Alright, after many months of putting this off, I've finally gotten around to writing my first real story. Hopefully, I'll be able to update this more than I have my truth and dare fic, but don't worry; I'll still be working on that as well. Well, here it is. This story is going to go through the early months of my OC, Reptile, and I've decided to hit the ground running with this fic, so let's get right into it. MAKE SURE TO LEAVE A REVIEW. I LIKE KNOWING THAT MY STORY WAS READ!
"Damn it!" He wanted to kick and scream, but that was unbecoming of a man of his caliber. Instead, he settled for pounding his fists uselessly against the controls. He knew it wouldn't hurt. After all, he had built this himself. What did hurt was that blasted hedgehog, Sonic. Eggman flew in for a closer look at what had, until just recently, been his greatest creation. Now, it was an unrecognizable mess fit for nothing more than scrap metal.
"Mark my words Sonic, one day I'll get you," he muttered more to himself than anyone else. Sonic had left almost as soon as he had finished with the robot, and there wasn't anyone else around for miles. Hopping out of his flying chair, Eggman began to pick through the ruinous remains of his robot, searching for anything useful that hadn't been damaged beyond repair. To his dismay, there was nothing. Once again, Sonic had been thorough in destroying whatever he threw at him. It seemed that no matter the improvements he made to his machines, Sonic always found a way around them. His last robot had been too bulky with all the armor plating it had, and Sonic had run circles around it. This one hadn't had enough, and Sonic didn't even need to try to tear through it.
Sighing in frustration, Eggman hopped back into his chair and began to head back to his base and brooded on his life. Things had been going so well until Sonic had shown up. He had easily been conquering each place his robots came to, meeting little to no resistance. In fact, he had had well over half the planet under his control at the time. Then, out of nowhere, Sonic came. He tore through his robots like a hot knife through butter. Before Eggman had even known what was going on, he had lost half his territory. At first, he had seen sonic as little more than a nuisance, an insignificant insect that had decided to stand up against him. Ironically, at the time, he had thought the only real danger Sonic posed was encouraging others to resist him. How wrong he had been. He thought he would make an example of Sonic by destroying him in front of everyone, thereby lessening the chances of anyone else fighting him. Unfortunately the plan had backfired when Sonic beat him. The next thing he knew, he was under attack at every place he had previously conquered and had been pushed back to little more than an island. It was there that Eggman was heading, for it was the only place he had left because Sonic was afraid of water.
Eggman snapped out of his thoughts as the onboard computer announced that they had arrived at the base. Landing down in the same spot he always did, he got out as several robots arrived to move the chair into the hangar. Eggman immediately went down to his lab to think about his next invention. This was hardly about conquering the world anymore. Sonic had stood up to Eggman and survived, and Eggman felt a very human desire to prove that he was superior to Sonic. After all, it was basically Sonic who led the resistance against him. If Eggman could just cut off the head of the snake, in this case Sonic, the body would die, leaving his rule uncontested. The only problem was killing Sonic.
"So how was the fight, Doctor?" asked a small flying robot next to him. Eggman had actually built this robot, codenamed Alpha, to watch his base while he was away, but it always seemed to feel the need to give advice wherever it was unwanted.
"Go away. Can't you see I'm busy?" Alpha was more annoying than helpful, but Eggman didn't want to spend his time or his resources making another one.
"I'm guessing the fight didn't go too well, eh? You're never going to beat Sonic like this if you just keep throwing robots at him!"
"I said go away!" Eggman swatted at the stupid pest. He often had to remind himself that Alpha had its uses.
"Maybe you should try something else!" Alpha flew out of reach before Eggman could take another swing at it. Eggman took this moment to calm himself down before speaking again.
"And what would you suggest?" It was meant to be a rhetorical question, but Alpha answered anyways.
"How about a robot infused with power of the Chaos Emeralds? That way you wouldn't have to worry about holding onto the Emeralds."
"Building a robot that runs on the power of the Chaos Emeralds is one thing, but building a robot with the power of the emeralds that doesn't actually use them is another thing entirely. That kind of power would destroy any robot I could build." He didn't expect Alpha to understand what he had just said. He built Alpha to run the base, not to build robots. As such, Alpha wouldn't have an understanding of robot physiology.
"Then how about a person that could use the power of the emeralds against Sonic?" Eggman almost had to laugh at the absurdity of Alpha's suggestion.
"Please, the odds of even finding someone who is compatible are astronomical, and the odds of that person being alive today are even less. Not to mention that even if I were to find a suitable person, there's no way they'd agree to help me. Why don't you go back to monitoring the base like you're supposed to?" Eggman turned back to the table as he began to gather parts. Before departing, Alpha turned back towards Eggman.
"I was just saying that at this point, nothing should seem ridiculous for you." With that, Alpha turned around and left the room. Eggman stopped gathering parts for his new robot as he pondered what Alpha had said. The idea was ludicrous, but did he really have anything to lose at this point? Eggman sat there in the lab for what seemed like hours before he finally began placing the parts across the table. After many hours of construction later, Eggman sat as he marveled at his latest creation. It was a robot designed to look human. He had even gone the extra mile to give the robot regular beats throughout its body that would feel like pulses to anyone who touched the robot. With the scanner in its eyes, the robot would go out to search for anyone compatible with the emeralds.
"Robot number 15708, you have your orders programmed into your system. Do not return here until you have either found a suitable subject, or you have searched every corner of this planet. Go now."
"Yes, master," came the emotionless reply. Eggman hadn't been able to do anything about the voice. As he watched the robot depart the base, he found himself thinking that if anything else, he would at least be able to tell Alpha that his idea had been stupid from the start. Eggman couldn't have been any further from the truth.
Well, that's the first chapter. I know it's kind of short, but it's just the first chapter.