author's note:

BY THE WAY THIS ISNT REALLY FOR TINY BABIES, PEOPLE DO VIOLENCE AND IT GETS SUPER ANGSTY, if you have problems with that then you have been warned, kiddo.

Now don't be fooled by the whole "freedom fighters" thing or the use of characters like sally. I have never read the comics or watched sonic satAM. I vaguely know stuff about them but I don't have the sort of time to catch up with them. So uh, yeah.

This isn't the first fanfic I've ever written but it's gonna be the first one I publish. so uh, i dont know anyhthing about how to work this website. i might also upload it on AO3, just for funsies.

It's not as good as I would like it to be though, so if you think of ways it could be better, let me know. also i haven't really edited this one too much from when i first wrote it so uh, let me know if somethings off. oof, this is... experimental. not too confident about this.

i'm planning to update it every saturday or sunday.

And i'm still in the process of editing some of these chapters, but they are coming along, and i have someone helping me out 3

R&R is appreciated

okay, here you go!

Tails held a device, beeping in his hand.

Knuckles sighed loudly.

They had been walking around what used to be a building, reduced to a pile of rubble over the years.

"Why do we have to go through all the trouble of coming all the way out here? This place has been abandoned for years." He groaned.

"I don't know, I just figured we should make sure someone wasn't actually in trouble."

"Wouldn't the distress signal tell you what was happening?"

"Usually, but apparently not this one. It either means that it's an old alarm that couldn't collect that kind of data, or the machine didn't have time to send that information."

"So either some rubble fell on a switch somewhere, or they're already dead, great. Its not like we have anything else to do." Knuckles said sarcastically. Tails rolled his eyes.

"Sorry for waking you up so early, by the way," Tails smiled mischievously. Knuckles laughed.

"Where was that apology half an hour ago?" Knuckles chuckled. He was silent for a bit. " Do you think well actually find anything?"

"No, knuckles, that's why I dragged you out here." Tails mocked him, sarcastically. "To be honest, I think it's probably a trap."

"So we're walking right into a trap?"

"Possibly. That's why I brought you."

"I'm flattered. But really, you have a plan don't you?"

"The plan is don't split up, and stay aware. This thing should detect traps anyway." Tails waved the thing.

Suddenly it started beeping rapidly. He turned to it.

"Did you break it?" Knuckles said.

Tails examined it.

"Actually, it looks like I knocked some more sense into it. The signal should be coming from… Right here." He started walking towards it.

"Doesn't look like there's anything here." Knuckles examined a roman-style column that the sensor had pointed to. He looked at the device. Everything seemed to be in order.

Then Tails realized that the column was out of place, they hadn't seen anything like it in the rubble. So why was this one in good condition? Knuckles seemed to have the same thought, he ran his hand over it.

"Hey, this is made of metal…" he knocked lightly on it. "But its not hollow…"

Suddenly a little keypad popped out.

"Password please?" a quiet voice warbled through the busted speaker.

Kuckles looked at this. "Think you can crack this?"

Tails chuckled. "Who do you think I am? That thing is ancient!"

He steped forward, and stuck a small machine up against the keypad, and the correct code showed up on the screen, it turned green.

"Cryogenic storage emergency signal has been responded, completing reintroduction process." The voice said.

"Cryogenic storage emergency signal?" Knuckles said.

"Most cryogenic storage units have some kind of emergency escape in order to keep people from using cryogenic machines to hold people hostage against their will. But it's useless, since most can be easily reprogrammed to mind control the one in storage."

"Then whats the point of it?"

"I don't know, I think they hope that most people would be strong enough to resist the mind control."

"And are they?"

"Probably not."

"This prisoner is high security, a note had been left warning against opening. The prisoner inside is not meant to be released. Are you sure you want to continue?"

"See, prisoner? What did I tell you?" Tails said. Knuckles wasn't sure.

"I have a bad feeling Tails… What if it turns out they are a prisoner for a reason?"

"Prisoner has been in storage for 10 years. The prisoner activated a removal process of low priority 8 months ago, when the mind control program experienced an error. The process is nearing completion. It is safe to remove the prisoner, although they might experience several issues. Including : muscle atrophy resulting in approximately 16% of normal strength, Insomnia, sensory overload, fatigue, irregular heart rate, lost memory, possible heart murmur, excessive vomiting, trouble breathing or eating… etc."

Tails smirked. "If they want to pick a fight, they'll be too weak to lift a finger, so it's their funeral."

"Please input the security code if you want to continue."

Tails held the password cracking device to the machine again, this time it had a bit more difficulty.

"Extraction process commencing. Please note, the machine is experiencing malfunctions…

Replanting extracted memories… 0%, 66%, 100% … accelerating ambiot extractions… 70%, 79%, 85%, 90%, 100%, oxygen replacement malfunctioning, using outside air… 4%, 78%, 95% 98% 100%... ambiot tank valve malfunctioning, removing replacement devices. 0%, 80%, 100%.

Finished, please step back."

Tails and knuckles stepped back ,as a surprisingly big hole in the floor opened up.

"How old is this thing? Cryogenic storage containers are usually smaller." Tails remarked.

"I assume, 10 years? That's how long it said, right?"Knuckles answered.

"Well normally, they would get moved to a newer machine…"

"This place is abandoned…"

The machine rose from the ground, covered in dust and bugs. The door buzzed, waiting for the command on the keyboard that would open the door.

Tails walked up to the glass pod, and brushed off dust at eye level. Inside, he could have sworn he saw…

He stumbled back, feeling his heartbeat and his head slam the brakes.

He tripped, falling backwards onto the ground noiselessly.

"You okay?"

Tails had no words. Knuckles looked himself, and reacted similarly. He spoke, looking at his feet in shock.

"I think we just discovered something very dangerous…"

Years ago.

Sonic watched the shadow in the distance

"I don't see anything…" he said. Tails shoved a pair of binoculars into his hands. "oh."

"Just look"

Sonic peered through the binoculars.

Something suspicious was happening alright

One of Eggman's bases had been looming in the distance for years now, but now there was all sorts of stuff being moved and shifted and big robot arms, but it was all just shadows, he couldn't see anything specific.

"Hmmm…" He put down the binoculars. "That's… something."

"What should we do?" Tails asked, sonic turned to look down at his friend. The 8 year old gazed up expectantly. Sonic only ever had one plan, but it had never failed him.

"We go and investigate ourselves… If he's building something we'll catch him in the act."

"I could easily hack into his database from here so we at least know what we're expecting."

"That would take too long. What happens if he finished building it after we've figured out how bad it is?"

"I… I just have a bad feeling sonic, and it's a risk either way… So we should just play it safe!"

"Since when did we play things safe?" sonic asked. Tails was silent. "We're being safe either way anyway,"

"I have a bad feeling…"

"you keep saying that, are you feeling alright?" Sonic smiled. "Tell you what, if I get in trouble out there, then you win, if it turns out I'm right, and it's better to stop him now, then I win."

The younger one relaxed little "And what does the winner get?"

"…The pride of knowing they won? I'll decide later."

Tails rolled his eyes. "How about … first pick for dinner?"

"Deal." Sonic said. "see you then, tails."

And he ran off. And it wasn't very long at all until he was there.

As he approached the entrance, he realized nothing had tried to kill him, yet, so he was catching egghead off guard… But as he approached, all the movement stopped. Sonic slowed to a stop In front of the front doors. Before he could think, the monitor above the door blinked to life.

"Ah, I see you're here, hedgehog."

"Looks like there's a lot going on here, or at least it did…" Sonic looked around, what was going on?

"And why are you here?"

"Don't be so rude, I'm just dropping in to see what you're up to."

"Up to? I'm not up to anything, hedgehog."

"Then what are you building?"

"I'm not building anything, I'm moving something up from the basement."

"What?"

"Something I cant believe I didn't think to use before."

The doctor grinned, the front door opened.

Sonic stopped breathing before he could react to a blinding light..

Next came darkness. Confusion.

He could have sworn he opened his eyes and saw pure darkness. He may have seen a flashing red blur or heard muffled beeping or voices. But he was too preoccupied to wonder what it meant, as his lungs were filled with a syrupy tasteless fluid, but they didn't object to breathing the thick stuff.

It was only tasteless in that it tasted like melted glue or plastic. He tried to fight against the dark walls hopelessly. He no longer felt like he had weight, his feet never found a ground but he was being pressed on by the liquid on all sides at all times. It made moving his arms and legs difficult and it didn't feel good at all to have the substance slide around him.

He felt better staying still. Which was an odd sensation, as eventually, the voice in his brain telling him to kick and run and punch, that he hated being cooped up more than anything else and he just wanted to run and move freely eventually got quieter and quieter until he couldn't hear himself think over oppressive silence.

When all of a sudden a warm feeling washed over his brain, his eyes were forced closed and his consciousness faded into the murky environment.

He dreamed.

He woke up.

he only saw darkness.

He opened his eyes. He was blinded by a blurry light. He wanted it to go away, let him go back to the world where his friends were, they were probably worried about him, wondering where he had went. He tried to block it, he wast sure how. He suddenly was reminded that he had limbs, he tried to move his arm to block the light.

It hurt, it hurt so much. But the light was blinding him, and something was telling him not to close his eyes, so he didn't want to. So he fought the pain with all the had, which judging by how quickly it exhausted him, it wasn't much. he fought against it, and felt his arm slide against a liquid, pressing down on him from every angle.

Oh yeah, that stuff. He reached out towards the blue light. Suddenly, his finger brushed against something. Something made a deafening loud high pitched noise. He fell back asleep. Back into the dream he had been having.

He woke up to darkness, then opened his eyes. A red light was in front of him, he waded his arm through the fluid to swat at it. The red button was pressed, and then there was a loud noise so blaring that knocked him out.

End of chapter 1