Chapter 2: Revival
The great pyramids of Egypt had been empty for many generations. Until a mad scientist decided to build his base of operations in one of them.
At the main control room of the base, Dr. Ivo Robotnik was focused on his work. He had been repairing a robot that had been out of commission for quite some time. He had been repairing it for months.
The reason it was taking a long time to repair this robot was because it had been blown to pieces the last time it encountered Sonic.
The very thought of that hedgehog made the doctor twitch. He had been a thorn in his side since the first time they met. Sonic had foiled Robotnik's plans on establishing the Eggman Empire numerous times.
Fed up with his defeats, he tried to beat Sonic at his own game by building a robotic duplicate. It almost work, but Sonic eventually figured out it's weak points. Sonic and his robotic double battled many times, it always resulted with Sonic being the victor. The last time Sonic and the robot encountered each other, Robotnik had them race each other at Stardust Speedway, a race track suspended in midair, to see who had the superior speed.
Robotnik chased both racers down the track with a high powered laser. The loser would be vaporized. Sonic emerged as the victor, while the robot ended up blown to many pieces.
After the race, Robotnik took the pieces back to his base.
"Which is how you ended up here." Robotnik mused.
And so Robotnik had tried to take over the world multiple times without the robot's assistance resulting in defeat each time.
Occasionally he would have others assist him in his plans. E-102 Gamma, a robot programmed to hunt down and destroy its targets. Chaos, a liquid life form that could harness the power of the chaos emeralds. And then there was Shadow, a black hedgehog that resembled Sonic. He could use the power of chaos emeralds as well.
Even with assistance, Robotnik's plan kept falling down the drain. Sonic had easily smashed Gamma to pieces leaving him in a scrap heap beyond repair. Chaos had rebelled, later vanquished by Sonic. Even the ultimate life form known as Shadow wasn't enough to get rid of the accursed hedgehog.
At times like this the doctor wished Shadow was with him. He remembered his times with Shadow all to well. He had first heard about Shadow by reading his grandfathers diary. Deciding it would be a good weapon to use against Sonic, the mad scientist broke into a heavily guarded military base known as Prison Island and broke Shadow out of there.
The doctor got more than what he bargained for. Shadow invited him to Space colony ARK and introduced him to the Eclipse Cannon. A weapon capable of blowing up an entire planet. In order to activate it though, they needed the seven chaos emeralds.
This was easily accomplished when Shadow framed Sonic for a few crimes. The military arrested Sonic and took him to Prison Island. With no blue hedgehog to oppose them they were able to retrieve six chaos emeralds with the help of a treasure hunter. Finding the last emerald was a challenge. Time was running out. To make matters worse, it turned out Sonic's friends were able to clear Sonic's name thus releasing him from jail.
Robotnik quickly hired a treasure hunter to find the last emerald. It turned out Sonic had it, so Robotnik set up a trap. As soon as Sonic's group entered the ARK, Robotnik took one of his friends demanding the last emerald. Sonic decided to use a fake emerald to fool the doctor.
As he approached the mad scientist, Robotnik ordered Sonic to put the emerald down and back off. Sonic did so, only to get trapped within an escape pod that had a bomb attached to it. Tails asked how he knew it was a fake emerald. Robotnik replied that he didn't know it was fake, he just wanted to vanquish his enemy. Besides six emeralds was enough to power up the Eclipse Cannon.
After that, Robotnik launched Sonic into space were his capsule exploded. Enraged, Tails attacked. A battle followed. Tails ended up destroying Robotnik's latest war machine, thus emerging the victor. However, Robotnik managed to snatch the real emerald from Tails and escape. He rushed into the ARK's main control room and began to install the last chaos emerald.
The ARK's computer announced that an intruder was heading towards the Eclipse Cannon. Robotnik ordered Shadow to take of it. Little did Robotnik know, that intruder was Sonic. Apparently he managed to use the fake chaos emerald to teleport himself out of the capsule back onto the ARK.
Shadow managed to intercept him at the cannon. A ferocious fight followed. Sonic was the victor. Robotnik tried to fire the cannon but Sonic threw the fake emerald into the cannon's gun barrel. This caused the cannon to overload and explode to pieces damaging it beyond repair.
Robotnik was infuriated that his plans had failed once again, however that soon became the least of his worries. The ARK's computer had been programmed to have the ARK kamikaze attack into the Earth in case the cannon was destroyed.
Robotnik and Sonic's group had to work together to stop it from crashing. Eventually both Sonic and Shadow both used the emeralds to morph into their Super forms and stop the ARK from crashing. However, Shadow had run out of chaos energy. So he fell into the Earth's atmosphere and died.
"I guess it's just hard to get good help these days." Robotnik sighed. He then got a message from the main computer of the base.
Metal Sonic Status…
Structure repairs 100
Engine function 100
Sensor efficiency 100
Power Core 100
Brain Circuitry 100
Weapon Systems 100
Circuitry repairs 100
Joint repairs 100
Would you like to activate this robot? Y/N
Robotnik pushed one single button.
Affirmative. Engaging full power in… 5…4…3…2…1…Powering up
Slowly the robots eyes began to glow.
"About time your awake, you've been out of commission for nine months." said Robotnik.
"What took you so long in waking me up?" Metal Sonic asked.
"Your body had been obliterated to pieces as well as your internal circuitry." Eggman explained. "That's way it took me a long time to repair you."
"I see." Metal Sonic replied. "When I get my hands on that hedgehog. I'll make him wish he was dead." He then paused for a moment to observe his surroundings. "Out of curiosity, why didn't you activate me when my repairs where at least 75 complete."
The doctor shuddered at the memory of the thought.
Flashback…
Repairs average to 75
Would you like to activate the robot? Y/N
"Might as well get him running as soon as possible." Robotnik muttered under his breath. He then pushed
the Y button.
Affirmative. Engaging full power in…5…4…3…2…1…Powering up
Slowly the robots eyes began to go.
"Greetings Mecha." Robotnik greeted his creation. "How do you feel today."
"I am..." the robot replied. "BALLERENA MAN!"
Robotnik instantly shutdown the power. The glow in the robots eyes vanished.
Awaiting further orders…
"Don't ever activate him until your sure he wont do that again." Robotnik grimly replied.
Affirmative…
Robot wont be activated until Brain Circuitry and other areas are at 100 complete
End of Flash back
"Um, Sir. Why are you staring at me like that?" Metal Sonic asked. asked.
"Well…er, I was just caught up in my own thoughts. Yeah just…uh…daydreaming." Robotnik said. "Why don't you go to the armory to upgrade yourself. I'll give you more orders from there."
"Affirmative." The robot droned.
"Man still no sign of that cat." Sonic groaned.
Sonic and Tails had been searching for the cat for hours, but had no luck. It was now getting dark.
"It's almost time for me to head home and have dinner." Tails said. "We'll continue this search tomorrow."
"Okay, see you later little bro." Sonic waved goodbye to Tails.
Man…what a day. All that running through the sewers and all I find is an imposter. I wonder how long I'll be searching for that cat. I also have a quest to search for Shadow too. That gives me two guys to look for now. Man, I'm actually getting tired. All that searching has worn me out. I should go home and get some rest. I can continue thinking about the current topic tomorrow.
Within seconds Sonic sped down the road and was out of view.
