1 Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic or related characters.
Sonic sat back on his couch as he watched TV. Life had gotten boring in the six months that had passed since Darknite, the hedgehog megalomaniac, had died in his own base's explosion. Eggman had been found alive somehow in a village at the foot of Mount Everest, claiming he had escaped when all the cell doors in the prison area opened during the self destruct sequence. The base exploded as he neared the exit, and he was shot several yards until landing on another part of the mountain. He had a few cracked ribs, bruises and some wounds, but survived the way to the village, only to be incarcerated by the Chinese Government. There were no problems in the world besides rivalries between nations. Rouge and Knuckles had traveled to Europe on a date.
Sonic also looked at his right hand and removed his glove. On his hand he bore a memory of Darknite. That memory was that his right thumb was fake, since it was robotic. He had doctors install a robotic thumb he found in Tails' workshop. His original one had been chopped off by Darknite. The thumb brought back another memory, of a person who was a brother to him, Tails. He shed a tear. If Darknite had died, Tails must've as well. But if Eggman escaped the prison in the base, maybe there was hope. Tails might've also. If he wasn't killed by Darknite, that is. Sonic doubted Darknite would not kill a child. But Eggman had been found a few days after the explosion. Tails should've been too. Sonic sighed. He then fell asleep in deep thought as he closed his eyes.
At the Chaotix Detective Agency. . . .
Vector lay back on his chair. This was the dry season for work, and they needed to pay the bills badly.
"If we don't get work soon, we're gonna have to volunteer at other jobs." Vector said. He then heard a knock on the office door. He got up and when he opened it, Charmy rushed in and accidentally hit him in the face, knocking him over. Vector got up. "What's got you so excited?"
"We got work!" Charmy said tossing the package to Vector. Vector opened it.
"I'm getting a sense of deja vu." Vector said when he saw there was a walkie talkie in the package.
"Hello there, Chaotix Detectives. I've heard good things about you all. If you were good enough to help defeat the Metal Overlord, then you would be excellent in the job I have for you all."
"Eggman, is that you? You tricked us all before." Vector said, remembering how Eggman had tricked them into doing jobs for him before using a walkie talkie.
"No, I am not Eggman! Here's your proof." The voice said as a blank screen slid out of the walkie talkie and an image of a man appeared on the screen. "Do I look like Eggman?" as the voice came out, the image's lips moved.
"No you don't, Mr. Bowver!" Vector said, recognizing the man as Edwin Bowver, a man who was legendary in the power industry. He was also the man who ran that plant which Darknite had struck long ago.
"Good, now the job I have for you is quite simple. I have received information that Darknite may still be alive. Since that little bastard attacked my plant, he made me lose much of my income, so I want to gain on the opportunity. He probably still has the four Chaos Emeralds, since they were never found by the Chinese as they searched the fortress's ruins. So I need you to collect the three other emeralds so I might have a chance of defeating him when I send a force to eliminate him and his little lackeys. And if you want a sample of what you'll get upon completing this job, look in the envelope." Vector did so and he pulled out twenty hundred dollar bills.
"Woah, that's more than I expected!" Vector said.
"You will get thirty times that amount upon completion of this job. I would get started. Also, talk to me when you find all three, I will give you a place where we can meet. Goodbye." Mr. Bowver said before shutting off the walkie talkie.
"Alright guys, let's go!" Vector said before going out the door. Charmy and Espio followed.
Elsewhere. . .
"That's right, keep moving that scrap metal to the transports! Your master requires them!" A blue robot said to what looked like a hundred black and red machines that moved large amounts of metal in their hands to a hole in the ground of the scrap yard that they walked into.
"How much longer, Metal!" A clothed hedgehog with a rifle said as he sniped anyone who came in with toxic bullets.
"Not much longer, Cinamo. He only wanted us to take back the metal the Chinese took from the base site!" Metal Sonic said as the last machines walked into the hole with their metal. "Let's go Cinamo! To the transport!" Metal said as he and Cinamo ran to the hole and jumped into an open hatch in the hole. They shut the hatch and the large transport they were in revealed itself, coming above ground and showing to be a massive behemoth of machinery. It had large drills and a turret in front of it. A window showed where the cockpit was. The machine charged up it's drills and propelled towards a group of guards, crushing those who couldn't get out of the way in time. When the machine slammed through the walls of the yard, it jumped up very high and dove into the ground, the drills turning on and making the machine dive underground, leaving a large hole in the ground.
The guards found it strange as to why there was a large crescent burned into the ground.
Somewhere in Paris, France, near the Eiffel Tower. . .
"So Rouge, what do you want to do next." Knuckles said.
"Maybe go take a look at the museum." Rouge said.
"Oh no you don't!" Knuckles said. "I'm not going to be linked to a theft. We're going to the top of the Eiffel Tower."
"Alright." Rouge said as they got up and began to walk towards the structure. On the way there, Rouge was bumped by someone.
"Hey!" Rouge said.
"Excuse me." the person who bumped her said. The person wore a coat and a hat which covered their face. Several others clothed similarly followed. They moved very fast, yet they were walking, towards the tower.
"Jerk." Rouge said in a low voice.
"It's alright, Rouge. Let's just go to the tow. . ." Knuckles said before hearing a large explosion. He looked at the Eiffel Tower and saw that several explosions had gone off on all sides of it. After there were no explosions, the tower wobbled slightly before tilting to the side. Pieces broke off as the tower collapsed to the side and went in other directions. A large cloud of smoke and flames filled the air. When the smoke cleared, Knuckles saw the ruins of the tower burning and many buildings damaged. Knuckles could hear screams. He rushed towards the rubble and began to lift pieces as best as he could, trying to rescue those trapped beneath the rubble. Rouge followed and also helped. They did notice something strange. In the center of the rubble, a black flag stood up and on it, was a red crescent which pointed upwards.
Near Fort Knox. . .
One thousand figures lay a hundred feet from Fort Knox. But these were not American soldiers. They stood in neat lines and someone was in front of them on a vehicle that looked like a rocket. (Or zoomer if you've played any of the Jak and Daxter games.) The one on the vehicle took out a walkie talkie and listened for instructions. It then placed it on a pouch on his side.
"Now! Fire Artillery!" the leader said. Some of the other figures wheeled out what looked like cannons.
"Yes, Lord Cybershad." the robots said in a mechanical voice. The inside of the cannons glowed and Cybershad smiled. Large lasers shot towards the facility which held most of the gold in the U.S. They destroyed it's walls and soldiers immediately began to rush towards the source of the laser.
"Now! Deal the capitalist swine a blow they'll never forget!" Cybershad said as small turrets appeared on his zoomer. He charged forward and his machines followed. He knew even if they did not take the gold, they would at least let the Americans know that the Niteclan was going to stop at nothing before the world was under it's banner. The American soldiers immediately opened fire with guns that used bullets, which made Cybershad laugh as he charged right through them, swinging his Nanite sword at them while he did so. He decapitated a few. When he was near the damaged facility, he stopped and watched the distant battle, which the American soldiers were losing.
"That's right, my loyal machines. Stain the Earth with their blood! Make the soil as red as the insignia of the clan!" Cybershad said evilly as he moved into the vault to begin plundering the gold.
Shortly later at Sonic's house. . .
Sonic lay on his couch lazily watching the TV. He heard that the Chinese had been robbed, Paris had been devastated, and the U.S. had much of it's gold taken, making the currency value plummet. Sonic was glad he had multiple homes across the globe. He wouldn't be stuck in the U.S. if a depression set in. He was about to go to sleep when something caught his eye. The TV went static.
"Aw, just when my favorite show is about to come on!" Sonic said as he flipped through the channels. They were all static.
"What the hell?" Sonic said.
"Hahahaha!" a voice from the TV said. The TV went back on, but now there was an image of a person who was sitting on something, their face bathed in shadow.
"Do not attempt to change the channel." the figure said. Sonic changed it anyways, but it went to the same screen on that one, and the next one.
"What's going on here?" Sonic said.
"I believe many of you recognize this symbol." the figure said before pulling out a small black clothe with a red crescent on it. "This is the symbol of the Niteclan, the future rulers of this planet. And this next message is just for Sonic and all his friends. The figure got up and began to move towards the camera. When the figure got there, he bent over. His face showed in bright light and Sonic was shocked as he gazed into murderous, crimson eyes.
"I'm back." Darknite said with an evil smile.