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Acknowledgements

Before we begin I must thank two fanfic authors.

The first is C.S.Bernard, formerly known as FriendOfRepublicanism, and before that as, Aiglon15. I went to great lengths to incorporate Bernard's writing style into my own, in this test, and plan to continue to do so when I write the complete story. Read C.S.Bernard's stuff, it's great!

Also I must thank NetRaptor. Although I didn't mention Chaos physics that much in this test, I will in the actual story, and I largely based them on NetRaptor's Chaos Fields. I also based Robo Knux's, and Metal Sonic's personality on NetRaptor's version of their personalities. Read NetRaptor's stuff it's my personal favorite!

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Magnatron

And we're back, for another broadcast day. I'm your host, Magnatron, and you're listening to the Sonic Phantom radio show. The show were Sonic the hedgehog meets Danny Phantom; Dr. Eggman meets Vlad Plasmius, and all that kind of fun stuff.

To recap, last time Robo Knux and Metal Sonic spied on Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles, as they fought Dr. Eggman, in an attempt to study them, so as to learn how to defeat them. Meanwhile in another dimension Skulker fought Danny Phantom, in order to keep him too busy to get suspicious, and possibly investigate what Vlad Plasmius was doing. 'What was\is Vlad Plasmius's nefarious plan?' you might ask. Stay tuned to find out.

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Vlad Masters

I walked down the stairs of the secret passage that connected my secret lab, and private study. As I walked it occurred to me that I didn't need a secret passage to reach my lab. I was half ghost for crying out loud, and not only did I have ghost powers, but I had more power than any other ghosts except for the one who had been locked in a coffin for being too powerful. And as such I had the very standard ability to ghost through solid objects. So why did I ever bother putting in a secret passage in the first place?

I put these thoughts out of my mind as I reached the bottom of the stairs, and entered my lab. Skulker, and Technus were busy, finishing up on the latest task I had appointed for them.

Skulker looked up and said. "All is ready, sir."

"Excellent." I thought, I started to say so, but the oaf Technus started babbling before I could. Speak I mean, not babble. That is, um 'he' started babbling before I could speak.

"Hey! I wanted to be the one to tell him!" Technus babbled.

"I just wanted to save him the trouble of having to listen to you." Skulker quipped.

"Oh yeah! Well I." Technus started to quip back, but I interrupted him.

"Knock it off you two. It doesn't matter who tells me, but rather who does what I tell them."

Technus looked at me and then Skulker confused. "Knock, it, off? I don't get it."

Skulker rolled his eyes, and said. "It's a metaphor, you moron."

"Now that's enough!" I said, ready to go ghost, as young Daniel put it, and teach them a lesson.

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Skulker

Personal log # 12,254,399

Date: 5-9-04

Time: 12:46 pm

Location: Vlad Masters' Mansion

Status: 100

Mission: Complete modifications to ghost zone portal, guard portal until given further instructions.

Before I get to what happened next I believe you should know that I had already accessed my file on Technus. Here's what it said.

Profile log, file name: Technus

Name: Technus

Species: Ghost

Gender: Male

Age: How should I know?

Appearance: A green face, with a somewhat pointy nose, white hair, dark clothes, cape, and glasses.

Threat level: Moderately low

Abilities: Can control machinery within a rough distance of thirty feet, and rearrange it into a weapon; he usually uses this power to make a giant armored battle suite for himself, invisibility, intangibility, and flight.

Personality: A little loopy, gets distracted easily, is always shouting out his name, and his evil plans, if you could call any of the half baked schemes he's comes up with a plan.

Weaknesses: Gets distracted easily, not that great of a fighter to begin with.

Acquaintances: Don't care.

Notes: He is the second most annoying person I've ever met, the first being ??.

Please wait…

I stopped pestering Technus, reluctantly, and said. "Whenever you're ready, sir."

Please wait…

"I really need a faster search engine." I thought to myself.

A black hula hoop appeared around Vlad Masters mid section, and then split into two rings, one going up, and the other going down. As they past over Vlad Master they changed his human form into his ghost form. Once the hula hoops had gone so far up, or down that they weren't around his body anymore they vanished, having changed the silver haired suite wearing Vlad Masters, into the black haired, turquoise faced half ghost Vlad Plasmius.

Profile log, file name: Vlad Plasmius

Name: Vlad Masters\Vlad Plasmius

Species: Half human half ghost.

Gender: Male

Age: Somewhere in his forties.

Appearance #1: AKA human form: Silver hair, and goatee, tall, thin, usually wears a suit, and looks overconfident.

Appearance #2: AKA ghost form: Black hair, shaped like a U, red eyes, wears a white outfit with black buttons, gloves and boots, still usually looks overconfident.

Threat level: Second only to Pariah Dark.

Abilities: Ghost strength, ghost agility, ecto blasts, ghost shields, intangibility, invisibility, flight, the ability to duplicate until there is four of him.

Personality: Prideful, considers everyone but the ghost child's mother to be beneath him, pretends to be polite when those who don't know how dangerous he really is are around, a little overbearing when he's in a bad mood.

Weaknesses: He loves the ghost child's mother, and would rather get her family to like him than destroy them, except for the ghost child's father; he wants to destroy the ghost child's father.

Friends: Ha!

Family: Double Ha!

Acquaintances: About every ghost in the ghost zone worth getting aquatinted with, I'd list them all here, but that'd make the loading time longer.

Notes: The second most powerful ghost in all the ghost zone, and he's willing to pay for my services; however his weaknesses and the ghost child keep him from accomplishing his objectives of destroying the ghost child's father, and winning over the ghost child, and his family.

I realized that I had forgotten to mention the humans that Plasmius was aquatinted with, but they weren't important anyway, so I decided to leave it.

"Activate the ghost portal." Plasmius said.

I went over to push the button, and saw that Technus was going to get there first, so I walked faster and we ended up bumping shoulders.

"Get out of my way." I growled.

"Me, get out of your way?!" Technus bellowed, as only he could. "Why don't 'you' get out of 'my' way?!"

"How about, because you're an idiot." I said.

A purple ecto blast zipped over our heads and buried itself in the wall, making a burn mark.

"I told you two to cut it out!" Plasmius said, starting to lose his temper. "When I say something I expect to be obeyed!"

"I 'was' doing what you said." Technus said, he obviously didn't realize that the first person to say something when Plasmius was talking like that, was likely to be the next person to get blasted. "He came over and."

Plasmius blasted him, smacking him against the wall.

I reached the console that we had been pushing each other out of the way to get to, and turned to give Technus a look that said I told you so.

He glared at me, as he stood up, but this time he had the sense to keep his mouth shut. Maybe he had finally realized he couldn't argue in front of Plasmius, but then again maybe not; this was after all, Technus we were talking about.

I manipulated the console, and the six foot, by six foot, by six foot, it was shaped like a hexagon, ghost portal activated.

Normally the ghost portal was on at all times, and simply had a ghost proof security door to keep ghosts from leaving the ghost zone, and entering the human's world, but me and Technus had had to turn it off and take it apart in order to make a few 'modifications'. But now the portal was active again, swirling two shades of green around and around in a perpetual spiral.

I turned to Plasmius and said. "Ghost portal."

"Activated!" Technus yelled.

I glared at him, and he sent smug look back at me. I got so mad I almost activated my weapon systems, but that would be the last thing I would want to do, in front of Plasmius, so I controlled myself, albeit barely.

I started towards the console I needed to be at in order to start up the next phase, but then I noticed that Technus had beaten me to it. He gave me another smug look, and I gritted my teeth.

Technus punched in the commands, causing a gun shaped device to lower itself from the ceiling, and aim at the portal.

While Technus had been doing this I had been sneaking towards the console that would fire the gun, but Technus, having now completed his task at that console, turned and saw me. We both made a dash for it. He was closer, but I was already on the move. We came within five feet of the console, we both jumped, and his hand came down on the firing button, while my hand came down on his hand.

"Owww." Technus called out.

The gun charged up, and fired at the ghost portal, causing the portal to change from two shades of green to two shades of blue.

I started to inform Plasmius on the status of the portal, from my position kneeling on the floor, with my arms stretched out over the console, but Technus covered my mouth, and called out. "The ghost portal is now an inter dimensional portal!"

"Excellent." Plasmius said. "With access to this new dimension I will be able to travel to there and find new knowledge, weapons, and allies that will help me to defeat young Daniel."

"Do you know you sound like Technus, when you talk like that?" I asked.

Plasmius had been walking towards the portal, but my question caused him to turn and glare at me. "What?" He asked.

"Stating your plan out loud, like that, for no particular reason." I said.

"Hey!" Technus interjected. "I don't do that anymore!"

"Since when?" I asked.

"Since I upgraded to Technus 2.0!" Technus hollered.

In my argument with Technus I had forgotten about Plasmius, which is never a wise thing to do. The last time we had been arguing, he had blasted Technus, for being the last one to speak, but this time he blasted me, for being the one to insult him.

"How did you manage to build this together, if all you ever do together is argue?" Plasmius asked, as I picked myself up off of the floor.

"Well I think its." Technus started, but Plasmius interrupted him.

"Never mind, I don't want to know." Plasmius said, and then walked through the portal, into another dimension.

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Magnatron

We'll be back, right after these messages.

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Eggman

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Magnatron

And now back to the show.

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Vlad Masters

After arriving in the parallel universe, and doing some invisible scouting, I switched back to my human form, ready to make first contact.

My scouting mission had supplied me with much useful information. First of all, English seemed to be the main language, which was a relief, the second was a little stranger, some of the citizens seemed to have had their DNA crossed with animal DNA, making for a variety of weird looking hybrids that were called mobians. Also I had yet to see a mobian that was over three and a half feet tall.

Well I had learned as much as I could in a reasonably short amount of time, by just observing. Now it was time to ask some questions.

I walked up to a restaurant that had several tables set up outside. One of the humans seemed to be the extremely friendly type so I chose him.

"Good day to you sir." I said. Only realizing afterwards, that using a figure of speech, might confuse someone from a parallel universe.

However the chap smiled at me like only an optimistic idiot could, and said. "And a top uv da mornin ta you too govner."

I had to strain to keep my smile plastered to my face, but I needed information, and only a cheerful nincompoop would be willing to provided basic information to someone who knew nothing of the area he was in.

"I'm a businessman, and I just woke up from a coma recently, and I was wondering who is currently the world's most powerful supervillain." I said, keeping my voice casual.

A more alert person might have wondered why a businessman, who had just woken up from a coma, would want to know who is the world's most powerful supervillain, but I had chosen this man precisely because he seemed to be of that foolish cheerful sort who were apparently incapable of suspicious thought, like Jack.

"Aye, dat wud be Dr. Eggman. De world's most briliantist scientistist." The vocally challenged fool said.

"A scientist. I'm in luck." I thought, as I asked. "Where do his attacks usually occur?"

"Dat wud be rie abow haer, and anaewhere dare's a Chaos Amrrld." The oaf said.

I was having a hard time understanding him and his stupid accent, but to make matters worse I seemed to have run into the second big difference between our dimensions. If I had understood him correctly he had said something about Chaos Emeralds, the nature of which I was clueless.

An explosion in the distance distracted me from my thoughts, and I turned to see what had happened. I couldn't see what had been damaged, or even any smoke from the explosion, being as there were too many skyscrapers around. However, to my amazement, the general population only gave a moments notice to the sound of a rapidly expanding force of destruction, before returning to their business.

Another explosion was heard, and this time no one even bothered to look up.

I turned to the idiot beside me and asked. "Why isn't anyone more concerned?"

"Why wud dey be? It's prolly only Eggman." He said.

"I thought you said he was the world's most accomplished supervillain." I said, wondering just how competent this Eggman was, and if my source was one bit reliable at all.

"Hey is, bah even so, hey never gets very fah wit his schenes." He said

"Why not?" I asked, but before my very annoying compatriot could answer an extremely powerful gust of wind blew by, forcing me to grab onto a garbage can for support.

Amazingly the short gust of wind, that at worst would tear the shutters off of a condemned cottage, got more attention than the explosion that had been heard from far off enough that one couldn't see where it had originated.

"Dat's why, Sonic da Hejhoeg."

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Eggman

I watched from my usual position in the Eggmobile, as my latest mechanical means of destruction moved forward crushing everything in its path.

This particular robot's design was based off of a robot I had scene in a movie, the Incredibles.

My Eggnidroid lumbered along down the street, the only noticeable difference from the one Syndrome let loose on the City, being my symbol stamped on it in various places.

I didn't consider myself cheap by copying a design in a movie. I rather thought myself nasty for stealing it.

Although stealing a design from a movie is a lot harder than it looks. Movies only want their audiences to see cool robots blowing things up. The robot's designers give no thought to the mechanics of such a work of art. For example my robot's power cell looked nothing like the one Mr. Incredible ripped out of both robots in the movie.

Sonic, and Tails showed up ahead of schedule, they must have been in the neighborhood.

Sonic took one look at my Eggnidroid and laughed. "What's the matter Eggman? Run out of original ideas."

Somehow I had known he'd say something like that.

I gritted my teeth and bellowed back. "We'll see who's out of original ideas! Eggnidroid, attack!"

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Sonic

Eggman ordered his newest robot, which was actually fatter than he was, to move in, and we were off.

Tails went high, and I went low, each with a robotic tentacle on our tails.

I tried going around one of the other legs, in an attempt to get the tentacle to follow me, and get the robot to trip over itself, but the Eggnidroid, as Eggman had called it, didn't fall for it, and went to head me off, instead of following directly behind me. Score one for Eggman.

Just before I reached the tentacle I jumped, hurling myself over it, and doing a somersault for good measure.

The lower vision screen was already lowered, but it surprised me when it fired an energy blast in my direction. However even surprised, I'm still the fastest thing around. I curled into a ball, as the blast went right over me, then uncurled, and saw that my momentum was carrying me right towards a tentacle, that was zeroing in on my position.

It was at that moment that I realized that the Eggnidroid now had two tentacles going after me, and one going after Tails, which only left three to hold the copyright infringement up.

"It takes three legs to make a table stand." I thought, as I jumped right into the claw of the tentacle I was headed for, jumped out just before it could close enough to grab me. The lower vision screen fired a shot in my direction, but I was going to fast for it anyway. Ignoring the shot, I used my momentum from the jump to send me into a spin attack at one of the grounded tentacles.

It lost it's hold on the ground, and the whole thing started to come tumbling down.

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Tails

Sonic ran under the robot, while I flew over, looking the thing over and trying to understand how it worked, if I understood it, I might be able to point out potential weaknesses, and besides machines were cool.

I noticed several miniscule design changes that Eggman had made, besides sticking his face on it, that most people wouldn't notice. Ironically some of the changes were ones that I had thought Eggman would have done differently from the movie, if 'he' had built the robot in the Incredibles' movie.

The rip-off robot's tentacle, which had been ripped off from Doc Ock, was in hot pursuit, and I knew that since I was attacking from the air I would have to contend with the Eggnidroid's energy cannon, which if Eggman had stuck to the movie's design as much as I thought he had, would be coupled with the upper vision screen.

The tentacle was closing in, and I'd just started to swerve, when the cannon opened fire, right along my path.

Upon seeing the blast I realized that Eggman had gone with a pulse plasma design for the gun, I had suspected he would when I saw the robot, but I hadn't gotten close enough to the gun to look yet, now I knew. However obtaining this information wasn't the foremost thought in my mind. The tentacle was right behind me, and a plasma blast was along my projected path. There was only one place left to go, down.

I reoriented myself to face down, curled up, and spun my namesake for all I was worth, until I hit the robot's hull. I put a small dent in the spot I landed, but I didn't have time to survey my handiwork.

I jumped up and ran along the robot's hull, barely avoiding another assault from the tentacle and plasma cannon. As I picked up speed my feet left the hull, and I used my spinning tails to propel me along.

Based on what I had been able to observe thus far I surmised that the vision screens were the most vulnerable places to attack. Eggman had probably designed the Eggnidroid to retract the vision screens just before a sudden impact, but I was sure me and Sonic could figure out a way around that.

The whole robot shook for a brief moment, and then started to fall to one side.

"All right Sonic!" I thought as I closed in on my target.

Sonic's attack, whatever it had been, had thrown off the robot's center, and I was out of the vision screen's vision, so to speak. If I could get close enough to it before it regained sight of me, I might be able to score a hit.

I traveled along a cushion of air along the Eggnidroid's hull, unhindered by the original vibration of Sonic's attack, and spin dashed the vision screen.

I hit it in the side, and put a pretty bad dent in it, but after I bounced off it still seemed to be in functioning order. Just a few more hits like that and it wouldn't be.

The tentacle that had been going after me broke off and slammed into the ground, keeping the main body of the behemoth from slamming into the pavement, and putting some bad dents into it, maybe even stop it for good.

If there was one difference between movies and real life it was that movies tend to under or over estimate the density of metal

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Robo Knux

Personal log #853

Date: 5-9-04

Time: 12:56.22

Location: Station Square

Status: 100

Mission: Obverse Sonic, and friends, study their attack patterns, come up with suitable counters to their moves, and copy their data to fill in blanks in battle programming.

Sonic attacked Eggman's new toy relentlessly, occasionally shouting out one form of insult or another. Nothing I hadn't seen before.

I looked over my logs; Sonic's, Eggman's, Tails', and Metal Sonic's were all loaded, but none of them even held my interest for point two seconds.

Data file #3

Name: Metal Sonic

Type: Elite combat unit

Appearance: 100cm tall, 275.44lb, mostly blue hull, red eyes, razor sharp finger tips, Sonic's robotic twin, basically.

Threat level: Supposedly high

Features: Chaos drive treated hull, mark IV personalized Metal Sonic jet engine, sharp claws, a self installed, mark IX shield generator, which he uses to imitate Sonic's spin attack, prototype AI program.

Personality: Hateful, and easily annoyed, but in a bland computer sort of way.

Weaknesses: His inferior AI programming.

Dr. Eggman's notes: Metal Sonic was my greatest creation. I expect you to one day be as great an asset to the Eggman Empire as he has been.

Personal notes: For one who hates Sonic so much, he is obsessed with hedgehog, and everything about him. Rather than take advantage of the readily available weapons our master has to offer he prefers to strip himself down as much as possible, in order to make himself lighter. I find this to be stupid.

I turned my sensors away from the battle, quite sick of just watching. I wanted to join the fight, to maul something, and blow up a whole lot of somethings, but my orders were to stay here and watch. At first it had been interesting. Sonic had some amazing fighting abilities and was funny to boot, while Eggman usually got to blow up a few things before Sonic stopped him, but it had gotten old.

I don't know how it is for organics, but having had more than my fair share of boredom I've found myself observing and thinking about the most absurd things. Things that weren't the least bit interesting in and of themselves, but they had managed to grab my attention simply by not being the thing I was bored of. For example I currently found myself examining a wall. A wall! I was examining the wall's texture, scanning what kind of paint covered it, and ran virtual programs on it's density, to see how much damage any particular weapon could do to it. This was ridiculous.

Then I noticed something. The scan had picked up something in-between me and the wall that my optical receivers hadn't picked up.

A body, the shape of a man, was floating in-between me and the alley wall that I was scanning about a block away.

An invisible flying man! spying on Sonic and Eggman. This was just too intriguing to pass up.

I turned to see if Metal Sonic had noticed, but he was asphyxiated by the battle. Perfect.

I left his side slowly and silently, and started stealthily making my way to this combination of Peter Pan, and 'fill in the black'.

I reached the alley undetected, all the while keeping track of my target with my scanners. My target hadn't moved, it apparently thought being invisible kept it safe.

I slowly walked towards it until I was within striking distance, looked at my claws, sighed aloud, and said sarcastically. "Oh dear. It appears my claws have gotten too sharp. I think I'll have to dull them up a bit."

I slammed the claws on my right hand into the wall, making sure that they came within two inches of my target along the way.

My target moved deeper into the alley, apparently still hoping that I didn't know he was here.

"Oh but look." I said, gesturing to the wall. "I put two holes in the wall, now it doesn't match the rest of the wall."

I may not have a mouth, but I figured this is the type of feeling that Eggman must feel when he's smiling wickedly.

Anyway I loaded my machine gun program as I continued to speak.

Machine guns loaded.

"I know how to fix that." And with that I fired a hail storm of bullets at the wall, and then turned so that their path would take them through my target before they went into the brick wall, in order to help it 'match'.

Much to my disappointment the bullets seemed to go through my target without any noticeable effect. Furthermore something happened to my scans. I had been tracking the target with my info red, echo, and substance scanners, but now the info red, and echo scanners didn't register the target anymore, and the substance scanner said that the target's substance had changed.

"All right, where are you?" I called out, suddenly tired of the game.

My target didn't move.

"I know your there." I said. "You may think your invisibility trick keeps you hidden, but I can tack you through any combination of my info red, echo, and substance scanners."

That last part wasn't exactly true, but there was no way this organic, whatever it is, would be able to tell.

"You're quite the bloodthirsty one, aren't you?" My target asked, as it became visible to my optical sensors, in addition to reappearing on my info red, and echo scanners. He looked odd to say the least. "Allow me to introduce myself. I am Vlad Plasmius."

Creating Vlad Plasmius profile log. Waiting for further information.

I knew that at this point my 'brother' Metal Sonic would systematically drill this 'Vlad Plasmius' for all he was worth. But I wasn't as bound to procedure as he was, and I planned on running this drill anyway I felt like.

"With fangs and a name like that one would think you would be the bloodthirsty one around here." I said.

"And a sadistic sense of humor to go with it." Vlad said. "I take it you're one of the many creations of one Dr. Eggman?"

"What's it to you?" I asked as I looked at claws on my left hand. "You know, in all the commotion I forgot to dull the ones on this hand."

"I'm interested in acquainting myself with your creator." Vlad said. "I have something of a business proposition for him, and if he agrees I think your claw problem will be taken care of."

In the distance we heard Sonic, and Tails finish off the Eggnidroid.

"Why didn't you say so?" I asked. "I'll arrange a meeting for you."

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Eggman

The Eggnidroid had been a washout. It was now a pile of junk sitting in the middle of the city waiting for someone to clean up, courtesy of Sonic. I had expected as much, but also hoped that this would be the time. All well, no matter. This entire exercise had simply been one last battle for Robo Knux and Metal Sonic to observe before the next stage of my plan went into action, reacquiring of the Chaos Emeralds.

I was headed back to the base mulling over my exact plans, when the Eggmobile beeped at me.

Received communication request from user Metal Sonic

Do you wish to respond? Yes No

I frowned. Metal Sonic wasn't supposed to contact me until we got to the base. Something must have gone wrong.

I selected yes and said. "Metal Sonic come in."

"Dr. Eggman." Metal Sonic responded, his mechanical voice as angry as I'd ever heard it. "Robo Knux has defied our mission by failing to observe the battle, and making contact with a civilian."

"He's what!?" I bellowed. I knew that Robo Knux's state of the art AI programming might make him bend the rules a little in order to accomplish his prime directive. But as for how he could have completely ignored his assigned mission, to stop and make chit chat with one of the locals… It defied reason!

Received communication request from user Robo Knux

Do you wish to respond? Yes No

"Yes I wish to respond!" I yelled as I cut off Metal Sonic and accepted Robo Knux's transmission.

"Just what do you think your doing!?" I hollered, just barely able to save myself from the embarrassment of finishing with 'young man'.

"Thinking outside the box, for the good of the Eggman Empire of course." Robo Knux's oily, robotic voice came through the speakers.

I sighed disgusted. Shortly after activating Robo Knux I had told him that with my most advanced AI program to date he had a special responsibility. All of my other robot designs strictly followed their program directive, without deviating in the least. This was good in the example that it kept my cleaning and maintenance robots from getting distracted from their work by mundane things like TV, or a beautiful day. But it was also bad in the sense that the same robot would go along it's way, doing it's duty even as Sonic walked right up in front of it, and smashed it. I could program all my noncombatant units to run away when they saw Sonic, but there were literally millions, if not billions, of possibilities like this that would have to be preprogrammed individually. Over the years I had filled in some of the more obvious gaps, and some very surprising not so obvious ones, but it still didn't work. I eventually decided that what I needed was an AI so advanced that it could comprehend situations, and come up with its own conclusion. And I told Robo Knux that it was his responsibility to lead the way in thinking outside the box for the good of the Eggman Empire.

"And just how does you defying 'my' orders and making contact with some nobody constitute the good of the Eggman Empire?" I asked.

"Perhaps I can explain." A new voice said.

"Who is that?" I asked, bewildered.

"Oh I'm just the nobody that your very adept Robo Knux here made contact with. You can call me Plasmius, Vlad Plasmius." The voice said.

"Very well, explain." I said.

"How about we do it in person?" Plasmius asked. "Say your place?"

"Very well. Robo Knux take him to the base." I agreed.

"As you wish." Robo Knux said, then ended the transmission.

I set about preparing my base for our guest, and possibly a traitor, when I received yet another communication request.

Received communication request from user Metal Sonic

Do you wish to respond? Yes No

I selected yes and asked. "What?"

"Doctor, I monitored your conversation with Robo Knux and must admit to being concerned at your willingness to let this Plasmius into the base without further knowledge of him." Metal Sonic said.

"Worry not my servant." I said. "I'm sure the base is more than adequate at keeping our guest from causing any problems."

Metal Sonic was silent for a moment, then asked. "And Robo Knux?"

I sat back in my Eggmobile and fingered my mustache. Finally I said. "You have observed him more than I have, and your AI programming is second only to his. You think like him more than anyone else. If he has indeed betrayed the Eggman Empire I want you to have countermeasures in place to stop him."

"Yes, Dr. Eggman." Metal Sonic said.

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Magnatron

And now for a special deleted scene

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Eggman

My magnificent Eggnidroid moved through the city unchallenged. Ah a truly beautiful site to behold.

"Um, excuse me Mister, Doctor, man." A calm voice called out.

I looked down to the voice's source and saw a man, standing in-between me and my rampaging Eggnidroid, which wasn't as dangerous as it sounded because the Eggnidroid was moving steadily forward and ignoring all that was behind it.

"I understand your anger and everything, with cars like, causing global warming an all, but don't you think you're going a little overboard?"

"Oh, no..." I thought as I realized he had long hair, and wore a tie-dye shirt. "A hippie!!"

"You're really like, really harshing my mellow." The hippie said.

"I'm gonna do more than harsh your mellow if you don't skedaddle right now!" I yelled back. "Hippies aren't even half-wits, but the reason the term 'lack-wit' was created!"

"That's it, let it all out. Let all the anger and rage flow out until your aura is serene and peaceful." The Hippie said in a tone that would have been soothing if anyone other than hippie had used it.

"The sixties are dead!" I hollered at the top of my lungs. The only thing worse than a hippie was a hippie that was interested in talking to you. "Now leave! or I'll send you to join them!"

"That's like, a cool play on words man." The hippie called up to me.

"Die!" I said as I commanded the Eggnidroid, with a few button presses, to crush this buffoon. However as the Eggnidroid's claw came down on his position a blue flash went by, and the hippie was gone.

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Sonic

"I can't believe I just saved this guy." I thought as I set the hippie, who had been annoying Eggman, down.

I had happened to catch most of the show, and, despite the fact that I usually reveled in the chance to annoy Eggman, had found that particular exchange painfully embarrassing.

Once I had set him down, far away from Eggman, I took off back towards the battle, before he could thank me or anything. I didn't want to hear a hippie speak ever again.

I got back to Eggman, and his new robot, and Mr. Fatman spoke up. "Come now Sonic. Even you must admit that you'd like to see that talking vegetable put out of our misery."

"That's where you and me differentiate." I said. "You'll do the right thing if it suites you, while I'll do the right thing even if I don't want to."

"You can talk all noble to me all you want." Eggman retorted. "I still say finishing him off would have been a service to the community."

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Magnatron

Uh oh. It looks like Vlad is trying to team up with Doctor Eggman!

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Skulker

They already knew that, you moron.

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Magnatron

Skulker! What are you doing?!

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Skulker

Saving our audience from having to listen to you say things that they already know. You sound like Technus, when you do that.

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Magnatron

That's how announcers talk!

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Skulker

Bocoe, Decoe take us out of here, before Magnatron's bores the audience to tears.

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Magnatron

Now wait just a….

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To Be Continued…

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Magnatron

You didn't think a little thing like being usurped by my voice actors would keep me from asking God to bless you, or telling you that I am the Eggman! or that NetRaptor's Sonicverse! Is the world's greatest Sonic series! did you? Come on! Have you read NetRaptor's Sonicverse?!

Hey here's an idea. Stop reading this and go read NetRaptor's Sonicverse. It's waaaaayyy better.

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And that's the end of our test. Thank you for deciding to look into helping me.

Now for those of you who are interested, I have a few questions that I didn't want to ask at the beginning, because of their spoiling nature.

#1 What can I change the name of the substance scanner to? I can't stand that name.

#2 What did you think of the whole radio show idea?

#3 I particularly want to hear any complaints about the robots' data log system, and the like. I want that part of the story to be as good as it can be.

Don't forget to tell me what you liked, and what you didn't like, anything that just popped out at you, what you think I should keep doing, and what you think I should change. Thanks and God bless.