Hello, Everyone. I've decided to start writing my own sequel to Sonic Forces. This story is connected to the ending of Sonic Mania Plus and Memories of Infinite's Past (My first story that fleshes out Infinite's background and character). I'll be honest with you all, i'm kinda nervous with this one. Because i'm attempting to make a fascinating Sonic story and get everyone's character done correctly. So I'm hoping that this story can somehow impress you all as Sonic fans. It's rated T because the theme of the story is much darker and more violent than the games. But there is no swearing or blood. I hope you guys like it. (Warning: For those who haven't red my previous story "Memories of Infinite's past", I recommend you read that first so you can get a better understanding of this story as it goes on.)

[Strange Facility]

Taking place 6 months after Sonic Forces, inside a dark room, a mysterious figure is seen putting on his armor and he somehow has the Phantom Ruby attached to his chest like Infinite did. After putting on his armor, he puts on his helmet. The figure is a tall man wearing a black armor with silver strips on the arms and there is a cut out hole on it's chest for the phantom ruby. He is wearing a black-colored helmet with long ears. Both of his eyes are covered by the helmet's red visors. After putting on his helmet, the figure walks up to a mirror to see his reflection. The figure now starts using the ruby's power to create a dark-red aura around his body. His armor even glows white after using his power. The villain laughs in satisfaction.

"Perfect." He said.

The villain also has a deep and chilling voice. While he is still looking at himself in the mirror, a soldier opens the door and calls out to him.

"Sir. Are you ready?" said the soldier.

"Yes. I am." He said while looking back at the soldier.

The figure leaves the room and is walking in the hallways with his soldier following him. The hallway and floor is built with light blue metal walls, and the doors open automatically. The latter enters a laboratory and Modern and Classic Eggman are seen tied up against the wall, with three more soldiers guarding them. Modern and Classic Eggman looks beat up. They have bruises on their faces, one of the lens on their glasses are broken, and their suit and pants are torned up. The figure approaches the two scientists and starts talking to them.

"I believe I should thank you two. This armor and helmet feels fantastic." He said.

Both Modern and Classic Eggman looks at the figure with anger on their faces.

"You insolent fool!" said Classic Eggman.

"If you think we'll let you get away with this, you've got another thing com-"

Before Modern Eggman can finish his sentence, the figure uses his telekinesis to choke and lift the two scientists in the air.

"Threatening won't get you anywhere. You both should know that by now. I could just vaporize you on this very spot, but… hehe… I'd just be putting you out of your misery." He said.

The villain releases Modern and Classic Eggman from his telekinesis choke. They both start coughing and wheezing afterwards.

To his soldiers. "I don't need these two right now. Take them back to the prison cells. Keep them locked up and...continue to torture them." He said.

"Yes sir." Said the three soldiers.

They grab Modern and Classic Eggman by their arms and takes them away.

"Take your hands off of me!" Classic Eggman said.

"Release me now or you'll regret it!" Modern Eggman said.

"You ain't seen the last of us!" said Classic Eggman.

"We'll have our revenge! Dr. Eggman will rise again! I SWEAR, WE WILL!" Said Modern Eggman.

"Oooooo… I'm so scared. Hahahaha. Yeah, right." Said the figure.

"Are you going to commence world domination now?" The soldier asks.

"No. Not yet. I want to try out this new power on a certain city." He turns around and starts walking out of the lab. "Let's go."

"Sir."

The figure stops walking and answers the soldier. "What is it?"

"Pardon me for asking, but which city are we going to attack first?"

The figure starts chuckling after being asked that question.

[Mystic Jungle, day]

Meanwhile in Mystic Jungle, Shadow and Omega are infiltrating Eggman's Facility. They are running through the facility and for some strange reason, there are no alarms going off nor are there robots coming out to stop the duo. Rouge contacts Shadow from his wrist communicator.

"Shadow, Omega. How's it going out there?" Said Rouge over radio.

"It's strange. The alarms aren't going off and no robots out to try and stop us. I don't like it." Said Shadow.

"Scanners indicate no threat detected." Said Omega.

Over Radio. "No alarms and robots…? It's not like the doctor to not have any security in his facility." said Rouge.

"No, it's not." Said Shadow.

[Dr. Eggman's laboratory]

Shadow and Omega manage to find and break into Eggman's lab.

"DOCTOR-" said Shadow.

The duo see nothing but laboratory capsules. No sign of Eggman nor Orbot and Cubot anywhere.

"Empty?" Shadow questions.

"Scanners activate." Said Omega. Omega is searching around the lab using his scanner to find Eggman. He scans the main computer and finds Eggman's finger-prints. "DNA detected. Last seen from primary target, 6 months ago." Omega looks down on the floor and sees multiple foot prints. Then he looks up and see's more fingerprints on the capsules. "More DNAs detected. Identities unknown."

Contacts Rouge. "Rouge, we've manage to break into the lab but Eggman's not here."

Over Radio. "This doesn't seem right… Eggman hasn't been seen in months. Could it be that he's relocated somewhere else?"

"Not sure. But Omega's scanners shows there were more people in this lab. Whoever these guys are, they must have something to do with the Doctor's disappearance." Said Shadow.

Over Radio and to Omega. "Omega. Are you able to track where Eggman went off to?" Rouge asks.

"Negative." said Omega.

"It appears that my hunch is correct. There's no doubt the doctor is planning something." said Shadow.

Over Radio. "Well he- huh?!" said Rouge.

"Rouge, what's wrong?" Shadow asks.

"I'm picking up an emergency call from Grand Metropolis."

Rogue turns on the broadcast. In the radio, there are massive explosions, laser fire, civilians screaming, and the signal is under heavy static.

"HELLO?! *Static* HELLO?! CAN ANYONE *Static* HEAR ME?! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK! *Static* WE NEED BACK-UP- immed- *Signal's Breaking up*."

Rouge loses contact with the signal. "I've lost the signal - that's not good! Shadow! Omega! It sounds like Grand Metropolis is in danger."

"Is it the doctor's doing?" Shadow asks.

"Not sure. But you two have got to get there QUICK!" said Rouge.

"- - On it!" said Shadow.

"- - Affirmative!" said Omega.

They both exit the laboratory and heads to Grand Metropolis.

[Grand Metropolis, day]

In Grand Metropolis, the entire city is under attack. There are tanks and soldiers destroying everything, and the citizens are screaming and running away from the terrorists. The Metropolis soldiers are engaging in battle with the enemies but they're losing the battle because the terrorists has a bigger army and more manpower than them. Shifting off to another area in the city, a group of terrorists are cornering a group civilians with the intention to gun them all down only for Sonic and Tails to appear and take out the soldiers, causing the civilians to cheer on the duo.

"Everyone ok?" said Sonic.

"Yes, thank you very much!" said one of the civilians.

"No problem." Said Tails.

Sonic and Tails sees more soldiers and a tank are coming their way.

"Tails. Get everyone to safety, I'll handle these guys." Said Sonic.

"Roger!" said Tails.

Tails leads the civilians to somewhere safe while Sonic is fighting off with the terrorists. The soldiers are shooting at the hedgehog only for him to effortlessly dodge and takes them out by punching and kicking them down. Sonic takes out the tank by using his homing attack. Sonic smirks after an easy victory.

"Hehehe…" Sonic chuckles.

Suddenly, the knocked out soldiers started disappearing in a glitch-like effect and Sonic noticed.

"Huh…? They vanished." Sonic is starting to remember that Zavok and Shadow disappeared the same way back in Sonic Forces. "Wait. Just like…"

Tails returns back to Sonic.

"Sonic."

Looks at Tails. "Tails. Did you manage to get the civilians to somewhere safe?"

"Yes."

"Good. Come on, there's no time to stand around. We've gotta save everyone else!" said Sonic.

Sonic and Tails runs off to save Grand Metropolis from being destroyed by the unknown terrorists. As time is going by, the duo is destroying the tanks, saving other civilians, and they are taking out the soldiers. Each time they beat a soldier, the enemy vanishes in a glitch-like effect. They stop for a moment.

"They're all disappearing!" said Tails.

"What are these guys? Do you think Eggman and Infinite are behind this?" Sonic asks.

"Can't be! Eggman normally uses robots to attack cities and Infinite and the phantom ruby are gone!" said Tails.

Then they resume fighting. Meanwhile somewhere else in Grand Metropolis, the Metropolis Troops are shooting at the villain, who is flying and looking down at them in disappointment. None of their shots are affecting him in the slightest.

"I'm disappointed. I expect more of a challenge after all this time."

The villain fires an energy blast from his palm at the soldiers, incinerating every last one of them in the process. The villain teleports to another location, where there are more Metropolis soldiers fighting against his army. He fires an energy beam at their tank, causing it to explode. The villain laughs and fires a couple more energy blasts at the soldiers only for Sonic to appear and uses his light-speed dash to grab and get them out of the blasts' range.

"What?!" said the villain.

The soldiers cheers on Sonic for saving them. Tails drops down and lands right next to Sonic.

"Everyone go get to safety. We'll take it from here." Said Sonic.

The soldiers listen to Sonic and runs off to somewhere else. Sonic and Tails turns and faces the villain.

"So… that's Sonic the hedgehog." He said to himself.

Sonic and Tails notice that the phantom ruby is on the villain's chest. They are shocked to see that the gemstone is not destroyed.

"Is that…?" Tails asks.

"THE PHANTOM RUBY?!" both said.

"Oh? So you two know about this stone as well, huh?" The villain asks.

"We could've sworned the Phantom Ruby was destroyed." Said Tails.

"Who are you? Infinite…?" Sonic asks.

"Infinite? Who is this "Infinite" you speak of?" He asks. "I am The Phantom Terrorist."

"The Phantom Terrorist?" Tails ask.

"Well, Phantom Terrorist, I'm not a big fan of anyone who's trying to destroy cities and terrorizing civilians. So if you don't want to risk getting an ol' fashion beatdown, I suggest you give up now." Sonic demands.

"Hmph. Well… If you want me to surrender, Hedgehog, you're gonna have to make me."

Sonic scoffs at the villain. "Alright then. Don't say I didn't warn you."

Sonic then charges at the villain with his boost and jumps in the air to attack him only for him to quickly dodge and kick Sonic to a nearby building's glass wall, shattering it to pieces on impact.

"Sonic!" Tails shouts.

Tails then flies up and attacks the mysterious phantom terrorist with his tail spin only for the evil-doer to dodge and punch the Fox hard in the stomach.

"Get lost, boy!" said The Phantom Terrorist.

The villain then grabs Tails by his… tails. Then he spins him around in a circle and throws him hundreds of meters away. Sonic gets back up and attacks the terrorist using his boost again. The villain decides to charge at the hedgehog with his own boost ability. They both clashed and they were knocked back. Sonic lands back on the ground while The Phantom Terrorist is still flying in the air. He fires multiple energy blasts at Sonic only for the latter to dodge by jumping up in the air but the evil-doer flies to him and punches the hedgehog in the face. Sonic is sent flying by the punch. The villain then teleports behind Sonic and punches him in the stomach, sending the latter to fall on the ground. After Sonic hit the ground hard, the villain teleports beside him and kicks him through multiple buildings. The Phantom Terrorist chases after Sonic. Sonic crashes into a large 18 wheeler and gets back up but he now has bruises all over his body. The villain charges at Sonic with a right-kick only for the latter jump out of the way. Sonic starts charging his light-speed attack as quickly as possible.

Stops charging the attack. "Ready… go!"

Sonic launches at the enemy, knocks him away, and uses the attack again to follow him. Sonic catches up to him and they both are now clashing and exchanging attacks on each other. However, the mysterious figure eventually gets the upper-hand on Sonic and is constantly knocking him around. Sonic uses his Sonic Wind attack on the enemy, but it didn't effect him at all. He uses Sonic Tornado but that didn't do any good either. Sonic then runs away with supersonic speed and the villain follows and catches up to him. They are running and fighting all over the city, casually passing the remaining soldiers, civilians, and tanks. The terrorist easily knocks Sonic down on the ground. Sonic is trying to get back up as The Phantom Terrorist flies back in the air and looks down at him. Sonic looks up at the villain with anger on his face while the figure laughs at him.

"Aren't you the one who's supposed to give me a "Good ol' fashion beatdown?"" The Phantom Terrorist asks. Mocking Sonic.

Meanwhile, Tails finally catches himself and rubs his stomach to sooth his pain.

"Ow! Who is this guy? Oh - Sonic! I've gotta go back and help Sonic." Tails hurries and flies back to Sonic. When he arrived back, he sees Sonic on the ground and is badly beaten. "Sonic!"

"Well, it's been fun." The monster raises his right palm at Sonic and is charging an energy blast. "But it's time for you to die." Tails flies towards Sonic in attempt to save him from The Phantom Terrorist. "Goodbye, 'Hero'." The figure fires his blast. Tails is trying to beat the laser to save Sonic, but he's not fast enough.

"SONIC!" Tails shouts.

Before the blast made contact, Sonic suddenly teleports away, causing the laser to miss it's target. Tails and the terrorist are stunned by what just happened.

"Huh?" said Tails.

"What?!" Looks around. "Where'd he-"

He spotted Shadow and Omega standing on the roof of the tallest building in the area. Sonic is right next to Shadow as the ultimate life-form and his Robot partner gazes upon the villain.

"Shadow! Omega!" said Tails.

Tails flies towards them and helps Sonic up.

To Shadow. "Hehe… Thanks, Shadow. I owe ya one." said Sonic with a smug.

"Hmph." Said Shadow.

"New threat detected. Identification unknown. Tertiary Objective: Destroy enemy target. Initiating battle mode." Said Omega.

Omega activates his guns and missile launchers.

"Who are you?" The villain asks Shadow and Omega.

"I am Shadow. Shadow the hedgehog."

"I am E-123 Omega; The ultimate E-Series Robot."

"So you're the one who's causing all of this, huh?" Shadow asks.

"Yes I am. And I assume that you're Sonic's allies. Very well… I'll just destroy you all at the same time."

The Phantom Terrorist fires an energy beam at all 4 of them only for them to jump out of the way. While in the air, Shadow uses Chaos Spear and fires it at the terrorist. Omega locks onto the villain, preparing to fire his weapons at the latter.

"Target Locked-on. Fire!"

Omega fires his missiles at the villain. Shadow and Omega's attacks made contact with their target and made a big explosion. They all landed on top of the roof of different buildings and gazes upon the explosion. As the dust settles, The Phantom Terrorist came out unharmed. The attacks didn't do anything to him at all. The villain yawns out of boredom, causing Shadow to get irritated.

"Chaos Spear!"

Shadow fires rapid Chaos Spears and Omega fires his laser canons at the monster only for him to dodge by teleporting. Shadow is surprised and looks around to find the villain. The Terrorist reappears in front of Shadow, spooking him.

"Hi." Said The Phantom Terrorist.

Shadow gets angry and round-house kicks him only for him to block and pushes Shadow away using his energy burst. Shadow catches himself and charges at the villain. Shadow is attacking the evil-doer with punches and kicks only for the latter to easily dodge and block all of them as he is laughing at Shadow. Shadow uses Chaos Control to teleport and attack the enemy from behind. The Phantom Terrorist turns and roundhouse kicks Shadow in the face before he could hit him. The hedgehog teleports again but this time, he intends to attack the figure from above. Shadow attacks the villain with a drop-kick only for the latter to block it and punch the Hedgehog, knocking him away. Shadow recovers and charges at the villain again with a Chaos Energy infused punch.

Catches Shadow's punch. "Is that really all you've got?"

The Terrorist pulls Shadow then punches him hard enough in the stomach for him to vomit saliva and send him flying into a nearby building.

"Hey!" Sonic shouts.

Sonic's call got the villain's attention. He turns around and see's Tails carrying Sonic and is flying towards him.

"Time for round 2!" said Sonic.

Tails spins around and throws Sonic at the villain. Sonic curls up to a spin-ball (this attack is called Blue Bomber from Sonic Chronicles). The terrorist dodges Sonic's attack but the hedgehog bounce back up from the roof and attacks the villain again. He blocks Sonic's second attack and pushes the blue hedgehog away. Suddenly, The Phantom Terrorist is being shot at by lasers and manages to deflect most of them. Omega drops down in the air and lands beside Sonic and Tails as he continues firing at the villain.

"Omega!" Said Sonic and Tails.

While shooting. "All enemy targets will be ELIMINATED!"

While deflecting the lasers. "…Enough of this!" said The Phantom Terrorist in annoyance.

The figure uses the phantom ruby's power to blow Sonic, Tails, and Omega off of the roof then fires an energy beam at all three of them. The blast hits them and they were sent to the ground, the blast caused an explosion on impact. As the dust settles, Sonic and Tails are knocked out, and Omega is heavily damaged. His body is broken and electricity is coming out of his damages.

"System…. Damaged. Need… N-N-Need R-Repair…"

Omega collapses and enters shut-down mode.

"Hmph." He said.

While The Phantom Terrorist is looking down at the trio, Shadow fires another chaos spear at him from behind but it doesn't effect him. He turns around and looks at Shadow.

"Back for more?" He said.

Shadow looks at him with a stern look on his face. "Looks like I have no choice. In order to take this guy down, I'll have to use my true power." Shadow thought.

Shadow starts taking off his gold rings. First, he takes off the ring on his right wrist. Then he takes off the ring on his left.

The villain is wondering what Shadow is doing. "Hmm…?"

Suddenly, Shadow's power increased drastically. A giant golden aura of chaos energy is surrounding the hedgehog's body. Before he starts fighting, Shadow picks up his gold rings and puts them in his back pocket.

The Phantom Terrorist is surprised at Shadow's increase of power. "So this is him at full strenght? Interesting." He uses the phantom ruby's power to create a large dark-blue aura around his body and his armor is glowing white. "Come on!"

Shadow and The Phantom Terrorist clashes at each other, and are fighting in the air. Shadow uses Chaos Control to stop time and space. Everything (Including the terrorist) is completely frozen in time. Shadow charges at the villain and attacks him with a Round-house. Much to Shadow's surprise, the terrorist unfreezes himself and blocks Shadow's attack. Time returns to normal.

"What…?"

"Sorry. That won't work."

The Phantom Terrorist uppercuts Shadow into the air then roundhouse kicks him, sending the ultimate life-form into the ground. Shadow recovers and attacks the villain again. Both of them are exchanging attacks for awhile but Shadow is starting to get exhausted while The Phantom Terrorist is having fun. Shadow is trying his best to put the villain down before he get's exhausted, but the enemy is much stronger and faster than he thought. The black hedgehog is slowly tiring out leading the monster to gain the upper-hand and knocks him around all over the city.

"What's wrong? Getting tired already?" The Terrorist punches Shadow in the stomach, causing him vomit saliva. "Then I'll just keep beating on you." Then he punches the ultimate life-form in the face and sent him flying.

"Chaos Spear!"

As Shadow is being blown away, he launches multiple Chaos Spears at the villain but the latter easily dodges them and makes his way towards Shadow. The evil doer begins a vicious assault of punches and kicks on Shadow and he is laughing hysterically at how helpless the hedgehog is against him. Shadow is yelling in pain as The Phantom Terrorist is inflicting a brutal No-Holds-Barred beatdown on him. After crashing into the ground from one of the Phantom Terrorist's blows, Shadow decides to teleports far above the city to get away from the enemy.

"Hey! Come back!" said The Phantom Terrorist.

He charges towards Shadow. As the monster is heading straight for him, the hedgehog is charging his most powerful attack, the Chaos Blast.

"Chaos…" When the villain got close to Shadow, the brooding Hedgehog releases the chaos blast. "BLAST!"

A giant explosion appears in the sky. The pressure of the blast is so powerful, the shockwaves blew away the clouds and can be felt in the city. Meanwhile, Sonic is starting to open his eyes. He looks at the unconscious Tails and the heavily damaged Omega.

"T-Tails… O-Omega…" said Sonic weakly.

The blue Hedgehog looks up in the sky and looks at the aftermath of the explosion. As the dust settles, The Phantom Terrorist has his right hand wrapped around Shadow's neck and he is completely undamaged by the Chaos Blast.

"Hahahahahaha… looks like your final attack didn't work at all. Sad, Isn't it?" The villain tightens his grip and starts choking Shadow. "It seems you've completely lost the will to fight. Oh well. Time to finish this."

He throws Shadow towards Sonic and the others. Shadow lands face-down on the ground inbetween Sonic and Omega. They both weakly look at each other.

"S-Shadow…" said Sonic.

"I-I still… have… some energy… left. Grab… T-Tails." said Shadow.

Sonic reaches and grabs Tails' arm, Shadow grabs Omega's arm, and they, surprisingly, grab each others arms. The Phantom Terrorist charges an energy blast from his left palm and aims it at the beaten heroes.

"Farewell."

Then he fires the blast at them.

"Chaos… Control."

Using the remaining power he had left, Shadow teleports Sonic, Tails, Omega, and himself away before the blast makes contact. The terrorist noticed that they disappeared before the blast hits them.

"Huh? They got away? Here I thought that he's used up all his energy on that attack."

Suddenly, one of his soldiers calls him via wrist communicator.

Over Radio. "Sir. Do you copy? The enemies are retreating. We've won."

"Great work, lieutenant. Now, the world belongs… TO ME! GRRRAAAAAAAH!"

He uses the power of the Phantom Ruby to turn the entire atmosphere dark red and the pressure of the energy is causing the ground the shake.

[Control Room]

Shadow and the other three appears in Rouge's control room and lands hard on the floor. The surprised bat-girl gets out of her chair and approaches them.

"SHADOW! OMEGA! SONIC?! TAILS?!" She said. Shadow opens his eyes and looks up at Rouge.

"…Rouge." said Shadow.

"I've lost connection with you. Talk to me, Shadow! What happened?!" Shadow is trying to talk to her but he is so exhausted and badly injured, that he is slowly losing conscious. "SHADOW?! SHADOW!"

Suddenly, the entire room starts shaking. Rouge looks around, wondering what's happening.

[Outer Space, above the earth]

The Phantom Ruby's power is covering the world in darkness. The sky has turned dark red. On Angel island, Knuckles is seen guarding the master emerald. He looks up at the sky and sees that it has turned red.

"What the? What's going on?!" He asks.

[City, day]

In the city, Team Chaotix are running down the street while the other civilians are looking up at the sky in fear while talking. They stopped running and looks around the place.

"What the heck is going on?!" Vector asks.

"The sky… What happened to the sky?!" Charmy asks.

"I wish I know the answers." said Espio.

Then out of nowhere, large portals appears in front of the civilians. There are demonic soldiers and large army tanks, surrounded by glitch-like aura, coming out of the portals. As soon as they came out, they start firing their lasers and missiles at the civilians. Some of the citizens has been incinerated by the soldiers while running away from them. The Chaotix fights off the soldiers and tanks. While they are fighting, more portals starts appearing. This horrific event is not just happening in the city, it's happening throughout the entire world. Armies are appearing and destroying everything within the world. Up in the sky, The Phantom Terrorist is seen flying in the air, observing the destruction he's causing in amusement.

"Yes. Yes! You're all in my reality now. I've dreamed this day for so long! With this power, I can finally be the most powerful and feared being in the world. No one can stop me now!"

As it now starts to thunder and lightning, the menacing monster starts laughing evilly.

[Doom City]

Three weeks later, 100% of the world has now been conqured by the mysterious villain. Grand Metropolis has been completely destroyed, rconstructed, and is now called "Doom City". Inside, there are signs labeled "Doomsday Corporation" which is the name of The Phantom Terrorist's military organization. The soldiers are forcing innocent people to work like slaves by building more weapons, buildings, statues of the villain in the streets, and they are being mistreated by the soldiers.

[Doomsday Corp., head office]

Inside the tallest building in the city, The Phantom Terrorist is seen sitting in his large chair as he is overlooking the city through his window. A doomsday corp. soldier enters the office.

"Do you have any leads on the blue hedgehog?" the figure asks.

"We don't sir. The signal tower still hasn't found anything. No sign of the target anywhere." He said.

"Hmph. He's doing a great job at staying hidden, I'll give him that. How's it going out there? Any slave tried to run away?"

"No, sir. All civilians are doing their jobs. Nobody has tried to escape or resist us to this day."

"Good. Go back to your post. If you find Sonic or any of his three allies, contact me and I'll deal with them myself. Same thing goes for anyone who tries to escape."

"Yes, sir."

The soldier leaves the office.

"Hehehe. You can't hide forever, Hedgehog. I, The Phantom Terrorist, will find you."

[Underground Resistance HQ]

The resistance has built an underground base for a better chance to avoid being detected by the Doomsday corps. Tails (now fully healed) enters the main computer room. Shadow, Sonic, Amy, Team Chaotix, Rouge, Silver, and Knuckles are already gathered.

"I've managed to fix the damages on Omega. It won't be long until he's fully rebooted." said Tails.

"That's good to here, fox boy. Now that everyone is healed up, we need to come up with a plan." Said Rouge.

"Whoever these Doomsday guys are, they sure mean business. They've captured most of the people who once joined us to take down Eggman. Without the rest of our troops, we don't stand a chance." said Vector.

Tails walks up to the computer and types on it. "We have to rescue them. But there's a big problem." Tails pulls a virtual diagram of a large network tower, located in a military base on an island. "Their leader has built a large signal tower that is designed to detect and track down Sonic. It's also likely that it can track me, Shadow, and Omega since he's seen us and knows we're allies with Sonic. We won't be able to rescue our forces while that tower is still operating."

"Looks like we're gonna have to find a way to get that base and shut it down." said Shadow.

"I have an idea. Maybe we can use it to our advantage." Said Tails.

"What do ya have in mind, pal?" Sonic asks.

"If we can hack into the tower's system, we can use it to help us track down the captive resistance members. We could also use it to help us find a way to weaken The Phantom Terrorist's forces."

"That's not a bad idea, Tails." said Silver.

"There's a likely chance that the base is heavily guarded. And we cannot afford to get caught." said Shadow.

"Hey, Espio. You're a ninja. I think you have the best chance at sneaking in there." said Charmy.

"You can also turn invisible, right?" Amy asks.

"Yes. However, I can only stay invisible for a couple of minutes. But even with that, I should be able to get to the tower's control room without being detected." said Espio.

"Great! With that tower in our control, the fight to take back our world will be a piece of cake!" said Sonic.

"Don't get too cocky, we still have to deal with their leader. And as much as I hate to admit it, he's way too strong for all of us to take on." said Shadow.

"Hehe… no problem. All we need to do is search for the Chaos Emeralds, I use them to become Super Sonic, and it'll be time for some payback." said Sonic.

"The emeralds are scattered all over the world and there are Doom corps everywhere. Searching for them will take longer than you think, Sonic." said Tails.

"Plus, we have no clue where the emeralds are located. I say before we start looking, we need that tower in our control." Said Espio.

"I'll start building a device that's capable of letting me hack into the satellite's system. It won't take me long to make it." said Tails.

"Great, Tails. Now everyone, we only have one shot at this, failure is not an option. We took back our world before, now let's do it AGAIN!" said Knuckles.

Everyone chants in agreement.

End of Ch.1