Scourge had been located, him and a large group of meterex were hiding out in a cave in Nevada. Alex and Sonic went to eliminate this threat once and for all.

The two slowly approached the cave system, then fired upon the meterex with sniper rifles.

Before the meterex knew what was happening, they were all destroyed. Alex and sonic continued forward where they were met with more meterex, including heavy and elite units. The pair used grenades to take them down. As they approached the command center, even more meterex appeared and engaged the pair.

Alex and sonic hid behind cover and popped up once in a while to take down the hostiles. When they were all cleared, the squad moved forward into the command center. Scourge was not there, so the pair assumed that he must have been trying to escape. The two began following the hedgehog's expected trail through the caves.

A heavy unit appeared and charged at the team. Alex and sonic engaged with everything they had, then jumped out of the way as the unit reached them. The charge had been dodged, and while the unit was turning around, alex and sonic shot it dead.

Up ahead was a cave that had water inside that lead out into a river. Alex and sonic laid eyes on scourge jumping in a boat and zipping off out of the cave. Ignoring the meterex firing upon them, alex and sonic jumped in a boat, alex took the controls and raced off down the river after scourge. Meterex boats appeared and attacked alex and sonic. The pair fired back, alex with his pistol and sonic with his rifle.

The boat reached rapids and rocks that alex had to navigate through, while still being fire upon by hostiles. Then the situation got worse, a waterfall was up ahead. Unable to turn the boat around because of the current, the boat went over the falls.

A sandstorm was moving in, reducing visibility. Alex got up off the ground and looked around. He couldn't see anyone, friendly or enemy. He only had his knife, but he trekked off into the storm to find scourge. He heard a clicking nearby and turned to see a pinned meterex soldier firing at him with an empty gun. The soldier was no threat, so alex went on.

He caught a glimpse of scourge, but the hedgehog quickly disappeared into the sandstorm. Then alex laid his eyes on scourge again, he was resting in the wreckage of an old car nearby. Alex tried to stab scrounge, but the hedgehog blocked the blow and punched Alex back onto the ground, then scourge stabbed him with his knife.

"You cannot defeat me alex" scourge said as he loaded a gun. "I wish I could say it was fun, but it wasn't"

Scourge aimed his gun at alex, but when he fired, sonic tackles scourge and the bullet missed alex. The gun was dropped and alex began to crawl for it while sonic and scourge fought hand to hand.

When alex reached the gun, scourge appeared and kicked the gun away, then punched alex in the face.

Alex blacked out for a few seconds, but when he awoke he saw scourge pinning sonic to the ground and punching him over and over. Alex had no weapons except, his eyes fell on the knife still stuck in him.

Grabbing the knife alex began to pull it out, tearing through flesh. One hand wasn't cutting it so alex put both hands on the knife and managed to pull it out of his body. Gripping the blade, alex aimed at scourge, and threw the knife.

Scourge looked up and when he did the knife hit him in the eye, sending the hedgehog flying back off sonic and landing on the desert sand.

Sonic got up and came to Alex's aid as a friendly helicopter landed nearby