Today is the beginning of the rest of Sonic's life...
December 23rd
A year and a half ago, he left Mobotropolis to stay at a friend out of town's place...
A year and a half ago, General Robotnik staged a full scale assault and took over the city...
A year and a half ago, his uncle Chuck tried to help prevent it, but vanished during that night... While Sonic was out of town.
He has spent the last year and a half wondering what happened to his uncle Chuck. Sonic soon arrives at a central city street in Mobotropolis. There was a huge crowd. A memorial for a street singer who vanished a year ago was under way. Sonic had no idea what he was doing... Was he going to overhear something? Was he going to just stumble on the culprit? He was lost in thought when he nudged into a young fox.
“Watch it buddy!” the young fox said as he turned...
Sonic just shot a look at him... The fox just turned back and continued where he was going... Something just didn’t sit right with Sonic who decided to follow him.
The fox was watching a young female rabbit who was in turn, followed by a Swat Bot... The fox seemed to talk into his wrist. Sonic began to focus on the young girl walking into an alley and the Swat Bot getting closer to her... Sonic decided to act when the Swat Bot unholstered a gun.
With blinding speed Sonic was able to grab the gun from him and knock him down onto his back.
“Hey kid! Get outta here!” The young girl ran.
Sonic threw the gun aside. “What you doing following young girls around?”
The Swat Bot simply said “New target, engage.”... Another 3 Swat Bots walked into the back alley behind Sonic... Sonic kicked the gun on the floor toward the downed Swat Bot, knocking his helmet off... He was not entirely a machine... he was a Mobian, integrated into the suit. This shocked Sonic, who was then surprised by the other 3... and 2 more figures behind them...
An arrow seemed to penetrate the chest of one of the Swat Bots and he soon fell. Sonic turned and kicked the downed bot in the face, making him stay down. But when Sonic turned, he didn’t expect to see what he saw...
The other 2 figures caught up and were fighting the 2 remaining Bots. One was a man who was expertly taking out one of the bots hand to hand, the other was a young woman, same age as Sonic he thought, repeatedly jabbing the other bot with a taser until he went down. Soon they along with Sonic were the only ones standing...
“You fight well... though... Unfocussed.” said the man. “I am Geoffrey St John and this is Sally Acorn... And you look just like him Sonic... Charles I mean”
“How do you know me? And how do you know Chuck?”
Geoffrey looked a little sad... “I was with him, the night he died.”
“He's dead...?”
Sally remained silent... Sonic looked downtrodden. He expected bad news, but not this sudden. Then Sally responded... “Come with us. We need more people, people like you who know what Robotnik really is and... who has also lost something in the invasion.”
Geoffrey seemed shocked at first, but soon remembered something...
“On the night of the invasion, Charles told me about some project he had helped create... Some sort of Super Soldier process, that was close to completion. I would like you to come with us.”
Sonic looked up at the 2 people who had just helped him...


… “Sure, what else am I going to do?”

Geoffrey drove the car down some back roads beyond the city limits with Sally in the passenger seat. Sonic was in a seat between them blindfolded... Geoffrey didn’t trust him with their location just yet. Sonic had no idea where they were, he wasn’t even sure why he came with them. He got the feeling Geoffrey knew a lot more than what he was willing to say in public.
“We're here” sally said.
Geoffrey took Sonic out the car and took his blindfold off... They were on an elevator heading down... The headquarters was underground. Geoffrey turned to Sonic.
“I was in the secret service when the invasion happened... Robotnik stole your Uncles research, a medical device that used nano machines to heal virtually any injury or disability. He sent a hitman called Nack to kill him and retrieve the data... I tried to help Charles, but I was too late.”
“Why did he want Chucks invention?”
“You seen the Swat Bots... He saw it for it's military applications. Think about it... Soldiers who are constantly repaired by nanites. But the cost on the person is extreme... They become dependant on them, losing their free will and becoming husks of their former selves.”
Sally finally spoke... “He was able to rapidly create a large army made of people loyal to him and of poor souls who had previously been helped by Charles. He found a way to 'convert' them into soldiers.”

The lift made it to the headquarters...
Sonic had made a decision already...
“Nack... He pulled the trigger... Robotnik gave the order. Am I right?”
“Yes, Me and Sally formed this little resistance to remove Robotnik... or go out trying.”
“If I join you guys... I will get to meet those people at some point?”
“Yeah...”
Sonic smirked at them both...

“I'm in.”
Geoffrey put a hand on Sonic's shoulder and shook hands with the other...
“Welcome to Knothole...”