Sonic the Hedgehog

Forced AU

Rating: R

Pairing: Undecided

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They - Silver, Espio, and Charmy - had entered the area not long ago, and City was really under serious attack from Eggman - buildings burnt, grounds cracked, and mobians screamed; all caused by the evil scientist's vicious robot army spread throughout the region of civilisation.

"SONIC!"

Silver's eyes widened as he recognised the voice from some distance away that had just screamed the blue hedgehog's name:

… it was Tails!

"Espio!" the white hedgehog called out to the ninja beneath him running on the ground - he had to make sure that he wasn't hallucinating from his lack of sleep. "Did you hear that?"

"I did." replied the chameleon, as he seemed to increase his pace - running even faster than before. "We must hurry!"

After hearing the ninja's suggestion, Silver decided to go ahead and reach Sunset Heights first in order to help as soon as he can. With his telekinesis, he focused his mind on where the voice before came from, and boosted himself through the air at the fastest speed he could manage without exerting too much of his own energy.

Meanwhile, Espio and Charmy had taken the shortest path available to the square in order to reach faster; with the ninja charmeleon jumping over walls and fences to shorten their travel, and the young bee simply flying over obstacles in the way.

To any regular citizen of Mobius, the high amounts of physical exertion performed by the chameleon would have long since tired them out. But for Espio; his disciplined, ninja training routine had conditioned his body with exceptional strength, stamina and flexibility.

A few moments after Silver went ahead, the duo from Chaotix finally reached the location of Sunset Heights Square themselves.

It didn't look good.

Sonic was sprawled out on the ground; unconscious; while Tails shook his body desperately, trying to snap the hero awake - but to no avail. The purple chameleon observed that the hedgehog was still breathing - from the rise and fall movements of his chest.

Shortly after noticing them in the square; bright, glowing, and trailing lights of red and cyan surrounding two flying mobians - black, and white furred - had attracted their attention:

Silver had engaged an unknown masked enemy in what seemed to be a violently out-of-control duel in the air, as they dashed across the open space dynamically - in seemingly random paths and directions - while they blocked each other's attacks and immediately served one of their own.

It was an absolute madness of a dogfight.

"Espio, look!" Charmy pointed to a direction ahead of them on the ground, redirecting the ninja's attention from the flying fighters.

… Shadow...?

… With Metal Sonic, and Chaos?

And right at that moment, Espio saw something new right out of the corner of his vision:

It was a moderately large wave of Eggman robots, and they stood right behind Tails, ready to strike the fox and the unconscious hero.

"Charmy!" he called for the other's attention. "Let's move!"

"Right!"

The duo from Chaotix jumped straight into battle and engaged the robot enemies, causing Tails to cry out in surprise as they swiftly dashed over his head. Then, the young fox started hearing explosions go off behind him.

He suddenly realised that in his yearning for Sonic to awaken, he had completely lost track of the events and peril that surrounded him.

… Sonic wouldn't have wanted this!

"Tails!" a familiar voice shouted, and he looked over to the source. It was Knuckles, followed by Vector the Crocodile. "Catch!"

He reacted quite quickly, and held out his arms in position - ready to fetch the yellow object that landed right into his holds: It was his Miles Electric.

"Do your thing - we'll handle the fight!" assured Knuckles, as he began to jump into action; punching robots with his vicious fists, together with the crocodile, causing more explosions to go off in the area.

Not looking to waste any more time, Tails began to operate the device - of which was his own creation - starting his attempts to analyse and figure out the unknown enemy's abilities as his friends fought to oppose the evil scientist.

Sonic's team - even without the hedgehog himself - still stood a fighting chance!

"Hey Esp'! To your right!" Vector shouted, and the ninja chameleon reacted in an instant, swinging his kunai at the enemy.

Doctor Eggman had sat in his Egg-Mobile, furiously watching this new turn of events: His army of robots were slowly dwindling, and it doesn't help that that telekinetic hedgehog was directly distracting Infinite - the wielder of the Phantom Ruby!

This wasn't what he planned at all!

The invasion of City was to be a sudden, unexpected attack; and then after taking over City, he would begin to expand his operations, and spread his domination to the rest of Mobius! - It was a brilliant plan, created with his brilliant mind!

All the working, planning, and execution of his plans which began from this morning would soon go to waste if he didn't think fast for a solution to counterattack.

This unfortunate turn of events was most definitely the cause of that Silver the Hedgehog!

"What are you doing, you fool!" and agitated Eggman suddenly and angrily exclaimed to his henchmen. "Stop fighting him and use your powers!"

It had irritated the masked jackal more than a bit to be named a fool - especially by the fat man - and it caused his anger to flare up. However, despite the insult; he still found sense in the other's words and stopped properly engaging the white hedgehog in a fair fight.

It was time to fight dirty.

With one swift, unexpected lunge at the enemy, Infinite had managed to knock the hedgehog - with the gift of flight - quite some distance away. The hedgehog yelped in surprise as his body spun rapidly in the air while the cyan glow around his body disappeared for a brief second before it reappeared.

It would take seconds for him to recover, and engage once more.

But that was all the time he needed.

Focusing his mind, he activated the powers of the Phantom Ruby, creating thousands of Eggman's robots that appeared out of nowhere and started to engage in fights with the heroes immediately.

"What the-!?" came an exclamation from a confused Knuckles the Echidna.

Eggman laughed with maniacal glee - Yes! Sonic's friends will definitely not be able to handle such a large, unexpected wave of robots! And, with Shadow the Hedgehog distracted and framed as an enemy - they stood no chance of fighting back!

Surely, it was his victory! Time-travelling hedgehog that wished to foil his plans or not - he was going to take over the world!

"I'll just push this button right here!" Eggman commented on his own actions - quite giddy with delight - as he pressed a button on his Egg-Mobile which deployed a heavy-duty grabber from the underside of the floating vehicle.

No more failures!

He was going to capture Sonic the Hedgehog - he was going to win!

"No! Sonic!"

"TAILS!"

Knuckles the Echidna dived for the two-tailed fox as a missile aimed directly at him threatened to blow up the young fox. They fell onto the ground as the explosive detonated close to them, while Tails watched Sonic disappear into the storage compartment of the Egg-Mobile.

Silver had noticed the situation, and was forced to abandon his fight against the masked enemy. He immediately responded to Tails and Knuckles's predicament and rescued them using his telekinetic powers before they could be killed - by bullets or explosives - by the hundreds of robots surrounding them.

The situation just turned a thousand times worse for Team Sonic:

There were too many robots. There were too little of them. It was just too dangerous.

The telekinetic analysed the Chaotix's situation; it was a losing battle, but they still didn't give up their efforts, because they were unaware that another swarm of robots had just appeared - ready to decimate them.

They stood no chance in this fight as it went on.

"We have to retreat!" announced Silver.

"But, Sonic-" Tails begged.

"We have no choice!"

With the remains of his energy and tiny amount of mental focus he had left, Silver had picked everyone up - the Chaotix, Knuckles, and Tails - up from the ground entirely as he boosted them through the air quite forcefully; getting them out danger before tragedy could strike.

And immediately, right after they left; the real, living, Shadow the Hedgehog had finally arrived along with Rouge the Bat - but they were too late. They had seen the last moments of exactly what had happened with their own eyes: with Silver bringing everyone out of City; to safety.

"Rouge." Shadow called his partner with a serious voice. "Hold onto me."

The bat obliged without quip, and clasped her hand on the black hedgehog's forearm.

"Chaos control!" chanted Shadow, and the two G.U.N. agents disappeared in a flash of light.

The heroes who fought the evil forces just mere moments ago were forced to retreat. The Hero of Mobius was captured, successfully, by his very own nemesis.

Doctor Eggman had finally won.

Sonic the Hedgehog lost.

Mobius - as they knew it - was gone.

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