SONIC ADVENTURE 2: ALTERATIONS

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… and a New Story.


ADVANCED RESCUE COMMAND HEADQUARTERS (Briefing Room):

Robotnik and Shadow quickly sat down at the large round table in the Briefing room, Robotnik sitting in the slightly larger of the chairs, he then quickly typed something in on a keypad on one arm of the chair.

A light came on in the middle of the table, and from that light six holographic faces appeared, one of which surprised Ivo more than Shadow had earlier.

"Madame President, I didn't expect you to be in on this."

The President put on a wry smile, "I can see that Professor, you still have some oil on your head."

Shadow snickered as Ivo quickly tried to wipe the oil off of his head, one of the other faces cleared his throat, "Um, Madame President, I believe we should get back to the subject at hand."

The President just nodded her head, "Quite right, Mr. Stein, let's get to it then, General Novenko, what is the situation?"

As Novenko began to speak an image of Neo-Terra appeared above the faces, "As you most likely know, at 19:00 hours a large disturbance was picked up in orbit around Neo-Terra, which was soon replaced by a large mass, appearing to be a Spherical Bernoulli Space Colony, this mass then entered the atmosphere, crashing into the ocean off the coast near Station Square, Admiral Mackenzie."

The image of Neo-Terra shifted, zooming in on the Ocean, "When the mass impacted the ocean, I immediately sent a survey team to investigate the area, it should be arriving now, if you wish Madame President, I could patch us into them now."

The President nodded her head, "Patch us in Admiral."

The image changed again, this time to a visual of the sea floor, "Captain Luca, this is Admiral Mackenzie, how long until you reach the mass?"

"Not long now sir, I should be near enough to the mass to get a visual soon…    (Stuttering sounds)    …I DON'T BELIEVE IT, LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT THING!"

The Image showed the Space Colony Ark, some of the outer hull had been burned or buckled by re-entry but most of the Colony remained intact, as the visual began to pan around to the front of the Colony the President and Heads of G.U.N. gasped.

Ivo, Shadow, and The President, all paled, Shadow was the first to speak, "It can't be."

The grim faces of the others only confirmed what they saw, Ivo shook his head, "An Eclipse Cannon."

The President put on a stern face, "This is a serious matter gentlemen, I want all of you to contact me again tomorrow at 16 hundred hours, Professor Robotnik, Shadow, I'd like to speak with you privately."

As the other faces disappeared the President looked seriously at Ivo and Shadow, "Ivo this is serious, only Grandfather knew how to make an Eclipse Cannon, I need you to go through his dairy to see if he left any information on a second Cannon, hurry I don't think we want to waste any time."

Ivo quickly got up and left the briefing room, Shadow stayed behind, "Is there anything you want me to do Maria?"

President Maria Robotnik shook her head, "I don't think there is anything you can do about this right now Shadow, except maybe to stop surprising my cousin."

Shadow smirked, "What makes you think that?"

Maria smiled one of her truly happy smiles, "I recognize that smudge on his forehead anywhere, I made him make that same smudge on too many of his early experiments to count Shadow, I know exactly what you did."

Shadow smiled, "Right Maria, I'll stop, for a while anyways, but he spends too much time working on his projects in that room anyways, this time he won't even let me see it, he keeps it in this box that only he can open."

Maria just nodded, "I know, and it's alright to get him out of that room Shadow, but he loves working on his machines too much for him to just stop, even if he is head of A.R.C."

Shadow turned and began to leave the room, "I hope to see you again soon Maria."

Maria sighed, "You to Shadow, goodbye."

Shadow began to close the door, "goodbye, Maria."

When the door closed, Maria's face disappeared, the image of the Ark still projected above the round table, unfortunately they forgot to tell Captain Luca to close the channel, "Hello, anybody still there, Hello?"

G.P.L.E.A Branch, Station Square:

Rouge gave a small sigh as she removed her body armor, "I can't believe one flash of light can cause THAT much trouble."

The rookie, a young human, to her right laughed, "I know what you mean, in fact I'm surprised that Ambrosia or her Eco-gang didn't use the chaos to make another one of their attacks."

Rouge smirked, "It's not really Ambrosia that you have to really worry about, for being a terrorist she's pretty predictable, no, it was Mr. X that I was worried about."

The rookie was shocked, "I thought that guy was media-hype, you mean he's actually real?!"

A more experienced rookie, a puffin, turned to the other, "You bet he is, and Rouge here almost caught him once, didn't you?"

A thoughtful look crossed Rouge's face, "Yeah, I almost had him, it was the last time the Echidna's had lent the museum one of their sacred jewels for research, the chief thought it best to have experienced officers on hand in case that someone tried to steal it, when the silent alarm went off a ran for the exhibit and arrived as he was climbing up to the window, I took off and beat him to the window, but as soon as he saw me he tossed the jewel towards the floor, I dove for it and he got away."

The human rookie blinked with surprise, "That would mean you actually saw him, you must be the only person on the planet to actually see him!"

As Rouge finished getting back into her street clothes she smiled, "Yeah, I guess I am, well I got a cab to catch, later girls."

Rouge then left the change room and headed out to the street, and tried to hail a cab, after about three drove by she gave up, *I guess I'm not getting a ride tonight, oh well, a flight would do me good*.

She took a quick look around, then above, then spread her wings and took off into the night sky for home.

END CHAPTER THREE OF ALTERATIONS