Chapter 1: The Wordless Rookie
Two months later…
The blond wolf continued to sit in her room as the memories of her time before she arrived at the resistance base. The memories of that figure she saw at the city still haunts her. Every night when she sleeps, she still dreams of that figure and its voice. The wolf looks around the room she is in as more memories replay in her head. After her escape, she was able to find one of the maps the fallen soldiers, in the city, had. With it, she was able to locate the Resistance base. When she arrived, she was surprised to see someone there who knew the famous Sonic the Hedgehog, Knuckles the Echidna.
Knuckles the Echidna, according to the stories she read, use to be Sonic's enemy; but as time went on, the two of them had become really goof friends. When Sonic disappeared, Knuckles had decided to start a resistance against the Eggman Empire. He's the leader, or commander, of this small army and is doing everything he can to save everyone. When he first saw the female blond wolf, he questioned her since she hadn't said a word. However, it quickly changed the moment he saw the map in the female's hands and her pointing to the city she came from. With this small amount of detail, Knuckles can already guess what happened. So, he lets her in, in exchange he asked the wolf to join the resistance. The wolf was not up for it at first. She didn't feel like she had what it takes to help due to lack of experience and many other reasons. The red echidna encourages her to anyway along with giving her some training sessions. When that became clear, she joined in not that she had much of a choice.
Throughout the months she was in the base, Knuckles had been training the female wolf while commanding the rest of the resistance. As each training session goes by, the echidna would give the blond wolf a test with a weapon called Wispons. There are seven different versions: Burst, Lightning, Cube, Drill, Asteroid, Hover, and Void. Burst allows you to shoot a flamethrower and give you better jumping distance. Lightning creates a lightning-like whip and can attack multiple enemies when they are in a row. Cube makes enemies turn into cubes and destroys them along with creating platforms to prevent you from falling. Drill pierces through your enemies and can dig any tunnel on the ground or wall. Asteroid creates little pixels used to be thrown at enemies and they protect you from enemy attacks. Hover will create a huge amount of wind to blow anything out of your way and can help you float in the air for a limit amount of time. Void creates a black hole that sucks in your enemies and teleports you through a short distance. After testing each wispon, Knuckles had decided the best wispon suited for the female wolf, the Lightning Wispon.
The training of the wispons went well. Unfortunately, the wolf's survival skills need some work. Knuckles tried to put the wolf with a group to see if that would help; apparently, that didn't help her at all. In fact, the female wolf will avoid the groups he placed her in like she made an invisible wall between them or would often get left behind due to not speaking up. So, he trains her solo from everyone else. Because of this, he equipped grabbling hooks attached to each of her ruby wrist rings on her gloves. Once the female wolf got use to serious training and understood how to use the grabbling hooks, she was able to get through the training session easily.
But there is one thing the female wolf is slacking on, communication. The wolf had continued to not say a word throughout her entire time here. Sure, she would gasp, yelp, or whimper, but never a word. Whenever Knuckles would talk to the wolf, she'll either nod, shake her head, or shrug her shoulders. This is a bad sign according to what the echidna told her especially if she could be in danger while doing missions. After all, communication is the most important part to have. But time is running out for the resistance. So, Knuckles had decided to end her training and start giving her missions.
"I bet the commander has come to release you from this little resistance group for not doing all of your communications skills correctly. Then again, why should they hear you. Your voice is pathetic."
The wolf shivers at this strange voice she hears. She heard it before, yes. However, it's been haunting her as well... for years. She wishes it would go away. Even during her time training, she would always hear that voice! That voice will be pestering and harassing her. The wolf suddenly snaps out of her memory lane when she sees the door open. The one who opened the door is the same commander who had taken her in and been her mentor for the past two months, Knuckles. "Hey, I need you to come to the computer room. It's time I give you your first mission and this one is really important," he said to the wolf. He then walks off to head towards the computer room. The wolf looks around the room a bit and grabs the necklace with a white crescent moon and places it on her along with hiding the moon in her shirt. Once that is done, she walks out of the room.
The female wolf walks to a set of doors that lead to the computer room. Luckily for her, she knows where all the rooms are at in the base when the commander gave her a tour of it on the day she arrived. As if they sensed her presence, the doors opened. The wolf froze when she sees who is in the room. She was expecting to meet with Knuckles alone to talk about the mission. Instead of just Knuckles, there are more faces in the room. There is a green male crocodile, purple male chameleon, male bee with a helmet on, pink female hedgehog, and male white hedgehog. She takes a step back nervously. But once she sees where Knuckles is at, he walks in until she is standing next to him. Knuckles seems to have noticed the wolf next to him and looks to the group. "Meet our newest recruit," he announces as he gently shoves the wolf to the center a bit.
The female wolf gasps a bit at the sudden push Knuckles gave her. Once she was able to stand up straight, she sees the male bee fly up to her and appears to be analyzing her. "She doesn't look like much," the bee said. His voice sounds like he's just a kid.
"Neither do you Charmy, but I still managed to find a use for your pointy butt," Knuckles points out to the bee. The bee, or Charmy, lets out a chuckle while rubbing his head.
The white male hedgehog walks up to the blond wolf and held his hand out. "Hi there. My name is Silver. It's nice to meet you," he says to her.
The wolf looks at the hand and then to Knuckles. When she sees the echidna nod, she looks back to Silver and shakes his hand shyly. The crocodile watches and looks concern. "I'm not sure about her Knuckles. She looks very nervous around us," he states.
"I'm sure she'll do fine Vector. Besides, we can use all the help we can get," Knuckles replies to the crocodile. Knuckles walks to a table that held on to seven weapons, the same ones he tested the blond wolf with, the wispons. He grabs the one that looks like a lightning bolt and walks to the female wolf. "Here take this," he says to the wolf while handing the weapon to her. Once she takes the Lightning Wispon, she looks at it for a bit. She soon feels a hand on her shoulder and flinches a bit until she realizes it's just Knuckles. "We're depending on you," he says to her. The wolf looks to the wispon in her hands and back to Knuckles with a nod.
"So, Knuckles, what's the plan?" the male chameleon asks. "I assume you have a plan since you brought in a new recruit," he added.
"Well first, I've just received some incredible news! Sonic is alive," Knuckles says to the group with excitement!
Everyone looks at Knuckles with surprise. "No way! That's excellent," said Silver as he smiles.
The pink hedgehog looked even more excited than the others. "Oh, thank goodness! I knew it! I knew he is still alive," she shouts with a grin!
"Yeah," Knuckles replies, but he then had a serious look. "But he's captured in the orbiting prison," he announces with bad news. "My spy there says he's in a solitary confinement cell and they've been torturing him for months," he added with some anger in him. He couldn't imagine what Sonic could've been through.
Everyone gasped at this news especially the pink hedgehog. "That's horrible! We must rescue him," she exclaimed!
Knuckles nodded. "Plan's already happening Amy," he reassures the pink hedgehog. "I've already got a squad ready to go to Spaceport in the Chemical Plate to… "borrow" a shuttle," he says while a smirk appears on his face. "Silver, Vector, Espio, and the rookie will head in there to grab a shuttle," he says to the group.
Silver, Vector, and the chameleon, who happens to be Espio, nodded. The wolf, on the other hand, looked around for anyone known as the rookie. When she sees everyone looking at her, she shivers and realizes who Knuckles is talking to. To be sure, she looks back at the echidna as she points to herself with a confused look on her face. "Yes, I'm mentioning you," Knuckles answers the wolf's silent question. "Since you never told me nor the rest of us your name, I'm calling you rookie, unless you want to tell us your name," he suggests. The female wolf flinches and looked like she was going to say something but stops as if something frightened her to stop. She looks down for a moment and then back up to Knuckles to shake her head.
Knuckles frowns a bit. He was hoping that would get the wolf to speak, but it seems she is still keeping her mouth shut. Before anyone notices his frown, he looks serious. "Then "rookie" it is," he says to the wolf. He looks to her along with Vector, Espio, and Silver. "Alright guys, who's up for an old-school style jailbreak?" he asks.
Espio, Vector, and Silver nodded as they all shout out yeah to answer. The wolf just nodded as she grips the lightning wispon a bit. When she sees the three males walk out of the room, she quietly follows them from behind. As she walks, she pulls out the necklace she is currently wearing around her neck to look at it. She never mentions it, but her necklace has some letters printed on it: S.a.u.r.a. After rereading it a bit, she quickly hides it again. It's probably best if no one really knows her real name, Saura the Wolf. She suddenly looks up and noticed the plane her, Vector, Espio, and Silver are going to be on. And now, her first mission is about to begin.
"Lets see how far you can go without that voice of yours, Saura."
Author's Note:
Hello again everyone! I have played Sonic Forces and I really like the idea of having ocs and how the graphics in the game are (even in the Nintendo Switch), but I really did not like how short the story is... I got the game on the day it came out and finished it in five hours, including Episode Shadow. I just hope they can make a sequel for the game (even though I doubt they'll do that). So, I would rate the game at least a 7 out of 10. Also, I am still looking for any other title ideas for this fanfic! If you guys have any suggestions for a title related to Sonic Forces, a wordless oc, & redemption combined, feel free to let me know in the reviews. :)
To the chapter: As promised, here is the next chapter of this story! In this chapter, we FINALLY learn the wolf's name, Saura! I came up with this name a little while back when I first learned we can make ocs in Sonic Forces. Yes, I know the training sessions went quick, but I didn't want to waste a lot of time on it. I will sometimes jump to other characters that do not involve with Saura, but only for a like a quick scene. Anyways, and now we see our little wolf and her new acquaintances to their first mission, to save Sonic! Thanks for reading!