"Good morning, my king!!",said Eggman when Bowser shuffled in. "Was your sleep good?"

"Yes it was. And you?"

"I barely slept .An idea popped right into my head. In the end I stayed up and created the prototype. I wanna show you. You're gonna love it!!"

"Sure I will..", said Bowser, rolling his eyes.

"Bring in Koopa Guard 525!"

A scared Koopa with a huge beeping metal plate on his chest emerged from the other room.

Bowser turned his head sideways." What is that on my guard?"

"That is a subatomic particle strenghtenizer!!"

"A subatomic parta-what the HELL did you say??!!- thenizer?"

"Sub-a-tom-ic-par-ti-cle-str-en-gth-en-i-zer."

"Ohhh.. what does it do??"

" It increases the strength of your guards with a push of a button!! For example..", he said, pulling a remote out and pushing the red button.

The guard twitched a little, and then hid in his shell as flame torches came out and covered him with fire.

Bowser growled. "If he dies, Ivo.."

"Not to worry.."

The flame torches disappeared and the flames died. The guard peeked out one eye in shock.

"Why, he's not dead!!!"

"The device made him withstand the heat.", Eggman explained.

"....Huh.."

"Example Two!!", he said, pressing another button on the remote.

100 tons of metal pressed against the Koopa, crushing him.

"IVO..", Bowser growled louder.

Suddenly an explosion came from within the metal, and the guard broke out of one side, covered in melted metal.

"WHAT THE F***K?!", Bowser screamed.

"Impressive, isnt it? The device absorbed the flames and then used it to melt the metal."

"COOL MAN!!"

" Indeed.."

"Can it withstand Ice? Water? Lava? Death by jumping off the cliff?"

"Yes, yes, yes, and.. I dunno.."

"I LOVE THIS THING , MAN!!" Bowser made an evil smile. " I must say, Ivo, so far this must be the best thing you' ve made yet!!"

"Oh, please, Im blushing..

"I love it!! When can my guards use it?"

"You wanna use it??"

"HELL YEAH!!"

"Well, it depends: There is still a few bugs I need to fix, plus the guards need to learn how to use it, plus copy money.."

"I'll give you 5 million coins if you can have it done tomarrow!"

".. AND SO I SHALL!!!"

"So I have explored the land.. " Bowser continued, pulling out a map and unfolding it. "..And I think that Chaos Emeralds could be found in any underground caves surrounding the area we are in. We need to watch out for one cave, though--there's a reason they call it Snake's Cove."

"We can also find them in creeks and lakes", Eggman said, circling all the creeks and lakes on the map. "They could have been swept up. Most times they're in the deep parts."

"Then in those cases I'll have Koopas put on scuba gear and dive for them."

"Also we need some areas on watch: there could be Sonic Team lookout towers in any of them."

"No problem!!"

"On another subject..",Eggman said, rolling up the map. " It is still not time for Phase 2 ,so we're gonna have a subphase: Phase 1 1/2."

"What's a subphase?"

"A phase between phases. Something your father was famous for, I believe?"

Bowser smiled proudly. "Oh, yeah! Pop always did those! Like, if me and him went out to hunt, we made a plan to tell Mom we went to get some ice cream. But if we got home and Mom didnt believe us, our subplan was to tell her we were feeding the hungry!! XD She fell for that EVERY TIME!!"

" Excatly!! Anyways, Phase 1 1/2: I made 200 stainless steel missle launching the morning they will be making an ambush at Sonic Team perfect because no one's up then!!"

"Do I need to look over the situation?"

"Not at all: I have someone who will do that for you."

"...A flexible, responsible , organized plan! Okay then!!"

"Waitor!", Eggman called, and a robot with a red vest on wheeled in.

"Your order, sir?"

"Omelet, mushrooms, cheese, onions, bell peppers, with a side of bacon and a coffee, 2 lumps of sugar, very little cream."

"And for the King?"

"12 stack of pancakes, slab of bacon, mocha topped with whipped cream and chocolate syrup."

"Okay then!! Your orders will arrive soon!"The robot wheeled away.

"Oh, I wish mah Pop was here to see me now! He'd be like ..'Boy..Bowser, you did a great job what with destroying the kingdom AND another fellow evildoers planet, too!' "

"Dont count your chickens before they are hatched..", noted Eggman.

"I dont have any!"

"It's a figure of speech."

"Oh."

"Speaking of Dads..you know.."

".. No, I dont.."

"Bowser,it's 10 am. Do you know where your kids on?"

Bowser's eyes grew big. "OH.."

"Not to worry. my king!!", said the robot, returning with their food. " Before I took off last night, I saw Prince Koopa and Nurse Maple come in. Prince had some painful scars. Nurse said he had tried to climb a tree."

"Ah, he'll toughen up. Boys will be boys, huh, Ivo?", laughed Bowser.

"I dunno. I really didn't climb trees that much as a boy. I usually stayed inside."

"I see that..."

"What?"

"Nothing!!"