the door saying, "Go in. It's okay."

Chris 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 were 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 as he lets out a groan of pain. Once settling down, he looks to Amy staring back, worried. "Don't worry… I'm fine."

"You don't like the way Knuckles says 'Hi'?"

"That's his f&%$ing name? Geez… It's nice to remember what I ate for dinner last night."

"He's very protective. Doesn't like seeing his friends get hurt."

Hearing those last words, it reminds him of what happened to her at the storage building. "I'm glad to see that you're ok."

"Don't worry about me. What you said back in the building made me so happy that Tails is ok," Amy says with a smile.

"Tails?"

"Yeah, Tails. Sonic's best friend. If he were here right now, he'd be really happy to hear what you're about to say." Amy says, trying not to get too emotional.

"Sonic?" Chris begins to chuckle. "I'm pretty sure he'd be ok. Last time I saw him, he was preoccupied with something," He says with a smirk.


Rewind 10hrs back to last night, Leaving Amy's room, 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 paralysis, he limps and slowly leaves the room looking at everyone. "You should get some sleep and a well-deserved rest," The Nurse informs him.

"That's on my to-do list," He responds back still heading to the exit.

"Wait," The Nurse says tapping his shoulder.

Sonic stops, but he eagerly wants 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, Sonic 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.

He stops to rub his legs. While doing it, he notices Resistance Soldiers seeing him do it. I can't just go around accusing people and pit everyone against each other. I just have to be patient and wait till he tells me who it is.

He finally gets to his barracks unlocking the door to his own sleeping quarters. He heads straight to his bed and just flops onto it. "I just…have…to…wait," Sonic mumbles as he pulls the bed sheets over himself and falls asleep.

In the morning he's woken up by a knock on the door. Outside, the door opens as Sonic only pokes his head out from the doorway being annoyed seeing who it is. "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."

Inside, Sonic couldn't believe what he just heard. What? He really did say what he was going to do. He quickly opens the door. "Then why go back?" Sonic asks, confused.

"Infinite's chamber was found in the info. It's located at the labs where you were. You need to head back. The Informant Officer handpicked you to go, since you've already been there. Plus five Highly Trained Soldiers and a Navigator are going with you to make sure everything goes okay."

Becoming concerned that he's going with people that he doesn't know again, he mutters, "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…" He sees Sonic's expression slightly saddens. "Uh… sorry," He apologizes, with what he said.

"It's ok. I'll be ready in a couple of seconds," Sonic says as he closes the door.

Charmy instantly becomes happy. "Ok, I'll go and-"

The door quickly re-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. After the laughter, he hears footsteps as it comes to a stop in front of him. Is someone… in front of me? Slowly opening his eyes, a Soldier stood directly in front of him. Slightly 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.

Sonic 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 when I go out on a mission. With your name on it, it will make it even more special."

Sonic 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 calms his nerves. Sonic then glances over to the same Informant Officer from the emergency room that's leading them, a strict and uncaring look on his face. Watching the Officer it made him feel alerted, cautious and back to not trusting anyone again.


The aircraft 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 in.

Inside, the large bleak lit room is surrounded by electrical equipment and computers. In the center of the room lies a large Square Glass Cube. The Officer and the Soldiers begin searching around until Sonic gets a transmission call from his communicator watch: "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 glass cube that 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 turns his head and looks directly at the Officer and glares at him.

The Officer stops what he's doing and looks right back.

Sonic completely turns off his communicator cutting off the transmission to the H.Q not taking his eyes off of him.

The Officer stands there looking at Sonic with his hand on his gun.

The 5 other Resistance Soldiers stand around trying to figure out what's going on.

Sonic still stares right at him, trying to remain calm as he says, "So you handpicked me to come… huh?" He then changes his tone and demands, "You better give me a damn good reason why 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 punching him again in the face. He rubs the side of his face as Sonic quickly hides behind equipment.

The Officer fires again, but once Sonic reappears, the Officer ducks his punch and right hooks him 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 collapse back down. The Officer aims and pulls the trigger.

Sonic quickly rolls to his side then onto his back and then kicks the Officer in the knee cap making him lose his balance, causing him to land on one knee.

The Officer tries to aim back 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. With one arm around Sonic's neck, The Officer begins to raise the gun up to Sonic's face.

Struggling to push it back, Sonic then swings his head backwards- "Grrr rah." -slamming into the Officer's cheek, piercing it with his quills.

"AAHHhh!" The Officer yells out in pain releasing Sonic as he grabs his face. In anger he aims again and fires.

Sonic staggers to run and hide behind something he almost gets shot in the back of the head as the bullet whizzes past his ear. Getting away, he then collapses behind electrical equipment and rub his leg to make the pain stop. He takes a deep breath and tries not to lose control again.

The Resistance Soldiers just stand there talking to each other, not knowing what to do.

The Officer pulls one of the quills out of the side of his cheek. Blood runs down the side of his neck as 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 right back, but are unsure what to do as they talk 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.

In disbelief being overruled, he demands, "What? WHO MADE THAT ORDER?!"


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?" He says making fun of him.

"As long as it lasts. Ooo Ahhh, I'm in so much pain," The Pilot answers back, not rising up. He looks at The Navigator and notices a big smile on his face. Being curious, he asks, "Why are you so happy?"

"I'm here with some awesome news…well awesome for me. The kind of news that will make you jealous of me," The Navigator gloats.

"Hah, 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."

"Oh Gasp. Wha, naw really? I can't believe it. Oh'muh'gawd. I'm so jealous. What ever shall I do? Make's me rethink of my life choices. Why did I pick to be a pilot instead of a Navigator? Dammit, I should've listened to my mother. I knew-"

The Pilot 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," th Navigator says with a big smile.

The Pilot stops teasing 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 says with a serious tone and look on his face. "It's your turn now."

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.

Accepting the warning, Zander looks towards the Aircraft and 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 Aircraft to search where Infinite was held. While staying on the Aircraft he watches everything going on through the computer monitors. Everything goes smoothly till Sonic gets a transmission from H.Q.

As Zander sits in his seat, as he also hears the voice. The voice sounded like he was in pain as he gave his warning. At that moment it became clear that something bad was about to happen. Once the voice finishes his warning… Sonic completely turns off his communicator as he turns to face the Informant Officer. "Sonic? Can you hear me?" Zander asks but Sonic doesn't answer back. No one was able contact him anymore. He can barely hear what Sonic is saying, but he heard the words, "damn" and "shot her".

The Informant Officer pulls out his gun and fires at Sonic.

Zander, watching the fight happening on the monitors, tries to get someone to respond back. "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?" "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!"


"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 Sonic moves so fast that he can barely see him.

"No one's going to help you," Sonic's voice echoes all around the Officer. Sonic threatens him, "I'll ask you one more time. Why did you shoot her?"

"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 for it to be kicked away.

Sonic just stands over him as he looks at his blood stained white glove. He tries 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 Zander watches as he quietly says, "Don't…don't… just don't."

Finally calming down, Sonic then asks while cracking his knuckles, "Next question. What are you hiding here that you needed to come for?"

"A device that will stop Infinite," he answers.

Zander overhearing 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 grabs him by the collar and brings his fist back. "HOW?!"

The Officer brings his hands up to not get hit. "It's a device that can counter act with Infinite and stop his powers to the point that it makes 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 him."

"How do you know all of this?"

He looks at Sonic and answers, "I'm one of the Scientists here."

"One of the Scientists? Then what happened to the rest of the Scientists from here?"

"They perished at the prison raid. They were group six, 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 Aircraft and sees Knuckles waiting for him. Sonic approaches him and asks, "Where is he?"

Knuckles points. "He's in one of the holding cells for questioning."

They both turn back to the aircraft as they watch Colbort being taken away. "We saw and heard everything. We'll deal with him later once this is all over," Knuckles says.

"Get everyone to H.Q. I'll be there in a bit with Chris. I have to go talk to him," Sonic says walking away.

"Alright but no fighting or I'll be the one to break it up myself," Knuckles says back with a smirk.

Sonic walks into the prison building and heads straight to Chris's cell. He opens his cell, but turns out empty. "Where is he?" He looks around for anyone to get any answers and heads 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. Your smart friend. He's Sonic's best friend…" She slightly shakes her head. "No, …they're basically like brothers. They've been friends since they were young. Them together they're known as Sonic and Tails. He's also a friend to all of us."

"That explains why he acts so weird when I talk to him about the past. I knew something was wrong but he never wants to talk about it and just walks away. What Happened?"

She goes on to explain, "He went missing ever since what happen to Sonic months ago. He's gone into hiding always blaming himself for what happened. Everyone here misses him, especially Sonic. My request is for you to bring him back. Please make that happen."

Chris 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 ashamed at what he said to her. "Thanks for doing this…and I'm 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 you didn't do it and I'm 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 sighs 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?"

Chris quickly says back angrily, "Soon as I get my shoes back, then it's on."

"Fine with-"

"Boys, pleeease focus," Trish intervenes, 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 Six was looking for in the prison raid. What does…" The device lights up and activates in his hands. Chris looks at it confused. "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 requests 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, on Miles's 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. They're 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 generator going into overdrive. "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," Sonic says as he walks into the building with Chris. 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 while looking at the device in his hand.

"That explains the red sky," Sonic mentions.

"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 to 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 blares out, muffling his answer, "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 quickly says looking at the big screen.

An image shows up and it shows 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 everyone gets distracted by the alert sounds echoing around the H.Q building… Chris looks over to Trish.

Looking at the image, Trish glances over to Chris 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 itself.

"Good luck," She whispers.

"EVERYONE CALM DOWN! WE NEED TO GET READY! WE'RE BEING ATTACKED!" Knuckles shouts.

"Umm… Guys?" Sonic says.

"WHAT?!" Knuckles asks.

"He's gone," Sonic answers, looking at the spot where Chris once stood, now replaced by handcuffs.


Outside Training field, red lights and alerts sound off outside. Zeke and Zander stands around as people run off to hide.

"Zander, what the f&%$ going on? You know more about alerts."

"If I'm right… and I hope I'm wrong… I think we're under attack," Zander answers as he looks around for Trish, trying to stay calm. Unable to find her, he turns back to Zeke. "What are you-" It was too late to ask, as Zeke was already running off towards the hanger area. Zander just stood there thinking about what to do. He searches around for Trish again but then stops. He nods and looks back over to the Hanger Area.

Eddie and Edward remains close to each other; they watch as everyone around runs in a panic.

"Sir, what's going on?" POS asks, worried.

Barnett knows exactly what the alert sound is He stands there remembering the first time he heard it half a year ago. The moment it all happened.

"We're under attack," He answers. He turns to his recruits and warns. "War is at our doorsteps. Go get everything ready and prepare to head out."


Chris runs back to Miles's base hoping he's ok. Once getting there, he quickly hides seeing the place swarmed by robots. Looking around he doesn't see Miles's 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 all the robots. "But with 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 and just walks 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 drowns out his complaints.

"Done," Miles says.

Chris rolls his eyes getting annoyed, forgetting who he's 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 while looking at it.

Chris waves in front of his face 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." He points out the window at one of them. "Those Generators are what's scattering the particles all over the place. They need to be stopped or destroyed so this device 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 at it in his hands, "And with the device, go inside of it and cut the connection, destroying Infinite out here?

Miles still holds onto the device and just looks at it. "That should happen… I'll basically be cutting Infinite's 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 stands there watching Miles and then looks out the window at 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 hoping 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 and quickly all around notices that he's alone. "Chris?" He wasn't in the room. "No… no… CHRIS!" Miles runs outside. "CHRIS!" Miles shouts out for him but Chris was long gone.


Final Chapter: Part 19 The Battle to Save the World.


9-1 A Call for Help

Exiting out of the Resistance H.Q Building as Knuckles leads the way. "We need to rally up as many people we can possibly get." Silver informs to Knuckles.

Knuckles stops and points to Silver, "Get your self-ready to head out."

Silver was surprised from what he heard, "Really? You're actually letting me head out?"

"Yeah, protect the entire right and back side of the base. Go," Knuckles orders.

Silver quickly flies off.

Knuckles then points at them both, "Sonic and Trish, 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 give his speech. Giving Sonic one last look, he closes his eyes.

He takes a deep breath to get rid of his nervousness 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."

Once Knuckles finishes his speech with his eyes closed, he 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 with a smirk on his face.

Knuckles approaches Trish, "We need to get as many squads on the ground 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?"

"Fifteen so far and still rising," Trish answers.

"Good, send everything out now," Knuckles orders. He points over to Sonic, "Sonic, I still need you to come with me. So let's go" As they both walk off towards the side of the H.Q Building.


9-2 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?"

"I'm waiting to be deployed to fly Sir," Zeke he asks.

"You're not flying," Captain says.

Zeke lashes out, "Why not? Let me guess, no f&%$ing 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 is heard, "I'll be his damn co-pilot!" The Captain and Zeke look over to where the voice came from. "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 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.


9-3 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 at the-"

"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 startled by the voice. Still a bit traumatized from the gut punch. Shit, why him? Ok, ok… I can do this. Once calming down he says, "This is Chris, you need to direct your squads to take down those generators."

"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?!"

"Gah… geez!" Chris winces from all his yelling. He tries to recite the same information that Miles told him, "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 off 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.


9-4 Fancy Flying

Zeke in the air finally, he flies off towards the fight providing air support, but for Zander he holds onto whatever he can for dear life and trying not to panic as he feels every sudden turn and sway that the fighter plane does. Just c-calm d-down ev-everything will be f-fine. Zander thinking to himself.

Zeke, flying around shooting and dodging laser fire coming 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 opens his eyes as 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, you're 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 Six & Seven to provide air support," H.Q informs.

"Got it, on my way. Which way are those generators?" Zeke asks to Zander.

Zander stares at his terminal trying to figure it out. "You're heading towards… uh… Generator Seven right now."

"Alright, are the missiles ready? I'm going to launch it towards one of the Generators."

"It uh… it shows that it's 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 answers back.

Zeke counts down, "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 you there, over?" HQ Responder asks.

"Umm... I'm here. Over?"

"You've just carpet bombed close to forty 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."

Zander confused about the icon, "That's a missile?" He then 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 and politely asks, "Ready now?"

Zander gives him a smug look with a thumbs up.

Zeke swerves around back to the Generator and locks onto it again. "READY!?"

"Ready."

"3…2…1…FIRE!"

Missile fires out and goes into Generator Seven completely destroying it.

"WOOhoo!/HECK YEAH!" They both shout.

"Pilot on plane 22 respond, over?" From H.Q.

"Zeke here, I'm ready for orders."

"Wha, …Zeke? Is that really you?" A familiar voice is heard instead.

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 Five and Six 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-" Her connection suddenly gets cut by Zander.

Zeke starts panicking. "WHAT?! ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR DAMN MIND?! YOU JUST CUT HER OFF!"

"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'll cheer you up."

Zander puts his hands down and then looks to the right. "What the… Is that… It is… He's flying."

Rewind: Back to the Resistance Base.


9-5 A Show of Respect

Knuckles and Sonic run 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.

They both stop as he answers, "Alright, patch'em through to me. Knuckles here who is it?"

"This is Chris, 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 infuriated.

"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 Knuckles, Lead Commanding Officer. I'm issuing the order to every squad that's out there 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 fortified locked door. Knuckles then goes through the dozens of locks till he finally opens it.

"That was a bit excessive." Sonic quips.

"They don't call me the Guardian for nothing," Knuckles mentions as he lets Sonic enters first.

Sonic enters and is surprised to see what's inside, "No way. They're all here? All of them? Even the Master Emerald is here." He turns back to Knuckles. "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 I'm 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 points to Sonic and orders, "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 and away from everyone."

Sonic smiles and becomes Super Sonic. He floats up into the air and looks down to 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?"


9-6 Super Sonic Time

Sonic flies sky high to get a clear view of the battle and to hope that he spots Infinite. He then dive bombs into a crowd of robots destroying as many as he could before shooting right back into the air. Again, he searches… Nothing. He looks back down and repeats the process over and over hoping Infinite would show up sooner or later to stop him but nothing. He flies back up into the air, becoming more and more impatient, eager for a fight. "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 as he waves at him to get his attention. He sees Zeke seeing him and he smiles back. While still waving, suddenly Sonic gets tackled and forced back down close to the ground and thrown into a nearby building smashing into it.

As the building crumbles on top of him, Sonic lays there for a bit scolding himself, "Ok…I got his attention. Lost focus…and now am in rubble on the ground. Good one Sonic." He sighs being disappointed.

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."

"I'm a class all my own. Time to put up or shut-up," Sonic responds back.

"I will show you-" He clenches his fist as they begin to pulsate bright purple. "-just how insignificant you truly are." Once opening them, he creates purple energy orbs and looks them over… he then turns his gaze to Sonic and throws them at him.

"UH-OH, WHOA!" Sonic propels himself forward dodging each one getting closer and closer to close the gap till he throws a punch at insane speed.

Infinite catches his fist then Sonic throws another punch as he easily 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 I'm not alone. My friends are doing everything they can 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 mock right 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 tries to avoid them all, till finally an opening as he throws a punch hitting Infinite 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 says as he keeps his arms up in defense.

"HAHAHA! WHEN THIS IS OVER, I'M 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 mutters confused as he watches Infinites body fall towards the clouds and down to Earth.

Rewind.


9-7 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…ing…" 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 back to them.

"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 again being focused.

"Oh… Heck yeah. Let's do it."

As Zeke was focused on hitting Infinite with the plane; throughout the whole time Zander was telling him angles on how to hit Infinite. "UP, UP, LEFT, …yeah, …down …PERFECT. NOW GUN IT!"

Zeke snarls as he yells out, "AHHHHH!" but then Infinite lunges forward getting missed. "DAMMIT!" he yells out in anger and slams on the panels.

"We'll get him for sure on the next turn." Zander quickly says to calm him down and again he gives him instructions, "HIGHER, HIGHER… left… 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 cheers 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.

Zeke 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 back there?" He says turning to Zander.

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 to relax.

"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 also.

Zander turns to him. "Oh, Really? Was it my idea to ram Infinite with the plane?"

…"Good counter argument." Zeke answers back.

Rewind


9-8 We Move as One

Dozens of squads get deployed and form a line to protect the base, Barnett and his recruits 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 every Generators.

"What, every Generator?" One of the commanders says.

"Yes all of them. We have to destroy them all." Another Commander answers.

"Theirs like f&%$ing nine of them."

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.

One of the Commanders of a squad approaches Barnett. "Sargent Barnett?"

Barnett salutes. "What's the order, Commander Micha?"

Commander looks pass him, looking at his four recruits. "Is that your squad back there?"

Barnett looks over to them and then back. "That's correct. That's my squad."

"You're teaming up with me. We're heading to Generator Four to take it out. We're leaving as soon as possible, so go get them ready," he orders.

Barnett looks over to POS and everyone else. "We're leaving to take out one of the Generators. Along the way we're probably going against O-series robots again."

"Aim for the waist?" Eddie asks.

Edward then quickly asks, "And don't forget about the big ones. Top right chest plate?"

"Correct. Fire if you really have to and keep your head down."

"GET READY!" Squad Commander announces. "Move out." He says again.

"Now move out." Barnett orders then looks at the two civilians that are also with him and instructs them while pointing to POS, "Stay close to him and never lose sight of him. Got it?"

They nod in agreement as one says, "Yes Sir."

Closer and closer they get to Generator four, the more robots there is waiting for them as they open fire. "PULL BACK!" The Commander yells out.

"FIRE!" Barnett shouts. Pinned down and nowhere to go they had no choice but to stay put and hold their ground.

Hiding behind anything to protect themselves with against the 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. As the tip of the robot laser arm charges up to fire, a figure comes out of nowhere and 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 looks up to the sky thinking that he saw something flying. He detaches the glowing device from his side. "I have a plan, seems with this McGuffin it attracts them."

"What?" Barnett asks looking at it.

"Basically I'm on their shoot to kill list. I'll get their attention and lead them away, while 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 all head to different direction.

"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 neat 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 One, Two, Seven, and Nine are down." An announcement gets said over the communicators.

The Commander raises his rifle and warns, "READY! AIM… FIRE!" Everyone fires at the Generator vents. Soon the Generator overheats as metallic grinding can be heard and in a massive explosion of heat and broken metal 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 THREE IS STILL UP!"

"Three? Were at four 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 listens 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 stands there 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!"

As everyone begins to march, Barnett pulls the two civilians away. They both look at him wondering why. "You two are staying right here."

"But-"

"I don't want to hear it. Stay right here. That's an Order." Barnett just turns and walks away from them.

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. NO!" Edward rushes over to him, trying to get him up… "Get up, please get up. GET 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, Barnett just looks up at it and then back to his rifle in his hands. He hears a pistol gets thrown to the ground. Looking to his right, he sees Commander Micha sitting on the ground with a wound on his side bleeding.

Commander just stares into his clip as he puts back onto his rifle as he says, "Yeah… I don't have much left. I bet you're not doing any better."

Barnett looks right back at it, knowing 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.

"We have to tell them," Commander says.

Barnett nods as he takes a step forward to all of them. "Either…" He sighs, "Either we use the ammo to take out the Generator or make it back safely," Barnett informs everyone.

Everyone looks at the generator.

"We have to take it out," POS says.

Barnett looks up at it also and but then turns his gaze down Eddie's body on the ground. Thinking about their safety, 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.

Commander slowly gets to his feet. "Fire."

One by one, 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 take notice and slowly 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 get 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 Three is malfunctioning." Someone informs.

"It is?" Trish asks back looking at the display monitor.

"Yes, there a squad-" A massive explosion can be seen from there windows. Everyone cheers in the H.Q office.

Trish smiles happily. "Who was it, what squad?"

"It was… Squad Seven and Eight-teen… Commander Micha and Barnett."

Overjoyed with the news, "Tell them great job and to retreat ASAP." She orders.

…"I… 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. She slowly sits down as she covers her face with her clipboard. Her sorrow can be heard, as the building slips into darkness


9-9 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 directly at him 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.

Chris checks his side vest 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," Miles 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 shouts 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."

Miles shakes his head saddened, "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 frightened 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 startled with how fast Miles 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. Staggering back and before he can react, he gets punched in the face. Chris then ducks the second punch as he than lunges forward tackling Miles with his shoulder picking him up and slamming him onto the ground.

With Chris on top trying to get the device off of him, Miles grabs ahold of his vest, pulling him towards Chris, head butting him in the nose.

Chris rolls to his side as he grabs onto his nose in pain, "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 as he stands back up. Miles was in disbelief. "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 more particles come to finish creating it, and 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… I felt that. That actually hurted…" 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 I going to have to reward you?" 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 causes 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. Chris's body pulsates purple as 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!" In anger, 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, Infinite then kicks Chris in the side nearly bending him in half, as it launches 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 mocks right back. He stands there and watches as Infinite flies right at him again for another.

Sonic quickly flies right in and kicking Infinite 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 pulsates purple not affected by it because of the device.

Chris just stood there holding his arm looking at the sphere knowing what he has to do. He looks to Sonic grabbing has head from the pain of the shockwave but from the right to him far away 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 in his mind. 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 onto the device and looks at the sphere.


9-10 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, unable to get close because of the sphere, he watches as Sonic and Infinite clashing and 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 snaps 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 eyes widen as he flinches from it. "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 was in disbelief. "NNOOOOOOooooo!" Infinite shouts.

"It's over… Infinite," Sonic utters in pain.

"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. "It's over. Stop," Sonic says again.

Infinite's other hand phases through Sonic's 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 gets furious and shouts, "IT'S OVER!" He then throws a punch at Infinite face causing Infinite's head burst into particles from it. His whole body remains whole and headless, as it finally fades away.

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."

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… I'm ok," he answers back.

"It is him and he's ok. Sonic, just stay right there. We'll find you and pick you up." The responder says hapiddly.

He chuckles holding his side, "Don't worry. I'm not going anywhere."


9-11 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.

They stay silent 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 and with a smile from what he just heard.

"Did you just hear that? Pilot Tailor?" Zander says looking at Zeke's 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 says back laughing.


9-12 One last Fist Bump

With a little bit of particles floating around, in a flash of light, 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, he lands near him with supplies. 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-I can do something. I can. We can…-" Chris watching Miles panic trying coming up with any solutions as he goes through his supplies, but he knows there isn't one. He just looks at Miles and says…"It's ok… Tails."

Tails completely freezes to what he just heard; he looks up and sees Sonic instead. 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 tries to reason with him as Tails still cries.

Chris looks up the sky and smiles as it, as it goes from red to 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. "I'm 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 decorative 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 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 happy.

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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