In a deep underground lab, a bunch of pods resembling cyro pods are placed neatly in a line, the ground is painted red with blood and rust.
Two figures stare at one of the pods while a third figure is crouched in front of the said pod.
A metallic arm of the third figure slowly touches the pod and sent a high voltage shock through it, the pod systems short circuit and the ice begans melting.
From within the pod, a pair of red lights resembling eyes shine as the pod door flew like a over pressured pump alongside the figure crouched in front.
???: so the hero finally woke up eh? And what is with that stare you're giving me you chumps?
A first figure which looks like a armadillo with rough metallic arms come forth and stare directly into the red eyes.
The armadillo has his whole body shining like metal including its skin and eyes, as it was born made of metal and not as armadillo.
???: Rowis..That probably has lost all his memories just like the first generation, we should give the middle-aged child some knowledge right?
The metal skinned rat on the side says as his steel like tails cracks the ground with a klang noise, the tail quickly shots towards the pod and dragged out a ice cold blue figure.
Rowis: just who was this guy anyway kelo? I only remember him being called a hero of the people in the data.
Kelo: From the first generation of adapters, Sonic the hedgehog. A shame his combat experience got removed when he was converted.
Rowis: Omega, What are you dilli dalling around for? Get up, we have to leave before those annoying pests come back.
Suddenly something akin to a bullet hit Omega in the back of his head and instantly blew up his head into melted metal.
Rowis: These damn Organic animals are so annoying, they just don't stop coming at us like flies. I will go deal with them.
With his armored body, the armadillo breaks through the walls and ran outside in a charge, the rat looks at Sonic who has no movement in his body with a blank red eyes akin to a robot.
Kelo quickly found a small vent to the side and entered inside, Sonic being dragged behind through him. Sonic's quills that have metal spikes got sometime which greatly annoyed kelo.
Kelo: I wish I could just throw you around but I need to bring you back in one piece. That starline bastard won't like a broken alloyan corpse.
Arriving outside the building from the backside, the rat jumped from wall to wall like a monkey and soon reached the rooftop.
The city a ruin with almost every place broken down, high above in the sky, a giant structure could be seen in the space, the death egg which has now become the stronghold of the mobians in the war against the alloyans.
Kelo: Let's get you to the la-
Sonic: What is.. this place? Is this mobius?
Before Kelo could answer, Sonic quickly twists his body like a durable whip and slammed down kelo on the rooftop.
Sonic looks as his reflections in a mirror to the side, he looks like a robot version of himself but with no wire, his eyes deep red and his skin and muscles seem to be made of metal like the silicon based race theories he learnt in the University.
Kelo: Well that is certainly a rude way to wake up, You didn't even give me a chance to say my words.
Sonic: *turns to kelo coldly* Tell me everything or you will pay.
Kelo: Pay? With that pathetic body who doesn't even listen to you? You are nothing but a empty shell made from the hero, born to be one of us.
Sonic tried to understand what was going until he realised something, he was not who he thought he was, he had no sense of emotions or anything of the sort.
Kelo: If you are trying to sense something then it is useless, alloyans have long left behind the weak emotions of the flesh, only the middle one and above have the ability to feel emotions.
Sonic: middle ones? Lack of senses.. we are. Puppets.
Kelo: Exactly. *Stands up after removing Sonic's foot above him before slamming his foot into Sonic's chest* You are a nothing but a puppet.
Sonic flew away and crashed into the rotten plastic water tank on the roof before falling down, his metallic makes a screeching Noise at drags across the wall before hitting the ground with a Twhang sound.
Sonic lays on the ground, his thoughts in turmoil. Images flash before his eyes like him being Sonic as a hero of the people, the mutation of metal virus, death of Knuckles and his conversion into Grimm and emergence of the alloyans.
Sonic: So everything was a dream? All of them were just dream? *He stands up while his metallic body waves to the sides like a tree* I can feel a weak chaos energy and mana, but not any kind of ring power.
Out of frustration he commands the chaos energy to become a rune but it didn't get affected by his will. A question gnaws at his mind " Am I even Sonic?"
The rat hits the ground beside him and walks towards him, the ragged cloth on his body hiding his metallic body while Sonic was just like always with a pair of rotten cloth gloves and sneakers.
Kelo: Let me tell this to you straight. You ain't Sonic, that guy died long ago and you are nothing but a alloyan made by mimicking his Dna with a converted into a alloyan by the holy metal.
Sonic: Not Sonic? H. Ha. Hahah. HAHAHAHAHA.
Kelo: *shocked* Is he laughing? But that emotion-
Before kilo could think further, he felt something hit his metallic body as it caved in, With a demonic expression on his face, Sonic leaps towards the Rat.
His speed through not like the one in his illusionary dream was still enough to outrun a race car. Sonic's body twitches randomly as the pulse comes from his metallic heart and the nearby chaos energy pumped in like blood.
Sonic: NOT SONIC? THEN HOW ABOUT THIS. *Leaps upwards and plants his feet into the brick wall* Chaos Control.
For a split second, his senses which were non existent managed gather a few specks of chaos energy which was barely enough to make a coating on his arm.
Sonic's metallic claw slices the Rat's head and torso into shreds before Sonic himself falls on the ground, unable to get up.
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???: This is sniper 880, the target alloyan.. has been killed by the alloyan he rescued.
???: This is masher and WHAT THE HELL YOU MEAN KILLED?
880: Sir, the dark blue alloyan's arm was momentarily covered with a hint of chaos energy before a claw attack which killed the target. Requesting further instructions.
Masher: What is it doing now?
880: the new target is just sitting their looking at his arms as if in thought. Should I shoot?
Masher: Blow his head off? Leave no alloyan alive.
880: Roger that, Instructions recieved.
Sonic however unaware of this incident looks at his own hands as if losing his will to live, just few minutes ago he was with his wives and now he is told they were all just a illusion?
Suddenly something hit him in the head, he fell down as he loses his control over his body and slowly turns his eyes to the side.
Atop a building in a distance, Sonic saw a shine that resembles a glass or metal, a figure in a brown and black camp uniform with a sniper in hand aims at him.
Sonic: A mobian? I need to get answers if I want to understand everything that is going on.
Like a glitched drone, Sonic stands up and simply removes the bullet that just hit his head, a purplish liquid similar to blood flows out but quickly stopped. The sniper's sense tingle as he senses danger.
Sonic leans forward and begins running, just like a small pixel of a camera he quickly travels across the ground while the sniper constantly shoots at him.
One bullet to the knee, another to the elbow, the sniper hits his joints as if aiming to immobalize him, he dodges a bullet towards the head by leaping.
Sniper: Got you.
The sniper aims at the head again while lamenting his luck for the first shot. The bullet cuts through the air before arriving in front of Sonic.
Sonic: ... warp.
Sonic's figure blurs away as he warps about 10 meters away from his position, the sniper watches him teleport and almost lost his composure.
880: This is 880, I need instant back up. The target is a middle rank with high speed and teleportation.
???: Roger that.
880: *focuses harder as he looks for Sonic who has hidden behind a crater in the ground* I will have to hold it off, if this thing gets out then we are as good as-
Sonic: hue hue (Got you)
Sonic just warped behind the sniper after forceing himself by mimicking the blue emerald in his memories.
[Note-The mobian can't understand alloyan voices, Sonic's voice is the word 'Hue' for them.]
The sniper tenses up as he felt the cold texture of Sonic's metal claw like fingers on his neck, his body freezes.
880: I am gonna die, I am gonna die, I am gonna d-
Sonic however didn't attack but just kicked away the sniper rifle and forced 880 to the ground under his grip.
Sonic: Hue hue( dare resistant and you're dead)
880: You must making fun for me right? You damn virus tincans.
Sonic: 'Can he not understand me? Is my voice also just in my thoughts?'
Sonic raised his other hand and carved a few words in the floor of the rooftop, the soldiers looks as the alloyan writes something in confusion.
880: *reading the words* "I will not kill you." The heck, since when did the alloyans knew mercy?
Sonic then write the words " I am not with them, my name is Sonic."
Sonic: hue hue( hope he understands) *let's go of the sniper's neck*
As the sniper reads the messy words, A loud bang was heard as the armadillo moris was charging through a bunch of walls followed by a few heavily armored figures.
One of the figures looked like a crocodile and had a rocky golem like exoskeleton armor around his body and another was zooming forward on a floating stream of ice.
Masher: This is masher, we have target mb603 in sight. We demand support.
880 looks at Sonic who threw him his sniper and gestures for him to do it, Slowly picking up the sniper rifle 880 back away to the corner and aims at the armadillo.
880: This is 880, I got you in my sight. Initiate battle. *A bullet leaves the sniper barrel and hit the armadillo straight in the knee.*
Moris loses balance and fell and was then teamed upon by the two adapters, he was soon killed and his corpse taken to be melted for resources.
880 however turns to Sonic who is just staring at him from the other side of the rooftop. He quickly raises his sniper rifle with the barrel pointed towards Sonic.
880: You seem to understand my words unlike those alloyans.. give me one reason to not shoot you right now.
Sonic: Hue hue, hue (I could have killed you a hundred times by now but whatever.)
Sonic picked up a small slab and scratches the words "I was converted, i am not with them." And threw it to 880 who caught it.
880: Converted? A first generation? You remember yourself from before the conversion?
Sonic nods and picked up another slab, he threw it to 880 after writing his name in it when suddenly something crashed near him.
???: Run Rookie, I will handle this guy.
A bulky orangutan guy with a axe twice Sonic's size came crashing like a cannonball, Sonic jumps off the building and retreats while the orangutan gives chase and soon succeeded in running away.
880:*one finger on his communicator* this is 880.. I need a quick search for the name 'Sonic the hedgehog' from something called freedom fighters.