It's Mr. Meme back at it again with another Sonic story!

I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with my works, and those that have can skip over this paragraph and the next one. You see, a little while ago I had a Sonic story that shared some of the title of this very story, but it didn't the "Sonic Resistance 2:" at the beginning of it. Despite that, the previous story "Aftermath" was very much a sequel to my other Sonic story "Sonic Resistance".

But the thing is, I wasn't very proud or content with what how the story was going plot wise. In addition, I had a major hankering to begin including content from IDW's Sonic comics. So, the best thing I could do to feel satisfied with it was cancel the story and start over.

That's what this is!

Now, if you couldn't already tell, this story will include content from the IDW comics so if you haven't read them:

1) They're great, please do read them.
2) Be aware that they're will probably be a few spoilers here and there, even though it'll be different to fit the Sonic Resistance universe.

Anyways, with all of this out of the way, I hope that you all enjoy my story. Even if it's take 2 on making a sequel to Sonic Resistance.

It's been a month.

An entire month since the Resistance, as lead by Knuckles the Echidna, managed to overthrow the Eggman Empire which took over the world with the aid of the Phantom Ruby and it's wielder, Infinite the Jackal.

A month since said Jackal disappeared.

A month since the Resistance transformed into the Eggman Recovery Effort.

The world has begun to recover from Eggman's reign. Cities are being rebuilt, people are returning home, prisoners are being freed, and lost artifacts are being recovered.

But one problem still plagues the world.

Eggman's robots, sleek militaristic killing machines, are still active. They still roam the wilderness aimlessly abiding by programing that has been corrupted and is incapable of being completed.

In some instances, they are harmless, in others, they are a threat.

Vesper City, a lone city nestled next to the largest mountain range within the United Federations. Unremarkable in many ways, a stereotypical small city you'd find in any small town story. But what they could hold to their name was the fact that just a few feet away sat the remains of a crystal mine that had once made many people and cities rich. Now though, it sat silently untouched. The city was just as silent at this time of day, which just so happened to be the crack of dawn. But there was life within it, there were some who rushed around. To where? A small building that once housed a dry cleaning establishment, but now housed a workshop for various electronics.

A pre-teen Snake Mobian was running through the empty street of the town towards the workshop. He managed to slip through the then open door right as it was closing on him, as an adult Mobian was walking out as the pre-teen was going in. The boy ran up to the counter of the workshop and quickly hit the top of the bell that rested within his reach. Just about as quickly as he arrived and rang the bell, someone walked out from the back area of the establishment where the clothes would be stored had this been a dry cleaner's location. They stepped out from the back area wiping down his gloves from the grime that stuck to it from the work he was doing. Approaching the counter, the Mobian put the rag down and took the goggles off of his eyes and looked over to the pre-teen.

Miles "Tails" Prower the Fox gave him a little grin "What do you need kid?"

The child smiled at him "I'm here to pick up my brother's hearing aids!"

Tails nodded and reached down for a special case designed to hold more delicate objects in it. Pulling it out a little and opening its lid would reveal the specially designed hearing aids for a Fennec Fox. He picked up the aids and handed them over to the kid, with them in hand he turned around and ran out of the building. For the past few weeks or so, Tails has been helping out the people of this town with their various electronic needs. From fixing a broken washing machine, to replacing a pacemaker if need be. He wasn't quite sure how long he was going to stick around, everyone knew that Tails wouldn't stick around permanently, but everyone hoped he'd be there when the sun rose and so far, he has been.

Glancing around the lobby of the building, Tails could see that everyone left in there was just waiting for things that he had yet to finish work on. Being the only one in the town capable of fixing some of these things meant the repairs and such would take a little bit longer than how some would like. Either way, Tails turned around and returned to the area he worked on all things electronic for the town. Walking over to one of the workbenches he had set up for himself, Tails looked over the busted up toaster he was having trouble figuring out what was wrong with. It didn't work properly, but he just couldn't figure out why. But before he could unravel this mystery any further, he heard someone quickly run into the lobby and yell out "Where's Tails?!"

The Fox quickly run out of the work area and back to the front desk to see what this person was up to. The Mobian looked concerned and afraid, something was wrong. As Tails opened his mouth to ask a question, the Mobian cut him off and yelled out "Badniks are approaching the city!"

Tails' eyes went wide "Wait, what?!"

He quickly ran past the Mobian and outside, said Mobian followed. Just like he had said, Badniks were marching towards the center of town, which is where Tails' little workshop was on the edge of. Now, ever since the Eggman Empire fell the Badniks' automated computer network continued to function on very basic levels, it only told them to do the very basic mission parameters Eggman had set up for them. But the way they were approaching the city didn't seem to be how the network usually made them act. Amongst the crowd of Badniks were the usual Egg Pawns and Motobugs, but alongside them was the Egg Hammers, redesigned in the similar way the Pawns had been by Eggman. Tails looked over the approaching hoard with worry "This is bad."

The other Mobian looked over to Tails "What do we do?!"

Taking a moment to think about their options, Tails would eventually look over to the other and say "I've got some Wispons in the back of my workshop, you need to go back there and grab them and then hand them out to everyone in town."

He nodded before Tails began to run towards the hoard, said hoard was beginning to split into groups and spread out around the rest of the city. Meanwhile, the Mobian who had showed Tails the hoard quickly ran into the Fox's workshop and eventually found the crate that the Wispons were inside of. After pulling the top off of the crate, the Mobian would then pull it out from behind the workspace and stop in the lobby. Those that were in there looked at him in confusion before the Mobian said "There are Badniks attacking the city! Tails said we need to pick up these Wispons!"

That's all they needed. They all grabbed a Wispon from the crate and ran outside to deal with the Badniks who were now beginning to terrorize the city, some though grabbed as many as they could and ran outside to arm others. It was chaos. Most of the people in the city only knew which end the Wispon's fire came out of and how to not be hurt by it, but that was about it. Compare that to the Badniks' built in understanding of weaponry and fighting, the citizens didn't stand a chance against them. The only one who could hold their own against the robots was Tails, and he was starting to get overwhelmed by them himself. He narrowly ducked underneath a hammer swing from one of the Egg Hammers before jumping backwards as a Motobug attempted to charge into him. This was getting bad. No one knew how to deal with this. The city wasn't prepared for this.

The Egg Hammer that had attempted to attack Tails began to approach the Fox once again, all the while he muttered to no one in particular "We need help, and fast."

Elsewhere, outside of the city, a lone Mobian stood on a hill that had a good sight of the chaotic fight happening in the city. With a grin, the Mobian said "Looks like the need a little help."

Then, in an instant, he sped off. Two Mobians fell onto their backs as Egg Pawns cornered them, the Mobians' Wispons having ran out of charge at this point leaving them defenseless. Their faces were fearful, their breathing was heavy, and they thought they were about to die. But then, in an instant, a blue blur destroyed the robots and Sonic the Hedgehog came to a stop in front of them. He turned to face the two and smiled a little "You guys okay?"

One nodded and the other was in starshock and speechless. To this, Sonic winked and gave them both some finger guns before speeding off to help out the rest of the city. He made quick work of every robot, and the blue trail he left in his wack let Tails see that his long time friend was just the help he had wished for before. With a grin on his face, the Fox ran between the legs of an Egg Hammer and reached down to pick up a Wispon that had been discarded by a citizen during the chaos. Taking aim at the large robot's back, Tails let the Fire Wispon blast it with all the energy it had left. That spectacle of fire and the light it gave off drew Sonic's attention to Tails and he quickly sped over to the Fox before Spin Attacking right through the weakened metal on its backside. Taking a second to just step out of the way of the falling Badnik, Sonic looked over to Tails and gave him a smile "Long time no see."

Tails tossed the Wispon to the ground "No thanks to you."

Sonic shrugged "Been explorin', what can I say?"

The sound of something being crushed rang out from somewhere else in the street quickly derailed the conversation and Tails said "We should probably deal with the rest of them."

Sonic nodded "Yeah, we should."

With that, he sped off to deal with the rest and Tails ran off to do the same, just without super speed. An Egg Hammer was about to bring its weapon down onto a group of cowering Mobians, but before it could it was taken out quickly by Sonic who then sped off elsewhere just as quickly. Meanwhile, Tails ran back to his workshop to grab a special weapon he kept hidden in it. Slipping a secret storage box out of the wall, Tails would pull out a Wispon designed like an umbrella with a light gray neck that also had two rounded white, black, and light blue studs on it. Very noticeably near the end of the Wispon was a large rounded light blue, black, and white piece which had an open segment. The mouthpiece was quite long and gray in color, with a light blue end. There was only three in the world, one was his, the other was missing, and the last one was bought by a private business. With the Wispon now in hand, Tails ran out of his workshop and took aim at another Egg Hammer and quickly blew its head off easily.

Sonic Homing Attacked off of an Egg Pawn and flew up into the air, where he had a good sight of what Tails did "WHOA! Nice work Tails!"

He then landed back on the ground and sped away once again. With both Sonic running around and Tails using his Wispon to take care of the Badniks, the robots' numbers were thinning. But then suddenly, Tails was hit in the back by a hammer and was sent flying into a wall. He dropped his Wispon and groaned as he tried to stand up, meanwhile, Sonic saw the Egg Hammer knock Tails into the way and quickly ran to his friend's aid. Helping the Fox up to his feet, Tails would give him a little thumbs up before they were covered in the shadow of the larger robot. Tails and Sonic both looked up to it and they both grit their teeth, but then suddenly, its head was blown off by a shot from Tails' discarded Wispon. The two looked off to the left in shock, and saw a shaking and fearful Mobian holding the specially designed Wispon. Sonic gave her a smile "Hey! What's your name?"

The Sheep Mobian looked over to Sonic, still very shocked "L- Lanolin.."

He raised his fist into the air and yelled out with a smile "Nice shot Lanolin!"

Tails looked around for a moment and said "I think... That was the last of them."

It was true, there weren't any Badniks left standing. Sonic and Tails both stepped away from where they had been cornered and the Fox grumbled a little "Gonna have to call the ERE out here to help clean stuff up."

The Eggman Recovery Effort, or as it's more commonly known as, the ERE, was what the Resistance turned into after the end of the war. Although most of its members left following the end of the war, such as Sonic and Gadget. The Hedgehog crossed his arms behind his back and said "I could help out, haven't gotten to help out a city on more personal levels in a while."

Tails shook his head "No, the city's got no where to keep the Badnik parts long term. People like to strip them for parts, and that can be dangerous."

Sonic nodded "Fair enough."

They both began to approach Tails' workshop as the Fox said "You gonna stick around?"

Sonic brought a hand to his hip and one up to his nose to rub the bottom of it a little "Heh, probably not. Thought I'd keep heading north from here."

Tails nodded "Then I shouldn't mention you were here to Amy?"

The Hedgehog chuckled a little "Yeah, probably. Don't want to get her hopes up for something that isn't here and drag her all the way out here for nothing."

They both entered into the workshop as Sonic said "So... I can't be the only one who's noticed the Badniks are getting... Bolder."

Tails nodded a little as he stopped in front of the counter "Yeah.. They have been."

They were both silent a moment before Tails quietly asked "Do you think someone's giving them orders again?"

Sonic shrugged and crossed his arms over his chest "Not sure. Could just be possible we're looking for a pattern that isn't there.. But if someone is giving them orders again, we'll take them down just like we did Eggman."

Tails nodded and scratched the side of his muzzle "hehe.. Yeah..."

Sonic could tell his friend was worried, he had every reason to be at this point. Eggman did a lot of bad stuff... And they are hot off the heels of his world wide take over too.. Sonic stepped forwards and placed a hand on the Fox's shoulder "Hey, listen.. A lot of stuff's happened recently, I know that. But we made it through, relatively unharmed.."

The thought of their friends, Nicole the Lynx, Bunnie Rabbot, and Antoine D'Coolette, members of the now disbanded Special Forces, being turned into a robot (in Bunnie's case) and an AI (in Nicole's case) as a result of being captured by Eggman, whiles suffering from severe burns and injuries in Antoine's case came to both of their minds as Sonic brought that up. A moment of silence was shared between them for their friends before Sonic continued "The point being, we don't have to fear something we don't even know is actually happening. So, until we discover someone's in charge of the Badniks again, how about we don't worry over something that might not be there?"

Tails grinned a little and nodded "Alright."

With that, Sonic took his hand off of Tails' shoulder and gave him a pat on the back "Sweet! Anyways, I should probably be off."

He then began to walk out of the building, but before he did he said "And Tails, I'll keep an eye out for more Badnik activity. You do the same, alright bud?"

The Fox nodded "Sure thing!"

But, before he ran off. Sonic hesitated a little. Tails hadn't noticed though, he was already behind the counter looking for his communicator when Sonic looked over to his friend and said "Tails, buddy, we'll chat again sometime soon. Alright?"

Tails looked over to Sonic, a little surprised he was still here. But he didn't blame him, they hadn't really talked much in a while. Acting fast, Tails hopped over the counter and ran over to Sonic before pulling him into a hug, all the while he said "Alright."

Sonic smiled, hugged Tails back, and when they pulled apart Sonic stepped outside and sped off. Meanwhile, Tails returned to reaching behind the front desk to grab the communicator he uses to contact the ERE so he could inform them about what had happened. But, completely unknown to them, a lone spybot was perched on the edge of a rather tall building's roof and had watched over the entire battle and Sonic leaving the city at high speeds. Its one eye was actually a camera, and the camera was recording everything. A live video feed was being fed to a secret location, and a lone person was sitting in a large chair watching the feed on monitor. A slight hum escaped the person's lips as they watched Sonic run "So.. The Hedgehog's returned to the limelight once more... Good... Good."

The person switched away from the live feed as Sonic left its sight "It's time for the plan to begin... It's time to lure Sonic right where he needs to be,"

An image of a particular pink Hedgehog Sonic knew well appeared on the screen the video had been once playing on "And we'll accomplish this by targeting her."