Atomic Outpost: Ian Derrick II

"Deputy Sonic." said a voice coming from Sonic's Light Bracelet, "Agent Silver has gone AWOL and Deputy Shadow is nowhere to be found. If you find either of them, and cannot bring them in yourself; call for backup. Do not engage the rogue soldiers. I repeat, do not engage the rouge soldiers. General Kildough, out."

Sonic stared toward the ceiling of the elevator as he got closer and closer to the main floor of the lab, "Shadow and Silver working for G.U.N.? I didn't even know what Shadow's motives were. But Silver? What can he possibly be trying to do that he needs to work for G.U.N. to get it? Seems more like an unknown power struggle to me."

Sonic heard a bell and knew that he was at his stop. The door opened to a computer filled area. There was also a chamber with bulletproof glass in front of it. It was filled with a strange substance. Blue metallic bubbles floated up from the pit of liquid and quickly disappeared out of thin air after turning a bright red.

"This is a freaking house of horrors, if nothing else." Sonic said looking around the room.

"You're telling me!" someone said from behind him. Sonic turned to see a red echidna in a gray outfit and a hat with the word "Custodian" over the letter G.

"Hey Knuckles! I was wondering when you'd show up." Sonic said as the echidna walked over to a clock slot on the wall. He pushed a card inside the machine and put it back in its pocket on the wall.

"Hey I'm just here to clock out for the night. I've cleaned out four of these labs today, and I'm really sick of it…What are you doing here?" Knuckles asked.

"Just looking for a power source for Tails' Mech so we can get off this station. You got anything we can use, Mr. Janitor?"

Knuckles made a fist at Sonic, "Custodian, you little blue creep. And I've got something that just might help." Knuckles then went over to file cabinet and pulled out a box that had 'K. Echidna' on it. He opened it revealing a blue gem, "This is the Water Chaos Emerald. I found it while sweeping up a few nights ago. If this doesn't help you out, nothing will."

Knuckles tossed the gem to Sonic, who almost dropped it in surprise.

"You're entrusting me with it?" Sonic asked as Knuckles walked toward the elevator.

"Sure." Knuckles stated, "You're the good guy, remember?" Knuckles headed down the elevator to an unknown destination.

Sonic sighed as he put the emerald behind him, "You know…I hope you're right about that…"

Sonic then found a computer in one of the rows and typed in his deputy pass key. Instantly he was logged into the system. He opened the search engine and looked up 'Project Geddon'. It moved to a list of websites. So Sonic picked the first one on the list at G.U.N. Social .

This is what the article read:

Geddon Project -Founded by Ian Derrick II

Geddon was founded five years ago by Knotholean mayor of the Downtown district, Ian Derrick. Scientists believe this substance to be the future of bipolarity treatment. If used, or activated by an outside source, for a long enough period of time; records say that a single personality would win out as long as the test subject should live. The recommended placement for a manual treatment is the gluteus muscle. For an outside activation by remotely controlled methods; an internal organ like the heart of liver should be the entry point.

Although most records use these two placements, there has been one other area of the body this type of substance has entered, and shown results very different from others. In 2002, Professor Gramius Matthews created the first prototypical Geddon substance; naming it Metallic Carbon (Atomic Symbo: MiC2). Inserting it into an unknown specimens brain area caused the substance to reverse its way through the veins and arteries causing a very remarkable reaction. Unfortunately, this information is classified to only G.U.N. Agents.

That wasn't the end of the article, but it was all Sonic needed to see, "So Snively, with the obvious alias; Ian Derrick, can remotely treat me with this stuff? That's why I've been acting like such a douche bag! Derrick's been giving me mood swings!"

Sonic thought for a bit and looked at the article on the screen. Then he got an idea. He looked up 'Ian Derrick' next and found the info he needed to fix this mess and stop any other tests, for that matter.

Ian Derrick

-Age: 43

-Specializes in Mechanics and Social Sciences

-Graduated from Knothole U (Class of 1994) and joined Knothole corps in Robotropolis Civil War

-Owns a dog named Geddon

-Nobility Social Class

-Mayors Downtown Knothole

-Based in Derrick Memorial Outpost in Robotropolis Ruin Cemetery

"Robotropolis Ruin. That's where he is…" Then he wondered if it was a bit TOO easy to find his hidden base, "Don't jinx it, Sonic. It's all good.

Then Sonic heard a commotion from in the next room. He raced over to the next door and pushed it open. A G.U.N. soldier flew right over him, but Sonic was quick enough to do a limbo-style duck to keep from getting hit.

"You foolish humans!" A loud, angry voice yelled, "Where is it! Where is Arma!?"

Sonic looked ahead only seeing a few G.U.N. soldiers shooting bullets toward an unseen figure.

"Oops…" one of the soldiers said. The all of them were thrown backward instantly. As the dust from the impacts cleared, only one figure stood with his hand still in the air.

The large bullets floated in a bright green mist and were aimed right at Sonic.

A light grey hedgehog with golden bracelets and blue boots looked right at Sonic, "G.U.N. send you to take me in…?"