This this is a Re-write and Re-Telling of the Sonic Forces video game in a darker and dramatic way. Putting the story exactly where it needed to be. This is a Tale of the Resistance and their turmoil of a ruined world after the events of the attack in Metropolis City when their only hero gets taken away.
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WARNING/DISCLAIMER! This is written with TEENS to ADULTS IN MIND. Bad Language is UNCENSORED.
In Context: Tails in this story is 16 yrs old. With that in mind. Sonic and everyone else are in their mid-twenties close to thirties. Reason for that is due to the tone of the story is Suspenseful Drama, Violence and Language. But don't worry they don't swear. Worst thing to come out of them is Damn. But... the OC's? Get ready to see that F-word quite a bit.
The Story is Drama first, Suspense and Action. In that order.
Another thing is that there aren't any Wisps elemental weapons of power. The weaponry is typical weapons used in military. Knives, Pistols, Assault Rifles, Sniper Rifles, and Shotguns.
Same goes for Super Powers. Sonic and Friends are still intact. Sonic super-fast, Tails can fly... etc, etc, but the OC's don't. They are just average nobodies trying to make a difference.
Chapter Contains: 4,422 words
The Sonic Cast is: Main: Sonic and Tails.
Side Characters are: Knuckles, Amy, Silver, Vector, Espio and Charmie.
The OC Cast is: Main: Chris(Hedgehog) Zeke(Wolf) Trish(Dalmatian) Barnett(Rabbit)
Side Characters: Zander(Dalmatian) POS(Labrador) Eddie&Edward(Cat) and Lance(Kodiak Bear)
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Forces
Chapter 6: A Fight Against A Broken Hero
Part 13: An Unlikely Source of Information
Once Chris made a turn around the corner of the hallway, what he saw down the next made his heart shoot right into his throat. He can literally feel it beating to the point of bursting. He just stands there looking directly at Sonic who also stands at the end of the hallway, looking right back with clenched fists. He calls out to Miles trying to remain calm, "Miles? Miles? You there?" but gets nothing. Miles doesn't answer back. "Oh crap… I'm so fucking screwed. How… why? Why is he here?" Chris says to himself as Sonic rushes right at him.
Rewind back to the Resistance Hospital…
At the Resistance Base, Sonic is stood next to Amy's bed.
Silver, who is also there, asks, "Are you going to be ok?"
Sonic answers, saddened, "She stood by my bed to make sure I got better… and now I'm the one doing it. When I find him… I'm going to make him pay for this."
"C'mon. Let's go for a walk around seeing as you're on your feet now," Silver suggests.
Exiting out first, Silver looks over to Sonic still being at the doorway concerned to leave her alone. "C'mon, she's in good hands."
In the hallway Silver asks, "So… how long have you been sneaking out of this place, hmmm?" he gives him a smug look.
Realizing he's in trouble, "Uuumm, just today? Hehehe! Yeah, today, that's right."
Silver narrows his eyes, he warns as they begin to glow blue, "Are you really trying to lie to me?"
Putting his hands up, he quickly confesses, "Okokok, for a couple of days now… ever since I got back, geez."
Silver warns, "Knuckles is going to hurt you when he finds-"
"Too late." They turn, seeing Knuckles glaring at Sonic.
Sonic slumps his shoulders at the sheer perfect timing. "Thanks Silver, you're the best," he says sarcastically.
"Sorry," Silver apologizes.
"Your nurse just told me something that you're not going to believe or want to hear. A certain someone just woke up," Knuckle says.
"You've got to be kidding me," Sonic says as he speeds off back to his hospital room.
Silver gives Knuckles a concerned look and warns, "You should've told him when we were close to his room."
"Oh no!" Knuckles quickly chases after him.
Rushing to the door of his room, Sonic stands by the doorway with a hand to his leg while the other remained clenched glaring directly at Robotnik who is sitting up on his bed looking right back.
From Robotnik, his eyes go slightly down placing them on his two protectors. Orbot and Cubot.
With their best display of kung-fu, with the addition of sound effects, Cubot leans over to Orbot asking, "What did that soldier say that was intimidating?"
Orbot answers back, "I believe it goes among the lines of- I'm armed and ready to kill!"
They both turn to Sonic as they threaten, "I'M ARMED AND READY TO KILL!"
But Sonic remained unfazed.
Concerned, Cubot leans over to Orbot yet again, informing, "Umm… I don't see a white flag."
Robotnik weakly orders, "Orbot… Cubot... You know what to do."
Both Orbot and Cubot slowly turn back to Robotnik accepting the order. They turn back to Sonic as Cubot asks, "Do you know where the Cafeteria is for Chicken Soup?"
Orbot add, "And don't forget the saltine crackers."
"Ummm...yeah," Sonic takes a step back into the hallway not taking his eyes off of Robotnik and points down the hallway. "It's down that way and make two lefts. You'll see it on the right," he informs.
Orbot and Cubot go right by and head down the hallway following Sonic's directions
Sonic glares right back re-entering the room trying his best to remain calm. "Are you going to tell me what I need to know… or am I going to beat some sense into you to get it out of you?"
Knuckles and Silver quickly enter making sure Sonic isn't hurting him.
Robotnik answers Sonic, "For saving me? I guess I'll have to do this just once."
"Well you'd better 'cause we're not the ones that put you on that bed," Knuckles said.
Silver then mentions, "If you have no idea, it was that monster that you created who's called Infinite that did."
Robotnik begins to confess, "I didn't create him. I managed to find him in a lab. He said that he was from a different dimension and that he was trapped until he finally managed to escape. He was then teleported here in a weakened state. Scientists soon found him and kept him hidden in a lab until I found him and freed him. As promised, Infinite was going to help me take over the world and to start that is to take you out first Sonic," Robotnik laughs pointing at Sonic. "He did exactly that. So… very… easily too."
With Robotnik mockery fueling his anger, all Sonic thinks of is revenge. Eager to hurt him, but Silver holds him back with his telekinetic powers. "Let… me… go. Months… months," he struggles to say in anger.
Robotnik puts his arm back down and his tone weakly changes. "After he succeeded, I was going to put a dampening fail safe onto him to keep his powers in check so he wouldn't get out of hand. Well… we all know how that ended up, don't we?"
Silver was the first to interrogate. "Do you know what happened to the scientists from the lab?"
"No, the lab was completely evacuated when I arrived."
"You said "lab". Where is it?" Knuckles was the next to speak.
"Far south of Metropolis City. Easy to find since it's the only place Infinite stays away from. You want information on Infinite then you'll find it all there."
"Finally we have a source to get information. Follow me," Knuckles says as he leaves the room.
Silver follows as he pulls Sonic along the way, who is still glaring to Robotnik who is waving goodbye victoriously to him.
Sonic mutters angrily, "Let… me go… must… hurt."
Out in the hallway, Knuckles stops and gives his orders, "Alright. We'll send one group to go find the info and bring it back here and to make sure they're safe."
Silver smiles excited getting ready to be-
Knuckles points to Sonic, "YOU, Sonic, are going along with them since you're so eager to go outside and run around now."
Silver looks over to Sonic then back to Knuckles letting out a sigh of disappointment.
"Yes… finally," Sonic says excitedly, still being held by Silver's powers. He tries to squirm while he complains, "You can put me down now."
"Alright, just don't overdo it since you still haven't fully recovered yet," Silver requests.
Sonic quips back, "I get it. I'll be careful. What can possibly go wrong?"
Knuckles and Silver look at each other from the corner of their eyes, then back to Sonic. "We'll be here all night going through every single possible way," Silver says.
"Alright… I get it. Now put me down," he says again, stretching one leg out to touch the floor.
Silver lowers Sonic down, but Sonic, instead of running off, he walks off limping along the way.
They both watch as Silver looks over to Knuckles with his eyes still on Sonic. With frustration at a breaking point, he complains, "Why didn't you pick me?"
"I need you to be here to protect it, if I'm not around. You're the only one I trust and that's powerful enough to do it," he answers not making eye contact.
Curious, he asks, "Protect what?"
Knuckle walks away not answering his question.
Sonic and the Resistance Squad arrive at the Labs. Everyone exits out as Sonic stretches and says, "You guys split off here. I'll go check out the opposite end and see what I can find."
"Alright but-"
Sonic speeds off before one of the Resistance Soldier is able to do a mission recap.
Another soldier watches Sonic run off, and asks, wondering, "Umm… does he even know what we're looking for?"
Sonic runs around from place to place, going in and out of buildings with no luck. He stops to rub his legs. "Geez, this is going to be hard not knowing exactly what I'm looking for."
Right when he's about to run again, the sudden sound of a window being broken is heard, as glass sprinkles the ground. Looking upward to figure out where it came from, he then points at the broken window. "Right there… Someone's in that building."
Stalking the building from the ground, he hears a door slam from the building across the way. "Nope, he's in this building. Whoever they hired sure can't sneak around if his life depended on it." A minute's later, someone jumped from the roof onto the next building over. Sonic follows from the ground, until he sees him stop on top of a building. "Here. This is where he stopped." He looks at the main entrance wide open and heads to it.
Entering the fairly lit building heading down one of the hallways, he faintly hears footsteps coming from inside. The further he goes in he can hear footsteps echoing from around the corner. He stops and waits to see who it is. Louder and louder the figure comes around the corner and stops to look right back startled. His eyes widened in disbelief. 'It's him.' He clenches his fists. 'IT'S HIM.' Anger then takes over as Sonic speaks in a low threatening tone that manages to echo in the hallway, "You're going to pay for what you did to her."
Part 14: The Most Painful Conversation
Sonic rushes forward and jumps in the air, doing a homing attack aiming directly at Chris. Chris ducks and jumps to the side as Sonic collides into the concrete wall, quickly getting out of his ball form. "OOOOoooo! …That hurt… That hurt a lot," he struggles to say as he holds onto his side in pain as he looks at Chris. "Since I'm not used to doing that yet, guess it's the old fashioned way."
Chris tries to reason with him, "Look, I didn't-"
"You're not tricking me," Sonic says, shaking his head. "Just… just stay quiet. …It'll be a lot easier on me… when I do it," Sonic threatens.
Hearing what Sonic just said made Chris's stomach turn with dread. There was no talking out of this. He quickly uses his other foot to push the button on his shoe but Sonic rushes right at him with a punch, hitting him in the face before he can even react to it.
Another punch quickly comes at him and before he even raises an arm to block it, he gets hit in the face again knocking him back. Punch after punch, hit after hit, Sonic gets slower and slower until Chris was finally able to see his attacks coming. He brings his arms up to block each of his punches as they come from all different angles.
Once Sonic gets slow enough he grabs one of his punches by the wrist and bends it, causing him to flip over onto the floor.
Landing awkwardly and straining his legs, Sonic fights through the pain and does a leg sweep trying to knock Chris down.
Chris, seeing the sweep coming, raises up a foot avoiding it as he quickly backs away. 'I'm keeping pace with him? I'm not as fast as him but with these shoes on I can actually see what he's going to do,' Chris thinks to himself. He backs off into a defensive boxing stance and gets ready.
He sees Sonic struggling to get up to his feet with a hand on his bandages. Slightly putting down his guard to get a better look he remembers, 'That's right, his legs are fucked up. No wonder I was able to avoid that sweep. He can barely use them.'
Once getting up to his feet, Sonic sees Chris with his arms up. "Alright… Show me what you got." Taking a step forward, he throws yet another punch as Chris sways away from it, only to get jabbed right back in the ribs.
Chris smirks right back at his attempt, 'He doesn't keep his arms up.'
Sonic staggers back from the blow and tries with a right hook only for Chris yet again to sway away from it getting jabbed in the ribs. Punch attempt after punch attempt, Chris winds up countering and jabbing him in the exact same spot.
Aggravated, Sonic jumps back grabbing onto his side. "H- how are you keeping up with me?"
Hearing Sonic's question, Chris slightly brings his guard down staring with a bleeding busted lip. "Yeah, right. Like I'm actually going to answer that," Chris mocks back with a response that makes Sonic even angrier.
Sonic quickly goes into a spin dash, clipping Chris on the side that sends him slamming into the side wall.
"Gahh…!" 'Crap, don't get him mad. It makes him faster,' Chris thinks to himself. Sonic quickly gets out of his ball form and does a quick punch almost grazing his face. Sonic then throws another punch as Chris ducks, throwing a punch into Sonic's ribs, and then does a thrust kick to push Sonic away, but connects with his leg instead.
"AAAHhhhh! GAHhhGGRRRRrrrr!" Sonic shouts in pain and goes down on one knee rubbing his leg for the pain to stop.
'Oh' shit, I fucking kicked his leg.' Concerned, he quickly apologizes, "I didn't mean to kick you in the-"
Sonic looks up at Chris infuriated. "SHUT UP!" he shouts back and speed boosts right at Chris, picking him up and throwing him eight feet down the hall colliding into the wall, knocking the wind out of him. With no time to even breathe, Sonic was right at him throwing a right hook which connected to his face along with many other punches at blinding speed.
Chris couldn't block as all of them connected to his body and face. Trying to stay focused, he sees a direct punch coming to his face. He ducks, causing Sonic to punch the wall making his knuckles loudly crack.
"Gah!" While Sonic shakes his hand, Chris rises up and punches him directly back to the face.
Sonic staggers back from the hit, trying to recover just as Chris tackles, lifting him up and then slams him against the opposite concrete wall causing the back of his head to do the same. Dazed and in pain, Sonic tries to punch again but Chris easily slaps it away and punches him back directly in the face. After the punch he shoulder tackles Sonic again and slams him against the wall.
Chris takes a step back and grabs Sonic by the neck with one hand. With the other, he clenches his fist and pulls his arm back with blind violent intentions in his eyes, but with one look at the pain that he caused to Sonic snaps him out of it. "No… This isn't me… Not anymore," he says to himself but Sonic grabs a piece of broken glass and smashes it over his head, releasing his grasp.
Stumbling back in a daze, Sonic punches Chris in the face again, and on instinct, knowing another punch is coming, he ducks and punches him back in the gut. Chris then does another thrust kick to push Sonic away only for it to get grabbed.
With his leg grabbed, Sonic then delivers a kick right back hitting Chris in the gut, knocking him down to one knee.
Chris looks down and sees that his shoes are now powered off. "Shit," Chris mutters and realizes '…When he grabbed my foot.' At that moment he knew… it was over. Chris gets back up to his feet and in the hallway, it seems like he was alone… but he wasn't. Sonic really was a blue blur. Punch to the face… then to the body and another… then a punch to the face hard enough to whip his head around along with his body causing him to collapse to the floor onto his back.
He feels someone get on top of him. He looks and sees someone blue and too blurry to see. Three more punches later to the face… he then feels two hands wrapped around his neck.
Chris tries to struggle and fight him off but couldn't as the world around him go dark. 'Can't breathe…can't…can't…breathe…can't…-'
"Stop!" A voice is heard from down the hall.
Sonic eyes widen from the voice and stops squeezing. He turns to look over his shoulder and frantically searches every corner of the hallway, "Huh?... Wha…? Wha…? That was… That was… Tails?"
...Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! A low pitch sound of something charging was coming from Chris. Sonic quickly turns back down to Chris, only to see him pointing a type of gadget right at him instead. With a fully maxed electrical shot, Sonic was sent flying several feet backwards, making contact to the nearest wall. He slides down and lands on his butt staying in that position; his hands flat on the floor with his eyes and mouth slightly open and motionless.
Chris drops Miles's gadget as he coughs, wheezes, gasps for air as he remains on his back. He raises his head to look around only to see Sonic's body there. "NO… Oh no." He coughs more. "Are you-" Chris sits up in pain. "Blink… blink if you're ok."
Sonic slowly blinks, showing that he's paralyzed.
Chris just sits with his legs crossed trying to get his breath back and to stop coughing. He looks over to Sonic with a right eye slightly swollen and closed, bloody nose, and destroyed lip busted clean open as blood seeps out of it. He's had enough and was ready to let him know about it. Chris shouts in anger, spitting blood along with his words, "I DIDN'T FUCKING DO IT! OK?" He coughs again. "YES! I was there. I was… I was there to steal some gear… until she showed up. We talked. I told her why. We… I… Somehow I knew she was going to let me get away with it. She was nice to even do that… but then… Someone else was… HE SHOT HER! I grabbed her before she even hit the floor. She told me to run. That I was going to get blamed for it. I didn't 'til her body went limp. I… I… that's when I ran." He looks right at Sonic. "I know how much you loved her and am so sorry for what happened to her."
Sonic's eyes filled with sadness as he struggles to say, "She's… okay."
"What? She is?"
"Sur… vived," Sonic mutters.
He smiles and laughs as he says relieved, "Good to hear."
Chris grabs Miles's gadget and gets up holding onto his side. He slowly walks towards Sonic and crouches in front of him and stares him in the eyes. "I know what he looks like. I got a good glimpse of him. You need to be careful over there. Someone on the Resistance isn't on your side. When the time is right… I'll point him out to you. Then it's up to you to decide what you want to do to him. After seeing first-hand what you just tried to do to me… I don't blame you."
He grabs Sonic's wrist and presses the send button on his communicator. "This is HQ to Sonic, are you there? Over?"
Chris speaks into it, "Sonic is here and is okay, but he's incapacitated. Come pick him up."
Out of the communicator Resistance squad members shout.
"WHAT? YOU ASSHOLE, HE'D BETTER BE OK!"
"WE'RE COMING TO KICK YOUR… GAH! STOP THROWING SHIT AT ME! SONIC'S HURT!"
"SONIC IF YOU CAN HEAR US, WE'LL BE RIGHT THERE!"
He stands back up grabbing his side and says, "You tell them when they get here that I kicked your ass and that you need an army to take me down."
Sonic looks right at him with annoyance.
"I know that you're also here for the information. Once I go through it I'll send copies of everything back to you guys." Chris staggers down the hallway and once reaching the correct door; he aims and blasts the door. Being unsuccessful, he then hits the door with his shoulder to force it open, "Ooo, ow, shit!" He grabs his side. "Didn't hurt."
He enters the room as the security system alerts. "Access denied! Please exit-"
"OH FUCK OFF!" Chris can be heard arguing back. "I'll take every damn hard drive." He leaves the room and exits down the hallway.
Sonic lays there watching it all and thinks to himself, 'Tails, did I really hear you? …Did I? Or… am I really...? No. I can't be going crazy. I know I did. He stopped me. Tails stopped me from doing something stupid… that I was going to regret.' His body randomly twitches, as he still lies there in the dimly lit hallway.
Moments later, he sees lights down the hallway as a voice is then heard. "Clear," one of the Resistance Soldiers announces, as they enter the building.
Rewind: Exiting out the hallway window, going across the Lab Area where Miles is standing being in shock after hearing Sonic's voice.
Miles stands there looking at his ear piece trying to remain calm. 'It can't be him …it can't-'
"Miles? Miles?" He can still hear Chris's worried voice calling out to him from his earpiece.
He slowly puts it back into his ear, getting startled by a loud smashing sound and both of them arguing with each other. "Look I didn't-" "You're not- "
Miles quickly pulls it back out of his ear and throws it away. "No, no, no." He starts to cry. He then looks towards the direction where Chris is. 'I… I have to get over there quick… before it's too late.'
He starts running, picking up speed to fly to the top of the building, then he quickly jumps to the next going back to flying. 'He's alive… but… I can't. I can't…' He reaches the back of the building and heads towards the back door hesitating to open it. 'I can't… It's my fault… But Chris… I… I…' Finally he opens the door hearing the fight going on.
He slowly makes his way down the hallway hearing the fight get louder and louder. He stops at the corner and sees Sonic on top of Chris punching him over and over. 'He's alive.' Then Sonic begins to strangle Chris. 'Noo... no, I have... I… No… I- I have…' He puts his hand over his head trying to stay calm as he looks, stuttering and trying to speak while crying… and with a desperate shout, "STOP!" he runs back down the hallway to the exit.
Tears running down his face, "It's my fault. It's all my fault. I can't… I just can't," He says over and over running towards the field.
Fast Forward: At the back of the building, the back door opens again…
Chris pokes his head out and checks to see if anyone's around, but only sees an empty field. He turns and silently closes the door, and once he turns back around, he sees Miles standing there at a distance. He slowly staggers to him and looks right into his eyes seeing that they're red. He also notices that he doesn't have his earpiece anymore. Never uttering a single word… knowing that there's some connection between him and Sonic, all Chris does is hand over the hard drives and just keeps on walking holding onto his side.
Miles just stands there, holding onto the hard drives while looking at the building and then back to Chris. "What happened?" Miles asks, concerned.
Chris answers, still walking away, not stopping, "We had a long hard talk. He's not going to come after me anymore."
Miles looks back and forth from the building to Chris. After a while he goes and catches up with him.
Sonic is then found, and taken back to the Resistance Base. Upon arriving they quickly transfer him to one of the hospital's big examining rooms so he can be attended to by a nurse. While his legs are being bandaged from the fight, he is questioned about Chris. "So he didn't say anything to you?" the Informant Officer asks.
"Nothing. He just showed up and shot me, paralyzing me. He was also there for the same info we were looking for," Sonic answers while rubbing his legs, not looking at him.
"Now he has it. That's just great," the Informant says disappointed. "Was that all that happened?" He asks.
But Sonic doesn't answer or make eye contact.
The Informant snarls as he orders, "ANSWER ME!"
The Nurse, hearing the Informants tone sounding like an interrogation, she looks up demanding, "Enough." She rises up to her feet informing, "It's late and he needs rest. He'll answer any question tomorrow morning. So leave… NOW!" She kneels back down finishing what she was doing.
Upset, the Informant turns and leaves, heading to the main receptionist desk.
Once the nurse finishes with his bandages, she stands up looking at him, but Sonic doesn't even look at her or says thank you. He just kept looking forward, thinking to himself and having a worried look on his face. Feeling concerned about him, she turns and walks away to tend another patient. She still looks back to him from time to time to see if he's okay, but… nothing. He just kept looking forward at nothing.
Sonic still feels the effects of paralysis all over his body. Sitting there, he starts looking at everyone in the room as what Chris said in the hallway comes to mind.
He stares at the Informant Officer, who looks back at him before leaving the room. 'You need to be careful over there.'
He looks at the patient on a bed looking right at him as well. 'Someone on the Resistance isn't on your side.'
He looks at the guards at the door, who stare right back at him. 'When the time is right, I'll point him out to you. Then it's up to you to decide what you want to do to him.'
He rubs and touches the bandages on his legs, slowly feeling hopeless and scared not being able to do anything.
End of Chapter. Thanks for Reading.
Next: Chapter 7: PSA... Don't Touch Purple Particles
