The story of ProjectFreedom was one of the very few instances where I had a clear vision for specific plot points in the story and I rarely had any idea on changing them.
The jist of the story was that Exelle was bored and essentially fucked around and found out. While for the majority of the story, he didn’t exactly care for Vanilla or Cream, he still didn’t want to kill them, so he just chilled around and hung out with them for a while.
It wasn’t until Knuckles came into the picture that he genuinely started to question everything he knew, eventually realizing that he “used to be” Sonic the Hedgehog, and that Terios “used to be” Shadow. Obviously that fucked him up a lot, major identity crisis, but he soon decided to start fighting against Miles and Chaos Labs, much to the dismay of Terios.
The general story wasn’t going to be long, so I didn’t have many major plot points, but one was a fight between Exelle and Terios. Their fight would go how you expect it to be, all epic and full of anger and heartache, BUT Exelle eventually gives Knuckles some of his chaos energy, turning him into Super Knuckles. Both of them fight Terios, but halfway Knuckles goes and protects Vanilla and Cream from Miles.
Exelle and Terios end up into the place where they killed Sonic and Shadow in (cause drama). Exelle ends up winning by using chaos control on Terios (that he learned from Knuckles) and somehow manages to resuscitate Shadow (albeit not without some major scars and injuries).
After taking a moment to assess the situation, Exelle goes straight for Miles, hoping to kill him in one blow. But using similar tactics that Knuckles has, Miles manages to grab a hold of Exelle and essentially use him as a mindless puppet. He and Knuckles fight for a moment before Knuckles manages to rip that effect off of him.
And I never properly wrote this down, but yadda yadda Miles dies or goes to jail or something and the day is saved yippie!
I was never sure if Exelle would stay himself, or if he would give up his form to resuscitate Sonic, so it can go either way. I do wanna say that if he did give up his form, Sonic and Shadow would have vague memories of everything that had happened. Either way, happy ending. Yay!