Well, i've hiding this for long enough but…Losses is cancelled.

It should be obvious at this point since it's been so long since i even touched this fic, but i just couldn't be bothered anymore, i had a wip of chapter 4 just sitting there for a long time.

Doesn't help that barely anybody cared about this fic, i know this shouldn't be a contest of popularity and all, but seeing that barely anybody gave a shit about this fic didn't help my motivation.

Plus, i'm already juggling a ton more fics at this point with more to come, so i rather shot down this fic once and for all.

Does this mean this will be the last you see of this fic universe? Not necessarily, i do plan to release some oneshots, snippets and whatever about this fic setting, but as continuing this story itself? Not a chance.

Also i'm gonna tell you how this fic was supposed to go and end so i don't just leave you hanging with a unresolved conclusion, here it goes.

Basically while on a stroll for supplies, Sonic's start acting weird due to his overcharge of chaos energy, while on the city he starts having flashbacks to his friends and the good times they had together.

Then a robot attacks and Sonic goes to fight it, then he discovers that the energy acting up is him developing new chaos powers that are based on his color powers (the one he used with the help of the wisp) and he uses them to fight the robot, but the robot now got into his nerves and he transforms into his demon form (though it's weaker than when he killed his friends due to not having enough energy for hyper form) he wrecks it apart and proceeds to leave to cause chaos elsewhere, then he powers down.

Eventually Sonic is found by the jackal squad, who are contracted by GUN to capture him, of course Sonic beat them just as easily as Shadow did in forces.

After that Sonic goes somewhere else to practice with his new powers, the jackal squad plans to go after him but are stopped by GUN who says there might be something big happening and Sonic might be useful for that.

You might be wondering why Infinite/Finn isn't going evil like in forces, well Sonic didn't insult him just as harshly as Shadow did and the jackal squad is still alive here, so he's more calmed down here (he is still affected by his defeat though).

Later in multiple parts of the world, robots start attacking, this is done by Neo Metal Sonic who wants to conquer the world in his father name, even taking his form to make people believe he is still alive.

So i should say this now, but the lan for this fanfic was to go through the events of forces but different due to the events that transpired by this fanfic, and before you question it, i had this planned before IDW Sonic was even a thing.

Metal isn't as successful as Eggman was in forces though, due to him not having the phantom ruby (it either doesn't appear here or is locked by Eggman in a secret place that nobody but him knows) so the planet actually has a chance at fighting back from the get go.

During this, Gadget (the red wolf from the promotional forces trailers) sees the attack and though he is scared, decides to step up to fight against 'Eggman', he is helped by his friends (which are the promotional heroes of other species) and they all join in the fight against the robots.

Sonic discovers the invasion and decides to at least try to help, regardless of what people think of him.

Later on the jackal squad are informed of the situation by GUN and they gave them a new mission to help them stop 'Eggman' and stop hunting Sonic since they saw him helping fight off the robots and decide that he could aid them to defeat the robots.

During the group of heroes struggle somewhat but get better as time progresses, the rookies get braver, more confident and get more competent, Finn learns to deal with his defeat and gets better at fighting after realizing he was not the strongest and had to improve and Sonic get better at controlling his powers as well as slowly getting to terms with his friends death (he also transforms into his demon form a couple of times during the war).

During a big fight the three group of heroes run into each other and team up to easily take out a powerful robot.

After that the three groups get together to discuss the situation and other shit, Sonic is surprised that the jackal squad isn't hunting him anymore and then they explain their reason to him, the rookies are scared and confused about Sonic and the jackals since they heard bad things about them yet here they are helping save the world and Sonic and the jackals are surprised that a group of young rookies are not only helping against the war but also doing good at it.

Gadget proposes that they should work together to make things even easier and though some are a bit mistrustful at first, they decide to do it.

Then the three groups get together in a team called 'neo team heroes' and proceed to fight against the invasion.

Sonic as he fights with the rookies notice some potential on them, especially on Gadget and starts getting an idea.

During this Neo Metal uses his shapeshifting powers to try and play mind games against his enemies, like transforming into Sonic dead friends and try to break him, etc.

This doesn't work and it just reveals his true identity to his enemies.

Then at the last legs of the battle, the inhabitants of planet freedom got the upper hand in the fight, Sonic decides to go to end Metal once and for all after making sure his teammates could handle themselves while he was out.

Sonic arrives at the death egg and easily storms through it until arriving at the place where Neo Metal was in.

Metal then reveals he was gonna use the death egg lasers to do heavy damage to planet freedom and then sweep the weakened planet defences, he activates the laser but someone of neo team heroes managed to hack it and mess up the first shot, meaning the cannon has to recharge to do another, it then starts a two minute charge.

Sonic then smirks, given his newfound speed and power to be more than enough to deal with Metal in that time frame, Metal gets angry and says to not get cocky since he too got stronger and says he's gonna avenge his father's death.

The fight starts and Sonic has the clear advantage due to his enhanced abilities and new chaos powers, but Metal uses his liquid metal body to dodge and absorb blows as well as regenerate from damage, giving him a chance to stall Sonic until the cannon recharges.

Sonic gets frustrated at this hard to kill foe but manages to suppress his demon form, since he tries to not rely on it anymore after all the problems it caused.

neo team heroes contact Sonic and tells him they analyzed Neo Metal Sonic and found a way to beat him, two ways actually, one is by using a super powerful attack to eliminate him in one blow so he couldn't regenerate and the other was to constantly wail and blast him, leaving him no time to recover, until there's nothing left of him, Sonic goes with the latter option since he doesn't believe he has an attack strong enough to eliminate him in one go, which he actually has but doesn't know about it, since only his demon form has used it.

Sonic then proceeds to beat and blast the ever loving crap out of Metal until nothing of him remained and it was working, soon enough he was gonna beat him and still have enough time to shut down the cannon (if you think this is ridiculous, the final fight of Sonic Battle was 30 second long in story time).

Seeing that he was gonna lose, Metal decided to reveal one of his tricks...Metal Overlord.

In this form Metal can actually give Sonic a decent fight, who in the period of time between when he last fought him and this one, managed to get strong enough to battle him without his demon form.

Deciding he rather end Sonic now rather than stall him and risk him finding a way to beat him, Metal activates the purple power up from Sonic 4 and gets even stronger, allowing him to surpass Sonic in power and starts to give him a savage beatdown, however the beatdown isn't enough to kill Sonic and only seems to frustrate him enough that he decides to let his demon form take care of Metal after some encouragement from his teammates, saying it's okay sometimes to rely on drastic measures if it's for the greater good (this is more a jackal squad thing than team rookie).

Once Demon Sonic is out he starts to gain the upper hand against Metal Overlord but can't seem to have a way to kill him for good, which starts to piss him off.

Metal Overlord gets desperate enough that he decides to use all of his energy sources and power ups available at max even if they fry his circuits, this allows him to gain the advantage on Demon Sonic...but just a little, so he can't reliably kill him quickly despite all of that power he is using.

The two start to get really angry with each other due to this stalemate that will end the second one of them powers down, which was about to be soon.

That is until Demon Sonic snaps and uses a new chaos power: chaos void, which consist on creating a black hole in a similar fashion to chaos blast, this causes him to suck the majority of Metal Overlord alongside some of his power (since chaos void can also absorb energy), to the point that all that's left of him is a small piece that transforms back into a torn apart Metal, who can't even move after all the power he used and lost.

Demon Sonic turns back to normal after finishing the attack and Sonic notices his enemy laying on the floor unable to fight and likely regenerate at this point.

Without hesitation, Sonic raises his hand and prepares a blast of chaos energy that will likely vaporize Metal once and for all.

Metal takes his last chance to throw some potshots at Sonic, taunting him about that he killed his friends and other stuff, this made Sonic stop charging...for two seconds before firing off the blast, seemingly ending Metal once and for all.

After all that, neo team heroes tells Sonic how to stop the cannon, once he does it triggers a self destruct sequence that Cubot and Orbot placed there in case Metal was defeated and the cannon stopped, Sonic who's worn down from all the fighting, barely manages to find a spaceship and arrives at planet freedom with a rough landing.

Afterwards all of planet freedom celebrates Metal's defeat not knowing it was Sonic who did it, in fact they believe the rookies did it.

Sonic hides himself in the shadows as the celebrations continue, with the rookies and jackal squad talking secretly to him during it.

After the celebrations are done, Sonic gives the rookies an offer: he can train them so they can become the new heroes of this planet, since the death of his friends by his demon form, most people in planet freedom and even himself believe that he isn't fit to be the hero of this planet anymore, hence why he was doing this.

The rookies consider it for a bit before accepting, Sonic then half-jokingly tells them he was gonna break them, much to the nervousness of his new apprentices.

Afterwards the jackal squad gets their paid and they inform Sonic that GUN knows about the one who defeated Metal and say that while they aren't gonna reveal that information to public they are not gonna hunt him anymore and they're gonna make sure no one does anymore, of course this won't change his status as a monster by the general public and it was likely that he should still enter public areas in disguise but it was something they could do as thanks.

Sonic accepted it, figuring it was more than he deserved, according to himself anyways.

Then Finn say he was gonna split off the jackal squad since he was gonna train hard to get stronger and reclaim his title as the ultimate mercenary, since there was an entire world with people much stronger than him, he put his second in command as the leader and say goodbye to the group.

In the epilogue Sonic visits his friends graves, says somethings to them and and says that someday they be together again, then he goes back to train the rookies until he turns around believing he heard someone talking to him, he only sees the graves, he gives the a stare before leaving.

And that's how this story was supposed to go, sorry if you wanted to see this actually being made, but i don't have the drive for it anymore, like i said this doesn't mean this won't ever be written, i may incorporate some of this in other Sonic fanworks of mine, may make snippets of how some scenes would have gone and if you want you can use these ideas as well.

And as i said before, someday i may do oneshots of this fanfic's universe, bu that will take a long time.

Anyways, i hope you aren't mad for this and that you got some good things from this fanfic, the few that did anyways.

Catch ya later.