Team Sticks entered the quarters knowing this very room held some excuse to why the base was planted in Tropical Jungle anyway. It was strange to think that the doctor would single her out, but then Sonic was his main problem from time to time. Among those feeling new to the mechanical surroundings of the quarters - Tempest and Cronos were jaw-dropped to see how detailed it could get. Sticks saw a desk in the direction of her in the spacious room and decided to walk over. The badger didn't know what to think, she was too scared to even touch any technology but a walkie talkie and maybe something to communicate with her friends. All of the team was watching her strolled to the desk housing complicated documents and buttons and levers, acting as a control panel of sorts as well as being the main focus of the quarters. Sticks felt an unbridled rage and unsettled distaste of his serpentine approach to this specific abode, but had to find some origins first. She looked behind and wanted to find someone else to search what she was looking for.

"Anybody want to find some vital information?". Sticks looked at her team, a few of them even wondering why she was asking them in the first place.

"Wah mek yu search Eggman?". Cronos folded his arms, pondering over her in his mind.

"Did something associated with touching technology do something to you?". Tempest added. "Is that why you won't budge".

"First Whisper and now Sticks...". DonutSteel scratched the back of his head. "Eggman really has a vendetta against all of us, doesn't he?".

"Let me handle this". Amy came forth and walked over to the orange badger. "I've been with her the longest, I know her personality too well".

The hedgehog began to place her hands on the interface of the interactive desk and therefore searched for clues to why this base was planted in the middle of Tropical Jungle. Keep in mind Sticks was stepping back and letting her friend take over, Tempest, Cronos, DonutSteel, Shadow and Tangle accompanying her. It took a while before Amy would understand the complications of Eggman's own security and offered Cronos to come forward.

"Cronos, do you know what Eggman's password is?". The pink hedgehog looked behind her to the green echidna.

"Him lidung his password no stranger mi!". The fresh mobian walked over to Amy and lay his hands hovered both hands above the password lock. "Mi ago try!".

Cronos flexed his fingers and got to work cracking down Eggman's passcode. Given his ability to hack into anything for the greater good of Mobius shined through as the echidna correctly guessed the password with just little to few attempts. A noise was generated and a message reading "Welcome!". was typed across the holographic board in front of him.

"Great! Now can you use your ability to hack into Tails' plane?". Shadow asked the echidna, not realizing the good in all of him.

"I-man only do this deh doctah, me breda! Mi neva dun hack inna anybody else's kurroaches! Mi using mi power for deh greater gud!".

"He's saying that he uses his ability to the greater good, Shadow! Sheesh, lighten up for once!". Amy added.

"You guys are making me regret trying!".

"Now to get some data from this desk...". The pink hedgehog turned around and eyed straight at the desk. Cronos was allowed to excuse himself and join the rest of the group. Tangle immediately looked at the ceiling hoping for any ambush to happen, but to no avail. Shadow folded his arms patiently waiting for any arrival of the doctor to come into fruition, but that didn't happen as fast as he hoped. Amy was searching the origin and future plans for the jungle, with lackluster hope and or bad destiny to come. She followed up with a frightened voice.

"This is awful!". The pink hedgehog alerted both Sticks and Tangle, two mobians who love spending time in jungle habitats.

"What?!". The badger immediately glared at the holographic screen.

"Eggman is planning to expand his jungle base and deforest alot of trees in the process! What once made Tropical Jungle so tropical won't be anymore if he goes with this plan!".

"Tawagoto!". The badger muttered under her breath as a sign of dread and defeat could come her way if she was to fail. "Eggman! You'll pay for this!".

"Actually, Sticks. You'll be paying for breaking into my base with your animal friends!". The doctor spoke angrily, startling the group and Sticks herself.

"So this was what you was hiding!". The lemur spoke in his direction, emotionally angry as so did the other members minus Shadow. "Okay Eggy! Put them up! Aye ain't afraid!".

The lemur aggressively got into a boxing stance as Shadow was pleasant of the doctor's appearance.

"We meet again, doctor...". The black hedgehog spoke softly to greet the villain. "How was Witchcart's meeting in Lake Crystal?".

"It went lovely, Shadow! I'm glad you asked me!".

"So much for that excitement...".

Dr Eggman rushed over to his interactive desk, still having the deforestation plans shown on the holographic screen.

"Who hacked into my account?!". He expressed invasion of his privacy. "Which one of you losers did this?!".

"Uhh... No one!". Sticks lied to keep her innocence from going broke.

"It was one of you! Spill the beans or I'll have my badniks do it for you!".

"Rhaatid! Him always this bringle?".

"You could say that, Cronos". The badger answered through his sudden speech during Eggman's rage. She stepped up to the doctor, acting as the ringleader after all. "Tell me why you want to deforest this jungle?".

"I'm expanding this base! End of story!".

"No! I need more! Why do you need to do this! Tropical Jungle never hurt anybody! You're putting the lives of me and Tangle at jeopardy because of this!".

"Grrrr! What kind of end of story do you not get, badger?! Move outta my way!".

Eggman rapidly pushed Sticks and Amy from the control desk, sending both mobians to the floor. They quickly got back up and rushed back to the group. Eggman wanted to close the page and come up with a new password to better increase security. But first, he had to get rid of Team Sticks for ruining his surprise plan. He logged out and got up from the chair, facing the team with all rage.

"You will pay for this for leading such an unruly force, Sticks! Robots, attack!".

The doors opened from the back of the base to reveal dozens of badniks, primarily Motobugs, Buzz Bombers and Slicers to rush at Team Sticks at rapid intensity. The badger armed herself with her boomerang as Amy closely followed her with her trusty Piko Piko Hammer. Everybody else used whatever thing they could grasp to rid the badniks away from them, including their fists. Shadow wanted to help get the badniks away, but felt betraying the doctor that helped him become the way he is feel unnecessary. He just watched as the team smashed Eggman's badniks as they charged back at them. Tempest ran at a Motobug chasing her and jumped in the air, abruptly stopping her speed to let the Motobug crash into the wall. Now was the time to use her fists to combat more badniks like what she just witnessed. Cronos was fighting a Slicer using his fists, dodging the sharp boomerang blades and kicked its head when he felt was right. Tangle was using her tail to jolt in and out of badniks targeting her and pulled her tail at the destruction of the robots. This ultimately led her to become merely injured by her tail. DonutSteel was also on the same boat as Cronos, rushing to the targeted Buzz Bomber and fisting it with his body. At the other end of the field, Sticks and Amy were the only ones using actual weaponry to fend off the badniks. The pink hedgehog and the badger were a systematically great force, defending the area around the control desk i.e the middle of the quarters. Eggman watched as all of Team Sticks were busy fending off his cronies, and not the Orbot and Cubot kind either. He spotted Shadow doing the same as him, although on Team Sticks he really didn't like the leader that often. He just watched as one by one, his badniks were being destroyed by the heroic mobians once again.

Team Sticks: Sticks the Badger, DonutSteel the Hedgehog, Tangle the Lemur, Whisper the Wolf, Tempest the Dolphin, Amy Rose, Cronos the Echidna, Shadow the Hedgehog

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