I am the Eggman
A few hours before Tails met up with Sonic, Eggman had flown his personal hovercraft hovercraft away from where he had transformed Sonic. "Ah, welcome home!" He said to himself as he approached his shining new Flying Impenetrable and Completely Sonic-Proofed Final Fortress, rebuilt from the time when Team Sonic and his friends destroyed it mercilessly. He flew his hovercraft into the loading dock of the ship that was barely visible to the untrained eye. Eggman knew exactly where it was though, of course, because when you build something by hand, you don't tend to forget about certain rooms.
Eggman squeezed out of his hovercraft, cramped by the tiny room. "Rrgh, I really should've made this dock larger!" Eggman complained. After he managed to crawl out of the hovercraft, he leaned over to get through the door that led to the rest of the ship. "Ooh!" Eggman said with pleasur when he stretched out and cracked his back. "That's better. Now to get down to business." Eggman said deviously, and scuttled to the observation deck that was on the front of the ship. He plopped himself down into a specially designed comfort chair and snatched up a laptop that lay next to his chair.
He opened up the laptop on his lap and entered in his very complicated and confidential password that he used for everything, 'EGGMAN'. After the password screen went away, Eggman set to work on opening up his favorite robot's files. He had saved every single robot's schematics to his laptop. He started to pull up the document for Orbot and Cubot when suddenly the screen went black and the laptop died.
"Argh! Curse you stupid computer!" Eggman screamed at the dead laptop, his face red as a tomato. After a minute he was calm again, and he was confused. "Why did you die any way? Low battery?" Eggman looked at the laptop closer and noticed that the power wire wasn't actually plugged in. "Oh, I see! Eggman jumped to his feet and picked up the power wire, plugged it into the laptop, and sat down again with a sigh. He opened up the laptop again, and the password screen came up, requesting him to enter the password.
"Now what was my password again?" Eggman looked up at the ceiling for a moment with his index finger tapping his chin. "Oh! That's right, EGGMAN!" He announced, and typed that in. The password screen went away and he sat still for a moment, considering which robots he wanted to recreate first for ultimate ruler ship of the world and destruction of Sonic.
"I suppose I could start off by making a few companion robots... It does seem rather quiet and orderly in here," Eggman pulled up a very old document. "Now, what's this?" He mused to himself. The document opened and Eggman raised an eyebrow at what he saw. There were two separate pictures, one of a tall robot that looked like a chicken, the other one was a short teal green robot with treads for feet and drills for hands.
"Those two were troublesome, and freeloaders, but little help is better than none!" Eggman decided. "I'll just make a few adjustments to their intelligence," Eggman said to himself, and began clicking and typing. After he was finished, he sent the document off to his new robot building machine. The new robots would be finished in a little less than two hours.
"Who else should I recreate?" Eggman asked himself. He remembered the last two assistants he had made, Orbot and Cubot. "Why not?" He said, opening the document that held the schematics for Orbot and Cubot. Eggman pressed down a key on his keyboard to send the document to his robot re creator. His vision slowly got blurry, then he finally closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep in his incredibly comfortable chair.
Meanwhile, Sonic was dashing all over Spagonia. Tails panted as he tried to keep up with his friend. Suddenly, Sonic came to a screeching halt, causing Tails to nearly crash into his spiky back.
"Whoops, almost got you there!" Sonic said, grinning at his pal. Tails smiled back.
"I think the Spagonians are getting tired of your restlessness, Sonic." Tails informed him in a kind way.
"Ooh, do you think so?" Sonic peered down from the orange roof that he was standing on to see quite a few flustered people and Mobians peeking out of their windows and stepping outside to see what was up.
"Hmm, maybe I'll just have to go running somewhere else." Sonic said decisively.
"That might be a good choice," Tails said before ducking his head down to avoid a pebble thrown by a short gray weasel.
"Hey!" Sonic shouted at the weasel. "Hero of Mobius here, and his best man!" Tails grimaced and tapped Sonic's shoulder. Sonic looked over at him with a puzzled expression.
"What?" He asked.
"Let's go, Sonic," He said quietly, ducking again when he spotted more pebbles out of the corner of his eye.
"Okay! Let's get juicin' kid!" Sonic shouted, and dashed off of the roof. He shot across a vast area of forest and grassland with Tails flying behind him. They came to a stop when Spagonia was only a speck in the horizon behind them.
"Now, what could that be?" Sonic asked with a sneer in his voice. Tails followed his friend's gaze, and notice a number of airships, varying from hugely large to tiny. The sun was slowly descending behind the airships.
"Now what does that remind you of?" Sonic prodded Tails.
"Final Fortress! But that couldn't be...right?" Tails exclaimed uncertainly. I thought we destroyed that fleet with Team Rose, Team Dark, and the Chaotix!
Meanwhile, on the deck of the largest ship, two robots conversed with each other curiously.
"Hey! Grounder, isn't that-"
"Duh! No, that's not him!"
"I have to say, he does look similar though. Are you sure it's not him?"
Eggman was jolted awake by two annoying voices. One was high and scratchy, the other was low and stupid sounding. He felt too tired to do anything though, so he continued to slump in his chair lazily. Two more voices joined the racket minutes later.
"Hello, who are you?"
"Well, I'm Grounder and that's-" A clanking noise was heard.
"Scratch. My name is Scratch. And you are-?"
"I'm Cubot!" A rambunctious voice yelled out.
"I am Orbot," a more refined voice said haughtily.
"Oh! Nice to meet 'cha!" Cubot yelled to Orbot.
"Excuse me Cubot, but we already know each other." Orbot replied.
"Oh, I thought that you looked familiar-now I know why!" Cubot exclaimed loudly.
Orbot coughed. "You dim-bot," he muttered quickly.
"Are you catching a cold Orbot?" Grounder asked.
"Of course not you idiot! Robots can't catch colds...right?" Scratch asked Orbot.
"No, no they do not." Orbot replied.
Eggman gritted his teeth together agitatedly. "I can't stand it anymore! Would you all just be quiet?" He shouted, jumping to his feet, face and angry red color. All four robots looked up, surprised. Grounder had just finished pulling down a long yellow lever. Red lights started flashing, and a loud siren started to scream.
"Who pulled that lever?" Eggman yelled, his face getting even redder. Grounder grinned sheepishly.
"I did!" He said, raising up his left hand and hopped up and down, making a clanking racket.
"Y-you did? Do you realize what that DOES?" Eggman asked Grounder. Grounder shook his head so hard that it spun around once or twice. "You IDIOT! That makes the ship go down to the ground, where it's completely vulnerable to Sonic!" Eggman shrieked angrily. Just as he said that, the airship rocked back and forth, making creaking noises. Everyone rushed to the giant window to see that Mobius was rushing up to greet the airship. Eggman scowled and jumped into his chair, strapping a seat belt across his chest. It was too late to pull the lever up, because the ship was far to large and heavy for it to be able to lift up again that fast.
"Get ready for a rough landing!" Eggman called to the four robots who were still gazing out of the window.
A creaking, screeching noise was heard when the airship crashed onto the surface of Mobius, along with general shaking and shivering which is to be expected from a crash. Everyone and everything was thrown to the floor, except for Eggman. He picked up a tablet device and scrolled through a security check on the ship. His face started to get red again.
"Great job, Grounder. You've wrecked my airships boosters. Now we're guaranteed to be down here, vulnerable to attack, for at least one day, until I fix this blasted thing." Eggman spoke in a quiet, almost venomous way. He glared at the robot. Grounder gave him a nervous smile and slowly started to back up.
"I mean, you- you had to know that would've brought the ship down, right?" Eggman had a confused expression. Grounder shrugged.
"Nope!" He answered.
Eggman slowly brought a hand up to his forehead. How could I have built such a stupid robot?
"Then you really are a-"
"Monster!" Eggman was interrupted by Scratch, who was watching a black and white monster movie with Orbot and Cubot on a television screen. A furry beast ripped through a metal wall like it was mere paper.
"Wow, this is such a great movie!" Scratch cried.
"And it has such awesome sound effects!" Added Cubot.
A look of puzzlement crossed Eggmans face when sirens and lights started going off on the ship, seconds after the monster in the movie ripped through the metal wall.
"Wait a minute, that's not a normal TV, and that's no movie! That's my security monitor, and that is real life!" He yelled with realization.
"Hey, could you be quiet? I'm trying to watch this!" Grounder complained, completely ignoring Eggman's revelation.
"Look at that monster fight the robot!" Orbot commented excitedly. Eggman leaned over and gasped at what he saw. His ship's defense system - a fully upgraded Metal Sonic, complete with laser beam eyes and beam-cannon arms – was being carelessly thrown aside, already deactivated by the creature.
He growled and shoved the four robots out of the way, glaring at the monitor. The monster looked around, then suddenly noticed the camera that monitored his every move. He reached up a fist and slung it at the camera, his arm stretching out to reach. The monitor screen went fuzzy in front of Eggman, Orbot, Scratch, Cubot, and Grounder. A wolfish howl was heard from the lowest deck, and the scientist and four robots feared that they would be detected.
"Do NOT make a sound!" Eggman whispered maliciously to his cronies.
"Hey! Be quiet! You just said to not make a sound and you-" Cubot's mouth was covered by Orbot nervously. Eggman started to approach Cubot when a high pitched screeching noise was heard. All eyes turned to the single, thick door of the observation deck. They all caught their breath when they noticed four scratch marks on the glass window of the door. A single green eyes was able to be seen for three seconds, but then it disappeared.
"Where'd he go?" Scratch asked, using a rare whisper.
"He, I can't believe this, but he's left the ship!" Eggman said incredulously.
What was I doing? Sonic asked himself. It was like, like I couldn't even control myself! I was so mad at him after I remembered what he did to me last night. I can't believe that I managed to control myself! Sonic rubbed his furry head as he ran on all fours into the east, searching for Tails. I have to explain everything to him, now that I remember.