Chapter 1 The Freedom Fighters: Ten years later
The whole of the Freedom Fighters bad been summoned to the meeting room after Rotor had received information from their sources regarding Robotnik's latest plan. A plan that could potentially work if executed just right.
"We can't rush into things here! We have to consider the options!" Sally said, "I think we, being, the last hope for Mobius, should try to come up with a back-up plan! Our spies in Robotropolis heard that he has a machine that allows him to travel to other planets, even back in time. He's also nearing completion on his latest weapon, the Ultimate Annihilator." Just then, Rotor walked into the meeting. Rotor had been working on a device that would allow them to travel to wherever it was that Sally's father had been imprisoned.
"Sorry I'm late, Princess, but I have the portal working. All I need is your permission to go ahead with the plan!" Rotor reported. Everyone present at the meeting looked very tired and exhausted both mentally and physically. The meeting they were in had taken most of the day and was slowly approaching night. Recently, Rotor had intercepted a transmission from the city to a team of SWATbots about his latest plans for world domination and needed to come up with a plan to stop it. Rotor's portal was part of the plan that they were hurriedly coming up with, though the other part was what still needed to be devised.
"Not until we know for sure exactly what it is Robotnik plans to do to Mobius. So, nobody goes near it until then, understood?" Sally asked.
"I read you loud and clear, my lady. I'll have Sonic guard it until then. He won't let anything he doesn't know past him." Rotor answered. Once the meeting was over with, Rotor and Sally went to find Sonic. They found him in the exercise hall running on the treadmill.
"I'm working on a new move! It's the figure-eight super peel-out! Once I do it, I move at warp speed!" Sonic explained.
"Sonic, Rotor needs you to guard his lab being that he finished the portal. Nobody enters the lab!" Sally ordered. Sally did not like being strict towards the other Freedom Fighters, but she had to with Sonic sometimes. Sonic, ever the rebel, almost never listened to anyone except Princess Sally, and that was only because he had a slight crush on her. Sonic hopped down off the treadmill and ran over to the lab to guard it as he had been told. Rotor and Sally turned around and headed back to the remains of the palace. The citizens of Knothole Village still remembered exactly where they had been at the moment the King was hauled away by Robotnik.
"I can't believe he did all this in one night!" Sally said in disbelief. She had ordered the rubble and the remains be kept in the same position and location as it was the day after. Since the war against Robotnik had started, Sally had thought that if the King were gotten back, he would be able to provide the much-needed strength to win the war. They knew where the King was but needed the exact coordinates for 'The Zone Of Silence'. Just as they got to the ruins of the palace, they heard the portal generator start up.
"Rotor!" Sally yelled over the noise.
"The portal! I forgot to install the safety circuit! It is completely unpredictable without it!" Rotor said quickly. Before he knew what was happening, Sally ran to the lab and, grabbing a backpack full of power rings jumped through the portal after Sonic. Immediately, after she got through the screen, the Inter-Dimensional Portal Generator blew the fuse. The entire village was standing outside the lab as Rotor got there.
"Here's the story: Sonic managed to figure out how to operate the thing. He went to…" Rotor said as he read what the screen said, "…Earth. Bad news is: Sally went with him. Worse yet, the portal blew its one and only fuse. I'll have to make another before we do anything else." Rotor reported. Rotor and Tails, who were joined shortly by Antoine and Uncle Chuck stared at the portal in hopes that the Princess would fall out of it any second.
Meanwhile on Earth, Aaron Brandt was trying the portal he had just built at the same time that Sonic had started Rotor's up. Aaron had set his portal for a planet called Mobius, someplace that he had heard about from a popular comic. Aaron had just gotten into his portal when Aaron's friend Samantha Collen went to pull him out, but instead tripped on a wire into the portal. As their molecules passed, they got mixed; Sam's with Sally's and Sonic's with Aaron's. Sonic was further along the teleport process than Aaron was, so the momentum carried them back to Earth. When they got out, they immediately fell unconscious. Sally, who was now trapped in Samantha's body, began recalling her youth.
(End of Chapter 1)