Chapter 2
Eggman doesn't let Bygones be Bygones! Or does he?
Dr. Oliver Eggman has always had a deep fascination with technology and ancient civilizations, so it's no surprise that the doctor would naturally look for ancient technology. Especially when said technologies could give him an advantage in his lifelong goal of ruling the world, and now his quest for ancient technologies have brought him to Bygone Island and the surrounding islands. Shortly after Nazo the Hedgehog surfaced in the Time of Miracles, Dr. Eggman began to fall back to places of interest and hope that none of his old projects would be in jeopardy because of Nazo. Thankfully Project Ancients was among those projects that weren't affected by Nazo's miracles.
Years ago Dr. Oliver Eggman began construction of a research base of operations for his studies of technology left behind by the Ancients. When he began his campaign to take over the world, he converted the base into an island lair which still served in his studies of the Ancients, but also doubled as one of his many bases for his evil schemes at world domination. When he arrived at the Bygone Island Egg Lair, he found at the entrance two familiar robots. "Orbot? Cubot? What are you two doing here?" Dr. Oliver Eggman asked the lackeys of his younger half-brother who was known as Neo Dr. Eggman.
Orbot spoke and gestured to Cubot to keep quiet. "Well Dr. Eggman, you see our old boss is um… Gone… So we decided to make ourselves servants to his closest of kin who didn't betray him as an ally. Which means Snively and Hope weren't on his list…" Dr. Oliver Eggman glared at the small robots, it was clear he wasn't impressed. "Apparently you were on his list because you're the only one going by Dr. Eggman. And since he's gone… I guess we should just call you Dr. Eggman." Orbot finished, he printed out a copy of the information from his robotic mouth. "Fascinating, not even Decoe or Bocoe were made to print paper." The doctor said as he read over the piece of paper given to him by Orbot. Cubot then added, "I serve as a paper shredder." Cubot due to his faulty voice chip sounded like a cowboy.
Dr. Eggman shook his head at the two robots shortly after he did that, his Dark Chao named Bokkun flew into the picture. "Ahahahaha! Who are these losers?" Bokkun said as he reached into his messenger bag for some bombs. "Don't waste your bombs on them Bokkun. These are Julian's last lackeys he had in his services their names are Orbot and Cubot." Dr. Eggman said, he got a big grin on his face. "They'll be joining us as we take a look into the status of Project Ancients, up close and personally." The doctor said as he took out a remote and pressed it in order to open the doors to his island lair. He and his three lackeys went into the facility and he was surprised to see that his machines were all working hard.
Orbot and Cubot floated over to him, the two robots had built in anti-gravity systems which enabled them to float. "We've been busy with getting things working properly." Orbot said as he put his hands together in his usual manner as he looked up at the doctor. "Yeah, while y'all have been busy workin' and stuff. We've gotten down here and workin' on that there technology of the Ancients. It's workin' mighty fine now." Cubot said as he gestured to one of the robots that Dr. Eggman was working on. This robot was one of the war robots left behind by the Ancients it had bronze colored armor, a single blue reptilian eye that took up most of its head. One of the arms had a tri-claw on it and the other had a blue energy sword.
Dr. Eggman was intrigued. "How did you two figure out to get this robot working again?" He said as he examined the five foot tall robot.
Orbot then pulled a small snake like robot up from the ground, "it wasn't easy. But after we looked through some research notes we used the transmission waves you worked on in order to control one of the smaller robots. Such as this snake like robot," Orbot said as the snake robot was looking around as Orbot held it. "Once that was finished we decided to drop it into one of these robot husks. Then the snake robot just went into an access port on the robot and then the bronze robot started working again." Orbot demonstrated this by placing the snake robot into one of the bronze robot husks.
Dr. Eggman was impressed he then began to do his own work. Within the week, Dr. Eggman got a small army of the robots created by the Ancients working, and he used an arm mounted device to send command signals to the robots and keep them under his control. He mostly used the robots in order to gain access to ruins left behind by the Ancients. He was stealthy and made sure none of his enemies or anyone else was on to him and his activities. Among the places his new task force found was an abandoned factory, and Orbot and Cubot carried the latest of the findings back to the lair and when Bokkun saw the findings he was terrified and flew back to the hidden shipyards where Dr. Eggman was working on the Egg Fleet.
Orbot and Cubot arrived into the lair while Dr. Eggman was out on business. While he was gone they saw a liquid metal on the floor. They floated away from it and used chains to get the Ancient robot suspended, and shortly after they did the liquid metal took on the form of a Badnik. "Interesting so the legends were true after all." The Badnik said as his red glowing eyes focused on the robot. "Oh! Boss! We didn't expect you to arrive." Orbot said nervously as he and Cubot stayed close by each other. The Badnik floated up and this action made Orbot and Cubot hug each other and shiver nervously. The Badnik then floated and looked over the robot, "to quote Shadow. It's true what they say, we do look alike. It's uncanny." The mysterious thing about this Badnik was that the entire lair was offline because of the presence of the Badnik. He then looked down at the two, "you've done well finding this relic. Continue to monitor the doctor, we'll pick off his support and once he's all alone. I shall deal with him myself." The Badnik said as he melted into a liquid metal pool and then drifted away from the lair and brought the power back online. Orbot and Cubot both let out a sigh of relief and pretended to rub sweat off of their heads. "Cinos makes me scared every time we see him." Orbot whispered to Cubot.
Shortly after that happened, Dr. Eggman came in and was very surprised when he saw what Orbot and Cubot returned. He was utterly speechless especially when the scanners in his glasses confirmed it was in fact one of the robots created by the Ancients. "It can't be! It looks just like him!" Dr. Eggman was utterly shocked as he looked at the blue robot.
Meanwhile in the jungles of Bygone Island
Green was out running around one of the many jungles of Bygone Island. After he got a coconut from a tree, he poked a hole in it and drank some of the coconut milk. "Nothing beats tropical food fresh from the tree." Green said to Nicolas. Nicolas then activated his holographic lynx form. "Based on my analysis, I'll have to take your word for it. I sometimes wish I could eat foods." Nicolas said as he floated around Green, Green nodded to his friend. "Maybe one day we can figure out how to work on your programming so you can use bio-fuels?" Green said as he looked up at his friend. All of a sudden, Green's A.V.A began beeping which was an indication he was receiving a call. Green took out his A.V.A and saw that he was getting a call from Geoffrey St. John, Green activated the video chat. "Geoffrey the Skunk, good to see you again." Green said as he answered the call. "Likewise Green the Hedgehog." Geoffrey said in a calm manner, which wasn't normal for him. Then all of a sudden a familiar feline came into view, it was Hershey the Cat! "Hershey! So you two found each other." Green said with a big sly grin on his face.
Hershey glad to see Green again, "it's been to long my friend. A girl leaves for one deep undercover mission and the whole universe is literally blasted apart and then fixed up better than before." Hershey was clearly referring to the events of the Super Genesis Wave which the evil Neo Dr. Eggman used in his last attempt at ruling the world before he sunk with his Neo Death Egg into the bottom of the northern seas. "So… How did you two meet up again?" Green asked his friend. Hershey explained that she found out what happened in New Mobotropolis from spying in what was once the Soumerca Dark Egg Legion, and that because of Nazo she learned about the Time of Miracles, Hershey made her way to Westside Island within the week that Green was on Bygone Island and she had a serious argument with Geoffrey after she learned everything he did while she was gone. "Yeah… I should've had more faith in your abilities love…" Geoffrey said to his wife, he was upset with himself for believing that Hershey was dead because he couldn't find her in Soumerca months ago. "Well I'm glad that Hershey returned to us… I would've brought her back but… I thought it was best if she came back to us on her own accord." Green was referring to the fact he was actually Nazo the Hedgehog. "Oh Green!" Hershey said as she suddenly remembered something important. "Drago and Razorklaw still have cybernetics they and some of the former Grandmasters of the now defunct Dark Egg Legion have fled from their holdings. The last transmission I got suggested that some of the remnants of the Neo Egg Army are fighting either amongst themselves or against Dr. Eggman and his Egg Bosses." Hershey said as she pushed some buttons on her Miles Electric device and sent information over to Green. Green took a quick look at it, and there was one Mobian among Dr. Oliver Eggman's Egg Bosses that intrigued him, on the list of files. "I'll be… General Thunderbolt's own daughter has sided with the Eggman Empire." Green recalled that he once saw the name of an Egg Boss called Thunderbolt the Chinchilla on Eggman's roaster of Egg Bosses, Green saw said list when his mind was temporarily transferred into Dr. Oliver Eggman's mind because of Dr. Oliver Eggman's failed attempt to take control of the U.S.A a long while ago.
After talking for a while Green ended the call with Hershey and Geoffrey and was glad they were alright. He walked around the jungle with Nicolas for a while, and then a boomerang, came flying out of nowhere. "Heyaa! Gooyaaa!" a Mobian Jungle Badger shouted as she came out of the trees. She furiously swung a boomerang at Green and Nicolas. "Whoa! This is one wild badger!" Green said as he dodged the badger's attacks, she was small next to him which led him to believe she was young. The badger then said, "Die evil floating phantom and your master die too!" She clearly was under the belief that Nicolas was some kind of ghost because of his ability to float while in hologram mode. Green made out what little bit of Basic English she spoke. He jumped away from her and she got ready to strike again, but Green waved a white glove he had on and then said. "I come in piece mighty warrior!" The badger stayed in her battle stance and glared at Green, he put his glove back on and said. "My name is Green the Hedgehog. What's your name?" He wasn't sure what else to say in the moment. The badger glared at him, and was silent for a bit until he blinked. "You blinked, which means you aren't a restless summoner of phantoms! But why is the feline floating?!" The badger said as she kept in her stance. Green then pulled out Nicolas' handheld form. "My friend Nicolas is a hologram A.I. This device is used to project his holographic form." Green showed her the device best he could, when he took a couple steps forward the badger growled angrily, he took a step back and she stopped, he went forward and she growled again. For a bit of humor he did it twice and then she yelled. "Stop using my anger for your amusement you walking hedge! I don't trust machines and if you're telling me this genie is from your hand computer, than you're in for a world of hurt for disturbing the jungles!" She spoke in a primitive language which Nicolas translated for Green. Green understood the language naturally because of past experience with linguistics. "I understand that I'm probably intimidating… But I'm a peaceful guy. My friend Nicolas and I are here on the islands visiting family and friends." When Green said that the badger no longer looked at him with anger in her eyes, she still glared at him though.
The badger then said. "Let me guess, you lost family, you saved universe, you look for family, you found family?" Green was a bit speechless on how the badger more or less guessed in short what was going on. "Yes… And if you'd like I could introduce you to my family Miss Badger." Green walked closer to the badger and she didn't growl in anger at him. "Clearly you can't read minds, because any Mobian can guess that part of our name is our race." She blinked one eye and then the other eye separately. "My name is Sticks, but my friends call me Sticks the Badger." She said as she kept a firm gaze on Green as he slowly came closer. Green then kneeled on his left knee and then extended his right hand. "Sticks, if you'd like we could go and meet up with my friends and family, maybe we could even find your family?" Green clearly wasn't sure if Sticks was lost in the jungle or not. She then looked down and said, "I don't have a family… I grew up in jungle alone…" Green felt sympathy for Sticks, hearing that reminded him that it took sixteen years for him to be reunited with his whole family. "I understand what it's like growing up without family… I understand my fair acquaintance." After several minutes went by, Sticks agreed to follow Green to meet his friends and family.
Once they returned to the house of Green's family, he was greeted by his parents. The Rose family was invited over for dinner, when Green and Sticks arrived, Amelia Rose arrived and she was excited to see Sticks. "Oh Sticks! I'm so glad to see you again." Amelia said as she and Sticks hugged each other. "Me to Amelia, you friends with this guy?" Sticks asked as she stood next to Amelia. Amelia then explained to Sticks about Green and Green was surprised to hear that his family and the Rose family were friends with Sticks, Green was then told that his family often tried helping Sticks get along better with society. Green then heard his baby sister Joy cried, and it turned out she just needed food and Green fed her.
Later on there was a nice big dinner at the house of the Green Hedgehog family. Green was having an amazing time with his family and friends, and was glad to befriend Sticks the Badger though he had a feeling she wouldn't be warming up to Nicolas anytime soon.
Meanwhile at the Egg Lair of Bygone Island
Dr. Eggman was laughing. "Soon I'll have this robot ready for a one on one match with Sonic the Hedgehog. Oh how I'll enjoy seeing Sonic get, beaten up by a machine built in the image of one of his ancestors!" Dr. Eggman said with a big grin as he began to activate the robot his lackeys recovered earlier today.
Sticks the Badger seems like an interesting character. But what is Cinos going to do? And what is the deal with the new robot that the doctor found? All these secrets and more will be answered as the adventures continue!