Chapter 28, Operation big wave, part 1.

New metropolis, Eggman's secret lab.

Eggman typed a few commands into his computer, the Spectral sapphire was almost ready, in less than an hour Eggman would have the ultimate defence against Infinite, Eggman was so happy that he could jump for joy.

However before the Doctor could celebrate he got a call from Orbot, "Dr Robotnik, we have a problem" came the robot's voice, "What is it" said Eggman angry that the robot would interrupt such important work.

"It's the Resistance, their attacking" said Orbot, "What where are they attack this time" demanded Eggman assuming that the Resistance was attacking another one of his small factories miles away from New metropolis, "Here, their attacking here" said Orbot's panicked voice, Eggman's eyes widened in horror.

Eggman quickly typed some commands into his computer and the screen changed to show the Doctor a huge fleet of Resistance ships entering New metropolis, "What, no, why must they attack now" thought Eggman starting to regret sending away his defence force.

Eggman knew that he had to act fast or else he would lose his city, "Orbot I want all available units ready for combat now" ordered Eggman, "Yes Dr Robotnik" said Orbot.

"Tell the Hooligans to get out there and redeem themselves" said Eggman, "Yes Doctor" said Orbot, "Call Infinite and tell him to get over here on the double" ordered Eggman, "Yes sir" said Orbot.

"And ready the EGG viper, I'm not going to just sit here and let those pests attack my city" said Eggman, "It will be done at once" said Orbot.

Eggman ran out of his lab to join the battle leaving his machines to finish the Spectral sapphire while he was gone.

New metropolis.

Resistance airships was flying above the city raining laser fire down on Eggman's robots and strongholds.

Tails was flying the Tornado 2 with Gadget in the back seat, they was picking off Eggman's robots one by one using the plane's lasers.

Down below the rest of the Resistance was doing a good job of taking down what little defences the city had, "How are you doing Gadget" asked Tails, "I'm just fine" said Gadget as he used his wispon to take down an EGG gunner that was following them.

Suddenly a laser came out of nowhere and hit the Tornado 2 in the side, the plane didn't take too much damage but the force of the impact knocked Gadget out of his seat.

"Gadget no" screamed Tails as he watched the wolf fall to the ground below, Tails tried to turn the plane around and catch Gadget but Eggman piloting the EGG viper emerged from between two building and blocked his way.

"Well look who it is Sonic's little sidekick, tell me how are you doing now that your hero's gone" mocked Eggman, however Tails wasn't listening he was too busy worrying about Gadget.

"Tails I'm ok, don't worry about me" came Gadget's voice from the communicator, Tails breathed a sigh of relief, for a second he thought that he had lost another friend.

Tails gripped the plane's controls tightly and looked at Eggman with fire in his eyes, "Eggman, I'm going to make you pay for what you did to Sonic" he said his voice filled with venom, "We'll see about that" laughed Eggman as he gripped the controls of the EGG viper.

Eggman charged forward and Tails just managed to dodge to the left, Eggman fired the EGG viper's lasers but Tails's dodged these as wall, Tails opened fire on the EGG viper but the Tornado 2's lasers was unable to pierce it's armour.

Tails and Eggman flew through the city firing lasers at each other, however Eggman was unable to hit the small target that was the Tornado 2, and Tails was unable to get through the EGG viper's armour.

Down below the city was in chaos, Eggman's robots was slowly being overpowered by the Resistance, and the Chaotix was battling and Hooligans in what was currently a stalemate.

Tails fired more lasers that failed to damage the EGG viper, "There's got to be a way to stop that thing" he thought as he narrowly dodged the EGG viper's tail, suddenly Tails got an idea.

Tails increased the Tornado 2's speed and flew straight pasted the EGG viper, "Running away I see" laughed Eggman as he increased the EGG viper's speed in order to chase Tails, Tails led Eggman through the city until he was in the perfect position for his plan.

In one swift movement Tails turned the Tornado 2 around and fired some missiles at Eggman, the missiles did no damage but the smoke they created did blind Eggman for a few seconds.

Eggman blinded by the smoke failed to see the building that was right in front of him and drove the EGG viper straight through it, the EGG viper survived the crash but suffered extreme damage, large chunks of its armour had been ripped off.

Tails saw his chance and started to fire at the EGG viper's exposed circuitry dealing heavy damage, Eggman knew that the EGG viper couldn't survive for very long so he ejected his EGG mobile from the large machine and started to retreat.

However Tails wasn't about to let Eggman get away that easily, Tails opened fire on the EGG mobile and managed to score a couple of hits causing the EGG mobile to start to malfunction.

"Just one more shot" thought Tails as he took aim at Eggman, however before he could fire the Tornado 2's wing was suddenly hit by an energy blast sending the plane spinning out of control.

Eggman managed to crash land the failing EGG mobile onto a nearby rooftop, "It seems that you require my assistance" said a voice, Eggman looked up and saw the one who had just saved him from Tails, it was Infinite.

"Infinite quickly you have to stop the Resistance, use the full power of the Phantom ruby, make them wish that they was never born" said Eggman as he climbed out of the EGG mobile, "I thought that you'd never ask" said Infinite smiling behind his mask.

Infinite flew high into the air, "It's time for them to learn just how powerful I truly am" he said as he unleashed more power from the Phantom ruby than ever before.

The entire sky turned magenta and red lighting began to strike, dozens of copies of Shadow, Metal sonic, Zavok and Chaos appeared all over the city and started to attack the Resistance.

Then suddenly huge horrifying creatures appeared, these creatures was as tall as some of the skyscrapers, they had long slim bodies with equally long arms and their heads took the form of Infinite's mask.

These terrifying creatures wasted no time in attacking and they started to wipe out any Resistance solder not caring for the destruction they caused along the way.

Within less than a minute the entire battle was turned on its head, the Resistance who up until now had been winning this fight was now running for their lives as more monsters appeared all around them.

Tails who had regained control over the Tornado 2 tried to shoot one of the monsters but his attack didn't even leave a mark, "Guys I can't even hurt these thing" said a panicking Tails.

Resistance HQ.

Knuckles was watching the battle on screen with horror in his eyes as solder after solder fell to the monstrosities, calls was coming in none stop asking for help, however Knuckles was too shocked to answer.

"Knuckles what are we going to do" asked Amy, however Knuckles just stared at the screen with no idea what to do.

Amy knowing that she had to do something quickly grabbed a communicator, "Retreat, everyone retreat, forget about the mission and just get out of there as fast as you can" she screamed.

New metropolis.

Tails and the rest of the team heard Amy's order, Tails didn't want to leave now, he knew that they'd never get a chance like this again, but he could see that there was no way they could win now, Tails reluctantly turned the Tornado 2 around and flew out of the city as quickly as he could.

All over the New metropolis the rest of the Resistance was doing everything they could to escape the city, however Infinite's copies and monster was making this almost impossible, every second more and more members of the Resistance was either being killed or captured.

This mission that truly a failure.