Silver: This got super complicated real fast, *points at the tablet* how the heck am i supposed to believe this.
Petro: It was your idea sire, but it still confuses me.
Silver: *turns to Sonic* Listen I know you are a friend but you are sure as hell not Sonic.
Sonic: *aggressive typing* "Ask me anything."
Silver: hmm. Alright then, Tell me who won the fight when I first came to mobius.
Sonic: "Non, Amy blocked us mid battle and I went to save the princess."
Silver: That's... *Almost ripping his hair off* Then tell me about where you were for the past years?
Sonic: *sad typing* "they killed me in the feast and transferred my mind to a hive mind matrix sort of world."
Petro: Hivemind? Does that mean others were there as well?
Sonic: " Yup, pretty sure I saw many others and even a version of you there."
Silver: Final question. How did you wake up the hivemind?
Sonic: "Some goons shocked my body mid conversion, pulled me out of the illusion."
Silver stood up and walked to a corner, his hand on his forehead and other on a can of soda.
Silver: Petro.. go contact tails.
Sonic's eyes almost begin shining at the mention of tails, His little brother is the smartest person in Mobius and there is no negotiations on that.
Petro: Understood.*leaves*
Silver: *turning back to Sonic* Sonic.. if you are Sonic that is...I am gonna ask you this one time, did you see blaze there?
Sonic: *Raises a thumbs up with his completely bent hand*
Taking a breath of relief, Silver fell to his knees as the final hope he had actually came true. Coming closer he asked Sonic to give him a full documentary of how it was on the other side.
After 2 hours of constant typing, Sonic managed to finally complete the documentary silver asked for.
Sonic: Now let's just wait for him to come back, this feels like a nice place.
Compared to normal prison cells, the solitary of the mothership was quite clean with a sink, a bed and laser beams as the cell bars.
With nothing to do and his body messed up, Sonic decided to think somethings through.
Sonic: I didn't think this before but.. What is many of the others on the other side are not real? Blaze and Amy may very well be just like me but.. what about shade and Sonica? What about most of tulez and evergreen citizens?
Just when he felt confused, the door of the solitary opened again as Sonic saw petro walking in.
Petro: Mis.. it feels wierd calling a alloyan that but mister Sonic.. I was asked to give you what you may need, so any orders?
Handing a tablet to Sonic again, Petro stood outside the cell with a face of doubt and caution.
Grabbing the tablet, Sonic typed a few requests and something he himself noticed a few days ago and handed the tablet back.
Petro: Hm. Some food, Sunlight? And.. what is this? *Thoroughly reads the message* Thi.this can't be real.. I have to report this.
Turning around swiftly, Petro ran away in full speed towards the main deck, the report too good to be true and imaginable.
Few minutes later, Silver came barging in like a uncontrolled toddler with a green piece of gem in hand, a shard of master emerald.
Silver: Sonic! *Comes closer and grabs Sonic's shoulder* Are you sure this works?
Instead of typing or saying anything, Sonic channeled a bit of ring force to his finger with great effort and tried moving it around.
A flexibility that could not matched with a low level alloyan body and the change is colour to duller version from the shine of metal, helped convince Silver.
Silver: So it really works.. this means w-
While Silver was in his thoughts, Silver sensed something peculiar, the shard in silver's hand.. seemed to weaken the Hivemind's calling.
Without much hesitation, Sonic easily managed to take the shard from the stunned Silver and again felt something he had almost forgotten.
Sonic: *grabs the tablet and types aggressively* "The hivemind is Gaia."
Sonic had to give Silver a headbutt to make him come out of his stupor, Quickly he handed the tablet to him as he looks at the shard in his hand.
Silver: Gaia? Didn't gaia retu-.. Don't tell me the virus corrupted Gaia.
The clues and knowledge came together to finally reveal what was going on, Gaia has been turned into the hivemind. The ones who were converted acted as it's knowledge base and with the seperate minds created in the false reality. It created the new alloyans.
Silver: So those who were converted were used as some sort of reference to make a ideal simulation by Gaia and it used People in those simulations to create alloyans.. that explains their ever ready battle prowess, they aren't born but rather created and transferred after selection.
After a few more minutes of arguing theories, Silver turned to sonic.
Silver: Is there anyway to save them?
Sonic: *thinks and types* " We need the shards.. but we need to take over the hivemind first."
Silver: How? We can't kill it.
Sonic: "the corrupted half of the master emerald, we take away it's memory bank."
Finding the suggestion plausible, Silver decided to discuss it with others first. Lifting Sonic with his powers, Silver carried him out of the solitary and onto the main deck.
Soldier 1: *whispering* It's that alloyan.. captain said he was ally but how are we supposed to trust that?
Soldier 2: *whispering* And how am I supposed to answer that? Just don't attack it until it attacks first, Captain must have a plan.
The rumors and whispers begin circulating around the mothership that the captain has managed to obtain information from a defective alloyan, causing a wide uproar among the soldiers.
*****
-Meanwhile, In a underground facility somewhere in mobian Territory-
A single yellow fox could be seen working on something around a facility filled with dozens of liquid filled glass pods with people floating inside.
Prowler: How have you been? Everyone.. I know I don't come around often but I found something pretty fascinating a few days ago.
He says he lightly caressed the frosted outside of a pod, inside is a pink coloured hedgehog with half her body converted to metal. Amy Rose in the flesh.
The other tubes also contain other a few other friends that Tails managed to recover from the aftermath of the second wave.
Charmy, Sally, Vanilla, blaze and others, all frozen solid by him to stop any spread of virus still converting their body until he could find a cure.
He had did thousands of attempts, trying to chip away the metal part, biological research, chaos energy transfer and many other techniques but with no succes whatsoever.
Just when he was feeling underwhelmed, his assistant oringo, a orange lynx barged into the room with a laptop in hand.
Oringo: Sir prowler. We have emergency call from the Silver fleet.
Prowler: Put them on the line,*taking off the lab coat* place it on the desk.
Changing into his normal uniform and clothes, Tails say at the table with his arms closed as the assistant did a variety of things like connecting cables or jammers before finally accepting the transmission.
Silver: TAILS! YOU WONT BELIEVE WHAT WE JUST FOUND.
Prowler: *sarcastic* Did you find the cure or something? Or maybe you found a shard of the master emerald?
Silver: Well.. Kinda both.
Prowler: I see.. *realisation* YOU WHAT?
Just when He was stunned by the words, Tails saw Sonic being pulled into view by Silver and was too shocked to speak for a minute.
Prowler: Is that-
Silver: Yup, it's our bud Sonic,helped me fight back a ambush and also the one who gave me the info just now.
Prowler: Are you sure he is sonic? We never found him after that day.
Silver: Well I did ask him a lot of questions about the past and he did tell me about what he went through, so about 90% sure.
Tails had a lot of questions but decided to delay them until Silver returned from the regular clean up of the area.
Recieving the full report from silver in his laptop, he quickly skimmed through it and almost recieved a stroke out of pure bafflement.
Tails: A damn hivemind and a fake ideal world, No wonder they won't wake up even when their brains are good as new. Is there anything else?
Silver: About that, Sonic said that if he could get some support from a few shards of master emerald, he maybe able to help break the free the illusion in the others.
Prowler: this.. is a complicated matter. Let's discuss this when you get back, i will call back if I see some results in my experiments.
Silver: Sure thing. Just don't overwork yourself to half death like that time.
From the side Sonic also gave tails a wave with his twisted arm as the call finally disconnected.
Tails stood up from the chair with a flame burning inside him, ready to do what he has been trying for years already.
Tails: What are you waiting for? Go start the equipment.
Oringo: Right away.
*****
It turns out the fleet was not just some transport or clean up ship but rather a war machine.
It has been a week since Sonic got into the mothership and it has been going places to say the least.
From the federation to the former eggman empire, from acorn kingdom to the artics. It basically went around the world like a voyage.
Wherever it passed, alloyan were killed and territories retaken, Silver even has a nickname that Sonic found quite befitting his friend.
'The psyonic titan' they called him and having personally seen Silver throw around building while using giant robot frames weighting in tons, sonic had no doubt he deserves it.
His own body has been recovering in some decent speed after his ring force begin spreading through the body like the past.
It would not be wierd to say that he was on quite a good path to recovery himself.
As Sonic walks on the deck towards the navigation room, the soldiers which were fearful or cautious of him were now giving a salute.
Sonic: I get that killing or defeating alloyan's grant merit but do they really have to salute?
Still unfamiliar with the wierd three fingered salute with a punch to the chest, Sonic made his way to Silver as they begin the journey back to the main base.
Silver: Well well, look who is here. You have been racking more kills than me after the recovery Sonic.
Sonic: ' I should stop trying to talk and give them a surprise when I get back to normal' *aggressive typing* " better than just laying around doing nothing."
Silver: Now now don't act if it doesn't matter. If I have to be honest you fight more like shadow now than the speedster you were before. Mister Metallic Chaos.
Sonic: "Say that again and I am jumping off the fleet."
Silver: *laughs* I guess you don't like your nickname then, should we return back to the blue hero?
After his body begins recovering, Sonic has going around fighting alloyans along the soldiers and have earned himself quite a reputation.
His mimicked abilities also shown a increase of about 10% from their level a week earlier.
Silver: We are gonna reach the new alliance soon, hope you are ready to face the others as well.
Sonic: *confidently* "As if I need to. They ain't gonna murder me the second I get there. Find me in the cell if you need anything, I have something to work on."
Silver: Sure go ahead, *waving his hand* and don't forget to talk to tails, he has been asking about you from morning.
Raising his hand in a 'See you later' gesture, Sonic left for the solitary cell with his tablet to continue his adapter lessons.