Forces Ch 1: Fall of a Hero and a Rise of a New...
Welcome to Forces. An Altered Universe of Sonic Forces.This is a Re-write and Re-Telling of the Sonic Forces video game in a darker and dramatic way. It starts like the game but after that, its taken to a whole different direction.This is my new attempt to Re-submitting with the help of Beta Readers helping me out on FanfictionDotcom. Thanks Ivyshade24, Omesta and RevenantTP. I just had to come back here and fix everything. Grammar and also adding new moments and clearing things out.WARNING!!! This is written with TEENS to ADULTS IN MIND. Language is UNCENSORED. You have been warned.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 because 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 a Drama first, Suspenseful 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, Laser 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.A New Chapter will be uploaded every Friday at 5pm pstDrawings are made by https://www.deviantart.com/arminarlert889Chris, Barnett, Zeke, Zander, and POS are done by an A.I art program.Sonic and friends are owned by SegaWord Count: 5,184The Sonic Cast is: Main: Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy. Side Characters are: 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)And with that... Welcome to Forces, Chapter 1: The Fall of A Hero and the Rise of A New HopePart 1 The Day the Sky Turned RedSonic answers a broken distress transmission call from Tails as he rushes to Metropolis City. He can barely understand what he says; but the only words that he can make out are "city", "attack" ending with "help" till his voice was taken by static. And with that, Sonic went full-speed towards Metropolis City filled with concern written across his face."I'm on my way. Just hang in there," Sonic answers as he zooms by parts of the destroyed city. His tone held concern and anxiousness hoping that Tails heard his message.After destroying a couple of robots, he soon comes to a stop. Where are you little buddy? Sonic worries while looking all around. Trying to figure out where to go, a flicker of purplish particles float into the sky getting his attention as it disappears. He quickly looks down realizing that it came out of the destroyed robot. What kind of robots are these? he wonders. He then begins to shout for Tails in concern, "Tails! Where are you?!"C'mon, give me a signal, any- Before he can finish that thought, he hears an explosion from the center of town. Was that from Town Square? In no hesitation, he speed boost towards the explosion destroying robots along the way., Arriving screeching to a halt, he sees Knuckles causing the destruction by smashing and destroying the weird-looking robots. Sonic rushes into action, doing a homing attack on three robots and destroying them. Once hitting and bouncing off the last robot, he lands close to Knuckles. "Hey Knucklehead, You alright?" Sonic disguises his concern and worry with his usual sarcastic and snarky manner of talking."I'll be better once I know what’s… going… on?" confused, he looks at his gloves and quickly shakes them as purple particles fly off of them. "Gah! What are these things?" He hisses as though he’s feeling pain."I don't know for sure, but they're part robot and part something else." He leaps into the air and does another Homing Attack on another robot. Bouncing off and destroying the robot, he lands right next to Knuckles as he quickly asks, "Do you have any idea where everyone-""No! What we have to do is evacuate the city," Knuckles interrupts Sonic. Sonic does a spin-dash to a robot behind Knuckles, to which Knuckles returns the favor by punching another robot behind Sonic."I'm not leaving 'till I know where Tails is." Sonic shouts at his echidna friend,Knuckles stops pounding on a robot and looks at Sonic. "What, he's still here?!" Knuckles was surprised to hear that Tails was still around here. "I thought he left with some of the civilians. He probably got stuck somewhere.""Which way did they go?" Sonic asks, his voice filled with anxiety.Knuckles looks in several different directions, Knuckles grits his teeth and speaks with self-loathing in his tone, "Dammit! I should've been more alert!" Knuckles curses himself for not noticing while he was defending an entire city against a bunch of robots, he forgot one of his best friends."KNUCKLES!" Sonic shouts in distress jabbing him in the shoulder after seeing the self-hatred in his eyes. “IT NOT YOUR FAULT! YOU’VE HAD TO DEAL WITH AN ENTIRE ARMY OF ROBOTS ATTACKING THIS CITY! IT ISN’T YOUR FAULT THAT TAILS WENT MISSING!” Knuckles slightly lowers his arm, unsure were to point as he scans the ruined rubble. Once something looks familiar to him, he points, "That way, I think. Everything looks the same now. I can't leave here 'till these people are safe."Sonic doesn't say anything in return. He just speed boost off in the direction Knuckles pointed to in search of Tails, hoping that he's not too late., Rushing through the city, Sonic then looks upward, as an aircraft on fire flies directly over him getting his attention, but not only that… he also notices that the sky is beginning to turn red. "This is bad," he mutters as he begins to shout out for Tails over and over. "Tails! Tails!" Sonic frantically shouts for Tails from place to place.“OVER HERE, SONIC!!” Tails yells from a distance.Hearing Tails voice, Sonic accidentally loosened his speed boost, causing him to lose a good amount of his previous speed, enough to reach Tails, but not enough to dodge a hit that one of the robots had sent him, Sonic realizing it was futile to dodge, attempted to block with all his might… barely managing to survive it all. Sonic screams in agony being sent flying backwards to the floor.Tails only staring in absolute horror and shock at what the grievous injury that his best friend had been dealt when he was looking for him. Tails runs towards his best friend only to barely dodge the sheer amount of gunfire that the robots were shooting in his direction. Tails swung a piece of broken steel bar, hitting robots control sensors taking them offline only to be surrounded by twenty robots.Sonic forces himself to stand to quickly rush to his best friend, leaping into the air doing the most longest homing attack chain he has ever done to destroy every robot a surrounding Tails… but the damage is already done. Every part of himself screams out in agony, feeling like he was being ripped apart landing blow after blow. He felt immense pain from it all once the final robot was destroyed, but to Sonic it was worth saving his best friend.Landing on one knee, Sonic forced a small smile towards his best friend, but even Tails knew it was fake and only meant to reassure him that everything would be alright. "I'm here Tails! Get everyone out of here-" With his eye on Tails, Sonic's focus on the robots slips, and one of them makes him pay with a blow to his side."SONIC!" Tails yells out, worried. With steel bar in hand, he lets out a snarl unleashing blow after blow on each and every robot keeping them at away from Sonic. “Sonic, I can’t leave you here!” "Don't worry about me, just go!" Sonic forces himself to say as he painfully stands up and in an attempt to continue fighting the robots in front and behind them, but Tails doesn't move. He was too absorbed to let them hurt his best friend.Then, suddenly, an Unknown Attacker's voice can be heard, echoing from somewhere that neither Sonic or Tails could hope to see. "It's about time you showed up. Always being the hero." The Attackers voice was bitter and hate-fueled."Where are you?... Who are you?... Why are you-" An energy ball comes flying towards Sonic, but he quickly dodges away from it. Sonic forces himself to scream as all the injuries that he accumulated over the day began to make themselves known yet again.Tails, trying to find whoever it is, he turns back to Sonic... he sees The Masked Assailant hovering right behind Sonic. At that very moment… nothing but fear entered his body. Seeing what seems to be a demonic puppet held up with no strings. His long silver white hair stretch out from the back of his head as he wears a pointed metallic mask with red glowing eyes. A violet ruby was presented directly in the center of his chest as purple particles float around him. "SONIC! BEHIND YOU!" Tails yells out, but it was already too late, as the Masked Assailant attacked yet again.The Masked Assailant then kicked Sonic into the air, and laughed as Sonic screamed yet again, immediately following up with another kick that sent him colliding into a nearby building. Sonic thinks he's lucky that he’s still conscious, or maybe unlucky!"AGHhAHHGAHh!" Sonic's painful screams can be heard loud and clear as the beating continues for what felt like an eternity.As Tails was terrified, hiding from The Mask Assailant… He feels Self-Loathing creep into from being such a coward. He witnessed Sonic’s Death from The Ark Colony, Fought an Enhanced Metal-Sonic, and multiple demonic entities and didn’t feel fear, so why was he feeling so scared. It was like an un-tapped fear was unleashed within himself that he couldn’t contain and stop. He sees Sonic's body being hurtling through the air. No matter how much he tried, he was unable to see The Masked Assailant hitting Sonic. It's all a blur to him.The civilians hiding alongside Tails couldn't believe what they were also witnessing. Sonic, the hero that everyone loved, the hero that saved the world more times than they could count, the hero that was friendly and kind to everyone being beaten nearly to death…It sparked anger, hatred, and fear in the civilians, and especially Tails.Tails wanted to do something, but fear crippled him even further. No matter what he tried, his nerves tied him to that hiding spot. He just sat there forced to watch it all happen. "I have…to do something." He tries to get up but then falls right back down shackled in fear.He felt like this was an illusion; Sonic fought a God of Chaos. A Madman with enough intelligence to conquer the entire galaxy, A Godlike Metal replica of his best friend, an Eldritch Sun God, and a being that could control the very nature of time itself and then some. Yet… he felt like it couldn’t be real, it had to be an illusion.Finally, silence.Tails gets up and peers over his hiding spot and watches as the robots haul Sonic's battered, unconscious body away. "Sonic, Sonic, Sonic." He hears one of the children sadly mutters to themselves over and over. Tails also cries seeing his hero… his friend… his brother… disappear within the enemy horde.On that day…the sky turned red., Part 2: 6 Months LaterSurvivors scattered and fled to a secured, hidden base, located far away from Metropolis City. A city completely destroyed and left in ruins. As months went by, a group was formed and called "The Resistance". Later on, Knuckles was chosen to be the Lead Commander of the Resistance. Day by day, survivors came seeking safety, as they had to lose and leave everything they knew behind. People hang on to whatever hope is left as hope slowly fades away.At the H.Q Building, Team Chaotix chit chat amongst themselves."The whole world is overrun by those weird robots." Vector paces back and forth.Espio responds back, "We've been slowly finding other survivors but it's not even close to the amount Robotnik even has on his side-""Well, I'm not giving up hope," Charmy butts in boldly.Vector stops pacing, "I'm glad that you're the only one that still feels like that around here Charmy."Charmy looks out the window and asks in concern, "Is Knuckles still out there searching for, umm, you know…""No, not this time,” Espio answers concern. “I think he's given up. He still blames himself for not going with Sonic to find Tails, and plus, don't be afraid to say Sonic's name."Charmy still continues to look out the window worried, "Not to mention Tails still missing, too."A chair moves, catching the attention of all three of them. Amy, being in the same room and over-hearing them, she gets up from her seat and makes her way to the exit. She tries to say happily without sounding too depressed, "I'll go check on inventory. It's that time again." She opens the door and leaves, leaving all three of them together remaining quiet.Watching her exit out, Charmy looks over to Espio and asks, "Are you still sure that it's okay to say his name again?", Amy slowly walks towards the inventory building, miserable and depressed thinking about Sonic. She tries to remain hopeful that Sonic is still out there somewhere. On her way, she comes across a recruit that's been around for a couple of months as he walks right by her. She had to tilt her head way back to look up to see his face, as he basically towers over her, standing over 6 feet tall. She sees him in his new pilot uniform as he heads to the Mess Hall for lunch. "Hi! You're Zeke right? Congrats on that promotion," she greeted cheerfully.Zeke was an average built, middle aged dark gray wolf. But even though his long bushy fur was mainly dark gray, his snout was white as snow, spanning to his cheeks that clawed out.,He stops and turns around to smile back at her. "Oh you've heard? Thanks. Been wanting to fly for a long ass… um, I mean for a long time. Sorry for the language, I'm just really excited."She looks up to the sky. "I hope being up there is a lot safer than being on the ground. I'm off to go check inventory. See you around." She walks away.Zeke remains where he stands, watching her leave before looking up at the sky muttering, "Well, I hope it is. So far all they do is keep me on the damn ground." He turns and heads the mess hall for lunch., Off in the distance, Ex-General Barnett, a small statured, short haired brown old rabbit was waiting patiently for the new recruits that he'd be in charge of training. He mutters to himself while pacing around, "Four of them …only four." He only trains a couple of recruits at a time. Then, they're given away to actual squads to do real missions in the field. Bonding was something he never did anymore. He stops pacing around as he notices a recruiter walking his way with the four recruits.,She hands over info about them. "Here you go.""Thank you," he says back to her as he watches her walk away and sits down on a bench. He mutters annoyed, "Great… she's going to stick around and watch." He sighs. He approaches them as they're lined up side by side. Thinking to himself, Alright, what do I have here? He looks at the single paper given to him about the recruits. What the-? Confused about one of the names, he asks while looking at them, "Who is POS?""That's…me…" answers a recruit, dropping his shoulder shamefully as he did so.Knowing exactly what POS meant, he looks at the Labrador. He had to ask, "POS? What does that mean?""It's… my uhh …initials, sir," he answers shamefully.He looks over to the next two dirty blond haired felines. He can tell that they're brothers due to how identical they look. "I can see that you're twins, which means that you're also related.""Yes sir. I'm Eddie and he's Edward." One of them answers.His brother glares right back while growling, "I can introduce myself.""Yeah, but that involves you saying words and I know how bad you are at doing that," he shoots back.They stare at each other in anger about to fight, but try not to with their Drill Sergeant watching. Instead they step away from each other and turn their attention back to Barnett as they still mutter quietly mocking each other.Barnett looks them over trying to tell them apart, but their bickering just causes him to grow more annoyed with them. He raises his hand to draw their attention. “Enough!” he orders. He points at the twin next to POS. “You! Get to the other side of him and stay there.”The Twin follows orders and as he moves, he lets out one last remark, “Didn’t want to be next him anyways.”Barnett slightly shakes his head to them annoyed and moves to his last recruit, as he slowly tilts his head way up just to lock eyes with the bear, “Which means you’re Lance.”He nods in agreement, not uttering a word back to him.Taking a step back while still looking at Lance, he then instructs all of them, "I'm not here to be your best friend. I'm only here to train you and then to send you off to where you need to really be. Do what you're told, and there won't be any issues. Got it?""Yes sir!" everyone says but Lance, who just nods instead."He stood there while looking at them over again before slowly shook his head. A troubled Labrador, Twin felines that hate each other and a bear that’s a mute. He mutters to himself, "Why does it have to be a weird group.", Zeke arrives at the Mess Hall; he notices that the place is a little more fuller than before. Day by day more survivors are being found by squads being sent to check areas around Metropolis City, or any other small town affected by the attack. It's their #1 top priority to do when deployed. Find survivors."Flown yet?" He hears a familiar high pitched voice to his right. It belongs to Zander, a Dalmatian on the shorter side who also happens to be his best friend. Zeke needed to tilt his head downward to him as if he’s a pre-teen, but he’s twenty-three years old. Having a smile on his face, he slowly loses it seeing Zeke trying to hide his frustration. "Not yet, huh?" he adds, walking towards Zeke with his tray. A tray that has a vast amount of food on it which will have no effect on his scrawny body of his. He wears his small green shirt and his dark gray pants that have way too many pockets on it.,"Captain’s always give me a bullshit excuse. So far, it's always that I don't have a Co-Pilot." Zeke answers, giving Zander a hard look examining him from head to toe.Zander worriedly takes a step back as he argues knowing exactly what's on his mind. "DON'T even think about it." He shakes his head in concern. "No WAY will you ever catch me up there. Plus, I'm just a Navigational Expert. I just point people in the right direction to go to get things done safely. And also, a secondary plus… If I did fly with you, once we land, my sister will most likely kill you. That will make her the worst threat on the ground for you."Zeke starts looking around, worried. "Where is she, anyways? She probably already knows that we're talking about this cuz she's fucking psychic."He shrugs. "The heck should I know. I think she's with one of the Drill Sergeants, the one that has new recruits."He laughs jokingly while asking, "Getting into other peoples' business as always?"Zander laughs back. "Yup, as always.", Back at Barnett’s and his recruits, Zander’s sister sits there. Trish, being Zander’s sister, she was much older than him by ten years. Also being a Dalmatian, she sits there with clipboard in hand that she is never seen without. She wears her field secretary uniform that covered nearly all of her spots.,In deep thought looking out into the distance, she glances down to her clipboard going through all of the names. All of the names that are currently presented at the base… and all of them that aren’t anymore.“Do you really have to sit there and watch over me?” Barnett’s irritated voice speaks out. “I’m capable of functioning on my own.” He states looking at her, hoping that the question annoys her enough to get her to leave.She answers exhausted while not looking, “I’m not. I’ve just been on my feet all day.” She looks at him with a curious question in her mind. “So, what’s your story? Why don’t you have more than six people or heck… even a squad?”“I’m semi-retired,” he answers slightly hesitant.Knowing that there’s more to that answer, she probes again with, “Then why do you look like you just got shot in the gut when one of them gets taken away?”He looks at her and answers bitterly, “Because I know how it really feels to lose someone out in the field. It’s a way more different look I give when I lose someone this way.”She gets up and extends her arm, “I’m Trish.” He shakes her hand. “Nice to meet you, Trish.” He looks over to his new recruits again and… narrows his eyes upset at two of them. Eddie and Edward were standing next to each other. He lets out low deep growl and then takes a deep breath to calm himself, as he looked at each one of them. All four of them were wearing a plain white t-shirt and green army pants with brown boots. He then asks, “What’s the deal with POS?”“POS? I could have sworn that I changed it back to his real name.” She looks at her clipboard. “Labrador. Age 22. Name is Philip Osiris Schneider, but people found out his initials, so now he’s always referred to as POS… which everyone make fun of it as-”“As in piece of shit?” he interrupts her.“That’s right,” she answers.He looks at the brothers next and asks, “The Twins?”“The Twin Felines, known as ‘The Morrison’s Age 22. They are Inseparable.”“I’ve noticed,” he remarks.She goes on explaining, “I advise you not to even try because it’s not going to happen. It’s been attempted many times, but they always find a way to remain together. You might have them around for a very long time.”“Mr. Nods?” he asks next.She puts her clipboard away under her arm. “Kodiak Bear. Age 23. Name is Lance Cage. I’ve never heard him talk. I assume that he doesn’t speak. Another person you might have around for a long time. No one wants someone who doesn’t talk. So he’s stuck with you.”“Thank you very much. That’s way more info than this lousy piece of paper,” he says, waving it at her. “I knew you would be annoyed by that. Sorry.” She looks past him and sees another recruit wandering around alone. “I… have to go. Goodbye, and don’t be too rough on them… and on yourself.” She says walking away. “Goodbye Trish,” he says back, feeling slightly more at ease with himself as he walks back to his recruits.Trish manages to catch up to the recruit. “Are you lost?” she asks with authority.He stops and looks at her. “Yeah, no idea where the HQ Station is,” he answers back.Looking at her clipboard, she glances back at him, making sure to get a matching description. Average height, …mid-twenties…, Green Hedgehog. …nothing. “Name?” she orders.“Chris Beckers,” he answers.She looks and looks… nothing. She gives back a stern look. “You’re not on the list.” He smirks, knowing that it wasn’t. “I just got through the paperwork and dropped off here so I doubt I‘ll be on it.”Becoming annoyed by his laid back attitude towards her, she puts her clipboard away and informs, “Really? Well I have no choice but to-““Stop right there, Mrs. Reviera!” A voice behind interrupts her. She turns and sees an Informant Officer heading her way. “I’m in charge of him!” She tries to correct him with procedure, “But he’s not even on-“ “Doesn’t matter. He’s with me.” Completely ignoring her, he walks right by her, grabbing Chris by the arm pulling him away from her.“Umm… Bye,” Chris says as an apology. Surprised by what just happened, she mumbles to herself, “Well, that never happened before.” , The Intel Officer finally stops as he pokes Chris in the shoulder. “You were not supposed to talk to anyone when you got here,” scolding him.“I was looking for the higher-ups around here,” he answers back with attitude.He gets angry and shoves him to a wall, “I AM THE HIGHER-UPS!” He pokes him in the chest, “You just stay out of sight and wait ‘till orders are issued. Soon things are going to happen. When it does… you’re going to be a part of it all. Got it?!” He orders.“Got i-it,” Chris stutters back. “I’ll stay out of sight!” The Officer then walks away while saying, “In a couple of hours.” Chris just stood there, as he tries to keep his temper in check. “Geez, Sign the dotted line, they said. ‘It’s going to be an exciting experience’ they said. Where is it?” He begins to look around the area to see where everything is located. “Inventory stock building… Training Fields… that must be the Barracks… Woah! He’s gotta be pissed. He just destroyed that dummy in one damn punch.” Looking around again he then sighs. “This is going to be a boring couple of hours standing here.”, Over by the destroyed dummy, Knuckles sighs looking down to it as his eyes then go to his fists looking them over. "They don't even last anymore.""Maybe you should hold back a little bit from now on." He hears a voice standing near the rest of the destroyed dummies as he inspects them.Looking over to Silver, The Silver Quilled Time Traveler, he was still 16yrs old while Knuckles and everyone else were much more older now. "It's a good stress reliever, Silver." He picks up the destroyed dummy and walks to where the rest are with Silver, tossing it with the rest of the busted dummies. He looks at his watch and sees that it's almost about time. He lets out a sigh and sits down on a bench, "Are all the recruits ready?"Silver sits right next to him. "Everyone almost is. We don't really have enough people to attack a major prison, but if we can save enough of them then it'll be a major victory for us."Knuckles, feeling concerned, he then adds, "But if we lose anyone and gain nothing…-" He sighs. "We're back to square one …again." They both stay silent for a bit. Knuckles looks into the distance. "I know he's still out there. It's been six months and he's waiting for us. …Waiting for us to find him."Silver, with his eyes on Knuckles seeing how worried he is, he had to think of something to make him feel better. With a slight nod, he pokes him on the shoulder. "You're in command now and doing just as good as him. You just have to stop blaming yourself for what happened to him."He pokes him on the shoulder again. "You needed to help the people that you were with and you wouldn't've if you went with him."He pokes him again, "You saved so many people on that day and you did by not going with him."Silver pokes him once again, "You did the right thing on that day, doing what you had to do." Then proceeds to poke with every last word, "Not… going… with… him."Knuckles looks at him and smiles at him with confidence. "You're right, Silver. Thanks."Silver smiles back.They both get up as Knuckles says, "You were one poke away from being turned into one of those dummies." He smirks and pokes him back, "Get ready for a prison break." He orders him and heads towards the Announcement Area., Part 3: Preparation for Operation Smash and GrabAt the Announcement Area, Knuckles, Silver, Vector, Espio and Amy all stand on stage ready to announce the plan to storm one of Robotnik's Flying Prisons that hold dozens of the captured civilians.Knuckles approaches the mic and taps on it, trying to get rid of some of the nervousness building up inside him. He takes a deep breath and begins his speech, "Testing? Alright. So here are the plans for Operation Smash and Grab."Espio face-palms in embarrassment. "He just had to use the name.""We're going to attack one of the flying prisons located in the southernmost side of Metropolis City. We're going to separate into six different groups to attack three different spots. The plan is to extract and to save as many civilians as possible in a short amount of time. No one, and I DO MEAN 'NO ONE', is to stray from the plan. Because as soon as things go bad, we make a mass retreat. As we're retreating, when we reach mid-way back to base, we have to deal with whoever is tailing us, and destroy them. Can't have anyone tailing us right back to base and risk it being found… GOT IT?""YES SIR!" Everyone answers out loud."Great. Now split up and decide the groups. Group one is led by Silver. Group two is led by Espio. Group…", Zander runs up to Zeke excited, "Dude, are you freaking ready? You just might be flying today!" He looks over to the announcer, then back to Zeke. "I don't know who I'm going with yet. I'm probably…-" His ears perked up, turning to point at the announcer. "I think I just heard my name." He then runs off, yelling, "DON'T CRASH!""Thanks a lot a-hole," Zeke mumbles, focusing on the announcer.While Zeke stood there, waiting patiently for his position to be said, Zander heads to his group stationed as Navigator. He greets and shakes hands with the other group members and signs his name, confirming his position and that he's with them.The announcer's voice is heard again. "And Zeke Tailor with ground sup-""FUCK!" someone yells in the distance.Zander quickly looks to where the voice came from; knowing who it was. "Dammit," he says quietly as he shakes his head in disappointment. He sees Zeke approaching the group, signing his name and proceeding to leave, being upset about it. He continues to watch him leave the Announcement Area, following Zeke until he sees him enter the nearby bathroom.Reaching the bathroom entrance and just when he’s about to enter, a loud thunderous smashing sound came from within, startling him. He quickly looks around gathering his courage; he then enters the bathroom as well.In the bathroom, the first thing he sees is a hole in the ceramic wall. The second thing he sees is Zeke's flight jacket hanging out of the trashcan. Zeke was nowhere to be seen. Taking a couple of steps further into the bathroom, he lets himself be known, "I know you're in here. It-" He sighs. "It sucks but …sooner or later you'll be up there in the sky-""Shut… up," Zeke interrupts from somewhere in the bathroom. "Forever on the ground. Months of work… just to end up fucking nowhere." Zeke says sitting in one of the stalls.Zander walks further in, looking at the stalls. "You just got promoted. It's just going to take a little time-"The stall door flies open, startling Zander. He stopped talking, seeing Zeke with his fur flared in anger. He backs up against the wall as Zeke approaches snarling, "Last mission. LAST FUCKING ONE! After this, am fucking out of here!" He shouts. He then storms to the exit.Zander pleads, “AND GO WHERE?! There’s nothing out there. You’ll be all alone.”Zeke stops, utters back, “I’ll figure something out.” and exits out not saying another word.Being alone, Zander starts taking deep breaths, trying to get his composure back. He then looks to the trash can, he walks up to it, grabbing Zeke's flight jacket and pulling it out. He folds it up neatly and just stands there, thinking to himself while looking at the exit. Well, I won't let you leave alone. You're going to need a little bit of Navigation on your side. …I just hope my sister doesn't kill me doing it., Meanwhile, Chris stands around by the Announcement Area, away from the crowd knowing that his name is never going to be called. His name wasn’t even on that bossy chick’s clipboard. He looks around for that Informant Officer, knowing for sure that he has all the answers.With a quick search, he sees the Informant Officer heading his way. Able to get a better look at him now, seeing his tall, lumbering overweight stature of his… but his face was concealed. But that couldn’t hide the fact that he was an Iguana due to his tail that followed right behind.With a duffel bag in one hand and notes in the other, he hands it out to Chris informing, "This is for you." He puts down the duffel bag. "Here is the group list number. Here are the soldiers you're going to be with and which you are 'NEVER' going to leave their side. Your main mission is to keep them safe." He pokes Chris in the chest. "You go…" Then points to the other soldiers, "wherever they go. Got it?" The Informant orders."Got it." Chris replies.The Informant just turns and walks away from Chris before he even has a chance to ask a question. Becoming upset, he asks with an attitude, "Can I at least ask you a damn question before you go? What's this all about? What's with the secrets?"The Informant looks at him and says, "It's on a need-to-know basis. Everything will come full circle when the time is right," he continues to walk away, not revealing anything else.Grumbling to himself, "Yeah… what the fuck ever.” and with one good look around the Resistance base, his frustration fades. “At least I have a place to stay and relax.” Chris kneels down to unzip his duffel bag and goes through it. In it is a rifle, a handgun, infiltration and combat gear and his… Identification card? …which has the name Rookie on it… he scoffs at it. "That's nice," he says, shaking his head."You're always standing around." Chris hears a familiar voice right next to him.He looks and it's that one bossy chick that was outside. He cracks a smile as he answers back, "Hi again and yup. It's pretty much my thing at the moment," he zips up the duffle bag and stands up."Don't worry. I'm not going to question your motives anymore," she raises her clipboard of names to him. "I added your name to it. Chris Beckers, was it?"He looks at her and smiles, "Uhh, not anymore." He shows her his identification card.She looks at it, then at him, then the card again. "Rookie." She looks at him again. "Rookie?""That's right… Rookie," he says shamefully as he puts it away in one of his pockets.She looks at her list. "I'll keep it as Chris."He grabs his bag and gets ready to go to his group. "I've got to start heading off. See you around Mrs. Reviera," he says, leaving.Her eyes widen in embarrassment and she shouts in protest. "NO! That sounds weird. IT'S TRISH!"He gives her the thumbs up, continuing to walk away to find a spot where he can change into his gear. Unzipping the duffle bag, he takes out the black vest and just looks at it. "This fucking color," he quietly complains. Once he is done putting on his black combat vest, dark gray shirt, black pants and combat boots, he meets up with group six.,Approaching the group, all of them just looked back at him not uttering a single word. They then turn their attention to at each other, whispering among themselves, then right back to him. And still nothing… not a single word was said., In the H.Q Building: Knuckles and Silver watch as everything gets prepared. Silver then informs, "Preparations are nearly ready. All aircrafts are set to be boarded. They just need your final say. Knuckles?" once he was done speaking… Knuckles just stood there, not answering.Knuckles was in deep thought brooding to himself in concern. "Why is this so hard? Why? Why am I so worried? What if something goes wrong? NO! Everything's going to be… fine. We're going to save people. Dammit Sonic. How do you do it? You should be full of white quills due to all this stress. Everything will turn out better than fine. We can do this. I can do this… They look at me because they believe in… me. Everything will turn out okay. Everything-""Knuckles, I need an answer." Silver asks, snapping him out of it."Um… yeah, alright." He takes a deep breath. "We leave once the sun goes down. Then it's time to go save some people!"“I’ll go get myself ready to go.” Silver says, taking a step to the exit.“No, you won’t,” Knuckles quickly corrects him.Turning back, Silver asks confused, “But, didn’t you say I was leading group one?”“Amy’s taking your spot, I’m taking hers. You are going to stay here and protect the base while we’re gone.” He informs.Silver slumps his shoulders in protest, “Again? But-“Knuckles argues back, “BUT NOTHING! That’s an order.”Silver nods in defeat accepting the order. “Fine… I’ll watch over the base.”, Outside at the Training Fields: "Sooooo…we're not going to be a part of any of that?" POS asks."Nope. You're too green at the moment," Barnett answers, not looking at any of the aircrafts that everyone was boarding. "Until you've learned the basics on how and where to shoot a robot to destroy it, you're not doing squat." He then looks at the others, seeing them stare at the aircrafts. "The same goes for all of you too, so stop looking!" Barnett orders"Yes sir," everyone says, but Lance just nods away.The sun sets, and it's time to lift off. Everyone gets on board different aircrafts and off they go. The daring rescue that will set everything in motion.End of Chapter. Thanks for Reading.Next Chapter 2:,FForces Chapters 2 The Sky Prison RescueWelcome to Forces. An Altered Universe of Sonic
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