DISCLAIMER:
I don't own Sonic or Metroid. They go to SEGA and Nintendo respectively.
With that out of the way, let the show begin!
"I'm surrounded by defective circuitry..." A large, tall, and extremely fat man groaned as he saw his creations fail yet again to that insufferable hedgehog. This man was shaped a lot like an egg, and wore a suit that had red and black colors, with a yellow cross circling around the suit's torso region. He had greyish-silver gloves/metal gaunlets and similarly grey leggings, and he had red sockings-like boots. His head was conical in shape, and his nose was a comically pinkish-red with an orange mustache. About the only scary thing about this obese man was his hollow eyes; they were completely hollow and black, except for two scarlet flares inside his eyesockets.
This obese man was Dr. Ivo Robotnik, also known as 'Egg-head' to his nemesis, Sonic the Hedgehog and his equally insufferable friend, Tails.
Currently Dr. Robotnik was watching his idiotic creations, Scratch and Grounder, a mechanical and bipedal chicken and a greenish tank-like being respectively, fail to catch Sonic with their devices and wound up dizzy and confused yet again.
"I HATE THAT BLASTED HEDGEHOG!" Robotnik yelled as he slammed his fist on the spy-bot controls. "WHY CAN'T HE EVER LET ME WIN!?" And so Robotnik slowly started to go on his infamous rants and counted the many reasons why he hated that blue rodent.
It continued for hours and hours, until Scratch and Grounder had eventually returned to report back.
"HE'S BLUE, STUPID, MORONIC, NAIVE, ILLOGICAL!..." Robotnik did not notice his creations return.
"Oh wow. You think we should tell him about our discovery when he's like this?" Grounder said cautiously to Scratch.
"He'll get over it soon." Scratch waved off the Doctor's rage. "See? He's already noticed us."
True to the Mechanical Rooster's words, Robotnik had slowly devolved to simple mutters and grumblings on how much he despised the rodent.
"What is it?" Robotnik crossed his arms behind his back expectantly. "If it's about your failure, then don't bother. I already know."
"Er, no. We uh... Found this blue stuff nearby. Seemed to be really dangerous." Grounder pointed outside a window, where there was a faint crash site off to the distance.
"Really?..." Robotnik looked out the window. True to the duo's words, there was a crash site in the distance. "Must've crashed when I was ranting..." He thought aloud as he ran off to his Egg-Mobile.
He flew off in the advanced device, and quickly came to the crash site. He saw a rather alien-like pile of blue gel that was spreading out in veins and crystal-blue sacs. He also noted some mobians slowly withering and seemingly suffering either from radioactivity or detrimental mutagenic effects. Well, it probably wasn't radioactive now that he thought about it. He was still perfectly fine, and some of the mutated subjects below him were growing bigger and more feral.
He also noted that it seemed to be quickly deteriorating the land and killing off all the plant-life as well. At the rate its spreading, it will take over Mobius within a few months.
"Hm... That can't be good." Robotnik flew back to his headquarters.
"So what is it Doc?" Scratch asked as Robotnik came back.
"It seems we have an alien parasite thingy on the planet. It's spreading pretty fast, and from what I can see, it mutates organic beings." Robotnik claimed.
"Really now? What happens to us badniks then?" Grounder asked stupidly.
"YOU DON'T GET AFFECTED YOU NIMCOMPOOPS! YOU'RE MADE OF PURE METAL AND STEEL! And a few wires here and there too." Robotnik reasserted himself. Now was not the time for rants. This was a very real and dangerous threat, and unless he could build something, it might take over the planet, just as how Sonic's popularity took over Mobius.
"Hm, Aliens... If only we could just gather them up and fire 'em off to space again... Or shoot them at Sonic and Tails." Scratch thought aloud.
"Fire them off to space and at Sonic huh? If we could do that it would be very..." Robotnik trailed off as he thought of a new master plan that solved both this new crisis and Sonic constantly foiling his plans.
"Um, Doctor? You okay? Did that blue stuff do something?" Scratch asked as he saw the Doctor stare off at the sky.
"WHY I'VE FIGURED IT OUT!" Robotnik yelled triumphantly.
"Figure out what?" Scratch and Grounder questioned.
"THE ANSWER! THE ANSWER TO IT ALL!" Robotnik jumped in joy, "THE ANSWER TO SONIC, AND HOW I CAN SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF HIM CONSTANTLY FOILING MY PLANS!" Robotnik ran off to sketch out some ideas and plans.
"What? What is it?" His two loyal servants asked.
"It's simple! We'll just build a spaceship and conquer a planet other than Mobius since Mobius is doomed! Pack your things, we're going to space!" Robotnik excitedly yelled as he finished his blueprints. "And since that blue pest is so stupid, he'll never be able to catch up to us with his own ship!"
"..." The S.S.S.S.S Squad just stood there, wondering what the heck they could do in space.
"COCONUTS!" Robotnik yelled out for the monkey badnik.
Slowly, said monkey came out with a mop and water bucket. "Yes sir?" He said, tired from cleaning the basement floors.
"I'M PRRRROMOTING YOU TO A NEW POSITION!" Robotnik yelled.
"Really?" Coconuts brightened up at this.
"YES! YOU ARE NOW THE JANITOR OF THE CRIMSON-EGG!" Robotnik shoved a copy of said spaceship's blueprints to Coconuts. "REMEMBER IT WELL! THAT'S THE ONLY MAP YOU'RE GETTING!"
"Ugh..." Coconuts scanned through the ship's designs. "At least it's smaller than the base we have now." He muttered.
Meanwhile, the fat scientist and the S.S.S.S.S. Squad were busy at work building the Crimson Egg.
Weeks passed, and The Crimson Egg was finally complete!
"Finally! S.S.S.S.S. Squad, prepare to move out! We're finally getting away from this rodent loving planet!" Robotnik shouted proudly as he marched into the bridge, preparing the ship for launch.
"Of course Doctor Robotnik!" Scratch moved into his position, which was engineer. Currently he was on standby.
"You got it Doc!" Grounder rolled to his control station, which was artillery commander. He was to only fire at enemy ships.
"Of course Mr. Robotnik..." Coconuts trudged off to his full-time position, which was janitor duty.
"Now to finally be rid of that hedgehog!" Robotnik slammed his fist into the launch button and sent the Crimson Egg off on its first voyage. "SO LONG, SONIC THE FREAK!"
...
*An Unknown Amount of Time later...*
"So Doc... When are we going to find a planet that we can take over?" Scratch idly asked as he fixed one of the control stations. The Crimson Egg was starting to fail, and needed to land soon. Its systems weren't processing enough oxygen and maintaining the right temperture for Robotnik to live.
"Sometime soon." Robotnik dismissed as he stared off at the many planets surrounding them in the dark voids of space. He could attack one of these planets, but it was likely that the local civilizations had managed to form an intergalactic republic of sorts, and would easily him as he was now. "It's preferable that we start off in a desolate or primitive world that doesn't have this 'Federation' monitoring its every move."
"Well why don't you just hack them and find if they have some list of unexplored planets?" Scratch suggested.
"Hm... Good idea, but we can't afford to sit around and wait while I break into their database, if they even have one, we need to find a planet as soon as possible before the Crimson Egg loses all of its power." Robotnik nodded aprovingly. It seemed that his badniks (which only comprised of Scratch, Grounder, and Coconuts) had began to slowly develop intelligence and common sense, as well as true evil!
Speaking of evil...
There was a planet that seemed to be mostly covered in desert ecosystems... And if he was right in his cliches, bandits and bounty hunters tended to gather in places that official forces would ignore or find too hard to catch them in, like a planet that's completely covered in sands and surrounded by three stars... And maybe there would be rumors and tales of something that the Doctor could use for his conquest... And would you look at that, there's a small town on the side of the planet facing the Crimson Egg... Bingo.
"You two will guard the ship while I'm gone, understand?" Robotnik ordered Scratch and Grounder.
"Yes siree! We'll do the best we can do Doctor!" Scratch said.
"We're on the job!" Grounder saluted with one of his drills before returning to his position.
Robotnik steered the Crimson Egg towards this planet and after a few short hours, landed nearby a small town filled with murderous thugs and cutthroats. His plan was quite simple really. He would go into some place where rumors would flow about, like a tavern, and listen/eavesdrop on in. After that, he would just pilot his ship there after he made proper repairs to it.
...
Soon enough he found himself in a bar with a wide assortment of aliens and beasts the likes of which he never even imagined! 'Rather strange situation I've gotten myself into...' Robotnik thought uneasily as he sat down. 'Then again, I'm probably pretty weird by their standards as well.'
"What'll it be pal?" The Bartender, who had six arms doing various things, asked gruffly.
"You have a Prairie Oyster?" Robotnik responded, deciding that he should just blend in for now.
"Weird choice. But fine." The Bartender pulled out said Cocktail and served it to the scientist. "Pay 'fore you leave."
"Hm..." Robotnik stared at his drink, trying to figure out what to do.
Eventually, someone accidently bumped into him, causing him to spill his drink all over his clothes.
"Gah! You dingus! Watch where you're going!" Robotnik yelled at the culprit. They had a golden-red exosuit of sorts, with their right forearm ending in a arm-cannon of sorts. "Well!? Apologize you dimwitted, bumbling, brainless, dolt-headed idiotic bucket of bolts excuse of droid!"
Apparantly his outburst caused everyone in the room to stop and stare at him.
"Yo... Did he just insult Samus...?" Murmers of pity, amazement, and wonder circulated through the room. "And right after they got offa SR388 and Zebes too..."
'Zebes?' Robotnik made sure to note that in his large brain.
"..." Samus apparantly didn't care enough, because they just brushed past him.
"Grrr!" Robotnik sharply punched the impudent droid in the back. Normally this wouldn't have done much, but as Scratch and Grounder would know, Robotnik can easily break and tear up steel with his bare hands. Seeing as how Samus had an enhanced power-suit, it didn't break the suit, but it did send them flying through the room and crashing into a table.
"DDDDAAAAMMMMN!" The cutthroats wooped and cheered upon Robotnik's little backstab.
"Bumbling bag of defective circuitry..." Robotnik glanced at the bartender. "What's Zebes?"
"Err..." The Bartender stammered as Robotnik's Eyes flared intimidatingly. "It's the old base of the Space Pirates, and where the Metroids live."
"And what is a Metroid?" Robotnik inquired.
"It's this... Blobby thing of brains and fangs that sucks up something's life energy and turns them to a husk. Samus killed them all off on SR388, but rumors say there's still some on Zebes," The Bartender glanced as Samus, who was still in the process of getting back up from Robotnik's punch. "The Prairie Oyster's on the table as well." He quickly added.
'Blob of Brains and Fangs? Why, that sounds diabolically evil! If I could control that, I could take over not Mobius, but the entire universe!' Robotnik thought as he mulled it over.
"Hmph. Good," Robotnik turned to leave the bar, "Time to get off this stinkhole of a planet." He grumbled, satisfied with his venture, not caring for the mess he left behind.
...
"SCRATCH! GROUNDER! GET READY TO HEAD TO PLANET ZEBES!" Robotnik shouted as he finished the few repairs needed. It turns out the only major problem in the Crimson Egg was a oxygen regulator that Scratch, the dolt, forgot to repair. He had also bought (stole) a map from one of the merchants in the town as well, so he didn't have to worry about landing on the wrong planet.
"Ei-Aye, Doctor Robotnik!" The S.S.S.S.S. Squad both said.
*At Planet Zebes*
The Crimson Egg hovered lightly over the surface of the planet, which was called Crateria according to Robotnik's guesses from the public databases he found in the Federation's Network.
"Ooooh..." Scratch and Grounder were currently watching the green rain fall on the planet as they landed. "Wonder what it tastes like..."
"You can't drink that you dolts!" Robotnik immediately vetoed, "That rain is acidic, it'll corrode and rust your armor and melt me if we go out there!"
"Oh. Wait, if that's the case, then shouldn't the Crimson Egg be...?" Grounder slowed as he thought about it.
"Pah! You think I'm that stupid? I built this ship to withstand such things!" Robotnik heartily laughed. "It'll pass within the hour, and then we can start to learn more about these 'Metroids' that barkeep talked about."
...
Soon, Robotnik's prediction held true, and he sent Scratch and Grounder out to scavenge and scout out the area while he analyzed the few animals they managed to capture and throw into some reinforced exhibits recently installed into the Crimson Egg. They seemed fairly normal and naturally evolved to deal with the environment. However, one in particular, managed to catch his eye when he took a closer look with his microscope...
"Hm... Very interesting." Robotnik murmered as he watched some sort of bacteria mimic and then consume the original cells of the bird-like mammal, starting with the central nervous system, where it then progressed at an alarming rate. It was quite out of place here, and he could only find a few matches on the entire planet when he scanned for DNA matches. "Disturbing, but utmost fascinating..." He determined that this could potentially be fatal for him if the virus was bigger, but with the Chaos Energy he gotten from the incident that turned him from his old self to what he is now and the mechanical anti-bodies he installed to automatically kill off foreign bacterium, he should be fine until the animals got into the later stages of infection.
He continued observing the small animal, and noticed its slow progression to hostile and resentful behavior towards him in particular. "Indicates sentience," Robotnik noted, writing down the fact on his notepad. "And seems to despise captivity, but appears tolerant of it..."
Eventually the creature froze up, and collapsed in a heap.
Robotnik figured that the virus had finally run its course, and that he should dispose of it now, when the creature began to grow scales and claws, and its beak began to sharpen as if like fangs.
It would appear that his original hypothosis that the animal was a some-what sentient creature infected with a lethal virus was wrong. Now it seems that the virus he observed earlier was actually some form of microscopic parasite that displayed intelligence and took over their hosts... Which was completely stupid, as bacteria do not possess nuclei capable enough to do much other than follow their instincts.
Yet that bird-mammal was now trying to bash the glass screen open to no avail. It doesn't seem to realize that the screen is reinforced...
Robotnik stroked his chin in thought. He knew for a fact that he didn't want to risk losing his own life trying to tamper or train this bacterium that clearly demonstrated enough intelligence to hate him, but he didn't know how to dispose of it without entering its containment chamber... And Scratch and Grounder would probably let the thing get lose in the base... If only he could just pasturize it...
Wait, pasturazation. That's it! Bacteria are killed by heat!
Robotnik immediately set the temperture in the containment chamber to max, and observed the host body shrivel up and die. Soon after, a small, yellow, and translucent blob floated out of the host for a brief time before it too evaporated and died.
"Ehehe... Parasite appears to be weak to heat and will die if exposed to extreme tempertures..." Robotnik grinned as he jotted that down. Now if he had to deal with this thing again, he could exploit their weakness!
...
Soon Scratch and Grounder returned with a small jelly-like blob with multiple nuclei-brain like organs and around four fangs surrounding the mouth.
"Hey Doctor Robotnik! We caught this blobby-thing from some strange metal place!" Scratch laughed, showing off the blob to the Doctor.
"Hoho! Good! You two are finally proving to be somewhat compentent!" Robotnik grinned, snatching up the capsule containing the creature. "You two know anything about this?" He said as he tapped the glass, seeing if the creature would respond.
"Uh, yes we do actually! It tried to latch onto us when we broke the tube-thingy trapping it, but its fangs couldn't break through our armor!" Grounder informed.
"We also found this thing floating around a grey corpse thing in its containment room... I think this is that 'Metroid' we're looking for!" Scratch continued.
Immediately Robotnik stopped twirling it around to try and gain a reaction from it.
"Oh." Robotnik set the Metroid down on a table and stared at it. It was only about the size of his hand. "It's a bit... Underwhelming." Robotnik shrugged. "But with this wonderfully abomindable creature, I can finally kill Sonic the Hedgehog!" He cackled, opening the containment chamber to set the Metroid free.
When he did open the room, the Parasite from earlier reformed and slowly slided towards him. Shocked, Robotnik dropped the Metroid near the Parasite by accident and watched with curiousity as the Metroid did not choose to attack him, but instead suck up the weakened parasite. While it was doing so, Robotnik sealed off the room.
A bit frightened, Robotnik changed his notes, making it say that heat merely weakened the parasite, and that its natural predator appeared to be the Metroid, as the fanged jellyfish decided to attack the parasite instead of Robotnik. It also confirmed the frightening potential in the Metroid.
"I'd best make Scratch or Grounder handle this creature..." Robotnik noted as he grabbed one of the other animal specimens he caught. This one was confirmed to not have that parasite. "Grounder! Hold this thing and put it in the chamber when Scratch opens it." Robotnik ordered as he retreated to a backup room he reserved in case of emergency.
"Uh, how do I open the doors?" Scratch asked before Robotnik could get in her observation room.
"Push the big, red button that's labeled OPEN CHAMBER. Look with your eyes, not your mouth, you dolt." Robotnik answer sarcastically as he climbed in the safety room.
"Oh. Thanks Doc!" Scratch thanked as Robotnik gave the okay sign.
...
Scratch opened the chamber, and almost instantly the Metroid flew out and latched onto the small animal Grounder held. It tore the the animal from Grounder's drill-arms, and within seconds, the animal turned grey and collapsed into dust.
Robotnik took a few notes, theorizing about perhaps a larger specimen will provide more time to observe the Metroid's method of feeding, but did conclude that the Metroids were undoubtably the most lethal organic being he has encountered yet, barring legendary eldritch abominations such as the Flame of Disaster Solaris, God of Destruction Chaos, and Dark Gaia.
Meanwhile, Scratch and Grounder were frantically trying to catch the Metroid it floated around. "Hey, get back here!" The two were shouting.
Robotnik sighed. He would have to hide out here for quite some time, wouldn't he?
*In the Depths of Tourian*
In a large conference room, three aliens sat around a table. One was a large purple dragon-esque being, one was a gargantuan green reptile with three holes in his gut, and one was a large brain with a single red cybernectic eye. The two organic reptilian aliens sat across from each other while the mechanical Brain rested in a glass tank with various life-support systems hooked to its lower brain.
They were Ridley, Kraid, and Mother Brain, the leaders of the Space Pirates.
"I presume we were summoned here for a reason?" Ridley rasped, not used to speech. He was the Space Operations Leader, as well as the one in charge of the Phazon Operations. He was known by his comrades as the 'Cunning God of Death'.
"Yes. I would guess it has to do with the foreign vessel that landed in Crateria recently... As well as the sudden loss in a metroid." Kraid boomed, his voice echoing throughout the area. Kraid was known to be the Military General and Leader of the Space Pirate's Ground Operations. He was known as the 'Awakened Behemoth' by his allies due to his massive size.
"IN-DeeD." Mother Brain intoned, her voice distorted in a way that seemed to as if she spoke in a sing-song tone all the time. Because of this and her angry demeanor towards the more idiotic pirates, she was often called the 'Mad Overseer' behind her back... Brain technically. She was the Supreme Leader of the Space Pirates and often looked for ways to monopolize the Metroids and other such beings, as well as investigate the properties of Phazon.
"We HA-vE DisCOVered FROM Secu-rity TaPEs ThAt TwO forEign RO-bots SKUL-king a-Bout in Brin-STAR that HA-ve sto-LEN VAR-Ious SPECI-mens from USsss... ThEY InCLUD-ed a METroid and the SOLE X-PARA-site We POSess-ed... We NOTEd ThAt tHe twO inTRUders DiD NoT ReSEMble ANYthing wE HaVe DeveLOPED, NoR AnYthing The FEDeraTion has CreATED." She continued, ignoring the accusing glare Ridley gave Kraid for his failure to capture the intruders.
"Truly?" Kraid questioned. "That would explain their strange designs..."
"What did they look like?" Ridley inquired, curious as to what these 'intruders' looked like. It couldn't be Samus. She always worked alone, and they would most certainly know if it was the Galactic Federation.
"A SiLveRy-GrAy BIpedAl ROOSter and a GrEEn TaNk-like BeinG wIth DrIll-liKe ArMs... ThEy weRe reCORDed SAYing sOMEthING aBout TaKING tHE StOLen SpeciMENs TO a perSON naMEd 'Doctor Robotnik'." Mother Brain elaborated.
"Most curious. That sounds like a human's name. Interesting that they would choose to merely explore and capture some unattended specimens rather than actively demolish the area and steal the files." Ridley mused, tapping the table. "Perhaps we could benefit from this man. He could very potentially bring new knowledge to us that the Federation does not know of."
"Us? Align with a Rooster and a Tank? Have you even seen their base? It's a bloody egg for crying out loud!" Kraid immediately vetoed the idea.
"ThaT Is QuIte tHe INTEResting PrOpOSAL... I MYself Desire to LEarN moRe aBouT tHIS 'Robotnik' AnD sEE iF I canNOT brING him To jOin uSss," Mother Brain entertained the idea of meeting this Doctor. Perhaps he possessed enough intellect to rival her for a bit? Those two robots, while simple, were quite strong to have causually break the containment chambers for the animals they captured, even more so than the Robo-Ridley projects they have been working on. "AnD BEsIdes, WE NeeD tO FiND out ThE FATE of the X-PARAsiTe." Mother Brain added.
"Hm..." The Military General of the Pirates thought about it. Allowing a foreign being to encounter Mother Brain could potentially allow for some very bad breaches of their plans to get loose, and they didn't need Samus running around blowing things up again so soon. Yet they did need another scientist helping, and the X-Parasite could pose quite a threat if not adressed... "Fine. We'll need extra guards stationed around the area however." He decided.
"Very well then. I will make the arrangements for Weavel and Phantoon to keep an eye on Robotnik should he accept the proposal." Ridley scoffed. With him and Kraid already obligated to be there should Robotnik decide to openly meet with them, there was no need for additional backup. It was just Kraid being overly careful and worried for their security as usual.
"EXcellEnt. SEND ThE MeSSaGe." Mother Brain commanded.
Author's Notes:
So, uh... Yeah, just got this idea after playing Sonic Mania and Super Metroid one day. Not sure if anyone is interested enough to want me to expand on it and make it a full story, so just give your thoughts and ideas in a PM or Review, and tell me what you think.
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Some notes to clarify certain things:
This story's Eggman/Robotnik is AoStH/Fleetway Robotnik, so Gerald and Maria Robotnik don't actually exist in this story. Maybe a cameo here and there, but never a full appearance. The reason why Grimer isn't here is because he bailed out after he figured out Robotnik went psycho.
Robotnik arrives after the events of Metroid: Zero Mission and Metroid 2. The reason he can punch Samus so far is because A: He suprised her. B: He beats and tears Scratch and Grounder up into pieces on a near daily basis, and never gets hurt, as well as fighting Sonic one-on-one (No, not the Endgame Robotnik with the mechanical arm, that's Archie/SatAM). C: He can outrun Sonic (See the end of Sonic 2, where he runs to the Death Egg Robot after Silver Sonic is destroyed), so he has to have quite a bit of physical strength in the games as well. However, in a straight-up fight with no kaiju-sized machines or battlesuits, Samus would wipe the floor with him because of her greater endurance, skill, and general ability while Robotnik has literally just being an unsuspecting fat geek with surprising power going for him. He would probably just use his surprising speed to just outrun Samus if he winds up in a situation where she's trying to kill him and he has nothing to fall back on.
Scratch and Grounder do not utilize animals to power them, and are therefore resistant to X-Parasites and Metroids. They're still somewhat idiots, but they possess a bit more common sense than their appearance in AoStH.
Robotnik can make Badniks (Cyborgs in a way) from animals, and knows about the Chaos Emeralds (There's Seven of them this time around, but he thinks it's only four).
Hope that cleared up certain things that might've been vague to people who don't know much about Sonic.