Welcome back to those who stuck around, sorry for keeping you guys waiting for two months. Man I started College nearly two month ago and it has got me working up. What's important is that I have changed the date for the story. Previously the story was suppose to take place in February 2018 but now take place in May 2018. The story now takes place six months after the end of Sonic Forces since a year seems too far ahead. In this chapter, We'll be moving away from Mario for a bit and focus on Sonic so I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Oh by the way! Happy anniversary of Sonic Forces, I was planning to release this chapter on the one year aniversary of Super Mario Odyssey but life had other plans. If you didn't know by now, I am getting more exited for Super Smash Ultimate since a things were revealed by the latest direct. Since the city in Sonic Forces didn't have a name but was positioned near Green Hill. I am going to follow Mr memes' approach and call it Green Hill City also.

Chapter Five: Road to Gaia

April 7, 2018

4:15PM

Green Hill City

Panic began spreading all over Green Hill City as news was quickly spreading of the world being split apart. The occupants in Green Hill didn't know what to do since they were still recovering. The usually busy streets were crowded with species of different kinds and colors. With the sun setting on the horizon, all of them would normally be preparing to go home after a long days work. Most of them stared in awe at several big screens that were recently put up on some of the replaced structures. All of them displayed rolling footage of the events that were happening. The still visible purple mist was still forming and spreading throughout.

After recovering from his initial shock, Gadget raced towards the city center, ignoring the television screens and went towards an old shop. He opened the door and navigated his way down to the basement. "It's gotta be around here somewhere." He began to feel and scan the dark room until he felt a shelf.

"Bingo!" As his eyes began to slowly adjust to the darkness of the room. On the shelf were several books that were partly pulled out in the open, waiting for someone to push them back in place. So that is exactly what Gadget did and pushed the books in. To his right, part of the wall located under the stairs began to move and reveal a glowing pad.

After making sure the power still worked, the wolf reached into one of the pockets of his utility belt and pulled out a keycard. He dusted the card off and held it in front of the pad. It took a few seconds before the light on the pad turned green and card was accepted. A secret door opened up to a lit clean hallway that led underground. The open door had a time limit of five seconds for the user since it was to prevent robots from accidentally discovering the base. No sooner that the wolf went inside the base, the door closed and was locked behind him. He reached into one of the small pockets, pulling a green clemlight out and shaked it on. At the age of nineteen and about to turn twenty soon, he was still afraid of the experience he went through. For most, others wouldn't give a thought about what war did. For him though, it was tough going as he lost friends during the war, some of them were made during the time in the resistance and some during early childhood.

He began making his way down the dark hallway while holding the clemlight to see better. Pretty soon, he came upon a metal like box positioned on the right wall. He made a soft smile as he had found the power switch for the base. He pulled down the levers and almost instantly, power began to surge into the base. With a slight buzzing sound, Lights began to flicker on one by one. After checking to make sure everything was functioning normally, the wolf closed the door and continued down the hallway.

He continued down the hallway and made a left, entering the main command room. The last time he was here was five months ago when the resistance was disbanded. Pipes and vents had covered almost every part of the room. The room was bare with all the supply crates gone but it had largely remained the same since the day he left. He quickly booted the large computer up and accessed the transmission feed.

The events were still filmed from afar on several news helicopters from various stations around the world. Several more helicopters were arriving to survey the events, some of them from G.U.N. Gadget scanned the screen but couldn't make out the details of the purple mist. His eyes trained on one of the smaller helicopters as it sported two blue stars, one big and small. The two stars was an emblem that wasn't all new as it was used by the resistance just prior.

Gadget knew most of the resistance was still uneasy for the last few months since the end of the war, just waiting to be called back to duty. He had to get in contact with the helicopter to get a better idea of how fast the events wee unfolding. Inside the helicopter was a bird and a rabbit, both of them males. After getting reports of the strange events happening, they had jumped into the air and decided to check for themselves. The bird looked through the blacken visor attached to his helmet, keeping the helicopter at a safe distance if anything were to happen.

"Energy readings are showing high levels! There doesn't seem to be anything related to Eggman, but something doesn't seem right."

The rabbit looked at the purple mist, concerned as ever. "We don't know if it was Eggman who caused this but I've seen this before."

"We don't know if Eggman caused this but tell me something, have you heard about Dark Gaia?"

"Hmm...doesn't ring a bell."

"There was a legend that once in a thousand years, a being will rise to create chaos. That being was Dark Gaia, a monster that will stop at nothing. There is a counterpart by the name of Light Gaia, who will rise to fight Dark Gaia and restore the balance."The bird looked towards the part of the ocean that was split open and into the inner core. "If I remember correctly, Eggman created a machine to split the planet and unleash Dark Gaia so he could harness the power. Sonic however came about and fought to seal Dark Gaia back into the core."

"Sonic fought it?"

"He didn't fight it alone, rumors had speculated he had Light Gaia by his side." The rabbit began taking pictures for evidence since some might doubt about what they saw.

"If it was caused by Eggman, why go through the trouble of splitting the planet again if Sonic will stop it like last time?"

"A distraction maybe, a bad guy will never repeat his mistakes unless he is..." The bird stopped as beeps sounded his headset, an indication that the radio had someone in contact. "Gizmo One, this is the headquarters of the resistance calling, are you receiving this?"

The bird and rabbit gazed at each other due to the sudden radio break. If both of them had remembered, all communication was shut down since the resistance was disbanded. The fact was that whoever was calling them had the call sign of their helicopter. It had to be the HQ since the call sign was registered into the system. Perhaps it was someone close to the the commander of the resistance. Back at the HQ, Gadget smirked as a voice responded back through the speakers.

"This is Gizmo One, who is this calling us?"

"This is Gadget calling from resistance HQ, what's going on over there?"

Both the rabbit and bird could tell whoever was on the line was young, but the name Gadget had caught their attention. He was the young wolf that bravely stood up against Infinite and defeated Eggman with both the two Sonics in that final battle. Famous or not though, they knew he was the only one who was able to get in touch with them.

"Gizmo One here, by what we can observe, the energy readings are showing high levels coming from that mist. I don't want theorize anything but I think Eggman is going back to one of his failed plans even though there doesn't seem to be any sign of him."

Failed plan? Gadget was conflident that Sonic knew what to do about this. Night was falling fast so there was no telling what would happen in a few hours."We need to gather everyone and bring them back to South island. The clock is ticking as we speak."

"Copy that, we'll broadcast an emergency on all channels to alert everyone. Can you go see if you could find anyone willing to help, Gadget?"

"Sure, I already have a few in mind." The wolf responded without thinking. Gadget was still suffering the traumatic effects from the war, he lost a lot of good friends, some he made in the resistance and some from childhood. After the war ended, while cleaning up a section of a city, he met a few new faces and made friends. He felt they were the right ones to turn to but he wasn't sure if he wanted to bring his new friends into this. He couldn't bare losing more friends after he spent a short time alone looking back on the experience. Apart of him told that this next one was going to get worse, he was standing silent alone in that room, deep into his thought until he made his mind. He was going to do it.

Sorry if this seemed short everyone, I wanted to continue but with College behind my back, I don't have the time. I am hoping to upload another chapter this week.