Welcome back to Forces the Second Set of Chapters. This is an altered universe of Sonic Forces. Second set of Chapters take part after the war against Infinite. If you havint read it... well.... here's the beginning.

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So here's the Warning/ Disclaimer again cuz if you read my stuff already, then you already know what you're in for.

WARNING!!! This is written with TEENS to ADULTS IN MIND. Language is UNCENSORED. You have been warned.

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.

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

Sonic and friends are owned by Sega

Word Count: 8,927... Better fit this time.

The Sonic Cast is: Main: Sonic and Tails. Side: Knuckles

The OC Cast is: Main: Keeping this empty for the time being not to spoil much.

And with that... Welcome to Forces
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Warning: From this point on and through out the rest of the story, the Violence and Language WILL GET WORST. Language will be used MORE FREQUENTLY.
Violence will contain: Shooting, Physical and Bloody Descriptions.
You Have Been Warned. These aren't robots.
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Chapter 6: A Wolf in Danger

Sitting on the floor in his cell mad with his hands in front of him handcuffed, Zeke complains to himself, "I can just hear him now. Warning me about the damn forest with his whiny, nerdy, and irritating nagging voice."

He mocks sounding like Zander, "What did I tell you not to do?"

"Not to fly over the forest." he answers.

"What did you do?"

"I flew over the forest."

"And what happened?"

"I got shot down."

"You sir are grounded for-e-ver."

He slumps his shoulders letting out a sigh, "Third time this week so nothing new."

He looks up at the bars. Getting up to his feet, he walks up to them while rubbing the back of his head still feeling the pain. Looking pass the bars and up at the corner he sees a camera. Eyes directly at it, he rests one arm on the bars and sticks the other past them, giving it the finger. "That should get their attention." Hearing footsteps on the other side of the door, someone fights with the lock trying to unlock it. The door opens.

One of the guards steps into the room and closes the door as it locks by itself. He turns and just stands there with his arm behind his back looking at Zeke. He quickly strikes at Zeke, hitting the bars almost getting his arms with a metal rod.

Zeke hops back to the center of his cell.

"Tell us about the kid," the guard orders.

In anger, Zeke says back without thinking, "I'm not telling you shit. He's long gone already so good luck finding him."

Eyes widened in disbelief, the guard slowly pulls out his radio as he informs, "Can anyone hear me? The kid was with the pilot. I repeat, the kid was with him at the crash site."

They both look over at the window hearing doors slam as soldiers enter vehicles leaving the base.

The guard turns back to Zeke, "You're a fucking idiot. You just admitted that he was with you."

Zeke couldn’t believe it either. "I Uhhh… That's right and all of you went through the trouble of getting me here, wasting time for him to get away." he says back.

"We know this forest from the inside out. We'll find him." The guard smirks getting closer to the bars. "And once we do find him, I can just put a bullet in your head."

Zeke looks at his equipment not seeing a gun on him and laughs getting closer to the bars. "You don't even have a gun so already I'm calling your bluff. Someone else is going to do it for you cuz you're too chicken shit to do it yourself." he mocks stopping just close enough to be swung at.

The guard snarls at him and takes a swing through the bars.

Zeke dodges out of the way grabbing onto the guards wrist and pulls, making him smack into the bars.

The guard pulls back, pulling Zeke toward himself, giving Zeke a chance to thrust forward with a kick, kicking him in the gut making the guard hunch forward.

With a firm grip around his wrist still, Zeke pulls again, slamming the guard into the bars again. He then releases and puts his hand cuffs past the bars and around the back of the guards neck. Zeke then puts a foot onto one of the bars and just pulls.

The guard struggles and gasps for air until the sound of bone cracking is heard around his neck. The guard struggles and goes limp and motionless.

After a couple of seconds of pulling, Zeke stops and lays his body on the floor and quickly goes through his pockets looking for the keys. While searching he finds the keys, but then looks up and remembers about the camera. He hears footsteps running to the door as again someone fighting with the lock to open it.

"Shit." Zeke quickly fights with his own lock hoping to find the right key and to open it before they do. Key after key… he managed to open the cell door at the same time as one of the guards runs into the room.

Zeke runs, tackling the first guard and slamming him into the door, pushing the other guard back out and making the door lock again.

Zeke then pulls the guard away from the door and swings him towards the cell bars, causing him to trip over the dead body.

The guard looks at the body and then back up, seeing a tall angry wolf looming right over him.

Muffled arguing is heard from the other side of the door. "I don't have the key to the door. He's locked in there with you." The other BOA soldier says from the other side pounding on it.

Zeke looks at the door, then turns right back to him, "Do you really think I'm locked in here with you? Well…" His voice deepens as he narrows his eyes at him with clenched fist. Every word of his was a deep growl, "I see it the other way around."

In fear the guard whips out a knife, but instead going towards Zeke he backs up into the cell instead, closing the door.

"Good call. NOW GIVE ME THE KEY TO THESE CUFFS!" Zeke demands.

Guard yells back. "WHEN THEY GET IN HERE, YOU'RE FUCKING DEAD!"

Zeke thinks to himself looking at the door being pounded on. He's right. Once they break that door down then I'm a dead wolf. I have to get the fuck out of here quick. He looks at the window and nods. Checking the dead body he grabs the metal rod. Rising back up to his feet, he looks at the window… and throws the metal rod at it.

The rod hits the window, bounces off, and comes back hitting him in the face.

"Son of a… Shit!" Zeke grabs onto his face.

"HAh! Idiot, that window’s double layered. You’re not breaking that." the soldier mocks.

Zeke snarls back, then picks the metal rod right back up and runs to the window. Grasping the rod with both hands, he starts pounding the window over and over. I’ll huff, I’ll puff AND I’LL… finally putting a crack in it.

“Oh shit.” the guard was surprised by his strength. “GET IN HERE QUICK! HE’S ABOUT-“

The window explodes into pieces of glass shards as Zeke quickly climbs out being careful with the sharp glass.

"HE'S GOING THROUGH THE WINDOW!" the guard warns.

It was the last words Zeke heard, as he ran straight to the forest.
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Running into the dense forest, Zeke had to stop remembering what the guard said. Shit, they know this forest better than I do. They’ll fucking find me before I can make any progress. I need to know which way is west.

Stopping at a small open clearing, he looks up at the sky not blocked by trees. Oh shit… trees are fucking huge. He had to calm down and gather his thoughts. He remembered what Zander once told him. Sun rises from the east and sets on the west. "Its way past noon so… sun is… west is that way."

About to run but knew he had to at least get them off his trail. He looks down and sees piles of leaves on the ground. He drops to the ground and begins to cover himself as much as he can. Once done he just lays there and hopes that no one kicks him or walks on him. Hearing footsteps, he lies still hearing them stop and talk.

Unable to see through the leaves, but he could hear a couple of soldiers running close to him and stopping. "Are you sure you saw him come this way?"

"Yeah, I saw him heading this way."

He hears more soldiers arrive, but not as close to where he is. One of them asks, "Anything?"

"No, nothing but I know he came this way."

Even more soldiers arrive. Looking around as they get closer to where he's hiding, a couple of Jeeps drive up to them as everyone starts arguing with each other. "We need to find him quickly before… Shit, here he comes."

Another Jeep comes driving in at high speed, as everyone gets out of the way, but unfortunately…

It almost runs Zeke over as it stops on his left foot, parking on it.

Zeke wanted so badly to yell out in pain, but with his right arm next to his mouth, he shoves it into his mouth and bites down.

Only able to hear the commotion, the driver gets out of the Jeep revealing that it's The Leader of the BOA's. He demands, "WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED? HOW'D DID HE ESCAPE?"

"One of the guards was interrogating him and got too close. He managed to grab him and killed him." One of the soldiers answered.

Leader’s anger calms down as he gets back onto the jeep as it applies pressure onto Zeke's foot. He then says, "We need to find him NOW before we lose him."

"But why Sir? Why don't we just kill him and get it over with?" a soldier asks.

Zeke, barely able to see through the leaves, he hears Leader asks with restraint, "Why?" A gun shot echoes out, as the soldier’s body lands right in front him.

The Soldier stares right back to Zeke with a bullet hole right between his eyes. His expression slowly turns to nothing, knowing that he was able to see Zeke hiding within the leaves.

Zeke never felt so afraid in his entire life. Shit… oh shit. He fucking killed his own men.

Leader demands infuriated, "I'LL TELL YOU WHY! HE'S ONE OF SONIC'S FRIENDS! THAT'S WHY! Any more questions? No? GO FUCKING FIND HIM!" He demands.

Everyone scatters in different directions to where he might’ve gone.

Zeke lays there dealing with the pain thinking to himself. I’m one of Sonic's friends? Is that really why you fucking shot me down? We were both going to be taken away no matter what. …Dammit… get off my foot.

Through the leaves, he hears Leader asks in anger, "What? What do you mean that you're going back to base?” It remained silent, but someone was there answering back. “…Okay. That's a good idea. If you see anything, let me know."

He hears someone’s heavy steps walk away.

“Stop!” the leader orders. “Take ‘that’ with you.”

Peering out of the leaves, the soldiers’ lifeless body gets easily picked up by one hand and taken away.

Leader turns on the Jeep as it vibrates on his ankle.

Zeke braces himself and gets ready for the jeep to move. The tire spins on his ankle as pain unlike nothing he ever felt rushes through his entire body. The Jeep rushes forward, setting him free.

Staying in the leaves making sure everyone was gone; he drags himself to the closest tree not looking at his foot.

Reaching the tree placing his hand on it, he rolls onto his back and takes a look. His entire white sock on his left foot was coated in red blood. Slowly rising up, he takes off his shoe expecting it to look bad but his foot was alright. It was his ankle that suffered the worst fate. He was about to remove his sock but he quickly pulls away, shaking his head. He was dreading how it was going to look like.

Resting his back against the tree, he looks towards the west deeper into the forest where his exit lies, but then he looks back to his ankle. He shakes his head. Nope, that idea has been officially shattered… literally.

He turns his attention back to the BOA's base. I have to go back and hide somewhere in there. I know Sonic will come sooner or later. He pulls out the set of keys and goes through them all to unlock his handcuffs then tosses them away.

He uses the tree to help him stand up. Barely putting pressure on his foot was enough to even hear his bones on his ankle grind on each other. "Crap!” I can't even stand on it, let alone even try to walk. He breaks a branch to lean on it for support. "Ok… ok. All the BOA soldiers are out looking for me and the kid. I can sneak back into the base and into one of the buildings and hope to find the infirmary."

Turning back to the base and what followed was confusion. He wasn’t even that far from the base and he had a hard time seeing the buildings. The reflective surfaces blended them into the forest perfectly. Even the tallest one out of all of them looked like it was made out of trees. He points at one of them. "That one. I have to get to that one."

He sneaks back onto the base and hopes for the best. He staggers his way towards the building seeing that it's three stories tall. Making sure not to enter the front entrance, he limps around the back of the building to find an entrance. With a door in sight, he checks it, but it's locked. "Damn." He looks around and sees a window being slightly open. "One way or another... I'm coming in." He opens it even more and squirms his way through.
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Within the building, he scans the dark bleak room. I can’t see shit. Taking one step forward he bumps into something. “Hmm?” Feeling all around it, it felt like a container. Did I really find the storage room? Opening the container hoping to find anything for his foot, but nothing. Damn. Being a bit dark he looks at the light switch thinking about turning it on. Taking one step forward to it, as the door opens.

Zeke quickly hides behind containers.

The guard steps in with a shotgun in hand. He turns on the lights and scans the room with the gun. Walking in, he checks behind containers and storage boxes as Zeke quietly sneaks around them. He walks back to the middle of the room, giving up. "Fucking sensors are screwing up." He mutters annoyed. Just as he heads to the exit, he stops and turns his head to the wide open window. "SHIT!-"

Zeke grabs him from behind making sure to keep his arm around his neck squeezing tight. Dropping the shotgun, they struggle back and forth as they slam into crates and walls until the struggle lessens. Bit by bit the guard falls asleep. With his body motionless, holding on still, he staggers back pulling the body away and hides him in the corner. Zeke then goes back and picks up the shotgun. Making his way to the exit, he turns off the lights, leaving the room.
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Looking out into the hallway he stops and thinks. Alright… motion sensors and cameras. I really have to be careful. Where is the infirmary? Need to find a map or directions. Slowly making his way down the corner of the hallway, it leads to yet another hallway, but looking up he notices a camera turning from left to right.

Ok… alright. Just like that one sneaking video game. Waiting for it to turn away he quickly staggers his way under it. The camera slowly turns its way back from where he came. Zeke also looks back down the hallway… seeing his blood on the floor he left behind. "Shit." He quickly looks down at his foot seeing it worse than before. His sock was completely drenched in blood. I fucked it up even worst in the storage room.

Looking back up at the camera, it turns back the other way… but then stops midway and goes back… and stops again. Shit, they see it. He staggers down the hallway and around the corner.

A door is heard opening as a soldier exits out with gun in hand making his way to the blood stain.

He's going to call for help… I have to stop him. Zeke quietly staggers back to the soldier in hopes he can reach him in time. Reaching him and pointing the shotgun, the soldier stops and turns back around seeing Zeke.

The soldier just stands there looking, not saying anything.

Zeke also just stands there not saying anything, thinking about what to do, hesitating to shoot him or not.

The soldier sensing hesitation… he quickly aims, but Zeke closes his eyes and pulls the trigger, firing at the soldier and sending him flying a couple of feet back.

After hearing the shotgun blast go off… he slowly opens his eyes, seeing the BOA soldiers body on the floor in the center of the hallway. "Oh shit." Looking further down sees his handgun on the floor. He picks it up and shoves it into his pocket. About to limp back down the hallway, he stops and looks at the room he came out of. Looking inside it was the security room.

Stepping into the security room, he looks to the right, seeing a map of the building. He staggers to it. "Infirmary… where is it? It's… here. Third floor? The third floor? Who the fuck puts an infirmary on the third floor?" In pain, but knowing he has no choice but to go to it. He takes a step back. "Dammit." He complains but then notices the security monitors and limps to them. "Eyes all over the place."

One of the cameras gets his attention seeing movement on it. "Woah! Who are you?" He asks, seeing a huge soldier walking around on camera. "It's going to take more than a shotgun to take your ass down."

Still looking at the monitors and right before leaving, he notices that one of them is turned off. Under the screen has no name on it. Why are you off? He turns it on. His heart skips a beat and couldn't believe what he was looking at. "No… can't be…" He steps away in disbelief, numb to the pain on his foot. He looks back at the monitor. "He's here… Infinite… is here." He mumbles seeing Infinite restrained to a machine. "Does Sonic even know?" He heads to the exit.
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Exiting, he heads towards the third floor… painfully climbing the steps slowly. No wonder they're pissed and angry all the time. Third floor… what the fuck? He gets to the third floor, and heads straight to the infirmary.

Entering he sees a mid-size room with a couple tables and beds. He goes through the cabinets looking around for alcohol, swabs, medical straps and pain killers. He puts his foot on a table removing his sock and gets to work.

He lies down once he is done to relax, hoping the painkillers will kick in quickly… he then hears heavy footsteps at the door. He quickly rises up and sees that big figure that was on the camera standing at the doorway. Shit. Zeke looks up and notices the motion detector above the door. "Dammit."

The soldier radio goes off. "Levi, have you seen anything yet?"

Zeke just sits there and realizes that the shotgun and handgun was at the other side of the room.

Levi goes for his radio.

Before Levi can answer Zeke taunts, "Go ahead! Be a bitch and ask for help, since you can't take me on by yourself!"

Levi holds the radio in his hands and clips it back to his side and smirks. He takes a step into the room and closes the door.

Zeke takes a deep breath and gets ready for the worst fight in his entire life.

He stands up and balances on one foot. Once balanced… he looks back at Levi and notices just how bigger he was. Zeke was considered tall but never felt intimidated by anyone before. Slightly looking up at Levi he knew that he was in trouble. Looking at his arms packed with muscle on top of muscle. Levi was a grappler. Getting grabbed by him was going to be the worst possible thing that can happen. The problem was: I… can't… move. Not on one foot. I’m fucked.

Levi walks towards him, but as he's about to be at arm's reach, Zeke lunges at him, throwing a quick right. He dodges backwards then knees him back in the gut. He then delivers a hard left punch to his face turning Zeke around, almost losing his balance. Levi then grabs him from behind as a bear hug and starts to squeeze, lifting him up.

"GAAhhh!" Zeke shouts out. He puts his foot on cabinets and pushes off of it causing Levi to stumble backwards colliding to the nearest wall. Feeling his head close to his, he swings his head back colliding with Levi's face over and over.

Levi shakes his head from the impact and then swings Zeke around, tossing him to tables as he bounces off of them, landing on the floor.

Staggering up to his foot, using the table, he sees Levi walking to him growling. Looking at his forehead, he notices he was injured from a previous fight. Just as Levi was about to get close to throw a punch, Zeke puts both hands on the table and pushes it into his gut making him lean forward. With his head low enough, he lets go of the table then grabs his head and bashes it into the table.

Levi then grabs the table and flips it up and over, Zeke almost hitting him.

After Zeke ducks under the table as it flies over him, he springs upward, punching Levi in the face and causing him to stagger back, giving him a chance to punch again and again.

Levi puts an arm up blocking one of the punches and throws an uppercut.

Zeke staggering backwards trying to avoid it, he loses his balance in the process.

Levi then lunges forward tackling Zeke, slamming him to a wall. While holding him in place… he steps on his foot.

"GRRAAAHhhhh! YOU FUCKING BITCH!" Zeke yells out and bites down on Levi's arm making him growl back in pain.

Infuriated, Levi slams Zeke to the wall again with devastating force that sends everything off the wall. The impact was vicious enough to cave in Zeke’s chest, releasing Levi from his bite. Levi then delivers a vicious left hook to the side of Zeke’s face. A right body blow, and then a straight hard right punch to the face. He then grabs Zeke by the collar and by the midsection and then throws him clear across the room making him smash into cabinets.

Zeke slams back onto the floor as glass sprinkles all around him.

Having a hard time trying to stand, he gets back up and just stands there and sees Levi slowly makes his way to him. Everything… everything hurts. Can hardly stand anymore that-

His hand bumps into something… it's the alcohol container that he was using. He grabs it and throws it at Levi splashing him in the eyes.

Aggravated, Levi tries to wipe it out of his eyes.

Zeke with all his might, he pulls his arm back and comes in with a punch to the face that sends Levi’s head whipping back with loud crunch.

Unable to see, Levi’s retaliates and throws a blinding right punch back to Zeke…

But Zeke, not only does he ducks the punch, as it flies over his head, but also manages to hoist Levi over onto his back and with all the weight onto just his right leg, he picks up Levi and throws him out a window.

Collapsing onto the floor in pain, he shakes his hand as he complains, “What the fuck is your head made out of, a solid brick?”

He looks up at the broken window and picks himself up to look out of it. "I didn't hear a splat. Why wasn't there a-" Looking out the window, "Lucky bitch, he landed on the bushes." He lies back on the floor and puts another pain killer into his mouth. "I have to hide somewhere. Wait for Sonic to show up."

He manages to gets back up and heads to the exit.

Back to the first floor, passing by the security room again, he stops and looks at the security monitors again. He looks down to his shotgun and then right back to them.

Without a second thought, he limps into the room going straight to the monitors. With shotgun in hand, just when he's about to aim…-

"Release… me…"

He hears a voice in pain knowing who said it. He Looks at Infinite on the monitor with every emotion rushing into him. Hate, anger, disgust, rage… but then all of them go away, as sympathy takes over them all. He sighs, "Dammit… Sonic. You're going to have a lot to explain from this." Aiming the shotgun, he pulls the trigger destroying the security system. Once he is done, he leaves and exits out of the building.

"I'm better off hiding outside than in a building." Looking around he sees a spot. "Perfect. Hide behind those containers and just wait." He sighs, limping to it. "I hope that kid is doing ok out there, and having a better time than I am."

Rewind.
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Ready… Aim… Fire. The missile fires up into the sky and once reaching the appropriate height, it locks onto Zeke's aircraft and heads right towards him.

"Target has been hit. Target crashed into the western side of the base. Curtis and Craig are on their way to capture them. Yes, Curtis has been reminded countless times to capture them alive."

Craig arrives late to the crash site. He exits out of the car and sees Curtis punching the pilot over and over again. He then grabs his throat, "WHERE'S THE FUCKING KID!" Curtis orders.

The pilot spits blood right back and shouts, "I WAS ALONE!"

Craig just smirks. Pilot has balls.

Curtis, doesn’t even react to the spit. He wipes it off and licks it. "Thank you.” He looks at one of the soldiers, giving him a nod.

A BOA soldier standing next to the pilot raises the back end of his rifle and hits him in the back of the head.

Craig watches the pilot fall over from the blow to the back of the head and once he hits the ground, he notices a bush move. Keeping a close eye on it, he sees it slightly move again confirming that he's right. He smirks, thinking to himself, The kid is in there.
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Chapter 7 The Line Between Good And Evil

Craig stands there watching Curtis and his men drag the pilot’s unconscious body and shoved into the nearest vehicle.

Curtis then turns to look back to Craig and flips him off as he mocks, "Next time, don't be so slow." He laughs entering the car.

Craig returns back a halfhearted smile and waves them goodbye. Once Curtis was gone, he patiently waits as more BOA soldiers leave. Craig made sure to keep an eye on the bush the whole time.

Once enough of them leave, he secretly leans to two of the Boa soldiers next to him and whispers, "Follow me."

The two Boa soldiers look at each other and then back to him letting him know, "Only high ranking-"

Craig snaps back annoyed, "Just fucking do it. Trust me for once. The payoff is going to be worth it."

The two soldiers follow while Craig sneaks his way around to the bush. He raises a hand to make the two soldiers stop. He puts his finger to his mouth and then points signaling to look at the bush. He whispers, "Stay here hidden. He might run this way."

"Run this way?" one of the soldiers ask as they look at the bush seeing the kid in it. "Oh shit."

“Just stay here. I’ll handle this.” Craig orders again.

“Yeah, sure.” The Soldier remarks back.

Craig sneaks up behind the kid and points his gun. "Get out… now." He orders.

The bush lightly rustles as the kid slowly exits out worried. He looks at Craig and pleads, "Please don't hit me."

Craig just smirks, hearing his voice tremble in fear. "I’m not going to hit you… unless you run, then I'll use you as target practice. Spoiler alert…" He leans down closer and grins. "I don't miss."

The kid nods in agreement staring at Craig's gun, and then looks upward into his eyes.

Craig stares back into his eyes and begins to feel weird. Any semblance of anger and bitterness was being purged out of his body; suddenly the kid gets tackled to the ground by one of the Boa soldiers. Craig gets startled from it happening, snapping him out of it.

The kid yells out in shock, "AHhgah! Ahh! mhmhm." But couldn't put up a struggle getting restrained and mouth taped shut instantly.

"Good one Craig. Curtis might have one of Sonic's friends, but at least we have the damn kid." One of the Boa Soldiers says. He picks up and throws the kid over his shoulder.

Craig didn’t approve of the way he was treating the kid. "Riiiight, let's head back to turn him in."

Heading back to their vehicle as Craig rubs his hands together excitedly, "I personally would love to see Curtis' face when…-" He stops and looks around for the car. He then notices that all of the other BOA soldiers were gone. In frustration he sighs and rubs his forehead. "They took the damn car."

"Tell me that you have a radio to call them?" One of the soldiers asks.

"I do. It's in the damn car." Craig answers, trying not to get mad.

Both Boa soldiers glared at him.

He glares back at them, "How was I supposed to know they were going to take the damn car?"

The soldier drops the kid to the ground. Muffled pain comes out from him. "Now we have to fucking walk." He complains.

Craig was surprised from what he just did. "HEY! Watch it with the package."

"You want to carry him?" The soldier snaps back.

"He barely weighs anything, so quit your bitching and let's get going."

"When did you become in charge?" He demands back.

"AGAIN WITH THIS? Let's just fucking go. We have a long ass walk to do." Craig gets mad and storms off ending with, "Shit."

"You pick him up this time." The BOA soldier orders the other soldier and walks away.

The other soldier hoists him over his shoulder. "Damn… You really do weigh like nothing."
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After moments of walking… one of the soldiers stops and orders, "Let's stop and take five."

The fuck? Already? We barely even walked and he wants to take a break already? Craig sighs as he looks in the direction where the base is. I just want to get back but I don’t even want to deal with his bullshit. He sits down and relaxes near a tree. “Fine,” he says as he watches the soldier carrying the kid.

The soldier carrying the kid just drops him as he lets out muffled pain from it. He quickly rolls onto his back and looks at everyone.

Craig gives the soldier a glare.

The soldier looks at Craig and scoffs at it. "You have a problem with that?" He notices the kid squirm but then the soldier delivers a kick to him. "STAY PUT AND DON'T MOVE!"

The kid whimpers and doesn't move afterwards. His eyes darting back and forth in fear, he stops and looks at Craig.

Craig just stares back and looks away covering his eyes with his hoodie.

While relaxing with his eyes closed, he hears muffled pleas coming from the kid. Opening his eyes, he sees that one of the soldiers is throwing rocks at the kid. Craig then covers his face getting angry and tries to ignore it… but the muffled whines were finally getting to him. He looks back to the kid, and sees him staring right back… but then gets hit by another rock in the face, forcing him to close his eyes as a tear runs down his face. The whines turned to muffled sadness.

Craig… gets… up and walks towards the kid and stands right over him.

The kid opens his eyes and looks directly into Craig’s eyes.

Another rock hits the kid again.

Craig places his hand over his gun… and flicks open the release.

Another rock strikes him again.

Craig looks down to the soldier lying on the grass.

The soldier then looks right back up to Craig and holds up a rock. He asks, “Want one?”

Craig un-holsters his gun and shoots the soldier right in the head.

The other soldier quickly gets up in shock, looking at what Craig just did.

Craig just stares back breathing heavily infuriated aiming his gun at him.

The soldier slowly raises up one hand as he pleads, “Craig… Craig. Don’t… just… OK! OK! YOU’RE IN CHARGE! Just don’t, DON’T-“ he quickly goes for his gun-

Craig then fires off every last shot in rapid succession till his gun goes empty… but still he continues to pull on the trigger.

Craig then lets out a loud yell in frustration and points the gun at the kid. He storms to the kid, kneeling in front of him, placing the tip of the muzzle of his gun to his face making him feel the scorching heat from it hurting him.

The kid closes his eyes and whines in pain from it.

While in agony, Craig grabs the tape onto the kid’s mouth, pulling it off as a painful cry comes out of him, "AAhhh oowowow!"

"SHUT UP! OKAY? JUST, FUCKING SHUT UP!" Craig shouts right back and then walks away trying to come to terms with what he just did. He sits back down dropping his gun and tries to calm down. He puts his hands over his face and yells into them. Once calming down he looks back staring at the kids eyes.

The kid just stares right back at Craig. "Thank you." he says quietly but enough for him to hear.

All Craig does, is just sit there in silence.
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What felt like an eternity, Peanut watched Craig get back up to his feet. He sees Craig reached down, picking up his gun, holstering it back to his side. He heads to one of the soldier’s bodies picking up his flask taking a drink from it… and tries to hold it inn.

Craig quickly spits it out and throws the flask back at the soldier’s body, as it bounces off of it. He goes back to rubbing the back of his head. He takes a couple of deep breaths as he mutters, "Okay… alright… just… okay. Nobody knows… nobody." He looks over to Peanut and turns away just standing there. "You’re friend …Willard."

Peanut awkwardly looks at him. "You mean Wally."

"Whatever… He's not who you think he is."

Peanut narrows his eyes back. "I don't care."

Craig glares at his response. "You should. He's dangerous… once you really get to know him. See the real side of him."

Peanut glares back, refusing what Craig said. "I… Don't… Care. He's not mean."

Craig looks away from Peanut and just stands there, rubbing the back of his neck while looking at the two dead soldiers in concern.

Peanut just watched him, wondering what he's thinking. He asks, "How do you know him?"

Noticing Craig’s ears flicker from his question calming him down. He answers back without looking, "He was… he was a friend of mine." Craig then pulls out his knife and just looks at it… then faces Peanut. He begins his approach.

Peanut's eyes widened, about to panic.

Craig kneels down in front of him gritting his teeth while pointing the knife at him. "Alright, this is what we're going to do. I'm going to do three stabs."

Peanut eyes widen looking directly at the knife. "Wha, what? What do you-" Craig grabs him by his shirt and flips him onto his stomach. "Ack..wha?"

Craig stabs into his hand restraints and cuts them off. "Stab number one."

He grabs and flips him over again, then grabs his leg restraints and stabs into them, cutting them off. "Stab number two."

Craig then grabs Peanuts neck and forces him up to his feet, not letting go yet. "Now what you're going to do is walk straight that way." Craig points as Peanut looks. "ONLY STRAIGHT!” He demands startling Peanut causing him to look back to him. “And once you see a road… you go left and you follow it. You'll find someone to help you. GOT IT?"

Peanut nods wearily. "But… that was only two stabs." he corrects him.

Craig nods back. "That's right. The third one will come… if I see you again. You understand?"

Peanut nods, "I got it."

Craig releases him, pushing him away and then turns around walking away.

Peanut just stands looking at the two dead bodies and then back to Craig. "You are a good guy."
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Making his way to the base- 'snap!' Craig hears something crack behind him once in a while. He stops and glances behind himself, looking at everything… especially bushes. He goes back to walking until he hears a car driving by. He stops as it gets louder and louder as an S.U.V drives right by.

He hears the car hits the breaks and it comes back in reverse. One of the soldiers pulls down the window. The Commanding officer orders, "Craig? Why are you walking around alone?"

"Everyone left me behind at the crash site. I had no choice but to walk back." He answers back. Knowing how far he still has left to walk, he wanted to ask for a ride but he knew he was being followed. He then asks, "Are you guys patrolling?"

"Yeah we are. You know the pilot that's one of Sonic's friends? He escaped."

Craig laughs, crossing his arms. "No shit?"

Commanding officer glares at Craig and demands. "Compose yourself Craig. This isn't the time to get out of line."

Trying not to get angry being talked down too, he uncrosses his arms and responds, "Sorry."

The commanding officer rises up from his seat upset, "Sorry… what?"

Craig takes a deep breath trying to stay calm, "Sorry… sir." He said, struggling to speak nicely.

He sits back on his seat. "That's better and to answer your question, yes, he did escape and Leader is pissed off about it. He's so mad that he shot one of the guys in the face for just asking a damn question. I'll stay away from him if I were you."

Now he knows for sure that he can't go back with that kid following him, he had to scare him to go away. He looks at the soldiers in the car and says. "Thanks for the warning but I'm still going to head back."

"You don't want a ride?" one of the soldier's asks.

"Naw, I'm good. A good nature walk is good once in a while." Craig answers back, trying not to get mad missing out on the offer.

"That's on you, but keep an eye out for the pilot." he orders while giving the command to drive off.

"Dammit." He mutters. 'snap' He stares right at the bush that the sound came from. He scowls at it and keeps on walking.
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Paying close attention while walking… 'snap' and again, Craig hears another branch break making him stop. He turns, knowing exactly where it came from.

Slowly, he heads to where the sound came from as he hums to himself along the way, Eenie…-

He stops again near one of the bushes, Meenie…-

He slightly turns around, putting his back to one of the bushes- Miney…-

Then quickly thrust his hand into one of them- Mo… He grabs the kid by the neck, hauling him out of it.

"ACKgah!" The kid shouts, surprised by the attack.

Craig then lifts him up high and slams him to a nearby tree. He then pulls out his knife and in one quick motion, he thrust it right next to his neck, centimeters from getting him.

Craig snarls and demands, "STOP FOLLOWING ME!"

"No." the kid answers back.

"YOU DO NOT… WANT TO GO WHERE I'M GOING, SO STOP FOLLOWING ME!" Craig demands.

The kid grabs onto Craig’s arm that he's being held up by and refuses as he shouts right back, "NO! I WON'T STOP! I WON'T STOP FOLLOWING YOU UNTIL I SEE WALLY AGAIN! I WON'T STOP!"

In anger, Craig begins to apply pressure onto his neck, but the kid just kept holding onto his arm despite being unable to breathe. Looking into the kid’s eyes, his anger begins to fade, causing him to release. "Alright… FINE!” He points. “It's your damn fault if something happens to you."

The kid releases his arm and smiles.

Craig just turns around and walks away.

Seeing Craig walk away with a victorious smile, but it slowly fades away realizing that he can't touch the ground. "Hmm?" He looks down swinging his feet. "What… why?" He looks at the knife, still lodged into his shirt, keeping him pinned to the tree. "No, Gah.. No… Grr!" Desperately pulling on the knife. "NO! GAhh ahh! You are evil." He says watching Craig still walking away from him.

"What the fuck is wrong with me?" Craig mutters to himself walking back to base. I feel different… when I look at that kid. Less worried, less scared, less …angry. Is this what Chris went through… when he left? That's the reason why Leader wants him so badly. 'snap' He hears a sound behind him making him crack a smile, knowing that he’s being followed again. Craig just kept on walking as he says out loud, "Your friend… umm… Walter?"

"Wally!"

He hears the kid’s voice somewhere behind, sounding annoyed, having to correct him with the right name. It almost causes him to laugh. He continues, "Even though… he did all of those cruel things… eventually I knew something was off. Something was now different about him."

"He became nice." Again his voice was heard somewhere behind him.

"Like I said… we were friends. We both joined BOA together, leaving everything behind. But Leader… he… corrupted us. But Somehow Wal…lace?"

"Wally." Again, the kid corrects him sounding less annoyed, but being more curious instead.

"He broke out of it… came to his senses. When he did, he warned me that he was going to leave. I didn't follow him. I stayed behind. I… I was weak…" He stops walking. "I've always been weak. On that night… I lost the only friend I had and I wound up being alone."

'sniff' "He's the only friend I have too." Craig hears his sad voice behind him.

Craig turns around and sees the kid just standing there out in view with his shirt torn.

The kid’s eyes were red filled with sadness, but was trying not to cry. "I'm also alone. I have no friends… nobody but him. He's not the person you might know… but when I'm around him… I feel like I have a big brother. He's someone that I can look up to. Someone that appreciates me. Someone that makes me feel like I'm not invisible." He wipes his nose. "I wouldn't know what I'd do… if he wasn't around anymore."

Craig just stood there and just listened to him, figuring out how much he has in common with this kid. He then turns around and looks at the base. I have way more in common with this kid… then everyone in that damn base. He warns again, "Last chance." He says as Peanut stands right next to him. "Turn away right now; cuz what might happen in there isn't going to be pretty."

The kid shakes his head refusing. "I know Wally is coming here. I want to be here."

They hear gunfire at a distance. Craig un-holsters his gun, "Don't say I didn't warn you."

Rewind
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Miller was at the base, mad that he isn't outside like everyone else. He's still testing and adjusting the Infinite particle bullets. "Why did I have to be the smart one around here?"

Grabbing one of the bullets and putting it into a rifle. "Test number… shit… um… 82?" He sighs. "82 it is." He aims at a target fifty meters away and pulls the trigger.

He lazily looks at the target and then down to his notes putting a checkmark on it… "Wait… what?" He looks back at the target's bullseye penetrated; and throws his arms into the air in celebration. "FUCKING FINALLY!" Puts another into the rifle and fires again. He looks at the target again with excitement. "Hell yeah. This batch actually works. IT WORKS!" He sets them to the side. He counts how many of them there are. "Twenty rounds. Now to start calibrating them to be like this and we'll be-"
Beep, Beep, Boop! An alarm goes off.

"Wha?" Worried, he frantically checks his laptop and sighs relief. "He's still there… restrained… but what caused the alarm to go off?" He scans the base, trying figure out what caused the alarm to go off. "A window broke… at the main building?" Checking and scanning where the location is. "Third floor… Infirmary?… Wait… What? Who the fuck puts the infirmary on the third floor?" He sighs. "Whatever, I'm surrounded by… idiots? Oh shit… OH SHIT!" He takes out a radio. "DEAD BODY SPOTTED AT THE BASE! HEAD BACK! COME BACK TO BASE!" He alerts looking at the first floor hallway seeing a body on the floor with blood splattered to the walls and floor.

Suddenly the camera feed goes black and then a green error screen appears. "What the… he's here. The Pilot still here." He gets up, grabbing a handful of bullets and puts them into his pocket. He then leaves, grabbing his sniper rifle.
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Meanwhile Sonic, Tails, and Wally make their way towards Peanut's location. Tails keeps track of their location throughout the way in the dense forest. He then looks at Sonic and asks being concerned, "What are we going to do once we get there? I mean… How are we going to deal with Infinite if he's really there?"

Sonic rubbing the back of his head, "Umm… maybe we can talk some sense into him?" He chuckles back, masking his concern.

Hearing Sonic’s response and his concerned tone, Tails asks back, "And what if that doesn't work?"

Sonic stops walking and looks at the ground. "I still remember it as if it was yesterday when we fought. I punched him. I kicked him. I elbowed him and also spin dashed him. I even head-butted him. Out of all that, it barely even fazed him." He looks at Tails then looks over to Wally remembering about the warning Colbort said. He looks away and back to Tails, "I hope we made the right choice."

Tails knows what he means and just stares at him… seeing him in a way he rarely ever sees Sonic. Worried… Concerned… Scared. He had to get him out of his self-doubt. "Are you saying that you can't beat him?"

Surprised to hear it come out of Tails, "I couldn't beat him then. What makes you think I can do it now?"

Tails takes a step to him and reminds him of what he went through, "You were beaten and taken. Tortured for months, until the Resistance found you. Did you just stay in bed once you were rescued? NO! You got up and went back to face him again. And even though you were still hurting, you fought him with everything you had. YOU DID EVERYTHING YOU COULD TO STOP HIM!" Tails looks at Wally seeing him as Chris then back to Sonic. "You did whatever it took to buy enough time for everyone to do what they had to do to take Infinite down."

Sonic just stood there and listened to him.

Tails continues, "That was then. This is now. I saw how you kept rubbing your legs when they hurt. I haven't seen you do that for months now. I know you can beat him. You just have to know it too."

Sonic smiles and jabs him on the shoulder, "Yeah… You're right."

Tails smiles back, "Of course I'm right. I'm always right."

Sonic chuckles and before he gets a chance to say anything else he looks up and notices smoke. He points, "Is that what I think it is?"

Both Tails and Wally look, and before Tails has a chance to answer, Sonic already speeds off.

"Smoke… That has to be the air-" Before Tails can finish, Wally also runs past him in desperation to it.

Tails takes flight to get through the forest quicker and the closer he gets the sound of gunfire gets louder and louder. Once getting there he sees the crashed aircraft and Sonic fighting off BOA Soldiers. He hides watching Sonic rush back and forth disarming them, then knocks them out.

He looks for Wally and sees him fighting two Soldiers. One of the soldiers was on the ground shaking his head while rubbing it, while the other was fighting Wally.

The soldier throws a right hook but not only does Wally slap the punch away, but he also grabs onto it then pulls, causing the soldier to stumble forward. Wally then begins to unleash punch after punch back to the soldier's face until he is out cold.

"Geez… does he have to fight… so aggressively?" Completely focused on how Wally is reacting, he sees him notice the other soldier trying to get back to his feet.

Wally then runs to him, delivering a kick to the side of his head. "Stay the fuck down." he threatens in anger.

Wait… is he… is he fighting like- Tails wondering if he really is him. "…Chris?" He asks, making sure.

He turns to face Tails. "Hmm, what Tails?"

In disappointment, he answers, "Never mind."

One of the soldiers tries to escape, but Sonic was already at him, doing a spin dash and colliding into him, sending him flying into a tree. "That was the last one." Sonic says, grabbing the last soldier and dragging him back to the rest of the soldiers that were knocked out.

Tails checks his locator seeing that it's still pointing east. "He's not here."

"But what about Zeke?" Sonic asks as he rushes into the downed aircraft. Seconds later he rushes right back out. "Zeke isn't here either."

"Both of them might be at their base?" Wally suggests.

One of the BOA soldiers wakes up. Sonic walks up to him. "Hi, mind if you give us directions to your base? And no… we're not looking to join up."

Trying to get out of his restraints to not answer, "I-I… I can't. He'll kill me if I do." The Boa soldier pleads.

Wally, getting furious with his response, picks up a gun. "If something happens to Peanut then you're going to have me to worry about." He points the gun at him. "WHERE'S YOUR BASE?"

He panics from the threat. "OKAY! It's… It's straight that way."

"That way?" Tails points looking at his tracker.

"Yes, that way." He answers again.

Tails looks at his tracker and nods. "It matches. That's exactly where the signal is." He marks their current location.

Sonic smirks at the soldier, "Sit tight while we go shake up your base."

The soldier shakes his head. "You have no idea who you're dealing with. Leader of the BOA is insane. You take him lightly and he'll make you regret it."

"Pfft! I've had my fill of crazy maniacal villains. He'll be no different. I'll wipe the floor with him." Sonic answers back boldly.

The Soldier just looks at Sonic and slowly shakes his head. "You really have no idea. He'll make you eat those words."

Wally grabs his head hearing those words. "Not… again. GAh!"

The soldier looks at Wally worried.

"Don't worry. It's something he's dealing with." Sonic informs. After a while, the pain stops and Wally regains control. "Are you okay?"

Wally takes a deep breath. "The Tornado…"

"What about it?" Sonic asks.

"It belongs to you."

Sonic chuckles about the plane and looks at Tails. "Well… not really anymore. It's more Tails' than mine. He takes care of it way more than I ever do."

Tails smiles, appreciating it.

Sonic looks at the soldier, "You and your buds stay here and behave. Got it? It'll be all over before you know it."

The soldier just nods.

"Well then, let's get going and end this." Sonic says.

Everyone nods and heads off towards the BOA's base.

Trudging through the forest again, they finally reach the base. Tails looks at the tracker and sees that Peanut signal is somewhere around inside the base.

"Can you get in touch with the Resistance?" Wally asks.

Tails shakes his head. "No, I can't. I was never able to, due to a jammer being around. We're on our own."

Sonic nods and takes a step forward cracking his knuckles. "Are you guys ready for this?"

Wally also takes a step forward. "I'm ready. I'm not afraid."

Tails does the same. "Yeah, let's do this."

Zeke was hiding somewhere outside in the base. Peanut and Craig also arrive at the base. With everyone approaching the BOA's base, they knew that once they entered, it was going to be a one way trip. They all take a step forward, knowing that danger is waiting for them.
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End of Chapter. Thanks for Reading.
Next: Chapter 8/Final Chapter: A Tango Bullets