Chapter 22, Back online.

Since Eggman and Infinite had started to send multiple copies of the same people out to battle everyone had learned that the Shadow that was working for Eggman was a fake, however this only left everyone with one question, where was the real Shadow.

G,U,N HQ.

Agent Topaz ran down a hallway, she had important news to deliver to Commander Tower, Topaz entered the war room and found the Commander looking over G,U,N's latest plans to defend Spagonia.

"Commander, I have just received important news from our network department" said Topaz, Commander Tower looked up from his work "What's wrong, did Dr Eggman launch another attack" he asked.

"No Sir, we have located E-123 Omega's distress signal" said Topaz, Commander Tower looked shocked, he had assumed that Omega was destroyed, "Inform Agent Rouge immediately" he said.

Resistance HQ, War room.

Tails was currently giving Knuckles a update on his and Gadget's progress on the new wispons, "Sorry Knuckles but it's still going to be another week before we get any of the other wispon working" said Tails sadly, "Its ok, those laser wispons you made are already making a big difference" said Knuckles.

At this moment Rouge burst into the room looking very excited, "Guys, I just got word from G,U,N they've found Omega" she said, this news almost stunned the two, "That's great, where is he" asked Knuckles.

"He's somewhere in Sky rail, G,U,N have asked if we could go and pick him up" said Rouge, Knuckles sighed "That's a problem, I think all of our troops are busy" said Knuckles.

"I'll go, I bet I could fix him up right there" said Tails, "Really, wow sometimes you really are just the sweetest" said Rouge as she picked Tails up and hugged him, Tails almost turned as red as Knuckles.

"Are you sure Tails, you haven't been on a field mission since this war started" said Knuckles, "Don't worry Knuckles I can handle it, beside Sonic would never forgive me if I just stayed in the lab all day" said Tails.

Sky rail.

Tails was in the Tornado 2 flying over Sky rail, "Wow, I wonder how Omega got here, Rouge said that he was on a mission to Sand ocean" he thought.

Tails flew around the area searching for Omega, finally after almost an hour of searching Tails found him at the bottom of one of the hills, Tails landed the Tornado 2 and ran up to Omega.

Omega was lying in a crater, it looked like he had impacted the ground with a lot of force, it was almost as if he was thrown from a great distance and had landed here.

Tails got closer and examined the damage, Omega was missing his left arm and he had a large hole in his torso, Omega's body was also heavily dented and beat up this was likely from the fall he had taken.

Looking closer Tails noticed that Omega's auto repair system was trying to fix any damage that it could, this was probably the reason that Omega was recently able to send out a distress signal.

Tails opened his toolbox and got to work on fixing Omega, he knew that he couldn't repair all of the damage here but he hoped to at least get Omega back online.

Tails ran back to the Tornado 2 several times in order to grab some spear parts he had brought with him, after almost an hour of working Tails was satisfied that Omega should be able to activate now.

"Ok big guy, let's turn you on" said Tails as he flipped a switch, however much to Tails's disappointment Omega did not reactivate, "I don't get it that should have worked, I'm sorry Omega, I guess that I'm just not smart enough" said Tails sadly.

Tails was so busy feeling sorry for himself that he failed to notice that a copy of Chaos 2 had found him and was currently sneaking up behind him, Tails heard a watery footstep and turned around just in time to see Chaos 2's fist make contact with his face.

The attack sent Tails sliding across the ground, Tails tried to get up but his head was spinning and his vision was blurred, Tails managed to stand up but Chaos 2 was already in front of him and delivered a backhand that knocked Tails back to the ground.

Tails knew that he was in trouble, the only form of Chaos that he had ever fought was Chaos 4 and even then he had had help from Sonic and Knuckles, to make maters worst this copy had caught him off guard.

Before Tails could stand up Chaos 2 grabbed him by the throat and lifted him into the air, Chaos 2 then began to squeeze and strangle Tails, Tails tried to break free but he was nowhere near as strong as Chaos 2.

While Tails was being strangled a mechanical sound was here, seconds later a laser hit Chaos 2 in the brain killing him, Chaos 2 turned into a puddle and exploded into red cubes, Tails now free looked up and saw Omega standing there with his laser cannon aimed where Chaos 2 had stood.

"Threat eliminated, yellow fox saved" said Omega as he put away his laser cannon, "Omega you're alright" said Tails happily, "Where is the Jackal, I will terminate him" said Omega, "Omega you can't go and fight anyone yet your still heavily damaged" said Tails.

Omega stopped for a second and performed a scan on himself, "Critical damage detected, maintenance is required" he said, "Omega if you come with me back to base then I can fix you up, Rouge is there and I'm sure she'll be happy to see you" said Tails.

"Affirmative, regrouping is wise" said Omega, "Great just follow me" said Tails as he led Omega back to the Tornado 2.

Resistance HQ, Tails's lab.

Tails and Gadget was fixing Omega, they estimated that it would take at least a couple of days to get him in fully working order again.

Rouge entered the lab and as soon as she laid eyes on Omega her face lit up as if she had found a Chaos emerald, "Omega, good to see you in one piece" she said, "Unfortunately many of my pieces are still in Sand ocean" replied Omega.

"Don't worry, we've got more than enough spare parts to get you up and running again" said Gadget as he looked over some of Omega's parts, Omega seemed to have a mixture of both Eggman tech and G,U,N tech.

"Omega, I need to ask, what happened at Sand ocean, do you know where Shadow is" asked Rouge, "Did Shadow not return from our mission" asked Omega, "No, we've been looking for you two for weeks now" said Rouge.

Omega was silent for a second but then he began to tell Rouge everything that had happened during his last mission.

"Our mission was proceeding as planned, Shadow and I was destroying Dr Eggman's base along with all of his inferior robots, then I was confronted by a black jackal" said Omega.

"Black jackal, do you mean Infinite" asked Tails, "I do not know the jackal's name, but he was enhanced with Eggman technology and a magenta gemstone" said Omega, "Magenta gemstone, that's got to be Infinite, although I didn't know that he was a cyborg" said Tails.

"The jackal possessed a strange power that my sensors could not identify, using said power he was able to heavily damage me and then throw me far from the base" said Omega continuing his story.

"Well, that explains how you got to Sky rail" said Tails, "Omega do you know what happened to Shadow" asked Rouge with concern clear in her voice, "Negative, however the jackal that you refer to as Infinite was searching for him" said Omega.

Rouge felt like her heart stopped, she knew that Infinite had killed Sonic and she feared that he may have done the same to Shadow, Tails noticed the depressed look on Rouge's face and knew that she was thinking the same thing that he was.

"Hey Rouge are you ok" asked Tails trying to sound reassuring, "I'm fine, excuse me I need to tell G,U,N about this" said Rouge a little too quickly as she left the room, no one said a word after this, Tails and Gadget just returned to repairing Omega.

That night at G,U,N HQ there was a moment of silence held for their fallen agent.