A half hour after the evil Lord of Lard left, the Great Forest inhabitants thought that they would finally get peace for the day, but as it usually goes, it was not to be so.

BOOOOM!

A sonic boom could be heard as the hedgehog in particular came zooming by in a mid morning run through the forest. He was enjoying the peace, for usually he would be near Tails who would want to have a race with him. "I really do love the kid, but a hedgehogs gotta have his peace time now and then." Thought Sonic as a sped across the north west part of the Great Forest. He thought he saw some smoke in the area earlier upon exiting Knothole on tiptoe as to not disturb the little fox kit, sure growing up with the usual good hearing of foxes.

Sonic kept on speeding toward the area of where he thought he saw the smoke at and came across a clearing. The area was almost completely void of anything except for the grass and a small boulder. Sonic was about to take off again when something shiny from the boulder caught his eye. Upon closer inspection he discovered that it was some type of portable weird version of the lasers that the Swatbots used. "Yup, Robotnik's definatly been through here, but why would he leave one of his creations behind? This is too well placed to be forgotten, its intentional, but why would he give some of his technology to us?" Sonic mumbled to himself, "Man I wish I had Nicole with me to tell me if this thing is rigged, I know ill go back to Knothole and get her! Ill bring the gun halfway so I can find it again but so if it goes off, no one in Knothole will be hurt." He picked up the gun and was about to take off to Knothole again when he felt a prick in his neck, in annoyance he swatted away the mosquito. If he had taken more time to realize that for one it was not the right climate of the year for mosquitoes to live and two that the item in general was rater hard, he might have noticed the miniature dart that was now empty. But he did not and continued to take off for Knothole again.

Silence passed in the area for a few moments after the hedgehogs departure when a fat man appeared from the shadows of the bush and trees. He grinned evilly and made a chuckle as he lifted a silenced dart gun to his face, he then proceeded back to his awaiting hover unit to return to Robotropolis to make sure that J03-6 had his and those under his commands memories wiped.

Sally Acorn had awoken with a start, she had a bad dream, but upon trying to remember it, she hit a blank. Whatever it was, it was horrifying. She decided right then that this day wouldn't be her best day by far, little did she know, was that she was probably right.

Tails awoke from a peaceful dream of all the good times he had with the Freedom fighters, he was pretty excited for today would be his first day as a full fledged freedom fighter. Sonic had finally gotten to Sally on the topic and she finally relented saying that he would need to do the test just to be fair, but after that he would be on the team officially. Tails began to get ready for his day.

Bunny woke up earlier on in the morning, attending to her flowers, she chuckled as she saw the hedgehog sneak out for one of his rare early morning runs. "Sugar-hog, sugar-hog…" she chuckled earlier that morning, the idea alone of the hedgehog being quiet and sneaky brought a fit of giggles to her as she finished up in her garden.

Antoine was actually at Rotors that morning, he and Rotor were working on a sword design of his that he thought up in a stroke of brilliance earlier in the month, and for about every morning since, him and Rotor were secretly trying to make a actual sword after it. It was a electronically self sharpening sword with other little nifty add-ons as well, like the instant deactivation of a robot when the sword pierces the body by sending out a short wave EMP burst. Rotor and Antoine just finished up after another early morning hour of work on the sword and headed out the door to go get an early snack in the break room. The almost completed sword lay on the table. They both figured that tomorrow would be the day of its completion.

Sally, Tails, Bunny, Rotor, and Antoine all meet in the middle square at the same time, they all greeted each other but were stopped short by a noise in the forest path. They all looked in the direction and about 10 yards off was Sonic half hunched over in some sort of drunken state. They all gasped except for Tails, he did the mistake of calling out, "Sonic!". The Hedgehog in particular lifted his head to show glowing red eyes, he stepped forward and grinned evilly as he lifted the gun from his side.

10 Minuets earlier

Sonic felt a prickling thru ought his head as if his blood were tickling him, he then felt nausea and was forced to stop near a tree. Soon after falling over next to the trunk, he lost consciousness. The next time he would awake would be in the ruins of Knothole.

11 Minuets later