Fan Casting On the Run / A Team Forming in AutobotSonicFan's Chaotix

Espio landed his transport on the mainland and then turned around to see he has stowaways! He then recognized them, and put away his blade. Mighty thanked him but Espio says that if they want to be safe they have to leave him alone. Vector asks “Now who do you think you are?” Sonia says “He’s a zealot. An assassin.” Espio then asks what a traitor like her is doing with them. Mighty defends her and says that it’s her own will that she helped him break everyone out. Espio scoffed that he didn’t need help. He says that if he doesn’t go back to his order, he’ll be branded as a traitor and a coward. Ray asks if he could get them home. Espio says he’s a mercenary, not a field guide. Mighty makes a point that they can’t stay here long with GUN on their tails. He suggests that they make camp for the night. Espio was invited to be with them, but he declined, saying that his order needs him. Until Ray gave his puppy-dog eyes and made Espio reluctantly join them. Then he says that after tomorrow, he goes back. Mighty hires Vector to help him make the camp. Later, when a fire was started and tents were pitched everyone gathered around to see what brought them at Prison Island. Mighty then says that he and Ray are Freedom Fighters along with Sonic. Then Mighty prompted Sonia to explain her past, which made Espio look at her from different lenses. Then they ask Espio, who decided to not say but Mighty encouraged him. Yet Espio was persistent in hiding. He looked broken, so Vector comforted him, who turned out to be not much of a hugger and walked off to sharpen his blade. Mighty then saw he was with Mobians like him: lost their families, normal lives, everything. But he thought about the Freedom Fighters more. then asks if these misfits need him more.