Chapter 3: The Resistance

"Everything was going well with Ivo's invention. Until he made the first actual test. He took the same road I did testing on himself first before anyone else. It malfunctioned half way through the procedure, his right arm, eyes, spinal cord and half of his brain where Robotosized. This alone would not of been a problem… except the procedure twisted his mind. He has become corrupt, his mind is set on trying to take over the planet… he has already made an army of robots, and the military has been totally unsuccessful in stopping him. He already rules America with an iron fist. He has also modified the Robotosizer. Instead of turning small amounts of the body robotic, it turns the entire subject into a machine, and takes away the subject's free will. I must find a way to reason with him before this gets any worse."

That explains a lot…

"August 30

… I… Ivo has done something unforgivable… he… when I went to reason with him, Maria came too, we thought we may be able to save what little is left of him. But he has gone beyond saving… when we got to his control room, he ordered his robots to eliminate us… the first shot was heading for me, and Maria jumped in to block it… she's gone now. I barely made it out alive… I couldn't do anything to save her… she told me to try and save the planet and what's left of the citizens before she passed…"

He killed his own family? I thought only I was capable of that!

"… I have done the best I can to do this… I have made a resistance force… Shadow is my second in command, he has lived a sheltered life but… Maria's death seems to have affected him even more than me… next is Joz, an old Bat that seemed to hate me due to something my staff did in my company… they mutated him for some reason… I was able to convince him to hear the truth… that they did it behind my back, when I found they had been affecting people like this, I fired them… he has became one of the organisations best men. Then there is a young wolf by the name of Trance, something in her blood has affected the vaccine, and she now has infinite life span too."

This is getting weirder by the second, Joz and Master? Working together?

"June 30

The last 20 odd years have been hard; Ivo's robots have been getting more and more advanced, and what's worse he has made 5 more powerful robots, all bar one have a small part of his personality in it, each are generals. Each however have a dominating trait which he finds admirable. The first is Gigacannon, who is a brute force, kill first ask later type, Dark Lance who's a master tactician, Berserker blade a lunatic with two swords and white knight, his right hand and has very honour based personality. The last of his generals and second to White Knight is a robot based entirely on Shadow, Meta Shadow which has a desire for wanting Shadow dead. Because of these robots we have lost Joz, he was captured by Dark Lance and Robotosized during our last mission. I have however some good news. We have new generals in our organisation. The first two are the grand children of some of Ivo's first victims when he attacked America, a group of legendary Mercenaries called the Deadly Gems. The first is the granddaughter of Ruby Rose… a young pink Hedgehog called Amy, and she has both formidable close combat skills (she has been trained with the same hammer as her grandmother) and long range skills. The other, the grandson of Emerald the Chameleon, is Espio, a formidable ninja and Stealth specialist. Espio and Joz where also able to save a young girl, the remaining member of a Ninja clan of wasps, right before Joz was captured. This Young Girl, called Shade, is also very powerful and she isn't much older than Amy, I have high hopes she will also become one of our generals. I have also been working on something new to help us. I call it the Sonic Project, it is based Around Shadow, in hopes of creating a creature who is like Shadow, only faster and stronger. In order to accomplish this I have decided to add the DNA of an animal who is stronger and faster than a Hedgehog, the best available creature is a wolf, however I will need to find a way to vent out the anger a wolf would have. I have been working on Trance with this, based on my projections it should be finished by next year. I'm only hopping it will be finished in time to make a difference."

Wolf DNA?

"June 30

It has been hard but the project was successful, even more so than I thought. The system I made to vent out the viciousness of the Sonic Project (now only known As Sonic) has created a second life form. Sonic is a blue hedgehog with downward pointed spikes, and like all the other creatures (or the way they are turning out I should say people) has red eyes. The second life form, who I have christened Nite, is a black wolf that also has red eyes. The most noticeable things is while he is faster than an average person he is still slower than Shadow and Sonic, however he more than makes up for it in being much stronger. I was at first worried about how Nite would take the fact he was but a by-product of making Sonic but he doesn't seem to care. Instead he has seemed to take refuge in befriending Trance. Sonic on the other hand keeps trying to race his big brother Shadow. I am confident that both will help a lot after the loss of Joz"

Does that mean the Nite I met back home was also…?

I didn't know what to think so far, all these revelations and through all of this… I had seen a side of my creator I had never known. The Professor Gerald Robotnik I knew never would have thought of his creations before him, I was beginning to feel… I don't know what I felt… but what ever it was I didn't like it.

The next part of the journal brought things up to date

"August 10

Life just keeps getting worse… two days ago, the generals left to destroy the main Robotosizer facility… only Sonic and Trance didn't come back, Shadow barely made it out alive, Amy badly injured her arm, and Nite had been partly Robotosized, if it had not of been for Shade and Espio, we might of lost Amy and Shadow. Then in the afternoon Ivo announced that Sonic had been executed. I now fear for the future of the resistance."

And so I came full circle, I knew the situation of this new world. The pain of the people. The suffering he caused. Darkness that had overcome the world…

It's going to be fun wrecking it for him, then ill smash this place and get back to my world.

Little did I know that Robotnik was working on his own plans…

XOXOX

a dark shadow was sitting quietly in the centre of a large room. It growled angrily as it watched the tape again… its metal hand began crushing the arm of its chair.

"Mi'Lord" came a voice from the door behind him. It came from a large, white and black human shaped robot with what looked like a cannon for one of its arms "The others have arrived".

"Let them in" said the shadow.

The large robot stepped out the way, letting 3 other robots walk in. the first was a black and red robot, it looked very similar in shape to a hedgehog. The second and third where black and white, the first was very tall, though not as much as the robot that introduced him, it was also less bulky, and had a large axe, gun hybrid weapon. The last was middle sized and was again humanoid but had a lizard like head and two swords strapped to his back. The black and red robot leaned against the wall near the door, the big robot took its place next to the shadow, the other two stood between him and the door.

"Glad you all could make it" said the shadow

"What's the matter boss?" said black and red "must be big if you called us all here"

"What a minute" hissed the lizard robot "where isss Gigacannon?"

"That's what I called you here for Berserker Blade…" said the Shadow

"Huh?"

The shadow played the recording back for the group. What it showed was a blue hedgehog, beating up a very big robot with cannons on its shoulders, and then it unloaded a gun into the robot before throwing it so fast it impaled the robot.

"WHAT?" said the all of the robots

"How… can that be? Sonic alive? And how he could do so much damage to Gigacannon!" yelled the axe robot in disbelief

"I don't know who, Dark Lance, that is but it isn't Sonic" said the shadow "I killed that miserable creature with my own hands…"

"Yes Lord Robotnik"

"Which can only mean my dear grandfather created an ultimate in his likeness. A brilliant strategy I must admit, with Sonic supposedly "back from the dead" his resistance forces will be very motivated. We may have more problems ahead of us"

"So what do we do then boss?" said the black and red robot

"You Meta Shadow, will lead a force which will acquaint itself this new… Sonic, test him, and see what you make of him. But DON'T kill him… yet"

"Yes boss"

"What about usssss lord?" said Berserker Blade

"You and Dark Lance will watch over your own domains as well as that of Meta Shadow and Gigacannon. White Knight will remain to protect me as usual… along with my newest creation."

As if on cue a small blue robot that looked similar to Meta Shadow appeared.

"I wondered when you would make that lord" said Dark Lance "A Meta Sonic"

"Hmph" said Meta Shadow

XOXOX

There was a Knock at the door just as I finished reading the diary… and before I could say anything, I turned to see that Shade entered.

"So how about it blue boy?" she said "remembering anything now?"

Again with the blue boy crack

"Only in informing me what has happened no memories resurfaced yet" I said, deciding to continue the charade "something the matter

"Well that's a start at least. Come on, we got a new mission"

"We?"

"Guess I got to explain, that warehouse you guys blew was a major weapons depot for Gigacannon's territory, with it down we have a great chance to take out his main base before "His majesty" ether makes another of him or makes a replacement. It will be a major victory for us. But it would take the combined effort of each our groups"

"Groups?"

"The General's groups, each of us split into teams of two to take out certain parts of his main facility"

I was almost afraid to ask "Who am I paired with?"

Shade just remained silent

"It's that Amy isn't it?"

"…It was her but… considering the way she feels just now… we probably will need to switch it around a bit so you keep out of her way."

I stood up "well I suppose we had better get moving" I said

Shade nodded in agreement

We both left and headed for the war room once again. Everyone was there. Amy stood at the table looking over her notes again… she gave me a glare as I entered. Shadow was busy talking to Espio about battle plans and Nite was polishing his metal arm.

Espio looked up and saw us walk in. He made a fake smile as he stepped toward the table and started pressing buttons on it. Instantly a picture of a wire framed green tower appeared.

"Now that we are all here we move on with the briefing" he said "Here is the blueprints for the base of Gigacannon. Seeing as he is now gone it's our best chance to get rid of his control tower before Robotnik decides to try and rebuild him. To infiltrate the base we will have to split into groups of two, Group A, Shadow and Nite, will head for the main core and download a virus specially made by the professor. This virus will infect every system in Gigacannon's area, taking it totally offline. But in order to do this we need one of the other two groups to make a distraction and the remaining to infiltrate the security area and turn off the alarms. Group B, which will take out the security will be me and…"

"ME" said Amy quickly

"What? But Amy your not qualified, I will need…"

"I am not teaming up with HIM" she pointed in my direction "Again, he will get me killed!"

Espio sighed "Look little sis, I need…"

Little sis?

"NO Espio!"

Espio sighed again "when she gets like this no one is able to reason with her… alright fine, group be will be me and Amy, which means group C, in charge of the diversion will be Sonic and Shade"

This could be interesting.

Author's note:

Ok hope you guys liked the characters i introduced... this is where things begin to get interesting as Streak pointed out, please rate and review!