Eggman HQ
We now go to the perspective of our antagonists, Eggman and Starline, starting with Eggman. The following events take place after Jaiden destroys the robot that attacked earlier in the story. Eggman's base can be described as cold, metallic, mischievous, technological, and the most important trait, evil. Eggman is currently sitting in his egg carrier in front of a massive scale computer screen with his 2 robot companions, Orbot and Cubot, accompanying him. He just received a notification on his computer screen that an attacking robot was destroyed in one of the Resistance-built civilizations.
Eggman growls at the sight of the computer giving him a notification reading, "Badnik destroyed."
"AHHHHH, CURSE THAT PESKY HEDGEHOG, ALWAYS RUINING MY PLANS!" the mustached man, "He's like a speck on your shoe that you can't rub off!" Eggman slams his fists on his egg carrier, causing it to go down and then back up from the force. "Maybe that badnik was a defective model, it feels like they've been coming out to soft lately anyway." Eggman looks at the controls of his egg carrier, pressing a couple of buttons. As he does this, Orbot and Cubo,t who were on the ground at his sides, noticed something else on the computer screen.
"Uh, boss?" the red robot, Orbot exclaims, "You may want to take a look at the screen."
"Yeah," the yellow robot, Cubot adds, "This doesn't seem like the whole usual 'Sonic foils Eggman again' type deal, boss."
Eggman looked at the two robots with a puckered look on his face, "What are you two idiots talking about!?" shouted the doctor, "It was obviously either Sonic or one of his runt frie-" Eggman was cut off by what he saw when he took a look at the computer screen again, seeing the scan the badnik had done on its opponent, and it was unlike anything he's ever seen before, the screen simply reading out, 'UNKNOWN LIFEFORM.'
"My goodness," said the evil doctor with a shocked demeanor, "This creature, is unlike anything I've ever seen before, not since I created Infinite…." Eggman does some typing away on his egg carrier, "I must get the energy readings fo this thing!" After typing for a quick second, the computer creates a diagram and a point at the light-grey hedgehog's right hand, which wasn't completely exposed yet. The computer tried to grasp the chaos readings in this creature's hand alone, and what Eggman, Cubot, and Orbot saw made them jump, with Eggman jumping completely out of his egg carrier and hitting the ground with a thud.
"Oh my goodness," shouts Orbot in complete shock, "This new thing's chaos levels are massive! It's, almost like…."
"Like he has a massive source of chaos energy at his disposalm" He fully stands up, looking at the computer screen further, "I, don't know how, but this thing's chaos energy ratings go above those of the blue rodent's Super form, when he has all 7 chaos emeralds, but how can that be?"
"It's because my dear doctor, he's not from this world," A voice adds, walking into the room with the trio. "He's nothing like Sonic or his wretched friends."
"Huh?" Eggman turns around to the doorway where he heard the voice, only seeing a shadow of a figure. "We can see you, show yourself!" The mysterious figure scoffs and walks into the room, revealing himself to be Dr. Starline, an evil genius platypus. He has white fur, a red velvet jacket, what appears to be a gold gauntlet in his right hand, and a grey beak. He gives Eggman a slight frown.
"Oh, Starline, it's just you," Eggman grumbles.
"Frankly…." Starline responds, gritting his teeth slightly. "If I may say, this creature is not native to our 'earth' as you can call it." The platypus starts to walk toward Eggman and the two robots, both of his arms behind his back.
"Don't you think I can see that!? No creature just has chaos energy ratings such as this around here!"
"Indubedably," the white platypus vaguely responds, "I have a theory about this specimen though, what if it's from, another dimension, per say?"
"Another dimension?" Eggman responds, raising an eyebrow at the other doctor's theory, "I've worked with dimensional travel before platypus, I'd think I'd know if something was from another!"
"Your talking about dimensional travel in THIS world," Starline firmly adds, "I refer to, another, more interconnected with other worlds version of it." Starline's frown turns into a faint smile, "I always had a philosophy that our world is just one of many in the universe, that there is more than what meets the eye." Eggman looks at Starline, then down at the floor, contemplating his thoughts about all of this.
"...That's dumb! I've never heard of such a stupid theory! If that's the case, then why do every time I build the Death Egg in space, I never see more 'interconnected worlds' in 'different dimensions'?" Starline gives the doctor a slightly infuriated look.
"I'm certain that isn't how it works… sir," the platypus saying this, placing his left hand over his face, giving a 'What an idiot' look toward Eggman, "I would imagine that you'd need some sort of device, that would allow you to travel across the dimensions."
"A device?" Eggman questions, "What sort of device could do something like dimensional travel?"
"Eh, if I had to guess boss, it would have to be some kind of chaos energy doohickie," Cubot added.
"Precisely, my robotic friend," the platypus doctor says with a slightly mischievous smile, walking over to the screen and pointing at the hand of the creature with his right glove hand, "Whatever this creature is, the chaos energy in that hand is what we can use to achieve dimensional travel. If I had to presume what it is, I would guess it's a-"
"Chaos emerald!" the red robot shouts, cutting off Starline's words in its tracks. He hovers over and points at the creature's hand, making Eggman and Starline look closer, seeing the shiny properties of a chaos emerald, their eyes widening.
"I, was going to say an advanced device with the properties of a chaos emerald," exclaimed Starline, his eyes widening at that realization, "But, if this is the raw power of an actual chaos emerald," the platypus' face gives an evil expression, "Then I must have it," he adds, now examining his glove. Eggman looks at the platypus with one eyebrow raised, gazing at him behind his goggles.
"You mean, I, must have it," shouted the scientist, "I've been trying to take out that Resistance for a while now, and this might be the perfect way to do it!" In response, the platypus grits his teeth and looks away from the scientist, but he then looks back up at the screen, and he lets out a slightly mischievous grin.
"I have a plan to do just that," Starline replies silently, crossing his arms, and looking at Eggman ignorantly.
"Good!" replies Eggman, struggling to get into his egg carrier, "Now go and get prepared, we leave in the morning. Orbot, Cubot!"
"Yes sir?" both robots replied.
"Let's go, we have much to prepare for!" Eggman commands the two robots. The egg carrier flies through the doorway with the two robot companions hovering beside it. Meanwhile, Starline still remains in the room. He looks at the doorway the three just exited, then he looks at the computer screen, his arms still crossed.
"I will know, who you are," the platypus says to the picture of the creature, he smiles evilly, "And I will use you to control everything." he smirks, chuckling to himself while walking out of the room, leaving the picture of that hedgehog creature with a chaos emerald in his hand, still there.
Resistance HQ
About 40 minutes later, the squad of animals finally arrive at the front of The Resistance base. It is described as a garage-looking facility with a giant garage door at the front. Tails land The Tornado in front of the base, and he, Sonic, and Amy all jump off the plane. Jaiden, still very hesitant, stands there on the wing of the plane looking at the base.
"So, this, is y'alls' base?" asks Jaiden, jumping off the wing of the aircraft finally.
"Yep, it ain't much, but this is the place where we first made a stand against Eggman, when, he used Infinite to finally control this world," replies Sonic, walking over with Tails and Amy to the base.
"But together, we were able to put a stop to him and Infinite and save the world, we have left," says Tails, knocking on the garage door, "We're, still in the process of rebuilding everything though."
"So, your in a fallout?" asks the greyed hedgehog, now by the main trio's side.
"Unfortunately, yes, it caused a war of forces," adds the pink female hedgehog, "That evil man, he took so much from everyone, all for world domination." Hearing this, Jaiden looks down at the ground, holding his necklace.
"Yeah, well be glad he just wants to dominate it," adds Jaiden, still holding his necklace. The trio looks at him with their eyebrows raised, looking at each other, then back at him.
"Oh yeah? Why's that Jaiden?" Sonic asks with suspicion.
"...nothing. Just know I don't mean what you think I mean," the new hedgehog responds to the other. The trio presumed that this new hedgehog was hiding something, but they decided not to think much about it, for now, at least. Suddenly, the garage door was opened slightly, revealing what Jaiden thought was a... wooden doll? She looks around the area, giving everyone a smile, except for Jaiden.
"Hey Belle," said Tails with a happy demeanor, "So turns out the threat in the civilization we built wasn't, much of a threat at all." The doll, now named Belle, walks out to where the four animals are, leaving the door open for Jaiden to see what the Resistance base looks like on the inside. He saw a massive computer screen and a panel in front of it. He also saw multiple cargo boxes.
"Really?" asked Belle to Tails, "Well what was it?" Tails walks over to Belle and stands in front of her.
"It was just a badnik," responds the orange fox, "But we didn't have to do much of anything, thanks to Jaiden here." Tails makes Belle shift her attention to him, with her now giving him a faint smile.
"Well, I guess your someone to trust, Jaiden," says the wooden doll, dressed in green pull-overs, a green hat, pink shoes, and a pink shirt.
"I, guess you are too," hesitantly says the light-grey hedgehog, looking at Belle with a light smile, his ears puckering upward, his arm extending for a handshake. The two exchange a handshake together before they finally step into the Resistance base, Belle and Tails leading, Sonic and Amy next, and Jaiden, behind them all, walking with them, gazing and looking around this new place. He felt the wind of some fans hit his quills like the breeze of a summer day, and it was quite refreshing for him. The five continue walking through the base until they get to the massive computer area, with a station in front of it that looks holographic. Sonic, Belle, Amy, and Tails all go behind the holographic computer. Tails, in front, uses his hands to press away at the holographic UI.
"It appears I can't find a single file on this guy at all," the fox said with a puzzled look on his face. He continues to swipe, swipe away, passing by files of Infinite, Shadow, and even Classic Sonic, but nothing for Jaiden. The four look up over the screen, seeing Jaiden sitting down on some cargo boxes, his body still and motionless and his cold blank stare looking down at the ground, obviously showing that he's still skeptical about these people called "The Resistance." To try and break the awkwardness, Sonic speaks up.
"So, Jaiden, are you… not from around here?" asks the blue hedgehog walking toward Jaiden to sit by him.
"...figured that would be obvious, seeing that your group there can't find anything about me," replies the new hedgehog, just as Sonic sits next to him.
"Hey, there's nothing wrong with that, y'know?"
"I'm not sure you wouldn't be willing to keep around something you don't understand, homie."
"Dude trust me, we kept around way weirder; you know we know a bee, right?"
"Charmy!" the two-tailed fox behind the computer screen says, "Thats his name!"
"Oh really?" Jaiden asks, "That's pretty trippy, I must say." The four can see the hedgehog genuinely smile and giggle at the thought of them knowing a bee, causing them to also smile and giggle. Moments after this, Tails brings his attention from the computer to Jaiden as he walks over to where he and Sonic are sitting, Amy and Belle still over by the computer.
"Based off of your, erm…" Tails catches himself to make sure he doesn't expose too much of his studies on Jaiden, "...on what you are, Jaiden, I get a feeling that you're from another galaxy entirely, like from another world. Is, this true?" The light-greyed hedgehog at this question raises an eyebrow.
"Hm, I wonder how you caught it first," says Jaiden with a quiet yet curious tone. With his guard down, he stretches, exposing both of his hands, including his right one. All four of the Resistance members present got a good glimpse at the blue chaos emerald implanted in this stranger's hand. They all jump and gasp, with Sonic even falling and landing on the ground with a thud. Tails were first to speak, and his pupils still shrunk in surprise.
"Y- you have a…." That's all the young fox boy could say as he just stared at Jaiden's right hand. Jaiden, knowing that he had exposed too much, tries to hide his hand from sight.
"I… I-" is all Jaiden could say before he realized that it's already been seen. Sonic, getting up and rubbing his head after falling off the boxes he was on, gave Jaiden a suspicious and curious look.
"Where, did you get that," asks the blue hedgehog, walking closer and closer to Jaiden. "Do you have any idea what that is?" Although his face didn't show it, Jaiden was caught off guard by the suspicion, and he hopped off the cargo box and walked backward slowly. Amy and Belle are still behind the computer, spectating.
"S-stop walking towards me," says the startled light-grey hedgehog with slight hostility. He continued walking backward, Sonic and Tails inching toward him. He continued walking backyard until he hit a wall, and Sonic and Tails continued. They drew nearer, and nearer, and nearer, and Jaiden was holding his head, trying to keep his thoughts together, but he couldn't.
"I said… STOP IT!" they hear the light-grey hedgehog scream in his usual middle-pitched voice, sounding like that of a rapper. In that moment of emotion, Jaiden's chaos emerald glows, and then, his energy sword appears in his hand. The Sonic duo stops in their tracks and looks at Jaiden with horror. The light-grey hedgehog's face was that of anger and confusion. Amy and Belle could only watch in fear as they saw the Sonic duo and this stranger. Sonic, in an effort to calm our hedgehog protagonist down, puts his hands up and bumps Tails to do the same.
"Woah, easy man, easy. We didn't mean to overwhelm you," says Sonic in a softer, more welcoming tone. Jaiden, breathing heavily, takes a moment to look at the Sonic duo, who are now in a surrendering pose, and then looks at the two ladies in the back behind the computer, their faces in shock and fear. The thoughts running through Jaiden's head appear to be leaving. He takes a sigh of relief, his chaos emerald's glow begins to dissipate and the energy sword vanishes. When the Sonic duo sees this, they slowly lower their hands.
"I'm… sorry," says the calming down hedgehog, his volume now lowered to try to put everyone at ease. "But to my defense, you shouldn't have continued walking forward, I told you fools to stop."
"Sorry about that," the two-tailed orange fox says in a soft voice, "We didn't mean to come off that way, but, that emerald in your hand… it's a-"
"Chaos emerald?" Jaiden adds, finishing Tails' sentence. "Yeah, I know, man. Why's it so important?"
"Because, Mr. Tinker has been wanting them for a while now," adds Belle. "In this world, there are seven of them, each with their own power." Jaiden gives another confused look, then looks at his right hand.
"Wait," the blue hedgehog adds, "Is that thing, implanted, in your hand?" At that, Tails tried to walk in for a closer look. Jaiden jumps and jerks his hand away.
"Hey, hey, easy, we're your friends, Jaiden. We're not here to harm you in any way, and if it seemed like that, we're sorry." The fox said, trying to reassure the up tense hedgehog. Hesitantly and with a breath, Jaiden extends his hand for Tails to see again. Tails takes a good look at it, examining its shiny texture and its blue color. "This is similar to the blue emerald, but there's just, something to it…" Tails says, now knowing he's on to something, "And it makes sense that your chaos readings would be high, but one emerald? Being that high?" He puts his hands under his chin and thinks for a bit, and in a sudden realization, he goes for the big question.
"Are you, an alien? Like, some kind of super hedgehog?" asks the two-tailed fox. Knowing that Tails has put the puzzle pieces together, Jaiden hesitantly answers.
"Wow, your smart," he begins with, "Yeah, my species is called Limnite." he ends. The four Resistance members gasped in amazement as Jaiden stood there, looking at his hand.
"We, never heard of those before," Amy says, still at the back with Belle. "Are Limnites, born with emeralds implanted in their hands?" Jaiden nods his head to tell the pink hedgehog that she is indeed correct.
"Yes, and the emeralds were born with give us a random energy weapon, mine being the sword you just saw. The thing about it, I was a late bloomer, so mine came late. I still don't even know why it came when Sonic and Tails walked up to me," lectured the light-greyed hedgehog. "I think maybe, it's cuz of my emotions, because at that time, I felt, nervous and anxious."
"Oh," Tails says quietly in response, "So it was because of me and Sonic you nearly, lost control…?"
"That's our bad, man," Sonic says to Jaiden, still really apologetic about him and his protege's approach.
"Follow me please, Jaiden," Tails asks the new hedgehog. He hesitates for a moment, but Jaiden nods in agreement and follows Tails and Sonic. They walk back to Amy and Belle, and Tails gets typing away on his computer. Jaiden watches as he does, and he sees his name being added to a system of some sort. It appeared to be the list of members.
"Woah, Tails, what the heck is you doing, man?" Jaiden asks the young fox confusingly, "You can't seriously be considering putting me on y'alls' team."
"Hey, you agreed to help us," the pink hedgehog said to the grey hedgehog, "And besides, your safer being with us than out there to be captured by Eggman."
"What? I can take that fool on easily!" the light-greyed hedgehog says smugly, "Can't fight what you don't understand!" Sonic places his hand on Jaidens shoulder and gives him a cold, serious look.
"He's smarter than you think, man. He'll find a way to capture you, and knowing that you fought one of his badniks, he probably already has information on you. If he gets a hold of you, he'll use you and that chaos emerald as a weapon to shut us out for good," says the blue hedgehog in a serious, more focused voice.
"Sonic's right, friend," adds Belle, Jaiden turning his head to give his attention to her, "He'll use you to indefinitely shut us out."
"I-" Jaiden tries to say a statement, but he looks into Belle's eyes which are saddened. He looks back at Sonic, his hand still on his shoulder, "Okay, I'll, I'll help you guys out with this Eggman person and whatever else is out there giving y'all a hard time," he then says. At that answer, the four smile, and it makes Jaiden give a small smile. He holds his necklace closely to his chest, "It's, what Shira would have wanted."
"Shira? Whose that?" asked Amy. Jaiden looks at her with a smile.
"I'll tell you later, alright, Amy?" says Jaiden in a soft, more comfortable tone, noting Amy that he's warming up to her and everyone else who was in the HQ at this time. She smiles and nods in approval.
"Okay, but you better promise you won't forget!" Amy shouts with a smile, her tone seeming at ease with the hedgehog now.
"You remind me of her, to an extent that is." Jaiden responds, but as he does, the thought of Shira crosses his mind, but also what she gave him. "Oh," he shouts, taking that energy USB drive out that Shira gave him. "You guys think that maybe, you could do something with this?"
"Is that USB…." That's all Tails can say as he and the other three Resistance members stare at the USB's energy properties with wide-open mouths.
"Y'all should really close your mouths, 'fo a bug flies into it," Jaiden says, slightly giggling at them. They all close their mouths, and Belle uses her hand to close hers. "Here, Tails, you seem to be the technological specialist here. See if you can use it." Tails stares at the USB in Jaiden's again before looking at him.
"It's… not anything that will hurt us, right?" asks the young fox with suspicion. Jaiden looks at it, then smiles.
"You don't have to take my word for it, but the person it came from is someone to trust." Jaiden gives Tails a warm and genuine smile at the thought of his older sister, Shira. Tails notices' this, and while he's still skeptical, he smiles back and grabs the USB. He takes a moment to feel the raw energy emitting from the USB and lets out a 'woah' before crouching down. He places the USB into the USB plug on the console. The five watch as the USB starts to shift shape, and it then appears to shoot its energy properties into the computer. Moments after this, a hologram emits from the computer, causing the five to look up at it. The person in the hologram made Jaiden's heart drop; it was Shira.
"Hey, Jaiden," the hologram version of Shira says in her usual soft but stern middle-pitched female voice, "If your watching this, then something bad must have happened to me. I'm so sorry that it happened." After she says this, Jaiden walks closer to the computer, tears starting to form and running down his cheekbones. "To be honest, I assumed that it would come to this, considering that I could never really trust Jacie. After all, he was a Xenician, the enemy of Xevir, so days before your inauguration, I decided to make this so that way, if that cheeky feline decided to pull his betrayal card, you'd be set. Set with what you ask? Well, set with this." As Shira says this, Tails and Belles' eyes are drawn to the bigger computer screen. The USB was sending incredible amounts of data to it. The two slowly walk toward the screen, seeing all the data being imported into it, Wispon blueprints, advanced computers, Wisp technologies, and so much more.
"She's, she's giving us new, more advanced technology," exclaims Belle, now standing by Tails, who was still looking at the screen in amazement. "We never made anything like this, Tails. I'm not even sure I've seen Mr. Tinker, er, Eggman have blueprints such as this."
"This, is highly advanced technology. Unlike, anything anyone has yet to see," says the fox, still in awe. He then turns his head to look at the hologram again.
"These blueprints have been on the drawing board with the technology department for years, Jaiden. Since I'm head of it, I decided to upload it to a USB, in case it would be needed. Do you remember these? The wispons are highly advanced," Shira says, now bringing up a hologram version of a wispon, "This, is the MP5-W. This was one of the first wispons we made and also one of the first I've trained you with." Sonic and Amy walked over to Belle and Tails, who were still watching as the data from the USB was being imported into the computer. They were able to see some of the wispons being imported. Amy was the first to speak between the four.
"These wispons… there, unlike anything we've ever seen," says the pink hedgehog looking up at some of the wispon blueprints. Sonic then added his thoughts.
"HDR-W, Skykov-W, AUG-W, these wispons sound, very advanced," added the blue hedgehog, watching as the blueprints get uploaded to their computer. "These, for sure, will help us in the fallout," he shouts with determination. The four give each other a smile but then turn to look at Jaiden, who is still staring up at the hologramed hedgehog known as Shira.
"Something told me you would be able to find a new group of people in this world," the hologram continues, "People that you can trust, people that can possibly do more than what I could do. These blueprints will prove useful to you, lil bro. It will help you help people across the many worlds and galaxies you'll explore, as I know you will." The four can see that Jaiden is about to break down, but they continue watching the hologram, "I wish I could hug you, Jaiden," Shira says, directing toward Jaiden. Jaiden, at this point, was sniffing in through his nose, the tears going down his cheekbones while looking at the hologram. "I need you to go and help people for me, show the many worlds that you are their hero. The Xenicians will likely be hunting you, though, so you will need to always keep your ears up. You can do this, lil bro, and I know you can." At these words, Jaiden got on his knees, now wailing quietly, gripping his necklace on his chest tightly. "I love you, Jaiden. Show them what I already know," Jaiden looks up, "That you are a leader." The hologram then disappears, and the USB is now completely in the computer, and all the data has been imported into the big computer of the Resistance. The four walk over to Jaiden while he is on the floor, still crying. Sonic and Tails were on his left, Amy and Belle on his right. Sonic and Belle help Jaiden up on his feet, and he looks to both of his sides and sees the four give him a smile.
"So that was Shira," adds Amy softly, "Your sister is very pretty."
"Thank you, Amy," Jaiden says choppily past his tears, fully on his feet.
"Your sister she…," adds Tails, "She gave us new technologies, technologies that we've never even seen before. Limnite technology might be the key to help us in this fallout!" When Tails says this, Jaiden smiles and looks down at him since he is taller.
"If, you guys want my help with this Eggman fool," Jaiden adds on, a more determined tone in his voice, "Then you got it, because now you're stuck with me." Sonic, placing his hand on Jaiden's shoulder, smiles.
"Good. We're lucky to have found you, friend," Sonic says with a bright smile, holding his left hand out in a thumbs up.
"You, and your sister gave us valuable tech, Jaiden," adds Belle, "We're truly grateful to have you here." Moments after she says this, the four walk in front of Jaiden, Sonic out in the front of the group. He smiles and grits his teeth brightly and holds a fist out to Jaiden.
"Welcome to the Resistance, Jaiden," Sonic tells the other male hedgehog, his fist out, waiting for him to bump. Jaiden looks at it for a moment, his face still pretty shocked, but the face is then replaced by a smile.
"Where I'm from, we do this," Jaiden says, opening Sonic's hand and then slapping his against it, and then sliding it back and using his fingers to grab his. Sonic looks at his hand confusingly, but he then chuckles and smiles.
"Heh, that's tight," Sonic shouts, doing the handshake again with Jaiden. The group exchanges a chuckle, then Tails has a thought.
"Oh, we should tell the rest about this, they'd want to know," the young fox shouted, running back to the big computer, typing to signal the other Resistance members to meet them at HQ.
"Some of them should be on their way, meanwhile, we should get Jaiden aquatinted," the pink hedgehog says, smiling at Jaiden, "You should definitely take him out, Sonic!" Jaiden turns to Amy with his eyebrow raised.
"Aye, whatchu mean by that," he questions the pink hedgehog, chuckling a little bit. Sonic jumps and looks at Jaiden and Amy with nervousness.
"N- no! Not like that," shouted the blue hedgehog, shaking his hands out in front of him. Amy and Jaiden chuckle at this. Moments after that, Amy and Sonic walk over to the computer Tails and Belle are. Jaiden turns and walks toward a wall. He stops about halfway. He closes his eyes and grabs his necklace, he then looks up at the ceiling.
'Thank you for the gifts, Shira,' the hedgehog thinks to himself, 'Please continue guiding me.' As he says this, he doesn't notice, but his chaos emerald glows again, and it then goes back dim. He smiles to himself and for a moment he just stands there. After the moment passed, he runs back to the four heroes at the computer, ready to start his work with this new team, to start showing that he will be what his sister could see in him for the longest time.
