You've probably heard of this guy a ton of times before, right? Blue fur, spiky backside, red shoes and a noticeable attitude are his most defining features, and even though he rarely stops in one town everyone speaks his name. He's Sonic the Hedgehog, the fastest thing alive.
But what is the hedgehog's deal? Why does he run about non-stop without a care in the world? Nobody can actually answer that. For you see, Sonic isn't exactly very talkative about his past. He very, VERY rarely looks back and is always moving forward. Even his closest friend knows nothing about his past. The earliest people remember Sonic being around was when the brilliant scientist Dr. Ivo Robotnik suddenly chose to turn against humanity and try to take over the world with machines powered by tiny living creatures.
On that day, Sonic the Hedgehog stopped him all by himself using nothing more than his speed and quick wits when even the military failed to stop Robotnik. If it was just that one instance of him saving the day, people would have just passed Sonic off as a one-time deal and forgotten him not long afterwards. But Robotnik tried time and time again to take over the world, and each time Sonic humiliated him completely.
However, despite assumedly being a solo-act for most of his life, Sonic was soon followed by a young two-tailed fox name Miles "Tails" Prower, and though the blue hedgehog found the kid to be a bit of a nuisance at first he didn't do anything to shoo him off and let him eventually prove his worth as a sidekick. Tails was only the first of Sonic's many friends, but no matter how much time passed the yellow fox would always be his closest one. In fact, you could say at this point those two are like brothers.
Robotnik was foiled for the first time by the duo of Sonic and Tails, but this time around Sonic needed to use the power of the strange and mystical seven Chaos Emeralds to get the job done. Robotnik's orbital space station, the Death Egg, was gravely damaged by Sonic in a climatic final battle, but not enough for it to be fully destroyed. The large station began to slowly descend towards Earth, but instead of giving up on the project Robotnik instead chose to find another mean's of powering it.
Looking towards the origin place of the Chaos Emeralds, Angel Island, caused Robotnik to meet its guardian, a red echidna by the name of Knuckles. Tricking Knuckles into believing that Sonic had stolen the Chaos Emeralds, Robotnik slowly scoured the island in search of the controller of the seven Chaos Emeralds, the Master Emerald, to assist him in re-powering the falling Death Egg. Meanwhile, Knuckles came to blows with Sonic and Tails, who happened upon Angel Island one fateful day.
Knuckles stole back his Chaos Emeralds and constantly got in the two heroes' way. Eventually coming to blows in the Hidden Palace, Knuckles came to realize that Robotnik had tricked him, and after aiding Sonic in reaching the now ascending Death Egg Knuckles made sure to deal with Sonic's latest robotic doppelganger Mecha Sonic along with the Egg-Robo, a capsule shaped mechanical copy of Robotnik himself.
Sonic's fight against Robotnik extended to the very recesses of space itself, where Robotnik attempted to escape with the Master Emerald in one last creation as the Death Egg detonated behind them. Fighting through a meteor field, Sonic subconsciously ended up relying on the Master Emerald's power to boost the strength of the Chaos Emeralds into Super Emeralds, which gave him a "Hyper" form and gave him just enough speed to stop Eggman and take back the Master Emerald for Knuckles.
Though Knuckles hated to admit it, he was thankful to Sonic for bringing back the Master Emerald. He even let Sonic keep the Chaos Emeralds as a reward, only for the blue hedgehog to nervously admit that when he descended through the atmosphere the emeralds jettisoned around the world. The red echidna groaned, but figured that was for the best. Sonic and Tails departed the now rising Angel Island, and Knuckles bid them farewell.
On that day, unknowingly, Sonic had made yet another friend. Oh? You are saying I forgot someone before Knuckles? Actually, no I didn't. Before Tails and Knuckles, Sonic had actually stopped Robotnik a second time on his own. The mad scientist had chained a strange place called Little Planet to the Earth and planned to use its energies to rule both planets. On his quest to stop Robotnik, Sonic ran into the young Amy Rose, a pink hedgehog who was greatly infatuated with the blue blur. Amy was captured by Robotnik's latest creation, a robotic copy of Sonic named Metal Sonic.
Sonic eventually stopped Robotnik again and rescued Amy, allowing Little Planet to return to where it came. However, Sonic just considered Amy a one-time acquaintance at the time, and it wouldn't be until much later that the two would see each other as friends. But the pink hedgehog wouldn't give up on trying to earn Sonic's respect, and she longed to have more adventures with the blue blur because of what he did for her.
Eventually, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy would meet again, but the circumstances that gathered them together would change the statue quo of the world for many months to come. Robotnik, growing tired of relying on just machines, began to focus on the myths and monstrosities of the world he lived in. Remembering legends spoken of in the ruins of Angel Island, Robotnik sought to break the Master Emerald and free it's inhabitant, the liquid beast Chaos.
Angel Island fell not long afterwards, and as Robotnik gathered the scattered Chaos Emeralds to power Chaos Sonic, Tails and Knuckles sought to stop him. Amy was drawn into this conflict as well when a Flicky carrying a Chaos Emerald in its necklace happened to fall in front of her. But the pink hedgehog didn't realize this at first and sought to care for the bird on her on, and in her travels she happened to come across Sonic himself and asked for his help in keeping the bird safe.
Alas though, Amy was eventually captured by Robotnik's latest robot, ZERO, and brought to the floating carrier the Egg Carrier. The carrier would prove to be a gathering site for many people involved in Robotnik's latest scheme, as Sonic and Tails arrived via Tails' Tornado bi-plane while Knuckles snuck aboard by trailing another of Robotnik's robots, E-102 Gamma, who had captured a Frog imbued with Chaos' tail that was the friend of one Big the Cat.
While Sonic and Tails infiltrated the Egg Carrier in search of Robotnik, Knuckles sought the remaining broken pieces of the Master Emerald while Amy made a friend in Gamma, who released the pink hedgehog from her cell and allowed her to catch up with Sonic and Tails later on. Meanwhile, Big found his friend Froggy inside the carrier. Eventually the Egg Carrier was broken and sent on a rapid descent towards the ocean, and with Chaos seemingly defeated Knuckles took the six Chaos Emeralds along with the completed Master Emerald and returned to Angel Island.
Meanwhile, Sonic went to finish his battle with Robotnik after the latter's plan to blow up Station Square with a missile was foiled by Tails. At the same time, Gamma destroyed his brother robots and ended up releasing his own Flicky after finishing off his upgraded brother Beta. As it turns out, both robots housed the parents of the Flicky Amy had been caring for, and after finishing Zero off once and for all Amy got the Flicky family to reunite. All this combined with Knuckles raising Angel Island should have signified a happy ending, right?
As it turns out though, Chaos was not quite dead, and after ambushing Robotnik and knocking his unconscious body towards the Angel Island shrine Chaos took the six Chaos Emeralds in Knuckles' possession. All that was left was the seventh, which happened to be in the Tornado that Big had taken for himself to escape the Egg Carrier earlier. Unable to stop Chaos from obtaining all seven emeralds, Sonic could only watch as Perfect Chaos flooded Station Square, burying hundreds of humans underwater while destroying the buildings around it almost perfectly.
The six heroes that had taken part in Chaos' rampage, including the Flicky form of Gamma, gathered in the ruins of Station Square with the drained Chaos Emeralds. From there Tikal, a spiritual remnant of the Echidna race that lived on Angel Island, revealed the truth about Chaos. Thousands of years ago, Tikal's father planned to use the Chaos Emeralds for war, and an attack on the shrine made the normally docile Chaos go on a rampage after the Echidnas trampled the innocent Chao in their quest for power.
The Echidnas were nearly wiped-out in the rampage, and Tikal was left with no choice but to use the Master Emerald to seal Chaos away. Chaos, with all of his hatred, would flood the world if his anger wasn't met with kindness. Using the positive energy of the Chaos Emeralds, Sonic went Super and quelled Perfect Chaos with a short battle, and Chaos returned to the Master Emerald with Tikal peacefully.
Though Station Square had been flooded, the humans began to recover, but with Robotnik still on the loose it would only be a matter of time before something else happened to threaten the world. However Sonic, in an act of kindness to cheer people up, began spreading the name "Eggman" to little kids around the world. Everyone who feared Robotnik began to call the doctor by this name, and instead of fearing him they began to laugh at him.
Eggman was understandably furious at this, and vowed to show the world the true might of the Robotnik legacy. Pulling out his grandfather's diary, Eggman gathered whatever resources he could and quickly broke into the military's Prison Island to free the "ultimate life form", a black hedgehog by the name of Shadow. Shadow was fifty years old, but looked to be around the same age as Sonic.
Shadow offered Eggman a granted wish, and after proving his power by destroying the strongest G.U.N. had to offer Eggman agreed to meet Shadow aboard the Space Colony Ark. As Shadow went solo in search of a Chaos Emerald, Sonic was captured by G.U.N. as a means of covering up the truth behind Shadow's existence. However, Sonic broke free and eventually met his fake for the first time. Shadow demonstrated "Chaos Control" during their confrontation, a technique the manipulates the energies of the Chaos Emerald and allows one to freeze time around them.
Afterwards, Sonic was captured by G.U.N. and sent to Prison Island. Meanwhile, Knuckles found his Master Emerald stolen by a thief named Rogue the Bat. Forced to pursue the bat off of Angel Island, Knuckles eventually confronted Rogue in the desert. Eggman also happened to catch the two's confrontation and tried to snatch the Master Emerald on a return trip to his base. Knuckles was forced to break the Master Emerald, causing him and Rogue to go and try to find the scattered remains.
However, Rogue also had other plans. Infiltrating Eggman's base, Rogue followed the doctor to the Ark, where Eggman had finally met with Shadow. Shadow revealed the Eclipse Cannon, a powerful weapon that could destroy an entire world with the help of the Chaos Emeralds. Rogue, in an attempt to gain the trust of Eggman and Shadow, revealed to them the location of three Emeralds on Prison Island while also giving them two Emeralds of her own.
Eggman, Shadow and Rogue set foot on Prison Island, where they happened across Amy, who came to the island to try and free the wrongly accused Sonic. After mistaking Shadow for Sonic, Amy had to be rescued by Tails, who used his mech Tornado to defeat Eggman's mech. Eggman then went his separate way, leaving Rogue and Shadow to their devices while Tails and Amy quickly freed Sonic from his jail cell. Sonic then went in hot pursuit of his "faker", and the two ended up confronting each other in the jungle.
The two's match was interrupted by Eggman's warning that the island was about to blow up. Sonic went to find Tails and Amy, while Shadow quickly freed Rogue from her imprisonment and brought her back to the Ark with Chaos Control. Sonic, Tails and Amy then watched as Eggman blew up half the moon as a display of the Eclipse Cannon's power, and after Knuckles tagged along with them the four heroes went to Eggman's pyramid base and hitched a ride on a rocket to the Ark. There, Knuckles fought Rogue and got the Master Emerald fix, while Sonic ended up being lured into a trap that allowed Eggman to jettison him into space after forcing him into an exploding capsule.
Tails quickly got revenge on Eggman, but at the same time the sneaky doctor snuck away with the last Chaos Emerald that Tails had. Sonic managed to escape with the help of Chaos Control, and after a rush through the outdoors of the Ark Sonic confronted Shadow one last time. Using the fake Chaos Emerald Tails created, Sonic matched Shadow's own Chaos Control and managed to defeat the black hedgehog, destroying the front of the Ark cannon in the process by slamming the fake Chaos Emerald into it.
However, Eggman nonetheless put the final real Chaos Emerald into the core, but instead of the energies backfiring on the doctor they instead caused the Ark to start plummeting towards the planet. A video played on the colony and across the world, revealing that Eggman's grandfather Gerald Robotnik, out of revenge for G.U.N. mercilessly murdering his granddaughter Maria because of Shadow's existence, programmed the Ark to crash into the Earth and blow it up.
Eggman, disgusted by what his grandfather had done, allied himself with Sonic and friends to stop the Ark from crashing by using Knuckles' Master Emerald to stop the energies of the Chaos Emeralds that were powering the colony. All the heroes worked together to reach the core, though Amy at first had to convince Shadow that not all humans should be judged based on what happened with Maria. Seeing a bit of Maria in Amy, Shadow ran to the core as fast as he could to help.
Shadow fought off the prototype of the ultimate life, the Biolizard, while Sonic and Knuckles reached the shrine shaped like the Angel Island one to stop the Chaos Emeralds. But the Biolizard induced Chaos Control and attached itself to the broken cannon, forcing the Ark towards the planet in one final push that forced Sonic and Shadow to go Super and destroy the creature for good. They then used a combined Chaos Control to put the Ark back in place, the energy it took to do so causing Shadow to seemingly plummet to his death towards the Earth.
With the Ark incident done and over with, Eggman denounced the Robotnik name because of what his grandfather had planned to do, and everyone returned to Earth. However, Eggman, knowing far too well that something was off about Shadow's final moments, went to the place he calculated the black hedgehog could have fallen to and found his unconscious body. Taking the black hedgehog back to his base, Eggman kept him in stasis while secretly cloning him into hundreds of androids.
But before the fruits of his labors could be completed, Metal Sonic returned to the doctor, having overridden Eggman's control over him and quickly using his newfound copying powers to take on the form of his former master while locking him away where no one could find him. Metal Sonic then built an armada of battleships and set forth to force Sonic to him for battle. At the same time, Metal Sonic began copying the powers of other major forces to ensure his victory, including the remnants of Chaos from Froggy.
Metal Sonic's activities grabbed the attention of four teams. First was Sonic's team, which consisted of himself, Tails and Knuckles. The second was Team Dark, which was formed after Rogue infiltrated one of Eggman's bases and freed the now amnesiac Shadow while also awakening his guard, the last of the E-Series robots E-123 Omega, who disliked Eggman and his robots with a furious passion. The third was Team Rose, which consisted of Amy Rose, Big the Cat, and newcomer Cream the Rabbit who Sonic helped out once before this particular adventure. The three sought out Sonic after assuming he kidnapped Froggy and one of Cream's Chao friends, Chocola.
The final team was the Chaotix, a detective agency that consisted of Vector the Crocodile, Charmy the Bee, and Espio the Chameleon. The three received a walkie-talkie from the real Eggman, who managed to sneak the device out while Metal Sonic kidnapped Froggy and Chocola, and were tasked with stopping the fake Eggman's plans. All four teams converged upon the fake Eggman's location amidst his Egg Fleet, and after taking down his Egg Emperor the Chaotix freed the real Eggman.
Eggman revealed Metal Sonic's deception, but the metallic hedgehog used the date he received from Sonic, Shadow and Chaos to become the Metal Overlord. As Sonic, Tails and Knuckles worked on getting the Chaos Emeralds ready for action, the other three teams dealt whatever damage they could to Metal Overlord. Eventually, Team Super Sonic managed to beat Metal Sonic so hard that the robot was knocked back into his original state, where he was given to Eggman for reprogramming.
However, along this adventure, Shadow began to doubt his own identity, as not only could he not remember barely anything about his past, but because Rogue ended up being very evasive when it came to answering his questions. Eventually, Shadow was approached by a alien calling himself Black Doom, who claimed to know the truth about Shadow's past.
Shadow was tasked with finding the seven Chaos Emeralds to learn the truth of his past. After a confusing and unconfirmed series of events that led to Shadow getting the emeralds and ending up aboard the Black Arms' Black Comet, Black Doom revealed that he was Shadow's father and used Chaos Control to warp the comet to the planet with the intention of turning the populace into food. Shadow, after learning that Gerald had intended for him to be the savior of the planet before he went insane, used his super form along with the Eclipse Cannon to end Black Doom forever while also saying farewell to his past.
Months after this incident, the Master Emerald unexpectedly gave birth to a strange cyan hedgehog, who gathered the Chaos Emeralds in an attempt to achieved the power necessary to destroy the Earth and rid the universe of his only opposition, the infinitely powered Master Emerald itself. Sonic and Shadow, using a combination of Chaos Control and the Super Emeralds, became Hyper Shadic and stopped this strange hedgehog. This would later be referred to as the "Nazo Incident".
Later on, a dimensional rift between two worlds caused the fiery tempered heroine Blaze the Cat to arrive in Sonic's world. The two, after some antagonistic behavior between each other, teamed up to stop Eggman and his alternate universe counterpart, Eggman Nega, from using the Sol and Chaos Emeralds to take over both worlds. The two later met again in Blaze's worlds and stopped the doctors once more.
The time traveling hedgehog named Silver appeared not long after that, revealing that Eggman Nega was actually a descendant of Eggman from the far future (Don't try and make sense of this, please). Eggman Nega attempted to turn the world of the past into a card by using the Angel Island from the future that he dragged into the present along with his own devices. He later attempted to release the fiery demon Ifrit by using the Chao, but thanks to Silver he was sealed away in Ifrit's dimension and has not been seen since.
Sonic himself eventually came to blows with Eggman one-on-one for the first time in a long while, as Eggman launched an armada in space for seemingly unknown reasons. The blue hedgehog, using the Chaos Emeralds to deal with most of the fleet, was led into a trap that allowed Eggman to split open the planet to free Dark Gaia, at the same time transforming Sonic into a werewolf-like creature.
Sonic, using this new form while teaming up with Chip, the good counterpart of Dark Gaia named Light Gaia, managed to stop Eggman inside of his newly built Eggmanland while also sealing Dark Gaia away. Sadly, Chip had to stay in the center of the planet, but for the first time in his life Sonic was given a memento of his time with Chip and has kept it with him ever since that day.
Many others threats arose for Sonic to deal with after that. From the curse of Erazor Djinn of the Arabian Nights to the immortality seeking Merlina of King Arthur's time and the board riding thieves known as the Babylon Rogues, Sonic was never at a loss for an adventure. And he always had many, many friends to cheer him on or help him out when he alone couldn't get the job done.
But when it came time for Eggman's next scheme, Sonic and Tails were the only two who went to stop him, harkening back to the old days when it was just them against a mad scientist and his animal filled robots. This time, Eggman had stolen hundreds of aliens called Wisps and planned to use their Hyper-go-on energy to create a mind control laser aimed at the planet. Disguising his plans with a theme park that didn't fool Sonic in the slightest, the two heroes set out across the five Wisp planets that Eggman had towed into place around his amusement park to deal with the generators Eggman had set up.
However, Eggman was once again foiled by something neither he nor Sonic could have seen coming, and the resulting overload of negative Hyper-go-on energy created a black hole that consumed the amusement park. After defeating Eggman's Nega Wisp Armor, Sonic tried to escape the black hole, but failed completely. Thankfully, the Wisps freed him and brought him back to Earth, where they then returned their planets back to where they once belonged.
While Sonic and Tails were up in space dealing with Eggman, the rest of Sonic's friends were busy throwing together his 20th birthday party. Gathering everyone who was willing to come, including Blaze thanks to a little quick thinking on Tails' end, the party began rather happily for Sonic and friends as they celebrated all the good times they shared together. However, the party was quickly ruined by the arrival of the Time Eater, a large mist purple monster that dragged Sonic's friends into different periods of his past and began to erase time itself.
Sonic quickly had to work to save his friends, and by teaming up with his past self he managed to free them all while gathering the seven Chaos Emeralds so he could face the Time Eater head-on. As it turned out though, after his previous defeat Dr. Eggman had come across the primordial remains of the Time Eater and sought to use it to undo all of his past defeats, disregarding the fact that in doing so he was dooming time to collapse upon itself. With the help of his past self, Eggman had nearly succeeded in ending both Sonic's with the Time Eater.
However, with the cheers of all the allies Sonic had made over the years, the two blue Hedgehogs went into their Super forms and confronted the Time Eater, defeating it so thoroughly that everyone was sent back to the present day, while both Eggmen were kept trapped in the white void that was left from their earlier rampage in the Time Eater. Once the past Sonic and Tails went back to their time, Sonic and friends celebrated the remainder of the blue blur's birthday in peace. But Eggman was bound to return, and who knows how far he will go now that his plan to erase his past mistakes had failed…
Clash of the Elements Part 4, Story 4: Messenger from Nega
Chapter 1: Eggman's Return
In a lone abandoned factory, two little robots spend their days sitting on a couch and watching the TV in front of them. One robot was red and shaped like an orb when compressed, but when unfolded he had two thin bendable metallic arms and sleek, shiny joints. The other robot was yellow and was shaped like a cube when compressed, but he had an overall bulkier appearance to him. The cube robot dully held a remote towards the TV, rapidly pressing the channel buttons to try and find a decent show.
"I say Orbot, there's just nuthin' good on this daggum television these days." The cube robot says with a thick cowboy accent to his fellow companion.
Orbot, who was leaning back against the left arm of the chair with a bored expression in his eyes, said in an emotionless yet calm sounding voice "Well the doctor was usually the one covering the cable bills for us, Cubot. We can't exactly send them in ourselves since we are robots, after all."
"Well he should have paid for dem extended services before he disappeared off into space." Cubot replies, at the end of his sentence tossing the remote over the couch and breaking it with that very action as he lets out an uncaring shrug.
Orbot sits himself upright and says to his companion with a gesture of his right hand "Well its not like he could have predicted the outcome of his latest plan…Despite his very, VERY high defeat record." The robot's tone was filled with notable sarcasm at the end.
Cubot responds to his companion after leaping on the couch once to turn and face him "But now there's nuthin' to do around here pardner!"
Orbot sighs, agreeing with his cubed companion as he leans back against the arm of the couch and folds his hands against his stick shaped chest, saying to him in turn "I suppose you're right Cubot…Who knows? Perhaps now would be a good time to switch over to Sonic's side. He seems like a fun guy to hang out with."
As Orbot spoke, he was completely unaware of the sound of footsteps approaching him from behind. But when the person making that noise speaks up, the orb shaped robot immediately snaps to an upright position and turns around. "Hmph, glad to hear you were SO concerned about my well-being while I was gone!" The man says in a grumpy yet refined tone of voice.
The man was a rather portly one with a black leather pants/shoes suit and a stylish red shirt with one oval shaped silver button on each side and a noticeable zipped in the front. The man had two white gloves and a pair of blue, small lens glasses along with a pair of advanced goggles on the top of his head. His bushy brown mustache was the only bit of hair noticeable on his body, otherwise he was bald as bald could be. Orbot said to the man in utter shock "S-Sir. Its an honor to h-have you back. How was your little trip out in space?"
"Barely productive." The man responded bluntly with a slight snarl being heard in his voice as he gestured towards the orbed shape and began to walk in front of the couch.
As he walked in front of the two robots, he asked with little care in his voice "And just how did YOU two end up back here?"
Cubot snaps out an answer before Orbot could calmly reply in a way that wouldn't ruin things for the two of them "Well after we 'ere left floatin' in the depths of space by you we tried to make our way to be the planet, which actually only took about a few good days I reckon. Then we just sat around bored out of our wits before Orbot here came up with the brilliant idea of hanging out with Sonic!"
Orbot slaps the front of his forehead and sighs when his companion was finished, but the man just gestured his left arm off to the side and said without much of a care in the world "Well if you prefer his company to mine, then go right ahead. It wouldn't be the first time I've had traitorous robots on my side. But if you are going to leave, then do it now. I don't want either of you clowns around for when I start my next plan."
Orbot and Cubot are both surprised by this reaction from their creator, and Orbot goes on to ask "Sir? Is everything all right? You seem rather serious right now."
"Of course I'm serious! I can't afford to mess this plan up! This time for certain, I will defeat Sonic!" The man boldly declares.
Orbot bluntly replies with after a brief glance towards a shrugging Cubot "Sir, no offense, but you say that far too often for my liking. So may I ask, what will make THIS plan any different from the rest?"
"Because, my sharp-tongued little robot, I've finally determined Sonic's weakness!" The man proclaims in a bombastic tone of voice as he triumphantly pumps his right fist into the air.
"The fact that he's afraid of water? Sir, I reckon everyone knows that." Cubot, in his dumbness, replies with an obvious answer.
As the man lowers his left he scowls and slowly replies with "No you imbecile. Sonic's friends are his weakness. Haven't you noticed at all how time and time again Sonic's friends are there to either cheer him on or support him when he fights me or any of those many monsters that tried to destroy the world?"
Cubot replies with "Well not really. Neither of us were built before then." His straightforward response makes both Orbot and the man groan.
The man goes on to say without acknowledging his robot's words "Sonic's friends have allowed Sonic to always carry on even when I send the toughest of my machines after him. Remove them all from the equation, and what will give Sonic the strength to defeat me?"
Orbot replies after taking a brief moment to think "…Nothing would. In fact, calculations suggest that there is a 98.7% chance of victory in your favor if you remove Sonic's friends from the equation. But sir, would you actually be able to go through with it?"
The man replies in an honest tone of voice "Of course not. To tackle some of Sonic's friends in battle would be a foolish idea. No, instead of killing them I have another plan in mind. But I have to get to work now, there's a lot that must be done before I can confront Sonic head-on."
After nudging his glasses up a bit, the man looks away from the two robots and extends his right hand out beside him, saying in an upfront tone "Also, speaking of my past experience with traitorous robots…" before quietly snapping his fingers in mid-air.
In a swift second a blur of metallic blue appears in front of the couch Cubot and Orbot are sitting on and the being responsible reaches out with his metallic claws, grabbing them both by their stick-like bodies and pulling them closer to its body. The being is a metallic blue hedgehog with lifeless red eyes, obvious silver metal joints and a rocket turbine acting as its main body. Orbot gulps as well as he could with his voice processor and says in a nervous tone of voice "S-So nice to meet you for the first time, Metal Sonic…If its not too much to ask, could you perhaps loosen your grip on us a bit?"
The man responds for the mute metallic hedgehog by saying "For the time being, Metal Sonic will be your boss. He will be sure to put you two to work in building one of my finer creations that I have come up with in months!"
Cubot turns to face Orbot and says to him in a depressed tone of voice "You know, right now I'm missing just flipping through the channels like we were minutes before."
Orbot replies with a sigh and a simple "Me too my good friend, me too…"
Metal Sonic then carries the two robots off, leaving the man to walk off to his own devices. He goes into a dark room with a few computer monitors running around what appears to be a single golden ring floating in the middle of a glass capsule cage. Tapping a few buttons to input a code while casually walking beside the console he is using at the moment, the man approaches the rising capsule and quickly swipes the ring from mid-air with his right hand.
Looking down upon the ring with a mischievous smile on his face, the man says in a bombastic tone of voice "Now my little friend, its time you showed me the way to that secret reservoir of power hidden within Angel Island! And with it I, Dr. Eggman, shall finally establish the Eggman Empire as the dominant power in this world! Mwahahaha…MWAHAHAHAHAHAH!"
Next Time: The Blue Blur Himself!