"This is out of line, Gerald," said the G.U.N. Commander.

"I-I'm sorry!" Professor Gerald Robotnik pleaded. "I… I just need more time…"

"We've given you more time," the Commander stated firmly. He let out a deep sigh. "Do you have Black Doom's DNA yet?"

"Y-yes," the professor said quickly. "I just need a human to also be the donor."

"Good." The Commander left the lab, leaving Robotnik with his work.

The professor reached into the pocket of his labcoat and pulled out a beautiful red gem. It was about the size of a fist. It glowed brightly as it was being held in Robotnik's hand.

"I just need six more of you, Chaos Emerald," he said, "then I will change the world." He began to laugh.

Gerald Robotnik was one of the greatest scientists in the world. He was an old, bald man with a big white mustache. A big white mustache. His blue spectacles made his eyes hidden. He was hired by G.U.N., the Guardian Units of Nations, a special military organization, to create a life form that would be used for combat. The professor called it "the Ultimate Life Form."

Maria, Robotnik's 27-year-old daughter, was in the G.U.N. infirmary, delivering a baby. Her screams could be heard across the halls. She was giving birth to the life form that Robotnik had created. The doctors kept telling her to breath. Finally, the baby came out. However, it didn't look like a baby at all. It looked completely alien. It was covered in black hair, except for its mouth. There were some read stripes on the back of its head, and a small white streak on its chest. Its eyes were open, revealing two red eyes. Anyone who was unaware of the special project would think that Maria had just given birth to a demon.

"Take it to the lab," said a voice. It was Robotnik's. He had been watching the whole time. A tear was running down his cheek.

The chord was cut off before the baby was taken to the professor's lab. It was placed in a generator-like machine. Robotnik sat near it and turned it on after typing some things in his computer. The baby lay there, yelling human-like cries. The professor flipped a switch and the baby was surrounded in a barrage of green electricity. It cried and shrieked in pain. The black hair began to disappear, and the baby started getting reular human features. Robotnik turned off the machine not a moment after the baby looked completely human.

One of the doctors went to the baby and gently picked him up. "It's a boy," he said after figuring out its sex.

"Good," said the professor. "Take him back to my granddaughter."

The baby boy was given back to Maria after more procedures and being wrapped in a blanket. He was taken to his Mother, Maria, who tenderly cradled him in her arms.

"Matthew…" she said softly. "My little Matthew."

It was two months later. Matthew was doing great. A few days after the boy's birth, Robotnik took the time to explain to Maria what exactly she was raising: an alien. He told her what about Matthew's future with G.U.N. and what he would do for them.

"When he is old enough, they will shown him who he really is," he had said.

He looked very jittery. He was always watching his back, like something was going to get him. He had safely hidden the Chaos Emerald in the laboratory in his house in Westopolis, but still he felt it could be found. No one knew why the Emerald was so important to him. To everyone else, it was just a big diamond that could be sold for the jewelry industry. They didn't know its power, what it could be used for. A person with such a prize would show it off, not keep it hidden.

One day, the G.U.N. Commander burst into Robotnik's lab. The professor was rummaging through his file cabinets, obviously looking for something.

"Looking for these?" the Commander asked, holding a thin file in his hand. "I picked them up when I saw them just… lying around. He threw the file on Robotnik's desk.

Robotnik looked at the file and the Commander nervously. He swallowed with difficulty with his mouth now dry as a bone.

"I read some real interesting things in that file," the Commander continued. He wiped everything off of his desk with a quick swipe, though there was only some pictures and a lot of papers.

The professor was now sweating. "Like…?"

The Commander sat on the desk, enjoying the professor's state of anxiety. "Like what you were really going to do with the life form." He walked up to the professor and yelled in his face. "You disobeyed orders! You were going to it for something else, you bastard! And by the looks of it, it looked like you were going to use it for yourself!"

"He's a human being!" the professor protested.

"He's an alien!"

"What I'm going to use him for is no crueler than what you are planning!"

The Commander stood back and crossed his arms. He spoke softly now. "You want to rule the world with him. We want to preserve peace with him, just like we did with me 10 years ago."

"It's not like that!"

"I believe it is. There were other things in that file. Something about Chaos Emeralds? What can you tell me about those?"

"The secret they hold shall not be given to ordinary men."

"Hm. And you believe you are not ordinary?"

"I've created the ultimate life form!"

"But it wasn't just you, was it? You only disserve only a sliver of the credit, not all of it. And Matthew's not the only 'ultimate' life form. For your actions, you are no longer on the project. Leave the building immediately."

The professor began to gather all of his paperwork together. The Commander stopped him.

"Leave all of your research here. You can only take these." He handed Robotnik two framed photos, one of Maria & Matthew and one of his dead wife. Robotnik looked at both pictures like they were all he had.

"Go," the Commander said.

The professor remained standing there.

"I said go!" shouted the Commander.

The professor bolted out of the room, weeping.

"I'm so sorry, sir," the Commander whispered as he watched Robotnik go.

Maria and baby Matthew were staying in San Diego, the city closest to the G.U.N. headquarters. Matthew was two months old and was doing pretty well. He was acting and behaving normally, despite there being something inside him… Professor Robotnik burst into the door of the hotel room.

"Pack your things," he said breathlessly. "You need to leave. Now."

He did not answer any of Maria's questions. He only told what she needed to do: "Get Matthew back to Westopolis. Do not trust anyone except Ivo. If you see any traces of G.U.N., get out of there."

Maria asked him again what was going on, and he just said there was trouble with G.U.N. and that he would see her soon. So, she took the baby and made her way to Westopolis.