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Chapter 1
Eggman's Facility (Rhythm and Balance Remix) - Sonic Forces OST
Attacking the Base
The snow fell down as the man in the trenchcoat walked through the forests of White Acropolis. He wasn’t used to walking so far, but the thick snow didn’t allow him to skate and any attempt to fly or Chaos Control to his destination would be picked up on enemy scanners. He was almost there now, though, just meters away from the wall that surrounded White Acropolis Base, an ex G.U.N compound under the control of Eggman since the Black Arms invasion of Earth.
He would know. He was the last one of the invaders’ race.
Shadow the Hedgehog threw away his coat and lifted the communicator on his wrist up to his mouth. He’d reached the entrance of the base, a large, badly paved road covered in thick snow. Above it, Egg Gunners floated, just high enough to keep them off the ground and above the snow. Shadow himself was in the woods nearby, concealed.
“Omega,” he whispered into the communicator “Go.”
“AFFIRMATIVE” Shadow heard Omega say, but not from the communicator.
E-123 Omega rose majestically out of the snow in the road and marched towards the Egg Gunners. His arms turned to rocket launchers just as the searchlights targeted him and the Egg Gunners opened fire, the bullets bouncing off his armour like nothing.
“PATHETIC CONSUMER MODELS,” the robot roared in what was probably his normal tone of voice. “LET ME SHOW YOU TRUE FIREPOWER.”
The rockets flew from his arms and blasted the Egg Gunners to shreds as more flew over the base’s walls. Good. Shadow thought. The distraction was working. That said, how long the distraction would last for was another matter entirely.
Shadow ran towards the wall, something he does very rarely, and fired up his jet boots, boosting over an unguarded section of the wall and into the base on the other side, falling down and landing gracefully on his feet. He quickly ducked behind a nearby barrel to avoid being seen by any searchlights. Now the hard part was done. Next came the easy part.
24 hours ago, Rouge the Bat had vanished on a mission to obtain a mysterious artifact. What it was Shadow had no idea: he hadn’t been disclosed the information, and seeing he was part Black Arms he kind of saw why G.U.N wouldn’t want to inform him. Her last known coordinates had been in Soleanna, and G.U.N was aware of Eggman’s presence in the nation, and seeing how they were all members of Team Dark, Shadow and Omega had been sent to investigate.
Well, “investigating” was pushing it a bit.
A searchlight spun past Shadow, not catching him behind the barrels. Just as it went past, Shadow leapt up on the barrels and boosted forwards towards the searchlight, grabbing onto the tower and quickly leaping up the metal framework before he was on top of the searchlight, looking over the base. It spread out for a mile, covering almost everything Shadow could see from here. He would have to search this entire facility for Route and hopefully not get spotted. He couldn’t Chaos Control either: he’d have to do this the old fashioned way. It wasn’t a problem, just not ideal.
The alarms stopped. Omega had retreated, hopefully having caused enough chaos to conceal Shadow’s entrance. Now, Shadow thought to himself, The real fun begins.